Cleveland, OH

Three-star 2026 offensive lineman flips commitment to Ohio State from NC State

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4 months ago

October 13, 2025

Three-star 2026 offensive lineman flips commitment to Ohio State from NC State

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State has its fifth, and perhaps final, commitment along the offensive line for the 2026 class.

Three-star Landry Brede committed to Ohio State after flipping from NC State on Monday. The Buckeyes offered him a scholarship in early September, and he visited shortly thereafter for the game against Ohio. His decision took a few weeks from when Ohio State got involved, but the Buckeyes were able to make the flip happen.

Offensive line coach Tyler Bowen spent his Friday of the bye week watching Brede in person back in September, and now, Brede is a member of Ohio State’s class.

As the fifth member of the class, he’s joining tackles Sam Greer and Aaron Thomas, as well as interior prospects Maxwell Riley and Tucker Smith. Brede is the third member of Northeast Ohio to join the class, joining Greer and Riley.

By mapping out an offensive line, Ohio State’s class could indeed be finished up front.

He profiles as a guard at the college level, and at 6-foot-5, is another massive addition to the class in a literal sense. He is the No. 1,111 overall prospect and No. 48 player in Ohio per the 247Sports composite rankings.

The Buckeyes, after just five commitments in the 2025 class, have now added five a year later in the first year of Bowen.

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Cleveland, OH

Cavs rout Lakers to spoil LeBron’s homecoming

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3 hours ago

January 28, 2026

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Cavs rout Lakers to spoil LeBron’s homecoming

CLEVELAND (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 25 points, Jaylon Tyson had 20 and the Cleveland Cavaliers used a big third quarter to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 129-99 and spoil LeBron James’ return to Northeast Ohio.

De’Andre Hunter added 19 points, and Jarrett Allen had 17 points and nine rebounds to help Cleveland to its season-best fifth straight victory.

James had only 11 points, the first time in 13 trips to Cleveland as an opposing player he has not had at least 20. The 41-year old Akron native was 3 of 10 from the field, including 0 of 3 on 3-pointers, and was 5 of 6 from the line in 27 minutes.

It also was James’ worst loss in Cleveland as a visiting player. He is 10-3, but has been on the losing end in his last two.

James teared up during a timeout with 7:46 remaining in the first quarter when the Cavaliers showed video highlights of him scoring 25 straight points during Game 5 of the 2007 Eastern Conference finals against the Detroit Pistons.

Luka Doncic led the Lakers with 29 points. Los Angeles fell to 3-2 on its seven-game road trip.

Doncic missed six minutes in the first quarter after having his left ankle looked at in the locker room. Doncic tweaked his ankle when he landed awkwardly near the Lakers’ bench after attempting a 3-pointer.

Cleveland led 57-55 at halftime, but took control in the third quarter, outscoring Los Angeles by 20 (42-22). It was the 12th time this season that the Cavaliers scored at least 40 points in a period.

It was tied at 57 when the Cavaliers went on a 25-8 run where Mitchell scored eight points and Tyson added seven.

Cleveland was 6 of 22 on 3-pointers in the first half, but went 7 of 11 in the third. It also was 17 of 25 from the field in the period.

Up next

Lakers: At Washington on Friday night.

Cavaliers: At Phoenix on Friday night.

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Cleveland, OH

Anti-ICE demonstrators gather downtown during snow squall

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15 hours ago

January 28, 2026

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Anti-ICE demonstrators gather downtown during snow squall

CLEVELAND — A snow squall didn’t stop anti-ICE protesters from taking to the streets in Cleveland this Tuesday.

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Anti-ICE protesters took to the streets in Cleveland despite a snow squall Tuesday evening

The demonstration was planned in response to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis over the weekend

“It’s just so in your face,” Mike Bellamy, one protester, said. “It makes it hard not to come out here even in weather like this. You just have to speak out.”

Local faith leaders are also expressing their support for the Minneapolis community, calling on people to participate in a nationwide strike planned for Friday

“It’s just so in your face,” Mike Bellamy, one of the protest organizers, said. “It makes it hard not to come out here even in weather like this. You just have to speak out.”

Bellamy and others braved the cold to protest President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Tuesday’s demonstration was planned in response to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis over the weekend, but it was just a few weeks ago that Bellamy helped plan another protest after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in her car.

“They were murdered for serving the people, and everybody here sees that,” he said. “Of course, they’re not the only ones that got murdered. There are dozens others, who have been murdered off camera, in the detention facilities while being arrested.”

Top Trump officials called Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse for a Veterans Affairs hospital, a “domestic terrorist,” saying he brandished a gun and posed a threat to federal agents, but video of the shooting does not appear to show Pretti holding a firearm.

Faith leaders from across Cleveland are also expressing their support for the Minneapolis community. Representatives from the Fifth Christian Church, Christ Episcopal Church, the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and more held a press conference calling on people to participate in a nationwide strike planned for Friday. They’re asking people to skip class or work and not spend any money.

“We cannot be the people who sit idly by and hope somebody else will do something someday,” Rev. Charles Graves of the Christ Episcopal Church in Shaker Heights said. “If not us, who? If not now, when? How long will you put up with the injustices of our neighbors being kidnapped in the dark of night and in broad daylight?”

President Trump is changing his immigration approach in Minneapolis, pulling Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino out of the city and replacing him with Border Czar Tom Homan, but it’s not enough for organizers, who say they won’t stop until ICE is out of their communities completely.

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Cleveland, OH

Boys basketball postponements, cancellations for Tuesday

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1 day ago

January 27, 2026

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Boys basketball postponements, cancellations for Tuesday

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The following boys basketball games for Tuesday evening are postponed or canceled, starting with ones involving teams in the cleveland.com Top 25:

No. 7 St. Vincent-St. Mary at Youngstown Ursuline

Avon Lake at No. 16 Berea-Midpark

No. 21 Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy at Lake Catholic

No. 24 Solon at Twinsburg (will be played Feb. 17)

Barberton at Revere (will be played Feb. 18)

Cuyahoga Falls at Copley (will be played Feb. 19)

Field at Mogadore (will be played Feb. 16)

Kenston vs. Mayfield (will now be played Jan. 28 at Mayfield and Feb. 17 at Kenston)

Maple Heights at North Ridgeville (will be played Feb. 18)

Norton at Orrville

Woodridge at Manchester

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