Don't stop believing! Being an Army brat, I lived in foreign countries watching Armed Forces Radio…read moreTelevision Services, AFRTS. TV programming showed a lot of sports. I watched the New York Knicks win their first NBA title in 1973 while living in Okinawa. I was playing basketball and wore number 10 for Walt Frazier. Clyde had it going on. He could do it all. In fact, the whole team was stellar. Walt was a guard with Earl, the pearl, Monroe as the other guard. Forwards Dave DeBusschere, Bill Bradley and center Willis Reed rose to the top. It has been a long drought. It was nice to see the Knicks finally win a championship after all these years. My dad has an autographed jersey from Clyde. I will have to get it mounted. Back in the day, Walt was an extremely good player. He was also known for his flashy outfits. Last week I saw him at the last game the Knicks won in San Antonio. He was dressed in a multicolored purple suit. He looked fantastic for a young man! 5/5

Knicks in 5!!!! The…read moreheck with the haters out there. Bow down to your 2025-2026 NBA Champions the New York Knicks! An amazing playoff run capped by one of the most exciting comebacks ever to finish it off in game 5. It was a record setting magical playoffs run, and after 53 long years the Knicks are back on top. After many horrible years, some exciting seasons, and heartbreaks this team carried the hearts and souls of New Yorkers everywhere on their backs to the promised land. New York is alive and the city feels a bit brighter today due to the Knicks players grit, determination, and will to win. I'm still in shock, almost disbelief, and my soul feels so happy now that I've finally seen my team win it all. Even if it's just this one time that's all many of us wanted. We are filled with joy and happiness. Thank you, Knicks. Now, we have a parade to attend which will be one of the greatest ever. Finally, once again, we are NBA Champions. Go Knicks Go!

National Hockey League is very fan conscious. In the end if we aren't going to the games or buying…read moremerchandise they lose. Since I'm well known in the community as an avid hockey fan I have the opportunity to get a lot of my favorite teams merchandise. You can also buy in the store or online at NHL.com. I do that frequently. Plus you get the latest player & team data, scores, hockey news, team schedules, tickets, and more! It's still Five Stars in my opinion.

I love hockey but what was NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman thinking putting the Stanley Cup Finals on…read moreTNT instead of an over the air broadcast network like ABC. The short answer as it always is... money... fans be damned. Gary, post season professional sports is all about attracting the casual viewer, so playing hide and seek with your television partner is professional malpractice. Was The Food Network not available? Admittedly, the match-up wasn't exactly an "Original Six" classic pitting Las Vegas against Florida but the NHL got the lowest rated Stanley Cup Final in history that it deserved. No disrespect whatsoever to the Golden Knights or the Panthers. Shaking my head. Two stars.

What exactly do you think a rabid Mets fan is going to think of and rate this glorious, energetic,…read moreexciting temple to all things Mets, featuring the debut of the New York or Nowhere Mets collection, fusing my love of my favorite city and favorite team? Sure it's a lot about selling merch--cool, unique, not available everywhere merch at that though--and the prices are not cheap, but they also took great pains to incorporate artwork and interactive exhibits in the back, and I think have hosted events here with Mets and SNY personnel. Like the now impressive team and its wonderful stadium, this is another smaller but appreciated example of the care and thought and excellence--and love of all things Mets and the desire to celebrate that love--that have completely transformed this franchise under the auspices of the only billionaire we should allow to survive The Purge, our beloved Uncle Steve.

Mets fans like me! OMG! The team's new Amazin' store and immersive experience that they opened at…read moreUnion Square. Discovered it and had fun walking through! Beyond the Mets ware, (including with new uniform designs,) collectibles, plush and other stuff, you'll find other reasons to go and check it out! For out-of-town fans of other teams, you can have a lot of fun too! There's a "Mets Match Your Swing" motion capture cage that's great! A big screen Mets gaming wall! A mini Mets Museum with memorabilia! Mets House also offers ticket deals and victory celebrations! (Let's go, Mets!) Absolutely big on Mr. Met, and there's a lot of there with him! You'll also find items with Mrs. Met too! (Need to eventually replace my well-worn super favorite Mr. Met cap sported in my Yelp profile photo, so looking for options!) Check out their website for events, like the free mochi offered during my visit. They also have Apple live podcast recordings at Met House's "The Dugout" studio. Sundays are geared to families, including Mr. and Mrs. Mets visits when there isn't a home game! Cey Adams has created a large logo art installation wall perfect for your selfie to share! The only thing I didn't see, which should be in the Mets House line up, Grimace! Thank you, Mets, for making this in-town fan stop happen! Ya gotta believe!

Major League Baseball International on Park Avenue would have events outside the building…read more Sometimes it would be a celebrity ball player. I remember enjoying the activities and then going to Grand Central for lunch. During Covid my walks to this neighborhood were less frequent. I'm wondering if they will ever resume the enjoyable activities prior to the pandemic. Things sure have changed for the worse. I won both of the hats I posted at MLB promotional events.

I'm currently ticked with Major League Baseball International. I don't know if it's the owners or…read morethe players - I'm sure there's an argument to be made that they're both at fault - but I am missing out on Spring Training! I am visiting family in Southwest Florida and extended my trip for a week so that my brother and I could catch a Red Sox https://www.yelp.com/biz/boston-red-sox-boston?hrid=xFEYND5UKPtAzEw8ORLI4Q game at JetBlue Park https://www.yelp.com/biz/jetblue-park-fort-myers-2?hrid=YTc96as1ndrjJy2Fhwr39A with my brother like we did four years ago. Sadly, the start of Spring Training has been delayed by at least two weeks. On the plus side, Stubhub https://www.yelp.com/biz/stubhub-san-francisco-14?hrid=6DVK-vhmsmEbkPiSiGJHRQ was fabulous by offering a 100% cash refund or if you would let them hold on to the money, a 120% credit towards a future ticket purchase. I opted for the refund as I have no idea when I'll next be needing tickets. I'm sure other people are just as ticked as me, especially the concessionaires and the employees and the local businesses (hotels!) who are missing out on the income while baseball is experiencing this lockout. Get your stuff together, MLBI. It's supposed to be about the fans! [Review 16765 overall - 320 in New York - 278 of 2022.]

Admit that going into game 5 I'd hoped the team would win…read more However, the truth be told, in part due to very questionable officiating, the win was not tainted. More to the point, rather than having been seen celebrating after the game ended, Ionescu should have been hiding in deep embarrassment, having shot 1/19, or a bit more than 5%. Good grief, any number of top women's college basketball players would have performed much better. Also, while the Liberty clearly won't do so, she should be traded, perhaps to position for a some high draft choices. As a player, she has more liabilities than she does assets. As for Stewart, as good as she's been in the WBNA, that was the second game in a row of terrible shooting percentage.

Wow, I can't believe there hasn't been a review of the New York Liberty (NYL) for a decade. "It…read more[the drought of reviews] ends today." -- Neo in "The Matrix: Revolutions." Hopefully, too, the lack of even a single championships during the franchise's entire existence. The NYL, like a lot of New York basketball franchises (cough, Brooklyn Nets, New York Knicks), has until recently been on hard times. It wasn't always that way. The NYL started auspiciously as one of the marquee franchises of the WNBA, whose first game was between NYL and the Los Angeles Sparks in 1997, following the United States National Women's Basketball Team's unreal showing at the Olympics and a year-long string of global exhibition matches where they went entirely undefeated (60-0). Source: Sara Corbett, Venus to the Hoop: A Gold Medal Year in Women's Basketball (New York: Anchor Books, 1998). But after a few terrific seasons featuring Hall of Famers Rebecca Lobo, Becky Hammon, and Theresa "T-Spoon" Weatherspoon -- and repeat finals appearances that kept ending in heartbreak -- the franchise sort of ended up in two-decades of purgatory. Two low points: hiring sexual harasser Isiah Thomas as team president and getting banished from Madison Square Garden to the "Westchester County Center" (what?!?!), almost an hour away from NYC and inaccessible to most. It looked like the Liberty were on their way to become a perpetual basement team and dysfunctional, to boot, under the ownershp of legendarily incompetent James Dolan, to whom the New York Knicks also belong (no championship since 1973). Then a white knight came along. Imagine a minotaur (half man, half horse). the horse looks like he'd have no trouble winning the Kentucky Derby by at least a minute and the "man" looks like a chiseled statue: chiseled pectoral muscles, a six-, no, let's make it an eight-pack. That white knight-minotaur is JOE TSAI, CEO of global tech conglomerate Alibaba. He buys the team. He fires Isiah Thomas. And he instantly injects professionalism and INVESTMENT, resulting in a return to a premiere venue (Barclays Center in Brooklyn), then to the playoffs, and finally, the landing of three Hall of Fame players. Wait, you didn't really think a review of a women's basketball team in a pathbreaking women's basketball league was going to end with some male hero nonsense, right? Give me a break. True Liberty fans know that the real driving force isn't J. Tsai but CLARA WU TSAI, who executive produced a historical documentary called UNFINISHED BUSINESS about the league and the team and who played an instrumental role in getting Breanna Stewart, who will likely be the greatest basketball player who ever lived by the time she retires on the team. Cite sources? OK, how's this for a source? Link: https://twitter.com/Lvallejocolom/status/1618304157496274945 CWT, as I call her, has been great in setting a new standard for other WNBA teams, many of them shamelessly cheap (and sexist, by extension). They've built immaculate practice facilities, have fought the league on its stupid travel policies that have the world's greatest athletes traveling in cramped economy class on commercial flights, and most of all, aren't afraid of investing in the team and treating it with the respect it deserves, not as some disposable property. The result has been big-ticket player signings. Besides Stewart, there's the acquisition by trade of Jonquel Jones (who specifically requested NYL as a destination), along with Courtney Vandersloot, plus the ongoing development of #1 pick Sabrina Ionescu and a squad of stellar role players: a big in UConn great and WNBA champion Stefanie Dolson, and a "sniper" and elite passer in Marine Johannes (French). Rounding it all out is the team's "cultural steward" Betnijah Laney, a complete two-pay player unafraid to do unheralded dirty work and defend tenaciously, 6 foot 10" tower Han Xu (who can also shoot), and two great defensive minded stoppers in Kayla Thornton and Jocelyn Willoughby. Will the NYL win this year? I'm not sure. These kinds of teams with stacked talent take time to reach full potential. (I've been particularly irked by the skittishness around giving Han Xu a bigger role, considering the comparisons she has drawn to Belgian big and elite shooter Emma Meeseman. But the turnaround has been remarkable, and I was so psyched that even though I have loved the Seattle Storm my whole WNBA watching life, I semi-converted to the NYL this year with a season ticket purchase. I do believe you will see a banner hung within the next 3 years as the talent continues to gel. L! I! B! New York Liberty! E! R! T! Y! New York Liberty!

My daughter bought a gift card for the Salt Lake Bees but this place sent one to me for a team 2000…read moremiles away..The Charlotte Knights. When I tried to get her money back they ignored me last year. I tried again this year and they told me that I had to get it from the Knights. The Knights said I had to get it from MiLB. The attitude of MiLB was both ignorant and uncaring. They couldn't understand that my daughter did not order it from the Knights website. I mean, why would she go to the Knights website to order a gift card for the Bees? MiBL made the mistake. They refuse to make good on their mistake and my daughter is out 100 dollars. I spent Three hours on the phone one day while they refused to acknowledge their mistake and kept referring me to the Knights. The Knights insist she has to get it from MiLB. I have a confirmation of the purchase from MiLB. They could care less. DO NOT USE MiLB! They are horrible. They don't want anything but your money and if they don't deliver, they will treat you like garbage. Stay away. Just deal with the specific team without this middle man.