Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton Your favorite retail outlet will be having an after-Christmas sale just now. It’s sort of their version of New Year’s resolutions, you know, out with the old, in with the new. They won’t spare the hype, the bold print or the volume. God help you if you miss this sale! …
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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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My father used to say that NFL games were fixed. Then and now I scoff at that, but sometimes I wonder. Like Sunday, when Buffalo was so passive and so awful in a blowout 27-10 loss to Cincinnati. Maybe this is just me needing to adjust my expectations for teams as they coalesce …
by Kevin Burton Within my general and ongoing shameless plea for readership, I got specific two months ago. On the occasion of Mexican Independence Day I lamented that nobody in Mexico had ever read Page 7 (“Happy Birthday Mexico, Please Read This,” Sept. 15). That hurts, because I used to live in Mexico. …
by Kevin Burton Eureka! I found the magic formula and Page 7 readers were there to see it. Apparently all it takes to make the Dallas Cowboys implode completely is for me to praise them in public as I did last week (“Cowboys Kool-Aid, Bottoms Up?,” Nov. 5). The most overhyped team …
by Kevin Burton Can’t believe I’m about to say this, put my name on it and send it out all over the world: It appears the Dallas Cowboys finally may have the right stuff. I got this idea after watching them win on Sunday Night Football, on the road at a good …
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