Las Vegas is a town of winners and losers. Actually, for Vegas to be Vegas, there have to be a lot more losers than winners though that wasn’t necessarily the...
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16th Feb. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — February 16, 2020 — Hocus-Pocus, The High Road, Daniel and Other Things
Las Vegas, Nevada — The late, great sportswriter Jimmy Cannon, whom I was fortunate enough to read near the end of his career in the New York Journal-American, was the...
We have very little in common. Come to think of it, we actually have a lot in common. Vernon Law will celebrate his 90th birthday next month. I’ll be 68...
19th Jan. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — January 19, 2020 — Send in the Clown
Congratulations Las Vegas, you are growing up as a sports city. You’ve always been a special event, entertainment and sports gambling town, but now you’ve crossed the white lines into...
12th Jan. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — January 12, 2020 — Left Behind
Clemson, LSU and 75,000 partisans will be in New Orleans Monday night for the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship game. For the first time in four years, I won’t...
Time to clear the desk which is covered with holiday cards, bills and important stuff like this: Hanukkah begins tonight. I love the description I read last week of the...
I’m a newspaper throwback kind of guy. If you read this space regularly that comes as no surprise. I can live without pay phones, Duncan yo-yo’s, VHS recorders, telephone answering...
We took a hiatus for a while and all I heard was— “Where’s my Sunday Morning Coffee?” “What happened to Sunday Morning Coffee?” “Am I not getting Sunday Morning Coffee anymore?” Apologies. Truth is we’ve gotten...
13th Oct. 2019
Sunday Morning Coffee — October 13, 2019 — “Why Vegas?”
So, why Vegas? It wasn’t so much a question as an assignment. Joe Brancatelli is a veteran business travel writer and is the founder and publisher of the very popular...
25th Aug. 2019
Sunday Morning Coffee — August 25, 2019 — Leaving Las Vegas? Delta Says ‘Not So Fast My Friend’
I admit I still have a lot to learn about a lot of things with not much time left on the game clock. Airline travel isn’t one of them. With...
18th Aug. 2019
Sunday Morning Coffee — August 18, 2019 — A Most Happy Fella
Two years ago this morning I was anything but happy. A lot can change in two years. At 5:30 in the morning on August 18, 2017, the sun had not...
It’s not his fault. He lies, he cheats, he bullies, he stretches the truth. But it’s not his fault. He’s brazen, egotistical and pompous. But it’s not his fault. He...