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Cleveland sports bonanza

Cleveland has been lampooned as a dull city with bad sports teams for yeas in television, in everything from The Drew Carey Show to 30 Rock. Of course, that was in the past tense for a reason. The city has worked hard to become a cool place with all the amenities of a great metropolis, like boutiques, coffee shops, trendy clubs, and most importantly winning sports teams.

The Cleveland Browns just missed the playoffs last season, but they emerged as a dangerous team. Derek Anderson has been secured as the franchise quarterback the Browns badly needed and he has amazing targets in touchdown machine Braylon Edwards and All-Pro tight end Kellen Winslow. Cleveland Brown tickets were already impossible to find in Cleveland Browns Stadium, but the “Dawg Pound” will be even more difficult to get into this season.

The stadium has been perhaps the most difficult NFL Tickets to purchase for years. The local fans are loyal to an extreme. They will gladly sit out in the frigid cold as the winds off Lake Erie separate the true football fans from the fair weather fans.

Winter may be bitter in the Midwest city, but sports fans will be able to warm themselves in Quiken Loans Arena as the Cleveland Cavaliers burn up the court. Superstar and future Hall of Fame player LeBron James can do everything- score at will, find the open man from half court, and fly in for a tomahawk dunk from the free throw line. He carried the team to the NBA Finals in 2007 and nearly upset the Celtics single-handedly in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

Everybody wants their chance to see a player of his caliber play and Cleveland Cavalier tickets have been a huge find for the last five years. He means to this city what Michael Jordan meant to Chicago, Magic Johnson meant to Los Angeles, and Larry Bird meant to Boston. The Cavs are lucky they had the chance to draft him. James could have gone to college first and they would have missed their chance to find the face that would define the franchise for the next couple of decades.

Of course, Cleveland fans would have only had to travel a couple hours south, as LeBron would have gone to Ohio State in Columbus if he chose to attend college. The Buckeyes have done alright without him, putting together a string of successful football seasons that have made them contenders for the BCS championship the last two years. Basketball coach Thad Matta has not done a bad job without James either, winning two Bog Ten Conference championships in the 2006 and 2007 and finishing second in the country in 2007.