Players, the house has thrown in the towel. After 13 rounds of being pummeled by the Lead Man, this bout has been mercifully stopped. The scorecard reads 11 rounds for Lead, one for the house and one round was a draw.  If you were not on board for this amazing run, borrow some money from one of us who was.  Always hysterical, wildly profitbale ... it's The Lead Man with this weeks Lead Pipe LOCKS!

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Happy Thanksgiving Cleveland fans!  Nothing like Turkey Day ... a day that revolves around watching football and eating all day.  And it officially marks the start of the holiday season.  To get us in the mood bright and early here at TCF, Brian McPeek has penned a column telling us some of the things he's thankful for as a Cleveland sports fan.  Have a happy and safe holiday everyone!

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We here at The Cleveland Fan have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.  Continued growth, great play from the teams we cover, a great group of contributors who are also all great guys ... and the privelege of being affiliated with the nation's hottest handicapper, Mike "Lead" Piper.  What he has done in six weeks here has been nothing sort of amazing.  Lead has just one losing weekend all season, and it was a 2-3 week.  And he's gone 4-1 each of the last two weeks.  Lead has another five plays for us today.  One Friday game and four for Saturday.

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In case you missed it, the Plain Dealer ran one of the more ridiculous columns I've ever seen in my life this past Friday when Michigan native and Dallas transplant Jodie Valade compiled a list of her 15 biggest villains in Cleveland sports history.  The list (which is linked inside) is an absolute joke, and further evidence of just how out of touch the Plain Dealer is with the majority of sports fans in this town.  In Gary's latest, he exposes the list and says that it's pieces like this that help explain why the PD continues to lose thousands of subscribers year over year.

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