• Giants bring veteran corner Jason McCourty in for a visit

    Giants bring veteran corner Jason McCourty in for a visit

    The Giants took a look at a player quite familiar to head coach Joe Judge on Friday, bringing veteran cornerback Jason McCourty in for a visit to their team facility. McCourty, 33, and his twin
  • This was the cruelest of endings for Rutgers

    This was the cruelest of endings for Rutgers

    The shot was a good one. Maybe that will come as a sliver of comfort across the next weeks and months when the Rutgers Scarlet Knights remember this game. Ron Harper Jr., a 40 percent shooter from
  • Rutgers collapses in heartbreaking March Madness loss to Houston

    Rutgers collapses in heartbreaking March Madness loss to Houston

    It was all there for Rutgers. A Sweet 16 matchup with Syracuse. A second straight narrow NCAA Tournament victory. Another week in Indianapolis. It led by nine with 5:21 left, and Houston star point
  • Rutgers’ long-sought March Madness win came in most fitting way possible

    Rutgers’ long-sought March Madness win came in most fitting way possible

    The clinching play proceeded perfectly according to plan, at least in the context of the 39 minutes and 50 seconds that had preceded it. Geo Baker had the ball in his hands, Rutgers was up a deuce,
  • Rutgers grinds past Clemson for first March Madness win in 38 years

    Rutgers grinds past Clemson for first March Madness win in 38 years

    It was defense. Of course it was defense. After all, these were Steve Pikiell’s Rutgers Scarlet Knights. During the past two years, as Rutgers has put together consecutive winning seasons and gone
  • YES dumping informative Jim Spanarkel shows sad state of TV sports

    YES dumping informative Jim Spanarkel shows sad state of TV sports

    Simply put, no sports TV exec can claim to know borscht about basketball and dump Jim Spanarkel as his or her primary basketball analyst, not short of his conviction for murder. But Spanarkel, for
  • Big Ten could lose up to $1B in revenue after canceling fall football

    Big Ten could lose up to $1B in revenue after canceling fall football

    Health is priceless, but the decision to prioritize it was not for the Big Ten. Canceling college football season for the safety of student-athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic will cost Big Ten athletic departments more than $275 million in ticket sales and could reach $1 billion in total lost revenue, according to NCAA fiscal reports …
  • College football’s day of reckoning stings like no other

    College football’s day of reckoning stings like no other

    This was always the day that was going to cause the most dread among a preponderance of sporting citizens. Maybe not around here: New York City, after all, hasn’t been much of a college football town since Fordham’s Seven Blocks of Granite were terrorizing visitors to the Polo Grounds in the ’30s, since West Point’s …