By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
INDEPENDENCE - Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry isn’t guaranteeing a championship in 2008, but he’s confident his team is closer to reaching that goal now than it was at 2:58 p.m. Thursday.
That’s why Ferry started finalizing a blockbuster trade with the Chicago Bulls and Seattle SuperSonics at 2:59 p.m., one minute [...]

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The starting lineup will likely be Delonte West at point guard, Wally Szczerbiak at shooting guard, LeBron James at small forward, Ben Wallace at power forward and Zydrunas Ilgauskas in the middle.
Anderson Varejao and Joe Smith will be the big men off the bench, with a smorgasbord of Daniel Gibson, Damon Jones, Devin Brown, Sasha [...]

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By BRIAN DULIK
Staff Writer
MEDINA — Brunswick’s girls basketball team will not make a return trip to the regionals, but it wasn’t because of a lack of effort.
The third-seeded Blue Devils scrapped, fought and battled No. 2 seed Lorain Admiral King from end to end on Thursday night, but were simply overmatched.
The red-hot Admirals played terrific [...]

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By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
INDEPENDENCE — The Cavaliers will only have six healthy players when they host the Washington Wizards tonight at 8.
League rules require teams to dress a minimum of eight, so look for Anderson Varejao, who is still recovering from a sprained left ankle, to limp through warmups.
With only LeBron James, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, [...]

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By ADAM FERRISE
Special to The Gazette
Cloverleaf’s gymnastics team hasn’t always been this perfect, especially in the last decade.
This season the Colts  went undefeated in 20 regular-season meets, won the first-ever Northeast Ohio Gymnastics Conference championship and qualified as a team for the district meet to be held at West Geauga High School on Saturday.
The last [...]

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By ADAM FERRISE
Special to The Gazette
One thing has remained constant in the last four years at the state gymnastics meet: a Rymer has placed in the top three in the all-around competition.
Nicki Rymer, the Northeast Ohio Conference Valley Division Gymnast of the Year and three-time state qualifier, is trying to do something that her sister, [...]

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By HANNAH SCHAEFER
Staff Writer
BRUNSWICK — A. Wolf stood trial for the murder of two little pigs and the attempted murder of another little pig Thursday. A jury of about 20 third-graders found Wolf guilty after only minutes of deliberation.
Wolf maintained her innocence.
“I was making a birthday cake for my dear old granny,” Wolf said. “I [...]

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By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
INDIANAPOLIS — Fans bitter that the Browns missed the playoffs in part because the Titans beat a Colts team that rested many of its starters in the regular-season finale have sympathizers among the NFL’s competition committee.
Colts president Bill Polian said Thursday at the scouting combine that the committee has discussed rule changes [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
WESTFIELD TWP. — With new building projects and renovations planned to begin within the next few years, Superintendent Bruce Hulme said everyone in the district must remain united in order to achieve these goals.
“Over the past several years, we have achieved a lot through unity,” he said during his approximately 15-minute State [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
GRANGER TWP. — Six homes in the area along Granger and Beach roads have been burglarized by at least two accomplices, Sgt. Gary Hubbard of the Medina County Sheriff’s Office said.
The reported burglaries took place between Feb. 7 and Monday. All are believed to have occurred between 1 and 4 a.m., and [...]

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