by Steve Love | Oct 4, 2021 | Blog
If the Cleveland Browns wish to turn back their offense a century—and it looks as if they do—the quarterback they need is deader than Baker Mayfield’s arm looked against the Minnesota Vikings. Fritz Pollard, who quarterbacked the Akron Pros to the first National...
by Steve Love | Sep 30, 2021 | Blog
Author’s photo Though the situations differ drastically, it can be instructive—if terrifying—to recall the first college football program to attempt to climb the rungs from one NCAA division to another, from one conference to another, with a sojourn as an...
by Steve Love | Sep 27, 2021 | Blog
The opposing quarterback was so wet behind the ears that his lobes must have been dripping—if not with sweat, then from a Cleveland Browns’ blood-letting. Chicago Bears rookie Justin Fields, former Ohio State University star, learned in his first start that the...
by Steve Love | Sep 24, 2021 | Blog
When Stuart Warner first found his true voice as an Akron Beacon Journal columnist in “Warner’s Corner,” he did so on the well-heeled backs of Muffy and Buffy, fictitious denizens of very real and quaint Hudson. Probably the richest Summit County zip code, Hudson...
by Steve Love | Sep 21, 2021 | Blog
When Baker Mayfield earned his spurs at the University of Oklahoma and became arguably the best quarterback in OU’s distinguished history—option or passing—it seemed as if there might never be another quite like him. Then, there were two. Sort of. First Kyler Murray...
by Steve Love | Sep 17, 2021 | Blog
When the 0-1 Cleveland Browns play host on Sunday to the surprisingly 1-0 Houston Texans, Odell Beckham Jr. will continue his self-assigned role as the team’s No.1 wide receiver in limbo. He’s a liminal WR1. He occupies an awkward space that is, frankly, difficult to...
