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Come on Cincinnati, what did I ever do to you? I’ve only been in your fair city once and thought I conducted myself as a gentleman. I ate your renowned...

Joe Asher hasn’t had a losing season betting on football since 2008. As the NFL slate begins in earnest today, he knows he’ll be hard- pressed to keep that 12-year...

That pounding you’ve been hearing for the last couple of weeks is Al Davis trying to beat his way out of the grave.  The late, bombastic, renegade owner of the...

“All they wanted to do was take my picture and they were going to give me a new television set,” Jake Gibbs remembered with a hearty laugh. “Every day I...

Aloha from 35,000 feet. Andi and I are jetting over the Pacific on our way to Maui for our 30th wedding anniversary on Tuesday. The original plan was to be...

Jackie Mason died on July 24. He was 93. With his passing came plaudits from all corners of the country for a comedian who spent over 60 years entertaining audiences...

Assorted crumpets with our Sunday Morning Coffee: What’s going on here? Only slightly more than half this country is vaccinated. Nevada, which presently is the summer weekend tourism leader, has a...

Joe Nuxhall was too young to appreciate it.  Satchel Paige wasn’t. Nor were the sixty of us gathered last weekend in Pittsburgh. The first time Nuxhall stepped into a major...

“I knew it. I just knew it. I knew you couldn’t stay away for two weeks,” she shouted at me in a text. “I just knew it!” Cathy Dorricott knows...

Assorted dishes from the Sunday morning buffet table: Thanks for the wonderful response to last week’s Coffee about the passing of old-time big league baseball player Jim ‘Mudcat’ Grant. (https://royberger.com/sunday-morning-coffee-june-20-2021-one-cool-cat/)...

The conventional six degrees of separation would take a multiple of perhaps five or ten to find some commonality between me and a guy called Mudcat. Consider: Mudcat was 15...

March 17, 2020. It was probably the darkest day in the state of Nevada’s history. Literally. Governor Steve Sisolak ordered all businesses to shut down including the heart of the...