NEW YORK — So I was in the Knicks media room the other day when a conversation with one of my fellow sports writing colleagues turned to Ultimate.

OK, I brought it up, only to get a barrage of the same questions I and other Ultimate players have been answering for decades.

“Is it a real sport?” my colleague asked. “Are there teams? How do you play? I don’t see it anywhere.”

You can’t blame the guy. He doesn’t see Ultimate anywhere, so how’s he expected to know about it?

Yet now that a pro Ultimate league is launching, he and others may finally be (more…)

Here’s me on vacation enjoying a tough day at the beach.

My boy Jeff Malamy from Wesleyan is the thrower here on Meads Bay in Anguilla and I’m the receiver.

This is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and if you go I recommend eating at Blanchard’s Beach Shack, where the food is mighty tasty.

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Roger Clemens played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball before capturing his first World Series title.

Ray Bourque endured 21 campaigns in the National Hockey League before winning the Stanley Cup.

But that’s nothing, really.

I played 23 seasons in the Westchester Ultimate Summer League before tasting glory for the first time in Saturday’s championship game.

Our Charcoal “Charks” team edged White, 15-13, in a highly competitive and tense final at SUNY Purchase.

All I can say is, damn it feels good to get that mad Caeser-like monkey off my back. (more…)

There’s only one thing better than spending a sunny day playing Ultimate with your 40-something friends and not getting hurt.

And that’s spending a sunny day playing Ultimate with your 40-something friends, not getting hurt and qualifying for Nationals.

That’s how I spent my Saturday, as our New York Ultimate team qualified in Boston for Grand Masters Nationals in Cincinnati July 9-10. (That’s me in the Gonzaga ‘Zags’ jersey.)

Yeah, we’re old. But we’re still out there having fun. (more…)

Check out Andrew Fleming of Seattle Sockeye making perhaps the sickest Ultimate catch you’ll ever see during the recent World Championships in Prague.

Watch Fleming make up about 20 yards of ground here as he closes before snagging the trailing edge of the disc in the end zone for a goal. An Ultimate field is 40 yards wide by 70 yards long, plus two 25-yard end zones.

San Francisco Revolver ended up beating Sockeye in the final.

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Team USA won the gold medal in Ultimate at the World Games, beating Japan 13-6…and the final goal of the game made SportsCenter’s Top 10 this morning. More video and stats here if anyone’s interested.

Back here at home, my Black team is riding a 3-game winning streak in the Westchester Summer League and we have a big game tonight against Josh Faust’s Power Blue team. Both squads are 6-5…stay tuned.

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For 20 years I have played competitive Ultimate Frisbee, and for 20 years people have asked me if I play with dogs or on the beach.

The answers continue to be, “No” and “Sometimes.”

There’s an old expression, “When a ball dreams, it dreams it’s a Frisbee.” (more…)