NEW YORK – I have been on the Rangers beat for five years now and for the last three, I had the pleasure of dealing with Chris Drury on a regular basis.
Now, Drury isn’t the best of quotes in the room, because he’s so reserved and many might say he can speak in clichés simply [...]

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 [...]

Yes–at first, I thought it was a basketball score, but I was wrong.  In a Division II college football playoff game last weekend, West Liberty beat Edinboro 84-63 (I’m not kidding, folks); the teams combined for a Division II single-game record 1,394 yards of total offense.  Here’s the topper:  QB Trevor Harris of Edinboro threw for an NCAA [...]

NEW YORK – A special anniversary was celebrated at Madison Square Garden in a most fitting way on Sunday.
Saying that New York Rangers’ goalie Henrik Lundqvist masked his team’s recent offensive struggles not only describes his 1-0 shutout over the visiting Boston Bruins, but it simultaneously references a connection with a moment that changed [...]

In the first move in what looks like to be a busy offseason, the Rangers traded center Scott Gomez, forward Tom Pyatt, and defenseman Mike Busto to the Montreal Canadiens for forward Chris Higgins and defensemen Ryan McDonagh and Pavel Valentenko.
In moving Gomez, the Rangers clear major space on the salary cap since he is [...]

The “Unwatchable NBA” Update”: How ’bout Denver’s 121-63 blowout victory over New Orleans last week–yes, in a PLAYOFF game, folks! The home-team Hornets made just 17 field goals during this fiasco and scored a pitiful 24 points in the ENTIRE SECOND HALF. If I’m a Hornets fan, I could have used TWO paper bags that [...]

The word “domination” is often misused/overused in the sports world–but NOT in this case: The Trinity College (CT) squash team just won its 11th straight national championship and 202nd match in a row–simply MIND-BOGGLING numbers in these days of competitive college athletics. I was privileged to interview coach Paul Assaiante on “Monday Night Sports Talk” [...]

NEWARK, NJ – Five was the number of the evening for the New Jersey Devils Wednesday night, when they faced the Montreal Canadiens. Five players notched two points in the Devils’ fifth straight win, a 5-2 success that solidified New Jersey as tops in the Atlantic Division at the All-Star Break.

NEWARK, NJ – The New Jersey Devils earned two very important points against the Montreal Canadiens Friday night at the Prudential Center.
With a 4-1 victory, the Devs have moved into a temporary tie for fifth place in the Eastern Conference with the Philadelphia Flyers, before the Flyers beat Anaheim later in the evening.
The win also [...]