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Biff Gets Dangerously Deep on the Jamison Trade
The Cavs made a trade last night, so here's our guy Biff, former dominator of the Plain Dealer message boards and editor of Cry Me a Cuyahoga River, now special to Cleveland Frowns: Roughly an hour after the Washington Post first broke the news of perhaps the most important trade in Cleveland Cavaliers history, I sat on my couch, a somewhat confused look on my face, trying to...
Discuss
P.M. Frowndup, with Go Bucks, Showtime Shawn, Chief Zee, and "Wait a minute, Darryl, I'm not going to the club with you looking like that."
February's really looking like it's going to go out like a lion. Such an eventful day today, and still so much to Frownd up. ---------- You'd do best to start at the sports book. The 12th (or 9th) ranked Buckeyes take on 4th ranked Purdue tonight, which gives you a reason to ask yourself: How often is it anymore that one has the chance to...
I Was Wrong about Antawn Jamison
It's time to admit that I was wrong when I called Antawn Jamison a "rich-man's Drew Gooden" here almost exactly one year ago. A year's time has given me a chance to look at this more closely; watch some more basketball, listen to more of what others have to say on the subject, and think some more to come to the conclusion that Jamison is actually a rich...
Cleveland, Art Modell, and the Hall of Fame: More than Just a Grudge
In the wake of NFL Hall of Fame voters' most recent passing on Art Modell's candidacy for enshrinement, a new facebook page has been dedicated to keeping Modell out of Hall, and it's already gained some 1,500 members in little over a week.I signed on myself yesterday, and in response to the suggestion here that I did so only out of 'hate' for Modell, I reconsidered...
Questions about Amare Stoudemire and the Cavs
According to Windy, "[Amare Stoudemire trade] talks have gotten so much attention in Cleveland and Phoenix that there is a belief that the Suns will make their decision on Stoudemire before their game Tuesday night in Memphis. The rumors are clearly causing distraction."Clearly. And no doubt because there's more than just the usual distraction that would come...
Biff's All-Star Break SWOT Analysis of the Cleveland Cavaliers
Our guy Biff has taken advantage of the NBA All-Star break to check the S's, W's, O's and T's on the Cleveland Cavaliers. The prognosis is historically good, so let's dive right in with the former dominator of the Plain Dealer message boards and editor of Cry Me a Cuyahoga River, now special to Cleveland Frowns: Strengths: Can play any style...
And Now for Something Completely Different: Mock NFL Draft Version
So how about the latest mock draft from ESPN's Todd McShay? Here's his top thirteen. 1.) St. Louis Rams: Gerald McCoy, DT, Oklahoma2.) Detroit Lions: Ndamukong Suh, DT, Nebraska3.) Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Jason Pierre-Paul, DE, South Florida4.) Washington Redskins: Anthony Davis, OT, Rutgers5.) Kansas City Chiefs: Russell Okung, OT, Oklahoma State6.) Seattle Seahawks...
Weekend Frowndup
It's time again . . .Yeah, buddy. (You did it again, Wes. You did it again.)The Black Super Bowl. Time again for our annual reading of the classic of American sportswriting (remember, got to get all the way through). Our annual remembrance that everybody's like Mike.Here are the odds for the Slam Dunk Contest.DeMar DeRozan +600Eric Gordon +1000Gerald Wallace...
Cavs/Magic
Cavs/Magic tonight is even more interesting than your typical conference finals rematch between two teams again at the top of the conference at mid-season.Tonight it's an incredibly hot Cleveland team on an NBA-season-long win streak and powered by a historically-friendly spot of NBA schedule-making up against the foe that landed last season's knockout punch, that happens...
Olympics: Go Back to the Future
This morning I came across this "Guide to the Sexy [Lady] Olympians of Vancouver."I don't normally link to skin posts here, but given my noted hypothesis that a return to "the naked Olympics" of Ancient Greece might be the only way to reverse civilization's decline, this post presents an obvious exception. More importantly, the Guide to the Sexy Lady Olympians...
A Thing or a Few about Number Two
I've been asked more than once whether I'd consider changing the logo of this website to something other than a representation of a frowning assemblage of human waste. A cartoon football with the same expression on the same toilet might serve just as well, folks have said; the idea being that folks who would be turned off by cartoon feces would otherwise become regular...
The Coliseum at Richfield: An Appreciation
Between the Daugherty/Nance/Price era throwbacks that the Cavs rolled out this season, my awesome new t-shirt, and that I no longer spend an hour of each workday on route 77, I've been thinking a lot about the old Richfield Coliseum. It's probably mostly the t-shirt, really, because I've never had strangers smile at me in such numbers as they do when I wear it out...
The Real Super Bowl MVP
Who else?Pete Townshend sees your five windmills and raises you thirty-thousand.No doubt Townshend wanted to send a message to the world last night, and especially to those at sports books who set the over/under on his "windmill moves" at a meager five. Halfway into the second number in The Who's four-number Super Bowl halftime set, the world had lost count of...
Bye Week Buckets: Please Don't Go Edition
After last season's desperate exercise, we're especially glad to be sad to bid farewell to Bye Week Buckets* in 2010. Since NFL conference championship weekend, we're 9-1 against the spread on NBA (8-0) and NCAA (1-1) basketball games here, to match our 9-1 record ATS in this current NFL playoff tournament. Also like with these NFL playoffs, we've gotten...
Bye Week Buckets: Prospectin'
The Cavs have owned the Lakers this season. The Magic too. Is anyone really concerned about the Celtics or Hawks? These Denver Nuggets on the other hand are really really good. With the Lakers looking to have lost a certain edge after last year's title run, these Nuggets look like the team to beat in the West. If they come in to the Q on February...
Let's Not Worry about Worldwide Wes
LeBron took a trip across state lines last weekend to promote a new sneaker, watch a good college basketball game, and cheer on his friend, presumptive number one NBA draft pick John Wall, so of course we had to hear all week about James and Wall ending up together with the New Jersey Nets in 2010. And of course we had to hear about the singularly mysterious Worldwide...
Hot Hot Cavs/Heat
Remember when folks used to say that Dwyane Wade was better than LeBron? Maybe he was once, for a time. Don't you wonder what this Miami team's record would be with LeBron playing in Wade's place? It's fair to say that LeBron doesn't play with a teammate as talented as the Heat's maturing Michael Beasley. Jermaine O'Neal, Quentin...
The Best Reason not to Worry about Ohio State's Recruiting Class
So yesterday was national signing day, the big Buckeye news was that top prospect Seantrel Henderson chose USC over Ohio State (or maybe he didn't?), and by all accounts it was a down year for the Buckeyes and a down year for the Big Ten. Alex at Eleven Warriors reminds us that this isn't the first time that Jim Tressel has pulled "a middle-of-the-pack class"...
Frownie Fotos: Cavs vs. Clippers at the Q, 1/31/10
This is Parker, a Cavs fan from Seattle who took in his first Cavs home game of the LeBron era last Sunday. It would have hard to ask for a better introduction than the one he got. And another good thing about a 46-point first quarter, is that it makes it a lot more fun to roam the concourses for some Frownie Fotos in the second quarter.We started tripping over movers...
A Propper Super Bowl
SI's Richard Deitsch says this will be the most watched Super Bowl in history, which gives the sports books extra incentive to come up with creative proposition-bets to help introduce the masses to the magic of well-considered wagering. Of course, prop plays are an essential element of Super Bowl wagering, so let's pop in at online sports betting site Bodog.com to...
Brady Quinn for Brandon Marshall?
The latest Browns-related trade rumor making its way around the web looks to be based entirely on speculation, starting with one line from the Denver Post's Mike Klis, who in a piece concluding that Marshall will not play for the Broncos in 2010, notes that:"Baltimore, Miami, Seattle, Chicago, Cleveland (how about Marshall for Brady Quinn?) and maybe the New York Jets are...
"Bye Week" Buckets
Seriously, "Bye Week." The same week the NFL takes its break is the same one where the Cleveland Cavaliers officially say "bye" to the rest of the Eastern Conference. Such symmetry. If you want an idea of how much the Cavs are running away with it, consider how boring the idea of today's Celtics/Lakers game is.Maybe it's just me, but...
Pro Bowl!
So the Pro Bowl's this Sunday, for the first time to be held before the Super Bowl; and we're hearing more than ever that the event needs to be "fixed."* I don't disagree. This piece by Greg Cote of the Miami Herald expresses a popular sentiment in its title: "Pro Bowl is an embarrassing waste of time." To fix the Pro Bowl, Cote suggests...
BREAKING: Mangini's 2009 Draft Looking a Lot Better This Morning
But this is still kind of sad.Bengals linebacker Rey Maualuga, the USC product whom the Browns were criticized by many -- including this author -- for passing on in last April's NFL draft, was arrested in early this morning for DUI. Reported circumstances surrounding the arrest indicate that additional charges might be forthcoming.(More like a SMUGshot.)From the Kentucky...
What February Looks Like
Well, the Bye Week is pretty much officially behind us now, so that's something. ("Splash the pot again and I'll break your face.")So before you go blaming us for how things went down this week, how about a look at the sports page today? The Plain Dealer's top stories this morning: LeBron fined by NBA for kicking water bottle*; State agencies...
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