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Today in Sports History: August 3rd
8/03/1959 - Baseball plays second All-Star Game From 1959 to 1962, Major League Baseball did something very odd: they played two All-Star games. On this day in 1959, the American League defeated the N...
Today in Sports History: August 2nd
(Olajuwon in a Raptors uniform. Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant, Getty Images) 8/02/1979 - Munson perishes in crash Yankees star Thurman Munson dies in a private plane crash at the age of 32. Munson's a...
Today in Sports History: July 31st
(Garnett, Pierce, and Allen. Photo courtesy of Walter Looss Jr.) 7/31/1990 - Ryan gets to 300 With a win over the Milwaukee Brewers, Nolan Ryan becomes the first and only pitcher to reach 300 wins in...
5 Questions Surrounding The Kabuki Dance That Was "The Decision"
Like a lot of sports fans, I spent my Thursday evening phasing in and out of LeBron James' 60-minute ESPN spectacular, in which he revealed he'd join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat rost...
Today in Sports History: June 28th
(Fidrych pads the mound. Photo by William T. Anderson, The Detroit News) 6/28/1976 - Fidrych comes on the scene Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrych was a character if baseball ever had one. He padded the pit...
Today in Sports History: June 25th
(Shaq was traded the day Jackson died. Photos courtesy of Getty Images) 6/25/1999 - Johnson jay ends '99 Finals The Spurs entered Game 5 of the 1999 NBA Finals with a 3-1 series lead, an insurmountab...
Today in Sports History: June 24th
6/24/1998 - Mavs get Nash and Nowitzki The Dallas Mavericks pull off one of the greatest draft day trades of all time, acquiring not one but two franchise players in one fell swoop. In what was essent...
Today in Sports History: June 21st
6/21/1879 - White subs in for Start In 2004, the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) determined that William Edward White may have been the first black man to play in a professional baseball...
Today in Sports History: June 20th
6/20/1993 - Paxon three gives Bulls three-peat The Chicago Bulls become the first team in 27 years to win three consecutive championships, and they do it on one of the most famous shots in NBA history...
NBA, Lost and the search for answers
(UPDATE: shortly after I wrote this article, the NBA changed its playoff schedule. The Magic and Celtics will play on ABC this Sunday; this contrasts what the schedule was prior to this change, when...
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