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March 7, 1988 "In the leadup to this year's trade deadline, the Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues have made a major deal! Details of the trade coming soon." "Trade rumours have been surrounding rookie winger Brett Hull for the past few weeks. Do you think he'll be involved?" "Well I'm not quite...

With the UEFA finals coming up in a few days I thought it would be fun to put this out there - your challenge is to build an all-encompassing game called 'football', uniting soccer with rugby with gridiron with whatever else. Is it possible to combine the soccer format with the rugby format, or...

To preface when I refer to Rugby, I am talking about Rugby Union, and not Rugby League, mainly because outside of British Columbia, Canada played its own form of Rugby which differed from the two. Either way, a type of Rugby Football was played in Canada since at least the 1860s, and was the...

LOS ARCOS ARENA TO OPEN IN 2003 Today, Phoenix Coyotes owner Richard Burke announced that a $140 million state-of-the-art NHL arena will be built in Scottsdale and will open just in time for the 2003-04 NHL season. - The Arizona Republic; July 1st, 1999

Up until the 1980s Boxing was the most popular sport in America. The only rival it really had was Baseball which was just as important. However, in the 80s many sports started to surpass them. The biggest ones being Basketball and Football. Would Boxing just be replaced by the UFC?

--this is ABC News, with continuing coverage of the war. I'm Tom Jarriel, from New York. It's 7:58 p.m. on the East Coast, 4:58 on the West Coast. There is plenty of news related to the war which we will return to shortly, but we did want to note that the sports world here in the U.S. has...

Hi AHers, I know sports alternate histories don't tend to gain a lot of attention on this site, and particularly a relatively niche sport like MMA (at least relative to association football, American football, basketball etc.) but its a passionate interest of mine and I thought it would be fun...

This timeline will deal with a world in which the British Football Associations do not break away from FIFA during the first World Cups, beginning with the first one held in Scotland in 1930. This timeline will have many other vital differences that will become blurred over the years, creating a...

Inspired from the thread WI: Pop Culture in a world without 9/11 So let's say POD is COVID just never exists. Everything is just normal from late 2019 to present ATL. What changes to sports and pop-culture would happen? I can list a few: E3 2020 goes ahead as with all concerts and music...

The date is December 1st, 2017. Motorsport pundits and journalists are gathered in a ballroom at the Wynn Las Vegas for a press conference by Brian France. The main consensus is that the NASCAR CEO will announce the new premier sponsor for the Cup Series. Speculation has run rampant with rumors...

Well the 2023 MLB Playoffs have started in the United States so I feel it’s time for a good baseball scenario. What If the Cardinals moved to Houston in 1954? As baseball laid dormant in the winter of January 1953 Fred Saigh owner of the St. Louis Cardinals was mulling over his future. He’d...

Football was one of the attractions of the second edition of the modern Olympic Games, disputed in 1900 at Paris. Football was one amidst a slew of new events of dubious Olympic status at these games, and didn't even distribute any medals. At the opening match, an English amateur team, Upton...

November 16th, 1985. Tokyo, JP. Nintendo Headquarters: Shigeru: “Electricity is the phenomena associated with the presence of motion and matter that has a property of an electric change.” Yamauchi: “What are you talking about this time, Miyamoto?” Miyamoto: “Electricity in entertainment is...

In 1960, the Pacific Coast Conference, the forerunner to today’s PAC 12 was dissolved due to pay for play scandals and numerous other issues, meaning the major college sports teams in California, Oregon and Washington didn’t have a conference. One idea was to create what would be called the...

Grand Prix "Introduction" The year is 1954, and Grand Prix Racing is entering its 8th official season since the end of the Second World War. The Golden Age of Grand Prix Racing had died long ago in 1939 when the War began, and the names of Tazio Nuvolari, Rudolf Caracciola, Bernd Rosemeyer...

New York Times, May 29, 1983 Red Wings, Islanders to swap picks, cash Big News came out of the National Hockey League today, as the Detroit Red Wings and New York Islanders announced they would be trading picks. The parameters of the deal are simple: the Red Wings will send their first round...

So recently I learned that there had been a Canadian version of baseball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_in_Canada#History Would it be possible to preserve this early form of baseball? The likely assumption is "no America is huge and right there", but Canadian Football has survived to...

It was a controversy. It was pandemonium. A foul ball down the left field by Luis Castillo was hit down the left field line. and almost caught by Moises Alou, was batted by a Cubs fan, a fan whose name was lost to history, and the play was ruled a foul ball. The Cubs seem to be floundering...

Hello fellow Football (Soccer) fans of AH.Com. I bring to you a collaborative timeline of the Premier League, more specifically, the English professional game, starting with the formation of the Premier League in 1992. We will form what the world of the top four leagues of England will look...

Obviously inspired by current events and put in post-1900 since most of the scenarios would probably have a PODs in the 20th century, this is a what is says in the title: come up with PODs that would make your country better at men's Football/Soccer. Without further ado, allow me to start the...