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Yes, this was supposed to be a coffee-free Sunday. Last week’s Sunday Morning Coffee was lengthy, there were a bunch of items left over plus stuff that compiled this week....

Roy Firestone lived every kid’s dream. Grown-ups, too. And he’s not finished. In the 1980s and 90s you couldn’t turn on ESPN or Sunday Night Football, or a sitcom or...

Jon Gruden had everything in the world going for him. And then he didn’t. Jon Gruden had stature, celebrity and fame. And then he didn’t. In one gigantic turnover, after...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

Only horse racing can make an episode of The Three Stooges seem like a PBS docudrama. Horse racing, you’re at the top of the stretch and slip slidin’ away. It’s...

Headline aside, this is not about the New York Jets drafting Zach Wilson with their first pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night. Not yet anyway. The last time...

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...