Sports

PANDORA – The way Delphos St. John’s boys basketball team is built, with four guards in its starting lineup and more off the bench, once they get a lead it’s not easy to take it away from them.

OTTAWA — Lima Senior vs. Ottawa-Glandorf has become one of the premier basketball rivalries in the area over the past few years.

ATLANTA — Donovan Mitchell had 18 points and eight assists and led a balanced attack as the Cleveland Cavaliers extended the NBA’s longest current win streak to seven games with a 116-95 win over the Atlanta Hawks. Jarrett Allen had 14 points and 11 rebounds, while seven Cavaliers scored in double figures with none reaching 20 points. Sam Merrill had 18 points with five three-pointers. Dean Wade scored 17 and Georges Niang had 14. The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for the Hawks, who were led by Dejounte Murray with 24 points.

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BALTIMORE — Lamar Jackson threw two touchdown passes and ran for two scores and the Baltimore Ravens pulled away in the second half for a 34-10 win over the Houston Texans to advance to the AFC championship game. Jackson helped the Ravens take control in the third quarter after the teams entered the half tied at 10. His 15-yard scoring run put Baltimore ahead to stay. C.J. Stroud had a solid, composed first half for Houston, but the Texans ultimately couldn’t turn enough promising drives into points. Now Baltimore will host the AFC title game for the first time since January 1971. The Ravens will take on the winner of Sunday’s matchup between Buffalo and Kansas City.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The good news kept on rolling for Ohio State, as four-star defensive lineman Dominic Kirks committed to Ohio State.

SANTA CLARA — The San Francisco 49ers had plenty of success going up against the Green Bay Packers in the playoffs when Aaron Rodgers was running the show.

Jan. 20—Firing assistant coaches can be like moving into a new home. One doesn’t voluntarily leave one shelter unless he or she knows where they will be eating dinners and sleeping in the future.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football will not make a clean sweep of all the impact players it could have brought in from Alabama.

BALTIMORE — When Lamar Jackson and C.J. Stroud faced off in Week 1 back in September, it was not a good representation of how those two would play this season.