Knicks don’t have NYU-type stability

NEW NYU coach Dagan

Nelson, replacing Joe Nesci who has retired after 30 years, is just the 14th coach since the school began its basketball program in 1906. Thus, over 111 years, NYU had just 13 coaches. Since 1995, the dawn of the Jim Dolan era, the Knicks have had 14.

“Ed Randall’s Talking Baseball,” Sunday mornings on WFAN, continues to feature the different and often surprising. Last week he chatted with 91-year-old Brooklyn Dodgers pitching favorite “Oisk,” aka, Carl Erskine and Jackie Robinson’s daughter, Sharon. Sunday morning, between 9-10, David Wells is scheduled.

Good question from reader Mark Elder: If having an NFL team or two in Los Angeles is considered essential to Roger “Good Investment” Goodell, how is it the Oct. 21 Titans-L.A. Chargers game in London will begin on the West Coast at 6:30 a.m.?

There are homers and then there are homers. Devils TV analyst Ken Daneyko is the good kind. While obviously pulling for his only team in his 20-year career, he has earned viewers’ trust in objectively assessing penalty calls for and against them.

Interesting that Siena fired fifth-season basketball coach Jimmy Patsos for his insufferable conduct, including alleged verbal abuse of team members, after an 8-24 season. Followers of Siena know Patsos’ conduct was as disturbing two seasons ago, when Siena went 21-13.

Penn State’s can’t-miss running back Saquon Barkley to be drafted by the Giants with the second-overall pick? The last can’t-miss Penn State RB drafted by a local team with the second-overall pick was Blair Thomas, 1990 by the Jets. Thomas was a fourseason Jets’ disappointment, finished in the NFL by 1995.

That Steiner Collectibles superstar Derek Jeter didn’t accompany his Marlins to play the Yankees, here last week was explained by reader Vinny Mooney: “No appearance fee.”