Friday Flashbacks Archives

Friday Flashbacks: Amare Suspended For Leaving Bench, The Natural is a Hit

Posted May 13, 2011, 4:45 pm by (10 Comments)

Here are your Friday Flashbacks for the week of May 13 to May 19. In a controversial decision that enforced the letter of the rule, Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw are suspended for Game 5 of the series with the Spurs after leaving the bench area following a Robert Horry cheap shot on Nash (2007) . . . [...]

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Friday Flashbacks: Mike Price Gets Stripped Of His Alabama Job, and the Knicks Somehow Win the Patrick Ewing Lottery

Posted May 6, 2011, 5:40 pm by (16 Comments)

Here are your Friday Flashbacks for the week of May 6 to May 12: Mike Price fired before he ever coaches a game at Alabama, for having a little too much fun (2003) . . .  The Houston Rockets even the series with the Celtics after a costly Bird technical–and yes, 3o years ago, they were playing [...]

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Friday Flashbacks: Monica Seles Stabbed, Rosie Ruiz and the Boston Marathon

Posted April 29, 2011, 3:55 pm by (27 Comments)

19 year old Monica Seles, #1 ranked player in the world, is stabbed by a crazed fan at a tournament in Germany (1993) . . . NFL rookies are making too much (1981) . . . President Bush appoints Arnold Schwarzenegger as the chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (1990) . . . Hideki [...]

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Friday Flashbacks: Pat Tillman, American Hero, and the Historic Tuesday Morning 1983 Draft

Posted April 22, 2011, 11:28 am by (91 Comments)

Seven years ago today, Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan, after having given up a NFL career in order to serve in the military. He was the first NFL player to die in military service since Bob Kalsu was killed in Vietnam. Many many wonderful tributes to Tillman’s sacrifice, then there was this one, which was your winner for trying to tie a tragedy [...]

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Friday Flashbacks: Fame Is For Winners

Posted April 15, 2011, 2:00 pm by (34 Comments)

For this Friday Flashbacks, in this week when we’ve had some discussion of STATS!, I’ll start with the Reverend Mother of all RINGGGGGGS! articles. In the 1957 Sports Illustrated Special Baseball Issue, James Murray unloaded a doozy entitled “Fame is for Winners.” He attacked Ty Cobb because he never won a World Series, then set [...]

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Friday Flashbacks: Hammerin’ Hank Becomes the Home Run King

Posted April 8, 2011, 5:10 pm by (28 Comments)

This week in 1974, the story was all about Hank Aaron and his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run record. The Braves owner said he was going to hold Aaron out of the first three road games, which caused Bowie Kuhn to order manager Eddie Matthews to play him. Bowie Kuhn ordered that Hank Aaron [...]

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Friday Flashbacks: The Masters Goes Commercial-less in the Face of Protests

Posted April 1, 2011, 6:15 pm by (64 Comments)

Eight years ago, the names Martha Burk and Hootie Johnson were all over the news, as Burk tried to pressure the club into allowing a female member, and Hootie responded by putting the tournament on commercial free without corporate sponsorship. CBS planned to stick by their partner at the Masters and not discuss the protests, drawing some criticism.

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