Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for November 24th, 2008
Waiting to be bowled over: Ohio State, with no more say over its postseason fate, could still land BCS berth
COLUMBUS — Ohio State is headed for a bowl game. It just may be a while before the Buckeyes find out which one. They concluded the regular season with Saturday’s 42-7 beatdown of Michigan. Now comes the waiting. “We can’t control anything now,” linebacker James Laurinaitis said. “Now we [...]
Two QBs, five turnovers, one lost season: Browns turn in truly ugly performance in loss to Texans, fall to 1-5 at home
CLEVELAND — Maybe general manager Phil Savage was onto something in his infamous e-mail. There are 31 other teams Browns fans could root for, and they can’t all be this maddening. The team that excited everyone with 10 wins last year, significant offseason additions and glimpses of brilliance this [...]
Brian Dulik: Shake up the Browns? Why bother? This season is a lost cause
The Browns’ season on the brink officially fell into the abyss Sunday afternoon. With a 16-6 loss to the lowly Houston Texans, Cleveland pounded the final nail into its coffin and made it clear things aren’t going to get better anytime soon. That unpleasant realization was evident on the faces of every player, coach [...]
Browns’ Edwards: No excuses, no answers for poor play
CLEVELAND — The Browns got their usual effort from Braylon Edwards on Sunday — a couple of big catches and plenty of dropped passes. What was different this time around was the fourth-year receiver’s postgame performance. In what was a rare display for the enigmatic University of Michigan product, Edwards took the [...]
Browns notes: Lewis less than thrilled with his lack of activity
CLEVELAND — When Jamal Lewis carries the football 20 times in a game, the Browns almost always win. But when he logs half of that number, as was the case Sunday, the outcome is equally predictable. Lewis rushed for 58 yards on just 10 carries — only two coming in the first half — [...]
Browns vs. Texans: Breaking it down
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Andre Johnson, Texans receiver
When the cornerbacks were playing off — which was most of the game — Johnson would cut his route short, give quarterback Sage Rosenfels a big target and make the easy catch in front of the coverage. Then, when Eric Wright decided to press him on fourth-and-3 from the [...]
Schelotto lends a helping foot as Crew downs Red Bulls for first MLS championship
CARSON, Calif. — Midfield maestro Guillermo Barros Schelotto collected some more hefty bling. Coach Sigi Schmid got a sense of redemption. The 35-year-old Schelotto, a longtime star in his native Argentina, assisted on all the Columbus Crew’s goals in Sunday’s 3-1 MLS Cup victory over the New York Red Bulls. Afterward, he received [...]
College basketball: Auburn tops Ohio State women in overtime
Sherell Hobbs scored six of her 23 points in overtime to lift No. 20 Auburn to an 87-80 win over visiting No. 17 Ohio State on Sunday. Hobbs had a steal and layup with 54 seconds left in the extra period to seal the win for the Tigers (4-0). She also [...]
Sheffield looks hard at layoffs
SHEFFIELD — Battered by dwindling revenue and ever-rising costs, village officials are taking a hard look at layoffs to see the village through next year.
“I don’t know any way around it,” Mayor John Hunter said.
Those discussions have members of the police and fire departments — the two largest departments in the [...]
County courts weigh sharing of evidence before trials
ELYRIA — The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but Lorain County’s judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys are looking for ways to make criminal cases move through the system a little faster.
Chief among the options under consideration is a change in how much information prosecutors share with defense attorneys and when the defense [...]