On The Beat- Friday, April 3, 2026 - From Broadway to Biscayne Boulevard, from the Bird Streets to Euclid Avenue to Lark Street- Any Topic is Fair Game Until it is a Bore…

By Mr. Curmudgeon

Olympic Hockey Gold Medalist, Jack Hughes filed a $30 million defamation suit against Rachel Maddow for verbally assaulting him on live television during a recent interview. Oddly, Maddow is shocked by negative blowback… Asheville, NC man eats 200 oysters and thus far has lived to tell about it…Gun reform groups in Brooklyn endorse Dan Goldman, who, if he actually lives in Brooklyn, has a gun, and extra ammo, tucked away in his nightstand drawer… Video surfaces of Fisticuffs that broke out at US vs. Mexico soccer game. Overweight men swinging wildly as if none of the participants have ever been in a quality dust up… Arizona men’s basketball coach Tommy Lloyd decides to stay in Tucson. He says the supposed call from the great Michael Jordan with a convincing sales pitch to relocate to Chapel Hill never happened. When asked about the call from Jordan, Lloyd said, “Well Steve Kerr is my Michael Jordan.”… 5 fans at a Dallas Stars hockey game despicably photographed giving the nazi salute. All five probably still live at home with their parents and should be banned from attending NHL games for life… Sneak preview of Inter Miami’s Nu stadium. It is a fine glass of Barolo at the Strawberry Moon… Elon Musk is requiring all Wall Street participants in Space X’s upcoming IPO to purchase subscriptions to Grok. And you still wonder how he became a multi-billionaire… Bosco gets Dave Portnoy blocked by Caitlin Clark, one of his favorite players. Bosco was apparently seen on the side of an Indiana highway trying to flag down passing motorists for a ride. Of course the source for this was unsubstantiated… Is OpenAI, valued at $852 billion, preparing for an IPO? Between Space X and OpenAI this could be a trillion-dollar historic year for IPOs… WWE co-founder Vince McMahon embattled in a sex abuse lawsuit. “The premise of freedom is self-disciple.” Shakespeare understood this 500 years ago…We present it, you decide…