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    April 3, 2012

    Last Thoughts On The NCAAs -- And Anthony Davis

    All those great memories of the Anthony Davis-era Kentucky Wildcats...let' see, there was the 2011-2012 season and there was...well, nowadays in college basketball, one season's about it. So before the memory fades of a player so great he can score just 6 points in the championship game and still d ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 21, 2012

    MORE MADNESS

    Can’t make it to New Orleans? Try the NIT

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2012

    A Note to the NCAA: Here's Why College Basketball Attendance Is Down

    It's the time of year for office pools and for articles about what's wrong with college basketball in general and the March NCAA tournament in particular.  Most of the arguments for both are covered by Steve Wieberg in Friday's USA Today. "Attendance, a key vital sign in any sport, is slipping in c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Knicks' Point Guard Jeremy Lin Does the Impossible

    Phenoms who come in under the sports radar are almost exclusively confined to baseball. There are so many examples of this that they almost defy counting -- a 19-year-old Dwight Gooden matures early, just a year out of high school and can suddenly throw a 97 mph fastball past experienced major leag ... More >>

  • News

    December 14, 2011

    Bowling for Chumps

    How insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities

  • Voice Choices

    October 19, 2011

    ICE COLD

    New Jersey Devils battle the San Jose Sharks

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Taylor Branch Says NCAA and Colleges Using Athletes to Make Billions; Argues Jocks Should Be Paid

    ​Writing for the Atlantic Monthly, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Taylor Branch offers a powerful indictment of the hypocrisy built into college sports, where universities make billions off of athletes who are essentially working full-time jobs for free.

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    March Madness Day 3: At South by Southwest, They Were Into March Madness in February

    via​Go ahead and turn Twitter off today, you'll thank us. There will be only two types of tweets: people talking about South by Southwest (or, "South by," if you're an insufferable nincompoop) and people talking about March Madness. Both of them will make you very angry. Just so you don't miss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    March Madness Day 2: Obama Makes His Picks, Biden's Bookie Won't Accept His

    via ESPN​ESPN released Barack Obama's March Madness bracket today, along with a video of the president making his picks. Depending on your political leanings, you think this is either a lighthearted exercise showing the president is a normal guy, or a potentially catastrophic waste of time whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    March Madness Day 1: Check Your Local Listings For truTV

    via​Big news! March Madness starts today! Well, the play-in games start today, which isn't very big news, but still: MARCH MADNESS! Tonight's juicy match-ups: UNC Asheville vs. Arkansas Little Rock at 6:30 p.m. and UAB vs. Clemson at 9 p.m. Both games will be airing on truTV, which used to be ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 22, 2010

    BRING THE THUNDER

    The Red Storm hosts the Hoyas

  • Voice Choices

    November 10, 2010

    SLAM DUNK

    College hoops for a good cause

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Best Of NYC: We're the Greatest Sports City in the World

    And proud of it

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    The Top 10 Non-Basketball March Madness Brackets

    The surest signs of spring are upon us: flowers blooming, scantily clad NYU students smoking in the park, and most importantly, coworkers who have never showed any semblance of sports fandom live-streaming basketball for the next two weeks and yelling at their computers things like "Cinderella!" "B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Morning Billfold: Junk Bond Apocalypse Terror, Lehman's Snitches, Hedge Fund Rockstars

    ​Lehman Brothers weren't so happy about their whistleblowers. The "rock stars" of hedge funds aren't exactly proverbial Guitar Heroes. A 2.2 billion euro bonus went out to the "risk takers" of Deutsche Bank. CBS' March Madness ad money? Buzzer-beater quality stuff. And the new economic doomsda ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2010

    PUMP IT UP

    Get psyched for March Madness at the Big East

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    February 9, 2010

    FIERCE RIVALRY

    Seton Hall battles with Notre Dame

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Wayman Tisdale, R.I.P.

    Here he is doing Barry White with Toby Keith. And why not. SOTC rarely traffics in smooth-jazz talk, it's true, but let us nonetheless doff our caps for basketball star and bassist extraordinaire Wayman Tisdale, who's died of cancer at 44. After a beloved college stint with the Oklahoma Sooners an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Morning Joe's Willie Geist on the NCAA's Final Four

    Knowing that our friend, Morning Joe's Willie Geist--"The Oracle of MSNBC"--is a big sports fan, we thought we'd check in with him about the NCAA's Final Four. Willie has fielded some questions from us before, so we're pleased he had time--between Indian-wrestling matches with co-host Mike Barnicle- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Strange Choreography at the Big Dance

    Want a sign that Division I college basketball coaches are out of control? Check out the Times story today on the elaborate rituals of timeouts in big time games. Coaches now script their timeouts. They have assistants whose sole job is to bring chairs out onto the floor for players. Like a dance ca ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 4, 2009

    LIVE BALL

    A must-see for hoops fans

  • Voice Choices

    November 19, 2008

    STORM WATCH

    Two spots to catch St. John’s men’s hoops

  • News

    July 24, 2007

    Hoop Screams

    A Crooked Ref? Commissioner Stern's got much bigger problems

  • News

    December 28, 2004

    Hiphop Turns 30

    Whatcha celebratin' for?

  • News

    July 29, 2003

    Sports

    Whatcha celebratin' for?

  • News

    July 15, 2003

    It's VJ Day for Liberty

    Vickie Johnson's Low-Key, but Her Game Isn't

  • News

    May 27, 2003

    The Foreign Invasion of the American Game

    Euro: New Currency of the NBA

  • News

    March 18, 2003

    Sports

    Euro: New Currency of the NBA

  • News

    October 22, 2002

    The Basketball Roller Coaster

    How a Coney Island Kid Prepares for the Ride of His Life

  • News

    June 25, 2002

    His Backhand Needs Work

    No, McEnroe Can't Beat Venus or Serena. Even If He Could, So What?

  • News

    March 19, 2002

    Foul Shots

    Highlighting College Hoops’ Lowlights

  • News

    August 28, 2001

    Sports

    Highlighting College Hoops’ Lowlights

  • Art

    April 10, 2001

    Who Got Game?

    • • • Running the Numbers on College Sports

  • News

    March 20, 2001

    Sports

    • • • Running the Numbers on College Sports

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Flagrant Fouls

    The College Basketball Real-Life Top 25

  • News

    February 27, 2001

    The Wright Stuff

    Hofstra's Slick Young Coach Takes a Small School to the Big Time

  • News

    January 2, 2001

    Our Year in Sports

    Hofstra's Slick Young Coach Takes a Small School to the Big Time

  • News

    March 28, 2000

    Below the Rim

    Whiteball Lives in the NCAA

  • News

    March 21, 2000

    Sports

    Whiteball Lives in the NCAA

  • News

    March 14, 2000

    Madness!

    The College Basketball Real-Life Top 25

  • News

    March 7, 2000

    The City Game

    New York’s Greatest High School Hoops Stars

  • News

    December 14, 1999

    Johnnies on the Spot

    Bootsy and Barkley Lead the Red Storm From the Backcourt

  • News

    November 23, 1999

    Sports

    Bootsy and Barkley Lead the Red Storm From the Backcourt

  • News

    March 16, 1999

    Dancing Up a Storm

    St. John's Plays Smart and Plays On

  • News

    March 9, 1999

    Your Name Here

    St. John's Plays Smart and Plays On

  • News

    January 26, 1999

    Eye of the Storm

    The tough midseason tests continue for St. John's following their bedeviling loss to Duke

  • News

    January 5, 1999

    Basketball Jones

    Hunter coach Mike Brown loves the game so much, he quit big-time ball.

  • News

    January 5, 1999

    The ABL, 1996-1998

    Hunter coach Mike Brown loves the game so much, he quit big-time ball.

  • News

    December 29, 1998

    ESPN'S Ho-Mo-Sexual Safari

    Hunter coach Mike Brown loves the game so much, he quit big-time ball.

  • News

    December 15, 1998

    St. John’s True Warrior

    Ron Artest earns his nickname in word and deed

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