When the Ohio House quietly amended the state's long-standing " Modell Law ," they didn’t just change a sports statute.

With litigation pending over whether the Art Modell Law keeps the Browns from moving out of downtown Cleveland to suburban ...

The Cleveland Browns may have gotten what they wanted in the form of $600 million in taxpayer money and legal clearance to ...

Art Modell, then a New York ad man, assembled a group of investors to make a successful bid for the Cleveland Browns in 1961. See how The Plain Dealer covered the story back then, including Modell ...

The Cleveland Browns got what they wanted from Ohio, in the form of $600 million in taxpayer money and a change to the law ...

Former Browns owner Art Modell, who died Thursday, never wanted to leave Cleveland and never got over his decision to move the team to Baltimore.

After the Browns left Cleveland, a man paid $2,700 for Art Modell's toilet. The commode was on sale because of what happened on November 6, 1995.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.