Men's Lacross Against Bryant Recap

Quinnipiac To The Big East

Why Quinnipiac should move men's basketball to the Big East.

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Feeling Good—Sports Fiction Better Than Reality

Sports is no longer, and has not been for a long time, just about the art of playing a game.  With constant 24/7 sports coverage, media giants have used the entertainment industry as a way to capitalize on the potent sports market.  ESPN made its first attempt into the entertainment world with a fictional sports series in 2003 called The Playmakers.  The series was based upon a fictional football franchise.   According the Handbook of Sports and Media, ESPN's creation of its own fictional series is that it had free reign to attack all controversial issues in sports.  "Plot lines revolved around everything from murder, to drug abuse, to domestic violence, to homosexuality, to abortion.  The aging veteran, the raw rookie, the greedy owner—characters on the program embodied just about every conceivable sports stereotype."(Cummins 185)

Cummins points out that ESPN used every sports stereotype in existence in The Playmakers.  However, the focus is mostly on how fiction in sports shows the negative connotation in our society.  There are four movies made during the latter part of the twentieth century that help combat, the negative theory of sports movies.  They are Major League, Angels in the Outfield, Space Jam and

Flirting With Superman

NEWARK--There seems to be a little more energy out of the Prudential Center crowd tonight. That can only mean one thing.

Dwight Howard is in the building.

Superman stood in line as the 'Imperial March' from the Star Wars movies echoed throughout the stadium.  As he began slapping hands in the Magic huddle, the Nets P.A. announcer merely uttered the big man's name in his best impression of a fifth-grade history teacher calling attendance.


However, instead of the usual yawn from the bored students there was an enormous ovation welcoming Howard to New Jersey.
                                       

I've been to my share of Net games this season and lets just say the stadium was a little more crowded, more energetic, and the Nets techies put on quite the display all for one reason—to woo the big man into a marriage that every Net fan so desperately wants.

The Banner, The Yankees and The Memory

STATEN ISLAND, NY— The story of 9/11 has been told in many ways. While I may not have lost anyone on that fateful day,you could feel the turmoil and pain throughout the city. Being 10-years-old at the time, I still have a vivid memory of the day. However, being 10-years-old I did not fully understand the story. That was until I spoke to retired FDNY Batallion Chief Jack Pritchard about the first baseball game at Yankee stadium after Sept. 11,2001.

 Jack has been great friends with my father for as long as I could remember. While this article should of be written during the fall months, a story like this one—doesn't need a dateline. It is one that should be told all year round.

The Many Names of Jeremy Lin

The only thing more explosive than Jeremy Lin's play as of late is the amount of love he is getting on twitter. Lets not forget the man did go to Harvard

Playoffs Definite With Lopez

NEWARK,NJ—Ten years.  Ten painful years.  Thats how long it has been since the New Jersey Nets were a legitimate contender for an NBA Title.

Now, with superstar Deron Williams, the Nets came into the season poised to retain at least a playoff birth if not more.

However, Brook Lopez's right-foot had other plans.

Lopez has been out since Dec. 23, when he had surgery on his broken right-foot. 

Despite Lopez's inability to grab rebounds, the Nets would be a playoff team if he was healthy.
Crazy, I think not.