Jared Max
Jared Max: When Is A-Rod Lying? After All These Years, I Still Can’t Tell
Once again, the most talented baseball player to systematically destruct his own career has provided us with another juicy tale.
Jared Max: Sorry, But The NBA Is Just … Just … Boring!
I apologize for my foul take on the NBA. Maybe I’m just feeling foul because baseball season went into hibernation last night.
Jared Max: Jets Fans Stuck In Long, Dark, Depressing Tunnel
Jets fans probably feel like Roy Hobbs in “The Natural,” forced to listen to psychobabble about how losing is a disease. But we stand by our teams no matter how dire it gets.
Jared Max: Michael Sam Isn’t Alone, So Why Is He Doing This … Alone?
While Sam may still become the first openly gay player on a regular-season NFL roster, we are long overdue for others to look in the mirror and recognize it’s their time to pick up the check.
Jared Max: 44-Minute Games? Don’t Stop There, NBA Commish
How about 10-minute quarters — can we compromise there? Forty minutes of basketball would replicate the college game, where NBA players were groomed.
Jared Max: I’ve Got News For You — Sports Reporters Aren’t Going Anywhere
If communicating to a live audience was as easy as hitting a baseball, more players would be broadcasters and writers, and I would have been a third baseman for the Yankees.
Max: Underdog Royals Quickly (And Temporarily) Becoming America’s Team
I am riveted by this team. Maybe I just like the name Mike Moustakas. Or perhaps there’s more to it…
Jared Max: If It Bleeds, It Leads — Boo To The TMZ-ification Of Sports
Nowadays, our sports section is the police blotter. Competition seems to have become a backdrop to stories about famous athletes doing things that have nothing to do with sport.
Max: Jets’ Slow Death, My Lost MacBook And The 5 Stages Of Grief
Despite statistics that show the Jets are just horrible, Rex Ryan made a strong case Wednesday that denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Max: Fantasy Football — You Do Know It’s Not The Real Thing, Right?
I would rather walk from West New York, New Jersey to the East Side of Manhattan in cold, driving rain — dodging daredevil bicyclists and taxis emulating freshly beheaded chickens — than listen to somebody talk about his or her fantasy football team.
Max On Derek Jeter: When Respect Is Mutual, Anything Is Possible
Were you feeling good last Sunday afternoon, perhaps indefinably so? I was. And here’s why…
Max: A Happy ‘2’ Year For Jeter’s Farewell
While some these days may celebrate Rosh Hashanah saying “L’shanah tova,” in any language, universally, Yankees fans should wish each other a “Happy 2 Year!”
Max: Timing Is Everything To America’s Pastime
Deep in the 11th hour, there has never been a better moment for MLB to defuse a problem that has been tick-tick-ticking for years: America’s pastime takes too much time.
Max: NFL Scandal, George Carlin And ‘Glass Houses’
What would George say about the NFL and its critics, the gruesomely physical league’s criminals and many of their equally impure, sanctimonious fans?
Nets’ Williams Says He’ll Play Against Raptors In London
Nets point guard Deron Williams says he will play despite a hand injury against the Raptors on Friday in the NBA’s first regular-season game in Europe.
