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NFL Draft: How have No. 1 QBs fared?

NFLMarch 5, 2024 Dave Crowley

How often are quarterbacks taken with the first overall pick in the NFL Draft? The likely choice of USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the first selection of the 2024 NFL Draft this April will make…

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Tour of Ten: The Baseball Movies Edition

MLBMarch 4, 2024 Dave Crowley

Spring Training has arrived, with Major League Baseball teams having reported to their respective facilities in Florida and Arizona. However, if exhibition baseball isn’t quite enough to get you revved up for the season ahead…

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Miracle on Ice: Do you believe in miracles?

NostalgiaMarch 3, 2024 Peter Smith

In name, the Olympics are an amateur sporting event, meant to celebrate the best amateur athletes in the world across a wide variety of sports. Of course, politics infiltrates everything, from the way the locations…

Christopher Sladic as Ultimate Warrior

Ultimate Warrior vs. Hogan: Match for the ages

WWEFebruary 27, 2024 Peter Smith

In a previous life I worked the night shift at a few hotels. This offered me the opportunity to meet several World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) personalities (back then known as the World Wrestling Federation). One…

Wayne Gretzky Rookie Card - Front View

Huge value in case of 1979/80 NHL cards

CollectFebruary 27, 2024 Dave Crowley

Give me a time machine and I’m probably not going back and wagering on future Super Bowl winners or buying Apple and Amazon stock. No, I’m probably going to set the dial to late 1979…

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How do they select the NCAA Tournament field?

CBBFebruary 25, 2024 Dave Crowley

There are 68 teams in the NCAA Tournament, but how do those 68 teams get selected to be part of the field for March Madness? Here is an explainer for the biggest event on the…

Old Time Hockey Skate

Silent Skates: The WHA and Atlanta revisited

NHLFebruary 24, 2024 Peter Smith

After the wave of expansion in the early 1970s things cooled down on that front in the NHL for a while. However, in 1979 the NHL merged with the World Hockey Association, adding four teams…

Old Time Hockey Skate

Silent Skates: Stories of the forgotten NHL

NHLFebruary 24, 2024 Peter Smith

In the modern era there have been several unsuccessful NHL franchises and expansion attempts, with some of those teams still having die-hard fanbases that dream of the glory days returning. In this first of two…

Olympic Rings at Eiffel Tower

Where are the Olympics in 2024 and beyond?

EventsFebruary 23, 2024 Dave Crowley

Starting in 1994 the Olympic Games have been staged every two years, alternating between the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. The most recent games – a Winter Olympics – were held in Beijing, China…

Gordie Howe Hockey Card

Larmer, Ludzik, Reichel, Ciger, and Mr. Hockey?

CollectFebruary 22, 2024 Dave Crowley

What do Steve Larmer, Steve Ludzik, Robert Reichel, Zdeno Ciger, and Gordie Howe have in common? Obviously all five of them played in the National Hockey League at some point, albeit across several eras of…