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Newest New York Met Juan Soto poses for a photo. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post It’s me, not you. Or perhaps it’s both of us. This Hot Stove League season has left me cold. Cold, as in it’s almost impossible to care. It’s not as if Juan Soto will share his Citi Field suite … Read more

Bill Belichick laughs during his North Carolina introduction on Dec. 12. AP Bill Belichick’s former Giants are certain that the GOAT choosing to graze on the campus of the University of North Carolina is a match made in heaven. “They got the best the NFL can give them right now,” North Carolina alum Lawrence Taylor … Read more

Arizona guard Caleb Love, shown leaping in the air while guarding UCLA’s Sebastian Mack last season, is the Wildcats’ sole returning player. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) Long each other’s biggest basketball rival in the Pac-12, UCLA and Arizona will meet again Saturday at the Footprint Center in Phoenix as newly estranged. It will … Read more

This, Steve Cohen noted, was different from other free-agent courtships.  This was an in-his-prime superstar, a player that could further transform the Mets, who had already proven he could handle New York City.  He wasn’t going to let a dollar figure prevent him from landing Juan Soto. In fact, when he hired president of baseball … Read more

Juan Soto wanted to know just how much success his prospective new team patriarch expected if he signed with the Mets.  This was during one of the two lunch meetings Soto had with Steve Cohen during the All-Star outfielder’s free-agency tour over the last month. The expectation would be to win, Soto understood, but to … Read more

No. 22 is so important to Juan Soto, he had it included in his record-setting, 15-year, $765 million contract that he will continue to wear it with the Mets.  He also has a gold chain with No. 22 on it, which he wore to his introductory press conference Thursday at Citi Field.  “Twenty-two is the … Read more

Isaiah Bennett of AGBU has led his team to an 11-0 start. (@picsbyHV) AGBU in Canoga Park has won its first 11 boys’ basketball games. It’s another example of the quality coaching from Nareg Kopooshian, who had a 21-1 team three seasons ago. A freshman on that team was point guard Isaiah Bennett, who learned … Read more

It wasn’t the Mets over the Yankees. It was the Mets over four other suitors, all of whom were willing to pay top dollar to land Juan Soto, the superstar outfielder and his high-powered agent, Scott Boras, insisted. Though the Yankees were viewed as the Mets’ main competition because Soto had just spent a season … Read more

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and the team’s executives left winter meetings content they had made some key moves and improved. (LM Otero / Associated Press) Howdy, I’m your host, Iliana Limón Romero, filling in for Houston Mitchell, who is probably still watching Freddie Freeman’s World Series walk-off grand slam again and again. Let’s get right … Read more

(Tim Hubbard / Los Angeles Times) 1 Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines the matchups this week. Lines according to FanDuel Sportsbook (O/U = over/under). Record last week 10-3 (.769); season 141-67 (.678). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer predicted, the record against the spread last week would have been 5-8 (.385); … Read more