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...
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...
8th Mar. 2020
Sunday Morning Coffee — March 8, 2020 — Stealin’ Signs
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...