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Ohio State Buckeyes Guard Jacy Sheldon Selected By Dallas Wings With No. 5 in WNBA draft
The Ohio State Buckeyes have their first player off the board.
Graduate guard Jacy Sheldon was selected No. 5 to the Dallas Wings at Monday’s WNBA draft.
Sheldon led the Buckeyes to a regular season Big Ten conference title, the second of Sheldon’s career. The Buckeyes split the honor with Iowa in 2022.
Feb 14, 2024; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes guard Jacy Sheldon (4) dribbles up court
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Sheldon is the first, first-round pick for the Buckeyes since the Indiana Fever drafted Kelsey Mitchell at No. 2 overall in 2018.
The Dublin, Ohio, native averaged a team-high 17.8 points and 3.8 assists on her way to earning an Associated Press All-American Second Team selection. Sheldon was also named to the All-Conference First Team for the second time.
A season after playing just 13 total games, including just eight regular season games, Sheldon bounced back and led the Buckeyes to multiple top-25 victories, including an overtime thriller against No. 1 pick Caitlin Clark and Iowa, a five-point win against Indiana, a 20-point blowout over No. 4-pick Rickea Jackson and Tennessee, and a big win over Penn State.
However, Sheldon’s impact was not just on the offensive end — along with likely first-or-second round selection Celeste Taylor, the two led a suffocating full-court press in the backcourt. The one-time All-conference Defensive Team honoree would help the Buckeyes stifle opposing teams out of the half with a two-man trap on the inbound.
Her 1.9 steals per game ranked fourth in the conference and helped the Buckeyes force more than 21 turnovers per game, good for 10th nationally.
Sheldon adds a powerful two-way game to the Wings, who will now pair her with Arike Ogunbowale and Crystal Dangerfield in the backcourt.
The first chance to catch the now-former Buckeye in action will be May 15, when the Wings take on the Sky at 8 p.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — As concerns have grown over the impact of social media on young people, lawmakers are pushing to keep protections in tact to keep children safe online.
This week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Ohio’s law, the Social Media Parental Notification Act, requiring parental consent for children under the age of 16 to use social media must be restored. Gov. Mike DeWine signed the act into law in July 2023.
Netchoice, the trade group that represents Tik Tok, Snapchat, Meta and other tech companies contested Ohio’s law in 2024, arguing that it was overly broad, vague and represented an unconstitutional impediment to free speech.
“An unconstitutional law protects no one, and we remain focused on ensuring the First Amendment rights of Ohioans are protected,” Paul Taske, NetChoice Litigation Center Director said.
Cincinnati-based Sixth Circuit’s panel does not agree with this view point, determined that the law is not unconstitutional and had the block on the law’s enforcement vacated.
“At bottom, the Act imposes a parental consent requirement,” Judge Eric Clay wrote. “That requirement constitutes a marginal burden that precisely targets the multi-faceted problem that Ohio has identified: Children’s unsupervised assent to terms and conditions for use of platforms that take advantage of and harm them.”
The Social Media Parental Notification Act is a way to protect children’s mental health against the “intentionally addictive” nature of social media, according to U.S. senator Jon Husted.
The law requires companies to get parental permission for social media and gaming apps and to provide their privacy guidelines so families know what content would be censored or moderated on their child’s profile.
Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson says the ruling is “a win for Ohio families.”
“The court agreed that parents –- not social media companies –- should get a say in what kids see online,” he said in a statement. “We have an obligation to keep our children safe, and today, the most dangerous place for our kids is the internet. This decision gives parents the tools to be involved and provide oversight.”
LICKING COUNTY, Ohio (WCMH) — When you think of wild animals in central Ohio, a black bear likely isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. That’s why one Licking County family said they couldn’t believe their eyes.
It was an average afternoon drive home for father and son, Justin and Aaron Rhodes, when something walked into the road in front of them.
“I didn’t even think it was real at first, so that’s why I had to do the double take,” Justin said.
Aaron said he thought it was “just a weird looking dog”.
To their disbelief, it was a bear. The sighting comes just one year after the animal was spotted in Licking County for the first time in more than two decades.
“It’s kind of hard to believe that they’re even around this area,” Justin said. “I’ve lived in this area for about 24 years now, so it’s been quite a while, and I’ve never seen one before.”
These sightings are becoming more common. The Ohio Division of Wildlife said the black bear population is growing in the state, and they expect those trends to continue. Ohio saw a record number of confirmed sightings in 2025.
Lindsey Krusling, a wildlife communications specialist with the Ohio Division of Wildlife, said they are seeing more breeding females establish homes in the state, signaling the species is returning. Experts said the work restoring natural forest land is a big reason why.
“We’re starting to get some black bears coming in from neighboring states like Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky,” Krusling said. “They’re naturally crossing those state borders and coming back to Ohio because we have more of that habitat available to them, especially those forested areas.”
As the black bear population grows, the Division of Wildlife is expanding its research. They are putting radio collars on some bears they find in the state to help track data, such as if the bears are staying here, how far they’ve traveled and if they’re successfully having cubs.
“We’re trying to get quite a bit of data from these bears, and we’re super excited to see where this takes us,” Krusling said.
The research is in the beginning stages, but they expect population growth to continue, Krusling said.
Sighting reports can be submitted here to help the Division of Wildlife track black bear populations throughout the state.
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