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Jan 1, 2021 Whether you’re at the end of your coffee, your day, your week or even your rope, welcome to Whitt’s End 1.01.21 ... * Out with the old … no, really, OUT with the old. In with the new. Or anything other than a repeat of 2020. Happier New Year! Has any year ever had as much pressure to perform as 2021? * Been watching/covering the Dallas Mavericks since 1980 and last Sunday’s first half in Los Angeles was the best 24 minutes of basketball they’ve played. Sure, the Clippers ...

Last year I made resolutions for me and some for everyone else since no one sent us any. To start the New Year, I’m first going to assess how I did and how some of you did on those 10 things I resolved, then we’ll get to some 2021 goals. No. 1 Assessing how we did on 2020 resolutions. For the past three years I have resolved to cuss less. I actually did cuss less in 2020. The biggest reason is I have been out of the office for the most part and don’t hear all circulation complain...

FILE - In this June 29, 1986, file photo, Diego Maradona holds up his teams trophy after Argentinas 3-2 victory over West Germany at the World Cup final soccer match at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/Carlo Fumagalli, File) Carlo Fumagalli Victoria Will associated press file photo...

Remembering those who died in 2020, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and B. Smith to Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen Updated Dec 31, 2020; Posted Dec 31, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP Facebook Share By BERNARD McGHEE, The Associated Press In a year defined by...

Gallery: Recalling lives lost in 2020 Bernard McGhee Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 1of24 English actress Honor Blackman poses for photographers during a break from the filming in London. Blackman, 94, the potent British actress who took James Bond’s breath away as Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger” and who starred as the leather-clad, judo-flipping Cathy Gale in “The Avengers,” died April 5. (AP Photo/Leonard Brown, File) Show MoreShow Less 2of24 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak de...

Final goodbyes: Notable people the world lost in 2020 By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press From left, Ruth Bader Ginsburg served 27 years on the U.S. Supreme Court; John Lewis was an icon of the civil rights movement. AP (AP) — In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness — RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van...

Hoffman Files Far too many dead to bring out By Rob Hoffman on December 30, 2020 at 7:12 AM “Stupid Covid!”  That’s become my wife’s mantra over the past 10 months.  Occasionally I will chime in with “Covid ruins everything.”  The words may vary, but the sentiments are the same.  Anytime you come up with an idea that sounds like fun, or an interesting place to go, or think you have found a safe way to break the quarantine, COVID-19 rears its ugly corona head and...

Wading through a never-ending cesspool of tragic events that surrounded country music over the past 12 months, last week I mentally started formulating a year-in-review story. When the COVID-19 pandemic caused the IHSA and NCAA to cancel high school and college basketball championship tournaments in March, the music world quickly followed. All live performances were immediately halted, from solo gigs at the corner bar to sold-out mega-festivals. The seriousness of the disease got ugly quickly. ...

. Born Allen Duaine Pruett in Texas, Fox and Chris OBrien hosted the hugely popular morning show on WKRQ-FM in the 1970s and 80s, and hosted country music on WUBE-FM in the 1990s. Other local deaths include UC basketball analyst Chuck Machock; radio personalities Laura Powell, Bob Nave, Bill Ridenour, Larry Thomas, Geoff Nimmo, Ron Britain and Vic Henley; Joe Morgan, the Reds Hall of Famer turned TV analyst for Reds TV and ESPN Sunday Night Baseball; Bengals coach and NFL analyst Sam Wyche; m...

The music that got these Bostonians through 2020 By James Sullivan Globe correspondent,Updated December 28, 2020, 3:53 p.m. Email to a Friend YolaWilly Sanjuan/Invision/AP If music is what feelings sound like, then here’s hoping you had more than your share of music in your life this year. Because we were all up in our feelings. Whether it was that one certain song, a beloved old album as comforting as mashed potatoes, or a playlist that matched your frustration or lifted you out of it, yo...