Nike has a case of Linsanity. The sportswear giant extended its contract with the Knicks’ point guard, less than three weeks after his meteoric rise to fame, Beijing Business Today reported, in an effort to guard him from being stolen by rival companies. While the terms of the deal aren’t clear, ESPN Radio reported last [...]
Manny Ramirez told ESPN’s Pedro Gomez on Monday that he has agreed to a deal with the Oakland Athletics. Sources tell Gomez the deal is worth about $500,000. Ramirez is obligated to serve a 50-game suspension without pay before beginning play for the A’s due to violating baseball’s drug policy for the second time. With [...]
Jeremy Lin scored 28 points with a career-high 14 assists as the Knicks rallied from a 12-point second half deficit to defeat the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks 104-97 at the Garden. Lin recorded six assists in the fourth quarter including three to Steve Novak, who scored all of his 14 points in the final [...]
ESPN is apologizing for an offensive headline posted after Jeremy Lin and the Knicks fell to the Hornets Friday night, ending a dazzling 7-game win streak. The headline, “Ch-k in the armor” was up for about 30 minutes before being pulled down, ESPN said in a statement, as the controversy continued to grow in volume [...]
NEW ORLEANS HORNETS 89, NY KNICKS 85 Two weeks of Lin-sanity and everything that entails finally got the best of Jeremy Lin. He’s no longer undefeated, no longer invincible and the Knicks winning streak is over. Lin missed too many shots and turned the ball over at a NBA record pace as the New Orleans [...]
Baseball lost a Hall of Famer and one of its greatest ambassadors in Gary Carter on Thursday. Carter succumbed to brain cancer less than a year after he was diagnosed with inoperable tumors in May 2011. Last month, Carter’s family revealed recent tests showed additional tumors. Carter, who was 57, died at his Palm Beach [...]
Jeremy Lin grabbed a spot on the bench next to Carmelo Anthony in the third quarter and shared a laugh with the injured All-Star. “We were just having fun and kind of talking about how we’re both excited for when he comes back,” Lin said. Hey Melo, no need to rush. Lin and the Knicks [...]
Jeremy Lin had the crowd on its feet, Jose Calderon on his heels and the game in his hands. All that remained was the shot. Hours earlier, Lin had called his fairy tale journey “a miracle from God” and the biggest shot of his NBA career seem to fall from heaven. There is no stopping [...]
Lin, if you can believe it, out-Kobed one of the NBA’s all-time great players by scoring a career-high 38 points in the Knicks’ eye-opening 92-85 victory Friday night at the Garden. “I didn’t see 38 coming,” Tyson Chandler said. “I think he’s taken us all by surprise. Not only us but the league.” There was [...]
Ferrell, the Saturday Night Live alum, took over the player introduction duties at Wednesday night’s Bulls-Hornets game and got creative when it came to the player bios.
Thousands of fans roared as New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning hoisted the team’s Super Bowl trophy from a glittering blue-and-white float Tuesday during a victory parade through New York City. (Feb.7)
Most viewers probably didn’t even catch M.I.A. flipping the middle finger during her performance with Madonna at the Super Bowl, but even though it was only a split second, some people are very angry that the gesture was shown during the biggest television event in the country. At 14 seconds in, while M.I.A. proclaims, “I [...]
Eli Manning and the Giants one-upped Tom Brady and the Patriots again, coming back with a last-minute score to beat New England 21-17 in Indianapolis on Sunday night for New York’s 4th Super Bowl XLVI title. The Giants and Patriots repeated their last matchup from 2008, where the Giants defeated the undefeated Patriots 17-14.
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NBCSports.com will broadcast the entire game for free beginning with pregame activity at 2 p.m. ET and kickoff at 6:30 p.m. ET. Viewers will be able to choose from four unique camera angles, as well as pause and rewind the stream, and connect to social-media sites like Twitter and Facebook. NFL.com will also show the [...]
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Along with a new uniform, Jose Reyes has a new, close-cropped look. The All-Star shortstop had his dreadlocks trimmed during a nationally televised haircut Friday on the MLB Network. “A little bit lighter. It’s going to take me a couple of days to get used to it,” Reyes said. He left the New York Mets [...]
Check out Blake Griffin as he soars for this INCREDIBLE dunk and posterizes Kendrick Perkins with the one-handed finish way above the rim!
Someone didn’t eat their Wheaties that morning.
