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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Oklahoma City -- 2016-17 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets visit Oklahoma City to play the Thunder on Friday, November 18, and again on March 14. The Knicks' visits will be on November 28 and on February 15, 2017.The Nets formerly played in...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In San Jose -- 2016-17 Edition
This coming Monday night, the Devils will be in the San Francisco Bay Area, to play the San Jose Sharks.This could be a bit upsetting to any Devils fans visiting. Not because there's any rivalry with...
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A Brief History of the Rutgers-Penn State Rivalry
Warning: If you are a Penn State fan, and are still a defender of Joe Paterno...Well, then you're probably too stupid to be able to read, so, no problem.Rutgers played the 1st college football game in...
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How Long It's Been: Rutgers Beat Penn State In Football
September 24, 1988: Finally, for the 1st time in 70 years, Rutgers beats Penn State. The score is 21-16, and it happens at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania, in Happy Valley, in front of...
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Faux Flashback: How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Seattle
This Friday, the Brooklyn Nets will play away to the Oklahoma City Thunder.It should be the New Jersey Nets playing away to the Seattle SuperSonics.I began this blog just prior to the 2007-08 NBA...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Indiana -- 2016-17 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets travel to play the Indiana Pacers on November 25, the day after Thanksgiving, and will again on January 5, 2017. The New York Knicks will do so on January 7 and 23.Before You Go....
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How to Be a Rutgers Fan at Maryland -- 2016 Edition
On November 26, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the Rutgers University football team will travel to the Washington, D.C. area to face the University of Maryland. Although within the Old Line State, as...
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How to Go to the Iron Bowl
This past Saturday was the beginning of College Football Rivalry week. USC beat UCLA. Stanford beat California. And, ugh, Rutgers laid another egg, falling 39-0 to the team RU fans hate the most (or...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Pittsburgh -- 2016-17 Edition
The New Jersey Devils make their 1st trip to Pittsburgh in the 2016-17 season this coming Saturday. I like Pittsburgh as a city very much. I admire the Steelers. I respect the Pirates and the...
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For December 15: How to Be a Giants Fan In Philadelphia -- 2016 Edition
On Sunday, December 22, the New York Giants travel down to Philadelphia to play the Eagles in a big NFC East matchup.Eagle fans, given the choice between beating the Giants or the Dallas Cowboys, but...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Charlotte -- 2016-17 Edition
The New York Knicks visit the Charlotte Hornets on November 26, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The Brooklyn Nets do so after the New Year, on January 21 and February 7.Before You Go. Being in the...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Winnipeg -- 2016-17 Edition
This coming Tuesday night, November 29, the Devils will be in the capital of the Province of Manitoba to play the reborn Winnipeg Jets.If this were a World Hockey Association game in the 1970s... well,...
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Top 10 TV Thanksgiving Episodes
"What are you, an animal?"Honorable Mention. Barney Miller, "Thanksgiving Story," November 24, 1977. Mental patients have escaped from a private hospital, and are loose in an automat. Yes, they still...
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My Thanksgiving Through the Years
1970 to 1973: Thanksgiving is held at my maternal grandparents' house in Nutley, North Jersey. Grandma is in charge.1974 to 1978: After my grandparents moved, it was held at their new house, in a...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Minnesota -- 2016-17 Edition
This coming Wednesday night, the New York Knicks will visit Minneapolis, to play the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Brooklyn Nets will do so on January 28.Before You Go. The game will be played indoors,...
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A Few Dashed-Off Thoughts Before Thanksgiving Weekend
My mother thinks football on Thanksgiving is wrong, because players could get hurt, and have to spend the rest of the holiday in the hospital.She has a point. Look at what the game is doing to its...
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How to Attend the East Brunswick-Old Bridge Thanksgiving Game
This is a test. It's a test to see if I can write the most disgusting things about teams that I hate write objectively, with the help of crossing things out.Tomorrow morning, Thursday, November 24,...
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Thanksgiving Morning On the Beach -- 2016 Edition
Good morning, and Happy Thanksgiving from Ocean City, Maryland. I'm posting from 205 miles from home base. That's not a personal best: On August 22, 2009, I blogged from Cambridge, Massachusetts, 245...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Chicago -- 2016-17 Edition
This coming Thursday, the New Jersey Devils face the Chicago Blackhawks, at the United Center in Chicago.Hog Butcher for the World,Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,Player with Railroads and the Nation’s...
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Ralph Branca, 1927-2016
On September 25, 2003, Bob Murphy retired after 42 seasons as a Mets broadcaster. He had not publicly revealed that he was already dying of cancer. But I think the Met fans suspected something was up,...
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