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President Obama to visit Cleveland area in Akron, and Ohio remains a key battleground state, Akron is NBA great LeBron James' hometown

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United States President Barack Obama LeBron James By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com www. clevelandur bannews .com 0 AKON , Ohio- President Barack Obama will visit Akron, Oh. on Wednesday where NBA great LeBron James is a native, a city some 35 miles south of Cleveland that has a Black residential section with constituents that are now part of Congresswoman Marcia Fudge's 11 th congressional district. He will also make a stop in Mansfield, Oh. as part of his campaign tour. Obama for America campaign officials did not say in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com on the upcoming visit whether James will join the president in Akron, though the basketball star did campaign for Obama in 2008, the year he won election as America's first Black president. The president comes to the Cleveland area for a third time this summer. He visi ted the Cleveland suburb of Parma earlier this mont

How can the Cleveland Browns draft NFL football players for team success? Should more focus be given to players drafted in mid-rounds?

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By Karl Kimbrough, Guest Sports Columnist, Cleveland Urban News.Com www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The NFL draft has become such a huge theatrical event that in most cities across the country, including Cleveland where the Cleveland Browns are center stage, football fans are glued to their television sets to see who gets the potential star players. But should more focus be given to mid-round draft players since a team can not function on first and second round draftees alone? Fans are mainly interested in those players who are projected to be drafted in the first round. From February until draft day in April there is so much talk about the potential top 10 players that we feel as though we must have one. If we do not get one for our team then we have missed out on a prized talent that could take our team to another level. A lot of the attention that is given to the draft is based on hype from the media and high grades or ratings given by draft gurus. However, this