College football season starts this weekend, and with it, so does The Cleveland Fan's 2007 Pick 'Em & Click Em contests for the NFL and NCAA Football regular seasons.  The rules couldn't be any simpler.  Just log on at some point each week and pick the winners of the college and pro football games.  No pointspreads.  No entry fee.  Just log in and make your picks.  And we're giving away $250 cash to the winners of both the NFL and NCAA contests this season.  Details inside.

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We usher in the weekend here at TCF with Mitch's "Crystal Ball" and Hiko's "Moot Points" ... two staples of the site since our earliest days. In this week's version of Moot, Hiko reminisces about an old college project, Hannibal Lechter's role in film history, and even throws a couple late round fantasy football sleepers our way. And don't forget ... Hiko's new Browns column, "The Browns Outsider" runs every Monday night here on the site.

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It's been 43 long, cruel years since Clevelanders have enjoyed a pro sports championship.  And as each year passes, there are fewer and fewer people that have seen one with their own eyes.  In our first ever bracket here at The Cleveland Fan, we wanted to find out from the masses - what has been the greatest moment in Cleveland sports history since the Browns whitewahed the heavily favored Baltimore Colts by a 27-0 count in the 1964 NFL Championship game?

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It's Moot Points time here at TCF, and in this week's column Hiko takes the time machine back to 1983 ... the days of the Swatch Watch, the final episode of M.A.S.H., the Cold War, the George Brett pine tar incident, and "The Return of the Jedi".  Hiko also hits on photographing his junk, preseason football, and our Greatest Moments In Cleveland Sports History bracket in his recurring weekend column for us.

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