In the mid-1990s, Reggie Miller was the man that New York Knicks fans loved to hate. The fierce rivalry culminated in the 1994-95 NBA playoffs, when Miller’s Indiana Pacers faced off against the Knicks.

Now the story is being told through the eyes of players, coaches and fans – including Spike Lee – in the new documentary film “Winning Time: Reggie Miller v. The New York Knicks.” The movie, by Dan Klores, is part of ESPN’s “30 by 30” documentary series, which chronicles events, athletes and issues that affected sports from 1979 to 2009.

When the world’s most famous boxer chose Joshua Clottey, a New York welterweight, for a championship bout in Texas, Manny Pacquiao wasn’t just plucking a relative unknown out of obscurity — he was elevating a Bronx gym.

Since its founding 30 years ago, John’s Gym, on Westchester Avenue in Melrose, has seen its share of quality boxers — but few have gotten a shot to become world champ.

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They’ve gathered at Rockefeller Center, every Wednesday from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. for the last six years, to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now Grandmothers Against the War are taking their fight to local high schools. The seniors are planning a counter-recruitment action on March 18, where they’ll tell students how to opt out of being contacted by military recruiters.

Fashion designer Diana Eng is using her work to spur girls’ interest in math and science.  At her Feb. 24 Fairy Tale Fashion Show, Eng invited 17 students from the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women in Brooklyn to see her latest tech-inspired fashions.

Eng, the 26-year-old author of “Fashion Geek: Clothing, Accessories, Tech,” hopes to inspire more girls to take up math- and science-based careers.

With the explosion of professional news blogs, like Politico and ProPublica, one might suspect the Internet killed television news.

But The Nielsen Company reports that 81 million consumers still get all their news on TV, as compared to 1.5 million that read or watch online news exclusively. Sixty million people reported that they used both TV and the Internet to consume news.

Still, TV news is undergoing a transformation in the Internet age. Declining ad revenues have led to staff cutbacks. And more TV reporters are learning how to use the Web to do their jobs better.

Reporters from TV, print and Web-based news operations recently met at St. Francis College in Brooklyn for a panel discussion about how the Internet is changing journalism.

Kathleen (Kitty) Walsh, a 20-year-old college student, is a real fighter.

The young boxer is battling her way through the Daily News Golden Gloves tournament. The semi-final round for both men and women takes place this month, leading up to the finals at Madison Square Garden on March 25-26.

Walsh is hoping to emerge a champ – and make her way from New York to London for the 2012 Olympics.

What happens to a funeral home when it’s no longer a funeral home?

For Ava Gerber, who recently bought the Robert F. Cranford Funeral Home near Fort Greene Park on DeKalb Avenue, the answer was obvious: turn it into a yoga studio.

Then, bring students to the embalming room and help them meditate on death.

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The price of a horse carriage ride in New York City could rise by $20 – to $54 for a half hour – if a proposed law is passed by City Council. It’s the latest issue to confront the contentious industry, where controversy often focuses on animal rights. The new legislation would further regulate standards for the treatment of carriage horses in addition to providing the first price hike in two decades.

Five dollars a week.

That’s what Fort Greene resident Nia Hoyte pays so that her three-year-old son, Kaiden Neith, can learn to read. These days, although he’s not old enough to understand all of the words, Kaiden’s a bit of a bookworm.

“Every day he comes home he’s like, ‘Mommy, read, read, read,’” Ms. Hoyte said last Tuesday morning after dropping her son off at Duffield Children’s Center on Fleet Place, a 15-minute walk from their apartment. “We read on the bus, we read on the train.”

Duffield, which is run by the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service (BBCS), is a publicly funded day care center serving a number of children from nearby public housing developments and lower income families. Duffield also is one of two centers in Fort Greene that might have to close if a proposal to shutter 15 care centers in gentrifying areas citywide goes through.

To the city, the leases for some of the centers — the list of which also includes Farragut Day Care Center on Gold Street — are draining money from a tight budget. Located in neighborhoods where real estate values are rising, the spaces themselves are no longer affordable.

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Fridays are Lady Jasmin’s night at the Starlite Lounge. The resident drag queen at this Crown Heights mainstay performs Jennifer Hudson and old-school R&B songs with gusto — sometimes crying, doing backwards summersaults, and hurling her silver stilettos across the stage.

“You gotta see the show,” the regulars at the self-described “oldest black-owned non-discriminating bar in New York” tell the young hipsters who seem to be venturing through the doors these days.

Since opening in 1959, the Starlite Lounge on Nostrand Avenue and Bergen Street has served as a modest safe space for gay, lesbian, and transgendered people of color and their friends in Central Brooklyn. Older gay and straight neighborhood residents throw birthday parties at the Starlite, and gather at the bar after funerals. More recently arrived condo-dwellers pack the house for Thursday night karaoke.

But a recent change in the building’s ownership may force the Starlite Lounge to end its half-century run.

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