If you believe every crazy rumor you read on the old Interweb, Bob Knight will be the next head coach at Rutgers and Kevin Boyle will come in as an assistant and the coach-in-waiting.
It never ceases to amaze me how something that starts as a post on a messageboard can graduate into a blog post by [...]

A year ago, Roger Federer broke into tears after losing to Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open final.
This time around, it was Andy Murray who was reduced to tears after Federer beat him, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (13-11) to win his fourth Australian Open title and 16th career Grand Slam.
“I can cry like Roger. I just [...]

NEW YORK – After a whirlwind trip to Arizona earlier this week, Kadeem Jack finally got enough rest Friday night.
He slept until 1 on Saturday afternoon and then came to play in the SNY Invitational championship game.
The 6-foot-9 Jack capped a comeback from 19 points down in the third quarter by draining two clutch foul [...]

NEW YORK — Kadeem Jack woke up at 5 a.m. Arizona time, boarded a 7 o’clock flight and landed at Kennedy International Airport at 5 p.m.
After taking a two-day official visit to the Arizona campus, the 6-foot-9, 210-pound senior was on the basketball court at Long Island University-Brooklyn by 8 p.m.
He still had enough energy [...]

The Knicks could be without not one, but two forwards for Saturday’s game in Washington.
Jared Jeffries underwent an MRI on his right knee Friday morning that revealed a bone bruise. He is questionable for the Wizards game.
Al Harrington has a sore left knee and is also questionable.
Jeffries left the first quarter of New York’s 106-104 [...]

Kadeem Jack enjoyed his Arizona visit and is flying back to New York Friday afternoon to compete in the SNY Invitational at LIU-Brooklyn.
“It was great,” the 6-foot-9 Rice High School senior said by phone from the airport. “We saw the campus. We went to the [Stanford] game [won by Arizona, 76-68, on Thursday]. I stayed in [...]

NEW YORK (NBA.com exclusive) — Chris Bosh on Thursday was named a reserve for the NBA All-Star Game in Dallas and David Lee was left off the team.
Part of the rationale for excluding Lee despite his gaudy statistics seemed to be that the Knicks are under .500, while the Raptors have a winning mark.
As if [...]

Now that top-ranked Kentucky has dropped from the ranks of the unbeaten, there will be a new No. 1 team in the land next Monday.
Along with No. 2 Kansas, two Big East teams — No. 3 Villanova and No. 4 Syracuse — are in the mix to take over the top spot in the wake [...]

David Lee won’t be the Knicks first All-Star since Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell in 2001.
Despite averaging 19.4 points and 11.4 rebounds per game, Lee wasn’t selected as a reserve for next month’s All-Star Game in Dallas.
“It’s out of my control, and coach always tells me to try to control things that I can control. [...]

Brooklyn’s Lance Stephenson was named the Big East Preseason Rookie of the Year, and Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin says Stephenson is on track to win that award.
The 6-foot-5 Stephenson, New York State’s all-time leading scorer, is averaging a team-best 12.2 points and 4.8 rebounds for the Bearcats (13-7, 4-4 Big East).
“He’s had a good year,” [...]