CLEVELAND — Donovan Mitchell scored 33 points, Jarrett Allen had 29 points and 13 rebounds and the Cleveland Cavaliers clinched a playoff berth with a 129-120 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.
The Toledo Mud Hens defeated the Indianapolis Indians 4-3 in extra innings at Fifth Third Field, April 12, in Toledo.
(Editor’s note: This story by former Blade executive sports editor Chet Sullwold was originally published Jan. 2, 1969. With O.J. Simpson’s passing this past week, we look back at how The Blade reported Simpson’s Rose Bowl effort for Southern California against perhaps coach Woody Hayes’ best team at Ohio State.)
The Anthony Wayne softball team is ranked in the USA Today/National Fastpitch Coaches Association spring softball Super 25 for the first time this season.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Max Homa figures if he can conquer the mental task of playing well in a group with Tiger Woods for 36 holes at the Masters, he can accomplish pretty much anything in golf.
WASHINGTON — Osama Siblani was sipping his morning coffee at the office when his phone buzzed with a message from one of President Joe Biden's advisers. As publisher of the Arab American News in Dearborn, Michigan, Siblani serves as an occasional sounding board, and the White House wanted to know what he thought of Biden's recent call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Students gathered inside Catherine Hernandez’s fourth-grade classroom at Marshall STEMM Academy in South Toledo on Friday afternoon to listen to local author Virginia Ulch’s children’s book Bullyfish.
BOWLING GREEN — T.J. Takats has experienced two vastly different ends of a baseball spectrum in the past year.
LOS ANGELES — The former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani agreed on Friday to undergo court-ordered gambling addiction treatment after federal prosecutors accused him of stealing $16 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off debts.
COLUMBUS — The final words scrawled by Ohio's former top utilities regulator shortly before he apparently hanged himself this week made no mention of the corruption charges against him, his co-defendants, or his guilt or innocence.
Approximately 250 people got together to discuss healthcare, breakthroughs in medical research, and strategies for enhancing patient care during the University of Toledo’s inaugural Healthcare Symposium Friday.
