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Hearne: Cowtown Party Zone Icon Poised To Move On?
At some point, even died-in-the-wool party people have to throw in the towel… So it is longtime Westport business leader Bill Nigro is contemplating cashing in his party chips and moving on to less politically charged (and hopefully greener) pastures. For … Continue reading
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Hearne: Is Mrs. Mahomes The Wicked Witch of the Midwest?
Who among us married types doesn’t have an unsavory in-law? Comes with the turf… That’s the bad news, the good news is mostly, who cares? No such luck for Chiefs superstar Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes lives in a glass bubble where … Continue reading
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Hearne: Mahomes Rocks (Almost) But Not Whataburger
Everybody has an Achilles heel or two… I won’t bore you with mine, but Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes has a few that I think are interesting. Beyond his droll wife, loser brother and – now – questionable taste in fast … Continue reading
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Hearne: Hollywood Madame Loves Mahomes, Not Mizzou
Once a Hollywood Madam, always a Hollywood Madam… Although Heidi Fleiss is years removed from her colorful past – including her turbulent romance with actor Tom Sizemore, who died recently at the age of 61 – the thought of her moving … Continue reading
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Hearne: Hollywood Madam to Mizzou As Ex Checks Out?
Would it surprise you to find I spent a day hanging with Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss? You remember her from 20 years ago when – as Wikipedia puts it – “She ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles and … Continue reading
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Hearne: Should The Chiefs Change Team Name?
In the words of Ronald Reagan, there they go again… And you thought the Kansas City Chiefs season was behind you. Not so fast, because the politically correct powers-that-be on Facebook are back. They dug up a two year-old story … Continue reading
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Hearne: Woke Police Attack Chiefs – OP Injun Dude Fights Back
Remember the Good Ol Daze? More than 20 years ago – long before the dawning of today’s woke culture – writers at the Kansas City Star decided to take on Marty Schottenheimer‘s Chiefs. for their Indian themes. That was back … Continue reading
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Hearne: In Search of the Lost News Chord
Think Tale of Two Cities plus… Being holed up here in Tucson for two years, I’ve made some observations on how local journalism is evolving. While folks in Kansas City are still mostly trapped with the few … Continue reading
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Hearne: Out With The Old, In With The Woke
Getting actual news out in a timely manner hasn’t been of much importance of late… Not at the Kansas City Star anyway. The former grande dame of local news and information has long since been turned into a loosely written amalgam of … Continue reading
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Hearne: Johnny Dare Co Host Murphy Wells Bares All
Once upon a time, the Johnny Dare / Murphy Wells radio show was born… Hard to imagine, but 22 years ago Kansas City’s preeminent, high profile dirt ball – for all practical purposes – was essentially created. The year was 1994, and … Continue reading
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Hearne: Whatever Happened to Jackson Mahomes?
Talk about where’s Waldo… As popular as Chiefs superstar Patrick Mahomes is – the loss to Indy aside – his insanely tall and clearly insane – little brother Jackson Mahomes is the opposite, as in unpopular. For the past two years … Continue reading
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Hearne: Time For Folks to Woke Up?
It’s a brave new world out there, not to mention a woke one… That said, you may want to pinch yourself – before reading an Associated Press story that ran in both the Kansas City Star and Arizona Daily Star over the … Continue reading
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Hearne: Big 12 Renaissance Vs Big 10/SEC Reality
Not only is the Big 12 back, it’s super bad and soon to get badder… The mini glut of perennial College Football Playoff teams aside – Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ohio State, Clemson – the vaunted Big 10 and SEC conferences are mostly cash … Continue reading
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Hearne: ‘All That Glitters’ & Len Dawson
Everybody loves a local sports heroe… And deceased Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson is no exception. That said, most of that so-called “love” is based upon our reverence for athletes – as some call it “jock sniffing” – dating back to … Continue reading
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Guy Who Says: Mizzou Fan Defends SEC Failures
How long before the SEC & Big 10 stop paying big bucks to lesser teams like Mizzou, Rutgers, Vanderbilt, I wondered? “To answer your last question: Never,” fired back the Guy Who Days What Others Think. “It’s a dumb idea … Continue reading
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Hearne: Big 12 Revival Update
A year ago it looked like the Big 12 might be toast… A handful of schools that made up the college sports conference many Kansas Citian’s grew up with had bailed 10 years earlier to escape bullying by Texas and Oklahoma. They … Continue reading
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Hearne: About The Local Doc Who Claimed To Be Treating Elvis
Speaking of the hoopla re the new Elvis Presley movie… What better time to take a trip back in time than now- 21 years after the fact, to be specific – to when area physician Donald Hinton wrote a book claiming Elvis was … Continue reading
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Hearne: BIG 12 Football Refugee Redux
Seems like only yesterday… The never-ending, ongoing demise of the Big 12 Conference, that is. The crazy part is – Colorado started it by bailing for the Pac 10 a dozen years ago; followed by Nebraska to the now infamous Big 10 a year later; and Missouri and … Continue reading
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Hearne: Elvis Has Left The Cutting Room Floor
About that new Elvis flick out of Australia… Star of the show Austin Butler plays a kick ass “young” Elvis – even though he turns 31 in August – nearly 10 years older than the young King he plays in … Continue reading
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Hearne: Infamous Glazer Family Comes To Quiet End
What were the odds? That when outspoken KC comedy legend Craig Glazer and his brothers chipped in to purchase an expensive life insurance policy on their dad several years back, that Stanford’s & Sons founder Stan Glazer would outlive all three of … Continue reading
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