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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 …
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The new normal at NBA practice facilities began Friday, featuring temperature checks at the door, latex gloves and an outfit in a bag. The Cavaliers were among the first teams to open back up for voluntary workouts after the league was suspended March 11 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Four players — Kevin Love, Larry …
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Had it all gone as planned, Gerrit Cole would be through his season-opening start, his Yankee Stadium debut and, this weekend, the righty would have been involved for the first time in The Rivalry. Oh yeah, he also would already have banked about $9 million of his pitching-record contract. Instead, Cole plays catch occasionally with …
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TYRONE, Ga. — Former NBA player Shannon Brown, who spent part of one season with the Knicks, faces charges in suburban Atlanta after he was accused of firing a rifle at two people who were looking at homes for sale, police said. Brown, 34, was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault stemming from an …
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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 …
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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 …
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Noah Syndergaard’s biggest form of competition over the next several months might be trying to return to the Mets sooner rather than later. Speaking to a group of youth baseball players this week on a Zoom chat, the Mets right-hander said his goal is not only to pitch in 2021, but to start the season …
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Before he earned the chance to play wide receiver for the Jets on Sundays, chase records at Baylor on Saturdays, or fly past opposing defenses in small-town East Texas on Friday nights, Denzel Mims was the quarterback of the future at Daingerfield High School. Until one rainy Thursday night in 2012, when the Tigers’ junior …
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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 …
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While admitting he has to “keep adapting as time goes on,” Knicks coaching candidate Tom Thibodeau defended some of the criticisms leveled at him, including overplaying his star players and draining them come playoff time. In an appearance on ESPN this week, Thibodeau shot down critics of his taskmaster ways not being current enough. The …