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LIU Marches into the NCAA Tournament for the 3rd Straight Year

LIU’s dominating 91-70 over Mount Saint Mary’s on Tuesday night earned them their 3rd consecutive Northeast Conference Championship, and their 3rd consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament. The Blackbirds of LIU showed tremendous heart and perseverance this season as they would lose key players to suspension, and the reigning NEC player of the year Julian

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UFC’s fight to legalize MMA in New York

Lorenzo Fertitta sat in the front row at a mixed martial arts fight in New York. The problem for Fertitta, chairman and chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, was that front row’s location — the Capitol building in Albany, high above the action on the floor of the state Senate instead of in Madison Square Garden. Fertitta and a number of other UFC officials, fighters

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St John’s JaKarr Sampson named Big East Rookie of the Year

On Tuesday St John’s forward JaKarr was named Big East Rookie of the year. Sampson becomes the second-straight St. John’s player to earn BIG EAST Rookie of the Year honors and the third overall. Moe Harkless took home the league’s top freshman honor in 2011-12, while David Russell earned the award in 1979-80. “The BIG

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