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How to Be a Rutgers Fan at Northwestern
University HallThe last remaining Big Ten team for whom I haven't done a Trip Guide is Northwestern University. They host Rutgers this coming Saturday, so here goes.Before You Go. This game will be...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 13, 1967, The American Basketball...
October 13, 1967: The American Basketball Association plays its 1st game, at the Oakland Coliseum Arena (now known as the Oracle Arena). The host Oakland Oaks defeat the Anaheim Amigos, 134-129.For the...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 14, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt Is Shot
October 14, 1912: Running to regain the White House, as the nominee of the Progressive Party -- a.k.a. the Bull Moose Party, in honor of his argument that he felt as fit as a bull moose -- after his...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 14, 2003, The Steve Bartman Game
October 14, 2003: David Wells hurls the Yankees to a 4-2 win over the Red Sox and a 3-games-to-2 lead in the American League Championship Series. Karim Garcia, victim of a Pedro Martinez fastball off...
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Pieces of Meat
It's always the same: When the people demand changes, it's never the guy at the top. That guy -- or the guy perceived to be that guy -- fires somebody lower, offering the people some fresh pieces of...
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How to Go to a New York Knicks Game -- 2021-22 Edition
The Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer seasons are coming to their respective closes. Football season is well underway. Hockey season has just started. Now, basketball season is about to...
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October 15, 1946: Exonerating Johnny Pesky
October 15, 1946, 75 years ago: The World Series goes to a deciding Game 7 at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. Fans of the Boston Red Sox are confident: After all, no Boston team has ever lost a World...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 16, 2003, The Aaron Boone Game
October 16, 2003: Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. Pedro Martinez vs. Roger Clemens. In his 1st game at Yankee Stadium since he tried to kill Don Zimmer, Pedro gets the hell booed out of him – and that's a lot...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 16, 1992, The Bob Dylan Tribute Concert...
Left to right: Ron Wood, George Harrison,Johnny Cash, Roger McGuinn, Bob DylanOctober 16, 1992:"Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration" is held at Madison Square Garden in New York. Or, as...
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It's Aaron Boone Day, and Boone Is At the Crossroads
October 16, 2003: Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. Pedro Martinez vs. Roger Clemens. In his 1st game at Yankee Stadium since he tried to kill Don Zimmer, Pedro gets the hell booed out of him – and that's a lot...
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How to Go to a Brooklyn Nets Game: 2021-22 Edition
Borough Hall, formerly City Hall (1848-1898),Downtown BrooklynThe 2021-22 NBA season is about to get underway. The team formerly known as the New Jersey Americans, the New York Nets and the New Jersey...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Orlando -- 2021-22 Edition
The New York Knicks visit the Orlando Magic this coming Friday, and again on April 3. The Brooklyn Nets do so on November 10 and March 15.Before You Go. Florida must be where the saying, "It's not the...
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The Adventure of the Empty House
In 1893, not tired of writing, but not tired of writing about his fictional London "consulting detective," Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Final Problem, in which Holmes falls to his...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 17, 1973, The OPEC Oil Shock
October 17, 1973: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) proclaims an oil embargo. It is targeted at nations perceived as supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War, which was...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 18, 1924, Red Grange & the Four Horsemen
This photo is colorized, but otherwise real.October 18, 1924, 90 years ago: Two of the most iconic games in the history of college football are played.Harold Edward Grange was born on June 13, 1903, in...
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The Results Speak for Themselves
October 18, 1977: The man that Sports Illustrated called a "Superduperstar" in Oakland becomes a legend in New York. He becomes "Mister October." Reggie Jackson hits 3 home runs, the last a tremendous...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 18, 1968, Bob Beamon's Leap
October 18, 1968: The greatest performance in Olympic history, that of the U.S. track & field team, continues. Bob Beamon sets a world record in the long jump at the Olympic Games at the Estadio...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 18, 1977, Reggie! Reggie! Reggie!
October 18, 1977: It was 44 years ago today that Number 44 made the New York Yankees Number 1 again.The man that Sports Illustrated called a "Superduperstar" in Oakland becomes a legend in New York. He...
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How to Be a Jet Fan In New England -- 2021 Edition
The New York Jets have gotten off to another rough start, 1-4, the 1 win in overtime against the Tennessee Titans. In their last game, they went all the way to London to lose to the Atlanta Falcons.The...
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Hal Steinbrenner's Winter
Historically, October 19 has been a bad day for New York baseball. For the Yankees, in 1976, 2004, 2010 and 2019. For the Mets, in 1986 (though it ultimately didn't matter) and 2006.And and it is...
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