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Will Cain didn’t want to stick to sports. The state of the country was too important to do so. But he also didn’t want to talk politics while his job was to cover sports. “The direction of the country over the last six months … it really impacted my decision on what I want to …
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Kenny Smith walked off the NBA on TNT set on Wednesday night in the wake of the league postponing its three playoff games scheduled for the same day. The postponements came on the heels of the Milwaukee Bucks boycotting their game against the Orlando Magic in response to Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, being …
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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 & columnists to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. Looks like Joe Tessitore is returning to CFB on ESPN with Greg McElroy and Holly …
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The potential comeback of Craig Carton to WFAN would rock the New York sports radio world, with Carton a worthy competitor to face-off with ESPN New York’s “The Michael Kay Show” for afternoon supremacy. And Carton’s return, after serving a year in prison for a ticket scam, is drawing closer. WFAN, according to sources, is …
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Shaquille O’Neal still has regrets and gets emotional when talking about Kobe Bryant, seven months after the death of his former Los Angeles Lakers teammate. “I don’t want to see anybody go out like that and never to be able to talk to him again,” O’Neal said Monday to USA Today Sports about Bryant, who …
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Perhaps we expect better from ESPN because it’s a 24/7 sports network, the last place we’d think would wreck every sport it touches. Yet, here we are. Again, and still. To tune to ESPN to watch a live sports event is to be conditioned — air-conditioned — to anticipate a production that will challenge the …
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The NHL bubble may keep its players safe from COVID-19, but not its fans from Mike Milbury’s “insensitive and insulting” commentary. The NBC Sports analyst came under fire Thursday night, while calling the Islanders and Capitals game, for suggesting that women were a distraction to NHL players. “If you think about it, [the bubble is] …
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Who’d a thunk it? In our exchanges, he’d never even cussed. Can’t say the same for myself. I know Fox and Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman long enough to be shocked that he’d speak a slur for homosexuals — the F-word — even when he thought he was off the air, let alone while attached to …
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The Reds gave Thom Brennaman a chance to apologize Wednesday night on air after his homophobic slur was broadcast to Fox Sports Ohio viewers over a hot mic. However, the 56-year-old’s mea culpa — for saying “one of the f-g capitals of the world,” to the shock of viewers — was interrupted by a Nick …
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Longtime play-by-play man for the Cincinnati Reds Thom Brennaman was suspended indefinitely Wednesday and acknowledged his career might be over after video showed him using a homophobic slur on a hot mic earlier in the day. Brennaman was pulled from the broadcast booth by the Reds after he said, “One of the f-g capitals of …
Will Cain didn’t want to stick to sports. The state of the country was too important to do so. But he also didn’t want to talk politics while his job was to cover sports. “The direction of the country over the last six months … it really impacted my decision on what I want to …
