Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Poland-Boardman doubleheader tonight
BOARDMAN
The Poland and Boardman girls and boys varsity basketball varsity teams will face each other in a doubleheader tonight at Boardman High School.
The girls game will be at 6 p.m. and the boys will follow at 7:30. There will be no junior varsity contests.
Adult admission is $6 and student admission is $4 and the prices cover both games.
McDonald-Niles boys switched to tonight
NILES
The McDonald-Niles boys basketball game originally scheduled for Friday at Niles High School has been switched to tonight.
A JV game will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the start of the varsity game at 7 p.m.
Mogadore-W. Reserve boys game canceled
BERLIN CENTER
A scheduled boys basketball game between Mogadore and Western Reserve has been canceled because of a scheduling conflict.
The Blue Devils’ next game will be Tuesday, Jan. 2 at home against Lisbon.
Arians denies report he’s leaving Cardinals
TEMPE, Ariz.
Arizona Cardinals coach Bruce Arians says a report that he and the franchise have agreed to part ways after this season is untrue, labeling it “fake news.”
An article in Pro Football Weekly cited “multiple sources” as saying the split would come next week at the end of Arians’ fifth season as the team’s head coach.
But the 65-year-old coach said nothing has been decided.
“Nothing’s changed,” he said on Tuesday. “I don’t know where that came from. Nothing changed in the last month and a half and people keep asking me the same questions.”
As for the article’s author Hub Arkush, Arians said, “I don’t know who the heck this guy is or where these supposed meetings took place.”
Arians can become the winningest coach in Cardinals history with his 50th victory at Seattle in the season finale on Sunday. He is 49-32-1 in five seasons with the Cardinals, including the postseason. They are 7-8 this season.
Arians is a two-time NFL Coach of the Year, for his work as an interim coach in place of Chuck Pagano in 2012 and after directing to the Cardinals to an 11-5 record and a playoff berth in 2014. Arizona went 13-3 and advanced to the NFC championship game in 2015 but slipped to 7-8-1 in 2016.
Jones: Garrett to return as Cowboys coach in ’18
DALLAS
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says coach Jason Garrett will return for an eighth full season after Dallas missed the playoffs in a year marred by the six-game suspension of star running back Ezekiel Elliott.
Jones said on his radio show Tuesday that Garrett’s job “is not an issue here at all” while suggesting that there could be other changes to the coaching staff with several contracts expiring. Garrett has two years left on a five-year deal signed after Dallas won the NFC East in 2014.
“I certainly know a lot about Jason Garrett. Because of that, I can very quickly and candidly say that he’s not, his job is not an issue here at all,” Jones said.
F1 driver apologizes for video mocking nephew
Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has apologized for posting a video online in which he can be heard yelling at his young nephew for wearing a princess dress.
Hamilton deleted the video and issued a series of tweets apologizing on Tuesday after he was criticized for questioning the boy’s gender expression.
The four-time Formula One champion wrote, “I love that my nephew feels free to express himself as we all should,” later adding, “I have always been in support of anyone living their life exactly how they wish and I hope I can be forgiven for this lapse in judgment.” In the video, Hamilton can be heard asking his nephew why he got the pink-and-purple dress for Christmas and saying, “Boys don’t wear princess dresses.” He also said he was “so sad” to see his nephew in the dress.
From staff and wire reports