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How to Go to a Saskatchewan Roughriders Game
This past Thursday, the Saskatchewan Roughriders opened the Canadian Football League season by losing 17-16 to the Montreal Alouettes in Montreal. This Saturday, they play their home opener, against...
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Frank Kush, 1929-2017
One of the toughest coaches who ever lived died last week. Some people loved him for being that tough. Not all people, though.Frank Joseph Kush was born on January 20, 1929 -- the same week as Dr....
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Phil Jackson Fired, Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman Still Have Jobs
This morning, Knicks executive chairman James Dolan fired team president Phil Jackson, finishing off, at least in terms of competitiveness multiplied by hype, the biggest fiasco in NBA history.Hank and...
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Anthony Young, 1966-2017
The unluckiest man in baseball has been unlucky for the last time.Anthony Wayne Young was born on January 19, 1966 in Houston. He went to the University of Houston in the mid-1980s, a time when Carl...
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Too Many Tylers Do Not Spoil the Game
After one game where Joe Girardi's bullpen idiocy almost cost the Yankees a win, and another where it did, the Yankees needed a great all-around performance against the Chicago White Sox at Comisk......
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In New England -- 2017 Edition
Last night, the New York Red Bulls beat the Philadelphia Union on penalties to advance to the Quarterfinal of the U.S. Open Cup, America's version of England's FA Cup.They will play the New England...
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Yankees Lose a Game and a "Prospect"
Dustin Fowler is one of those Yankee "prospects" you've been hearing so dang much about. A guy who's already being compared to some of the great names in baseball history.Well, for the moment, he's...
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Buildings That Hosted Both Elvis and the Beatles
Photo taken at the Market Square Arena show.And people were commenting thatthey thought he'd lost some weight.June 26, 1977, 40 years ago: Elvis Presley closes his tour at the Market Square Arena in...
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How to Go to a Winnipeg Blue Bombers Game
It's appropriate that I do a CFL Trip Guide on July 1, 2017, Canada Day -- not just the national holiday, but the 150th Anniversary of Confederation.The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are currently playing...
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Yankees Mess With Texas, Clobber Astros
The Houston Astros have the best record in baseball, mainly due to their terrific pitching, The Yankees went into last night's opener of a 3-game series with them at Minute Maid Park having lost 12 out...
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Why, Joe, Why?
The Yankees should have made it 2 straight over the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park last night. But they didn't, because Joe Girardi was in full Girardi mode.Didi Gregorius hit a grand slam in the...
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How to be a Met Fan In St. Louis -- 2017 Edition
This coming Friday, the Mets will visit St. Louis for a 3-game series with the Cardinals.The Mets and the Cards had fights for the National League Eastern Division title in 1973, 1985 and 1987, and...
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Pacino as Paterno?
So I hear HBO is making a movie about Joe Paterno, the disgraced Penn State football coach. Barry Levinson will direct. He directed The Natural, so this won't be his 1st sports-themed movie.It's going...
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I Don't Care About 5 Yankees In the All-Star Game
The Yankees closed out a pathetic roadtrip at Minute Maid Park yesterday, against the Houston Astros. Luis Severino started, and he had nothing, allowing 3 runs in the 2nd inning, 2 in the 4th, and 1...
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Top 10 Athletes From Idaho
July 3, 1890: Idaho is admitted to the Union as the 43rd State.Top 10 Athletes from Idaho10. Sarah Heath of Sandpoint. Okay, this women's basketball star has spent most of her life in Alaska, is now...
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America's Top 10 Greatest Moments
These are in chronological order.1. July 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson explained that the British government -- not its people in Britain -- had betrayed its people in...
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Tanaka Backed By Runs, Yanks Beat Pesky Blue Jays
The Yankees reached the halfway point of the season, Game 81, in the opener of a 3-game home series with those pesky Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium II last night. And they got off to a good start....
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CC's Return, Holiday Spoiled
The good news: CC Sabathia returned from the Disabled List, at least a week sooner than expected, and started yesterday's 4th of July matinee at Yankee Stadium II, against the Toronto Blue Jays. The...
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Just Take Betances
How does that song by Bronx native and Yankee Fan Billy Joel go? "Don't look for answers. Just take Betances. Don't ask me why."Not quite. Considering who's really responsible for yesterday's loss,...
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Gene Conley, 1930-2017; Darrall Imhoff, 1938-2017
A pair of basketball legends died in the last few days -- although one is better known for playing baseball.Donald Eugene Conley was born on November 10, 1930 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where his mother...
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