{"id":6131,"date":"2026-10-20T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/brighter-side-of-blue-revisits-st-louis-sports-scandals\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:19:23","slug":"brighter-side-of-blue-revisits-st-louis-sports-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/brighter-side-of-blue-revisits-st-louis-sports-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighter Side of Blue Revisits St. Louis Sports Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 20, 2026 (STL.News) The Brighter Side of Blue, a St. Louis-based podcast featuring current and retired law enforcement officers, takes listeners through some of the city\u2019s most memorable sports-related criminal cases in an episode combining firsthand police experiences, professional sports history, humor, tragedy, and personal redemption. Recorded at Colombo\u2019s Cafe &amp; Tavern in St. Louis\u2019 Dogtown neighborhood, the episode features retired St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Major Danny Howard, retired Detective Tommy Sawyer, Lt. Jim \u201cJJ\u201d Joyner, and retired Sgt. John Frank, who serves as the show\u2019s producer. The discussion focuses on former St.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/brighter-side-of-blue-st-louis-sports-scandals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 20, 2026 (STL.News) The Brighter Side of Blue, a St. Louis-based podcast featuring current and retired law enforcement officers, takes listeners through some of the city\u2019s most memorable sports-related criminal cases in an episode combining&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6133,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/6133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}