You probably have to go back to the Felipe López/Ron Artest era for the last time the Knicks and St. John’s generated this kind of excitement in the city. 🏀

Peak 90s Big East basketball

Even if SGA has the answers, that was a tough question. 🏀

A team with no turnovers is usually short on assists. No fouls often means fewer blocks and steals. Moderation in everything applies to winning basketball too. 🏀

In quieter times there’d be a Polymarket on who would be appointed the neutral administrator, aka czar, to sort out tariff refunds, since it likely won’t be as simple as backdating them. Kenneth Feinberg would have to be the early favorite. Why he’d want that job I have no idea.

The Arnold Palmer Invitational ended yesterday, which reminded me of one of the more enjoyable bookings I ever worked on, Arnold Palmer himself. We taped with him in 2011 at his home office in Latrobe, PA, where he grew up. He and Charlie had a great conversation about golf,

The new JFK Jr.–Carolyn Bessette series has sparked a fascination with the 1990s. That intrigue seems largely about a longing for the last pre-social-media era. But then we’d also be romanticizing the oughts, and nobody seems ready to go there yet, even if it involves a Kennedy.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY KNOCKS OFF TOP SEED NAVY AT THE HORN 🤯

Ali–Frazier I, the “Fight of the Century,” went down at MSG 55 years ago today. Frank Sinatra was ringside, snapping photos for Life magazine. Some say Life couldn’t get a photographer credentialed amid the insane demand. Whatever the reason, Sinatra gladly stepped up for the

UNC won at Chapel Hill last month, so Duke is in revenge mode today at Cameron. You’d think that alone would make this great rivalry game worth watching. Not so fast. If you believe the diviners in Vegas, this one won’t even be competitive. Sad! 🏀

On this date in 1986, NBA great Bill Russell guest-starred on an episode of Miami Vice. #80s #nostalgia

Vincent Price was more than just the elder Barrymore’s friend, for crying out loud. This excellent vintage interview shows how he brought his art historian’s sensibility to horror and helped give the genre its distinctive style. If that’s not of interest, as they say, some

Nearly a triple-double 10 months after an Achilles tear is impressive. No visible rust in his game may be even more so.

Would have been cool to tell him in real time that his former school just clinched the Big East regular season title. #sjubb 🏀

I grew up watching the great Ed McMahon as host of Star Search and in those American Family Publishers sweepstakes commercials. Before that, he redefined the role of the talk show sidekick and night after night delivered “Here’s Johnny!”, a line that hardly needed additional

Following Walter Cronkite’s nearly 20-year run beginning in 1962, the next golden era of network evening news anchors soon formed around Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings. What is sometimes overlooked about Cronkite’s early days at CBS is that he worked alongside but was

When I was first trying to understand politics (an ongoing process), The Weekly Standard helped a lot, as did The Nation. Also nice to be reminded here of Fred Barnes (far right). I recall watching him square off on weekends on Fox News with Mort Kondracke in a civil debate

Known endearingly in New York as “Tommy Cutlets.” Maybe the likes of Legal Sea Foods can add “Tommy Chowdah” to the menu up north.

It is striking how quickly the advantage shifts to the fraudster once someone engages with a call marked as possible spam. If you do, the scammer playbook opens, in part because they also agree you shouldn’t reflexively trust calls from random numbers and gladly offer to ring

Mike Tyson made his professional debut #OnThisDay in 1985.