Now in the midst of September, the faith beckons again, a hope extinguished too many other times to count, now rekindled.
Oh, cut with the poetry already. Go Tribe!
Yes it seems like my favorite baseball team, situated on the shores of Lake Erie, is winding its way toward the American League Central title. To quote Borat, that’s nice.
Yet as the magic number dwindles down and the inevitable showdowns with AL heavyweights from Beantown, the Bronx and the O.C. looms, a large and deep sense of gloom sets in.
Cleveland fans have seen this movie before, and I don’t mean the ones involving Wild Thing and Willie Mays Hayes...

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Right now in Iowa, many questions are on the mind of citizens. How will the crops look? Do the Hawkeyes have a chance in the Big Ten? Do we have to see all those presidential candidates 2,458 more times before the caucuses?
What is certain, though, is that come wintertime, thousands of the faithful will pack into high school gymnasiums – some opulent, others more like sardine cans – and root and scream for their favorites on the mat as they tumble, twist, curl and pin their way to glory.
Just as football is seared into every child in Texas, just as basketball is indoctrinated into any kid in Indiana, so it is with Iowa and wrestling. This state and this sport join hands here in a way like nowhere else...

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As soon as the New England Patriots were done manhandling the Mangini-led New York Jets in the 2007 season opener, the accolades started raining down again.
Bill Belichick is a genius. Tom Brady is a god. Randy Moss is unstoppable. The Patriots are too good, too smart, too loaded to do anything other than land in the Arizona desert on the first weekend of February and reclaim Vince Lombardi’s silver reward.
Only one problem – someone caught a Patriots employee videotaping the Jets’ defensive coaches, trying to pick up their signals and relaying them down to the field.
Suddenly, everything New England has done in the last six years, dating back to their unlikely win as a double-digit underdog to the St...

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So the star attraction pulled out before he even played nine holes on Thursday. Attendance was spotty. Local businesses did well, but did not boom. Fans paid more attention to the SU football upset of Louisville on Saturday...

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