• Yankees mailbag: Gleyber Torres has a long leash at shortstop

    Yankees mailbag: Gleyber Torres has a long leash at shortstop

    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. If Gleyber Torres becomes a liability at shortstop, will Yankees quickly pivot and move him back to …
  • Girlfriend’s arrest was ‘gut punch’ for Yankees’ Aaron Judge, says insider

    Girlfriend’s arrest was ‘gut punch’ for Yankees’ Aaron Judge, says insider

    During Major League Baseball’s spring training, from mid-February until early April, the Phoenix area is a hotbed of activity as 15 teams converge on the sprawling desert city and its suburbs. The center of the nighttime action is Mastro’s Steakhouse in Scottsdale, where a New York Strip will cost you $71 but also gain you …
  • Rutgers-Camden coach: Christian Hackenberg’s baseball dream ‘not a joke’

    Rutgers-Camden coach: Christian Hackenberg’s baseball dream ‘not a joke’

    The text message on baseball coach Ryan Kulik’s phone read like a mistake. Hey, can you get a catcher for Hackenberg? He needs to throw a bullpen. “I’m like, ‘Christian Hackenberg?’ ” Kulik recalled Saturday for The Post. “What do you mean?” Indeed. The former Jets quarterback — a second-round draft pick who flopped out of …
  • Unprecedented MLB work stoppage could be devastating: Sherman

    Unprecedented MLB work stoppage could be devastating: Sherman

    We have not seen one of these in a while. A quarter of a century has elapsed since we were last here. So there has been hesitancy to call what is going on with Major League Baseball what it is, but this is a labor-related work stoppage. It does not fit comfortably into one of …
  • Yankees cheating allegations are total sham

    Yankees cheating allegations are total sham

    You’d think that, given their workplace of Texas, the Astros players would know the difference between a smoking gun and a hand-sized water pistol. Alas, those from the defending American League champions who took to social media on Saturday — in the wake of a titillating story that tied the Yankees to illegal sign-stealing — …
  • Rangers, Islanders are Vegas-bound for NHL playoffs

    Rangers, Islanders are Vegas-bound for NHL playoffs

    So it appears the Rangers and Islanders will be Vegas-bound when and if the competition begins in late July or early August. Multiple sources have confirmed the NHL has settled on Vegas as one of its two hub cities to host the tournament. As the league previously has indicated it would not allow a team …
  • Astros troll Yankees, Aaron Judge over cheating allegation

    Astros troll Yankees, Aaron Judge over cheating allegation

    Quite a few Yankees took swings at their rival Astros over Houston’s illegal sign-stealing scandal this winter, but now they’re getting a taste of their own medicine. Astros shortstop Carlos Correa mocked Aaron Judge on Saturday after a U.S. District Court Judge ordered the unsealing of a letter sent from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to …
  • Yankees up in arms over release of letter allegedly showing ‘serious’ sign-stealing

    Yankees up in arms over release of letter allegedly showing ‘serious’ sign-stealing

    The illegal sign-stealing drama that rocked MLB before the pandemic might not be over — and this time it involves the Yankees. A letter from commissioner Rob Manfred to the Yankees detailing the findings of a 2017 investigation into the ball club’s alleged sign-stealing program should be unsealed, a judge ruled Friday, according to The …
  • Knicks mailbag: James Dolan’s image hasn’t changed under new brand consultant

    Knicks mailbag: James Dolan’s image hasn’t changed under new brand consultant

    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. What happened to Steve Stoute? Haven’t heard from him since that controversial ESPN interview. — Robert Now …
  • International buyer emerges in possible bid to buy Mets

    International buyer emerges in possible bid to buy Mets

    Mets COO Jeff Wilpon’s statement Thursday, “There’s four or five suitors that are out there” to buy the franchise, is raising eyebrows in sports business circles. According to multiple sources familiar with the market for the Amazin’s, if there are three or more bidders for the team, New York has a real mystery on its …