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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Local college hoop coaches overwhelmingly pick Giants over Patriots
It’s almost unanimous. Every Division I metropolitan area basketball coach believes the Giants will win tomorrow’s Super Bowl against the New England Patriots. Giselle might be praying for husband Tom Brady but we’ve got St. Francis, St. Johns’s, St. Peter’s praying for Big Blue, plus Fordham, Iona and Seton Hall.
The lone voice of dissent comes from Columbia’s Kyle Smith who clearly knows where his bread is buttered. The Patriots owner, Bob Kraft, is a Columbia graduate.
The rest of the fraternity went Big Blue, though Hofstra’s Mo Cassara and LIU’s Jim Ferry came the closest to picking the Patriots before sanity prevailed. Cassara, the former coach at Clark and an assistant at B.C., hesitated for a moment before being told The Post would publish his home address if he picked the Patriots.
Ferry, a former assistant at Keene St in New Hampshire and Bentley College in Mass., before becoming the head coach at Plymouth State in N.H., acknowledged members of his family are Patriots fans but, when informed The Post would publish his license plate number, declared himself a Big Blue fan.
Here is a breakdown of why the area hoops coaches picked the Giants and their game MVP prediction. Because we’re obliged to provide some basketball content in this space, we look at how each program has fared.
Columbia, Kyle Smith: Patriots. Have to go with the Columbia graduate, Robert Kraft. MVP: Tom Brady.
Lions: 12-8, 1-3 in the Ivy League.
FDU, Greg ‘Shoes’ Vetrone: Giants. The Giants will win the Super Bowl their defense is playing at a level that champions are made of. MVP: Victor Cruz will have a big game. I have to pick him, he’s a Jersey boy.
Knights: 2-20, 1-10 in the Northeast.
Fordham, Tom Pecora: Giants. Honest, hard working, classy head coach. Go Giants. MVP: Victor Cruz.
Rams: 9-12, 2-6 in the Atlantic 10.
Hofstra, Mo Cassara: Giants. Mark Herzlich, the guy beat cancer and should just be named MVP. Plus, he’s a Boston College guy. MVP: Mark Herzlich.
The Pride: 8-16, 2-10 in the Colonial.
Iona, Tim Cluess: Giants. They are on a roll. Solid ‘D’ and Eli will come through. MVP: QB Eli Manning.
Gaels: 18-5, 10-2 in the MAAC.
LIU, Jim Ferry: Giants. I think they’re locked in together as a group. They’ve taken it to a whole nother level. MVP: Eli Manning, he showed some big time toughness in that San Francisco game.
Blackbirds: 15-7, 10-1in the Northeast.
Manhattan, Steve Masiello: Giants! Because of the defense. MVP: Jason Pierre Paul.
Jaspers: 17-7, 10-2 in the MAAC.
Marist, Chuck Martin: Giants. Coach [Tom] Coughlin is very underrated and there’s leadership from the top. There’s a group of unselfish high character and mentally tough group of guys who believe in each and are willing to sacrifice personal gain for the greater good of the team. MVP: Victor Cruz.
Red Foxes: 7-15, 2-9 in the MAAC.
NJIT, Jim Ingles: Giants. I am a Giants fan, always have been, always will be. MVP: Eli Manning, never gets caught up in any nonsense; goes out does his job every day.
Highlanders: 9-12, 2-2 in the Great West.
Rutgers, Mike Rice: Giants. Myles Mack will be sad if Cruz doesn’t shine. MVP: Victor Cruz.
Scarlet Knights: 12-11, 4-6 in the Big East.
St. Francis, N.Y., Glenn Braica: Giants. I’m a diehard Giants fan my whole life! The MVP’s got to be Eli since Brady’s on the other side. He has to at least match him which should get him the MVP.
MVP: Eli Manning.
Terriers: 11-10, 8-2 in the Northeast.
St. Johns, Steve Lavin: Giants. They have an inspired defense, improving with each passing week that is built to give Brady problems. Plus, I’m biased because when I first came home from the hospital Coughlin and his staff sent me an autographed Giants football with well wishes. MVP: Victor Cruz.
Red Storm: 10-12, 4-6 in the Big East.
St. Peter’s, John Dunne: Giants. I’m a season-ticket guy, Giants all the way. I just think they’re defense is going to get to Brady. Brady doesn’t like getting knocked down and hurried and rushed. Their front four is going to be the difference in the game: MVP: Eli Manning.
Peacocks: 4-18, 3-8 in the MAAC.
Seton Hall, Kevin Willard: Giants. The Giants because of their pass rush and a strong aerial attack against a weak New England defense. MVP: “CRRRUUUUUZZZ!!!”
Pirates: 15-7, 4-6.
Stony Brook, Steve Pikiell: Giants. I like teams that defend. MVP: Jason Pierre Paul.
Seawolves: 14-7, 9-1 in America East.
Wagner, Danny Hurley: Giants. Got to go with the NY-NJ Giants. MVP: Victor Cruz.
Seahawks: 18-4, 9-2 in the Northeast.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Stanford moneyman knew it was fraud
HOUSTON — It was a deceptive fax sent from a fake office in London that led R. Allen Stanford’s former finance chief to conclude that his high-flying billionaire boss was a fraud.
James Davis, a college roommate of Stanford’s who went on to become his moneyman, told a federal jury in Houston yesterday that in the summer of 1991 Stanford handed him a document and asked him to fly with it to London. There, he was to take the document to a 10-foot square cubicle and fax it to a potential client.
The purpose of the trip, Davis testified, was to hide the fact that the company named on the document’s letterhead, British Insurance Fund Limited, didn’t actually exist. That company was supposed to be insuring the CDs deposited in Stanford’s bank, Davis said, when in fact BIF Ltd. was a purely paper creation.
Shortly after this, Davis told a packed Texas courtroom, he began to make a joke of shuffling into Stanford’s office as if his wrists and ankles were bound together, as if he were walking in shackles.
The point, he said, was to let Stanford know that if they continued operating as they were, they would end up behind bars.
Davis, who has pleaded guilty to securities fraud, admitted that he had committed crimes and said he had helped Stanford, who is accused of bilking investors out of $7 billion, even as he raised questions with his boss.
Davis described Stanford as a charismatic but dictatorial boss, one who would fly into a rage if Davis made a decision without Stanford’s approval and who operated through “flattery, intimidation and fear.”
Asked by prosecutors why he stayed in his job, Davis choked back a sob and answered, “because I was greedy.”
All told, Davis said, he earned some $14 million during his time with Stanford.
Allen Stanford, Stanford, British Insurance Fund Limited
Hmm...very interesting details
Hmm...very interesting details
Seurat spent over two years painting A Sunday Afternoon, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park. He reworked the original as well as completed numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches. He would go and sit in the park and make numerous sketches of the various figures in order to perfect their form. He concentrated on the issues of colour, light, and form. The painting is approximately 2 by 3 meters (6 ft 10 in x 10 ft 1 in) in size.
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