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LIABLE Since 2003 the New York Knicks have had five coaches, signed myriad unsuccessful free agents and made just one playoff. Now, another snag: a jury found head coach Isiah Thomas, 46, liable in a sexual-harassment case brought by former team marketing executive Anucha Browne Sanders. The jury found that Thomas created a hostile environment and that Sanders was fired by team owners for complaining; it decided Sanders was entitled to $11.6 million in punitive damages from owners Madison Square Garden and James Dolan of Cablevision. Thomas will not have to pay damages. He told reporters...
...guys like me-the Mets began to hire some wonderful talent, and a sizzling crop of younger players suddenly materialized from the farm system. I found myself sucked into baseball fandom of the purest, most banal sort. I learned to love winning. I even expected them to win. Our playoff loss in 2006 to the St. Louis Cardinals was a fluke. Surely we would win this year. And we were winning-for the longest time. And then we were losing-spectacularly, with such garish determination that it brought to mind... the 1962 Mets. I embraced the ugliness of the slide...
...taken the commuter rail from far corners of the city. Others were ditching work in the hopes of landing tickets to the first Miami-Boston game. Still more were there just because the Celtics, at worst, won’t be terrible, and, at best, might make a playoff run reminiscent of happier days in the old Garden.I remained in line for more than three hours, incredulous at the slow-moving line and the fans that still had such faith in a perennial loser. Finally, I asked the man in front of me the question I’d been...
Until the league’s presidents lift their ban on playoff participation, though, it will unfortunately be near impossible to judge how the Ancient Eight’s best stack up against I-AA’s best, which so impressively went toe-to-toe with the Big Ten’s best...
...clinched [the Pioneer League playoff berth] and there was champagne waiting for us in the locker room,” he said. “We don’t get to do that in college necessarily. Just the way pro ball is run in general is a style I really like...