Published on: 12th March, 2010
NEW YORK — The Big East’s day of quarterfinal upsets ended with an unlikely long shot.
West Virginia became the only one of the conference’s top four seeds to advance to the semifinals when Da’Sean Butler took an inbounds pass and banked in a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Mountaineers (No. 6 ESPN/USA Today, [...]
Published on: 11th March, 2010
New York — It was fun to put on WFAN Sports Talk Radio in New York City last week and not be forced to listen to Mike Francesa during afternoon drive time. It hasn’t been an easy listen since his partner, Chris Russo took off for greener pastures (green as in the color of money) at [...]
Published on: 11th March, 2010
NEW YORK — Deonta Vaughn made two free throws with 5.9 seconds left then made the game-saving strip just before the buzzer and Cincinnati beat Louisville 69-66 on Wednesday night in the second round of the Big East tournament.
The 11th-seeded Bearcats (18-14), who had never won a game in the tournament until Tuesday’s opening-round win [...]
Published on: 10th March, 2010
New York – Cinderella almost continued its run towards college basketball relevance today, but not quite. St. Johns University, once among the titans of the sport but having fallen on hard times in recent years, had defeated Connecticut handily yesterday to move into the second round of the Big East Championships. They took a favored [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
New York – Tonight, Norm Roberts can rest a little easier. As many games as St. Johns has lost under his tutelage against teams the Red Storm never used to lose to, today’s convincing blowout of the University of Connecticut in the opening round of the Big East Championship tournament at Madison Square Garden was [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
New York — Syracuse forward Wes Johnson, a newcomer who helped lead Syracuse to the Big East regular-season title and an overall record of 28-3, has been named Big East Player of the Year by a vote of the league’s head coaches.
His coach, Jim Boeheim was named the Coach of the Year of the Conference.
Lance [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
New York – Even though the NBA season for the New York Knickerbockers may have devolved into evaluation mode, with no chance of making the post-season playoffs for the ninth consecutive year, it doesn’t mean their remaining games can’t be entertaining.
Tonight’s game against the playoff-bound Atlanta Hawks provided the sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden [...]
Published on: 7th March, 2010
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Published on: 3rd March, 2010
New York — It was a tale of two teams and of two players at the Garden, tonight. One, the Memphis Grizzlies, struggling for years as an NBA also-ran, is a team on the come. The other, the New York Knicks, is still in the morass of mediocrity the franchise has been stuck in for [...]
Published on: 28th February, 2010
NEW YORK – Joba Chamberlain was only ten years old in 1995 when the New York Yankees began their incredible run of American League playoff appearances — a streak that has now reached its 13th consecutive year with Wednesday’s wild-card clincher in Tampa. Their playoff entry in ‘95, after an absence of 14 years, was [...]