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Could Ohio high school sports stars get rich from NIL? Here's what's happened elsewhere – Akron Beacon Journal

Tyran Stokes is just a teen, but he’s already building a personal brand worth millions. 
His Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) value is $1.7 million, according to On3, a website that provides NIL rankings. 
And, he’s still in high school.
Stokes, a Louisville, Kentucky, native ranked as the No. 1 basketball recruit in the class of 2026, is an example of a high school athlete who has capitalized on his NIL or personal brand before he even chooses a college. 

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Raptors' Brandon Ingram on rise ahead of matchup with Cavs – CBS Sports

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The Toronto Raptors acquired Brandon Ingram in a trade with the New Orleans Pelicans nine months ago. The veteran small forward is delivering the impact they envisioned when making the deal.
Ingram and the Raptors will look to continue their hot stretch on Thursday when they visit Cleveland for the second time in a two-week span. Toronto beat the Cavaliers 112-101 in the NBA Cup opener for both teams on Oct. 31.
That victory was the catalyst for the Raptors winning five times in their past six games to move above .500 for the initial time this season. Ingram has been the driving force, as he is averaging 21.4 points, 6.2 rebounds and 4.0 assists on the season.
“I definitely got a couple more (gears) to go,” said Ingram, who missed the final four months last season with a left ankle sprain. He finally made his Raptors debut last month.
“Coming off this injury, I haven’t got my explosiveness back, but my teammates are making it easier for me. Hopefully, as I keep playing, I will get that back.”
Ingram has scored at least 20 points eight times in 11 games with his new club, including a 25-point performance on Tuesday in a 119-109 win over the Brooklyn Nets in New York. He made more headlines by greeting his girlfriend, popular rapper GloRilla, who was seated courtside.
It was much better publicity than the 10th-year pro received in Toronto’s previous contest on Saturday. Ingram was fined $25,000 by the NBA for spiking his water bottle, which subsequently struck a game attendant, during the Raptors’ 130-120 road loss to the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Raptors’ defense held Brooklyn to 39.5% field-goal shooting, and Toronto wound up with a 50-36 rebounding edge. Scottie Barnes grabbed 11 rebounds for the Raptors, and Jakob Poeltl had 12 points and 10 boards in his return from a one-game absence caused by a lower back injury.
“Jakob is doing great, but when you’re 7-feet tall, it’s not easy to have extra pop,” Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic said. “He’s still finding his reconditioning. I think he did pretty well.”
The Cavaliers are returning home after splitting back-to-back road games against the Miami Heat. Cleveland rallied for a 130-116 win on Wednesday despite resting both reigning Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley and All-Star Donovan Mitchell.
Jarrett Allen logged 30 points and 10 rebounds, powering the charge as Cleveland hit Miami with a 41-14 run that turned a 94-84 deficit into a 17-point lead late in the fourth quarter.
“J.A., he’s just J.A., you’ve got to love the guy,” Cavaliers point guard Craig Porter Jr. said. “He’s selfless and gives it his all every night.”
Porter was terrific off the bench, producing 19 points, nine assists, three steals and a career-high four blocked shots. Those contributions were big, as All-Star point guard Darius Garland was sidelined after re-injuring his left big toe on Monday in the Cavaliers’ 140-138 overtime loss to the Heat.
Garland, who missed the first seven games of the season after undergoing surgery on the same toe in June, was hurt when he became entangled with Miami forward Nikola Jovic on a drive to the basket. Cavaliers officials said they would update his status “as appropriate.”
Swingman Jaylon Tyson also is out indefinitely after sustaining a concussion in the first game at Miami.
“We felt like we had a lot of depth, so we never had a doubt,” Porter said. “Like (coach Kenny Atkinson) said, we’ve got 15 guys we pay on this team, and we’re paying them for a reason.”
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Pirates ace Skenes wins first Cy Young award – tribtoday.com

Nov 13, 2025
FILE – Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes delivers during the second inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
PITTSBURGH — The individual trophy cases for Paul Skenes and Tarik Skubal are growing increasingly full.
The next step in the evolution of baseball’s two best pitchers is winning — preferably where they are.
The 23-year-old Skenes capped his blistering rise to stardom by capturing the National League Cy Young Award on Wednesday night. The Pittsburgh Pirates ace was a unanimous choice by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, the honor coming minutes after Skubal won baseball’s premier pitching prize in the American League for the second straight year as the anchor of the Detroit Tigers.
As gratified as they are by the recognition, both said they are eager for their respective teams to get in on the act in 2026.
That’s where things get tricky.
The 28-year-old Skubal is entering his final year of club control, and while he would like to stay in Detroit beyond next season, he’s also well aware the Tigers could trade him as a business decision, considering the hefty raise the left-hander figures to command should he hit the open market as a free agent.
It’s much the same for Skenes, who remains under team control for the rest of the decade but found himself pushing back against a report that he’s already told teammates he is eager to move on.
“I don’t know where that came from,” Skenes said. “The goal is to win and the goal is to win in Pittsburgh.”
The Pirates finished last in the NL Central in 2025, well off the pace of front-running Milwaukee. The first pitcher since Dwight Gooden with the New York Mets in the mid-1980s to win Rookie of the Year one season and a Cy Young Award the next remains optimistic Pittsburgh is closer to contending than most think.
“The way that fans see us outside of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is not supposed to win,” Skenes said. “There are 29 fan bases that expect us to lose. I want to be a part of the 26 guys that change that.”
Skenes — selected first overall by the Pirates in the 2023 amateur draft after a standout career at Air Force and LSU — did his part in 2025, leading the majors in ERA (1.97) while striking out 216 batters in 187 1/3 innings during his first full season in the big leagues.
Yet even with his brilliance, Skenes needed a little late help from Pittsburgh’s woeful offense to avoid becoming the first Cy Young-winning starting pitcher to finish with a losing record. Skenes won three of his final four decisions to finish 10-10.
That so-so win/loss mark didn’t stop the towering 6-foot-6 right-hander from placing atop all 30 ballots. Philadelphia left-hander Cristopher Sánchez received every second-place vote, and World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers finished third.
Sánchez’s 2029 option price increased by $1 million to $15 million and his 2030 option price by $1 million to $16 million as a result of being a Cy Young Award finalist.
Skubal received 26 first-place votes in the AL from a separate BBWAA panel. The other four went to runner-up Garrett Crochet of the Boston Red Sox. Hunter Brown of the Houston Astros came in third.
Although disappointed to be out of contention, Skenes said playing out the string was “a blessing” individually in some ways.
“It allowed me to try some new things in August and September that I wouldn’t have gotten to try if we were playing for the playoffs,” he explained.
Skubal and the Tigers have gotten a taste of October baseball each of the last two seasons, thanks in large part to his ascendance.
A year after taking a massive step forward by winning the AL pitching Triple Crown on his way to being a unanimous Cy Young winner, Skubal backed it up by serving as the anchor for the Tigers during a volatile season in which they squandered a 15 1/2-game lead in the AL Central and were caught by Cleveland down the stretch.
Detroit got a bit of revenge in the wild-card round, beating the division-champion Guardians in three games following a 14-strikeout gem by Skubal in the series opener.
Yet as fun as the season was at times, the disappointment of falling short of the ultimate goal lingers.
“Ending the season on a loss is not a fun thing,” Skubal said. “You can be proud of what we accomplished, but you want to end the season with a win … the one in October or maybe deep in November you get to play in.”
Skubal is the 12th hurler to win baseball’s top pitching honor in consecutive years, joining a group that includes Hall of Famers Randy Johnson and Pedro Martínez, who was the last American League pitcher to go back-to-back, for Boston in 1999 and 2000.
“I think a lot of it is not being complacent with who I am today,” Skubal said. “I still think there’s more to tap into. I don’t think this is the finished version of myself.”
And he doesn’t think this is the finished version of the Tigers.
“You want to win this award as many times as you can in your career, but I’d gladly trade a Cy Young for a World Series,” Skubal said.
Skubal was 13-6 with an AL-leading 2.21 ERA and 240 strikeouts in 195 1/3 innings during the regular season. Then he went 1-0 with a 1.74 ERA in three playoff starts for Detroit, which was eliminated by Seattle in their Division Series.
Crochet led the American League in innings (205 1/3) and strikeouts (255).
Brown’s top-three finish earned Houston an extra pick after the first round of next July’s amateur draft under the prospect promotion incentive in the 2022 collective bargaining agreement.
Skubal’s historic run comes with a chance for him to cash in as potential free agency looms. Economics aside, Skubal would be just fine sticking in the Motor City.
“I’ve given everything I have to this organization. I want to be a Tiger for a very, very long time,” he said. “I’m just going to do what I do and not really focus on any of that stuff.”
Skenes and Skubal both started the All-Star Game this year. The only other time the two All-Star Game starters won the Cy Young Awards in the same season was 2001, when Johnson and Roger Clemens accomplished the feat.
MVP awards for both leagues will be handed out Thursday.
Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani is a heavy favorite to repeat in the NL and win for the fourth time overall, including twice in the AL.
New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is seeking his third AL MVP in what could be a close vote with another top contender, Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh.
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National Signing Day, November 2025: What colleges did Cincinnati area athletes choose? – Cincinnati Enquirer

Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky athletes will sign financial aid agreements or ceremonial Signing Day letters, on or around Wednesday, Nov. 12.
Athletes will sign letters for most Division I and Division II sports, including soccer, baseball, volleyball, track and swimming. Nov. 12 kicks off the early signing period for basketball, running until Nov. 19. Early signing period for football is Dec. 3-5, with the regular period starting Feb. 4, 2026.
Please send additional information and/or Signing Day photos to Melanie Laughman at mlaughman@enquirer.com or Alex Harrison, aharrison@enquirer.com. Please identify all people in the signing day photos and be sure to identify the sport and chosen college.
Braelyn Even, soccer, University of Cincinnati
Tanner Questa, soccer, UDA Soccer Academy (England)
Brandt Bowling, volleyball, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Chandler Taylor, baseball, University of Alabama
Carson Niehaus, baseball, University of Mount Union
Cooper Anzalone, baseball, Lincoln Trail College
Cade Cummins, baseball, Marietta College
Elliott Davis, baseball, Thomas More University
Caleb Driessen, baseball, Miami University (Ohio)
Carson Sergent, baseball, Wittenberg University
Brooks Treadway, baseball, Marietta College
Eli Wolpert, baseball, Thomas More University
Carson Lowe, baseball, Ohio Northern University
Jay Carmella, baseball, Cedarville University
Hunter Kelly, baseball, Thomas More University
Bella Wilson, softball, Thomas More University
Emma Yeager, soccer, Austin Peay University
Camille Lewis, track and field, University of Cincinnati
Wil Kraus, baseball, Wright State University
Mady Linenkugel, soccer, University of Louisiana
Brooke Woosley, soccer, Wilmington College
Madison Sheppard, soccer, Northern Illinois University
Penelope Bolinger, volleyball, Wittenberg University
Emma Frietch, volleyball, University of Tennessee
Claire Hill, ice hockey, Hood College
Lauren Hoog, soccer, Ohio University
Annie Kleeman, soccer, Davidson University
Cara Pitzer, soccer, The University of North Alabama
Gabby Semona, volleyball, Xavier University
Eva Becerril, golf, Boise State University
Melia Eckman, swimming, University of Richmond
Kierstn Eckmann, lacrosse, SUNY Fredonia
Grier Gordon, swimming, University of Connecticut
Mackenzie Higgins, volleyball, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Elle Hudepohl, volleyball, Wheaton College
Ella Prichard, softball, Ohio Dominican University
Mia Scuglik, soccer, DePauw University
Alyssa Uhlman, swimming, Miami University
Stella Votaw, lacrosse, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Kendal Erbach, soccer and track, Ohio University

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Astros' Yordan Alvarez: Resumes jogging – CBS Sports

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General manager Dana Brown said Wednesday that Alvarez (ankle) has begun jogging at roughly 70 percent intensity, Chandler Rome of The Athletic reports.
Alvarez suffered a severe left ankle sprain during the final weeks of the regular season. Brown’s comments indicate that the 28-year-old is coming along nicely in his recovery, and the GM added that he expects Alvarez to be ready to go by the start of spring training. The righty-hitting slugger also missed significant time in 2025 due to a fracture in his right hand and finished the season with just a .797 OPS across 199 plate appearances.
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