A 13-year-old teenager with Asperger's syndrome spent 11 days in October wandering New York's vast subway system until a police officer recognized him from a missing persons' poster, according to police and the youth's mother.
Lance Stephenson, the leading scorer in New York high school history, signed a financial aid agreement with Cincinnati Tuesday. Since he has not inked a National Letter of Intent, other colleges can still recruit him and the commitment is non-binding.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Less than two minutes into his Public Schools Athletic League semifinal, Lance Stephenson, the leading scorer in New York schoolboy history, pilfers a cross-court pass and pushes the ball up the middle. Inside a stuffy Carnesecca Arena, the one they call "Born Ready" looks back at a defender and gauges his lead. No Boys & Girls High player can catch him. His Abraham Lincoln High teammates stop near half court and watch. Approaching the rim, the 6-foot-6, 200-pound wunderkind wags his tongue and elevates for a thundering right-handed dunk.
This is going to shock you, so make sure you're sitting down when you read it. I don't care about US vs. the World in the Ryder Cup Golf. Never have been inspired by Old Glory flying over the golf course. Here's another observation, before we get into the rather grainy business of placing 32 NFL teams in proper marching order: Listening to Jaws and Tony Korn describing the Monday nighter, like a bunch of giddy teenage girls riding the Cyclone in Coney Island, just took me away from the game and made it hard to concentrate.
World-record holder and defending champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut held on to his hot dog-eating title Friday in an unprecedented tie-breaker at Nathan's Famous Fourth of July contest.
This year,
there is an undercurrent of tension surrounding the Brooklyn beachfront
that has been an escape for generations of New Yorkers. The fight is
over how to redevelop the nostalgic New York landmark
Surrounded by younger fans focusing their cell phone cameras on him and trailed by one camcorder late Saturday night at the Sovereign Bank Arena, Lance Stephenson Jr. appeared to be getting along swimmingly in his fishbowl.
A 13-year-old teenager with Asperger's syndrome spent 11 days in October wandering New York's vast subway system until a police officer recognized him from a missing persons' poster, according to police and the youth's mother.
Lance Stephenson, the leading scorer in New York high school history, signed a financial aid agreement with Cincinnati Tuesday. Since he has not inked a National Letter of Intent, other colleges can still recruit him and the commitment is non-binding.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Less than two minutes into his Public Schools Athletic League semifinal, Lance Stephenson, the leading scorer in New York schoolboy history, pilfers a cross-court pass and pushes the ball up the middle. Inside a stuffy Carnesecca Arena, the one they call "Born Ready" looks back at a defender and gauges his lead. No Boys & Girls High player can catch him. His Abraham Lincoln High teammates stop near half court and watch. Approaching the rim, the 6-foot-6, 200-pound wunderkind wags his tongue and elevates for a thundering right-handed dunk.
This is going to shock you, so make sure you're sitting down when you read it. I don't care about US vs. the World in the Ryder Cup Golf. Never have been inspired by Old Glory flying over the golf course. Here's another observation, before we get into the rather grainy business of placing 32 NFL teams in proper marching order: Listening to Jaws and Tony Korn describing the Monday nighter, like a bunch of giddy teenage girls riding the Cyclone in Coney Island, just took me away from the game and made it hard to concentrate.
World-record holder and defending champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut held on to his hot dog-eating title Friday in an unprecedented tie-breaker at Nathan's Famous Fourth of July contest.
This year,
there is an undercurrent of tension surrounding the Brooklyn beachfront
that has been an escape for generations of New Yorkers. The fight is
over how to redevelop the nostalgic New York landmark
Surrounded by younger fans focusing their cell phone cameras on him and trailed by one camcorder late Saturday night at the Sovereign Bank Arena, Lance Stephenson Jr. appeared to be getting along swimmingly in his fishbowl.
The quirky seaside expanse of Coney Island, which draws visitors from throughout the U.S. seeking out its colorful rides and freaky entertainers, may soon be losing one of its key attractions.
Hot dog history was made this Fourth of July, with Joey Chestnut of San Jose, Calif., shattering records - including his own - and winning the Yellow Mustard Belt at the 2007 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, Brooklyn.
The Dog Day of July is nearly here, and there's still no official word on whether six-time Yellow Belt winner Takeru Kobayashi of Japan will participate in Wednesday's annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest at Coney Island.
Joey Chestnut was like any other nervous 23-year-old on a first date as he drove to San Francisco with Nikki, a fellow San Jose State student he'd met at a party earlier that week. The two hit it off instantly. She was immediately attracted to how normal and down to earth he seemed. Though the choice of venue for the couple's first date -- a wing eating contest -- was a little odd, she loved sports and had never witnessed people eat so much so quickly. Little did she know that her date would soon be the king of the competitive-eating jungle. As the night drew to a close, Joey had a confession for his date: "I took you here for a reason. This is what I do."
New York City loves it some baseball. So people in the Big Apple should be blowing off work a little early this week, hopping on the "D" train and riding it all the way to hardball heaven in ... Coney Island?
and pamper yourself with an unforgettable weekend in New York City. Or you can spend a full week kicking back at one of the plush resorts that dot the American West. Either option will set you back the same $5,000. The first one delivers more anything-can-happen excitement and variety. The second promises more of the one thing children don't add to your life: free time. --DONNA ROSATO AND KATE ASHFORD ...
If you have children at home, you know that hitting the road without them is the only way to have a true vacation. So go ahead, take the in-laws up on their offer to watch the kids for a few days a...
Takeru Kobayashi, the 137-pound Japanese man universally proclaimed the world's greatest eater, successfully defended his hot dog-eating title at the "Olympics of Competitve Eating" in Coney Island this Fourth of July.
When most of us eat out, we pay for our food. But some people are starting to get paid to eat. The trick is, they must devour mass quantities of food in short amounts of time.
At the age of 3, Matt Dilling wanted his chocolate birthday cake in the shape of an electrical plug. By 13, he was informally apprenticed to an electrician. At 19, the art school dropout opened Lit...
The focus of security concerns shifted coasts Thursday from Times Square's confetti-filled atmosphere at midnight to the chilly but flowery Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, where police officials said they expected no damper on the day's festivities, despite the nationwide orange terror alert.
In August, I treated myself to a night on the town: mouth-watering Italian fare at Brooklyn's Coney Island followed by a Brooklyn Cyclones game at Keyspan Park, the picturesque stadium built for th...
They're sorry. So sorry. After making job offers to a slew of college and MBA students from the class of '01, many belt-tightening employers--including Cisco, Dell, and Intel--have suddenly asked t...
From the early 1930s to the mid-1940s, Arthur Fellig was at every tenement house fire, gangland shooting, shipwreck, and major disaster--natural and otherwise--that took place in New York City, cap...
There are few dishes so distinctly American as a bowl of chili, and fewer still that inspire such regional crankiness. Texans generally despise tomatoes in theirs, while Midwesterners often serve t...
If atheists are scarce in foxholes, I muse as we begin clanking up the 20- story-high steel mountain, they must be nearly as rare here. This climb up the first hill of the world's tallest, fastest ...
EXECUTIVE LIFE/Cover Story 50 THE WORKAHOLIC GENERATION Three decades ago, the Organization Man gave a lot of time to home, hearth, and the good life in the suburbs. By contrast, his successors tod...
THE U.S. liability insurance crisis is already crimping summer fun. The Coney Island roller coaster may not roll on opening day, municipal swimming pools across the country may be without diving bo...
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