CLEVELAND —LeBron James did everything but dance an Irish jig.
He scored. He rebounded. He passed. He blocked shots. He got steals. And he did all that in the final 4½ minutes.
Heck, James even issued an impromptu public ser-vice announcement after leading the Cavaliers to a 99-94 win over the injury-plagued Indiana Pacers on St. Patrick’s [...]

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BEREA —Jake Del-homme can’t guarantee dismayed Browns fans he’ll bounce back from a 2009 season that was so disas-trous he lost the starting job he held for seven years and was cut by the Carolina Panthers despite being owed $12.7 million in guaranteed money.
“I’ve got to go out and prove it,” the Browns quarterback said [...]

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GOODYEAR, Ariz. —Is he a reliever or a starter?
That’s been the question since right-hander Justin Masterson broke into the majors two seasons ago with the Boston Red Sox.
“It’s been that way my whole (big league) career,” said Masterson, who did not pitch in either of Cleve-land’s split-squad exhibition games Wednesday, the first a 6-3 loss [...]

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CLEVELAND — Avon Lake battled back from a large early deficit to get within four late, but came up short Wednesday night in a Division I regional semifinal at Cleveland State University. Mentor 64, Avon Lake 58.
Mentor will play the winner of the second game between St. Ignatius and St. Edward.
The Shoremen finished 17-8 after [...]

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BEREA — New Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme didn’t make any excuses for his poor play with Carolina in 2009.
 
“I didn’t play good football. Very simple,” he said Wednesday in his introductory news conference. “2009 football-wise wasn’t fun. I tried to press way too much. I wasn’t being me.”
 
Delhomme threw a career-high 18 interceptions in 2009 [...]

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INDEPENDENCE —At least Jamario Moon didn’t break out a “Mork & Mindy” analogy.
The fun-loving Cavaliers reserve was talking about the team’s bench players Monday at Cleveland Clinic Courts when he referenced “Flubber,” the 1997 Disney movie starring Robin Williams.
“It’s all about jelling,” Moon said. “I guess you could call us one big Flubber. It’s one [...]

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A lot of people need to fig-ure out what to do with their No. 10 Brady Quinn Browns jerseys.
That seemed unimagin-able just months ago.
Quinn was the latest greatest hope to rescue the Browns. National and local media flocked to Berea for his first rookie minicamp practice in 2007, where he stood in shorts and threw [...]

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GOODYEAR, Ariz. —Competing for a spot in the rotation out of spring train-ing has not been kind to Aaron Laffey.
The left-hander has been in the running for a starting job the past two springs, and he’s lost out both times, the first, in a battle with even-tual American League Cy Young award winner Cliff Lee [...]

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BEREA — Browns president Mike Holmgren didn’t expect veteran quarterback Jake Delhomme to be available. So when the Carolina Panthers cut him and the Browns were able to sign him, Brady Quinn became expendable.
 
Holmgren and coach Eric Mangini met the media for 55 minutes Monday to discuss the recent barrage of roster moves. Many of the questions [...]

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BEREA — Linebacker Kamerion Wimbley was traded to the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, according to Scout.com’s Adam Caplan.
It’s not known yet what the Browns will receive from Oakland.
Wimbley was the No. 13 pick in the 2006 draft out of Florida State. He burst on the scene with 11 sacks as a rookie, then totaled 15.5 [...]

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