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On the best days, when the fire pits glowed and the beef drippings hissed, when baseball was in town and the wind blew just right from the north — on those days, you could smell it. That sweet hickory smoke would drift down Brooklyn Avenue, invading the nostrils of fans, beer vendors, even the radio announcers at old Municipal Stadium. Advertisement Especially the radio announcers. From their perches, the voices of baseball would catch a hint of smoked meat, and since it was their job to relay t…
almost 6 years ago
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In Antetokounmpo’s first two years in the NBA, he went from a
Dave-&-Buster’s-loving rookie nicknamed “Bambi” to the future of the NBA.
almost 6 years ago
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Robert Turbin could not believe it. He had carried the ball 10 times in the first half of the first preseason game of his rookie year, and now here he was, sitting at his locker at halftime, with a giant bowl of bright citrus in front of his face. “I got really excited,” Turbin said. “I’m like, ‘I love orange slices. This is awesome. You guys have orange slices in the league, too???’” Like most of us, Turbin’s association with orange slices stretched back to his earliest memories of sports. Ther…
almost 6 years ago
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One time, was interviewed on NFL Network about Andy Reid. Smith explained, in a bit of an understatement, that Reid was a “big cheeseburger guy.” “So he’s always treating us to cheeseburgers,” Smith said, before being asked the natural follow-up: What does a player have to do in order to get treated to a cheeseburger? Advertisement Smith didn’t miss a beat: “Just be on the team.” In the world of professional football — hell, in the world of sports — there is no bigger cheeseburger enthusiast th…
almost 6 years ago
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Brett Veach sold Andy Reid on Patrick Mahomes — now all John Dorsey had to do
was strike a deal for a once-in-a-generation QB.
almost 6 years ago
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Buffalonians have always been innovative, and they have always known how to have
a good time.
almost 5 years ago
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Yes, The Athletic has already written three oral histories on Zack Greinke, but his Royals teammates say that’s not enough.
about 4 years ago
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Stripped of every artificial incentive to play pro football, the little-knowns
and has-beens of the WFL had the times of their lives.
about 4 years ago
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“I think that’s what he loved about his job the most — the group of people he was able to bring together and all the stories.”
over 3 years ago
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Brad Childress was driving with Andy Reid at the Senior Bowl years ago when something caught Reid’s eye: a red neon light. Childress was confused. He had never heard of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, and he definitely didn’t understand the significance of the red light. Reid filled him in. If the red light is on, it means Krispy Kreme is making fresh donuts. It also means a free donut with the purchase of a hot dozen. Reid and Childress pulled over; the dozen (plus the freebie) didn’t survive the drive…
over 2 years ago
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Once upon a time, there was a screenplay for a hockey movie that was so absurd, so over the top, that even the studio executives who wanted to make it wondered if it was too unrealistic. Almost every page of the script featured profanity. There were wild brawls on the ice, fights with fans in the stands and a trio of bespectacled brothers who raced toy cars at home and pummeled opponents at night. It was so outrageous that one day Ned Dowd, a minor-league hockey player, received a call from his…
over 2 years ago
