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November 23, 2024
The Army-Notre Dame Clash Has Some Incredible Sports History Behind ItArmy and Notre Dame will meet for the 52nd time in a rivalry, with both vying for the national title. This matchup has not been so important since the 1940s when the schools were simultaneous powerhouses. Sure, in 1958, Number 3 Army did meet Numb...
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November 19, 2024
Honoring The Passing Of Two Great College Football CoachesTwo former college coaches who never received their due, passed away last week. Although they didn’t bring championship banners to their esteemed schools they were nevertheless positive influences on and off the football field. John Robinson...
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November 4, 2024
An illustrated edition with brilliant election and squirrel memesAmerican Thinker is set up to run one political cartoon a day. Most of the year that works out just fine. However, today, the system is inadequate for the volume of material we have. First, there are several wonderful election cartoons from our usual...
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October 27, 2024
As the Dodgers play the Series, thinking back to their tolerant glory daysThe Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees are squaring off once again in the Fall Classic, the first time the league and one-time city rivals face off in the World Series since the strike season of 1981. It’s their 12th meeting. Interesting...
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October 18, 2024
Army and Navy are having an amazing football seasonArmy (6-0) and (5-0) are each undefeated this deep into the college football season for the first time since the last year of World War II 1945. That’s 80 seasons of football! It is the first time since 1960 that the military institutions ar...
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October 8, 2024
Pete Rose, an extraordinary player and a damaged human beingLast week, Pete Rose. He was 83. The man once called “Charlie Hustle,” a nickname acquired for his non-stop energy and enthusiasm, was the piston that ignited “The Big Red Machine” in the 1970s, is no more. Rose was also perha...
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October 5, 2024
Charles O. Finley, the dynamo behind the Oakland A’s glory yearsLast Thursday, the Oakland Athletics played their final game in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum as the franchise, upset with politics, finances, and logistics, decided to move. This will be the third time the franchise has decided to pull up stak...
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September 23, 2024
In 1962, being the worst in baseball was no bad thingSo, the Chicago White Sox looks like not just the worst team to date in the 21st century but in baseball history, too. As the seasons end, summer fades, and autumn leaves begin to drop, the White Sox are on their way to recording the most losses in t...
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July 29, 2024
Rick Monday: The Baseball Player Who Saved Our FlagLast week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington DC was met with thousands of protesters at Union Square who are openly pro-Hamas, antisemitic, and anti-American. The crowd, filled with what seemed to be illitera...
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July 21, 2024
The Astrodome Was A Stadium Viewed As The Eighth Wonder Of The WorldThe first All-Star Game played in the state of Texas occurred in 1968 when the Houston Astros helped stage the event at their state-of-the-art indoors facility, The Astrodome. It was the first Midsummer Classic played indoors and on plastic. It was t...
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August 15, 2023
Baseball once started with the children and ended with the adultsI trust in God I love my country And will respect its laws I will play fair And strive to win But win or lose I will always do my best —Little League Pledge As boys growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, baseball was th...
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April 16, 2023
The hidden hypocrisy behind upcoming changes in the PAC 12Big changes are afoot in college sports. The rumored implosion of the Atlantic Coast Conference (“ACC”) league, with many, if not all, of the schools departing for the Big Ten/Big XII of the Southeast Conference (“SEC”), bring...
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March 19, 2023
It’s Time To Sit Back And Enjoy The Magic Of The NCAA TournamentThe ball is tipped And there you are You’re running for your life You’re a shooting star And all the years No one knows Just how hard you worked But now it shows In one shining moment, it’s all on the line ...
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February 19, 2023
We lost two great sports broadcasters in FebruaryFebruary has seen the passing of two great broadcasters: Tim McCarver, 81, a baseball broadcaster, and Billy Packer, 82, a basketball broadcaster. What fans most appreciated about the two was their “down to Earth,” simple explanations abo...
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December 30, 2022
Rutgers’ Scarlet Knights are both bad and brokeThe Rutgers University teams are aptly named the Scarlet Knights because, financially, the athletic department is bleeding red. Even in a dismal year for college bowl games, Rutgers came up both short and broke. When it comes to the Rutger athleti...
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December 22, 2022
Franco's Army has lost its generalFormer Steelers running back Franco Harris passed away hours before the 50th anniversary of the most celebrated play of his career—”The Immaculate Reception”—and one of the most remarkable plays in NFL history. Quarterback Ter...
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September 25, 2022
There’s a lot of excitement about Aaron Judge’s home runsSaturday afternoon, Aaron Judge went homerless, leaving his record at 60 homers, which ties with the greatest and most important player in baseball history, Babe Ruth. Judge still needs two jolts to surpass Roger Maris and take sole leadership of the...
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August 28, 2022
The professionalization of college footballMore than likely college football will never be an “amateur” sport again. The college football season begins this weekend in the wake of a monumental restructuring of the competitive landscape. Two powerhouses from the Pac 12 con...
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August 1, 2022
America's greatest winnerBill Russell was the greatest winner in American sports history — but his rival was close. "Thisclose." The only other claimant would be Yogi Berra, but Berra had to put some years in as a coach to be s...
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July 16, 2022
There's a group of Americans that deserves the Medal of FreedomJust recently, controversial Olympic soccer player and expert wordsmith Megan Rapinoe received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden. To state that this was hypocritical, unjust, and un-American would be understating the event a...
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May 30, 2022
On Memorial Day, remembering the baseball players who served in VietnamMost baseball players didn't serve during the Vietnam War. Some, however, did interrupt their careers to fight in Southeast Asia. For them, duty, responsibility, obligation, and honor were as important as hitting the curve or perfectin...
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March 28, 2022
Cinderella team St. Peter's and its BLM shirts bomb out of March MadnessIn the end, the glass slipper gave Cinderella a nasty blister. St. Peter's University had been the darling of the NCAA college basketball March Madness Tournament until it met the Tarheels of North Carolina Sunday a...
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March 23, 2022
Wheels, women, and watchabilityThe 2021–22 version of "March Madness," AKA NCAA Men's basketball, is swinging into its second week of action with the Sweet Sixteen teams competing to earn a spot in the Final Four and a chance to win the national championship. ...
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January 27, 2022
The woke war on Curt SchillingCurt Schilling was again denied entry into the Hall of Fame. This year, only one player passed the requirements to be enshrined — David Ortiz, who played mainly with the Boston Red Sox after being signed as a free agent from the Minn...
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December 30, 2021
With John Madden's passing, football lost one of its greatsJohn Madden died Tuesday at the age of 85. During the late 1960s and the 1970s, Madden coached a team that has always been either loved or reviled: whether in Oakland, Los Angeles, Oakland (again), or (now) Las Vegas, the Raiders were the ...
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May 10, 2021
Willie Mays: Still 'a-Mays-zing' at 90Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid," turned 90 on May 6. Although this is belated, it is a sincere "happy birthday" to the greatest living baseball player to play on the many greens in our nation's ballparks and stadiums...
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January 4, 2021
The National Antifa Soccer League: The idea gets an ideaAccording to the New York Post, Antifa Portland is launching a soccer league: The newly formed Antifa FC, or football club, recently posted fliers to get at least four teams of seven "comrades" to confront each other for...
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September 17, 2020
Big East Catholic schools sew BLM patches on players' uniformsThe Big East Conference in a "woke" moment has surrendered to sports peer pressure and decided to sew patches with the letters "BLM" on the men's and women's basketball teams for this season. The conference released a l...
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December 7, 2019
Notre Dame and the Curse of the PeacockIn the hunt for the BCS playoffs seedings are the usual suspects with Ohio State, Clemson and two members of the Southeast Conference (neither one named Alabama) vying for one or both of the other spots in the four school playoffs. Pac 12 Ut...
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October 31, 2019
Paying college athletes opens up Pandora's boxThe NCAA has just allowed paying student athletes — not on the football field or basketball courts, but outside the arena. Athletes can earn income from their images posted on commercial enterprises like videogame covers . B...
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July 9, 2019
Baseball Fans Choose WiselyThe annual Major League Baseball All Star Game returns tonight in Cleveland, Ohio. Along with graduations, fireworks, barbecues and vacations, it is an American tradition to celebrate summer watching the game’s best players gathered togeth...