Jeff Schudel

1 week ago | news-herald.com | Jeff Schudel

A little perspective here:Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders was born Feb. 7, 2002. That was about 17 months after the last time — until now — that Joe Flacco was in a quarterback competition. Flacco, Sanders, fourth-year veteran Kenny Pickett and rookie Dillon Gabriel were on the Browns’ practice fields in Berea May 28 in the only spring practice (technically called the cumbersome Organized Team Activities) this week open to the media.

1 week ago | news-herald.com | Jeff Schudel

What do Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Sandy Koufax, Ernie Banks, Roberto Clemente and Pete Rose have in common? All six were stars in the National League for their entire careers and, except for the chance All-Star Game and two games in the 1954 World Series with Mays and the New York Giants, none of them ever played a game in Cleveland. It worked the other way for fans in National League cities, too. Fans in St. Louis could only read about Mickey Mantle of the Yankees and Ted Williams of the Red Sox.

1 week ago | news-herald.com | Jeff Schudel

It is no coincidence the first player selected by the Browns in the 2024 draft and the first player selected by them in 2025 both play defensive tackle. Mason Graham, taken last month with the fifth overall pick after the Browns traded the second pick to the Jaguars for a bountiful of picks in return, on May 27 signed his fully guaranteed rookie contract of $40,875,192. It includes a $26,366,684 signing bonus. The Browns hold a fifth-year option on Graham because he was a first-round pick.

1 week ago | news-herald.com | Jeff Schudel

Haliburton, Pacers look to make corrections after second-half collapse allows Knicks to get within 2-1

1 week ago | morningjournal.com | Jeff Schudel

Anyone who cannot root for Nic Enright should check to see if their soul has been turned into the Lost and Found. Enright is a 28-year-old Guardians relief pitcher who on Dec. 22, 2022, was diagnosed with Stage 2 nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. According to the National Library of Medicine; “Nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL) is a rare lymphoma entity with an incidence of 0.1 to 0.2/100 000/y.