Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Boardman-Maple Heights tickets on sale
BOARDMAN
Tickets for the Division II regional quarterfinal football game between Boardman and Maple Heights will be on sale from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. today-Friday in the Boardman High School athletic department.
Advance tickets for adults and students cost $8 and tickets at the gate will cost $9. No league passes or senior citizen discounts are accepted for this tournament game.
Boardman (6-4) is No. 7 in Division II, Region 5. Maple Heights (10-0) is No. 2 in the same region.
The game is Friday at 7 p.m. at Maple Heights.
Cooper’s transplant surgery a success
CleveLand
The surgery to give Canfield athletic director Greg Cooper a healthy liver on Monday was a success, Cooper’s children tweeted on Tuesday.
Canfield assistant wrestling coach Dave Crawford donated 65 percent of his liver to Cooper at Cleveland Clinic, where both men are in recovery. They’re both looking at least six weeks of recovery time.
Cooper, who has nonalcoholic end-stage fatty liver disease-cirrhosis, had been seeking a liver donor since June.
Cleveland to host 2022 NBA All-Star Game
CLEVELAND
A person familiar with the decision says the Cleveland Cavaliers will host the 2022 NBA All-Star Game.
An announcement is expected later this week, said the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league has not yet made Cleveland’s selection official.
Crain’s Cleveland Business was first to report the mid-season event will be at Quicken Loans Arena.
The Cavs had submitted bids to the league to host All-Star Games, but a massive renovation at Quicken Loans Arena made that impossible. But construction, which began this year, is on time and should be completed by the end of next summer.
Cleveland last hosted the event in 1997 at Richfield Coliseum when the league honored its Top 50 players.
Player suspended after punching coach
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.
Iona senior forward Roland Griffin says he’s been kicked off the basketball team after an altercation with an assistant coach.
Griffin tells Stadium he punched assistant coach Garfield Johns multiple times in self-defense last Monday after a verbal argument in the locker room.
Stadium reports Griffin met with head coach Tim Cluess and then was told by the school he would face a disciplinary suspension that will bar him from campus activities through the end of May 2020.
The Stadium report said Johns was hospitalized briefly with a head injury and later released.
The college said in a statement it “takes all matters of health and safety seriously” but does not comment on student disciplinary matters or student information.
FIFA subjected to cyberattack
LONDON
FIFA President Gianni Infantino is braced for a release of private information gained by hackers after world soccer’s governing body said its computer network was subject to another cyberattack.
The disclosure comes in the same month the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI said Russia’s military intelligence body was responsible for a hack on FIFA in 2016, which led to evidence from anti-doping investigations and lab results being published.
FIFA did not provide details about the information gained in the latest attack on e-mail systems but it has been contacted by media outlets about information contained in private exchanges.
FIFA would not disclose when attack happened but issued a statement saying it “condemns any attempts to compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data in any organization using unlawful practices.”
Staff/wire report