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REBELS TO START EARLY COLUMBIANA — In an effort to beat the rain, the Beachwood at Crestview sectional baseball tournament game set for today will start at 3:30 p.m. It was originally set for 5 p.m. None of the other area teams scheduled to play today have adjusted their schedules. Rainy weather is expected to start Friday afternoon and extend into Sunday. KNICKS TWO UP ON CAVS NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Hart scored a playoff career-high 26 points, Jalen Brunson had 19 points and 14 assists, and the New York Knicks moved halfway to their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999 by ...

Aaron Rodgers reaches the end of the line

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Rodgers took his time before deciding he wanted to come back for a 22nd season. The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback already has made up his mind about a 23rd: There won't be one. "This is it," Rodgers said Wednesday when the four-time NFL MVP was asked if this would ...

Browns put the quarterbacks to the test

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Todd Monken reiterated two points about the quarterback competition between Deshaun Watson and Shedeur Sanders as the Cleveland Browns held their second voluntary organized team activity practice on Wednesday. Both are doing well, and the only deadline the Browns' ...

Cavaliers put first game behind them

GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Jalen Brunson against Donovan Mitchell was the matchup splashed across the screens to hype the Eastern Conference finals. Unfortunately for the Cleveland Cavaliers, it turned into Brunson versus James Harden in the fourth quarter of Game 1. Brunson continuously attacked the matchup to spark one of the largest postseason comebacks on record, as the New York Knicks rallied from a 22-point deficit in the fourth quarter for a 115-104 victory. A day later, the Cavaliers shrugged off concerns that one of the most accomplished offensive players in league history ...

Was it really a choke by the Cavs or just bad luck?

NEW YORK (AP) — Call it a comeback. Or chalk it up as a choke. Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals was both. The Knicks wouldn't have been able to charge all the way back without Cleveland collapsing. The Cavaliers led 93-71 with under eight minutes to play before the Knicks outscored them 44-11 the rest of the way to win 115-104 in overtime. The only bigger fourth-quarter playoff comeback in the last 30 years was when the Clippers rallied from 24 down to beat Memphis in Game 1 of a Western Conference first-round series in 2012, and it matched the biggest in any NBA game this ...

It’s been a good times for Cleveland in Detroit

DETROIT (AP) — Angel Martínez hit a tiebreaking triple in the 10th inning, José Ramírez followed with an RBI double and the Cleveland Guardians beat the slumping Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Wednesday night. Cleveland tied it at 1 in the ninth when Daniel Schneemann scored on Patrick Bailey's groundout. Schneemann opened the inning with a single off Will Vest before advancing on Travis Bazzana's single and Steven Kwan's sacrifice bunt. Detroit, which has lost five straight games and 13 of 15, had an opportunity to win in the bottom of the ninth with runners on first and second and no ...