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Thomas Hickey (credit: Wikimedia Commons/Michael Miller) MSG Networks, the television home of the New York Islanders, today announced that former Islanders defenseman Thomas Hickey will officially join the MSG Networks’ Islanders broadcast team as a studio analyst for this season. Hickey will team up in studio with host Shannon Hogan ...

WFUV-FM Spring Gala ’09 honoring Paul Simon, Dick Enberg, and Jim Lehrer. Mike Breen (FCRH ’83), the 2020 Curt Gowdy Award-winning Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer, New York Knickerbockers play-by-play announcer on MSG Networks and “Voice of the NBA on ABC/ESPN” will become the second Fordham University alumnus to receive ...

Bryce Harper (All-Pro Reels) Philadelphia’s storybook run through the baseball playoffs continues as the National League’s sixth seed claimed its first title since 2008, defeating Houston, 4 games to 3, including wins in Games 6 and 7 on the road, in the simulation conducted by Strat-O-Matic (@StratOMatic), the market leader ...

Stan Fischler The New York Islanders announced that the team has honored longtime hockey historian Stan Fischler, permanently bestowing his name on the media work area at UBS Arena at Belmont Park. The press level is officially named the Stan Fischler Press Level. The Islanders held an official dedication on ...

National Lacrosse League The National Lacrosse League (@NLL), the world’s largest and most successful professional lacrosse league, today announced its schedule of pre-season games, beginning November 5 with Panther City vs. Albany at Toronto Rock Athletic Centre (TRAC) in Oakville, Ontario. Highlighting the preseason slate are two games each among ...

Tilman Hall (Wikimedia/MKt324) RealResponse, the award-winning safe and secure feedback, monitoring and anonymous reporting platform today announced an expansion of its core offerings, with a first of its kind program with Clemson University offering the RealResponse platform to all University students, faculty, and staff. Clemson has been using the platform ...

NY Islanders/Twitter As fan-created chants go, few if any have the staying power of New York Rangers fans’ ignoring actual on-ice success in relation to their neighbors to the East, the Islanders, as the “Potvin Sucks” that follows a familiar set of notes played by sports organists and DJs everywhere. ...

credit: America’s Boating Club United States Power Squadrons® (USPS) has been awarded a new grant from the U.S. Coast Guard to substantially expand America’s Boating Channel™, USPS’s boating safety and boater education video service.   USPS, founded in 1914, is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization of more than 21,000 members dedicated to ...

In his new book, noted sports business industry pioneer Rick Horrow posits the beginnings of what we’ve come to know as the modern sports industry to 50 years ago, during the time of the 1972 Munich Olympics, the undefeated Miami Dolphins, and the passage of Title IX legislation, among other ...

Athletes First Partners (A1 Partners) todayannounced they have been retained by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation to represent all 27 Six Flags theme parks across North America, creating the first-ever joint marketing and sponsorship program Six Flags has ever offered. It is the largest and most ambitious partnership opportunity in Six ...