Tag: Basketball
So here’s something nice from the NYPD for a change: a pair of officers played a pickup basketball game with some kids in the Bronx. These cops, even in full uniform with gun and radio and ugly clunky cop shoes, can still ball. The shorter cop in particular has a great handle. Even if this […]
An annual basketball tournament at Berry Houses in Staten Island was interrupted by the arrival of a police car, but not in the way you might think. Organizers from the Under The Lights basketball league asked the local patrolling unit if they’d be willing to allow players to slam dunk over their car, and surprisingly, […]
“I have been shooting and producing it over the past 2 years and we just launched a Kickstarter to raise money to complete the film,” writes director Daniel Levin in an email to ANIMAL of The Legend of Swee’ Pea, his documentary on legendary and legendarily troubled Brooklyn basketball player Lloyd Daniels. Daniels made his name in […]
This morning, Dennis Rodman emerged into a conference room at Manhattan’s Soho Grand Hotel, cigar in his mouth and sparkly scarf around his neck, to a sea of eager reporters. Flanked by representatives from the International Crisis Group and the Irish betting firm Paddy Power, he rambled, seemingly without forethought, through references to his wedding […]
“Geeks are definitely the new rock stars,” goes the tagline to Bravo’s goofy new reality show about “startup culture,” and hamfisted a sentiment though it may be, at least one proposed mega-high-dollar business transaction is playing right into it! Reddit cofounder and Brooklyn native Alexis Ohanian told Bloomberg News Tuesday that he’s “absolutely” interested in […]
Brooklynite Mike Sorisi created Knicklyn as a way to give a home to people like him: diehard hoops fans from Kings County who’d rather stay true to NYC’s original team than jump ship to the Nets. Within days of setting up shop–selling t-shirts and stickers on Big Cartel–Sorisi received a cease-and-desist letter from none other than […]
