CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns will not be publicly recognizing Art Modell's passing during their pre-game activities at Cleveland Browns Stadium on Sunday.

Cleveland has, to put it charitably, a checkered history of sports team ownership. But one choice by Art Modell -- to pull the Cleveland Browns out of town -- cemented his status as the most ...

The Browns have found a way to beat Cleveland. With litigation pending over whether the Art Modell Law keeps the Browns from ...

Pall bearers carry the casket of former Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell from Baltimore Hebrew Congregation synagogue after his funeral Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in Baltimore.

Matt Wood cannot understand it when Baltimore fans shrug off Cleveland’s bitterness toward the late Art Modell. “It’s bewildering to me when Baltimore fans say, ‘Big deal, h… ...

Art Modell, part of Brooklyn’s legacy to the NFL along with Al Davis, never wanted to move the Browns from Cleveland, where they were a civic treasure, to Baltimore, where he was lured by the ...

Art Modell loved Cleveland even after leaving; Cleveland fans can't say same about him For all the positive attributes of former Browns and Ravens owner Art Modell, who died Thursday at the age of ...

Art Modell purchased the Browns in 1961 for $4 million and remained owner well into the 1990s. Although the team never reached, let alone won, the Super Bowl -- a status that remains to this day ...

If it's any consolation for LeBron James, he is not the most hated man in Cleveland sports history.. That dubious honor still belongs to Art Modell, the former Cleveland Browns owner who moved the ...

Specifically, the city plans to use current state law, passed in 1996 and named for former Browns owner Art Modell, who moved the team from Cleveland to Baltimore, as the justification to keep the ...

Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell gesturing during a news conference about the strike by NFL players, in Cleveland. (Sept. 21, 1982) Credit: AP By BOB GLAUBER [email protected] September 8, 2012 ...

Cleveland City Council has approved an ordinance directing the city to enforce the so-called 'Art Modell Law' in Browns stadium talks. Skip Navigation.