Paul McPolin
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Memories of tears, cheers and Mike Piazza’s Amazin’ home run after 9/11
When the Mets took to Shea Stadium on Sept. 21, 2001 — 10 days after the 9/11 tragedies — everything about the home game gave NYC a new sense of hope.
I’m outraged by United Airlines’ COVID policy after a jam-packed flight
I knew going on vacation during a pandemic wasn’t the smartest thing to do. I risked coming into close contact with strangers on TSA lines and baggage carousels. I understood...
Legendary NYC high school football coach dead at 77
Dennis Barrett, one of the winningest high school football coaches in New York City history who inspired his Monsignor Farrell players to literally run through walls for him, died Monday...
Bookies offer desperate gamblers bizarre options in the wide world of no sports
With coronavirus shutting down pro sports and shuttering casinos, desperate gamblers are betting on the weather. A Rockland County bookmaker told The Post that this week he's offering customers an...
Mets fans can’t rejoice until the Wilpons are tossed from the ballpark
JOY IN METVILLE, the front-page headline of the New York Post read. I could have come up with some other suggestions: METVILLE WATERBOARDING CONTINUES Or METVILLE DUMPSTER BLAZE TO BURN...
Ron Darling’s tell-all skewers others, not just Lenny Dykstra
Lenny Dykstra is not the only ex-teammate former Met Ron Darling brushed back in his latest memoir. In “108 Stitches,” which the Mets author-announcer co-wrote with Daniel Paisner, Darling sets...
The Mick and other Yanks drank me under the table, and stuck me with the bill
New York baseball fans will forever debate if the 1986 Mets, with their MLB-dominating 108 wins, were as good as the fabled 1950s Yankees teams that won six World Series....
Two large guys go on a big diet
Over the years, The Post’s Sunday reporter Dean Balsamini and Sunday deputy editor Paul McPolin went from running marathons and winning wrestling matches to marathon eating sessions and wrestling with...
I challenge you to a fantasy football duel, Eric Schneiderman
Tonight, I have $52 riding on the Jets-Bills game. I didn’t place a bet with a bookie. I didn’t pour PayPal cash into an offshore, online casino. I invested the...
Mets’ Daniel Murphy literally leaves his mark on home-run ball
Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy hit his clutch home run Friday night so hard that he literally tattooed the baseball. A close-up shows his name on the barrel of his Louisville...
NY teams producing one of the worst years ever
Today is the Toilet Bowl, when the worst team in football, the Jets, face off against the other worst team in football, the Tennessee Titans. Jet fans are rooting for...
Welcome to Staten Island, an oasis of exotic wonders
It's time to solve the mystery that is Staten Island. I’ll be your tour guide because, while I no longer live there, psychologically I never really left the rock. Like...
E-cig taste test
Get ’em while they’re legal! Nanny Bloomberg may now be gunning for e-cigarettes, but the burning question is: Do they hold a candle to the real thing? The Post put...