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NFL NextGen Stats team unveils new website

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Many NFL fans spend the weeks leading up to the draft poring over predictions to try to figure out which players their favorite teams are most likely to select. Those mock drafts quickly become obsolete once the actual draft begins with some projected targets inevitably coming off the board ...

Top-seeded St. C. boys closer to title with win over Edison

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ST. CLAIRSVILLE — New year, same destination. Winners of OVAC championships the last two seasons, top-seeded St. Clairsville is on their way back to the conference title game after defeating No. 4 Edison 5-0 on the turf field of the St. Clairsville Jr. Sports Complex on Monday. Brody ...

Riders post 8-4 OVAC win over Cadets

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WHEELING — Martins Ferry was the last team to punch its ticket into the OVAC Class 3A Baseball playoffs last Friday. Now the Purple Riders will play in their third championship game in the last five seasons. That came about Monday afternoon on cloud-covered Holloway Field as the ...

NCAA passes series of rules that will pay players directly

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(AP) — The NCAA passed rules Monday that would upend decades of precedent by allowing colleges to pay their athletes per terms of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit settlement expected to go into effect this summer. The nine proposals passed by the NCAA board were largely expected but still mark ...