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The Best Basketball Team in Cleveland
Many of you were extremely turned off the NBA team in Cleveland after Thursday night’s debacle in Miami. Things seem to hit rock bottom in Saturday’s night blowout loss to lowly Minnesota. While all...
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College Basketball Season is Here….Does Anyone in Cleveland Care?
Since I first got heavily into the NCAA Basketball Tournament in March of 1985, I’ve been hooked on the college game. Whether it be Derrick Coleman at Syracuse, Jerome Lane at Pitt, or the Arkansas...
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The Top 10 Moments/Stories in Cleveland Sports in 2009
This is part two in our ten-part series chronicling the top 10 moments/stories in Cleveland sports during the 2009 Calendar year. We started yesterday with The Indians 10 run comeback win over Tampa...
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CSU’s Bullock Signs with New York Jets
Earlier today, Rick outlined the players that the Browns have added to their rookie camp post-draft. The names on the list are predominantly of the defensive variety, as the team looks to find a...
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CSU’s Bullock Aims to be the Next Antonio Gates
In 2002, the mid-major Kent State Golden Flashes wreaked havoc on plenty of brackets by making it to the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament. A big reason for this success was the play of forward...
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Recap: 2009 NCAA Tournament, first weekend
Four days in. By now we all might have gotten our fill of Gus Johnson, and definitely have had more than enough of Bill Raftery doing his best Tourette’s impression. WITH THE KISS! GRUGGGG!!! We’ve...
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Cleveland State Recap: The Dream Ends In a Hail of Bricks
Arizona 71, Cleveland State 57 (box) During Friday night’s upset blowout over fourth-seeded Wake Forest, the Cleveland State Vikings came out a house of fire, jumping to a 9-0 lead and knocking down...
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Lucky Number 13: Cleveland State Vikings Blow Out Wake Forest 84-69
The last time that the Cleveland State Vikings were in the NCAA tournament is now a well-known 23 years ago. That year, one of the biggest upsets was when the Kevin Mackey-led Vikings toppled the...
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March Madness for Ohio
As we all know, the annual March Madness college basketball tourney starts today. I thought I would take this opportunity to run down all the reasons that college football is broken with the BCS and...
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2009 NCAA Tournament: Though Not Exactly the Big East, Ohio is Well-Represented
The Ohio State Buckeyes. The Vikings of Cleveland State. Le Dayton Flyers. The Xavier Musketeers. And the Akron Zips. Sure, the highest seed may be Xavier who surprised many by landing a four- spot,...
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Dancin…Dancin…DANCIN! Cleveland State is Headed to the NCAA Tournament
Cleveland State 57 Butler 54 (box) Two times this season the Cleveland State Vikings had the lead with less than a minute to go against the conference leader and rival Butler. Two times, they lost....
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Horizon League Finals: Can the Vikings Overcome Their Bugaboo?
December 4th, 2008 – The Wolstein Center in Cleveland. Cleveland State leads by seven points at the half over the undefeated Butler Bulldogs. Despite shooting just 1-11 from three point land and 26%...
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A Cleveland State Scare: Vikings Survive Detroit
Photo courtesy of Joshua Gunter - PD Cleveland State 56, Detroit 43 (box) I was happy to be down as the Wolstein Center for Horizon League Tournament first round action last night, expecting to see an...
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Cleveland State Hoops Garnering Individual Awards, Looking for the Automatic Bid
With the Horizon League tournament kicking off tomorrow, the Cleveland State Vikings will have a home game against Detroit as both teams set their sites on the automatic bid that goes to the winner of...
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Ten For Tuesday
It’s the wonderful world of Cleveland sports on a Tuesday after the Super Bowl. Let the lull period begin. While you are bored, here are ten things to think about: -Last January, he was a potential...
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New Year’s Resolutions for Sports
I hate resolutions. It seems to me that, when you really think about it, that people wait until an arbitrary moment in time before they stop eating and start exercising or whatever else the resolution...
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03/07 Morning Minute: Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Welcome back, Zydrunas Ilgauskas! Yesterday’s Cavaliers game was entirely too close for my liking, but there is no denying that Z’s presence in the post was huge on both ends of the floor. Yes, he...
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Hold your head up CSU
Not to belabor the point, but most of us here at WFNY do not get the opportunity to watch the CSU Vikings games. Certainly, they don’t get much coverage in the local press either. Now had the Vikings...
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Let’s Go Vi-kings! (Clap, Clap, Clap-Clap-Clap!)
It comes as no surprise that with the exodus of Greg Oden, Mike Conley and Daequan Cook out of Ohio State last year – and into the first round of the NBA Draft – that Ohio State men’s basketball has...
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03/07 Morning Minute: That Stings
Man. Talk about taking one on the chin. I’m sure I’m not alone on this one, but I turned this game on in the second quarter. I saw LeBron James nail the three-pointer from the time line to end the...
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