With thousands of registered members, our message forums here at The Cleveland Fan are as popular a bastion for online Cleveland sports talkers as you will find on the web. As he does each Sunday in "The Feel Of The Fan", Cris Sykes takes a look at what people have been talking about in there. The most popular topics this week? What the Browns will do at #5 overall in the draft, what the Indians lineup will look like, the Cavs lack of respect from referees, and the Buckeyes' '09 recruiting class.

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What a weekend for the Cavaliers, who pulled off exciting last second road wins in Utah and Golden State to go 3-1 on a very tough west coast road trip without Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Delonte West. In the Weekend Wrap, Peeks says that this Cavaliers team reminds him of the 1995 Indians with the way they are willing out wins. Peeks also hits on looming roster battles for the Indians in spring training, and Randy Lerner's embarrassing handling of the coach/GM search.

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Well ... it's Cardinals/Steelers in two weeks for all the marbles. That's right, the Cardinals. Which shrinks the list of franchises never to make a Super Bowl to the Browns and four others. In The Weekend Wrap, Peeks hits on this weekend's championship games, Ben Wallace's importance to the Cavaliers, and the uncertainty in the Indians starting rotation behing Cliffie and Fausto.

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In a little over two weeks, on February 1 2009, we will celebrate our third birthday here at TheClevelandFan.com. In that time, we've grown from what I initially called "a blog on steroids" that had a couple of hundred readers daily, to a thriving, perpetually growing, full blown Cleveland sports website that has over 50,000 readers monthly. And as we get set to head into our fourth year out on the web, I'm going to do something I've never done here before: run a contest to add a new columnist to our team. All the details are inside.

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