Talking Baseball With Mets GM Omar Minaya

The general manager of the Mets, Omar Minaya, was the guest speaker at the ninth annual “21 Days of Clemente” sponsored by Latino Sports Ventures, Inc. The event is a remembrance by the South Bronx community of the legendary Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder who perished in a plane crash bringing supplies to the beleaguered population of [...]

Kids at Morris Park Looking for Another Gym After Inferno

They came to their second home Wednesday. The professionals who train at the Morris Park Boxing Gym, the prospects preparing for the upcoming Golden Gloves tournament, and the kids who live in the community, stunned to see their gym destroyed by a fire earlier in the day that also left two families homeless.
“We will rebuild [...]

Vazquez Deal A Good One For the Yankees

Hours after the New York Yankees were hit with a luxury tax of $25.69 million, the World Series Champions raised their payroll for next season over $200 million. By acquiring right hand pitcher Javier Vasquez from the Atlanta Braves and seeing outfielder Melky Cabrera go to Atlanta, the Yankees opened up their options in the [...]

Undefeated Professional Boxers Continue Win Streak at Broadway Boxing

Five young, professional boxers continued their undefeated professional careers in the ring at B.B. King’s Blues Club and Grill during the latest edition of DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing on Wednesday evening, December 16. Each of the young pugilists displayed the skills acquired during an impressive amateur career. Although most of the bouts were short in [...]

Alabama Running Back Mark Ingram Wins 2009 Heisman Trophy

The five top vote getters in the annual Heisman Trophy election were invited to New York City to take part in the 75th anniversary of the award that goes to the best football player of the season. Dick Kazmaier, the 1951 Heisman winner and twenty-five more recent winners of the extremely prestigious award were on [...]

SEC and Big East Clash at MSG

The major conferences in the NCAA have entered into rivalries/partnerships within the last decade. The Big Ten and ACC, the Big 12 and the PAC 10 and the Big East and SEC have scheduled interesting matchups. The last of the three groupings scheduled a doubleheader at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday evening.
The opening contest featured [...]

Boxing Notebook

A home coming win for Hopkins and Roy Jones could be next: Bernard Hopkins hoped to get Roy Jones Jr. as his next opponent in May. After he defeated Mexico’s Enrique Ornales with a unanimous 12-round decision at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Wednesday evening, there were doubts about the fight with Jones. When [...]

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