cavs better today
Of course, how could the Cavs have avoided improving on last season, when they only won 19 games. But, with the pick of Kyrie Irving to lead off last night’s NBA draft, they began the long climb back to respectability. Irving, his Duke pedigree aside, was the consensus No. 1 pick, which is what Cleveland [...]
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40 wins
In 2010, the Cleveland Indians won their 40th game on July 20, and their 4-3 win tonight over the Rockies puts them at 40-33. The bullpen was lights-out again, and helped keep the Tribe a game in front of Detroit in the AL Central. The White Sox are only five back and the Twins, somehow, [...]
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Cabrera deserves All-Star start
Asdrubal Cabrera won’t win the first slot in voting for the American League shortstop to play in the All-Star Game, but the man deserves it. As of June 23, Cabrera was hitting .296, third among shortstops on the ballot behind Baltimore’s J.J. Hardy (.304) and, gasp, Detroit’s Jhonny Peralta (.298). And while the man has often [...]
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Johnson suits up for Vancouver Canadians
Matthew Johnson , an Orrville and COW grad, has been assigned to Toronto Blue Jays’ Class-A Vancouver Canadians team in British Columbia. I’ll have more on him in my Sunday D.R. column. No, he wasn’t involved in the Vancouver Canucks crazy fans’ riot, but he did get to drive by and see the aftermath. The Vancouver [...]
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can we please move on?
The past few weeks have been about as bad as they can get for sports fans here in NE Ohio — and when the years without a championship is nearing the number that would qualify for a Golden Buckeye card, that’s saying a lot. The one program we could always count on, Ohio State football, [...]
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I can finally take a breath
Whew!! Now that the high school sports seasons have finished I finally have time to do one of these fancy blogs. The high school football, boys basketball and girls basketball stats have been finished up and filed waiting on next season to start. I feel like a school teacher at the end of the school [...]
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WC Legion team looks impressive
Barry Craddock Had a chance to watch the Wayne County Senior Legion baseball team (8-4) run-rule Tuscarawas County 12-2 Wednesday night. The local boys looked pretty good, with Triway graduate Derek Carmichael going 2-for-4 with a double and three-run homer and Rittman senior-to-be Dylan Litman notching the win. Dalton grad Jake Zeek hit two doubles during [...]
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LeShame
I had an interesting conversation with Laurie Stiles, the Orrville Goodwill Store Manager, which finally prompted me to write this. In our conversation I told her that I like to talk about conterversial topics that make it interesting for all the readers to read. Something that draws the readers in and make them want to [...]
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Summer Spotlight on… Me!
Every summer, The Daily Record Sports Staff scours the country side, or just Wayne and Holmes counties, for young athletes to feature in our Summer Spotlight section, which runs Thursdays. The questions are typed on a sheet of paper, and kids are asked to fill them out. Usually, they can whip through it with little [...]
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LeBron pulls another disappearing act in Finals
LeBron James rightfully says a win is the only statistic he cares about, but he’s going to have to put up much better numbers in the fourth quarter if the Heat are to save face and start their run of guaranteed titles. All the games so far have come down to the fourth quarter, with [...]
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