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Hal Steinbrenner, What Are You Waiting For?
Hey, did you hear that Joe Girardi got his own radio show?He played an Elvis song, then, after only a minute and a half, he replaced it with a Barry Manilow song!That's a joke. Almost as big of a joke...
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For July 8: How to Go to a Hamilton Tiger-Cats Game
I close out the Trip Guides for the 9 Canadian Football League with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats -- not easy, because Hamilton is a city for whom I haven't yet done a Guide. I can use pieces from the...
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Clint Makes My Day, But This Changes Nothing
Actor-director Clint Eastwood is famous for, among other things, his line from the 1983 Dirty Harry film Sudden Impact: "Go ahead, make my day."Yesterday afternoon at Yankee Stadium, Clint Frazier made...
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How to Go to a Hamilton Tiger-Cats Game
I close out the Trip Guides for the 9 Canadian Football League with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats -- not easy, because Hamilton is a city for whom I haven't yet done a Guide. I can use pieces from the...
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O.J. at 70
July 9, 1947, 70 years ago: Orenthal James Simpson is born in San Francisco.When I was a kid in the 1970s, the Weekly Reader would poll kids of various ages, boys and girls alike, and ask them who...
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Every Yankee-Themed Movie Ranked from Worst to Best
It's Summer, which means Summer blockbuster movies. As good a time as any to look at movies about the New York Yankees.Which are must-see, and which are a must-to-avoid?The following only includes...
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Top 10 Athletes from Wyoming
July 10, 1890: Wyoming is admitted to the Union as the 44th State.Top 10 Athletes from Wyoming10. Jim Crawford of Greybull."Cowboy" Crawford (so nicknamed because the University of Wyoming's teams are...
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For Yankees, Something Has to Change
The Yankees closed out the official, if not numerical, 1st half of the regular season yesterday, and not well.Masahiro Tanaka started, and his run of good starts stopped at 2. He gave up 5 runs in less...
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All-Star Game Sites, as of 2017
Tonight, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be held at Marlins Park in Miami. This is the 1st time the Midsummer Classic has been hosted by the franchise that began as the Florida Marlins in...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Minnesota -- 2017 Edition
Starting next Monday, the Yankees play the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis.By a weird twist, on the day that my twin nieces were born, 10 summers ago, the Yankees were playing, you guessed it, the...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In San Jose -- 2017 Edition
This coming Wednesday night, the New York Red Bulls will host the San Jose Earthquakes at Red Bull Arena. They've already visited New York to play New York City FC. But neither New York team goes out...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Seattle -- 2017 Edition
Next Thursday, the Yankees begin a series in Seattle, against the Mariners at Safeco Field.Yes, the city that photo really is Seattle. Yes, that really is a nice blue sky overhead. When the clouds...
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Yanks Begin 2nd Half With Lots of News, Not Much of It Good
Tonight, the Yankees begin the official, though not numerical, 2nd half of the regular season, in Scum Town, facing The Scum at Scumway Park.As you might have guessed, I want to win these games. The...
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Chapman & Girardi Gift Scum Walkoff Win
The Yankees opened the 2nd half of the season last night, losing to the Boston Red Sox, a.k.a. The Scum, at Fenway Park. This was a game the Yankees could not afford to lose, as the Red Sox are in 1st...
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Yanks Survive Weird Marathon at Fenway
If ever there was a "must-win" game for the Yankees in mid-July, this was it. If they had lost yesterday's game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, it would pretty much have meant that the...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Minnesota -- 2017 Edition
Minnesota United FC debuted in 2010. In 2017, they made their debut in Major League Soccer. The Red Bulls make their 1st visit next Saturday.Before You Go. You should consult the Minneapolis...
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Babe Parilli, 1930-2017
The quarterback of the Super Bowl-winning Jets has died.No, not that one.Vito Parilli (no middle name) was born on May 7, 1930 in Rochester, Pennsylvania, an industrial town outside Pittsburgh. It's...
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Yanks Split Twinbill & Series In Fenway
So the Yankees played a rain-forced doubleheader yesterday, at Fenway Park. Surely, something bizarre was going to happen.Not really. Unless you want to count Aaron Judge's slump continuing, proving...
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Bob Wolff, 1920-2017
There was an official attendance of 64,519 fans at the original Yankee Stadium for Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. The official attendance there for the 1958 NFL Championship Game was 64,185. Neither...
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How to Be a Met Fan In San Diego -- 2017 Edition
Next Monday, the Mets begin a 4-game series away to the San Diego Padres.Unlike their fellow National League teams in California, the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Padres are a...
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