A good weekend

Cleveland and Ohio teams did a lot of winning this weekend. Of course, I went to the one game a Cleveland team lost this weekend.
The Barons, our minor-league hockey team, blew a 3-1 lead, giving up four goals in the third period Saturday to lose 5-3 to Grand Rapids.
Luckily, the teams that play for keeps around here fared much better.
After the Barons game, about 30 of us at Quicken Loans Arena pressed our faces up against the windows of the Cavaliers Team Shop like children outside a toy store, watching the televisions inside as the Cavs finished off a statement-making road rally against the 76ers.
They had been down by as many as 16 in the third quarter, but powered by LeBron James (who else?) and Larry Hughes, they chipped away until they took a 117-116 lead in the final minutes. The Sixers kept sending Damon Jones to the line, and Jones kept making free throws until the score was 123-120 with less than 10 seconds to play. An Allen Iverson three-ball caromed off the rim and over the backboard as time expired, and the Cavs beat Philadelphia for just the fourth time in the last 24 meetings.
That win followed yet another home blowout Friday. This time the Cavs pasted Orlando 102-84. They are now 5-0 at home with an average victory margin of nearly 20 points.
The two Cavs wins sandwiched an Ohio State-Michigan game for the ages. Somehow, Troy Smith looks like Akili Smith against other good teams, but when Michigan comes calling, he turns into John Elway, darting and dodging defenders until he finds the open man.
Saturday, it was Anthony Gonzalez, who high-jumped a Michigan defender at the three yard line to haul in the pass that set up the winning touchdown.
What was bleak at 21-12 Michigan turned into salvation at 25-21 Ohio State, final.
Jim Tressel is now 4-1 against Michigan. The win didn't get the Buckeyes a guaranteed BCS bowl bid as Penn State sealed the Big Ten title with a win over Michigan State later in the day, but Ohio State is in prime position to garner an at-large BCS bid.
Of course, the cherry on the banana split was Sunday, when the Browns washed some of the suck-stench off themselves by blanking Miami (see the post below).
If you are Cleveland/Ohio State fan, and you can go to bed feeling golden on Sunday night, you want to bottle the feeling and take it with you. Pure, unadulterated success doesn't happen often around these parts.
But I still feel kind of bad for the Barons.