Monday, February 24

Finance

According to my father, I’m not supposed to write about the weather as that has taken up a disproportionate amount of my musings during these Wordle posts. But how can I help it? The snow keeps falling! Our power was out all day Wednesday! Schools are barely open these days! It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad winter. A big W.

For Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry, this will be his most challenging season yet. The Browns have failed to reach the playoffs in two of Berry’s three years as general manager. The team is coming off a 7-10 last-place finish in the AFC North in 2022. Cleveland has no first round picks in this year or next year’s NFL draft, those picks going to Houston as part of the Deshaun Watson trade. Barring any trade, their first pick in this year’s draft won’t come until pick No. 42, in the second round.

I became a fan of Formula One during the 2018 season. It inspired me to write a how-to piece on becoming a new fan of the sport. Little did I know, Netflix was filming the first season of the Drive To Survive (DTS) reality series in 2018. With season number five dropping last week, this innovative approach to sports storytelling is credited with more than doubling the audience for F1 in the United States alone, and other sports like tennis and skiing are now chasing the format.

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