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Jason Collins, and a Plea For Kindness
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Today is FreeForAll Thursday. All you freeloaders, today’s your lucky day. If you like what you read, the going rate is $8/month or $80/year, for five TMLS a week. Not a ton of dough, in other words....
The Curse of Max Montoya Lives
Looking for a reason Cincy sports seem hexed?
- Blame Max Montoya.
Quick Read for Impatient People
Welcome back to the 3-Dot Lounge. . .
- THE THREE-DOT LOUNGE. . . makes its triumphant return to TML this AM, which might or might not mean one of two things:
Back The JACK
Today’s Hemingway, Geoff “Butch’’ Hobson. (Bengals.com)
When the Bengals open the 2026 season, it will mark the 50th year Geoff Hobson has covered a football game in a sportswriting career that began in his hometown of Framingham,...
A Question for Mobsters
How many of you have been Hemingways?
I need the names, please, of everyone who has written a Hemingway or several sometime in the past four years, since my retirement from the Enquirer. We’d like to give you a little gift at the Mobsters...
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