Fresh off their first win of the NFL season, the Cleveland Browns head west on Sunday to take on the Indianapolis Colts.
Can the Browns win consecutive games for the first time since beating the Colts and Dolphins in Week 2 and Week 3 last season? Can they win their first road game in 10 tries? Can they give owner Jimmy Haslam his first win as an NFL owner?
Let’s see if we can find out at The Cleveland Fan.
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The Jimmy Haslam era as Cleveland Browns owner officially began this week with a unanimous vote by the rest of the NFL owners to approve Haslam’s purchase of the team from Randy Lerner.
Haslam has already won over the hearts and minds of Cleveland’s long-suffering fans. He’s also in good (so far) with the Cleveland media because he can fill their notebooks for them.
His fellow owners are even happy, realizing that if Haslam and his team can turn the Browns back into a viable NFL franchise, it will be good for everyone’s wallets.
“It’s going to be a great situation for Cleveland, their fans, players, coaches and the National Football League,”Atlanta Falcons owners Arthur Blank said. “Cleveland does have a storied history. It’s important to (return back to that). It’s a great franchise, it’s been a great franchise.”
But how long will the honeymoon last with fans and the media? Can the Browns become successful enough that the other NFL owners will regret letting Haslam into their club?
For the first time in almost a year, Cleveland work up Monday morning to a victory by the Cleveland Browns.
Like most things in life, there was good and bad on display Sunday at Cleveland Browns Stadium, but for one day, at least, the Browns were able to overcome the bad and walk out with a win. In beating the Cincinnati Bengals, the Browns snapped franchise-record-tying 11-game losing streak, as well as a 12-game losing streak in the AFC North, and gaves Brown coach Pat Shurmur his first division win.
The Cleveland Browns gave outgoing owner Randy Lerner the perfect parting gift on Sunday, beating the Cincinnati Bengals for Cleveland’s first win of the season.
The victory also snaps a franchise-record-tying 11 game losing streak, as well as a 12-game losing streak in the AFC North, and gives Browns coach Pat Shurmur his first division win.
“I’ve seen this team improve,” Shurmur said. “We all know this is a winning business so now we can quantify how this improvement points to winning.”
Much as the Buffalo and New York games were team losses, this was a team win.
Head over to The Cleveland Fan for all the details.
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The Cleveland Browns return home to take on the Cincinnati Bengals in the final game under the ownership of Randy Lerner.
The Browns are facing the prospect of not only losing their 13th consecutive game in the AFC North Division, but their 12th consecutive game overall – which would be a franchise record.
Much has been made of the Browns losing 11 games in a row, primarily because that is really bad, but because they have come consecutively, it feels even worse.
“Our focus is to win the next game,” Browns coach Pat Shurmur said. “(The losing streak), it’s not a motivator. What’s a motivator is going out and winning a division game at home.”
Having proper motivation is a good start, but is that enough?
Find out at The Cleveland Fan.
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Liverpool striker Fabio Borini is going to be out of action for an undetermined amount of time after fracturing the scaphoid bone in his right foot.
Borini, who the club signed for £10million from AS Roma in July, either broke his foot during training with Italy’s Under-21 team or suffered the injury a few weeks ago and only discovered it on Thursday.
The Cleveland Indians made it official on Monday, naming Terry Francona as the 42nd manager in team history, which raises two questions.
First, if you could manage any team in Major League Baseball, why would you choose the Indians?
Second, does this really change anything for the Indians?
The Indians say they trust Francona is the right man for the job. Francona says he trusts that the front office has his back. The team is asking its fans to trust that it knows what it is doing.
But in a sports town like Cleveland, where fans have been living on hopes and dreams since 1964, is that too much of an ask?
After their loss on Sunday, the Cleveland Browns are now 0-5 on the season, losers of a franchise-record 11 consecutive games.
The Browns are also the only team left in the National Football League that does not have a win this season. They have also lost 22 of their last 26 games dating back to the end of the 2010 season and 37 of their last 51 since the start of the 2009 season.
When will it all end? What are the Browns doing about the stink of defeat that envelopes the team?
Find out at The Cleveland Fan.
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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers came to the defense of striker Luis Suárez on Monday, saying that Suárez is receiving a raw deal from the officials.
“I find it incredible that in nearly all the coverage about Luis Suárez this weekend, very little focus has been placed on the fact that he was the victim of a stamping incident within the first five minutes of the game,” Rodgers told The Daily Mail. “There seems to be one set of rules for Luis and another set for everyone else. No one should be distracted from the real issue here, both at Anfield and at another game played on Sunday, when Luis and another player were hurt in off-the-ball incidents that went unpunished but were caught on TV cameras.
The Cleveland Browns fell to 0-5 on the season on Sunday, as the New York Giants ran through them and over them in a 41-27 defeat that really wasn’t that close.
The 0-5 start is the first time the Browns have pulled that off since the expansion team in 1999 and they have now lost 11 games in a row, tying a franchise record.
It was like a Bruce Springsteen lyric come to life:
The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody’s out on the run tonight but there’s no place left to hide
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