Battered by Slots, Ohio Track Is Put on the Block by Magna
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Struggling to compete with casinos and racetracks with slot machines in neighboring states, Thistledown racetrack outside Cleveland is put up for sale.
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MARTINSVILLE - Halfway into the Chase for the NASCAR Nextel Cup, the competition comes to a half-mile track where intensity â-nd history â - inherent.
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LOWELL -- Heading into the relay events at yesterday's MIAA Division 1 EMass championships, Lexington was tied for second place in the team standings and looking for a way to move up.
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A three-game losing streak, an injury to the starting quarterback and a suspension of a senior captain who is also the leading rusher for the Ohio State football team - One might think the Buckeyes had hit rock bottom.
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More Toledo-area blows were exchanged in the fight for the presidential election yesterday, this time with the African-American vote as the targeted prize.
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ELMONT, N.Y. -- One of the byproducts of the withdrawal from the Belmont by Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense and the entrance of Rags to Riches was a game of musical chairs for the jockeys.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Mike Nugent's 55-yard field goal as time expired gave ninth-ranked Ohio State a 24-21 victory over Marshall yesterday.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Jim O'Brien won an appeal Thursday and can return to the college sidelines after he had been fired by Ohio State and essentially banned from coaching by the NCAA for paying a recruit.
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Stock car racing was built by those trying to beat the system.
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Slot manufacturer gets pummeled after releasing profit warning.
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EAST GREENWICH, R.I. - The Brown Invitational was just another stop along the way for the freight train that is the Brookline cross-country team. With the state championship looming and in need of fine-tuning, top-ranked Brookline went searching for tougher competition.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In the quiet of the Marshall dressing room, a simple fact stood between the Thundering Herd and one of their biggest upsets ever.
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When you&#39;ve lost 21 games in a season, how tough can it be to deal with a runner in scoring position and nobody out? Tigers left-hander Mike Maroth ruined three such opportunities for Cleveland
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DETROIT -- A broken hand and separated shoulder were not enough to stop Bruce Gradkowski from lifting Toledo to the Mid-American Conference championship.
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The EMass high school football realignment process is like pushing a stalled car to a gas station - getting it moving is half the battle.
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Ohio Stateâs success of the past few seasons has been tempered by the universityâs recent inability to win the big game.
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THEY HOPED - MAYBE they prayed â-or this, but stock-car racingâs officials could not have realistically expected the mad, mad, mad scramble that has evolved in the battle for the 2004 title.