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Francisco Cervelli dialed down to Tampa on Monday of last week, to Jose Molina. It's Molina's backup catching spot that Cervelli's filling now and the older player had a setback [...]

His background was in TV, not athletic administration, and when Tim Pernetti became Rutgers athletic director, he suggested both could be assets. Now the proving begins. Pernetti is launching an [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Mike Johansen used to stand over Tim Pernetti, barking out orders. Now, in the early-morning quiet of the Rutgers Athletic Center, the strength and conditioning coach works out [...]

NEW YORK -- The Yankees fall in a hole, they climb their way out. It's getting so 'when we don't get it done,' manager Joe Girardi said, 'we feel like, [...]

NEW YORK -- Five scoreless innings, two solid outings and Chien-Ming Wang definitely seemed to have a handle on the bullpen thing. But did he actually like it? 'Uh...,' the [...]

NEW YORK -- Andy Pettitte stood at his locker and said no, Yankee pitchers wouldn't make any adjustments. Freshly back from a solid road trip, newly home at this home [...]

NEW YORK -- It was the second time, in a second straight at-bat, that Mark Teixeira had been hit. Joe Girardi came hustling out of the Yankees' dugout, ostensibly to [...]

They spent that last year of her life driving together, mother and son finally becoming acquainted. To church and to work, the son driving, the mom listening, the son sometimes [...]

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- The tweet about the pasta put up a flag. The one where she spelled out b-o-r-e-d made it official. Generally easygoing and even, Essence Carson hit a [...]

NEWARK -- Carl Everett pronounced playing for Tim Raines 'cool.' Everett said Raines was all that pulled him off a leisurely life on the links and he said it with [...]

Jack Egbert still checks in regularly with his college coach. He still has friends in New Jersey and he still keeps apprised of Rutgers football news by reading northjersey.com online. [...]

Scott Walker doesn't stand guard outside classroom doors. He swore he doesn't have staffers playing 'I Spy' with Rutgers' football players either. But Rutgers' assistant director of academic support does [...]

There were Britts in the living room. There were Britts in the kitchen and there were little Britts in the back yard, running around. And then there was Kenny Britt. [...]

Brian Toal broke out of the gym a little later than he'd expected. He'd been working out with B.J. Raji, he said. B.J. Raji? The ostensible 'teammate' who'd rolled on [...]

PISCATAWAY -- He stood casually at his locker, grinning, taking some teasing and giving some, too. Then Jabu Lovelace heard what coach Greg Schiano said about Rutgers' quarterbacks. He plopped [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Sure, Greg Schiano said, he has a checklist for today's Scarlet-White spring game. 'Propane [for] the barbecues, lots of ice -- it's going to be warm -- and [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Call it lipstick on a pig. Rutgers' 12th opponent is a lesser competitor, the Scarlet Knights' full 2009 schedule is pretty puny, but the state university wrapped that [...]

John Garbo's known Lucas Swineford since Swineford was 5. Garbo thinks Swineford, 28 years later, is a heck of a salesman, and when he heard Swineford's plan to turn his [...]

PISCATAWAY -- His uniform drenched, Anthony Davis looked at the pleather couch, said, 'I can't sit on that,' and pulled up a chair. Rutgers football coach Greg Schiano had just [...]

SECAUCUS -- Rutgers fans hassled Patty Coyle a year ago, before she picked Essence Carson, they hassled her again this past year and, an hour after she'd picked Kia Vaughn, [...]

PISCATAWAY -- He can't yet run or move that well, and it's only been 10 days since the protective boot came off Jabu Lovelace's leg. But as Greg Schiano stood [...]

NEW YORK -- Jimmy Rollins is a close friend and probably his best friend in baseball, Gary Sheffield said. Sheffield said Rollins lobbied him hard to join his reigning world [...]

NEW YORK -- They'd both first gone to Shea Stadium as grade-schoolers. Their first date was at Shea. When Jim and Josephine Levine got married, the favors to their 175 [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- Nikki Speed's voice, the one her fellow freshmen hassle her to put some bass in, rose even higher than usual. 'We,' she nearly squealed, 'are going [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- Kia Vaughn rocked from one foot to the next, back and forth. She hovered as her fellow starters sat, she rocked as coach C. Vivian Stringer [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- They sat side by side, Heather Zurich on the edge of one wooden cubbyhole, Kia Vaughn on the edge of the other. Their red-draped shoulders were [...]

Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer generally likes espousing an us-against-the-world mentality, but Purdue's Sharon Versyp grabbed that mantle this time around. Scoffing at the idea that the seventh-seeded Scarlet Knights [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- Rutgers' steady star all season has been Epiphanny Prince, and it was the junior who indeed fueled the late defensive-driven comeback, with three consecutive steals that [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- This one had swagger, that one intimidated. The years piled onto the ones before them, Rutgers went to a second Final Four and still, C. Vivian [...]

Khadijah Rushdan sat back against her locker, slowly unfurling the medical tape off her ankle. Her pregame to-do list had been simple: limit turnovers, stay in the flow, run the [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Epiphanny Prince drove, cut and twisted her body up, around and over 6-foot-7 Keke Carrier. Twice before, the Rutgers guard fearlessly had driven on Carrier and scooped in [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Nikki Speed canvassed the postgame box lunches and frowned. The teeny table with the granola bars and pretzels wasn't anything like the steaming pasta Speed usually sees in [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Rutgers' 18-point lead dwindled, the Scarlet Knights' drought deepened and senior Kia Vaughn didn't even consider hassling C. Vivian Stringer to send her back in. 'Everyone needs to [...]

PISCATAWAY -- April Sykes' godmother bought Final Four tickets. Last year. Before Sykes even got to Rutgers. 'She said she knew we were going to be there,' the freshman guard [...]

Sure, for most of the country, March Madness began Thursday, with the first tip of the men's NCAA tournament. But for folks around here, for the people wanting a bit [...]

PISCATAWAY -- The whole Oklahoma City region was read, ESPN's patent text plainly had listed all the region's 16 teams and the network's announcers immediately zeroed in on Rutgers, the [...]

NEW YORK -- West Virginia jogged to the midcourt pregame post-God Bless America handshake. Syracuse's Orange walked. Slowly. And then somehow, inexplicably and stunningly, walked over West Virginia. A night [...]

Some weeks ago, after one of what ultimately was a series of mind-numbing losses, a text from Mike Rosario beeped onto Greg Echenique's cellphone. 'Greg, keep your head up,' the [...]

NEW YORK -- Rutgers coach Fred Hill Jr. climbed the mini-platform, settling behind a microphone. Two of his players followed suit and Big East associate commissioner John Paquette quietly asked [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Gregory Echenique still thinks it's a trip that he's recognized on campus. Rutgers students are friendly and encouraging, he said, and this miserable 11-20 season hasn't triggered one [...]

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Villanova coach Harry Perretta has No. 1 Connecticut in tonight's early game, but he bounded toward the court Rutgers and Louisville were taking Sunday night, explaining, 'I [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Opening the season against reigning Big East champion Cincinnati doesn't have to be all bad, the gentleman told Greg Schiano. The Cincinnati defense, he said to the Rutgers' [...]

PISCATAWAY -- If her assignment makes a flex cut, C. Vivian Stringer told Epiphanny Prince, jump to the ball. Every time her assigned player made a flex cut, Prince said, [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Rutgers has struggled all year, its NCAA tournament hopes legitimately in doubt for much of the winter. Connecticut has been chasing perfection, in the midst of a season [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Fitting and stopping, Rutgers has struggled all year, very reasonably worrying over an NCAA tournament berth. Connecticut has been chasing perfection, spooling highlights for a sure-to-come commemorative DVD. [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Cincinnati coach J. Kelley Hall warned his players about Heather Zurich. In Brittany Ray, Hall knows Rutgers has one of the purest shooters in the Big East. He [...]

PISCATAWAY -- Staying in the stands didn't demand a colossal commitment. The scoreboard showed just 1:34 left. Sure, Rutgers was down six, but the Scarlet Knights were seconds removed from [...]

The exact details evaporated forever ago. What no one forgets is Mike Rosario was being a punk. It was something selfish, it was something stupid, it was something that got [...]

NEW YORK -- The clock hadn't yet ticked off three whole minutes and C. Vivian Stringer motioned for time. Out came four starters, in went four reserves and Rutgers' recent [...]

NEWARK -- Natalie Pernetti wailed toward the stage, fussing to get to her dad. Tim Pernetti let his 2-year-old know he heard her (sweetly smiling), he registered what she wanted [...]