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Hearne: 610 Sports Knocks One Out of the Park in Fall Ratings
We’ll get to the latest radio ratings shortly, but for now the big news is 610 Sports… Because not only did Entercom’s KCSP AM rocket into fourth place in the overall ratings released in November, its cume rose to just shy of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 610 Sports, Entercom, Kansas City Royals, KCSP AM, MLB, WHB
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Star beams: Turkey Pardons, Foil Cars, Flashing Lights & Bill Cosby
That’s the last time I attend the mayor’s Turkey Pardoning Ceremony wearing a slutty skirt. … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Critic Nails Rolling Stone — Calls U2, Springsteen ‘Irrelevant’
“As Jann Wenner and Bono mash the gas pedal towards the cliff of irrelevance… In other words, how can Rolling Stone be so tone-deaf? This single-handedly reveals the inanity of the shenanigans behind the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, … Continue reading
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OTC: Flashing Back to the Top 10 Reasons Greg Hall Left KC Confidential
Return with me now to June of 2011 when Greg Hall split from KC Confidential for greener writing pastures… Leaving behind this final Top 10 list to commemorate his time here: 10. Craig Glazer’s scandalous tales of juggling 20-something babes … Continue reading
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Glazer: The Dismantling of the Bill Cosby We Thought We Knew
Actor/comedian Bill Cosby was the modern day Bob Hope… From the late 1960’s through the 1990’s it was all Bill. His comedy albums were a must in the early 70’s. His hit television series “I Spy” in the mid-1960s was a trendy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Cosby, Craig Glazer, Don Imus, I Spy, President obama
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Edelman: ‘Bad Jews’ @ The Unicorn, Good Muslims at KC Rep – Stand Tradition on its Ear
“Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as… as…a fiddler on the roof.” Thus spake the poor milkman Tevye in the Broadway musical named after the precariously-placed musician. Up against a modern world turning its back on the … Continue reading
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Hearne: American Royal Turns Foutch Brothers Into ‘Ouch Brothers’
Now it can be told… The first thing that sprang to mind last week when I learned that the Foutch Brothers had mysteriously and abruptly withdrawn their bid to save Kemper Arena by turning it into a regional youth sports facility was … Continue reading
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Tagged American Royal, Kemper Arena, Mariner Kemper, Neal Patterson, Terry Dunn
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Hearne: Why This Year’s Post Season Run By The Royals Matters Little
Local sports media (and jock sniffers) couldn’t wait to set the Royals World Series defeat aside and laud the arrival of a new golden age of baseball in Kansas City… It’s story that’s been written before, long before the Royals post season successes last month. Sportswriters are homers … Continue reading
Glazer: Super Chiefs & This Week’s Picks
I rank the Chiefs a top three or four AFC team! Wow, I was dead wrong about them early on. Chiefs coach Andy Reid is a genius..so far. The league’s top Defense, best rushing team in the NFL and QB Alex Smith … Continue reading
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Tagged Craig Glazer, K-State, Kansas, Kansas City Chiefs, KU, Missouri Tigers
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Hearne: World Series Grab Bag – Everything You Need to Know & More
Maybe you’ve got hours to kill running down anything and everything Royals… I’m betting though that you don’t – even if you have World Series fever – and who doesn’t these days? – you’ve still got a life, right? Example: I totally … Continue reading
Glazer: Scribe Looks Past Series to Pigskin Weekend Picks
Lock and Load… Once again K-State – that nice, little team from nowheresville – is battling to win the Big 12. Missouri is up and down but looks like a winner this weekend with Vandy. Kansas is improving but losing. What a great … Continue reading
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Paul Wilson: Happy Columbus Day! Ripped Anybody Off Yet?
An unexpected trip to the bank this morning reminded me that it’s Columbus Day… Upon landing on these shores, Columbus journaled, “The Indians are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them … Continue reading
Calvin Sense: ‘No Name Royals’ Need Nickname & Isis Mission Creep
When the ’72 Miami Dolphins went undefeated one key to the team’s success was its “No Name Defense.” That’s because Miami’s offense had so many notable stars that got all the publicity, whereas its defense got little media attention and didn’t have any big name, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1972 Miami Dolphins, Alex Gordon, Calvin Sense, Greg Holland, Kansas City Royals, Salvador Perez
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Hearne: Are The Flaming Lips Flaming Out?
Talk about a band at the crossroads… Word on the street that tonight’s Flaming Lips show in the Crossroads is an epic disaster in terms of ticket sales raises serious questions about the band’s future. The combination of Father Time, a … Continue reading
Starbeams: Death by Asteroid or Chiefs? iPhone 6 Snobbery & IKEA
An asteroid barely missed the Earth Sunday. Scientists say, if it had hit, it still wouldn’t have been as bad as the Chiefs disaster. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple iPhone 6, Apple Watch, IKEA, IKEA Swedish meatballs, Kansas City Chiefs, Southwest Airlines
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Hearne: ‘The Point’ Most Listened to Station in KC August Radio Ratings
A pair of surprises top an otherwise sleepy August radio ratings book… For starters, Entercom’s The Point 99.7 FM has come into it’s own and is now the most listened to station in the Kansas City market with a cume of 528,800 … Continue reading
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Tagged 610 Sports, KCPT, Kelly Urich, KMBZ, The BRIDGE KTBG, The Point 99.7 FM, WHB
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Glazer: A Salute to Chelsea Handler as She Hangs it Up on the E-Channel
I know, I know many of you don’t like Chelsea Handler… She’s a little slutty and brash – drunk and high at times – but always a winner. Last night Chelsea said goodbye to her long running television series, CHELSEA … Continue reading
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Hearne: ‘Into The Storm” — Killer Special Effects, Not-So-Killer Plot
Say what you will about cheesy Hollywood movies with ultra thin plot lines… Because when it comes to entertainment, if the special effects deliver, people will go see ’em. Especially when the timing’s right, like it is with Hollywood’s new twister thrill ride, “Into … Continue reading
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Tagged Into the Storm, Jon Reep, Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Twister
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Hearne: Lefsetz Checks In As Winter Checks Out
I got into Johnny Winter before he went mainstream… To the extent that he ever really was mainstream, that is. My roommate in high school (from Saudia Arabia) turned me on to Winter’s first album, The Progressive Blues Experiment and I fell in love with … Continue reading
