NBA Playoffs: Halfway Home In The Conference Finals

Alabama football had been away from the national spotlight for a long time coming into 2008, at least compared to their high expectations. The Crimson Tide hadn’t even reached a major bowl game since 1999, and their last national title was in 1992. Alabama hired Nick Saban a year earlier to fix that. After retooling […]

The Los Angeles Lakers came into 1977 looking to get the ship turned around. A franchise that had won the title in 1972 and made the Finals nine times since relocating to Los Angeles in 1961, had fallen short of the playoffs two straight years following the retirement of the great Jerry West. Changes were […]

The 1977 Denver Nuggets were a big part of a historic pivot point in NBA history. There were one of four American Basketball Association (ABA) franchises that were merged into the NBA, and effectively ushering in the league’s modern era. With questions lingering as to how well the ABA newcomers could do, the Nuggets vindicated […]

The Cleveland Indians and Seattle Mariners had histories that were both very different and yet quite the same. The Indians were one of baseball’s oldest franchise. The Mariners, founded in the late 1970s, were a comparative newbie. But when it came to be strangers to October, they had a lot in common. Prior to 1995, […]