76ers 124, Knicks 84: For the second time this season, the Knicks got blown out by the second-worst team in the division. How is that possible? Start with nine turnovers in the first quarter alone -- and 23 for the game. Sprinkle in some porous defense and everything should come out just fine. The Knicks lost by 40 despite shooting 46 percent from the floor. Too bad Philadelphia made 57 percent of its shots.Nets 110,......

The Rangers are going to have to have a lot more weekends like this one if they are going to make the playoffs. Fresh off of Saturday’s shellacking of Buffalo, New York outlasted San Jose in a physical contest 3-1. Ryan Callahan continued to show the club that he belongs in New York with two goals in the contest. Chris Drury continued his resurgence with his seventh goal in nine games as the Rangers beat......

Photograph of the Rangers celebrating as Buffalo Sabres player Ales Kotalik skates away by Frank Franklin II/AP Rangers 5, Sabres 1: Five days off, but only 10 seconds to score. Sean Avery got the Blueshirts off to a great start and they finally got the taste of Sunday's overtime loss to Washington out of their mouths. "I don't think we expected that great of a start," said Brendan Shanahan. He has to be telling......

A report being released tomorrow by the Industrial Assistance Corporation (IAC) titled "Buried Treasure: New York's Hidden Tech Sector" asserts that New York City rivals cities like Seattle and areas like Silicon Valley as the largest technology center in the country. The study counted the number of tech workers in the city, at branches of corporations like IBM, Microsoft, Google, and the research and development departments of medical centers in the city. The IAC report......

Wow, some very wild data from the U.S. Census about the make-up of New York. Accordin to the NY Times, the number of Manhattan children under the age of 5 has increased by more than 32%, and half of that growth is attributed to wealthy white families. And get this:The analysis shows that Manhattan’s 35,000 or so white non-Hispanic toddlers are being raised by parents whose median income was $284,208 a year in 2005, which......

Lots of Times Weddings Announcements today! Total Number of Weddings: 22 (including Vows column) Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 1 Youngest Bride: 25 Oldest Bride: 64 Youngest Groom: 26 Oldest Groom: 70 Biggest Age Difference: 13 years Number of Couples Where Bride and Groom Are the Same Age: 3 (ages 26, 29, and 34) Number of Cornell Graduates Married: 4 Number of University of Michigan Graduates Married: 3 Number of Brown Graduates Married: 2......

Good news for all those that love mapping features as Microsoft added Virtual Earth 3-D to their Live Search today. The bad news? You have to be using Windows Internet Explorer 6 or 7 and install software (that takes a long time to install). We assume that Virtual Earth doesn't work on Macs. Maps are currently viewable in 2-D through any browser. The bad news is that the program is such a memory hog......

- Rangers 3 San Jose 1: New York completed a successful west coast swing with their second win in as many nights. Kevin Weekes looked stellar between the pipes, stopping 29 of 30 shots and Matt Cullen, Martin Straka and Brendan Shanahan scored. With Weekes playing well in consecutive games, the question is, who will start in goal on Sunday? - Derek Jeter wins another gold glove: Jeter is many things, but a great......

With the release of more census data yesterday, a few other trends for NYC emerged: - NYC has the second highest median age - 35.8 years old, after SF's 39.4 years - and the third highest number of people over age 65 years, with 11.9% of the population clocking in over 65 (SF was first, followed by Philly) - New Yorkers wait a long time before getting married - And we have the third highest......

Just what you've been waiting for: Our fair city has its newest sports franchise. The National Lacrosse League is brining a franchise to the Big Apple, and four of the games will be at Madison Square Garden. Mayor Bloomberg played intramural lacrosse at Johns Hopkins, and the NY Times writes that he "showed off his command of the sports esoterica":I know you all agree with me that there’s nothing quite like a middie clamping down......

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......

NYC is the fourth largest safe city, according to some report, but we count it as the top safe city, because can you really put NYC in the same league as San Jose, El Paso, and Honolulu?New York magazine looks at Tiffany as the brass ring of cheating spouses' girlfriends during Christmas.A CPA was found stabbed to death on a Queens sidewalk near his home; he owned a few Forest Hills co-ops and a neighbor......

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Reader's Digest says that New York City is the second dirtiest big city in the country, which Chicago winning honors for dirtiest. Besides the fact that few people who actually read Reader's Digest actually live in NYC and care what the writers of Reader's Digest think, but the Daily News made sure to get the Department of Sanitation's reaction. Which was "It's a silly report," and a Department of Sanitation spokeswoman said that 91.1% NYC......

Another undefeated team loses this week in Wisconsin, and tumbles way down the rankings from last week. Utah moves up to #5, but Boise State is nowhere to be seen after a shootout against San Jose State. Will another undefeated fall this week, or will championship week be a deciding factor for Auburn and Oklahoma? USC plays Notre Dame, OU plays Baylor, Utah faces BYU, Boise State plays Louisiana Tech and Auburn faces Alabama in......

The U.S. Census Bureau doesn't take an average Friday night at a New York bar as evidence enough: The government agency released a report showing that the NY metro area is fifth on the list of the 20 largest metropolitan areas that young college-educated singles (ages 25-39) move to. The report, "Migration of the Young, Single and College-Educated," (PDF) shows San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area is the top city singles with BA's move to, followed by......