Aaron Rodgers offered Jets a reminder of what’s possible in season opener
NY Post
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — When it was over, Aaron Rodgers stood in the locker room and told his Jets: “We’ll be better. I’ll be better.”
Out of the darkness at last, under a sun-splashed blue sky, Aaron Rodgers, his heartache and heartbreak in the rearview mirror, began his long-anticipated, much-ballyhooed Flight 24 designed to lift the Jets to a long-forgotten destination familiar only to Broadway Joe Namath: Football heaven.
Heaven can wait.
49ers 32, Jets 19.
Stunning new details emerged about Jontay Porter’s betting scandal.
With the Pittsburgh Steelers roller-coaster of a season coming to an end in the wild-card round on Saturday, star running back Najee Harris, 26, may be looking to disembark and find himself a new ride.
Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield left the field at Raymond James Stadium dejected after Tampa fell to the Commanders 23-20 to end their playoff run as quickly as it started.
Sometimes, the minutes are infrequent for Cameron Payne. A few here and some others there.
Regarding the Rangers, on a two-game heater and 4-1-1 in their six games going into Colorado on Tuesday before closing the road swing in Utah on Thursday:
There were times Sunday afternoon when the Knicks tried their mightiest to counteract the space-time continuum, moments when it seemed they were trying to batter the Bucks so ferociously that somehow they could turn the clock back two days and try to figure out how to reverse the bludgeoning they’d received from the Thunder on Friday.
Brett Favre is one of the only people who could identify with Aaron Rodgers — and he doesn’t see a player who should be considering retirement.
The Patriots hurried a coaching search and hired one of their former Super Bowl-winning linebackers to right the wayward franchise.
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers have decided not to build a $1.3 billion downtown arena, a surprising move that comes just weeks after the team received approval for the controversial project from the city council.
Rex Ryan put a cigar in his mouth when he should’ve been eating crow.
The long-standing feud between Draymond Green and Jusuf Nurkic has taken another turn.
Kirk Herbstreit issued a scathing indictment of the Steelers’ effort to start their wild-card round loss to the Ravens on Saturday, as Baltimore jumped out to an early two-touchdown lead and Pittsburgh — again — struggled to generate any sort of offensive rhythm in response.
A lot can change in 12 months.
With MLB’s arbitration-eligible contracts largely settled and a few relief pitchers finally picked up in free agency, perhaps the bullpen market has begun to move.
The Bills cruised through the regular season. Again.
We are halfway through an NHL season marked by pervasive mediocrity in which just 13 of 32 teams have won at least half their games — six in the dreadful East and seven in a more representative West.
The self-proclaimed “worst teammate” in baseball has a new team.
The issue has popped up at times for the Knicks this season. Mikal Bridges sensed it again Friday, too.