Cleveland had hoped to use The Art Modell Law to keep the Browns from leaving downtown for Brook Park. With Ohio changing the ...

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 ...

With litigation pending over whether the Art Modell Law keeps the Browns from moving out of downtown Cleveland to suburban Brook Park, the Ohio legislature has revised the Modell law in a way that ...

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 ...

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. On a crisp, sunny, 55-degree morning in Baltimore ...

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.

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 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 ...

A longtime confidant of Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell, Lerner had arranged this meeting with Maryland Stadium Authority chairman John Moag in September 1995. For weeks, Lerner had pleaded with ...

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.