Despite the damage of Sandy, which you may have caught commissioner Stern calling "Katrina" during the championship ring ceremony, the New York Marathon will go on Sunday, as planned. And the Meadowlands will welcome fans when the Giants host the Steelers later that afternoon. Yet the Nets and Knicks, scheduled to play yesterday in an unveiling of the billion-dollar Barclays Center, had their game postponed until November 26, at Mayor Michael Bloomberg's urging.
Due to gentrification, people in Brooklyn may no longer be treated like second-class citizens compared to their moneyed Manhattan mates, but sports still are. Holding the other athletic events in the wake of the hurricane is Bloomberg's dumbest decision since taking a hard-line on the size of soft drinks*. Doesn't the mayor have more important matters to tend to than keeping tabs on tall tumblers of Tab? However, the mayor's mind is made up, so we just hope the subways are running before the marathoners are.
*a Coke Zero-tolerance policy, if you will.
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