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The 6 Best St. Louis Sports Bars for Food

St. Louis has scads of places to belly up and watch the Final Four. But what of that belly? Treat it to some good grub while you cheer on your favorite team during the Final Four at these six places where "bar food" is synonymous with "good food." See Also: The 5 Best Bars for Ma ... More >>

The Post-Dispatch Article That Made Joe Buck Cry

He resides among the cellar dwellers in RFT's St. Louis Sports-Media Power Rankings (at No. 44 in our list of 50), but Dan Caesar can still throw a punch. In fact, in a tussle back in 1990, the Post-Dispatch sports-media critic once made Joe Buck (No. 8 in RFT's ranking) cry.

Ferguson Brewing Company Triumphs, St. Louis Wing Co. Scorches at UCP Heartland Wing Ding

A little after five o'clock yesterday afternoon, the judges took their places at the appointed tables inside the Greensfelder Recreation Complex at Queeny Park (550 Weidman Road, Ballwin). In front of each of them were a score sheet, a stack of napkins and a pile of wet naps. Most whetted their appe ... More >>

Join Gut Check at UCP Heartland's St. Louis Wing Ding Thursday, August 23

REMINDER: The Wing Ding is THIS EVENING. Support a great cause and then make a night of it by going to Riverfront Times' Artopia afterward! Do you like wings? Do you like supporting worthy causes? Are you free next Thursday, August 23, from 6-9 p.m.? Then you should join Gut Check at UCP Heartland ... More >>

BBC Call on David Freese's Walk-Off Home Run

Not sure if this made the rounds last week, but I just saw it today for the first time. With all due respect to Joe Buck (and even papa Buck), this is how you call a World-Series-saving, walk-off home run...

Joe Buck Honors His Father with Game 6 Call

Jack and Joe Buck call their respective Game 6's from Kidd Video on Vimeo.Twenty years ago, the late-great Jack Buck was doing the TV commentary for Game 6 of the 1991 World Series when Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins hit an 11th-inning home run to win the game and take the Atlanta Braves to a ... More >>

Four Cardinals Starters Batting Sub-200 Through Series

If this image looks like it came from an E-D website, there's good reason for that.​First of all, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, yesterday was not the colossal St. Louis sports failure that you made it out to be during last night's World Series broadcast. No one in their right mind here in St. Louis t ... More >>

Brian Setzer, Big Troubles Lead This Week's Show Announcements

There's another St. Louis Secret Sound Society joint: Slumberland's Big Troubles at the STL Style House with Young Prisms and Frances With Wolves on October 15. Big Troubles just dropped its sophomore effort Romantic Comedy, a collection of pop gems shrouded in fuzz and reverb, in the vein of labelm ... More >>

Warner to Bradford, Touchdown

Take Wing for a Good Cause: UCP Heartland's Wing Ding

​Just last week, Gut Check noted that our appetite for chicken wings seems insatiable. Now you have a chance to turn your love of wings into a way to support UCP Heartland in its mission to provide programs, services and support to individuals with disabilities.On Thursday, August 25, UCP Heartlan ... More >>

Eat Joe Buck's Meat, Support Joe Buck's Restaurant

​I nearly drove Gut Check Mobile Command off the road this afternoon after I spotted a sign outside Joe Buck's downtown that makes it look as if the restaurant is now called Joe Buck's BBQ.Another name change for the restaurant formerly known as J. Buck's? Has the superstar sportscaster grown so t ... More >>

What Is Wrong with This Picture? Special World Series Edition!

Let's just say you don't turn to FOX -- or to Joe Buck, who recited this graphic word for word last night -- for the facts. ​

A Look at the Work of the 5 Architecture Teams in the Running to Redesign the Gateway Archgrounds

Now that the CityArchRiver 2015 group has whittled down to five the number of teams competing to redesign the Gateway Archgrounds, it seemed appropriate to take a peek into everybody's portfolio. Below Daily RFT has collated some images of projects completed elsewhere by each architecture team. St. ... More >>

Joe Buck Live on Life Support Says Buck; HBO May Cancel Talk Show

Buck: Enjoying himself or uncomfortable? You make the call!​It looks like HBO is about to pull the plug on St. Louis broadcaster Joe Buck's talk show, Joe Buck Live. Talking to sports website Deadspin this week, Buck said the network informed him that it's moving away from talk shows. "That's bad ... More >>

Joe Buck to Moderate Upcoming Gateway Arch Design Briefing for Joe Public

​But of course. The CityArchRiver 2015 Foundation competition has announced a briefing for Joe Public on the nine designs that are in the running to remake the Arch grounds, and who else but a sports commentator will moderate it: Joe Buck. Sure, Buck is a professional communicator. And he'll ... More >>

Artie Lange Stabbed Self Nine Times in Suicide Attempt

Image Via​The worlds of native son Joe Buck and Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange will be forever-linked, thanks to the latter's rant that almost singlehandedly destroyed the former's talk show before the first episode even ended.So while it was easy to make light of the fact that Buck probably wa ... More >>

Somewhere Joe Buck is Smiling

Image ViaSee the joy on Artie Lange's face as he ruins Joe Buck's talk show career​And that smile probably arrived shortly after reading this headline in yesterday's USA Today: "Howard Stern Sidekick Artie Lange Hospitalized."Details of Lange's condition are pretty scarce at this point -- the only ... More >>

Joe Buck Owns Jet -- That He Shares with Marc Bulger?

flightaware.comRaytheon Hawker jet​That's what website Sports By Brook is reporting today. The site has unearthed documents showing that the Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck owns a Raytheon Hawker jet that it values at around $12.6 million. Big deal, right? Buck flies enough and demands a big enough ... More >>

Joe Buck Live, Take 2: Who's Gonna Call Him a Cocksucker.com Connoisseur This Time?

si.comBroadway Joe: The man least likely to pottymouth that other Joe​This just in to the Unreal e-mail bag. The second installment of HBO's quarterly Joe Buck Live show's slated for Tuesday, September 22. Per the press release (boldface is ours):In addition to a previously announced live gatherin ... More >>

All-Star Game Opening Ceremony Highlights for the ADD-Addled

Did the sweeping music of the All-Star game's opening ceremonies lull you to sleep? Did the "All-Stars Among Us" video bore you to tears, or just cause you to change the channel? Did all that talking by MC Joe Buck aggravate you? If so -- but you still want to catch up on a bit o' baseball history t ... More >>

Map Locations At A Glance: Baseball Homes Of The Stars

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: Thursday, July 2 to Sunday, July 5

Happy July 4, everyone. Have fun, be safe and rock out. Thursday, July 2 *Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson/John Cougar Mellencamp, GCS Ballpark (Sauget) *Brooke Waggoner, Off Broadway *Dr. Manhattan, Cicero's *Hip-Hop Showcase, Atomic Cowboy *Bridgeton Air Defense/Tenement Ruth, Mangia *Peter J Woods/ Insti ... More >>

Hanging Chad: RFT readers sound off on our man Garrison's provocative headline on the Forest Park murder

Clayton's "Heartbreak Hotel," a dirty mouth and criminal foot doctors all make headlines

Hey Joe Buck? See You at Artie Lange's Show Next Month?

This just in from the booking department over at the Roberts Orpheum Theater. The downtown St. Louis concert venue is playing host next month to Artie Lange. You know, the comic who crapped all over Joe Buck's debut talk show last week. Here's the announcement on the theater's website with a few rel ... More >>

5 Other Comedians To Make Joe Buck Cringe

Photo: Fandome.comWho else should Joe's producers invite on the show?Remember Monday night when St. Louis born-and-bred broadcaster Joe Buck melted from embarrassment and simultaneously seethed with rage over Artie Lange farting all over the first episode of his HBO show, Joe Buck Live? I think we c ... More >>

After They Hear Artie Lange's Rants, Joe Buck Washes His Daughters' Mouths with Soap

stltoday.comDan "The Man" CaesarAt Daily RFT we occasionally poke fun (and misspell the name) of Post-Dispatch columnist Dan Caesar. It's not that we dislike Caesar's writing. It's fine. It's that we wonder why St. Louis needs a dedicated sports-media columnist. (Do the contract negotiations of the ... More >>

Artie Lange Destroys Joe Buck Live...

If you haven't heard yet, last night's debut of HBO's Joe Buck Live was hijacked by over-the-top comedian Artie Lange of the Howard Stern Show. From the looks of it, it was all Buck could do not to leap over the coffee table and strangle the potty-mouthed Lange -- whose gay jokes and rapid-fire f-bo ... More >>

Joe Buck: Brand New Show, Same Old Schtick

Last night was the debut of Joe Buck's new show on HBO, called, appropriately enough, Joe Buck Live. Now, let me get this out of the way at the very beginning: I'm a fan of Joe Buck. I've always enjoyed listening to him call a game, whether that be on television or on the radio. He isn't his father, ... More >>

Joe Buck Live Airs in Two Weeks on HBO

St. Louis broadcaster Joe Buck begins his live, sports talk show on HBO later this month. The show is taking over the slot from that other famed St. Louis sports broadcaster, Bob Costas, and his Costas Now. But if you think Buck's show will be at all like Costas' you may be in for a surprise. In add ... More >>

Bee Is for "Back to School"

7 Shot Screamers, Tony Renner, The Monads and Strawfoot on National Compilations

7 Shot Screamers has contributed a Smiths cover to a compilation called American Psychobilly Archive, Volume One. The collection -- which is released on the Analog Arkives label -- also features covers of tunes by Echo & the Bunnymen, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, and more. Tony Renner has contrib ... More >>

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar, January 9 to 11

Friday, January 9*James Will and the Delusions of South Grandeur/Lettuceheads/Last to Show, First to Go, Schlafly Tap Room*Pomegranates/Mhurs/Ocean Rivals, Bluebird*The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro*Alvin Jett and Phat Noiz, Beale on Broadway *Arthur Williams and the Cryin' Shame Band, BB's Jazz, Blu ... More >>

Belgium to St. Louis: We're Not So Different, Are We?

McGwire and Sosa Share a Moment

McGwire and Sosa Share a Moment

Center Cut

Jim Edmonds' days with the Cardinals might be numbered, but F15teen's a keeper.

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This Week's Issue

Buck Wild

Unreal dresses up for Halloween, ponders getting electrocuted and entertains a bizarre fantasy about Joe Buck and Tim McCarver.

Thy Neighbor's Worth

A new St. Louis online paper will let you know whether that family moving next door is rich and famous.

Small Plates: Tuesday, 6/19

Drink, Speak & Spell

For a good cause, of course

Why so lukewarm about baseball, Joe?

Week of October 26, 2006

Big or Rich?

Unreal takes matters into our own hands (tee hee!) and re-enters the wonderful world of note-passing with the opposite sex. Plus, we settle the age-old debate: Which is better, Clayton or Ladue?

Pimp Juice

Fillmore Street Brewing Company, 1835 Beltway Drive, 314-640-2455

Riverfront Enquirer?

Week of July 3, 2002

Sudden Death

Halo and hype over Jack Buck pierced by the passing of Darryl Kile

Homer Town

When it comes to a new stadium, not even opening day is immune from a sales pitch

Letters to the Editor