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MONDAY MATTERS: Big-Time High School Basketball 1970-01-01 00:59:59 My father went to St. Anthony's High School
in Jersey City, N.J., in the late 1950s. He played basketball at a tiny school without a gym where hoops has kept the parochial school alive since the mid-1980s. He likes to say that the Friars' winning tradition began his senior year in 1960.
But playing high school ball then at St. Anthony's is nothing like playing high school ball there now. Under Read more:Basketball
MONDAY MATTERS: Big-Time High School Basketball 1970-01-01 00:59:59 My father went to St. Anthony's High School
in Jersey City, N.J., in the late 1950s. He played basketball at a tiny school without a gym where hoops has kept the parochial school alive since the mid-1980s. He likes to say that the Friars' winning tradition began his senior year in 1960.
But playing high school ball then at St. Anthony's is nothing like playing high school ball there now. Under Read more:Basketball
THURSDAY THOUGHTS: Cookin' Up Some Fun 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This is a light-hearted and fun story about a Food Channel chef who's playing in the NBA celebrity basketball game during All-Star Weekend.
Here's what the chef has said: "Actually about two years ago, I stopped playing becauseI was afraid I was going to break an ankle or something.But the NBA is pulling me back in."
The quote is by Bobby Flay, who among his shows on the Food Channel, hosts
FRIDAY FANATICS: Carl Who? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It's Spring Training time. Each year, about now, as pitchers and catchers report to their respective teams's camps to work out the winter's cobwebs, I think of Terry Cashman's song Baseball Ballet. I start to smell the grass and I can see the infielders whipping the ball around the horn.
As I read the newspaper this morning, I could picture Yankee pitchers Mike Mussina and Carl Pavano throwing Read more:FANATICS
TUESDAY TEASE: Is this true? 2007-03-06 16:24:00 Talk about a victim of the salary cap! No, not the running back involved in a conditional trade by the Chicago Bear and New York Jets, but the Bears themselves.
How do you trade 28-year-old runningback Thomas Jones, who's run for more than 2,500 the past two seasons combined, for the 37th overall pick in the upcoming NFL draft? And how do you give up a second-round pick as well?
The Jets need
MONDAY MATTERS: 20-Game Winners Galore 2007-03-12 14:39:00 There were 104 NCAA Division I men's basketball teams to win 20 or more games this season. That's a record. So why are there nine teams in the NCAA and NIT tournaments with only 18 or 19 wins?
More than a decade ago, it was harder to argue about the number of teams that didn't make the NCAA tourney who had 20 wins. Those teams were usually mid-majors or lower, some of who didn't even make the Read more:Winners
WEDNESDAY WHINE: Leave A-Rod Alone 2007-03-14 14:26:00 Yesterday on WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog show, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees talked candidly about his time in New York - the play he's been happy with, the play he hasn't, batting eighth in the playoff last year, last season's Sports Illustrated article, and his future.
This morning, reports of that interview are everywhere. And WFAN mid morning hosts Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts have Read more:WHINE
, Leave
TUESDAY TEASE: Pete Rose 2007-03-20 14:53:00 Pete Rose's life is a tease. He keeps trying to convince himself that if he comes clean of his betting record while managing the Cincinnati Reds, he will be reinistated and eligible to participate in Major League Baseball. He also keeps trying to convince us (the public) that his election into the National Baseball Halll of Fame is not an issue for him anymore.
The life of Pete Rose is sad. He Read more:Pete Rose
WEEKENDER: What Happened to a Hot Dog and a Beer? 2007-03-31 13:50:00 It used to be that you went to the ballpark and ate a hot dog, peanuts and an ice cream. When you turned 18, you graduated from a soda to a beer. But as you'll read below in this piece from the Travel section of yesterday's USA Today, by Kevin Reichard of ballparkdigest.com and Ron Schoolmeester of USA Today, cracker jacks, peanuts, and hot dogs at the ballpark have given way to a few unique Read more:WEEKENDER
FRIDAY FANATICS: Do Foreign Executives Balk at Sports Jargon? 2007-03-30 19:44:00 If, you're going to do business in America, you need to know, more importantly than English, American sports lingo. Here's an excerpt from a story by Del Jones in today's USA Today Money section. I love it...
"English may be the international language of business, but foreign executives who are fluent in it find themselves at a loss unless they also master conversational horsehide and the Read more:FANATICS
, Foreign
, Sports
THURSDAY THOUGHTS: Now I Can Sleep Nights 2007-03-30 01:36:00 From Wednesday's USA Today: "There were no camera crews following him around this spring. No posses. Not a single personal trainer in sight. Just pure, unadulterated Barry Bonds.
Bonds, playing in his final Cactus League game Tuesday for the San Francisco Giants, ended his spring in style, hitting a double off the center-field wall against the Seattle Mariners. Bonds, leaving in a white SUV and Read more:Sleep
Baby, it's Cold Outside! - Yeah, right! 2007-04-07 15:27:00 I'm ecstatic that baseball season is back, but as I tune into the Yankee broadcasts through GameDay Audio by MLB, already I'm tiring of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman.
That's unusual for me. I enjoy them for the most part, but the opening week of the season has not been their best work. Opening Day Tuesday was choppy and the pre-game show was amateurish. The excitement of the day was lost in Read more:Outside
It's the Yankees - Scientifically 2007-04-10 13:04:00 By Andrea Thompson
LiveScience Staff Writer
The New York Yankees
will win a whopping 110 games this season, more than any other major league team, according to a mathematician who applies math to real-life situations.
The projection comes from a model that Bruce Bukiet of the New Jersey Institute of Technology developed and has used and updated for the past six years to predict how many games
WEEKENDER: Is Jackie Robinson's legacy fading after six decades? 2007-04-16 01:35:00 From an April 14 article by Mike Dodd of USA TODAY: "On Sunday, when more than 200 Major League Baseball players wear No. 42 jerseys to honor the 60th anniversary of JackieRobinson
breaking the color barrier in the national pastime, it will be a reminder of past promises and a troubling present. The commemoration of Robinson's historic debut will recall an elaborate ceremony 10 years ago, when Read more:WEEKENDER
, Jackie Robinson
Meddling Soccer Dad Getting in the Way 2007-05-20 20:38:00 I sat on the sideline of a local soccer field and watched how a father, dressed in hunting fatigue sweats, warmed up his daughter in goal. Clearly a soccer player in his youth, this father appeared to be showing off his skill by luring his daughter toward him, and then, with some fancy footwork, peppering shot after shot by her into the nylon net.
While that night not seem like such a bad thing Read more:Soccer
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