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How to Be a Devils Fan In Anaheim -- 2021-22 Edition
Next Tuesday night, the New Jersey Devils will be in Anaheim to take on the Ducks. That's Election Day. So if you want to go, make sure you vote early. (But not often: New Jersey has enough election...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Indiana -- 2021-22 Edition
The New York Knicks travel to play the Indiana Pacers this coming Wednesday, and will do so again on December 8. The Brooklyn Nets will do so on January 5, 2022.Before You Go. Indianapolis is about as...
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October 29, 1921: The Impossible Formula
October 29, 1921, 100 years ago: The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College of Danville, Kentucky, 6-0 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is...
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Happy 80th Birthday, Arsenal Legend Bob Wilson!
October 30, 1941, 80 years ago: Robert Primrose Wilson is born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was the youngest of 6 children, including 2 brothers who were killed fighting the Nazis in World War II....
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Los Angeles -- 2021-22 Edition
Next Friday, the New Jersey Devils visit the Staples Center to take on the Los Angeles Kings.North Jersey and Central Jersey are part of the New York Tri-State Area, so we don't like Los Angeles, for...
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October 31, 1961: Throwing Baseball Away to Own the Libs
Rickwood FieldI have said before that Halloween is the demarcation line: The end of October, the last month of the baseball season. Or, since 2001, it is sometimes, instead, the last full month. It can...
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How to Be a New York Football Fan In Indianapolis -- 2021 Edition
This coming Thursday night, the New York Jets play a prime-time game, away to the Indianapolis Colts.The Jets played the Colts, formerly of Baltimore, both home and away as AFC Eastern Division...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Milwaukee -- 2021-22 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets visited the Milwaukee Bucks on October 19. I did not do a Trip Guide for that game, because it was the season opener, at home, for the defending NBA Champions, so tickets would have...
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How To Be a Devils Fan In San Jose -- 2021-22 Edition
This coming Saturday night, the Devils will be in the San Francisco Bay Area, to play the San Jose Sharks.Before You Go. The San Francisco Bay Area has inconsistent weather. San Francisco, in...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 1, 1913, The Birth of the Notre Dame...
Knute Rockne carrying the ball on The Plain, November 1, 1913November 1, 1913: The University of Notre Dame says hello.Had this not happened, the South Bend, Indiana school might now be just another...
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November 1, 1946: The 1st NBA Game
The 1946-47 New York KnicksNovember 1, 1946, 75 years ago: The the 1st NBA game is played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. (Until 1949, the National Basketball Association was known as the Basketball...
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Jerry Remy, 1952-2021
In New York, Phil Rizzuto was a beloved player who became even more beloved as a broadcaster. In Philadelphia, it was Richie Ashburn. In Cleveland, Herb Score. In Cincinnati, Joe Nuxhall. In Chicago,...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Detroit -- 2021-22 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets will visit the Detroit Pistons this Friday night, November 5. The New York Nets will visit on December 29 and March 27.Before You Go. The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press (or...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 1, 1950, The Attempted Assassination of...
November 1, 1950: President Harry Truman faces an assassination attempt. The Truman family is staying at Blair House, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, while the White House is being...
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The Future Ain't What It Used to Be
November 2, 2001, 20 years ago: A statue of head coach Joe Paterno is dedicated outside the east stand of Beaver Stadium on the campus of Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania....
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 2, 1975, The Eddie Giacomin Game
November 2, 1975: A surreal event takes place at Madison Square Garden. The New York Rangers had traded popular goaltender Eddie Giacomin to the Detroit Red Wings, sparking outrage among their fans. As...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 2, 1976, Jimmy Carter Is Elected President
November 2, 1976: Former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia edges incumbent President Gerald Ford, to reclaim the White House for the Democrats.Ford had been Vice President when President Richard Nixon...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 2, 2016, The Chicago Cubs Win the World...
November 2, 2016: To paraphrase Shirley Povich of The Washington Post, when the Brooklyn Dodgers finally did it 61 years earlier...Please don't interrupt, because, unless you are over the age of 110,...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Toronto -- 2021-22 Edition
Next Sunday, November 7, the Brooklyn Nets will visit the Toronto Raptors. They will do so again on March 1. The Knicks will do so on December 10 and January 2.Before You Go. Check for current COVID...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 3, 1964, Lyndon Johnson Is Elected to a...
Apparently, in 1964, the New York Daily News,normally a populist conservative paper in those days,was willing to print a color photo on the front page,even though the President was a liberal...
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