Tempestuous New York Rangers left-winger Sean Avery won’t be lacing up the skates any time soon, following his team’s anticlimactic exit from the Stanley Cup playoffs.
But he still knows how to tie one on.
“How do you say ‘cheers’ in the Jewish language?” Read More
A Navy veteran, John C. Whitehead piloted landing craft to the shore in the bloody landings at Normandy and Iwo Jima. He retired (for the first time) in 1984. He has lived long enough to see the investment firm he once headed, Goldman Sachs, grow from a 200-person outfit into a global powerhouse. He has Read More
Remember how George Steinbrenner used to have back-door negotiations with Billy Martin that seemed more like Truman and Stalin at Potsdam than a managerial hiring? Mr. Steinbrenner’s at it again, only this time he’s in pursuit not of a field manager but a cable C.E.O., and not Billy the Kid, but a 53-year-old cable veteran–probably Read More
It’s … Retarded
After more than a decade in the P.C. doghouse, the word “retarded” appears to be making a comeback.
In USA Today recently, teenage singer Britney Spears called the controversy over her alleged breast implants “so retarded.” Rock star Courtney Love told the Chicago Sun-Times that it was “just retarded” to refer Read More
You may not have noticed, but the best professional sports team in the neighborhood is stealing a championship on national TV.
The team is the New Jersey Devils. They play ice hockey very well, better than any other team in the world. Since ice hockey is one of the Western world’s greatest sports, and they’re Read More
Like a few other team owners in our neighborhood, Dr. McMullen has decided that the building his team currently calls home, the Continental Airlines Arena in the Meadowlands sports complex, just isn’t good enough. “Time has passed it by,” he said, which, in team-owner patois, means that the 17-year-old arena doesn’t have the retail operations Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
