Four or five days a week, Mary Kay Cabot leaves her Rocky River home for an hour-long walk with a constant companion.

Not a beloved pet, but a laptop computer in a drawstring bag on her back.

Plenty of times, the Browns beat writer for Cleveland.com has perched on a neighbor’s porch or a park bench to bang out a breaking news story. When she goes to dinner with her husband of 32 years, Bill Murman, she might say, “Should I bring the laptop?” and he is trained to say yes, even if their destination is Vermilion’s elegant Chez Francois.

Cabot began covering the Browns for the Plain Dealer in 1988 and took over the beat in 1991. Raising three children with Murman, she learned to juggle football and family, attending “mom prom” with their eldest, Chris, when “Johnny Manziel is floating on a

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