Kyle Wagner

2 weeks ago | nydailynews.com | Kyle Wagner

Knicks fans knew. Long before Aaron Nesmith was imbued with infernal fire so that he might defile the Garden, before Tyrese Haliburton’s fiendish prayer of a shot went up, and before that same foul pact guided the ball back down and through the rim as those gathered in attendance gasped in horror, Knicks fans knew what sort of fate awaited their team if they could not lay the Pacers to rest. Now the team does as well.

Feb 12, 2024 | nydailynews.com | Kyle Wagner

The dream for any great quarterback, and there has never been a greater quarterback than Patrick Mahomes, is to take your team down the field at the end of the big game. On Sunday night in Vegas, just to make sure everybody knew who they were watching, Mahomes did it twice in the Super Bowl with his team losing to the 49ers. You always hear in sports about athletes rising to the moment. Mahomes is the moment. That ought to be his nickname.

Jan 25, 2024 | nydailynews.com | Kyle Wagner

Joe Theismann won one Super Bowl and played in a second with Washington after entering the NFL as a fourth-round draft pick with another franchise. He starred for a coach Joe Gibbs, whose path to the Hall of Fame featured three championships with three starting QBs — including one selected in the sixth round (Mark Rypien) and one who was chosen in the first round but wound up taking a detour to the USFL before reaching the sport’s pinnacle (Doug Williams).

Jan 25, 2024 | nydailynews.com | Kyle Wagner

U.S. Biathlon national champion Joanne Reid was sexually harassed and abused for years by a ski-wax technician while racing on the elite World Cup circuit, a watchdog group that oversees sex-abuse allegations in Olympic sports found. When the two-time Olympian complained, she says she was told his behavior was just part of the male European culture. Teammate Deedra Irwin says she repeatedly had to step in to protect Reid.