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East Brunswick High School Football, the 1st 60 Years: Part III, 1980-84
 The 1980s were a time when football at East Brunswick High School -- for a reason that I have never learned, also known as "Hollyrock High" as far back as 1977 -- became something very special. But...
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East Brunswick High School Football, the 1st 60 Years: Part IV, 1985-89
Josh Miller, the 1st EBHS graduate to play in the NFLAs Ken Burns might have put it:East Brunswick football has been played in 42 places. On brutally hot days, and on bitterly cold ones. In drizzles,...
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East Brunswick High School Football, the 1st 60 Years: Part V, 1990-99
Thanksgiving Day, 1994, a great day for Da BearsEast Brunswick High School celebrates its 60th Anniversary of football this Autumn. To borrow a phrase from the legendary sportscaster Curt Gowdy, For EB...
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East Brunswick High School Football, the 1st 60 Years: Part VI, 2000-09
East Brunswick High School began the 2000s about as bad as you can get. They reached the midpoint and the endpoint about as good as you can get.As Ken Burns might have put it:East Brunswick football...
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East Brunswick High School Football, the 1st 60 Years: Part VII, 2010-20
Concluding my look at the 1st 60 years of varsity football at my alma mater, East Brunswick High School.As Ken Burns might have put it:East Brunswick football has been played in 42 places. On...
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Scores On This Historic Day: September 3, 1994, The New Rutgers Stadium Opens
September 3, 1994: The new Rutgers Stadium opens on the site of the old one, on the Busch Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in Piscataway, "On the Banks of the Old Raritan" as the...
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Scores On This Historic Day: September 4, 1962, The Beatles' 1st Recording...
September 4, 1962: The Beatles have their 1st recording session with EMI-Parlophone Records. No one could yet foresee that the band would be so successful, they would pretty much own what was once...
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Scores On This Historic Day: September 5, 1972, The Munich Massacre
September 5, 1972: The Munich Massacre takes places, bringing terrorism into the modern era.The Olympic Games were being held in Munich, in the Federal Republic of Germany -- a.k.a. West Germany. It...
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The Fruits of the Yankees' Labor: The Season Is Lost
It's Labor Day, and the Yankees' season is over."What?" you say. "Didn't they just have a 13-game winning streak?" Yes. Since then, they are 2-6. And they just lost a series, at home, to the Baltimore...
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Yanks Hit Rock Bottom In Labor Day Loss to Jays
Last night, on Twitter, somebody said that the Yankees' recent 13-game winning streak now seems like 5 years ago. He's right.The Yankees began a 4-game home series with those pesky Toronto Blue Jays...
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How to Be a Jet Fan In Carolina -- 2021 Edition
The New York Jets open their regular season this Sunday, in Charlotte, North Carolina, against the Carolina Panthers.Before You Go. Being in the South, it's going to be warmer in Charlotte than in New...
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September 8, 1966: Star Trek Premieres
Back row, left to right: James Doohan as Scotty, Walter Koenig as Chekov,Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel, Nichelle Nichols as Uhura,and George Takei as Sulu. Front row: DeForest Kelley as McCoy,William...
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Scores On This Historic Day: September 9, 1972, The Soviets Steal the...
September 9, 1972: The most blatant cheating in sports history takes place -- at least, until Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" goal in the 1986 World Cup.Basketball was first competed for in the Olympic...
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How to Be a Giant Fan In Washington -- 2021 Edition
Due to circumstances beyond my control, the last time I did a trip guide for New York Giants fans in Washington, D.C., it was December 4, 2018.Since then, so much has happened, including in Washington...
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Yankees Hitting Nothing But Rock Bottom
The Yankees hadn't had a 4-game series at home where they never led at any time since 1908.Think about how long ago that was. No Internet. No computers. No television. No radio as we now understand...
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Sam Cunningham, 1950-2021
Jerry Claiborne was a football coach. From 1954 to 1957, he was an assistant to Paul "Bear" Bryant at Texas A&M University. From 1958 to 1960, he was an assistant to Bryant at the University of...
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Twenty Years
September 11, 2001, 20 years ago.I woke up that morning, unemployed and with no reason to get up early, and, as was always the case at the time, the first thing I did was turn on the radio. It was...
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Mets 10, Lollygaggers 3
Before last night's game, Aaron Judge told his teammates that they have to wake up and play the game right. Turns out, he's not much of a motivator, not much of a team captain, official or otherwise.If...
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Scores On This Historic Day: September 12, 1970, The Sam Cunningham Game
September 12, 1970: The University of Southern California, a.k.a. USC, takes the field at Legion Field in Birmingham, the secondary home field of the University of Alabama. They do so with the 1st...
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How to Go to a Missouri Football Game
Francis Quadrangle, including Jesse Hall,the University administration buildingLast Saturday, the University of Missouri opened their 2021 football season by defeating Central Michigan University,...
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