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How to Be a New York Soccer Fan In Salt Lake City -- 2019 Edition
This coming Saturday night, New York City FC visit the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah, to take on Real Salt Lake. The New York Red Bulls will not visit them this season.Note that they can call...
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July 30, 1919: A Trade Far Bigger Than It Looked at the Time
July 30, 1919, 100 years ago: The Boston Red Sox trade pitcher Carl Mays to the New York Yankees for pitchers Bob McGraw and Allen Russell, and $40,000. More than any other trade in the history of the...
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This Was Supposed to Be The Year
For the 1st 106 games of the Yankees 2019 season, I was able to get both my blog posts and my video recaps of them done before the first pitch of the next game 104 times. I was 104-2.For reasons that I...
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What If Thurman Munson Had Lived?
August 2, 1979, 40 years ago:Â Yankee catcher and Captain Thurman Munson dies in a plane crash at the airport near his hometown of Canton, Ohio.I don't think I have to explain why this was so...
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Sweep Sensation, Yes. Season Saved, Maybe.
When the trading deadline closed on July 31, and Brian Cashman had failed to come up with a new starting pitcher for the Yankees, most of us thought that was it.Oh, sure, we might finally end up...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Los Angeles -- 2019 LAFC Edition
This Sunday, the Red Bulls will be in Los Angeles to play Los Angeles Football Club, a.k.a. LAFC.Before You Go. Unlike the Seattle and San Francisco Bay Areas, the Los Angeles area has very consistent...
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Arsenal Are In Big, Big Trouble, and You Don't Care
Today, the 2019-20 Premier League season begins. Arsenal make their season debut on Sunday, away to Newcastle United.Both teams' fans were angry at team management. Newcastle fans actually have a case....
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Oakland -- 2019 Edition
The Yankees begin a 3-game series away to the Oakland Athletics next Tuesday night.The Oakland Raiders are moving out of the Oakland Coliseum to Las Vegas next year. (It was intended for this year, but...
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Top 10 Great Things About the AFL (& 3 Bad Things)
August 14, 1959, 60 years ago: The founding meeting of what was soon named the American Football League is held in Chicago. That city would not have a team in this league, the 4th to assume the name....
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In D.C. -- 2019 Edition
This coming Wednesday, the New York Red Bulls go down to Washington to play their arch-rivals, D.C. United. It will be their 1st visit to the new Audi Field, which opened last Saturday with a 3-1 DCU...
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The Yankees Are Not Out of the Woods Yet
The expression "We're not out of the woods yet" was probably first used by a camp counselor who got his charges away from a bear, and realize that the danger was far from over as long as they hadn't...
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How to Go to a Rutgers Football Game -- 2019 Edition
Old Queens, finished in 1825,the Rutgers administration building(Before I begin: I'm not going to do updates for all of Rutgers' away Big Ten opponents. Just Rutgers itself, and those away opponents...
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How to Attend the Hudson River Derby at Yankee Stadium -- 2019 Edition
Tonight, the New York Red Bulls face the team which could have been their arch-rivals, if the original fanbase hadn't decided it should be D.C. United instead: The New England Revolution. Next...
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How to Go to a Giants or Jets Game at the Meadowlands -- 2019 Edition
A new football season will soon be upon us, the 100th Season of the National Football League.Despite my disillusionment over the game -- brought about by the frustrations over the poor performances of...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Seattle -- 2019 Edition
Next Monday, the Yankees begin a series in Seattle, against the Mariners at T-Mobile Park.Yes, the city in that photo really is Seattle. Yes, that really is a nice blue sky overhead. When the clouds...
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How to Go to a Football Game In Utah
On Thursday night, August 29, the University of Utah and Brigham Young University will open their respective football seasons against each other. Their rivalry, known as the Holy War, is one of the few...
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Multiple Finals Matchups, 1903-2019
The Yankees are about to begin an Interleague series against the Dodgers in Los Angeles. This is the most common World Series matchup, although it hasn't happened in 38 years. It used to be the...
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How to Go to a Texas A&M Football Game
This coming Thursday night, Texas A&M will open its season by hosting Texas State.I'm not doing trip guides for all the remaining college football teams that I haven't yet done them for -- at...
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Let the NFL's 100th Anniversary Be Its Last
Johnny Unitas was once considered by many football observers to be the greatest quarterback of all time. It may have been as a result of his having led the Baltimore Colts to victory over the New York...
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How to Go to the Rocky Mountain Showdown: Colorado vs. Colorado State
Once again, this college football season, I'm going to do Trip Guides for some teams from outside the Tri-State Area, even if they don't play, let alone host, any Tri-State Area teams.This coming...
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