Cars, watches and llamas: What Spurs and Knicks players will do with their NBA Cup winnings

Cars, watches and llamas: What Spurs and Knicks players will do with their NBA Cup winnings

It isn’t just an NBA Cup trophy on the line in Las Vegas.  Players and the head coach from the winning squad will take home $530,000 each.  Some Knicks are already daydreaming about what they’d do with the extra cash if they take down Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs on Tuesday night.  “I’m going to … Read more

First openly gay hockey pro claims ‘Heated Rivalry’ will cause players to stay in the closet

First openly gay hockey pro claims ‘Heated Rivalry’ will cause players to stay in the closet

Brock McGillis, who is regarded as the first openly gay professional hockey player, has a chilly reception to “Heated Rivalry.” The 42-year-old retired athlete spoke to the LGBTQ news site PinkNews on Monday and claimed that the steamy series, which follows two rival professional hockey players who begin a secret gay romance, will not help players come … Read more

Exclusive | ‘Survivor 49’s Jawan Pitts reveals he’s in ‘therapy’ over black players’ eliminations: ‘Why did that happen?’

Exclusive | ‘Survivor 49’s Jawan Pitts reveals he’s in ‘therapy’ over black players’ eliminations: ‘Why did that happen?’

Jawan Pitts is still reeling from his experience on “Survivor 49.” The 28-year-old video editor became the fourth black player voted off in a row during Wednesday night’s episode — which he’s still processing months after filming ended. “First off, it was a topic of discussion out there,” Pitts exclusively told The Post on Monday. … Read more

Doctors warn ‘pickleball is a drug’ — as players go to wild lengths to make sure their paddle matches their shoes, injuries be damned

Doctors warn ‘pickleball is a drug’ — as players go to wild lengths to make sure their paddle matches their shoes, injuries be damned

Pickleball takes no prisoners.  As participation in America’s fastest growing sport proliferates — 19.8 million people played in 2024, a 311% increase since 2021, per the Sports and Fitness Industry Association — so, too, do incidents of injury.  “Across the board, there’s an uptick,” Dr. James Gladstone, the chief of sports medicine at NYC’s Mount … Read more

World’s best tennis players flock to this NYC Italian joint during US Open: ‘They love it here’

World’s best tennis players flock to this NYC Italian joint during US Open: ‘They love it here’

Game, set, mangia! US Open stars are loading up on the carbs before their matches at a tony Midtown Italian joint — where they dine near each other at night before trying to take one another down in Flushing. “Jannik Sinner, he like the pasta with the bolognese sauce,” said Gustavo Hodzic, a co-owner of … Read more

Chiefs players ‘teased’ Travis Kelce in locker room for 2016 dating show, Derrick Johnson says

Chiefs players ‘teased’ Travis Kelce in locker room for 2016 dating show, Derrick Johnson says

There was a time when Travis Kelce’s dating life was the subject of entertainment media, even without Taylor Swift.  In 2016, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end had his own dating show, “Catching Kelce,” on which he tried out dating 50 women, one from each state, in an attempt to find a girlfriend. The show … Read more

Power players’ playlists: What the people running the country really groove to on their Spotify

Power players’ playlists: What the people running the country really groove to on their Spotify

The top minds love the top 40. If you’ve wondered which tech titan likes to “Get His Freak On” to Missy Elliot after a long day coding, or who leaves the senate blasting hardcore emo, we now have the answer. A new site claims it has been tracking the music tastes of the rich and … Read more

Mark Cuban despises NBA players competing in the Olympics — here’s his alternative

Mark Cuban despises NBA players competing in the Olympics — here’s his alternative

Mark Cuban had a major gripe throughout his 23 years of owning the Mavericks — and it was a reason he wound up selling his majority stake. Cuban isn’t a fan of the NBA’s top players participating in the Olympics. Cuban mentioned that he often pitched to NBA commissioner Adam Silver a similar formula to … Read more

Former Boston U soccer players unite for strong statement on coach after Alex Cooper’s sexual harassment claims

Former Boston U soccer players unite for strong statement on coach after Alex Cooper’s sexual harassment claims

Boston University’s soccer players are backing the team’s former longtime soccer coach, Nancy Feldman, after Alex Cooper made damning allegations against her. Cooper, host of the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast, claimed in a Hulu documentary that Feldman sexually harassed her and alleged that school officials ignored her when she brought it to their attention. … Read more

Paul Pierce trashes Nuggets players after shocking Mike Malone firing: ‘Get they feelings hurt’

Paul Pierce trashes Nuggets players after shocking Mike Malone firing: ‘Get they feelings hurt’

Ex-Nuggets coach Mike Malone hurt some feelings in the locker room, and Paul Pierce is blaming the players for being too sensitive and getting him fired. “Players get they feelings hurt in this generation,” Pierce said on Fox Sports’ “Speak” on Tuesday. “‘Oh, I don’t like him. He talking bad to me.’ Man, get on … Read more

Rory McIlroy, wife Erica Stoll seem to be going strong after divorce saga with celebratory kiss at Players Championship

Rory McIlroy, wife Erica Stoll seem to be going strong after divorce saga with celebratory kiss at Players Championship

Rory McIlroy sealed it with a kiss after winning his second Players Championship on Monday. The Northern Irishman, 35, and wife Erica Stoll — who called off their divorce last June — kissed during a sweet embrace after he outlasted J.J. Spaun in a three-hole playoff at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., as … Read more

Antonio Brown spoils Notre Dame player’s special moment with racial slur

Antonio Brown spoils Notre Dame player’s special moment with racial slur

Controversial former NFL receiver Antonio Brown used a racial slur to describe Notre Dame junior cornerback Charles Du in a post on X. “C–k of the Day #CTESPN,” Brown wrote in a quote tweet of an ESPN X post showing Du’s jersey with his name spelled out in Chinese prior to Notre Dame’s 23-10 win … Read more

Exclusive | Bill Murray crashes piano player’s set at NYC celeb hotspot Bemelmans to sing this ’70s hit

Exclusive | Bill Murray crashes piano player’s set at NYC celeb hotspot Bemelmans to sing this ’70s hit

Who you gonna call but Bill Murray to crash a set? The “Ghostbusters” actor, known for interrupting events such as a White House press briefing, bachelor party, and even a couple’s engagement photoshoot, was at it again on Wednesday when he crashed a piano player’s concert. Murray, 74, was an audience member at Bemelmans Bar, … Read more

Malika Andrews gets candid on criticism she’s received for her coverage of Black NBA players

Malika Andrews gets candid on criticism she’s received for her coverage of Black NBA players

Malika Andrews is taking back her narrative. Throughout her meteoric rise in the sports media space, the ESPN analyst has, more than once, become the story. Pundits have long painted Andrews as biased, accusing her of focusing too much on the indiscretions of Black athletes one day and overlooking their white counterpart’s offenses the next.   … Read more

JonBenet Ramsey murder case key players: Where are they now?

JonBenet Ramsey murder case key players: Where are they now?

The famous cold case is back in the spotlight. A new Netflix docuseries focuses on the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey.  Premiering Monday, Nov. 25, the series “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey” explores the tragic case of the 6-year-old beauty pageant star, who was killed and sexually assaulted in her own home in 1996, while … Read more

‘Survivor 47’ star Sol Yi calls Genevieve Mushaluk ‘one of the best players I’ve ever seen’

‘Survivor 47’ star Sol Yi calls Genevieve Mushaluk ‘one of the best players I’ve ever seen’

Solomon “Sol” Yi isn’t mad at Genevieve Mushaluk for orchestrating his demise on the latest episode of “Survivor 47.” Instead, the 43-year-old medical device salesman exclusively told The Post he thinks Mushaluk, 33, is “one of the best players” to ever compete on the reality show. “Genevieve is so smart. She is a freak of … Read more

Christian McCaffrey’s Halloween TikTok with Olivia Culpo has fantasy football players seething

Christian McCaffrey’s Halloween TikTok with Olivia Culpo has fantasy football players seething

Christian McCaffrey’s “trip” to see the Wizard didn’t sit well with some fantasy football managers. Taking to TikTok earlier this week, wife Olivia Culpo unveiled the couple’s “Wizard of Oz” Halloween costumes, with the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, 32, channeling Dorothy while the 49ers star running back — who has been sidelined this season with … Read more

Mets players go out partying to continue wild celebration after thrilling NLDS clincher

Mets players go out partying to continue wild celebration after thrilling NLDS clincher

The celebrations didn’t stop at Citi Field on Wednesday night for the NLCS-bound Mets. Second baseman Jose Iglesias took to his Instagram Stories on Thursday to share a video from another lively scene at an apparent nightclub following the Mets’ 4-1 win over the Phillies to close out the NLDS. Those inside, which included outfielder … Read more

Jerry Jones appears to make wild NSFW comment about Cowboys player’s privates on Jamie Foxx’s livestream

Jerry Jones appears to make wild NSFW comment about Cowboys player’s privates on Jamie Foxx’s livestream

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was recorded while appearing to talk about one player’s penis during practice. Jamie Foxx was in attendance watching Cowboys practice with Jones, who seemingly didn’t know the superstar actor was live-streaming on Instagram. Jones could be heard speaking in the background, and began talking about one player before listing his NFL … Read more

Ravens WAGs try on players’ uniforms in lively event to kick off season

Ravens WAGs try on players’ uniforms in lively event to kick off season

The Ravens WAGs had too much fun during their recent welcome event at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. The wives and girlfriends of Ravens players got the VIP treatment when the organization orchestrated an event to help welcome the ladies to the 2024 season. Melanie Guevara, the girlfriend of Ravens tight end Isaiah Likely, said … Read more