• Mickey Mantle’s creepy come-on detailed in new reporter memoir

    Mickey Mantle’s creepy come-on detailed in new reporter memoir

    Mickey Mantle once slipped a female reporter a cutesy greeting card during an interview — with the message “Wanna f–k?” written inside. In a new memoir, Diane Shah — the first female sports columnist for a major daily newspaper and longtime sports reporter— recalls sitting down with the Yankee legend in 1970 while he was …
  • Rangers mailbag: What if they can’t trade Lias Andersson?

    Rangers mailbag: What if they can’t trade Lias Andersson?

    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. If the NHL allows an amnesty buyout prior to the 2020-21 season, who would the Rangers target, …
  • Michael Jordan docuseries ‘The Last Dance’ premiere paints Bulls GM Jerry Krause as villain

    Michael Jordan docuseries ‘The Last Dance’ premiere paints Bulls GM Jerry Krause as villain

    Amid the biggest dearth of sports in a century, ESPN has swooped in to rescue us with “The Last Dance,” a docuseries about Michael Jordan’s final year with the Chicago Bulls. While the highly anticipated show’s first installment doesn’t offer too much that wasn’t already public knowledge, it’s still a fascinating look into perhaps the …
  • How Fordham has produced a generation of sports media stars

    How Fordham has produced a generation of sports media stars

    Long before he was an electee to the Basketball Hall of Fame, Mike Breen was an intimidated 18-year-old freshman attending a workshop at Fordham’s renowned college radio station, WFUV, in the fall of 1979. Breen felt sheepish next to the juniors and seniors leading the seminar and contemplated delaying the start of his broadcasting training. …
  • Yankees mailbag: What lineup will look like — if there’s a season

    Yankees mailbag: What lineup will look like — if there’s a season

    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. Who should be the starting lineup for the Yankees this year? — Patrick Grant The Yankees never used the …
  • Knicks mailbag: Leon Rose regret looms over Kevin Knox decision

    Knicks mailbag: Leon Rose regret looms over Kevin Knox decision

    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. I feel that the Kevin Knox pick might become a bust. He is too slow to guard …
  • Giants mailbag: Draft strategy Dave Gettleman should employ

    Giants mailbag: Draft strategy Dave Gettleman should employ

    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. Paul, while (Dave) Gettleman is big on “best available player” in the draft, what do you think the …
  • Dan Fouts is exactly the person CBS shouldn’t be firing

    Dan Fouts is exactly the person CBS shouldn’t be firing

    Dan Fouts, who was sentenced by CBS to call many Jets telecasts, never failed the 1 p.m. NFL Sunday Wince Test. You know the Wince Test? That’s when you find out who the announcers will be on the CBS and Fox early games. Too often the likes of Daryl “Moose” Johnston, “Hollerin’ ” Kevin Harlan and …
  • Jets mailbag: How vulnerable are the Patriots right now?

    Jets mailbag: How vulnerable are the Patriots right now?

    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 Jets. Can the Jets beat out the Patriots this year? — Patrick Grant With Tom Brady in Tampa, can …
  • Roger Goodell’s NFL Draft booing hell may be over for now

    Roger Goodell’s NFL Draft booing hell may be over for now

    The NFL draft is one week away on Thursday, April 23, and the television production plan between ESPN and NFL Network has progressed. So let’s give you the latest rundown of the 11 most important points. 1. Roger Goodell will announce the picks from his Bronxville basement. The NFL is still going over how it …