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With his career in New York seemingly finished, Knicks guard Stephon Marbury lashed out at teammates and coach Mike D'Antoni a day before he was to meet with team president Donnie Walsh about a possible buyout, the New York Post reported in Monday's edition.With his career in New York seemingly finished, Knicks guard Stephon Marbury lashed... more
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"Who says that art cannot keep pace with the headlines? And who says that New Yorkers cannot reach out to those in need? Sure, the subprime market has crashed, Wall Street has tanked, and untold numbers across America fear losing their homes. Fortunately, through year’s end the president-elect can turn to Madison Square Park for answers.""Who says that art cannot keep pace with the headlines? And who says that New... more
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Canucks 6 - 3 Rangers, Highlights from TSN
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He said his bout in Madison Square Garden against American boxing legend, Roy Jones Jr, was going to be his last fight. But could Joe Calzaghe be persuaded to return to the ring?
Joe's dad, and manager, Enzo Calzaghe said he wants his son to retain his unbeaten record, which after Saturday's points win now stands at 46 - 0!
But he has also hinted that should the right fight, at the right price, come Joe's way quickly, the Welsh champion could try to extend his perfect tally.
What do you think? It always depresses me to see brilliant sports men hang around too long and see their legend diminish.
So my advice to Joe would be; hang up you gloves and bow out at the top of your game!
He said his bout in Madison Square Garden against American boxing legend, Roy Jones... more
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Joe Calzaghe aims to prove that he is the best pound for pound fighter in the world. The Welshman will fight Roy Jones JR in New York and this will be Joe's final fight.
Buildup Starts at 11pm on Setanta Sports 1Joe Calzaghe aims to prove that he is the best pound for pound fighter in the world.... more
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Mike D'Antoni's New York Knicks are off and running - and a couple of former core players could only sit and watch. Jamal Crawford scored 29 points, Zach Randolph added 20, and the Knicks beat the Miami Heat 120-115 on Wednesday night in their first game under D'Antoni.Mike D'Antoni's New York Knicks are off and running - and a couple of former... more
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Photographs from the New Kids on the Block concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on Monday, October 27, 2008.Photographs from the New Kids on the Block concert at Madison Square Garden in New... more
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Photographs of cats on Wednesday, October 16, 2008 preparing for the annual cat show at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.Photographs of cats on Wednesday, October 16, 2008 preparing for the annual cat show... more
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Kanye West closed his Glow in the Dark show at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night with a major announcement: He's producing tracks for Jay-Z's next album, Blueprint 3. And Hova just so happened to be on hand to premiere one of the album's tracks.
After the last song of his performance, Kanye told the crowd that 20 years from now, they would be recognizing him and some of his peers, such as Glow in the Dark tourmate Pharrell Williams, as some of the all-time greats. Acknowledging his great success and loss in the past year, he told the audience — which included Q-Tip and Andre 3000 — that he was evolving and not going to be as selfish as he was in the past. ('Ye gave another reflective speech during Tuesday's MSG show.)
A story followed of how when he's in the studio producing tracks, he'll usually snatch the beat for himself, unless his friend and G.O.O.D. Music act Common is there. But on a recent trip to Hawaii, West said he changed his M.O. While in the studio in paradise, he told himself, "Every beat I do is for this person."
He promised to play a track for the concertgoers, but didn't tell them he had a bonus. As the bass kicked in for a song that is sure to heat up the clubs and streets before the summer is done, Jay-Z walked out and started to rap. (Kanye has posted video of the song on his blog.)
Hov said he didn't know if the Blueprint 3 would be coming out this year, but there are tracks for it in the can. He also acknowledged a recent MTV News article in which Timbaland said the two of them had talked about making an entire album together. Kanye West closed his Glow in the Dark show at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night... more
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After all the hoo-ha of Glastonbury, Jay-Z has hit back at Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher, rapping to his Madison Square Garden that: "that bloke from Oasis said I couldn't play guitar/Somebody should have told him I'm a fuckin' rock star".
He then continued, rapping of course, , "Today is gonna be the day that I'm gonna throw it back to you."
I thought you did that back at Glastonbury Jay-Z...After all the hoo-ha of Glastonbury, Jay-Z has hit back at Oasis frontman Noel... more
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God i so wanted to go to this concert.
"There is a new yardstick for the size of the universe. It is approximately equal to the size of Kanye West’s ego.
That’s not necessarily bad. Hip-hop runs on self-glorification, the transformation of underdogs into self-invented legends. Sooner or later someone was bound to claim what Mr. West’s show did on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden: that he’s “the biggest star in the universe.” That was not only part of the script but also a crucial plot twist for Mr. West’s headlining set on his Glow in the Dark Tour, a quadruple bill with Rihanna, N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco.
Mr. West’s set was the most daring arena spectacle hip-hop has yet produced, and in some ways the best, even as it jettisoned standard hip-hop expectations. The rhymes, the beats and the narcissism were there; the block-party spirit and sense of community were not. Until the encore Mr. West had no human company on the arena stage.
The spectacle is framed as a sci-fi space odyssey, with Mr. West as a lone explorer whose starship crashes on an unknown planet. He’s stranded in a landscape of colored lights, billowing smoke — probably enough dry ice to cool Death Valley — and gorgeous, panoramic video images of clouds, galaxies, fireworks and cosmic eruptions. He converses with his computerized ship, named Jane, and with shooting stars. He raps with barely a respite, and bounds around the stage: striding, hunching, pumping his fist, falling to his knees, grinding against the stage, flailing, shouting his rhymes. It is a show of stamina and lonely self-determination that takes on its own obsessive momentum, like a Samuel Beckett scene staged by Robert Wilson and George Lucas.
Mr. West’s songs — chronicles of his striving, success, fashion sense and media missteps — don’t have much to do with a planet devoid of paparazzi or designer labels. At Tuesday’s show, praying to get back home, he promised God that if he made it, he’d “stop spazzing out at awards shows.” But he wrenched the songs into the concept, turning “Gold Digger,” for instance, into a tryst with a hologram generated by his spaceship.
The music was rearranged (for a band sequestered in an orchestra pit) to sound less triumphal and more melancholy. Mr. West reaches pop audiences with pop hooks, but the concert often held them back, starting instead with drumbeats and reverberating minor chords before allowing sweetness in. The audience joined him every chance it got, and he did eventually get back home, to share an encore with Lupe Fiasco. But in Mr. West’s tour de force, it was lonely at the top. Cosmically lonely.
In the opening set the rapper Lupe Fiasco showed his own ambitions, verbal and musical. He rapped not only about stardom but also about skateboarding, child soldiers and a worldwide plague. And the music in his short set, using three backup singers, encompassed chattering electronic beats, smooth R&B and mournful rock. It was a good start for a concert that insisted hip-hop hasn’t run out of possibilities, even on this planet."
sweeeeeet. did anyone go?
God i so wanted to go to this concert.
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And gets interviewed. Will Zeppelin play MSG ever again? At 1:29 mark.
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The Knicks are already a poor team, more days without their starting point guard could make them even worse. Last week they suffered the worse defeat of any NBA team ever. It looks like even more trouble on the horizon.The Knicks are already a poor team, more days without their starting point guard... more
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The jury said Thomas subjected a married mother of three to unwanted advances and verbal insults, but that he should not have to pay punitive damages (aka some random sum of money meant to compensate the victim for the suffering and to punish the bad guy). The jury said those damages should be paid by Madison Square Garden who was also found guilty of harassment.The jury said Thomas subjected a married mother of three to unwanted advances and... more
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The owner of the New York Knicks dismissed a top female executive solely in retaliation for accusing head coach Isiah Thomas of boorish behavior and to scare other unhappy employees, a lawyer said Thursday in closing arguments at the sexual harassment trial.Madison Square Garden "completely fabricated its reasons for firing" Anucha Browne Sanders, the plaintiff in the $10 million lawsuit, said her attorney, Anne Vladeck. NEW YORK (AP) -- The owner of the New York Knicks dismissed a top female executive... more
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Isiah Thomas, the president and coach of the Knicks, ordered a hard foul that touched off a brawl with the Denver Nuggets at Madison Square Garden. Ten players were ejected after the fight, which started when Mardy Collins, a Knicks rookie, clobbered J. R. Smith of the Nuggets as he was driving for a basket.Isiah Thomas, the president and coach of the Knicks, ordered a hard foul that touched... more
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