It was the dead of winter, 1992, in Kansas. The days were short, the evenings long. Darkness hit a little after four o’clock each afternoon, when the temps dropped and...
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29th Mar. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — March 29, 2020 — Ramblin’…
Las Vegas, NV — This sucks. I can get by without stuff I thought I needed. I’m okay, short term, with restaurants being closed and not being able to get...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Move over Rickey Henderson, Lou Brock and Vince Coleman. You too Tim Raines, Maury Wills and Ty Cobb. Open the door for Tony Thomas. You remember Thomas, don’t you? Drafted...