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Canton school board fires head coach, 6 assistant coaches involved in pizza incident

The Canton City School District Board of Education held a special meeting Thursday evening to discuss further discipline for a group of football coaches.

During this meeting, the Canton school board decided to fire Head Coach Marcus Wattley, along with six assistant McKinley High School football coaches.

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Cleveland Indians narrowing, vetting final list of new team names

Like expecting parents, the Cleveland Indians are trying to settle on a name.

It's proving to be a tedious, testing process.

The team said Thursday it now has a final list from an initial pool of nearly 1,200 entries. It is vetting the possible team names for legal purposes after months of research and discussions with fans.

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Cleveland Indians pitcher Zach Plesac injuring himself taking off his shirt joins list of most bizarre recent sports injuries

Cleveland Indians pitcher Zach Plesac is on the injured list with a non-displaced fracture of his right thumb -- a relatively normal thing for a pitcher to suffer in the course of his job. The thing is, according to Indians manager Terry Francona, Plesac didn't get hurt fielding a comebacker or throwing too hard; he fractured his thumb by "rather aggressively ripping off his shirt." Seriously.

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Cleveland Indians’ Franmil Reyes out 5-7 weeks with oblique strain

The Indians' struggling offense will be without cleanup hitter Franmil Reyes for between five and seven weeks because of an internal oblique strain.

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Perry Panthers to make Zach Slates their next Head Football Coach

Perry High School has a new Head Football Coach.  Assistant coach, Zach Slates, who played his high school football at Perry, was approved by the Perry Board of Education.

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