Tag: 2021
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Week 8 Newsletter: A Scary Sunday
Happy Halloween, bitches! It feels weird to write that when we’re still a few days away from Halloween. But this is the last newsletter before then and I have to hit the annual theme for the last time. This Sunday’s football games are going to be so full of Halloween puns/gags that I’m going to…
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Week 7 Newsletter: Forgive this Disturbance
While we are all sports nuts, we each have our own various likes and quirks that influence what we’re interested in. Some people are nerds with intricate knowledge of things like Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings. Others may be low-key metalheads who use those kinds of tunes to turn up at work. Others…
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Week 6 Newsletter: Gunning for my Gganbu
While I was away, a certain show took over the internet. Now as I’ve mentioned I don’t often get caught up in the wave of popular TV shows — just look at my lack of history with shows like Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, You, Orange is the New Black, and The Handmaid’s Tale. But I was waiting for my flight…
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Week 5 Newsletter: Give it to the Italians
Greetings from the Bay Area, where not too long ago my return flight home landed. Anyway, to get back to the point I started last week — yes, I took a trip to Italy! I hadn’t been overseas in three years (which for me is an eternity) and hadn’t been on vacation for an eternity…
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Week 4 Newsletter: Magic in the Air
Greetings from Italy! More on that next week. Before I arrived here, I spent a couple of days in London — pretty much every flight from the U.S. to Italy had a lengthy delay in either New York or London, so I chose to chill in London. While there, I did as many touristy things…
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Week 3 Newsletter: NINE NINE
Despite working in television and watching a lot of TV in general, there aren’t a lot of TV shows I particularly watch. Chances are, if there’s a popular TV show or even something on networks in the evenings, I’ve never seen a single episode. From Breaking Bad to Game of Thrones to The Americans to Atlanta to BoJack Horseman to This is Us to The Walking Dead, I’ve seen about three…
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Week 2 Newsletter: Winless in Seattle
Greetings from the Emerald City! I’m continuing to scratch the pandemic travel itch by seeing the sights of Seattle, about four years after Jimmy, Chriss, and I made our own trek up north. While I’m doing a few different activities and have somehow gotten even fatter since then, one thing that remains the same is that I’m not traveling alone.…
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Week 1 Newsletter: A HOF Beginning
Things are finally getting back to normal. Businesses have opened back up, fans can attend sporting events again, and travel is returning to average levels. Of course, the pandemic is far from other — in fact a shit ton of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have been reported in recent months (largely due to unvaccinated dipshits, but still). Booster…
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2021 Draft Newsletter: How will the Raiders screw up this time?
While we still are in a pandemic, I’m not doing another series of offseason newsletters. That shit was way too much work and I’ve somehow gotten even busier than before at FOX40. I’m doing the 10 p.m. show (M-F) now and this shit is hard, especially because we’re incredibly short-staffed (I have no writers for the majority…
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Super Bowl LV Newsletter: Of Hate and Love
Y’all motherfuckers thought I was done, didn’t you? Well, so did I! It seemed fitting that during a year that spawned a monthly offseason newsletter series and a historic season to mark the Epic League turning a decade old, I wrap things up with one more edition for the final game of the season. With the…
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