Saints Win First NFL Title With 31-17 Win in Super Bowl XLIV
Heading into South Florida and Super Bowl XLIV, many folks would have guessed that one of the quarterbacks would have melted down the stretch and not come through when it counted. That's part of the game, right? But how many of them would have said that Peyton Manning - the 2009 NFL MVP - would end up being the guilty party? We certainly are right in that mix, having predicted that the Indianapolis Colts would not only win their second championship in four years, but do so easily. Boy, were we wrong. Drew Brees (32 for 39, 288 yards, two touchdowns) ...
Look Back at the Life of Dick McGuire
On Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, the Knicks handily defeated the Washington Wizards, 107-85. The rare victory was accomplished by the New Yorkers crushing the visitors by 26 points (66-40) during the second half. It would be nice to believe that the current team raised its normal level of play to pay tribute to Dick McGuire, a loyal employee of the organization for 53 years. McGuire died earlier in the day at Huntington Hospital of natural causes. He was born 84 years and 10 days before his death. What he accomplished and how he lived during those years ...
Charlotte 49ers Edge Fordham Rams, 77-73
Anyone watching the Charlotte (17-5, 7-1)-Fordham (2-18, 0-8) contest at the Rose Hill Gym on Saturday afternoon would have been surprised to find out that Charlotte was on top of Atlantic-10 standings and that Fordham was winless and in last place. The two clubs engaged in a competitive struggle that was tied with 1:11 remaining and appeared headed to overtime. During the 40 minutes of action, the score was tied 11 times and the lead changed hands 12 times. The closeness of the game was made apparent immediately. Mini-spurts by each team earned the largest advantage each achieved in the first ...
Super Bowl or Stupor Bowl: Kick off can’t happen soon enough
It’s been a great pleasure of mine to have been able to watch this game in many places in the past. In my home, out at parties with others, at sports bars, and live in person as both a fan and a member of the credentialed media. As someone who has seen every super bowl since #1, I can attest to you that there have been several great ones, many boring ones, and many just plain bad ones (unless you were a fan of the winning team). What the time leading up to the super bowl has become however, is just ...
A Different Kind of Super Bowl Preview
I have been listening for two weeks how the Colts have this one wrapped up by about 25 points. Even though I’m picking Indy to win, not so fast on the blow out people. This is going to be closer then any one imagines, at least for the first three quarters. Both teams are powerhouse offenses, but they arrive there by different measures. The Saints offense does it’s very best to pass you to death, and run when they have to. Lots of pundits who think they need glorification see the New Orleans squad as the remake of the 2007 Giants or ...
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New York Mets
A Christmas Gift The Mets Had To Give Omar Minaya had a list and may have checked it twice, but most of the stores he shopped in didn’t carry what he was looking for. Regardless, he couldn’t let the kids – or in this case, the season ticket holders sitting on renewals and potential new orders – be disappointed during the holiday season. [...]
New York Yankees
Vazquez Will Be Just Fine When righthander Javier Vazquez was acquired from the Montreal Expos back in December of 2003, the deal was viewed as one that would put the Yankees over the top and back to their World Series winning ways.
At the time, they were coming off a disappointing loss to the Florida Marlins in the Fall Classic and [...]
New York Giants
John Mara Speaks About The Giants Season NYSD has teamed up with Trainor Communications to provide Giants CEO John Mara’s commentary from Giants Stadium today and his thoughts on the state of the team.
Listen to part one here.
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Listen to part two here.
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Audio courtesy of Bob Trainor of Trainor Communications. To [...]
New York Jets
Desti-NY Derailed In the end, even destiny couldn’t beat Peyton Manning.
The Indianapolis Colts’ future Hall of Fame quarterback ultimately proved once again that he is indeed that dominant, and that this year, “MVP” might as well stand for “Most Valuable, Peyton.”
Through four straight wins and nearly half of what looked to be a fifth, the New York [...]
New York Knicks
Look Back at the Life of Dick McGuire On Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, the Knicks handily defeated the Washington Wizards, 107-85. The rare victory was accomplished by the New Yorkers crushing the visitors by 26 points (66-40) during the second half. It would be nice to believe that the current team raised its normal level of play to pay tribute [...]
New Jersey Nets
The Nets Are Nothing Until Brooklyn In a few years from now, this may all be just a cloudy memory. Down the road, the Nets could very well be playing in front of a packed house with an enthusiastic Brooklyn crowd wearing number 23 jerseys. But then again they could be stuck in the same swamp they are now without any [...]
New York Rangers
Rangers Get Best of Brodeur, Kovalchuk The Rangers defeated the New Jersey Devils, 3-1, tonight at Madison Square Garden, to improve to 26-26-7 (59 pts.) overall, including a 13-14-4 (30 pts.) mark at home this season.
Trainor Communications has provided us with this sound from the game.
Henrik Lundqvist
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Marian Gaborik
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Ryan Callahan
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New York Islanders
Isles Drop Seventh of Eight UNIONDALE, NY— First intermission treated Islanders fans to a glimpse of a mini remote controlled blimp getting wedged in the rafters near the Nassau Coliseum press box.
Consider it symbolism for the arena’s home team as the Islanders are desperately looking to find the right direction. The Islanders failed to generate much offense against a goalie [...]
Baseball
A Few Things That Need Attention… So now we finally know that Mark McGwire used steroids and performance enhancing drugs to become the home run hitter he was. His admission and apology Monday to Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, and to his former manager Tony La Russa of the St. Louis Cardinals was a slap in the face to baseball fans.
Because for [...]
Football
Saints Win First NFL Title With 31-17 Win in Super Bowl XLIV Heading into South Florida and Super Bowl XLIV, many folks would have guessed that one of the quarterbacks would have melted down the stretch and not come through when it counted. That’s part of the game, right? But how many of them would have said that Peyton Manning – the 2009 NFL MVP – would [...]
College Football
Senior Bowl Stock Reports 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 [...]
Fantasy Football
Football Talk 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 do. In [...]
Basketball
Charlotte 49ers Edge Fordham Rams, 77-73 Anyone watching the Charlotte (17-5, 7-1)-Fordham (2-18, 0-8) contest at the Rose Hill Gym on Saturday afternoon would have been surprised to find out that Charlotte was on top of Atlantic-10 standings and that Fordham was winless and in last place. The two clubs engaged in a competitive struggle that was tied with 1:11 remaining [...]
Hockey
Audio: Pittsburgh Drops Rangers, 4-2 Once again NYSD has teamed up with Trainor Communications with some audio clips from the Pittsburgh Penguins in their 4-2 win at Madison Square Garden last night
Chris Conner
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Sydney Crosby
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Marc-Andre Fleury
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Coach Dan Blysma
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Other Sports
Lopez and Gamboa shine in Knockout wins Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa took one more step to a future big money showdown between the two kings of the featherweight division.
“JuanMa” Lopez (28-0, 25 KO’s) totally dominated and outmatched the skilled Steven Luevano to take away his WBO featherweight title in fantastic style. Lopez knocked out Luevano with a crushing right-left combo [...]
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One Down, Three To Go For Roger Last year, some wondered what happened to Roger Federer, especially after he dropped the Australian Open to Rafael Nadal.
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New York Red Bulls
Time to fire Agoos-OsorioOne supporter’s letter to the front office The Red Bulls are in shambles and calls for Juan Carlos Osorio’s head are nothing new. But patience is wearing thin with the team’s supporters, one of whom penned this letter to Red Bulls general manager Erik Stover. We reprinted it with his permission.
Long Island Ducks
Ducks Season Ends With Game 5 Loss (Central Islip, N.Y., Sept. 29, 2009) – The 2009 season came to an end for Long Island on Tuesday night, as the Ducks were defeated by the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, 7-5, in Game Five of the Liberty Division playoffs. The win gave the Blue Crabs a 3-2 series win and a berth in the Atlantic [...]
Bridgeport Bluefish
Upshaw still waiting for first win of 2009 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 [...]
