Sports

The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton is making major changes to how future classes are selected. The Hall says its Selection Committee will shrink from 50 members to 28, and the annual selection meeting will return to an in-person format after six years. The biggest change involves player Read more

The WCTV Foundation is hoping to clear up questions surrounding the loss of Wadsworth High School football broadcasts, saying the issue is a staffing shortage, not a lack of community support or interest. According to the Foundation, WCTV currently has just one full-time employee along with limited part-time help. With Read more

Cleveland Browns fans will soon be able to get a much closer look at what the team’s planned new stadium could be like, right down to trying out the seats. The Cleveland Browns and Haslam Sports Group will celebrate the opening of the new Browns Experience center in Berea with Read more

Longtime Ellet football coach Joe Yost has died at the age of 73. For nearly four decades, Yost was a fixture on the sidelines at Ellet. He took over as head coach in 1979 and spent 38 seasons leading the Orangemen, finishing his career with a 234-152-2 record. His 234 Read more

What started as a player eligibility dispute has turned into a much bigger controversy surrounding the Little League World Series. Tulsa National Little League was removed from the Southwest Region baseball tournament after Little League determined the Oklahoma team used an ineligible player. Reports say the player lived outside Tulsa Read more

Some of the best women’s bowlers in the world are in northeast Ohio this week as the Professional Women’s Bowling Association closes out its 2026 season at Yorktown Lanes. Tour Championship Week runs through August 18 and features three tournaments. Competition begins Wednesday with the Cleveland Open, followed by the Read more

The Canton Police Department is reminding residents and visitors that juvenile curfew laws will be strictly enforced during this week’s Pro Football Hall of Fame festivities. Enforcement will focus Friday evening during the city’s First Friday celebration downtown and along the Hall of Fame Grand Parade pre-parade route on Cleveland Read more

Nearly 300 young racers from across the United States, Canada and Japan are heading to Akron for the 88th FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby. The week of events begins Sunday, July 12, with activities leading up to the world championship race at Derby Downs on Saturday, July 18. Racers between Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states may prohibit transgender girls and women from competing on female school sports teams. The decision, issued Tuesday and reported by Reuters, upheld laws in Idaho and West Virginia that base eligibility for girls’ and women’s teams on biological sex. The ruling overturned Read more