Tensions are heating up in the Cleveland Browns locker room. Veteran running back Jamal Lewis, who is so fed up that he has announced his he is hanging up his cleats after the season, says that Eric Mangani is overworking his team :

“You’ve got to take care of your players so they’re ready to go on Sunday, or in this case, Monday. It’s all about making your players ready, fresh and efficient for the games.

“With the way we work in the OTAs, in training camp, two-a-days and in practice (during the season) – 2½ to three hours a day, every day – you want to see some results, some wins, and we’re not seeing that.”

When asked if he had expressed his concerns with the embattled head coach the running back stated:

“It’s not my place, and that’s been the case with any coach I’ve played for,” he said. “My job is to run the football. My job is not to evaluate things and then try to fix the problems that exist.

“Just like he can’t go into one of my businesses and tell me how to run it, I can’t go to him and tell him how to run his team. This is his show. I run my show, and he runs his show.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major accused of carrying out the Fort Hood massacre, was charged on Thursday with 13 counts of premeditated murder. If convicted, he will be eligible for the death penalty.

Hasan, 39, will face justice in a military court. Prosecutors are expected to begin putting together the military equivalent of a grand jury. Under the military court system, fellow Army officers will decide whether Hasan is guilty of mass murder, and if so, on his punishment. If the death penalty is decided upon, he would die by lethal injection.

Chris Grey, a spokesman for the US Army Criminal Investigation Command, said that additional charges could be filed against Hasan. Officials are still trying to decide whether or not to charge him with a fourteenth count of murder in connection with the death of a pregnant victim's unborn child.

Captured alive, the Army psychiatrist, feds say he killed 13 people and wounded 42 others at the Fort Hood army installation in Texas last week. Hasan was said to be armed with two handguns, opening fire inside a medical office waiting room packed with unarmed soldiers. His shooting spree was put to an end when he was wounded in a shootout with civilian police.

Ohio State University President Dr. E. Gordon Gee picked up a nice honor from Time Magazine today who named him the best college president in the nation and ran a lengthy piece on him. The entire piece can be read by clicking to Time Magazine's Website.

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland was quick to congratulate Gee releasing a press release that read:

“I am so proud that Dr. Gee received this significant distinction for his incredible leadership and the national prominence he brings to the university and our state,” Strickland said. “Dr. Gee understands that for Ohio to succeed we must have the most educated, innovative workforce in the country, and that institutions of higher education and the business community partnering together are an important part of our plan to create jobs and lasting economic growth.”

The Cleveland State Vikings tip-off their awaited 2009-2010 season tomorrow night in Western New York where they face Saint Bonaventure. Gametime for the contest is set for 7 p.m.

Here is the information regarding the two teams:

Cleveland State (26-11 in 2008-09) at St. Bonaventure (15-15)
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST
Site: Reilly Center (5,780), Olean, NY
Radio: WHKW 1220 AM (Cleveland), WHKZ, 1440 AM (Warren) (Al Pawlowski)
**No Televsion coverage of the contest**
Series: SBU Leads 5-0
Last Meeting: @SBU 81, CSU 67 (1/28/03)
CLICK HERE FOR THE GAME NOTES

The Vikings start their home season in interesting fashion hosting Division III foe Wilmington in a game that will start before noon.
Here is the ticketing information you need to know about the businessman’s special against Wilmington on Monday that kicks off the Vikings home schedule:

« Monday, November 16th vs. Wilmington
« Game time is 11:30 a.m.
« $10 Gets you an admission ticket and a voucher for a hot dog, drink, and chips.
« Anyone attending is able to bring their lunch in with them
« $5 vouchers for a hot dog, drink, and chips will be available for purchase at the Box Office

I haven’t read the 300 page plus consulting report on management and efficiency of Cleveland government and I probably won’t. I'll leave it to others.I know it won’t touch the one revenue source that Cleveland should tap if it had any concern for its citizens. It is out of the question. Won’t happen.

The so-called city income tax – the city’s largest revenue source by far - is really a payroll tax. It’s a tax on your wage income. It’s a regressive tax that takes from the first dollar someone earns. It’s a tax that hits people so poor that they don’t pay federal income taxes but must pay this tax. The feds at least tax somewhat progressively though the rich still get away with tax robbery.

If we really wanted a fair tax the so-called city income tax would be progressive. In other words, the guy who makes $150 a week would pay far less proportionally than the guy who makes $150 or $500 a day, or more.

It’s an obvious source of more revenue for cities. But it’s ignored. Why? Because wealthy people decide who gets taxed and by how much.

It’s legal theft calculatedly devised by professional hired thugs. Sometimes called lawyers or legislators.

A playful Facebook message to his pregnant girlfriend about pancakes saved Rodney Bradford, 19, from being convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Prosecutors dropped a robbery charge against the Brooklyn teen after learning his Facebook account status had been updated with the inside joke "WHERE MY IHOP?" from a computer inside his father's Harlem apartment one minute before an Oct. 17 stickup of two men in Brooklyn's Farragut Houses.

Bradford said, "They had on me Rikers Island for 12 days. It was really miserable. If it wasn't for Facebook I'd still be on Rikers Island."

His stepmom, Ernestine Bradford agreed. She said:

"Facebook saved my son. Normally, we yell at our kids, 'Oh, you're on the computer!" It's completely different. If it wasn't for Facebook, my son wouldn't be here."

Electronic footprints created by Bradford's posting on Facebook backed up multiple witnesses who said that he was at his dad's house that day. It also refuted a victim's claim that he recognized one of the robbers as Bradford, who lives in Farragut Houses.

Bradford's lawyer, Robert Reuland, said:

Favorite Spread o/u Underdog

DIVISION I
Ignatius 4 35 Glenville
Solon 3 ½ 35 Mayfield
Canton McKinley 1 ½ 44 GlenOak
Massillon 6 ½ 38 Twinsburg
Hilliard Davidson 11 34 Pickerington Central
Dublin Coffman 6 40 Westerville South
Middletown 7 ½ 54 Cin. Anderson
Cin. St. Xavier 3 33 Cin. Elder

DIVISION II
Ashland 5½ 45 Warren Howland
Lake Catholic 9 37 Canfield
Tol. St. Francis Pick 43 Avon Lake
Tol. Central Catholic Pick 53 Maple Hts.
Logan 14½ Col. Brookhaven
Marion-Franklin 11 Olentangy Orange
Cin. Winton Woods 21 NC Tecumseh
Cin. Turpin 1 39 Trotwood-Madison

DIVISION III
Poland Seminary 4 32 Akron Hoban
Youngstown Mooney 25½ Hubbard
Col. Watterson 18 Napoleon
Col. DeSales 22 ½ Tipp City Tippecanoe

It was a big day yesterday for Ohio State basketball when Thad Matta landed what scout.com and espn.com are calling the best recruiting class in country. The Buckeyes number one recruit is s 6-foot-9 power forward Jared Sullinger from Columbus' Northland High School. J.D. Weatherspoon, Sullinger's teammate at Northland who plays small forward, also signed with the Buckeyes.

Deshaun Thomas, a 6-7 native of Ft. Wayne, Ind.; and guards Lenzelle Smith Jr., a 6-4 from Zion, Ill., Aaron Craft from Findlay Liberty-Benton and 6-4 Jordan Sibert of Cincinnati also picked the Buckeyes yesterday.

Here are some clips of the incoming Buckeyes:

One summer afternoon, in must have been in 1956 or ’57, as my father was totaling up the money from the day shift waitress in the tavern he owned on Scovill Avenue, he saw my eyes grow wide at the stack of bills he was counting. Growing up, I must have seen him perform this tallying ritual many times before — the difference that time being, I was entering puberty and with a growing interest in the opposite sex, I needed to dress better … thus my growing interest in money. There was this cool pair of Stetson shoes that I wanted to be the first in my school to own. “Son,” he simply said, “those folks down in Washington print way too much of this stuff for a sucker not to have a pile of it.” That was all of the economic advice he ever gave me … and it proved to be all I ever needed.