Chuck Heaton -- a prolific columnist and Cleveland Browns writer in his 60 years at The Plain Dealer -- died today. He was 90.
Heaton retired in 1993. He was the father of actress Patricia Heaton, who played the wife of a sports writer portrayed by Ray Romano on the TV series "Everybody Loves Raymond."
He died at Harborside Health Care Center in suburban Westlake after a short bout with pneumonia.
Heaton had thousands of bylines at the newspaper. During the 1960s and '70s, he wrote a sports column called "Plain Talk" that ran four times a week while serving as the Browns beat writer and writing a weekly TV sports column.
He also covered the Kentucky Derby, Indianapolis 500, golf and tennis tournaments, and 24 of the first 25 Super Bowls.
