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June 29, 1950: The Miracle On Grass
June 29, 1950, 70 years ago: The U.S. soccer team played England in a game everybody assumed England would win.In the words of the immortal Felix Unger (as played by Tony Randall on The Odd Couple),...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame England for Losing to the U.S. at the 1950...
June 29, 1950, 70 years ago: The U.S. soccer team played England in a game everybody assumed England would win.The England team was loaded. From 1949 and 1950 Football League Champions Portsmouth:...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Marcel Aubut for the Quebec Nordiques Moving to...
July 1, 1995, 25 years ago: The deal to move the Québec Nordiques to Denver is made official, approved by the National Hockey League. They become the Colorado Avalanche.Previously, Denver had been home...
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Top 15 Craziest Games In Yankee History
Andy Hawkins, July 1, 1990These are my choices for the Top 15 Craziest Games In Yankee History. I decided that I couldn't limit it to 10. As you can see, 2 of them fell on this day of the year, July 1....
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How Long It's Been: We Had Sports
March 11, 2020: There were 4 NBA games played. The New York Knicks beat the Atlanta Hawks, 136-131 in overtime at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The Philadelphia 76ers beat the Detroit Pistons,...
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The New Jersey Devils: Ruff's Riders
Alain Nasreddine did a fair job as interim head coach of the New Jersey Devils, but now, they have an official head coach, and it's a good choice: Lindy Ruff.Nasreddine has not been outright fired,...
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Jack Charlton, 1935-2020
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the one hand, and the Republic of Ireland on the other, agree on very little. Indeed, they seem to enjoy arguing with each other. One thing...
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Top 10 Sports Teams That Should Change Their Names (Following the Decision to...
Yesterday, with bigotry still very much in the news following the murder a few weeks ago of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, by an officer of that city's police department, the NFL's...
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July 16, 1950: Maracanazo
If Gordon Lightfoot had written it, it could have gone...The legend lives on from Ipanema on downof the sport called O Jogo Bonito.It's said that the game has brought plenty of famebut the bounces of...
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Domingo Germán Retires -- The Question Is Why
Last year at this time, Domingo Germán was the best pitcher in baseball.Now, after MLB screwed him over based on no admissible evidence, and with no known injury, he's retiring.He turns 28 next month.I...
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Top 10 Best Team Owners In New York Sports History
In late February 2013, I did Top 10 lists for the best and worst managers/head coaches in New York sports history. I also did them for the best and worst executives in New York sports history. Not...
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Top 10 Worst Team Owners in New York Sports History
As I said in my post about the 10 best, picking the 10 best is harder than picking the 10 worst. Once again, I'm going to limit it to the last 100 years, 1920 to 2020.10. Stephen W. McKeever, Dodgers,...
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Top 10 Best Executives in New York Sports History
Ed Barrow watches as Babe Ruth signs a contract for Jacob RuppertI did it for team owners, here's an update for executives. For the most part, my selections for the best and worst of these aren't also...
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Top 10 Worst Executives in New York Sports History
All of these disasters are pretty much in my lifetime, 1969 onward.10. George Steinbrenner, Yankees, 1980-90. Okay, officially, George wasn't the GM. But, let's face it, he was the man making the...
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Top 10 Best Managers/Head Coaches In New York Sports History
Eligibility: Has to be with a major league team. If I go to colleges, that means I have to go out to the suburbs and consider Rutgers, Princeton and Army... and they really don't feel like "New York...
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Top 10 Worst Managers/Head Coaches in New York Sports History
Once again, I'm going to limit "history" to 1920 on forward, since we have a much more detailed record of what they've done, and it's also the beginning of baseball's Lively Ball Era, the founding year...
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How Long It's Been: We Had Baseball
Tonight, at 7:08 PM, the New York Yankees will play the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park in Washington, District of Columbia.It will be the 1st time since August 16, 1925 that the Yankees have...
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Opening Day (Night) At Last, Yankees Win
Finally: Baseball is back. It was Opening Day at last. Or Opening Night. And even that got cut short, for reasons that no one in the stadium could control.But it's results that count.Before the game...
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Should the NFL Play the 2020 Season?
There are 55 players on an NFL team roster. There are 32 teams. That's 1,760 players. The COVID-19 death rate in America is 3.75 percent.Imagine. It's 2040. It's been 20 years since the pandemic. At...
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ENNUI-20
We all knew the Yankees weren't going to go 162-0 -- or even 60-0. Still, this was a bad loss.It shouldn't matter that we were playing away to the defending World Champions. We should do better than...
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