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Two US sports moguls just raised more than half a billion dollars — and insiders bet that they’re shopping for a UK soccer team. Last week, prolific sports banker Gerry Cardinale and Billy Beane — the number-crunching Oakland A’s executive-turned-minority owner played by Brad Pitt in 2011’s “Moneyball” — disclosed they had raised $575 million …
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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. What is the likelihood the Yankees trade Miguel Andujar at the deadline? — Chester Lemon Andujar has …
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Perhaps we expect better from ESPN because it’s a 24/7 sports network, the last place we’d think would wreck every sport it touches. Yet, here we are. Again, and still. To tune to ESPN to watch a live sports event is to be conditioned — air-conditioned — to anticipate a production that will challenge the …
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The NHL bubble may keep its players safe from COVID-19, but not its fans from Mike Milbury’s “insensitive and insulting” commentary. The NBC Sports analyst came under fire Thursday night, while calling the Islanders and Capitals game, for suggesting that women were a distraction to NHL players. “If you think about it, [the bubble is] …
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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 Giants. Who are you most excited to see out of the UDFAs? I like [Javon] Leake and [Binjimen] …
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Who’d a thunk it? In our exchanges, he’d never even cussed. Can’t say the same for myself. I know Fox and Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman long enough to be shocked that he’d speak a slur for homosexuals — the F-word — even when he thought he was off the air, let alone while attached to …
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Dave Portnoy’s COVID-19 scare didn’t last long. The Barstool Sports founder on Thursday morning posted an update to his Twitter page claiming that he beat the deadly virus, a day after scaring his fans and investors when he revealed he had been “sick as a motherf—er” and bedridden for 40 hours. “COVID is exactly what …
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The Reds gave Thom Brennaman a chance to apologize Wednesday night on air after his homophobic slur was broadcast to Fox Sports Ohio viewers over a hot mic. However, the 56-year-old’s mea culpa — for saying “one of the f-g capitals of the world,” to the shock of viewers — was interrupted by a Nick …
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Longtime play-by-play man for the Cincinnati Reds Thom Brennaman was suspended indefinitely Wednesday and acknowledged his career might be over after video showed him using a homophobic slur on a hot mic earlier in the day. Brennaman was pulled from the broadcast booth by the Reds after he said, “One of the f-g capitals of …
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El Presidente has had a tough go of things lately. A week after Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy revealed his “close to seven figures” loss on a controversial stock, Portnoy posted on social media that he might be battling the coronavirus. In a video shared on his Twitter page, the brash sports blog owner said …
Two US sports moguls just raised more than half a billion dollars — and insiders bet that they’re shopping for a UK soccer team. Last week, prolific sports banker Gerry Cardinale and Billy Beane — the number-crunching Oakland A’s executive-turned-minority owner played by Brad Pitt in 2011’s “Moneyball” — disclosed they had raised $575 million …
