Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

“Don’t get your hopes up too high just yet, but… The Kansas City Chiefs team that beat Jacksonville yesterday was the first truly legit team the club has fielded in a decade, says sports scribe Craig Glazer. “Well, you know if … Continue reading →

Much has been said about the woman who calls herself Tommy Morrison‘s wife… Some of which has come in the form of her offbeat quotes backing Morrison’s claim of not having HIV or AIDS and boasts of unprotected sex. Not that … Continue reading →

  In death, as in life, the Tommy Morrison saga soldiers on, weird as ever… That said, what was to have been a Tommy Morrison locket wearing party and world funeral tour is no more. “I just got a text … Continue reading →

This just in… In a shocking followup to word yesterday that a family feud might be brewing over the fate of former KC boxer Tommy Morrison‘s body came this startling text from his “widow” Trisha this morning: “Today Tommy will be … Continue reading →

This just in… “I know how Tommy Morrison got AIDS,” says Stanford & Sons main man Craig Glazer. “He said he got the virus – or whatever he thought he had – from a stripper he was dating in Texas. … Continue reading →

Are you ready for some football? Got the girlfriends and wives set up with clear, plastic baggies to haul their ganja, feminine hygiene products and iPads into the stadiums? Good for you. Now all you have to worry about – … Continue reading →

We media types tend to be such suckers… And we were all so very fascinated and easily won over by boxer Tommy Morrison and his many eccentricities… The serial bedding of women, the pet mountain lions and leopard, the tattoo of Elvis … Continue reading →

Now it can be told… There’s a ton of Tommy Morrison stories yet to recount in the wake of his sad passing at age 44. For me, they started in the early days of my running the Pitch more than 20 … Continue reading →

However when it comes to Kansas City Star sports reporter Adam Teicher bailing just as the all-important Kansas City Chiefs football season is about to begin, well, that’s no laughing matter. Not only was Teicher the beat reporter for the Chiefs … Continue reading →

I’m baaaaack… And just in time to share a Tommy Morrison tale or two while I dig myself out from a short vacation and prepare to unleash shocking new revelations about former Kansas City boxer Tommy Morrsion. Morrison was practically … Continue reading →

This could be his big break… Word that former Kansas City Star sports scribe Jason Whitlock will be riding herd over his own ESPN sports blog with the stated mission of developing and bringing along new, younger voices (writers) poses … Continue reading →

And now, the rest of the story… Make no mistake, former Kansas City Star reporter Elizabeth Merrill scored a huge coup in tracking down Tommy Morrison‘s mom Diana and getting her on the record for ESPN that Tommy is dying of the … Continue reading →

Time flies when you’re on vacation and I’m writing this live in Santa Fe New Mexico… I’m going to keep it short because, after all, it is a vacation but I’ve got some important news updates to share that I’ll be … Continue reading →

Speaking of Elvis aka Jesse… At the height of the Elvis is Still Alive saga in 2002, former longtime Channel 9 news anchor Maria Antonia got caught up in the excitement. Way caught up. In a Christmas Day column in … Continue reading →

About those twin bars slated to open in the former America’s Pub in Westport… Mum’s the word on what the partners concept will be, but Westport sources say the owners have been scouting a space for the twin concepts for the … Continue reading →

It should have been a no-brainer… That there’d be a stiff price to pay for revealing to the world that King of Rock n Roll Elvis Presley was still alive. But it didn’t seem quite that evident a dozen years ago and a … Continue reading →

Here we go again… Last one out the door, turn out the lights. Kansas City Star lead political writer Steve Kraske is outward bound. As in, bailing from the rocky realm of print journalism for the far calmer seas of UMKC. … Continue reading →

About that celebration of the anniversary of  Elvis Presley‘s death this past weekend… For most folks 1977 was the year Elvis checked out. Something about too many painkillers, peanut butter and banana sandwiches and falling off the King of Rock … Continue reading →

There are always at least two ways of looking at things… In the case of former Kansas City Star sports statistics editor Martin Manley – who killed himself and left a blog full of reasons as to why – you can go … Continue reading →

It was bound to surface… After years of being on the receiving end of snide stares and regular guy slights, BMW and Toyota Prius drivers alike have been fingered as being jerks in a recent study linking bad driving habits to … Continue reading →