I doubt anyone in human history has ever been so excited to learn that the D-League Delaware 87ers play their home games at Bob Carpenter Center, home of the University of Delaware Blue Hens. For two years, ever since the Westchester Knicks were founded, I have been hoping to watch a W-Knicks game from the unfriendly confines of Newark, Del.
It's all about the location. Newark is on the border of Cecil County, Md. -- a black hole located between Baltimore and Philadelphia. It is a world apart from most areas in the Boston-D.C. corridor -- the kind of place where the barber shops have live bait vending machines, where you just might see the truck behind you in the McDonald's drive-thru light off a crap-ton of fireworks on some random night in August, where middle-aged men walk up to liquor store cashiers and spout nonsense like, "Guess what I'm gonna be for Halloween .