{"id":176793,"date":"2026-03-27T02:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176793\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:56:11","slug":"this-special-st-johns-squad-really-is-new-yorks-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176793\/","title":{"rendered":"This special St. John&#8217;s squad really is New York&#8217;s team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 You heard a lot of stories this week from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/24\/sports\/1998-99-st-johns-team-thrilled-to-see-sweet-16-drought-end\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. John\u2019s fans of all different eras<\/a>, of all different backgrounds, of all <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/25\/sports\/long-starved-st-johns-fans-have-their-dream-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">different relationships with the university<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is one text thread between two friends from Long Island, Jerry McNeil of Wantagh and Jim Hughes of Holbrook, neither of whom attended St. John\u2019s, both of whom were willing to move heaven and earth to make the scoot down I-95.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JERRY: \u201cNo-go on the tickets. Sorry.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JIM: \u201cWe should go anyway. Find a bar. Make a few friends.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 You heard a lot of stories this week from St. John\u2019s fans of all different eras,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3361,63551,68679,9,11,10,319,431,428,3363],"class_list":{"0":"post-176793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-march-madness","10":"tag-march-madness-2026","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-st-johns-red-storm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176793","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=176793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}