Celebration via Office Supplies: The History of the Ticker-Tape Parade
Yankees Ticker Tape Parade, from Yahoo! Sports Being in New York, I can’t ignore the fact that many of my students are out today. It’s not swine flu. More like Yankee Whooping Cough. Today the...
View ArticleThis Day in History 2/22 –“The Miracle on Ice”; the US beats the USSR in the...
I love the Winter Olympics, much more than the summer variety. The sports are more dangerous, the speed more deft-defying. Where else is the use of cowbells so encouraged? So it is fitting that...
View ArticleA Brief History of Soccer—and American apathy towards it
Italy's 1982 World Cup victory. Not that I noticed at the time. Every four years, thousands of Americans put on the strangest collective theater in history. They pack local bars, mainly Irish pubs, at...
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