The “Unwatchable NBA” Update:  In a game played in Charlotte last week, the Bobcats dismantled the Heat 104-65; Miami shot a putrid 22-for-76 from the floor (29%).  The topper?  This included the Heat shooting a pathetic 2-for-23 (9%) from three-pt. range.  Yes–somewhere, Steve Kerr is weeping, folks…….TRIVIA QUESTION:  The lowly 1990-1991 Miami Heat–who finished 24-58 under coach [...]

Without question, the performance by Arizona Cardinals QB Kurt Warner in the recent playoff game vs. Green Bay was one of the most impressive in postseason history. Here’s why: The man had MORE TD passes (5) than INCOMPLETIONS (4). Final numbers: 29/33 for 379 yards and NO interceptions; simply phenomenal………TRIVIA QUESTION: The lowly 1987-’88 Los [...]

Lazzari’s “Lopsided Score of the Week”:  In a girls high school basketball game played last week here in Connecticut, Capital Prep dismantled Norwich Tech 78-7 (no need to put on the reading glasses, folks–you read that correctly); the winning squad held a 47-0 lead AT THE HALF (yes, a BASKETBALL game–NOT football, my friends).  Comparing this to a women’s boxing [...]

NEW YORK – The New York Knicks are a mere six games into their current NBA season, yet it’s certainly no secret that just about all diehard Knick fans have long been pointing toward who they’ll be watching a little less than a year from now, when their team raises the curtain on its 2010-11 [...]

I’m not sure if I find the following statement DISTURBINGLY sad or TOTALLY hilarious: From this day forward, whenever I hear The Searchers’ version of “Needles and Pins,” I’ll think of major league baseball……….TRIVIA QUESTION: The 1988-’89 Cleveland Cavaliers–who finished 57-25 under coach Lenny Wilkens–had three players on the squad who averaged more than 18 [...]

PRE-GAME
I arrive in Willimantic last Sat. around 2:45 to check out the Eastern CT/UMass Boston men’s basketball game; I see a campus cop ticketing cars where I normally park, so I decide to park elsewhere–FAR away.  A lovely young co-ed exits her car next to me and enters the nearby dorm; I wish I was 22 again.  [...]

Lazzari’s “Lopsided Score of the Week”: In a recent Connecticut girls high school basketball game played just before Christmas, Capital Prep tore apart University 62-9; Capital outscored its overmatched opponent 31-3 in the second half of this laugher. I’m totally convinced that if someone had told the University coach during halftime that his team’s 6 [...]

Lazzari’s “Lopsided Score of the Week”: In a Connecticut girls high school basketball game played last week, Avon annihilated Enfield 73-13; the winning squad held a staggering 64-7 lead after three quarters. If I’m the Enfield coach, I inject a smidgen of comforting humor toward the end of this laugher and offer the following to [...]

How ’bout that women’s basketball game last week between Temple and Dartmouth–won by the Owls 65-29? Dartmouth shot 10-for-48 from thefield (not a misprint, folks!)–including 3-for-15 from three-pointrange. I still say that the gals from Dartmouth beat Temple in a gameof Trivial Pursuit……….TRIVIA QUESTION: During the 1980 NBAAll-Star Game, two members of the Atlanta Hawks [...]

FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Say what you want about the Garden, but it does know how to throw a party. And when the top brass at the New York Liberty wanted to jazz up an otherwise drab mid-summer Saturday game, they did it in top form.
By relocating their conference matchup with the Indiana Fever to [...]