Glazer: R.I.P. 2012 Chiefs, Now Would Somebody Please Fire Scott Pioli?

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Craig Glazer

The Chiefs now officially THE WORST TEAM IN THE NFL and are unwatchable…

Back-to-back blowouts. Crushed again. They’re worse than last year’s terrible team. Remember this, “Man we got our guys back, Eric Berry and Jamaal Charles, the tight end nobody gives a crap about. All that noise.

Remember, I was the guy bringing you the bad news early: the Chiefs stink again.

I was watching the destruction of a poorly coached, poorly led Chiefs joke of a football team IN the fourth quarter AND THE game had already ended in the first few minutes. Matt THE FRANCHISE had been sacked about six times and we had a quarter to go and were trailing 35-3. Continue reading →

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Glazer: This Just In, Romney Doesn’t Have a Chance

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Craig Glazer

Turn out the lights, the party’s over…

As of today the President Barack Obama has a commanding lead to be re-elected. Get your anger out now because it looks like it’s OVER. The President has a huge lead according to USA Today and the Gallup Poll. It’s 50% for Obama and 44% for Mitt Romney.

Wow, that’s a big gap to cover in five or six weeks.

Can Romney come back? Not likely. Continue reading →

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Donnelly: Sporting Dominates But Needs Late Magic to Salvage Draw Against Houston

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Matthew Donnelly

Before the game Friday at LIVESTRONG against the Houston Dynamo, about 100 new U.S. citizens were sworn in by a judge on the pitch.

I don’t know if they dialed it up a little for the occasion, but the pregame video and fireworks have gotten a little ridiculous.  I mean, they are entertaining as hell, but how many bombs need to go off, how many rockets need to get launched into the sky, how much smoke needs to fill the confines of LIVESTRONG, how many video montages do we need? 

I mean, that was cool.

As is almost always the case at home, Sporting KC came out at a blistering pace, creating a few decent chances right off the bat.

Continue reading →

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Glazer: Scribe Saddles Up for Week Two College & Pro Football

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Craig Glazer

Well, we all now know that last week was a great start for your guy, me…

And a huge thank you to the Kansas City Chiefs for my huge winning bet in Las Vegas. However I’m now 4-3 overall for the first two weeks, so lets see if I can improve upon that number.

It’s no secret that our local football teams appear to be the not-ready-for-prime-time players.  As of today, only Kansas State fields a squad that looks like a post season football program. Kansas, Missouri and our Chiefs are barely worth watching, but obviously things can change.

I know, it seems like I hate the Chiefs, but I really don’t.

I just call them as I see them, no sugar added.

Same as with our loser Kansas City Royals baseball team. Maybe one day things will be brighter. Until that day I’ll continue to be disgruntled with these two horrible franchises that don’t seem to care much about their GREAT FANS. Fans who’ve waited decades for a local team that can merely contend for a title.

Now on to the weekend… Continue reading →

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Hearne: Liquor Control Swats Firefly / Dark Horse Over Open Door Policy

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

Ah, the perils of an unlocked door…

When it comes to senseless regulations, Kansas City takes the cake, says Westport businessman Bill Nigro. Especially the good folks at Regulated Industries aka Liquor Control.

It all began four years back, when Liquor Control pushed through a rule that requires separate bars that share a single license in the same building to leave the passageway between them open.

Which in Nigro’s case is a door…but not just any door. Continue reading →

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Leftridge: TV Time: Here Comes Saturday Night Live, for the 37th Time

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Brandon Leftridge

Each fall, the same things inevitably happen.

The Chiefs begin a noxious, predictably sorrowful descent into mediocrity (or worse) within the first few weeks of the football season.

The Royals close out their otherwise miserable campaign with a deluge of victories that are viewed by virtually no one.

My ridiculous allergies render me unable to taste a bowl of my favorite Halloween mash-up monster cereal “Count BooFrankula.” (Also: the name of the inner-city child I haven’t yet adopted)

And somebody, somewhere—or, realistically speaking, millions of armchair executive TV producers everywhere—make the tired proclamation that, “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE IS DEAD.” (get it? See what they did there? GENIUS). “THE SHOW IS WORTHLESS. IT AIN’T BEEN RELEVANT SINCE CHEVY CHASE HUNG UP HIS GERALD FORD PANTS.” Continue reading →

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Jack Goes Confidential: Greed (Up To Point) is Good In ‘ARBITRAGE’

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Jack Poessiger

There’s a small film opening in limited runs this weekend in Kansas City…

I’ll bet you haven’t even heard of it. It’s called ARBITRAGE and was one of the best entries at this past year’s Sundance Film Festival.

And who would’ve thought it, there’s now Oscar buzz swirling around for its star!

He’s Richard Gere playing successful New York hedge fund manager Robert Miller whose personal and business life reeks of fraud, infidelity—and murder? Continue reading →

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Starbeams: KU Bests MU, Tamba Does Lance, Royals Itch Promotion

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Kelly Urich

U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of “Best Colleges” and Mizzou ranked #97.  KU came in just below at #106.  KU defends its inferior score by saying 106 is better than 97 in basketball.

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Kansas Speedway has added a road course to bring a six-turn design to the front stretch.  More great news for Kansas City’s African American population.

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Tamba Hali says he didn’t like being away from the Chiefs during his one-week suspension from the NFL for substance abuse. He spent his week off qualifying for next year’s Tour de France.

Continue reading →

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Whinery: Obama Blames Romney Rather Than Looking in Mirror

Posted on September 14, 2012 by David Scott Whinery Esquire

Why Do You Want to Vote for Obama?

Especially if you are an American!

Especially after the debacles stemming from a lack of security and a true misunderstanding of who the ENEMY is which led to four Americans DEAD in our Libyan Embassy. While our Egyptian and Yemeni embassies are under siege…

WHERE IS THE PRESIDENT? Continue reading →

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Glazer: Life After (A Pissed Off) Nick Wright on 610 Sports

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Craig Glazer

Nick Wright is alive and well and doing his sportscasts in Houston…

And he’s made it painfully clear he’s very upset that his former boss, Ryan Maguire, did 610 Sports staffers Mark Carman and Jared Carter wrong by dumping them.

Maguire hired a pair of former 810 guys – Josh Vernier and Jay Binkley along with former Chiefs defensive back Jayice Pearson to replace Nick and crew with THE BIG SHOW on 610.

To start with they’re far more traditional than Nick. Wright was moving the chains for a younger audience and bringing himself into the show as a local personality on the rise.

It worked. Continue reading →

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Donnelly: Zusi Impresses as US Dominates in 1-0 Win Over Jamaica

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Matthew Donnelly

The U.S. Men’s National Team bounced back Tuesday in Columbus with a 1-0 win over an athletic Jamaica squad that beat the Yanks just days earlier in Kingston – their first victory over the US… EVER.

And wouldn’t you know it, front and center was Sporting KC string-puller Graham Zusi, who had his best (by far) game in his young international career.  Zusi got off an opportunistic pot shot that hit the cross bar in the 6th minute, cranked a close range rebound shot off the Jamaican keeper’s foot a few minutes later, and sent a blistering left footed volley just over the bar toward the end of the first half. Continue reading →

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New Jack City: Jason Sudeikis Days Numbered on Saturday Night Live

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Jack Poessiger

There’s one less exit pending on SNL—at least for the time being…

According to VARIETY, NBC is expected to announce later today that Johnson County export Jason Sudeikis will stay with the long running late night comedy series at least until January of 2013.

Why? Continue reading →

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New Jack City: Jack’s Hygienist Sex Story Goes Oral

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Jack Poessiger

You never know…

Little did I suspect I’d get all of the opinions and comments – not just here on KCC – but from friends and acquaintances who read yesterday’s “Jack Gets Propositioned” story and contacted me afterwards.

The outcome of the Carla dating saga?

It’ll be revealed here soon enough. But until then here are a few excerpts from my favorite comments to the story so far: Continue reading →

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Sounds Good: Red Bull Locally Thrown@Granada, Wild Nothing@Jackpot, The Melvins@Bottleneck

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Matthew Donnelly

Any of you guys heard of this Winfield thing going on down south this weekend?

Apparently, lots of local musiciaPhotobucketns are heading down for some hootenanny, leaving the Lawrence and KC cupboards bare of any roots, bluegrass, and country for the time being.

But don’t panic, oh loyal KCC music lovers.  If you can’t make the jaunt down to the Valley, pop on over to Lawrence for some killer shows, starting on Wednesday with a truly unique showcase that mashes a half dozen local artists into one giant ball of sound.

Allow me to explain…. Continue reading →

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Edelman: A Motherfucker of a New Play at The Unicorn

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Mark Edelman

The Unicorn Theatre kicks the 2012-13 theater season into coked-up overdrive with the area premier of Stephen Guirgis‘ delightful, touching comedy The Motherfucker With the Hat (now through September 30 at the theater at 3828 Main).

Spoiler alert– this play is a Motherfucker!

A darling of NYC’s off-off-Broadway scene (and onetime contributor to “NYPD Blue” and “The Sopranos”), playwright Guirgis has created one of the wildest dramatis personaes you’re ever going to see in a Kansas City theater. Continue reading →

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Glazer: Ad Wars Rage in Presidential Politics & the Winner is….

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Craig Glazer

The presidential television commercials are coming at us like bills in the mail…

We’re on overload.

Mitt Romney not only appears to have the edge in spending on TV advertising, he has it. The Barack Obama group now says it will add a truckload of new ads…starting now.

And now we’re told Obama was able to raise even more bucks than Mitt this past month.

The big difference in the Obama ads being Bill Clinton is on board.

Who has more charisma than this guy? Nobody. Continue reading →

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Glazer: Sexiest Chief & Other Chiefs QBs Who Hated KC

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Craig Glazer

What do Elvis Grbac, Matt Cassel and Steve Bono all have in common?

Yes, they’re all former or current (and soon to be former) quarterbacks for the Kansas City Chiefs.

More importantly, they were all failures.

Now one could argue about Bono, since he did lead that outstanding 1995 team with Marcus Allen, Derrick Thomas and Neil Smith. But it was just for the one year, after that…bye-bye Stevie.

The other thing they had in common was a clear uneasy feeling about living in KC. Continue reading →

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Hearne: Lezak on How Dry We Are & Will Continue to Be Until…

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

Maybe Kansas City should schedule more Irish Fests…

You know, in the interest of the area getting more rainfall.  After all, we’re in a drought and as most local worshipers of all things Irish know, the 10 year-old Irish Fest is one of the best torrential rain magnets going. The first fest got washed off the face of the map resulting in it having to move indoors to hotel rooms and the lobby of the Phillips House downtown. It rained so hard there almost wasn’t a second.

And this year’s rain soaked fest was accompanied by the headline,”Luck of the Irish Fest excludes the weather.”

Which brings us to the current drought plaguing the area… Continue reading →

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New Jack City: Jack Gets Propositioned

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Jack Poessiger

I’ve been sitting on this little personal story for awhile…

Earlier this summer during a party at a friend’s place, an acquaintance took me aside for a private conversation. He said that he wanted to fix me up with this friend. A young lady that I would really like. He said she was a dental hygienist and that she had a young son living with her in their Mission apartment.

He reasoned that Carla (not her real name) and I had a lot in common. Her favorite hobbies included movies and travel. Obviously right up my alley, right?

But there was a wrinkle in the equation. Continue reading →

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Star Search: Dread, Shock & Awe Await KC Star Newsroom Inhabitants

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

“Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s well- being.”

So stated celebrated American interior designer Albert Hadley.

That aside, newsroom staffers at the Kansas City Star are quaking with dread over the prospect of taking up residence in the newspaper’s vast, newly-redesigned newsroom.

“I should send you a picture,” says one newsroom inhabitant. “Everybody in the whole news division is going to be packed into it – news, sports, business, Ink, features – everybody except the library and the people in Johnson County will be squeezed in there. I mean everybody gets like a seven-by-seven cube and they have no high privacy boards so you’ll be able to see everybody’s heads, hear everybody. Imagine if you’re interviewing somebody.” Continue reading →

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