Poland offers shuttle service

Poland offers shuttle service

POLAND

The Poland High School Athletic Department will have a free shuttle service for tonight’s football game against Canfield.

Shuttles will begin running at 5 p.m. from the vacant lot behind Handel’s Ice Cream on the corner of U.S. 224 and Clingan Road. The shuttle drop off and pick up location will be on the visitor’s side of the stadium.

Shuttle service will end an hour after the game.

Soccer games moved to Girard

GIRARD

The Cardinal Mooney-Lakeview boys soccer game, scheduled for Thursday, was moved to Saturday at 3 p.m. at Girard’s Arrowhead Stadium. That game is for the Division II district championship.

Also, the Champion-Badger girls soccer game for the Division III district championship in the Kent distric, will be played on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Girard’s Arrowhead Stadium.

Correction

The top 25 money winners on the PGA Nationwide Tour earn their PGA Tour card for the following season. A story on Thursday incorrectly stated it was the top 125 on the money list.

NBA talks continue

NEW YORK

With a day of progress behind them and the hope of a full 82-game season still ahead, NBA players and owners met for seven hours on Thursday.

Small groups from both sides returned to a hotel less than 12 hours after finishing a 15-hour meeting that began on Wednesday and went until past 3 a.m. Both sides acknowledged there was progress on issues related to the salary cap system, though they didn’t offer any specifics.

Though the first two weeks of the season have been canceled because of the lockout, union executive director Billy Hunter said he believed 82 games were still possible with a deal by Sunday or Monday.

“We’re not putting a specific date on it,” NBA commissioner David Stern said. “We just think we’ve got to do it soon, and if we could make a deal obviously we’re partnered with the union in an effort to have as many games as we can.”

NCAA approves scholarship boost

LOS ANGELES

The NCAA board of directors adopted a much-anticipated proposal that will allow universities to boost their athletic scholarships by as much as $2,000 to cover the full cost of attendance.

It also set higher classroom standards that could keep some prominent teams out of the postseason and force incoming freshmen to spend an “academic redshirt” year on the sideline.

“I believe we will look back on today as a historical occasion,” said Walter Harrison, chairman of the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance and president of the University of Hartford. “We have put together what we think is a tough but fair approach.”

Proponents of the scholarship increase see it as a way to help student-athletes, many of whom are asked to train year-round and cannot work to pay for miscellaneous expenses or even food once their season ends and they no longer get training table meals.

Each conference will be free to vote on whether to adopt the proposal.

NFL will use metal detectors

NEW YORK

Security personnel at NFL games will begin using hand-held metal detectors as part of the screening process before fans enter the stadiums.

Beginning Nov. 20, the detectors will be used at stadium gates because “we are always striving for ways to improve our security procedures at all of our stadiums,” an NFL spokesman says.

The Green Bay Packers and Cleveland Browns already have used them this season. The league has done so at every Super Bowl since 2002 in New Orleans.

In addition to fans, media and working personnel will be subject to the screenings, which will be phased in “so they will not necessarily be immediately used at every gate,” the spokesman adds.

Staff/wire reports