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I go back a little farther: the CBS NFL theme of the late 60s/early 70s. Also, the NHL on NBC theme of the early 70s.

No . . . when a game is rained out, you get a rain check that you can exchange for a ticket to any other games for which tickets are available that season .Rain checks have never been a guarantee of seeing the makeup of the game you were rained out of. And of course you can have one admission. I...

Yeah, but they stayed longer and bought more concessions, which are hugely marked up.

Huh? If you already have a night game scheduled on Day X, there is no need to schedule a day game at 1 p.m. or so with a separate admission. Just move the start time of the night game to 4 or 4:30 p.m. and play the second game 30 minutes after the end of the first. (Thus the definition of a...

Seems that every made-up game as part of a "doubleheader" is now a day-night separate-admission deal.

Baseball: Price no ticket above $20 so kids can attend games. The idea of paying Broadway show prices for each of 81 games is obscene. Restore scheduled Sunday doubleheaders and eliminate the day-night separate admissions ripoff. Start the season in mid-April and end the World Series before...

Nader's proposal is a good start, but doesn't go far enough: Since athletic department revenue seldom goes toward the university's general fund, and indeed the institution usually has to subsidize its athletic department, it gains very little, monetarily. Institutions would spin off their...

(Old-old) Yankee Stadium (pre-1976 reopening) Old Yankee Stadium (1976 reopening) Shea Stadium Tiger Stadium Three Rivers Stadium Riverfront Stadium Kauffman Stadium Old Busch Stadium (pre-2008 new park) Wrigley Field Old Comiskey Park New Comiskey/US Cellular Field Milwaukee County...

Perfect games are mixtures of good pitching and a lot of luck. While you have to have the stuff to keep batters from hitting the ball well, there's no way to chalk this phenomenon up to anything but a pure fluke. Having said that, pitching is up and hitting is down throughout baseball. So...

Guess it's Milwaukee County Stadium for me; was built two years before I was born. Went to a few games there during the Robin Yount era. Reminded me a lot of the old (pre-refurbished) Yankee Stadium: steel pillars, steep upper deck, overhang over the lower deck. Haven't a chance to get to the...

Bronx Embalmers here. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, now living in Des Moines, Iowa.

Me too!

Montreal Canadiens' vaunted power play of 1955-56. The following season, the NHL changed the rule so a minor penalty ended when a team scored a power-play goal. The Wayne Maki/Ted Green stick-swinging incident during an exhibition game in 1969. The fallout caused the NHL to seriously clamp...

Pittsburgh bombed in the ABA on two separate occasions, the first when they had the incomparable Connie Hawkins. Maybe memories have faded, but I don't think the NBA would make a go of it in Pittsburgh, especially when they have a perennial Top 20 Big East power.

Like McGwire's use of steroids, here's more shocking baseball stuff we never knew: Denny McLain grooved Mickey Mantle's 500th HR ... Gaylord Perry doctored baseballs . . . Pete Rose bet on games . . .

As much as I don't like him, Brett Favre, for being an inspiration for the geezers everywhere.

Why not realign into two leagues based on salary structure? Begin by specifying two payroll ranges. Then each franchise would choose in which it would like to compete. The playoff champions of leach league would play in the World Series. At the end of each season, teams would be given the...

Well, I'm not a math whiz, but here goes: Realign so each league has three divisions of 5 teams. (Move Milwaukee back to the AL, move Kansas City to the West Division.) Each team plays 22 games against its own division: 4x22 = 88 games. Each team plays 6 games against the other 10 teams: 6 x 10...

I know I created a team, but can't seem to get to it. Can y'all help?

Count me in!

It all depends on whether Gaborik is truly recovered. But who is going to score when he's off the ice

Rangers will start swiftly out of the gate, have mideason scoring problems as usual and limp into the playoffs, where they'll bow out in four or five games. All for fifty bucks for the cheapest ticket.

I like the 2-week format. I'm in a league that's one week for each round. You run into a slump for some guys or an occasional bad outing for a pitcher and you die. Best of luck to the other Final Three.

My team had Mary Mary Jose Contrary. Time to get serious!

Then y'all must agree with Garrison Keillor: "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."