[NU Sports] Cofield (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> As for Ray Knight's supposed comment, NY fans have probably forgotten more  
> about basketball than fans in almost any part of the country (save, perhaps,  
> Indiana) ever knew about the sport.

That's because it's been decades since they've had a basketball team
worth remembering.  :-)

Seriously, though, the New Yorkers I know who are sports fans (including
several on this list) are as passionate and knowledgeable as any in the 
country, and NY has historically had the best sports columnists in the 
business, ones syndicated nationally and for good reason!  

I also suspect the NY papers do a somewhat better job covering the 
entire sports scene than the Chicago papers do, though the NY Times can
make anything boring!  I'd also venture that there has been more space 
devoted to Rutgers news this year in the NY papers than there was space 
devoted to the Cats in the Chicago papers in 1995, yet I suspect most
New Yorkers couldn't find the Rutgers campus given a GPS!

Sports talk radio is a different issue, nobody living more than
about 50 miles away from a city should ever have to listen to that city's
sports talk radio shows!  I've listened to sports talk on WGN a few times 
when that's all I could pick up while driving through southern Illinois or 
KY, usually to my sincere regret.  And believe me you do NOT want to
listen to sports talk radio in Nebraska!  (And I was even a semi-permanent
guest on one of those shows for a while.)

Certainly we should all remember Saul Steinberg's famous New Yorker cover, 
"View of the World from 9th Avenue", still as topical as it was in 1976.
(I've always found it funny that Nebraska was one of the few parts
of the USA that got mentioned on that map, along with a drawing that
I believe represents Chimney Rock, Nebraska's most famous geographical
feature.)
--
Mike Nolan