A total of 26 candidates in the Modern-Era Players category have reached the Semifinalist stage for possible election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026 presented by Visual Edge IT.
The list includes five players in their first year of eligibility, two players not in their first year of eligibility who have reached this stage in the process for the first time and 19 players who were Semifinalists for the Class of 2025.
The Mount Union football team had a total of 16 All-Ohio Athletic Conference selections on the 2025 All-OAC Teams, including nine First Team selections and three special award winners.
Highlighting the award winners for Mount Union were senior bandit Kaleb Brown (La Plata, MD/La Plata), senior DB Kosta Thrasivoulou (North Ridgeville, OH/North Ridgeville), and redshirt-freshman QB Mikey Maloney (Concord Township, OH/Painesville Riverside). Brown was named Paul J. Hoernemann Most Outstanding Defensive Lineman, Thrasivoulou was named the Co-Lee Tressel Award Most Outstanding Defensive Back, and Maloney was named the Bob Packard Most Outstanding Offensive Back.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Member schools of the Ohio High School Athletic Association have voted in favor of an emergency bylaw referendum on Name, Image and Likeness (NIL), making Ohio the 45th state to allow NIL at the high school level. The voting period ended last Friday afternoon, November 21, with the final voting results being 447 schools in favor of the referendum and 121 schools voting against, while 247 schools abstained from voting.
Defensive end Alex Wright has agreed to a three-year contract extension with the Cleveland Browns on Thursday worth $33 million, including $21 million guaranteed.
A day after he underwent liver transplant surgery at University Hospitals, Cleveland Browns legend Bernie Kosar posted a video update on his recovery Tuesday morning.
“Really excited to be attacking the first day of the rest of my life with the great gifts that I was given yesterday,” the 61-year-old Kosar said from his hospital bed.
ESPN and Major League Baseball appeared headed for an ugly separation after the network opted out of its rights deal in February.
Nine months later, it appears to be the best thing to happen to both parties — and it also provides a bit of clarity to Cleveland Guardians fans in 2026 and beyond.
A third federal lawsuit has been filed against Ursuline High School in Youngstown, this time claiming that a number of Fighting Irish football players assaulted and harassed an openly gay student and that school administrators and coaches declined to punish the offending teens.
Replacing a future Hall of Famer in Terry Francona was always going to be a tall task, especially for someone who had never managed before at any level.
But Stephen Vogt has proven he is more than up to the task, and following a historic finish to the 2025 season, the Guardians’ skipper made some history of his own on Tuesday.
Lenny Wilkens, a three-time inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame who was enshrined as both a player and a coach, has died, his family said Sunday. He was 88.