Youngstown

The stories started circulating long before John Simon first set foot on Ohio State's campus and became such a program favorite that his head coach talked about naming his next child after him. By the time he got to elementary school, Simon was already performing a daily regimen of pull-ups and sit-ups. He lifted 225 pounds 31 times as a 16-year-old. Before he graduated from high school, he had benched 450 pounds and squatted 700. "People really didn't believe us," said P.J. Fecko, the head football coach at Cardinal Mooney in Youngstown, Ohio.

The stories started circulating long before John Simon first set foot on Ohio State's campus and became such a program favorite that his head coach talked about naming his next child after him. By the time he got to elementary school, Simon was already performing a daily regimen of pull-ups and sit-ups. He lifted 225 pounds 31 times as a 16-year-old. Before he graduated from high school, he had benched 450 pounds and squatted 700. "People really didn't believe us," said P.J. Fecko, the head football coach at Cardinal Mooney in Youngstown, Ohio.

Packed between a highly emotional loss at Delaware and another top-notch road game against a name team, Virginia, yesterday's Towson State game was positioned uncomfortably for coach Terry Truax."

COLLEGE PARK - Throughout his basketball career at the University of Maryland, Greivis Vasquez has attracted attention - for good reasons or bad, and, at times, for no reason at all. The junior guard who has sometimes seemed more interested in playing to the crowd than to the needs of his team did both last night in a 73-49 victory over Youngstown State at Comcast Center. With his parents and older brother visiting from Venezuela, Vasquez scored 16 of a career-high-tying 28 points in the opening half, helping Maryland (2-0)

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Tariq Saunders and Darren Woods scored six points apiece, as Coppin State used a 17-5 burst in the opening five minutes of the second half to break open a close game in Coppin State's 84-65 triumph over Youngstown at the Beeghly Center last night.Woods and Saunders, the Eagles' top two scorers on the season, had 22 and 21, respectively, and received impressive help from newcomer Marcus Robinson, a 6-foot-3 guard from Salem, N.J. Starting his fourth game, Robinson scored 15, six more than his average.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Senior guard Terrance Jacobs scored a game-high 22 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead Towson State to a 67-52 win over Youngstown State at the Beeghley Center last night. The visitors had lost three in a row and four of their past five.Jacobs shot 9-for-13 from the field and had six offensive rebounds, as the Tigers jumped to a 34-19 lead in the first 17 minutes. Towson State used an aggressive man-to-man defense limit the Penguins to 29 percent shooting from the field and won for the first time in seven road games this season.

On Friday, March 11, 2005, WILLIAM H. BRIGHAM, JR., 77, at Misericordia Convalesence Home. Mr. Brigham was born on June 27, 1927 in Youngstown, OH, the son of the late William H. Brigham Sr. and Isabell (Patterson) Brigham, and the Brother of the late Kathryn Jean Evans, and Donna Watt, both of Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. Brigham was a U.S. Navy Veteran, a graduate of Youngstown State University, and the recipient of a Masters Degree from Syracuse University. Mr. Brigham began a long career with the Federal Government in 1956 as an Investigator with the Civil Service, and retired as a Manager with the Social Security Administration in 1980.

CHARLES MARTIN LUCAS, born in Graceton, Pa. on September 30, 1924, the youngest of ten children, went home to be with our Lord on Sunday, September 11, 2005. Charles is survived by his wife, Jean E. Lucas of Bel Air, Maryland; his loving children, Stuart M. Lucas of Bel Air, Maryland, Jeanne Marie Lucas of Edgewood, Maryland, and Karen Ann of Iowa. Charles also leaves his brother Michael P. Lucas and sister, Katherene Dezee, both of Ohio. Charles was blessed with several nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and family members who also share this great loss.

On deck Omar Vizquel of the Indians will have 19 paintings dis played at an art museum in Youngstown, Ohio. He said it "I know last year, too, they said we were only beating bad teams. One hundred times we beat the bad teams." Felipe Alou, Giants manager, whose team has won nine straight Who's hot Mark Kotsay of the Athletics is 14-for-22 (.636) since ending an 0-for-16 slide. Who's not Armando Almanza of the Braves has given up three home runs in 5 1/3 innings. Line of the day Willie Harris, White Sox 2B AB .....

Giorgio Bassani, 84, best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" and its elegiac depiction of Italian Jews during the rise of Fascism, died Thursday in Rome of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. The novel was made into a film by director Vittorio De Sica that won the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1971. Ken Peterson, 91, Ken Peterson, who worked as a artist on Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," died March 29 of cancer in Santa Fe, N.M. Roger D. Kinkle, 84, a professional musician and record dealer who wrote an encyclopedic jazz reference book, died Saturday in Evansville, Ind., of a degenerative brain disease.

One of the first things President Bush did after taking office in 2001 was ask Alberto R. Gonzales, then his White House counsel, to draft an executive order that would gut the Presidential Records Act of 1978. The law, which was passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal, requires that unclassified papers of a president or vice president be routinely released 12 years after the president's term ends. There has been speculation that the president was interested in shielding from public view papers from the Reagan administration that might prove embarrassing to the president's father, who was vice president to Ronald Reagan, or to give his father the ability to shelve records from his own presidency, which should have become public in 2004.

CHARLES MARTIN LUCAS, born in Graceton, Pa. on September 30, 1924, the youngest of ten children, went home to be with our Lord on Sunday, September 11, 2005. Charles is survived by his wife, Jean E. Lucas of Bel Air, Maryland; his loving children, Stuart M. Lucas of Bel Air, Maryland, Jeanne Marie Lucas of Edgewood, Maryland, and Karen Ann of Iowa. Charles also leaves his brother Michael P. Lucas and sister, Katherene Dezee, both of Ohio. Charles was blessed with several nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and family members who also share this great loss.

On Friday, March 11, 2005, WILLIAM H. BRIGHAM, JR., 77, at Misericordia Convalesence Home. Mr. Brigham was born on June 27, 1927 in Youngstown, OH, the son of the late William H. Brigham Sr. and Isabell (Patterson) Brigham, and the Brother of the late Kathryn Jean Evans, and Donna Watt, both of Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. Brigham was a U.S. Navy Veteran, a graduate of Youngstown State University, and the recipient of a Masters Degree from Syracuse University. Mr. Brigham began a long career with the Federal Government in 1956 as an Investigator with the Civil Service, and retired as a Manager with the Social Security Administration in 1980.

On deck Omar Vizquel of the Indians will have 19 paintings dis played at an art museum in Youngstown, Ohio. He said it "I know last year, too, they said we were only beating bad teams. One hundred times we beat the bad teams." Felipe Alou, Giants manager, whose team has won nine straight Who's hot Mark Kotsay of the Athletics is 14-for-22 (.636) since ending an 0-for-16 slide. Who's not Armando Almanza of the Braves has given up three home runs in 5 1/3 innings. Line of the day Willie Harris, White Sox 2B AB .....

TEMPE, Ariz. - The first potential distraction to this season's national championship game occurred yesterday when Ohio State's star tailback, Maurice Clarett, revealed that he would rather be home attending the funeral of a lifelong friend than preparing for Friday's Fiesta Bowl against top-ranked Miami. "I guess football's more important than a person's life to them," Clarett said of school officials at yesterday's news conference. "That's why I'm ready to get this game over with and go back home.

Giorgio Bassani, 84, best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" and its elegiac depiction of Italian Jews during the rise of Fascism, died Thursday in Rome of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. The novel was made into a film by director Vittorio De Sica that won the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1971. Ken Peterson, 91, Ken Peterson, who worked as a artist on Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," died March 29 of cancer in Santa Fe, N.M. Roger D. Kinkle, 84, a professional musician and record dealer who wrote an encyclopedic jazz reference book, died Saturday in Evansville, Ind., of a degenerative brain disease.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Pat Buchanan, having failed with his imitation of a gun-toting cowpoke in Arizona and as a son of the Old South across Dixie, is now playing the redeemer of the Rust Belt, where he hopes his colorful harangue against foreign trade competition will lubricate his creaking presidential campaign.On the surface, there is no better place to take the message. This old steel town is a skeleton of its former self, with many large plants shut down, block after block of abandoned buildings and stores, and a downtown that often looks as if it is under an evacuation order.

TEMPE, Ariz. - The first potential distraction to this season's national championship game occurred yesterday when Ohio State's star tailback, Maurice Clarett, revealed that he would rather be home attending the funeral of a lifelong friend than preparing for Friday's Fiesta Bowl against top-ranked Miami. "I guess football's more important than a person's life to them," Clarett said of school officials at yesterday's news conference. "That's why I'm ready to get this game over with and go back home.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Pat Buchanan, having failed with his imitation of a gun-toting cowpoke in Arizona and as a son of the Old South across Dixie, is now playing the redeemer of the Rust Belt, where he hopes his colorful harangue against foreign trade competition will lubricate his creaking presidential campaign.On the surface, there is no better place to take the message. This old steel town is a skeleton of its former self, with many large plants shut down, block after block of abandoned buildings and stores, and a downtown that often looks as if it is under an evacuation order.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- They call Youngstown State's Stambaugh Stadium "The Ice Castle," and last night Morgan State found out how chilling it can be.Displaying an offense that did not thaw before halftime and a defense that could not cool off the Youngstown State Penguins all game, the Bears were defeated, 56-27, before 14,284 last night.The Bears dropped to 1-2 with the loss, which appeared #F destined almost from the opening kickoff. Morgan State was penalized for an illegal block on the opening kickoff, the first of seven penalties the Bears would commit in the first 15 minutes, ** which contributed to 21 Youngstown points in that quarter as well as another seven on the first play of the second quarter.