Fresh off the draft, we have each team’s odds to win the Super Bowl, compliments of Bovada, (www.Bovada.lv, Twitter: @BovadaLV). The Giants at 20/1? Why not! Bovada also posted 4.5 as the over/under on how many games Geno Smith will start this season. He might have that accomplished by October. Odds to win the 2014 [...]
Newburgh Boxing Club standout Jaime Estrada qualified for the prestigious U.S. Championships by winning the Northeast Regional 123-pound title on Saturday at Lake Placid. Estrada, 18, of New Windsor, drew a bye to the final before recording a narrow three-round decision over New England’s Dominic Lessier. Estrada won by a score of 3-2 from the [...]
There is a lot happening these days at the Newburgh Boxing Club. While seven of its amateurs prepare for the Daily News Golden Gloves tournament, and one of them, Jaime Estrada, readies for both the Gloves and the Northeast Regionals on Feb. 15-17 in Lake Placid, NBC pro Tre’sean Wiggins (3-0, 3 KOs) has engaged [...]
The Newburgh Boxing Club has organized “Fight Night,” a USA Boxing-sanctioned amateur tournament on Feb. 23 at the Newburgh Armory on South William Street. Starting time is 6 p.m. Admission is $15, $10 with a USA Pass Book. For information on sponsorship opportunities, call Ray Rivera at 845-565-7980. For more info on the tourney, go [...]
Jaime Estrada expected to fight in the Golden Gloves preliminaries on Tuesday night in Brooklyn. Instead, he got a bye after fewer fighters than expected showed up. Estrada, who trains at the Newburgh Boxing Club, hasn’t been notified when he will fight in the Gloves. But he’s set on taking part in the Northeast Regional [...]
Ahmad Bradshaw was in many ways the heart and soul of the Giants the past few seasons. He played through injury after injury, and often excelled, while helping raise the team’s competitive spirit. Bradshaw was a rookie when the Giants won the Super Bowl in 2008 and a key cog in another title last February. [...]
Sunday was officially the final day of the NFL season, of course, and, well, I already miss it. Now we get to be treated to a condensed version of the NHL and the promise of a scintillating NBA season with Brooklyn and New York playing serious ball. But, for now, we will mostly get that [...]
The Giants made their first significant move of the offseason by releasing linebacker Michael Boley. As first reported by USA Today’s Mike Garafolo, Boley, 30, was on the hook to make $4.25 million this season. But he would have counted $5.65 million against the salary cap. It was far too much for the Giants to [...]
Let me say upfront that I’m not a fan of Phil Simms. I think he’s vastly overrated as a broadcaster and spends far too much energy trying to discount the viewpoints of others instead of providing fresh, honest and opinionated takes on the game. So I’ll admit to having a bias against Simms. That said, [...]
San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh made too much of a stink over the two late-game no-calls he believed were infractions on Baltimore. I don’t think either one warranted a flag. Even on the fourth-down play, there was no clear view that the Ravens defender was the guilty party. You can’t throw a potentially game-deciding flag [...]