By Kim Velsey 8/29/12 1:43pm

Manhattan Transfers

Cowher is moving o Lenox Hill. (www.bleedblackandgold.com)

Touchdown! Former Steelers Coach Bill Cowher Buys Lenox Hill Condo

The Upper East Side seems to be the hottest place to be for NFL coaches these days. First Kansas City Chiefs head coach Romeo Crennel bought a place in Yorkville and now Bill Cowher is heading to the Royale condo tower in Lenox Hill. Stars of the football field take Manhattan?

Mr. Cowher, the former head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers and current studio analyst for NFL Today plunked down $2.65 million for the two-bedroom condo at 188 East 64th Street, according to city records. He purchased the pad under the William L. Cowher Revocable Trust from Whitebar Holdings Limited. Read More

By Allen Barra 1/30/09 5:13am

Have You Tried to Predict This Super Bowl? Because Don’t.

For everyone making Super Bowl predictions, I have a couple of questions:  What exactly are your predictions based on? Is there any logic or analysis behind them?  Or is it all just hunch?

I’m asking because I’ve been doing Super Bowl predictions for 20 years and have written three books on professional football and countless Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 5/22/06 12:00am

How Gay Is Vito?

Last week, the actor Joseph Ganna-scoli—who, as Vito on The Sopranos, is living out this television season’s only great tragic love story—was tooling around Lynbrook, Long Island, in a new silver Mercedes R350 with a back seat filled with flowering plants. He was wearing a Giants sweatshirt and sneakers, and was taking a reporter on Read More

By Adam Begley 4/07/03 12:00am

The Journalist and the Jock: A Football Fan Grows Up

Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper , by Stephen J. Dubner. William Morrow, 261 pages, $24.95.

Where were you on Dec. 23, 1972? Stephen Dubner and I were both watching the A.F.C. divisional playoffs on WRGB-NBC. He was in upstate New York, I was in western Massachusetts. His TV was small and black-and-white; mine was small and Read More