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According to Larry Brooks of The New York Post, the New York Rangers have agreed to terms with 2008 second-round pick Derek Stepan.
Stepan, who played two years at Wisconsin, helping the team reach this year's Frozen Four, reportedly agreed to a three-year, entry-level contract worth $875,000 base salary cap. However, as per the NHL's collective-bargaining agreement, the deal cannot be registered with the league until July 1.
The now-former Wisconsin Badger ...
John Sterling’s 10 Best Personalized Yankee Home Run Calls
Posted: 12th April 2010 by Mike Salerno in MLB
John Sterling's home run calls have become a polarizing topic among Yankees fans.
Whether you love Sterling or hate him, there's no contesting the man's ability to deliver a big call in the big moment, as well as a number of goofy comments throughout the course of the broadcast...
The WCBS play-by-play man's popularity has grown so much over the years that one of the first thoughts among Pinstripe faithful after ...
When It’s Okay to Root for the Islanders in Madison Square Garden
Posted: 24th March 2010 by Mike Salerno in NHL
Tonight, when the Islanders enter Madison Square Garden, I will mutter a phrase that has never escaped my mouth in the last twenty years of my existence.
"Let's go Islanders."
Now, Rangers fans, before you go out and get lighter fluid and matches and all other kinds of things to inflict physical harm on me, hear me out. I want the Rangers to lose tonight. And next Tuesday. And, well, every game ...
Peter Gammons To Leave ESPN Following Winter Meetings
Posted: 8th December 2009 by Mike Salerno in MLB
Peter Gammons, 64, has reportedly released a statement that says he will be moving on from ESPN at the conclusion of the 2009 MLB Winter Meetings later this week to pursue new endeavors.
Gammons, who has been with ESPN since 1989, said that the decision to leave was "conflicted."
"I owe a great deal of my professional life to ESPN, having spent more than half of my 40 years in journalism working ...
New York Yankees Get Curtis Granderson in Three-Team Deal
Posted: 8th December 2009 by Mike Salerno in MLB
According to Jon Heyman of SI.com, the Yankees have added all-star center fielder Curtis Granderson in a three-team trade involving the Detroit Tigers and Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Diamondbacks receive starting pitcher Edwin Jackson from Detroit and former first-round pick Ian Kennedy from the Yankees, while the Tigers claim left-handed reliever Phil Coke and outfield prospect Austin Jackson from New York and starter Max Scherzer and set-up man Daniel Schlereth from Arizona.
Granderson ...
The Hofstra Pride football team's 52-38 victory over Massachusetts on Nov. 21 will be its last, as the university chose Thursday to cut the program from its athletic department.
Hofstra president Stuart Rabinowitz announced at a press conference this morning that, after 69 years of competition in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, Hofstra will cut funding to the football team.
"This has been a two-year process and has nothing to do with ...