A tornado passed through the predominantly black community of Hazlehurst , Mississippi early in the morning- killing 29 people- most of the victims were African-American. Hazlehurst, Mississippi -that rings a […]
I read the news today, oh boy– Tuesday January 21, 1969- the first full day of the presidency of Richard Milhous Nixon. What else was going on? In what […]
It was fifty years ago today- at 1:10 AM Eastern time- Christmas Day- Wednesday December 25th, 1968 after orbiting the Moon ten times Apollo 8 ignited its engines to […]
Maybe the writing was on the wall and this shouldn’t have been a shocker but it was summer and I wasn’t really following the hockey rumors in the off-season- […]
The Pittsburgh Penguins won their second Stanley Cup in a row last night and their 5th Cup since the 1990-91 season. Back when I started following hockey in the early […]
I have written a number of times on the USA hockey “Miracle On Ice” in 1980- the greatest sporting event I have ever seen. Not only their beating the […]
On this date in 1970 one of the most famous goals in hockey history. With the Boston Bruins going into the game with a 3 games to 0 lead in […]
