More Roid Rage, Alabama-Clemson III & go see ‘The Post’ . . .

For the last time:

Amphetamines were clearly performance enablers in baseball.

But if they were performance enhancers, how come the record books never changed the way they did during the steroids era?

If you want to vote for guys who juiced, have at it.

But you need more than greenies to help build your case for them. A lot more. Even though Alabama-Clemson III isn’t for the title this time, it feels and looks like as big a deal in college football as Cavs-Warriors III was in pro basketball last June.

And maybe late Monday night we will see if either or

can take his team down the field the way did for Clemson in the last two minutes a year ago.

Hurts wasn’t nearly the quarterback in last year’s title game that Watson was, and there is no shame in that, because Watson is one of the great college quarterbacks of all time.

But the only thing he did wrong in the fourth quarter was score too soon with that 30-yard touchdown run.

Now he has the chance, after a heartbreak loss like that, to make things right the way Watson did after he lost the big game to Alabama the first time he went up against them. By the way? I hope goes for a defensive guy as his head coach. If that wasn’t a foul against

on Christmas Day in Oakland, then let the refs go home and use the honor system like they do on the playground.

The Yankees are going to overpay on wait and see.

have to go see “The Post,” just because it is a hymn to the best of the newspaper business, and more a hymn now than ever because of not just constant attacks on the business, but the First Amendment. So go see “The Post” and cheer playing and playing

And another noted press hater in the Oval Office, sort of playing himself.

Best newspaper movie since “Spotlight,” which was the best since “All the President’s Men,” the best newspaper movie of them all.

Who has played more rounds of golf in the past year, or the leader of the free world? It is actually watching

at this point in his life, act like he wants to be the captain of the White House pep squad. You watch the way the Falcons have played this season, trying to overcome the hangover of the worst Super Bowl loss in the history of the planet, and you have more respect than ever for the old Buffalo Bills, who just kept coming.

Sometimes you think that will start a regular-season game for the Jets before will.

Orrin Hatch, once a giant of the Senate, has turned into a silly old man who treats the flattery of this president as if it were some kind of narcotic. If you love crime fiction and haven’t yet read read him this year. Read Go back and read everything that

ever wrote. And as I once wrote of the great

the only thing better than reading him is re-reading him.

Even the LeBron haters must be noticing that he’s an even better basketball player this far into his career as he has ever been.

out of Greenwich, Conn., might be the rookie story of the year in the NBA.

And it doesn’t hurt the kid that he’s playing for in Utah. You watch some of these madefor-TV bowl games and think that the combined attendance for them is 457.

How is passing on working out for the Knicks?

And how’s the looking for the 49ers so far?

is about to make more money commissionering than

makes quarterbacking. Looks to me like the Knicks might be playing a triangle defense. Happy New Year. The prayer today is that things will get better in America this year.

And that the American people, more than ever, will be better and stronger and smarter than the people governing them. trade