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How to Be a New York Soccer Fan In Vancouver -- 2019 Edition
This Saturday night, New York City FC will visit the Vancouver Whitecaps, at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia. The New York Red Bulls will not visit them this season.Before You Go. At 49...
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Two Months to Tell the Tale
Today is the anniversary of my grandfather's birth. If you think I am too much of a Yankee fan, blame him. He grew up in The Bronx, within walking distance of Yankee Stadium. He could walk down the...
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Setting Some Priorities
I've decided not to do any more Trip Guides for the rest of this year, with 1 exception: The Army-Navy Game.They're just too complicated, and too many of them are retreads of previous seasons.I may do...
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NFL's Top 10 Rivalries
Tomorrow night, the National Football League -- founded on September 17, 1920 in Canton, Ohio -- celebrates its 100th Season (not its 100th Anniversary) with an opening game featuring its oldest...
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I'm Alive, So, Change of Plans
I've decided to do Trip Guides for the 2019-20 NBA & NHL seasons after all.It's the football guides -- college and pro alike -- that proved too much for me.Perhaps I owe you some sort of an...
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How Old Are You Now? 2019 Edition
I was 7 years old when I started really noticing things that were happening in the world, and became able to remember them years later. My memory of the Bicentennial celebrations of July 4, 1976 is...
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Yankees Clinch Under a Cloud
Only a Brian Cashman team could ruin a potential clinching night hours before the gates open.Not that I'm blaming Cashman specifically for what happened here. But this is the sort of thing that has...
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How Long It's Been: The Yankees Won a Division Title
Last night, the New York Yankees won the American League Eastern Division Championship.It was the 19th time it has happened -- but it was the 1st time in 7 years.The last time was on October 3, 2012,...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Catherine Zeta-Jones for Marrying Michael Douglas
She is now eligible for AARP.He's been eligible for it for 25 years.September 25, 1944, 75 years ago: Michael Kirk Douglas is born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.September 25, 1969, 50 years ago:...
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Classifying the Emirates Era
This past Sunday, the Yankees, the Giants, the Red Bulls and Arsenal all won. Going back to the founding of the MetroStars/Red Bulls in 1996, that had, literally, never happened before.The Mets also...
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Old 98 at 100
Well, it's that time of year again. Aside from 1918, when the season in what we would now call Major League Baseball was cut short due to World War I, the earliest date on which a World Series game has...
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How to Go to a New Jersey Devils Game -- 2019-20 Edition
The 1st hockey season of the 2020s is upon us: 2019-20. And my beloved, if frequently irritating, New Jersey Devils, open the season next Friday night, at 7:00 PM, at the Prudential Center in Newark,...
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September 29, 1959: The 1st Western Pennant
September 29, 1959, 60 years ago: Game 2 of the National League Playoff, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Only 36,528 fans come out to the 93,000-seat bowl on the edge of South Central, by the...
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Members of the 3,000 Strikeout Club, In Perspective, 1923-2019
Congratulations to Justin Verlander, for joining the 3,000 Strikeout Club. He follows CC Sabathia, who did it earlier this season, and is the only active pitcher ahead of him.For the record, here's the...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Buffalo -- 2019-20 Edition
This coming Saturday night, after opening the season the night before, home to the Winnipeg Jets, the New Jersey Devils head to Western New York to take on the Buffalo Sabres.Before You Go. Buffalo is...
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Howard Cassady, 1934-2019
In 1904, writer Clarence Mulford created the character of Hopalong Cassidy. He was a rough-talking Wild West character who gained his nickname due to having a wooden leg. In 1935, William Boyd began...
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Ballpark Finales, 1938-2019
Today, the Texas Rangers closed the ballpark they'd played just 26 seasons, most of them not very good, at, with a 6-1 win over my Yankees.26 seasons. That's a ballpark-replacement rate on the Atlanta...
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Baseball's Postseason Appearances, 1876 to 2019
The Yankees have made the Playoffs again. But that, alone, would not have been enough.This time, it appeared that field manager Aaron Boone and general manager Brian Cashman did prioritize winning the...
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Baseball's Division Champions, 1876-2019
The Yankees have had 1st-place finish droughts before: 1903-20, 1965-75, and 1982-95 (or 1982-93 if you count the Strike year of 1994). But 7 years between the 2012 title and this year's was too much,...
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Deserve's Got Everything to Do With It -- 2019 MLB Edition
"I don't deserve this!" -- Gene Hackman"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it!" -- Clint Eastwood-- UnforgivenWhen I put my Yankee bias aside and make suggestions as to who's worthy of winning the World...
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