A Stairway to Sports History
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A staircase built down Cooganâs Bluff, the hill overlooking the stadium that provided some great sports moments, may be saved in the planned overhaul of Highbridge Park in northern Manhattan.
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Over the last two decades, it has been the most pressing sports question in this basketball-mad city.
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Leaving Speaker Dennis Hastert's office with its grand view of National Mall and the city's monuments to Washington and Lincoln, a visitor may pass a winding staircase with a sign that holds new meaning: "Careful Step Down."
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By Jordan Robertson< Associated Press
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The steps of Cologne&#039;s famous cathedral are a sight to behold, 31 stone stairs stretching almost the length of a football field at their longest point. On this workday, though, the scene on the steps is even more impressive. It&#039;s not even noon, and every spare inch is filled with boisterous World Cup fans dressed in their nation&#039;s colors. The Germans are standing and singing, the English are waving banners, the Swedes are clapping.
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The venue where Bing Crosby first took to the stage is to be renamed in his honour.
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The Michigan menâs basketball team has a chance to carve out its own little piece of history, beginning tonight in the semifinals of the Preseason NIT in New York.
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Rocky road for boxing statue searching for its spiritual home
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A puzzling site grew more curious with the release of a satellite photograph showing new construction there that resembles the siteâs former main building.
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Baseballâs mass migration to Arizona for spring training is a development that would have been someoneâs spring fantasy a couple of decades ago.
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If you read the recent excerpt of "Namath" in Sports Illustrated and were put off by the apparent focus on the iconic Broadway Joe's personal life, be comforted in the knowledge that Mark Kriegel's 441-page biography includes plenty of football, too. The book is exhaustively researched and includes telling anecdotes from Beaver Falls, Pa., to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to New York.
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They needed room to breathe - some space, if you will. The only thing is, major league ballparks built in 1912 never took into account what the media presence would be 95 years later, so the Colorado Rockies were going to have to make the best of their accommodations within the cozy confines of Fenway Park.
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An exclusive club with 100 members. Sounds a lot like the US Senate. But to Dick Johnson, curator of the Sports Museum, that describes the old six-team NHL. And it is the subject of an FSN documentary, "Hockey's Greatest Era," for which Johnson and the museum provided historic footage, photos, and contacts for former Bruins players.
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Familiar sights dominated the 103-year-old grounds of Harvard Stadium last night. Six former Cannons suited up for the Washington Bayhawks, including all-time Boston assists leader Conor Gill. Bayhawks coach Scott Hiller paced the sideline, as he did with the Cannons from 2002-05.
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Sport: The game brought by immigrant workers in the early 20th century is enjoying an amazing resuscitation, writes Andy Bull.
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The world needs sporting heroes. They provide inspiration, a person whose feats others can seek to emulate. Twenty years ago, in a small village in Morocco with a magnificent view, a small
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One of the most complex reframing projects in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has collided with a 9-foot-3-inch-high doorway. The doorway won.