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Major League Sports' Longest Active Title Droughts, As of 2021 NBA Finals
Congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks, who, last night, won their 1st NBA Championship in 50 years.So what are the longest title droughts now? Note: I am only including those teams that have gone at...
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New Blood Means Yanks Sweep Phils, Head to Fenway
In between series against the hated Boston Red Sox -- the one this past weekend at Yankee Stadium II, and the 1 starting tonight at Fenway Park -- the Yankees squeezed in a 2-game home Interleague...
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Just When You Think You've Turned the Corner
Cliche Alert: Every now and then, in his capacity as press secretary for Yankee manager and general manager Brian Cashman, Aaron Boone tells the media he thinks the Yankees "have turned the...
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Scores On This Historic Day: July 23, 1967, The Detroit Riot
July 23, 1967: Riots break out in Detroit, over racial injustice. There were 43 deaths, and over 700 injuries. In terms of property damage, and long-term effects, it was the most devastating race riot...
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The 2021 Yankees Are Obscene
In 1964, there was a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. In Jacobellis v. Ohio, one of those groups of self-appointed moral arbiters wanted the Court to judge that a particular film,...
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Yanks Get Most Improbable Win In Strangest Season
This is, beyond any doubt -- and beyond a statement I made in a post in 2014 -- the strangest season I have ever seen the New York Yankees have.Given what the starting pitching matchups were projected...
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Scores On This Historic Day: July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan Goes Electric
July 25, 1965: Bob Dylan crosses a rock and roll Rubicon. He performs with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. They use electric instruments,...
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Yankees Can't Stop Digging
The first rule of being in a hole is "Don't dig." The Yankees are in a hole, and yet they can't stop digging.In the 4-game weekend series against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, the Yankees had...
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Scores On This Historic Day: July 28, 1932, The Rout of the Bonus Army
July 28, 1932: The Bonus Army is chased off Capitol Hill by the United States Army.Those words might not make sense to you. Let's go back, much further than 1932:The practice of war-time military...
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Yankees Rebound vs. Rays, Make Puzzling Trade
After getting humiliated in Boston -- much more doing it to themselves than letting the Red Sox do it to them -- the last thing the Yankees needed was a trip to the white elephant in St. Petersburg,...
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Scores On This Historic Day: July 30, 1965, Medicare and Medicaid Become Law
July 30, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Amendments of 1965 into law, in a ceremony at the Harry S Truman Presidential Library and Museum, in Independence, Missouri, outside...
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Trades and Tampa Series: Too Little, Too Late for This Season?
Anthony Rizzo (left) and Joey GalloThe Yankees took the opener of a 3-game series away to the Tampa Bay Rays, and it was a great boost following the 3 losses out of 4 in Boston.Nestor Cortes started...
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The DC Comics Film Universe: How It Should Have Happened
In 2007, following the success of Batman Begins, Warner Brothers was ready to make a Justice League film. However, it would star someone other than Christian Bale, star of Batman Begins, as Batman. And...
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Scores On This Historic Day: August 2, 1979, Thurman Munson Dies
August 2, 1979: Thurman Munson, catcher and team Captain for the New York Yankees, is killed in a plane crash at the airport outside his native Canton, Ohio. He was just 32 years old. The day before,...
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Rizzo Leads Yanks to Sweep Marlins
Yes, I know, it's only the Miami Marlins, who are not a very good team. And they were without their manager, Saint Donald Arthur of Evansville, who has come down with COVID. Fortunately, only minor...
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After a Bad Game, Yanks Roast Birds Twice
The Yankees returned home from the COVID hotspot of Florida what appeared to be an injury and illness crisis. At least they were facing a team that seemed to be easy to beat, the Baltimore Orioles. But...
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Scores On This Historic Day: August 6, 1945, The Atomic Bomb
Actual color photo of Hiroshima after the bombingAugust 6, 1945: For the 1st time, an atomic bomb is used in warfare.It is World War II. Nazi Germany has already been defeated. The Empire of Japan,...
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Scores On This Historic Day: August 6, 1965, The Voting Rights Act
August 6, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. It creates legal mechanisms for the federal government to enforce the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the...
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Yankees Get Their Gioia di Vivere Back, Only to Lose It in 3 Hours
There's a French term that most English-speaking Americans know: "Joie de vivre." It means "joy of living."With their new Italian-American acquisitions, Anthony Rizzo and Joey Gallo, the Yankees seemed...
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Scores On This Historic Day: August 9, 1969: The Manson Family Murders
August 9, 1969: A pair of horrific multiple murders in Los Angeles shocks the country. They will be known as the Tate-La Bianca Murders, the Benedict Canyon murders, the Helter Skelter Murders, and the...
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