Month: September 2005 (Page 25 of 26)

My new sports home

September 5, 2005 /

So what’s next after you get a law degree, stop practicing law because you can’t stand it, work on political campaigns for a living, work abroad for years and years, and give it all up to start your own blog? I guess you become a sports blogger!

Welcome to ClevelandScores.com, my next gig. Cleveland sports writers, look out. Ever read the PD sports columnists and wonder WTF? Me too. Fellas, you’re on notice.

And talk radio, too. I last listened to sports talk about 20 years ago, when some moron suggested to Pete Franklin, “Pete! Got a trade for ya! Mack & Byner for a first round pick!” after the season in which they both rushed for 1,000 yards. I called Pete and told him the guy was a moron. Stopped listening to sports talk radio. Now, it’s in the job description. Trivissonno almost made me vomit the other day. He’s gonna get his, don’t worry.

We’re gonna cover the Browns, Cavs, Indians, and OSU. We’ll talk some golf, as it’s the only sport I am physically capable of playing anymore. I’d also love to cover the folks at Cleveland Plays, where I left my QB dreams on a field in Brookside Park last summer along with the rest of my right knee. So Cleveland Plays people (you know who you are) let me know what the scoop is. Leave comments. (still time to register for fall sports!)

This should be fun. Anyone who sits through my cigar smoke (man, that blogger’s got a nice ash!) and sports rants at the Fulton on a Sunday night knows that my blood has run brown and orange through Red Right 88, the double overtime win against the Jets, the Fumble, the Drive, the Browns leaving town, coming back, stinking, and rebuilding. It ran red, white and blue through watching Albert Belle hit a grand slam in empty Cleveland Stadium, to Mesa’s Game 7 blown save, to this year’s playoff drive. It ran wine & gold through World B. Free & Ben Poquette to Price & Daugherty to the incredible gift from God that is Lebron James. Scarlet and gray from Chris Carter to Jim Jackson to Maurice Clarett to this week’s epic battle with Texas.

Let’s get it started.

Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Chatter, Cleveland Indians, LeBron James, OSU Basketball, OSU Football

Pressure getting to the Tribe?

September 5, 2005 /

The last two losses to Minnesota got me thinking….maybe the pressure of the playoff chase is getting to the Indians. Losing two games in a row on a series of errors, in the heat of a playoff chase, has the potential to spiral out of control.

[UPDATE – Tribe beat Detroit 2-0 while I was typing this. Perhaps this will steady the ship. It’d be a shame if this great August run sputtered out.]

Cleveland Indians

Livingston bloviates on OSU v. Texas

September 5, 2005 /

The PD loves to have Bill Livingston write about whatever the “big” event is, but his current column, a sort of briefing on the two schools’ traditions, is a joke. Aside from being practically unreadable, like almost everything Livingston writes, he states…

Ohio State is to Michigan as Texas A&M is to Texas.

Umm…not quite. I’ve gotten my props on this topic (OSU & Texas football) from (a) being an Ohioan, and (b) hanging out with this crowd of Texas alums for almost a year. And let me tell you…it would be news to them to hear that their biggest football rival is anyone other than Oklahoma. The Oklahoma game has national championship implications for Texas almost every year. The A&M game never does.

OSU Football

Zwick should start vs. Texas

September 4, 2005 /

Bud Shaw writes today….

The angel on Tressel’s shoulder is screaming Zwick’s name while the voice in his other ear, perhaps 104,000 strong, says Smith’s arm and mobility is necessary to keep title hopes alive past the second weekend of the season. So who will start at quarterback?

QB Justin Zwick did more than enough on the field against Miami (Ohio) yesterday to justify his starting against Texas. But the bigger reason to start him next week is that this Texas game is probably the most important game since the Fiesta Bowl national championship game. Too important to make it Troy Smith’s first start of the season. The Buckeyes established a rhythm on offense, Zwick was sharp. Don’t screw it up.

OSU Football

Bucks look ready for Texas

September 3, 2005 /

They kinda let up in garbage time in their 34-14 defeat of Miami (Ohio), but the Buckeyes looked solid. Oklahoma losing today might help in a cosmic, karmic, zen sorta way against Texas, if only for the fact that Texas obsesses over every single thing Oklahoma football does.

OSU Football

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