BALTIMORE — Too many times the Browns have had their hearts broken. Too many times the bounces have gone against them. Too many times they’ve walked off the field with their shoulders slumped and their heads shaking in disbelief.
Not this time.
On one improbable Sunday in Crab Cake Country, everything went the Browns’ way. The carom, [...]

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PARMA — In the regional finals for the first time since 2004, Brunswick’s football team learned a valuable lesson on Saturday night.
Life can exist without Sean Bedevelsky shredding secondaries and the team can win when game plans get thrown out the window and strategies are created on the fly.
On a night where weather conditions and [...]

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I don’t remember exactly when or how it came about, but a few years back fellow staff writer Brian Dulik stopped referring to Brunswick’s football team as the Blue Devils and simply started calling them “Winners.”
Within weeks, impressionable young guns Dan Brown and Albert Grindle had also adopted the phrase as we launched into our [...]

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PARMA — Brunswick’s football team had been pounding the middle of the North Canton Hoover defense Saturday in the Division I, Region 2 championship, and for good reason.
The Blue Devils’ passing game had no life thanks to a steady rainfall and the hounding Vikings secondary.
Quarterback Sean Bedevelsky faked sweeps all night to Ben Karaba and [...]

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Ohio State more than likely will not play for the national championship. A shocking loss to unranked Illinois a week ago saw to that.
But on a cold gray Saturday in Michigan, the Buckeyes received the only acceptable consolation — a victory over the archrival Wolverines and a trip to the Rose [...]

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BALTIMORE — Jamal Lewis sent a couple of messages on one play Sunday at his old stomping grounds.
In the first quarter of a 33-30 overtime win, he caught a swing pass, stiff-armed cornerback Chris McAlister and gained 25 yards before being pushed out of bounds on the Ravens sideline. Lewis, who played in Baltimore for [...]

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BALTIMORE — Phil Dawson has seen it all as a member of the Browns.
Most of it’s been bad.
But Sunday against the hated Ravens, Dawson played a starring role in what might prove to be the win that turned the fortunes of the franchise. It’s too early to know that, but Dawson was soaking up the [...]

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GREEN — Brunswick’s girls basketball team started its season off right with a 47-42 win over Revere at the Green Tip Off Tournament.
The Blue Devils (1-0) had three players score in double figures and used a strong defensive effort to hold Minutemen standout Casey Nance to just six points.
The job of guarding the 6-foot-4 Dayton [...]

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Mark Andrew Bacho, 50, passed away Friday, Nov. 16, 2007, in Medina.
He was born in Cleveland to Paul and Margaret (nee Weber). Mark was a longtime resident of Medina, being active at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in ministry as a lector of the liturgy of the word. He also enjoyed sports, being a CYO [...]

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Harold F. “Corky” Jenkins, 96, of Medina, passed away Friday, Nov. 16, 2007, at the Apostolic Christian Home.
He was born May 16, 1911, in Wadsworth to Fred and Margaret (Winebrenner) Jenkins and was a life resident of Medina. He was employed as a crane operator at Babcock & Wilcox Co. in Barberton and also [...]

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