Larry Brooks joined the Post in 1976 and has been its NHL columnist since 1994, adding the Rangers beat in 1996. He also covered the Devils and serves as a baseball columnist. The Hockey News has named him one of the Top 100 People of Power and Influence in NHL seven times, the only writer from a daily U.S. publication to receive that recognition.
The result notwithstanding, last night is why you don't look at the percentages and determine that the Mets are just too much of a long shot for ownership to grant GM Omar Minaya the funds necessary to make a move by...
July 29, 2010 12:00 AM
About half of the crowd of 47,890 remained in the house for Alex Rodriguez’s at-bat in the eighth inning that came at 6:30 p.m., five hours and 22 minutes after Phil Hughes’ first pitch of the afternoon, and followed a...
July 26, 2010 3:05 AM
The game was there to be won and then it was lost. History was there to be made and then it was not. Mighty Alex did not strike out. He was just left on deck. All the drama that might have been, the milestone 600th...
July 25, 2010 3:08 AM
First, know this about Gary Bettman and his capricious prosecution of circumvention against the Devils and Ilya Kovalchuk -- it's personal with the commissioner, the way it was personal when he and the Board of...
July 25, 2010 1:47 AM
Not that Brian Cashman is A.J. Burnett or anything, but it’s a little difficult to believe the tale that the Yankees’ GM won’t be on the lookout for a starting pitcher between now and the July 31 non-waiver trade...
July 20, 2010 2:30 AM
This was a week during which Derek Jeter took more hits than he got, given the criticism directed at him for his failure to attend Bob Sheppard’s funeral combined with his prolonged silence at the plate. There was...
July 19, 2010 2:54 AM
These current Yankees, these men in pinstripes who have eulogized George Steinbrenner this week with quiet elegance, they don’t have the slightest idea what it was like when The Boss roamed the Stadium and crashed the...
July 18, 2010 3:37 AM
The first game of the rest of the Yankees’ lives was preceded by a soundtrack of Frank Sinatra singing, “My Way.” “My Way” as in George Steinbrenner’s Way — “My Way” as in the Yankees’ Way. Their Way, as in winning...
July 17, 2010 4:52 AM
Four days on the job, the first four days of my life covering the Yankees, and there I was in a phone booth in the back of the press box in old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, dialing the number for American Shipbuilding...
July 14, 2010 3:07 AM
The team that has everything doesn't have an eighth-inning lockdown arm to get the ball and the game into Mariano Rivera's right hand. It's the one and only significant hole the Yankee$ have entering this All-Star...
July 13, 2010 12:00 AMWhen an energy source is operating at 60 percent of capacity, that’s what’s known as a brownout. When Jose Reyes, the Mets’ energy source, is permitted to play at 60 percent of his unique capacities, that’s what’s...
July 11, 2010 2:21 AM
Tell me. Tell me the name of the stud cen ter or blue-chip de fenseman in his prime coming up on unrestricted free agency for whom the Rangers should reserve cap space and thus bypass Ilya Kovalchuk. Tell me the...
July 11, 2010 12:00 AM
LeBron James may have snubbed Jim Dolan's NBA team on the country's national sports television network, but the Garden CEO still can be the star of the show if the Rangers declare on Ilya Kovalchuk, the NHL's Jamesian...
July 10, 2010 12:00 AM
Listen, if there's any precept that has been reinforced over the last month, it is that pro sports are now driven by star-power and marquee attractions. The Mets, scrappy team that they generally have been, lack...
July 08, 2010 12:00 AMThe Mets have a recent history of haphazard decision-making, at best, regarding injured players. As such, the deciders should be commended for the responsible approach they have adopted regarding Carlos Beltran, who...
July 06, 2010 12:00 AM
In hockey, it is a huge deal if a player is scratched from the lineup for a game on the road in his hometown. In baseball, apparently not so much, because when the Yankees skipped Phil Hughes in the rotation a week...
July 05, 2010 12:00 AMJust when The Summer of Ilya (Kovalchuk) was beginning to look like The Summer of George (Costanza), reports exploded late Friday night that the Islanders not only had joined the bidding for the free-agent winger, but...
July 04, 2010 12:00 AM
Se, this is what I can't understand about the way Glen Sather does business. It's beyond me, just beyond me, why the Rangers GM would risk losing such an important piece as Jody Shelley in order to perhaps pursue...
June 28, 2010 12:00 AM
LOS ANGELES -- The home of Angels, where Pat Burns would and will always have a place and where every single member of the 18-man Hall of Fame selection committee should have been ashamed to show his face this weekend....
June 27, 2010 12:00 AMThis first week of summer marks the beginning of the serious season and of the Mets' audition as contenders. That's because, as they face two formidable teams and pitching staffs from Detroit and Minnesota for six...
June 22, 2010 12:00 AM
The window of opportunity is closing on Glen Sather as the general manager looks for a team to take Donald Brashear and his over-35, $1.4 million albatross of a cap charge off the Rangers' books. For if Sather, who...
June 20, 2010 12:00 AM
Brian Cashman's winter took a turn for the better two days before the first day of summer. Because Curtis Granderson, whom the general manager acquired from Detroit in the offseason in exchange for Austin Jackson,...
June 20, 2010 12:00 AM
Alex Rodriguez is expected to step back into the batter's box tonight for the first time since Thursday. When and if he does dig in against Philadelphia's Roy Halladay in the first of three in this Bronx rematch of...
June 15, 2010 12:00 AM
One year after Joba Chamberlain was turned into a lab rat by management concerned with protecting his arm and future, here are the two words as applied to Phil Hughes that will make Yankees' fans cringe: "Innings limit....
June 14, 2010 12:00 AM
In theory, it's as good an idea for the Yankees to ease 38-year-old Jorge Posada out of the catcher's crouch into the designated hitter's stance as often as possible as it was in theory for the Mets to move 35-year-old...
June 13, 2010 12:00 AM
The 2010-11 cap crunch facing the Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks and their big-market brethren will be more severe than believed if the Escrow Hawks within the NHLPA carry the day and the balloting when the 30 player...
June 13, 2010 12:00 AM
The effort might not have been Strasburgian, but the game Mike Pelfrey threw last night at Citi Field was special enough for his manager, Jerry Manuel, to leave it in his right hand when the book might have suggested...
June 09, 2010 2:49 AM
Glen Sather isn’t big on what ifs. But the temptation to wonder is tantalizing. What if Olli Jokinen had kept it going? What if Henrik Lundqvist had stopped Claude Giroux? What if the Rangers rather than the Flyers had...
June 06, 2010 3:17 AM
It was Colonel Mustard, with the revolver, in the con servatory. Oh, no, so sorry, it was Oliver Perez, with the sore knee, in the trainer's room. So much ado over the 25th man on the roster; so much for Perez, who...
June 06, 2010 12:00 AMJerry Manuel called on two relievers to work against the Marlins in last night’s seventh inning, and neither of them was Jennry Mejia, the 20-year-old whom the Mets manager designated before the game as one of his...
June 05, 2010 4:28 AM
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