Monthly Archives: March 2019
Pat Caddell legacy: Visionary or Traitor?
Pat Caddell attended the private Catholic high school, Bishop Kenny, in Jacksonville. He was known as a statistical whiz who helped get Jimmy Carter elected President and later was a contributor to Fox News. An article in the local newspaper, read, “Long before there was Karl Rove and James Carville, there was Patrick Caddell.” He […]
The English invasion of Florida and Tallahassee’s Mission San Luis de Apalachee
On several occasions in the past we’ve discussed the 1704 English invasion of Florida on this site, most recently in 2017. So much of the way American history is taught is based around English settlements and the Thirteen Colonies branching outward. But before the thirteen English (then British after the Act of Union in 1707) […]
David Beckham and Inter Miami’s potential Fort Lauderdale move
Earlier this month with the debate raging about Miami vs Fort Lauderdale in terms of where David Beckham’s MLS entry Inter Miami CF should play I penned a piece on the competition between the locales for The Yanks are Coming. But events move quickly and that piece, less than two weeks old already seems dated, […]
Why Saving Lockhart Is A Chance Worth Taking – A Case For FXE Futbol
Editors note: This is a special column from Derek Reese, the President of Flight 19, the soccer supporters group of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers who currently manage Himmarshee Football Club. In the interest of full disclosure I sit on the F19 board. Earlier this week I penned this story for The Yanks are Coming on […]
Fort Lauderdale’s Lockhart decision: Beckham’s MLS plans vs plucky upstart FXE Futbol
Editors Note: We’re honored at The Florida Squeeze to have this contribution from one of the deans of soccer journalism in the United States. Jeff Rusnak has covered men’s and women’s soccer at all levels from the 1980’s onward and was for years my window to the world’s game through a south Florida lens when […]
Eastern Airlines – 30 years since a devastating strike killed the airline
In this article: Politics, union busting, Florida tourism, Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, Frank Lorenzo and more. It’s been thirty years this week since a devastating strike essentially killed Miami-based Eastern Airlines, which just a few years earlier had been the largest airline in the western world. The downfall of Eastern was not only a […]
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