Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks

Deadspin.com does a regular column titled "Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks." This week they highlighted the worst columnist in the Cleveland area, Roger Brown. Not surprisingly, the first complaint about Brown is his accuracy (or rather inaccuracy).

OK, it’s just time to say it: Roger Brown makes stuff up. That’s the word on the street anyway. When a veteran Northeast Ohio sportswriter such as Hal Lebovitz (and when we say “veteran,” we mean “was the last person to interview Custer”) levels the charge, we tend to give it weight. Said the late Lebovitz of Brown (to Clevescene.com): “I can’t compete with fiction.”

About time someone said it.