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By DAN ACKMAN
From 1972 until 2004, Bob Hurley enjoyed every success imaginable.
Coach Hurley won more than 800 basketball games and 22 state championships,
while besting 90% of his opponents at tiny St. Anthony High, a school without
its own gym, and which can be found by making a hard left out of the Holland
Tunnel in Jersey City, N.J. THE WHOLE STORY
Birds
Flock to These New York
Islands
July 13, 2006–
The Wall Street Journal
Floating between the Bronx and Rikers Island,
just north of Hell Gate, is an island that
was once home to Typhoid Mary and is now a world-class breeding ground for
egrets and herons. THE WHOLE STORY
The Winners Wore Camouflage
May 2, 2006 – The Wall
Street Journal
If you spend the day running in full body armor, racing through
obstacle courses, battling with pugil sticks,
shooting machine guns, and jumping out of helicopters, what do you do in the
evening to wind down? If you're an Army Ranger fixing to be the best Ranger,
you might go out and march all night with a 45-pound rucksack in the pouring
rain. Fall behind and you'll miss the next day. And that also means missing
the next night -- another all-night march, this time through the muddy Georgia
woods, orienteering through the darkness with map and compass. THE WHOLE STORY
At the Cyber Games, Even Virtual
Excitement Is in Short Supply
September 13, 2005 -- The Wall
Street Journal
New York -- Cyber games may be
small-time now, but Peter Weedfald has seen the
future and the future is Korea.
In Korea,
top videogamers can earn six-figure salaries and
have the status of sports stars. The "gamers" and their games are
the subjects of two 24-hour cable television networks devoted to gaming the
way ESPN is devoted to sports. "You'll see [gamers] on a box of Wheaties," Mr. Weedfald
says. THE WHOLE STORY
Shooting Pool in
Grand Central
October 7, 2004 --
The Wall Street Journal
If the the rat race has a starting line, it might well be Grand Central Terminal. There,
700,000 commuters scurry daily from the baronies of Westchester and Connecticut to their places
of gainful employ. There are those who opt out. Danny Basavich,
a professional pool player and unabashed hustler, is one. But last weekend
he, too, was at Grand Central. And Mr. Basavich,
aka Kid Delicious, stayed to work. THE WHOLE STORY
A Day After
At The Races
June 8, 2004 - The Wall Street
Journal
On Saturday, more than 120,000 fans attended Belmont Park to see Smarty Jones win the final
leg of horse racing's Triple Crown -- and he almost did. The crowd was by far
the largest ever, and the third straight 100,000-plus crowd for the Belmont
Stakes. Hipsters joined the throng, sensing that this was the place to be,
and they were right as Birdstone, a 36-to-1 shot,
beat Smarty Jones by a length, covering the mile-and-a-half in 2:27.50, the
best time since Tabasco Cat won in 1994.The next day the scene at Belmont
told a different story. THE WHOLE STORY
Causing a Racket in Grand Central Station
February
24, 2004 - The Wall Street Journal
Squash is a tough sell. There is little or no television coverage here, and
even the thickest sports section rarely finds room for it. So, with little in
the way of media to draw people to the sport, John Nimick
has been bringing the sport to the people. THE WHOLE STORY
From Iowa to Caspia:
World Freestyle Wrestling
Sept. 17, 2003 - The Wall Street Journal
New York -- For years, he was
invincible. In college at Iowa
State, he won and won
again, trashing records in his wake. On his way to four NCAA wrestling
championships, he won 101 straight matches, breaking the record for
consecutive wins set by the sport's icon Dan Gable. Then he kept going,
winning another 58. His final record -- 159 victories, zero defeats -- made Cael Sanderson arguably the most successful college
athlete in any sport ever. THE WHOLE
STORY
Honolulu On The Hudson
July 30, 2003 -- The New York Sun
New Yorkers along the watery parts of the city may have
been startled to spot dozens of outrigger canoes racing in the harbor on
Saturday, darting between ferries and past tugboats. The boats, however, were
there with a purpose: They were paddling in the Liberty World Challenge, New York City’s own Hawaiian
canoe race. THE WHOLE
STORY
1,200 New York Triathletes
Try Something New — A Duathlon
Aug 11, 2003 -- The New York Sun
Yesterday at dawn, Odd Sangesland
started running north along the Hudson River.
He had expected to be 100 yards west, in the Hudson, swimming, however. Why
do either at 6:30 a.m. on a Sunday? THE
WHOLE STORY
Do Clones Dream Of Winning the Triple
Crown?
June 6, 2003 -
Forbes.com
It might be possible, but it won't happen. In horse racing, it's
"natural service" or nothing. THE WHOLE STORY
Nothing But Air? Shooting Skills Waning in NBA
June
3, 2003 - The Wall Street Journal
As the National
Basketball Association finals get under way tomorrow, the players will be
celebrated, quite rightly, for being faster and quicker than ever. But the
game itself has rarely been slower, and shooting the basketball, the game's
most basic skill, seems a lost art. THE WHOLE
STORY
Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game
May 28, 2003 - Forbes.com
Michael Lewis has a gift: He can walk into an area
already mined by hundreds of writers and find gems there all along but
somehow missed by his predecessors. Lewis did this in the The
New New Thing, his book on the Internet and the
new economy. Now he does it with Major League Baseball in Moneyball:
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. THE WHOLE
STORY
And in This Corner, The
Insurance Broker
August 21, 2002 - The Wall Street
Journal
There is a sign on the wall at Gleason's, Brooklyn's storied boxing gym, posting an invitation
from the poet Virgil: "Now whoever has courage, and a strong and
collected spirit in his breast, let him come forth, lace up his gloves, and
put up his hands." THE WHOLE STORY
Cycles on Wall Street
August 6, 2002 - The Wall
Street Journal
Cyclists in Manhattan have to dodge
potholes, maneuver around buses and face traffic that is all stop and go. For
the Pro Cycling Tour race in the financial district on Sunday, organizers
fixed the cracks and cleared the streets to the point where the race was all
go. THE
WHOLE STORY
Manhattan 5-0
July 2, 2002 - The Wall Street
Journal
The world's most important outrigger
canoe race takes place just where you'd expect: in Hawaii. Called the Molokai,
the course crosses the 41-mile channel between the islands of Oahu and Molokai. But perhaps the third most prestigious race
took place on Saturday, where you'd least expect it,
off the island
of Manhattan. THE WHOLE
STORY
The
Trouble With Horses
June 2,
2002 - New York Times Week In Review
AIRPLANES are getting faster. Race cars are getting
faster. Computers are getting deliriously faster. So what is the trouble with
horses? THE
WHOLE STORY
Banned in the Bronx
Nov. 1 2001 - Web Exclusive
I got a call yesterday from my law school buddy Bill Fredericks, an avid Yankee
fan, asking me if I wanted to go to the World Series. Bill knows I am a Met fan, so he put a
condition on the offer: I could not be emotionally neutral. THE WHOLE STORY
Baseball in the Land
of Pure Possibility
Summer 2000 - Web Exclusive
If you take a ride on the Staten Island Ferry and then board the S-62 bus,
and ride it to the end, and then walk east another half mile or so, you will
see something that may surprise you: a field of dreams. THE WHOLE
STORY
Baseball's Best--And
Best For The Buck
April 19, 2002
- Forbes.com
We rank the best players in the majors and say who
among the heavy hitters are truly earning their
keep. THE
WHOLE STORY
The Gaming Of The Olympics
February 25,
2002 - Forbes.com
NBC says it scored at the Olympics. But are the games
at risk by getting too close to the network? THE WHOLE STORY
In Baseball, A Season For The Ages
October 6,
2001 - Forbes.com
Even apart from the stunning play of Barry Bonds,
several players this year are among the all-time best. THE WHOLE STORY
XFL Exterminated
May 11, 2001 -
Forbes.com
NBC and WWF may know marketing, but they don't know
sports. Result: The XFL goes bust in one year. THE WHOLE STORY
Most Ballplayer
For The Money
March 29, 2001
- Forbes.com
Baseball's back! We evaluate each team and more than
300 players. Who offers the best value in baseball? THE WHOLE STORY
Take Me Out To The Ballpark
October 25,
2000 - Forbes.com
Purists argue that this year's subway series pales in
comparison to the last all-New York series in 1956. One
thing is certain: Today's game is much more expensive. THE WHOLE STORY
In Money Terms, The
Subway Series Strikes Out
October 21,
2000 - Forbes.com
The subway series is great for Gotham's psyche,
but not so great for its economy. Politicians, eager to please club owners,
are trying to prove otherwise. THE WHOLE STORY
A Passion For The Game--And Its Numbers
October 3, 2000
- Forbes.com
Harold Richman, inventor of the Strat-o-matic
board game, now competes with computer game giants. How does he do that?
"Sheer realism," Richman says. THE WHOLE STORY
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