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The Houston Outlaws were a part of the Regional Football League. The league played one season in the spring of 1999 before folding.??

The Bohannon Brewing Company was founded in 1988 and is recognized as Tennessee's original micro/pub brewery.

Nashville's Sulphur Dell, in 1870, was the area was referred to as Athletic Park, and in 1885 it became the home of Nashville's first professional baseball team, the Americans, in the newly-formed Southern League. Grantland Rice re-named the ballpark "Sulphur Dell" in 1908 while...

Come summertime in Indiana, Cocktail Cove, located on the Geist Reservoir, is the place to party and get some sun.

The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland (brother of The Police's Stewart Copeland) and Jay Boberg. A division of A&M Records, its roster included some of the most important new wave acts of the '80s including R.E.M.,...

Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, was NOT from Cleveland, he was from New Jersey. However, he was distantly related to Moses Cleaveland (yes, spelled differently) the man for whom the city is named.

The Prize Movie??was a fixture on Cleveland TV for close to two decades. Hosted by popular radio personality John Lanigan, it ran weekday afternoons on Channel 43. During breaks in the afternoon movie, Lanigan would draw a name to find a contestant whom he...

The Cleveland Press??was the city's afternoon and published from 1878 to 1982.

Webster Slaughter, number 84, was a wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns from 1986 to 1991. A favorite target of quarterback Bernie Kosar, his car had this unique license plate (though it was registered in his native California).

Cleveland's first independent TV station was WKBF, Channel 61, which began broadcasting on January 19, 1968. Competition from Cleveland's second independent TV station, WUAB Channel 43, combined with a soft economy, set the stage for a merger of the two stations with the channel...

The Exotic Birds was a synth-pop band formed in 1982 by Andy Kubiszewski??along with fellow Cleveland Institute of Music students Tom Freer and Tim Adams. In 1985, Trent Reznor joined the band but left a few years later to concentrate on developing Nine Inch...

Geauga Lake is a former theme park in Aurora, Ohio that was established in 1887 in what had been a local recreation area adjacent to the lake of the same name. The first amusement ride was added in 1889, and the park's first roller...

The Lumberjacks moved to Cleveland in 1992 from Muskegon, MI as the Internationl Hockey League (IHL) sought to place teams in bigger markets. The Jacks, as they were also known, began play in 1960 as the Zephyrs, then became the Mohawks in 1965. From...

The Euclid Tavern is one of Cleveland's most important and legendary live music venues. Opened in 1909, the "Euc" became a storied venue on the Cleveland music scene. Early in their career, Green Day performed there and got paid $100. Scenes for the 1987...

The Euclid Beach Band consisted of lead vocalists Richard Reising and Pete Hewlett. In 1978, they released "There's No Surf In Cleveland," both a tribute to and parody of the Beach Boys, which became a local hit.

Eliot Ness was a federal agent mostly widely known from the fictionalized portrayals of his life in the TV series the Untouchables??(1959-1963) and the 1987 movie of the same name. He became Safety Director of Cleveland in 1935 and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in...

Though he famously met his end outside a Chicago movie theater, notorious criminal John Dillinger began his life in Indianapolis.

Euclid Beach Park opened in 1895 on Lake Shore Boulevard and served as the area's primary amusement park for over 70 years. Financial problems, along with competition from the newly expanded Geauga Lake, spelled the end of Euclid Beach Park after the 1969 season.

Dick the Bruiser was a legendary professional wrestler from Indiana. He was born William Fritz Afflis in Delphi, Indiana and grew up in Lafayette. Before becoming a wrestler in 1955, he was lineman for the Green Bay Packers for 4 seasons beginning in 1951.

Long before serving in Congress from 1997 to 2013, Dennis Kucinich was mayor of Cleveland from January 1978 to November 1979. His brief but controversial tenure included a battle with one of the area's major utilities as well as the city declaring bankruptcy. He...

Cotton Club Bottling began in 1902 as Miller and Becker Bottlers. In addition to bottling its own flavors under the Cotton Club name, the company was also the Northeast Ohio bottler for Royal Crown (RC) Cola, Diet Rite, Vernors, Squirt, Hires, Schwepps, Evian, and...

The Cleveland Stokers played in the United Soccer Association (USA) in 1967 and the North American Soccer League (formed when the USA merged with the National Professional Soccer League) in 1968. They played their home games at Cleveland Stadium. The biggest highlight of their...

The Cleveland Stars joined the American Soccer League in 1972. In 1974, they became the Cleveland Cobras. The team folded after the 1981 season.

The Cleveland Nets were charter members of World Team Tennis in 1974. Their home court was the Richfield Coliseum.??In 1977, they split home matches between Cleveland and Pittsburgh (where the Triangles had just folded) before moving in 1978 to New Orleans where they became...

One of Cleveland's all-time most beloved sports franchises, and indeed one of America's most popular soccer teams ever, was the Force. They were a charter member of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) in 1978 and played 10 seasons before folding in 1988. READ...

The original Cleveland Force were charter members of the first Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) in 1978. They folded in 1988. In 1989, the Crunch were formed as an expansion team and in 2002 were renamed the Force. READ MORE

The Cleveland Comedy Company was a locally produced sketch comedy TV show that aired on Channel 5 on Friday nights in 1979 and 1980. It was developed by popular local DJ Bob James of WGAR. The cast included fellow WGAR DJ Paul Tapie, as...

The Indianapolis Chiefs hockey team played in the IHL from 1955 to 1962 at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum. They won the Turner Cup in 1958, despite having a losing record.