CLEVELAND -Browns tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee when he crashed his motorcycle, two sources within the league told The Associated Press on Thursday, placing his 2005 season in doubt.
For maybe the first time in years, it seems that the students of Ohio University have optimistic feelings about the school's sports teams.
WASHINGTON -The NBA's steroids policy was branded pathetic and a joke by lawmakers yesterday, and the head of a congressional panel said he will propose a law creating drug-testing standards for the four major professional sports leagues.
The Ohio athletic department will soon conclude a year that has seen much success, with three MAC Championships in varsity sports since fall.
Six weeks ago, I signed up for Friday Night at the Fights, OU's annual boxing tournament. I really don't know why I did it, because I am in no way athletic. I struggle with all things motor-coordinated. Being uncoordinated is like being a really bad driver of your own body. You tend to break things, especially yourself. And you are really bad at sports.
A bill was introduced in late April in the Ohio General Assembly to ban all abortions, 31 years after the Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal nationwide.
Local musicians have contributed songs to a benefit CD for a former member of their ranks.
Last month The Post ran a feature on poetry in the bathrooms of our esteemed institution. Though bathroom phone numbers had brought me some disastrous ends before, I put aside my skepticism and decided to investigate the works of these Bobcat bards.
CLEVELAND -Jake Westbrook got the ground balls he wanted, just not the groundouts he needed.
Despite all the negative feedback surrounding the addition of Temple to the Mid-American Conference, in time fans will realize that this is a good move for the conference.
The Ohio baseball team fell 3-0 to Vanderbilt yesterday evening for its fourth straight loss.
After an undergraduate vote and a rigorous screening process, next year's University Professors have been chosen.
The virtual galaxy inhabited by Star Wars fans -an endless, interconnected tangle of Web sites, online 'zines and message boards -is only slightly less colorful and violent than the one far, far away inhabited by Han Solo, Yoda and Jango Fett. A network of die-hard adherents who often use the same breath to castigate and then laud creator George Lucas, its members are people for whom Star Wars is a primary source of pleasure and pain.
The $44,000 gift Ohio University gave to the City of Athens two weeks ago remains unspent, but probably will go toward new fire equipment, Athens Mayor Ric Abel said.
To begin this week's drooling, I would like to issue two apologies: one to any disappointed readers last week and the other to some guys in a Jeep Wrangler.
Earlier this month, anti-American riots raged in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of at least 15 people. Surprisingly enough, the carnage was linked to a small item printed in Newsweek. The short excerpt made reference to an internal report that described interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay naval base flushing a Quran down a toilet to provoke responses from reticent detainees. Now, Newsweek has learned that the anonymous source used by its reporters was mistaken. While the magazine's mistake caused undue harm and should be learned from, instances like this remain insufficient grounds for curbing the rights of journalists.
INDIANAPOLIS -Former Indy winner Kenny Brack is coming back to the Brickyard, summoned to replace the injured driver who once filled in for him: defending champion Buddy Rice.
You've probably heard breathless accounts of the Newsweek controversy several times in the last week. But in case you haven't, I'll tell it once more.
Students, residents and faculty of Athens had the chance to expand past the geographical bounds of Athens last night without leaving Gordy Hall.
After three years of worrying about finding a left-handed desk in each of her classes, Ohio University junior Laura Alexander finally resorted to writing on her lap.
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