A columnist for the Post since November 2002, Mike Vaccaro has reported from four Olympics, 12 World Series, 10 Super Bowls, eight Final Fours and five U.S. Opens, among the hundreds of events he has covered in his 20-year newspaper career. His "Open Mike" and "Vac’s Whacks" are regular Sunday features, and he has written three books, the latest -- "The First Fall Classic," about the 1912 World Series between the Giants and Red Sox -- is out Oct. 6.
For those of us whose young lives revolved around That Team and That Season, this is a notable anniversary, for it was 25 years ago today that St. John’s played the first game it ever played as the No. 1 seed of an NCAA...
March 14, 2010 5:07 AM
PORT ST. LUCIE -- This re mains one of the charms of baseball, specifically spring baseball, because there still is a hefty element of surprise to all of it. There still is the opportunity for a name to knock you out,...
March 14, 2010 1:00 AMPORT ST. LUCIE — Manager Jerry Manuel believes. You can take that however you want to. You can take it with a grain of salt. You can take it with enough salt to cover a city pretzel. You can scoff: Of course he has to...
March 13, 2010 3:40 AM
PORT ST. LUCIE — The meat of the news slithered through the crevasses of the medical speak and the happy talk. Omar Minaya, the Mets’ general manager, and Peter Greenberg, the agent for Jose Reyes, were offering layman...
March 12, 2010 2:28 AMThis is always the easiest part of the equation, even if it may be the most difficult in human terms. Once you decide you have to fire someone -- the way St. John's has apparently (and rightly) decided to fire Norm...
March 11, 2010 10:21 AM
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- There is no such thing as a simple news cycle around the Mets, the home office for Velcro and glue and duct tape, where every story always feels like Freddie Biletnikoff's fingertips, all of the...
March 11, 2010 12:00 AM
PORT ST. LUCIE — In the movie, this is how the final scene of the comeback is scripted: The wounded hero takes the mound after a long and arduous road back from arm surgery. He stares down his first hitter. He leaps...
March 10, 2010 1:37 AM
JUPITER, Fla. — The trick, at this point, is swimming through the muck in order to reach the cooling waters, clawing through the clouds in order to find the sun, tip-toeing through the trip-wires of grimness in order to...
March 09, 2010 3:47 AM
VANCOUVER -- The puck was behind Ryan Miller, and suddenly it was over, in a flash, a game and a hockey tournament you will remember until the day you die. We often take great liberties with perspective in the...
March 01, 2010 12:00 AM
VANCOUVER -- On the day that we take our leave of this lovely burg -- hopefully a step or two ahead of the weather, which would be an awfully appropriate metaphor -- there are two images that linger, and will always...
March 01, 2010 12:00 AMWell, it was nice of Phoenix to go and do us all a solid the other day, pulling out of the bidding for the 2014 Super Bowl, removing one more impediment from the pathway that will bring the Big Game to the New...
February 28, 2010 4:35 AMVANCOUVER -- Mike Babcock was the one who tried to stir a few dollops of perspective into the piping-hot brew of hype and hyperbole surrounding what has to be on the short list of the most-anticipated hockey games in...
February 28, 2010 12:00 AMVANCOUVER — Funny game, right? One day, you scuffle like crazy, wondering if you’ll ever figure out a way to sneak a puck behind a goalie. This was the U.S. hockey team on Wednesday, when they were life and death with...
February 27, 2010 3:41 AMVANCOUVER -- Murray Williamson knew exactly where the sinking feeling in his stomach was coming from. Williamson was sitting in front of his television set Wednesday afternoon, watching Switzerland battle the United...
February 26, 2010 12:00 AMVANCOUVER -- There is an odd sensation attached to the coverage of Olympic Games. The world press descends upon a chosen city, we unpack our laptops, ponder the world for about 15 minutes . . . and then we become the...
February 26, 2010 12:00 AM
VANCOUVER — Just in case anyone missed the memo, here’s a little news for you: The men who wear “USA” on their hockey sweaters in these Olympics aren’t just better players than the ones who occupied the same uniforms 30...
February 25, 2010 3:12 AM
VANCOUVER — Her name is Teresa Conklin, and she was riding the SkyTrain yesterday to meet up with her grandchildren and take some pictures of the Olympic Cauldron at Jack Poole Plaza. It was a crowded train, and at one...
February 24, 2010 2:31 AMWell, Mike Babcock made the decision most of Canada was hoping he would make last night, sending Martin Brodeur to the bench, elevating Roberto Luongo, effectively casting his lot with a goalie who's led the Canucks to...
February 23, 2010 2:39 AM
VANCOUVER -- They kept coming after Ryan Miller as those final minutes peeled off the clock, real-time feeling like slow motion, wave after wave of red-sweatered Canadians rushing at him two and three at a time. This...
February 23, 2010 12:00 AM
VANCOUVER -- All around him, a packed arena was begging for a miracle, praying for divine intervention. Beyond the walls of Canada Hockey Place, an entire nation was pleading, yearning, dying. You want to know what...
February 22, 2010 12:00 AMHow's this for an odd, unexpected sentence: Bode Miller, role model. No, not necessarily for you. Or for me. Or your kids. Or even any budding skiers. Miller finally won a gold medal yesterday, his first in...
February 22, 2010 12:00 AM
VANCOUVER — Once you spend enough time around the Olympics, you find yourself wanting to rank everything in terms of gold, silver and bronze. Sit-coms? For me, “Modern Family” is the gold, “30 Rock” gets the silver,...
February 21, 2010 2:34 AM
VANCOUVER -- It was an exquisite slice of symmetry that the king of the Summer Olympics should slip into a front-row seat at Pacific Coliseum last night just as the prince of the Winter Olympics was beginning his own...
February 21, 2010 12:00 AMVANCOUVER — Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes! This is exactly what we’ve been missing! This is exactly what we’ve been searching for since Ronald Reagan — clearly on a double dare — demanded that Mr. Gorbachev tear down...
February 20, 2010 2:46 AMWell, on behalf of a grateful nation I can say, without equivocation: It's about damned time, curlers. You may have heard: we got off the schneid yesterday. The American men's curlers had lost their first four...
February 20, 2010 12:00 AMCredit Donnie Walsh with this much already: He never has been anything but honest about his intentions, from the moment he was hired. On that day, as he looked around and he assessed the dreadful mess the Knicks had...
February 19, 2010 4:03 AMVANCOUVER -- This was a sight with which New York City had grown all too familiar by the winter of 1988: George Steinbrenner, standing behind a lectern, speaking defiantly and gesticulating wildly. Only this time his...
February 19, 2010 12:00 AMWHISTLER, British Columbia — She came into sight just as the final turn down the Franz’s Downhill course meets the horizon, a dark speck against white snow and blue sky. At that moment, the crowd at the bottom of...
February 18, 2010 4:23 AM
VANCOUVER — Ryan Miller enjoyed a couple of victories yesterday during the opening hours of the Olympic ice hockey competition. One was routine: Miller faced 15 shots and turned away 14 as the United States gritted its...
February 17, 2010 2:23 AMVANCOUVER -- Let's do a little recap here, shall we? The XXI Winter Olympics are now but V days old, and so far this is the unofficial tally: Two postponed ski days, one because of too much rain, one because of...
February 17, 2010 12:00 AM
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