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Sports in New York

The Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Nets, Giants, Jets, and the Bills upstate, followed through the team blogs that actually cover them. What happened last night and what it means for the season, without the national-TV gloss.

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  1. July 20, 2026 The World Cup Made New York Car-Free. Mamdani Wants to Keep It That Way. For six weeks, pedestrians beat cars in New York. Whether that outlasts the confetti is now Mamdani's call. Citywide
  2. July 19, 2026 Flash floods swamp the five boroughs, a day before the World Cup final Soho went underwater in the time it takes to watch a soccer half, and the storm still had a second act coming Sunday. Manhattan
  3. June 28, 2026 Mets fire Carlos Mendoza, Andy Green takes interim role, immediately loses Seven games into the losing streak, the Mets swapped managers. Eight games in, still losing.

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Which teams does New York Explained actually cover?

All of them, city and state: Yankees and Mets, Knicks and Nets, Rangers, Islanders, and the upstate Sabres, Giants, Jets, and the Buffalo Bills, plus NYCFC, the Red Bulls, and the Liberty. If the whole city, or the whole state, is arguing about it, it is in scope.

Why cover Buffalo teams in a New York City brief?

Because they are New York’s teams too, and half the state lives and dies with the Bills and the Sabres. We see past the Manhattan tunnel vision in sports the same way we do everywhere else: upstate is part of the story, not flyover.

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