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How to Go to a Princeton Football Game
My father went to the Newark College of Engineering, which didn't have a football team, and has since been absorbed into the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Eventually, some of his friends talked...
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How to Be a New York Football Fan In Oakland -- 2017 Edition
This Sunday, at 4:05 PM our time (1:05 local time), the Jets go into one of the bogey places of the NFL, the Oakland Coliseum, to play one of their oldest and nastiest rivals: The Oakland Raiders. The...
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A Two-Week Referendum
The Yankees loss to the Baltimore Orioles yesterday, ending a streak of 5 straight wins ,and 11 of their last 14.The way things have worked out, when the Yankees have been winning their games, so have...
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How to Go to a Football Game In Idaho
38 States down, 12 to go. The football team at Boise State University, the most popular sports team in the State of Idaho, hosts the University of Virginia this coming Saturday.Before You Go. Being...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Columbus -- 2017 Edition
This Saturday night, the New York Red Bulls will go to Ohio to play the Columbus Crew.Before You Go. Columbus can get really hot in the summer. The Columbus Dispatch website is predicting the high 80s...
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How to Be a Rutgers Fan at Nebraska -- 2017 Edition
39 States down, 11 to go.The football team at Rutgers University plays away to the University of Nebraska this Saturday.This could be bad. Very, very bad. Unless you're a Cornhuskers fan.Before You Go....
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How to Go to a Game at East Hartford FC
After 3 years of trolling the New York Red Bulls and their fans about having the New York name but playing in New Jersey, and calling themselves "the real New York team," fans of New York City Football...
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How to Be a Giants Fan In Philadelphia -- 2017 Edition
This Sunday afternoon at 1:00, 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...
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The Wild Card Game Is the Nightmare Scenario
Last night, the Yankees completed a sweep of the Minnesota Twins, the team they will likely end up facing in the American League Wild Card Game. But the Baltimore Orioles once again rolled over and...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Toronto -- 2017 Edition
Well, the New York Red Bulls lost the U.S. Open Cup Final to Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday night, making it likely that this will be the 22n season that they don't win a major trophy - unless you...
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September 24 and 29, 1957: The Dodgers and Giants Move Away
September 24, 1957, 60 years ago: The last game is played at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0 on a 5-hit shutout by rookie lefthander Danny McDevitt.The last play was...
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How Long It's Been: The Dodgers and Giants Were In New York
September 24 and 29, 1957, 60 years ago: The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants play their last home games.60 years. How long has that been?From the 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers, the following 9 players are...
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How to Be a New York Football Fan In Tampa Bay -- 2017 Edition
If you had the Jets winning their 1st game of the season before the Giants did, you lost.Next Sunday, the Giants travel to Florida to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Jets visit on November 19.Before...
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September 25, 1917: Holy Cow, It's Phil Rizzuto's Centennial!
September 25, 1917, 100 years ago today: Philip Francis Rizzuto is born in Brooklyn.Actually, 2 Yankee stars are born on this day. John Franklin Sain is born in Havana, Arkansas. Johnny Sain went on to...
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Trump, the NFL, and the Elephant In the Room
Want to hear one hell of an irony? When Colin Kaepernick graduated from the University of Nevada in 2010, his degree was in... business management. And yet, it is America's best-known businessman -- a...
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Celebrating 10 Years of This Blog
September 26, 2007, 10 years ago today: I typed out the first entry of Uncle Mike's Musings.My 1st entry was brief, and here is the text, in its entirety:I'm way behind the times. It's taken me this...
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Happy Ted Williams Day
It's October milestones time again -- including the end of September, though baseball doesn't play postseason games in September anymore.And September 28 turned out to be a very significant day in the...
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Last Gasp for Yanks' AL East Hopes
So: With 4 games left in the regular season, the Yankees are 3 games behind the Boston Red Sox in the American League Eastern Division.The Yankees have wrapped up home-field advantage in the American...
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September 29, 1957: Giants Leave Polo Grounds, Packers Open Lambeau Field
September 29, 1957, 60 years ago: The Giants play their last game at the Polo Grounds, their owner Horace Stoneham having already announced that they're moving to San Francisco. Unlike the Brooklyn...
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How to Go to a New Jersey Devils Game -- 2017-18 Edition
The 2017-18 hockey season is upon us. And my beloved, if frequently irritating, New Jersey Devils, open the season away to the Florida Panthers on Thursday, October 13, and their home schedule on...
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