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Scores On This Historic Day: November 11, 1985, Pelle Lindbergh Is Killed
November 11, 1985: Pelle Lindbergh is killed in a drunken driving crash, ending his life and his hockey career at the age of 26.Göran Per-Eric Lindbergh was born on May 24, 1959 in Stockholm, the...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 12, 1931, Maple Leaf Gardens Opens
November 12, 1931, 90 years ago: Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto, replacing the Mutual Street Arena. It will be home to the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League for the next 67...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 12, 1990, The Body Bag Game
Byron Evans knocks Stan Humphries out of the game.Jerome Brown looks on.November 12, 1990:ABC Monday Night Football broadcasts a game from Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Eagles beat...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 13, 1927, The Holland Tunnel Opens
November 13, 1927: The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic. It connects Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, with 12th Street in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey.It was the 1st road...
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Sam Huff, 1934-2021
Maybe the greatest player in New York Giants history has left us -- and if you're under the age of 70, if you know about him at all, you probably associate him with another team.Robert Lee Huff was...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In South Florida -- 2021-22 Edition
One of the last Trip Guides I did before COVID shut everything down was for New Jersey hockey fans going south to watch the Devils play the Florida Panthers.This Thursday, the Devils will go down there...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Tampa Bay -- 2021-22 Edition
This Saturday at 4:00 PM, the New Jersey Devils travel to Tampa to play the Tampa Bay Lightning. The "Bolts" have won the same number of Stanley Cups, 3 -- but they've won all of them since the Devils...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 16, 1995, The Gingrich Tantrum
November 16, 1995: President Bill Clinton's victory in the federal government shutdown is sealed when the New York Daily News prints a front-page cartoon, showing the Speaker of the House, and the...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Cleveland -- 2021-22 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets will travel to Cleveland to play the Cavaliers this coming Monday night, November 22. They will also go there on January 17, 2022. The New York Knicks will go there on January 24,...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 17, 1928, The Boston Garden Opens
November 17, 1928: The Boston Madison Square Garden opens, on top of North Station, in Boston's North End. It was the 1st of 6 copies of Madison Square Garden in New York that boxing promoter and MSG...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 17, 1968, The Heidi Bowl
November 17, 1968: A professional football game was played, and it had a stunning ending. People who saw this ending live in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum: An official paid attendance of 53,318....
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How to Be a New York Football Fan In Tampa Bay -- 2021 Edition
The Giants will be playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next week, on Monday Night Football. That's a little unusual. But not as unusual as the Buccaneers being defending World Champions.I guess, when you...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon Says,...
November 17, 1973: President Richard Nixon gives a press conference at the hotel where he's staying on vacation, the Walt Disney World Contemporary Resort, outside the famous theme park, near Orlando,...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 17, 2012, Rutgers Football Wins Its 1st...
Gary Nova. He would later switch to Number 10.November 17, 2012: Rutgers wins a Conference Championship in football.Stop laughing. It may have been in the lamest possible fashion, but it happened.From...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 18, 1967, USC vs. UCLA: "Game of the...
O.J. Simpson's 4th quarter touchdownNovember 18, 1967: One of college football's occasional "Games of the Century" is played. And the schools involved were based just 10 miles apart, and even shared...
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August 20, 1882: The 1812 Overture, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, makes its public premiere at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, Russia.Tchaikovsky, then 42 years old, did not conduct the...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 18, 1978, The Jonestown Massacre
November 18, 1978: The Jonestown Massacre takes place. When I was a kid, there were 3 stories that really freaked me out: The Son of Sam case, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant meltdown, and the...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 18, 1985, Lawrence Taylor Breaks Joe...
November 18, 1985: One of the nastiest-looking injuries in NFL history occurs, before a national audience on ABC's Monday Night Football.The New York Giants were a team on the rise, coached by Bill...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 18, 1992, The (Temporary) Death of...
November 18, 1992: DC Comics publishes Superman #75, titled "The Death of Superman." It was a desperate measure to sell more comic books, and it worked: It remains the biggest-selling single issue in...
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November 19, 1921: Roy Campanella Is Born
November 19, 1921, 100 years ago: Roy Campanella (no middle name) is born in Philadelphia. He was as close to a universally beloved figure as baseball has ever had. And that was true even before the...
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