A veteran of papers in four cities, columnist Jay Greenberg joined the Post in 1994. He’s a University of Missouri graduate.
The tornado warning, either the cue for Alex Rodriguez to do it like Roy Hobbs did or a sign that the desperate baseball gods are throwing behind A-Rod's ear, arrived at the same time the Yankees third baseman took a...
July 24, 2010 12:00 AMAlex Rodriguez waited eight games between home runs No. 499 and No. 500 in 2007 to get to a place a which only 25 players in major league baseball history have been. Rarer will become the air, tonight, tomorrow,...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AM
Bygones, the Yankees insisted yesterday, are bygones. Perhaps not as long gone as the ball Reid Brignac hit off A.J. Burnett Saturday that caused him to high-five a clubhouse door, causing wounds that are being more...
July 19, 2010 1:51 AMThis is how we already know the Red Bulls' signing of Thierry Henry is the biggest thing to happen for soccer in New York since Pele: The last question, not the first, the French star took yesterday from 150 media...
July 16, 2010 12:00 AMLong weary of being America's great male tennis hope, Andy Roddick moves into his second decade waiting to be relieved by the cavalry. James Blake is now ranked 115th in the world. Marathon John Isner, already tennis...
July 15, 2010 12:00 AMMore than 120 minutes of tedium during a largely flashless 2010 World Cup final still couldn't silence the mindless vuvuzelas. But in the end this wasn't entirely a bad thing. The horns drowned out at least some of the...
July 13, 2010 12:00 AM
The Netherlands clearly figured the only way this World Cup wasn't in the cards for Spain was to keep referee Howard Webb reaching for cards in his pocket. So deep was Spain in passers and defenders, Webb kept...
July 12, 2010 12:00 AM
England’s Wayne Rooney, 34-goal scorer for Manchester United last season, not only got shut out in the World Cup, but profanely told fans disgruntled with England’s effort to shut up. Argentina’s Lionel Messi bet his...
July 11, 2010 2:42 AMThe Germans, who scored four goals on three different teams in this World Cup, seemed to have the numbers until again running into the country that has their number. For Spain, it only takes one, like the one it scored...
July 08, 2010 12:00 AMThe Netherlands, the best soccer-playing country never to win the World Cup, is into Sunday's final because it finally stopped pointing fingers and used them to plug the dike. A county that has dammed itself to...
July 07, 2010 12:00 AM
Brett Gardner only walked onto the field for the first day of practice at the College of Charleston, but he actually started running his way to the majors from that day forward. As a 183-pound, third-round pick staring...
July 04, 2010 3:41 AM
This is the Year of the Pitcher. Robbie Cano, and A.J. Burnett haven't gotten the memo yet, but the Yankees didn't necessarily need consecutive nights being dominated by Cliff Lee and Felix Hernandez to be reminded of...
July 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Cliff Lee vs. Phil Hughes to night at Yankee Stadium is one of the match-ups of the season, conditions permitting. Thunderstorms are forecast to have passed, but a slippery field still may be a concern, what with...
June 29, 2010 12:00 AMThe U.S. got a gift goal from England in a tie, managed one win in two games against 25th-ranked Slovenia and 30th-ranked Algeria and all of a sudden it was supposed to be Brazil. There is no denying our World Cup...
June 28, 2010 12:00 AM
Even if we are to believe Johan Santana’s 41-pitch, four-run first inning yesterday was another temporary manifestation of his September surgery on his elbow, there is still plenty of room in the Mets rotation for Cliff...
June 27, 2010 2:05 AM
Even with goosebumps to last a lifetime at the memory of an elimination-saving goal in the 91st minute, the U.S. World Cup team is not into extra time, not just yet. The Ghanaians the U.S. team faces today in the round...
June 26, 2010 4:45 AM
The Twins' Kevin Slowey had been perfect through three innings, enough to have him up 1-0 against a can't-be-perfect-all-the-time Mike Pelfrey, when Jose Reyes blooped a single to get the Mets' heart started to a 5-2...
June 26, 2010 12:00 AMOtto Rehhagel, who had given the traditionally disorganized Greeks structure and an unexpected European Cup to 2004, resigned yesterday after a winless World Cup showing. The French refused to practice for coach Raymond...
June 25, 2010 4:23 AM
Tim Howard, it should never be forgotten, came across to save an Algerian extra-time header that could have made Landon Donovan just another American who didn’t score in the end when it counted. Howard then made the...
June 24, 2010 3:40 AM
Two days after stunning the Soviets, the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team was down a goal to Finland going to the third period. "Lose this game, you'll take it to your [expletive] graves," said Coach Herb Brooks before...
June 23, 2010 12:00 AM
Father's Day in Monument Park yesterday wasn't only between dads and sons. Certainly it was for Dan Flanagan Jr., who remembered Yankee Stadium as "so big, and so green" when his dad brought a 14-year-old through a...
June 21, 2010 12:00 AMAfter eight consecutive wins, and three straight over the Yankees, one might think Mets fans would be walking into the Stadium yesterday feeling as big as Sid Fernandez, boisterous as Lenny Dykstra, confident as Keith...
June 20, 2010 12:00 AMThere were Slovene hands all over three Americans as Landon Donovan’s free kick curled perfectly into the box. And yet the U.S. suffered the 10-finger discount. BETTING ODDS Michael Bradley was being blatantly held...
June 19, 2010 2:03 AMThere are only 99 inhabitants per square kilometer in Slovenia, but that's a lot to be packed in around a goal today in Johannesburg. The United States' opponent is a country that has made a wonderful adaptation to...
June 18, 2010 12:00 AM
There are baseball gods, Mets fans. Otherwise, the plague that hit your team last year on the way to 70-92 would not have been answered a season later with Hisanori Takahashi and R.A. Dickey. "You can't get better...
June 15, 2010 12:00 AM
Another goalie blew another one in Group C yesterday, so the possibilities for the U.S. World Cup team seem endless. Fawzi Chaouchi of Algeria let one in off his arm that Robert Koren shot practically from Slovenia in...
June 14, 2010 2:38 AM
We had a lot of time on our hands between 1950 and 1990, when the U.S. didn’t qualify for a single World Cup, but we’re catching up fast because we can catch the ball. Perhaps because dexterity is required in every...
June 13, 2010 1:38 AM
All sports essentially are conscienceless in their treatment of coaches — but there may be none uglier toward its coaches than The Beautiful Game. Bob Bradley, who got the job of leading the United States into the 2010...
June 12, 2010 3:02 AMSouth Africa, a nation with one of the world's greatest contrasts between its rich and poor, which suffers one of the planet's highest crime rates, will have spent $4.5 billion to build stadiums and infrastructure to...
June 11, 2010 12:00 AM
Scott Bradley, who would go on to play major league baseball for the Mariners and Yankees, was the future pro athlete of the three sons of Gerry and Mary Bradley, who moved across from a playground in Essex Fells, N.J.,...
June 09, 2010 1:27 AM
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