Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey concluded their two-day, two-city press conference earlier today in New York at Madison Square Garden. Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs), boxing’s No.1 pound for pound fighter, will make the first defense of his WBO welterweight title when he faces off against the WBO’s number 1 contender, Joshua Clottey(35-3, 20 KOs).
The fight [...]

For the second time in three months, two of boxing’s brightest young stars will headline a card at the Wamu Theatre in Madison Square Garden. Juan Manuel Lopez and Yurikois Gamboa look to take one last step toward a possible collision course between the two if they are victorious. [...]

NEW YORK – New York Knicks’ head coach Mike D’Antoni has a dream.
He hopes that Nate Robinson can keep playing the way his coach needs his diminutive but quick and energy-filled guard to play in order for the Knicks to win games.
So, in the spirit of that vision, it was somewhat fitting that [...]

NEW YORK –Lately, life is much better for Scott Gomez, after his trade to the Montreal Canadiens, than it has been for the New York Rangers, the team which traded him north of the border.  The transition has been as smooth as could be expected, given that hockey is covered as fervently throughout Canada as [...]

More than twenty years ago, John Feinstein wrote A Season on the Brink, which told the saga of Bob Knight, the legendary basketball coach at Indiana University.
In Open Court: A Year With the New York Knicks, John J. Buro recounts one particular forgettable season in the life of Isiah Thomas -Knight’s point guard on the [...]

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 [...]

When Dwight Hardy, the St. John’s junior guard made the tying and winning shots at the line with second remaining at Madison Square Garden Wednesday evening against Cincinnati there was a message sent to the Big East Conference.  Perhaps St. John’s will have more of these games in the month ahead.
“Every time you win at [...]

NEW YORK— Handing a point to a division rival is a steep price for busting any player out of a slump.
But Islanders coach Scott Gordon said it’s a trade-off he’ll gladly take after Kyle Okposo pushed a shot that hit off Marc Staal and past Henrik Lundqvist for game-winner in a 3-2 overtime victory over [...]

NEW YORK – It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
If anyone figured to beat St. John’s in the annual Holiday Festival, it figured to be Hofstra, which defeated the Red Storm in the Festival title game in 2006, the fourth consecutive time that St. John’s had lost to its cross-town rival.
But, on Sunday, [...]

NEW YORK – After a Saturday storm dumped more than a foot of snow on New York City, a garden would have figured to be one of the least desirable places to visit on Sunday.
That is, unless you’re a big basketball fan, where from noon until late Sunday evening, you could seek shelter from the [...]