Новости за 05.01.2021

A name like that of Corey Kluber in free agency always excites. Why not? For five years from 2014-18 he was arguably the majors’ best pitcher, combining durability and excellence. But notice the last superb season was 2018. Kluber has made eight starts since, just one last year before succumbing to a shoulder injury with...

One big question that is looming over the Jets and their new head coach is: When is owner Woody Johnson returning from England and does he have a role in this hire? Jets CEO and chairman Christopher Johnson has run the team since Woody became the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2017. Christopher...

The Rockets were willing to get uncomfortable in holding onto James Harden. Looks like the Nets are going to have to learn to deal with another kind of discomfort: That of early-season disappointment and on-court disconnect. Brooklyn came into the season as an NBA Finals contender but — after dropping four of its last five...

The Islanders can still feel the sting three months later from their Game 6 overtime loss to the eventual Stanley Cup champions, the Lightning, in the conference final last season. It’s biting — and lingering. And ahead of the Islanders’ first on-ice session of training camp Monday, the disappointment from the collapse of their longest...

Alexis Lafreniere, who popped out of a pingpong-ball machine into the Rangers’ lives, is the shiniest new toy to hit these parts in, oh, I don’t know … forever? So while Monday marked merely the first day of training camp in an accelerated run-up to the season that opens a week from Thursday, when the...

Joe Judge aimed a blowtorch at the Eagles and stopped just short of denouncing his Philadelphia roots. In a message sure to win him more support with Giants fans and his outraged players, Judge skillfully criticized the way the Eagles coached to lose in the fourth quarter Sunday night, handing the NFC East title to...