Once upon a time, back in the olden days BC, before coronavirus, when department stores, eat-in restaurants and movie theaters were open, this used to be my favorite Sunday of...
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22nd Mar. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — March 22, 2020 — Hired to be Fired
When life took Rob Ehsan from the potential of a cushy job in the financial services industry to coaching college basketball, he knew he was hired to be fired. It...
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...
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...
23rd Jun. 2019
Sunday Morning Coffee — June 23, 2019 — The Prez and the Juice…Tweeting It Like It Is
They’re two of a kind. They probably couldn’t pass for brothers but nonetheless they’re matching bookends, not so different in any other kind of way. They’re a pair of pips....
2nd Jun. 2019
Sunday Morning Coffee — June 2, 2019 — Super Starr
Bart Starr died last Sunday. Bart Starr was a Hall of Fame quarterback. As good as he was tossing a football, he was a better person and humanitarian. The Green...
19th May. 2019
Sunday Morning Coffee — May 19, 2019 — The War of the Roses
The Preakness Stakes was run yesterday and nobody cared. War of Will won. Shoulder shrug. Yawn. In a normal racing year, when a legitimate Kentucky Derby winner runs two weeks...
The hockey season in Las Vegas ended with a thud on Tuesday night. Two years ago that might have gotten a shoulder shrug and a yawn. At best. It might have...
Incredibly, with as much as Tiger Woods and J.J. Steinhoff have in common, they’ve never played in the same foursome. Consider. They both attended college on a golf scholarship. Tiger,...