General

Jeremy Klein

2012-09-06T14:16:25Z

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.

Mike Spinelli

2012-06-22T04:00:00Z

Bio coming soon ...

Anthony Joki

2012-04-29T18:48:55Z

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

Noah Poinar

2012-02-17T12:30:37Z

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.

Kim Lakner

2011-01-12T19:26:26Z

Kim Lakner is a 2009 graduate of Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication. He has worked in the radio, newspaper and online media business dating back to his high school days. His experience includes 90.3 WCPN Ideastream, The Akron Beacon Journal and SportsInk.com, a high school sports-oriented website based in Fairlawn, Ohio.

Kim had the privilege of covering Browns games for 90.3 WCPN, and has worked in Media Relations with the Cleveland Gladiators Arena Football team and Akron Racers professional women’s softball team. He hopes to one day start his own sports publicity firm.

In his free time, Kim enjoys running, attending Cleveland sporting events and playing golf.

Lewie Pollis

2011-01-10T12:10:06Z

Born and raised in Cleveland, Lewie is a sophomore and economics concentrator at Brown University and has been a Tribe fan literally since before he can remember. His playing career never panned out, as he realized in T-ball that he was better at calculating other people's batting averages than increasing his own, but he still hopes to one day work inside the game. He also writes about the Indians on his blog, Wahoo's On First, and contributes to Beyond the Box Score. You can reach him by lewsonfirst@gmail.com email or follow him on Twitter: @LewsOnFirst.

Jeff Rich

2011-01-03T23:23:31Z

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 Renteria. However, no matter how many proverbial stakes are driven through his heart, his glass always remains half-full.

For many Cleveland fans, 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, 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, Jeff dabbled in sports talk radio in Northeast Ohio as a high school football correspondent for WELW and most recently as the College Basketball Insider for an internet station in the Midwest. He also scribes on various topics for his own blog, RiverBurn.com.

Lars Hancock

2011-01-03T23:21:36Z

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.

Thomas Moore

2010-12-27T23:54:12Z

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.

Lewie Pollis

2010-12-13T14:21:34Z

Bio coming ...