• ‘Jeff Wilpon hates Steve Cohen’: Simmering feud won’t stop billionaire’s Mets pursuit

    ‘Jeff Wilpon hates Steve Cohen’: Simmering feud won’t stop billionaire’s Mets pursuit

    Steve Cohen wants the Mets, and he will not go away quietly. On Sunday, reports swirled that the Wilpons are getting ready to sell their baseball team to superstar entertainer Jennifer Lopez and her fiance, Alex Rodriguez. That news came just days after The Post detailed a flurry of tips that MLB owners are casting …
  • Alex Rodriguez reportedly ‘clear-cut favorite’ to buy Mets

    Alex Rodriguez reportedly ‘clear-cut favorite’ to buy Mets

    The J-Rod Mets may be getting closer to reality. The bid led by Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez has become the “clear-cut favorite” to buy the Mets, USA Today reported Sunday, citing the belief of “several MLB executives.” Final bids for the team are due by Aug. 31. There were previously questions about whether the …
  • Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez buy $40M Miami home

    Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez buy $40M Miami home

    Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are keeping it hot in the 305. The couple purchased a $40 million waterfront home on Star Island in Miami Beach, complete with 10 bedrooms and 10-and-a-half bathrooms for quarantining with their brood. Lopez, 51, and Rodriguez, 45, can enjoy an industrial-style chef’s kitchen, per Realtor.com, among other luxuries including …
  • Opponents of Steve Cohen’s Mets bid point to new discrimination claims

    Opponents of Steve Cohen’s Mets bid point to new discrimination claims

    Opponents of billionaire Steve Cohen’s efforts to buy the New York Mets are licking their chops over fresh discrimination complaints filed against his firm, Point72 Asset Management, The Post has learned. Back-to-back complaints by ex-female employees of Cohen’s Stamford, Conn., hedge fund have been filed with Connecticut’s Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities in recent …
  • Mets’ shaky finances could help determine impending sale

    Mets’ shaky finances could help determine impending sale

    The Mets’ sale process is nearing a finish with much still left in the air. Suitors are preparing to make final bids by a just set Aug. 31 deadline, as first reported Tuesday by Sportico. Yet, the three main remaining bidders have not seen the detailed Mets financials and are expected to start reviewing the …
  • Sports media mailbag: Is this the end of Alex Rodriguez on Sunday Night Baseball?

    Sports media mailbag: Is this the end of Alex Rodriguez on Sunday Night Baseball?

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. Boog [Sciambi] and Chipper [Jones] sounds like an A-Rod/“Sunday Night Baseball”/playoff booth. Think they could get it? …
  • Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez invest in Viagra startup to help in Mets deal

    Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez invest in Viagra startup to help in Mets deal

    Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez are investing in a Viagra-selling wellness startup — and the deal could help enlarge their coffers as they pursue a deal to buy the Mets, sources told The Post. Hims, an online seller of proprietary hair, skin, and sexual health products to customers on a subscription basis, is in talks …
  • Alex Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez may need to give up control of Mets bid

    Alex Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez may need to give up control of Mets bid

    Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez may soon be at an inflection point. Fred Wilpon’s Mets by the end of July will start management meetings with the four remaining bidding groups in which the organization will give detailed financials. No party, including favorite Steve Cohen, appears ready to offer enough to end the Mets sales process …
  • Alex Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez are the biggest spenders in Mets ownership bid

    Alex Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez are the biggest spenders in Mets ownership bid

    J-Rod might not have the deepest pockets in the chase to buy the Mets, but their group has “more than enough money” to have a shot, according to one of its members. Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez’s bid in the Mets sale includes investing $225 million to $300 million of their own money, The Athletic …
  • ‘Hypocrite’ Alex Rodriguez blasted by former Mets pitcher

    ‘Hypocrite’ Alex Rodriguez blasted by former Mets pitcher

    If you could tweet a beanball, it would look like this. Former Mets reliever Jerry Blevins went at Alex Rodriguez without any restraint, leveling the former Yankees great and ESPN announcer for seemingly suggesting MLB adopt a salary cap system. “What a hypocrite @Arod,” he tweeted. “Take your steroids and make your millions THEN tell …