Midwest

As the cold wind rolls off Lake Erie, Cleveland baseball fans' thoughts turn to Arizona and spring training.??

North Coast football fans are celebrating the team's first playoff appearance since 2002, first playoff win since 1994, and first road playoff win since 1968. The only thing that makes it better is that it was all accomplished by beating their arch rivals from...

Surf Cincinnati was a water park located in Forest Park, Ohio, just off of I-275 in suburban Cincinnati. It opened in 1990 and competed with the famous Sunlite Pool, The Beach, and Kings Island's new water park. In 2000, a nightclub called??Caddy's??was added after...

Baron Von Crypt was a horror movie TV host in St. Louis airing on KDNL Channel 30 in 1971 and 1972. Though he had brief run compared to other horror hosts around the country, he is still fondly remembered by a generation of St....

"Hello! My name is Gilbert Gnarley, G-N-A-R-L-E-Y..." He's just a slightly confused old man living at the St. Pia Zadora retirement home in Pisgah, Ohio. Sprung from the mind of nationally syndicated radio legend Gary Burbank, he called companies asking about why their jelly...

The Marshals first took the (indoor) field in Waco, Texas in 2004 as members of the National Indoor Football League (NIFL). Financial issues with team's owners caused the league to take over the Marshals, selling them at the end of their first season to...

After a pitched battle between the local zoning board and drive-in owners, the Oakley Drive-In opened September 6, 1956 on Madison Road in Cincinnati. The first film shown was the??Alfred Hitchcock-directed thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much??starring James Stewart and Doris Day.??The Drive-in...

Cleveland City Stars??played in the United Soccer League (USL) from 2007 through 2009. Their home field was Bedford High School's football stadium.

The 216 stand up and represent!

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The 2003 team was tossin' bags and scorin' points all the way to the Championship. OS16279

"Auto racing's showcase" was held at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio in 1979. OS16263

The Iowa Chops were a minor Professional hockey team based in Des Moines, IA playing in the American Hockey League from 2008 to 2009. OS16196

The Columbus Minks were one of the debut teams in the Women’s American Basketball Association that started in early October 1984 with six teams: the Atlanta Comets, Chicago Spirit, Columbus Minks, Dallas Diamonds, Houston Shamrocks and the Virginia Wave. OS16151

Toledo, Ohio was in the International Hockey League’s minor league hockey for nearly four decades from 1947 to 1986. The Toledo Mercurys were the original franchise (1947-1962), followed by the Blades (1963-1970), then the Toledo Hornets (1970-1974) and finally the Goaldiggers (1974-1986). OS16150

The 1983 Detroit Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 5, 1983. OS16007

St. Louis is a major city in Missouri along the Mississippi River. Landmarks featuring the Gateway Arch, the St. Louis Zoo and Art Museum, baseball and blues music, keep tourists coming back to visit year after year.   OS16004

The first major professional league for inline hockey was the Roller Hockey International and it operated from 1993 to 1999.  OS15778

The Big Six Conference membership grew with the addition of Colorado on December 1, 1947 and making the conference's unofficial name the Big Seven Conference. This conference name lasted from 1948 to 1957. OS15776

The Minnesota Fillies were one of eight founding franchises in the Women’s Professional Basketball League in 1978 and was one of only three clubs that survived for all three seasons of the WPBL’s existence. OS15768