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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

May 15, 1874: Harvard and McGill Invent American Football

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May 15, 1874, 150 years ago: American football is invented. What's that? You thought that happened on November 6, 1869, between Rutge...

Saturday, February 24, 2024

February 24, 1874: The Flying Dutchman

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February 24, 1874, 150 years ago: John Peter Wagner is born outside Pittsburgh in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. The public knew him as Honus Wagn...

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Top 10 Moments When America Could Have Embraced Soccer, But Didn't -- and Why

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The World Cup is underway, and the United States of America is, well, not playing in it. We didn't win the games we needed to win in or...

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Happy 70th Anniversary, NBA!

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November 1, 1946, 70 years ago: The the 1st NBA game is played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. (Until 1949, the National Basketball Asso...

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Uncle Mike: Central New Jersey, where men are men, and the women also root for the Yankees., United States; Born in North Jersey. Raised in Central Jersey. Yankee Fan and Rutgers fan since 1977. Devils fan since they arrived in 1982. Arsenal fan since 2008. Former Nets fan, now an NBA free agent. No NFL team. Single, interested in changing that status. No children, but uncle to two teenage girl athletes and one in the making. Liberal Democrat and damn proud of it. Hopefully, in sports as well as politics, I can live up to the words of the late John Spencer on "The West Wing": "We are going to raise the level of debate in this country, and let that be our legacy."

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