Pitchers and catchers reported to Winter Haven. Boobie Gibson wins MVP of the rookie/sophomore game. Kelly The Ghost defeats Jermain Taylor again and now looks to unify the middleweight division. King James wins MVP of the All Star Game (again). And Swerb hits Ryan Newman at 30-1 at Daytona at his online book. Not a bad sports weekend given we are in the purgatory of February. Peeker runs it all down for us as he does every Monday morning ...

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The theater of the absurd taking place in Congress on Wednesday in the form of the hearings over whether Roger Clemens did or did not use steroids and human growth hormone has, if nothing else, made the perfect coda for what has been one of the more interesting off-seasons in the history of major league baseball.  In Gary's latest, he says some of the revelations brought forth yesterday leave no doubt.  Baseball has now reached rock bottom.

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DA stinking up the Pro Bowl.  The Cavs brutal rash of injuries and how it has affected the team.  And the start of spring training, suddenly right around the corner.  These are the topics of Brian McPeek's "Weekend Wrap" as we continue to navigate through the dog days of the Cleveland pro sports calendar.  Four days till pitchers and catchers report!

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If a glass-half-full moment could ever be wrung out of the patchwork quilt of broken dreams that is Cleveland sports, 2007 was it.  The Cavaliers, Indians and Browns all vastly exceeded their preseason expectations. The Cavs and Indians penetrated deep into the playoffs, while the Browns were a toe stub in Cincinnati and/or rollover by the Colts away from making Cleveland a three playoff team town for the first time.  But winning sports has been such an infrequent event in Cleveland since the decade began, we might have forgotten how winning teams tend to behave.

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