• Gerrit Cole, Adam Ottavino staying sharp with ‘backyard baseball’

    Gerrit Cole, Adam Ottavino staying sharp with ‘backyard baseball’

    Yankees pitchers Gerrit Cole and Adam Ottavino are seemingly keeping each other company during Major League Baseball’s hiatus due to the global coronavirus pandemic. Cole, who recently announced a significant donation to COVID-19 relief in New York City, told The Post that he had been working out his arm with help from Ottavino, manager Aaron …
  • 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 …
  • Defensive line glut will put Giants’ ‘hog mollies’ love to NFL Draft test

    Defensive line glut will put Giants’ ‘hog mollies’ love to NFL Draft test

    Well, look here, a place where the Giants are not in dire need of upgrading. No one is saying the big guys up-front on defense are the second coming of the Purple People Eaters or the Fearsome Foursome, but there is some talent on the roster and it is easy to envision this being a …
  • Chris Childs blasts Latrell Sprewell for being ‘pawn’ in Dolan-Oakley feud

    Chris Childs blasts Latrell Sprewell for being ‘pawn’ in Dolan-Oakley feud

    Former Knicks point guard Chris Childs ripped ex-teammate Latrell Sprewell for being “a pawn’’ in the Charles Oakley saga. Sprewell showed up sitting next to owner James Dolan at the next home game after Oakley was ejected and arrested at the Garden in February, 2017. Sprewell had been estranged from the franchise since being traded …
  • Mets might be MLB’s biggest loser in the coronavirus era

    Mets might be MLB’s biggest loser in the coronavirus era

    There are 30 losers. Some lose less, some lose a lot more when it comes to major league teams during the coronavirus pandemic. The Orioles lose less. They were going to have trouble drawing spectators this year. They get to run time off the horrible contracts of Alex Cobb and, especially, Chris Davis without paying …
  • Yankees mailbag: Aaron Judge’s injury and how it affects mega-contract

    Yankees mailbag: Aaron Judge’s injury and how it affects mega-contract

    You ask, we answer. The GAG 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 baseball comes back this year, why wouldn’t the Yankees shut Aaron Judge down for 2020 and …
  • What New York-area sports owners have given to coronavirus fight

    What New York-area sports owners have given to coronavirus fight

    As the novel coronavirus has wrecked the New York area, sports owners with deep pockets have emerged to help in the fight to battle this deadly pandemic. Here’s a look: James Dolan The Madison Square Garden chairman, who has tested positive for coronavirus, but is said to have mild symptoms, is paying arena workers in …
  • 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 …
  • ‘Clueless’ Dennis Smith Jr.’s Knicks exit looks likely with allies gone

    ‘Clueless’ Dennis Smith Jr.’s Knicks exit looks likely with allies gone

    Part 14 of a series analyzing the New York Knicks Point guard Dennis Smith Jr. helped get former Knicks president Steve Mills fired. It was bad enough Mills failed to use the Knicks’ league-high cap space appropriately following the Kristaps Porzingis blockbuster trade 14 months ago. Adding insult to injury was that Smith, the Knicks’ …
  • Jets’ Breshad Perriman on nearly losing his dad, career low point, Sam Darnold

    Jets’ Breshad Perriman on nearly losing his dad, career low point, Sam Darnold

    Post columnist Steve Serby catches up with new Jets receiver Breshad Perriman for some Q&A. Q: When your father, former Lions receiver Brett Perriman, suffered a stroke in April 2016, what was that moment like for you when you found out? A: It was a crazy moment, man, that’s a moment I’ll never forget. It …