Our Blogs

Sports, the toy department of life, has a way of keeping things real. For me, coronavirus wasn’t real until this week. Oh sure, my portfolio was taking a pounding but...

The 2017 Houston Astros didn’t know the Five Man Electrical Band. It’s dollars to trading cards nobody on that Houston team ever heard of the easily forgotten early-70s Canadian rockers....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...