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• MARKET ANALYSIS. Financial crisis could have profound effect on local teams, and it could've been worse

  October 12, 2008

  The engine of the local economy has seized at the worst time for New York teams as they complete an unprecedented building boom.

• Giants' Manning comes off all write in new book

  October 7, 2008

  Eli Manning and Kerry Collins forever were linked after April 2004, when the Giants traded for the former, then released the latter.

• Glazer's been crafty Fox to get to the top

  October 5, 2008

  Jay Glazer's stories run together after a while, one more colorful than the next.

• Darling plays game of 'Turn Back the Clock'

  October 3, 2008

  Ron Darling and Sid Fernandez both were born in Honolulu, and both pitched for the Mets, combining to go the first six innings in Game 7 of the 1986 World Series.

• Darling plays game of 'Turn Back the Clock'

  October 2, 2008

  Ron Darling and Sid Fernandez both were born in Honolulu, and both pitched for the Mets, combining to go the first six innings in Game 7 of the 1986 World Series.

• NY baseball fans forced to go cold turkey

  September 30, 2008

  Keith Hernandez said he was "speechless," but his body language spoke volumes.

• Shea Stadium memorabilia available - for a price

  September 28, 2008

  'Can I interest you in a foul pole?" Barry Meisel said.

• Shea Stadium memorabilia available -- for a price

  September 27, 2008

  'Can I interest you in a foul pole?" Barry Meisel said.

• Manuel deserves 'SportsWatch' award

  September 26, 2008

  Sure, I should wait before presenting the SportsWatch New York Sports Media Person of the Year Award. Remember, Hank Steinbrenner came from nowhere last fall to secure the inaugural prize.

• Manuel deserves 'SportsWatch' award

  September 25, 2008

  Sure, I should wait before presenting the SportsWatch New York Sports Media Person of the Year Award. Remember, Hank Steinbrenner came from nowhere last fall to secure the inaugural prize.

• Giants' Lynch all heart after his was broken

  September 25, 2008

  Shaun Powell never met Dick Lynch before Sept. 23, 2001, hadn't seen him play, hadn't heard him on the radio.

• ESPN handles Stadium swan song cleanly

  September 23, 2008

  It was after midnight, but the farewell party still was under way on the field when a Yankee Stadium employee walked down a corridor holding a power drill in one hand and a sign in the other.

• ESPN handles Stadium finale cleanly

  September 22, 2008

  It was after midnight, but the farewell party still was under way on the field when a Yankee Stadium employee walked down a corridor holding a power drill in one hand and a sign in the other.

• Jets leading the cheers in NYC football

  September 21, 2008

  Here's a trivia question (and answer) to win a bar bet this autumn: Name the six NFL teams that do not have official cheerleaders.

• Cheerleaders at Giants game? Not happening

  September 20, 2008

  Here's a trivia question (and answer) to win a bar bet this autumn: Name the six NFL teams that do not have official cheerleaders.

• SPORTS WATCH: ESPN's historic task

  September 19, 2008

  The game doesn't matter, except that it does. That will be ESPN's challenge Sunday night as it seeks to chronicle the Yankees' final appearance at the big ballpark in the Bronx.

• ESPN readies for Yankee Stadium finale

  September 18, 2008

  The game doesn't matter, except that it does. That will be ESPN's challenge Sunday night as it seeks to chronicle the Yankees' final appearance at the big ballpark in the Bronx.

• Mad Dog stays loose in first show

  September 16, 2008

  What was Chris Russo's first official show for Sirius XM Satellite Radio like yesterday?

• Russo appears happy in solo debut

  September 16, 2008

  What was Chris Russo's first official show for Sirius XM Satellite Radio like yesterday?

• SPORTSWATCH: Aikman: Giants' angel?

  September 14, 2008

  When last Giants fans heard Fox's Troy Aikman, he was in the booth for a big game in Glendale, Ariz., that turned out well for Big Blue.

• YES network OK with criticism over Yanks

  September 12, 2008

  'Disgraceful?"

• YES Network OK with Kay & Co. calling out Yanks

  September 11, 2008

  'Disgraceful?"

• Ailing Jennings ponders next career move

  September 9, 2008

  When Dave Jennings' playing career was winding down, he promised himself he would not continue to punt just for the sake of punting.

• ESPN: More football in "Monday Night Football"

  September 7, 2008

  The people spoke. The sports media critics spoke. Heck, Howard Cosell would have spoken if someone had handed him a microphone.

• CBS hoping to bank on Jets' Brett Favre bonanza

  August 22, 2008

  That Michael Phelps thing went swimmingly for NBC, didn't it? Still, after a week, it was over.

• ESPN: East Coast bias? Or ratings bias

  August 19, 2008

  The Chinese have the right idea with this one-time-zone-per-country system.

• WFAN's Francesa going solo, but is seeking help

  August 17, 2008

  The last time WFAN faced a foundation-shattering change in its roster, it was nearly five months from the time Don Imus was fired to the day Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton debuted in his place.

• NBC scoring big with Phelps & Co.

  August 15, 2008

  On sports talk radio, the Beijing Games might as well be Beijing opera, a subject presumed to be of little interest to the Joba-and-Johan-obsessed.

• Mike and the Mad Dog relationship changed frequently

  August 15, 2008

  Sports talk radio still was in its infancy in 1989 when Mark Mason, then the program director at WFAN, proposed a seemingly outrageous solution to an early problem at the first 24-hour sports station:

• Hicks, Gaines capture Phelps drama for NBC

  August 12, 2008

  It happened at 11:30 in the morning in Beijing, and now it was nearly 11:30 a.m. in New York.

• ESPN covers Favre sideline to sideline

  August 10, 2008

  At least ESPN was able to laugh at itself.

• Cowboys are focus of HBO series Hard Knocks

  August 5, 2008

  'Hard Knocks," the behind-the-scenes look at training camp via HBO and NFL Films, returns tomorrow for its fourth edition, and for the second time the team in the spotlight will be ...

• NBC providing Great Wall-to-Wall Olympic coverage

  August 3, 2008

  NBC was nice enough to send two e-mails detailing its plans for covering the Olympics: one regarding its TV schedule, the other its online offerings.

• Sports media going high tech

  July 29, 2008

  Sports media doesn't get more old-school than a weekly magazine that launched in 1886, a radio station whose frequency originated in 1922 and a TV network that debuted in 1939.

• SNY's Burkhardt goes from showroom to showtime

  July 27, 2008

  Four dozen teenagers were paying rapt attention, which itself is an accomplishment.

• Shockey is gone, but not forgotten

  July 22, 2008

  New York wanted to love Jeremy Shockey from the start, and often did.

• Shockey is gone, but not forgotten

  July 21, 2008

  New York wanted to love Jeremy Shockey from the start, and often did.

• Fox's All-Star Game broadcast has ups and downs

  July 16, 2008

  'Forgive me if I'm a little geeky today," Fox's Mark Grace said last night, early in the taped coverage of the All-Star red carpet parade.

• No emotional farewell for stubborn Packer

  July 15, 2008

  Billy Packer worked his first Final Four when seniors still starred in them and John Wooden still coached UCLA.

• 'Wow!' for Fox's booth, too

  February 4, 2008

  Across the continent, from Long Island to Fox's vast compound outside University of Phoenix Stadium, what likely will be the largest TV audience in the history of American sports was losing its collective head.

• A look back, and ahead, in sports media

  December 30, 2007

  New York sports media Person of the Year

• Mitchell Report gives baseball center stage

  December 14, 2007

  Alex Rodriguez is nearly as fascinating a media figure as he is a baseball player, but yesterday he outdid himself with this trick:

• Mex on Mustache title: A great honor

  July 13, 2007

  Eleven Gold Gloves? Nice.

• "Freeview" a preview of things to come

  December 31, 2006

  The Sunday editor had no interest in a sports media Year in Review. He said to look ahead.

• Francesa feels haunted by Lidle interview

  October 12, 2006

  Mike Francesa understands as well as anyone the rough-and-tumble reality of sports talk radio, where arguments often are just for fun and ratings, and quickly disappear into the ether.

• Will Giants' song be: "Is that all there is’’?

  December 24, 2005

  Will Allen stood on the greenish sand of FedEx Field Saturday, trying to explain what went wrong on one of the most dismal days of his career. Just to rub it in, "Hail to the Redskins'' blared from the stands as he spoke, nearly drowning him out.