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How to Be a Devils Fan On Long Island -- 2021-22 Edition
Next Saturday night, December 11, for the 1st time, the New Jersey Devils will play the New York Islanders at the Islanders' new home, the UBS Arena.The Islanders have made the NHL Eastern Conference...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 5, 2004, East Brunswick Wins the State...
December 5, 2004: The Night of Nights for the football program at East Brunswick High School in East Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey.EBHS had opened in 1958, and had begun playing varsity...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 5, 2009, East Brunswick Football Wins...
December 5, 2009: The football program at East Brunswick High School, my alma mater, in East Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, began the 2000s about as bad as you can get. They reached the...
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At Last: Six Men Long Overdue Get to Cooperstown
Yesterday, the Committee on Veterans elected 6 new members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In chronological order:* John "Bud" Fowler, a multi-position player who is the 1st member of the Hall who ever...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 6, 1969, Texas vs. Arkansas, "The Game...
December 6, 1969: One of college football's occasional "Games of the Century" is played.They seemed to be coming every year. 1966 saw Michigan State vs. Notre Dame, in the Big Ten region if not a Big...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 7, 1970, The Kneefall In Warsaw
December 7, 1970: The Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany makes a deeply symbolic apology to Poland, a nation that Germany so deeply hurt in World War II.Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm was born in...
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How to Watch the Giants Play the Los Angeles Chargers -- 2021 Edition
This coming Sunday, December 12, the New York Giants will make their 1st visit to SoFi Stadium in the Los Angeles "suburb" of Inglewood, California, to play not the stadium's landlords, the Los Angeles...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 8, 1940, Bears 73, Redskins 0
The 1940 Chicago Bears, the Monsters of the Midway.Back row, left to right: 5, George McAfee; 9, Bill Osmanski;42, Sid Luckman; and 25, Ray Nolting.Front low, left to right: 4, Harry Clarke; 35, Lee...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 8, 1962, The New York Newspaper Strike
December 8, 1962: The New York Typographical Union goes on strike. This means the newspapers of New York City have to stop publication.This includes the broadsheets: The New York Times, The New York...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 8, 2018, Major League Soccer's Biggest...
December 8, 2018: Major League Soccer has the biggest crowd in its history -- but not in one of the cities where it could have been expected from the league's founding in 1996 through the 2016...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 9, 1934, The Sneaker Game
The 1934 New York Giants. Back row, left to right:18, Dale Burnett; 23, Bo Molenda; 22, Ed Danowski;and 50, Ken Strong. Front row, left to right: 1, Ray Flaherty;29, Red Badgro; 10, Potsy Jones; 7, Mel...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 9, 1965, Branch Rickey, Frank Robinson...
December 9, 1965: It's unusual that I have 2 notable events for a "Scores On This Historic Day" post. This time, I have 3.Branch Rickey, baseball's greatest executive ever, dies at age 84. A mediocre...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Philadelphia -- 2021-22 Edition
This coming Tuesday night, December 14, the New Jersey Devils play away to the Philadelphia Flyers. There are a few teams that Devils fans don't like. The New York Islanders. The Boston Bruins. The...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 10, 2019, Crisis On Infinite Earths
Left to right: David Harewood as the Martin Manhunter,Ruby Rose as Batwoman, Caity Lotz as White Canary,Melissa Benoist as Supergirl, Grant Gustin as the Flash,Cress Williams as Black Lightning, and...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the San Diego Padres for Trading Ozzie Smith...
December 10, 1981, 40 years ago: The San Diego Padres trade shortstop Ozzie Smith and pitcher Steve Mura to the St. Louis Cardinals for shortstop Garry Templeton and outfielder Sixto Lezcano. Each team...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Mets for Trading Nolan Ryan for Jim Fregosi
December 10, 1971, 50 years ago today: The New York Mets trade pitchers Nolan Ryan and Don Rose, catcher Frank Estrada, and right fielder Leroy Stanton to the California Angels for shortstop Jim...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 11, 1964, The Death of Sam Cooke
December 11, 1964: Sam Cooke dies under mysterious circumstances in Los Angeles.Born on January 22, 1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, as Samuel Cook (no middle name), he was taken to Chicago by his...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 11, 2010, Hockey's Biggest Crowd
December 11, 2010: The largest paid attendance ever at a hockey game sees "The Big Chill at the Big House."The seeds for this epic event had been sowed 9 years earlier. The University of Michigan in...
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The State of The Arsenal on Founders Day
December 11, 1886, 135 years ago today: The Arsenal Football Club played its 1st game. It was on the Isle of Dogs, at a ground recently occupied by Millwall Football Club, against a team named Eastern...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 12, 1925, The Cardinal-Maroon Controversy
December 12, 1925: The most controversial championship in the National Football League's 102-season history is awarded.The Chicago Cardinals traced their founding to that of the Morgan Athletic Club,...
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