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November 10, 2009
New York Has Its Share of Losers. Feel Better?
The NY Times
by George Vecsey
Ever since the Yankees won the World Series, I have been receiving messages from fans around the world decrying the domination by New York and its cable television swag.
For readers who detect parochial chest-thumping from New York, I would suggest they take a careful look at the Big Picture: the records of all of New York’s professional teams.
...Meanwhile, the Nets are still in their holding pen across the river in New Jersey, winless and close to homeless. To make it worse, one of their players, Chris Douglas-Roberts, has swine flu, and is said to be resting comfortably. Best wishes for his recovery.
The Nets are trapped in the most dismal sports location in the United States — with one football stadium under construction, another perfectly good football stadium about to be demolished, a vestigial sports arena, a grotesque amusement center and parking garages looming over the swamplands, ugly as sin.
The Nets wanted to escape to Brooklyn but their owner, Bruce C. Ratner, has been thwarted for a few years because of the economy and land-use niceties there. (Forest City Ratner, Mr. Ratner’s company, was the development partner for the Manhattan headquarters of The New York Times Company.)
Now there is a prospective buyer for the Nets, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, a Russian businessman. We will see how that plays out. The Nets really should move into the Prudential Center in Newark, to get an energy boost from a city that finally has competent leadership.
Posted by eric at November 10, 2009 5:57 PM