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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | yesterday
ESPN The Magazine by Otto Strong The New Jersey Nets took one step closer to Brooklyn Thursday, even if the stopover came in the form of a showroom high above midtown. Team brass rolled out a living, breathing life-size version of what the suite experience will look and feel like in a new sales center on the 38th floor of The New York Times building. The Celtics may have this season's...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bergen Record by John Brennan The New Jersey Nets, who vow to move to Brooklyn in two years, kicked off a critical phase of that effort Thursday with the opening of a sales center in midtown Manhattan. "We've been saying that Brooklyn has been real for years, and it is real, but this truly is another validation for us," Chief Executive Officer Brett Yormark said during a media tour of...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Back in Reality: Atlantic Yards and Barclays Center Are On Precipice of Failure BROOKLYN, NY— Tonight, as reported last week in Crain's , Bruce Ratner’s New Jersey Nets will “debut a prototype of their Frank Gehry-designed, $300,000-a-year Barclays Center corporate suites at a splashy party in their New York Times Building showroom.” Meanwhile, back in reality, Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic...
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Swan Lake Samba Girl (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Before I left for the Caribbean, I saw several films at the Tribeca Film Festival, which I still have to blog about. The first was the documentary “Gotta Dance” about the NetSationals, the first ever senior citizen cheerleading dance team, which entertained at halftime during New Jersey Nets’ home games. It was a sweet film. [...]
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The manslaughter case against former New Jersey Nets star Jayson Williams returns to court. Attorneys for Williams are scheduled to argue in front of a three-judge panel on Wednesday that prosecutors must divulge all details about a racial slur used by an investigator in the case. The dispute over the slur postponed Williams' retrial for reckless manslaughter, which was to have begun...
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Music News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Dori Berinstein's new documentary follows older people as they try out for a New Jersey Nets hip-hop dance team. These seniors can break a move. Original post by unknown
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The Wages of Wins Journal (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Now that the NBA regular season is concluded I will be posting comments on each team. These columns will be collected in a page - listed on the right - titled NBA Team Reviews: 2007-08. So far columns examining the Denver Nuggets, New Jersey Nets, and Atlanta Hawks have been posted. There is no particular [...]
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The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Last week, I saw the great documentary Gotta Dance about the Netsationals, a team of senior citizens that danced hip-hop at New Jersey Nets games. Then I found out that Julio Franco retired, which would indicate that Julio Franco had still been playing baseball. I was shocked; I had assumed that Franco had retired long [...]
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NewsChannel 8 (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The New Jersey Nets promoted Kiki Vandeweghe to general manager on Thursday. Per team policy... terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Kiki Vandeweghe became the New Jersey Nets' general manager Thursday, less than six months after being hired as a special assistant to team president Rod Thorn. Vandeweghe replaces Ed Stefanski, who left in midseason to become the general manager of the...
