Adam Vinatieri Keeps on Kickin’
It has been an eventful couple of days for the NFL’s oldest player, Adam Vinatieri. In the Colts’ 18-12 victory Sunday in Miami, he missed his third extra point of the season. Between 2006-2014, the...
View ArticleLance Thomas Seizing Opportunity With Hometown Knicks
A few weeks ago, Lance Thomas joined Instagram and he received a special shout-out from one of the most recognizable players in the league, Kevin Durant. The Oklahoma City Thunder star poked some fun...
View ArticleBoban Mania – Boban Marjanovic is no circus act
As the San Antonio Spurs warmed up prior to Monday night’s game in Brooklyn, fans weren’t gasping at the sight of Tim Duncan or LaMarcus Aldridge or Kawhi Leonard or Manu Ginobili, but rather a mostly...
View ArticleNew Jersey native Kyle Anderson growing into his own for the Spurs
The San Antonio Spurs are 36-6, winners of 11 straight and destroying opponents by 14.2 points per game, which is 2.5 points higher than that of the defending champion Golden State Warriors. Gregg...
View ArticleIt’s Peyton Manning vs. Tom Brady One More Time
(Neil Miller/Sportsday Wire) The New York Daily News crushed both Peyton Manning and Tom Brady with a Monday cover headlined, “Manning vs. Brady in AFC title shame; Clash of the Taint-ans; Deflategate...
View ArticleWhy the Yankees should sign Ike Davis
(Photo: Flickr) Seemingly out of the blue on Monday afternoon, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported that promising youngster Greg Bird is going to miss all of the 2016 season following shoulder...
View ArticleSan Antonio Just Latest Resting Spot For Rasual Butler
Rasual Butler is your prototypical NBA journeyman – eight teams in 13 seasons. A Philadelphia native, Butler earned the reputation of being one of the NBA’s best shooters after Pat Riley gave him an...
View ArticleElias Not Finished Yet
The New Jersey Devils honored longtime netminder Martin Brodeur with a statue in his honor outside Prudential Center, and by retiring his No. 30 before Tuesday night’s game against the Edmonton Oilers,...
View ArticleIs The Yankee Bullpen Better Than Last Year?
The Yankees acquired Aroldis Chapman to go with Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances, giving New York all three of the relievers who struck out at least 100 batters in 2015 and arguably the strongest...
View ArticleDonald Sloan making the most of his opportunity in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Nets broadcast team is one of the best in the business and they have a lot of fun during the games. During their “Who am I?” game a few weeks back, a controversy brewed over little-known...
View ArticleHow Will Barton went from being a trade afterthought to one of the NBA’s most...
The first ten picks of the 2012 NBA Draft produced some of the games brightest young players: Anthony Davis, Damian Lillard, Andre Drummond, Bradley Beal and Harrison Barnes. But the second round of...
View ArticleJim Henderson Finds New Life In Flushing
New York Mets reliever Jim Henderson has made a career out of throwing a baseball, and unlike a lot of Canadian kids, his first love wasn’t hockey. “I didn’t play organized hockey at all actually,”...
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Austin Romine’s Transition from Top Prospect to Trusty Backup
Andrew Romine is a 30-year old light-hitting middle infielder for the Detroit Tigers. The switch-hitting Romine is hitting a paltry.230 in 74 at-bats this season and has only hit five homers since...
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Rene Rivera Takes Charge Of Behind The Plate
Heading into the 2016 season, the New York Mets were blessed with an embarrassment of pitching riches. But they were also blessed with two young catchers projected to be frontline players in Travis...
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What is Mark Teixeira’s legacy as his final Yankees at-bat approaches?
The retiring Mark Teixeira is not a Hall a Famer, even though there is a legitimate case to be made for his enshrinement one day. He is not a lifelong Yankee or in the pantheon of Yankees greats....
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Madison Bumgarner continues to build on his own legacy in Giants’ win
Aces don’t mean everything in the playoffs, but Madison Bumgarner proved once again on Wednesday that on some nights aces do mean everything. The lanky left-hander allowed four hits and went the...
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Appreciating The Underappreciated Hiroki Kuroda
One of the things always seemingly lost amidst Derek Jeter’s magical farewell in the Bronx was that the game also marked the end of veteran hurler Hiroki Kuroda’s career in the States. The then 39-year...
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Colon and Dickey Are Oldies But Goodies
Last week, the Atlanta Braves seemingly cornered the market on lovable quadragenarian hurlers who once donned Mets caps. On Thursday, the Braves signed 42-year-old knuckleballer R.A. Dickey to a...
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What to do with Dellin Betances and Jeurys Familia?
A month ago, Wallace Matthews of NY Sports Day reported that the Yankees will be in hot pursuit of free agent closer Aroldis Chapman this winter. The day before, it was reported that Mets closer Jeurys...
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Is KAT vs. Porzingis the next great NBA rivalry?
“We have seen two brilliant performances from two 21-year old stars in the league,” esteemed Knicks’ broadcaster Mike Breen gushed about Kristaps Porzingis and Karl-Anthony Towns as Towns shot free...
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