by Steve Love | Jun 4, 2021 | Blog
Once upon a time, before the National Football League became a vision sprinkled with gold dust and sugarplum fairies dancing in helmeted heads, coaches coached and players played and everyone knew who was boss. Negotiations were something that happened on important...
by Steve Love | Jun 2, 2021 | Blog
This new Community Learning Center will have only one name, not two Architectural Conception/Akron Public Schools When Art Modell packed up his football team in 1995 and moved it to Baltimore, he at least made one decent but modest gesture to the city and the whole of...
by Steve Love | May 30, 2021 | Blog
Cole Brooks (left); wife Pam (left) receives a stuffed EMS insignia bear from Lindsey McClain Nowata Star photo by Mike Bryant Even before the name Cole Brooks fully registered from the PBS NewsHour’s “In Memoriam,” a weekly segment that honors some of those lost to...
by Steve Love | May 29, 2021 | Blog
Welcome to the New Generation’s silent, empty media conference of sports journalism Photo by Justin Buisson on Unsplash First, they closed the locker rooms to interviews. Then, they limited player interaction with media to Zoom conferencing—and could continue...
by Steve Love | May 27, 2021 | Blog
The Greenwood Avenue and Archer Street area after 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Tulsa Historical Society from Tulsa World screen shot The anniversaries fall, one atop the other, in a sad symmetry of racism, violence, and pain. That a hundred years separates them only adds...
by Steve Love | May 25, 2021 | Blog
What might have been a momentous moment in Akron sports history instead offered only another sobering reminder that Rubber City has been diminished and no longer ranks above similar-sized cities as it historically had. The rungs on the ladder can be slippery and Akron...
