One of the Lou’s biggest joints tipped off last weekend. You know it’s the Joe Torry Celebrity Basketball Weekend. When I rolled up to UM-St. Louis Saturday afternoon there were droves of people heading for the game. We love this game, even though there weren’t as many high-caliber celebrities as last year. One reason is because there were some other celebrity events going on around the country. Ya’ll know, almost every year something goes down between Joe Torry event staff and American reporters. This year we avoided that – almost. No need in going into detail, but let me just say I would never turn one of my sponsors away. I also learned that if given the choice of saying yes or no, people love to say no. One of our reporters who was checking into Club Seven for the Celebrity VIP Party witnessed a door person answering “no” to the guest list checker to her question of whether or not he should be given a VIP pass. Why would that reporter be limited to P status as opposed to VIP? Again, people feel good saying “no.” Come to find out the reporter should have rolled with no, because once in VIP, though he was sporting a VIP-wrist-band, a cop working the VIP entrance accused him of trying to sneak in VIP and didn’t back down or apologize when he realized the reporter had VIP credentials and a press pass. What a class act. Other than that, it was all good. I still made it to the Gospel Explosion in the morning at the Airport Hilton. Did we have church up in there or what? And the place was packed. I enjoyed the weekend and look forward to it next year. But let’s stow the hassles with your press peoples, okay?