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Browns, Brandon Weeden want to cut down on interceptions

Curtis Crabtree, profootballtalk.com

Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden is tied for the second-most interceptions in the league through the first ten weeks of the season. Weeden’s 12 interceptions are tied with San Diego’s Philip Rivers and Kansas City’s Matt Cassel for second…

Evan Drellich, MLB.com

Pirates GM Neal Huntington, Red Sox GM Ben Cherington and Indians GM Chris Antonetti discussed the state of the game during a panel at the trio's alma mater, the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Tom Reed, cleveland.com

BEREA, Ohio -- Phil Dawson's kids will get the thrill of watching their dad play in his hometown of Dallas on Sunday against the Cowboys. Dawson knows his children will be cheering for him. He hopes they will be...

Mike Peticca, cleveland.com

Mack, who helped the Browns make the playoffs in each of his first five seasons, is fifth on the team's all-time rushing yardage list.

Starting Blocks, cleveland.com

Browns running back Trent Richardson says Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Ware can cause opponents a lot of problems. Chuck Crow, The Plain Dealer BEREA, OhioBrowns player quotes Trent Richardson On if the players have to win in order to...

Matt Florjancic, clevelandbrowns.com

The Browns continue to prepare for Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys.

Matt Florjancic, clevelandbrowns.com

The Browns continue to prepare for Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys.

theclevelandfan.com

The lockout drags on as fans are left to wonder if there will be a season at all. Despite the fact that the “big boys” aren’t playing, there is no shortage of hockey action within a couple hundred mile radius of northeast Ohio. Hockey-starved fans c…

Terry Pluto, cleveland.com

Jerry Jones gives Jimmy Haslam a lesson on how not to treat a coach.

Glenn Moore, cleveland.com

Here are what blogs from Cleveland and around the country are saying about the Browns, Cavaliers and Indians. Featured today are The Cleveland Sports Report, Wahoo's On First and Cavs: The Blog.

Glenn Moore, cleveland.com

On today's episode of Sports Insider, The Plain Dealer's Dennis Manoloff joined cleveland.com's Glenn Moore to talk Indians and Browns.

Mike Peticca, cleveland.com

With seven games to play, AFC North last-place Browns are two games behind the Bengals. Injuries and a suspension have been factors defensively. More Browns story links.

Bill Livingston, cleveland.com

The Browns and Sunday’s opponents, the Dallas Cowboys, are more alike than you think. Which is not necessarily a good thing.

Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com

Brandon Weeden knows he's got to impress the new bosses over the next seven weeks.

Glenn Moore, cleveland.com

"This game may still be winnable. the Browns are a team easy to overlook but seem to have a knack for muddling the game down to their level and almost, somehow coulda won the game. The boys may get intoxicated with themselves and lose." - fanofcolt

Matt Loede, brownsgab.com

Former NFL cornerback Hanford Dixon will vist two local bookstores to meet and greet fans and autograph copies of his new book, “Day of the Dawg; A Football Memoir” recently published by Gray & Company. Dixon will appear as follows: Saturday Novembe…

Matt Florjancic, clevelandbrowns.com

Through the Browns’ second-annual motorcycle rally, the team raised $10,000 for the Greater Cleveland Fisher House.

Matt Florjancic, clevelandbrowns.com

The Cleveland Browns will sponsor their annual food drive to benefit the Cleveland Foodbank on Sunday, Nov. 25.

Matt Florjancic, clevelandbrowns.com

The Browns have teamed up with WTAM to help benefit the United Way of Greater Cleveland.

Tom Ley, deadspin.com

Anderson Varejao scored 35 points and grabbed 18 rebounds last night in a loss to the Nets. It feels crazy to write that, because Varejao isn't the kind of center you expect to put up such fat numbers. He's the "energy guy," the big man who ne…

theclevelandfan.com

The Cleveland Browns were back in first place. They had reached the AFC Championship game three times in recent years, only to fall on hard times and bottom out as a last-place team by 1990. Upon signing young defensive mind Bill Belichick from the Supe…

Branson Wright, cleveland.com

Big Creek Elementary in Middleburg Heights participates in Play 60 with the Cleveland Browns.

Tom Reed, cleveland.com

The Browns signed defensive lineman Ricky Elmore to their practice squad, the team announced Tuesday.

theclevelandfan.com

While Snot-Boogie was robbing every west-side Baltimore dice game that he could snag an invite to, and in the years following his untimely death, Avon Barksdale and his crew ran the drug trade in the fictional world of The Wire.  They were bigger than t…

Dime Magazine, dimemag.com

Pau Gasol, we hope you surround yourself with protection tonight. You might turn up along the rocks in the Pacific Ocean tomorrow morning, courtesy of a crazed Kobe Bryant. Down two on the last possession last night against the Spurs, Gasol couldn’t fin…

Curtis Crabtree, profootballtalk.com

The Cleveland Browns may finally be able to see their defensive tackle duo of Ahtyba Rubin and Phil Taylor on the field together for the first time this season Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys. According to Tom Reed of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Rubin…