If you believe in sports as a civic trust then there’s no more essential relationship than the one between a team’s general manger/president/director of operations and the fan base.

Josh Allen is not poor, by any definition other than the number of Super Bowl Rings in his possession. He wants to be king. Right now Patrick Mahomes is the king. 

The Knicks can be scintillating. They can be fascinating. ... The Knicks can be agitating. They can be aggravating.

More and more, we are discovering that it’s fruitless to try to explain the hows and whys of what the Johnnies are putting together this season.

In this time, in this season, just about everyone was finally pleased with the Knicks’ ugly-as-ugly-can-be 99-95 escape.

The Hall of Fame doors will open to Ichiro Suzuki, to CC Sabathia, and to Billy Wagner, and that’s a solid trio.

If you’ve cared at all about sports in New York City the past 55 years or so, you knew George Kalinsky.

This will be an emotional divorce, if it happens. Even angry fans largely will be satisfied if it works, but it had better work. 

It feels like a Mets team hoping to build on last year will be incomplete without Pete Alonso at first. But David Stearns can’t be swayed by that.

There was a moment early Tuesday night when St. John’s missed another shot — it’s hard to remember if it was a 3-pointer or a midrange jumper or a layup; at that part of the game, they were equal opportunity bricklayers — when the overhead scoreboard recalculated the Johnnies’ shooting percentage.  And if you listened...

As early as next Tuesday, it’s at least possible Carlos Beltran will earn the 75 percent of the vote necessary to gain entrance to the Hall of Fame.

Why is the feeling around the Knicks right now so … meh? 

There were times Sunday afternoon when the Knicks tried their mightiest to counteract the space-time continuum.

The 12-team College Football Playoff has been fun to watch.

It’s been a good long while since St. John’s has embraced this fully the elements of being the city’s basketball team.

The Knicks know how delicate a task it is to keep a team whole, and Karl-Anthony Towns' injury is just another reminder of that.

Wright almost certainly will never get the day in Cooperstown his old friend covets for him, one for which he was on a fast track until his back began to bark. July 19 will have to do.

It can happen this quickly.

A most important golden anniversary passed this week.

Where are the Jets fans angry enough to lease a plane and make a sign?