Roy Hibbert didn't stay quiet for long. One day after contributing nothing to Georgetown's win over Villanova, the center helped out with 25 points as his Hoyas routed West Virginia in the first Big East Tournament semifinal. The Mountaineers' Joe Alexander finished with only 12. The defending champs have never lost a Big East Tournament game as the No. 1 seed. They'll put that streak on the line Saturday against Pittsburgh, which took out Marquette.......

Too bad Knicks games aren't this exciting or well-played. The busiest -- and best -- day of the Big East schedule got started with Georgetown's record-setting win over Villanova, which is now squarely back on the NCAA Tournament bubble. The Hoyas won without any points from Roy Hibbert. Those tournament-record 17 3-pointers -- on 28 attempts -- helped more than cancel it out in a 83-62 win.The Hoyas will get the Moutaineers of West Virginia,......

The Legal Aid attorney who secretly videotaped his female colleagues while they changed clothes pleaded guilty yesterday to unlawful surveillance. Peter Barta, a Stuyvesant High debater and Georgetown Law graduate, attempted to have the felony charge reduced to a misdemeanor, saying in a letter, "I'm not asking for forgiveness, but an opportunity to earn it." He also said his behavior was "creepy, disrespectful, juvenile and stupid," and wrote, "I offer no excuse or justification for......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: falling debris on W 47th St. and 8th Ave. in Manhattan, a shooting on Broadway on Staten Island, and a suspicious boat at the Verrazano Bridge near Brooklyn. For a reason unrelated to terrorism, the U.S. Parks Dept. is going to keep the crown of the Statue of Liberty closed because it's a fire death-trap. Iranian President Mahmoud Amahdinejad's wish to visit Ground Zero was blocked due to security......

Representatives Anthony Weiner and Jerrold Nadler announced that they are introducing legislation to block a $20 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia. The Sun reports the pair stood in front of the Saudi Consulate, questioning the logic of the Bush administration's plan. Nadler said, "The folly of this arms deal is beyond belief. Saudi Arabia is the no. 1 exporter of terrorism in the world today." Supporters of the deal, which includes advanced weaponry, "say......

The Post got varying opinions from neighbors of Peter Barta, the Legal Aid lawyer accused of secretly videotaping his female colleagues. Barta was charged with four counts of unlawful surveillance and six counts of attempted unlawful surveillance after he allegedly planted a Sharper Image Security Camcorder Clock in his colleagues' offices to film them while they changed in their offices for the gym or court appearances. Barta, who was on the Stuyvesant High School debating......

A Legal Aid Society lawyer was arrested yesterday for allegedly planting a clock with a hidden surveillance camera inside it in a female co-worker's office. WNBC reports that 32-year-old Peter Barta's distaff co-workers told police detectives that they regularly used their offices to change into work clothes (like a suit for court) or for after-work activities. Barta had videotape in his home of one of his workers with her breasts and buttocks bared. In October......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

The rain may be keeping people in, but by the looks of theNY Times Weddings announcements, many local weddings were yesterday. otal Number of Weddings: 32 (including Vows column) Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 0 Youngest Bride: 25 Oldest Bride: 54 Youngest Groom: 22 Oldest Groom: 54 Biggest Age Difference: 14 years Number of Couples Where Bride and Groom Are the Same Age: 3 (two couples are all 25, one is 29 ) Number of......

Local teams may have been shut out of the NCAA tournament's Final Four, but New York is not without representation in Atlanta. Florida phenom Joakim Noah calls NYC home, as does Georgetown's Jesse Sapp. Neither played high school basketball in New York: Noah played for The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and Sapp attended National Christian Academy in Maryland. Ohio State and UCLA are sadly New York City-free teams. Is your team still in the......

It's officially spring, and that means lots of NY Times wedding announcements. Twenty-six, to be exact. Total Number of Weddings: 26 (including Vows column) Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 1 Youngest Bride: 23 Oldest Bride: 65 Youngest Groom: 25 Oldest Groom: 73 Biggest Age Difference: 21 years Number of Couples Where Bride and Groom Are the Same Age: 4 (30 31, and two couples at 27) Number of Harvard Graduates Married: 3 Number of Yale......

After City Council recently passed a bill to regulate pedicabs, Mayor Bloomberg decided to wait a bit longer before signing it (however, he did sign three bills about nightlife safety). Angry pedicab owners seemed to influence the mayor, pleading that the bill would contradict the 2030 sustainable city initiative. Bloomberg has until March 30th to decide whether to sign, veto or leave it alone. If left alone, the bill would automatically become law. Mayor Bloomberg......

Is it going to be Florida’s year again? Can the likely #1 pick in this year’s NBA draft, Greg Oden, lead Ohio State to a championship? Is Georgetown ready to return to elite status? These questions and many more will be answered over the next three weeks as March Madness begins. Locally, there isn’t much to root for. Syracuse got left out of the tournament despite a 10-6 record in the Big East and UConn......

Pittsburgh 3 Rangers 2 (OT): To say New York hit a wall would be an understatement. After building a 2-0 lead through two periods, the Rangers came out and looked like they were skating in cement during the third period. They gave Pittsburgh too many chances, and the Penguins capitalized, tying the game in regulation before winning it off of a turnover in overtime. Jaromir Jagr missed the entire third period because of a leg......

Rockets 112, Nets 91: Richard Jefferson returned to a basketball game for the first time since Jan. 22, but that didn't do the Nets too much good. Bostjan Nachbar had a career-high 29 points, but that didn't help either. New Jersey has lost four straight games and is in the middle of another drought. With each week, the playoffs draw nearer and the Nets' margin of error shrinks. How quickly they readjust to Jefferson......

Rangers 2 Islanders 1: Why did he do it? He had to know how important this game was and he had to know this wasn’t the time to take a penalty. So, why did Chris Simon decide to take a total cheap shot against Ryan Hollweg? Was it because Hollweg had checked him, cleanly we should note, into the boards? Was it because he has always been willing to mix it up in his career?......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: "injured police dog" (oh no!) on Bedford in Williamsburg, a double stabbing at Landmark High School on 58th Street, and a 2nd alarm fire in Fort Greene. A bill in the New Jersey legislature would set up a $1m voting lottery: "any registered voter who cast a ballot that year in a primary or general election eligible for the $1 million prize." Sadly, the bill doesn't look like it's......

R.W. Apple, whose byline could be seen on articles about politics and hot dogs and had been the NY Times bureau chief in seven cities, died this morning in Washington, DC. His NY Times obituary (written by Todd Purdum) shows the amazing sprawl of his life and career:Drama, and a lot of dash, followed Mr. Apple as night follows day. He was the pool reporter sent to the deck of the U.S.S. Forrestal in 1967......

Comedian Mike Birbiglia discusses the development of his show Sleepwalk With Me, his recent Medium Man on Campus college tour, and his forthcoming role in the film Stanley Cuba. How was Oh, Hello ? It was good. I did Oh, Hello, Invite Them Up, and last night I did a show that Eugene did for the first time in Brooklyn at a place called Union Hall. It was Todd Barry, A.D. Miles, Eugene, and myself.......

So, it's been a little while since the last time we visited the Times Weddings and Celebrations by the Numbers but today there was no way we couldn't count 'em up. If you opened up the paper today you might have noticed that the familiar face of our very own Jen Chung and her new husband Jay Wilkins were the on top of the list of sixteen non-Vows weddings this week. From the Paper......

For a week, the Syracuse Orange used a label of "overrated" to motivate their run to the Big East title. Now, as Big East champions, they'll sit and wait to see how much they helped their seeding with a win over Pittsburgh in the championship game. Last year, West Virginia, like Syracuse, sat on the Big East bubble entering the conference tournament. The runners-up got a seven seed, and Gothamist thinks Syracuse can do better......

Syracuse could have taken it easy after knocking off Connecticut, confident a win over the nation's top-ranked team secured them an NCAA tournament berth. Pittsburgh could have rested after taking care of archrival West Virginia in their quarterfinal game. Even with nothing meaningful to play for except a bump in seeding, both underdogs lived to fight another day in the Big East semifinals Friday. Syracuse rallied to top Georgetown 58-57, and Pittsburgh crushed second-ranked Villanova.......

Gerry McNamara won a national title in his freshman year at Syracuse and he wasn’t going to miss the tournament in his senior year. McNamara hit a game tying three-pointer with 10 seconds left to force overtime in Syracuse’s 86-84 upset over UConn in the Big East Tournament. Syracuse will now face Georgetown in the semifinals tonight. The Hoyas outlasted Marquette 62-59 to advance. Pittsburgh and Villanova will meet in the other semifinal tonight after......

If it wasn't a big enough spectacle before, the Big East tournament now has even more power to its punch. Starting today at Madison Square Garden, the league's top 12 (out of 16) battle it out for the conference's tournament title and the berth in the NCAA tournament that comes with it. Of course, most of the teams are playing for seeding, but a few are on the bubble. Connecticut and VIllanova should receive two......

There is a nice doubles theme in today's Weddings and Celebrations. Couples who went to school together, couples who teach at school together, couples who work at AOL together, couples whose Filipino parents have the same medical professions, couples with the same number of divorces, even couples with the same number of kids! Total Number of Weddings: 12 Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 0 Average Age of Brides: 33.8 Average Age of Grooms: 39.1 Youngest......

After beating Pitt at home three weeks ago, St. John's appeared to have a good shot to avoid the pileup that is the bottom of the Big East conference. Since then, the Red Storm have lost five straight, including Thursday's 64-41 loss at Georgetown. As Georgetown coach John Thompson III put it, St. John's had "a bad night." Whether the recent collection of bad nights will cost St. John's a chance at the Big East......

The beginning of the year just isn't the time for lots of weddings, apparently. Anywho, since you know you've been waiting for them, here they are are, this week's Weddings and Celebrations, by the numbers: Total Number of Weddings: 10.5 (11 couples, 10 ceremonies) Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 0 Average Age of Brides: 36.3 Average Age of Grooms: 38.8 Oldest Bride: 84 Oldest Groom: 82 Youngest Bride: 24 Youngest Groom: 26 Average Age Difference:......

Just a few weddings these past two weeks, what with New Year's and Christmas landing on the weekends. But here goes, this week's Weddings and Celebrations, by the numbers (a lot of numbers this weekend, huh...): Total Number of Weddings: 11 Number of Same-Sex Weddings*: 0 Average Age of Brides: 30.6 Average Age of Grooms: 30.7 Oldest Bride: 40 Oldest Groom: 40 Youngest Bride: 25 Youngest Groom: 25 Average Age Difference: 1.9 years Biggest......

A fun weekend this week, so let's jump right into this week's Weddings and Celebrations: Total Number of Weddings: 21 Total Number of Weddings Between Two Heterosexuals: 21 Total Number of Weddings Between Two Homosexuals: 0 Average Age of Brides: 33 Average Age of Grooms: 34 Oldest Bride: 47 Oldest Groom: 51 Youngest Bride: 27 Youngest Groom: 26 Average Age Difference: 3.7 years Biggest Age Difference: 13 years Number of Older Brides: 8 Number......

Another slim weddings weekend, only 16, so let's jump right into this week's Weddings and Celebrations: Total Number of Weddings: 16 Total Number of Weddings Between Two Heterosexuals: 15 Total Number of Weddings Between Two Homosexuals: 1 Average Age of Brides: 36 Average Age of Grooms: 37 Oldest Bride: 54 Oldest Groom: 57 Youngest Bride: 26 Youngest Groom: 24 Average Age Difference: 4.375 years Biggest Age Difference: 19 years Number of Older Brides (in......