Historical clue formulations

• With gossip and beer over Friday's ___ game — 2026-01-21
• Subject of a New York Times column until 2015 — 2018-09-26
• What you might come across at a river? — 2018-03-05
• Game for dummies? — 2017-03-29
• It goes side-to-side — 2001-07-09
• Kind of loan — 1999-08-13
• Bit of dental work — 1996-02-19
• George Washington, e.g. — 1994-03-30