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TAINTED VICTORY!!

Cleveland, Ohio First off, congrats to Rapid City Fc on their win last night. For those that were in attendance at the Soccerplex last nigh you saw a barn burner. That game had everything. Action, suspense, scoring, and even some chippiness. Pretty much everything needed to have the makings of a epic rivalry. The Problem in this game was the fact that in between the action. it wasn't called fairly. Just like in Michigan a week before there were several missed calls and Rapid City then introduced FLOPPING. It was so bad that kids under the age of 10 were noticing. This flopping was so bad that several blue and yellow cards were issued against the Crunch. Yet, no cards were issued for the clearly intentional flops nor were the refs calling the game fair in our opinion. Is this a issue in all sports? Yes, but understand in a game of this magnitude where a division title was on the line you would think the refs would be neutral and make the calls where they were cl...

PRO WRESTLING BACK IN CLEVELAND!

With everything slowly going back to normal sports have slowly lifted their restrictions and crowds are coming back, and with arenas allowing more and more fans back the SPORT of professional wrestling is back. More importantly, local pro wrestling is back here in Cleveland. This sunday the NEO Sports plant will be holding a pop up show to welcome back fans and help us get back to normalcy. Doors will be opening at 4pm, with the first bell at 5pm. Tickets are $10 and are already limited so get them while you can. The address to the Sports Plant is 20001 Euclid Ave in Cleveland. Parking is in the rear of the building. Come out and check our live pro wrestling and support independent pro wrestling!

RESPECT THE CROWN!! CRUNCH SHOW OUT IN HOME OPENER!

North Olmstead, Ohio ( all photos courtesy of 216 sports network photography and Cleveland Crunch) If the first game between the Muskegon Risers and Cleveland Crunch left any doubt in you mind about who the kings of the hill are going into the 2022 season, the Saturday night answered all questions. In a sold out, standing room only crowd at the Soccerplex in North Olmstead the Crunch looked to double back on the early season re-match with the Risers on "Champions Night". The Crunch did not disappoint. With the first quarter just starting Crunch forward Mike Derezic would score 2 goals 45-seconds apart to put the Crunch up 2-0 . Not too much later, Kevin Blackwood would connect with Crunch rookie Rylan Wikle for his first goal of the his young career to give the Crunch a 3-0 lead with 13:18 left in the first quarter. Shortly after that Mike Der...