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  • Ask Grandpa: Browns vs. Lions Used To Mean Somethin' (Browns) on Nov 21, 2009

    It was the day after Christmas, 1954, and the two most dominant franchises in professional football were about to square off in the NFL Championship Game for a third consecutive season. There was no ESPN to hype it, no NFL Films to document it, and n...

  • Reviewing The Indians Roster Decisions (Indians) on Nov 21, 2009

    On Friday afternoon the Indians added seven players to their 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft which occurs on December 10th. There were certainly some surprise additions and non-additions as well as some non-removals from the rost...

  • Cavs Outrace Pacers (Cavs) on Nov 21, 2009

    The Cavaliers got a huge night from LeBron James and were whipped and cajoled into playing some good team defense down the stretch to outlast the Pacers in Indianapolis 105-95. The teams may have just had nothing left in the tank after the first half...

  • Preview: Ohio State at Michigan (Buckeyes) on Nov 21, 2009

    Ohio State vs. Michigan baby. Where the expected and the logical are traditionally suspended for three hours in mid-November while a bunch of kids play an intense, physical game of football, and an altogether unique chapter is written into the histo...

  • Lingering Items - 5 Years Later Edition (Browns) on Nov 21, 2009

    Will Eric Mangini return as Browns head coach next season? Will Randy Lerner leave it completely up to the new football czar? Or will he mandate to the new football czar that Mangini must stay? This is the basis of Gary's latest edition of Lingeri...

  • The Five Greatest Traditions Of Ohio State Football (Buckeyes) on Nov 20, 2009

    Ohio State football is rich in tradition, and since his hiring, Coach Tressel has made the upholding of these traditions a cornerstone of his program in Columbus.  From the Buckeye Grove, to script Ohio, to Carmen Ohio, to Michigan Week, to tailgati...

  • Preview: UFC 106 andamp; Ward/Kessler (Browns) on Nov 20, 2009

    Today is a big day for my cousin Scott and his company Pound4Pound Apparel. One of their top fighters, Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward, takes on Mikkel Kessler in the first round of the Super Six Super Middleweight boxing tournament. Kessler is 42...