Nick Paumgarten
Articles by Nick Paumgarten
The Sheffield Shuffle
It’s a tabloid truism that baseball sells papers. read more »
The Sheffield Shuffle
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It’s a tabloid truism that baseball sells papers. read more »
Listen, Blue-Nosed Knicks Snobs: Lemme Explain the Jersey Devils
You may not have noticed, but the best professional sports team in the neighborhood is stealing a ch read more »
How to Buy a Birdie
Mitchell Spearman is the most expensive golf pro in the world. read more »
How Wall Street Learned to Stop Worrying About the Bomb
Before dawn on Friday, Feb. 11, a bomb went off on Wall Street and nobody really cared. read more »
Gekko's Little Goons: Backstage With the Real Boiler Room Boys
"That was dead-on balls accurate."An anonymous stock broker offered this assessment outside a recent read more »
Charles Schwab Shells Out for U.S. Trust
We all saw how Gerald Levin, Time Warner Inc.'s chief, stood up in front of the cameras without a ne read more »
The Contrarians Have a Doomsday Chat
Three eloquent bears gathered for breakfast on Dec. read more »
It's Bonus Time, Baby! Mr. Stingi Keeps a List and Checks It Twice
Peter Stingi is the paymaster at Merrill Lynch & Company. read more »
Jim Grant and the Chicken Littles Exercise Their Right to Be Wrong
One of these days, they'll be able to say, "I told you so," but until then the contrarians who read- read more »
Madison Pub, Classy Dive, Closes; Now the Avenue Belongs to Armani
Behind a metal grating, a hand-written sign in the window of the Madison Pub reads, "Closed Vacation read more »
Love and Advil in Queens: Everybody Wants a Piece
Each day during the U.S. read more »
Wasserstein Cuts His Daily Deal
On the evening of Sept. read more »
Welcome to 24-Hour Wall Street World!
Back when Maria S. read more »
Life of an 18-Year-Old Day Trader: He's Got Fake Millions, Fake ID
For a good chunk of July, an 18-year-old kid from Long Island named Harris Kupperman was beating the read more »
Morgan Stanley Fell for Curry's Double-Talking Pal-but Why?
In a matter of weeks, the class of 1999 will show up for its first dayin the analyst training progra read more »
Portrait of a Budding Art Macher : Mike Weiss Lands a Small Schnabel
Mike Weiss, a would-be impresario of the art world, has seen the giant lofts of SoHo and he wants in read more »
How Sweet It Is! Boxing Behemoths Don King, Seth Abraham Reconcile
''You know, you're a special guy," Don King told me. read more »
Young Publisher Beau Friedlander Signs Name-Author: Ted Kaczynski
Last September, Beau Friedlander, aspiring publisher, got a box in the mail bearing the return addre read more »
The Mean Mini-Season of Patrick Ewing?
Patrick Ewing, the veteran center of the New York Knicks, emerged fromthe G.M. Building on Jan. read more »
Calling Mr. Steinbrenner: We Want a Beer Here Now!
A major league ball park is essentially a delivery system for beer and a mechanism for the disposal read more »
Two New York Managers Try Not to Blow It
Bobby Valentine, the manager of the New York Mets, can't help but become a media critic. read more »
Pataki's Bronx Tale: Reviving Metro-North Yankee Stadium Train
In a development that could boost support for keeping the Yankees in the Bronx, Gov. read more »
Knicks' Doc Teams With Checketts to Go Into the Endorsement Business
Every orthopedist worth his insurance payments knows that the best way to get his name in the papers read more »
A New York Standoff: Pataki, Giuliani Duel Over Big City Projects
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani can't build his West Side baseball pyramid without Gov. read more »
Introducing Jersey Chic: Good Teams, Lovely Swamps
Like a few other team owners in our neighborhood, Dr. read more »
Steinbrenner, Wilpon Play Rudy Ball
Two days after a 500-pound beam dropped out of the upper deck at Yankee Stadium, the Mets' co-owner read more »
This Used to Be a Ball Park
A foul ball streaked into the stands, but there was nobody there to chase it down, to bring it home read more »
The Old Man and the Swamp: A Mushy Tale
Leo Koncher is an 83-year-old resident of Kearny, N.J., who spends his days exploring the creeks and read more »
Boston Magazine Headline Provokes Cries of Racism
The headline of a profile of Harvard professor and New Yorker contributor Henry Louis Gates Jr. read more »
A Shady Ex-Stockbroker Nearly Bluffs His Way Into Owning a Team
Michael Largue, a self-described investment banker from Uniondale, L.I., has been putting out word t read more »
Phil Mushnick's Dangerous Game: Work for Murdoch, Blast TV Schlock
"I plan to kill Fox tomorrow."Phil Mushnick, the New York Post 's sports TV columnist and roving mor read more »
Real Fans Are Relieved the Hockey Boom's Over
For a few blessed days during the Winter Olympics in Nagano, hockey was what it should be: a cult ga read more »
Mayor Rudy Goes Loony; Landslide Win Brings a Case of Power Fever
Call it a severe case of landslide psychosis.Barely three months have passed since Rudolph Giuliani read more »
Now Is the Winter Of Garden's Discontent
James Dolan, the chief executive of Cablevision Systems Corporation-the corporate behemoth that owns read more »
True Grits: Stock Car Champ Takes China Club by Storm
There are few people in the United States who have less in common than Jeff Gordon, the champion sto read more »
Welcome to Co-opt City! We Really Like You!
Why did the Rangers put on such a show when Mark Messier returned to Madison Square Garden on Nov. read more »
The Sheffield Shuffle: It's Made for Tabloids
It's a tabloid truism that baseball sells papers. read more »
Now Batting for Bernie Williams: Superagent Boras Squeezes Yanks
"Joe Torre is here," said George Grande, "and Scott Boras is here, too."A banquet hall full of amate read more »
