{"id":172878,"date":"2026-03-24T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172878\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:58:08","slug":"st-johns-sweet-16-run-has-transformed-new-york-into-a-college-town-at-least-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172878\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s Sweet 16 run has transformed New York into a college town \u2014 at least this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend, Chuck Culpepper, lately of The Washington Post and soon of ESPN, who has long held a fascination with New York City in general and its relationship to its sports teams specifically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t you find it odd,\u201d I asked him once, \u201cthat New York is this big, tough, sophisticated town of kingmakers and tastemakers and shot-takers and yet, when it comes right down to it, its sports teams reduce so many of the citizens to quaking, quivering messes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chuck said no.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York,\u201d he said, \u201cis just Tuscaloosa with a skyline.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have a friend, Chuck Culpepper, lately of The Washington Post and soon of ESPN, who has long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3361,63551,68679,9,24,55,54,56,319,431,428,3363],"class_list":["post-172878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-college-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-march-madness-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}