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An inside look at how the 146th Kentucky Derby will shape up: Max Player (15-1) Trainer: Steven M. Asmussen Jockey: Ricardo Santana, Jr. Current Form: Ran home 3rd in the Belmont Stakes then 3rd again in the Travers, both won by Tiz The Law. Won the Withers 3 races back. Worth a wager?: Max has …
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Without a significant role to fill and with ESPN watching costs, Trey Wingo is being let go by the network, The Post has learned. Wingo, 56, has been with ESPN for more than two decades. His highest profile TV job was hosting the NFL Draft. He was recently taken off ESPN Radio’s morning program, “Golic …
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Alex Rodriguez is fuming over losing the Mets to billionaire Steve Cohen and griping that the process was rigged, multiple sources tell The Post. Sources close to the former Yankees slugger say they lost the Queens team on Friday, Aug. 28 after the Mets’ banker — Steve Greenberg of Allen & Co. — reached out …
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Stephen A. Smith, ESPN’s controversial talking head and hot take artist, of course had an opinion on the Nets’ hiring of Steve Nash, the Hall of Fame point guard. Smith didn’t like it, not because of Nash’s lack of experience, but because he felt it was an instance of “white privilege” since more experienced black …
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“Sunday Night Football” will not have the slide this year, but it will begin the switch. While the broadcast restrictions of COVID-19 will make it so game analyst Cris Collinsworth won’t slide onto the screen in the opening of broadcasts, NBC announced that some weeks Al Michaels will not on the broadcast at all. Mike …
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DraftKings has drafted basketball superstar Michael Jordan as a special adviser to its board of directors — a move investors deemed a slam dunk. The NBA Hall of Famer will take an equity stake in the online sports-betting firm in exchange for his guidance and advice on “key business initiatives,” such as product development, marketing …
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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 …
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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. Given that Aaron Boone’s contract is up at the end of the year, what are the chances …
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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 Rangers. What do you think it would take for the Rangers to pry an unhappy Jack Eichel from …
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NBA players voted to continue their season in a meeting Thursday morning, one day after the Milwaukee Bucks decision not to play in their playoff game against the Orlando Magic in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake set off a domino effect of postponed games in the league. The Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City …