Check Goodell’s brain

OUTSIDE of presidential politics, is there a public speaker who comes across more full of it than Roger Goodell? He addresses concussions as if they’re infrequent and mysterious, as if they’re just a fad.

Lost Tapes: While making nicenice on the air with superstar horse trainer Bob Baffert, last week, Mike “Let’s Be Honest” Francesa, for a second time since the Preakness, passed on an opportunity to tell Baffert that he spent the week before the Preakness hollering that Baffert “Should be fired!” for conflicted interests.

Gotta love those ticket promos seen on YES’ Nets telecasts, those showing four Nets, arms folded and glowering menacingly at the camera. Yep, if looks could kill, we’d never know the Nets are 1339.

No prison time for Plaxico Burress; he was sentenced to probation for his latest — tax evasion — which means SNY, following the rich and unrewarding TV custom of giving first crack to the least deserving, can bring him back.

In Kristaps Porzingis we’ve the privilege of watching basketball’s first 7foot3 swingman. On defense, he plays down low, like a center covering a center. On offense, you’ll find him way outside or on the far wings, a deepshooting guard. That, and coaching, explains why some nights he has 14 rebounds, others he has four.

Noting that defensive ends Qaadir Sheppard and Amir Ealey have been tossed from Syracuse’s football team for “violating team rules,” reader Ron Perri asks if they might’ve “again left wet towels on the locker room floor.” Might be worse than that, Ron; they might’ve been caught in the library.