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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: sports media. Why does WFAN broadcast Yankees games and spend so little (talk show) time on the Bombers? Most …

The expected is now official. ESPN has informed Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland they are out of the “Monday Night Football” booth, a source confirmed. Steve Levy on play-by-play and analysts Dan Orlovsky, Louis Riddick and/or Brian Griese remain the favorites as the replacements, which The Post first reported early last month. ESPN has also …

Saturdays could be for the NFL this fall, if college football doesn’t play, The Post has learned. With the NFL expected to release its schedule soon, its officials have discussed giving the league some flexibility to move games to Saturdays this fall if college football postpones its entire season, according to sources. The NFL has …

He was the greatest athlete that never was. Drew Henson couldn’t miss in two sports — yet he did. “I didn’t have the success for which I hoped or expected,” Henson told The Post in a recent interview, “but I have this wealth of life experiences.” Does he ever. He is a sports Zelig — …

Drew Brees is signing with NBC Sports over ESPN in a move that will make him a fixture on NFL telecasts after he finishes playing, The Post has learned. In a contract that will begin after Brees retires from the Saints, the 41-year-old will be groomed as the potential replacement for Cris Collinsworth on “Sunday …

While ESPN has Drew Brees in its sights after he retires, Steve Levy, Louis Riddick and Dan Orlovsky have emerged as top candidates for next season’s “Monday Night Football” booth, The Post has learned. ESPN hasn’t yet fully decided if it will go with Levy, Orlovsky and/or Riddick, but it is trying to sign Brees …

President Trump believes the NFL season should start on time in September. Trump said as much in a conference call with the commissioners of the major sports leagues on Saturday, and also said he hoped to have fans back in stadiums by August and September, according to ESPN, citing sources familiar with the call. The NFL …

Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach’s insensitive tweet already earned him widespread rebuke. Now it may have cost him a player. On Wednesday night, the recently hired Leach tweeted a meme of an old lady knitting with the caption: “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarf…,” though …

Peyton Manning turned down ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” The Post has learned. Sources say the overriding factor was whether Manning finally wanted to enter the broadcast booth and commit to the weekly schedule in the fall. The answer remains no. Manning has declined to be an MNF analyst on multiple occasions, turning down basically every …