About Me:
Dennis Manoloff has been a sportswriter at The Plain Dealer since August 1990. He covers primarily pro sports.
He has written on more than 15 sports/activities, including cricket and curling. He has covered two World Series, several PGA and LPGA championship events, the NBA Finals, MLB and NBA All-Star Games, and the NFL playoffs. He was on the field and hit by a bottle during the Bottlegate game at Cleveland Browns Stadium in 2001.
Among his beats was professional indoor soccer; the Crunch won three NPSL titles in the 1990s. Because pro indoor soccer does not count as a âmajorââ sport, Dennis, who grew up in Bay Village and graduated from Bay High School, has not seen a Cleveland team win a championship in his lifetime.
He once coached former Browns punter Dave Zastudil, a Bay High graduate, in baseball. Zastudil punts for the Arizona Cardinals.
In 2001, Dennis, a Northwestern University graduate, wrote a 25-piece âTalkinâ Baseballââ series that ran weekly during the season.
The Plain Dealer nominated it for a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism. He is also the author of "Dman's World," a question-and-answer chat with notable sports figures.
In 1998, he attempted to break the Guinness record for most bowling pins knocked down in 24 hours. He fell woefully short but still managed 29,000 in 12 hours while raising several hundred dollars for charity.
email: dmanoloff@plaind.com
phone: 216-999-4664
twitter: @dmansworld474
