An Amber Alert was issued for a missing 4-year-old girl in Rock Island, Illinois. The child was found safe, and five people have been arrested.

There’s a history of Cincinnati influence in South Bend, including Kelly, who spent three seasons with the Bearcats before taking the Notre Dame job. A year before Kelly poached Freeman, he hired Bearcats defensive backs coach Mike Mickens, a Cincinnati alum who was a teammate of Freeman’s at Wayne High School outside of Dayton.

West Side Brewing announced Jan. 17 that it acquired Gilligan's on the Green, an Irish- and American-themed restaurant, at 400 Wyoming Ave. in the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming. As part of the acquisition, the restaurant will be rebranded to Gilligan's Brewery effective Feb. 1.

Ohio and Ohioans were scorned when we became a state more than two centuries ago, and we're on the hot seat again. Is it jealousy or something more?

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The football recruiting trail is picking up some steam as the new year gets older. We start the Recruiting Roundup with an offer for three-star 2026 North Cross School (Virginia) cornerback Jaziel Hart.

Western Michigan football’s offensive line just bulked up. The Broncos announced the addition of former Illinois offensive lineman Hunter Whitenack through the NCAA transfer portal –– the fourth offensive lineman to land with WMU football in the winter portal.

Wisconsin’s James Thompson Jr. (90) is shown during spring football practice Thursday, April 25, 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Badgers football team plays their season opener against Western Michigan on August 31. Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK

Doesn't matter where -- around Notre Dame Stadium, past the Grotto or Touchdown Jesus.  The point is, the former Irish athletic director who hired Marcus Freeman should be ripping off his shirt, pounding his chest and whooping at the top of his lungs.

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Appalachian St. at Marshall, 1 p.m. Bryant at Mass.-Lowell, 1 p.m. Bucknell at Navy, 1 p.m. CCSU at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 1 p.m. Fairfield at Canisius, 1 p.m. Manhattan at Niagara, 1 p.m. Penn at Cornell, 1 p.m. UMBC at Maine, 1 p.m. Wagner at Mercyhurst, 1 p.m. Army at Boston U., 2 p.m.

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