Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica, a member of the Sports Media Hall of Fame and past winner of the Damon Runyon Award, wrote his first column for the Daily News in 1977, and began writing “Shooting From the Lip” in the Sunday News in the 1980s. He has written 16 New York Times Best Sellers and currently hosts the twice-weekly “Mike Lupica Podcast” for Compass Media.
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Mike Lupica: Welcome to the main event! Lamar Jackson vs. Josh Allen is the matchup of the season
Sometimes you get one like we get in Buffalo on Sunday night when it is Josh Allen and the Bills going against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.

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Mike Lupica: New York is once again the capital of lousy football
These Giants' and Jets' seasons are as much a bottoming-out as anything that has happened for either team since the Giants last won a Super Bowl.

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Mike Lupica: With Mets’ postseason hopes slipping away, Francisco Lindor comes through one more time
Lindor is the star of this team and the leader of this team, a player who has become one of the best leaders in the sport.

At Wimbledon, Carlos Alcaraz is both reigning king and heir apparent
WIMBLEDON – There were just a few minutes left until Carlos Alcaraz, the hot kid now at the All-England Club the way so many tennis kids before him had been...

Knicks didn’t get the ending they wanted, but created the memories they deserve
This is what it can still be like in sports, the way it was over the past month, when great, big places – like this one – feel like a...

Commentary: For these Knicks a Game 7 vs. Pacers just latest challenge to overcome
NEW YORK -- History doesn’t keep the Knicks season going on Sunday afternoon, nor does Madison Square Garden, no matter how much everybody there will shake down the thunder. The...

When it comes to great playoff Knicks, doesn’t get better than Jalen Brunson
Jalen Brunson didn’t just carry the Knicks again on Tuesday night, it was even more than that because he’s more than that now, it feels as if he’s carrying the...

Reality for Giants is that more than 50 games in they still don’t know what they have in Daniel Jones
The Giants might get a game off the Commanders on Sunday, the way they almost got a game off the Bills last Sunday night, and give themselves and their fans...

Like it or not, Hal Steinbrenner is right about not needing a historic payroll to win
Here is something Hal Steinbrenner said back in spring training, something about which the son of George Steinbrenner, the biggest spender of his time in baseball, was absolutely right:. The...

Commentary: Nikola Jokic leading the Nuggets into NBA Finals is all-time great basketball story
In this age when unselfish superstars like LeBron James and Steph Curry have won eight NBA titles between them, here comes Nikola Jokic, the best all-around player in the sport,...