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- Knicks 184.5
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- Mets 157
- Giants 85
- Jets 40.5
- St. John's basketball 33
- NFL Postseason 15.5
- The World Series 6
- Don Mattingly 4
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- Tennis 1
- NBA cheating scandal 1
- Dallas Cowboy suicide 1
- Islanders 1
- Davey Johnson R.I.P. 0.5
- Ichiro in the Hall 0.5
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- Yankees 215
- Knicks 160.5
- Mets 141.5
- Giants 63
- Jets 44.5
- Rangers (NY) 36.5
- NFL Playoffs 18.5
- The Olympics 17
- St. John's basketball 7
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- Bill Belichick 6
- Ohtani & the Dodgers 4
- Death of Willie Mays 3.5
- Soccer 3
- Nets 3
- MLB All-Star Game 3
- NY Liberty 3
- NCAA Women's basketball 2
- Bill Walton: RIP 2
- Rickie Henderson: RIP 2
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- Yankees 150
- Jets 136
- Mets 119.5
- Giants 115
- Knicks 112.5
- Nets 19
- Damar Hamlin 14
- March Madness 12
- NFL 9.5
- Rangers 9.5
- NBA 4.5
- Golf 4
- Tennis 3
- R.I.P. Willis Reed 3
- Jersey Devils 2.5
- R.I.P. Jim Brown 2.5
- Michigan Football cheating 2
- Tom Brady 2
- Death of Tim McCarver 2
- Rick Pitino 2
- Shohei Ohtani 2
- Leborn James 1
- College Football 1
- Scott Rolen 1
- Jim Boeheim 1
Yanks Win 2022 Tabloids Covers Race
- Yankees 210.5
- Mets 147.5
- Giants 75
- Knicks 60
- Nets 54
- Jets 49
- Rangers 44
- Saint Peter Peacocks 17
- NFL 16
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- Serena Williams 6
- NCAA basketball 5
- Tom Brady 5
- Olympics 4
- Hall of Fame 3
- NBA 3
- World Series 3
- College Football 2
2021 Tabloids Back Page & Covers Results
YANKS 207
Mets 156
Knicks 123.5
Nets 62.5
NFL 23.5
Jets 45
Giants 58.5
College Basketball 15
Mets 156
Knicks 123.5
Nets 62.5
NFL 23.5
Jets 45
Giants 58.5
College Basketball 15
Islanders 6
Tiger Woods 5
College Football 5
Tiger Woods 5
College Football 5
RIP: Hank Aaron 4
MLB (various) 6
Rangers 4
John Madden 3
Covid 3
MLB (various) 6
Rangers 4
John Madden 3
Covid 3
Milwaukee Bucks 2
Golf 1.5
Catsup Curt Schilling 1
Golf 1.5
Catsup Curt Schilling 1
RIP: Tommy Lasorda 1
2020 Tabloids Back Page & Covers Results
Yankees 152
Mets 132
Giants 123.5
Jets 55
Mets 132
Giants 123.5
Jets 55
NFL w (Super Bowl) 52
Knicks 51MLB (w/World Series) 46
Covid 37
Nets 20
Astros cheating scandal 16.5
RIP: Kobe Bryant 13.5
NBA 11
Rangers 8.5
Golf 8Horse racing 5
NCAA football 4
Olympics 2.5
Patrick Ewing w Covid 2
RIP: Hank Steinbrenner 2
RIP: Anthony Causi 2
RIP: George Floyd 2
Tennis 2
NCAA basketball 2
NASCAR racism 2
Tennis 2
NCAA basketball 2
NASCAR racism 2
RIP: David Stern 1
RIP: Don Shula 1
RIP: Tom Dempsey 1
RIP: Joe Morgan 1
Colin Kaepernick 1
Chinese Baseball 1
Little League baseball 1
Lady Liberty 1
MMA 1
Michael Jordan 1
Len Dykstra disgrace 1
2019 Tabloids Back Page & Covers Results
YANKEES 211.5
Mets 190.5
Giants 87.2
Jets 68
Knicks 67.5
NFL 30.5
NCAA basketball 20.5
Nets 15
Golf 6
Big Papi shooting 3.5
Mets 190.5
Giants 87.2
Jets 68
Knicks 67.5
NFL 30.5
NCAA basketball 20.5
Nets 15
Women's Soccer 7.5
NBA Playoffs 6Golf 6
Kentucky Derby 4
Wanton NFL violence 4Big Papi shooting 3.5
NCAA football 3.5
Joe Girardi 2
Bryce Harper 2
Bob Kraft sex ring 2
Bob Kraft sex ring 2
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Yankees 242
Mets 154.5Giants 139.5
Jets 69.5
Knicks 50.5
NFL Playoffs 18
NCAA basketball 14.5
Golf 8
NCAA Football 6
NBA Playoffs 6
NCAA scandals 3
(11 with 2 or less.)
Final 2017 Tabloid Cover Count
Number of Daily News/NY Post front and/or back covers awarded in 2017.
YANKEES 286.5
Giants 110.5
Mets 109
Mets 109
Jets 34.5
NFL Playoffs 16.5
March Madness 16
World Series 11
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March Madness 16
World Series 11
Rangers 10
Redsocks 5
NBA Playoffs 5
Tiger Woods 4
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42 comments:
Death be not proud
Speechless.
A MOMENT OF SILENCE, FOLLOWED BY THE LONGEST AND LOUDEST WIN WARBLE OF ALL TIME. HE BROUGHT US ALL TOGETHER.
Without John, this forum might never had happened...
Allen, Barber, Phil, and John. They ornamented our lives so well.
“Oh, yes in-Didi! Gregorius makes Yankee fans euphorious! This is the dawning of the age of Gregorius!”
All 144 of John's HR calls, ranked:
https://www.pinstripealley.com/2024/4/19/24134263/yankees-john-sterling-home-run-call-ranking-all-time-bernie-goes-boom-jeter-judge
I am in a state of shock.
Spencer Ackerman, journalist, posted: "My favorite John call was on the radio sometime in 2000 or 2001, a game vs the Red Sox I was listening to in my mother’s car. Don’t remember anything about the game except the perfect cadence of John calling a Tino Martinez at-bat against Hideo Nomo. 'The 2-0 from Nomo to Tino is low, three and 0.'"
I'm with you
This is stupid, but I'm really glad that the Yankees won yesterday:
They sent him out on a happy note.
NY Times gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/sports/john-sterling-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f1A.wq2E.X07CeMFXr3HO&smid=url-share
Let's hope Jimmy Kimmel didn't joke about this recently.
WFAN is like a wake today. Live feed:
https://www.audacy.com/stations/wfan
And yet another conduit of fun is gone. RIP, Master.
Thanks for the link!
Journalist Max Read posted: "not a real yankee fan unless you once thought you hated john sterling and then eventually realized you loved john sterling"
Hart Seely, a creator of a Sterling-inspired blog — It is high, it is far, it is . . . caught! — had a more nuanced appraisal.
“Some people, most of them not Yankees fans, think that because the Yankees are a flagship franchise, they should have a network-level announcer who is never a homer,” Mr. Seely told The New York Times in 2011. “But the truth is, when the Yankees do something wrong, John rips them, like any psychotic Yankees fan. At the same time, like a true Yankees fan, when they win, John cannot control himself. The joy bursts from his breast.”
I was never a fan, but I respect the career. RIP
R.I.P. John Sterling. You were the best I ever heard. We'll never forget you!
The end of an era.
Suzyn must be in aguish today
He is high ... he is far ... he is ... GONE!!!
We salute you! 21 gun salute: KABOOM!!!
GONE ... INTO THE UPPER DECK!!!
I was going to post your first sentence, but thought better of it.
Here’s 22 minutes of The Master’s Voice:
https://www.mlb.com/news/john-sterling-passes-away
Sadness.
That got me misty eyed, Stang
He and Scooter were the voices of the Yankees for me. After years and years of baseball friends deriding him to me, I grew to proudly defend him. To quote Randy Newman in his song Rednecks, "He may be a fool but he's our fool..."
In the last Yankee inning of John's life they scored 7 runs.
Very very true. Very very sad.
To add to what's already here... He is High . He is Far. He is Gone... Into the upper deck.... The Gates are pearling for Sterling.
One of the truly great voices. They should play "The Yankees Win. Theeeeeee Yankees Win " just prior to playing NY NY for the rest of the year.
RIP. John Sterling, who delighted generations of Yankee Fans with his calls.
NGL, I wasn’t his biggest fan, but certainly came to appreciate what he brought to the games, night after night, year after year. A heartfelt Thank You Sir from this lifelong Yankee Fan.
That was me.
The “Voice of the Yankees,” truly deserving of a plaque in Monument Park. Rest in peace.
People joked about Sterling — nobody more than us — but listening to Yankees games on the radio just isn’t as much fun since he retired.
And to be honest, Sterling was probably one of the luckiest guys on earth, because I truly believe that if God came to him and said. “You’ve got 3 hours to do anything at all — I’ll make your wildest dream come true, just ask,” Sterling would say, “I’ll go to the Yankee Stadium broadcast booth and do my job.”
So very very sad to hear this news, sending love and heartfelt condolences to all of my IIHIIFIIC Brethren, Long Live the King!!!!
Great idea, Hammer!
"John Sterling's dead
No, no, no, no, he's just outside looking in."
It’s irritating as hell they didn’t do this when he retired so he could’ve been there to celebrate it. Another example of what a bunch of douchebags run this franchise.
Agree on both points.
Wouldn't surprise me if management already had it in the plans. For revenue possibilities of course.
A true master. An original.
"...tongues to be your being shall rehearse,
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men."
Good God, he was supposed to live forever.
"Epitaph on my own Friend" by Robert Burns
An honest man here lies at rest,
As e'er God with His image blest:
The friend of man, the friend of truth;
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd,
Few heads with knowledge so inform'd:
If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.
Rest in peace Mr Sterling
If not for you I would have never met and made friends with the fine fellows of this blog
A very sad day.
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