Status Note

The Colorado Rockies were in just their third season of existence in 1995. In a season that was traumatic for Major League Baseball as a whole—one that started late, due to the lingering effects of the 1994 strike that canceled the season midstream—Colorado was a heartening story. The youthful Rockies franchise made the playoffs under […]

After running with the elites of college basketball for five straight years, DePaul stepped back and retooled in 1983. A program that had reached the Final Four in 1979, and been a #1 seed in 1980, 1981 and 1982 (albeit subject to serious March disappointment), failed to make the NCAA Tournament in ’83, as veteran […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers came into 1995 in a postseason drought. They hadn’t won the NL West title since their epic World Series championship run of 1988. Their last serious run at it came in 1991. In 1994, the Dodgers looked ready to take advantage of the division being realigned into its current format (except […]

DePaul basketball was on a high coming into the 1982 season, yet also a program with a lot to prove. They had made the Elite Eight in 1978, the Final Four in 1979, and went to both the 1980 and 1981 NCAA Tournament ranked #1 in the country. But those latter two years ended with […]