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LIMA — Lima Senior took their foot off the gas in the fourth quarter on Friday night, and it nearly cost them a conference game.

COLUMBUS GROVE – Last season, Crestview made it to the Division IV state championship game in boys basketball, where it lost to perennial power Richmond Heights.

OTTAWA — They’d put in the time. And Friday night was the time Ottawa-Glandorf’s boys basketball team got the results.

The College Football Playoff national championship game between No. 1 Michigan and No. 2 Washington is a contrast in styles and a matchup of strength versus strength when Michael Penix Jr. faces the Wolverines’ defense.

BEREA — David Njoku once demanded to be traded by the Browns. Actually, he did it two or three times — in the same season.

ELIDA — There’s a hidden problem with having a once-in-a-generation talent in high school basketball.

The sign-stealing scandal that has hung over Michigan’s season has overshadowed the work the team has put in to go unbeaten and reach the College Football Playoff championship game, quarterback J.J. McCarthy said Wednesday.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Blake Corum declared it was “natty or bust,” before the college football season kicked off and reiterated his bold statement before helping Michigan beat Alabama to put the school within a win of its first national championship since 1997.

SEATTLE — More than most, Roger Rosengarten knows the difficulty that comes with trying to block Washington’s Bralen Trice.

DELPHOS — When Delphos Jefferson senior standout Lyv Lindeman drives into the lane, there’s a good chance she will come away with points.