The Giants are playing it really smart with Odell Beckham, Jr. By allowing it to leak that the price for the talented wideout in a trade would be two first rounders, they are telling Beckham’s people that they’re willing to move him, but only for a...
The Mets had just won the 1969 World Series. All of New York was enraptured by this rags to riches story and every player who contributed was accorded legend status. So imagine my thrill when, in our maiden season of WLIR as the first suburban FM progressive station,...
Last weekend, I floated the idea of the NFL and NBA creating strong developmental leagues. High school players who really have no interest in class could be signed to play in these leagues and paid accordingly, then drafted after a year in hoops and two or three in...
Lately, I’ve gotten a lot of calls on WFAN about who the greatest rock guitarist is or was. The usual suspects get named —Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Santana, Peter Townshend, etc. What about a competition? Obviously, the...
Here’s a little background on The Punch List, released today. It was originally planned to be the fourth in the series, but on the advice of my writing guru, I put The Last Resort out first, since it concentrated on a radio shock jock, which was more topical at...
