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Ok, this is Cleveland but in San Diego you have a team (NFL) that goes 14-2. They end up losing a tough playoff game to New England by three and you figure Marty Schottenhiemer should get a contract extension.

Well, in this family, the GM and the Coach are not on speaking terms. Marty says a few weeks before the ax swung that he would finish out his current contract. Ok, but the Chargers lost coaches on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball and you could just see the start BUT...

When you have a GM and Coach not on speaking terms, one must go. The coach goes 14-2 and has the support of the players. The GM is afraid to speak to the coach. What is wrong with this picture?

You let the GM go and not the 14-2 coach. San Diego, what a choke. The one that should have been terminated was that of the GM. The president of the team in the short term may have made the wrong decision but in the longer term, we just do not know.

Marty will be back coaching again. I am not saying he'll land here but anything is possible with the shakiness of Romeo Crennel and also the added pressure of a website to hire Bill Cowher.

Anything can happen at any given time. This just seems to be a raw deal. NO job is ever safe.

Until next time./gb

With back to back victories over the Heat and the Lakers the Cavs hopefully, we have gotten over a small bump in the road and start playing like a team that should contend and play like the team that was one game away from the Eastern Conference Finals.

I am not saying they have at this time. We do have a need that might help this team. Acquiring a point guard could be the piece in the puzzle that help LeBron James play his game. James is depended on for numerous things but we need to spread the wealth like today's game against the Lakers.

Having James score only 10-20 points with everyone else pitching in is better than he become hercules and score 45-50 and involve no others on the team. We are sometimes a jekyll and hide adventure where drama is the understatement.

I just want to cheer on for a Cleveland winner. It doesn't matter who but one of major sports teams need to play with a mission and let no one be in their way. I have highs and mighty lows with all of them.

Close but yet so far can only be said so many times. It is our turn.

Until next time./gb

Ok, relax NBA. you have nothing to get overblown over.

So you have had a player who finally declared himself a homosexual. In this day and age, it is a personal and private decision of this individual to make a heart wrenching choice. This should be that person and the media also needs to cool its heels on this matter and cover sports with the game and personalities that contribute to the game with make this issue sensational.

Until next time./gb

Why frown about this artic express of freezing cold air when just about two months ago we were riding bikes and golf in DECEMBER? Amazing, how this climate can change, espically in Cleveland and the North Coast.

Why try to get angry about this? I have lived through this and even the winter of 77-78 when it just would never stop. That snow and cold had my windows of the house vibrating and the barometer that was in my kitchen recorded the lowest, ever.

I just hope that Clevelanders like myself are bundled up and keeping warm. Some may like this weather and might be taking to the slopes. Again, imagine, two months ago, the slopes were mud puddles.

Mr. Goddard and the weather team at Fox 8: Just do the best job that you can. Keep us informed and tell us what is going on about actual air and windchill temps.

Until next time/gb

I am still giddy with excitement because an injustice was turned around.

Gene Hickerson was a newly elected memeber of the Hall of Fame. I know that I am being redundant, but I just can't let go of this.

This story takes my mind off the cold, artic air that has encompasses the city of Cleveland.

I just wondering, to Mr. Dick Goddard, what are you memories of Gene and that offensive line of the 60's? I know you were and still are the stat man for home games so the feelings for this have to be above the ceiling.

That drive, I know I am saying this again will be one that he'll never forget. Avon to Canton is not very far.

The countdown has started. August 4th will be a fine Brown and Orange day as the army of long time fans will make Fawcett Stadium their own paradise.

Until next time./gb

HOF:GREAT JOB!!!!!!

This is and has been overdue for #66 (I am sorry in advance if that is the wrong Jersey).

I remember, bits and pieces when he played but our first color TV by Sears had him blocking for Leroy Kelley that day.

This is finally the news that Jim Brown has wanted to hear for years.

Browns fans, Canton here we come!,in force when we have to!!!!!!!

HOF: ALSO ABOUT TIME. That clock was ticking and this was his last chance to enter.

That drive from Avon for him will now have special meaning everytime he takes his children and granchildren down to that special place off I-77. Until next time/gb

The huge truck with equipment is heading for spring training in Winterhaven leaves this afternoon. HOORAY!

This can take my mind off about how much artic cold we will encounter this weekend.

I am just simply going to stay at home in my house and put covers on me when availble.

Have a great weekend. Super Bowl XLI is Sunday. Enjoy this on TV unless you want to remain and are in an igloo. Until next time/gb

Personally, I am getting frustrated and tired of retreaded excuses by LeBron James on why the Cavs are not winning and I am starting to hear whining.

We need leaders and pretenders on this team and they need to finish games. It is a learning process. Time is not a word Clevelanders can accept for an extended period of time.

Look at the Browns. They have been a major mess since 1999. As for 2002, that was a taste of what playoffs are.

Look at the Tribe, Great '05. In '06, just another Larry and the Wedge disaster as all great plans imploded. Letting go of Kevin Millwood was a major mistake as we gave him a second chance when no else would. It was over how long his contract would be.

I am personally losing my mind when it comes to the Cleveland professional teams. We need to stand up and fly straight instead of being big DUHS!.

Until nex time/gb