The baseball team is set to host nine universities, including Ohio State and Kent State, at Progressive Field this season as attendance lags behind other MLB squads.
Athletics
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Pay for college athletes is about to get beefier for some, leaner for others
Colleges are about to pay athletes, and some will benefit, while others may be cut out. Local players wonder what it means for their sports.
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How Cleveland State responded to lawmakers’ last-ditch effort to save its wrestling program
Despite an Ohio House budget amendment and letters from a state lawmaker and a U.S. Senator, President Laura Bloomberg didn’t waver on the decision to cut the sport, records show.
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Trump wants to cut funding for California schools over one trans athlete. It’s not so easy
Trump is threatening to withhold funding from California over its policy toward transgender student athletes, but actually doing so could prove tricky for the president.
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Pitt will have to pay athletes $20 million a year, but isn’t saying how
The NCAA is poised to agree to pay student athletes, potentially pushing Pitt’s athletics department deep into the red and raising the question: Where will the money come from?
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“Must Let Head Coach Know…”
Even before those questionable COVID-19 waivers, college athletes were subject to all kinds of overbearing, strange, intrusive, discriminatory and legally dubious team rules. Here’s what we discovered from just last season.