Sometimes you need to steal one. Sometimes you simply need to escape.

Chiefs owner Clark Hunt wouldn't let Andy Reid leave the room, and the rest is history.

The loudest complaint about these Knicks until a few days ago — and a fair one — was that they could bully bad teams, but mostly shrank from good ones.

It’s impossible to dispute the impact Rick Pitino has had in his 54-game tenure with St. John’s.

If you were to draw up in the workshop precisely the kind of team that is supposed to give the Knicks fits, the Grizzlies are the prototype. 

When the Bills lost to the Chiefs on Sunday night, 32-29, it marked the fourth time in five years they’d lost to the same team.

Maybe you can call some of us the St. John’s LIRR alumni, or the Metro North alumni. Plenty of us really did take the subway, but that nickname was already taken.

The pity is, at this point, the greatness we are watching in real time is threatened every week to be reduced to a footnote.

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?