• Mets mailbag: Figuring out the inevitable Noah Syndergaard contract mess

    Mets mailbag: Figuring out the inevitable Noah Syndergaard contract mess

    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 Mets. With Noah [Syndergaard] out all of 2020 and probably at least half of 2021 and probably due …
  • Giants memories comfort ESPN’s Dave Rothenberg after father’s coronavirus death

    Giants memories comfort ESPN’s Dave Rothenberg after father’s coronavirus death

    Arthur Rothenberg was a Giants fan, and he was also married to Nancy for 61 years, so there came a time when he was talking to his son, Dave, about the seminal year of 1958. Dave Rothenberg is one of the hosts of “Humpty, Canty and Rothenberg,” the midday show on 98.7 ESPN radio. He …
  • Alex Rodriguez is proof cheaters still win

    Alex Rodriguez is proof cheaters still win

    Where do you want to start? Wednesday? On Wednesday, Alex Rodriguez and his fiancée, Jennifer Lopez, were photographed defying a Florida stay-at-home order to work out in a closed gym that appeared open to only them. The sign on the gym read that it was closed. Their limo driver disinfected the car’s entrance handles. Some …
  • ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith attacks his own ‘burner account’

    ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith attacks his own ‘burner account’

    Stephen A. Smith attacking his own burner account is the coronavirus distraction we all need right now. The loquacious ESPN personality has a notorious “burner account” on Twitter with the handle @SASBurnerAcct that has over 347,000 followers. For a moment, it seemed that the real Stephen A. Smith was one of them. On Wednesday, the …
  • Adam Schefter reaches NFL Draft 2020 breaking point: ‘Carnage in the streets’

    Adam Schefter reaches NFL Draft 2020 breaking point: ‘Carnage in the streets’

    This is news ESPN doesn’t want Adam Schefter generating. With the NFL Draft 2020 still scheduled to be held — shifted from Las Vegas to a virtual experience due to the coronavirus pandemic — a little more than three weeks after the federal government announced projections of 100,000 to 240,000 deaths from the disease, the …
  • ESPN moving up highly anticipated Michael Jordan documentary in wake of coronavirus

    ESPN moving up highly anticipated Michael Jordan documentary in wake of coronavirus

    ABC/ESPN’s highly anticipated 10-part Michael Jordan documentary, “The Last Dance,” is being moved up to April, The Post has learned. Sources said the start date will be Sunday, April 19. It was originally slated for June. ABC/ESPN plans to make an announcement on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, according to sources. ESPN declined to confirm …
  • ESPN NBA Reporter Doris Burke Tests Positive for Coronavirus

    ESPN NBA Reporter Doris Burke Tests Positive for Coronavirus

    ESPN NBA reporter Doris Burke has tested positive for the coronavirus, the reporter announced on Friday. Burke made her announcement on The Woj Pod with the network’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Doris Burke joins The Woj Pod to reveal she's tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. She details her symptoms, her hospital testing experience, recovery and goal …
  • ESPN’s Doris Burke recovering after coronavirus nightmare

    ESPN’s Doris Burke recovering after coronavirus nightmare

    One of America’s most popular sportscasters is doing better after testing positive for coronavirus. ESPN’s Doris Burke said on Adrian Wojnarowski’s podcast, “The Woj Pod,” that she contracted the pandemic virus and experienced symptoms more than two weeks ago. “I did test positive for COVID-19 and basically my first symptoms looking back on it was …
  • Lori Loughlin, college admissions scandal parents urge judge to drop charges

    Lori Loughlin, college admissions scandal parents urge judge to drop charges

    BOSTON — “Full House” Actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and other prominent parents urged a judge Wednesday to dismiss charges against them in the college admissions bribery case, accusing prosecutors of “extraordinary” misconduct. Defense attorneys for the famous couple and other parents still fighting the charges say the case cannot stand …
  • ESPN’s Peyton Manning ‘Monday Night Football’ dream is dead

    ESPN’s Peyton Manning ‘Monday Night Football’ dream is dead

    Peyton Manning turned down ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” The Post has learned. Sources say the overriding factor was whether Manning finally wanted to enter the broadcast booth and commit to the weekly schedule in the fall. The answer remains no. Manning has declined to be an MNF analyst on multiple occasions, turning down basically every …