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Today in Boston Celtics history, the Celtics played their first tilt in its iconic history in 1946 as it started play in the (then) brand-new Basketball Association of America, which became the National Basketball Association in 1949.

The game itself was also something of a history maker. Along with being the first NFL game played in Berlin since the Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs played an exhibition match in 1990, it also took place on the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

UNC basketball and Kansas play Nov. 7 in North Carolina for the first time since 1981. That was Michael Jordan's first game with the Tar Heels.

Happy birthday, RPGs! 50 years old and still one of the most popular types of games on the planet. From dnd to Baldur’s Gate 3, the impact of the D&D -inspired genre on video games cannot be overstated.

Overall, though, it’s a rare occurrence: In the last 10 years, only five NFL games have been 0-0 at the end of the second quarter. Scoreless halftime games are about a 1-in-500 occurrence in the NFL, or around 0.2 percent of games.