By Chris Miles Sports Editor The search for a new varsity football coach at Madison-Plains High School (MPHS) has come to an end. The Golden Eagles have tabbed Jason Hunt as their new gridiron boss, the hire was approved by the Madison-Plains School Board Tuesday night. The new coach has spent time in recent [...]
By Jim Naveau Lima News Sports Writer COLUMBUS — Urban Meyer reached back to his days as a minor league baseball player to describe the football recruiting class Ohio State signed on Wednesday. “Knocking it out of the park,” was the description OSU’s coach attached to the signing of 24 athletes to national letters [...]
By Kevin Dye Madison County Prosecutor Steven Pronai visited West Jefferson Village Council Monday night to see if the village would consider annexing a piece of property that has caused some problems on football Fridays in the fall. The long, narrow strip of land is 6.5 acres and it runs parallel to the high [...]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — New Purdue coach Darrell Hazell is filling out his staff. Former Florida State assistant head coach-linebackers coach Greg Hudson will be the new defensive coordinator. Three assistants will follow Hazell from Kent State to Purdue: Jon Heacock will continue to coach cornerbacks, Marcus Freeman will continue to coach linebackers and [...]
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS COLUMBUS (AP) — Students withholding information about an alleged rape in an eastern Ohio city last summer are thwarting investigators, school officials said Thursday as they encouraged students to contact police if they know something. The Steubenville school board is also expanding programs to raise further awareness of sexual harassment, bullying, date [...]
By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer Junior Seau, one of the NFL’s best and fiercest players for nearly two decades, had a degenerative brain disease when he committed suicide last May, the National Institutes of Health told The Associated Press on Thursday. Results of an NIH study of Seau’s brain revealed abnormalities consistent with [...]
By JOE KAY CINCINNATI (AP) — Andy Dalton is getting a second chance to shine in a hometown playoff game. The first one didn’t turn out very well for him at all. The Bengals quarterback had one of the worst games of his rookie season in front of a lot of family and friends in [...]
By JEFF GILLILAND The Times-Gazette HILLSBORO — The Hillsboro City Schools are looking for a new head football coach, superintendent Rick Earley confirmed late Friday. The school posted the job opening on its website Thursday, but coach Brian Spicer said Friday he had actually informed the school a month ago that he was not [...]
