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Take a few days off and look what happens. The University of Akron loses its Athletic Director, Shaq is back in the picture (or at least peeking in from the corners of the photo) and the Indians start playing better baseball.
Let's take them in reverse order. The Indians remain seven games below .500 and in [...]

Here's a very wry and sardonic (?) look at the Cavs season from Bob Finnan of the News-Herald. If it doesn't produce a few chuckles, you're not reading.

Sammy Sosa has retired after more or less disappearing from baseball (gee … wonder why). Now he says he will "calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?" Perhaps, but he might not have the votes. And if and when I get a vote, [...]

Indians owner Larry Dolan:
"Today is a very sad day for the Cleveland Indians organization with the loss of Dick Jacobs. Dick engineered the renaissance of Cleveland Indians baseball and achieved success at the ownership level that hadn't been experienced in Cleveland since Bill Veeck in the '40s.  I was very honored and thankful to take [...]

I confess to being a little bit all over the board regarding LeBron James' post-Game 6 snub of the Orlando Magic and the media. I have been consistent in saying James made a mistake and that he would have made himself a bigger winner by shaking hands and addressing the media. But I also thought [...]

It's my feeling that Fausto Carmona has proven to be what he is — a not-so-good starting pitcher whose ERAs have been above 5 in three of his four seasons. FanGraphs.com takes it a step further, with a pretty savage but accurate analysis of Carmona: "Carmona's collapse has been stunning, both for its suddenness and [...]

This release about LeBron James just came across the e-mail. At first reading, it's definitely a "whoa." But a quick reading about parotid tumors on the internet reveals they are not uncommon, and once removed they are harmless. The relase stresses that James is expected to make a full and complete recovery.
Here's the release from the Cavs:
"LeBron [...]

This is what happens when you make puppet commercials and don't win:

Can't count the number of folks who are ripping LeBron James for not shaking hands. It seems like almost every national media outlet is jumping on the pile.
In my opinion, he made a mistake. I wrote the past two days in the Beacon Journal that James should have set aside his anger and greeted the [...]

Been a hectic couple days with travel, etc. At the moment, I'm waiting to board a plane to Orlando for some event taking place there tonight. Cavs fans will enjoy this prediction column from Scouts Inc., via ESPN. It states: "Despite dominating much of the action and leading the series 3-2, Orlando has not been [...]

There were two reasons the Cavs beat the Magic in Game 5 Thursday night to keep their hopes of reaching the NBA Finals alive.
The first was the play of LeBron James, who was magnificent in the fourth quarter. James on his own accounted for the Cavs first 29 points of the quarter, 17 on baskets [...]

Highlights from Zydrunas Ilgauskas' interview at the Cavs practice facility on Wednesday:
On the Magic:
They're playing their best basketball of the season right now. They're playing better than they played against Phily and Boston.
Seems like every three you guys miss hurts more than when they miss:
That's what happens when you play from behind, when you try [...]