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October 31, 1966 Gale Sayers drops one in the bucket to Dick Gordon #Bears #DaBears

Tony Conigliaro signs his first Red Sox contract in 1962 at 17, as brother Billy puts the cap on his head and scout Milt Bolling looks on. Two years later Tony C was starting in Fenway's outfield, and in 1965 he led the AL with 32 homers at 20, the youngest home run champ in league history. What's your favorite Tony C moment? #TonyConigliaro #RedSox

Four major sports. You can only keep three... Which one has to go? • NBA • NFL • MLB • NHL

Gerry Cheevers Boston Bruins Mask Happy Halloween 🎃 #Halloween #NHLBruins

On the evening of December 5, 1975, Lindy Sue Biechler came home to the small first-floor apartment she shared with her husband in Manor Township, just outside Lancaster. She was nineteen, newly married, and had spent the day tying satin ribbons around poinsettias at the flower shop where she worked. After picking up her husband’s paycheck and stopping for groceries—four bags from John Herr’s Village Market—she began putting the food away. Someone entered the apartment. She was stabbed nineteen times with a knife from her own kitchen. When her aunt and uncle arrived around 8:45 p.m. hoping to exchange recipes, they found blood on the front door and in the hallway. Lindy was on the floor between the living and dining rooms, the knife still in her neck. Her husband, Philip, was cleared almost immediately; he had been at work. Investigators interviewed scores of people. Lindy had mentioned feeling watched in the weeks before her death. Semen was recovered from her clothing, but in 1975 the science could do little with it. The case went cold. Evidence was carefully preserved. Decades passed. In the late 2010s, investigators turned to investigative genetic genealogy. DNA from the original crime scene was analyzed by Parabon NanoLabs. The profile pointed toward ancestry in a small town in southern Italy called Gasperina. Genealogist CeCe Moore built family trees from that clue, cross-checked historical records and newspaper archives, and identified a man who had lived one floor above Lindy and Philip in the same four-unit building at Spring Manor Apartments. David Sinopoli had never been a serious suspect. In February 2022, detectives followed him to Philadelphia International Airport. After he discarded a coffee cup in a terminal trash can, they retrieved it. The DNA matched the semen recovered from Lindy’s underwear with a probability described as one in ten trillion. Additional testing on bloodstains from her clothing was consistent. Sinopoli was arrested in July 2022 at his home in Lancaster County. In October 2023 he pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, aggravated assault, and burglary. Under the sentencing structure that applied to 1975 law, he received consecutive terms totaling 25 to 50 years in prison. He has never publicly explained a motive. Lindy Sue Biechler never got the decades her marriage and her life were supposed to hold. The evidence kept in storage for nearly half a century, combined with the ability to map distant relatives from a crime-scene sample, finally named the man who had lived above her. The case remains one of the clearer demonstrations that carefully preserved biological material can still yield answers long after conventional leads have vanished.

THE BRUINS COME BACK FROM 4-2 LATE IN THE 3RD TO WIN IT IN OT. F YOU SUTHERLAND!!!

Jerry Remy died five years ago today, on Oct. 30, 2021. He was 68. The Somerset native played second base for the Red Sox from 1978 to 1984 and was a 1978 All-Star. He then spent 33 years in the NESN booth (1988-2021). Red Sox Hall of Fame, class of 2006. The Fenway TV booth is now the Jerry Remy Booth. Forever the RemDawg. What was your favorite Jerry Remy moment?

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Vikings legend quarterback Fran Tarkenton scrambles around like a complete madman, then launches a bomb to Pres Carpenter for a tip-drill touchdown against the 49ers at The Met. October 30, 1966

All this talk about Pat Murphy got me reminiscing about a time when managers actually made strategic decisions and could impact a game. For example ... On Opening Day 1997, the Red Sox trailed the Angels by a 5-2 score entering the ninth. Angels manager Terry Collins brought in closer Troy Percival, who struck out the first two batters of the inning. Percival then started having control problems and allowed a double, walk and infield single to load the bases. He then walked two more to force in a pair of runs and make the score 5-4. Before the walk that made it 5-4, left-handed pinch-hitter Troy O'Leary was in the on-deck circle, ready to bat in place of the right-handed Rudy Pemberton. (Percival was right-handed; O'Leary and Pemberton were starting the season as a platoon.) But when he saw that Percival was wild, then-Red Sox manager Jimy Williams feared that Collins would remove Percival from the game if he sent O'Leary to the plate. So what did Williams do? He defied the matchups and pulled O'Leary back into the dugout, sending Pemberton back into the on-deck circle. When Percival completed the walk to make it 5-4, Collins left his closer in the game and Pemberton batted. Here's what happened. (Hint, the Red Sox won the game, 6-5, largely because O'Leary was available to hit against a right-hander, Pep Harris, who came on after after Pemberton tied the score.) Today, this would never happen.

Y’all agree?

October 30, 1960 The ultra-rare occurrence where a quarterback scores a receiving touchdown on a pass that he threw. Rams quarterback Dr. Frank Ryan hits Jon Arnett in the flat, who laterals back to Ryan for a 37-yard touchdown. Per NFL scoring rules: "Ryan 37 yard TD pass to Ryan"