A Ring for The King: The Kid from Akron is a World Champ and Indisputably the Best Basketball Player on the Planet

June 22, 2012

“Michael got better after his first championship, and so I think the same thing happens for LeBron. … It’s going to be LeBron-mania like we’ve never seen before.” — Magic Johnson ————— The kid from Akron, Ohio is a world champion, the NBA regular season and Finals MVP, and indisputably the best basketball player on […]

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To the Third World and Beyond with the #OKCLE Movement (NBA Finals Preview)

June 12, 2012

When an NGO packs up the “World Champs” t-shirts that were printed for the losing side in a major sporting event like the NBA Finals and ships them off to Sierra Leone or wherever, that’s one thing. But what happens when someone prints up gear to capitalize on the insanely regressive feelings of entitlement and […]

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Cleveland Scene: The Curse of Chief Wahoo

April 26, 2012

Hot off the press at your local newsstand, so make sure to pick up a copy, or read it on the web, or both. You’ll see that @OKPants hit a home run with the cover art, and there’s a lot of background that didn’t make it into the final cut thanks to word limits, etc., […]

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Flask of Choice: Tim Couch Commemorative Maker’s Mark Bottle

March 22, 2012

Browns receiver tackled on a three-yard out on 3rd-and-5 … DRINK! Mike Holmgren talking retirement plans on Seattle radio again … DRINK! Randy Lerner’s plane touches down in Hamptons airport … DRINK! Pat Shurmur post-game presser … GLUG, GLUG, GLUG, GLUG, GLUG. BATTLED. And in how much more style than with this beauty? A limited […]

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Browns give Tony Pashos the Ron Paul treatment

March 13, 2012

The Browns recently informed outspoken libertarian and Ron Paul supporter Tony Pashos that he’ll be released by the team, and Pashos is “really upset” about it. According to Pashos’s agent Rick Smith, the former Browns right tackle played all of last season with a ruptured tendon in his left foot that required surgery that will […]

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What does Biggie’s Food Mart on East 55th and Cedar have against Cuyahoga County Prosecutor candidate Tim McGinty?

March 2, 2012

If you’re like a lot of Clevelanders, you drive through America’s second-most dangerous (hip, trendy, walkable) neighborhood all the time. And then right past Biggie’s Food Mart and gas station at the corner of East 55th and Cedar, where, for most of the last month or so, an electronic sign has been flashing a message […]

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A Reminder about Al Lerner, the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Ravens

December 6, 2011

Not to suggest that enough could ever be said about the singularly and unimaginably cruel plight of the Cleveland sports fan, but in the wake of one of the more depressing beatdowns in the thoroughly depressing history of the Browns/Ravens series, and with another such beatdown so close on the horizon, it’s an especially good […]

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Book Review: “The Whore of Akron,” Scott Raab’s “Search for the Soul of LeBron James”

November 15, 2011

About halfway through The Whore of Akron, Scott Raab’s 300-page “search for the soul of LeBron James” (Harper Collins), Raab refers to the NBA superstar’s infamous televised “Decision” to leave his (and Raab’s) hometown Cleveland Cavaliers to play for the Miami Heat as “nothing but fodder produced by and for benighted fools capable of grasping […]

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Cleveland: The Most Resilient Impervious Irrepressible Place There Is

June 30, 2011

There’s hardly anything more fun than when people rank things, and the latest rankings couldn’t come at a better time, with the Cleveland MLB team having just wrapped up a three game series against the Diamondbacks during which everybody was talking about how many Cleveland fans were in the stands in Arizona. @PaulieB621 got right to […]

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In Praise of the Dolans’ “every four or five years” Pledge

June 15, 2011

Even in the midst of a precipitous decline that’s all but erased the euphoria of their record-setting start, the Indians’ proximity to first place in the American League’s Central Division is still more than a nice surprise. After what happened between the Cavaliers and the kid from Akron, and with the Browns having rebooted the […]

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