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Mike Vaccaro has been the lead sports columnist for The New York Post since November 2002. Previously, he has worked as a columnist at The Star-Ledger, Kansas City Star and Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald-Record. He was also sports editor of the Northwest Arkansas Times, and was appointed to that position in 1991.

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The Daily Whacks, Vacation Edition

Well, The Whacks are off in pursuit of some sun and some surf until the end of Thanksgiving Weekend, but we leave you with a special treat: This week's sports author, the inimitable Sports Guy, Bill Simmons , who has written an outstanding tome ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Knicks,  Willis Reed,  Bill Simmons,  New York Times Company,  Mitch Albom

The Daily Whacks, Monday Edition

Here is the most remarkable thing about Bill Belichick turning into a nifty combination of Rich Kotite and Ray Handley down the strecth of last night's surreal Colts-Patriots game: on a day when the Jets should have officially been declared dead, when ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rich Kotite,  New York Jets,  Jim Caldwell

Rex's blatherers forced to eat their own words

THE Jets didn't just lose yes terday. They didn't just turn themselves into Irrelevant Team Walking with seven full weeks of football season left. No, we saw something else from the Jets yesterday, as they tried to absorb this 24-22 loss, which is the ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Jets,  Bart Scott,  New York Giants,  Rex Ryan,  Bill Belichick

Long-suffering award goes to Knicks fans

There are droughts. And then there are Droughts, with the capital D. And then there are DROUGHTS, where you lock the all-caps key and you keep it locked. And if you want to add to the effect, you put in boldface, and italic, and you underline it a time ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Knicks,  New York Jets,  New York Yankees,  Glen Rice,  New York Mets

Blemished coach has to shine up his game

A new coach is like a new car in a lot of ways. In the showroom -- and the press conference -- there is nothing to dislike. Everything is new. Everything is perfectly polished. Everything works. You want to show off your new car? A football team wants ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Jets,  Rex Ryan,  Eric Mangini,  Don Rickles,  Jerry Seinfeld

Things really as bad as they look for Knicks

Sometimes, a team can puzzle you, can perplex you, can turn your insides out and your outsides in. The Mets have done that to you a lot the past few years. The Jets have done that to you the past few decades. Your heart tells you one thing about them, ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Knicks,  New York Mets,  New York Jets,  National Basketball Association,  David Lee

The Daily Whacks, Wednesday Edition

This week's sports-book discussion stays local. Jay Price, who's written a terrific column for the Staten Island Advance for years, has composed a beautiful elegy of a book, " Thanksgiving 1959 ," which re-creates a simpler time for Staten Island, ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Vince Lombardi,  Tom Landry,  Jim Lee,  New York Giants,  ESPN

The Daily Whacks, Tuesday Edition

OK. This is as good a time as any, I would think, to take stock of the football locals, both of whom have an awful lot of heavy lifting ahead of them if they're going to make the playoffs, a point that Our Man Steve Serby wrote about the Giants in ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Giants,  New York Jets,  Philadelphia Eagles,  Steve Serby,  Brett Favre

Rested Gang Green likely must win 6 of last 8

Bart Scott's philosophy is a simple one. "When I break," the Jets linebacker said, "I break." So Scott spent the Jets' bye Sunday otherwise occupied, as far away from football as he could get. He got a massage in the morning. Spent the afternoon ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Jets,  Bart Scott,  New York Giants,  Kerry Rhodes,  Rex Ryan

And just like that . . . a season short-circuits

The season was about to be saved, and if you've never heard the sound of a football stadium simultaneously release sighs of relief and cries of approval, you should have been there at Giants Stadium last night, should have listened to the 78,774 people ...

From MIKE VACCARO, New York Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Giants,  Terrell Thomas,  Philip Rivers,  Malcom Floyd,  Jacob Hester

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