Leona Wagner, 81, of Brunswick, passed away Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007, at her residence.
She was born April 12, 1926, in Cleveland. Mrs. Wagner was a homemaker. She took pleasure in raising her children and loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She will be dearly missed.
Mrs. Wagner is survived by her husband of 53 years, [...]

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CLEVELAND — The Browns didn’t need overtime. They didn’t need a ricochet field goal. Their fans didn’t need Maalox.
The Browns picked up an ordinary win Sunday — 27-17 over the Houston Texans at Cleveland Browns Stadium — and that’s what’s remarkable. After their last three games came down to field goals in the final seconds, [...]

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Losing exacts a heavy toll on a football team and on a football-crazy city. Apparently, it also leads to problems in the dairy aisle.
“When I’d go to buy groceries and we weren’t winning, I’d hear about it,” Browns wide receiver Joe Jurevicius said. “People would tell me things like, ‘The milk is over there,’ just [...]

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PARMA — Gone in 200 seconds.
That’s how long it took for Brunswick’s football team to go from a chance to continue an already incredible season to watching Mentor play Cincinnati St. Xavier next week in the Division I state final.
Swimming along in their semifinal game with Mentor on Saturday, the Blue Devils gave up a [...]

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PARMA — Although Brunswick’s football team put up 14 points against Mentor in the Division I state semifinals Saturday at Parma’s Byers Field, they had to work for every point.
After all, it’s hard to score when the end zone is consistently 80 yards away.
Cardinals kicker/punter Kevin Harper made sure to pin the Blue Devils in [...]

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CUYAHOGA FALLS — Wadsworth boys basketball player Joe Goddard wasted little time picking up where he left off last boys basketball season.
The senior, who led Medina County with 52 3-pointers in 2006-07, nailed five shots from beyond the arc in the first half of the Grizzlies’ 63-47 non-league win Saturday over Cuyahoga Falls.
Goddard made four  [...]

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GRANGER TWP. —  The Buckeye girls basketball team fell to Cleveland Heights Beaumont 54-49, but that doesn’t tell the whole story.
The Bucks (0-2) came up short Saturday in Day Two of Highland’s Ballin’ in the Burbs Invitational, but showed tons of perseverance as they battled  back from a 20-plus point deficit late in the contest.
Early [...]

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PARMA — The highly-anticipated quarterback duel between Brunswick’s Sean Bedevelsky and Mentor’s Bart Tanski lived up to the billing Saturday in the Division I state semifinals at Parma’s Byers Field.
Then came the second half.
The two seniors went toe-to-toe until Tanski made more plays than his counterpart to lead the Cardinals to a convincing 39-14 victory.
“I [...]

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PARMA — Much like their Brunswick football team, Sean Bedevelsky and Jordan Gribble missed it by that much.
Coming into Saturday’s 39-14 Division I state semifinal loss, the duo was on pace to break some more Medina County records only to see them slip through their hands.
Bedevelsky needed 292 passing yards to top the output of [...]

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WOOSTER — When Parker Hewit is on his game, Cloverleaf’s boys basketball team can compete with anyone.
Behind the senior’s double-double performance, Wooster found out firsthand Saturday as the Colts picked up a 63-52 non-league triumph in its season opener.
Hewit, a 6-foot-3 swingman, led Cloverleaf (1-0) with 29 points and 10 rebounds as he posted his [...]

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