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Close your eyes and you can almost feel the electricity: A standing-room-only crowd in the sweltering heat, a couple thousand fans battling for elbow room and a better view, their eyes glued to the highlight reel better known as playground hoops.

Kanye West has told fans he's working on playing down his "crazy ego" after being ridiculed in a new episode of "South Park."

Lance Stephenson, who sources have said is leaning toward Kansas, took to the podium with his father Tuesday and announced that he's going to delay naming the school he'll go to once again.

Justin Gatlin is in the midst of a four-year ban from competition after a positive steroid test in April 2006. Gatlin maintains that he didn't knowingly take steroids, claims a vengeful masseuse rubbed him with a steroid cream.

The glassy twin towers, the welcoming grass beyond the outfield walls and the open-air concourse at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium combine to make this park one of the prettier minor-league constructions on the East Coast. But there is a catch.

TNT studio analyst and former Dream Teamer Charles Barkley reported to an outdoor "Tent City" jail in Arizona Saturday to serve his three-day sentence for drunken driving.

Jim Calhoun's arrogant response during a press conference to an unexpected question last week about his $1.6 million-plus UConn salary was a watershed moment in this business of sports.

Imprisoned NFL star Michael Vick will be allowed to finish his sentence under home confinement because there is no room at a halfway house for him, a government official told The Associated Press Thursday.

Alex Rodriguez partied with strippers and palled around with Madonna, but when the chips were down he ran back to the woman whose heart he broke - his ex-wife, Cynthia.

News that Alex Rodriguez flunked a steroids test may cost the slugger more than just his good name.Madison Avenue is sure to take notice of the negative vibe surrounding A-Rod, potentially costing him millions in endorsement opportunities.

There's nothing more tired at this point than bitching about stars selling out their songs to Madison Avenue. That battle is so last century.

With President Obama's administration urging Congress to pass an economic stimulus quickly, local leaders should waste no time pointing to a smart, stable source of middle-class jobs: port trucking in New York's regional economy.

t the moment, the most beautiful bar in New York may be the one at Macao Trading Co. It's a grownup's bar - owned by grownups, staffed by grown-ups. But really, it feels like a bar for 8-year-olds. That's a good thing. I suppose you could get a Grey Goose martini, dirty. But why, when you can drink311 Church St., near Walker St.(212) 431-8750 Seven days, 5 p.m.-4 a.m.Macao Trading Company

Dear President-elect Obama, As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, virtually every functioning television camera in America will be in Washington, D.C., mostly pointed toward the place where, around noon, you will become our first black President.

For 16-year-old John Ortiz, the quest for the holy grail of sneakers ends Tuesday when the doors of the NBA Store at Fifth Ave. and 52nd St. open.

LeBron James and Microsoft Corp. have lost their Internet connection. The NBA superstar and the software giant have ended a two-year marketing partnership.

You might think of Indian smoke shops, with their cutesy names like Peace Pipe and Smoke Signals, as a harmless tax dodge - a way for people to save a few bucks on cigarettes.

Four months after his epic U.S. Open victory, Tiger Woods returned to Torrey Pines on Monday without a limp. He didn't have golf clubs, either. Woods returned to deliver on his end of the "Tee Off with Tiger" online sweepstakes.

The Knicks' Jared Jeffries is hobbling around the Skidmore College gym these days on a broken leg, with the aid of crutches. So much for Mike D'Antoni's reputation of putting his basketball teams through easy practices.

Riding the euphoria and momentum of a Wimbledon triumph, Rafael Nadal stormed into the Beijing Olympic Games and captured gold. If you think the pressure is mounting on the best player in the world - you don't know Rafa.

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