AltWeeklies Wire
Mike Brown's Back in Town: A Cleveland Love Storynew

One of the more noteworthy takeaways
from last month's Cavaliers Youth Fund Golf Classic is this: Recent (and some might say garish) trends in NBA players' wardrobes haven't yet materially affected the tastes or habits of off-court personnel. The assorted Cavs' PR folks down here at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, for better or worse, look like an intergenerational tennis team...
Cleveland Scene |
Sam Allard |
10-02-2013 |
Sports
Mangini's Messnew

Sent to Save the Cleveland Browns, Eric Mangini Instead Put on a Clinic on How to Drive a Team's Morale Into the Ground.
Cleveland Scene |
Nate Jackson |
08-08-2013 |
Sports
Thrift and Thumpingnew

An afternoon with Cleveland's next best hope for a champion.
Cleveland Scene |
Vince Grzegorek |
07-12-2012 |
Sports
Tags: Stipe Miocic
Cracking the Bucknutnew

How Ohio State fans came to be so obnoxious, and who we should blame for it.
Cleveland Scene |
Kyle Swenson |
03-16-2012 |
Sports
Hard Woodnew

Chris Grant is at the helm of the Cavs' rebuilding process
Cleveland Scene |
Vince Grzegorek |
03-08-2012 |
Sports
LeBron Liked Appletinis, and Other Important LeBron Dining Newsnew

During an important business meeting with Scene contributor and blogger extraordinaire Cleveland Frowns last weekend, we happened to strike up a conversation with a former waitress at one of LeBron James' favorite stomping grounds during his time in Cleveland. She shared details about LeBron's antics, all gleefully mundane but awesome.
Cleveland Scene |
Vince Grzegorek |
02-21-2012 |
Sports
The Custodiannew

Browns owner Randy Lerner might not be the guy you thought he was.
Cleveland Scene |
Vince Grzegorek |
02-01-2012 |
Sports
Tags: Cleveland Browns, Randy Lerner
Tailgate Like a Clevelandernew

A parking lot primer for Dawg day afternoons.
Cleveland Scene |
Peter Chakerian |
09-07-2011 |
Sports
Tags: Beer, Cleveland Browns
Baseball: Where Have All the Black Guys Gone?new

Consider it fallout from the epidemic of black dads abandoning their families. Today, about 50 percent of black kids are raised in female single-parent homes, versus 16 percent of white kids. That trend wreaks unique havoc on baseball. As Indians ace C.C. Sabathia puts it: "It's a sport you play with your daddy."
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
06-13-2008 |
Sports
When it Comes to Tipping, LeBron James Goes Scrooge McDucknew
The self-proclaimed King of Ohio recently tipped $10 on an $800 bill. This is what French nobles like to call your requisite Bourgeois Bitch-Slap.
Cleveland Scene |
Staff |
05-09-2008 |
Sports
Everybody Hates Mike Brownnew
Despite the best winning percentage of any coach in Cleveland Cavaliers' history, Brown lives a life where Googling himself would unveil endless rants about how he should be fired.
Cleveland Scene |
Joe P. Tone |
02-25-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
The NFL's Forgotten Forefathersnew

Football players like Leroy Kelly are left crippled and broke -- and abandoned by their own union.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
01-18-2008 |
Sports
NFL Network & Big Ten Network Battle Big Cablenew
Problem is, no one's fighting for you in the three-way battle over televised football.
Cleveland Scene |
Pete Kotz |
11-02-2007 |
Sports
Tags: NFL, sports & fitness
Phil Steele's Office: What Football Junkies' Dreams Are Made Ofnew
His business is top-shelf pigskin intel -- and business is good. He's made his living doing something many men do anyway, at least when the wife lets them: watching Vegas-buffet heapings of football.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Nedley |
10-09-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
American Ninjanew

Coal Akida pioneered his own martial-arts style -- you're probably not man enough.
Cleveland Scene |
Jared Klaus |
05-01-2006 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness