Cleveland Browns

Our sports commentator Terry Pluto explains the move by the Browns to draft Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who fell to the fifth round.

The owners of the Cleveland Browns fired back after the state’s budget director and researchers for state lawmakers were sharply critical of the team’s proposal for a $3.4 billion domed stadium development.

The former University of Colorado quarterback was the center of a three-day spectacle of cringe that will live in football lore for a long time. Sanders fell from a potential top-five overall selection on Thursday to the fifth round on Saturday in an excruciating slide that had his supporters fuming and detractors laughing.

So far, there’s been no publicly-released independent analysis of tax revenue estimates provided by the owners of the Cleveland Browns from the legislature or from the state.

Our sports commentator Terry Pluto believes the team will pass on a quarterback and take elite two-way player Travis Hunter of the University of Colorado on Thursday night.

It’s not just the Cleveland Browns who want a handout. The Bengals want one too. Who will be next?

Flacco, 40, spent last season in Indianapolis, throwing for 12 touchdowns and seven interceptions in eight games, including a 2-4 mark as a starter.

The budget proposed by House Republicans that passed on a mostly party line vote includes $600 million in 30-year state-backed bonds for a domed stadium project for the Browns in a suburb of Cleveland.

Ideastream's sports commentator Terry Pluto weighs in on Browns owner Jimmy Haslam's comments calling the Deshaun Watson trade a "swing and a miss", and that renovating the downtown stadium is still a possibility.

The amendment would authorize the state to sell $600 million in 30-year bonds as its part of financing a domed stadium and surrounding development for the Browns in Brook Park, 12 miles outside of Cleveland.