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November 6, 1984: President Ronald Reagan is re-elected. The Republican incumbent won 49 out of 50 States, tying the record of Richard Nixon in 1972; for a record 525 Electoral Votes, breaking the...
View ArticleHow Much More Time Should Arsenal Give Emery?
Maybe the problem wasn't Wenger, but the parkas.This past Sunday, Arsenal lost 3-1 to Manchester City. It dropped Arsenal to 6th place in the Premier League. It was the 21st consecutive time that...
View ArticleHow to Be a Devils Fan In St. Louis -- 2019 Edition
Next Tuesday night, the New Jersey Devils play away to the St. Louis Blues. Named for W.C. Handy's song "Saint Louis Blues," the Blues are 1 of 3 teams in major league sports to be named after a...
View ArticleFrank Robinson, 1935-2019
Frank Robinson was a Red, an Oriole, a Dodger, an Angel, an Indian, a Giant, a Brewer, an Expo and a National.He was a giant, all right.Frank Robinson Jr. -- no middle name -- was born on August 31,...
View ArticleThe Era of LeBron Is Over
I have a tendency to reject things that are shoved into the public's face by the media, no matter how good they might be.It's why I still don't listen to any music by any former member of NSYNC or One...
View ArticleHow to Be a Devils Fan In Chicago -- 2019 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...
View ArticleHow to Be a Devils Fan In Minnesota -- 2019 Edition
This coming Friday, the New Jersey Devils will travel to play the Minnesota Wild. The Devils and the Wild -- not "Wildcats,""Wild Dogs,""Wild Things" or "Wild (anything else)," just "Wild" -- are...
View ArticleLiving Hall-of-Famers for All Metro Areas as of February 11, 2019
As previously stated, I'm deviating from the usual, and listing all living Hall-of-Famers, in all the "big four" sports, for the major metropolitan markets.With the recent elections to Cooperstown and...
View ArticleGordon Banks, 1937-2019
Gordon Banks is one of a kind. He became the 1st England goalkeeper to win the World Cup. He held that distinction for the rest of his life, and, at least until July 2022, he will still hold it in...
View ArticleWhat If the Yankees Hadn't Traded for A-Rod?
February 16, 2004, 15 years ago: The biggest trade in baseball history -- in terms of money and hype, if not in terms of number of players -- is announced.The Texas Rangers got Alfonso Soriano, age 28,...
View ArticleHow to Be a Devils Fan at Madison Square Garden -- 2019 Edition
The New Jersey Devils made the Playoffs last season. But, like the 2012 NHL Eastern Conference Championship, beating the arch-rival New York Rangers in the Conference Finals, and the berth in the...
View ArticleAthletes Who Have Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Can all of America "Say Hey"? Yes we can, yes we can.Today is the 3rd Monday in February, Presidents Day. When Martin Luther King's birthday was approved as a national holiday, the 3rd Monday in...
View ArticleDon Newcombe, 1926-2019
My grandmother grew up in Queens, and she was a Brooklyn Dodger fan. Sometime in the 1960s after the Dodgers and the New York Giants had moved to California, and had been replaced by the New York Mets,...
View ArticleHow to Go to a New York Red Bulls Game -- 2019 Edition
The New York Red Bulls begin their 2019 season tonight, as they visit Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, to play Club Atlético Pantoja in the 1st Leg of a Round of 16 match of the...
View ArticleKeeping a 43-Year-Old Promise
October 28, 1975:Â I underwent surgery at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, then located at 1919 Madison Avenue, at 123rd Street, in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem, to correct a problem in my legs that made...
View ArticleFebruary 25, 1979: Denis Potvin, Public Enemy Number 1
February 25, 1979, 40 years ago: Denis Potvin becomes Public Enemy Number 1 to New York Rangers fans.First, some background on the rivalry between the Rangers and their New York Tri-State Area rivals,...
View ArticleThe Patriots Will Go On, With Or Without Robert Kraft
"Bob, we've gotta stop meeting like this.""Roger, it may soon be out of either of our hands."For the moment, let us presume that there is nothing worse about the criminal case against New England...
View ArticleHow to Go to a Minnesota State Football Game
"Coach here!"(How Hayden always answered his phone.)February 28, 1989, 30 years ago:Coach premieres on ABC. In this situation comedy, Hayden Fox, head football coach at Minnesota State University,...
View Article2019 Must Be the Year of Referendum On Cashman
Brian Cashman has helped the Yankees win only 1 World Series in the last 19 years, only 1 Pennant in the last 16 years, and not even 1 Division title in the last 7 years. In that time, there have been...
View ArticleTed Lindsay, 1925-2019
Unlike the actor, from Nutley, New Jersey, who starred on Baretta, Ted Lindsay was born with the name Robert Blake. Also unlike that Robert Blake, Lindsay never killed anybody.But he was tough, as a...
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