The Fighting Gatti Brothers: Thunder And Lightning
“Joe and Arturo’s careers, and lives, would take two entirely different paths. The brother’s careers were, in essence, a study on professional boxing.” So says the author Joe Botti and chronicled with “Thunder & Lightning” the compelling and behind the scene stories of two brothers, Arturo and Joe of Jersey City, pro fighters and the world champion […]
The Search For Yamamoto Begins
Next Monday in the city of Nashville, the annual baseball Winter meetings will commence, a cluster of MLB team executives and personnel all huddled in hotel room suites. I have covered numerous Winter Meetings and it has become a spectacle of who is walking around the various lobbies and listening to scenarios of possible trades. […]
Bronx Rivalry Revisited And It was All Rams
This was once an intense rivalry in the Bronx when the basketball teams from Fordham and Manhattan tipped off at Rose Hill or for the short distance ride to Riverdale. Borough rivalry or supremacy? Call it what you want but the rivalry has changed. What hasn’t changed is a Division I college basketball game that […]
The Yankees Acquire Juan Soto
Late last night the New York Yankees and the San Diego Padres made a trade that has been consuming the world of baseball for the past couple of days. At around 10:40 last night, Joel Sherman, a baseball columnist for the New York Post announced that the New York Yankees have acquired outfielders Juan Soto and Trent Grisham from […]
Despite the Loss, A Win For Rams at The Garden
Fordham coach Keith Urgo and his counterpart Rick Pitino shook hands in a corridor late Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden. Pitino, the veteran and Hall of Fame coach saw his St, John’s Red Storm get the 77-55 win at the 2023 Holiday Festival. The Red Storm kept their perfect 9-0 record intact against Fordham at the Holiday Festival, […]
Bader And Severino Better Than Nothing
Luis Severino and Harrison Bader, the former cross-town Yankees with their familiarity to fans and New York City is better than nothing. They have been key components of a Mets offseason strategy of signing players to limited and short-term deals. Can both have an impact on the Mets strategy to stay competitive this year and […]
Reform Needed To Unify Titles
Boxing needs to unify the alphabet soup titles and last year we saw a few in the four-belt title era, though Devin Haney would unify the lightweight division and vacate the belts to move up in weight. Canelo Alvarez is in control and the so-called face of boxing can do what he wants as the […]
Their Numbers Will Rise Over Citi
I was a rookie reporter on the Mets beat when Darryl Strawberry and Dwight “Doc” Gooden electrified Shea Stadium. I can still hear the epic roars from fans in the upper deck to the lower bowels of the ballpark. The press box shook when Strawberry hit another home run, and when Gooden with an electric […]
Yanks Pivot to Stroman
The Yankees had to make that pivot after losing out in their quest to sign Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell was offered much less and they made that pivot signing Marcus Stroman for two-years at $37 million. Is this the proper move to boost a pitching rotation that is guided with […]
This Is Where It Begins In Combat Sports
“Every fight, you learn every time.” A quote heard often in combat sports and from all spectrums of kickboxing, grappling, Muay Thai, MMA, pro boxing. I leave pro wrestling out of the equation because that is entertainment and a script determines the outcome, though they also learn every time. Brandon Quinn provided me with that quote, […]