CLEVELAND — It was Mike Brown’s kind of ugly, and the result was beautiful for the Cavaliers and their coach.
With LeBron James guarding Kobe Bryant down the stretch, Cleveland held the Los Angeles Lakers to 12 points in the final quarter and emerged with a 94-90 victory Thursday night at Quicken Loans Arena.
“We gave effort,” [...]

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BEREA — It’s too simplistic to say that Cleveland’s signing of left guard Eric Steinbach reversed the fortunes of the Bengals and the Browns in 2007.
But it definitely had an impact.
Steinbach was the Browns’ top free-agent pickup, agreeing to a seven-year, $49.5 million deal to leave the Bengals after four seasons. He immediately added credibility [...]

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The gut-check moment of Medina’s season came on Tuesday night, and the Bees passed it with flying colors.
Just four days removed from a 43-point loss to undefeated Garfield Heights, Medina found itself down eight with three minutes to go against Wadsworth.
Coach Jody Peters’ club, though, pulled together and outscored the Grizzlies by 10 points the [...]

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Judgment Week came and went for Cloverleaf’s boys basketball team and the Colts emerged in really good shape.
To start, who the heck would have thought Cody Roberts would have made the game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer against Tallmadge?
Take nothing away from the junior who looks like a teenage version of Bamm-Bamm Rubble, but he was [...]

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Three Medina County swim teams performed well at the Canton Christmas Invitational Meet at C.T. Branin Natatorium last weekend.
The event is considered one of the better meets in the area, attracting schools from as nearby as Akron and Youngstown to teams as far away as Cincinnati and Columbus.
Wadsworth — led by Logan Ware and Elaina [...]

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CLEVELAND — It gave moronic sportswriters who appear on television talk shows something to blabber about for a few minutes, but Cavaliers coach Mike Brown and superstar LeBron James insist their bump Wednesday night in Madison Square Garden was totally accidental.
That didn’t prevent the incident, which occurred as James was walking to the bench for [...]

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GRANGER TWP. — Highland’s wrestling team rolled up Suburban League foes Tallmadge and Copley Thursday, beating the Blue Devils 57-19 and Indians 56-8.
The Hornets, who improved to 3-1, received a double-pin performance from Jake Rininger. The 125-pounder took down his Copley foe in 2:54, then let Ken Barker count the lights en route to another [...]

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MEDINA — A new pool record helped pace Medina’s boys swim team over Lakewood Thursday night in Northeast Ohio Conference action at Medina Community Recreation Center.
The boys rolled past the visiting Rangers 231-83, behind a powerful 200 freestyle relay team that swam a 1:32.30. Christopher Jentesch, Luke Valach, Matt Garrison and David George all helped [...]

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BEREA — For the most part, Browns cornerback Leigh Bodden has defended Cincinnati’s Chad Johnson as well as anyone in the NFL.
Bodden, however, can’t stop Johnson if he can’t stop his back from hurting. The 26-year-old did not practice Thursday, putting his status in doubt for the teams’ rematch at Paul Brown Stadium.
Cleveland coach Romeo [...]

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BARBERTON — Highland’s eighth grade boys basketball team defeated Barberton Highland 55-45 on Thursday.
Leading the way for the Hornets was the dynamic duo of Eric Zudweg and Chad Sedio. Zudweg scorched the nets for 16 points, while Sedio was a tad behind with 15.
Mickey McCune added eight in the win for Highland, which improved to [...]

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