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Noah Syndergaard isn’t the only star pitcher going shirtless around here. Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman on Saturday shared an Instagram video of himself tossing pitches partially unclad, and it seems his massive muscles only continue to grow during baseball’s coronavirus shutdown. “Bullpen day,” the 32-year-old pitcher wrote alongside the social-media post. Long regarded as one …
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Chris Brickley, Cole Anthony’s trainer since he was 16, was delighted by the point guard’s quarantine request. The Manhattan product asked Brickley if they could scour tape of his underachieving freshman season at North Carolina via Zoom. It was a perfect learning tool during the coronavirus pandemic preventing them from live training. “We watched the …
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Matt Keough, the former Oakland Athletics pitcher and special assistant, has died. He was 64. The Athletics announced the death Saturday night without providing details. “Matt was a great baseball man and a proud Oakland A,” Billy Beane, the team’s executive vice president of baseball operations, said in a statement. “He had …
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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 Yankees. Let’s say Gleyber Torres plays for the Yankees through his 37-year-old season, which is the better Gleyber …
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You are coming off the high of getting taken in the 2020 NFL Draft. You are revved up, more than ready to head to your new destination, slip on the colors of your new team, get out on the grass and start showing your new coaches what they are getting. Instead, there are these marching …
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A tiny percentage of people ever become the face of a franchise. It is a title available to players, coaches and executives. It is a role earned through popularity and/or potential and/or longevity and/or achievement. Decade after decade, the defining faces of New York sports have often included all-time legends. Sometimes, someone holds the distinction …
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Part 7 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees This coming July marks the fourth anniversary of the Yankees and Indians making a trade the former looked toward the future and the latter focused on the present. Searching for bullpen help, the Tribe acquired lefty reliever Andrew Miller from the Yankees for outfielder Clint …
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Who doesn’t love rankings? Rankings exist to spark debate. Rankings are subjective, determined by opinions, educated or otherwise. Opinions can’t be wrong, Except, of course, when they are. Which brings us to the fun exercises in which the good folks at NHL.com have been intermittently engaged throughout this coronavirus-induced stoppage of play. A panel of …
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Well, look: We are nothing if not kind and generous souls here at Open Mike, so it’s probably best that you hear it from us: Sunday night is going to stink. If you are a Knicks fan, and if you are enjoying “The Last Dance” on ESPN, then you know that the inevitable is likely …
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Former Knick Jeremy Lin, who rocketed to stardom in the spring of 2012 with a furious run that became known as Linsanity, bounced around the NBA for several years before landing with the Beijing Ducks of the China league. He takes a shot at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: What’s the new …
Noah Syndergaard isn’t the only star pitcher going shirtless around here. Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman on Saturday shared an Instagram video of himself tossing pitches partially unclad, and it seems his massive muscles only continue to grow during baseball’s coronavirus shutdown. “Bullpen day,” the 32-year-old pitcher wrote alongside the social-media post. Long regarded as one …
