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Browns Owner Randy Lerner Leaves Cleveland Fans Scratching Their Heads
Posted: 6th November 2009 by Tom Delamater in NFL
Randy Lerner finally revealed his true colors. áThe Browns owner and credit card tycoon, worth a reported $1.5 billion, apparently operates by a rogue business philosophy: The customer is never right. áHow else can you explain what he said this week?áLerner provided us with perhaps the best glimpse ever of his ivory-tower view of the world in a bizarre give-and-takeùI hesitate to use the word interviewùpublished in Thursday's Cleveland Plain ...
For Shaquille O’Neal and the Cleveland Cavaliers, It’s Shut Up and Put Up Time
Posted: 3rd November 2009 by Tom Delamater in NBA
ItÆs a clever thing to say. At first glance, it even seems plausible. But itÆs not.
The one thing the Cleveland Cavaliers donÆt need on their way to an NBA title is unfounded hype. ItÆs called hyperbole. And it will get them nowhere.
Shaquille OÆNeal has kept a relatively low profile since arriving in Cleveland. ItÆs a smart move. He said from the moment he stood before the media as a Cavalier ...
Reports out of Cleveland on Monday night say George Kokinis has been fired as general manager of the Browns.
Kokinis was reportedly escorted out of the team's practice facility in Berea, Ohio, by security personnel. He was hired in January at the urging of head coach Eric Mangini, but had kept mostly a low profile in his 10 months with the team.
Kokinis' departure comes on the heels of owner Randy Lerner's ...
For The Cleveland Browns, a Lost Generation of Fans
Posted: 29th October 2009 by Tom Delamater in NFL
Akron Beacon Journal columnist Patrick McManamon, in describing how a reader questioned whether Browns owner Randy Lerner realized the damage that has been done to the fan support for his team, wrote: "Imagine this...11 years of losing...three years with no football...the Belichick years...ThatÆs an entire generation of football kids, lost."
Truer words were never spoken.
I was born in Cleveland, and grew up 60 miles south, in Canton. For most of my ...