Francesa fibs to very end

WITH the Yanks naming Aaron Boone manager, it’s clear they low-balled Mike Francesa, who claimed he’d take the job “only if the money’s right.”

Now ESPN has to find someone who talked at least as much as Boone during Late Sunday Night Baseball. It will.

As for Francesa, last week he chatted with former NFL coach Mike Holmgren. Only Holmgren was gone did “Let’s Be Honest” mention that he once gave Holmgren career-altering advice.

And with Francesa headed out — reader Frank from Paramus suggests Dec. 15 should be a national holiday.

Tiger Woods returned. One could tell by all the slobber NBC/Golf Channel’s announcers left on our TV screens.

Woods remains remarkable as the only pro golfer who can cause temporary deafness in on-course TV folks. While, as usual, we could hear him cussing, Thursday and Friday — the kind of language TV’s golf voices scold and even apologize to viewers for — the TV guys, as usual, were the only ones who didn’t hear it.

Twice, Saturday, host Terry Gannon said Woods had “unfortunately” fallen out of contention. No one else was nearly as unfortunate.

In the first quarter of Saturday’s Georgia-Auburn, UGA DT Jonathan Ledbetter was flagged for roughing when he tried, with two extra full-body blows, to literally bury Auburn QB Jarrett Stidham.

The ref explained it on the field microphone as, “Using his body to punish the passer into the ground.” CBS’ Gary Danielson then offered a lengthy explanation as to how this was a good call as QBs — he cited Aaron Rodgers — can have their shoulders separated.

But long story short, Ledbetter didn’t try to tackle Stidham; he tried to injure him. That’s how the game’s now coached and played.