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The Browns stink, the Cavs stink, and the Indians stink. Cleveland stinks!!!

Cliff Lee won his 11th straight decision and moved a remarkable 20 games over .500 with his 22nd win, leading the Cleveland Indians past the Kansas City Royals 12-5 on Friday night. Unbeaten in 12 starts since July 11, Lee (22-2) allowed four earned runs in 8 1-3 innings to win his eighth straight start. He's 5-0 in five outings against Kansas City, which was also Lee's opponent for wins No. 4, 8, 18 and 21. Luckily, the Royals won't have to face the left-hander again until next season.

Lee, who was demoted to the minors last season and was left off Cleveland's 2007 postseason roster, had to win a spot as the Indians' fifth starter during spring training. He is the first pitcher to have 20 more wins than losses since Oakland's Bob Welch in 1990. Welch went 27-6 and won the AL Cy Young Award that season, and Lee, who is scheduled to make three more starts, appears to be on his way to giving Cleveland its second straight award winner following CC Sabathia.

Lee's streak is the longest by an Indians pitcher since Gaylord Perry won 15 straight decisions in 1974. He was almost machinelike in his efficiency. Lee did not go to a single three-ball count and was three outs away from his fifth complete game when the Royals, who collected 11 hits, scored three runs off him in the ninth. As consistent as he's been on the mound, Lee has been equally unshakable when talking about his magnificent season. He refuses to be impressed by his own eye-popping statistics, and insists all he's trying to do is give the Indians a chance to win. Lee barely cracked a smile when he was asked if he'd ever lose gain.

''I don't know,'' he said. ''I'm going to try not to. I'm just trying to give myself a chance every time out.''

Lee will likely make three more starts, and he's just hoping to finish a season no one saw coming.

''It's not over yet,'' said Lee, the first pitcher to reach 22 wins since Dontrelle Willis in 2005. ''So far, it's going pretty good. But I'm not going to start patting myself on the back yet.''

The Indians, now 35-21 since July 10, scored four runs in the fifth to open a 6-1 lead and Cleveland blew it open with three runs in the sixth, more than enough for Lee.

''I caught Cliff,'' Shoppach said. ''He did what he's done all year.''Notes: Lee is now one win shy of matching Vean Gregg (1911) for the most wins in a season by a Cleveland left-hander.

The New York Jets now have their most famous player since Namath, since Tampa couldn't match their offer. Green Bay will receive a fourth-round pick, that could possoibly rise to a first-rounder. The aquisition of Favre most like means that Chad Pennington's career there is over. Since the Bucs couldn't make a better offer than their fourth-round pick, which could possibly rise to a third, second, or first round pick, depending on how much playing time Favre gets and if the Jets make it to the playoffs, therefore the Packers took New York's offer. In a CNN report, Tony Romo said "I'll tell you what, that division is immense now. With Parcells in Miami, the Patriots, and now Brett in New York, the AFC East has gotten so much stronger in the last eight months.'' Favre would have preferred to go to Minnesota because his former quarterback coach in Green Bay, Darrell Bevell, was the Viking's offensive coordinator, and their offense was very similar to Green Bay's.

I think the Cavs could be a contender next year with the trade. What are your thoughts?

How can the Cleveland Browns even consider getting rid of Derek Anderson; since he is probably the person who, besides the new offensive line, is responsible for getting them where they are? Who is goig to be our quarterback? Please don't say it will be Brady Quinn. All the defenses have to do is growl at him and he panics.

The big ten has gone TOO far. I can't even get the Ohio State game on the internet, let alone the T.V.

Maybe next year.....

Lake Erie College in Painesville is having their first-ever football team this year. They could use your support!

How about our first place Cleveland Indians? We are the "City of Champions!!"

Crowds of ecstatic Iraqis wept tears of joy and fired rifles into the air on Sunday after their soccer team's victory in the Asian Cup triggered the biggest street celebrations since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Police in Baghdad and Kut reported at least seven deaths and more than 50 people wounded by stray bullets as gun-toting revelers took to the streets in a wave of euphoria unprecedented after four years of war. Unlike earlier in the week, when suicide bombers killed 50 people after the team won the semi-final on Wednesday, there were no reports of major bomb strikes targeting fans.

"The pain is broken!" Sports Minister Jassim Mohammed Jaffar told Reuters after Iraq beat heavily favored Saudi Arabia 1-0 in Jakarta.
"I swear we are heroes. This is a proud moment for all Iraqis," a fan in Baghdad's Karrada district cheered.
Authorities had imposed vehicle curfews and security forces were on alert. The team wore black arm bands in memory of those killed in Wednesday's strikes.

Spontaneous celebrations broke out in religiously mixed Baghdad as well as in Basra and the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf in the south and northern Kurdish towns like Arbil and Kirkuk.
Fans cried and danced in the streets, waving their shirts in the air and hugging.
Soldiers with their rifles slung over their shoulders danced with ordinary Iraqis in Baghdad while children, their faces painted in the Iraqi colors, held up pictures of their heroes.

While mainly comprised of Shi'ites, the team was captained by a Sunni Turkman from Kirkuk -- goal-scoring hero Younis Mahmoud -- and also contained Sunni Arab and Kurdish players in a broad representation of Iraqi society. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who watched the match in a gold-painted chair in his office, quickly issued a statement praising the team's victory. Maliki will give a reception for the players on their return to Iraq, officials said.
In Baghdad's Sadr City, a sprawling Shi'ite slum, women threw sweets to gathering fans and poured water over crowds in sweltering summer heat.

"A thousand congratulations for all Iraqis," another fan said.
Television presenters, draped in the red, white and black Iraqi flag, dissolved into tears. One Iraqiya television reporter was engulfed by a crowd in Baghdad and re-emerged on the shoulders of chanting fans.

CNN broke into normal programming to announce the win and the U.S. military congratulated the team.

Shame on you all for protesting Michael Vick playing in the NFL anymore! I am apalled! True, what he did was terrible, but others have done worse. C'mon people,... lets keep jobs and alleged crimes separate!!