It's one of baseball's time-tested truths: Good pitching beats good hitting.  Throughout the late 1990s, the Yankees were the team proving it with a pitching staff that consistently came up big in October. The Indians, with great hitting and just enough pitching to get by, were the perennial bridesmaids.  In 2007, the roles were reversed as an Indians club with some of the best pitching in baseball squared off with the mash-happy, pitching-poor Yankees in the American League Division Series.  Erik recaps his second greatest moment of the sports year.

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As sports fans, we love to analyze things. We love to number-crunch, pick apart matchups, weight advantages against disadvantages.   But there are some times where all you can do is just sit back, watch and marvel at a spectacle of sheer, God-given athletic talent. LeBron James provided us with such a moment in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals at the Palace of Auburn Hills.  Erik Cassano's countdown of the year's top Cleveland sports moments continues ....

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The 2007 Browns season might have turned upward in September when Derek Anderson became the starting quarterback, but the fortunes of the franchise began to climb in late April with what might turn out to be one of the best drafts in team history.  Coming off a 4-12 season, Phil Savage drafted Joe Thomas #4 overall, dealt back into the first round to select Brady Quinn, and then moved back into the second round and grabbed Eric Wright.  Erik's countdown winds down ...

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Merry Christmas everyone!!!  From all of us at The Cleveland Fan, here's to a happy, safe, and joyous holiday to all of our readers out there.  I'm posting this at 1 AM, just after getting everything set up downstairs for my 2 1/2 year old boy, who is set to enjoy his first "Santa Christmas" tomorrow morning.  Special times indeed.  Brian McPeek checks in with a Christmas day piece for us, giving out virtual gifts to all our favorite Cleveland sports figures.

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