• Giants’ defense shows implementation of the Patriots Way

    Giants’ defense shows implementation of the Patriots Way

    A plan does not have to be inventive to be effective. Some teams — few, but some — are able to line up and win on defense simply by relying on players’ talents and skills — their guys beating the other guys more often than not. The 2020 Giants are not going to be one …
  • NBA Mock Draft 2.0: Knicks take Tyrese Haliburton after LaMelo Ball goes No. 1

    NBA Mock Draft 2.0: Knicks take Tyrese Haliburton after LaMelo Ball goes No. 1

    With the May 19 NBA draft lottery postponed, the draft order won’t be determined until June at the earliest. Following last year’s smoothing of the lottery odds, the amount of shuffling after the ping-pong balls roll is considerable. League sources are hearing about a late August/early September draft. Some agents are being told there could …
  • Yankees mailbag: Future arms like Deivi Garcia will have to wait

    Yankees mailbag: Future arms like Deivi Garcia will have to wait

    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: the Yankees. With a number of starting pitchers up for free agency in 2021, do you see any starters …
  • Anthony Hopkins slides into TikTok with the ‘Toosie Slide’

    Anthony Hopkins slides into TikTok with the ‘Toosie Slide’

    Sir Anthony Hopkins is now the latest celebrity to join TikTok as the coronavirus pandemic — and lockdown boredom — continues to spread all over the world. The award-winning actor launched his account Friday by posting a video of himself dancing to Drake‘s “Toosie Slide,” a choice well known both on the app and by …
  • Daniel Jones has work to do before becoming Giants captain

    Daniel Jones has work to do before becoming Giants captain

    No one really asks if you are ready to lead. It took Eli Manning three years to get voted in as a Giants team captain. He was named the starting quarterback nine games into his rookie year and started all 16 games in 2005 and again in 2006. It was not until the summer of …
  • Knicks mailbag: Chris Paul trade possibility underlies debate

    Knicks mailbag: Chris Paul trade possibility underlies debate

    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: the Knicks. Are we in a youth rebuilding process or are we gathering assets for free agency? If we …
  • Giants’ Alex Tanney may not get to mentor Daniel Jones again

    Giants’ Alex Tanney may not get to mentor Daniel Jones again

    The four biggest influences on Daniel Jones as a rookie all could be gone from the Giants when his second season begins. That new reality was created by recent tinkering with the Giants’ backup quarterback depth chart. It holds even if Colt McCoy’s grasp on the No. 2 job remains unaffected. It began with claiming …
  • DJ D-Nice ‘can’t sleep through the night’ during lockdown in LA

    DJ D-Nice ‘can’t sleep through the night’ during lockdown in LA

    When the soundtrack of the coronavirus crisis is played back years from now, it will be the uplifting sets of DJ D-Nice that capture the musical moment. The Bronx-born spinmaster, 49, has kept the party — and listeners’ spirits — going with his epic, hourslong sessions from “Club Quarantine,” broadcast on Instagram Live every weekend. (He …
  • Pessimism arrived shortly after Jets’, Giants’ 2020 schedules did

    Pessimism arrived shortly after Jets’, Giants’ 2020 schedules did

    Consider this your secular confessional, dear friends. Here is where you can come and admit to me, your humble columnist, that which you would have difficulty conceding anywhere else, to anyone else. Here, you can come clean: you actually like “Tiger King.” A lot. Here, you can spill your soul and acknowledge you know all …
  • Vanessa Bryant files legal claim over Kobe Bryant helicopter crash photos

    Vanessa Bryant files legal claim over Kobe Bryant helicopter crash photos

    Vanessa Bryant is taking legal action over the release of unauthorized photos of Kobe Bryant‘s fatal helicopter crash taken by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Vanessa, 38, filed a legal claim on Friday that seeks for emotional distress and mental anguish damages after eight L.A. County Sheriff’s Department deputies took graphic photos of her …