New York – If you are a Knicks fan and are old enough to remember the previous millenium, today’s game at Madison Square Garden might have allowed you to hear some of the echos of those roaring crowds of some 15-20 years ago when the Chicago Bulls used to come to town to play the New York Knicks. Instead of [...]
Published on: 23rd December, 2010
The Foot Fetish Fiasco, or FootGate, or whatever you want to call this latest Jets mess, forced Rex Ryan to stand in front of his players first thing Wednesday morning and deliver a much different kind of speech than the emotional one that got them so fired up the night before the game in Pittsburgh [...]
Published on: 23rd December, 2010
Knicks Beat A Road-Weary Okie City At GardenNew York — Through these first 29 games of this, his rookie season in the NBA with the New York Knicks, Landry Fields seems to have figured out how to become an integral part of the team’s success. Perhaps, it is the fact he stayed in college (Stanford) for four years, developing a maturity and understanding of [...]
Published on: 18th December, 2010
New York – LeBron James said before tonight’s game against the Knicks that he felt confident it would be a good one for him and his Miami Heat. Amar’e Stoudemire said the same thing before the game. But, only one of these young, multi-millionaires was going to be right. Score one for LeBron. James and [...]
Published on: 16th December, 2010
Upstart Knicks Fall To Celtics After Leading Whole GameNew York – It’s not easy for a team to lose at home on a game-winning near-buzzer shot, against a long-time rival, within their own division, while ending an eight game winning streak of their own and still, feel really, really good about themselves. But, the Knicks accomplished exactly that as they led the Boston Celtics for [...]
Published on: 12th December, 2010
New York – No matter how many games the Knicks have won this season, there continue to be die-hard cynics who keep pointing to the soft, sub-.500 schedule the Knicks have won most of their games against. Today’s afternoon contest at Madison Square Garden against the Carmelo Anthony-led Denver Nuggets was viewed as the beginning of a real test [...]
Published on: 9th December, 2010
New York – As the song goes, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas…..but for Knicks fans, in a city starving for a basketball team it can be proud of, it’s also beginning to feel a lot like something more magical than that. That buzz you’re hearing in and around New York City is [...]
Published on: 7th December, 2010
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Shine a spotlight on Tom Brady and he makes nearly everyone else disappear. Especially opposing defenses. Brady doesn’t lose many big games, certainly not at home and definitely not with so much on the line. He threw for four touchdowns and 326 yards Monday night in New England’s 45-3 romp past the [...]
Published on: 7th December, 2010
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Don Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback who served as a folksy foil for Howard Cosell on ABC’s “Monday Night Football” and helped carve out the niche for colorful ex-athlete broadcasters, has died. “Dandy Don,” as he was known, was 72. Meredith’s wife, Susan, told The Associated Press her husband died Sunday [...]
Published on: 7th December, 2010
NEW YORK — New York Knickerbockers coach Mike D’Antoni knew what he was getting when the Knicks signed NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire to a free-agent contract this past off-season. After all, D’Antoni had coached the young man when both were with the Phoenix Suns, the franchise where the 6’10″ center got his start in the NBA as a precocious, [...]