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CLEVELAND (AP) — The scripted name atop the giant scoreboard at Progressive Field is new. So are the team's caps and jerseys, signaling a fresh start for Cleveland baseball in 2022. Everything else pretty much looks the same. This isn't so much a rebranding as a replay. No longer known as the Indians for the [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Reds corner outfielders Nick Castillo and Jesse Winker were All-Star Game starters for the National League last year. Third baseman Eugenio Suárez slammed 129 home runs in the last four seasons and was a fan favorite. They're gone. So are Gold Glove catcher Tucker Barnhart, starting pitchers Sonny Gray and Wade [...]
A group that advocates for college athletes has filed a federal complaint that claims NCAA Division I schools are violating the civil rights of black basketball players and major college football players by prohibiting compensation. The National College Players Association announced this week it had submitted a complaint to the Office for Civil Rights in [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. — This March Madness, basketball players can monetize their shining moments. The NCAA lifted its ban last summer on athletes earning money off their name, image and likeness. Since then, all kinds of business opportunities have sprung up from modest online endorsement deals to national sponsorship campaigns to booster-funded collectives that can pay [...]
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Kenzie Hauswirth broke a tie with 6:20 left and top-seeded Ohio State beat Minnesota Duluth 3-2 on Sunday for the Buckeyes' first women's Frozen Four championship. Hauswirth blasted a shot from the left side that deflected off a defender's skate and slipped inside the far post. Paetyn Levis and Clair [...]
CLEVELAND — The name has been changed on the front of Cleveland's jerseys and there's a new logo on the team's caps. There's another thing notably refreshing and different about this young squad as it opens spring training. Manager Terry Francona is back. Sidelined over the past two seasons by serious medical issues, the 62-year-old [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — About 45 million Americans say they plan to bet on this year's March Madness college basketball championship tournament, and an increasing percentage will do it in a way that doesn't include filling out brackets, according to the gambling industry's national trade group. In a report released Sunday night, the American [...]
CINCINNATI — Coach Luke Fickell has suggested a book about Cincinnati's upcoming football season could be titled "Life Without Desmond Ridder." While finding a replacement for the record-setting four-year starter at quarterback may be at the front of the coach's mind this spring, the title of that tome should probably be amended to also lament [...]
COLUMBUS — Ohio State's wild 48-45 win over Utah in the Rose Bowl helped salve the wounded spirit of a Buckeyes team coming off a humiliating loss at Michigan that ruined their championship hopes. C.J. Stroud set passing records in the Rose Bowl game, but the problems that had dogged Ohio State's defense all season [...]
Kush Patel showed up at Minute Maid Park wearing the No. 43 jersey of Houston Astros ace Lance McCullers Jr. and hankering for some baseball. This time, instead of watching his favorite team, Patel was there to see the Tennessee Volunteers play the Texas Longhorns in a battle of college baseball heavyweights. "I'm a diehard [...]