This week In Buffalo, New York, home to the NFL’s drunkest fans and deservedly so, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said it’s time for the FCC “to be on the side of the sports fan” and get rid of the rule forcing the NFL to blackout games that are not sold out in a home team’s…
Ask yourself a question. Who is the most famous person you’ve ever had the chance to meet or just get physically close to? It might be a famous actor, a President or maybe someone very rich. Late one summer not too long ago, my wife and I were driving home from work and she mentioned…
I admit watching some of last Sunday’s World Cup game between “USA, USA, USA” and Portugal. It was more of a curiosity than me being a fan. You now, it’s like when you slow down to see the wreck on the other side of the interstate. You don’t want to look, but you do. In…
In a surprise move following their cancellation of the Washington Redskins’ trademark registration, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has canceled the Buffalo Bills’ trademark registration, following complaints the Bills’ name discriminates against those named Bob, Dan and Joe. Trademarks that discriminate against those with other names and hurt people’s feelings are not permitted under…
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…
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…
I had the pleasure of being the keynote speaker at the Anderson Township, Ohio Memorial Day Observance. Here’s the text of the speech. I’M HONORED TO BE HERE ON THIS IMPORTANT DAY, ONE THAT IS EASILY MINIMIZED BY A WEEKEND FILLED WITH STORE SALES, COOKOUTS AND OTHER EVENTS. WE’RE HERE TODAY TO HONOR OUR SERVICE…
Just a few weeks ago the elderly (I’ll add senile and horny) owner of the Los Angeles Clippers got caught letting his true feelings be known regarding “people of color.” He doesn’t like ’em. Donald Tokowitz Sterling, thinking Maria Vanessa Perez V. Stiviano loved him and really wanted to perform on him (so to speak),…
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.”
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