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Walt "No Neck" Williams, 1943-2016
Walt Williams was a Yankee, but he was not a Yankee Legend. He wasn't even a Bronx Bomber -- not because of any lack of power, or any perception thereof, but because he never played a home game in The...
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Bobby Wanzer, 1921-2016
A New York/New Jersey basketball legend has left us, and you may have never heard of him.Robert Francis Wanzer was born on June 4, 1921 in Brooklyn, and grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan --...
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Faux Flashback: How to Be a New York Football Fan In St. Louis
The St. Louis Rams are moving back to Los Angeles after 21 years. It's the right thing to do: The Rams were L.A.'s 1st major league sports team, and St. Louis, while great for baseball and good for...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Boston Braves for Moving to Milwaukee
A few days ago, I did a "Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame" for the Rams moving back to Los Angeles. It made me want to look at other team moves -- and then, unlike ESPN, actually issue a verdict on...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the St. Louis Browns for Moving to Baltimore
The St. Louis Browns were bad. Historically bad. They existed for 52 seasons, 1902 to 1953. They won 1 American League Pennant, in 1944. They finished 2nd in 1902 (5 games behind the Philadelphia...
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Top 10 Groundhog Day Jokes
This morning, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, about 75 miles northeast of Pittsburgh and 300 miles west of New York, the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil came out of his hole, and did not see his shadow....
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Pro Football Hall-of-Famers By Team, 2016 Edition
Congratulations to the newly-elected members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, whose new members are annually announced on the day before the Super Bowl:* Dick Stanfel, guard, 1950s Detroit Lions. Won...
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Living Members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, as of February 6, 2016
Of the 8 new electees to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, 6 are still alive: Kevin Greene, Brett Favre, Orlando Pace, Tony Dungy, Marvin Harrison and Eddie DeBartolo.Here are the living HOFers, by team....
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Useless Last-Minute Super Bowl Betting Tips -- 2016 Edition
In the first 49 Super Bowls...The NFC Champion has won 26 times, the AFC Champion 23. Not a huge difference there.But if you count teams that started in the old, pre-1970 merger NFL, including the...
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How to Be a New York Football Fan In San Francisco -- 2016 Edition
Tonight, Super Bowl 50 -- I suppose they didn't want to use the Roman numeral because, to the NFL, "L" doesn't mean "fifty" or "League," it means "loss" -- is being played at Levi's Stadium in Santa...
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Peyton, Cam, Beyoncé and Rudy
Peyton Manning! You just won the Super Bowl in what was probably the last game of your career! Now, what are you going to do?Essentially, the question that has traditionally been answered in...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Cam Newton for the Carolina Panthers Losing...
Yes, Cam Newton fumbled the ball in the end zone, and it was recovered for a Denver Bronco touchdown. And, yes, later on, fumbled, and froze, and didn't pick the ball up, and the Broncos did. And, yes,...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Philadelphia Athletics for Moving to Kansas...
February 8, 1956, 60 years ago: Connie Mack dies in Philadelphia, of "old age and complications from hip surgery." He was 93 years old.A former major league catcher, occasionally good but never great,...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the New York Giants for Moving to San Francisco
In 1971, Roger Kahn published The Boys of Summer, recalling the 1952 and '53 baseball seasons, when he was the Brooklyn Dodgers beat writer for the New York Herald Tribune.By 1971, he was 44 years old,...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Minnesota -- 2016 Edition
This coming Saturday night, the New York Knicks will visit Minneapolis, to play the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Brooklyn Nets will do so on March 5.Before You Go. The game will be played indoors, but...
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Top 10 Movies That Are Hard to Watch In Hindsight
Note: Only 1 of these movies is about sports, although James Bond did some skiing and boat racing, Dirty Harry did have a scene filmed inside San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, Revenge of the Nerds...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Washington Senators for Moving to Minnesota
George Washington was said by a contemporary, General Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, to have been "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."But the Washington Senators...
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How Old Are You Now? 2016 Television Edition
The Honeymooners was centered on Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason). On a few occasions, he mentioned that he'd been driving a bus for 15 or 16 years. Since the show aired in 1955 and '56, that means he...
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Cities' Greatest Athletes
Atlanta: Greg Maddux. 10 postseason appearances, including 3 Pennants and a World Championship. 3 Cy Young Awards. 6 All-Star berths. A member of the 300 Win and 3,000 Strikeout clubs, and the majority...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Milwaukee Braves for Moving to Atlanta
In 1953, the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee. At first, the move paid off spectacularly well. In every season from 1953 to 1958, they led both major leagues in attendance. In 1953, '54 and '57, they...
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