Steve Politi
Sports columnist at @njdotcom. Host of the @RutgersRant podcast. Nutley Hall of Fame Class of 2013. Former Star-Ledger paperboy. Noted Jersey propagandist.
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3 days ago |
nj.com | Brian Fonseca |Steve Politi |Patrick Lanni
After making a major hire last month, is Rutgers set to fill the biggest open role in its athletic department in the near future? The school selected William F. Tate IV to become its next president last month, poaching him from LSU. With the University’s leader in place, the Scarlet Knights are now in position to fill the opening at athletic director. The school hired a search firm for the position in late April and appears to be focused on “non-traditional” candidates for the position.
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6 days ago |
nj.com | Steve Politi
It is hardly breaking news that college sports are becoming more professionalized. Will Rutgers hire an athletics director with a background in pro sports or business to steer the Scarlet Knights through this challenging new era? As the search for a new AD finally nears the finish line, that looks like a strong possibility.
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1 week ago |
nj.com | Steve Politi
Dave Klein, a longtime NFL reporter and columnist who covered the Giants for decades at The Star-Ledger with an acerbic wit and became just one of two sportswriters to attend the first 54 Super Bowls, died on Wednesday. He was 85. Klein began his career at the newspaper in 1961 after he said pharmacy school “bored the hell out of” him. His father, Willie, was the longtime sports editor at the time.
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2 weeks ago |
nj.com | Steve Politi
Rutgers has hired William F. Tate IV as its new president, and since most of us here in New Jersey are unfamiliar with his work in the same job at Louisiana State, we reached out to the foremost expert on higher education south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Dr. Paul Finebaum. Who else, right? Finebaum, who holds advanced degrees in SEC-ology from multiple universities, has hosted the most influential college football talk show for decades.
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2 weeks ago |
nj.com | Steve Politi
Geaux ... Rutgers? The university announced on Monday that it has hired William F. Tate IV as its president, plucking the longtime educator from the same job at Louisiana State. The hire will provide a new direction for the university as a whole at a pivotal moment when higher education is facing threats from multiple fronts. But, for a struggling athletics department, the move could be just as impactful.
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An underdog Knicks team stunning the Celtics to reach the Eastern Conference Finals would be the best New York sports story since ____________?
Worked out pretty well for the Rutgers duo … assuming this is what happens.
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