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Sources tell BBR that the Washington Redskins will officially announce today that they are dropping their 87-year-old nickname.  While no new nickname will be announced, gone is the name “Redskins.”  We have a few questions about this decision. Did you know that Washington’s logo of an American Indian chief had been designed by a Native …

Schools out for summer.  Schools out forever.  So sang Alice Cooper. We always got the summer part.  We never understood the forever part. Perhaps, now we do.  During these (are you ready?) new normal, COVID-19 pandemic, #aparttogether, together apart, times are changing.  Unprecedented is the time we are told repeatedly. And with it, our …

Two wrongs don’t make a right. CNN’s Don Lemon called for former President Barrack Obama’s chiseled likeness to be added to Mount Rushmore last evening.  “I think, listen … if they are going to put someone on Mount Rushmore, considering the history of the country, the first black president should be front and center,”  he …

To play or not to play fall sports? That is the question that college and pro teams in all sports across this fruited plain are pondering as July rolls along. Some face even a tougher long term question.  That is, do we erase our history and change our nickname?  The Movement beckons.  Below we examine …

With hot dogs, apple pie, prohibited fireworks, and tearing down statues, America celebrated it’s 245th Fourth of July.   It’s life in the year 2020.  Oh, and there is this coronavirus problem, too.  So below, it’s life served up one nugget at a time, and ten in all.  Pass the BBQ sauce and dig in.  Portland, …

We’re back, but only for a brief few words.  Last week and into this week the BBR staff had its annual off-campus mid-year reviews and celebrity golf tournament. Orlando was the destination.  We shut the outside world down and are glad we did. It looks like we missed nothing.  Sports are still on ice and …

The fake noose story wound up last evening on the fake news channel CNN.   It started in garage no. 4, spread through the NASCAR community faster than cars coming out of turn no. 4, went through an FBI investigation, and crashed on Don Lemon’s show. And it seems everyone is upset.  Earlier this week in …

A funny thing happened yesterday just two days after the official start of summer.  The barely two weeks old Summer of Love, as proclaimed by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin, suffered a setback. The city of CHOP, formerly known as CHAZ, had one too many gunshot casualties resulting in either death or hospitalization.   And, as a …

The weekend has come and gone.  But the Summer of Love rolls on.  Ten Nuggets that range from this to that await.  The Summer of Love rolls on, but the occupied zone CHOP had some rough weather roll in.  Tent city had yet another shooting overnight.  One person was dead and one injured on Saturday.  …

BBR was dark yesterday.  Did you miss us?  We missed you. We took the day off with our colleagues to reflect on the passing of two family members.  It’s tough to lose one that you are close to, much less two. Gone is an aunt, and shockingly just hours afterward, an uncle.  Sometimes the will …