open mike

Albert Pujols and Chris Paul are the latest older stars to prove they still can play at a high level.

The good folks at Strat-O-Matic — specifically, chief content officer John Garcia — agreed to simulate an all-time modern Subway Series.

The Nets and Knicks have both won an NBA playoff series and advanced to the second round exactly … once.

So Zach Wilson — who wore both No. 1 and No. 11 at Brigham Young — has chosen to wear No. 2 as a Jet. He made that official on Thursday.

The Nets get most of the bold-faced headlines now, and with reason. When the 2020-21 NBA season begins, they will certainly be among the most intriguing teams in the league, with or without James

A.J. Hinch, who managed the 2017 Astros that treated baseball ethics like a dog treats yard grass, and who managed the 2019 Astros whom came five outs away from another title that may or may not have

Every aggrieved sports fan has the same blueprint: Just get me a new owner, any new owner, and things are going to get better. They have to get better. Of course, they don’t always get better, but

For years, baseball was a pleasant diversion for Jan Bottone, who liked to consider herself a devoted yet casual fan of the game. For years, basketball was her thing. She’d gone to high school with the great Calvin Murphy in Norwalk, Conn., so hoops fed most of her sporting interests. It wasn’t until around 2000, …

Look, I get so many of these things wrong, I like to relish and cherish the things I get right. My predictions and my prescience has been questioned and ridiculed for years, and legitimately. I once predicted a Rich Kotite Jets team would win 10 games (missed by seven). I once called for Tom Coughlin …

We hint at normalcy when the games simply happen again, as they have for baseball (at least for the time being), as they now have for basketball and hockey. Truth is, though, we’ve been divorced from normal for so long by now that it’s hard to even define it any more. Although, as sports fans, …