Rutgers Scarlet Knights

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) today introduced a Senate Resolution to honor Vivian Stringer, the coach of Rutgers women’s basketball team on her 800th victory. Yesterday, she made history by becoming the eighth coach in college basketball history to win 800 games with a 60-46 win over DePaul.  

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NJ LEGISLATURE HONORS RUTGERS' OUTSTANDING FOOTBALL SEASON

TRENTON - On behalf of the entire New Jersey Legislature, Senate President Richard J. Codey (D-Essex) today presented the football team of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, with a joint ceremonial resolution to commemorate their remarkable achievements during the 2006 football season. The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Codey, Assemblyman John McKeon and Assemblyman Mims Hackett, lauded the Scarlet Knights for their 11-2 season and first bowl championship.

"This year the Rutgers football team managed to surpass all of our wildest expectations and galvanize the entire state with some nail-biting, hard fought victories. They brought national attention to our state and were a huge source of pride for all of us. In honor of all their successes, and what are sure to be many more in the coming years, we are proud to salute them with this resolution," said Senate President Richard J. Codey.

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CABLEVISION'S UNWILLINGNESS TO SHOW RUTGERS GAME
THROWING CUSTOMERS FOR A LOSS
Assemblyman Questions Where Company's Loyalties Lie:
With Fans and Subscribers or Its Own Bottom Line

(NEWARK) -- Frustrated by Cablevision's posturing with the NFL Network over the broadcasting of Rutgers' December 28 Texas Bowl game against Kansas State, Assemblyman Wilfredo Caraballo said the company's continued intransigence may lead him to ask for legislative hearings into its "habitual anti-New Jersey sports-fan business decisions."

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Both of New Jersey's United States Senators are claiming credit for what is likely to be a popular decision among New Jerseyans: the National Football League is allowing cable television stations to broadcast the December 28th Texas Bowl between Rutgers University's Scarlet Knights and Kansas State University's Wildcats. Frank Lautenberg, put pressure on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell; he serves on the Senate panel that regulates cable and broadcast television. "Sen. Lautenberg asked, and we listened," NFL Network spokesman Seth Palansky told Gannett.

Robert Menendez, in a statement issued yesterday, said he "spoke" with Goodell earlier in the day.

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Governor Corzine’s Address
New Jersey League of Municipalities
November 16, 2006
As prepared for delivery

Let me say in advance it’s tough to make poetry out of property taxes. And the fact is, I can’t make poetry period.

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ROBERTS PUTS HIS SCARLET KNIGHT PRIDE
ON THE LINE
Assembly Speaker, Kentucky House Speaker Make Jersey-Blueberries-for-Country-Ham Wager
On Tonight's Rutgers-Louisville Game

(TRENTON) -- Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Jr., put his Rutgers pride on the betting line in advance of tonight's highly anticipated game between the Scarlet Knights and the University of Louisville Cardinals, placing a gentlemen's wager with Jody Richards, Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives.

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BURZICHELLI: RUTGERS PAINTING THE STATE SCARLET
As Scarlet Knights Prepare for Biggest Home Football Game in Nearly 140 Years,
Pride in State's Largest University Swelling

(PAULSBORO) – On the eve of what he termed "the second-most-important home game in school history," Assemblyman John Burzichelli today praised Rutgers University officials for their foresight in not pulling the school's football program out of the highest level of NCAA competition in 2003.

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GOVERNOR CORZINE NOMINATES WALTER BRASWELL
AS ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE

TRENTON

- Governor Jon S. Corzine today nominated Walter M. Braswell to the position of Administrative Law Judge. This is the Governor’s first judicial nomination that is not a renomination. Read More >

GREGG BLASTS DECISION BY RUTGERS TO SELL ECOLOGICAL PRESERVE TO FOOTBALL COACH

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by David P. Rebovich

T''was the week after Christmas and all through the State House, not a creature was stirring. Well, not exactly. The Codey Administration was still at work, although winding down in anticipation of Jon Corzine and his new staff assuming office in a few weeks. The governor-elect's transition team was busy, but its activities were taking place behind some very tightly closed doors out of the view of the press and the public. While it would be a few weeks before the real excitement of a new Administration and legislature begins, the holiday season still provided ample fodder for the political junkie to feed and comment on.

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