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New York Post
14 hours ago
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- New York Post
Sabally sisters' reunion a touching reminder of their WNBA sacrifices
We've got you covered on the Liberty beat Text with Madeline Kenney as she follows the Liberty — she's sharing behind-the-scenes info and insights with Sports+ subscribers. SIGN UP NOW Liberty center Nyara Sabally was eagerly waiting for older sister Satou in the depths of Barclays Center before Thursday's game against the Phoenix Mercury. Satou's heels clanked on the cement as she ran toward her younger sister with her arms wide open. Nyara stood there with a smile on her face and in position to catch her sister. Advertisement It was a long overdue hug between the German siblings who haven't seen each other since Christmas. 'We don't see each other that often,' Nyara said pregame. 'So it's just cool seeing each other again. Obviously, it's fun.'
New York Post
15 hours ago
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- New York Post
Yankees can't let a bad week turn into an all-too-familiar fate
Access the Yankees beat like never before Don't miss Greg Joyce's text messages from The Bronx and beyond — he's giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Yankees. Sign Up Now The Yankees won a game Thursday afternoon and they really needed to do that. They needed to end their longest losing streak (six games) since a nine-gamer in August 2023 that wiped them from playoff contention. They needed to avert being swept in a four-game series against the Angels for the first time ever in the teams' 44th set of at least four games. Yankees 7, Angels 3 felt bigger than a June 19 victory and it was not only because it was their first win in a week. It was about how they played the last week, which is to say how much it resembled the bad baseball that nipped at them all last season and then crescendoed in a World Series loss, notably a fundamental nightmare of a fifth inning in the eliminating Game 5. Advertisement 'It was just a bad week,' Aaron Boone said in a one-on-one moment after the game. 'We're much more equipped, especially athletically [to be a fundamentally sound team].' Maybe it was just a week. But it was about at this time last year that the Yankees got flimsier with the details, as if it was too mentally and physically exhausting to do the A, B, C's of the game correctly over and over rather than just count on Aaron Judge and Juan Soto and a bad American League to camouflage their inability to be consistently sound.
New York Post
2 days ago
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- New York Post
The difficult Francisco Alvarez call Mets must make
Access the Mets beat like never before Don't miss Mike Puma's text messages from Queens and beyond — he's giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Mets. Sign up Now These are the most difficult kinds of calls to make. What you dream about is what Pete Alonso did in 2019: Hit the ground running after getting the call to the big leagues, start mashing big league pitching, and don't stop until you've got 53 homers. The blueprint is Jacob deGrom, who started striking out hitters beginning with one unexpected start against the Yankees in 2014 and never stopped. And never again sat in a Triple-A clubhouse, except on a rehab assignment, buying dinner for his teammates on a big league salary. The reality is, the norm is closer to Mark Vientos, who hit some early, got sent back down again. Same with Brett Baty. Find your swing at Syracuse, keep building reps, and be ready when the second chance happens. Vientos hit the jackpot using that method in 2024. Baty has yet to put together a full month of big league-level hitting.
New York Post
2 days ago
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- New York Post
Where Rangers' salary-cap situation stands after Matt Rempe signing
The Matt Rempe Experience will roll on at the Garden next year with bigger — well — and better expectations for this unique hockey weapon who improved steadily over the course of the second half of the season. Access the Rangers beat like never before Get Mollie Walker's text messages with the latest Rangers buzz and get your questions answered — exclusive to Sports+ subscribers. SIGN UP NOW The Rangers took care of business with the pending restricted free agent winger, signing Rempe to a two-year deal with an AAV of $975,000 per before he could become offer-sheet eligible on July 1, The Post first reported Wednesday morning. This leaves the Blueshirts with approximately $14.5 million in cap space off an 18-player shadow roster that does not include pending Group II's Will Cuylle, K'Andre Miller, Adam Edstrom, Zac Jones, Matt Robertson and Arthur Kaliyev. If one does the math — which the hierarchy does just about on the hour every single day — it is all but impossible to understand where the rampant rumors of the Rangers preparing offer sheets originated and why this continues to be circulated on internet-land.
New York Post
4 days ago
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- New York Post
The unprecedented rivalry chance that follows Mets back to Atlanta
The truth is, going back to 1962, there aren't a lot of regular-season victories that compare to the one that concluded at 4:08 p.m. on the afternoon of Sept. 30, 2024. The truth is, there's only one that belongs in the same category, and it had taken place four days shy of a quarter century earlier: Oct. 4, 1999, a do-or-die, one-game playoff in Cincinnati for the National League's wild-card berth. Access the Mets beat like never before Don't miss Mike Puma's text messages from Queens and beyond — he's giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Mets. Sign up Now In '99, the Mets carried quite a bit of baggage with them. It had been 11 years since their last playoff berth. A year earlier, they'd lost five straight games at the end, games 158-162, when winning only one would've snuck them into another playoff for the wild-card, a three-team round-robin with the Giants and Cubs. And there was plenty of concern that Bobby Valentine, the manager, hadn't yet steered a team to the postseason. Advertisement So 1999's 5-0 win against the Reds, behind a two-hitter from Al Leiter, was cathartic. And still pales in comparison to what happened last Sept. 30. Consider all the layers of misery the Mets had added in 25 years: a walk-off walk in NLCS Game 6 to the Braves in '99. A Subway Series loss in 2000. A cruel loss in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS, followed up by gut-stomping collapses in 2007 and '08. A 2015 run that ended in a World Series horror show. Another epic collapse in 2022.
