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Today in Sports History: May 25th
(Starks throws it down over Jordan. Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler, Getty Images) 5/25/1981 - Spider Dan scales Sears Tower Climbing up buildings is hardly a sport, but it is a phenomenal athletic achievement -- especially without the help of a safety valve. In 1981, 25 year-old acrobat Daniel...
Today in Sports History: January 21st
1/21/1997 - The Con Game Of the many things that Michael Jordan was known for, one of them was getting himself hyped up for a game. Often times, Jordan would create something to give him motivation when the game itself wasn't all that important. For a January game against the New York Knicks,...
Today in Sports History: May 7th
(Herb Score. Photo via the Cleveland Plain Dealer, via Cleveland.com) 5/07/1957 - Score hit with line driveThrough two seasons, Indians pitcher Herb Score had established himself as one of the best pitchers in baseball. The talented left-hander went 36-19 in his first two seasons, leading the...
Today in Sports History: June 22nd
6/22/1994 - Starks awful as Rockets win series The Houston Rockets defeat the New York Knicks, 90-84, in the seventh and final game of the NBA Finals, giving them their first championship in franchise history. Hakeem Olajuwon showed why he was the regular season MVP. He totaled 25 points, 10...
Around the Association: 2009-2010 New York Knicks- Is it summatime yet?
Just hurry up and make this trade Cleveland. It'll save you from a miserable 2010 summer. Actually isn't it always miserable in Ohio? Jump for a look at the Knicks year long campaign to bring LeBron James and (his) friends to the Big Apple! Before we look at the present and project the future,...
Friday Golden Langurs
Happy Friday, fellas and females. The Knicks play a basketball game against the Orlando Magic basketball team tonight, but in the meantime let's take a look around the web, shall we? - Mouhamed Sene will wear the number 18 in what promises to be a long, storied Knick career. The more I think...
Those Who Love The Game – Glenn "Doc" Rivers on Life in the NBA and Elsewhere: Book Review
I first learned about Those Who Love The Game – Glenn “Doc” Rivers on Life in the NBA and Elsewhere, in this article by Bill Reynolds. Rivers worked with Bruce Brooks and I like how they went about it. As a reader it is easy differentiate Rivers’ words from Brooks’. In...
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