Mike Pound

By Mike Pound
CNHI News Service

I sort of messed up.

A couple of weeks ago, Caroline Calvin sent me an e-mail. She mentioned that while she and her husband were walking their dogs in a Joplin, Mo., park one afternoon, they came across what she described as a “smaller version of Stonehenge.” She told me that she and her husband thought the rock creation was sort of neat, and that it was obvious that someone went to quite a bit of trouble to put the thing together.

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Jeremiah Tucker

By Jeremiah Tucker
CNHI News Service

Now that a couple weeks have passed and Jessica Simpson has been allowed to respond to the "sexual napalm" comment, let's take a moment to reflect.
First of all, a small part of me regrets the backlash that's washed over John Mayer concerning the remarks he made in his recent interview with Playboy magazine because it probably means most celebrities will continue to regurgitate safe, boring pabulum. Regardless of the content of Mayer's
words, you have to admit that was a pretty rollicking interview with crazy, unguarded comments flying like shrapnel. I now know more about Mayer than I do most of my closest friends.
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Mike Pound

By Mike Pound
CNHI News Service

The Kansas-Kansas State basketball game ended about 15 hours ago, as I type this, and I’m still wondering when my hearing will return.

If there is a “bucket list” for college basketball, I’m thinking that watching the Kansas Jayhawks play the K-State Wildcats in Allen Fieldhouse on the KU campus would be at the top of the list, along with, I suppose, taking in a Duke-North Carolina game along Tobacco Road.

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Benji Tunnell

By Benji Tunnell
CNHI News Service

It is a great weight I carry, knowing that each week dozens upon dozens of people anxiously flip to my column, after spending ample time with sports, the weather and the occasional Beetle Bailey, dying to know what "that
moron" hated this week.
I have done so diligently week upon week, trudging through the worst that the Keanus and Channings of the world can throw at me. Unfortunately, on occasion, life tends to interrupt even the best laid plans, and this week I was unable to perform my civic duty for you.

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Scott Hutcheson

By Scott Hutcheson
CNHI News Service

Nearly 400 years. That’s how long my family has lived in the “New World.” I’ve traced my roots back to a Scotch-Irish Clan in Virginia. The records are unclear after that, but my last name is very prevalent in Scotland, particularly Glasgow.

That is a long time and unfortunately every last trace of Scottish culture and tradition has been washed out of my DNA. In recent years I’ve spent time in Scotland and read the works of Robert Burns to reconnect to my heritage.
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