New York – After a 2-9 west coast road trip where they batted .181 as a team, the New York Mets were happy to see the friendly confines at home Tuesday evening. Citi Field is where they have achieved most of their success prior to the all-star break with a 30-16 mark. And once again [...]

Yankee Stadium—On Sunday, July 25, the latest Yankees home stand concluded without Alex Rodriguez having joined the very exclusive 600 home run club. The Kansas City Royals drew huge crowds as fans poured through the entrances in hopes of seeing A-Rod blast his 600th. The Yankees rooters hoped the wait for No. 600 would not [...]

New York, July 28—Everyone, especially sports fans, can cool off during the summer heat wave is a stop at Last Licks ice cream stores in Manhattan and Westchester. The “Sports Bar for Kids,” features signature flavors developed by star athletes, as well as the traditional chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. With 16 flavors of ice cream, [...]

New York has often held the reputation of being the greatest city in the world. So, it’s fitting that in February, 2014, the world will be watching New York (and by extension, New Jersey) host the planet’s biggest game. And, unless anyone has an accurate 45-month weather forecast, there’s no telling what we all may [...]

After trying for two years to build their entire franchise around LeBron James, the New York Knicks’ pursuit of the most coveted free agent in NBA history officially ended at exactly 9:27 p.m. on Thursday night, when the self-proclaimed king of basketball declared that he was “going to take his talents to South Beach” and [...]

The New Jersey Nets picked Georgia Tech forward Derrick Favors with the No. 3 overall pick in the NBA Draft last night. According to DraftExpress.com: At 12.1 possessions per-game, Favors ranks right around the average in terms of usage in our rankings. He actually falls behind Patrick Patterson, who notably sacrificed some of his touches [...]

When the New York Rangers make the 10th overall selection in the 2010 NHL Draft it will mark the highest draft pick they have since 2004 when they selected goaltender Al Montoya with the first of two first round draft picks. The Blueshirts would later draft Lauri Korpikoski with the 19th pick. The Montoya pick [...]

UNIONDALE, N.Y.— Using college as a launching-pad to the NHL helped an Islanders former first-round draft pick become a first-line forward. Kyle Okposo parlayed his time at the University of Minnesota into becoming one of the most reliable forwards on the roster. The Islanders are hoping 2010 first-round pick Brock Nelson can follow a similar [...]

Major League Baseball prepares to showcase the 81st version of its mid-summer classic from Anaheim, California on Tuesday night, and while there is still much that’s good with the MLB all-star game and its accompanying festivities, the current setup also leaves a lot of room for improvement. Thus, in the dream world of a writer [...]

When people used to bring up the phrase “Draft Bust,” it used to signal the talk of Ryan Leaf. Nowadays, Leaf is basically an afterthought. There’s a new man holding down that crown of being the biggest draft bust in NFL History, and that man is JaMarcus Russell. Russell was just recently released by the [...]

It is just about that time of the year again. The NFL season is culminating this Sunday with the Super Bowl between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. That means that the Super Bowl is the last professional football game for 6 months. For some, that is sad news. But for the hardcore [...]

Looking under the hood of Week 16 Ego’s aside, the Vikings need to let Favre lead… The proof is definitely in the pudding and if you cared to take a taste last night watching Monday night football, you would come to the same conclusion. The Vikings need to cater the offense around what Favre can [...]

New York – Guard Kalana Greene came off the bench to spark the New York Liberty (12-11) offense in the 77-72 victory over San Antonio (8-15)  in Tuesday night basketball. With today’s victory the Liberty was able to get its second series sweep of the summer and the first series sweep in the all-time history [...]

The 2010 NHL Draft can be described as a “Tale of Two Forwards”. Everyone expects Taylor Hall and Tyler Seguin to be the first two players selected on Friday night, June 25. However, the order of their selection is still up in the air. Edmonton GM Steve Tambellini is playing his cards very close to [...]

It was bad enough that on July 8th, ESPN facilitated one of the most ridiculous, self-centered events any professional athlete ever perpetuated on the sports public by airing LeBron James’ prime time special, all in the name of ratings and money. That was tough enough for New York Knicks fans to take (although not nearly [...]

NEW YORK (July 24, 2010) – Abigail Spears helped win three events and Robert Kendrick two as the New York Sportimes defeated the Boston Lobsters 22-17 Friday night at SPORTIME at Randall’s Island to win the 2010 WTT Eastern Conference Championship. The Sportimes will now hit the road and travel to Kansas City to take [...]

The “King of Friendlies” has struck again. After a great goal against Santos F.C. of Brazil in the opening of Red Bull Arena, Dane Richards once again conjured up his magic, and sent a rocket off his foot off the crossbar and into the net, giving the Red Bulls the 2-1 win. “As Kandji drew [...]

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y.— Near-record heat didn’t sap Ray Navarette’s power. But Somerset’s Josh Pressley also thrived against the elements, belting two home runs with just one out remaining to capture the Atlantic League’s home run derby prior to Tuesday’s All-Star game at Suffolk County Sports Park. Navarrete finished in second place the last time the [...]

Bridgeport, CT—The second edition of the Willie Upshaw era as manager of the Bridgeport Bluefish was off to a slow start weekend as Bridgeport dropped three straight one-run games to the York Revolution.  Yesterday, Bob Zimmermann was able to halt a ninth inning Bridgeport rally to earn his sixth save of the year, and the [...]