Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, I spent six years as a sports writer and later as a sports editor. I’ve interviewed everyone from high school hoopsters to MLB Hall of Famers. I graduated with a B.A. in English from Shawnee State University. My wife and I currently live in Lexington, Ky. Contact: [Johninquisitr@gmail.com]
Imagine sitting down to breakfast, pouring out a bowl of your favorite cereal with milk, and then noticing something isn’t quite right. A German man had just such an experience recently, finding a mummified bat in his cereal bowl at his home in Stuttgart. Metro reports that it isn’t yet known if the bat made… Read more »
A restaurant review is a pretty standard thing in the the newspaper industry, but the best food critics know how to keep it fresh, even if the restaurant they’re reviewing seems to be stale. New York Times food critic Pete Wells has published a review of Guy Fieri’s restaurant — Guy’s American Bar and Grill… Read more »
Replace Caleb Hanie with Jason Campbell and Bears fans would be forgiven for thinking it was 2011 all over again. Last season in November when quarterback Jay Cutler went down with an injured thumb, Caleb Hanie was supposed to be his replacement. As insurance, the team picked up veteran QB Josh McCown to back him… Read more »
Walt Zeboski, an Associated Press photographer most famous for covering ...
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Dante Bichette, one of the first stars for the then-expansion Colorado ...
In what is nearly certain to end up on a The Colbert Report segment for ...
A Camp Pendleton marine left police no choice but to shoot him dead to end a dangerous altercation in the California desert on Saturday. The marine was shot in the desert after refusing to stop when approached by police. Fox News reports he was approached by bike patrol officers around 2 am on Saturday and… Read more »
The Oxford American Dictionary has named GIF as the 2012 Word of the Year. ...
A central Texas highway with a speed limit of 85 miles per hour, the fastest speed limit in the nation, has suffered its first fatality. Texas State Highway 130 has a 41-mile stretch of toll road that opened on Oct. 24 with a posted speed limit of 85 miles per hour. Martha Melinda Harris, 60,… Read more »
Just as transportation in the New York area appeared to be returning to some ...
In a move sure to please vegans and vegetarians, and equally sure to anger meat lovers, the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution urging residents to pledge they won’t eat meat on Mondays. The resolution, which the Los Angeles Daily News reports passed 14-0, does not have the force of law and the council… Read more »
Eight years before he died, famous poet T.S. Eliot married Esmé Valerie ...
For the better part of the last decade Rowan Williams served as spiritual ...
A 16-year-old California girl, Vera Oliphant, was visiting her uncle in an area with spotty cell phone service. Like most teens would, she went in search of a signal. Things took a turn for the worst however when the preoccupied teen felt extreme pain in her leg, and looked down to see a mother rattlesnake… Read more »
If you don’t tip the Pizza Hut delivery guy in Des Moines, Iowa, you may end up with urine on your doorstep. Chloe Teply ordered a pizza at her apartment complex last week and didn’t have the money for a tip. The pizza arrived, the delivery guy took the payment, but then things went wrong…. Read more »
Popes tend to communicate with members of the Roman Catholic Church through ...
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In a telegram sent to the White House on Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI ...
President Barack Obama stands victorious on Wednesday after a close but decisive victory over challenger Mitt Romney. That means for the next four years the Obama administration is in charge but it also means that posturing for a 2016 run at the Oval Office is due to begin. So who are the likely candidates for… Read more »
An elderly Michigan man whose name and age were not released was voting with ...
After Hurricane Sandy displaced thousands of voters in New Jersey, the state allowed that displaced voters who could not reach a polling place would have the option of voting by email. ABC News reports that the state had so many requests for ballots on Tuesday that New Jersey has instead extended voting by email through… Read more »
Newt Gingrich, like other failed presidential candidates, rents out his list of email contacts to advertisers, but an email sent Thursday from Gingrich Marketplace by mistake told his former supporters that President Barack Obama is going to be re-elected on Tuesday. ABC reports the email, titled “What’s really at stake this Tuesday …”, claims an… Read more »
If Selena Gomez remained in her native Texas instead moving on and becoming ...
Finally, someone has made a playable Halloween pumpkin version of the classic video game Tetris. Plugged In reports that Nathan Pryor, is the someone in question, and he carved, soldered, designed, and programmed a playable Halloween pumpkin, controlled by the pumpkin’s stem. Pryor detailed the impetus and process for making his incredible creation on his… Read more »
They say its in bad taste to break out your Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving, but most will be willing to give Paralympian Josh Sundquist a free pass. The one-legged Paralympic ski racer’s costume for this Halloween involved dressing himself as the famous lamp that Ralphie’s Dad received in the holiday classic film A Christmas Story…. Read more »
Six cadets were hospitalized and 27 were injured in bizarre brawl at the Air Force Academy during an unofficial ritual marking the year’s first snowfall. Among the injuries, Fox 21 Colorado reports, were concussions, cuts, and at least one human bite. The ritual, called “First Shirt, First Snow” involved freshmen cadets trying to throw First… Read more »
A 45-year-old University of Southern Maine employee, David Norton, suffered a stroke in his office the Friday prior to Columbus Day and was barely alive when he was discovered still in the office the following Wednesday. Five days after that, he died in a hospital. The Post-Standard reports that in the wake of Norton’s death,… Read more »
For most TV sitcom fans of the 1980s and 1990s, George Wendt is a household ...
When you’re new star addition starts the season by missing on a ...
A.J. Ellis has a daughter, 4, and a son, 2, that were born with him out on ...
For what had to be an agonizing few moments, rookie Scott Machado thought his NBA career was over before it began when teammate Jeremy Lin accidentally texted him, “goodbye and good luck.” Fox Sports reports that the rookie point guard Machado was awaiting word on whether or not he’d make the team when the Rockets… Read more »
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush compared President Barack Obama to a ...
As the NBA season approaches, teams are trimming their rosters down to the ...
While The Office is facing its final episodes after nine seasons, die hard fans of the series were hopeful that they’d still be able to follow the exploits of Dwight Schrute, played by Rainn Wilson. Wilson had filmed The Farm, a spin-off from the show that would follow Schrute as he left the literal office… Read more »
Don’t expect the hubbub over now-former Hurricane Sandy to die down because the system is still dangerous, but Sandy has been downgraded from hurricane status to a post-tropical storm. According to the Associated Press, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was still dangerous, with sustained winds of more than 85 miles per hour and… Read more »
Apple founder Steve Jobs was a technological revolutionary in the world of computers, but he apparently spent years designing a yacht. The so-called super yacht, which was completed one year after Jobs’ death, is named Venus, after the Roman goddess of love. Fox News reports that the ship is 250-feet long and it is steered… Read more »
Former Speaker of the House and failed Republican challenger for the presidency Newt Gingrich has taken to the offensive, working to campaign for Republican nominee Mitt Romney. In Gingrich’s latest salvo at President Barack Obama, he’s turned to the well traveled argument that, as a state senator, Obama voted three times against versions of the… Read more »
A Ryan Theriot single, a Brandon Belt sacrifice and a Marco Scutaro single. ...
The tsunami warning for Hawaii, issued is the wake of a powerful earthquake ...
Pope Benedict XVI held a closing mass Sunday to mark the end of a synod, or ...
To film on location, a sideline reporter needs a good backdrop, and the warm ...
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) is one of the voices that has been critical of the White House’s handling of the September 11 attack on the American embassy in Libya that killed four Americans including ambassador Christopher Stephens. Initially, McCain spoke in more vague terms, but, after a three-week investigation, the former presidential candidate has come… Read more »
The San Francisco Giants found themselves in a new situation Saturday night ...
Katy Perry turned 28 on Thursday, and when you are her level of famous, you ...
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The first Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll was released Friday and the team sitting on top of the preseason rankings is not the defending national champion. Indiana received 43 of 55 possible first place votes to claim the top spot in the poll. Louisville was ranked No. 2, receiving 20 first place votes… Read more »
Christina Aguilera has had a wildly successful career in the music and now is in demand on television as one of the stars of The Voice. What she really wants to do, however, is play the role of a crackhead in a movie. Strange as it sounds, the former Mickey Mouse Clube star Aguilera told… Read more »
Ronald McDonald got into legal trouble by entering a McDonald;s. The Ronald ...
Every father has concern for his daughter’s safety, but that protective instinct may be a little heightened when the father is President of the United States. President Barack Obama sat down for an interview with MTV News Friday, but didn’t break any major news. Rather, the Washington Post reports, he lamented the lack of political… Read more »
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