Only one way for Browns to go
This season, The Associated Press has come up with ‘AP32,’ weekly rankings of all the teams in the NFL. The Cleveland Browns are ranked, not surprisingly, at the bottom heading into Sunday’s opener against visiting Philadelphia. The Browns have not given their loyal home fans much to cheer for since 1999, other than the 2007 [...]
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WCAL preview: Defending state champ Norwayne team to beat in league
Wayne County Athletic League HOW THEY’LL FARE (The Daily Record staff’s predicted order of finish) 1 NORWAYNE (14-1, 6-1) — The Wayne County Athletic League hasn’t exactly gone through a changing of the guard in recent seasons — it’s just that more schools have invested in their programs and joined the annual battle for WCAL supremacy. [...]
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OCC preview: West Holmes gets top billing
Ohio Cardinal Conference HOW THEY’LL FARE (The Daily Record staff’s predicted order of finish) 1 WEST HOLMES (5-5, 3-4 in 2011) — The 10th year for the Ohio Cardinal Conference could prove to be the most balanced yet, and possibly produce a first-time champion in West Holmes. The Knights return seven starters on offense and 10 [...]
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Our version of “The Decision”
One of the hardest decisions we have all year is what theme to center our annual HS football preview around. That’s been made, obviously, as it comes in Thursday’s paper, the day before the season opens. But one even more important is near for the staff, although this one is normally made by myself and [...]
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Salser defends IBA belt with split decision over Howard
WEST SALEM — Just about everyone in attendance at the first professional fight night ever held at Northwestern High School, or any area school for that matter, would agree it was a success. The outcome of the 10-round, main-event between Marc Salser and Chris “Hurricane” Howard for the IBA Continental Super Lightweight Title Belt on [...]
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Four intriguing Olympic storylines
Four Olympic storylines I’m most interested to follow: * Phelps-Lochte duel — Michael Phelps is coming off an All-Universe 2008 Beijing Olympics in which he won eight gold medals, but Ryan Lochte has come on strong and actually beat Phelps in the 400 individual medley Saturday. In interviews leading up to the London Olympics, Phelps [...]
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Chardon alumni football game a success
I attended one of the most unique football games I’ve ever been to when the Chardon High alumni football team took on the visiting Mayfield High alums in a full-equipment, full-contact game on July 4. Chardon had numerous players in their 40s, while Mayfield was a bit younger. I declined to play in the game [...]
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The real legacy of JoePa
Louis Freeh’s 267-page report is out on his investigation involving Penn State University and the internal happenings involving the handling of Jerry Sandusky. In this report he detailed how Tim Curley (Athletic Director), Graham Spanier (President), Gary Schultz (Vice President) and the legendary icon head coach Joe Paterno worked together to “conceal” critical facts, didn’t [...]
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USFL coming to Akron?
Got an email this morning (Tuesday, 6/26), which included this, from PR man Greg Ball: “As you may have heard, executives from the United States Football League (USFL) will be visiting Akron this week (Tuesday afternoon through Thursday morning) to meet with local officials about the possibility of placing a USFL team there. Jaime Cuadra [...]
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Football weather tonight at WHS
Optimism is on the rise with Wooster High football, which I guess usually is the case when a new head coach comes in, as Doug Haas has done at WHS. Stopped up to watch the first of his 10 summer practices Monday night at Follis Field, where, once the sun went away, it felt like [...]
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