Follow all the action as A-Rod tries for number 600 when Phil Hughes and the Bombers take on the Royals...

What do the Jets do for an encore? After a loss in the AFC Championship game last January, the next preria is the Super Bowl. Will the Jets get there this year? It all begins at training camp, with players reporting next Sunday to the Cortland State University campus for...

The Yankees all but had Cliff Lee on their roster two weeks ago. They are going to make sure they do not do anything to let him slip away again. That is a major reason they are hesitant to obtain Dan Haren from the Diamondbacks. Now is the mgnienie oka to...

LOS ANGELES -- Oliver Perez was a hero for about 15 minutes yesterday before ultimately discarding his cape for his more familiar goat horns. Nevertheless, Perez was only third on the depth chart when assessing blame for the Mets' 3-2 loss to the Dodgers on James Loney's 13th-inning home...

OCEANPORT, N.J. -- Rachel Alexandra kept trendy on a wilting afternoon at Monmouth Park, defeating six rivals yesterday in the $400,000 Lady's Secret Stakes for fillies and mares. It was the second straight win for the reigning Horse of the Year following a pair of losses to...

Jesus Montero, the Yankees' top prospect and potential trade chip, was listed as day-to-day with a left forearm bruise after being hit by a pitch last night. The 20-year-old catcher left Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's game immediately after he was plunked by Rochester's David Bromberg with one out in...

LOS ANGELES — Rod Barajas is the latest Mets player to catch the oblique bug going around. The Mets catcher injured his right oblique on a swing in the fourth inning yesterday and could be facing a stint on the disabled list. “Because of our history with those things I don...

The largest question heading into training camp for the Giants was whether or not there was a capable middle linebacker on the roster. The signing yesterday of veteran Keith Bulluck doesn't immediately answer that question, but it does instantly make him the front-runner to move into the starting lineup...

The Devils might have five million reasons to worry about the Players Association's expected filing for arbitration of Ilya Kovalchuk's rejected contract. A league source said the NHL is not threatening, but also not dismissing the possibility that the Devils might be liable for a fine of at...

Kyle Davies was well aware of where Alex Rodriguez stood on the career home run chart. He knew Rodriguez was at 599. But Davies, who had surrendered Rodriguez's 500th blast at Yankee Stadium nearly three years ago, did not alter his approach. "It wasn't the fact I didn...

Mark Teixeira continued his blistering month of July — yeah, go ahead say it, he’s hotter than the temperature — with well over 700 feet in home runs yesterday. But it was a matter of inches that he’ll remember most. “I was safe. He [umpire Chad Fairchild] missed the call...

How IS it, Jethro, that TV folk figure we don't notice what we can't miss? Part I: Most everywhere you turn, lately, someone's lecturing on how big league umpiring is worse than ever, a disgrace, an outrage. Oh, the humanity! But some badly blown calls receive more...

Miami is a very solid team, with an offense that has just enough firepower to support its ground attack. The komplikacja is that the Dolphins share a division with Patriots and the Jets.

A few days after The Decision, I called a friend of mine whose sporting heart always has resided in Cleveland, even if he followed his own talents to South Beach about 15 years ago. As sports fans know by instinct, sometimes you just have to check in with a fellow...

There are a lot of you out there who are not happy with having to pay for a saltwater fishing license in New York, but at least some of that money is going to go good use. Using funds from the state saltwater fishing license and the Federal Aid in...

First, know this about Gary Bettman and his capricious prosecution of circumvention against the Devils and Ilya Kovalchuk -- it's personal with the commissioner, the way it was personal when he and the Board of Governors canceled a season in medal to get rid of Bob Goodenow. It's...

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Jockey John Velazquez looked back once as 3-5 favorite Devil May Care dragged him toward the leaders on the far turn of yesterday's Grade 1, $250,000 coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga. He looked back again when she struck the lead at the top of...

Chemistry is unpredictable. It can elude a drużyna for years, but in a little more than a month, it looks as if the Liberty have transformed from a random assortment of players into a team. The 11-10 Liberty, who started the season 4-7, are back in the Eastern Conference playoff...

The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the soon-to-be-36-year-old former Dolphin who brought his 127 1⁄2 career sacks to the Jets as a free agent. Q: What was your reaction when you heard that Rex Ryan had flipped the bird to a Dolphins fan in Florida before the Super...

Savor this season, NFL fans. It could be the last uninterrupted stretch of pro piłka nożna that any of us sees for a long, long time. The league's 2010 slate officially kicked off this koniec tygodnia when the Browns and Cowboys opened training camp, and the black cloud of a lockout...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Brian Bernardi’s decision to travel with the New York Gauchos has already increased his exposure. The Xaverian rising junior has shot the lights out – his forte – in przód of coaches like Roy Williams and Tom Izzo. Bernardi described his first experience in przód of such household...

Ryan Howard hit a bases-loaded triple and Jimmy Rollins had a two-run triple in a seven-run third inning and the Phillies handed Ubaldo Jimenez one of the worst losses of his career by beating the Rockies 10-2 yesterday in Philadelphia. Jimenez (15-2), who entered with the most wins in the...

Suddenly hot Hondo made it four straight last night when he took two with the Dodgers and Giants to lower the NRN (nasty red number) to three figures at 960 pinsons. Today, he's counting on Leake to hose the 'Stros -- 10 units on the Reds. -$ It's...

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. – In the end, the distance was too much. Former St. Michael Academy sharpshooter Allysia Rohlehr will not be following the former Eagles and coach Apache Paschall to Nazareth in Brooklyn. Instead, she will be playing her dziadek season at St. John the Baptist in West Islip, L...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – This week at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports is important for all the hopeful prospects that take the floor. For many, their future is on the line, playing in część przednia of hundreds of Division I coaches. The members of Team Next (also known as Rich Soil) are...