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Ceremonial first pitches at baseball games usually don't have a lot of significance, but that was not the case on October 30, 2001. Before Game #3 of the World Series, President George W. Bush was ushered into Yankee Stadium amid enormous security to do the honors at the first major sports event in New York City since the 9/11 terror attacks. Here is the story of what went on behind the scenes.
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Added: 22nd October 2017
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
 
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While the other three major North American team sports' All-Star Games have become farces, baseball's mid-summer classic still retains its luster for being competitive and hard-fought, and unchanged in its format since it was first played in 1933. Since day one it's always been the American League versus the National League. At the 2002 ASG in Milwaukee, however, the game suffered a huge public-relations blow because it was stopped after 11 innings deadlocked at 7-7, when both teams ran out of pitchers. This development was the result of a change in ASG philosophy that strongly encouraged managers to use everyone on the bench. The days of Willie Mays playing in the ASG from start to finish (which he did 11 times) were gone. Instead, managers liberally moved players in and out of the lineup so that it resembled something akin to a softball game at a church picnic where, to avoid hurt feelings, everyone participates. Commissioner Bud Selig made the decision to halt the game in consultation with the umpiring crew and both managers. The crowd of more than 41,000 spectators was outraged that the game ended without a winner. Furthermore, no MVP was selected because of the inconclusive outcome--a strange decision did not make a lot of sense. The following year, as a way to make the contest more meaningful, it was decided that whichever league won the ASG would get home field advantage for the World Series that autumn. That policy, which had its supporters and detractors, was kept until 2016.
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Added: 12th July 2017
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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This Price is Right contestant's inability to understand a simple rule in the Ten Chances pricing game may have driven host Bob Barker into retirement. Somehow she won--with a lot of coaching.
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Added: 16th June 2017
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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From his late night NBC show in the mid-2000s, Conan O'Brien shows up at a vintage baseball league on Long Island, New York to get in on some 1864-style action--and to woo a shy, pretty farm girl spectator. (Conan has said in several interviews that this is his favorite 'remote' comedy bit.)
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Added: 19th October 2016
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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The only time two of the greatest and classiest tennis champions of all time--Roger Federer and Pete Sampras--ever met in an ATP match was in the Round of 16 at Wimbledon in 2001. Federer was an unknown 19-year-old Swiss player. He was given virtually zero chance to beat the 30-year-old Sampras who had won Wimbledon seven times and was largely considered to be invincible on grass. Nevertheless Federer evenly battled Sampras through five sets and emerged victorious. This clip shows match point and the aftermath. Check out Federer's goofy hairstyle!
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Added: 30th January 2016
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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In 2004 Simpson gave one of the most awkward performances in TV history when she was caught lip-syncing to one of her songs. She then tried dancing a jig before running off the stage.
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Added: 6th December 2015
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Posted By: WestVirginiaRebel |
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On February 17, 1864, the small navy of the Confederate States of America could claim a military first: A submarine sank an enemy ship. The crew of the H.L. Hunley, under the command of George Dixon, achieved the feat of sinking the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, only to mysteriously sink later that same day with the loss of its entire crew of eight sailors. The H.L. Hunley had a short, checkered history. Twice it sank during training operations, killing a total of 13 men--including its namesake inventor who was aboard for the second catastrophe. Both times the hull was raised, repaired and put back into service. The hull of the Hunley was first located in 1995 and was raised in 2000. The remains of the brave sailors were finally laid to rest on April 17, 2004. Thousands of curious but respectful onlookers, dressed in both blue and gray, turned out for the ceremony at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, SC. Scientists and military historians are still trying to discover exactly why the submarine sank.
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Added: 9th November 2015
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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This was intended to view two weeks after the 9-11 attacks. This is the first time the edited scene is being shown to the public.
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Added: 31st August 2015
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Posted By: Freckles |
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