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Ohio State football players and their parents were asked to sign an acknowledgement of risk waiver regarding the coronavirus pandemic before returning to campus for voluntary workouts on June 8, athletic director Gene Smith confirmed to ESPN on Sunday.

West Branch Local School District has begun the process of seeking a new high school athletic director following the resignation of Ellie Geiger.

Geiger has accepted a new role as athletic director at Licking Heights High School, located about 7 miles east of Columbus near Reynoldsburg.

The Indians refuse to leave high school.

On Wednesday night, with the 23rd overall pick in the MLB draft, the Indians selected shortstop Carson Tucker out of Mountain Pointe (Ariz.) High School. Tucker’s older brother, Cole, was the Pirates No.1 pick in 2014.

The race to secure Ohio’s top talent is nearing completion. Of the Buckeye State’s Top 50 prospects, only 10 haven't declared their college intentions.

Not surprisingly, Ohio State leads the way with seven of the state’s top 12 prospects, including the first five. After that, West Virginia and Cincinnati are tied with five commits each. Kentucky comes in fourth with three.

Of Ohio’s Top 50 prospects, 20 will call the Big Ten home. Michigan, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Rutgers each have two Ohio commits. Penn State, Purdue and Michigan State have notched one.

Twenty-seven of the prospects — including eight receivers and eight linemen — man offensive positions.

The morning before he became the only baseball player to kneel for the national anthem, then-Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell called outfielder Delino DeShields, then a member of the Texas Rangers, to tell him about his plans.

UFC president Dana White announced Tuesday that the trilogy bout between heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier is set for Aug. 15.

Cormier, 41, has said this will be his last fight before retiring.

The Cleveland Cavaliers season is over after the NBA voted to approve a 22-team format in Orlando.

Former Cleveland Cavaliers guard JR Smith is seen in video published by TMZ Sports on Sunday beating up a man who allegedly damaged his truck during the protests in Los Angeles over the death of George Floyd.

Smith is seen kicking the man when he is on the ground and then punching him when he gets up. Then the man runs away. The man broke a window on Smith's vehicle, Smith said in a video posted online.

Ohio State added ESPN 300 cornerback Denzel Burke to the fold on Sunday, beefing up a recruiting class already ranked No. 1 in the country.

Burke is the No. 262-ranked prospect overall, out of Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. He had a top five of Colorado, Ohio State, Oregon, USC and Washington but ultimately chose the Buckeyes as his destination.

Cleveland Cavaliers big man Andre Drummond left a big tip for a waitress at a Florida restaurant on Sunday.

Kassandra Diaz, a server at Che Restaurant in Delray Beach, said she didn't know who the customer was until she saw that he had left a $1,000 tip on a $164 check.