ORLANDO, Fla. - Cable television giant Comcast Corp. made a surprise bid yesterday to buy The Walt Disney Co. for more than $54 billion, a deal that would take advantage of Disney's growing vulnerability to create the world's biggest media conglomerate.
A few weeks ago I arrived at Bird Arena to watch the Ohio hockey team. When I entered, the fellow at the door handed me a flier. This flier, paraphrased, asked the crowd to watch their darn mouths, being as the arena is a nice, university setting.
The Ohio women's basketball team was all smiles yesterday at practice and with good reason.
As much as any other state in the union, Ohio grapples regularly with the proper separation of church and state, one of the most traditionally divisive arguments in the history of the United States. The latest chapter in the fight between the secular and the sectarian will be fought in the federal appeals court in Cincinnati, where judges are considering whether to allow a northwestern Ohio school district to distribute fliers that promote, among other things, local churches. The court should look past the school's claim that it distributes all groups' literature equally, and bar teachers from disseminating religious fliers.
One of Thomas Jefferson's descendants who was born in Nelsonville has dedicated her life to tracing her own family's genealogy as well as other multi-ethnic groups in southeast Ohio.
Bobby Seale, surviving founder of the Black Panthers, will speak tonight as part of Black History Month programming at Ohio University.
Ohio women's basketball coach Lynn Bria has never been happier to cancel a hotel reservation.
ST. MARC, Haiti - Hundreds of Haitians looted TV sets, mattresses and sacks of flour from shipping containers yesterday in this port town, one of several communities seized by rebels in a bloody uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
CHAMPION - Just last month, Jason Litz returned home after a nearly yearlong tour in Kuwait, Iraq, and the United States with the Ohio Army National Guard.
The final weekend of dual meets proved to be a tough one for the Ohio men's and women's swimming and diving teams.
Long live the vulva! Today marks the first day of Viva La Vulva Week, organized by the Feminist Coalition and sponsored by the Student Activities Commission. The week features a series of workshops and discussions about various aspects of the female anatomy.
Ohio track coach Clay Calkins said last week that Saturday's State Farm Games at West Virginia would be a meet for the Bobcats to train through as they prepare for next week's All-Ohio Championships.
During its first year of publication, Sports Illustrated sent a pair of staff writers to Florida to cover Major League Baseball's spring training. Nearly three weeks later, they sent only four words.
JERUSALEM - Israel will change the route of its West Bank separation barrier to cause less hardship for the Palestinians and gain U.S. support against legal challenges, an adviser to Israel's prime minister said yesterday.
COLUMBUS - A van and a Mercedes were shot on an interstate minutes apart yesterday in a case resembling a series of 21 sniper shootings along a highway south of the city, investigators said.
BOSTON - Hundreds of opponents of same-sex marriage gathered yesterday on Boston Common to show support for a proposed constitutional amendment that would define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The plight of the Kent State hockey team's trip to Athens can best be summed up with Golden Flashes forward Tim Cremile.
Ohio guard Jaivon Harris tested his range and found he could hit 3s on spots of the court that would make most coaches cringe.
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