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The Dominance & Surprise Fall Of The 1990 Oakland Athletics

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The 1990 Oakland Athletics were the gold standard of baseball. They had won consecutive American League pennants and the 1989 World Series. They spent all of 1990 looking ready to claim a special place in history before a shocking ending dented the legacy. Oakland is remembered in this era for “The Bash Brothers”, the power-hitting […]

1990 Sports: NFL Upsets & College Football Chaos

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Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey.
This article offers a snapshot of 1990 sports, a year that saw a big upsets in the key NFL playoff games and complete college football chaos break out.