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NBC Sports
3 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Browns beat reporter Mary Kay Cabot wins Bill Nunn Award
The Pro Football Writers of America has named Mary Kay Cabot the winner of the 2025 Bill Nunn Jr. Award. Cabot , who writes about the Browns for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and has covered the NFL since 1988. She becomes the 57th Nunn Award honoree and the second journalist who primarily worked at the Cleveland Plain Dealer to win the award, joining Chuck Heaton (1980). Cabot was a four-time finalist for the Nunn Award (2022-25), and she is the second woman to be a Nunn honoree (Pro Football Talk's Charean Williams, 2018). The Nunn Award is given to a reporter who has made a long and distinguished contribution to pro football through coverage. The award is named for Nunn, who prior to his Hall of Fame scouting career with the Steelers, worked for 22 years at the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the most influential Black publications in the United States. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021 as a contributor. Other 2025 finalists for the Nunn Award were Clarence Hill Jr. ( Mike Silver (The Athletic), and Barry Wilner (Associated Press). Cabot is a longtime member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee and is one of four women currently serving as a selector. She is also president of the Cleveland chapter of the Pro Football Writers of America. She will be honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, at the Enshrinees' Gold Jacket Dinner on Friday, Aug. 1.
USA Today
28-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Brian Windhorst responds to LeBron James' 'weird' comments: 'Doesn't owe me anything\
Brian Windhorst responds to LeBron James' 'weird' comments: 'Doesn't owe me anything" LeBron James' in-studio interview on the Pat McAfee Show this week continues to ripple across ESPN. James' feud with Stephen A. Smith escalating to WWE-promo levels unsurprisingly grabbed most of the headlines in the immediate aftermath, but some of the other digs LeBron made in his chat with McAfee also seem to have landed hard. In particular, James called out ESPN reporter Brian Windhorst, saying "This guy says he's like my [expletive] best friend. These guys are just weird." On Friday, Windhorst had a chance to respond and it was as uncomfortable as you'd imagine. Windhorst and James have a long, if not close, history. The two both went to high school at Akron's St. Vincent-St. Mary and Windhorst covered James' first stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers for the local Cleveland Plain Dealer. When James took his talents to South Beach, Windhorst took his to ESPN, where he's remained an NBA insider ever since. It's hard not to argue Windhorst's career took off because James' did, too. Because of this, he's been seen (and promoted) as a LeBron whisperer of sorts. So it's easy to see where James might get the ick in all of this. And to James' point, Windhorst isn't powerless to stop that kind of marketing. The lesson here is that if you (or your employer) tie your career to one specific player, make sure you're ready to deal with the ramifications of that player speaking against you.
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Browns continue to attack Art Modell Law as "unconstitutional"
Thirty years after the Browns left Cleveland because they couldn't get a new stadium, the Browns are attacking the law that was passed to keep the Browns from leaving Cleveland in order to get a new stadium. Dueling pieces of litigation are pending over the Art Modell Law, aimed at preventing a repeat of the team leaving town. Via the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Browns have asked to amend their pending lawsuit. It's a basic procedural step that is routinely granted. The Browns continue to attack the Modell Law as unconstitutional. The team's overriding goal is to move to suburban Brook Park. The Modell Law requires the team to provide six months' notice before leaving town, with residents having a chance to buy the team. Although it's important for the city and the team to coexist, the lawyers are talking tough — as lawyers often do. 'Our actions in court are intended to ensure that the city's irresponsible and baseless attempt to apply the Modell Law to the Browns does not slow our momentum to build a world-class stadium right here in Northeast Ohio for the Browns, our fans and the entire Ohio region,' Haslam Sports Group's chief administrative officer and general counsel Ted Tywang said in a statement issued to the Plain Dealer. The Browns filed suit in federal court. The City of Cleveland filed suit in state court. The Browns view federal court, where the judge is appointed for life and not subject to an election, as the preferred forum. The city sees state court, where the judge is accountable to the ballot box, as the better place for the case to be resolved. Via the Plain Dealer, the Browns have attacked the city's lawsuit as 'legally meritless and fiscally irresponsible.' (That's how the game is played; every civil defendant sees every case filed against it as meritless or frivolous.) The team also has accused the Browns of attempting to "run out the clock so the Browns are unable to bring the Brook Park stadium to fruition by 2029, and so hold the team, its fans and the community hostage to an inferior alternative and the political whims of city managers." Even if the Browns manage to circumvent the Modell Law, they still need to strike a deal for public financing for a domed stadium at Brook Park. And they need to make it happen without the issue being put out to vote, because the citizens of very few if any cities, counties, or states would vote at this point to devote taxpayer funds to the construction of stadiums for sports teams with values approaching, if not exceeding, $10 billion.
NBC Sports
20-03-2025
- Business
- NBC Sports
Browns continue to attack Art Modell Law as "unconstitutional"
Thirty years after the Browns left Cleveland because they couldn't get a new stadium, the Browns are attacking the law that was passed to keep the Browns from leaving Cleveland in order to get a new stadium. Dueling pieces of litigation are pending over the Art Modell Law, aimed at preventing a repeat of the team leaving town. Via the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Browns have asked to amend their pending lawsuit. It's a basic procedural step that is routinely granted. The Browns continue to attack the Modell Law as unconstitutional. The team's overriding goal is to move to suburban Brook Park. The Modell Law requires the team to provide six months' notice before leaving town, with residents having a chance to buy the team. Although it's important for the city and the team to coexist, the lawyers are talking tough — as lawyers often do. 'Our actions in court are intended to ensure that the city's irresponsible and baseless attempt to apply the Modell Law to the Browns does not slow our momentum to build a world-class stadium right here in Northeast Ohio for the Browns, our fans and the entire Ohio region,' Haslam Sports Group's chief administrative officer and general counsel Ted Tywang said in a statement issued to the Plain Dealer. The Browns filed suit in federal court. The City of Cleveland filed suit in state court. The Browns view federal court, where the judge is appointed for life and not subject to an election, as the preferred forum. The city sees state court, where the judge is accountable to the ballot box, as the better place for the case to be resolved. Via the Plain Dealer, the Browns have attacked the city's lawsuit as 'legally meritless and fiscally irresponsible.' (That's how the game is played; every civil defendant sees every case filed against it as meritless or frivolous.) The team also has accused the Browns of attempting to to 'run out the clock so the Browns are unable to bring the Brook Park stadium to fruition by 2029, and so hold the team, its fans and the community hostage to an inferior alternative and the political whims of city managers.' Even if the Browns manage to circumvent the Modell Law, they still need to strike a deal for public financing for a domed stadium at Brook Park. And they need to make it happen without the issue being put out to vote, because the citizens of very few if any cities, counties, or states would vote at this point to devote taxpayer funds to the construction of stadiums for sports teams with values approaching, if not exceeding, $10 billion.
