Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

What red-blooded local sports fan wasn’t drawn into some of last year’s huge sports shockers involving Big 12 heavyweights Texas and Oklahoma?  Including the exclamation point at the end of the conference season when OU coach Lincoln Riley dramatically bailed on … Continue reading →

How low can they go? As a kid, there was a popular dance called “the limbo.” The object was for dancers to pass under a progressively lower bar while still on their feet, leaning backward. As a midget at the time, I … Continue reading →

Everybody reveres Walt Disney, Harry Truman, George Brett, Stan Durwood… They’re expatriates who’ve done Kansas City proud, and exemplify the attributes and skills that make our little corner of the world a more recognized, better place to be from and live. Guess who’s missing … Continue reading →

Was a time, intellectual dinosaurs roamed the pages of KC Confidential… Craig Glazer, Smartman, and a dude called Harley. The most mysterious of the three – to me anyway – was the latter. Many theories and/or  guesses as to his true identity … Continue reading →

Still hiding out in Az near my high school and University of Arizona past… And while I’ve compared, to an extent, the Arizona Daily Star and Kansas City Star newspapers, leave us not forget about those passengers still aboard KC’s alt weekly Titanic, The Pitch. You know, … Continue reading →

I still can’t  quite believe it… After like six months of failed efforts, I finally landed a print subscription to the Arizona Daily Star about a week ago. Trust me, it wasn’t easy, but I was happy to pay full boat, … Continue reading →

KC’s beleaguered newspaper is getting scooped so badly by the national media that… It has had to fall back on its raison d’être to get a Chiefs story out that hadn’t been both pre-scooped by national media. So it settled … Continue reading →

They say you can’t go back… So what am I doing here in the desert reliving my lost youth? Good question. We only go around once (theoretically) and while I’ve built more than my fair share of snowmen and snowballs … Continue reading →

Long time, no see… If that sounds trite, allow me to add that since right before November’s election until present, I’ve kind of been busy. As in three long distance moving trips from Kansas City to Oro Valley, Arizona in … Continue reading →

Sorry about the past few weeks… I’ve got a number of pretty interesting columns brewing, but – just so you’ll know – I got married in late June, sold my house in Dear Old Brookside a few weeks back, and … Continue reading →

Let’s see, do I embarrass myself or… Oh, what the heck. After all,  slime ball Kansas City Star editor Mike Fannin didn’t mind laying down a phony “tear jerker” about how his mom came to visit and the whole family … Continue reading →

Two billion here, five-hundred million there – it adds up… The financial toll the coronavirus is taking on Kansas City’s AMC Theatres is staggering, but the company may be beginning to see some light at a seemingly never-ending, gloomy tunnel … Continue reading →

This just in… Kansas City’s prominent sports personality the past 20-plus years – Kevin Kietzman – has settled his issues with Sports Radio WHB  – the station he all but singlehandedly put on the map – and will announce his return … Continue reading →

Hard to argue that we’re living in an Alice in Wonderland, through-the-looking glass world… That following the death of George Floyd, the country has climbed through a mirror where – like a reflection – everything is reversed…including logic. Sound familiar? No? You must not … Continue reading →