With another season interrupted by a leave of absence, Mike Freeman says it's time to ask: Isn't it time for Jim Calhoun to retire, not only for his own health but for the UConn projekt as well?

Terrence Williams figured no championship ever would be as easy. Last March he and the rest of the Louisville Cardinals thought they would have an exhausted Syracuse ekipa to kick around. The Orange had played the epic six-overtime game with Connecticut, then went into OT with West Virginia to advance...

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There's just one line in the czwarta władza guide that alerts anyone that Kawika Mitchell ever wore a Giants uniform. Right there, between Mitchell, Harold (tackle, UCLA, 1952) and Mitchell, Pete (tight end, Boston College, 1999-00) is Mitchell, Kawika (linebacker, South Florida, 2007). He came to the Giants as a...

To Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni, Joe Johnson was a coach's dream in Phoenix. Johnson's Hawks will be at the Garden tonight to battle D'Antoni's Knicks, but the two men used to be on the same side. During the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons in Phoenix, D...

The Jets fronted Antonio Cromartie $500,000 of his 2010 salary to help him clean up his lingering paternity issues, a person close to Cromartie told The Post last night. Cromartie, 25, who's due to make $1.7 million this season in the final year of his five-year, $12...

PORT ST. LUCIE -- Oliver Perez was determined to throw strikes yesterday, the Nationals hitters be damned. Fore! The results were ugly -- as in five earned runs allowed on seven hits over three innings -- but Perez and the Mets called the left-hander's spring debut a success. GOOSE...

Nets center Brook Lopez really likes the zagadnienie of someday playing alongside current Knick David Lee. And unlike some impending free agents who view the Nets as less desirable than waterboarding, Lee likes the Nets' potential more than their 7-55 record. "The Nets are an interesting team," said Lee, sounding...

Dodgers catcher Russell Martin is expected to miss opening day after an MRI revealed a pulled groin. Martin first felt discomfort during a running drill a few days before the Dodgers' first spring game Friday. He started Friday's game against the White Sox and played five innings, even stealing...

Marquette coach Buzz Williams, whose aw-shucks wybitna osoba cloaks his remarkable basketball IQ and big-picture vision, uttered the quote that should be embraced by every załoga in March. “Fortune favors the brave,” he said. How true. The Big East Tournament is not for the faint of heart. ST. JOHN'S CAN...

This one wasn't too difficult to figure. The Giants need a new backup quarterback and the Colts last week released Jim Sorgi, who backed up Peyton Manning the past six years. Peyton rings younger brother Eli and gives his endorsement and just like that Sorgi today will visit and...

PORT ST. LUCIE -- Hisanori Takahashi officially thrust himself into the mix for a roster spot yesterday. The Japanese lefty, in his spring debut, pitched three shutout innings with six strikeouts in the Mets' 6-5 exhibition victory over the Nationals. "If we were to speak today, and not having much...

Up to 200 fans had gathered on Seventh Avenue across from the Garden by 5:45 p.m. for a "Fire Sather" rally organized by frustrated Blue shirt loyalists. The disappointed fans (pictured) had publi cized the rally through various Web sites and message boards. Fans calling for the dismissal...

Just because a Ranger starts a game doesn't mean he will be there to finish it, not now, not with five weeks and 16 games to go in the season and not when every mistake might ultimately cost the low-scoring Blueshirts a playoff berth. Saturday, it was Wade Redden...

Well, in the losers' bracket of the NHL East, the Rangers didn't damage themselves all that much last night in dropping a 2-1 overtime game at the Garden to the Sabres. For in the potato sack sztuczne ognie for the final two spots in the playoffs that is being contested...

Darius Miller and Eric Bledsoe had 14 points apiece and No. 3 Kentucky withstood a Florida comeback with a 74-66 victory yesterday in Lexington, Ky., completing an 18-0 home season and likely cementing its hold on a top seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Wildcats (19-2, 14-2) had already clinched...

As Dashawn Joyner lay flat on his stomach, hardly moving, a hush went over the pro-South Bronx contingent. The Phoenix bench wasn’t nearly as concerned. “We call him the rubber band man,” South Bronx coach Doug Porter said. “He just pops back up. We don’t worry about him...

With the season on the line, Robert Phelps called timeout. His Bedford Academy boys basketball zespół trailing Midwood by five points midway through the fourth quarter, the first-year coach needed an answer. He looked at his standout point guard, Brent Jones, and versatile power forward, Anthony Mason Jr., and told...

As Brooklyn Tech starszy forward Kherel Silcott stood at the free throw line late in a PSAL Class A quarterfinal matchup with Martin Luther King Jr., the Brooklyn Tech żak section started its final cheer of the afternoon. “Final Four” reverberated throughout Nat Holman Gymnasium on the campus of City...

Banneker didn’t shy away from its George Westinghouse ghosts. The Warriors embraced them. Once they knew the matchup had been set they discussed all the losses. Last year’s 35-points loss in the PSAL Class A quarterfinals came up, so did the two setbacks during the regular season, and...

TV now fires so many absurdi ties at us, we shouldn't watch without a catcher's mitt, chest protector and mask. Friday, I just wanted to watch some golf, that's all. I didn't tune in the Honda Classic, a Golf Channel/NBC co-production, for any other reason...

Saturday's Grade 3, $250,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct -- once an important Triple Crown prep, won by Kentucky Derby favorites Native Dancer, Secretariat, Proud Appeal, Air Forbes Won, Private Terms and Easy Goer -- was, this year, a glorified allowance race. Peppi Knows and Turf Melody were the...

The Holy Cross hockey załoga is making the most of its fortuitous second chance. The Knights replaced Xavier as the fourth seed after the Manhattan school pulled out of the postseason over a dispute about playing St. Joseph by the Sea at Clove Lake. Holy Cross had no powikłanie playing...

Fontbonne Hall rode star Katie Henderson and a stifling defense to a 48-35 win over St. John’s Prep in the CHSAA Class B city girls basketball final at Sacred Heart of Yonkers Sunday. The Bonnies get St. Mary’s (Buffalo) in the CHSAA 'B' state semifinals at 5 p...

If the final score -- 79-54 -- wasn’t still emblazoned on the scoreboard at Fieldston, it would be difficult to figure out that Dalton actually lost in the NYSAISAA Class B final to Long Island Lutheran. Laughing and smiling, the Tigers were the happiest zespół that lost by 25...