Mike Vaccaro
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Mike Vaccaro has been the lead sports columnist for the New York Post since November 2002. In that time he has written about every important sporting event and sports figure in New York City and covered 18 Super Bowls, 12 World Series, 10 Final Fours and 10 BCS Championship Games. He has been recognized three times as New York Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association and was recognized in 2017 by the New York Press Club for his deadline work. A 1989 graduate of St. Bonaventure University, Vaccaro previously worked at newspapers in Newark, Kansas City, Middletown, N.Y., Fayetteville, Ark., and Olean, N.Y. He is the author of three books: “Emperors and Idiots,” about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry; “1941: the Greatest Year in Sports;” and “The First Fall Classic,” about the 1912 World Series. He also makes frequent television and radio appearances. A native of West Hempstead, N.Y., Vaccaro now makes his home in Hillsdale, N.J. with his wife, Leigh, and two rambunctious terriers: a 12-pound Westy named Fiona and Desmond, a 12,000-pound (or so it seems) Airedale. He is a terrible golfer and undefeated in all games involving “Godfather” trivia.
The Archive
Knicks are using the Celtics' blueprint against them
June 26, 2024 | 8:40pmOn one level, it’s hard to shake this part of it from your mind. Think about how many times you and your best friends from college talked at the tail...
Why Knicks had to pull off Mikal Bridges trade
June 26, 2024 | 12:15amThe Knicks are no longer about tomorrow, next year, three years from now. Everything they do now, better or worse, is for now.
There is a very different feel to this Subway Series
June 24, 2024 | 8:43pmIt’ll take about an inning, maybe two, before the next two games across the next two nights remind us that the Subway Series remains among the most enjoyable landing spots...
Panthers, Oilers one step away from rarest of playoff history
June 24, 2024 | 7:00amIf you don’t have a dog in the hunt, the choice is easy, right?
The trip to Shea Stadium 50 years ago that started a lifelong love of baseball
June 22, 2024 | 4:53pmNext Saturday will mark the 50th anniversary of the first baseball game I ever attended in person.
The Mets are once again playing important games
June 20, 2024 | 7:36pmA funny thing happened Wednesday night in Arlington, Texas. For the first time in 619 days the New York Mets played what could be termed an “important” game.
Willie Mays' greatness lives on forever through 'The Catch'
June 18, 2024 | 11:06pmEveryone else called it “The Catch,” because nobody could believe anyone could’ve tracked that ball down. Willie Mays knew different.
The critical choice facing Knicks and Leon Rose this offseason
June 18, 2024 | 9:43pmWill Leon Rose decide to run it back with these Knicks?
Orioles, Yankees standing in AL class of their own should bring rare level of fun
June 17, 2024 | 8:09pmUntil proven otherwise it’s the Yankees and the Orioles in one place, and everyone else in the other. Which is why watching them play baseball against one another in the...
Aaron Judge, Juan Soto on verge of rare New York sports history
June 15, 2024 | 3:02pmThe Juan Soto-Aaron Judge duo promised to be something to behold from the moment the Yankees dealt for Soto this offseason. And it has been exactly that.
This was just a blip in the Yankees' grand blueprint
June 13, 2024 | 8:14pmThis time it seemed like the Yankees were going to challenge themselves a little bit on a scorching-hot day at Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium.
Jerry West lived a basketball life to the fullest: 'The Logo'
June 12, 2024 | 8:31pmIt was a spectacular basketball life for The Logo, even if the NBA has never officially admitted that’s West, and even though West himself was to the end uncomfortable with...
Mets have major chance looming to revive season
June 10, 2024 | 6:30pmThere is a genuine sense that Tuesday night, when the Mets welcome the Marlins to Citi Field for the first of a three-game series, what’ll also be in play is...
Dodgers' storied history makes New Yorkers wistful for what could have been
June 8, 2024 | 3:56pmA Mets fan friend said something to me during the throes of their most recent tough stretch that gave me pause and made me think.
We could sure use another Roy Hobbs around here
June 5, 2024 | 2:37pmSports in real life, if we are being truthful, overdoses on the real. Hollywood balances the ledger.
Hey, Yankees, a city turns its lonely eyes to you
June 3, 2024 | 6:12pmWell, what’s pretty clear now is that New York needs what it has always needed.
New York sports stars who should be next for number retirements
June 1, 2024 | 7:05pmIt got me thinking about who might get the next retired number for each of our nine teams in the four major leagues. And here is one guess at that.
Rangers hope they can channel 1994 playoff magic before it's too late
May 31, 2024 | 1:21amThe entirety of the endgame was played against the screeching soundtrack of desperation, of pleading, of wanting, of beseeching.
Steve Cohen failing in his vow to end Mets' ridiculousness
May 30, 2024 | 8:45pmThis is all Steve Cohen’s mess to clean. Let’s be clear about that.
Darryl Strawberry's illustrious MLB career forever linked with old pal from Los Angeles
May 30, 2024 | 8:00amEric Davis already knows there’ll be a jumble of emotions that will fill his heart Saturday afternoon.