• Terry Pluto, Plain Dealer columnist talks about the Browns, the Cowboys game and the Indians

• Success of Case Western Reserve football team restores lost pride
Before every football season, the Division III polls come out and you can be sure to find Case Western Reserve . . .

• Terry Pluto chat
Talk sports with Terry Pluto today at noon at cleveland.com/sports

• Cliff Lee is as good as any Cleveland Indians pitcher in a long, long time, says The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto
There are nights when going to the ballpark means making a memory, when a dismal season takes a break every five days as the 20-game winner takes the mound.

• Cliff Lee is as good as any Cleveland Indians pitcher in a long, long time, says The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto
There are nights when going to the ballpark means making a memory, when a dismal season takes a break every five days as the 20-game winner takes the mound.

• Cleveland Browns might limp into the playoffs, says The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto
Some Browns fans have me talking to myself . . .

• Cleveland Browns offensive line lacks depth after injuries, says The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto
When the Browns open the season against Dallas next Sunday, the starting offensive line will be Joe Thomas, Eric Steinbach, Hank Fraley, Seth McKinney and Kevin Shaffer.

• Respectable loss translates to wins in MAC
For Kent State's football team, there's hope.

• Preseason work is right call for Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn
Scribbles in my notebook as the Browns end the preseason. . . .

• Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn needs more playing time, says The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto
Scribbles in my Browns notebook as they get ready for the final preseason game . . .

• Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto: Kent State has confidence in football coach Doug Martin
His record was 3-9 last season, a nightmarish year with key players injured and ending with a seven-game losing streak.

• Careful what you wish for; all QBs, even Quinn, need time
Detroit

• Jhonny Peralta's development as a power hitter gives the Cleveland Indians options, says The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto
The Indians believe their biggest off-season need is to add an in fielder who also can supply some offense. It could be a second baseman or a third baseman. A power-hitting first baseman is a possibility, but third or second seem more likely. On this day, my goal is to give you an idea of some of the Tribe's long-range thinking.

• Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Terry Pluto comments on the start of high school football season in Northeast Ohio
High school football is the smell of buck-a-box fresh popcorn bubbling up at the machine at the concession stand as you walk across the bridge over Interstate 76 from Archbishop Hoban High to Dowed Field, where the season opened Thursday night as Hoban beat Akron Garfield, 27-26, in overtime.

• Plain Dealer columnist Terry Pluto analyzes Cleveland Browns' problems
Let's hope the Browns are feeling black and blue and sore all over this week.

• Robertson's 'Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread' inspires writers, including Terry Pluto
The year was 1969. The place was Benedictine High School, on Cleveland's East Side.

• Former Cleveland Indians manager Mike Hargrove has Hall of Fame class, says The Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto
So glad that Mike Hargrove was inducted into the Tribe Hall of Fame. He's a class act who has lived in the area since 1980, even after he was fired in 1999 and then managed in Baltimore and Seattle. In seven seasons with the Tribe, he was a .292 hitter on some very awful teams. As a manager, he is the only man to take the Indians to a pair of World Series appearances. Like Al Lopez in the 1950s, the job he did for the Tribe will never truly be appreciated.

• Team - and fans - win in Mo Williams deal
How do you like the Cavs deal?

• Find powerful stories from everyday people in every church
On Sunday, I went to a small church in Michigan's Up per Peninsula, in one of those old mining towns on Lake Superior where people watch their pennies, eat pasties and catch walleye and trout while praying that no more businesses close.