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NFL storylines after the first four games

Andrew Ford, Staff Reporter October 4, 2019

The first quarter of the 2019 NFL season has passed and the league is as polarizing as ever. One division has four teams with the same record. Backup quarterbacks are taking the league by storm, and, of...

Cleveland Indian’s 2019 Playoff Chances

Medha Nayak August 30, 2019

The Cleveland Indians are in the middle of a very unpredictable season. The 2019 season is the 119th season for the Indians, the seventh season under manager Terry Francona and the fourth season for general...

National basketball team in shambles?

David Chang, Staff Reporter August 30, 2019

Australia surprised the sports world by defeating the U.S. men’s basketball team for the first time ever, snapping the U.S. team’s 78 game winning streak. Prior to this loss, the U.S.’s most recent...

Cleveland Browns season primer

Nicholas Kamlet, Staff Reporter August 30, 2019

Perhaps failure can lead to success. For the Cleveland Browns, success is finally on the horizon. Since 1999, the Browns have only had two winning seasons and have started 28 different quarterbacks. The...

Colts at Redskins 09/16/18

Luck shocks the football world

Andrew Ford, Staff Reporter August 30, 2019

On Saturday night, while my roommate and I were watching the first college football game of the season on ESPN, the red “Breaking News” sign flashed across the bottom of the screen with a sentence...

An error in placing the borders between Ohio and Michigan created an area of land known as the Toledo Strip. The states disagreed over who should be allowed the land, resulting in the Toledo War.

The origin of the Ohio-Michigan rivalry

Ryan Yoo, Director of Design April 12, 2019

The University of Michigan-Ohio State University football rivalry is often considered to be one of the biggest (and the most heated) rivalries in American football history. Since their first game in 1897,...

March Madness brackets are a ritual for many. Above is just one of the many brackets that have been created this year.

Ohio man has perfect bracket through first two rounds

Emily Young, Copy Editor March 29, 2019

Every year, March Madness rocks the nation with torrents of busted brackets, crushing dreams and ruining sports enthusiasts’ chances of winning their office betting pool. This year was particularly brutal,...

A glance at the upcoming MLB season

Claire Nordt, Sports Editor March 29, 2019

The first day of spring has passed, meaning it is officially the season for warmer weather, more scoops of Mitchell’s Homemade Ice Cream and less concentration in class. But the start of spring also...

What the Browns need to do this offseason

Andrew Ford, Staff Reporter March 1, 2019

After their best season in recent memory, the Cleveland Browns are getting ready for the 2019 season with the hope of winning their division, the AFC North, and earning an ever-elusive playoff berth. The...

Legalized sports gambling: beneficial or dangerous?

Andrew Ford, Staff Reporter February 22, 2019

In 2018, the landscape of sports in the United States changed for the foreseeable future but not  because of anything that happened on a court or field. Instead, the change stemmed from the Supreme...

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