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It’s 2 years since boxing legend, Marvelous Hagler, died at the age of 66. Sports History Weekly was one of the last publications to interview
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4/2/23
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Some 52 years after Alan Shepard golfed on the moon, NASA is heading back to the surface of our celestial neighbor
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4/8/23
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“No other country does sports like America,” says James Semple, Head Coach of the New York Ironworkers, a professional rugby team.
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4/16/23
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The New York Times wrote in his obituary (6/19/2010): “…he wore size 16½ sneakers and had the spindliest legs ever to protrude from a pair of
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4/23/23
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“Chain your dogs and lock up your fowls!” Those words were printed on notices across Long Island, New York
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4/30/23
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“I was not convinced it was an accident,” says Fred Kray, a retired animal lawyer. “As an attorney, I thought there were too many coincidences."
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5/7/23
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On December 15, 1930, tea mogul Thomas Lipton stepped into New York’s City Hall to collect a trophy. Mayor Jimmy Walker made the honors
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5/14/23
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Situated between 2 elevated subway lines in the north Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park is home to the country’s oldest public golf course.
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5/21/23
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“There’s nothing like the Unlimited,” says Corey Peabody, defending champion of the American Power Boat Association (APBA) Gold Cup
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5/28/23
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Come July 7th this year, thousands of athletes will converge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to compete at the 19th edition of the National Senior Games.
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6/4/23
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Julie Heldman was the No. 2 U.S.-ranked female tennis player in 1968 and 1969. During those years, she also won multiple gold medals at the
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6/11/23
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Like a modern Bruegel painting depicting kids in playful outdoor scenes, stickball was a familiar picture in America’s urban landscape
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6/18/23
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In 1989, when Tracy Edwards made it known that she was entering the 32,000-mile Whitbread Round the World Race with an all-female
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6/25/23
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Baseball’s new rulings that are made to speed up the game have echoes from the 1920s.
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7/1/23
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Michiganites take their canoe racing very seriously, even erecting a canoers monument in the town of Oscoda on Lake Huron.
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7/9/23
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To feel like a royal, buy a Wimbledon debenture. In the world of finance, debentures are medium and long-term bonds that pay
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7/16/23
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As one of the oldest organized sports on the calendar, polo made its way to the American landscape
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7/23/23
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It’s been over 3 decades since the 120-year-old Tour de France cycling race held a multi-stage event for women.
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7/30/23
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Ernest Hemingway once said, “There are only 3 sports- bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering. All the rest are merely games.”
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8/6/23
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It’s 40 years since George Brett of the Kansas City Royals swung his pine tar-coated bat in Yankee Stadium,
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8/13/23
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The first question that comes to mind is, why here? “Canastota has over 100 years of boxing history dating back to the bare-knuckle days,”
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8/20/23
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Sixty-five years ago, in the summer of 1958, yacht racers on both sides of the Atlantic were eagerly preparing for the 18th edition
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8/23/23
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How does a nation emerge from Olympic obscurity in a particular sport to become a gold medal winner
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9/3/23
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There’s a special quality in wood that evokes authenticity and timelessness. We find it in boats, toys, furniture, and for tennis
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9/10/23
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Colombia was ravaged by an endless cycle of narco-violence that captured worldwide headlines.
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9/17/23
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