Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. –– The cars were backed up for half an hour on River Road for the start of what was supposed to be an exciting new season of Rutgers football.
Red-clad fans, old and young, a record 53,737 of them, made their way to sold-out Rutgers Stadium — the one with the $102 million renovation — for the season opener against Cincinnati. College kids with red- and white-painted faces filled up the new student section under the gigantic state-of-the-art scoreboard, hoping to be seen on ESPN.
The ticket was so hot that a scalper even asked passers-by if they had extras for sale, something that would have been unheard of just a few years ago in these parts.
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