A Post writer since 1976, Steve Serby became the paper’s NFL columnist in 1983. A former Jets, Mets, Yankees, Nets, and Islanders beat writer, he’s covered Super Bowls, World Series, Final Fours, ABA & NBA playoffs, U.S. Open tennis, boxing, golf, horse racing and hockey. His book subjects have been Lawrence Taylor and Brett Favre. His Sunday feature, "Steve Serby’s Q&A," also garnered him an Emmy nomination.
It will be a shame when — not if — a good man like Norm Roberts, one of our own, a New Yawk kid out of Springfield Gardens High and Queens College, is fired. But Marquette 57, St. John's 55 serves as a mirror for the...
March 11, 2010 12:00 AMThe hall of Fame coach slumped back in his chair, arms folded, legs crossed, as a senior St. John's walk-on named John Taubeneck dribbled out the final garbage time seconds of a Hall of Shame nightmare. Soon Jim...
March 10, 2010 12:00 AM
Around here, the Big East Tournament is much more than a mere March Madness appetizer for a basketball-starved city. This is the week when the Garden rocks again, when electricity fills the World's Most Famous...
March 09, 2010 12:00 AMThe trade last night for Antonio Cromartie, for a third-round 2011 draft pick that could end up as a second-rounder, means the Jets won't have to draft a cornerback in the first round of next month's NFL Draft to team...
March 05, 2010 12:00 AMI know, I know. We’re all still digging out from under Cruel Old Man Winter. February’s Fury has given us cabin fever, made us long for the Yankees’ defense of their championship, for the Mets to get off the trainer’s...
February 27, 2010 3:54 AM
Julius Peppers and the Panthers appear headed for divorce. Julius Peppers and Rex Ryan would be a match made in heaven. Too bad the Jets, because they made it to the AFC Championship game, won't be able to sign a...
February 10, 2010 12:00 AM
OK, Mark Sanchez. You were there at Sun Life Stadium Sunday night, watching as Drew Brees went mano a mano with Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl. You watched greatness at the quarterback position everywhere you turned,...
February 09, 2010 12:00 AM
MIAMI -- He looked up at the great Peyton Manning and stared into the eyes of greatness and refused to blink. New Orleans waited 43 years for a quarterback like this on a stage like this. Maybe Archie Manning, with...
February 08, 2010 12:00 AM
MIAMI — I keep trying to find reasons to pick the Saints, undoubtedly because of Katrina and the 43 years Who Dat Nation has waited for a team like this, for a moment like this. Drew Brees is better than the beignets...
February 07, 2010 2:00 AMFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It is the super game within the Super Bowl, the super chess match that could very well decide who hoists the Lombardi Trophy tomorrow night. Peyton Manning versus Darren Sharper. Chad...
February 06, 2010 12:00 AMFORT LAUDERDALE — He has coached for 36 consecutive seasons and has seen everything in football, and heard everything —including talk of bounties on the head of Peyton Manning. “There have been people that have said...
February 05, 2010 2:06 AMFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- He has coached for 36 consecutive seasons and has seen everything in football, and heard everything --including talk of bounties on the head of Peyton Manning. "There have been people that...
February 05, 2010 12:00 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Peyton Manning versus Drew Brees is one of the most compelling quarterback matchups the Super Bowl has given America. The Post tracked down four Super Bowl QBs — two winners and two losers — for...
February 04, 2010 12:00 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — There are no crutches this time, no broken leg, no shattered dream. Jeremy Shockey won’t be sitting high and far away from his lifelong field of dreams, watching David Tyree make Catch XLII,...
February 03, 2010 2:31 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The likelihood that Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney won't be Dwight Freeney even if he drags his torn, swollen right ankle into Super Bowl XLIV means America will be treated to a dream Super...
February 02, 2010 12:00 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- There are 44 reasons most of us will love this Super Bowl, and here they are: I: We are a nation of bettors. Chances are even our wives/girlfriends/sisters/mothers/grandmothers (and your...
February 01, 2010 12:00 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- There is no excuse for this kind of behavior from a player, much less an NFL head coach -- the Jets' Rex Ryan flipping the bird to a Dolphins fan and his friends at a Strikeforce Mixed Martial...
February 01, 2010 12:00 AMPeyton Manning is the Colts' Peyton Saint of Super Bowl XLIV. He is America's Pitchman, the face of Madison Avenue and the face of the NFL as well. More than any other player a week from tomorrow, Manning will be...
January 30, 2010 12:00 AMIf you listen to the men who played for him, and the man who coached him back at South Point High in Belmont, N.C, then there is no doubt that Perry Fewell is the right man at the right time to restore the pride to the...
January 29, 2010 3:17 AM
They were the very last words Mark Sanchez uttered before stepping down from the podium after 30 Minutes From The Super Bowl became 365 Days To the Super Bowl. "We'll be back," Sanchez said. And there isn't a...
January 26, 2010 12:00 AM
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Jets were certain the Road to Miami, The Road to Super Bowl XLIV, was going to start on Rex Ryan Drive and proceed to Mark Sanchez Way and then straight on to Sun Life Stadium. But there was a fork...
January 25, 2010 12:00 AM
INDIANAPOLIS — First came Joe Namath, walking into the lobby of Jets hotel headquarters yesterday afternoon, 41 years and 11 days after Super Bowl III. Then came fiery Rex Ryan, making one last guarantee of his own last...
January 24, 2010 2:03 AMMark Sanchez was wearing a black shirt with the word "Wonderboy" in gold lettering underneath a gray sweatshirt yesterday. Tomorrow, Wonderboy tries to become Superman. As the games get bigger, Sanchez, the Jets...
January 23, 2010 12:00 AMThe Super dreams have begun in earnest for the Jets, just 48 hours from Sunday, just 60 minutes from the Super Bowl. They can't help themselves now. With each passing hour, the dream becomes clearer and clearer. Some...
January 22, 2010 12:00 AMI remember the visiting locker room in the Orange Bowl after the Mud Bowl in January 1983 -- shell-shocked Jets sitting in stunned silence, slow to remove their mud-stained shoes and uniforms, their hearts broken, their...
January 22, 2010 12:00 AM
Mark Sanchez will be at the controls of a steamroller Sunday, a Mean Green Destruction Machine. The game plan, especially when Peyton Manning is lurking on the other sideline, is called Ground & Pound, a merciless,...
January 21, 2010 12:00 AM
We live in an only-the-strong-survive city, so cut us some slack when we cheer for a bully sports team like the '86 Giants, or the '86 Mets or the '98 Yankees. But give us an underdog, a team that comes out of nowhere...
January 20, 2010 12:00 AMOK, I'M hooked. I'm all in. Rex Ryan is beating Peyton Manning and going to the Super Bowl. Mark Sanchez is beating Peyton Manning and going to the Super Bowl. After 41 long years, the Jets are beating the...
January 19, 2010 12:00 AM
SAN DIEGO -- Only three times before have Jets fans who have lived long enough been able to say this: The Jets, 17-14 winners yesterday over the Chargers, are 60 minutes from the Super Bowl. Pinch yourselves...
January 18, 2010 12:00 AM
SAN DIEGO — OK, kid. Your chance to be Namath wasn’t supposed to come so soon. But here it is. You’re not Namath, not now, not yet. But here you stand, on the precipice of history, two victories from getting to a place...
January 17, 2010 3:56 AM
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