New York –  Cinderella almost continued its run towards college basketball relevance today, but not quite. St. Johns University, once among the titans of the sport but having fallen on hard times in recent years, had defeated Connecticut handily yesterday to move into the second round of the Big East Championships. [...]

New York – Tonight, Norm Roberts can rest a little easier. As many games as St. Johns has lost under his tutelage against teams the Red Storm never used to lose to, today’s convincing blowout of the University of Connecticut in the opening round of the Big East Championship tournament at [...]

New York – A music critic, after viewing a concert in the early 1970s put on by a young singer from New Jersey became semi-famous for stating the unique observation, “I’ve seen the future of rock and roll, and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” Well, tonight, it would not be a stretch to utter similar [...]

NEW YORK – It was “”Italian Heritage Night” tonight at Madison Square Garden when the Knicks faced off against the Toronto Raptors. No, free pizza wasn’t handed out to the 19,763 fans in the arena but  with Andrea Bargnani and Marco Belinelli playing for the Raptors and Danilo Gallinari for New York, the night was [...]

NEW YORK — The Knicks had a chance tonight at home against the San Antonio Spurs to make a statement, a very large statement about the progress they have been making during their recent string of good games in December that has seen them win nine of their 13 games this month. The Knicks went ahead and made that statement [...]

New York – Is it possible that New York area basketball fans just might get to follow hometown teams that can approach respectability this season?
With their cross-river rival New Jersey Nets, winners of one consecutive game coming into the Garden for a 12 noon matinee today, the Knicks were facing a confident bunch. However, the [...]

New York – It’s going from very bad to much worse for the Knicks, these days.
They had a terrific opportunity to get back on the winning track tonight. All of the winds were blowing in the right direction. They were at home, in front of a sold-out Madison Square Garden, with a struggling, defensively-challenged Golden [...]

New York – The Rangers were defeated tonight by the Atlanta Thrashers, 5-3, in front of another sold-out Garden crowd of 18,300. You have to give the Ranger faithful their due, they are a loyal bunch to their team which is now 3-7-1 in their last ten games and fell to a 10-8-1 overall record.
Ilya [...]

New York — When Jamal Crawford, the former Knick guard who once scored 52 points in a game here at Madison Square Garden arrived tonight at this arena as an Atlanta Hawk, it was out of sheer habit from his five years of service that he initially turned toward his old locker room to get [...]

Yes, the Knicks lost another game tonight. They did so by continuing to repeat the same season-long pattern of poor play in the first halves of games followed by frenetic, catch-up aggression in the second half to make final scores respectable. And, yes, they are still at a loss to figure out how to play [...]