MINERAL RIDGE — Saturday’s district title game was not a home game for Warren JFK. But for Eagles senior Gianna Pompelia, the Mineral Ridge gym may as well be her home court. A year after her monster 43-point outing to give Kennedy its first girls basketball district title, Pompelia did ...

MINERAL RIDGE — This time last season, Maplewood saw its season come to an end in the district finals. That sting has sat with the Rockets for over a year now, and with another opportunity to bring a district crown home on the same floor that hosted their defeat a season ago, they weren’t ...

PENINSULA — Addison Rhodes grabbed the scissors, took to the ladder and grabbed the net. Unfortunately she had some difficulty cutting down her piece of twine. “I’m lefthanded, and they’re righthanded scissors,” Rhodes said with a smile afterward. Grinning from ear to ear as she ...

PENINSULA — Admittedly, Poland girls basketball coach Nick Blanch thought the 2025-26 season was going to be a bit of a rebuilding year. The Bulldogs had a young core that needed experience, and it was going to take time for everything to gel. But Blanch still thought his girls could make a ...

NEW YORK — James Harden scored 22 points in his return to the lineup with a broken thumb and the Cleveland Cavaliers snapped a two-game skid with a 106-102 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday. Harden missed two games after fracturing his thumb earlier in the week. He bounced back and ...

The state swim meet was held at C.T. Branin Natatorium in Canton this past week, with the finals taking place Friday and Saturday. The Springfield girls were the top finishers from the area, tying for ninth with 85 points in Division II. Canfield was 38th with 10, Howland tied for 49th with ...