The Cleveland Fan Writers

Written by Rich Swerbinsky

Rich Swerbinsky

Rich Swerbinsky is the editor-in-chief for TheClevelandFan.com and President of TheClevelandFan.com, LLC. Tired of a lack of alternatives for Cleveland sports news, talk, and opinion ... he created this website, bringing it to the web on February 1, 2006.

Swerb has been a maniacal fan of the Browns, Cavs, Indians, and Buckeyes since about the age of four, and has always loved to express himself in words. He wrote for a number of different publications and websites before creating The Cleveland Fan, and now pours everything he has into this site, which has continued to grow and thrive since inception.

Swerb's other loves in life are movies, golfing, reading, fantasy sports, cooking, craft beers, his wife Hallie, his six and a half year old son Nicholas and his three and a half year old daughter Chloe. Nicholas is already a proud and passionate Cleveland sports fan at a very young age, just as his father was.By day, Swerb manages the residential lending division for First Federal of Lakewood on the west side of Cleveland and maintains a personal blog at www.TheDailyDishOnline.com.

Swerb loves to hear feedback on his columns, as well as his websites, as he is always looking for ways to improve them. He can be contacted by clicking on the link below.

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Adam Burke

Adam Burke, 26, is a lifelong Clevelander who spends nearly every night of his summer watching Tribe games and nearly every night of his winter watching whatever hockey game is on TV. Amazingly, Adam has a phenomenal woman to whom he is engaged who actually puts up with his love of sports and gambling. Adam has since converted Jennifer into a diehard Indians fan and a fan of hockey, despite her southern upbringing. For TheClevelandFan, Adam writes his weekly "View from the Porch" article and various other Indians articles.

Al Ciammaichella

Al has been an Indians fan since birth, and has followed prospects since his dad took him to see Jim Thome and Reggie Jefferson play for the Canton-Akron Indians. He grew up in Aurora Ohio, and walked on the football and baseball team at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA where he was one of the top Division II scout team tight ends in the country and a solid bullpen catcher with an advanced approach. Al currently makes his home in Fairfax, VA where he gets to see the Aeros and K-Tribe several times a year. In addition to loving the Indians, he is a die-hard Browns, Buckeyes and Cavs fan, and makes several trips home to Ohio to tailgate and drink Christmas Ale.

Andrew Clayman

Andrew Clayman is an Akron native and Bowling Green State University grad currently making his home in Chicago, IL. Despite having moved out of state, he is a firm believer that certain other Akronites should stay home and play for their nearest local professional sports team for the full extent of their careers

That said, Andrew has already sacrificed his youth and sanity for perennial heartbreak as a Browns, Indians, Cavs, and Zips fan. He was in the stands at Browns Stadium on Bottle Throwing Day, and his father was at 10 Cent Beer Night. The tradition runs deep. Mention Cory Snyder's mustache, Dwayne Rudd's helmet, or Cedric Henderson's jump shot and you've got a conversation on your hands. After all, when the big picture is this hard to look at, might as well focus on the funny little details.

Anthony Joki

Anthony Joki is a student at Cleveland State University studying Sports Management. For the past two years, Anthony has written for the student newspaper, The Cauldron. He has been the Vikings Men’s Basketball beat writer for the newspaper. Anthony has also covered the Browns, Cavaliers and Indians.

Growing up in Fairport Harbor, he has followed Cleveland sports and the Buckeyes thanks to his father. At a young age, he can remember going to countless Indians games when the Indians were rocking Jacobs Field. Anthony always enjoyed going to the games to see his favorite player, Jim Thome, since he is a left handed hitter just like him.

Anthony enjoys many things outside of writing including playing golf, spending countless hours playing PlayStation 3 and wasting his time on the internet. During high school football season, he takes care of managing the film for his alma mater, Fairport Harding. He is currently the web editor for The Cauldron newspaper.

You can read his work at www.csucauldron.com and can follow him on Twitter @AnthonyJoki

Brian McPeek

Brian McPeek is a lifelong Clevelander who famously worked the sidelines for the Browns during the 1985-86 and 1986-87 seasons, which many of you may remember as "The Drive" and "The Fumble" seasons.

After single-handedly sending the Browns spiraling into the Dark Ages he graduated from Bowling Green State University with a journalism degree. Naturally he went to work in the insurance industry where he's worked for the past 18 years.

When not perusing the message boards in his self-appointed role of sniper, Brian lives in Madison with his wife of 19 years, Lisa, and his three daughters, Danielle, Jessica and Kacie.

Feel free to contact Brian at Peeker643@yahoo.com.

Carolyn Hastings

Carolyn Hastings is a writer, blogger and unabashed Cleveland fan whose work has appeared on CavsNews, Cavs Court, Sports Diva, Women Like Sports and NESW Sports. She writes a daily love letter to the Cleveland Cavaliers on her Cleveland.com blog, And One. When she’s not standing on the coffee table shouting encouragement during Cavs games, Carolyn is wondering why no one ever mentions Frank Basloe, the Waterloo Wonders, the Cleveland Rebels or the Akron Firestone Nonskids. And when she’s not watching basketball, writing about basketball, talking about basketball, or reading about basketball, Carolyn enjoys inhaling outside of Breadsmith on Detroit, wandering the Mohair aisle at River Colors Studio and staring at the river-which-is-so-rocky.

Chris Hutchison

Chris was born in and grew up near in the thriving metropolis of Canton, OH. He graduated from NYU Film School, which was perhaps the biggest waste of money in the history of mankind since We Are The World. After stints in New York City, Miami, and Southern California, he has (for reasons unknown) returned to the football Mecca of his youth. He is investing heavily in cryogenic technology in an effort to stay alive until Cleveland wins another championship.

Dan Wismar

Dan Wismar is a Cleveland Heights native, and a lifelong northeast Ohio resident. Like a million other Ohio boomers, he idolized Rocky Colavito, Jim Brown and Paul Warfield as a kid, and like so many of us, he credits and thanks his Dad for his "fanhood". And though he's old enough to remember 75-cent bleacher seats and Ross Fichtner, he's still young enough to stay optimistic about this town and its teams.Dan has covered OSU sports for The Cleveland Fan since the Spring of '08, the attachment to the Buckeyes being as ingrained in him as the unhealthy Indians and Browns loyalties. In whatever he writes on the local sports scene, he'll always try to bring to the reader the perspective of the home team fan in the stands....because, let's face it...that beats pretending he's not a homer.

David Regimbal

David Regimbal, born and raised in Northeast Ohio, has been a lifelong Cleveland fan. He was four months old when "The Drive" took place, the event that proverbially baptized him by fire in the Cleveland sports experience. He has survived John Cooper, Jose Mesa, Art Modell and Lebron James. He knows he will be asked to survive much more. While Cleveland is his home, Ohio State is his passion. His dream growing up was to play basketball at Ohio State, but unfortunately, he was built like one of the Olsen twins. That didn't hinder his love for the Buckeyes, and after college, he wrote for multiple blogs and websites covering the Ohio State football team. Since February of 2010, David has covered Ohio State basketball for TheClevelandFan, providing team breakdowns, game recaps and tournament previews. He also contributes to the Ohio State Football coverage in addition to blogging about the Browns and the Buckeyes for TheClevelandFan’s news wire -- Hitting The Fan.

Demetri Inembolidis

Although Demetri Inembolidis is a graduate of the Ohio State University, he is not the most avid of collegiate sports fans. That does not mean that he won't be found tailgating before a big Buckeyes game.

Demetri's passion is the NBA. His favorite team is the Cleveland Cavaliers, but he has been known to pay close attention to the entire league. Although Demetri has been to a small handful of potential elimination games, he has never had the opportunity of seeing the Cavs win a playoff series in person. One might consider that divine intervention. Demetri presumes it is a result of bad luck.

When Demetri is not in his living room watching Cleveland sports, he can be found at the local watering hole or attempting to plan his wedding.

Demetri can also be found as a contributor on the website I GO HARD NOW

Erik Cassano

Erik Cassano is an award-winning writer from Cleveland, Ohio. His works have been published in The Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine and Crain's Cleveland Business. In his full-time job, he is an associate editor for Smart Business Network, a Westlake, Ohio-based chain of business trade publications with editions in nearly 20 cities nationwide. An avid sports fan, Erik lives and dies (mostly dies) with the Browns, Indians and Cavaliers.

Gary Benz

Gary Benz is a life long Cleveland-area resident. He has suffered, along with the rest of us, through every bad play, player and team to grace the Cleveland sports scene. He has spent more time and money than he cares to remember on Cleveland sports teams with nary a championship to show for it, save for the 1964 NFL Championship. He hasn't yet given up hope, despite what people may say. Gary is a journalist by degree but left that lucrative field years ago for a more pedestrian existence in the field of law and business. He also writes for his own website, which can be accessed at www.nextyearagain.blogspot.com. You can follow him on twitter as well.

Greg Popelka

Greg has a family of 4, who he tries to insulate from his brooding when Cleveland sports rip his heart out. He appreciates music by a wide range of artists - and is currently involved in converting a chunk of his vinyl album collection to .mp3 files. Greg is an eager latecomer to the music of Phish. His iPod Nano has a killer collection of 230 rock/pop songs from the 1980’s, compiled in part by his brother and his aunt, and which proudly lacks any Lionel Ritchie, Phil Collins and Michael Jackson. The Nano is his running companion, and he runs 6 – 10 miles a week when the weather is decent. Greg is somewhat of a WWII history buff. His favorite movies usually involve war, international intrigue, or Michael Winslow.

J.D. Shultz

J.D. Shultz is a comedy / entertainment writer currently based in Los Angeles. He's originally from Ohio, but you probably could've guessed that. (As hard as it is to believe, California natives aren't falling over each other to become fans of a city 2,000 miles away, whose sports teams haven't won anything in 45 years.)Since J.D. is a Cleveland fan at heart, he can't adopt the sexy, local teams . . . it just isn't a real option. (So Cleveland forever it is!) It's sort of like when the Washington Bullets wanted to change their name in 1997, and they allowed their fans to vote on these five new names: The Dragons, The Express, The Stallions, The Sea Dogs, and The Wizards. (Yeah, the Washington Sea Dogs was a choice.) (???)The final tally was something like: The Dragons (0%), The Express (0%), The Stallions (0%), The Sea Dogs (0%), The Wizards (.01%), and the write-In selection "Uh, let's just stay the Bullets" (99.99%). But that just wasn't a real option. (So Wizards it was!) J.D. is excited to be a contributing Cavs writer for The Cleveland Fan . . . but if you just can't get enough of his undeniable amazingness here, hit up his Cavs blog at http://www.thewineandgoldrush.com.

Jason Askew

Jason Askew was born and raised in Northeast Ohio. He grew up as both a local (all things Cleveland) sports junkie and a passionate participant. His early childhood memories include rooting for the likes of Andre Thornton, World B. Free, and Ozzie Newsome.

His most memorable times include taking the Laketran to Lakeland Community College and patrolling the fences for autographs at Browns training camp. The worst include stories that have already sucked enough life out of us and contain names including, but not limited to, Jordan, Elway, and Renteria.

As a youth his Northeast Ohio memories also boast sharing the field and/or court with future pros like Earl Boykins, Joe Jurevicius, London Fletcher, and Matthew Hatchette.

After 6 years in the Navy and 3 years living in NY, he returned his family to their Northeast Ohio roots in 2003 and now lives in Lake County with his wife and two children.

Jason works as a field service engineer for a company in the semiconductor industry. When he isn’t at work making computer chips, trolling boards, researching player bios, looking at box scores and listening to or watching a sporting event, he enjoys spending time with his family and watching his daughter leave her imprint on the local sports scene.

Jeremy Klein

Jeremy Klein is an unabashed Cleveland Sports fan that believes deep down that a Cleveland team will win a championship in his lifetime. Originally from Solon, Jeremy is currently at The Ohio State University working towards his bachelor's degree in business with a specialization in marketing. Jeremy is a die-hard Browns, Cavaliers, Indians, and Buckeyes fan that also has a newfound passion for Premier League soccer, Chelsea being his club of choice. When not viewing random baseball games to watch the players on his fantasy team, Jeremy can be found playing FIFA on his Xbox 360 and generally making a fool of himself around the campus area. Follow him on Twitter @PapaBearJere and view his archives at iSportsTimes.

Jerry Roche

Jerry Roche is a freelance writer/editor who covered Super Bowl XVI in Pontiac, Mich., and has interviewed such celebrated sports figures as Otto Graham, John Wooden and Merlin Olsen, among many others. He is former sports editor of the Port Clinton News-Herald and Alliance Review whose writing has been honored by the Ohio Associated Press Sportswriters Association. The U.S. Army veteran earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Ohio University.

Jesse Lamovsky

Jesse Lamovsky has been a staff writer for the Cleveland Fan since 2006, specializing mostly in Browns and Buckeyes coverage with a side of Cavaliers coverage thrown in. Jesse’s first (hopefully not last) book, The Worst of Sports, was published by Random House in 2007, and someday he hopes to write either the definitive history of the Cleveland sports drought (with a happy ending, of course) or at any rate, something else that pays him handsomely. He currently resides in Strongsville with his lovely and patient soon-to-be-wife.

Jonathan Knight

Connected to Cleveland athletics since the weekend he was born – when Brian Sipe led the Browns to a come-from-behind fourth-quarter victory, the Cavaliers won their emotional first two games following the Miracle of Richfield, and the Indians began their quest to sign cataclysmic pitching bust Wayne Garland – Jonathan has written about Cleveland teams since before he learned how to diagram sentences. These combined passions have resulted in his writing countless articles and seven books on various topics in Cleveland sports history.

A member of the Society for American Baseball Research and in no way connected to New Kids On The Block, Jonathan is a graduate of Ohio University and has twice been named Sportswriter of the Year by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association.

He lives in Columbus – the demilitarized zone of Ohio pro sports – and has two sons who have not yet been afflicted with the psychological burden of Cleveland athletics.

You can learn more about Jonathan and his books at www.jknightbooks.com.

Lars Hancock

Lars Hancock spent his formative years on the east side of Cleveland, before leaving the nest to explore the world. A die-hard sports fan, Lars has lived through suffering, torment, and failure which would kill those outside of Cleveland. He witnessed "the Drive", the helmet throw, the 1995 World Series, the 2007 BCS Championship, and 2007 NBA Finals live, and is now a bitter, bitter man. Lars has worked in many fields, from technology to sales to manufacturing, and is willing to try anything (well, almost anything) once. He is an expert on nothing, but conversant on everything. In his spare time, Lars likes to drink.

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Mansfield Lucas

Mansfield Lucas is not his real name, but the takes you'll get are as real and raw as they come. Sometimes intelligent, sometimes whack, sometimes thought provoking, sometimes inspiring questions of just what did his parents do to him, anyway? grammatically sound but always readable. As satisfying as an old POC in a 40 degree can.

Mansfield grew up in the heart of Cleveland's East Side in Euclid, and like Greg Brinda attended St Ignatius High School, and like Greg, decided that rather than go onto college he'd matriculate to Kent State. Unlike Greg, Mansfield actually knows what he's talking about and rarely stutters.

Mansfield has written for over a decade on several internet sites and has also been a published sports writer and music critic for the now defunct Downtown Tab magazine, which means, yes, somebody actually did pay him to write this crap at one time. Shocking.

Mansfield has a PhD in the TCE (TM) (The Cleveland Exeperience, as in sports' experience), a concept that will no doubt come up frequently in his blurbs. He will be covering the Cleveland Browns for The Cleveland Fan.

Mike Furlan

What started as diehard interest in the Cleveland Browns, morphed into an insane fanaticism for all things Buckeye for Mike Furlan. When the infamous traitor, Art Modell, absconded with Mike's beloved Cleveland Browns; Mike poured all of his passion into Ohio State athletics.

Mike is a ten year veteran of the United States Marine Corps and Operation Enduring Freedom. He currently remains on active duty and is stationed in the Columbus, Ohio area where he can usually be seen bouncing one of his children on his knee.

Mike's interests include probability theory with applications in actuarial mathematics, latin poetry, and weightlifting. Mike coaches lacrosse and baseball and is defensive line coach for youth athletic teams.

Mike just moved to Charleston, South Carolina where he is attending U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion School with his wife Shannon and their four children.

Mike will be covering Ohio State Buckeye football for The Cleveland Fan.

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Michael Kramer

Mike Kramer was born and raised in Willoughby Ohio. Without his consent, he was immediately indoctrinated with the dreaded Cleveland Sports Fan gene. After high school, he attended Grove City College in western Pa and earned a degree in molecular biology, in the hopes that he might be able to genetically engineer a Cleveland Sports owner who wasn’t a moron.

When it turned out that this would be really really hard, he decided to become a dentist, dooming him to yearly gifts of Hermie Chrristmas ornaments. He earned his DDS from tOSU in 2001 where his Buckeye fandom turned into a mild fanaticism. After a brief stint in Youngstown, he returned to Cleveland and settled in Avon where he lives with his lovely wife and young son.

He joins the esteemed TCF writing staff where he will contribute all manner of nonsense with the unstated goal of making everyone else look better by comparison.

Mitch Cyrus

Mitch Cyrus is living proof that sports fanaticism and appreciation of the arts can co-exist, an opinion shared by Rich Swerbinsky in the creation of the Movies & TV section of TheClevelandFan. Mitch has been onboard at TCF since Day One, contributing as a movie critic, entertainment analyst, sports columnist for football and golf, as well as a humorist with his recaps of “The Sopranos” and “24”.A native of Shelby, Ohio, Mitch completed his college at High Point University in North Carolina, and decided to stick around due to marrying a pure Southerner as well as having the opportunity to golf year-round. In his real-life profession, Mitch is the director of security and compliance for a software company providing human resource targeted applications.

Nick Allburn

Nick Allburn is a 23-year old guy from North East, PA (basically Erie). One of his earliest memories is the purchase of his first Chief Wahoo hat.Nick is a Penn State MBA student, and his primary foci for TheClevelandFan are the Browns and Cavaliers. Nick enjoys the finer things in life, such as reading from his collection of leather-bound books, distance running, triathlon, the occasional adult beverage, and Nintendo. Nick probably owns more Bernie Kosar jerseys than you do.

In addition to writing and podcasting for TCF, Nick collaborates on a Cleveland sports blog located at http://forestcityfanatics.blogspot.com.

Nino Colla

Nino Colla currently attends The University of Akron full-time and commiserates about the Cleveland Indians all the time. If you were to categorize his childhood with the specific era of Indians baseball he grew up with, you would probably call it a rough childhood. Nino grew to love that rough childhood though, even with the likes of Alex Escobar roaming the outfield and Jason Davis throwing 100 mph beach balls. Nino is originally from Youngstown, Ohio, now lives in Kent and is double-majoring in Communications and minoring in Sport Management at Akron. He's maintained his own blog, The Tribe Daily, since March of 2008 and uses it to compile all relevant information on the Tribe and occasionally photoshop Indians players in an effort to be semi-humorous. He also contributes to the Akron Aeros coverage at Indians Prospect Insider and can be found on twitter @TheTribeDaily.

Noah Poinar

Noah Poinar is a seasoned Cleveland sports fan who was born and raised in Tallmadge, Ohio. He currently lives in Columbus where he is studying Business/Communications at Ohio State. He originally attended a out of state college only to realize he couldn’t live somewhere that didn’t carry FS Ohio and Sports Time Ohio. He was left no option but to transfer back to his beloved home-state. At the time, LeBron James was doing the opposite.

At the age of 9, Noah dreamt of playing for the Cleveland Indians. When this dream became unreachable he set his sights on buying the Cleveland Browns. After this dream died he set his sights on the Cleveland Cavaliers GM position. After Yale denied him acceptance, he settled down and decided to pursue a career in sports writing. Noah has since given up on that career as well, deciding instead to make sports writing his hobby. And he’s okay with that.

His novel “Maybe Next Year,” which he began writing back in high school, will be available in hardback in the year 2021.

Paul Cousineau

Paul Cousineau has been actively following the Indians since his days in the “Little Indians’ Fan Club”, when he and his friends absorbed fielding tips from Brook Jacoby like little sponges and stood in awe of the immortal Pat Tabler.

Born and bred on the East Side of Cleveland, he had his passport stamped after graduating from college to cross the Crooked River and set up shop on the West Side.

At the urging of his Milwaukee-bred wife, he started writing The DiaTribe in Spring of 2004 to put his thoughts on the Indians on paper, so to speak. He can usually be found sitting in the Mezzanine at most home games, chatting up Bob the Beer Guy and looking over the shoulder of the guy with the ponytail who keeps score of every home game in front of him.

He and his wife welcomed their first child Patrick in winter of 2006. Though he won’t publicly comment whether his son’s name is an homage to Tabler, it couldn’t have hurt.

Ryan Aroney

Ryan Aroney is a lifelong resident of Northeast Ohio and a graduate of the Cleveland State University School of Communication. He spends more time than he should following his favorite sports teams, all of which happen to play in Cleveland or Columbus.When not writing for TheClevelandFan.com, Ryan works in media relations. Ryan also covers high school sports as a freelancer for local newspapers and contributes to a Cleveland State Vikings sports blog at LetsGoVikes.com.A former college baseball player, Ryan enjoys taking part in as much baseball related activity as possible in his free time.

Richard Hanes

Rich's love for Cleveland and Ohio sports was instilled in him at an early age by his father. He was brought up with the Browns, Tribe, Cavs, and Buckeyes. He was taught to despise the Steelers, Yankees, Michigan, and Elway. Throughout Rich's thirty years on this earth he has experienced untold amounts of sports pain and suffering. Being a Clevelander and Cleveland fan is not for the meek of heart as you often have to root for teams that are "Good enough to lose the big game." Through this sports pain a very passionate and opinionated sports fan was formed. Rich has been looking for a home to share his thoughts on the Cleveland sports scene and he has found that home at TheClevelandFan.com. Rich is looking forward to sharing his thoughts, opinions, and sports emotions with all of the readers out there. Rich believes there are very few feelings in the world better than experiencing your team winning with a walk-off home run or game winning shot. Especially when you are there in person and you can feel it about to happen. Everyone in that stadium believes together. Rich lives for searching out those moments and wants to share those thoughts through his writing.

Rich is married to @CLEFoodGoddess on twitter, has a Siberian Husky named Lexi, and lives on the west side of Cleveland.

Rich is a five time participant of the World Championship of Fantasy Football held annually in Las Vegas.

Rich is the host of "This City" and "Fantasy Focus" on CSFRadio.com. You can listen to Rich's takes on the city of Cleveland including topics outside of sports on This City from 9-11 PM ET every Tuesday.

Rich can be reached @BurnRiverSports on twitter and burningriversports216@hotmail.com on email.

Jeff Rich

Jeff Rich currently resides in Phoenix with his wife, a native Chicagoan turned Clevelander at heart. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a long suffering sports fan of the Cleveland variety. It started with an NFL Playoff game on January 4, 1986 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, when Dan Marino's Dolphins made a 21-3 Browns lead in the second half vanish, never to be spoken of again. That should have prepared Jeff for the years of agony that he refuses to embrace, but it didn't. Nothing ever does, whether the villain is a brand name headliner like John Elway or Michael Jordan, or worse, a lesser known "undercard" like Castille or Reneria. However, no matter how many proverbial stakes are driven through his heart, his glass always remains half-full.

For many Cleveland, the great memories drown in the memory banks flooded with misery and the scars never heal. Though even the most successful chapters ended in heartbreak, Jeff Rich chooses to look back at the book's best pages rather than the many unhappy endings. He knows it's easy for some to remember a team like the 1995 Indians as the team that had 100 wins in 144 tries, then failed to finish the job when it counted the most, but he mostly looks back at the joy of witnessing their Game 3 World Series victory at Jacobs Field. And while nothing will ever purge the memories of heartbreak certain playoff games, he is resilient enough to keep things in an optimistic light, even if it borders on the boundaries of what society might call "delusional".

Before joining the writing staff at TheClevelandFan.com in 2012, Burns dabbled in sports talk radio in Northeast Ohio as a high school football correspondent for WELW and most recently in Arizona as the College Basketball Insider for an internet station in the Midwest. He also scribes on various topics for his own blog, RiverBurn.com.

Samantha Bunten

Samantha was born in Arizona, but grew up in Cleveland. There she acquired the childhood nickname of Buh, after Al Bubba Baker (fortunately not due to any physical resemblance), the requisite chip on the shoulder that all Cleveland fans have, and permanent frostbite from attending Browns games in December. Her love of sports and tendency toward attachment to teams that choke began with the 1986 Browns.

After suffering through The Drive, watching Bill Belichick run her team into the ground while blaming it on Bernie Kosar, and even forcing herself to root for Vinny Testaverde, the Browns rewarded her for her loyalty by leaving town.

Unable to find a suitable replacement NFL team to adopt, she switched her primary devotion to baseball. She has since forgiven the Browns and now splits her time between watching the Indians lose and watching the Browns lose.

Samantha now works in sports journalism full time and has proudly never put the B.A. in Art History that Penn State gave her to any use. She blames Art Modell for her trust issues, her Cleveland Stadium Dog Pound training for the time she got kicked out of a Penn State game for throwing
things, and 10-Cent Beer Night for the fact that she can no longer upgrade her seats at ball games through squatters rights.

Her fastball tops out at 55.

Scott Swerbinsky

Scott Swerbinsky is Swerb's cousin, and goes by the moniker "Spoon". He was born and raised in Willowick, Ohio. He is a student of the sport of boxing, which he knows inside and out, and is also a big fan of mixed martial arts fighting.

Spoon will be covering the sport of boxing for The Cleveland Fan, and is known as the "FightDr" in the forums. He is a die hard Cavs,Tribe, Buckeyes and Browns fan.

Steve Buffum

Steve Buffum grew up in Akron, Ohio. He received BA degrees in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Virginia, which he does not use. He then moved to Austin, Texas, where he bailed on his PhD program and got a Masters in Mathematics, which he does not use. He currently works for a chemical management firm in Austin as a data cudgeller.

He lives with his wife, two sons, one daughter, and the two dumbest cats in North America.

Buff is a passionate and incredibly knowledgable fan of the Cleveland Indians, whom he covers for The Cleveland Fan.

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore is a lifelong Cleveland sports fan, supporter of Liverpool FC and the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team, a proud graduate of The Kent State University, and someone who listens to an unhealthy amount of Sirius NFL Radio. A former news editor for several daily newspapers, he left the newsroom in the last millennium but never lost the urge to write.

His biggest fear as a Cleveland fan is that he will one day be interviewed in a nursing home by Sports Illustrated as a 95-year-old fan who never witnessed a championship season in Cleveland. He is also the author of www.redright88.com.

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Posted by Rich Swerbinsky Jun 25, 2010 10:51 AM Last Updated: Sep 06, 2013

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