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The BBR staff has been rolling through some states in the Deep South for the last few days.   While there we managed to take only a glimpse at the news.  And, voila, it seems like the “deep state” is alive and well. The quest to oust Trump is nearly four years old and going strong.  …

“Two Ten Piece Nuggets in one week?” you ask.   “Yes,” we affirm. And why not?  BBR wants to do its part to end world hunger.  And, in 2020 the sports and political world gives us far too many nuggets to not share.  Enjoy them randomly below.  Thomas Sowell tweeted yesterday, “If not a single …

Yesterday was historic for this fractured country. The Big 10, founded in 1896, has never postponed or canceled an entire football season. Its schools have played through two world wars and the 1918 flu pandemic.  But, the Big 10 Conference won’t be kicking off this fall for the first time ever. For the first time ever, a …

Last fall on a sun-drenched early November Saturday two undefeated SEC powerhouses clashed in an epic, 60-minute, deep south battle.  When it was done, LSU had outscored Alabama 46-41. But really NCAA football won.  It was another battle for the ages.  And, all felt mostly right in America for those nearly four hours of real-world …

It’s Ten Piece Nuggets time.  Usually the nuggets are provided to satisfy.  Today they likely will leave you hungry for more, for more college football that is.  Yesterday a story broke that, if it plays out, will likely mean NCAA football will not play out this fall.  Our nuggets are questions and we want …

Over 25 years ago a very famous man very nearly severed his ex-wife’s head from her body while savagely killing her, killed a man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time while he was there, and left an unmistakable trail of his own incriminating blood at the crime scene all the way …

Sports and the real world are joined at the hip these days.  And that is unfortunate.  The escape has escaped us for now.   Hopefully, it will return.  Ten Piece Nuggets return below and reflect on just that.  The wokest (auto correct wants to turn wokest into weakest, hmmm) of the Power 5 college football conferences, …

It takes one to know one they say. You know who James Woods is, don’t you?  He’s an accomplished actor.  You know who Donald Trump is, don’t you?  He’s an accomplished actor, too. Woods played the character “Sully” on Ray Donovan.  Sully was #1 on the FBI’s ten most wanted list.  Trump’s been in a …

Welp!  That didn’t take long. About 3 days into the delayed launch of the 2020 Major League Baseball season, a game or two and counting have been postponed.  Usually, its 27 degrees and snowing in Chicago in early April and we hear the annual whine about starting too early in Spring or scheduling season-opening series …

Pro sports are slowly returning.  Did you notice?  Did you watch any over the weekend?  Unfortunately, the “great escape” that watching the games has provided, it doesn’t do so any longer.  Intertwined are political statements and COVID-19 rules and precautions.  Such is 2020, but hopefully not much beyond.  We’ve got some nuggets on all of …