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How Long It's Been: The Yankees Won a Pennant
November 4, 2009, 10 years ago: Game 6 of the World Series. The Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-3 at the new Yankee Stadium, and clinched their 27th World Championship, 8 years to the day...
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November 5, 1869: The Cincinnati Red Stockings
November 5, 1869, 150 years ago: The Cincinnati Red Stockings complete their 1st season as the 1st openly professional baseball team, going 65-0, and playing from coast (Boston) to coast (San...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Vancouver -- 2019-20 Edition
This coming Sunday afternoon, the New Jersey Devils will continue a Western roadtrip, playing the Vancouver Canucks, at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.Before You Go. At 49 degrees, 16...
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November 6, 1869: The First Game
The First Game, painted in 1968 by Arnold FribergNovember 6, 1869, 150 years ago: What is generally recognized as the 1st college football game is played. Rutgers College plays the College of New...
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I Must Be Old Because
The Yankees did not send Didi Gregorius a qualifying offer. Apparently, Brian Cashman is willing to have DJ LeMahieu at 2nd base, and his golden boy Gleyber Torres at shortstop, and is willing, for the...
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The Yankees Are Not Right On
There was an article in Cracked.com about how, after doing movies about their "original characters," paralleling the comics company's 1960s, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now "entering its 1970s...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Montréal -- 2019-20 Edition
This Saturday night, the New Jersey Devils travel to the capital of the hockey world. Detroit may call itself Hockeytown, but the real hockeytown is Montréal, Québec, Canada.We, as Devils fans, owe the...
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Unai Emery, Master of Alienation
Yesterday, Arsenal held Leicester City to a 0-0 tie until late, falling 2-0. It was yet another game thrown away by the stupid managing of Unai Emery.The team is now in 6th place in the Premier League,...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Pittsburgh -- 2019-20 Edition
Next Friday night, the New Jersey Devils will make their season's 1st trip to Pittsburgh. I like Pittsburgh as a city very much. I admire the Steelers. I respect the Pirates and the University of...
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How to Go to the Harvard-Yale Game
Next Saturday begins College Football Rivalry Week, and it includes the original rivalry: Harvard vs. Yale. Or, as they call it, The Game.Not "The Big Game.""The Game."*Before You Go. While New Haven...
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Teams of the Year In New York Sports, 1901-2019
Given that neither the Giants nor the Jets has a snowball's chance in an Arizona stadium with the roof open of making the Playoffs, I feel safe in awarding the 2019 title and posting this now.Note: The...
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Football On Thanksgiving: A Far-From-Fully-Comprehensive History
September 29, 1621: What we now call "The First Thanksgiving" is held at Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 40 miles southeast of present-day Boston. Attending the feast were 53 Pilgrims and 90 Native...
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Have We Got Our Arsenal Back?
Unai Emery is out as Arsenal manager. Freddie Ljungberg is in.The Emery experiment was a spectacular failure. But then, given the circumstances, almost anyone would have been a failure after Arsène...
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Status of My Teams: It Doesn't Look Good
New York Yankees: Reached the American League Championship Series, but lost. Not just because the Houston Astros cheated, but also because general manager Brian Cashman, yet again, refused to trade for...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Nashville -- 2019-20 Edition
During the 1995 Stanley Cup Playoffs, as the Devils were advancing to a 1st title, there was a rumor that NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman was going to allow the Devils to be bought by a group trying to...
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Hynes Out! Nasreddine In! (For the Moment)
John Hynes has been fired as head coach of the New Jersey Devils. It's about time: He had coached the team for 4 seasons and change, had a record of 150-204, and missed the Playoffs in 3 of his 4 full...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Dallas -- 2019-20 Edition
"I'm in hell!"– Morgan Freeman"Worse: You're in Texas!"– Chris Rock-- Nurse BettyThis coming Tuesday night, the finally Hynes-free New Jersey Devils will travel to face the Dallas Stars, in what Texas...
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Top 10 New York Baseball Teams
Did you think any Mets team was going to make this Top 10? Ha! They've had 1 run of 2 Pennants in 5 years, 1 of 2 Playoff berths including a Pennant in 3 years, 2 of 2 Playoff berths including a...
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Top 10 New York Football Teams
10. 1985-86 New York Jets. Back-to-back Playoffs, 11-5 and 10-6, and a Playoff win over the Kansas City Chiefs, followed by a loss in double overtime to the Cleveland Browns. But that was it.9. 1981-82...
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Top 10 New York Basketball Teams
Honorable Mention to the 1950 City College of New York (CCNY) basketball team of Manhattan, the only local team to win basketball's NCAA Tournament.New York University (NYU) of Manhattan reached the...
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