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Sports media types can be so superficial and pretentious… Especially those of the print persuasion. The Sam Mellinger‘s of the sportswriting world don’t write fawning tributes and dole out miniscule wrist slaps to their sports heroes because they grew up dreaming of … Continue reading →

Guess they never read “The Tell-Tale Heart” Someone with no guilt is a sociopath. They may be nice to others face to face, but they’ll do whatever it takes to get what they want, casualties be damned. We live in … Continue reading →

A bier is just a beer, right? Stay with me here… Say you’ve just returned from a great European vacation and you loved the beers overseas. And now you’ve luckily found the very same brew in the import section of your … Continue reading →

John Hickenlooper‘s following the Jimmy Carter playbook… And Carter may (not) be the best ex-President – as opposed to one in office – but one thing’s for sure, he won. We underestimate winning. It’s a long road to the top … Continue reading →

About Ilhan Omar’s anti-semitic comments that’ve been stirring bi-partisan outrage … The two most egregious:  Her Tweet, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” in reference to U.S. support for Israel. And again last week,  “I want to talk about the political influence … Continue reading →

They never make a movie about the way guys really are… You can see beefcake, men who love ’em and leave ’em, men who abuse women, but they don’t make a flick about the people I know. They do in … Continue reading →

When did the Academy Awards show lose its edge? On Sunday night, that’s when. The opening number by Queen followed by Tina Fey, Amy Pohler and Maya Rudolph was alright…I guess. But it felt more like the Grammys meets the … Continue reading →

It takers guts and brains to do what Lara Logan has done… Many  conservative news outlets are reporting that the former 60 Minutes correspondent is coming into the light for the first time on the liberal bias of the 4th … Continue reading →

Enough with the overwrought hyperbole… That’s basically my take on the voluntary, paid departures recently announced at the Kansas City Star. No need for handwringing here. The fact that a handful of writers – mostly at or near retirement age … Continue reading →

Think the Academy Awards has lost its luster? I DO! There’s very little buzz surrounding it these days. Seems like the only times we hear anything about the awards is when there’s a negative spin to them.  And there’s been … Continue reading →

Suffice it to say, Royals legend Frank White is up the proverbial creek… The youth who basked in the glow of the old Municipal Stadium and went on to become an eight-time Gold Glove winner over 18 star studded years playing for … Continue reading →

Corporations are the enemy… I would have expected this message to come from the arts first, but the arts have been infiltrated like PBS. Whether it be corporations supporting that which the public does not, or musicians sucking up to … Continue reading →

Think sour grapes… No two ways about it, Star sports scribe Sam Mellinger‘s bagging on Kareem Hunt for signing with the Cleveland Browns rings more than a tad hollow. Almost as much as his columns kissing up to the athletic departments … Continue reading →

Anybody else out there following the three ring circus in Washington of late? One of the odder aspects of it all was accentuated during the State of the Union was watching Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi‘s protracted, animated lip … Continue reading →

Don’t put anything in writing… Because then you have plausible deniability. One thing about Donald Trump, he’s proven to be surrounded by third-rate attorneys who are really henchmen –  lawyers that would be disbarred if their activities ever came to … Continue reading →

Sometimes you gotta know when to pack it in… And this may just be that time for longtime Johnson County scribe Steve Rose. For years Rose lorded over a twice weekly, front page column in his family-founded, freebie The Sun. Which continued … Continue reading →

Is all publicity good publicity? Yesterday’s Super Bowl was a strange game, since the NFL’s ratings were resuscitated by the Kansas City Chiefs and their passing attack, and this contest was fought on the ground, until the Rams realized that … Continue reading →