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Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi Close Out Madison Square Garden Together, and Why New Jersey Never Forgets Its Own

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Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi Close Out Madison Square Garden Together, and Why New Jersey Never Forgets Its Own SHAREFacebookXPinterestWhatsApp Don Lichterman 28 July 2026 Rock and roll came home to New Jersey this week, and it did it with two of the state’s own standing shoulder to shoulder under one roof. Bruce Springsteen walked onto the Madison Square Garden stage Sunday night unannounced, and the building nearly came off its foundation. Jon Bon Jovi called him “the king of the great state of New Jersey.” That was it. No fanfare beyond those nine words. The crowd didn’t need more. Let me get you caught up, because if you weren’t glued to your phone Sunday night refreshing every fan account and bootleg clip, you missed something that won’t happen again anytime soon. The Complete July 26 Finale Setlist: According to official tracking from Ultimate Classic Rock and Setlist.fm, the band played a powerhouse 19-song set: Beautiful Drug We Weren’t Born to Follow Lost Highway You Give Love a Bad Name Born to Be My Baby Legendary Whole Lot of Leavin’ In These Arms The People’s House (Featuring a live guest performance debut with the country-soul duo The War and Treaty) It’s My Life Livin’ on a Prayer Raise Your Hands This House Is Not for Sale I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead Keep the Faith First Encores: I’ll Be There for You Bad Medicine Second Encores (With Bruce Springsteen): Who Says You Can’t Go Home (Trading lead vocals with The Boss) The Promised Land (Springsteen’s 1978 classic, closing with the two rock icons locking arms for a group bow) Bon Jovi’s nine-show residency at the Garden was already a big deal before Bruce ever showed up. This marked the band’s first extended New York run since Jon underwent serious vocal cord reconstruction surgery back in 2022, a procedure that had fans quietly wondering whether that voice, the one that carried arenas for four decades, would ever sound like itself again. It does. Anyone who caught even a clip from July 26 can tell you that.

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On The Rampage: Everything That Actually Happened as Rams Training Camp Opened

by Don LichtermanLos Angeles RamsOn The Rampage

Two days in, and they’ve already had a month’s worth of stories | Read the Full Report on the Los Angelas Rams Substack!

2026 Los Angeles Rams training camp: Latest intel, updates - ESPN

Two days in, and they’ve already had a month’s worth of stories. It was a closed scrimmage on Sunday with no fans allowed in at all, but they opened the doors for the first time this summer on Monday. That first day was a 2:45 PM start with the first practice at 4:15, and the weather was pretty great. Sunny and in the upper 80s, about as good as it gets for an early-August practice, and even without pads the team is putting out storylines by the hour. Read the Full Report on the Los Angelas Rams Substack!

Garrett’s first practice lived up to the hype. They’ve been building to this moment since the trade with Cleveland made it official, and Sunday provided the defense with its first real look at Myles Garrett playing in a Los Angeles uniform. He spent his first few weeks back on the roster working in empty facilities doing individual drills, so it was a true debut of sorts and the staff wasted no time throwing him into 11 on 11 drills against the ones and twos rather than saving it for a walkthrough later in the week. He was every bit the dominant force they’ve claimed he’d be even without the pads, and defensive coordinator Chris Shula made sure to acknowledge just how thrilled he was with the first real look at the franchise. “We’ve been looking forward to it all week,” Shula told reporters of the highly anticipated debut after the session, and Trent McDuffie was almost as giddy next to him while showing off his teammate. “You can sense the aura as soon as he walks in the building,” McDuffie said. Meanwhile, one writer who attended the session had even more to say about the impact of the first time Myles Garrett was on the field wearing a Rams uniform. “It only took one practice for him to make the case that LA will be the team to beat this season,” he wrote about the early look at the new additions on the defensive line.

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