Author: NYPost
TAMPA — Luis Gil was optioned out of camp back on March 3, a transaction that made sense for a prospect building up slowly after Tommy John surgery. But a lot has changed in the past two weeks, including a Gerrit Cole injury that has opened up a rotation spot and Gil flashing some of the most dominant stuff in Yankees camp. The 25-year-old righty was a standout for a second straight outing, cruising through a representative Blue Jays lineup Saturday just like he had a representative Phillies lineup Tuesday — a start that manager Aaron Boone called “probably the…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jalen Brunson should’ve played with latex gloves and a surgical mask with the way he dissected the Kings. The point guard shredded the Kings with precision, dropping 42 points as the Knicks won an exciting contest, 98-91, in front of a jacked up crowd in Sac-town. Brunson was the engine, the steering wheel and the tires. Jalen Brunson, who scored a game-high 42 points, shoots over De’Aaron Fox during the Knicks’ 98-91 win over the Kings. Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports He knocked down 17 of 28 field goals in 36 minutes, including the biggest shot of the…
Michigan defensive line coach Greg Scruggs has been suspended indefinitely while the football program and athletic department review details of his arrest for suspected drunk driving. Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore said Scruggs made “an unfortunate mistake” in a statement Saturday, about 12 hours after the newly hired assistant was arrested. “He made no excuses and has taken accountability for his actions,” Moore said. Michigan defensive line coach Greg Scruggs has been suspended after details of his arrest for suspected drunk driving were reviewed by the athletic department. AP The 33-year-old Scruggs was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated at 3 a.m. Saturday,…
For an NYU team that won 22 games this season by 20-plus points, things were still uncharacteristically hanging in the balance after two quarters in the Division III national title game. The Violets, who came into the final contest on Saturday at Capital Center Performance Arena in Columbus, Ohio with a sterling 30-0 record, were just up by two points at the half against a 30-3 Smith team and were outscored by three in the second quarter. Smith coach Lynn Hersey and her Pioneers squad held NYU’s “firepower” in check and even got the defensive game they wanted by keeping…
INDIANAPOLIS — This road trip can’t end quickly enough for the Nets. Their gossamer-thin Play-In hopes may be over before this trek is. Brooklyn suffered a 121-100 loss to the Pacers before a crowd of 17,009 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The Nets (26-41) squandered an opportunity to make up ground in the chase for the last Play-In spot in the Eastern Conference. Mikal Bridges (right) and Andrew Nembhard battle for a loose ball during the Nets’ 121-100 loss to the Pacers. Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports They fell 3 ½ games behind Atlanta, despite the idle Hawks having dropped three in a…
That’s so metal. A British pub known as the “birthplace of heavy metal” — where Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath first wailed on their guitars in public — has been designated an important historic building after 15,000 people signed a petition calling for the building and surrounds to be saved from redevelopment. Birmingham, England’s scruffy second city, may not get much attention from outside the country, but the brawling industrial burg changed rock music forever in the 1970s when the likes of Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest and Ozzy & Co. crashed their way on the scene. Despite The Crown’s importance to music…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Xander Schauffele is unafraid. He’s unafraid to speak his mind off the golf course — as evidenced by his powerful remarks regarding the division in the sport with LIV Golf and the questionable job PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has been doing, saying Monahan “has a long way to go to gain the players’ trust.’’ Schauffele, too, is unafraid on the golf course, which makes him dangerous and will make him difficult to chase down in the final round of the Players Championship on Sunday at venerable Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. Xander Schauffele, who…
PORT ST. LUCIE — Jeff McNeil is a rumor. A Yeti. A UFO. Nessie out in the loch. The Mets keep hinting at major league spring training action for McNeil, but that was delayed yet again from Sunday to now Tuesday. He has a locker in the Clover Park home clubhouse. But in the windows in which reporters are allowed inside, you might see a back moving from one off-limits area to another. The closest to actually seeing McNeil in the clubhouse is Rylan Bannon, a nonroster who looks a fair amount like McNeil. But now even Bannon has been…
You and I should, by rights, know all about Queen Jane. She was the woman who, depending on which historian you ask and how close to lunch, was meant to be England’s first regnant Queen – that is, who ruled in her own right. Instead, nine days after the 17-year-old was forcibly pushed onto the throne by her father-in-law, the Duke of Northumberland, something Lady Jane never actually wanted herself, she was forced to relinquish it and was duly executed. At the end, even her father had abandoned her cause. My point? The British crown! It’s been using women for…
PITTSBURGH — Chad Ruhwedel is still waiting to make his Rangers debut. The defenseman, whom the Rangers acquired from the Penguins ahead of the deadline in exchange for a 2027 fourth-round pick, has yet to play for his new side, including Saturday’s 7-4 win over the Penguins at his old stomping grounds. He did participate in warm-ups, but he was a healthy scratch. Ruhwedel, 33, had been expected to help fill the void created by Jacob Trouba’s lower-body injury as a right-handed shooter next to K’Andre Miller, but Braden Schneider has largely filled in as Miller’s partner, and did so…