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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In the Bay Area -- 2022 Edition
This coming Saturday, January 29, the Brooklyn Nets will visit the Golden State Warriors. The New York Knicks will do so on February 10.Since the last time I did a Trip Guide for the Warriors, they...
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Scores On This Historic Day: January 24, 1937, The Mill Creek Flood
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, Cincinnati,Roebling's 1867 precursor to the Brooklyn Bridge,at the height of the 1937 floodJanuary 24, 1937: The Ohio River Flood of 1937 peaks. Damage stretches...
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Top 10 Dumbest Rock Star Deaths
10. October 20, 1977, Gillsburg, Mississippi: Several members of Lynyrd Skynyrd. It wasn't the fault of any of the passengers that a co-pilot hit the wrong switch, causing the fuel to be jettisoned,...
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Top 10 January 24 Birthdays
"Find us a dream that won't ask no questions."Honorable Mention: January 24, AD 76: Emperor Hadrian of Rome. He was better at building walls than Donald Trump or East Germany.Honorable Mention: January...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Washington -- 2022 Edition
This coming Wednesday, January 19, the Brooklyn Nets visit the Washington Wizards. They will visit again on February 10. The New York Knicks will do so on April 8.Before You Go. D.C. can get really hot...
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Top 10 January 14 Birthdays
Dishonorable Mention: January 14, 83 BC: Mark Antony. All the movies made over the years about Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, usually involving Marcus Antonius, gloss over one key fact: Caesar and Antony...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Carolina -- 2022 Edition
The New Jersey Devils travel to play the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh this coming Saturday night. The 'Canes have given the Devils fits over the years, including in the Playoffs.They didn't seem to...
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It's Official: Baseball Hall of Fame: Big Papi In, A-Rod Out. How Is This Fair?
It is done. David Ortiz, who benefited from the use of performance-enhancing drugs more than any player in baseball history, and has always lied about it, has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame...
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Ortiz the Only One In: We Deserve an Explanation
Looks like my attempt at a "reverse jinx" didn't work.The vote has been announced for the 2022 election of the Baseball Writers Association of America for players to the Baseball Hall of Fame. A player...
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Top 10 January 25 Birthdays
10. January 25, 1783: William Colgate. The native Kent moved to Baltimore, and built a soap factory into what became the Colgate-Palmolive corporate empire.9. January 25, 1882: Virginia Woolf. She...
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Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame I Have Seen
Lou Gehrig called himself "the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." I can't say that, because I've had my share of rotten luck. But I have been lucky enough to have experienced many fine things....
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How Long It's Been: The Washington Football Team Won a Super Bowl (Or Even...
January 26, 1992, 30 years ago: Super Bowl XXVI is held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The team then known as the Washington Redskins beat the Buffalo Bills, 37-24....
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Philadelphia Phillies for Trading Ryne...
January 27, 1982, 40 years ago: The Chicago Cubs trade shortstop Ivan de Jesus to the Philadelphia Phillies for shortstop Larry Bowa and 3rd base prospect Ryne Sandberg.The Cubs had just hired Dallas...
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Somewhat Honorable Mention: January 26, 1905: Maria von Trapp. Yes, the lead character of The Sound of Music was a real person. But, apparently, she wasn't nearly as nice as the character played by...
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Top 10 January 27 Birthdays
Honorable Mention: January 27, 1931: Mordecai Richler. His writing has examined the question of what it means to be Jewish in a country that wasn't made for him; and what it means to live in Canada,...
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Top 10 January 28 Birthdays
Honorable Mention: January 28, 1981: Elijah Wood. He'll forever be Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But he's also played Tom Thumb, Percy Shelley, Jack "the Artful Dodger" Dawkins,...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Phoenix -- 2022 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets visit Arizona to play the Phoenix Suns this coming Tuesday night, February 1. The Knicks visit on March 9.Before You Go. AZcentral.com, the website for Phoenix's largest newspaper,...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Sacramento -- 2022 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets will play away to the Sacramento Kings this coming Wednesday night, February 2. The New York Knicks will do so on March 7.Before You Go. Sacramento is 90 miles inland from San...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Utah -- 2022 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets go to Salt Lake City to play the Utah Jazz this Friday, February 4. The New York Knicks will follow on Monday, February 7.Before You Go. We think of Utah, we think of the Wild West....
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Top 10 January 29 Birthdays
Honorable Mention: January 29, 1754: Moses Cleaveland. An officer in the War of the American Revolution, he became a General in the Connecticut militia, and in 1796 he founded the Ohio city that almost...
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