Ridiculous quotes are ‘reality’ of situation
GREAT week for quotes; the Top 3:
Reader Mark Dantonio asks if Yankees president
Randy Levine, who Saturday on WFAN was heard saying that Dellin Be
tances’ salary request “wasn’t based in reality,” is the same Randy Levine who has priced tens of thousands of fans out of Yankee Stadium.
While we have no clear idea what went down with
Darrelle Revis in Pittsburgh, his attorney, Blaine
Jones, explained that Revis had been assaulted when he “went by a location in the South Side that he is in the process of developing.” He was conducting an onsite real estate inspection at 2:30 a.m.? Then there was the Rev.
Al Sharpton and his National Action Network, which, although neither had any idea what the Charles Oakley-Jim
Dolan hassle was all about — nor seemed to care — released a statement threatening “to picket MSG ... unless Mr. Oakley’s [Garden] privileges are reinstated.”
Wanna restore some action to drowned-by-com- mercials NFL games? Lose both two-minute warnings; keep playing ball! Of course, to serve the game’s best interests might mean the NFL take a little less from its TV networks for lost ad revenues. In other words, forget it.
Nick Swisher seems like a good get as FOX Sports studio analyst. As a player, Swisher was a go-to guy, an attention-keeping interview.
Reader Rich Roberts asks if “Facility Fee” Dolan soon will turn off the Gar- den’s escalators to save money? I think the plan is to do that, but under the guise of rededicating the escalators as “The World’s Most Famous Arena’s Stairs.”
Knick Ron Baker, Wichita St. man, was interviewed Saturday on ESPN2 during Northern IowaWichita St. He came across pleasant, modest and selfdeprecating. Thanks, we needed that.
Here’s to ESPN’s Bob Wischusen and Fran Fraschilla for noting, Saturday, that had WVU coach Bob
Huggins chosen to give a foul rather than allow Texas Tech to tie it with a 3-pointer, 4.6 seconds left in regulation, WVU wouldn’t have had to win it in double OT. While coaches are paid millions, we see similar two, three times a week.
Harvey Araton, a lifelong pal, ex-teammate, former Post colleague and superb, thoughtful sportswriter and columnist, has won this year’s print-side Curt Gowdy Media Award. In September, he’ll be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.