Strasberg Not Worth the Money Boras is Asking

There hasn’t been an amateur player in the history of baseball worth a $1 million signing bonus, let alone the catastrophic amount (reportedly $50 million) about to be demanded by Stephen Strasburg’s agent, Scott Boras. This is why baseball’s draft, which kicks off this afternoon, is such a travesty.
The draft was established in 1965 after [...]

The UFL Ready To Go For 2010

NEW YORK – If you had said to me three years ago that a new professional football league would start up and play games during the fall, when the NFL and College Football (not to mention High School Football) were in full swing, I would have suggested some sort of substance abuse recovery program.
Two years [...]

Queens Native Phil Williams Goes to 11-1

Hinkley, MN – Tonight’s featured bout at Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota was to have been a match between two New York boxers: Queens native Phil Williams and Queens-based Connecticut native Jaidon Codrington.  Codrington, however, dropped off the card less than a week before fight night, his team claiming an unspecified career-threatening injury.  So tough [...]

Dunkirk Looks for a Rebound

ELMONT, NY- High-priced free-agents and wide-eyed rookies aren’t the only sporting participants to struggle playing in front of huge crowds.
Even horses can endure performance anxiety and nervousness. Dunkirk posted an 11th-place Kentucky Derby finish, stumbling twice in the first 50 yards amid the 153,563 fans at Churchill Downs.
Dunkirk skipped the Preakness but still garnered favorable [...]

Zito Gves His Toughts for the Belmont

ELMONT, NY – Count Nick Zito as one of horse racing’s few human celebrities.
Zito’s name is well known to casual racing fans, a byproduct of two victories each in the Belmont Stakes and the Kentucky Derby as well as a Preakness win. The 2005 Hall of Fame inductee is a mainstay in Triple Crown competitions [...]

DC United washes out Red Bulls 2-0

A Jaime Moreno penalty in stoppage time finally put a tense game out of reach as DC United prevailed over the New York Red Bulls Thursday night at RFK Stadium. Tom Soehn’s club now gets a full week of well-deserved rest. For Juan Carlos Osorio and the Red Bulls, it’s back to the drawing board again. Assuming, that is, Osorio gets to stick around.

Borel Tries for the Record

NEW YORK – The 1 ½-mile distance at Belmont Stakes separates the race from the Triple Crown’s first two legs.
Jockey Calvin Borel will be making his debut in the “Tournament of Champions” Saturday.  But Borel’s inexperience was a secondary concern for odds-makers, which made Mine That Bird a 2-1 morning-line favorite Wednesday.
Borel will be going [...]

Garcia Ready For the Belmont

NEW YORK – Charitable Man shares a similarity with every other entry running in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes in that the horse will not capture the Triple Crown title.
The gelding didn’t even enter the Kentucky Derby or Preakness. But both Charitable Man and jockey Alan Garcia established a comfort level in Elmont last year, which could [...]

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