A columnist for the Post since 1997, George Willis has covered World Championship Boxing, the World Series, the NBA Finals, the Masters, the Ryder Cup and the Super Bowl. The Baseball Hall of Fame voter is a graduate of New Mexico State University.
TAMPA, Fla. -- It is do or done for Eric Chavez. Either he's healthy enough to help the Yankees during their pennant chase or it's time to find another profession. "I'm about at wits end with recovery and therapy as...
July 20, 2011 1:41 AM
Aaron Davis, the commis sioner of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, announced this week he was suspending the three judges who scored the Paul Williams-Erislandy Lara bout on July 9 in Atlantic City. Whether...
July 16, 2011 12:00 AM
Derek Jeter had almost made it through an entire impromptu press conference in front of his locker before yesterday's game against the Rays before he was asked, "Given your advancing age . . . " Jeter, wearing a...
July 11, 2011 12:00 AMPaul Williams likes to be called "the Most Feared Man in Boxing." But the former welterweight champion didn't look so ferocious last November, when he face-planted on the canvas after being knocked cold in the second...
July 09, 2011 12:00 AM
Jose Reyes offered a polite "I don't know who that is" earlier this week when a Post reporter asked him about the legacy of Curt Flood. Perhaps it's understandable: Reyes is a native of the Dominican Republic and a...
July 04, 2011 12:00 AM
It is being hyped as the biggest heavyweight fight since Vitali Klitschko fought Lennox Lewis in 2003 and the most hyped since Mike Tyson fought Lewis in 2002. Of course, that’s from an American perspective that hasn’t...
July 02, 2011 1:49 AMMike Minervini of Miami Mike's Sports Zone in East Hanover, N.J., was already "stressing" over ramifications of the NFL lockout. Now he has to worry about what an NBA lockout could mean to his business. "It puts you...
July 01, 2011 12:00 AM
It was inevitable, re ally. When Mark Taffet of HBO thanked Floyd Mayweather for ending his 16-month layoff from boxing and "giving the fans what they want to see," someone in the balcony viewing yesterday's press...
June 29, 2011 12:00 AM
As Rockies right-hander Juan Nicasio was mowing down the Yankees lineup yesterday, retiring the first 13 batters in order, Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher thought back to the Old-Timers’ game played earlier in the day,...
June 27, 2011 2:01 AM
CC Sabathia doesn’t consider himself a throwback even though he looks and breathes the part. “I just consider myself a baseball player,” he said yesterday. “I’m just a guy who wants to win.” Sabathia said this after...
June 26, 2011 12:37 AMA video is being circulated on the Internet showing Don King doing what he does best: promoting boxing. He has been in the St. Louis area this week talking up tonight's boxing card at the Family Arena in nearby St....
June 25, 2011 12:00 AM
BETHESDA, Md. — The coronation officially began at the par-3 10th hole at Congressional Country Club when Rory McIlroy’s ball, launched off the face of a 6-iron, easily cleared the water that had haunted so many others...
June 20, 2011 12:48 AMBETHESDA, Md. -- Amid all the hullabaloo over Rory McIlroy being golf's next young superstar, Jason Day shouldn't be overlooked. The 23-year-old from Queensland, Australia, shot a 3-under par 68 yesterday to finish...
June 20, 2011 12:00 AM
BETHESDA, Md. -- Phil Mickelson teed off almost two hours before the lead ers yesterday, hoping to get back into contention and have a chance to win his first U.S. Open today at Congressional Country Club. But instead...
June 19, 2011 12:00 AM
BETHESDA, Md . — This is all Tiger Woods’ fault. He was the one who made golf cool and gave a kid from Northern Ireland the belief he could he could turn a U.S. Open into his own personal playground someday. Blame...
June 18, 2011 1:58 AMTHE GREAT Julio Cesar Chavez was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame last week in Canasota, N.Y. He captivated the sport with a splendid combination of sweet boxing skills, vicious power and a thirst...
June 18, 2011 12:00 AM
BETHESDA, Md. -- Brian Mogg was the swing coach for Y.E. Yang when he defeated Tiger Woods to win the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine. But now Yang has decided to go on his own, a move that didn't seem to be a smart...
June 18, 2011 12:00 AMBETHESDA, Md.—The mass of humanity, easily in the thousands, outlined the 10th hole at Congressional Country Club yesterday awaiting the 1:35 p.m. grouping that featured Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson....
June 17, 2011 2:43 AMBETHESDA, Md. — The national championship of golf is being played just outside our nation’s capital, lending a patriotic theme to the 111th U.S. Open, which begins today at Congressional Country Club. President Obama...
June 16, 2011 2:56 AMBETHESDA, Md. — Phil Mickelson called it “an extreme challenge,” and Jeff Overton thinks it will make for “a phenomenal finish.” Four days from now when the 2011 U.S. Open reaches the par-4 18th hole at Congressional...
June 15, 2011 12:38 AMBETHESDA, Md. -- Now that he has returned the U.S. Open trophy he won at Pebble Beach last year, Graeme McDowell figures the pressure is off and he can get on with the rest of his life. "It's tough to look forward...
June 15, 2011 12:00 AM
CANASTOTA — Mike Tyson’s induction speech at the International Boxing Hall of Fame proved to be like many of his fights: short but packed with raw emotion. “I’ve got to be a little goofy so I won’t get too emotional,”...
June 13, 2011 12:25 AM
It's not uncommon to envy the life of a famous professional athlete. Who would not want to be Derek Jeter for a day or Tom Brady or Roger Federer? The chance to experience their fame and fortune would be a natural...
June 12, 2011 12:58 AMSugar Ray Leonard said Oscar De La Hoya made a wise choice deciding to go to a rehab clinic reportedly to address issues of alcohol and substance abuse. "I'm a friend of Oscar's, and the fact he has admitted he...
June 11, 2011 12:00 AMThere are times when the Mets will drive you to frus tration and even anger with shoddy play, late-game meltdowns and the occasional butchering of some of the basic fundamentals of baseball. It's during those times you...
June 05, 2011 12:00 AMCarl Froch was once, in his words, "just a skinny white kid from England." Few Americans knew much about him, figuring he likely was another overhyped fighter from the UK who would fade once his competition improved....
June 04, 2011 12:00 AMIf anybody deserved to be mad at his team mates about what hap pened last night at Citi Field, it was Mike Pelfrey. He had pitched arguably his best game of the season when he handed the ball and a 2-1 lead to reliever...
May 29, 2011 12:00 AMOscar De La Hoya didn’t look like someone on the cusp of entering rehab for drug abuse. At least not when we chatted in Las Vegas earlier this month at the Boxing Writers dinner the night before Manny Pacquiao chased...
May 28, 2011 2:15 AM
It was a day to relax, play some golf and be treated to the kind of life they serve to protect. More than 50 members of the Navy and Marines were special guests of Eagle Oaks Country Club in Farmingdale, N.J.,...
May 27, 2011 12:00 AM
On a day when Bartolo Colon tired to continue his Cinderella story as the Yankees' surprise of the season, a doctor in the Dominican Republic was talking about all the interest he is getting concerning a stem-cell...
May 24, 2011 12:00 AM
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