DAN LOVALLO

BROADCASTER, PODCASTER

Baseball looked to speed up game 51 years ago

It seems a baseball season doesn’t go by without talk of speeding up the pace of play.  Who knew that 51 years ago the topic was a focal point at the annual winter baseball meetings being held in 1967 in Mexico City?  The stewards of the game were concerned...

No special treatment for pols at Army-Navy game

This is the way it was supposed to be, right?  No special treatment for politicians, no admission to luxury boxes, sit among the common folk. And so it was that on Nov. 26, 1960 at the Army-Navy game, there seated in the general admission seats were Vice...

NFL’s Rozelle widely criticized 55 years ago

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle was widely criticized 55 years ago for not cancelling the league’s games the Sunday after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.  The AFL wasted little time in announcing its games would not be played on Nov. 24, but Rozelle...

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  In case you’re wondering, as I write this from my home in Torrington, Connecticut this morning, it is 11 degrees – not counting windchill factor – or 13 degrees colder than Anchorage, Alaska. Good luck to all my friends...