Box Score 11/11: Retro sports games, sad Browns, serious Kobe

Welcome to the Yardbarker Box Score, what we're reading when we're counting down to the weekend. It's Veterans' Day - a heartfelt 'thank you' to those who have served and those who continue to serve.

Happy birthday to Chuck Hernandez, Billy Gunn, Willie Parker, Austin Collie, and Victor Cruz. On this day in 1946, the New York Knickerbockers played their first game at Madison Square Garden, a loss to the Chicago Stags, 78-68.

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• Heating up the hot stove: Big names on the MLB trade market: "At the surface level, this seems like an asinine idea for the Pirates: trade away your barely 30-year-old franchise centerpiece after one down season, one in which he still hit 24 home runs and drove in 79 runs."
• The 4 best sports games on the NES Classic (and 6 they left out) : On Tecmo Bowl: "Make sure you pick up a second controller for your friends who have never played the game before, then just run the ball with Bo Jackson."
• Major injuries that changed the trajectory of the NFL season: "Dak Prescott has only had a few even middling games, which has kept the Romo comeback talk mostly at bay, though you have to imagine it's bound to return if at any point the rookie struggles this season.

About that Browns-Ravens game last night...