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Cleveland gearing up for RNC

Cleveland gearing up for RNC

CLEVELAND — They finally hosted a championship parade after decades of sports futility, and now they're a week away from hosting another grand spectacle:  the Republican National Convention. The crush of more than 1.3 million people at last month's parade in honor of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers resulted in not a single arrest. But that event did not feature Donald J. Trump, the brash and brazen candidate whose rhetoric often inspires protest.  Nor did it subject Clevelanders to the extraordin

CLEVELAND — They finally hosted a championship parade after decades of sports futility, and now they're a week away from hosting another grand spectacle:  the Republican National Convention. The crush of more than 1.3 million people at last month's parade in honor of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers resulted in not a single arrest. But that event did not feature Donald J. Trump, the brash and brazen candidate whose rhetoric often inspires protest.  Nor did it subject Clevelanders to the extraordin…