Sports

Kroger Begins Rolling Out In-Store Betting Kiosks

National grocery chain Kroger has installed kiosks in a handful of its 2,800 stories to allow customers to place bets on sporting events. Numerous outlets had reported that the company had been approved in 2022 to get the sports betting kiosks installed and operational in its Ohio stores, though they generally noted, as did Cincinnati’s […]

World Champion Pole Vaulter Dies at Age 29

A former world champion pole vaulter died Thursday at age 29. Shawn Barber, a three-time NCAA champion with the University of Akron in Ohio, died “from medical complications,” the school’s Department of Athletics said in a news release Thursday. The athlete’s specific cause of death was not released, but the university said he “had fallen ill […]