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08 Jan 2014

Browns, Cavs having a productive start to the new year

It is only the first full week of 2014 and already both the Cleveland Browns and the Cleveland Cavaliers have had one heck of a time.

The best news of the year came earlier today when New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels said he was not interested in the Browns head coaching job, a position he interviewed for over the weekend but was never officially offered.

McDaniels had been the presumed favorite to replace fired coach Rob Chudzinski, primarily because he works for New England and when it comes to the Patriots and their assistant coaches, current Browns general manager Mike Lombardi simply can’t see that the emperor has no clothes.

McDaniels carries a career winning percentage of .393 (in line with former New England assistants and Browns coaches Romeo Crennel and Eric Mangini), actually made the St. Louis offense worse the one year he was offensive coordinator and, like every other coach who has worked for Bill Belichick, has never succeeded unless he is standing next to Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady.

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24 Dec 2013

From the editor’s notebook …

With one game remaining in the regular season for the Cleveland Browns – and in Pittsburgh, no less. Happy Holidays! – there isn’t very much left to say about another dismal NFL campaign.

A six-game losing streak; five consecutive losses on the road; an offense that leads the NFL in pass attempts despite having Jason Campbell, Brandon Weeden and Brian Hoyer on the roster; a defense that has gotten worse as the season went along; we’ve seen it all before but somehow it seems worse this time around.

Coach Rob Chudzinski once again talked about the team’s resiliency in his Tuesday press conference, but with the team repeatedly coming up short his words are starting to sound a little hollow.

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22 Nov 2013

Is Browns vs. Steelers still a rivalry?

The Cleveland Browns take on the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, meaning that it is “rivalry week” along the North Coast.

As Browns fans, we have been taught from a very early age to dislike the Steelers, not only as a division rival but as “the rival” for the Browns.

But is the series between the Browns and the Steelers really a rivalry? We started to think about that after reading Craig Lyndall’s piece earlier today at Waiting For Next Year, where Craig asks the question, Can the Browns rivalry with the Steelers ever return?

That made us wonder if the rivalry ever really existed in the first place.

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14 Nov 2013

From the editor’s notebook …

Just what the heck is going on with the Cleveland Cavaliers?

A 3-6 record … losers of six in a row on the road … owners of the second-worst point differential in the NBA … 27th in points per game … a starting back court of Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters that is shooting a combined 39 percent from the field … a No. 1 overall pick in Anthony Bennett who has made four field goals total in eight games … it all makes our head hurt.

So, is it time to start worrying?

We will go with … sort of.

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31 Oct 2013

What does the NBA season have in store for the Cavs?

The Cleveland Cavaliers opened the 2013-14 NBA season with a home court victory over the Brooklyn Nets.

Will the win be the first of many, propelling the Cavs back into the playoff picture in the Eastern Conference?

Or was it just a rare win that will give false hope to a season that is destined to see the team battle for the No. 1 overall draft pick once again?

We join some of the best at brightest at The Cleveland Fan to try and figure out what the upcoming season has in store for the Wine and Gold.

(Photo courtesy of The Plain Dealer)

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11 Aug 2013

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From the editor’s notebook …

A look at a few items that warrant attention but not necessarily a full post …

Are the Indians done for the year?

Is it OK to call the season over for the Cleveland Indians? Is Sunday’s comeback win the start of another streak? Or was the win just a reprieve until until the inevitable becomes reality?

We need answers after the Tribe rallied from five runs down on Sunday to beat the Los Angeles Angels and salvage one win on the seven-game homestand.

The Indians opened the week just three games out of first place in the A.L. Central and holding the second Wild Card spot. After being swept by the Tigers in the biggest series since 2007, and losing two-of-three to the Angels, the Indians head off to Minnesota seven games behind Detroit and four games back in the Wild Card.

11 Jul 2013

Cavs willing to take a chance on Andrew Bynum

The Cleveland Cavaliers took the bait on Wednesday, agreeing to a two-year contract with free agent center Andrew Bynum.

So what are the Cavs receiving from an oft-injured player who missed all of the 2012-13 season and brings career averages of 11.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game?

For starters, Bynum is probably a better player than his career stats would indicate. He has trended upward since his rookie year, when he averaged just 1.6 points and 1.7 rebounds a game, culminating in 2011-12, when he had career highs with 18.7 points and 11.8 rebounds per game. Bynum put up those numbers under coach Mike Brown, who was with the Los Angeles Lakers that season and is now back in Cleveland as Cavs coach.

So, statistically at least, Bynum’s career is trending in a good direction.

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09 Jul 2013

Is Andrew Bynum really the answer for the Cavs?

If the Cleveland Cavaliers believe that Andrew Bynum is the answer, then it may be time for them to start rethinking the question.

The Cavs hosted the free agent center on Monday and reportedly offered Bynum a two-year, $24-million contract with the team holding an option on the second year.

During his career Bynum has played in just 61 percent of his team’s games, hasn’t played a full season since 2006-07 and didn’t play at all last year due to a lingering knee injury.

The Cavs pursuit of Bynum has been labeled as a “low risk, high reward” signing.

But that still leaves one question needs to be answered:

Is the reward really worth the risk?

We try to figure it out at The Cleveland Fan.

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07 Jul 2013

From the editor’s notebook …

A look at a few items that warrant attention but not necessarily a full post …

The Indians still have some fight in them

They made it a lot harder than it had to be, but the Cleveland Indians finally hit back against Detroit on Sunday.

After losing the opening two games of the series in rather unpleasant fashion, the Tribe bounced back on Sunday to beat the Tigers, 9-6, thanks to Michael Brantley’s two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning. Brantley had two home runs and five RBI on the day, the fifth anniversary of the C.C. Sabathia trade that brought Brantley to Cleveland.

The win was just the Tribe’s sixth against Detroit in their last 20 games dating back to last season and it was made harder by the Tribe’s increasingly ineffective bullpen.

28 Jun 2013

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Once again, Chris Grant kept everyone guessing

Every time the experts think they have the answers, Cleveland Cavaliers general manager Chris Grant changes the questions.

Grant did it again Thursday night, selecting UNLV forward Anthony Bennett with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft. Grant followed up the Bennett pick by selecting forward Sergey Karagev out of Russia with the No. 19 pick in the first round.

“With our scouting department, our evaluators during the season, the first time we saw Anthony, I think all of us walked out of the gym just amazed with his ability and talent,” Grant said on Friday during a press conference. “And the more we got to know him and learn what kind of person he was and that he was an incredibly hard worker and he was going to do whatever it takes to be the best he could be, it became a very easy decision for us.”

Almost as surprising as the Bennett pick is the reaction from the national media, which, for a change, has been positive about what is taking place in Cleveland.

Posted in Cleveland Cavaliers and tagged Anthony Bennett, Cleveland Cavaliers, Sergey Karagev

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