Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
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: Dobler Dogg Checks Out
There are movie villains, and there are real life ones… By the NFL’s measure former KCMO 810 AM sports talker Conrad Dobler was one of the best… as in, worst. That’s because his football career was peppered with things like … 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: KC Homecoming, Tourism Scrum
Guess who’s coming to dinner, for the first time in two years? You got it…moi! I’ll be driving my tricked-out 2020 Honda Civic Si there in a couple days. So save a little snow and ice for me, will ya? As I … 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: 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: 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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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: 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: Three Strikes Plus @ KC Star
They say, what goes around comes around… We may soon see, given that Kansas City Star editor and main man Mike Fannin recently took a 3rd trip to the DUI plate. Add to that a felony conviction for assault prior … Continue reading
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Hearne: ‘Top Gun Maverick’ – Flashback to the Golden Daze
Buckle up, Boomers… Your ticket to the good old days of 1986 is now playing at a movie theater near you. And while the first third of it I found kinda sleepy and predictable, its CGI effects finish more than … Continue reading
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Hearne: ‘Disinformation’ Kansas City Style
Big Bother works in mysterious ways… Take Kansas City Star editorial page editor Melinda Henneberger‘s hasty exit and going away column last Sunday. After five years of far-left editorials and watching KC’s newspaper of record morph from 600 pound gorilla to homeless person, … Continue reading
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Hearne: Flashback to Fortune, Kietzman, Whitlock, Zuroweste
At least there’s a little bit of motive to this particular madness, in that someone slipped in a comment on this 2013 column standing up for…waity for it…former sports media kingpin Don Fortune aka Don Fortunado. And how about, No … Continue reading
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Hearne: College Football Nears: OU Still Reeling
What red-blooded local sports fan wasn’t drawn into some of last year’s huge sports shockers involving Big 12 heavyweights Texas and Oklahoma? Including the exclamation point at the end of the conference season when OU coach Lincoln Riley dramatically bailed on … Continue reading
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Hearne: End of Days Near For Newspaper?
How low can they go? As a kid, there was a popular dance called “the limbo.” The object was for dancers to pass under a progressively lower bar while still on their feet, leaning backward. As a midget at the time, I … Continue reading
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Hearne: Cowtown Escapee Nick Wright Continues to Soar
Everybody reveres Walt Disney, Harry Truman, George Brett, Stan Durwood… They’re expatriates who’ve done Kansas City proud, and exemplify the attributes and skills that make our little corner of the world a more recognized, better place to be from and live. Guess who’s missing … Continue reading
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Hearne: Is Local College Football Dead?
Could the end of major college sports be on the horizon? After watching the Cincinnati – Alabama football playoff game and glimpsing at how convincingly Georgia manhandled Michigan, I think it’s almost a no-brainer. In a nutshell, college sports aficionados want … Continue reading
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Hearne: To Be Or Not To Be? That’s The Pitch Question
It’s not easy being in the print publishing game these days… Actually, it’s hard, which makes me shudder to think of the task ahead for Pitch co-owner, nice guy Brock Wilbur. I can’t help thinking “nice guys finish last” and it has me fearing … Continue reading
