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The House Always Wins
Kelly McCrimmon does not build hockey teams like a nervous accountant. He builds them like a Vegas pit boss who knows when the table is cold, when the room needs heat, and when the only smart play is the one everyone else is too scared to make. By dumping Bruce Cassidy late and dropping John…
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Bednar Must Go: Avalanche Leadership-less without Makar
The Colorado Avalanche did not just miss Cale Makar. They exposed Jared Bednar. Without their generational defenseman, the Avs looked stripped of command, structure, and emotional authority in the Western Conference Final against Vegas. Makar missed Game 1 and Game 2 with an upper-body injury, and Colorado dropped both home games, including a 3-1 Game…
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Don Cherry in the Desert
Vegas was supposed to be neon, velvet ropes, casino carpets, and showtime hockey. Instead, the Golden Knights have become something harder, colder, and more dangerous: an old-school playoff machine. At the center of it is William Karlsson, the quiet warrior who plays like the ghosts of Derek Sanderson, Darryl Sittler, Ron Duguay, Lanny McDonald, and…
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The Grit That Endures: Don Cherry and the Hard-Nosed Code of Yesteryears
Old hockey is not dead. It is waiting behind the boards, taped up, scarred, and ready for one more shift. Matt “Sully” Sullivan looks at Lindy Ruff’s Buffalo revival through the ghost light of Don Cherry’s hockey world — the Lunch Pail A.C., the Big Bad Bruins, Derek Sanderson, Dave “The Hammer” Schultz, Tiger Williams,…
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Common Sense Democrats? More Like Crime Scene Democrats
Brian Laline wanted to explain Kamala Harris’s 2024 faceplant and sell Democrats a fantasy comeback under the label “Common Sense Democrats.” Richard Luthmann says the autopsy is already finished. Democrats did not lose because Biden hid Kamala or Trump got lucky. They lost because voters saw inflation, migrants, crime, censorship, lawfare, gender madness, and elite…
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Niagara Family Court Cage
Kevin Guthrie walked into Niagara County Family Court as a father. He came out as a monitored man under state control. The Guthrie File alleges that Judge Caroline Wojtaszek’s court, Niagara County DA Brian Seaman’s office, ADA Aubrie Allen, Niagara County Probation, and courthouse repeat players turned disputed Instagram evidence into a criminal contempt case,…
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CBS Radio News Signs Off
CBS News Radio signing off is not just another media-industry footnote. It is the sound of old America unplugging itself from the wall. For nearly a century, CBS Radio carried war, elections, blackouts, snowstorms, assassinations, traffic jams, and the plainspoken rhythm of daily civic life into kitchens, cars, diners, garages, and union halls. Now, on…
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I’m William Peck – A Bobby Zahn Tribute
Robert J. “Bobby” Zahn, Jr. was not a polished political insider. He was better than that. He was a Staten Island original: a 9/11 responder, Tea Party warrior, proto-MAGA organizer, conservative strategist, loyal friend, and relentless thorn in the side of the local political machine. Richard Luthmann remembers Bobby not only as a political ally,…
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Scandal in the Age of Exposure
You would think the Deflategate franchise would have smartened up by now. Nope. The New England Patriots — a team already branded by Spygate, Deflategate, and the Aaron Hernandez nightmare — now finds itself dragged into another public-relations mud pit, this time around head coach Mike Vrabel and former NFL reporter Dianna Russini. The reported…
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CharityWatch Loses Tax-Free Collar?
CharityWatch built its brand by judging charities, grading nonprofits, and telling donors who deserves trust. Now the watchdog is under the microscope. After publishing a May 1 article tying Richard Luthmann to an alleged paid smear campaign without showing one dollar ever reached him, CharityWatch and CEO Laurie Styron may face legal, regulatory, and reputational…
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