Cleveland, OH
Kyle McCord reveals reason for transferring from Ohio State: Buckeye Breakfast
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kyle McCord has finally broken his silence since transferring from Ohio State after three years in the program and spending 2023 as its starting quarterback.
McCord went 11-1 last season — 12-1 overall as a starter — this past season though the Buckeyes once again fell short against Michigan and missed out on a chance to win the Big Ten or make the College Football Playoff. In those games, he completed 65.8% of his passes for 3,170 yards and 24 touchdowns. They were quality numbers, but not up quite what has become the expectation in Columbus, nor good enough for him to feel comfortable sticking around for 2024.
That reality is what landed the former five-star recruit in the transfer portal landing at Syracuse under new head coach Fran Brown. He hasn’t spoken publicly since that 30-24 loss to the Wolverines leaving room for speculation for why he chose to leave. Until now.
As a guest on the The QB Room podcast hosted by Jordan Palmer and Kyle Allen, McCord went into detail for why left OSU.
“The top level of college football is a business,” McCord said. “At the end of the day, Ohio State had to make a business decision they felt like was best for them and I had to do the same thing. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be for next year. At the end of the day, I felt like I put together some solid games and had some good tape. So I was confident I would find a good home.”
McCord also used the platform to push back on any other narratives that may exist as to why he left such as a report from The Columbus Dispatch released last month that revealed the reasons he chose to transfer. Those reasons ranged from wanting more NIL money and assurance that he would be the starting quarterback in 2024. Neither of which Ohio State was willing to commit to.
“A news outlet from Columbus hit me up to do a story and I didn’t answer it,” McCord said. “Hit my family up to do a story, they didn’t answer. Hit people up in my circle to do a story, nobody answered. Then the next day, you go online, and they have an article published of the five reasons I left.
“You read them and it’s just a bunch of BS. They’re just kind of pulling at strings at that point. The narrative, people read that and they think that’s true and so they start believing in it and posting it and it just kind of snowballs. When you don’t really speak up about it, it is what it is.”
The more than 40-minute-long interview also featured a discussion on his reasoning for choosing Syracuse and an inside look on how NIL may be impacting college football. That included McCord revealing conversations he’s had with former teammates on the subject.
“Schools know they have X amount of money and they have to distribute it accordingly,” McCord said. “Each guy feels like they have a certain value and they set themselves at that value and I think a lot of it is weighing the pros and cons.
“It’s crazy. I talked to some of my guys from Ohio State, and hearing the numbers they’re getting from schools and they’re trying to compare (thinking), ‘I know I can get on the field here, but the money’s not as good as it is here.’ I think it’s nuts with NIL and the way things are right now, it’s free agency.”
You can watch the full interview below:
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Buckeyes in the Pro Bowl
Two former Ohio State football players have been selected to play in the 2024 Pro Bowl.
Nick Bosa will represent the 49ers as a starter with his fourth Pro Bowl selection. The NFL’s reigning Defensive Player of the Year has recorded 52 total tackles with 10.5 sacks, 16 tackles for loss and a league-leading 35 quarterback hits. He’s helped San Francisco to clinch the No. 1 seed in the NFC for the playoff.
Denzel Ward has been part of one of the league’s best defenses for the Browns while getting his third selection doing so as a reserve. Cleveland leads the league in yards allowed per game (266.6) while Ward has recorded 34 total tackles with 11 passes defended, two interceptions, one forced fumble and one tackle for loss. He’s been targeted 66 times in coverage resulting in 34 catches for 467 yards and three touchdowns.
The Pro Bowl will be played on Sunday, Feb. 4.
Key dates
- College Football Playoff National Championship: 4 days, Jan. 8, 2024
- NFL Draft underclassman entry deadline: 10 days, Jan. 15, 2024
- Regular signing period: 34 days, Feb. 7-April 1, 2024
- NFL Scouting Combine: 54 days, Feb. 27-March 4, 2024
- 2024 opener vs. Southern Miss: 240 days, Aug. 31, 2024
- The Game 2024: 331 days
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Cleveland, OH
Woman killed, several children injured in Ohio Turnpike crash in Lorain County
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A 28-year-old woman is dead, and three children are hospitalized following a one-car rollover accident in Elyria Township in the eastbound lanes of the Ohio Turnpike.
The crash happened around 11:54 a.m. at milepost 146.3.
During the investigation of the crash OSHP learned that the crash happened when the Toyota RAV4, driven by Najalee N. Rivera, drove off the right side of the road, struck a guardrail, and overturned.
The vehicle was also occupied by three children. A 7-year-old boy, a 8-year-old girl, and 4-year-old girl all from Lorain, they all suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were transported by LifeCare Ambulance to University Elyria Hospital.
Rivera was not wearing a safety belt at the time of the crash, according to OSHP.
Two of the lanes were reopened about 4:15 p.m., according to a social media post from the Ohio Turnpike.
Check back with 19 News for the latest on this story.
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Cleveland, OH
LOOK: Remembering the Cavs championship win, victory parade 10 years later
CLEVELAND (WJW) — Ten years ago, Cleveland experienced one of the most unforgettable moments in the city’s history.
The Cavaliers became the first-ever team to overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a championship. By winning the 2016 NBA Finals, they also ended a 52-year championship drought for Cleveland.
Mr. Cavalier, Austin Carr, said he still relishes that moment 10 years later.
“The odds we overcame to win that championship,” he said. “Not only did we have to win three straight games, but we also had to have the right things happen at the right moment in order to win it. And that just tells me how difficult it is … with ‘The Shot’, ‘The Block’, and the defensive move. All those. It was just meant to be.”
The victory over the Golden State Warriors catapulted LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, J.R. Smith and the rest of the crew into essential Northeast Ohio sainthood.
When Akron’s own James screamed the now-famous phrase, “Cleveland, this is for you!” following the game, a whole legion of Cleveland fans around the country wept and cheered along with him.

When Smith refused to put a shirt on for what seemed like a whole summer in honor of the win, it felt right and proper.
Whenever the long-since traded Irving comes back to town, he’s remembered for his important 3-pointer at the end of Game 7 and not the way he left the team.
And the city made history again just a few days later, when more than 1.3 million people flooded downtown Cleveland for the championship parade. According to the Cavs, it remains the largest NBA championship parade ever.
The current Cavaliers (now in their Donovan Mitchell era) haven’t been back to the NBA Finals. They reached the conference finals this past spring for the first time since 2018. But a finals appearance has still eluded the wine and gold.
Cleveland, OH
Violent crime crackdown leads to 11 felony arrests and gets eight guns off Cleveland’s streets
CLEVELAND, OH — Cleveland police and Gov. Mike DeWine’s office touted the results of a violent crime reduction operation that led to 11 arrests and took eight illegally possessed guns off the city’s streets Wednesday.
“We got bad people off the street, and we’ll continue to get bad people off the street,” said Cleveland Police Sgt. Wilfredo Diaz.
The operation was a collaboration between police, Ohio State Highway Patrol, Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s deputies, U.S. Marshals Service and the Ohio Investigative Unit.
Diaz said it focused on both traffic enforcement and executing search warrants and arrest warrants targeting suspected criminals identified through ongoing investigations.
“[We] use intelligence-led policing to really saturate specific areas where we believe there’s an influx of crime, violent crime in particular,” said Diaz.
The numbers were music to the ears of Councilman Mike Polensek.
“We want this presence,” said Polensek, who chairs the council’s Safety Committee. “We want this presence in our neighborhoods. You’ve got to lay the law down. Our residents want this to take place.”
Polensek previously called on Mayor Justin Bibb to ask for help from the state and county to address what he called ridiculous levels of violence in the city.
Polensek cited numbers showing Cleveland police have lost hundreds of officers over the last two decades.
‘If we’re going to reclaim our streets, that’s what it’s going to be, all hands on deck,” said Polensek.
Diaz said more of the special details are already planned, but he would not reveal specific details.
He did offer this warning to the criminals terrorizing the city.
“If there are any bad actors that watch Channel 5, we want this message to get out,” said Diaz, “that we didn’t get you this time, we’re going to get you next time.”
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