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Tina Cervasio, MSG Reporter/announcer for the Knicks and Red Bulls, has a 2007 Red Sox World Series ring when she worked for NESN … she was at the Garden for Carmelo Anthony’s emotional first game there as a Knick … she has covered the Olympics … was there for Clay Buchholz’s no-hitter … she says and Linsanity takes a backseat to none of them.
“This is the Garden I envisioned when I was a young girl watching the 1990s Knicks,” Cervasio told the Rumble.
Cervasio, who grew up in Nutley, N.J., compared Linsanity to Dimsanity a couple of years back — when the Knicks’ franchise was in dismal shape.
“I went to a shootaround once in 2009,” she recalled, “and I was the only person there. I ended up doing a minute-and-a-half package on ‘What is a shootaround?’’ Let’s compare that shootaround to when I walked in [Friday] and there were 50 reporters, 14 or 15 TV crews, three or four crews from Asia.”
She mentioned asking Jeremy Lin about his triple-double in the D-League before his callup, and Lin politely telling her, “No, no, it wasn’t me,” and walking away. “He’s almost exactly what you see on TV — humble, polite, very intelligent, high basketball IQ,” Cervasio said. “He’s one of the guys. He’s still a young player, so the older players bust him a little bit. It’s in good fun. He takes it.”
Asked if Linsanity is the highlight of her career to date, Cervasio says: “It’s one of those unique experiences you can’t predict. It’s up there. … I hope it doesn’t stop. This kid’s still figuring out his game. We don’t know the end of the story yet!”
Video contest for ‘Train Like a Knick’
The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and the Knicks have launched the first-ever “Train Like a Knick!” contest in which fans are invited to submit exercise videos that show how they train like their favorite Knicks players.
Winners will receive a Knicks training experience at the MSG Training Center where they will be joined by Knicks alumni and training staff and HSS rehabilitation specialists. Fans can visit http://www.facebook.com/hspecialsurgery between now and March 15 to enter.
Orange lacrosse star hits screen
This week college lacrosse kicks into full gear across the country, but one former Syracuse star will be seen on the silver screen. His name is Rorke Denver, and he captained the Orange to two NCAA titles and an all-America career during his four years on campus. After graduation, Denver joined the Navy, eventually becoming a SEAL, and he remains on active duty abroad today.
Over the past few years he also teamed with other active Duty SEALS and the Bandito Brothers to film “Act of Valor,” a based on true events account of the SEALS with technical assitance from the Navy, starring all SEALS, which hits screens next weekend. It is the first film since the 1920s to use real bullets in the mission scenes, which has the SEALS foil a terrorist plot in Mexico.
“These guys may not be actors, but they are heros in a film whose real star is the story, Patriotism at its best,” said co-director Scott Waugh. To see the trailer and learn more about the movie visit actofvalorfilm.com.