20 years ago, on the night of June 17, 1994, my wife Kathie was flying to meet me in Buffalo. After watching O.J. Simpson attempt his run for the border only to be met with cheering crowds on interstate overpasses and TV cameras bolted to helicopters, I sped to the airport, ran down to the…
If you’re a tail end Baby Boomer like me, someone in their early to mid 50’s, you grew up listening to Casey Kasem each weekend on “American Top 40.” The radio show was a simple and easy to understand countdown concept. At its end, Casey revealed who that week’s champion was, the top artist and…
Here we are a few short weeks from the start of NFL training camps and I came across some statistics about why your NFL team sucks. As the saying goes, “Numbers don’t lie.” What this exposes is the horrible front office management of some NFL teams and why they don’t win. In the interest of…
God bless them. Harry Caray, Jack Brickhouse and Lou Boudreau just rolled over in their graves. WGN Radio will no longer broadcast the Chicago Cubs. This is big. I speak from experience few people in the radio industry have. I am one of the few who has managed and programmed a station that is a…
“It’s from a man in Cincinnati, Ohio and here’s what he writes.” – Casey Kasem Just when you thought the freak show during Michael Jackson’s last years was grotesque, two western states now bring us the battling “Kasem Clans.” It’s a battle so large no one state can contain it. The Monday, June 2nd edition…
Remember this rule of life (or death). “If you’re worth more dead than alive, watch out.” MJ made $160 million between June 2012 and June 2013. This according to Forbes. It’s the third time in the last 5 years the top earning celebrity came from “beyond.”
“If you’re worth more dead than alive, watch the hell out.” – Darryl Parks Legendary radio personality and the only true host of “American Top 40” (sorry Ryan) Casey Kasem has gone missing. He might be in Canada, some other foreign country or on an Indian Reservation. No one seems to know for sure. Casey,…
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, recently warned the NFL to watch its overexposure. Without reeling that exposure in some and understanding its core mission, the league was at risk of destroying itself. The NFL is about football. Physically freakish men moving a ball up and down a field while pounding on…
I haven’t even gotten around to podcasting yet and I may be silenced before I start. Will no one let my voice be heard? “Attica! Attica! Attica!” (Look it up. It’s from a famous Pacino movie.) I plan to podcast and distribute my thoughts via regularly scheduled “production of serialized or episodic content that can…
You know what type of suffering Buffalo Bills’ fan I am? They can be winning by three touchdowns with 5-minutes left in the game and I’ll turn off the TV because I know they’ll blow it. And there are plenty of others like me. It was another century when the Bills last made the play-offs.…
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