A Post writer since 1976, Steve Serby became the paper’s NFL columnist in 1983. A former Jets, Mets, Yankees, Nets, and Islanders beat writer, he’s covered Super Bowls, World Series, Final Fours, ABA & NBA playoffs, U.S. Open tennis, boxing, golf, horse racing and hockey. His book subjects have been Lawrence Taylor and Brett Favre. His Sunday feature, "Steve Serby’s Q&A," also garnered him an Emmy nomination.
Rex Ryan comes barging and barking into America’s living rooms come Aug. 11 on HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” the leading man of a team filled with fearless loudmouths that make the young Muhammad Ali sound like a choir boy. He...
July 29, 2010 4:53 AMThis is no time for Mike Tannenbaum (and Woody Johnson) to be picking up the telephone inquiring about Terrell Owens. The only call they should be making -- today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow -- is to Darrelle...
July 28, 2010 12:00 AMThis is no time for Mike Tannenbaum (and Woody Johnson) to be picking up the telephone inquiring about Terrell Owens. The only call they should be making - - today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow - - is to Darrelle...
July 27, 2010 6:27 PM
If you think the Giants plan on being The Other Team in Town . . . think again. "I think this season might go down in history as one of the best Giant seasons," Justin Tuck told The Post. Clearly, Tuck isn't...
July 27, 2010 12:00 AMYou can now come out from under your Big Blue covers, Giants fans. You don’t have to cower in fear at the mere sight of Big, Bad Rex Ryan and his swaggerlicious Jets. Your Giants are ready to be giants again. I have...
July 25, 2010 2:05 AM
The Yankees fancy themselves as a sacred trust to their fans. And there is no Yankee more trusted by their fans today than Derek Jeter. I fully expect Hal Steinbrenner, especially with his father’s voice forever...
July 15, 2010 4:09 AMThe heavens had opened over Yankee Stadium, The House That George Steinbrenner Built, drenching mourners who couldn't help but think these had to be the tears of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio and Mantle and, yes, Billy...
July 14, 2010 12:00 AMThis is a town without pity, and you have to want to play here. You have to have the stomach for the fight, for the microscope, for the unrelenting, suffocating pressure, for the great expectations. Your skin has to be...
July 09, 2010 7:22 AMAcross from the Garden, at a place called Local at 33rd and Eighth, here came LeBron James on the small-screen televisions from the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich, Conn., and it grew as quiet as Knicks game night has...
July 09, 2010 12:00 AM
This is no time for stage fright, LeBron. There comes a time when it is time to leave the nest and spread your wings and soar, to the greatest stage in the world, and this is that time, this is that moment. The great...
July 08, 2010 2:54 AM
The Knicks have never been threatened the way they are now by the Nets. Julius Erving led the 1976 Nets to a championship, but that was on Long Island, in the ABA. The Jason Kidd Nets who reached the Finals were little...
July 03, 2010 12:00 AMI have a compromise proposal for LeBron James to ease his angst: Give us three years. To leave or not to leave? That is the question tugging at his Akron/Cleveland heartstrings. I’m hardly Donald Trump, but the...
July 02, 2010 1:03 AMTwo years, two long years that seemed like 20 for the once-proud franchise known as the New York Knicks have come down to this day, and this moment in Cleveland. The Knicks can't afford a Mistake by the Lake when...
July 01, 2010 12:00 AM
The Post’s Steve Serby sat down with intensely private Yankees captain and spoke at length about his relationship with his father, Charles. Q: Reasons you’re proud of your father? A: There’s a lot of reasons. He’s...
June 20, 2010 4:04 AM''Please pay Re-vis. . . . Please pay Re-vis." The chant erupted several times during the Jets' open minicamp practice yesterday and it was music to the star cornerback's ears. "It might have opened up Mr. [Mike]...
June 17, 2010 12:00 AM
The new football stadium is a $1.7 billion crown jewel that deserves the best football teams money can buy, and if you build it, an estimated 7,000 fans will come to passionately greet the 2010 Giants, along with a Big...
June 16, 2010 12:00 AM
The Jets, right from the moment Rex Ryan barreled through the door, haven't been shy about talking the talk, and they keep telling us this is the year they walk the walk back to the Super Bowl 42 years after Joe Namath...
June 15, 2010 12:00 AM
If you want to believe the U.S. soccer team can defeat England when they meet today in the World Cup, just hop in a time machine with Walter Bahr. He can tell you about a day in 1950, when he and a ragtag bunch of 500-1...
June 12, 2010 2:47 AMBabe Ruth happened here. Twenty-seven Yankees championships happened here. Sinatra happened here. Chesley Sullenberger happened here. The ball drop on New Year's Eve happens here. Trump happens here...
May 26, 2010 12:00 AMIf I'm about to sound like an arrogant New Yorker with a grandiose sense of entitlement . . . tough. We deserve a Super Bowl here -- Super Bowl XLVIII. This is no time for any anti-New York bias to interfere...
May 25, 2010 12:00 AMYour fan base is speaking to you loud and clear, Woody Johnson — even louder than coach Rex Ryan speaks to them, and to the rest of the NFL. Listen to them, Woody. You want the spanking new stadium you share with the...
May 13, 2010 2:58 AM
For the last dozen years, Lawrence Taylor has kicked his drug addiction, one day at a time. If he is found guilty of third-degree rape of a 16-year-old runaway yesterday in upstate Suffern, then we will have no...
May 07, 2010 12:00 AM
This latest Santonio Holmes fiasco -- NFL player confronted by police for refusing to turn off his iPod during a flight -- is the latest ominous reminder that Rex Ryan and the Jets are playing with a fire that...
May 01, 2010 12:00 AMThe Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the jockey who rode Affirmed to the 1978 Triple Crown. Q: The night before the 1978 Kentucky Derby? A: Derby night it was my turn to sleep on the floor of our hotel room. I slept...
April 30, 2010 6:57 PMThe Jets loaded up before the draft, the Patriots then proceeded to close the gap during the draft. The Giants need to coach up DE Jason Pierre-Paul in a hurry because Tony Romo better not have the time to throw to...
April 26, 2010 12:00 AM
OK, Tom Coughlin. Now it’s on you. When you first arrived on the scene, you talked passionately about the restoration of Giants Pride. And four seasons later, you and Eli Manning delivered a Super Bowl championship to...
April 25, 2010 3:18 AMOK, I get this drafting for value thing. I happen to believe GM Jerry Reese and Marc Ross, the Giants’ director of college scouting, know what the hell they’re doing inside the Big Blue war room. Now will somebody . ....
April 24, 2010 4:03 AMHe who hesitates . . . is not necessarily lost. At least that’s what the Giants were thinking when defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul backflipped into their laps in the middle of the first round of last night’s first...
April 23, 2010 4:50 AMI am standing in the Giants war room in the middle of the night, surreptitiously rearranging their board so they will have no choice but to trade up for C.J. Spiller. It will be the lone trade in the 2010 Serby NFL...
April 22, 2010 4:57 AMThere were plenty of Yankees fans who never imagined they could root for Roger Clemens, even before the steroid scandal. Plenty of Yankees fans who never thought they could embrace Johnny Damon, leader of the Idiot Red...
April 21, 2010 12:00 AM
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