Local towns biggest losers

SHOULDN’T be long before the bottomline reports start rolling in. They’ll show how New Jersey and the towns nearest PSL Stadium, having fallen for broken NFL promises and the unfulfilled, fool’s gold lure of Super Bowlhost windfall profits, lost millions.

And several of those millions will be New Jersey’s outofpocket costs for an army of State Troopers. And that cost becomes the responsibility of taxpayers who, to a great extent, are all PSL holders. You’ll see.

Better late than never, the NBA is starting to recognize the Suns — 2918 despite being superstarless and supposed to f inish dead last in the West — are a good story. NBA TV has added BullsSuns Tuesday.

In their two games — home and away — against the 3610 Pacers, the Suns won both — by a total of 32. Firsttime head coach Jeff Hornacek and firsttime lead general manager Ryan McDonough — kid brother of ESPN’s Sean McDonough — apparently can’t find any wrong buttons to push.

Happened again, Saturday, on ESPN. This time Jim Boeheim. He had Syracuse guard against something neither he nor us have likely seen: the made free throw, then the intentionally missed free throw followed by an offensive rebound and quick field goal to tie.

So, rather than foul with a three or four seconds left against Duke, he allowed the game to be tied with a 3point shot. Stunning to watch the most successful, highestpaid coaches choose to allow a 30to35 percent shot to be taken rather than force an opponent into a 1,0001 situation.

Stunning, too, to think such situations are not coached, every day, during practice.