LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas and Missouri kept their storied rivalry alive just a little bit longer. Tyshawn Taylor and Thomas Robinson made it a memorable ending for Kansas. Robinson kept the game going with a three-point play in the closing seconds of regulation, and Taylor’s two free throws with 8.3 seconds left in overtime gave [...]
Published on: 23rd February, 2012
New York — The Atlanta Hawks are a pretty good team when they have all their pieces in place. Tonight, at Madison Square Garden, the Hawks were not only without all of their pieces, they were without their two best players, Joe Johnson and Al Horford. The Knicks took full advantage and blew the Hawks [...]
Published on: 21st February, 2012
New York – Deron Williams, the Nets All-Star guard who had been outplayed by Jeremy Lin in the teams’ last meeting on February 4th, a Knick win, came loaded for bear tonight. Revenge was on his mind and he got what he came for. His 38 points and unstoppable nature were too much for the [...]
Published on: 19th February, 2012
New York – In front of a national television audience and a celebrity-filled, frenzied home crowd at Madison Square Garden this afternoon, the New York Knickerbockers passed a series of major tests in their quest to become one of the league’s elite teams. They defeated the defending champion Dallas Mavericks, 104-97 but in the midst [...]
Published on: 18th February, 2012
NEW YORK — Trevor Ariza scored 25 points and grabbed eight rebounds in 44 minutes of action on Wednesday night as the Hornets upset the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, 89-85, and in the process ended the Knicks seven-game winning streak. Jeremy Lin was more shaky with the ball tonight than he had been in [...]
Published on: 16th February, 2012
New York — Tonight was not one of those nights heroics or extraordinary statistics were necessary from the Knicks new on-court and media sensation, Jeremy Lin. In playing a Sacramento Kings club that came into New York with a 10-18 record, the Knicks were not exactly expecting Kobe and the Lakers, redux. Not by a [...]
Published on: 11th February, 2012
New York – There once was a famous Broadway play, oddly enough, about another sports team in this town. It was called Damn Yankees and it was about an older man who dreamed of regaining his youth and becoming a star baseball player. The old guy made a deal with the devil to give him [...]
Published on: 7th February, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — As the Giants exited their hotel into the bright morning sun, with their new Super Bowl champion hats shielding their bleary eyes, it seemed fitting that the night before, on the most important play of their season, they were hoping not to score. It was that kind of counterintuitive year for them, a [...]
Published on: 7th February, 2012
New York — In Jeremy Lin, Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni may just have found his New York version of Steve Nash and in the process, may have saved his job and the Knicks season from falling into the abyss. For the second game in a row, Lin, the free agent point guard out of that [...]
Published on: 5th February, 2012
New York — The Knicks have been searching for the formula that could turn around what has, thus far been a dismal season with rumors flying about coach Mike D’Antoni’s job status. Tonight, D’Antoni may have found the saving grace that could keep him on the Knicks bench and his name is Jeremy Lin. Who? [...]