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No Babe In The Woods Routine (opens the original)
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One of the Good Ones (opens the original)
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Officially, it was a New Orleans Saints home game, staged at the old Giants Stadium in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, complete with the artificial turf end zones repainted in black and gold.Before kickoff between the Giants and Saints Sept. 19, 2005, I was walking through the main field-level concourse on my way back to the press box when I spotted a maw of Saints cheerleaders – then called the “Saintsations” – surrounding former President George H.W. Bush.<div class="subscription-widg
It’s Good To Be The King In... (Insert City Name Here) (opens the original)
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A Barry Hallowed Record* (opens the original)
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Hollywood was most unwelcoming to Barry Bonds.Thrown into the home run chase beat at the 11th hour after Daily News colleague T.J. Quinn dropped out — he defected to ESPN — I landed in Los Angeles when Bonds was stuck on career homer No. 754 and his San Francisco Giants were in town to play the division arch rival Dodgers in a three-game series at storied Chavez Ravine.(More) Stories with Street CRed is a reader-supported publication.
Draft Day (opens the original)
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David Basabe’s grin lit up the phone screen on a recent video call, and he fielded a few questions in Spanish while he rode in the passenger seat of a car to MB13 baseball academy. The sleek complex — with baseball fields, an indoor batting/training arena, tidy dorm rooms, a full cafeteria and other amenities — is where Basabe hones his baseball skills with over a dozen other prospects on Isla de Margarita, a jewel Venezuelan island territory in the Caribbean, some 200 miles east of Caracas. Bas
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