A veteran of papers in four cities, columnist Jay Greenberg joined the Post in 1994. He’s a University of Missouri graduate.
We're deep, noted Sam Quer rey yesterday, a few hours before John Isner, the man who dug down deeper than any player ever to win a fifth set, 70-68, two months ago at Wimbledon, last night challenged Mikhail Youzhny and...
September 06, 2010 12:00 AMWin two rounds of the U.S. Open at age 18, you are unquestionably ahead of your years. But watching Beatrice Capra’s game being scattered to the four winds yesterday at Arthur Ashe Stadium, one couldn’t help but think...
September 05, 2010 3:36 AM
Almost faster than people have forgotten who was about to beat Serena Williams last September before Williams melted down, Kim Clijsters got behind 3-0 yesterday afternoon to 27th-seeded Petra Kvitova. "You start to...
September 04, 2010 12:00 AMTurns out, the one that got away from Roger Federer hasn't gone away. A year ago, when the opportunity for a sixth consecutive U.S. Open title lay in ashes left by a smoking Juan-Martin del Potro, Federer insisted...
September 03, 2010 12:00 AMThey'll knock themselves out to win the U.S. Open, literally. While running in the gym yesterday morning to warm up to face Gisela Dulko, Victoria Azarenka pitched face forward, hitting her head and arm. By the time...
September 02, 2010 12:00 AM
The best tennis player in the world has a hole in his resume that seems far larger than his ego. "I hope I have another chance to win [the U.S. Open]," says Rafael Nadal. "But without obsession, no?" "I am more...
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM
Serena Williams has a bad foot, leaving the women's field far more open than her sister, Venus, is being about her own bum knee and handicapping her chances of winning her first Grand Slam title since 2008. "A lot of...
August 31, 2010 12:00 AMSerena williams’ foot is in a boot, so the presumption is that interest in the women in this U.S. Open has been kicked to the curb, never mind she has won this tournament only once in the last seven years. The field of...
August 29, 2010 3:42 AM
Alex Rodriguez looked ready to go. He suddenly appeared at his locker for a bat, and as soon as 25 media persons took two steps towards him to ask him about his return, he bolted past them to the privacy of the batting...
August 21, 2010 12:00 AMEighteen years the father of an autistic child, Mark Reid still finds the need to take a step back and a deep breath. "Oh, it's very frustrating," he said. "You get to the point where you have to walk away and come...
August 20, 2010 12:00 AMThe American Dream has been pronounced deader than Joe Torre has become to the Yankees, the stats arguing the gap between rich and poor has grown wider than even Mohamed Kamara's smile. "It's not dead to me," he...
August 19, 2010 12:00 AMInto her 67th year unafraid of the closed door, Jane Lang opened hers after 11 a.m. yesterday to one of the most wondrous sights she never has seen. "Hi Jane, it's Joe Girardi, Joba Chamberlain, Chad Gaudin, David...
August 18, 2010 12:00 AMOn A muggy afternoon, Mariano Rivera was hot and probably still bothered about a mediocre Yankees road trip, so he stopped in Ridgewood, N.J., yesterday for a swim with Jorge Grajales. "Sometimes we cry so much...
August 17, 2010 12:00 AMCORTLAND -- You never know what you are going to like until you try it. For Dustin Keller, food turns out to be just like blocking. "I loved Mexican and steakhouse stuff and that was about it," the Jets tight end...
August 14, 2010 12:00 AM
CORTLAND -- It proved risky business predicting a Jets Super Bowl coming out of their last two AFC title game appearances, in 1982 and 1998. They flopped the next years to 7-9 and 8-8. Beneath his relentless bravado...
August 13, 2010 12:00 AMCORTLAND — Rex Ryan, the Great Mediator, wants a table bigger than any buffet he ever challenged, plus doors even more wide open than he fears Randy Moss will become without Darrelle Revis on patrol. “Have Darrelle...
August 12, 2010 5:05 AM
CORTLAND — Having waited out a 50 percent cut in Woody Johnson’s PSL prices, Heather Tompkins has paid only $2,500 for the right to buy a Jets’ season end-zone seat for forever, or even longer than Darrelle Revis can...
August 11, 2010 3:21 AM
PHILADELPHIA -- The 2010 Mets' Voyage of the Damned continued here last night with statistics telling no lies about their 21-36 road record. Rest assured, the Mets' postseason hopes are all but tucked in because...
August 07, 2010 12:00 AMNow we know that Fred Wilpon doesn’t just believe Omar Minaya, a GM with one postseason series win in five full years of running a top-five spending team, deserves more time to make the Mets better than the .500 club...
August 06, 2010 3:37 AM
Mike Pelfrey had thrown 118 pitches by the sixth inning when manager Jerry Manuel sent in lefty Raul Valdes to face lefty Kelly Johnson. Of course, when Johnson homered to put Arizona ahead and Valdes got rocked...
July 31, 2010 12:00 AM
The tornado warning, either the cue for Alex Rodriguez to do it like Roy Hobbs did or a sign that the desperate baseball gods are throwing behind A-Rod's ear, arrived at the same time the Yankees third baseman took a...
July 24, 2010 12:00 AMAlex Rodriguez waited eight games between home runs No. 499 and No. 500 in 2007 to get to a place a which only 25 players in major league baseball history have been. Rarer will become the air, tonight, tomorrow,...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AM
Bygones, the Yankees insisted yesterday, are bygones. Perhaps not as long gone as the ball Reid Brignac hit off A.J. Burnett Saturday that caused him to high-five a clubhouse door, causing wounds that are being more...
July 19, 2010 1:51 AMThis is how we already know the Red Bulls' signing of Thierry Henry is the biggest thing to happen for soccer in New York since Pele: The last question, not the first, the French star took yesterday from 150 media...
July 16, 2010 12:00 AMLong weary of being America's great male tennis hope, Andy Roddick moves into his second decade waiting to be relieved by the cavalry. James Blake is now ranked 115th in the world. Marathon John Isner, already tennis...
July 15, 2010 12:00 AMMore than 120 minutes of tedium during a largely flashless 2010 World Cup final still couldn't silence the mindless vuvuzelas. But in the end this wasn't entirely a bad thing. The horns drowned out at least some of the...
July 13, 2010 12:00 AM
The Netherlands clearly figured the only way this World Cup wasn't in the cards for Spain was to keep referee Howard Webb reaching for cards in his pocket. So deep was Spain in passers and defenders, Webb kept...
July 12, 2010 12:00 AM
England’s Wayne Rooney, 34-goal scorer for Manchester United last season, not only got shut out in the World Cup, but profanely told fans disgruntled with England’s effort to shut up. Argentina’s Lionel Messi bet his...
July 11, 2010 2:42 AMThe Germans, who scored four goals on three different teams in this World Cup, seemed to have the numbers until again running into the country that has their number. For Spain, it only takes one, like the one it scored...
July 08, 2010 12:00 AMThe Netherlands, the best soccer-playing country never to win the World Cup, is into Sunday's final because it finally stopped pointing fingers and used them to plug the dike. A county that has dammed itself to...
July 07, 2010 12:00 AM
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