The Mets made Wally Backman the new manager of their popular single-A affiliate, the Brooklyn Cyclones.

Like Napolean in exile, Backman, a former minor league manage of the year and one of several active cynosures of the 1986 Mets glory, has been...

It's taken me a few days to get over how pissed off I was when I first read it. Wednesday, November 11, 2009, The New York Times Headline: "View of the Mayor's Race From One Who Opted Out: I Could Have Won."

You know, when Anthony Weiner opted out...

Dateline Manila:

Boxer Manny Pacquiao has made the cover of Time Magazine ... Asia edition. It hit newsstands in Asia over the weekend.

I told you politicos that this guy is going to be the next... (pause) ... Well he's running for...

It's an interesting time when fans turn on an owner. That's precisely what time it is for Washington Redskins fans and team owner, Dan Snyder.

Snyder year after year took a most beloved local professional sports franchise and transformed/disfigured it into an at once profitable and objectionable local professional sports...

It's gone too far. Maybe it's not gone as far to say it's a sign of the apocalypse for organized sports but the existence of a new fantasy football situation comedy on FX -- The League -- tells us just how far off the beam the collective sports consciousness has...

He's more than just boxer. He's a movement. TIME magazine nominated him as one of 2009's most influential people in the world. He is the only boxer ever to have his own bobblehead night, which he did on April 21 at a San Francisco Giants home for their Filipino American...

Former NBA Champion and jovial sports talk show host John Salley advocates for healthier eating, theorizes why Charles Barkley got so fat and set his terms for posing nude.

You have embarked on a mission to convert Chicago school kids to vegetarianism. Chicago is well known for its steak houses...

Once the enfant-terrible of professional tennis, a middle-aged Mac has grown less concerned with his backhand than with his backside. To be sure, his latest endeavor leaves him little time for asinine behavior. In his publicized quest for men's health, McEnroe promises to keep his end up and presses for...

Chris Young was a 2007 National League All-Star pitching excellently for the Padres who became a 2008 YouTube All-Star taking an Albert Pujols line drive to the face. In the 2009, he's got something else on his mind: justice. Perhaps influenced by his wife, fellow Princeton grad and current...

This is getting interesting.

At the last minute, despite knowing for some time that Shahar Peer was scheduled to play in the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, the United Arab Emirates, refused to grant the Israeli tennis player a visa.

What was the response of Larry Scott, the...

Dallas Stars' brat-bully Sean Avery calls his ex-starlets -- now dating other NHL-ers -- "sloppy seconds," and his team, the league, the sports pages, sports talk radio and the civilized world rages for days and days with in-depth "analysis."

Here's what's missing: The New York Rangers who dumped the...

Score one for the old guys.

In a tiny item most sports sections today, the AP reports that a federal jury ordered the NFL Players Association to pay $28.1million to retired players after finding that the union actively sought to cut the players out of lucrative licensing deals...

Let me break it down:

1) Hard working, non-Wall Street taxpayers believe it's unfair for them to pay for the mistakes of greedy, irresponsible members of the "financial community" who put the country in this mess. Theirs is a fair and unassailable point.

2) Proponents of the $700 billion...

Oh the fun we're having. The most pop-culture-ized Presidential election in American history takes it to another kitsch level this week

WallMonkeys.com, a company that specializes in custom, life-sized (that's her real height, 5'6") , removable wall graphics, has announced the release of the life-size Sarah Palin wall...

At least we haven't heard about any more dog fighting. Yet this has been a typically tawdry off-season for the National Football League.

From Sypgate to the usual spate of arrests and suspensions -- not to mention Brett Favre keeping the state of Wisconsin up half the night every night...

As I suggested in my last post, sports for children needs serious re-thinking. That doesn't mean I believe kids shouldn't play sports. And if kids do play sports, the only way to do play sports is the right way - not a softer way, or a gentler way, or...

I read about kids who are playing golf at age 5. We're not talking miniature golf here, but golf lessons, every day with a pro. They've got a team of coaches, nutritionist and psychologists. They're in training.

Two summers ago, the Silva family sold their house and two cars in...

LaDainian Tomlinson wants your vote. Today he kicked off a national multi-city campaign tour asking fans to make him their number one pick in the 2008 FOXSports.com Fantasy Football draft. Channeling Hillary Clinton early this morning outside the midtown Manhattan studio of Fox and Friends, Tomlinson confidently...

"It's the last season for the old Yankee Stadium." BLAH. BLAH. BLAH. That's all I hear or see on talk radio ESPN this week. It's the last season for Shea Stadium too, you know. I happen to think Shea is much more of a "New York" stadium but I'm a...

Get over it.

If you think sexuality is bad for women's sports than you ought to stop watching all sports, male or female. Because that's where it's headed -- as if it isn't already there and has been for some time.

But with the advent of "The...