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Here Are Cavs Fans Who Didn't Burn Or Throw Away Their LeBron Jerseys
Contrary to popular belief, not every Cavs fan burned their LeBron jersey when he left for Miami in 2010....
Cleveland Zoo Owl Betrays Her City, Predicts LeBron Will Stay In Miami
Tawny just did you dirty, Cleveland. You provide a home for her in the Cleveland Zoo, and this is how she repays you....
Don't Do This To Yourself, Cleveland
No. Don't do this. You're going to jinx it....
Cleveland Politician Proposes Tying Stadium Money To Wins
Last year, voters in Cuyahoga County approved a 20-year extension of a sin tax to pay for upkeep on Cleveland's three pro sports stadiums. Today, one elected official presented a proposal to tie part of that payout to the teams' performance. He calls it, a little obviously, a "win tax."...
Cartoon Foresaw Asshole Redface Guy A Decade Ago
As if that dumbass-Indians-fan ordeal couldn't get any more surreal, it turns out one cartoonist depicted almost the exact situation in 2002....
Indians Fan On His Redface: "It's Cleveland Pride"
Remember all that "IIIIIIIIIIII'm probably fucking up here" supposing we did yesterday? Yeah, about that: our redface dude had no problems with his behavior and was actually in the process of setting this Native American straight about his belief that Chief Wahoo is an offensive and racist caricatur...
Cleveland Indians Fan In Redface Meets A Native American
For all the shit we give wrong idiot Dan Snyder, there's really no question that Cleveland's Chief Wahoo is clearly and by far the most ridiculous mascot in sports. A bunch of fans have been "de-chiefing" their gear for a few years now. This guy went the other way. ...
Texas Rangers Reliever Attacked And “Sucker-Punched” In Cleveland
Rangers relief pitcher Tanner Scheppers was attacked Thursday night while getting food on a street in Cleveland....
Cleveland Meteorologist Delivers Entire Forecast Without Word "Heat"
No, Clevelanders aren't bitter at all about LeBron James claiming his second straight NBA title. We're sure WEWS chief meteorologist Mark Johnson excised the word "heat" from last night's postgame late local news forecast for reasons entirely unrelated to basketball....
Map: Which Parts Of The Country Were Calling Ray Lewis A Murderer During The Super Bowl?
The map above shows the concentration of geolocated tweets sent during the Super Bowl that contained both the words "Lewis" and "murder." We were looking for references to Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, who in 2000 was charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of two men after an Atlanta Su...
New Browns Head Coach Rob Chudzinski May Have The Clevelandest Surname In The NFL
As strange as it was to see the Browns fire Pat Shurmur after a 5-11 season—after all, isn't that merely upholding The Browns Way?—it seemed even more peculiar for them to hire in his place a 44-year-old without a lick of NFL head-coaching experience....
It Sucks To Be Brandon Weeden, Vol. 5: The Browns Are Already Publicly Wondering Whether Brandon Weeden Is Any Good
First, he was trapped under a flag before ever playing a down in the NFL. Then, he was listed as 129 years of age on the Browns game program, which only served to draw attention to how old Brandon Weeden really is—29, way old for a rookie. Then, Rivals.com couldn't compile his high school stats beca...
Birth Of A Rumor: How The "LeBron James's Love Child" Story Went Viral
It's official: the annual damaging and unfounded rumor about LeBron James's personal life has become an offseason tradition. Two years ago, it was Cleveland teammate Delonte West having sex with LeBron's mother Gloria. Last year, it was Rashard Lewis having sex with LeBron's girlfriend, Savannah Bri...
Chris Perez Can't Stop Saying True Things About Cleveland Fans
Didn't we do this, like, a month ago? "Guys don't want to come over here and people wonder why," and "Nobody wants to play in front of 5,000 fans," and so forth. The Indians closer actually got a standing O the next time he entered the game, and Cleveland is just a measly half-game out of first, so ...
Dear Abby: Cleveland Sports Have Created An 8-Year-Old Psychopath
Yesterday's "Dear Abby" column featured "Good dad in Cleveland," who's seeking advice on what to do with his eight-year-old son, understandably driven to animal abuse by the frustrations of being a Cleveland sports fan. Little Junior loves sports, you see, but "he has trouble accepting a loss. He'll...
Not One, But Two Cleveland Outlets Speak To Former Steakhouse Waitress Who Allegedly Served LeBron
Writers for Cleveland Frowns and Cleveland Scene got together at a bar for some super-secret Cleveland business, and met a waitress who says she used to serve LeBron James at the XO steakhouse. I think she might be the primary source for most of Woj's scoops, too. [Cleveland Frowns, Cleveland Scene]...
Stories Like This Confirm That Cleveland Needs Carl Monday Now More Than Ever
"A Cuyahoga County sheriff's deputy was charged today with menacing and public indecency stemming from two summer incidents in the Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Reservation. Paul Lawrence, 32, is accused of masturbating in his car on June 12 and following two women on Aug. 29, a day he had call...
Why Yes, One Cleveland Writer Did Make Osama Bin Laden's Death About LeBron James
And it wasn't Scott Raab (yet)....
Scott Raab Shaved "QUITNESS" Into His Head For LeBron's Return
Esquire's Scott Raab, whose LeBron Watch here chronicled Cleveland's inevitable doom last summer, still is not quite cool with LeBron James, the Whore of Akron....