TWENTY pitches into last night's game, Joba Chamberlain had given up five hits and four runs. He resembled neither a top-of-the-rotation apprentice nor Mariano Rivera's heir. He was battered, bruised and apparently the latest Yankees casualty in...

Shortstop Jose Reyes is already in Mets camp, proclaiming himself recovered from surgery he had in October.

The Nets are a walking, talking, breathing (sometimes) version of Fenway Park. No lead is safe. In this season of horrors, the Nets have built double-digit leads in 16 games, only to lose 11 of those games. They set the tone on opening night, when they led Minnesota by 19...

The NBA is supposed to be in an era dominated by guards and forwards, but much of the talk at the Garden last night centered -- no pun intended --on big men in one way or the other. On one side of the court, it was the presence of Eddy Curry that...

The milestone home run ball -- the first hit in the glistening new Yankee Stadium yesterday -- flew off Jorge Posada's bat and into Monument Park, and into Bomber lore. Posada and Angel Nunez, the groundskeeper who recovered the homer in a bed...