Mike Lupica

It didn't take the kind of beatdown they gave to the Celtics on Thursday night to make it official that this has become one of the most appealing Knick teams of all time.

The most important Met of them all was Tom Seaver, known as The Franchise and honored now with a statue outside Citi Field. He became one of the best pitchers of all time, on his way to the Hall of Fame, Seaver turned the Mets into a real franchise instead

It really comes down to this for Knicks fans, starting on Saturday night, a big, loud basketball night out of the past when the Knicks will feel

Every single year we tell ourselves how long the baseball season is, and how short a time it takes for the narrative to flip. And every single year, once Opening Day rolls around, we forget, before a bunch of teams remind us in March and April. One of those teams

You know how you’re supposed to do it in New York as a top manager, and that means a top baseball manager or coach? You do it the way Tom Thibodeau has done it with the Knicks.

For the time being, call them the Cleveland Guardians of the Galaxy, because they won again on Tuesday night, beating Boston to move their record to 17-6. It means that as we move up on everybody having played their first month of baseball, the Guardians have won more games than

A lot of things in sports can be true at once, and right now there are a lot of things true about what is turning into a rock fight between the Knicks and 76ers, starting right here:

The Red Sox just finished a 4-2 road trip to Pittsburgh and Cleveland, and they come home to start a six-game homestand with a record of 14-12, good for third place in the American League. With the injuries they’ve suffered, though, in the outfield and infield and to their starting

We come right out of a cool weekend series between the first-place Guardians and the first-place Braves with four games that start on Monday night between the Yankees and Orioles, ones that end April in the American League East and then take us into May. The two teams get ready

A lot has happened to the Knicks as we've had the kind of rising they've had and we've had in New York City over the past week-and-a-half, something