Latest Articles Written

Full Archive »

About

Welcome! My name is Brian Murtaugh and I am a former national sports intern here at Bleacher Report. I am also enjoying my second tenure as a Cleveland Browns featured columnist at B/R.

I have been a member of the b/r community for the last three years and have worked with some of the best that this site has to offer.

My work has been published to some major sites including :
Cleveland.com
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Rant Sports
The Houston Chronicle
San Francisco Gate
ESPN.Go
USAToday.com
Foxsports.com
Yardbarker.com
and many others.

I am also a regular contributor to the Cleveland Browns newsletter here on B/R

Personal:
I am a 21-year-old college student from Pennsylvania with a dream of someday covering a professional sports franchise for a living. I have been writing sports articles regularly since 2007 and I feel like I have found my niche in sports reporting. I started my career at Bleacher Report in May of 2010 and gained 100,000 reads in my first year of writing. My second year at B/R came with a national sports writing internship and I have been working feverishly ever since.

I have been a Cleveland Browns fan my entire life as I followed in the footsteps of my father and grandfather. Sports have always been a passion of mine and has interested me since I was old enough to swing a baseball bat.

Anyone who is interested in contacting me can shoot me an E-Mail @:

Murtaugh62@hotmail.com or send me a personal message here on B/R

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Colt McCoy, Peyton Hillis, Jabaal Sheard, Danny Briere, Ilya Bryzgalov, Chris Pronger

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Flyers, Cleveland Indians,

  • All Time Sports Moment

    Right now I think the top sports moment on my list is the recent 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs where the Flyers came back from a 3-0 series defecit and a 3-0 score in game 7 to win it.

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Week 6 of the 2008 season. Monday Night football against the New York Giants. The Browns won the game 35-14, I have never seen Cleveland Browns Stadium rockin like that before.

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Cal Ripken's consecutive game streak. Nobody will ever match that again.

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth. Classic power hitter and versitle playmaker in the field. He was the front runner in an era where baseball was played the right way.

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Hard to call this one because I never really had the opportunity to watch either play. I would have to go with Montana. Joe helped lay the framework for a 49ers dynasty that was/is argueably the best anyone has ever seen in the NFL.

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan. Nobody could take over a game like Jordan in the 90's. Whether you wanted to or not you found yourself rooting for the Bulls everytime you watched them.

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky. Sadly he played for a team that I have grown a hatred for in recent years in the NYR but you can't deny how Wayne dominated the sport. The Great One, Enough Said.

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger. Tiger is the reason why golf is a TV staple on weekends and why it has been revitalized. He made people feel like golf was the next big thing and until recent months was the perfect entity to take it to the top.

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    I don't really have a preference when it comes to college football.

Bulletin Board

Crop_45x45
or to post this comment

  • Brian Stepanek posted 32 days ago

    Brian Stepanek

    Of course the Bengals got him. With Maualuga and Burfict, they could have the sissiest linebacking corps in the league soon...NOT. (Stewie Griffin voice:) I hate this place.

  • Brian Stepanek posted 51 days ago

    Brian Stepanek

    So, if the Browns take Burfict are you going to demand Mary Kay Cabot's job? I think you should.

  • Justin Kirk posted 52 days ago

    Justin Kirk

    I see that you cover the browns so I want to run this by you and see if you can create an article or something. What if the Browns select Blackmon at 4th, an OL at 22nd and Weeden in the second round. Don't you think that would give this offense some life. Then they could either draft Pead, Holk, or Turbin later on for a running back or trade away a few low picks for Ben Tate.

  • David Bee posted 53 days ago

    David Bee

    Brian: Your case for Cedric Benson is a good one because... it allows the Browns to fill the RB spot with a top performer and trade down to get more beef.... say with the Rams or Carolina.

    Once they sign Benson, the #4 pick is clearly up for grabs so...
    The Rams cannot sit at #6 and figure the Browns take TR and Bucs take Claiborne. They will need to offer more than a swap of picks so they will need to cough up #33 too. That makes it 6, 22, 33, 37 which in my book is DeCastro, WR (Floyd/Sanu/Hill, etc), WR or Levonte David?, Bob Massie....a great draft and makes them a playoff possibility

    Carolina could step up and offer #9 and #42 this year, and their First Round for 2013. Makes it #9, 22, 37, 42 and becomes DeCastro, WR, Massie and either WR or LB

    The Bengals would be very interested in #4 but as a division rival they will need to cough up #19,21 and 53 in this years draft to go with #22, and #37

    We lose Decastro so that becomes Cordy Glenn, Jonathan Martin, WR, WR/LB, and best player.

    I also believe that Nick Toon is a tremendous fit here and would be a steal in the Third Round.

    Colt is far better than anyone gives him credit for. The right side of the line was pourus yet he put up good numbers and they were 4 chip shot field goals from being 8-8, and two more long pass plays (weeks 1 and 3) from being 10-6.

  • Kai Olanoh posted 65 days ago

    Kai Olanoh

    How is it that you and Brian let 2 Steeler fans like Andrea Hangst and Sigmund Bloom write all the Browns articles and dominate their articles on our wall...everything is a biased opinion and the constantly fill our wall up with garbage...why are they even allowed to do that...it's not like you guys are blogging articles on the Steelers wall...

  • Brian Stepanek posted 84 days ago

    Brian Stepanek

    I'd like to see us either take Richardson or Blackmon, or trade down and improve the o-line. With DeCastro, Cordy Glenn, Massie, Sanders and Reiff all sure to be available, but not worth top-5 money the Browns should shoot to pick up two out of those four. I think we're capable of making one solid free agency pickup on both sides of the ball, and we have to build around that. Looking forward to seeing your perspective in the post-RG III-craze phase of the draft.

  • Brian Stepanek posted 85 days ago

    Brian Stepanek

    Hey Brian, big fan of your material! What holes do you see H & H filling via free agency vs. the draft?

  • Satch Wilson posted 86 days ago

    Satch Wilson

    http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2012/03/cleveland_browns_gm_tom_hecker_11.html

  • Garrett Derr posted 283 days ago

    Garrett Derr

    Hey man I wrote an article about the Top 10 Pro Athletes Who Would Make Good UFC Fighters. Would love to hear what you think man. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/817080-10-pro-athletes-that-would-make-good-ufc-fighters

  • Duan Carter posted 302 days ago

    Duan Carter

    Brian - We need to get in on the Tebow debate, something to the extent of "If Denver dumps Tebow, should the Browns consider him?"

More