Teams of the Year In New York Sports
Note: The following refers to the calendar year. In other words, while the Jets' Super Bowl team would qualify for both 1968 and 1969, there is another candidate for 1969, whereas there really isn't...
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Jean Béliveau, 1931-2014
With the news of the decline in health of Gordie Howe, the greatest hockey player who ever lived *, we all thought he'd be the next big sports legend to go.As it turned out, he wasn't. His contemporary...
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How Long It's Been: The New Jersey Devils Didn't Have Martin Brodeur
March 26, 1992: Martin Brodeur, wearing Number 29, makes his NHL debut, at the Brendan Byrne Arena (now the IZOD Center) in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the New Jersey Devils beat the Boston...
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Major League Sports' Longest Title Droughts
Note: I am only including those teams that have gone at least 25 years. I am counting from either their last title, or, if they have never won one, from the first game in franchise history. New York...
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Get to Know Didi Gregorius
According to Andrew Marchand of ESPN New York:The Yankees on Friday announced that they have acquired Gregorius from the Diamondbacks in a three-team trade that also involves the Tigers. Right-handed...
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The Darkest Hour
This has been a hard year for me, for reasons that have nothing to do with sports. But, with the occasional exception -- the way Derek Jeter said goodbye, Arsenal's FA Cup win and visit to New Jersey,...
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December 9, 1934: Giants Take Title In "Sneaker Game"
December 9, 1934, 80 years ago today: The NFL Championship Game is played at the Polo Grounds in New York.Until the mid-1970s, title games were rotated between divisional winners. Even as late as 1972,...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Boston -- 2014-15 Edition
This Friday night will feature the first roadtrip to Boston for either of the New York basketball teams this season -- in this case, the Knicks.The New York Knickerbockers and the Boston Celtics are...
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Society Hasn't Changed, Our Means of Being Social Have
This morning, someone on Twitter asked me if society has changed to the point where we no longer have the patience to wait a proper amount of time for things: Success, championships, contention,...
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How to Go to an Islanders Game at the Nassau Coliseum -- One Last Time
Tomorrow night, the New Jersey Devils will make their last regular-season trip to the Nassau County Veterans Memorial Coliseum to face the New York Islanders.It is possible that these 2 teams could...
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When I Was 44, It Was a Very Bad Year
When he was 49, Frank Sinatra recorded "It Was a Very Good Year." In it, he sang words not written by or for him, telling of the "very good years" when he was 17, 21 and 35, and how they compared to...
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How to Be a Devils Fan at Madison Square Garden -- 2014-15 Edition
December 23, 1992, 22 years ago today (at least 5 years later than I should have): I attended my first live National Hockey League game.I've been a New Jersey Devils fan from Day One, the day it was...
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Problematic Christmas Songs -- 2014 Edition
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through The Bronxnot a creature was stirring where usually sit throngs.The Pennants, they fly from the flagpoles with carein the hope, in the New Year, a new...
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Tales of Christmas Past
Some of the following actually happened, while some is taken from TV shows and movies.Incidentally, if you can find out what was the first TV show to have a Christmas-themed episode, let me know,...
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Devils: Free At Last, Free At Last... Wait a Minute...
(Shown: A well-endowed woman and a big boob.)After nearly a year of me hoping it would happen, and after half a season of me writing, "How many more games, Lou?" on Facebook and Twitter...New Jersey...
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New York Tri-State Area Sports: Dysfunction Junction
Here are the 9 major league sports teams of the New York Tri-State Area, ranked in ascending order of current dysfunction:9. New York Giants.The Good: Of all 9 franchises, since getting their house in...
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New Year's Resolutions for the New York Teams
New Year's resolutions for 2015, for all the major league (or pretenders to such) sports teams in the New York Tri-State Area:New York Yankees: Pick a strategy and go with it. Either go all-out, spend...
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Mario Cuomo, 1932-2015
I can't believe Mario Cuomo is gone. I also can't believe I'm tying "2015" as a date. The "future" year in Back to the Future Part II. I'm old enough to not only remember Mario as Governor, but to...
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Deserve's Got Everything to Do With It: 2015 NFL Edition
"I don't deserve this... to die like this!" -- Gene Hackman as Little Bill"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it!" -- Clint Eastwood as William Munny-- Unforgiven*So who deserves to win Super Bowl XLIX?...
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Allie Sherman, 1923-2015
In the wake of the Jets' decision to fire head coach Rex Ryan, and the Giants taking a chance by keeping Tom Coughlin, let us pause to remember Allie Sherman, who guided the Giants through highs and...
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