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What Happened To ESPN Zone?
ESPN Zone launched in the late 1990s as Disney’s attempt to turn ESPN into a real-world sports entertainment experience, combining restaurants, giant screens, and interactive games under one roof. For a brief moment, it felt like the future of sports fandom. But just as quickly as it rose in popularity, ESPN Zone began to disappear.…
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The Pine Tar Game: A Super Quick History
In one of the most infamous moments in baseball history, George Brett of the Kansas City Royals and Billy Martin of the New York Yankees were instrumental parts of a controversial call involving the amount of pine tar on a bat. Today we’ll look back at the game, and how the Yankees tired everything they…
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