Last Top Stories: LeBron James, Kevin Love power Cleveland Cavaliers past Indiana Pacers, 101-97, to extend win streak to six | cleveland

• LeBron James, Kevin Love power Cleveland Cavaliers past Indiana Pacers, 101-97, to extend win streak to six | cleveland

  

  CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Cavaliers kept it close throughout, but squeaked by the Indiana Pacers in the fourth quarter for a 101-97 win on Sunday at The Q to extend their winning streak to six.LeBron James played despite dealing with a bruised quad and put in 29 points, six rebounds and four assists in 35 minutes. Kevin Love had a monster game in registering 22 points and a game-high 19 rebounds. It was his third consecutive double-double.Indiana (3-4) took Cleveland (6-1) down to the wire.A late-game full-court press that was broken by the Cavaliers led to a wide-open slam dunk for Love to put the Cavaliers up four with 8.2 seconds remaining. Indiana scored a quick layup on the next..

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• 'The Walking Dead' recap: Rick and Jessie finally get it on

  

  CLEVELAND, Ohio – If there's one major takeaway fromSeason 6 of "The Walking Dead"(other than it being amazing), it's that no one seems to be having a good week.The episode opens with Deanna in total shell shock, as the community looks to rebound from the Wolves' attack on the Safe-Zone. But there isn't much time to recover.Deanna, standing on the Safe-Zone's chief lookout tower, sees Rick running towards the gates with a massive herd of walkers chasing him. The community has yet another problem on its hands, as the walkers look to tear down the Safe-Zone's walls."The wall's going to hold together," Rick assures everyone, after safely making it inside. "Will you?"Aaron steps up and praises..

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• Cleveland Browns won't face Ben Roethlisberger, who's 18-2 against them, next week because of foot injury, reports say | cleveland

  

  Ben RoethlisbergerPittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (7) is taken a way in a cart after he was injured in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, in Pittsburgh. The Steelers won 38-35. (AP Photo/Gene Puskar)(Gene Puskar)CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns won't be facing Ben Roethlisberger -- who has a 18-2 record against them --  next week when they travel to Pittsburgh for the first of two meetings with the Steelers.Roethlisberger suffered a mid-foot sprain during Sunday's 38-33 victory over the Raiders and will be out 1-2 weeks, according to NFL Network's Albert Breer and ESPN's Adam Schefter. The victory improved Pittsburgh ..

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• The challenge of not playing in fourth quarters and how Cleveland Cavaliers center Timofey Mozgov is handling it | cleveland

  CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland Cavaliers center Timofey Mozgov has only appeared in the fourth quarter once out of the team's six games.The big man isn't pouting. It's all about the team's success. He's just staying ready for when his number is called. But why isn't the 7-2 rim protector seeing action down the stretch of games?"You're talking to the wrong person," he told cleveland.com. "That's all I can say."His lone fourth-quarter appearance was on the road against Philadelphia on Monday, when he played six minutes. Head coach Blatt has chosen to go with a frontcourt of LeBron James, Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson to close out games.The shot-blocking of Mozgov is missing, but the lineup is..

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• Starbucks' red cups spur accusations of 'War on Christmas' (poll)

  

  Starbucks' decisionto use a plain, red cup during the holiday season has some Christians seeing red and accusing the company ofwaging a "War on Christmas".The controversy gained traction after Joshua Feuerstein, a former pastor who calls himself a "social media personality,"posted a video on Facebooktaking the company to task for its red cups, which are free of any symbols of the holiday."Do you realize that Starbucks wanted to take Christ and Christmas off of their brand new cups?" Feuerstein says in the video.Feuerstein says he's challenging "all great Americans and Christians" to tell servers at Starbucks that his or her name is "Merry Christmas" and post selfies on social media with the ..

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• Friends gather for fundraiser for Tommy Gunn Quinn

  

  ASHTABULA—Thomas Gunther Quinn is a man who takes care of himself. As an athlete at Harbor High School in Ashtabula, he played football and basketball. He was a Junior Olympian in track and field. He was such a he-man type, his friends and family call him Tommy Gunn.At Thiel College, he played varsity basketball as a freshman. He became a hard-working longshoreman. Studying with local stunt coordinator Rick Fike, Quinn earned his black belt in karate, then started training with Fike's Stunt Predators to work as a stunt man in movies.Quinn started his stunt career in 2000, with "A Better Way to Die" starring Lou Diamond Phillips. Fike was the stunt coordinator and fight choreographer. More ..

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• Ohio State basketball: 7 thoughts on the Buckeyes after exhibition...

  

  COLUMBUS, Ohio --Some quick thoughts on Ohio State basketball after the Buckeyes 92-82 exhibition win over Walsh on Sunday.• Ohio State started JaQuan Lyle, Kam Williams, Keita Bates-Diop, Marc Loving and Trevor Thompson on Sunday. That's a long lineup. Williams is the shortest at 6-foot-2, everyone is 6-foot-5 or taller.But don't expect that to be the starting lineup when the Buckeyes officially open the season next Sunday against Mount St. Mary's. Jae'Sean Tate did not play on Sunday because of a sprained ankle. He's officially day-to-day, but he's fully healthy next weekend, he'll start.The question is who from Sunday's starting group would he replace. You would think it would be Williams..

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• ODC/Dance leaves long-lasting glowing impression on...

  

  By MARK SATOLACLEVELAND, Ohio -- In one sense, the dance had begun before the audience was fully seated. Saturday night in the Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square, two members of the ODC/Dance troupe appeared downstage at far right and began a deliberative process of arranging short sticks in patterns while the audience chattered noisily, seemingly unaware of what was transpiring.ODC/Dance's "Boulders and Bones," premiered in 2014 and presented here on the DanceCleveland series, marked the dance company's first performance in northeast Ohio since they relocated from Oberlin to San Francisco in 1976. Founded five years before that by Brenda Way, the troupe went on to grow in the ensuing 44 years..

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• Cleveland man dies one week after being critically injured in East Side double shooting | cleveland

  

  CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man died more than a week after he was critically injured in an East Side double shooting, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office said.Byron Clay, 26, wasshot once in the head Oct. 28 on Lenacrave Avenuenear Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. He died Friday at MetroHealth, the medical examiner's office said.J'nae N. White, 19, of Cleveland, was pronounced dead at the shooting scene. She was shot multiple times in the head and torso, police said.An unidentified gunman shot White and Clay about 8 p.m. while they were in a parked car, police said.No arrests have been made. Detectives are still investigating the incident.Anyone with information is asked to co..

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• Final thoughts on Ohio State's victory over Minnesota: Bill Livingston...

  

  COLUMBUS, Ohio --Minnesota was not easy, as I predicted.1. Because of the Golden Gophers' missed 50-yard field goal, Nostralivus also missed a 28-17 "noser." That was the score  predicted here for the game. Ohio State instead won, 28-14.Rather than being deflated by their loss in a rivalry game on the last play of the  Little Brown Jug game against Michigan in the week after Jerry Kill resigned as their coach for health reasons, the Gophers played almost as hard in The Horseshoe Saturday night.Kill's name was in the middle of a decal plastered to the back of every visiting player's helmet with the words "Chasing Dreams" and "Tacklin' the Tough Times" above and below it.2. I had harbored grow..

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