Capital New York

The Knicks lose again, but the Garden stops booing

Carmelo Anthony entered the Knicks locker room Thursday night, looking like a professor in his horn-rimmed spectacles, about to address the class of reporters swarmed around his locker, cameras and recording devices at the ready. More

Posted on February 3rd, 2012 11:32am

Even with the NCAA on their backs, UConn basketball shouldn't be this awful

It wasn't supposed to be like this for Connecticut.

Fresh off of winning a national title, the Connecticut men's basketball team returned every important contributor from last season's team, with the exception of Kemba Walker. While Walker was undoubtedly the Huskies' best player—indeed, the best player in college basketball last season—Connecticut brought back its next four top players, added a stellar recruiting class, and appeared to possess more talent than anyone in the Big East, if not the nation. More

Posted on February 2nd, 2012 11:41am

Remember when Rutgers was almost a great football school?

Perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that the head coach of Rutgers football since 2000, Greg Schiano, chose to leave to become the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

After all, despite taking part in college football's very first game, a 6-4 victory over Princeton in 1869, the Scarlet Knights have spent very little time among the sport's elite. When Schiano took over in 2000, Rutgers had posted a winless season more recently than a winning one. More

Posted on February 1st, 2012 5:16pm

Minority investors are about to come to the Wilpon group's rescue, still

The great minority-owner search by Fred Wilpon and his partners who own the New York Mets has hit another new deadline, with Newsday reporting late Monday night that the team now expects to sell ten shares worth four percent apiece, at $20 million a pop, by the end of February.

Such a sale could be the only thing preventing a separation of Wilpon from his baseball team. More

Posted on January 31st, 2012 5:03pm

Even when the Mets' owners get a break, there's a catch

It has been an extremely difficult year for Fred Wilpon and his partners in Sterling Equities, owners of the New York Mets.

A year ago next week, a lawsuit by Irving Picard, trustee for the Bernie Madoff victims, against the Sterling partners was unsealed, revealing both the depth of the financial connections between the operations of Sterling's companies (particularly the Mets) and the massive investment they made with Bernie Madoff. Also revealed that day: the evidence underlying Picard's pursuit of both $300 million in "fictitious profits" and $700 million in principal invested by the Wilpon group. More

Posted on January 30th, 2012 5:36pm

John Franco gets his due from the Mets; now how about John Stearns?

For a team looking to honor its entire past, what could be more fitting than to admit John Stearns into the Hall of Fame? In a season like the upcoming one, showing appreciation for a Met who played on weak teams would be a useful example. More

Posted on January 27th, 2012 9:04pm

Carmelo Anthony's attempt at heroics isn't doing his team, or him, any good

The New York Knicks have a Carmelo Anthony problem. But unlike the questions that have plagued the team at point guard, or the early-season struggles of Amar'e Stoudemire, this problem has a clear and easy diagnosis: Carmelo Anthony is playing hurt.

This isn't in dispute. More

Posted on January 26th, 2012 4:08pm

Why the Knicks could trade two stars for Dwight Howard and still come out ahead

When the Knicks signed Tyson Chandler to a long-term contract this summer, it was generally assumed that the core of the New York Knicks—Chandler, Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony—would be set in stone. More

Posted on January 25th, 2012 12:37pm

An Amar'e Stoudemire renaissance or bust

It's been an ugly two weeks for the New York Knicks.

They’ve lost six consecutive games, failed to reach 90 points in three of the losses, and only broke 100 on Saturday night against Denver thanks to the magic of overtime. The team is shooting just 41 percent for the season, and 30 percent from three-point range, yet they take 23 three-pointers per game. Carmelo Anthony is down at 40 percent overall, yet is taking more than 21 shots per contest. More

Posted on January 24th, 2012 1:51pm

The 'Outside of Syracuse' conference

There is no shortage of drama in the Big East this season, between the reshuffling of the usual heirarchy within the conference and, at a higher level, questions about its very survival as a basketball entity.

But there is very little drama, and even less suspense, about the conference title. More

Posted on January 20th, 2012 3:00pm