Brooklyn’s Barclays Center To Host A-10 Women’s Championship
The Atlantic 10 Conference will play its 2013 Women’s Basketball Championship game at the new state-of-the-art Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the league office announced on Thursday. The women’s...
View ArticleThird Annual Dick McGuire Trot Set For Tuesday, Sept. 4, At Empire City...
The third annual Dick McGuire Trot, remembering the Knicks great and basketball Hall of Famer, is on tap for Tuesday night (September 4) at Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway. The New York Sire...
View Article“Other Dream Team” Goes To The Screen…With New York Roots
If you are a hoops fan and hear “Dream Team,” you probably don’t think of the Knicks or the Nets, but the USA ’92 Olympic Team. For sure. The first edition of NBA players into the Olympics had its...
View ArticlePatrick Ewing To Receive Inaugural Johnny Bach Award At Fordham University...
Patrick Ewing will receive the inaugural Johnny Bach Award from Fordham University at the Men’s Basketball Tip-Off Dinner on Monday night, November 5, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel (Park Avenue at Grand...
View ArticleHicksville’s Michelle Kurowski To Play In France
After a standout college career with the UMBC women’s basketball team, former Hicksville H.S. standout Michelle Kurowski has signed a contract to play professional basketball for the Eveil Garnachois...
View ArticleYES Network To Broadcast Six Fordham Hoops Games, Beginning Thursday Vs....
YES Network, the television home of the Yankees, will team with another Bronx institution for game broadcasts in 2012. YES will present six Fordham University men’s home basketball game broadcasts,...
View ArticleNew York Connections Dot Atlantic 10 Hoops Legends
The Atlantic 10 Conference has announced its inaugural Men’s Basketball Legends, including 16 former men’s basketball student-athletes and coaches who made an immeasurable impact on each A-10...
View ArticleStephenson’s Jersey Goes To The Rafters In Brooklyn
Lance Stephenson had quite a run at Lincoln High School under legendary coach Dwayne “Tiny” Morton, leaving the school with a laundry list of success that included being New York state’s all-time...
View ArticleFairfield University Announces Contract Extension For Women’s Basketball Head...
Fairfield University Women’s Basketball Head Coach Joe Frager has signed a contract extension through the 2017-18 season. The announcement was made by Director of Athletics Eugene P. Doris on...
View ArticleGlickman Documentary Captures True New York Broadcasting Legend
“Marty Glickman,” summarized James L. Freedman on the subject of his new HBO documentary, “represented the joy of sport. That’s what emanated out of his broadcasts.” While names like Mel Allen, Red...
View ArticleFairfield University Guard Colin Nickerson Drafted In Second Round NBL Canada...
Fairfield Stags product Colin Nickerson (Waukegan High School/Waukegan, Illinois) was drafted in the second round of the National Basketball League Canada draft, becoming the 20th overall pick in the...
View ArticleFairfield Faces NCAA Champion Louisville In Naismith Memorial HOF Tip Off...
The Fairfield University men’s basketball team, coached by Sydney Johnson, faces its sternest test of the young season in last year’s powerful N.C.A.A. champion University of Louisville, coached by...
View ArticleChrist the King’s Barrow Reaches 1,000th Career Point Milestone
Senior forward Maurice Barrow (Queens, N.Y./Christ the King) scored a team-high 15 points, including the 1,000th of his career, to lead the Fairfield University men’s basketball team to a 73-64 win...
View ArticleNaismith Hall Of Fame Comes Calling For New Yorker John Andariese
A familiar name to New York basketball fans who have followed the sport over the past three decades today received one of its highest honors as John Andariese was named one of two recipients of the...
View ArticleMillion Dollar Hoops Event Comes To New York
If you have five friends who can play hoops, several hundred others who can support you on social and a little luck of the draw, come August you can be a millionaire in New York. Open tryout for the...
View ArticleBig Time Hoops returns To Fordham?
Championship basketball is back at Fordham, sort of. No, new coach Jeff Neubauer hasn’t found a miracle to turn around the struggling Rams just yet, but at least his home court will see a title this...
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Former St. John’s Stars, ex Knicks Heading To Fordham For Semi-finals of $2...
It’s back next weekend, with double the prize money and a national stage on ESPN. “The Basketball Tournament” presented by Jack Links makes its return to Fordham’s Rose Hill Gym for the semi-finals on...
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Former MSG Executive McCarthy Named COO of Milwaukee Bucks
One Mike McCarthy in Wisconsin wasn’t enough, the Milwaukee Bucks needed one too, and they got him from New York. Former MSG executive, and also ex head of the St. Louis Blues, Mike McCarthy was the...
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Hoop Dreams: Area D2 Schools Shoot For NCAA’s
Fourteen area men’s and women’s teams will battle it out this weekend as the region’s three Division II basketball tournaments conclude with semifinal and final action, with automatic and at-large NCAA...
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STAC Spartans Go For NCAA Championship This Weekend In Sioux Falls
The St. Thomas Aquinas Spartans’ men’s basketball team made some waves around these parts in the preseason of 2015-16, when they demolished St. John’s, 90-58. Although it was an exhibition, the...
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