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How to Be a Devils Fan In Calgary -- 2019 Edition
This coming Tuesday, the Devils travel to play the Calgary Flames. With their "C of Red" fans, the Flames are never an easy team to beat at the Saddledome.Before You Go. Aside from Edmonton's Rogers...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Edmonton -- 2019 Edition
The New Jersey Devils continue their Western roadtrip this coming Wednesday, against the Edmonton Oilers. Although they've reached the Stanley Cup Finals just once since 1990, the Oilers will forever...
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The Yankees Are In Serious Trouble
Right now, it looks like the Yankees will be opening the season with CC Sabathia and Luis Severino on the Disabled List.Excuse me: The name has officially been changed, starting this season, to "The...
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Dan Jenkins, 1929-2019
As the man himself -- "His Ownself," as he called himself -- would have started a sentence, and as he once used for the title for a book he wrote, I'll Tell You One Thing...I'll tell you one thing:...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Vancouver -- 2019 Edition
This coming Friday night, the New Jersey Devils will continue a Western roadtrip, playing the Vancouver Canucks, at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.Before You Go. At 49 degrees, 16 minutes...
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How to See the Knicks Or Nets Play the Los Angeles Clippers -- 2019 Edition
I screwed up: The New York Knicks made their only visit to the Staples Center to play the Los Angeles Clippers on March 3. So this trip guide will only apply to the Brooklyn Nets, who will do so this...
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How to Be a Devils Fan in Colorado -- 2019 Edition
Next Sunday afternoon, which is St. Patrick's Day, the New Jersey Devils visit Denver to play the Colorado Avalanche.Before You Go. The Denver Post is predicting high 40s for Sunday afternoon, and...
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NY Tri-State Area Sports: What the Hell's Goin' ON Out Here?
As the great football coach (and native of New York, specifically Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn), Vince Lombardi, would say, "What the hell's goin'on out here?"With Eli Manning's great career winding down,...
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Harry Howell, 1932-2019
There were 2 prominent Harry Howells in New York sports. The 1st (1876-1956) pitched for the New York Highlanders (they became the Yankees in 1913) in 1903, and was the winning pitcher in both their...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Sacramento -- 2019 Edition
The Brooklyn Nets will play away to the Sacramento Kings this coming Tuesday night. As with the Los Angeles Clippers, I misread my schedule, and blew it with the New York Knicks' visit, which was March...
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Johnny "Lam" Jones, 1958-2019
After Bob Hayes won the Gold Medal in the 100 meters at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and then helped the Dallas Cowboys reach back-to-back NFL Championship Games as a receiver, NFL team owners got the...
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How to Be a New York Soccer Fan In San Jose -- 2019 Edition
Every Major League Soccer season, there is always 1 team in the Western Conference that neither the New York Red Bulls nor New York City FC visits, only playing them at home, and so I have to do their...
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Trout's Contract Begs the Question: WAR, What Is It Good For?
Mike Trout is not coming to the Yankees. Nor is the South Jersey native going to his hometown Philadelphia Phillies. The center fielder, often called the best player in baseball, has signed a contract...
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How to Go to a Yankee Game -- 2019 Edition
Hard to believe, but the 2019 Major League Baseball season is upon us. Opening Day for the Yankees is Thursday, March 28. First pitch, home to the Baltimore Orioles, is scheduled for 1:05 PM.I always...
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How to Go to a Mets Game -- 2019 Edition
Every year, I start the Major League Baseball teams' Trip Guides with the Yankees. Then I go to The Other Team: The New York Mets. They open the season on the road, on Thursday, March 29, against the...
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Carl Meinhold, 1926-2019
Even if you're from Baltimore or its suburbs, you might never have hear of Carl Meinhold. Which is too bad, because he was the last living link to your only NBA title.Carl Marvin Meinhold was born on...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Columbus -- 2019 Edition
Next Saturday afternoon, the New York Red Bulls will go to Ohio to play the Columbus Crew. This was, for a time, not supposed to happen. The Crew's new ownership group wanted to move the team to...
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March 22-31, 1979: March Magic, March Madness
March 22, 1979, 40 years ago: The upstart World Hockey Association reaches an agreement with the more established National Hockey League on a merger between the two.Four teams from the WHA will be...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Washington -- 2019 Edition
The Mets open the 2018 regular season with a visit to the Washington Nationals, 3 games starting on Thursday afternoon, skipping Friday (season openers do that, in case of a rainout), and then on...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Chicago -- 2019 Edition
Yesterday, the New York Red Bulls hosted Orlando City, and lost 1-0, a pathetic effort. Next Saturday, they travel to the Chicago suburbs, to play the Chicago Fire.Doesn't make a whole lot of sense,...
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