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Out & About KY Style: Barry Sadler

Barry Sadler. The first time I heard his name was soon after my arrival for assignment at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, as the deputy post information officer in 1967. Sadler, while a Special Forces Green Beret, was still officially a soldier stationed at Bragg, and his newly...
Posted On 25 Oct 2022

Out & About KY Style: Bill Russell and Jim McDaniels

Much has been written about the passing of Bill Russell, who many consider among the best basketball players to ever play the game. With high school state championships and two NCAA titles at the University of San Francisco, the Louisiana native, was even better in leading the...
Posted On 13 Sep 2022

Out and About Kentucky Style: Golf

Golf is big. Even though I haven’t played in more than five years, I still really enjoy watching it. It’s better if Tiger is playing.\ Where I live backs up to number four tee, and it seems rain or shine, hot or cold someone is always teeing it up. Over the years the game has...
Posted On 23 Aug 2022

Out & About KY Style: John Y. and Phyllis

Over my journalistic lifetime I’ve been fortunate to interview hundreds of people for newspaper and magazine stories, as well as books, radio, and yes, even television. Many have been famous celebrities, the majority former sports stars. Among the more memorable is John Y. Brown,...
Posted On 19 Jul 2022

Out & About KY Style: Comic Book Dealers

Days are long gone since anyone thought comic books were just for kids.  It’s the old saying, “Follow the money.” There’s big bucks in comics, especially old ones.  A few years ago a 1938 Action Superman comic sold for $3.2 million.  It is considered to be the beginning of the...
Posted On 05 Jul 2022

Out and About Ky. Style: John Y. Brown

At one time there were two high profile professional basketball leagues. While the NBA was older and more established, in 1967 a group of high rollers got together and started the American Basketball Association. Almost immediately the new league became a thorn in the side of the...
Posted On 07 Jun 2022

Out and About Ky. Style: Derby Day

A recent newspaper article about Kentucky Derby goers slipping prohibited items past ticket-takers while on their way to a prime spot in the infield triggered a 56-year-old memory of the Derby, and the infield in particular. I was a college student at the University of Kentucky...
Posted On 06 May 2022

Out and About Kentucky Style: Butts & Bear Bryant

It was 10:25 in the morning when Atlanta insurance salesman George Burnett decided he needed to call a friend at Communications International, a public relations company in the same town. For the 41-year-old father of five it would be a phone call that would change his life … and...
Posted On 29 Mar 2022

Out and About Kentucky Style: Joe B. Hall

Joe Beasman Hall had a way of making ordinary people feel like they were his best friend. But it wasn’t always like that. The former Kentucky Wildcat basketball coach who followed Adolph Rupp died January 14. Even though he stepped away from the program 37 years ago at the age of...
Posted On 15 Feb 2022

Out & About Kentucky Style … Jay Bauer

Jay Bauer was the locker room attendant of the Kentucky Colonels professional basketball team in Louisville. At least that was his title in 1975, and at the age of 23 he had been involved with the Colonels for all nine of their American Basketball Association seasons. He started...
Posted On 01 Feb 2022