Writers

“I asked a lot of questions,” Hayley Wickenheiser, 35, a Canadian hockey star, told the Calgary Herald. “Obviously, it’s not Vancouver. You’re going to a pretty dangerous part of the world. But the tr...

There is no stopping the man. Dion Rich is 84 years old and still utterly shameless. He will do anything – anything! – to get into another Super Bowl, or even just to gain entry into the Super Bowl Me...

As many American athletes prepare to head over to Sochi in about 10 days, yet another jihadist video has come into public notice with vague threats of a terror attack.

Jack Sikma can’t remember the car model, but that’s about the only thing he doesn’t recall about the parade. It was a convertible, for sure, and he was the sole SuperSonic passenger in the automobile,...

While Vladimir Putin insists that all will end well, another wave of terrorism threats aimed at the Sochi Winter Games has arrived at the doorsteps of several European Olympic committees.

You know what the hackneyed commentator always says about arch-rivalries: “You can throw the record book out the window when these two teams play.”

They should all be scared, very scared, of Polina Edmunds, the 15-year-old figure skater from San Jose who cha-cha-ed her way to second place Thursday in the short program at U.S. nationals.

The U.S. Olympic Committee is going ahead with travel plans to Sochi for its athletes and officials, undeterred by a video that surfaced on Sunday threatening terrorist attacks on the Olympic Games. "...

As usual, Bill Belichick is right. The most boring play in all of sports is the NFL extra-point kick, which was successfully converted 1,256 of 1,261 times this year. It's just not worth the effort of...

You don’t just meet some guy, David Barrionuevo, a bartender from Brooklyn. You meet an amalgam, a mythological creature, who is half-man, half-Seahawk. Barrionuevo is meeting you at Carlow East, an E...

The U.S. Figure Skating Association didn’t do for Max Aaron what it did for Ashley Wagner.

It’s never been completely fair, never been quite right, but it’s always been written in precious metal: Mess up one night at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in an Olympic year, you’re out of th...

The U.S. Figure Skating Association on Sunday rescued its highest-ranked athlete, Ashley Wagner, naming her to the Olympic team for Sochi while dropping Mirai Nagasu.

Ashley Wagner was a nervous wreck on Saturday night, just when she could least afford such a meltdown at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. She fell on the back end of her first combination, a tri...

Gracie Gold threw a bag of stuffed animals over her back and headed into the night, very nearly a sure thing now to make the Olympic team and brighten the day of NBC’s marketing department. The 18-yea...

Now that Lindsey Vonn is out of the Olympics, the great glamor burden falls again around here upon a sport that hasn't been ready recently to handle such responsibility. Women's figure skating at the...

The magic number is six. This is no ruse, no joke, no sleight of math. Six can rescue the Nets, or the Knicks for that matter. Six can turn their god-awful NBA seasons into something respectable, prob...

This particular chess club is run by the two nerds, Woody Johnson and John Idzik. So Rex Ryan, class cutup, kept his head down and his tone undemonstrative during the Jets’ press conference on Tuesday...

I will be going to Sochi in February, leaving the day after the Super Bowl for the Winter Games, my 13th Olympics, to watch the usual array of sliding and leaping athletes. I’m not fearful or anxious...

Can’t say I didn’t warn you. My dire predictions last December about the New York sports scene were spot on for 2013, with gruesome accuracy. Looking back I actually sugar-coated things a bit, sparing...

This is how far the Knicks have sunk, how low the rim has been reset: Their biggest games are now against the Toronto Raptors, not versus the Miami Heat or the Indiana Pacers.

The Nets dressed up for Christmas in coal-black, pajama-top jerseys with striped socks, and still nothing changed. They still couldn't handle the Bulls' defensive pressure, shooting 35.2% and turning...

During this dreadful 2013 sports year in New York, there were plenty of losers around here. But some losers lost better than other losers — graciously, with style, and with tongue tied.Here are the fi...

The Yankees didn’t make the postseason. The Mets will never make the postseason, no matter what Sandy Alderson promises. The Giants, Knicks and Nets were supposed to be good, but instead are dreadful....