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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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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NBA Drafts For Fresh Entertainers

Written by Jason Singer on June 28, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

There’s a convention of extremely rich black people taking place at Madison Square Garden tonight. It’s called the 2007 NBA Draft. Of course, there will be some white people there, too. Almost all the owners, GMs and other people with power are Caucasian (which should come as no surprise to anyone). But we have come
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Bombing In The Bronx

Written by Jason Singer on June 27, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

Just 15 days ago, The New York Times’ Murray Chass predicted that “at the rate at which the Yankees are slashing into Boston’s lead in the American League East, they will pass the Red Sox in the standings by July 4.” Brilliant, brilliant prediction, Mr. Chass. You have shown a level of foresight only equaled
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Pro Wrestler Dies In Murder-Suicide

Written by Jason Singer on June 26, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife and child before taking his own life this weekend in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities revealed today. Benoit strangled his wife on Friday and suffocated his seven-year-old son between late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, eventually hanging himself in his weight room Sunday afternoon. Anabolic steroids were found
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3 Out Of 100 Ain’t Bad: NYC Ranks On ESPN’s Sporting Events List

Written by Jason Singer on June 26, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

ESPN released a list this morning of the “101 sporting events worth seeing in your lifetime,” and although many of the events aren’t city-specific, The Big Apple still found its way into the directory three times. As exciting as it may be, the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, which takes place every year at Madison
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Brooklyn Boxer Kicks Ass

Written by Jason Singer on June 20, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

Brooklyn-born boxer Paulie Malignaggi (pronounced Mal-in-ya-gee), a.k.a “The Magic Man,” defeated Lovemore N’dou to win the IBF Junior Welterweight Championship on Saturday night in Connecticut. Viewers who mourned Tony Soprano’s exit from the airwaves 10 days ago now have a new HBO-based Sicilian to cheer for with the same penchant for beating people’s faces in.
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What Are The Odds?

Written by John DeSio on June 8, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

Talk about unlucky. On Wednesday during the Principal Charity Classic pro-am golf tournament at the Glen Oaks Country Club, actor Rob Lowe put a ball into the air and struck a small goldfinch in mid-flight. When The Principal analysts worked out the numbers, Lowe had accidentally accomplished something against 240 million-to-one odds when he struck
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Aging Prick Hates Negative Press

Written by John DeSio on May 29, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

If you’ve actually been reading the sports pages for the past few weeks you couldn’t draw any other conclusion except this: Roger Clemens will save the Yankees (so far) abysmal season. Clemens must read different papers, since yesterday he lashed out at all "negative" press that has been associated with his comeback. Clemens even took
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The Concrete Jungle Goes Off-Road

Written by Kari Milchman on May 15, 2007. Posted in Posts, Sports

All you crazy New Yorkers who think you can have your urban lifestyle and eat dirt, too, Saturday is your lucky day. Come out and christen The Fort George Hill Trails, the city’s first off-road bicycle course in upper Manhattan’s Highbridge Park. Eighteen months of labor and $100,000 gets you three miles of mountain-biking fun
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