Wednesday, November 13, 2024

St. John's Survives Spirited Effort From Staten Island's Wagner

 

St. John's Head Coach Rick Pitino patrolling the sidelines. Photo by Jason Schott.


The St. John's Red Storm. ranked 22nd in the nation in the AP Top 25 College Basketball Poll, had another strong second half to outlast Wagner, a fellow New York City school from Staten Island, 66-45, on Wednesday night at Carnesecca Arena.

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Books: "Sixty-One" By Chris Paul

 


Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

By Chris Paul, with Michael Wilbon

St. Martin's Griffin; paperback, 336 pages; $22.00; available Tuesday, November 12th

Chris Paul is one of the most recognizable stars in the NBA. The 20-year veteran who is currentlt on the San Antonio Spurs is a 12-time All-Star, who led the Phoenix Suns to the NBA Finals in 2021. The Winston, Salem, North Carolina, native is also a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist. He has served as the President of the National Basketball Players Association since 2013, and off the court, he is a father, husband, entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist.

Monday, November 11, 2024

St. John's Red Storm Returns To Top 25

 

Head Coach Rick Pitino instructs his players during a timeout on November 4. Photo by Jason Schott.


The St. John's Red Storm are in the AP Top 25, coming in at No. 22 after they have started the season with two solid victories.

Sunday, November 10, 2024

College Football: FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll - Week 11

 


In the FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll for Week 11 of the 2024 college football season, Oregon claimed the top spot for the fourth straight week, after they beat Maryland, 39-18.

Saturday, November 9, 2024

NYCFC Outlasts Cincinnati To Set Up Date With Destiny

 

Alonso Martinez looks for position against FC Cincinnati. @NYCFC.


New York came awfully close to having a Subway Series, and instead it will get a first-of-its-kind meeting of a rivalry that is just as fierce.

St. John’s Surges Late To Roll Past Quinnipiac


Simeon Wilcher finishing off a layup at the 17:34 mark of the second half. Photo by Jason Schott.




The St. John's Red Storm went from being stunned early to putting together a stunning 61-point second half on their way to a 96-73 win over the Quinnipiac Bobcats on Saturday afternoon at Carnesecca Arena.

Friday, November 8, 2024

Boone Will Be Back After Taking Yankees To World Series

 

Yankees Manager Aaron Boone. Photo by Jason Schott.

The Yankees announced on Friday morning that they exercised their 2025 option on Manager Aaron Boone, after he led them to win the American League pennant this season.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Yankees Pitcher Luis Gil Named Baseball Digest AL Rookie of the Year

 

Luis Gil pitching to Alex Bregman of the Houston Astros on May 7. Photo by Jason Schott.




Yankees starting pitcher Luis Gil won the Baseball Digest American League Rookie of the Year Award. Pittsburgh Pirates starter Paul Skenes was selected in the National League.

Monday, November 4, 2024

St. John’s Flies By Fordham On Festive Opening Night

 

Brady Dunlap buries a baseline jumper six minutes into the second half that put St. John's up 17 points. Photo by Jason Schott.


The St. John's Red Storm opened one of their most anticipated seasons in recent memory with a resounding 92-60 win over New York City rival Fordham, on Monday night in front of a sellout crowd of 5,602 at Carnesecca Arena.

Books: "REAGAN: His Life and Legend" By Max Boot

 


REAGAN: His Life and Legend

By Max Boot

Liveright; hardcover, 880 pages; $45 

Max Boot is a historian and foreign-policy analyst who is a senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a columnist for the Washington Post. He is the author of The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

Sunday, November 3, 2024

College Football: FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll - Week 10

 



In the FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll for Week 10 of the 2024 college football season, Oregon claimed the top spot for the third straight week, after they dominated the defending National Champions, Michigan, 38-17.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

NYCFC Stays Alive, Takes Series Back To Cincinnati

 

The celebration was on for Thiago Martins' goal toward the end of the first half. Photo by Jason Schott.


New York City Football Club evened their series with FC Cincinnati in the 2024 MLS Cup Playoffs Round One, as they won 3-1 at Citi Field on Saturday evening in front of 19,585 fans.

Books: "Low-Hanging Fruit" By Randy Rainbow

 


Low-Hanging Fruit: Sparkling Whines, Champagne Problems, and Pressing Issues from My Gay Agenda

By Randy Rainbow

St. Martin's Press; hardcover, 224 pages; $28.00

Randy Rainbow is a four-time Emmy-nominated comedian, actor, singer, writer, and satirist best known for his popular series of musical parodies and political spoofs, which has earned him international acclaim, especially in one of the craziest election years ever. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Playing With Myself. He tours all over the country, performing in front of sold-out audiences, and his viral videos draw millions of views across all platforms.

Friday, November 1, 2024

Books: "A Very Bad Thing" By J.T. Ellison

 



A Very Bad Thing

By J.T. Ellison

Thomas & Mercer; hardcover, 446 pages; $28.99; available today, Friday, November 1st

J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty novels and the Emmy Award-winning co-host of the literary TV show A Word on Words. Her books include It's One of Us, Her Dark Lies, and Good Girls Lie, as well as the Taylor Jackson Series, Samantha Owens Series, and Brit in the FBI Series. Her work has been critically acclaimed and received prestigious awards, while also being optioned for television and published in twenty-eight countries.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Dodgers Take World Series In Five After Yankees Cough Up Five-Run Lead

 

Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman celebrate when the Dodgers rallied in the fifth inning. @Dodgers.


The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series after they erased a five-run deficit in Game 5, to beat the Yankees, 7-6, on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Books: "WAR” By Bob Woodward


WAR

By Bob Woodward

Simon & Schuster; hardcover, 448 pages; $32.00

Bob Woodward is the renowned reporter who uncovered the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post, which led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. Since then, Woodward has authored 22 bestselling books, 15 of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, on presidents from Nixon to Biden. His three books on President Trump - Fear (2018), Rage (2020), and Peril (2021) were all #1 Times bestsellers. 

War is Woodward's first book on President Biden's time in the White House, an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in political and American history. As he does with the titles of his books, he zeroes in on a word to describe what dominated a leader's time in office.

That is because President Biden's term has been dominated by two wars that began since he took over. The war in Ukraine, which began when Russia launched an invasion in February 2022, is the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and it is still raging, with support for Ukraine wavering among the political establishment along partisan lines in the U.S. The war in Gaza, which began with Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and has dominated the past year.

Woodward takes you inside the White House, with President Biden and his top advisers engaging in tense conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky.

Former President Donald Trump has also lurked over Biden's Presidency, as he sought to run a shadow government in his aim to regain political power. They were set for a rematch in this year’s election until this past July, when Biden dropped out of the race, and was replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris. Wooodward examines how Harris has tried to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while also charting a path of her own in this presidential race, which concludes next Tuesday.

Naturally, this book opens in the transition period after Biden bested Trump in the 2020 election, and the bloody aftermath that followed, in which Trump never conceded and incited the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. 

Woodward reports on the role that Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader of the House at that time, played on the day of the attack, urging Trump to tell his supporters to get out of the Capitol. He told Trump shortly afterwards that, "You need to call Joe Biden and you need to do it today," and after he relented and was obviously trying to get off the call, McCarty asked him, "What do you think your grandchildren are going to think of you if you don't do this?" 

Not surprisingly, the phone call between the outgoing and incoming Presidents never happened, but, Woodward writes, "on his last night in the Oval Office, January 19, 2021, Trump hand-wrote a two-page letter to Joe Biden. He finished it at 10:00 p.m., signed it Donald J. Trump and placed it inside the desk. Biden would later tell his White House press secretary Jen Psaki it was 'shockingly gracious.'"

Six months into Biden's presidency, Trump was still convinced that if audits of the election were completed in Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona, and other key states, he would return to the White House. This, Woodward writes, was Trump tapping into the real power of instilling doubt, which brought him back to how he was told by the then-candidate in 2016, "Real power is, I don't even want to use the word, fear."

Woodward reports that Senator Lindsey Graham was one of the most forceful voices telling Trump to drop it, that he lost Arizona because he feuded with their longtime, beloved Senator, John McCain. Graham was also mindful that the focus had to be on the 2022 Midterm election, and fielding the best House and Senate candidates. 

Instead, Trump pushed Republicans, in June 2021, to support his reinstatement as President. He called up one Republican representative, in Alabama, Mo Brooks, and asked that he call for a special election. Brooks, who was running in the Alabama Senate race, had Trump's endorsement - until he refused the outlandish request, and he went on to lose the Republican primary.

This, of course, was a massive distraction for Biden, just as he and his team were grasping what Russian President Vladimir Putin was up to, especially with the cozy relationship he had with Trump. That went up to the point, as news reports on this book have cited, that Trump made sure Putin got Covid tests in the early stages of the pandemic in 2020.

The new President, along with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, was set to take a different approach, as Woodward writes, "President Biden and Sullivan had debated what the administration's Russia policy should look like. Biden was clear.

"'I'm not looking for a reset,' Biden said during his first weeks as president. 'I'm not looking for some kind of good relationship, but I want to find a stable and predictable way forward with Putin.'

"But so far the relationship with Russia was neither good, stable, nor predictable. From their first days in office, Biden and Sullivan had been responding to various acts of Russian aggression. The near fatal poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, Russian interference in the 2020 U.S. elections, suggestions that Russians may have paid the Taliban to kill Americans in Afghanistan, and the massive SolarWinds cyberattack on more than 16,000 computer systems worldwide, including U.S. government departments, and key private industries. It was one of the worst data breaches in U.S. history."

Sullivan discovered in April 2021 - just three months since President Biden took office - that Putin had amassed 110,000 Russian troops on the border with Ukraine. Sullivan likened it to "Chekhov's gun," the theory that the 19th-century playwright Anton Chekhov wrote that, if a pistol appears in the first act of a play, it is there for a reason and will be used at some point.

Russia and Ukraine had been fighting in the eastern Ukrainian region, the Donbas, of which it controlled nearly a third, since 2014, when Russia also seized Crimea. Sullivan thought it was possible that Putin was going to use the troops to seize more territory of that region, which has sizable coal reserves.

Soon after this revelation, Woodward reveals, Biden gathered together a group of Russian experts. This included a well-respected figure who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama as an intelligence analyst specializing in Russian affairs, Dr. Fiona Hill. 

When President Trump took office, Dr. Hill served on the National Security Council and was his chief Russia expert. She was surprised with the informality when President Biden called about gathering a group to assess his thoughts on Putin and get a feel for what he was thinking. 

Woodward writes that this gathering stood out, as "Hill had experienced the 'I'll take that under advisement,' when in reality a president has already made up their mind. But here, Biden had gathered together a group of experts with very different views on Russia. He wanted a debate.

"The last time she had been in the Roosevelt Room, President Trump had spent the entire briefing glowering at a picture of Teddy Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize on display, unable to concentrate. 'Trump hated it,' Hill thought. Did he think it was unfair? Did he think he deserved his own?"

Biden had a phone call with Putin on April 13, 2021, and then a meeting at Villa La Grange, an 18th-century French-style Manor on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland a couple months later. Biden departed from Trump's meetings with Putin by having advisers in the room for the summit, which included his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. It also was a highly-scripted affair, unlike the free-wheeling discussions his predecessor had with Putin. The leaders also held separate press conferences afterwards, with Putin going first so Biden's national security advisers and Russia experts could hear what he said before Biden responded. 

On July 12, 2021, just around a month after the Geneva summit, Putin released a starkly personal and aggressive 5,000-word diatribe in which he argued that Ukraine had never existed as an independent country. 

As Woodward reports, "Sullivan read the Russian president's manifesto as a declaration of the inner Putin, who he was and what he wanted to do. 

"'Russians and Ukrainians are one people - a single whole,' Putin began. 'Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians are all descendants of ancient Rus, which was the largest state in Europe.' And since the 9th century, he continued, Kyiv was considered 'the mother of all Russian cities.'

"'The formation of an ethnically pure Ukrainian state,' Putin said, 'is comparable in its consequences to the use of weapons of mass destruction against us.'

"His tone self-righteous and academic, Putin erased the existence of Ukraine as a separate country, a people with their own history, beliefs, culture and language.'”

U.S. intelligence reporting also showed that Putin was changed by the isolation of the pandemic, and he had surrounded himself with a group of people he trusted who shared the same outlook marked by nationalistic views. Those who wanted to see Putin had to quarantine for weeks, and he was physically and metaphorically separated from Russian society for almost three years.

This is just the tip of the iceberg on what you will learn in War,  one of the most valuable books you will read before Election Day, as he captures the role one country, Ukraine, played on two Presidents, and which future you want for the country and the world.


Yankees Stay Alive As Offense Breaks Out

 

Austin Wells watching his home run. @Yankees.


The Yankees, backed by big nights from Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells, rolled to an 11-4 win over the Dodgers in Game 4 on Tuesday night to stay alive in the World Series.

Monday, October 28, 2024

NYCFC Shutout In Cincinnati To Open Playoffs

 

Santi Rodriguez looks for position. @NYCFC.


New York City Football Club lost a heartbreaker in the opening game of the 2024 MLS Cup Playoffs Round One, 1-0, at FC Cincinnati.

Dodgers Come Thisclose To Shutout Of Yanks To Pull This Close To Title

 

Will Smith tagging out Giancarlo Stanton in the fourth inning. @Dodgers.


The Los Angeles Dodgers, led by five shutout innings from Walker Buehler and another home run from Freddie Freeman, beat the Yankees, 4-2, in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night at Yankee Stadium.

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Books: "Lucky Loser" By Buettner & Craig, Of The NY Times , On Trump's Illusion of Success

 



LUCKY LOSER: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success 

By Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig

Penguin Press; hardcover, 528 pages; $35.00

Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig are investigative reporters at the New York Times, and since 2016, their reporting has focused on the personal finances of former President Donald Trump. These articles revealed the fortune that Trump inherited from his father, Fred, and the record of business failures found in twenty years of tax returns they examined. Their articles received a Pulitzer Prize and two George Polk Awards. Buettner, who has been with the The Times since 2006, was also a finalist for a Pulitzer in 2012 for articles with Danny Hakim highlighting abuse and neglect in New York's care of developmentally disabled people. Craig joined The Times in 2010, and before this reporting, she covered Wall Street and was the Albany bureau chief.

College Football: FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll - Week 9

 



In the FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll for Week 9 of the 2024 college football season, Oregon claimed the top spot for the second straight week, after they rolled past Indiana, 38-9.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Yankees Squander Another One Late As Dodgers Take Two In LA

 

Yoshinobu Yamamoto. @Dodgers.


The Los Angeles Dodgers, backed by a superb outing from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, beat the Yankees, 4-2, to take a 2-0 lead in the World Series.

St. John’s Takes Care Of Towson In Preseason Finale

RJ Luis Jr. drives the lane. @StJohnsBball.


The St. John's Red Storm closed the preseason with a solid 64-46 win over Towson at Carnesecca Arena on Saturday afternoon. 

Friday, October 25, 2024

Dodgers Find A Way To Beat Another New York Team To Open World Series

 

Freddie Freeman celebrates his game-winning grand slam. @Dodgers.


Friday night at Dodger Stadium began with the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring a hero of their 1981 World Championship team, Fernando Valenzuela, who died on Tuesday, it ended the way the 1988 World Series began for them.

Books: "The Boston Globe Story of the Celtics" By Chad Finn

 



The Boston Globe Story of the Celtics: 1946-Present: The Inside Stories and Acclaimed Reporting on the NBA's Banner Franchise

By Chad Finn

Black Dog & Leventhal; hardcover, 464 pages; $32.00

The NBA season is upon us, and like many times before, the Boston Celtics are the defending champions. It was their league-leading 18th championship, and first since 2008, and like all their ones before, Boston's landmark newspaper was there to chronicle it.

Thursday, October 24, 2024

World Series: The Managers Speak

 

The finishing touches being put on the field at Dodger Stadium. @Yankees.


The World Series between the Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers begins on Friday night at Dodger Stadium. 

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

St. John's At Big East Media Day

 

St. John's Head Coach Rick Pitino joins his Big East colleagues in the annual Media Day portrait. Photo by Jason Schott.


The Big East Conference held its Basketball Media Day at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday morning, and St. John's Head Coach Rick Pitino, and players Kadary Richmond and Zuby Ejiofor were on hand for the official start of the season.

Big East Preseason Poll: Two-Time Champs On Top; St. John’s Fifth In Stacked Conference

 

Photo by Jason Schott.


The Big East Conference held its basketball Media Day on Wednesday morning at Madison Square Garden.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Books: Simply The Best Writing On A Variety Of Subjects In 2024

We have reached the time of year when collections of the best writing of the year become available, either for your own library or as perfect holiday gifts. The Best American series was launched in 1915, and it is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected, and popular, in this genre.

In this review, we will examine three of them: The Best American Essays 2024, edited by Wesley Morris and Kim Dana Kupperman; The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024, edited by Padma Lakshmi and Jaya Saxena; and The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024, edited by S.A. Cosby and Steph Cha.

Books: "Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret" By Congressman Mike Waltz

 


Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret

By Congressman Mike Waltz, U.S. Army Special Forces (Ret.)

St. Martin's Press; hardcover, 288 pages, includes one 8-page color photo insert; $30.00; available today, Tuesday, October 22nd

Congressman Mike Waltz represents Florida's 6th Congressional district, and he is the first Green Beret to be elected to Congress and a former White House and Pentagon policy advisor. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute, served over 25 years in the U.S. Army, and is a retired U.S. Army National Guard Colonel. After he was commissioned as an Army lieutenant, Congressman Waltz graduated from Ranger School and was then selected for the elite Green Berets, and he served worldwide as a decorated Special Forces officer with multiple combat tours in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Africa. He was awarded four Bronze Stars, and two with valor, for his action in combat. 

Books: 'The Arizona Triangle" By Sydney Graves

 


The Arizona Triangle: A Jo Bailen Detective Novel

By Sydney Graves

Harper Paperbacks/HarperCollins Publishers; paperback, 304 pages; $18.99; available today, Tuesday, October 22nd

Sydney Graves is a pseudonym for Kate Christensen, an Arizona native and the author of eight novels, with the most recent Welcome Home, Stranger. Her fourth novel, The Great Man, won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has also authored two food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moosewinner of the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir.

Monday, October 21, 2024

Mendoza On Mets: "We Raised the bar"

 

Mets Manager Carlos Mendoza during one of his press conferences during the NLDS. Photo by Jason Schott.


The Mets' season that felt like it would never end concluded on Sunday night when they lost Game 6 of the NLCS, 10-5, to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Dodgers Take NL Pennant, Leave Mets Grimacing

 

Tommy Edman celebrates his home run with Mookie Betts. Photo by Jason Schott.


The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the National League pennant on Sunday night, as the routed the Mets, 10-5, in Game 6 of the NLCS at Dodger Stadium.

College Football: FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll - Week 8

 



In the FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll for Week 8 of the 2024 college football season, Oregon claimed the top spot, while last week's No. 1,Texas, dropped five slots after losing to Georgia.

Boone On Finally Taking Yankees To World Series As Skipper: "Just really proud of this group"

 

The Yankees celebrate after the final out. @Yankees.


The Yankees clinched a spot in the World Series on Saturday night with their 5-2 win over the Cleveland Guardians in 10 innings in Game 5 of the ALCS, winning the series four games to one.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Yankees World Series Merchandise Available Sunday At Stadium

 

Yankee Stadium. Photo by Jason Schott.


The Yankees are back in the World Series after they clinched the American League pennant on Saturday night with a 5-2 win over the Cleveland Guardians.

Soto The Straw That Stirs The Drink For 2024 Yankees

 

Juan Soto connecting on a home run on May 18 at Yankee Stadium. Photo by Jason Schott.


Juan Soto hit the game-winning home run for the Yankees on Saturday night in Game 5 of the ALCS to beat the Cleveland Guardians, 5-2, in 10 innings to go to the World Series.

Stanton, Soto Send Yankees To World Series

Juan Soto watches his home run in the 10th inning. @Yankees.


The Yankees won the American League championship on Saturday night in a thrilling 5-2 win in 10 innings over the Cleveland Guardians in Game 5 of the ALCS on Saturday night.

NYCFC Drop Regular Season Finale; Off To Cincinnati For Playoffs

Santiago Rodriguez looks for position on Saturday night. @NYCFC.


New York City Football Club was shutout, 2-0, by CF Montreal in their regular season finale on Saturday night.

Books: "The Why Is Everything" By Michael Silver

 


The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution

By Michael Silver

W.W. Norton & Company; hardcover, 448 pages; $32.50

Michael Silver is an award-winning sports journalist and television analyst who is currently a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, a columnist for Yahoo! Sports, and an analyst for the NFL Network. He is the author of All Things Possible, Walk on the Wild Side, Golden Girl, and Rice.

Friday, October 18, 2024

Yankees Now On The Brink Of Pennant No. 41

Austin Wells rounding the bases on his home run. @Yankees. 


The Yankees, backed by home runs from Juan Soto, Austin Wells, and their new Mr. October, Giancarlo Stanton, outlasted the Cleveland Guardians, 8-6, in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Friday night.

Mets, Powered By Pete, Send Series Back To LA

 

Pete Alonso connecting on his first-inning home run. @Mets.


The Mets entered Friday's Game 5 of the National League Championship Series needing a win to avoid seeing the Los Angeles Dodgers clinch at Citi Field, and one of their leaders made sure early that was not going to happen.

Books: "The Great Black Hope," By Louis Moore

 


The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback

By Louis Moore

PublicAffairs; hardcover, 304 pages; $30.00

Louis Moore is a historian of African American history and sports history, and his work has appeared in USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times. His research was cited in Brian Flores' landmark lawsuit accusing the NFL of racial discrimination. 

Thursday, October 17, 2024

St. John's Comes Back To Outlast Rutgers In Charity Exhibition

 

Simeon Wilcher goes up for a layup on Thursday night. @StJohnsBBall.


The St. John's Red Storm beat No. 25 Rutgers, 91-85, on Thursday night, the second straight year they have been them in a charity exhibition game in support of the Dick Vitale Pediatric Cancer Research Fund and the V Foundation.

Yankees Appeared To Be On The Brink, Then Bullpen Buckled

 

Yankee Stadium. Photo by Jason Schott.


The Yankees went out to Cleveland with a 2-0 lead in the American League Championship Series, after they beat the Guardians handily at Yankee Stadium to open the series.

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

St. John's Anticipates Another Big Season In Year 2 Of Pitino Regime

 

Rick Pitino working the sidelines during a game at Carnesecca Arena last season. Photo by Jason Schott.


The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team held its Media Day at Carnesecca Arena on Tuesday, as the second season of the regime of Head Coach Rick Pitino commences.

Monday, October 14, 2024

NLCS: Lindor Leads Mets To Leave L.A. Even

 

Francisco Lindor connecting on his first-inning blast. @Mets.


The Mets evened the National League Championship Series with a 7-3 win over the Dodgers in Game 2 on Monday afternoon in Los Angeles.

Sunday, October 13, 2024

College Football: FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll - Week 7

 


In the FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll for Week 7 of the 2024 college football season, Texas remained in the top spot for the second straight week with their resounding 34-3 win over Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry. 

Thursday, October 10, 2024

The Celebration Is On At Citi Field As Mets Magical Ride Continues

 

The celebration lingered until well after an hour after the game ended at 8:23 p.m. Photo by Jason Schott.



The celebration was on at Citi Field after the Mets clinched the National League Division Series on Wednesday night with their 4-1 won over the Philadelphia Phillies. 

The Mets won the series three games to one, and since the game ended at 8:23 p.m., thousands of fans were able to hang around and take part in the celebration.

NLDS Game 4: Mets Finish Off Phillies

Jose Quintana pitching to Kyle Schwarber in the third inning. Photo by Jason Schott

The Mets clinched the National League Division Series with a 4-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 4 on Wednesday evening at Citi Field.