• Ranking MLB’s top 30 free agents and predicting where they’ll sign

    Ranking MLB’s top 30 free agents and predicting where they’ll sign

    This will be a Hot Stove League unlike any other. It could start slowly. It could get ugly. Yet as Eddie Murphy once said, money don’t crack. Baseball’s free-agent market, which officially
  • Mets plan to give Marcus Stroman $18.9 million qualifying offer

    Mets plan to give Marcus Stroman $18.9 million qualifying offer

    Marcus Stroman will at least net the Mets a draft pick upon departure. The Mets plan to extend a qualifying offer to the veteran right-hander, according to an industry source, giving Stroman the
  • Kate Winslet regrets working with Woody Allen, Roman Polanski

    Kate Winslet regrets working with Woody Allen, Roman Polanski

    It’s a tie between this and not moving over on that door. Kate Winslet is reckoning with some of her past work in light of the #MeToo movement, telling Vanity Fair this week, “It’s like, what the f - - k was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?” “It’s unbelievable to me now how those …
  • Antoninus Pius, while imperfect, for the most part ruled with prudence, restraint, and moderation

    Antoninus Pius, while imperfect, for the most part ruled with prudence, restraint, and moderation

    In the book of Genesis, God agreed not to destroy Sodom if Abraham could find 10 righteous people there. Abraham failed, and God wiped the city from the face of the earth. More recently (and much less importantly), my friend and former Foundation for Economic Education president Larry Reed issued a similar challenge: He asked …
  • Christy Carlson Romano cooks up ‘escape’ in ‘Bucket List Bistro’

    Christy Carlson Romano cooks up ‘escape’ in ‘Bucket List Bistro’

    Christy Carlson Romano, who’s best known for voicing teen spy “Kim Possible,” has added chef to her TV resume. In “Bucket List Bistro,” Romano and her husband, Brendan Rooney, take viewers into their California kitchen to cook dishes from various countries around the globe. It premieres Thursday on the “Taste of Fox” YouTube channel, Fox …
  • Roman Polanski loses bid for Academy reinstatement

    Roman Polanski loses bid for Academy reinstatement

    A California judge denied Roman Polanski’s bid to be reinstated to the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, the organization behind the Oscars. The controversial director sued the Academy in April 2019 after it expelled him in May 2018, alleging he had been thrown out without any warning or fair process. The director behind “Rosemary’s …
  • SummerSlam gave us the Roman Reigns WWE needs now

    SummerSlam gave us the Roman Reigns WWE needs now

    SummerSlam delivered a rare genuine surprise, and possibly the Roman Reigns we’ve been waiting for. WWE made good on the pay-per-view’s tagline of “you’ll never see it coming” on Sunday as Reigns returned for the first time in months. He attacked “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman to close the show. Reigns stepped away …
  • Dwight Gooden: Yoenis Cespedes may get ‘blackballed’ over Mets opt-out

    Dwight Gooden: Yoenis Cespedes may get ‘blackballed’ over Mets opt-out

    Dwight Gooden sees how Yoenis Cespedes handled opting out of the Mets season as a “weak move” that could hurt the slugger next season. “He may get blackballed [in baseball] next year and I’m OK with that,” the former Cy Young winner said on the latest episode of The Post’s “Amazin’ But True” Mets podcast. …
  • Mets fans should be terrified of what Brodie Van Wagenen might do next

    Mets fans should be terrified of what Brodie Van Wagenen might do next

    The Mets took another hit Monday when Marcus Stroman announced he was opting out. Stroman cited a number of things that worried him — the obvious one being the game of chicken every ballplayer is playing on trying to avoid the virus, the immediate being the Mets’ upcoming trip to Miami, the geographic symbol of …
  • Marcus Stroman becomes second Mets player to opt out of season

    Marcus Stroman becomes second Mets player to opt out of season

    Marcus Stroman is opting out. The Mets announced Monday the right-hander decided to sit out the rest of the season because of coronavirus concerns. He becomes the second Mets player to opt out, eight days after Yoenis Cespedes left the team in Atlanta without initially informing the Mets of his decision. Stroman, who had been …