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Basketball Title Point Totals
Do all World Championships matter? Yes. Do some matter more than others? Yes. Is recency the determining factor? Yes: Knick fans can cling to 1970 and 1973 all they want, but the iconic status of those...
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Hockey Title Point Totals
Do all World Championships matter? Yes. Do some matter more than others? Yes. Is recency the determining factor? Yes: Ranger fans can cling to 1994 all they want, but the iconic status of that Stanley...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Fort Wayne Pistons for Moving to Detroit
March 19, 1957: The Minneapolis Lakers beat the Fort Wayne Pistons, 110-109 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana.Larry Foust scores 30 points for the Pistons, and George...
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Scores On This Historic Day: March 20, 2003, The Iraq War Begins
March 20, 2003: President George W. Bush launches the Iraq War, to topple President Saddam Hussein of Iraq from power.April 9, 2003: Saddam fled, his regime of nearly 34 years coming to an end.May 1,...
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Elgin Baylor, 1934-2021
My generation only knows Elgin Baylor as the least successful executive in NBA history. And that's not fair. He was a transformational figure in the game's history.Elgin Gay Baylor was born on...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can’t Blame Bruce Ratner for Moving the New Jersey Nets to...
March 24, 2004: Real estate developer Bruce Ratner buys the NBA's New Jersey Nets, and announces his intention to move them from the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey to a new...
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Bobby Brown, 1924-2021
It's never good to have to say goodbye to the earliest surviving legends. But it's always good to remember them.Robert William Brown was born on October 25, 1924 in Seattle, and grew up in San...
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Top 5 Old-Time Yankees Who Would Never Make It in the Social Media Age (And 5...
We live in the Social Media Age, where some people, including athletes, have elevated themselves, and sometimes even society as a whole -- and some have made fools, or worse, of themselves.Which Yankee...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can’t Blame the Syracuse Nationals for Moving to Philadelphia
March 26, 1963: The Cincinnati Royals beat the Syracuse Nationals, 131-127 at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena in Syracuse, New York. Despite the Nats' Lee Shaffer leading all scorers with 45...
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Scores On This Historic Day: March 30, 1981, President Reagan Is Shot
March 30, 1981, 40 years ago: President Ronald Reagan is shot in an assassination attempt. It happens as he's walking to his car outside the Washington Hilton.It was 2:27 PM. A few minutes later, the...
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A Completely Predictable Yankees' Opening Day Loss
"Life is one damn thing after another."-- Mark Twain"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over."-- Edna St. Vincent Millay*Cliché Alert: You know...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the St. Louis Hawks for Moving to Atlanta
The 1958 NBA Champion St. Louis HawksApril 2, 1968: The San Francisco Warriors beat the St. Louis Hawks, 111-106 at the Grand National Livestock Pavilion -- a.k.a. the Cow Palace -- in Daly City,...
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Scores On This Historic Day: April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Is Assassinated
April 4, 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. He had been there to help the city's all-black sanitation workers' union negotiate a better contract with the all-white City...
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This Is What Happens When You Hit
This is what happens when you are a Major League Baseball team, and you hit well enough to back up your pitchers: You win the game. If ever a team proved that pitching does not necessarily win...
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And This Is What Happens When You Don't Hit
Three games into a season is too soon to panic over the Yankees.But 3 games into the 12th season of a Pennant drought is not too soon to feel a sense of resignation that we've seen this movie before,...
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Stanton By Your Man
Make the biggest bucks, and people expect you to provide the biggest results.Yankee Fans let Babe Ruth know that, booing him when he had off-years in 1922 and 1925.They let Joe DiMaggio know it, when...
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The Dumbest Thing Fans of Each New York Sports Team Do
New York City FC: Presume Wealth Will Equal Success. So far, it hasn't. It also hasn't gotten them their own stadium. See also: Met fans since Steve Cohen bought the team. New York Red Bulls: A...
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Bruce & Judge HRs Make Cole a Merry Old Soul
You know I like hitting, right? I'm a classic Yankee Fan, an old-school Bronx Bomber, a dyed-in-the-wool Pinstriper. To me, the best defense is a good offense.Last night, every Yankee in the starting...
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It Shouldn't Bother Me This Much
I'm 51 years old. I've seen 11 Pennants and 7 World Series wins. I've seen Hall-of-Famers, legends, and historic moments.I've been to 2 Opening Days, 8 Old-Timers' Days, and a Playoff game. I've seen...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can’t Blame the Buffalo Braves for Moving to San Diego
April 9, 1978: The Boston Celtics beat the Buffalo Braves, 131-114 at the Boston Garden. It was appropriate that they ended the regular season -- and, since neither made the NBA Playoffs, their entire...
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