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Marlee McCormick 3/28/2017: Where do we come from?

Marlee McCormick 3/28/2017: Where do we come from?

Don’t you get tired of the proverbial “Where do we come from?”  Seems like a tired line, that is until you get excited about finding the answers….and that’s where I find myself now tracing my roots…so the question no longer seems that boring to me. A few years ago at my father’s funeral, I met…MORE

Dave Williams 2/18/2017: Fake news, alternative news and my dead dad

“People say you have a right to your opinion. That’s only half correct. You have a right to an informed opinion. If you don’t know what you’re talking about you should shut the hell up and listen.” – Donald M. Williams I was about 14 or 15 when my dad told me that. It made…MORE

Alan Scaia, 2/14/17: ScaiaBowl

Alan Scaia, 2/14/17: ScaiaBowl

I spent last weekend in Houston covering Super Bowl 51. Let me walk you through how journalists cover the “news” side of a major sporting event. When I got to Houston, I started wandering around to talk to fans. Patriots fans were striding confidently through the streets, doing weirdly stereotypical interviews where they don’t pronounce the letter,…MORE

Scott Sidway 2/10/2017: It’s Okay to be Emotionally Invested in Sports

Scott Sidway 2/10/2017: It’s Okay to be Emotionally Invested in Sports

If anyone knows what Atlanta fans are feeling after the most improbable collapse in Super Bowl history, it’s us, Metroplex. In this millennium alone, we’ve watched the Dallas Mavericks squander away a 2-0 NBA Finals lead, the Cowboys fall flat on their face in 2007 after one of the best regular seasons in team history, the…MORE