Sports

VAC’S WHACKS

I like Peyton Manning and all, and I’m happy that he got that big, old monkey off his back. But that vote for Super Bowl MVP was more fixed than any campaign Castro has run the last 47 years.

*

The last time a basketball team in this area underachieved as woefully as the Nets have this year, they had to bring in Whoopi Goldberg to coach them.

*

Memo to Wade Phillips: beware the list of names to which you are now forever attached: Ray Handley. Pete Carroll (before he took the genius pills). Al Groh. Good luck, and godspeed.

*

If new Ranger Sean Avery’s girlfriend, Elisha Cuthbert, (below) wants to serve as the next generation of Carol Alt and stick around the New York hockey scene (in however many capacities she chooses) for the next couple of decades, that might do more for youth hockey in this area than free ice time at Rye Playland.