If you’re in the mar­ket for a Ka­reem Hunt jer­sey, you might want to wait.

Chances are he will be get­ting a new num­ber, one Univer­sity of Toledo fans will cer­tainly rec­og­nize.

The NFL this week de­cided a rule pre­vent­ing cer­tain po­si­tions from wear­ing sin­gle-digit num­bers will be re­laxed. The new rule will al­low run­ning backs, wide re­ceiv­ers, tight ends, line­back­ers, and de­fen­sive backs to wear sin­gle dig­its, pav­ing the way for some of the league’s most high-pro­file play­ers to make num­ber changes.

Pre­vi­ously, only quar­ter­backs, kick­ers, and punt­ers could wear sin­gle dig­its.

Hunt has worn No. 27 for the Kan­sas City Chiefs and Cleve­land Browns. At Toledo, the record-set­ting tail­back was No. 3.

And he’s in­di­cated that a change could be im­mi­nent.

In an In­sta­gram post, Hunt re­sponded to a photo of him­self in a No. 3 Browns jer­sey. He may have com­pany, how­ever, be­cause team­mate Odell Beck­ham, Jr., also wore No. 3 in col­lege.

Hunt also wore No. 3 at Wil­loughby South High School.

The rules re­strict­ing num­bers for cer­tain po­si­tions is to help of­fi­cials. Offen­sive line­men, for ex­am­ple, can only wear Nos. 50 to 79 so ref­er­ees can eas­ily iden­tify if there is an in­el­i­gi­ble man down­field on pass­ing plays.

The im­pe­tus for the change came from the Kan­sas City Chiefs, which lob­bied for skills play­ers and de­fend­ers to wear sin­gle dig­its be­cause it doesn’t im­pact of­fen­sive line­men.

If Hunt does bring back his No. 3 jer­sey, he might have to pay for it.

Per NFL rules, if a player re­quests a num­ber change for the up­com­ing year and there is in­ven­tory of un­sold jer­seys fea­tur­ing his cur­rent num­ber, the player must pur­chase un­sold jer­seys be­fore the num­ber change hap­pens. If the player de­clines to do so, he can re­main in the cur­rent num­ber and change the fol­low­ing year with­out cost.

The field for the 44th Mercy Health Glass City Mara­thon will be re­duced be­cause of cor­o­navi­rus so­cial-dis­tanc­ing lim­ita­tions but, af­ter hav­ing the event can­celed be­cause of the pan­demic, just run­ning the event on Sun­day will be viewed as a suc­cess.

Ac­cord­ing to race di­rec­tor Clint McCormick, who is over­see­ing his 12th GCM, the Toledo dis­tance event rep­resents some­thing of a re­turn to ma­jor races.

“I be­lieve we are the first ma­jor mar­a­thon to hap­pen in a year, any­where in the coun­try,” McCormick

The Ohio High School Ath­letic As­so­ci­a­tion’s board of di­rec­tors has voted to fur­ther ex­pand the foot­ball play­offs.

The num­ber of play­off qual­i­fi­ers will ex­pand to 16 schools per re­gion. The ex­pan­sion, which was ap­proved on Thurs­day, will in­crease the num­ber of foot­ball play­off qual­i­fi­ers from 224 to 448.

Last sea­son, 709 Ohio schools played 11-man foot­ball, mean­ing 63 per­cent of all teams would qual­ify for

On St. Francis de Sales la­crosse’s se­nior night, it was only fit­ting for the se­niors to pro­duce most of the Knights’ of­fense against St. John’s Je­suit.

Of the Knights’ 14 goals, 10 were recorded by se­niors in St. Francis’ 14-5 win over St. John’s.

“It’s great to watch. These are a great bunch of kids. This se­nior class has been awe­some,” St. Francis coach

Jack Loy said. “Most of them have been on var­sity for four years, some of them three. So it’s just a qual­ity class and qual­ity kids.”

St. Francis (6-2) jumped out to an early lead against St. John’s (5-3), which lost its sec­ond straight game.

Dan Tokar was in­volved with three of the four first-quar­ter goals. He scored twice and had an as­sist.

Alex Harms scored his first goal of the game in the first quar­ter.

He was as­sisted by Tokar, and also as­sisted Tokar on his sec­ond goal.

Char­ley Werner scored the fourth goal of the quar­ter for the Knights.

For the game, Tokar led the Knights with four goals, while Joe Petro and Harms had three each.

George Ja­cob led the Ti­tans with three goals, and Wil­liam Bohne had two.

“I thought we played well, it’s a ri­valry game, and there’s a lot of emo­tion in­volved,” Loy said. “I thought the game was kind of sloppy on both sides, but it’s emo­tional for them as well.”

The Knights’ de­fense over­pow­ered the Ti­tans in the first half. Bohne