Rich Zvosec coached a series of men’s college basketball teams with interesting nicknames. In 1988, at age 27, he was hired to lead the St. Franicis (New York) Terriers. Then he moved to North Florida, home of the Ospreys. Finally, he landed at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he coached the Kangaroos for seven seasons, six as the head…
I’m so glad that this is just a fantasy commercial. Adidas filmed ads with NBA players who skipped college wearing the college jerseys that they never donned. In this ad, Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard holds up a Kansas jersey and sings “Rock Chalk Jayhawk.” He’s also seen here wearing a white No. 12 home jersey. All I wanna know…
I always figure things are going downhill for a politician when he starts blaming the media for his troubles. Over the last 22 months, I’ve heard Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser do that at a town hall meeting, in his weekly newsletter and on his front porch. As editor of the mainstream media outlet that may have been the toughest…
%{}% A federal judge sentenced a Kansas City man today to 11 years and three months in federal prison for running a marijuana-growing operation in Daviess County, which is holy land but I don’t think Joseph Smith was growing weed. In July, a federal jury found 30-year-old Jhanmay Molina-Perez guilty of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana between May 1 to October…
Hugo the Hornet won’t be riding his scooter to Kansas City. The NBA’s New Orleans Hornets exceeded attendance and revenue benchmarks, which means the franchise won’t need financial help from the state of Louisiana this year, the Associated Press reported today. That’s bad news for AEG and the Sprint Center. The AP says: During last season, the Hornets negotiated changes…
Missouri state Rep. Cynthia Davis is a special lady. Even with all of our many, many differences, I’d still like to hug and kiss her at the polls. Ahem. Anyway, Cynthia keeps trying to put barriers between us. Like signing on a lawsuit that claims Barack Obama can’t be president because he’s not a U.S. citizen. Sweet conspiracy theorist Cynthia…
Flickr: Brian.Baggett The Ted’s Montana Grill restaurant at 7420 N.W. 87th Street in the Zona Rosa shopping complex will close — temporarily — this Sunday for renovations. The restaurant is scheduled to re-open on Monday, March 30. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Ted’s Montana Grill, zona rosa
Just got a call from Professor Crap. He’s listening to Shanin and Parks on 980 KMBZ. I’m not sure why, but he likes the show. Professor Crap tells me Mike Shanin and Scott Parks are going to be giving away free T-shirts at the auto show tomorrow (Friday). Ooh! Score! But Professor Crap tells me you can’t get a T-shirt…
First Gornography, now Koktopus: Local metal acts really excel at turning two words into oneword. “I thought of the name as a joke,” says Koktopus singer Fletch. “When we made up our minds that we were gonna roll with it and use it as some sort of mascot, we decided that the Koktopus needed to be a beast that was…
Keith Brown worked tirelessly from 2005 to 2007 to see his son Jawanza acquitted of murder charges in April 2007. But just eight months after a Jackson County jury read the words “not guilty” and Jawanza danced down the courtroom’s hall, 19-year-old Jawanza was back in handcuffs, accused of a new shooting. He opened fire on two men who’d honked…
Flickr: Jason Wild OK, so maybe it wasn’t bean dip that caused the unfortunate farting episode that disrupted a City Council meeting in the hamlet of Medina, Ohio. All kinds of foods can cause severe flatulence, including milk and milk products, fried beans and peas, cabbage, brussels sprouts and all kinds of otherwise healthy fruits and vegetables. Jane Leaver, the mayor…
Ordinarily, nostalgic revivals of the artistic modes from past decades are an embarrassing aggregation of the most cliched features your parents can remember. I’m talking about this guy: This annoying bastard spent a lot of money on his zoot suit during the ghastly swing revival of the 1990s and wore it everywhere from Cherry Poppin’ Daddies shows to Starbucks while…
Flickr: Greything A month ago I was making dinner, not paying attention to what I was doing, and cut my thumb and nail about halfway down to the bone. A rational person would have stopped and gone to the emergency room to get a couple stitches. But working in kitchens your entire life erodes rationality. I just ran it under…
Liberace Cooks: A Cookbook!, Liberace Museum Just for fun, here’s a little contest. Everyone knows songs with food in them, right? Just don’t get Christina Aguilera’s recent version of “Candy Man” confused with the one by Sammy Davis, Jr., which went to Number One on the Billboard charts in the spring of 1972. Sammy was singing about “groovy lemon pie,”…
Before you eat that fish you caught, you might want to check with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) which, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Conservation, put out its annual fish consumption advisory list yesterday. The report lists contaminants in Missouri water, such as Mercury and lead, and notes what fish are carrying what. “All…
I don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh. But a source — a devoted dittohead — called yesterday and told me that Limbaugh was going on and on about Kansas City Star sports writer Jason Whitlock’s Sunday column, “It’s OK to question Pioli and the Chiefs.” Limbaugh made Whitlock the subject of a “teachable moment” segment. The cigar chomping OxyContin addict was…
I was playing around on Fat City’s Twitter page yesterday and feeling like a nap when the UPS man arrived bearing gifts. Caffeinated gifts! Specially, a package from Starbucks containing Via, the company’s new instant coffee. When Starbucks announced it was releasing Via last month, I wasn’t the only one criticizing the decision. I said something to the effect that…
