It’s time for the 2019 off-season champs to play some real games

September 8, 2019

The Cleveland Browns haven’t had a winning record since 2007 and enter the 2019 season with the third-longest streak of losing seasons in NFL history, just one behind the 1967–’78 New Orleans Saints, and three behind the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of ’83 to ’96. The last time the Browns won a playoff game was in […]

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526 Years (and Counting) of Dignity and Resistance

April 2, 2019

The annual Native American protests at yesterday’s home opener for the Cleveland “Indians” MLB team were quiet, if otherwise typical. Most typical being the constant sneering and shouting at the protesters by the (mostly Caucasian) fans of the team who were upset that anyone would question their right to make a mascot out of a […]

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Fifth consecutive Browns coach fails to last three seasons

October 29, 2018

When Hue Jackson was hired as the Browns head coach in 2016 it was widely hailed as a “huge coup” for Cleveland and team owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam. Jackson was the hot assistant coach that everyone wanted, having turned down a chance to interview for the Giants job and a guaranteed spot as Marvin Lewis’s […]

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Chief Wahoo’s last stand on Columbus Day is just perfect

October 8, 2018

If one were to have guessed back in April how the curse of Chief Wahoo would do its thing this season—in which the Cleveland MLB team announced its agreement that “the [Wahoo] logo is no longer appropriate for on-field use in Major League Baseball,” but also that it would give the racist symbol a year-long […]

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The G.O.A.T. from Akron is in the NBA Finals for the 8th year in a row

May 31, 2018

Only four other people besides LeBron James have ever made it to eight consecutive NBA Finals series, and all of them were members of the Bill Russell-led Celtics dynasty of the late fifties and early sixties when most of the league’s players were white. With LeBron’s Cavaliers set to tip off as overwhelming underdogs in […]

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Indians cave to MLB pressure on Chief Wahoo

January 29, 2018

Today, the New York Times reported that the Cleveland Indians will stop using the Chief Wahoo logo on their uniforms in 2019. According to a statement from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred that cited “Major League Baseball’s commitment to building a culture of diversity and inclusion,” the Indians organization “ultimately agreed with [Manfred’s] position that the logo […]

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Baseball’s greatest curse wins again

October 12, 2017

Now that the Curse of Chief Wahoo has done its thing yet again—and as brutally as ever with such an unceremonious first-round bouncing of such a historically great regular season team—hopefully more people will realize that the curse is something better to root for than an organization that engages in, enables, and encourages open racism […]

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Baseball’s greatest curse is about to be put to the test

October 5, 2017

When the Chicago Cubs beat Cleveland’s Indians in last year’s World Series, they also vanquished the Curse of the Billy Goat, ending their 108-year championship drought. This left the Indians as baseball’s longest losing franchise, without a title since 1948, and Cleveland’s Curse of Chief Wahoo as the undisputed champion of baseball curses—having survived the […]

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If the Q deal was so good for Cleveland, why didn’t Dan Gilbert find a way to make it work?

August 29, 2017

With City Council’s efforts to suppress a referendum on the Q deal having failed, Dan Gilbert was finally faced with the prospect of a public vote on the proposed $100-million-plus subsidy to pay for discretionary renovations to Quicken Loans Arena. Rather than subject this project to scrutiny at the ballot, Gilbert decided to pick up […]

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Will Dan Gilbert’s greed cost Cleveland an NBA All-Star Game?

August 11, 2017

This is a question that seems to be getting lost in the debate over the Q-deal referendum, which will now be moving forward thanks to yesterday’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Ohio. Cavs owner Dan Gilbert and his surrogates, both in their legal briefing against the referendum and in their related public-relations efforts, have […]

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