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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Milwaukee -- 2015-16 Edition
This coming Wednesday night, the Knicks will play their 1st away game of the season, against the Milwaukee Buck. They will also oppose them there on Saturday, December 5. The Nets will play in...
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October 24, 2000: The Last World Series Game Won by the Mets
October 24, 2000: Game 3 of the World Series at Shea Stadium. The Mets defeat the Yankees‚ 4-2‚ behind the pitching of Rick Reed and their bullpen. Benny Agbayani's 8th inning double is the key hit for...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Philadelphia -- 2015-16 Edition
This Thursday night at 7:00, 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 Pittsburgh...
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Bob Knight at 75
October 25, 1940, 75 years ago: Robert Montgomery Knight is born in Massillon, Ohio. Growing up outside Columbus, where the St. Louis Cardinals had a Triple-A farm team, he became a tremendous baseball...
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Top 5 Reasons Yankee Fans Should NOT Root for the Mets In the 2015 World Series
In the 2015 World Series, I will be holding my nose -- for 7 games, if that's what it takes -- and rooting for the Kansas City Royals.Not the New York Mets.Let me show you the top 5 reasons people are...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In San Antonio -- 2015-16 Edition
The Nets are visiting the San Antonio Spurs this Friday night. The Knicks will visit on January 8.Before You Go. San Antonio is in Texas, but this is going to be late October for the Nets, early...
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October 26, 1985: If Cardinal Fans Could Turn Back Time...
October 26, 1985, 30 years ago today: Time travel is first demonstrated at the Twin Pines Mall (or is that the Lone Pine Mall?) in Hill Valley, California -- or, rather, is dramatized in the film Back...
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How to Be a New York Football Fan In New Orleans -- 2015 Edition
This Sunday, the Giants will be in what has been called "America's only foreign city," to play the New Orleans Saints at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, in a 1:00 PM Eastern Time start -- 12 noon local...
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The Curse of Kevin Mitchell: Now 29 Years
October 27, 1986: The Mets win the World Series. I was not happy about this.They have not done so since. I am very happy about that.After Game 7 was pushed back a day by rain, the Red Sox actually seem...
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NBA's 70th Anniversary 70 Greatest Players
Tonight, the National Basketball Association opened its 70th season. It played its 1st game on November 1, 1946, at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The New York Knickerbockers (Knicks) beat the Toronto...
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How to Be a New York Football Fan In Oakland -- 2015 Edition
This Sunday, at 4:05 PM our time (1:05 local time), the Jets go into one of the bogey places of the NFL, the Oakland Coliseum, to play one of their oldest and nastiest rivals: The Oakland...
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Mets, Not Surprising Me, Choke in Game 1
In the first World Series game they ever attended, let alone played in...* Matt Harvey, nicknamed "The Dark Knight" by Met fans, disproved the fanboy assertion that "Batman always wins." As George...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Memphis -- 2015-16 Edition
This Saturday, Halloween night, the Brooklyn Nets will travel to play the Memphis Grizzlies. The Knicks will go down there on January 16.Before You Go. Memphis is in the South. Not the Deep South, but...
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I'm Not Going to Lie to You: It Doesn't Look Good for the Mets
Mets fans, as they say on medical dramas, "I'm not going to lie to you: It doesn't look good."Before the 2000 World Series (the only Subway Series since 1956 -- nobody ever called Giants-Dodgers games...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Washington -- 2015-16 Edition
This Saturday night, the New York Knicks visit the Washington Wizards. They will visit again on March 19. The Nets will visit on April 6.Before You Go. D.C. can get really hot in summer, but this will...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Brooklyn -- 2015-16 Premiere Edition
The New York Islanders don't play at the Nassau Coliseum anymore. For New Jersey Devils fans, this is good news: Not that the building long past the days when it could be called "Fort Neverlose" was a...
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October 30, 1975: Mets Can Find Inspiration In Legendary Headline
October 30, 1975, 40 years ago: The New York Daily News, responding to President Gerald Ford’s statement that he wouldn’t allow the federal government to bail out New York City’s desperate finances,...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Cleveland -- 2015-16 Edition
The New York Knicks travel to Cleveland to play the Cavaliers next Wednesday night. They will also go there on December 23. The Brooklyn Nets will play there on November 28 and March 1.Before You Go....
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Jane Jarvis' Centennial, Thor's Bad Pitch
October 31, 1915, 100 years ago: Luella Jane Nossett is born in Vincennes, Indiana, and grows up in Gary, Indiana. We knew her as Jane Jarvis.She played the organ at Braves games at Milwaukee County...
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Top 10 Most Mets Things Ever
Last night, I saw something on Twitter that said that the Mets' 5-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals in Game 4 of the World Series -- specifically, how they lost it -- was "the most Mets thing ever."He...
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