Brett Favre will retire from Jets Until He Changes His Mind Again

Newsday.com

Brett Favre will retire from Jets
BY ERIK BOLAND
11:59 AM EST, February 11, 2009
The Jets were hoping for an indication of what Brett Favre would do next season by the NFL Combine, but ended up finding out his plans sooner than that.
ESPN’s Ed Werder reported Wednesday morning that Favre told his agent, Bus Cook, to tell [...]

Queens is Ready to Puck Around

From the NY Daily News
Could Isles net the Point? Plan pushes Iron Triangle home

BY Nicholas Hirshon
Tuesday, February 10th 2009, 10:45 AM
SKATING SOON at a rink near you – the Iron Triangle Islanders?

The Queens Chamber of Commerce is making a long-shot bid to lure the four-time Stanley Cup champions from Nassau County as part of redevelopment [...]

Turf War Brewing in New York City Parks

Customers in the Cafe are starting to wonder if Parks & Recreation will ever get it right.

From 1010 WINS
Posted: Sunday, 08 February 2009 7:16PM
Turf War Brewing in New York City Parks
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A turf war is brewing in New York City.
The city council will hold a hearing Monday on a bill [...]

There Used to be a Ballpark

There Used to be a Ballpark – Shea Stadium, Yankee Stadium and Ebbet’s Field, home to the “Boys of Summer.”
It’s called progress!
EBBET’S FIELD & THE BROOKLYN DODGERS

SHEA STADIUM

YANKEE STADIUM

Avella: Legalize Sports Betting as a Cash Cow for the City

Queens Chronicle
02/05/2009
Avella attacks mayor over budget proposal
by Peter C. Mastrosimone , Editor-in-Chief
A key Queens lawmaker who intends to run for the city’s highest office blasted Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s budget plan this week as unnecessarily draconian.
City Councilman Tony Avella (D-Bayside) contends that the spending cuts and layoffs Bloomberg proposed for fiscal 2010, which begins July 1, [...]

15th Annual Little Neck Bay Beach Clean-Up

Bayside Anglers Group Ltd.
Proudly presents

15th Annual Little Neck Bay Beach Clean-Up
“Bayside Waterfront Day”
10 AM on Sunday, April 19, 2009
(Rain or Shine)
We welcome all volunteers and their families to help us in
the Spring-cleaning of one of our most popular local fishing spots.
Through the support of the NYC Dept. of Parks, Partnership for
Parks and the [...]

Mets Ought to Bank on Jackie Robinson Field

Philadelphians seem to have a better understanding of New York sports history and tradition than the current owners of the Mets.
From NBC Philadelphia
By   JERE HESTER
Updated 7:25 AM EST, Wed, Feb 4, 2009
Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947. Six decades later, the Mets have the opportunity to do the right thing, and name [...]

Winter Jam NYC

Let it snow! Come take part in this popular annual event.

Winter Jam NYC will feature a 70-foot long Snow Flume for sledding, a professional snowboarding competition on a 90-foot tall Snowscraper structure, a winter snowfield with snowshoeing and cross-country skiing*, a snow sculpture contest*, a Warming Hut with free samples from NY State farmers and [...]

“Idiots, start your engines!”

From the Daily News
Just ‘Idiots’ in shopping cart race in Queens
BY CAITLIN MILLAT and JOE JACKSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Sunday, February 1st 2009, 4:00 AM
“Idiots, start your engines!”
That’s what hundreds of contestants heard Saturday at the start of New York’s sixth annual Idiotarod – a local take on Alaska’s Iditarod dog-sled race that replaces dogs with [...]

Watch Super Bowl Ads Today, Get Stuff Done on Sunday

If you’re one of the many who aren’t that into football but stay glued to your TV on Super Bowl Sunday for the commercials, you can head on over to Adweek right now to catch several of this weekend’s big campaigns.
This is the Bay Terrace Cafe’s way of thanking all our loyal customers for their [...]

Mets New Stadium – Taxpayer Field

FROM NEWSDAY
BY KEITH HERBERT
January 30, 2009
Two members of the House of Representatives are demanding that the Mets scrap their $400-million naming-rights deal with financially troubled Citigroup because of the bank’s receipt of federal bailout money.
Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Ted Poe (R-Texas) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner requesting he “dissolve” the contract [...]

Bayside clinches borough swimming crown, high seed in PSAL playoffs

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

BY MARK LELINWALLA
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Tuesday, January 13th 2009, 2:01 PM
Endless chants of ‘Bay-side, Bay-side’ rained down on the Commodores boys swimming team last Thursday evening.
But even those chants paled in comparison to the roar that erupted when longtime Bayside swimming coach Steven Warman took a plunge in the pool, setting off [...]

Bayside’s Genesis Villanueva dreams of coaching, not playing in WNBA

Read the whole story in the New York Daily News
BY MARK LELINWALLA
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Tuesday, January 13th 2009, 1:43 PM

Genesis Villanueva gets little playing time at Bayside but says she enjoys camaraderie of Commdores teammates and coach Steve Piorkowski.

Charlie Villanueva

It took a while for Genesis Villanueva’s teammates to catch on about her brother.
That [...]