CLEVELAND — Jake Westbrook’s luck didn’t change Wednesday afternoon, and it appears that the Chicago White Sox’s fortunes have. 
That added up to a bunch of bad news for the Indians, who enjoyed a rare disappointing day at Jacobs Field in a 5-1 loss to Chicago that gave the sagging Sox the series.
The White Sox were [...]

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BRUNSWICK — Scott Ward has always wanted to be a head coach, he just didn’t think it would happen this soon.
Just a month after Brunswick girls soccer coach Dave Zahs passed away, his former junior varsity coach was selected to take the reigns of the program.
“I’ve always wanted to be a varsity coach, but I [...]

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CLEVELAND — The White Sox haven’t been playing very good baseball this season. In fact, they’ve been downright awful. 
That’s why the team is hoping that a big series win against Cleveland — just the second series loss for the Indians at Jacobs Field this year — can be the starting point of something big.
“Every time [...]

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CLEVELAND — The more Franklin Gutierrez plays, the better he looks, which is why Indians manager Eric Wedge is finding it difficult to keep the young outfielder out of the lineup. Gutierrez, who didn’t figure much in Cleveland’s plans this season, is well on his way to supplanting struggling veteran Trot Nixon in right field, with [...]

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Life is good for John Furlong.
So good, in fact, that the 2007 Medina graduate has parked himself atop the leaderboard in junior golf.
Furlong has gone to great lengths to improve his game and it has certainly paid off. As the summer season winds down, the future Ashland Eagle has been heating up.
Hot off a championship [...]

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BRUNSWICK — The prep soccer season is still a little over a month away, but the competition was fierce this past weekend at Judy Kirsch Field.
Twelve area girls squads, which included the host Blue Devils and Highland, hit the pitch in the third annual North Coast Cup — a preseason tournament.
The 12-team event was especially [...]

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BEREA — The Browns agreed to terms Wednesday with seventh-round draft choice Chase Pittman, a defensive end from Louisiana State.
The 6-foot-5, 273-pounder signed a four-year contract, the financial terms of which were not disclosed.
Pittman, who transferred from Texas prior to his junior season, was the 213th overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft. He amassed [...]

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CLEVELAND — Pitching to Ryan Garko these days can be a risky prospect. The Chicago White Sox learned as much emphatically on Tuesday night.
Though Garko did not start the game, he wound up filling the hero role for the Indians once again in their latest comeback victory, a 6-5 decision over the Sox in 11 [...]

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