by Steve Love | Nov 6, 2021 | Blog
Odell Beckham Jr. leaves Cleveland having improved at least one part of the game he plays: It took him only half the time to prompt his second NFL team to give up on him as it did his first—2½ years to 5. He’s getting better, yet one thing remained the same: None of...
by Steve Love | Nov 3, 2021 | Blog
The Kabuki Dance is all but over. When Odell Beckham Jr.’s father took to social media near the deadline for National Football League teams to make trades and accused his son’s quarterback of “either hating on Odell or he just doesn’t want him to shine.” He offered...
by Steve Love | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog
The last-place Cleveland Browns have turned into a beaten-up, beaten-down illusion. They aren’t what anyone thought they would be—probably including themselves. The roster, allegedly replete with talent, appears hollowed out, a sink hole of injuries or, to borrow...
by Steve Love | Oct 29, 2021 | Blog
Since his left-shoulder injury forced an end to Baker Mayfield’s string of 53 consecutive games behind center, To Play or Not to Play, that is THE Question has been on an endless reel. He had never missed a game since taking over for Tyrod Taylor, his placeholder...
by Steve Love | Oct 28, 2021 | Blog
Former Akron Deputy Mayor Dorothy Jackson wore many hats and put on many faces during the course of a life that ended on the cusp of 88 years. She could separate the chaff from the wheat but had trouble differentiating between the two Akron mayors for whom she worked....
by Steve Love | Oct 26, 2021 | Blog
In the 1950s, small-town newspapers that practiced community journalism seemed not only larger than life but also life itself to us paperboys who delivered them. Readers and advertisers and most of those who ended up on its pages valued newspapers. They were part and...
