Josephine A. Morrone, 82, of Valley City, passed away Thursday, May 1, 2008, at Medina General Hospital.
She was born Jan. 11, 1926, in Lakewood and was a homemaker. Mrs. Morrone enjoyed collecting jewelry and taking scenic drives. She cherished spending time with her family and friends, especially all her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She is survived by […]

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BY RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
INDEPENDENCE — The Cavaliers must have all taken some Chaser before they went to sleep Wednesday night, because they insisted Thursday afternoon there was no hangover from their 88-87 loss to the Washington Wizards in Game 5 at Quicken Loans Arena.
“We woke up this morning and saw smiles on everybody’s faces,” […]

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Random thoughts from the stands at Quicken Loans Arena, where the Cavaliers are guaranteed at least one more home game, but don’t know whether it will come against Washington, Boston or Atlanta:
There is no reason to panic about the Wizards coming back to win this series — yet. Cleveland played a terrible basketball game Wednesday, […]

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By CHRIS ASSENHEIMER
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — The Indians passed a test of endurance Thursday night at Progressive Field. As a result, they also won a baseball game.
With both teams struggling to do much of anything besides pitch, Cleveland outlasted Seattle 3-2 in 11 innings to take the rubber match of a three-game series.
The Indians led by […]

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By CHRIS ASSENHEIMER

Staff Writer

CLEVELAND — Travis Hafner, one of the most feared hitters in the American League from 2004-06, has been reduced to David Dellucci status.

Dellucci replaced Hafner as the third hitter in the Indians’ lineup for the series finale against Seattle, while Hafner batted sixth, in a move manager Eric Wedge hopes will help […]

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By RICK NOLAND

Assistant Sports Editor

INDEPENDENCE — After teaming with Anderson Varejao for a spirited game of two-on-two against assistant coaches Chris Jent and Lloyd Pierce on Thursday at Cleveland Clinic Courts, Cavaliers guard Sasha Pavlovic pronounced himself ready to play against the Washington Wizards tonight in Game 6.

However, judging from the tone of Cavaliers coach […]

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By BRAD BOURNIVAL

Staff Writer

Brandon Whitslar made sure Cloverleaf’s baseball team wasn’t going to finish the season with a bagel.

The freshman not only won the first game of his high school career over the weekend, he put the Colts on the left side of the column for the first time all year with a 9-8 non-conference […]

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AKRON — There must be something in the Medina County air because for the third consecutive day, an area softball or baseball player hit a pair of home runs in a game.

This time it was Cloverleaf softball player Lindsay Smith, who uncorked a pair of dingers to lead the Colts past Akron Our Lady of […]

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MEDINA — The Medina boys tennis team had an easy time of it beating Akron Coventry in non-league play Thursday 5-0.

Andrew Baker, Zach Peters and Liam McLaughlin picked up singles victories.

Lucas Walters and Chris Haslem and Clint Lehotan and Jordan Johnston notched doubles wins.

The Bees improve to 9-6.

In other matches:

Stow 3, Wadsworth 2
STOW — The Grizzlies […]

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“I can’t keep up with her,” says Aaron McConkey (right) of his companion Beverly Buckland as they spend Thursday afternoon tooling around Medina’s Public Square. McConkey and Buckland both have multiple sclerosis and met about 2½ years ago because of the illness. McConkey, who chooses not to drive a car because it is very […]

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