In the post-Marv Albert NBA era, Turner Sports is turning to Charles Barkley as its headliner for its All-Star Game coverage, The Post has learned. Barkley will join Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller as TNT’s team for the play-by-play of the game, according to sources. Barkley will remain a part of TNT’s studio coverage for … Read more
Brian Flores filed a lawsuit against the NFL on Tuesday alleging that the league has engaged in discriminatory hiring practices against Black candidates for coaching and front office vacancies. The allegations are wide-ranging. They include everything from NFL teams conducting sham interviews just to fulfill the league’s Rooney Rule to accusations that Dolphins owner Stephen … Read more
This is going to be a weird week. The famed AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am will feature just one player ranked inside the world’s top-10 (Patrick Cantlay), two others inside the top-20 (Jordan Spieth and Daniel Berger) and a total of 10 inside the top-50. Lengthy rounds with amateur partners on three courses in often-chilly conditions … Read more
Washington football fans will once again have a name for which to cheer. On Wednesday, the Washington Football Team announced that it would officially be rebranding as the Washington Commanders, ending the uncertainty surrounding the future of the team’s name. “It’s a name befitting a 90-year old franchise,” team president Jason Wright said on NBC’s “Today” … Read more
Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores got candid about the explosive lawsuit he filed against the NFL, saying he was “humiliated” by going into an interview with the Giants for a head coaching position he knew he wasn’t going to get. “It was a range of emotions,” Flores said while appearing on “CBS Mornings” … Read more
Brian Flores says he knows the reason he was fired in Miami. Flores’ bombshell lawsuit against the NFL rocked the football world on Tuesday, but his quest to set the record straight and prove his case is just getting underway. Flores revealed a bit more about the lawsuit Wednesday on “CBS Mornings,” and said that … Read more
Tom Brady responded to wife Gisele Bündchen’s heartfelt message Tuesday, when she congratulated her husband of nearly 13 years on his NFL retirement. In a lengthy Instagram message shared Tuesday afternoon, Bündchen called the 44-year-old quarterback the “most dedicated, focused and mentally tough person” she has ever met. Brady, who formally announced his retirement earlier … Read more
Tom Brady officially retired from the NFL on Tuesday morning, announcing his decision to step away after 22 seasons in an Instagram post. Plenty of tributes to Brady’s superb career flowed in throughout the day. That included one from his wife, Gisele Bundchen. IYER: Why there will never be a “next Tom Brady” Bundchen took … Read more
Sign up here to get Inside the Jets delivered to your inbox each Wednesday morning. Back in the late 1960s, rock promoter Bill Graham decided to open up the Fillmore East in New York as a companion venue to his Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. Fifty years later, the Jets have felt like 49ers East since … Read more
Former Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak joined critics in their displeasure with Tom Brady’s retirement announcement, which failed to mention his former team. Zolak, who played seven seasons in New England from 1991-1998, picked apart Brady’s “cold” and calculated” farewell message during an appearance on NBC Sports Boston’s “Zolak & Bertrand” show on Tuesday, hours after … Read more