Oakland-Alameda Coliseum The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is one of the oldest sports venues in the United States. The Coliseum opened in 1966 and it is currently the home of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball and the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. The A's have played there since 1968 when [...]
The National Football league has been in business since 1920 and it has made tremendous strides. The NFL was founded in the small town of Canton, Ohio and it is now an international spectacle. Roughly 70,000 people flock to 16 NFL stadiums on a weekly basis to see massive men clash on the gridiron. The [...]
Periodically the sport of boxing will provide us with an unstoppable pugilist. The 1910's and 1920's belonged to a pair of former heavyweight champions in Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey. The 1930's and 1940's would be dominated by former heavyweight champion Joe Louis who would make way for Rocky Marciano to hold it down into [...]
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Justin Blackmon When current Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Justin Blackmon began his collegiate career at Oklahoma State University, he had some pretty big shoes to fill. In 2008, current Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant tore it up at Oklahoma State with 87 receptions to go along with 1,480 receiving yards and 19 [...]
Between 1995 and 2005 there were 28 players that were selected in the first round of the NBA Draft that came straight out of high school. But beginning in 2006, the NBA passed a rule that in order to be eligible for the NBA Draft, a player had to be out of high school for [...]
The Toronto Blue Jays have not made the postseason since 1993 when they won their last World Series Championship and thus they were the feel good story of the first half of the 2014 Major League Baseball season. On June 6, the Blue Jays donned a record of 38-24 and they were in first place [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals came into existence in 1882 as the St. Louis Brown Stockings and their team history is one of the best and deepest in all of professional sports. The Cardinals 11 World Series Championships are the second most in Major League Baseball history. The Cardinals have a litany of Baseball Hall of [...]
Troy Tulowitzki In 2007, the Colorado Rockies came out of nowhere to win the National League Pennant for the first and only time in franchise history. The Rockies would make the postseason again in 2009, but since then things have gotten worse as they have only had one winning season. The Rockies began [...]
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