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Will Cain didn’t want to stick to sports. The state of the country was too important to do so. But he also didn’t want to talk politics while his job was to cover sports. “The direction of the country over the last six months … it really impacted my decision on what I want to …

Now here’s a period drama. William Shakespeare’s words and sexuality have long been the subject of speculation, but researchers believe their labor has finally confirmed the Bard’s love preferences. By analyzing the language Shakespeare used in his sonnets, Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr. Paul Edmondson believe they’ve proved that the poet addressed a handful …

Spotify is digging deeper into podcasting in a new partnership Riot Games, maker of the battle royale video game “League of Legends.” The deal will include an original podcast series for “League of Legends,” as well as playlists inspired by the gaming community. It also will give users a look at the creation of the …

Perhaps we expect better from ESPN because it’s a 24/7 sports network, the last place we’d think would wreck every sport it touches. Yet, here we are. Again, and still. To tune to ESPN to watch a live sports event is to be conditioned — air-conditioned — to anticipate a production that will challenge the …

Dwight Gooden sees how Yoenis Cespedes handled opting out of the Mets season as a “weak move” that could hurt the slugger next season. “He may get blackballed [in baseball] next year and I’m OK with that,” the former Cy Young winner said on the latest episode of The Post’s “Amazin’ But True” Mets podcast. …

You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers & columnists to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. How uninspired is ESPN’s new Monday night football booth? Who SHOULD get the job? Is …

Yoenis Cespedes was seen out at a Long Island restaurant salsa dancing with an unidentified woman roughly three weeks before his dramatic Aug. 2 opt-out from the rest of the Mets’ season, according to a video obtained by TMZ Sports. In the clip posted Sunday, the Mets star, 34, is filmed tearing it up on …

Dan Le Batard issued an apology for his ill-advised poll Monday afternoon. The ESPN radio host’s show, “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz,” ran a poll on Twitter poking fun at Magic forward Jonathan Isaac, who tore his ACL Sunday night. Isaac was the first player in the NBA bubble not to kneel during …

ATLANTA — Mets players aren’t sure what to believe surrounding Yoenis Cespedes’ strange departure from the team other than the fact the veteran outfielder has opted out from the season, citing COVID-19 concerns. Brandon Nimmo raised the possibility Monday that team officials actually knew before Sunday’s game that Cespedes had opted out. As it was, …

In its competition with WFAN, ESPN New York has a new lineup, sliced up all day that adds big names, but crushes the continuity it had built in recent years that has helped its afternoon show become No. 1 in the market. ESPN New York will add Mike Greenberg and Max Kellerman to its daily …