Scores On Historic Day: November 6, 1995, The Cleveland Browns Are Moved
November 6, 1995: Art Modell announces that he's moving the NFL's Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, where they later announced that they will become the Baltimore Ravens. He does so because the City of...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 6, 2012: President Barack Obama Is...
November 6, 2012: President Barack Obama is re-elected, defeating former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.Romney had run the most dishonest Presidential campaign of all time -- a record that...
View ArticleHow to Go to a Vanderbilt Football Game
On Saturday, November 13, the football team at Vanderbilt University hosts the University of Kentucky, in a Southeastern Conference game in Nashville, Tennessee.Before You Go. Nashville is in the...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 7, 1972, President Richard Nixon Is...
November 7, 1972: President Richard Nixon is re-elected in one of the biggest landslides ever. He wins 60.7 percent of the vote to the 37.5, a record low for Democratic nominees in 2-horse races, of...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 7, 1991, Magic Johnson Retires Due to HIV
November 7, 1991, 30 years ago: Earvin "Magic" Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers stuns the world: He announces that he has contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, through sex -- even though he's...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 7, 2000, No One Is Elected President
November 7, 2000: Election Day. The Democratic Party's nominee for President, Vice President of the United States, Albert Arnold Gore Jr., gets more votes than the Republican Party's nominee, the...
View ArticleOh, Was That Today?
The New York City Marathon was held today, after being canceled last season due to COVID.I hadn't noticed, and wouldn't have cared if I had.At any rate, the winners were Albert Korir and, among the...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 8, 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Is...
November 8, 1960: Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts is elected the 35th President of the United States. At 43, he is the youngest man ever elected to the office, although Theodore Roosevelt was...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 8, 1975, The Rudy Ruettiger Game
November 8, 1975: Notre Dame beats Georgia Tech 24-3, at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. By the Fighting Irish's standards, it was an unremarkable game in an unremarkable season, going 8-3...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 8, 1988, George H.W. Bush Is Elected...
November 8, 1988: My 1st election. At Hammarskjold Middle School in East Brunswick, New Jersey, which I had attended (as Hammarskjold Junior High School) from September 9, 1981 to June 26, 1984, I cast...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 8, 2016, Donald Trump Is "Elected"...
November 8, 2016: A Presidential election is held. The Democratic Party's nominee for President was Hillary Clinton. She was, perhaps, the most qualified candidate the Presidency has ever had. The...
View ArticleThe End of an Era (Not a Good Thing)
It's the end of an era. The New York Yankees did not exercise their option on Brett Gardner. This makes him a free agent.Whether he is still capable of contributing in 2022, a season in which he will...
View ArticleNovember 9, 1946: The Army-Notre Dame "Game of the Century"
November 9, 1946, 75 years ago: One of those college football games that gets the label "Game of the Century" is played at the original Yankee Stadium.The football team at the United States Military...
View ArticleHow to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Oklahoma City -- 2021-22 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets visit Oklahoma City to play the Thunder next Sunday, November 14. The New York Knicks' visit this season will be on December 31.The Nets formerly played in Newark, "Brick City," and...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 9, 2006, Rutgers Football Grows Up
November 9, 2006: The football team at Rutgers University has what is -- after 1869, anyway -- its signature moment.Under head coach Greg Schiano, and his aggressive recruiting of New Jersey, New York...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 10, 1928, Notre Dame Wins One for the...
November 10, 1928: The football teams of the University of Notre Dame and the U.S. Military Academy, a.k.a. "Army," played at Yankee Stadium. A crowd of 78,188 saw the Cadets lead the Fighting Irish...
View ArticleHow to Be a Devils Fan at Madison Square Garden -- 2021-22 Edition
This Sunday night, the New Jersey Devils will play the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. It will not be one of the more consequential meetings in what was once called "the Lincoln Tunnel...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 10, 1975, The Wreck of the Edmund...
November 10, 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in a storm in Lake Superior, between the American State of Wisconsin and the Canadian Province of Ontario, with 29 men aboard. There were no...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 10, 1969, Sesame Street Premieres
November 10, 1969:Sesame Street premieres on PBS. It became the greatest show in the history of children's television.Three years earlier, TV producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice...
View ArticleScores On This Historic Day: November 11, 1975, The Australian Constitutional...
Edward Gough WhitlamNovember 11, 1975: Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, dismisses the country's Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, from office. It is the only time in the history of the...
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