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FOOTBALL FRIDAY
There will be five season-opening football games in Columbiana County tonight.
They include Crestview at Beaver Local, Shadyside at East Palestine, Toronto at Southern Local, Carrollton at East Liverpool and Newton Falls at Wellsville.
Other games includes Salem at Poland, United at Minerva, and Columbiana at Lowellville
All games will kick off at 7 p.m., except for West Branch at St. Clairsville at 7:30 p.m.
LEETONIA HOF TICKETS
LEETONIA -- Tickets for the Leetonia Athletic Hall of Fame induction breakfast are $12 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.
The breakfast will be at 9 a.m. Sept. 5 in the high school cafeteria. Tickets may be purchased at the door.
SORENSTAM IN LEAD
Ann Arbor, Michigan -- History is a heavy burden to haul around a golf course, especially in a USGA championship contested on a layout as demanding as Barton Hills Country Club. But that was the load carried by three of the game's biggest stars in Thursday's first round of the 8th U.S. Senior Women's Open.
And they all handled the task magnificently.
From 1998 through 2006, Annika Sorenstam (8), Karrie Webb (7) and Juli Inkster (4) combined to win 19 of the 32 LPGA major championships, including the U.S. Women's Open five times. So far, Sorenstam (2021) is the only one of the three to win the U.S. Senior Women's Open, with Inkster finishing second three times.
All three had spots at or near the top of the leaderboard in the opening round.
Leading is Sorenstam at 4-under-par 68, two strokes ahead of Inkster and three better than Webb, both of whom, like Sorenstam, are in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Sandwiched in between them at 69 are Michele Redman, Jackie Gallagher-Smith and Cathy Johnston-Forbes.
FAIR CHANCE
(AP) -- A rule change this offseason will allow college football teams to attempt a field goal after a fair catch.
The kicker can choose to drop kick from where the returner caught the ball, or they can use a holder with no tee.
Some fans may recall a recent NFL version, when Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker hit a 57-yarder before halftime against Denver in December 2024.
NEW FCS TEAMS
(AP) -- Sacramento State and North Dakota State are the latest additions to the Bowl Subdivision, bumping its membership to 138 teams. The moves became official on July 1, with Sacramento State being the newest Mid-American Conference member, and North Dakota State's juggernaut FCS program joining the Mountain West.
Both teams will be eligible for bowl games immediately if they finish with at least six wins and can help fill one of their conference's bowl slots.
NCAA PATCHWORK
(AP) -- The NCAA cleared the way for schools to land new revenue by placing sponsored jersey patches on uniforms as of Aug. 1 and, boy, there are going to be a lot of those.
Ohio State and Notre Dame alone reportedly have patch deals worth a combined $30 million, but there are so many others -- Tyson Foods (Arkansas), Axle Logistics (Tenneseee), SRM Concrete (Vanderbilt), Ripple XRP cryptocurrency (Kansas), even the Palmetto State Armory (The Citadel).
And while the NCAA approved on-field commercial logos for the 2024 season, the volume is picking up. Progressive insurance recently struck a deal to have its logo on the playing field of 13 different schools, including Oregon, Ole Miss, Texas Tech, Georgia, USC and Colorado.