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ESPNâ€™s New Miniseries Sizzles

Written by Jason Singer on July 10, 2007. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

The Bronx is burning. No, I’m not referring to the suffocating heat that enveloped the city yesterday. I’m referring to ESPN’s critically acclaimed, eight-week miniseries that debuted last night chronicling the title-winning, yet volatile ’77 Yankees, who often battled each other while the city battled the Son of Sam killer, a tumultuous 25-hour blackout and
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Hungrry For An iPhone Scandal

Written by Jason Singer on July 6, 2007. Posted in Posts, Technology

Nothing says philanthropy like arresting a charity organization’s mascot, and no one’s more benevolent than the New York City media. That’s why on June 29, a news crew called the cops on Hungrr, the orange giant we don’t expect you to recognize from his namesake website. Hungrr—who was buying iPhones to auction off on eBay
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P.J. Gets Second Gasp In Seattle

Written by Jason Singer on July 6, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

P.J. Carlesimo, who attended Fordham University here in the city and once put the tiny, Staten Island-based Wagner College on the basketball map, was hired yesterday as the new head coach of the Seattle Supersonics. Rather than being known as Wagner’s claim-to-fame, however, Carlesimo is more infamously remembered as the coach that Latrell “I’m-Fucking-Crazy” Sprewell
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Thomas Struggles On Court & In Court

Written by Jason Singer on July 5, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

If Knicks owner James Dolan won’t fire Isiah Thomas because of his incompetence as a general manager and basketball coach, maybe the justice system will do him a favor. Following a Manhattan hearing on Tuesday, a U.S. District Court judge scheduled a trial for Thomas’ ongoing sexual harassment suit that was issued against him by
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Independence Day, The Canadian Way

Written by Jason Singer on July 5, 2007. Posted in Music, Posts

What’s the best way to celebrate America’s birthday? Canadian music and pornography, of course. Well, not exactly. But several thousand people did brave heavy rains and even heavier winds yesterday to commemorate our nation’s Independence Day with the Land of Maple Syrup’s most beloved indie-rock act, The New Pornographers, at Battery Park. It seems not
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America Opens Wide On Birthday

Written by Jason Singer on July 5, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

It was fitting that America finally celebrated a victory in the sporting world yesterday, on July 4, when patriot Joey Chestnut became the world champion for hot dog eating, smashing the world record in the process. Chestnut consumed 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes at the Coney Island competition, a mind-boggling pace that calculates to
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Axe And You Shall Receive

Written by Jason Singer on July 3, 2007. Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

Forget lawyers, police or a little time apart, New Yorkers have decided to start settling their domestic disputes with axes. For the second time in seven weeks, a lovers’ quarrel ended with an axe-attack in the Empire State. Stephen Abbott, 40, assaulted his girlfriend, Darlene Grice, and her lover with an axe after finding them
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Even When Winning, Yanks Keep Losing

Written by Jason Singer on July 3, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

The Rocket won his 350th game last night with a 5-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins, but he still couldn’t launch the Yankees any closer to the first-place Red Sox or second-place Blue Jays. In fact, despite the win, the Bronx Bombers spiraled farther down into the abyss of 2007. Alex Rodriguez, who for the
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Benoit Family Murder-Suicide Takes A Turn For The Weird

Written by Jason Singer on June 29, 2007. Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

There was an eerie new twist in the murder-suicide of Chris Benoit and his family that surfaced over a period of several days last weekend. According to authorities, Benoit’s Wikipedia article mentioned the death of his wife and son, 14 hours before police discovered the bodies. The IP address that altered the entry at 12:01
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The Knicks Take Kick In The Ass

Written by Jason Singer on June 29, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

The Knicks made an enormously needed move last night at the NBA Draft, when the hometown team finally traded egotistical and absurdly over-paid point guard Steve “Franchise” Francis (he came up with the nickname himself!), whose one-and-a-half-year experiment here in the Big Apple failed. This seems like a good move, right? Not when the talented
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