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LOOK OUT, TIMES-DISPATCH ... HERE COMES THE RICHMONDER

  Sports talk radio took another major hit recently when   MICHAEL PHILLIPS   left his popular morning show on WRNL-910 to devote full-time to The Richmonder, the on-line news operation he started in September of 2024 to compete with The Times-Dispatch for local coverage. Talk about a mismatch. While the R-TD has been losing  readership at such a rapid rate that it no longer publishes a print  edition on Mondays as well as holidays, circulation tumbling  under 18,000 from the 250,000 in the glory days of not-that- long ago … The Richmonder, in fewer than two years, has  grown to 10,000-plus – and counting. At its current rate of attrition, with on-line viewership at 22,000  (approx.), The Times-Dispatch is in deep do-do and expected to  join the Atlanta Journal and Constitution in going paperless,  relying entirely on getting the news out via e-mail.  So much for Phillips’ Folly. Is the former RT-D sports editor  surprised by t...
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DOLPHINS HOPE FREE AGENT WILLIS IS WORTH BIG BUCKS OR COULD BE VERY LONG SEASON

  CATCHING UP … STILL HARD TO DO (one more time) … LET’S HEAR IT for your Washington Commanders … who  opened their preseason schedule Friday night (Aug. 14) with a  20-7 victory over visiting Miami … which isn’t expected to be  very good this season and, for one meaningless game anyway,  showed why. Former Liberty U., standout  MALIK WILLIS  made his debut  at quarterback for Miami and promptly led the Dolphins to  seven points. It was his only series … and the visitors never  threatened thereafter against a defense missing several starters  yet came up with three interceptions … all on passes that  missed their mark by so much you could have sworn Miami’s  backup QBs forgot the object of the game is to throw the ball to  teammates and not to the other guys. Willis, 2020 recipient of the Dudley Award, completed four of  five passes for 48 yards while two successors combined for 4 of  19 (66 yards). Drafted ...
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CURRY TO CELTICS? OR THE END OF THE TRIPLE CROWN? ONE OR BOTH COULD HAPPEN

  Catching Up Is Hard To Do (… but we keep on trying). Part Trois. CLOSE YOUR EYES … now picture  STEPHEN CURRY  in  a Boston Celtics’ uniform. After all those years with the Golden  State Warriors? You can’t be serious. Well, don’t be surprised if the Celtics pull it off. Now that  LEBRON JAMES  has taken his age-related dwindling talent to Philadelphia, where he’s scheduled to be the 76ers’ point guard (of all things), Boston has got to do  SOMETHING  … so, why not shoot high, and who knows, the Celtics might land the game’s best, all-time three-point marksman? IS NOTHING SACRED in sports any more? Horse racing’s Triple Crown is over … done … finished … kaput … thanks to Churchill Downs and Saratoga Race Track, which have decided to replace the storied three-race championship … with a six-race Thoroughbred Championship Series to be held annually at five tracks including Churchill and New York’s Belmont Park but not Maryland’s Pimlico Race T...
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