Mike Vaccaro
Sports Writer at New York Post
Sports columnist, New York Post. Author, four books. St. Bonaventure graduate. Master (sometimes) to a knuckleheaded (but awesome) Airedale named Desmond
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1 week ago |
nypost.com | Mike Vaccaro
On one level, we remain suckers for this kind of story. Maybe “Hoosiers” works just as well if the announcer for WFBM radio doesn’t tell us before the championship game that Hickory High School — “hardly big enough for three syllables!” — has an enrollment of 64, while South Bend Central — “the mighty Bears!” — has 2,800 students. Probably not, though. We always root for the Little Guy. Every other team in baseball eventually adopted analytics.
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1 week ago |
nypost.com | Mike Vaccaro
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. In ’99, the Mets carried quite a bit of baggage with them.
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1 week ago |
nypost.com | Mike Vaccaro
It’s the middle of June. Aaron Judge entered Friday night’s game in Boston hitting .392. We’re deep enough into the season where we can actually start asking the question:Can he do this? On one hand, it is the easiest answer of all: almost certainly not. There is a reason why we are now 84 years past Ted Williams hitting .406 in 1941, and why that remains one of the last true Holy Grails of the sport.
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2 weeks ago |
nypost.com | Mike Vaccaro
The Mets took their time, too. Buck Showalter was fired on Oct. 1, 2023. It was believed they had one solid target in mind as his replacement in Brewers manager Craig Counsell, but Counsell wouldn’t be available for exactly another month. The wait seemed like only a wink-wink formality. He and David Stearns had worked together for years in Milwaukee.
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2 weeks ago |
nypost.com | Mike Vaccaro
He had just delivered what was — may still be — the forever money performance in the Nets’ NBA history. Jason Kidd had played 51 minutes, 38 seconds of a 120-109 double overtime win against the Pacers, do-or-die Game 5, 2002 first round at the Meadowlands. Reggie Miller had made another of his gut-punch shots to extend the game, a 35-footer that made Tyrese Haliburton’s Game 1 prayer against the Knicks seem like a routine layup. Didn’t matter. Kidd stole the night back from Reggie.
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Column: if the #Knicks can finagle Jason Kidd to be their coach they know exactly what they’ll be getting: some good, some bad, a renowned coach killer who actually (and somewhat remarkably) has become a coach with some gravitas. https://t.co/jgMkAwbEu9
RT @JenXperience: With the defending WNBA champion New York Liberty off to a 7-0 start to their 2025 title defense campaign — and going for…
Column: the #Knicks start searching for a new head coach, and this is what awaits whoever accepts the job: a window that might never be quite this open again, same as the East will be in a year when the Celtics will be wounded. https://t.co/4Yz7CMMass
