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Music
May 23, 2012
Santigold's Gold Standard
Santi White's genre-bending adventures continue on her second album
Blogs
May 22, 2012
Frank DeMaria, Kung Fu "Grandmaster," Taught Kids The Art Of Penis Pulling. Now He's Going To Prison
Frank DeMaria, 67, is a kung fu "grandmaster" who taught children the finer points of the martial arts. One of his lessons, unfortunately, involved having prepubescent girls "pull" on his penis -- which is why he'll be spending the next several years as a guest of the state.DeMaria was sentenced tod ... More >>
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May 21, 2012
The Mets Are Above .500 -- Compliments Of David Wright
On Opening Day if someone had offered you a bet that after 41 games the Mets would have a better record than the Yankees, would you have taken it? I think you would. I would have taken it in a heartbeat. But after the Yankees' loss to Cincinnati yesterday in a dreary 5-2 game, and the Mets 6-5 vict ... More >>
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May 11, 2012
New Yorkers Escape The Nanny-State To Attend MMA Event. Sadly, They're Forced To Go To Jersey To Do It
Despite New York State's best efforts to regulate what consenting adults do in their spare time, New Yorkers are still flocking to mixed martial arts events. Unfortunately, they're forced to go to other states to do it -- MMA fighting has been banned in the Empire State since the mid-1990s. &nb ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
The Knicks Snap 11 Year Playoffs Losing Streak, But Lose Baron Davis--Will Lin Return?
Well, whatdoyaknow, the Knicks won game 4 on Sunday! The record-setting 13 game losing streak in the playoffs has been snapped! Sunday's showcase was, in every way, the series many fans and basketball analyst had wanted/predicted/hoped to see. We finally got to see that Carmelo Anthony/LeBron Jame ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
Why Didn't The Knicks Tank The Final Regular Season Game To Avoid Miami?
The New York Knicks were in an interesting predicament late last week as the NBA regular season was heading toward the finish line: They had the chance to choose their playoff opponent. Heading into the final two games of the regular season with identical records with the Philadelphia 76ers, the K ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
The Knicks Lose, Behind 2-0, And Lose Yet Another Player, This Time To Stupidity
Well, the Knicks lost again to Miami, losing 104-94 to fall behind 2-0 to Miami Heat in this best of seven series. The good news is that the Knicks, as a whole, played much better--at least the game was competitive compared to last Sunday's humiliation. Carmelo Anthony--you know, the guy some New ... More >>
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April 30, 2012
Note to Mike Woodson -- Don't blow it
"This series is not over," said Amar'e Stoudemire after Saturday's 100-67 slaughter of the Knicks at the hands of the Miami Heat. "We've got to learn from our mistakes today and get ready for the next one." Coincidentally, this is exactly how General; Custer's last dispatch from the Little Big Horn ... More >>
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April 29, 2012
Knicks' 11 Year Long Playoffs Win Drought Continues, But Lin Could Be Back Soon
Eleven years. Exactly. Today, April 29, 2012, marks the 11th anniversary of the last Knicks playoff victory. And judging by yesterday's smackdown at the hands of the Miami Heat, this drought may continue. Especially considering that Iman Shumpert, the team's best perimeter defender by a mile--he ... More >>
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April 27, 2012
The Knicks Take Their Talents To South Beach This Saturday--And Other Playoff Storylines
The NBA playoff bracket is set, and the Knicks will take their talents to South Beach this Saturday to play LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and the Miami Heat. It's a matchup that will garner more buzz than a typical two-seed-vs-seven-seed series, due of a myriad of subplots. First, these two teams ha ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 25, 2012
GOOOOAAALLL!
Red Bulls host New England Revolution
Blogs
April 24, 2012
The Nets Left New Jersey Last Night After 35 Years, With A Loss, Of Course
Last night marked the final home game of the New Jersey Nets, and although the franchise won't officially become the Brooklyn Nets until the beginning of the 2012-2013 NBA season (when they move from the Prudential Center to the Barclay Center), it's obvious those involved with the team couldn't lea ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
New York's MMA Bill Headed To Assembly. Backers Optimistic
A bill that would lift the ban on mixed martial arts fighting in New York passed in the state Senate yesterday 43-14 -- and backers are optimistic it will pass in the Assembly, despite opposition from Assemblyman Bob Reilly.This is the third consecutive year a bill lifting the ban on MMA fighting wa ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
Mets Thief Charles Samuels Banned From Citi Field For Life
A Queens man who's been part of the New York Mets organization for more than 30 years is officially banned from the team's ballpark for life after pleading guilty to stealing more than $2 million worth of Mets memorabilia from the franchise.Additionally, former Mets clubhouse manager Charles Samuels ... More >>
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April 13, 2012
Kuroda Wows In Yanks' Home Opener
Any Yankees victory over the Los Angeles Angels is sweet, but this afternoon's 5-0 win was particularly sweet. No sooner did Albert Pujols say, in effect, that Opening Day at Yankee Stadium was "no big deal," Hiroki Kuroda went out and made a big deal out of it: 8 innings, 5 hits, 6 Ks, ZERO runs. ... More >>
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April 11, 2012
TAKE ME OUT
New York Yankees host California Angels
Blogs
April 9, 2012
These Are Not Your 1998 New York Yankees
I knew on Saturday when the Yankees lost to the Rays 8-6 that if they lost again on Sunday - as they did, 3-0, also to the Rays - that some wise guy would jump up and say, "but the 1998 Yanks started out 0-3 and they did okay." Yes, they did. But the 2012 Yankees aren't the 1998 Yankees. Let us c ... More >>
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April 9, 2012
New York's MMA Ban: Assemblyman Bob Reilly Says Fighting Can Cause Concussions
State lawmakers -- on both sides of the aisle -- are expected this month to reintroduce a bill that would lift New York's ban on mixed martial arts fights like the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) -- but Assemblyman Bob Reilly's trying to piss on the parade. In a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, ... More >>
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April 8, 2012
Will The Knicks Make The Playoffs???
It was a good Sunday for the Knicks. Carmelo Anthony had his best game of the season, scoring 43 points, including two long three pointers in the final seconds of the 4th quarter and overtime--the former forced overtime, and the latter won the game. That the Knicks did it over the team with the be ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
So Dwight Howard Probably Isn't Coming To Brooklyn...Meaning His Drama Won't Too
For the past year, the New Jersey (soon to be Brooklyn) Nets have banked their hopes on landing superstar center Dwight Howard--either through a trade this season or as a free agent this summer. And by just about every account, Howard was set on leaving his Orlando Magic for the Nets until a last s ... More >>
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April 4, 2012
John Calipari To The Knicks? Tebow's a Jet -- Anything's Possible
Some rumors are so dumb that you can't begin to understand how they even got started. Rumors like "The Jets are trying to sign Peyton Manning" or "The Jets are trying to sign Tim Tebow" or "The Knicks are trying to sign John Calipari." All absurd, of course, except that one of those three proved t ... More >>
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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 >>
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April 2, 2012
Amid the Usual Media Circus That is New York, Jeremy Lin Shares Post-Surgery Photo
He may be pretty much done for the season, but Jeremy Lin is still the center of attention in the New York sports world. Yesterday, The Daily News' Frank Isola accused the Knicks of withholding news of Lin's surgery until after the playoff tickets purchase deadline, for regular season ticket holde ... More >>
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March 31, 2012
Everything You Need To Know About Jeremy Lin's Injury and How It Will Affect The Knicks
The Knicks' absolute bipolar, roller-coaster of a season took yet another turn with news today that Jeremy Lin will undergo knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus. The surgery will sideline him for six weeks, and while most media, whether out of optimism or caution, are reporting that Lin's finished ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Tim Tebow: Do The Jets Really Need This Guy?
The deal between the New York Jets and the Denver Broncos for quarterback Tim Tebow is now complete.Halleluiah!Jesus' favorite quarterback will be wearing green next season in exchange for two draft picks -- a fourth-rounder and sixth-rounder in 2012 -- thanks to a deal that nearly fell apart in ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Tim Tebow's Stupid Move to The New York Jets
Those of you who follow me in this space are probably wondering why I didn't write something on this earlier today. And the reason is this: I was dumbfounded. I kept thinking that there had to be something about the New York Jets' acquisition of Tim Tebow that I was missing -- that the entire mains ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
Antonio Cromartie: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Tebow. Oops
Take a knee, New York -- it's Tebow time!It's officially Twitter official: Tim Tebow is coming to the Big Apple to hold the clipboard for Mark "The Sanch-ize" Sanchez as the New York Jets' B-squad QB (for now, anyway) -- which apparently is much to the dismay of Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie. ... More >>
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March 19, 2012
Will The Giants Miss Mario Manningham?
By the time you read this, you'll already know that the Giants let free agent Mario Manningham go to the San Francisco 49ers for a still undisclosed sum. Amazingly, it's the second time in four years the Giants showed the door to a receiver who made an unbelievable catch in a Super Bowl against th ... More >>
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March 16, 2012
RIP Linsanity
This past Wednesday afternoon, an hour or so after Mike Woodson replaced Mike D'Antoni as coach of the New York Knicks, we wrote that it was probably bad news for Jeremy Lin, because Woodson--a product of old-school coach Larry Brown--favors isolation plays for his stars instead of D'Antoni's point ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Mike D'Antoni: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
Did he jump or was he pushed? Irrelevant now since the way things are going it's unthinkable that Mike D'Antoni would have wanted to stick around the Knicks much longer, even with their trouncing of the Portland Trail Blazers 121-79 last night. Was he mellow with Carmelo? My guess is that D'An ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2012
Dwight Howard Is All But Brooklyn Bound
One of the leitmotifs of this condensed and frantic NBA season so far has been whether or not superstar center Dwight Howard will be traded. The 26-year-old Howard, supposedly unhappy with the direction of the Orlando Magic--the only franchise he's ever played for--requested a trade at the beginnin ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2012
Knicks Coach Mike D'Antoni Resigns--Good News For Melo, But What About Lin?
The latest development in what has got to be one of the most mercurial seasons in NBA history took place a couple of hours ago when coach Mike D'Antoni and the New York Knicks agreed to mutually part ways. Just how wild has the Knicks season been? They started the season with much fanfare, having ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
To Mark Sanchez's Critics: Coddle This!
Considering the clouds of nonsense that descended on the New York sports scene over the last three or four weeks, it's refreshing that the local sports media got the message late Friday when the Jets announced a three-year deal on Mark Sanchez's contract. Or, more correctly, they got the message th ... More >>
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
March 7, 2012
Playing Dirty: Was the Saints' Bounty Scheme Just Football as Usual?
For sheer elegance, you can't beat the Irish when it comes to writing about American sports. Here's Cormac Eklof of IrishCentral.com on the NFL's bounty scandal: "Goodness me, the New Orleans Saints have landed themselves in quite the juicy pickle. The NFL is basically, at this moment, winding up ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2012
Good News for Mets Fans: We're Just $83 Mil More in the Hole!
And you thought losing Jose Reyes was bad. A short time ago, U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff ruled that Mets principal owners Fred Wilpon, the Wilpon family, and their businesses and charities must pay at least $83.3 million to the trustee -- that's Irving Picard, in case you haven't been ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2012
Six New York Acts That The Mets Should Consider For Future Post-Game Concerts
As the baseball season nears, the announcements of the season's schedule of promotions steadily increases, and over the weekend the Mets announced that for their 50th anniversary they'd be throwing a three-show postgame concert series in 2012. The lineup: the hesher-pop outfit REO Speedwagon (June 1 ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2012
The Yankees' Wild Card: Joba Chamberlain
Though it didn't make anyone's sports headlines in a week of Bobby Valentine's smart-offs and the return of Jeremy Lin, what might turn out to be the biggest sports news of all is the exciting progress (measured in the increasing velocity of that once-fearsome slider, now up to 94-95 mph) of Joba Ch ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2012
Jeremy Lin and Knicks Sex Tips from Dr. Ruth Westheimer
"When you get the credit for the wins," Casey Stengel famously said, "you gotta take the blame for the losses." True, but there was a lot more to the Knicks 102-88 loss to the Heat Thursday night than Jeremy Lin. The statistic which probably best defined the night was Lin's 8 turnovers. But ... More >>
Blogs
February 24, 2012
Museum of Chinese in America to Hold Viewing Party on a Night the Knicks May Lose Badly
As has been reported to death the last couple of weeks by media around the city--the emergence of Jeremy Lin has led to a surging interest in the Knicks, especially among the Chinese. Restaurants and bars in, or near, Chinatown have experienced a significant boost in business, and now, the M ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2012
Are the Mets Not Playing Kosher?
If some can claim that Barack Obama violates religious freedom by forcing insurance companies to provide birth control, then what can we call the situation developing at Citi Field? Yesterday, Judge Jack Weinstein tossed out a lawsuit brought by Kosher Sports against the New York Mets for prohibiti ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2012
Who Does Michael Bloomberg Love On Twitter? We Find Out With Twit Amore
Because love is at least nominally in the air (Valentine's Day is Tuesday), the Internet has brought you a new tool to discover your digital crushes. Twit Amore is an app that allows you find out who you or someone you like to stalk loves on Twitter by simply entering a user's handle. According to t ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
A Backwards Look at the Giants' Super Bowl Finish
A piece by Jim Trotter in this week's Super Bowl issue of Sports Illustrated puts the Ahmad Bradshaw ass-first game-winning touchdown run in new perspective. With the Patriots leading 17-15 and a little more than a minute to play, the Giants had the ball on 2nd-and-6 at New England's six-yard line. ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2012
Giants Ticker-Tape Parade Tomorrow; Go to Mayor's Twitter Right Now to Grab Ticket
We heard many of you screaming about the Giants on the streets and in bars last night -- but only 500 of you lucky fans will get to celebrate tomorrow afternoon at City Hall. For the rest of you, though, there's a parade! Late last night, the mayor's office announced plans for football festivities, ... More >>
Blogs
February 5, 2012
Don't Care About Football? Care About New York.
This blogger doesn't like football. If she's going to watch a sport it's going to be baseball and she's going to root for the Yankees. Therefore, this Super Bowl Sunday, this blogger is not going to tell you which players to watch. In fact, the only ones she really feels qualified to even mention ar ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
New England Patriots' Plan: Give New York Giants Gronk-itis
If you're looking for a reason to believe as the Giants prepare to face the Patriots on Sunday -- that is, besides Madonna's preference for Eli Manning over Tom Brady -- don't look back to the 17-14 Super Bowl victory over New England four years ago. The Giants started the year not knowing ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2012
Feds Seize 16 More Domains as Part of "Operation Fake Sweep"
A 28-year-old Michigan man named Yonjo Quiroa has been arrested and charged with criminal copyright infringement for running nine websites that streamed, among other things, licensed content from the NFL. Quiroa is the lastest in a string of highly public copyright-related arrests, following ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
The Islanders Are Coming! The Islanders Are Coming!
Things have been mostly quiet on the New York Islanders arena front since their public vote for a new home in the 516 crashed and burned spectacularly last summer. That all changed yesterday afternoon, however, with the announcement that the team has scheduled an exhibition game against the D ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Q&A: Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi On "Blog Rock," Cleveland, And Having "Lo-Fi" On His Tombstone
Clevelander Dylan Baldi is making like the indie rock LeBron James. Except instead of pinpoint passing ability, Baldi's hands are able to noodle a fine lo-fi pop tune out of a four-track or ProTools like an all-star from an early age. His early cassette releases garnered him what's referred t ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Brooklyn Man Currently Seeking Football Coach on Craigslist
Oh, Craigslist. You never fail to amuse us, especially around weekends, holidays, and Great American Pastimes. Throw a little bit of the male ego in there, and the comedy gold practically writes itself. A local Brooklyn man is currently seeking a football coach on Craigslist, offering $500 to anyo ... More >>
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