• NHL sets Stanley Cup playoffs date, strict coronavirus guidelines

    NHL sets Stanley Cup playoffs date, strict coronavirus guidelines

    We have a date. A few, in fact. Whether the NHL is going to be able to keep them is essentially up to the virus. The Post has learned that the Stanley Cup tournament’s qualifying rounds are scheduled to begin on July 30 in hub cities that will be selected “within the next week or …
  • MLB rejects players union’s latest proposal, digs in on 60 games

    MLB rejects players union’s latest proposal, digs in on 60 games

    The distance between 60 and 70, apparently, is a world apart in the twisted universe of Major League Baseball. The MLB Players Association announced Friday night that it received word from its partners/enemies on the other side of the aisle that there would be no more going back and forth on the amount of regular-season …
  • Baseball needs a savior after players’ counteroffer botch

    Baseball needs a savior after players’ counteroffer botch

    Well, let’s hope you enjoyed the 13 minutes in which professional baseball players enjoyed prosperity in the court of public opinion. If you blinked you missed it all, kind of like Kevin Maas’ career as Yankee Clipper 2.0. It isn’t that the MLBPA was wrong to counter the owners’ 60-game schedule Thursday with one 10 …
  • Ugly MLB talks might finally have a compromise in sight: Sherman

    Ugly MLB talks might finally have a compromise in sight: Sherman

    The third person in a room with Tony Clark and Rob Manfred shouldn’t be a UFC referee, it should be a court stenographer. As we have learned with these two sides, they are never going to agree to agree even on what they supposedly have agreed upon. One man’s framework is another’s proposal. The difference …
  • Rob Manfred showing his true colors as he lets baseball burn

    Rob Manfred showing his true colors as he lets baseball burn

    This is no longer about the greater good of the nation, or the admittedly pie-eyed notion that baseball could ever really have been a salve for the deep fissures and fractures that plague us in these dreadful days of worry and uncertainty. That was a nice notion, a throwback to a time when baseball was …
  • Rob Manfred and Tony Clark should meet face-to-face before MLB goes nuclear: Sherman

    Rob Manfred and Tony Clark should meet face-to-face before MLB goes nuclear: Sherman

    The one public service that MLB and the Players Association have provided is instruction on social distancing during a pandemic. Since the offers, counteroffers and insults have all been delivered electronically, the only threat is a computer virus. And any good tech with the correct software could prevent that. It might be forgotten to time …
  • Players’ union pushes MLB to cut to the end game

    Players’ union pushes MLB to cut to the end game

    The players basically have told MLB let’s cut to the end game — the next move should be informing the union how many games the owners are willing to play at full prorated salaries. The union told MLB on Saturday it will not be making a counter to the league’s latest proposal. Instead, union executive …
  • Former Playboy Playmate Ashley Mattingly died of self-inflicted gunshot

    Former Playboy Playmate Ashley Mattingly died of self-inflicted gunshot

    Former Playboy Playmate Ashley Mattingly died of a self-inflicted gunshot, her autopsy report revealed Friday. Mattingly, 33, who was found dead in her Austin, Texas, home in April, put a handgun in her mouth and pulled the trigger, according to the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office’s report, obtained by TMZ. The report also includes toxicology …
  • Max Scherzer takes another shot at MLB owners amid contentious talks

    Max Scherzer takes another shot at MLB owners amid contentious talks

    Nationals ace Max Scherzer flung another high-and-inside pitch at Major League Baseball owners. The three-time Cy Young winner, who serves as a member of the MLBPA’s executive subcommittee, continues to be outspoken in the midst of salary disputes between the players union and MLB. Scherzer took to Twitter Wednesday to unload another jab at team …
  • Rob Manfred needs to change the conversation in MLB battle: Sherman

    Rob Manfred needs to change the conversation in MLB battle: Sherman

    “If you don’t like what is being said, then change the conversation.” – Don Draper Those negotiating the restart of the baseball season define Mad Men. They are crazed in allegiance to their position and fury at each other. Plus, they are relentless sales people diligently advertising views of their accuracy and the other side’s …