I probably have enough stories from covering three Olympics to cover a couple of chapters in my memoirs. One that will forever stick in my mind was the night in 1988 that Bill Benner, then with the Indianapolis Star, and a few other guys went to dinner. It was my first time to visit the […]

I promise, this blog will not always be about my sweet wife and her health but I’ve had so many inquiries that I thought I’d give a quick update. She is suffering from gastroperesis, a disorder that keeps her stomach from digesting food quickly enough. Bile has to go somewhere and in this case it […]

It wasn’t just Valentine’s Day. It was my anniversary at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. My 33rd consecutive year. Yes, I started here as a paperboy when I was 10. OK, bad joke and I have a birthday in three weeks that would easily dispute that claim. It seems like yesterday I walked in to John Robert […]

In a few weeks there will be one of the most grueling and unique events in the country, the Pike’s Peak Marathon. It is like a forced march from Manitou Springs Colo., up Pike’s Peak Mountain to an elevation of 14,110 feet. The marathon is on Sunday, but on Saturday they have the ascent race […]

It was almost six years ago when Jermain Taylor won his first middleweight championship title. He had to have one judge in the 12th round for the victory and that’s exactly what he got. I’ll never forget that night. What I’ll also never forget was going to a media-only workout of Bernard Hopkins. I was […]

Reading and then watching the video of Chad Ochocinco, wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, attempt to ride a bull brought back a very strong memory. It was the early 1980s and the late John Robert Starr was the managing editor/columnist of the Arkansas Democrat (long before the newspaper war ended) and he was very […]