The Yankees, at this moment, are dealing with more problems with youth than age. It has been common to wonder year after year if a team that relies so much on older players, as the Yankees do annually, has reached a tipping point in which grayness outweighs greatness. I certainly...

The Yankees have signed former Mets starter John Maine to a minor league deal, according to multiple reports. The Post reported last week that the team invited Maine to their minor-league complex in Tampa to throw for Yankees brass. Maine has not pitched in the major leagues since he was...

Knicks guard J.R. Smith took his talents to South Beach and got arrested. Miami Beach police say Smith was arrested last night on a bench warrant for not having a valid driver's license. Sgt. Bobby Hernandez told The Post that Smith was recognized on famed Washington Avenue in...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A person familiar with the situation says the Charlotte Bobcats will interview Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan on Friday for their vacant head coaching position. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team hasn't made its list of candidates public. The 70-year-old...

Joe Girardi left open the possibility that Rafael Soriano could remain the team’s closer even after David Robertson gets back. The manager said on Wednesday he’s “comfortable” bringing in the right-hander to finish games and it’s clear to Soriano’s teammates that he feels he belongs there...

Ivan Nova is already going through the worst stretch of his career and coming off an injured right foot he suffered last week in Baltimore. The Yankees right-hander’s luck isn’t getting any better, since he will head to the mound tonight in Oakland with a minor hamstring problem...

This past week’s Yankees power outage prompted discussion of toughness and grit and heart concerning your favorite $198-million ballclub, and more often than not, it’s all a bunch of garbage. They’re baseball players. Sometimes they come through, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes, however, a team does have...

He was relentless from his first shift to his last at the Garden on Wednesday, nothing less, and that was nothing less than is ever expected of and from Ryan Callahan. And though Game 5 became a 5-3 defeat that leaves his team one misstep away from extinction, it simply...

So I am reading my contemporaneous notes from 18 years ago tonight because, as Rangers’ coach John Tortorella once told me out of a sense of exasperation not to be mistaken for admiration, “everything stays in that pad of yours.” And as I peruse shorthand that probably only I can...

This is why the Mets have to stick with Ike Davis through valley fever and a season-long slump. This is why the Mets have chosen not to send Davis to Triple-A Buffalo. They own 26 home runs as a team to rank 29th in the majors. Only the Padres (18...