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Sunday, 29 June 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features, OSU, OSU Feature

Loyalty A Good Place To Start For Diebler’s Buckeyes

Bruce Thornton, John Mobley Jr. and Devin Royal said they never considered playing at another school or for another coach. They came back because they love being Buckeyes and want to take the program back to the NCAA Tournament. Part 2 of a summer series on the building of the 2025-2026 basketball Buckeyes.
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Saturday, 28 June 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features, MAC, MAC Feature

Summertime…Is Learning Time For Minster Boys Basketball

Point guard Cole McClurg (above) and the Wildcats are in northern Ohio playing good competition with the expectation that their experience at Midwest Live will help them be ready when practice starts in November.
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Friday, 27 June 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features

What We’re Hearing In June…About 12 Teams Per Region, And Football 2025

The recent OHSAA announcement about 12 teams per region for the playoffs has apparently inspired no one who's concerned with the future of more competitive football.  "And Marion Local is still in Division VII,"  laments one.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features

Umpires Make Their Own Case In College World Series Finale….

A photo of baseball, when baseball was real....Coastal Carolina coach Kevin Schnall got the heave early in the College World Series finale for arguing balls and strikes, and in another example of institutional management...the NCAA looked the worse for it.
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Sunday, 22 June 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features

Stammen Classic, Day 3…Pictures Of The Essentials

It doesn't cost $250 for a family of five to attend, and it doesn't cost $1,500 for a twelve-year-0ld to play.  What wrapped up this weekend in Versailles was baseball for the sake of fun (New Bremen's Landon Overman, above), and family...and no one worried about spin rate! Read.....