Don’t let his size fool you: At a skinny 6-feet, the Panther’s Terrel Phelps is playing some big time basketball. In just the sixth game of the season, Phelps became the fastest player in school history to reach 1,000 points. He is just a junior, and his basketball potential is still on the rise. Since that game he has gotten around 300 additional points, and says getting to the 2,000-point plateau is “a real possibility.”

For 84 years, the Harlem Globetrotters—the “clown Princes” of the hardwood, magicians of basketball—have dazzled audiences across 118 countries. They’ve had their own cartoon TV show and have shared the animated with heavyweights like Scooby-Doo and Muhammad Ali. Coming off the most successful year in the franchise’s amazing history, breaking 62 box office records and over two million smiling fans, the “world’s most famous” basketball team is primed to showcase their eyepopping 2010 World Tour in New York City on Friday, Feb. 12, with the wholesome family entertainment known worldwide for thrilling fans young and old and making cherished family memories.

Henry Cerudo is the youngest American gold medalist ever in free-style wrestling winning the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He has a new memoir, American Victory: Wrestling, Dreams and a Journey Toward Home, which came out January 5th. He’s also a HUGE advocate and mentor for NYC’s own Beat the Streets Wrestling. This is one inspiring and inspired human being.

Every Thanksgiving Day since what feels like the beginning of time, Fordham Prep and Xavier High School have played each other in a football game. The Hatfields and the McCoys have nothing on this feud.

There is drama. There is emotion There is comedy. Check out these 2 sports flicks hitting the big screen near you.

If the ascent to Jewish adulthood isn’t complete without actually climbing (like Moses at Sinai), Brooklyn Boulders is the perfect place to hold a party.

The New Balance Track and Field Center at the 168th Street Armory is well known as one of the premier indoor track and field facilities in America.

When 10-year-old Brody Rettle goes back to school this fall, he will be able to tell his classmates that he hung out with Derek Jeter, tried to block Yao Ming’s 8-foot jump shot, or even that he stood toe-to-toe with legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.

New York City has always seemed like the perfect venue for skateboarding. A ton of parks, plenty of concrete, and enough ledges, benches, and rails to go around.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “among all high school seniors who have ever used spit tobacco; almost threefourths began by the time they were in ninth grade.” Smokeless tobacco can lead to oral cancer and gum disease; it also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and heart attacks. It is addictive. Not to mention, evidence shows that adolescent boys who use smokeless tobacco products have a higher risk of becoming cigarette smokers within four years.