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Cincinnati's 10 Greatest Teams
This week, the Mets are in Cincinnati to play the Reds.Cincinnati's 10 Greatest TeamsHonorable Mention to the 1869-70 Cincinnati Red Stockings. Baseball's 1st openly professional team went 84-0 before...
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How to Be a New York Soccer Fan In Los Angeles -- 2018 LAFC Edition
Los Angeles Football Club, the Major League Soccer expansion team, does not host the New York Red Bulls this season. They do host New York City FC, this Sunday.Before You Go. Unlike the Seattle and San...
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Gardner Triple Leads Comeback vs. Sox
From May 27 to June 14, 1953, the Yankees won 18 straight games. Oddly, tpgiven the 8-team structure of each League at the time, it did not include any games against the Boston Red Sox. That was the...
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Cincinnati's Greatest Athletes
The Big Red Machine, 1976 -- note the National League Centennial patch.Back row: George Foster, Cesar Geronimo and Ken Griffey Sr..Middle row: Pete Rose, Dave Concepcion, Joe Morgan and Tony...
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Bill Torrey, 1934-2018
The greatest figure in the history of a major league sports franchise is the executive who built their 1st World Championship team. This is not logically deniable.For the 9 teams in the "big four"...
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Comeback Not Enough as Sox End Yank Streak
It had to end sometime. Even the 1998 Yankees couldn't keep winning forever.And if you had told me before this game that the Boston Red Sox would have a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the 7th inning, and...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Kansas City -- 2018 Edition
This coming weekend, the Yankees head to Kansas City to play the Royals.Going to Kansas City.Kansas City, here I come.They got some crazy little women thereand I'm a-gonna get me one.Jerry Lieber and...
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Arsène Wenger's All-Time Team
As Elton John might have written, if he were a fan of The Arsenal instead of Watford:Goodbye, Professeurthough I never knew you at all.You had the grace to hold yourselfwhile all your critics...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Atlanta -- 2018 Edition
 This coming Sunday night, the New York Red Bulls travel to the unofficial capital of the South, to play Atlanta United.Before You Go. Being well south of New York, Atlanta is usually warmer than we...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Dallas -- 2018 Edition
"I'm in hell!"– Morgan Freeman"Worse: You're in Texas!"– Chris Rock-- Nurse BettyThis coming Monday, the Yankees visit the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to face the Texas Rangers, in what Texas native...
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Ray Wilson, 1934-2018
Ray Wilson, showing the 1930-70 versionof the World Cup, the Jules Rimet Trophy,to the fans at Everton's Goodison Park, 1966As we approach another soccer World Cup, another of the heroes of England's...
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Arizona's 10 Greatest Teams
This weekend, the Mets are hosting the Phoenix-based Arizona Diamondbacks.Arizona's 10 Greatest TeamsHonorable Mention to the Wildcats of the University of Arizona. Their football team has won...
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Arizona's 10 Greatest Athletes
This weekend, the Mets are hosting the Phoenix-based Arizona Diamondbacks.Arizona's 10 Greatest AthletesNote that the football team was officially called the Phoenix Cardinals from 1988 to 1992, and...
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Yanks Take 2 of 3 From Oakland
The Yankees started a 3-game home series with the Oakland Athletics on Friday, and the start was not good. Sonny Gray got knocked around by his former team, only lasting 5 innings. Relievers David Hale...
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Washout In Washington
I've seen an entire week of Yankee games wiped out by snow. It was the start of the 1982 season. But I've never seen an entire Yankee series wiped out by rain.The Yankees were supposed to begin a...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Milwaukee -- 2018 Edition
The Yankees went to Milwaukee every season from 1970 to 1997, when the Brewers got kicked over from the American League to the National League. Now, they only go there when the quirks of the...
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Yankees Crown Royals, Remain In 1st Place
Tired from all that waiting through rain delays in Washington, the Yankees flew out to Kansas City for their next series. It surprised nobody that they lost the opener to the Royals at Kauffman...
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How to Be a New York Soccer Fan In Houston -- 2018 Edtion
This past Sunday night, the New York Red Bulls visited Atlanta United, and got the job done, winning 3-1.This season, they do not travel to Texas to play the Houston Dynamo. So I have to do a Trip...
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Billy Cannon, 1937-2018
One of the greatest stories in the history of college football has come to an end.William Abb Cannon was born on August 2, 1937, in, in a retroactive irony, the State of Mississippi, in its town of...
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Yankees Have Sickening Series in Texas
On Monday, the Yankees started a 3-game series away to the Texas Rangers. Masahiro Tanaka started, and was not at his best, allowing 4 runs in 5 innings.But neither did that big fat cheating ex-Yankee...
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