Plain Dealer columnist Bill Livingston, today's guest, talks Cavaliers, Browns and Indians on today's show.
Welcome to today's edition of Starting Blocks TV, our Web video show about what's going on in Cleveland sports. Today's show is hosted by Chuck Yarborough and Branson Wright. Today's highlights:
• LeBron James bought an ad in today's Akron Beacon Journal thanking his hometown. Nowhere in the full-page ad is there any mention of the Cavaliers, Cleveland or even Northeast Ohio. Is this the ultimate snub? Voice your opinion in our Starting Blocks poll.
• Plain Dealer columnist Bill Livingston, today's guest, casts his vote, saying he believes the omission in James' ad is a deliberate slap in the face to Cleveland.
Livingston also expounds on his column that was published in today's Plain Dealer on the Miami Heat becoming a "superstar" team of quitters. He says James and Chris Bosh broke a main code that athletes don't quit, and says the worst decision James made dates back to him firing agent Aaron Goodwin.
Also, following James' departure Livingston explains how Browns player Josh Cribbs -- a limited, special teams standout -- has become the new darling on the local sports scene.
Starting Blocks TV will return Wednesday with Plain Dealer reporter Tim Rogers, who will preview this week's World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club. If you have a golf question for Tim, post it in the comments below and we'll try to ask him during Wednesday's show.