By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
INDEPENDENCE — The Washington Wizards can talk all they want, knock his headband off and commit flagrant fouls.
There is one thing Cavaliers small forward LeBron James vows he won’t do.
“I don’t fight,” James said Tuesday following a workout at Cleveland Clinic Courts. “That’s so grade school. I don’t need to fight. [...]

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By LORRAINE BARNETT
Special to The Gazette
Plant: Forsythia
Common names: Border forsythia, Golden Bells, Weeping forsythia
Latin name: Forsythia
Description: Tons of small yellow flowers take center stage in the early brisk springtime just as temperatures begin to bring an audience of song birds back to Ohio.
Last season’s twiggy branches wake up and dress themselves in [...]

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By MIKE MILLER
OSU Extension Medina County
Like many Ohio farmers, livestock producers looking to re-seed or renovate their pasture paddocks after last year’s drought and wet winter are facing high input and seed costs. Ohio State University Extension educator Rory Lewandowski offers a variety of management strategies to help producers ease back into productive forages this [...]

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By CHRIS ASSENHEIMER
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — Indians starting pitchers came prepared to sweep the dreaded New York Yankees in a four-game series at Progressive Field — the Bronx Bombers’ only trip of the season to Cleveland.
But thanks to an offense that continues to hold back the defending Central Division champions, the Indians were only able to [...]

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BARBERTON — Cloverleaf’s softball team wasn’t about to give up and kept Barberton winless in Suburban League action Monday with a 7-5 win.
Down 3-0 in the top of the sixth, Melissa Mokovsky had a two-run single and came home on a base knock by Val Elswick as the Colts (8-8, 2-5) put up a five-spot [...]

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GREEN TWP. — The very thing Wadsworth baseball coach Brian Madigan feared played out Monday when upstart Green upset the Grizzlies 8-4 in Suburban League action.
The Grizzlies (11-4, 5-2) saw their six-game win streak go by the wayside as the Bulldogs (4-12, 3-4) put up three runs in the sixth to blow open a close [...]

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By RICK NOLAND
LeBron James has a way of saying a lot by saying almost nothing.
So it was as James sat at the interview podium Sunday afternoon at the Verizon Center, about 45 minutes after passing to Delonte West for the game-winning 3-pointer in the Cavaliers’ 100-97 victory over the Washington Wizards in Game 4.
The win [...]

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BARBERTON — Highland’s boys tennis team closed out its Suburban League schedule Monday with a 3-2 road win over Barberton.
Clay Schilling blanked Barberton’s Daniel Blankenship at third singles to lead the way for the Hornets (5-8, 3-4), who will take the fifth seed into this weekend’s SL Tournament at Medina High.
Highland also got victories from [...]

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By CHRIS ASSENHEIMER
 
It must seem a lot like 2006 for Indians manager Eric Wedge, where his bullpen is concerned.
That was the year Wedge could turn to few members of his relief corps without it blowing up in his face – the pen’s pitiful performance playing a large part in the team’s overall lack of success.
It’s [...]

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By Judy A. Totts
Religion Editor
My personal trainer is an exceptional motivator. A rather stubby — but powerful — presence, she doesn’t hesitate to rouse me early. It’s all part of the package.
She reminds me a lot of Phil, the tough little satyr in the animated Disney movie “Hercules,” who converted the big guy into a [...]

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