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Hardesty: After 22 years with the Record-Courier, Tom Nader is starting his own sports site

Now, however, after 22 years of building a loyal readership across the county, Tom Nader is no longer a part of the Record-Courier sports team.
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Hardesty: After years of Browns blunders, why am I still surprised?

It’s my fault. That’s what I thought as I watched former Ohio State star wide receiver Garrett Wilson make the winning touchdown catch for the New York Jets with 25 seconds left in the game to cap a frantic 14-point rally in the final two minutes Sept. 18 in Cleveland.
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Hardesty: An interview with Michael Hall Jr. after a year in Columbus

Michael Hall Jr. was among the most sought-after prep football players in the country during his star-studded days at Streetsboro High School.
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Hardesty: Aurora wrestlers win state titles (and other updates from the mat)

The wrestling tradition continued at Aurora High School this winter. The Greenmen crowned two individual state champions on their way to a runner-up team finish in Division II at the OHSAA state wrestling tournament March 11-13 at The Ohio State University's Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus.
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Hardesty: Blue and Gold scores a win toward keeping the Flashes competitive

The Kent State men’s basketball team has officially dipped a toe into the wild, uncharted Name, Image, Likeness fundraising waters.
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Hardesty: Brent Pfeiffer will retire from the winning golf program his family built at Kent

Between 1971 and 2021 — with the exception of a four-season span from 2013-16 — the Rough Riders golf program (and later the boys golf team when girls golf became a varsity sport at Roosevelt in 2011) has been coached by either Dick Pfeiffer or his son, Brent. In that time, father and son combined to win 84% of their matches and capture 25 league championships.
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Hardesty: Coach Hill’s lifetime career was the career of a lifetime

At the time he was inducted into the Windham Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995, Marty Hill had 27 years, 388 wins and another trip to the state tournament still ahead of him.
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Hardesty: College football changes will hang Kent State out to dry

As the old saying goes, you-know-what runs downhill. And it’s only a matter of time before the Golden Flashes and the MAC get a faceful of it.
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Hardesty: Do MLB players really need to make more money?

We have people in the United States who can barely afford to feed and clothe their families. We have people in the United States who can barely afford to put gasoline in their vehicles just to get to work.
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Hardesty: Do they really care about player safety?

We live in an era when we’re fed a steady diet of the “for player safety” narrative. Collisions at the plate were legislated out of Major League Baseball “for player safety.”
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Hardesty: Education and sports don’t mix – but they should

Last week’s Round 2 on the seismic changes in college sports coming at us at warp speed and their adverse effects on mid-major schools like Kent State elicited some thought-provoking responses from readers.
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Hardesty: Flashes look to break Zips rivalry deadlock at the MAC next month

It’s amazing how even the Kent State-University of Akron men’s basketball rivalry has been the past couple decades.
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