Author Archives: Paul Knepper
Why Dwight Howard Would Bring Knicks Fans With Him to Brooklyn
Here’s a link to my latest post on Bleacher Report. I’ve posted about ten articles on the site. You can find them all by searching my name. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1254759-brooklyn-nets-why-dwight-howard-would-bring-knicks-fans-with-him-to-brooklyn
Dinner at Clyde’s
What better way is there to celebrate your birthday than with family and Walt “Clyde” Frazier at Clyde Frazier’s Wine and Dine?
Hello Chris Bosh
Chris Bosh has been called overrated. He’s been labeled soft. He’s been treated like a third wheel to LeBron James and Dwyane Wade’s high-flying show. Critics even argued that the Heat were better off without him after he missed most of the second and third rounds of the playoffs with an oblique injury. But throughContinue reading “Hello Chris Bosh”
Not Even a Ring
It came as no surprise when the Knicks officially removed the interim tag from head coach Mike Woodson’s title. The players responded to Woodson, finishing the season with an 18-6 record after he replaced the departed Mike D’Antoni, and his stars, most notably Carmelo Anthony, publicly backed him after the Knicks first-round playoff exit. Curiously,Continue reading “Not Even a Ring”
Waiting For Lauryn
I know this is a sports blog, but the beauty of having your own blog is that you can branch out to other subjects every now and then. With all due respect to MC Lyte, Salt N Peppa and Queen Latifah, Lauryn Hill is the greatest female rapper of all-time. She spit rhymes with a passionContinue reading “Waiting For Lauryn”
Wining and Dining With Clyde
You won’t read too many restaurant reviews here at Through the Clydescope, but when the blog’s namesake Walt “Clyde” Frazier opens up his own eatery/sports bar, I feel the need to weigh in. Clyde Frazier’s Wine and Dine, a joint collaboration between Frazier and Michael Weinstein of Ark Restaurants opened two months ago on the westContinue reading “Wining and Dining With Clyde”
Jay-Z and the Branding of the Brooklyn Nets
Monday morning the Nets officially became the Brooklyn Nets, ending their 35-year tenure in New Jersey. The team celebrated the occasion by unveiling its new logos (there are two) at an event attended by center Brook Lopez, near their new arena, the Barclays Center, in downtown Brooklyn. The logos and new colors ( black and white) were designed by hip-hop mogul and part-owner ofContinue reading “Jay-Z and the Branding of the Brooklyn Nets”
NBA Playoff Preview
Through the Clydescope is proud to present a very talented young writer, Lucas Lovekin, from Mr. Portnoy’s fifth grade class at PS 217 in Brooklyn, New York. Read below to find out his predictions for the NBA playoffs, which begin this afternoon. Ahh! It’s playoff time! The best time of the year. This year, theContinue reading “NBA Playoff Preview”
The Most Over-Hyped Day in Sports
It’s that time of year again, the holiest of holy days for hardcore football fans, the first day of the NFL Draft. Millions of fanatics around the country have spent the past few weeks reading mock drafts, blog posts and articles in an attempt to figure out which players their team should and will select. Tonight they’ll don their jerseysContinue reading “The Most Over-Hyped Day in Sports”
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