Some leftovers from Super Sunday and other crumbs to dunk in your morning coffee: In a ‘down’ tourism year Nevada sports books won $12,574,125 on the Super Bowl. For the...
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14th Feb. 2021
Sunday Morning Coffee — February 14, 2021 — Out Of The Bullpen, The Buck Stopped Here
A nomadic career in baseball taught Grant Jackson a couple of lessons: Rent, don’t buy. Keep United Van Lines on retainer. Jackson was a baseball journeyman. He moved around more...
Chuck Foreman played in three Super Bowls. He knows what the Chiefs and Buccaneers are feeling this morning. “Every player understands how big this game is,” Foreman told me earlier...
Do you even remember where you stashed your suitcases? No doubt they’re somewhere in that utility closet where, over the last 11 months, more and more junk has accumulated while...
24th Jan. 2021
Sunday Morning Coffee — January 24, 2021 — “Someone Was Going To Throw That Home Run Pitch”
If Hank Aaron would have broken Babe Ruth’s career home run record at any time other than a Monday night or a Saturday afternoon most of the country would have...
17th Jan. 2021
Sunday Morning Coffee — January 17, 2021 — Murphy’s Law, Vegas Icons, ’Bama, A Bad Beat and …….
From the post-holiday Sunday Morning Coffee grab bag of nothing in particular: Ever wonder what Barron Trump is thinking? If your grandkids ever want to know the definition of Murphy’s...
Things change. Just like that — you go from your first cigarette to your last dyin’ day. Things stay the same. The New York Jets. Damn Jets. Once upon a...
Jim Nettles’ eyes got wide when I told him I knew nothing about fantasy football. It was for other guys, not for me. Too much work, too much preparation, too...
20th Dec. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — December 20, 2020 — The Music Man
Phil Linz died on December 9. Was that a collective “Who?” I just heard? Phil Linz was a marginal professional baseball player and a worse musician. Only a fellow old-timer,...
13th Dec. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — December 13, 2020 — To Be Like Mike
Mike Tyson scraps eight meaningless rounds in a made-for-TV event against Roy Jones Jr. a couple of weeks ago and proclaims himself ready for a return to the ring. I...
6th Dec. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — December 6, 2020 — Doggone It!
Tell me about it, Joe. I feel your pain. Not really just your pain, but my own, too. When did playing with our dogs become so treacherous? Man’s best friend,...
It probably started out like any other Friday in the sixth grade at Meadowbrook Elementary School. No doubt the same scene played out in every school across the country. East...
