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2 By Foster Kamer 2/13 3:59pm

LINSANITY

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Results: This is What Jeremy Lin and Linsanity Has Done to the Stock Market

Jeremy Lin's rocketing stardom is a game-changer, in more than a few ways. For one thing, the Knicks are winning and the Garden's regularly packed, nowadays. For another, besides breaking records as the first Harvard grad since the 50s to play in the NBA, and only the fourth Asian-American to play in the league, he might be one of the few NBA players who can claim to have made a significant impact on financial markets. Read More

By Matt Chaban 2/08 6:11pm

Kimmelmania

Half time?

To Save Penn Station, Boot Madison Square Garden to the River

Despite his lack of formal design training, Michael Kimmelman has excited many readers, both architecturally adept and not, with his focus on urban issues. The Observer has begun to hear some grumbles, however, that that is all he cares about—bike lanes here, old housing projects over there, riverfronts a world away. What does he think of the Atlantic Yards apartment buildings or the World Trade Center Memorial. Won’t he weigh in on some capital-a Architecture already?

Well, today, as always seems to happen, he has done us one better. Read More

By Henry Krempels 1/12 11:52am

Rocky Mountain Oysters

A clown and his posse. (Bull Stock Media)

This Is My First Rodeo

When we first expressed interest in attending the Professional Bull Riders event last weekend at Madison Square Garden, PR man Jack Carnefix apprised us of the rules. Number one, we must “buckle up.” Number two, if we “go on Friday [we’re] going to want to come back Saturday. And if we go Saturday [we’re] going to want to come back on Sunday.”

(It is important to note at this point that The Transom is a wire-thin arts reporter, a Brit whose Queen’s English and Hugh Grantish stammer sounds like a royal parody.)

With weekend plans disregarded, there followed an anxious ride on the metro to Penn Station, early Friday afternoon, wondering what to expect. Will the bulls be chasing a fox? Would there be a ringleader with a bugle? Should we have bought our jodhpurs?

On our arrival, we joined the herd of cowboy hats and flannel shirts streaming into the arena, welcomed by the sound of Kenny Rodgers’s “Oh Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town.” At the bar more burly blokes in flannels and their denim-clad lasses drank Jack Daniels, all the time singing to an obscure compilation of country music that was foreign to this Englishman’s ears.

It appears New York is not as American as one had imagined. Or rather, is very American, but only when you give it a chance to be. Read More

By The Editors 3/15/11 11:44pm

Editorial

Jacked-Up Knicks Tix? Just Say No, Dolan

For the first time in more than a decade, the Knicks are generating some late-winter excitement in Madison Square Garden. The arrival of Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups to go along with the off-season's big addition, Amar'e Stoudemire, has the team headed in the right direction after years of mediocrity.

Knick fans have suffered through some Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 2/15/11 3:53pm

Concerts

Lady Gaga to Tape Special at MSG

Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour is being transmitted to the masses. HBO's announced that they're taping a concert special over the course of her February 21 and 22 Madison Square Garden shows, and that she's "creating unique new elements" for the TV special. Reached by the Observer, an HBO rep refused to describe the new Read More

By admin 1/13/11 8:16pm

MMA

Ultimate Fighting Championship Wants NY In 2011

New York is one of just six states in the nation that still has not legalized mixed martial arts. 

But Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, held a press conference at Madison Square Garden today where he announced his determination to change that this year. 

Over the last year the UFC has held events in Read More

By Dan Duray 6/30/10 9:07pm

Oligarchy

Prokhorov Erects Taunting Mural at Knicks’ HQ

Enough with the spies already! This afternoon, New York's favorite Russian was busy with his own brand of deviousness.

Mikhail Prokhorov, the new owner of the Brooklyn-bound Nets, has erected a mural just outside Madison Square Garden depicting himself and Nets co-owner Jay-Z accompanied by the tagline "The Blueprint for Greatness." According to Read More

By Howard Megdal 10/24/08 2:30am

No Joke: Championship Basketball in New York

The Big East Conference, which started in 1979 as a seven-team collection of northeastern Catholic schools, and which dominated college basketball for much of the 1980s, has become a virtual national championship in and of itself since expanding to 16 teams in 2005.

The basketball conference now boasts schools as far west as Milwaukee and as Read More