March 26, 1964: Martin Luther King & Malcolm X Meet
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March 26, 1964, 60 years ago: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, the opposing poles of the Civil Rights Movement, meet face-to-face for the first time. It will turn out to be the only time. They both had the goal of making life better for black Americans. They disagreed as to the means. Martin preferred nonviolent resistance. Malcolm wanted a tougher stance. He called Martin "a 20th Century Uncle Tom." Martin said of Malcolm's ideas, "Fiery, demagogic oratory in the Black ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in violence, as he has done, can reap nothing but ..read more
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March 13, 1964: The Murder of Kitty Genovese
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March 13, 1964, 60 years ago: A murder is committed, symbolizing the rising crime wave in New York City, and American cities in general. What's worse wasn't the number of people who cared, but the number of people who seemed not to care. Catherine Susan Genovese was born on July 7, 1935 in Brooklyn, and grew up in the neighborhood of Prospect Heights. As far as has been determined, she was not related to New York's Genovese organized crime family. In 1954, her mother witnessed a murder, and her parents left, moving to New Canaan, Connecticut. But Catherine, known as Kitty, decided to st ..read more
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MLB Ballpark Corporate Names, Ranked
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This is a ranking of the teams in Major League Baseball based not on how much I like the team, but on how much I like the product that holds their ballpark's naming rights. I'm not doing this for the other sports, simply because there are too many of them with companies that I know too little about. 30. Colorado Rockies, Coors Field: I don't like Coors beer. Worse still, the Coors family have long been heavy donors to right-wing extremist causes. To Hell with them and their barley-flavored water. Note: The first time I tried to type that, it came out "Coors Light is barely-flavored water ..read more
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No Domes for Baseball
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Baseball is supposed to be played outdoors. No domes. If I were the Commissioner of Baseball, I would order every team to play with the roof open. If that's not physically possible, given their current stadium, I would give them one year to get a deal done to build a stadium without a permanent roof, and then three years to get it done. Any team playing a game with a closed roof after April 1, 2028 would forfeit that game to the visiting team. This would also apply to artificial turf, although that should be considerably easier to replace. Don't tell me you can't afford it. Every MLB team ..read more
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February 25, 1964: Muhammad Ali Becomes Heavyweight Champion of the World
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February 25, 1964, 60 years ago: The Miami Beach Convention Center hosts a fight for the Heavyweight Championship of the World. Neither fighter is popular. The Champion is Charles "Sonny" Liston, who had won the title in 1962, by knocking out the popular Floyd Patterson in the 1st round, then doing it again in the rematch. Liston was big, moody, nasty-looking, had served 2 years in prison for armed robbery, and wasn't exactly friendly with the media, or with anyone else. The challenger is Cassius Clay. On the surface, the 22-year-old Clay seemed like the perfect antidote. He had won a ..read more
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February 23, 2014: Jason Collins Becomes the 1st Out U.S. Athlete
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February 23, 2014, 10 years ago: The Brooklyn Nets beat the Los Angeles Lakers, 108-102 at the Staples Center (now the Crypto.com Arena) in Los Angeles. Jason Collins played 10 minutes and 37 seconds for the Nets, and he didn't score any points. He did, however, have an offensive rebound, a defensive rebound, and a steal. This appearance made Collins, who, in the off-season, publicly revealed that he is gay -- also known as "coming out of the closet," or "outing yourself," and was not, at the time, signed to any team -- the first openly gay athlete in major league sports in No ..read more
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February 21, 1974: Tim Horton Is Killed In a Car Crash
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February 21, 1974, 50 years ago: Hockey star Tim Horton is killed in a car crash. It was the only thing that could stop him from playing hockey. Miles Gilbert Horton was born on January 12, 1930 in Cochrane, in northern Ontario. He grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, and was signed as a defenseman by the Toronto Maple Leafs. That team was in a dynasty, having won the Stanley Cup in 1942, 1945, 1947, 1948 and 1949. They would win another in 1951. But Tim Horton would not be a part of it: He would play 1 regular-season game on March 26, 1950, and a Playoff game on April 9, but would remain in t ..read more
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February 16, 2004: The A-Rod Trade
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February 16, 2004, 20 years ago: The biggest trade in baseball history -- in terms of money and hype, if not in terms of number of players -- is announced. The Texas Rangers got Alfonso Soriano, age 28, one of the most exciting talents in baseball, who had mainly been a 2nd baseman, but could also play shortstop and 3rd base; and a player to be named later, who, on April 23, turned out to be Joaquin Arias, 19, a minor-league infielder who ended up playing 474 games in the major leagues, including winning 2 World Series rings as a backup with the 2012 and 2014 San Francisco Giants. The ..read more
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The Republican Party Is Now Donald Trump's Personal Slush Fund
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Since 2016, I've been saying, "Donald Trump did not take over the Republican Party, he fit right in." Well, he makes a liar out of everyone else, starting with himself. I suppose my time was bound to come. Effective February 24, after the South Carolina Primary, Mitt Romney's niece, Ronna Romney McDaniel, is out as Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee. Lara Trump, Eric Trump's wife, is in. This is typical of Dumb Donald's Mob-boss mentality. But it's also loaded with the potential for electoral disaster for the Republicans. Not just because she's totally unqualified for the job ..read more
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February 14, 1934: The Ace Bailey Benefit Game
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A colorized photo of Ace Bailey, included in a composite photo of a Maple Leafs' Centennial Team, 2016 February 14, 1934, 90 years ago: One of the greatest moments in National Hockey League history occurs. But it was brought on by perhaps its ugliest game. On December 12, 1933, the Boston Bruins were hosting the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Boston Garden. The Bruins still had most of the players who had led them to the 1929 Stanley Cup, including 2 of the greatest defensemen the game has ever known, Eddie Shore and Aubrey "Dit" Clapper. The Leafs, winners of the Cup in 1932, had another ..read more
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