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Speed Racer

Vinny and the Hornless Rhino — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:18:00 GMT

It's a pretty cool movie. My kids, who are 8 and 5, loved it and wanted to stick around and see it again. We didn't. Here are a few of my thoughts: Christina Ricci looks great. John Goodman looks a lot like Pops. Lots of people were singing the theme song on the way out. Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer He's a demon on wheels He's a demon and he's gonna be chasing after someone He's gaining on you so you better look alive He's busy revving up the powerful Mach Five...(read more)

May 16, 2008 Show - Moohead Radio Sports Talk with Mr. Moohead

Moohead Radio - Daily Sports Talk for your Pasture-ised Listening Pleasure — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:17:55 GMT

Moohead Radio Sports Talk with Mr. Moohead Marc Steenbarger aired May 16, 2008; 1 hr...(read more)

The Barking Lot - 5/15/2008

The Barking Lot Archives — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:23:51 GMT

5/15/2008 Show The 2008 Organized Team Activities are now underway for the Cleveland Browns as the team begins preperation for what many think could be a playoff run and a deep one at that. Browns G.M. Phil Savage has not ruled out the possiblity of adding another cornerback to the teams depleted unit by either free agent acquisition or trade. He spoke of theteam having "excess" at a position Thursday for a potentail trade, but did not say what that position was. Show host Jim Giles...(read more)

May 15, 2008 Show - Moohead Radio Sports Talk with Mr. Moohead

Moohead Radio - Daily Sports Talk for your Pasture-ised Listening Pleasure — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:30:33 GMT

Moohead Radio Sports Talk with Mr. Moohead Marc Steenbarger aired May 15, 2008; 1 hr...(read more)

Hoping Lebron learned a lesson last night

MALeonard's Xanga — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:01:11 GMT

I'll begin by saying I still believe the Cavaliers will be the team to eliminate the Celtics this NBA post-season. I feel the team has what it takes and that Boston's personnel will not rise to the level of performance they have needed in order to push aside the Cleveland contingent in the last two of their three series wins. It is accepted that Cleveland allowed Game One to escape them. The Boston bench bunch stunned the Cavs in Game Two, which was a contest the visitors led healthily before...(read more)

Chew on this

Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:27:00 GMT

If DB Jereme Perry makes the team and appears in a game for the Browns this season -- and his odds are pretty decent -- he will become the first "sandwicher" of the new Browns era. I use the term to mean a player who appears in a regular season game for the Browns both before and after appearing in a regular season game for another NFL team. My tally shows that three men who played for the original Browns returned to the reborn franchise in 1999: Jerry Ball, Orlando "Zeus" Brown...(read more)

tdc video: Lost Pilot - OBR Radio 2007

nonee — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:07:50 GMT

Last September, a few days after Charlie Frye's career ended with the Browns, Barry and the guys at the OBR did a pilot for their radio show. It was a tough task to find anything positive about the thrashing from the Stillers the week before.

But, It was just three days away from the Brown's biggest blowout victory of the year.

Still good radio.

May 14, 2008 Show - Moohead Radio Sports Talk with Mr. Moohead

Moohead Radio - Daily Sports Talk for your Pasture-ised Listening Pleasure — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:12:41 GMT

Moohead Radio Sports Talk with Mr. Moohead Marc Steenbarger aired May 14, 2008; 1 hr...(read more)

Tolerate numbers? These speak for themselves

MALeonard's Xanga — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:42:47 GMT

Having tracked the batting stats being compiled by the Cleveland Indians' AAA lineup in Buffalo, it seems time to share a few. After all, what the big-league club has been doing offensively has been somewhat distressing and often the most immediate remedies are in-house at the upper levels of an organization. That being the case, below are the primary contributors representing in the American Association, those presumably most ready to provide assistance at the MLB level, should they be needed...(read more)

More Trouble for Kenny Wright (UPDATED)

barrymcbride — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:29:00 GMT

UPDATED: Browns reacting to the media? You decide. The team has dropped CB Kenny Wright.

The Browns are doing a terrific job not appearing reactive to news events.

Generally considered to recoil when off-field player troubles come to light, the team tends to wait for a long time after legal problems ensue before releasing players. Last year, there was a situation with WR Maurice Mann, this year it's journeyman cornerback / alleged dope fiend Kenny Wright.

The team's official stance is that they are waiting for the legal process to play out.

The legal process may take a little while to finish up, since it appears that Wright has had a busier off-season than expected.

Wright was arrested in April for creating a disturbance outside a police station.

Ruckus-raising has the same basic rule as real estate. The three most important things are location, location, and location. In Wright's case, he was charged with various things like evading arrest.

The prior month, it turns out, Wright was stopped for driving 51 in a 35 mph zone and police officers found a small amount of marijuana in his trunk. Busted.

At present, Wright remains on the Browns, and the NFL is looking at what sanctions might need to be placed on the defensive back. The Browns have been basically silent on the matter other than saying that they're aware and tracking it.

While fans typically expect Wright to be released in the near future, the team is dangerously thin at the cornerback position. The most likely scenario is that they acquire another veteran and release Wright sometime in July or August.

Wright is scheduled to appear for a hearing in Texas on June 27th. Props to Marla Ridenour of the Akron Beacon-Journal for getting the story.

How about that...

Vinny and the Hornless Rhino — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:25:00 GMT

I saw a little baseball history last night at the Prog last night. With runners on first and second and the Blue Jays trying a hit and run, Asdrubal Cabrera snagged a line drive, stepped on second, and then tagged a runner, who'd rounded second and had been heading to third. When the dust cleared, Dru was hanging on to the ball and the inning was over---an unassisted triple play! That was only the 14th one in the history of Major League Baseball. I was there. It was very cool. Here's a quick...(read more)

Goodell Waves away Spygate (UPDATED)

barrymcbride — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:30:57 GMT

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has talked with Belichick-irritating stool pigeon Matt Walsh, seen the tapes, and concluded that there's nothing new in the ex-Pats assistant's revelations.

Spygate grew to assimilate the Browns last week when it was revealed that Walsh taped the signals of Butch Davis and and his staff in 2001 and 2002. What the Patriots organization intended to learn from this, other than how no possible combination of signals would make Gerard Warren worthy of the #3 pick, is still uncertain.

According to Fox Sports:

"The fundamental information that Matt provided was consistent with what we disciplined the Patriots for last fall," Goodell said at a news conference. The most scandalous part of the tapes shown had nothing to do with stealing signals - it was several minutes of close-ups of San Diego Chargers cheerleaders performing during a 2002 game."

The NFL commish was left saying that there was no where else for the investigation to go beyond the punishments meted out last year.

This won't do down well with people who hate the Patriots, as can be seen from the comments on the story posted by the OBR's corporate big brother. Now that it's the off-season, I should crank out a "Construct Your Own Conspiracy Theory" section on the site. It would be sort of like "Build-a-Bear Workshop", but with more tin foil.

Put me in the camp of those demanding more information. I believe that we, as fans of NFL football, should not rest until this scandalous cheerleader videotape is made publicly available so we can judge for ourselves. Preferably on Youtube, in high-def.

It's up to us to keep the sport pure, one cheerleader video at a time.

UPDATE: The Patriots have gotten all passive/aggressive via press release this afternoon:

"We want to address the allegation that the Patriots taped the Rams' walkthrough prior to Super Bowl XXXVI. For the past three-and-a-half months, we have been defending ourselves against assumptions made based on an unsubstantiated report rather than on facts or evidence. Despite our adamant denials, the report ran on February 2, 2008, the day before Super Bowl XLII. That game was the second-most watched program in television history and it is unfortunate that today's news will not also reach an audience of that size. We hope that with Matt Walsh's disclosures, everyone will finally believe what we have been saying all along and emphatically stated on the day of the initial report: 'The suggestion that the New England Patriots recorded the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002 is absolutely false. Any suggestion to the contrary is untrue.'"

Video: Crennel's Talk in Canton

barrymcbride — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:21:44 GMT

The folks at the Canton Repository have posted highlights of Romeo Crennel's talk at the HOF Luncheon to Youtube. Here is the video:

May 13, 2008 Show - Moohead Radio Sports Talk with Mr. Moohead

Moohead Radio - Daily Sports Talk for your Pasture-ised Listening Pleasure — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:21:00 GMT

Moohead Radio Sports Talk with Mr. Moohead Marc Steenbarger aired May 13, 2008; 1 hr...(read more)

Back forty

Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:46:00 GMT

As someone born in 1968, I love this NFL Films video. Enjoy Warfield's grace, a ball-hawking secondary, a great period soundtrack, and gems like this from mouth of Gib Shanley : Twenty-six-year-old Milt Morin is the biggest, most effective tight end in Browns history. Once he's loose in the secondary, he has the awesome force of an irate hippopotamus....(read more)