After decades without college football in the classic edition, the new Yankee Stadium across the street could have come back to the sport slowly, dipping its toes in to test the water — a Notre Dame-Army game here or there, maybe, and we’ll see how it goes. But the Big Apple doesn’t do anything...
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Yankee Stadium goes for the gusto: Yet another bowl game?
Notre Dame, Army to play first football game at new Yankee Stadium in 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — Notre Dame and Army will play the first football game at the new Yankee Stadium next year, rekindling a tradition that took off after Knute Rockne’s “Win one for the Gipper” speech more than 80 years ago. The teams will meet in 2010, across the street from where they played...
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Cowboys’ new digs are Cotton Bowl’s Xanadu, too
The New York Times took a ride around the Dallas Cowboys’ opulent new digs with proud papa Jerry Jones this week, and focused specifically on the gargantuan palace’s impact on the pro scene. (The Jets and Giants are teaming to build an even more expensive stadium set to open next year, though of course...
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Headlinin’: Irish on board for Yankee Stadium, creation of new vortex of insufferability
• ND in NYC? Following up on the initial speculation, it looks like the revival of the ancient Army-Notre Dame series in Yankee Stadium is a go:
So Army and Notre Dame have agreed to play next year at the new Yankee Stadium, according to several Army sources.
Army will also play one game against an...
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Random evidence of a cluttered mind . . .
Baseball owns the national sports spotlight with All-Star Break festivities going on in St. Louis, where Mark McGwire will not so much throw out the first pitch as be aggressively ignored, his very existence denied vehemently by the host Cardinals. Festivities are to begin Sunday with the Futures Game, unless it is moved to...
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