NO!!!

Growing up a NY Knicks fan meant hearing play-by-play man Marv Albert holler a throaty "Yes!" after crucial Knicks buckets. Yesterday, a Manhattan jury unleashed a unanimous "No!" to the frat boy clowns running the Knicks (and, unfortunately, my beloved NY Rangers) by awarding a courageous woman named Anucha Browne Sanders $11.6 million in a sexual harassment suit.

The case's details are predictable: Woman attains executive status, is treated differently because of her gender, rightly complains, gets fired in retaliation. That a world famous institution like Madison Square Garden would be home to such trash is shocking to some, but not me. In 1997, I dated James Dolan's personal assistant. Dolan, now MSG's chairman, was running its parent company Cablevision at the time. While the woman proved to be a nutjob (Tip: Don't date anyone who describes him/herself as a 'performance artist') her nightly rants about putting up with a coke-sniffing, foul-mouthed and sexually demeaning boss were genuine. And, as this verdict proves, litigious.

Albert eventually tired of MSG execs pressuring him to be biased towards the Knicks and quit. How anyone today could be anything but biased against the Knicks, and especially its sleazeball of a coach, is beyond me.