I know this is a sports blog, but sometimes events in the real world are too juicy to pass up. Here’s video of an Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at President George Bush.
“So what if the guy threw his shoe at me,” said Bush. “It is one way to gain attention. It’s like going to [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – Oklahoma was ahead of Texas in the BCS standings Sunday and headed to the Big 12 championship game with an inside track to the national title.
A three-way tie between Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech atop the Big 12 South standings forced the league to use its fifth tiebreaker, best BCS [...]

The second annual SNY Invitational will take place Jan. 23-24 at NYU’s Coles Center and will once again feature some of the top high school boys basketball teams in the New York metropolitan area.
Thomas Jefferson, led by Keith Spellman, Joel Wright, David Coley and Davontay Grace (pictured courtesy Daily News), meets Sherrod Wright and Mount [...]

One of the most interesting and compelling people I met during my 10 years at the Herald News was Gian Paul Gonzalez, a native of North Haledon, N.J. who was a Division III All-American at Montclair State.
Check out the story below I wrote on Gonzalez a few years back. In it, Gonzalez talks about how [...]

Danyelle Sargent’s YouTube moment can no longer be embedded, but you can still view it here. And we highly recommend that you do.
Sargent asked San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singletary: “”I hear that your mentor Bill Walsh was one of the first phone calls you made when you found out you had the [...]

I had hoped to write a triumphant post today about how my Ultimate team, Above & Beyond from New York, had qualified yet again for Nationals in Sarasota, Fla. later this month.
Our team, a group of Masters players over 33, had qualified for the Ultimate Players Association (UPA) Nationals four years in a row, reaching [...]

Knowshon Moreno, a Belford, N.J. native and Heisman Trophy candidate, rushed for 168 yards and tied his career high with three touchdowns as No. 2 Georgia routed Central Michigan 56-17 on Saturday.
On one play in the third quarter, he hurdled a defender and ran for 29 yards.
“I’ve never seen anything like that before,” Georgia defensive tackle [...]

Terrence Rencher, a former St. Raymond’s star and the all-time leading scorer in Texas history, has been named a graduate assistant under Rick Majerus at St. Louis.
A former New York STate Mr. Basketball in 1991, Rencher was drafted by the Miami Heat in 1995 and played in the NBA and overseas until 2006. Last year [...]

This news just in: newspapers are dying.
Every day seems to bring more news of layoffs in the business, sending more and more reporters running toward work on the Internet.
My advice: Get out while you can.
**The Daily News plans to buy out 25 members of its newsroom. The package will offer reporters two weeks of pay [...]

The Preseason NIT brackets have been announced, with the final four taking place at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 26 and 28.
The first-round games will be played on Nov. 17. The remaining 12 teams who don’t advance to the Garden will play third- and fourth-round games on Nov. 24 and 25 on the home campus [...]