by Kevin Burton What was previously unthinkable, now I don’t even think about. I’m talking about a ravenous, red-blooded American sports fan giving up ESPN. I did that, we did that, years ago. This comes up because it is football season now, or close enough. The pre=season pro games have started. The …
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Yay, Comma, Football Is Back, Period
by Kevin Burton Remember the interjection song from Schoolhouse Rock? The song says interjections are “generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling’s not as strong.” Well I was feeling pretty sheepish about this, but I said the sentence “Yay! Football is back” …
Baseball And Radio, A Perfect Pairing
by Kevin Burton The greatest marriage of all time marks its 101st anniversary today. May death never part the two. The two I speak of, baseball and radio. Baseball on the radio has been a comfort to millions of Americans all their lives. Baseball was the national pastime, radio a sort of national …
Stumbling Into Success Through Humility
by Kevin Burton This is not a story about soccer, but that’s where it starts. One time, I think it was while I was a reporter with the Muscatine Journal, I was assigned to do a soccer story. I still don’t know much about soccer, but back then I knew next to nothing. …
Getaway Day, Above The Old Routine
by Kevin Burton Tomorrow is Getaway Day and there’s just nothing like it. It’s World Series week in the land of beep baseball, baseball for blind players. Getaway Day is about heading to the competition site and into another world. If you’ve never seen beep baseball, check it out on You Tube. …
Cats’ Fantasy Football Team Is Not Half Bad
by Kevin Burton People won’t understand, they won’t even try. People will laugh. Let them. A promise is a promise. My girls look to me and I try not to let them down. They seek my attention, and since they are cats, they are not exceptionally good at verbalizing this. If they …
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Suit Alleges DraftKings Violates ADA
by Kevin Burton Uh-oh, looks as if two of my in-groups have beef. A blind man has filed a federal class-action lawsuit against DraftKings, alleging that the gaming company’s website is not accessible to blind users. DraftKings is a daily fantasy sports and sports betting company founded in Boston in 2012. The …
Quibbles And Bits: Shame On Starbucks?
by Kevin Burton Got some things to say. Don’t want to make a federal, 700-word case of them, just want to have my say as they say in England. Just some things I need to get off my chest. I’ll call them Quibbles And Bits. I’ll serve them up on Page 7 …
NFL Football In June Is Just A Fantasy
by Kevin Burton I’m not laughing at you, I’m laughing with you. Have you ever told that lie? Also, what happens when your so-called “seasonal obsession” shows up out of season? Can a true obsession ever be limited to one season? Spoiler alert, I do not have definitive answers to these questions. …
Blind Rock Climber Has Life In Focus
by Kevin Burton After seeing one too many stories about blindness that was full of stereotypes and stupidity, I started a conversation. I wrote about how my time as a newsman who happens to be legally blind made me sensitive to misconceptions about blindness that seep into society through the pages of …
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