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I am starting to hear that whatever his public posture, has grown tired of

But if Jackson goes, has to go with him.

Good for calling on sports leagues to help save St. Anthony’s in Jersey City.

If had slipped and fallen the day before the Super Bowl and had to miss the game the way

slipped and fell before Round 1 of the Masters, you would have had the entire intelligen­ce community trying to find out exactly what happened, right?

made a quadruple bogey on No. 12 last year, last round of the Masters, and still nearly fought back and won.

This time he makes a quadruple on the 15th in the first round, and fights his way back, with a lot more golf tournament left. It tells you plenty about the kid. If “became President” with that State of the Union speech, as some overwrough­t pundits suggested, how can he do the exact same thing after he goes after Syria?

There is still nothing more fun than watching even at the age of 57, make the Masters look like as much fun as a round with his buddies.

How long before we’re expected to start calling it the Trump National White House?

You know, just as an exciting branding opportunit­y.

and the Cavs did everything to the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night except take their lunch money.

Either

or is going to win the MVP award, but it is always worth rememberin­g that there isn’t a bad team in the sport that LeBron wouldn’t turn into a playoff team. Starting with our Knicks. When does a no-lifer try to call a penalty this weekend at the Masters?

Here’s the deal on all the people who act as if the Rules of Golf are more sacred than church:

No other fans in sports take themselves more seriously, the way no other rulemakers do.

They act as if a ball being placed an inch in the wrong direction is more dangerous to us all than global warming. Those three guys who officiated the Gonzaga-North Carolina game?

I think that wherever they are this weekend, they’re trying to call a touch call on somebody.

Another group of guys with whistles who think we turned on the game to watch them blow whistles.

By the way? Good call by the geniuses on the Tournament Committee having Carolina, Kentucky and UCLA in the same Sweet 16 bracket.

One of the inexplicab­le things about the current New York Yankees is why anybody thought it was a good idea to have both

and same outfield. Or the same batting order. It does become more and more obvious by the day that one more sexual harassment settlement at Fox and they’re over the cap.

Two of my favorite New York City shows couldn’t be more different, but continue to play their own games their way:

“Billions,” which is better in Season 2 than Season 1, and “Blue Bloods.”

Wait a second, I thought the game was supposed to be over when the Yankees took a lead into the late innings. The Knicks have now lost 50 games or more for all three years that Phil Jackson has been in charge.

It has now become as dismal a period as any under or any in the 1980s before

came to town. Somehow, as he has created a losing culture all his own, and done this kind of damage to what is left of the Knicks brand, he still acts as if he still exists on some higher basketball plane than everybody else.

The guy no longer provides cover for Dolan.

He’s just created a situation that should have Dolan running for cover.

At least when he’s not calling his in the own ticket-holders names. What a place. Oh wait, I forgot. It’s the mecca. Now all Patrick Ewing has to do is go find a big, skinny, talented high school kid like, well, Patrick Ewing. From now until the end of the season, we find out if

and can win together the way and once did.

becoming this kind of celebrity, and this kind of click-bait, tells you plenty about what the modern culture of sports has become. Here’s what you should never do: You should never count out

and the Orioles. Like, never. What, you didn’t think

was over-dressed in blazer and flak jacket?

Trump shaking up his “senior” staff – you wonder what would qualify as “junior” staff – is somewhat like when George Steinbrenn­er would fire a pitching coach in the old days. Finally today: Happy Birthday this week to our youngest son,

I’ve based more than a few characters in my books on him in the years since he was my point guard.

Mostly because he’s got as much heart as anybody I know.

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