Columbus Day is a great American holiday

October 14, 2013

“A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from [ages] nine to ten are now in demand.”  — Christopher Columbus ————— In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue from Europe […]

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Tribetown lives for October

October 3, 2013

“It didn’t feel like the playoffs.” – Brian McCann With the Cleveland Indians’ inevitable playoff collapse complete (could have been worse!), we may now soberly appreciate just what a cynical cash grab the MLB’s one-game Wild Card “Coin Flip Game” is. Of course, 150+ years of baseball history has taught us nothing if not that […]

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Questions about the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s Proposed Cuyahoga County Sin Tax Extension

August 29, 2013

Thanks to some lobbying by the Greater Cleveland Partnership, “one of the largest chambers of commerce in the United States,” a proposed 20-year extension of Cuyahoga County’s “sin tax” — an additional tax on alcohol and cigarettes that’s set to expire in 2015 after 25 years — could hit the ballot as early as next […]

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We’re all Detroit

August 1, 2013

“At least we’re not Detroit” might seem like an especially comforting idea these days. Here’s Dave Zirin at The Nation on some “mind boggling headline juxtaposition” from the erstwhile Motor City: You have, on one day, “Detroit Files Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in History.” Then on the next, you have “Detroit Plans to Pay For New […]

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Andrew Bynum is a man who doesn’t lie to people at airports

July 11, 2013

And Cleveland Frowns is a website that’s two for two with breaking news from the airport: @ClevelandFrowns Andrew Bynum just told me he’s playing for the cavs next year! pic.twitter.com/TL5sddASi8 — Lee Van Cleef (@MSchieman) July 8, 2013 Per @MSchieman on airport run-in: “I was like, ‘Andrew! [Bynum] Are you coming to Cleveland?’ He looked […]

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Haslam family leveraging University of Tennessee ties, etc., for fracking profits

June 27, 2013

The more one learns about Jimmy Haslam, the harder it is to believe that the truck stop magnate didn’t purchase the Cleveland Browns with an acute awareness of Dan Gilbert’s success in leveraging the public trust of a local major professional sporting franchise for private gain at the ballot box. Of course in the Cavaliers owner’s case it was the […]

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FBI alleges fraudulent scheme by Pilot Flying J, “with the knowledge of” Jimmy Haslam, to target unsophisticated customers

April 18, 2013

This afternoon, the FBI released an affidavit that was used to obtain the warrants for Tuesday’s search and seizure executed at Browns owner Jimmy Haslam’s Pilot Flying J headquarters. The 120-page document contains allegations that company employees have, for “many years,” with the knowledge of Haslam and other top executives, engaged in a scheme to defraud […]

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Cleveland Indians President Mark Shapiro: “Chief Wahoo isn’t going anywhere.”

April 11, 2013

As much as some folks would like to believe that the Cleveland Indians are in the process of phasing out Jim Crow/Third Reich relic Chief Wahoo as an official symbol of the franchise, the highest ranking representatives of the organization keep saying that Wahoo is here to stay. Most recently, Indians President Mark Shapiro was […]

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Tribe Town: Hitler’s favorite baseball team is back, and as potentially slightly above average as ever

April 2, 2013

Back in the 1920’s, the Nazis figured out that if you showed folks enough pictures of a race of people looking like something less than human, it would be easier to get away with treating that race as something less than human. White people in the United States had picked up on the same idea since […]

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“You can’t write the history of Pro Football without Art Modell”

February 1, 2013

“There is an oft-used phrase in the annual Hall of Fame discussions — that one ‘cannot write the history of the league without including’ certain candidates — that might be appropriate to Modell.” – Len Pasquarelli, Sports Illustrated “You can’t write the NFL history without Art.” – Ozzie Newsome “He left a huge imprint on […]

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