I really thought I was dreaming, especially after my previous rant ... The Knicks and Nets won on the same day, with the Nets breaking their 18-game losing streak. Well, I thought I was in a dream-like state then, and maybe I still am, but then I was...

I grew up in New York City in the 1960s. I was born in Brooklyn, moved with my family to Queens when I was a toddler, and lived in Kew Gardens Hills and South Jamaica--Rochdale Village--Queens until my family and I moved to Long Island right before I...

This is supposed to be the holiday season. Everybody is supposed to be happy, anticipating the end of the year, and the joyous celebrations that are about to come. It's been a slow news week, or weeks, but one story just keeps on giving: Tiger...

Country music is ingrained in our country's rich musical heritage. Some call it white people's soul music, but whatever it is, it is, from Hank Williams all the way up to the latest country stars. Country music was often thought about as "hillbilly"...

With the Tiger Woods incident turning into a public relations fiasco for the world-famous golfer and his family, a bit of news crossed the wires yesterday that gave me hope that perhaps all of our sports heroes aren't as tarnished as they appear to...