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It was just another Monday. Mundane Monday. We were working the Designated Writers beat out of the central office when my…

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Call it karma or the basketball gods at work, but you have to admit that something was at work with the…

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Yesterday’s Happen lauded Doris Day. We love a good lauding and we love Doris Day. One of her big hits was…

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Just a few things lingering on the DW notepad … ** DORIS DAY, et. al.: Here at DW, we hate it when…

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(Ran originally in the May 12, 2019 Sunday editions of The Times and The News-Star.) I have just finished watching the…

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(I wrote this in 2011. The original headline, written by me, was “A better than fair fair zips toward the silver…

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By Teddy Allen Drew Cooper is 12 now but he was 3 when his dad Lonnie retired from competitive basketball, so…

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Another first for a Designated Writer co-founder; one of us went on the Le Tour des Jardin 2019 tour Sunday, presented…

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I try to pay as little attention as possible to professional soccer, no matter what the country of origin is. But…

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The picture you see is of happier times, is of 2018 times…. Not so Monday, which was Historically Bad. Clutch Mother Ziltch….

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