Big, big weekend for Cleveland sports fans. The Indians acquired Mark DeRosa from the Cubs for Jeff Stevens and a couple of lower level prospects. The Cavs mini-funk continued with a Sunday loss to the Wizards. The Buckeyes made their final preparations for their Monday night tilt with Texas. And Randy Lerner continued to private jet around the country to talk to candidates to be the Browns next coach and GM. Peeker hits on all of these topics in The Weekend Wrap.

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Every baseball team's season needs its own plot thread. Even if the team isn't contending and already has its collective sight set on next year, there has to be something to make those six months and 162 games bearable. For Indians fans in 2008, that was Cliff Lee. Even as the season spiraled into irrelevance, every fifth game, Lee gave Tribe fans a reason to tune in or head down to the ballpark. Cliffie went on to win the Cy Young award, and Erik Cassano named it his top Cleveland sports moment of 2008. Rest of the Top 10 linked inside as well ...

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The 2007-2008 season got off to a very lackluster start for the Cavaliers, who were beset by injuries and holdouts from Sasha Pavlovic and Anderson Varejao. Then, in February, GM Danny Ferry decided to act, shipping out six players, and bringing in four new ones in a massive mid-season three team deal with Chicago and Seattle. The trade has payed major dividends for the Cavs ever since. And it checks in at #2 in Erik Cassano's countdown of the Top Ten 2008 Cleveland Sports Moments.

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The Browns season came to a merciful end on Sunday, and Randy Lerner wasted little time dropping the hammer on Phil Savage, firing the team's former General Manager before the conclusion of the embarrassing 31-0 loss in Pittsburgh. In this Monday's Weekend Wrap, Peeks hits on Phil, talks about another complete makeover for the front office, and hits on a Cavaliers team that is just bringing it night in and night out.

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