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Scores On This Historic Day: December 29, 1978, Woody Hayes Punches Out
December 29, 1978: An era comes to an end for the football program at The Ohio State University. An ignominious end.Football coaches had been abusing their own players for as long as there had been...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Boston -- 2022 Edition
This Tuesday night, January 4, 2022, the New Jersey Devils will play the Boston Bruins at the TD Garden. The Bruins were the 1st U.S.-based team in the National Hockey League, established in 1924....
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 31, 1967, The Ice Bowl
Lambeau Field as it appeared in 1967.Note the shadow cast by the scoreboardat the south end. This will matter later on.December 31, 1967: As the narrator for a 1987 NFL Films production put it, "On a...
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Those We Lost In 2021
In addition to such non-sports legends as Cloris Leachman, Christopher Plummer, Michael Collins, Charlie Watts, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Stephen Sondheim and Desmond Tutu...Colin Bell, February 26, 1946 -...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 31, 1974, The Yankees Hook a Catfish
December 31, 1974: The era of baseball free agency begins when the Yankees hook a Catfish.James Augustus Hunter made his major league debut in 1965, with the Kansas City Athletics. Team owner Charles...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 31, 1988, The Fog Bowl & Five-Way Mario
December 31, 1988: The Chicago Bears host the Philadelphia Eagles in an NFC Divisional Playoff at Soldier Field in Chicago. It was Mike Ditka coaching the team he'd led to a Super Bowl win 3 seasons...
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Scores On This Historic Day: December 31, 2011, The Last American Combat...
December 31, 2011, 10 years ago: The last American combat troops leave Iraq. It had been 8 years, 9 months and 11 days since the first ones got there.And what did America get out of it? Well, we got...
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Good Riddance, 2021, You Old Bag
Good riddance, 2021, you old bag. You couldn't let us take Betty White to her 100th Birthday.Betty was the only White supremacy I ever recognized.*Days until the next Arsenal game: 1, at 7:30 this...
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Top 10 January 1 Birthdays
Honorable Mention: January 1, 1752, Betsy Ross. Born Elizabeth Griscom in Gloucester City, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, she didn't do what she's most famous for: Designing...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 1, 1929, The Wrong-Way Run of Roy Riegels
Roy Riegels, running the wrong wayJanuary 1, 1929: The Rose Bowl game is played, at the stadium of the same name, in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena, California.The host team was the University of...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 1, 1953, The Death of Hank Williams
January 1, 1953: Hank Williams dies from his excesses. The King of Country Music has thus occasionally been called "the first dead rock star."Hiram Williams (no middle name) was born on September 17,...
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Dates Mentioned In Songs
Happy New Year's Day.What songs mention dates?January 1: "New Year's Day," U2.March 18, 1846: "Greenland Whale Fisheries," The Pogues.April 4, 1968: "Pride In the Name of Love," U2 again.May 1: "First...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 1, 1954, Too Full of Alabama
January 1, 1954: The Cotton Bowl Classic is played in the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas. And it includes a bizarre play.From its founding in the 1936 season until the dissolution of the Southwest...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 1, 1994, Florida State Finally Does It
January 1, 1994: The Orange Bowl is played, at the stadium of the same name in Miami. The University of Nebraska hasn't won the National Championship since 1971. Florida State University has never won...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 1, 1995, Nebraska Redeemed
January 1, 1995: The Orange Bowl is played in Miami, at the stadium of the same name. It was also the home field for the football team at the University of Miami, who were ranked Number 3 in the...
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Top 10 January 2 Birthdays
Honorable Mention: January 2, 1903, Kane Tanaka. At the age of 119, she is the oldest verified living person in the world, and the 3rd-oldest verified person ever. As far as I know, she is not related...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 1, 2008, The 1st NHL Winter Classic
January 1, 2008: The National Hockey League holds its 1st Winter Classic.There had been outdoor hockey games before, both in the NHL and in college hockey. But it took until 2004 for someone -- NBC...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 1, 2014, The NHL's Biggest Crowd
January 1, 2014: The NHL Winter Classic is held at Michigan Stadium, on the campus of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, 37 miles west of downtown Detroit.In 2001, Michigan had visited Michigan...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 2, 1982, The Kellen Winslow Game
January 2, 1982, 40 years ago: History calls it "The Epic in Miami" or "The Kellen Winslow Game."Sports Illustrated called it "The Game No One Should Have Lost." San Diego Chargers fans called it "The...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 2, 1984, Miami Shocks Nebraska In the...
Bernie Kosar, on an NBC screen captureJanuary 2, 1984: The Orange Bowl is played, at the stadium of the same name in Miami. The usual date, New Year's Day, fell on a Sunday, so, not wanting to compete...
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