by Kevin Burton I can’t imagine a scenario where I am completely immune to the madness. While you and your office mates filled out brackets last week, that was only a fleeting thought for me. Didn’t come close to working up the enthusiasm. But that doesn’t mean I can’t be found on the …
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Deflated Wichita State Program Limps Offstage
by Kevin Burton Well, at least it’s over. The 2024-25 version of Wichita State basketball bowed out yesterday, when the Shockers lost an American Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinal game to Memphis 83-80. The team went 19-14 this year and will not go to a post-season tournament. They were far from sublime, not …
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Quibbles And Bits: Sorry Drew, Didn’t Mean It!
by Kevin Burton In a recent post about Elton John and his struggles with vision loss, I made an offhanded, rash statement. Today I make a correction. I hope it’s not too late. I wondered in print about what I would say to Sir Elton about blindness in the very unlikely event …
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This Super Bowl Was Truly A Super Bore
by Kevin Burton How fitting that my story about Super Bowl LIX (59) begins with a tale of excessive sleeping. On the Saturday before Super Sunday I was supposed to go to a local butcher shop and get some ribs that would serve as the centerpiece of a super feast. Incredibly, I slept …
Chiefs Haters, Have Some Wings, Get A Life
by Kevin Burton Here’s my super-cordial, Super Sunday invitation, going out to all you Chiefs hates out there. You are invited to take all that refs-and-Chiefs bellyaching, and put it in a place where the sun doesn’t shine, namely the Louisiana Super Dome, venue for tonight’s Super Bowl LIX (59)! You thought …
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Quibbles And Bits: Outlaw Z, Forgiveness
by Kevin Burton Come and get it kids, quibble and bits, short takes, follow-ups from recent posts, bits of news….. A day or two after I wrote about the letter Z and its two pronunciations (zed and zee), Meriam-Webster made “zeitgeist” its word of the day. The dictionary says zeitgeist is “the …
Keeping Score With The Language Of Sports
by Kevin Burton I knew sports played a big role in the shaping of our common language, but I didn’t know how big. We previously brought you a list of sports idioms on Page 7, but none of the ones from Dictionary Scoop that we posted yesterday or the one below, we’re on …
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Sporty Origins Of Some Popular Expressions
by Dictionary Scoop Have you ever heard someone say “I’ll have to start from scratch”? Ever wondered what “in the nick of time” means? What all these expressions have in common is that they originated in the world of sports. Want to know more? Discover all those phrases you often say but didn’t know …
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Celebrate Your Victories, Even The Small Ones
by Kevin Burton Mitch Holthus is the radio voice of the Kansas City Chiefs. He’s really good at his job, in the overheated manner of the hometown play-by-play guy. There is a nearly-universal breathless presentation of sports that attempts to elevate it to something truly significant, when it really is not. Hey, …
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So Long McCaffrey, Thanks For Nothing
by Kevin Burton For the briefest of moments, I thought, “Breece Hall.” I had just been blessed with the first pick in my sixth and last fantasy football draft for 2024. The Yahoo draft mechanism at first flashed “8th” for my draft order, then inexplicably changed to “1st.” Never seen that happen …
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