Frank Cashen, the quintessential baseball executive who helped assemble superb teams with the Orioles and Mets in the ’70s and ’80s, died the other day. Yet his flashy bow ties and his broad grin will live on with me. One day he and I shared an endless plane ride, and …
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In her 1985 speech after receiving the Best Actress Oscar for her role in “Places in the Heart,” actress Sally Field famously gushed, “You like me; you really, really like me.” The latest in a long history of surveys examining the public’s level of trust in the news media might …
Read More »Chiefs' Hollywood Brown got baptized days before two-touchdown game vs Lions: 'Whole weekend's been amazing'
This past Sunday, Marquise “Hollywood” Brown caught two touchdowns for the first time in almost exactly four years. The last time the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver found the end zone twice before this past Sunday was back on Oct. 11, 2021, when he was a member of the Baltimore …
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