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No Tricks Here: Delonte West’s Return the Ultimate Treat for Cavaliers
Posted: 2nd November 2009 by Dan Delagrange in NBA
After four regular season games, the jury is still out on the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Following the team's much-anticipated home opener that resulted in a disappointing loss to the Boston Celtics, the squad traveled north of the border for what many thought would be a great opportunity to even the slate and work out any bugs left from the offseason.
The result was an even more disheartening effort as the Cavs were dismantled ...
Sorry, Mark Sanchez: Braylon Edwards Brings Plenty of Drama, Drops to Jets
Posted: 7th October 2009 by Dan Delagrange in NFL
After becoming an increasingly pestering headache for the better part of his young NFL career, Braylon Edwards has been dropped by Cleveland and sent to the New York Jets.
The Browns finally returned the favor.
Edwards, who led the league in dropped passes last season (16), is a textbook example of a talented professional athlete with too little sense and too much arrogance.
Included on Edwards' sterling off the field rÚsumÚ are a ...
Wedge’s Firing Ends Disappointing Campaign in Cleveland
Posted: 30th September 2009 by Dan Delagrange in MLB
After a season of massive underachieving and general hopelessness, the Cleveland Indians have fired manager Eric Wedge.
Wedge, who came to helm of the Tribe in 2003, led the team to within one win of a World Series appearance in 2007.
That year's squad held a three games to one lead over the eventual world champion Boston Red Sox before collapsing and losing three in a row (a meltdown that, to this ...
Are Indians’ and Browns’ Ineptitude Putting More Pressure on Cavs?
Posted: 26th September 2009 by Dan Delagrange in NBA
Fall is slowly creeping into northeast Ohio.
The signs are everywhere: the cooling temperatures, the changing leaves, the college football season hitting its stride, the Indians limping to finish their season while flirting with a franchise record 12-game losing streak, the Browns once again trying to figure out that whole "football" thing (while the Browns' weekly embarrassments surprise me about as much as the sun setting, I still don't get how ...