by Dan Lovallo | Dec 17, 2018 | BLOG
When I was growing up, he was my broadcast hero. But it was on this date, Dec. 17, 1964, that the New York Yankees made the firing of their “voice,” Mel Allen, official. Allen, who broadcast Yankees games since 1939 – a stint interrupted...
by Dan Lovallo | Dec 3, 2018 | BLOG
As the New England Patriots bask in the glow of another big victory, this one over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, 24-10, I am reminded of the prediction I made last season, after they lost the Super Bowl to the Philadelphia Eagles. I predicted on a morning...
by Dan Lovallo | Nov 27, 2018 | BLOG
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...
by Dan Lovallo | Nov 26, 2018 | BLOG
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...
by Dan Lovallo | Nov 24, 2018 | BLOG
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...