Mansfield Lucas is not his real name, but the takes you'll get are as real and raw as they come. Sometimes intelligent, sometimes whack, sometimes thought provoking, sometimes inspiring questions of just what did his parents do to him, anyway? grammatically sound but always readable. As satisfying as an old POC in a 40 degree can.

Mansfield grew up in the heart of Cleveland's East Side in Euclid, and like Greg Brinda attended St Ignatius High School, and like Greg, decided that rather than go onto college he'd matriculate to Kent State. Unlike Greg, Mansfield actually knows what he's talking about and rarely stutters.

Mansfield has written for over a decade on several internet sites and has also been a published sports writer and music critic for the now defunct Downtown Tab magazine, which means, yes, somebody actually did pay him to write this crap at one time. Shocking.

Mansfield has a PhD in the TCE (TM) (The Cleveland Exeperience, as in sports' experience), a concept that will no doubt come up frequently in his blurbs. He will be covering the Cleveland Browns for The Cleveland Fan.

Matt Vann was born and raised in South Euclid, and was actually alive the last time a Cleveland team won a championship (The Crunch do not count). He hopes to be alive for the next one as well, but the way things are going it's gonna be close. School and career have kept Matt living elsewhere, but he returns for his "annual pilgrimage" and often plans his visits with the family around C-Town sporting events. Or at least dinner at one of Michael Symon's restaurants. Matt and his family now live in Houston, where his kids have closets full of gear which they no longer wear emblazoned with "James" and "Edwards" and "Sabathia" on the back. Generic Ohio State apparel is now the go to move in the Vann household. Matt, with help from his Houston based buddies, will be writing about football, food, and drink for The Cleveland Fan.

What started as diehard interest in the Cleveland Browns, morphed into an insane fanaticism for all things Buckeye for Mike Furlan. When the infamous traitor, Art Modell, absconded with Mike's beloved Cleveland Browns; Mike poured all of his passion into Ohio State athletics.

Mike is a ten year veteran of the United States Marine Corps and Operation Enduring Freedom. He currently remains on active duty and is stationed in the Columbus, Ohio area where he can usually be seen bouncing one of his children on his knee.

Mike's interests include probability theory with applications in actuarial mathematics, latin poetry, and weightlifting. Mike coaches lacrosse and baseball and is defensive line coach for youth athletic teams.

Mike just moved to Charleston, South Carolina where he is attending U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion School with his wife Shannon and their four children.

Mike will be covering Ohio State Buckeye football for The Cleveland Fan.

Mike Kramer was born and raised in Willoughby Ohio.  Without his consent, he was immediately indoctrinated with the dreaded Cleveland Sports Fan gene.  After high school, he attended Grove City College in western Pa and earned a degree in molecular biology, in the hopes that he might be able to genetically engineer a Cleveland Sports owner who wasn’t a moron.

When it turned out that this would be really really hard, he decided to become a dentist, dooming him to yearly gifts of Hermie Chrristmas ornaments.  He earned his DDS from tOSU in 2001 where his Buckeye fandom turned into a mild fanaticism.  After a brief stint in Youngstown, he returned to Cleveland and settled in Avon where he lives with his lovely wife and young son.

He joins the esteemed TCF writing staff where he will contribute all manner of nonsense with the unstated goal of making everyone else look better by comparison.