Treat your special-investigation fatigue by playing another round of Sweeps Bingo


February’s edition of Sweeps Bingo is brought to you with a heavy heart. Kansas City’s best TV investigator, Russ Ptacek, is leaving KSHB Channel 41 for Washington, D.C.’s CBS affiliate, WUSA 9. The reporter’s exit is cause for scuzzy politicians across the metro to clink glasses. (D.C. crooks right now are blissfully unaware of the tornado headed their way.) Watch this space for an exit interview with Ptacek. Meanwhile, sweeps month is under way with exploding appliances and nosy cadaver dogs. Grab your daubers and play along with The Pitch’s Kansas City Sweeps Bingo card. Fill in a line, call out the magic word, then wait for our prize patrol to show up.