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It's been a crazy year in football and the world in general. Thankfully there have been some things in Ohio to cheer about!

After 105 years, the Cleveland baseball team is now the Cleveland Baseball Team. Will they go back to being the Lake Shores, the Bluebirds, the Broncos (um--no!), the Naps, or will it be something else? Time will tell. In the meantime, Cleveland baseball fans...

On November 24, Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper walked up to the Northwest Airlines ticket counter at the Portland International airport and purchased a one-way ticket to Seattle. Hours later he would leap into aviation history as the only...

It's your move! Look great in this chess and Cincinnati-inspired design from Old School Shirts!

It's your move! Look great in this chess and Ohio-inspired design from Old School Shirts!

It's your move! Look great in this chess and Ohio-inspired design from Old School Shirts!

One of the most popular recurring sketches on the Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show (and later Big Chuck and Lil' John), Ben Crazy was a parody of the 1960s-era medical drama??Ben Casey.??

It was an ill-fated marketing campaign for the city in the early '80s. While the notion was eventually accurate was, in the early '80s, it was a source of some ridicule both in and outside of Greater Cleveland.

Did you ever rock at Peabody's?

The Montreal Concordes were a continuation of the original Montreal Alouettes. The name change was necessitated when the Alouettes' owner folded the team in 1982 but asserted his rights to the name and logo. The team reverted back to the Alouettes name in 1986.

At least it looked that way in the late '70s, as the North American Soccer League (NASL) grew in popularity in North America. Kids all over the continent were playing in youth leagues, while the NASL grew to 24 teams in 1978, a number...

The Dallas Tornado soccer team was a charter member of the United Soccer Association (USA) in 1967. In 1968, the team, along with the rest of the USA, merged with the National Soccer League (NSL) to form the North American Soccer League (NASL). One...

Laika was the first living creature to orbit the Earth. A stray dog from the streets of Moscow, she made her historic flight on November 3, 1957 aboard Sputnik 2. Unfortunately she did not survive the mission. In 2008, a monument was erected to...

Apollo 11 was the first mission to place a man on the moon; two in fact. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped of the ladder of the Lunar Module and onto the surface of the moon. He was followed by fellow astronaut Buzz...

Spacefarers from the U.S. were dubbed Astronauts. Those from the former Soviet Union (now Russia), became known as Cosmonauts. The root "naut" derives from "nautes", Greek for "sailor."??

With the heated Space Race cooling off in the mid-70s, a new era of cooperation between the US and the USSR was ushered in. This was first demonstrated with the Apollo-Soyuz mission of 1975 in which spacecraft from each nation linked up in Earth...

The Space Race was an unofficial competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, the goal of which was to establish dominance in outer space. It peaked in 1969 when the U.S. successfully placed to astronauts on the lunar surface. With the dissolution...

Yuri Gagarin was a??Soviet Air Forces??pilot and??cosmonaut??who became the first human to journey into??outer space. Aboard his space capsule Vostok 1, he achieved this Space Race milestone on April 12, 1961.????

Apollo 13 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970. It was supposed to be the third mission to land men on the moon. However, two days into the mission, an oxygen module in the command module failed, cancelling the moon landing...

They'll have to charge you for double, but with the discount it'll even out! The semi-fictitious Braidwood Inn in Wichita (now called the Sun Motel) is actually off Interstate 55 in Braidwood, IL, southwest of Chicago.

The Baltimore Comets played for two seasons in the old North American Soccer League (NASL) starting in 1974. Their home field was Memorial Stadium. In 1976, they moved west to become the San Diego Jaws. In 1977, they became the Las Vegas Quicksilvers before...

The Baltimore Bohemians played in the United Soccer League (USL) from 2012 to 2016. Their home pitch was Cedar Lane in suburban Bel Air, Maryland.

  "Everything old is new again!" It's Hattie from Cincinnati! Created by acclaimed puppeteer Larry Smith, Hattie made appearances on WCET's Magic Forest, as well as with Channel 9's Cool Ghoul, as well as his own programs on Channels 9, 5, and 19.

Formerly the Denver Bears, this Pacific Coast League team, founded in 1955, was renamed the Zephyrs in 1984. The club moved to New Orleans when the Colorado Rockies began play in Major League Baseball in 1993.

After the departure of the Red Birds for Omaha in 1955, Columbus welcomed the former Ottawa A's to town. Renamed the Jets, they played in the city through 1970 in the International League. In 1971 they moved to West Virginia and became the Charleston...

The Columbus Thunderbolts of the Arena Football League (AFL) were established in 1991 and played their home games in the Expo Center. Their coach was Earl Bruce. In 1992, they moved to Cleveland, folding after the 1994 season. The AFL returned to Columbus in...

Established in Buffalo in 1999, the Destroyers were an Arena League Football team that moved to Columbus in 2004. In 2008, the team ceased operations but was revived in the winter of 2019. However, six months later, the entire league went out of business.

After the NHL's California Golden Seals sold their Columbus farm team of the same nickname??to local interests, it was renamed the Owls and played on until 1977 when it moved to Grand Rapids. The teams home ice in Columbus was the Fairgrounds Coliseum.

Big Bear was a supermarket chain that operated in San Diego until 1994, when it was sold to Albertson's. The chain was not related to Big Bear in Columbus.

The Columbus Checkers joined the International Hockey League (IHL) in 1966, and played four seasons before halting operations. In 1971, the teams territorial rights were acquired by the NHL's California Golden Seals. Renamed the Columbus Golden Seals, they became a farm team of the...