Mary Kay  Cabot

Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com

Mary Kay Cabot has more than 30 years experience covering the Cleveland Browns for The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com, and was inducted into the Cleveland Press Club Hall of Fame in 2022. She is a two-time finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Bill Nunn Award, given to an NFL writer with a long and distinguished career. She is also one of 49 selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and one of only four females. She has won multiple writing awards, including an Ohio AP award for enterprise. She earned her degree in journalism from Kent State University, where she graduated summa cum laude from the honors college while also participating in athletics. Before covering the Browns, she covered the Cleveland Force Major Indoor Soccer League for three years, and many other sports for The Plain Dealer. In addition to writing, she appears in daily Browns videos for Cleveland.com and on a daily podcast called Orange and Brown Talk. She also serves as a Browns analyst for WKYC-TV in Cleveland and radio stations such as 92.3 The Fan, and WTAM 1100. She is a frequent guest on national radio, TV and podcasts, and has the largest Twitter following of any local NFL beat writer. She has blazed a trail for women in sports journalism, while raising three now-adult children with her husband. A native of Cleveland, she has a magical vision for the city.