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Have no fear people we are back. Listen to this recorded edition of the Open Mike program from Halloween as Michael Cohen and guest Mike Sanfilipo discuss the impact Hurricane Sandy had on the region. Mr. Cohen opens the show talking about the issues surrounding the New York Jets football team, then Mike and Mike talk Giants football. LISTEN HERE ! In hour two of the Open Mike program, guest Mike Sanfilipo gives Michael Cohen his take on the Jets mess, and what needs to be done to get the ship straight from Mark Sanchez to Mike Tannenbaum. The duo then talk World Series, after the San Francisco Giants four game sweep of the Detroit Tigers, and look ahead to the off-season for the New York Mets. Listen Here!

GIANTS 29  COWBOYS 24 Giants coach Tom Coughlin should remember to send a bottle of champagne or at the very worst send a Christmas card to the officials who called Sunday's Giants-Cowboys game, because if it weren't for the refs reversing a Dez Bryan touchdown with :08 seconds to go, the Giants would have limped home with a disheartening 31-29 loss. While Bryant appeared to have touched the back of the end zone with his fingers before resting the rest of this palm in the navy colored end zone, the play was so close, you could make the case that Dallas won this game. It was not like the Cowboys outplayed the Giants. Tony Romo made his share of mistakes in this game, but the fact that the Giants built a 23-0 lead and fell asleep only to find Dallas in front 24-23 by the end of third quarter was unspeakable. The Giants offense struggled throughout the afternoon to move the football against a Dallas defense that, while talented is very beatable. New York managed on...

 DOLPHINS 30 JETS 9 The collapse that is the 2012 New York Jets is now in full flower. A season that many feared would be the ultimate disaster, thanks in part to the lack of talent on this roster put together by an unscrupulous front office, is starting to live up to its low expectations. Sunday's 30-9 meltdown to the Dolphins at MetLife Stadium was a microcosm of what is wrong with this franchise as well as what has to be done to get this team moving in the right direction. There is plenty of blame to go around. Special Teams was terrible Sunday; the Jets were duped on a surprise onside kick in the first quarter and watched the Dolphins block a punt for a touchdown, the second time this year the Jets have given up a blocked punt for a score. The defense was putrid as well, allowing the Dolphins to drive at will throughout the afternoon as back-up quarterback Matt Moore made a strong case to regain his starting job after starter Ryan Tannehill was knocked ou...

The New York Islanders are going nowhere. After years of hard work, debate, local and geopolitical battles by the Isles brass, and owner Charles Wang; New York will keep it's Islanders in the Big Apple for a very, very long time. Today it was announced that the Islanders will move to the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, NY when their lease at Nassau Coliseum ends after the 2014-2015 season. The new lease in Brooklyn runs for 25 years beginning in the fall of 2015. The Coliseum, which has been open in Hempstead since 1972, has become the NHL's biggest dump. Falling apart at the seams, and serving as a virtual wasteland for hockey with a hockey team that has failed to grab the headlines from the Devils and Rangers over the past 20 plus years, it is easy to forget that the Islanders are part of the New York landscape. And this is a franchise that won four Stanley Cup titles back in the 1980's, and ruled this town the way the Rangers, and even the Devils never have...

In hour one of the Open Mike program, host Michael Cohen breaks down the 2012 World Series match-up between the Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants. Michael also breaks news on the New York Islanders new home, and analyzes the Jets performance against the Pats. Was Rex Ryan and company coaching not to lose on Sunday? Open Mike 10-24 pt1 In hour two of the Open Mike program, host Michael Cohen, welcomes in Triple Coverage host and producer, Sean Bretherick, to get his take on the NFC East through week 7 of the NFL season. Week 8 figures to be a pivotal week for the Giants, Cowboys and Eagles. A win by any of these teams this week, and the post-season could be within sights. Open Mike 10-24 pt2

TIGERS 8 YANKEES 1 The hapless New York Yankees had no answer for the Detroit Tigers. After listlessly playing through three games in the ALCS, the Yankees went quietly in game four, as Detroit swept New York out of the postseason 8-1. One would have to go back to 1980, against the Kansas City Royals, to find the last time the Yankees were swept out of a playoff series. That was 32 years ago! For years, many have wondered when the "great Yankees dynasty" would come to an end; and now, you can rest assure that it is officially over. The Yankees were overhyped, bloated and aging as the season wore on. They went from a team of superstars to a team of has-been's in a New York minute. Think for a second, here is a Yankees team that was 10 games in front of it's division back in July. The Orioles were playing surprisingly well, while the Red Sox and Rays couldn't get out of the their own way, the division was theirs for the taking. But the flaws of this Yan...

In hour one of the Open Mike program, host Michael Cohen and special guest host, Adam Clarkson discuss the Yankees 3-0 deficit to the Detroit Tigers in the ALCS. Can the Yankees avoid humiliation. Cohen and Clarkson also discuss the future of many Yankees, including Alex Rodriguez. Listen Here ! In hour two of the Open Mike program, Michael Cohen and Adam Clarkson talk about the state of the NFL through week six. The duo talk about the Jets recent victory over Indianapolis, and whether they can muster enough of an effort to beat the New England Patriots. They then move on to the Giants, arguably the best team in the league, and finish the night with their week 7 picks. Listen Here !

TIGERS 2 YANKEES 1 Once Derek Jeter limped off the field during game one of the ALCS, everyone knew that winning this series was going to be a monumental task for the 2012 Yankees. Without their leader, and arguably best player, the Yankees would have to dig down deep to find that extra something to pull this one out. Instead, the Yankees have continued to play listless baseball, falling to the Tigers again 2-1, Tuesday in Detroit. Through three games, the Yankees have scored only five runs, all of them in the ninth inning. In short the Yankees have been shutout in 25 different innings in the ALCS against the Tigers, as nobody can hit a baseball right now. Bronx Bombers? How about Bronx Bums. That is what the 2012 Yankees have become. Sure you can kill Alex Rodriguez all you want for his post-season futility, as he has spent more time trying to touch first base with women behind home plate, than he has trying to get on base during a ball game. While, Rodriguez was ideal ...

Through their first five games of this 2012 season, the New York Giants didn't look like a championship football team. After wallowing in defeats to NFC East rivals Philadelphia and Dallas, and barely beating the typically punchless Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cleveland Browns, nobody really expected the Giants to go into San Francisco and win against a team that had been very impressive heading into week six. What the Giants were able to do on Sunday by not only beating the 49ers, but dismantling them piece by piece in a dominating 26-3 victory spoke volumes about where this Giants team REALLY IS this season. The Giants defense which had been suspect all season long, had its best afternoon. They shut down Frank Gore, holding him to 36 yards rushing, and  made Alex Smith look like ... well, Alex Smith. The Giants picked off Smith three times, and sacked him four times. Smith was never comfortable in the pocket as the highly touted Giants front seven was all over the Niners quart...

TIGERS 6 YANKEES 4 Going into the 12th inning the headline of the evening was the fact that Raul Ibanez once again erased a near defeat for the Yankees with a last second homer to pull the Yankees out of the cellar. Down to their final strike going in the ninth inning, Ibanez blasted a two run shot to the bleachers in right to tie the first game of the 2012 ALCS at four. It was the third time in as just two and a half weeks that Ibanez had homered to rescue the Yankees. Yet, his heroics took a back seat to a very scary moment for New York as short stop Derek Jeter left the game in the 12th with a fractured left ankle. While trying to field the baseball, Jeter slipped and rolled awkwardly on his ankle, and had to be helped off the field. The stunned Yankees crowd, which had been at full voice after the Ibanez blast in the ninth was totally silent. During the Yankees post game press conference, manager Joe Girardi announced that Jeter fractured his ankle and will be out for ...

Baseball's final four is set, and it should be one heck of a finish for the World Series trophy. In the National League, the Cardinals unbelievable come-back against the Washington Nationals in game five of the NLDS catapulted them into the LCS, where they will face the San Francisco Giants. The NLCS will feature the last two franchises to win the World Series (San Francisco in 2010 and St. Louis in 2011). Meanwhile in the American League, the Yankees play the Detroit Tigers, the third time these two teams will face off in the postseason in the last seven years. In their previous two playoff match-ups, the Tigers came out on top in the divisional series in 2006 and again in 2011. Each of those series featured dominant pitching by Detroit, while the Yankees pitching staff couldn't contain a potent Detroit lineup. This time around, the Yankees believe they have a rotation that can stack up against the likes of Justin Verlander and company. That better be the case, becau...

YANKEES 3 ORIOLES 1 Here's a shocker for ya, the Yankees are going back to the ALCS. For the third time in the last four years the Bronx Bombers are heading to the LCS after a 3-1 victory over the pesky Baltimore Orioles. The Yankees completed the series victory behind ace CC Sabathia's dominating complete game performance, who gave up four hits and a run over nine innings. He struck out nine, and threw 121 pitches. Sabathia dominated, never getting into any real trouble, as he pitched a one hitter through seven innings. With the Yankees leading 1-0 in the sixth, Sabathia served up a fat pitch to Orioles' Nate McClouth, who cracked the pitch down the right field line toward the foul pole. The play came under intense review, but the umpires determined that McClouth's foul ball, was not a homer since it didn't hit the foul pole. However there have been numerous reports from people who were in the vicinity of the baseball, who said that the ball did hit the f...

YANKEES 3 ORIOLES 2 Once again Raul Ibanez found himself in the middle of a Yankees comeback. A week after leading New York to a division title with his homer and RBI single to beat the Red Sox in the next to last game of the season, Ibanez blasted two homers against the Baltimore Orioles in game three of the ALDS to send the Yankees to a 2-1 series advantage. Ibanez spent most of the night on the bench, but came in the ninth inning to pinch hit for designated hitter Alex Rodriguez, who has struggled with the bat in this series, batting .083 (1-for-12). With fans growing increasingly tired of A-Rod's lack of clutch performances, and with a increasingly cold bat, manager Joe Girardi gambled with Rodriguez's precious ego and put in the ageless Ibanez. The Yankees offense was listless for most of the night, as Miguel Gonzalez mowed down the Yankees order through seven brilliant innings and holding a 2-1 lead. However, once the ninth inning came, Orioles closer Jim Johns...

YANKEES 7 ORIOLES 2 A five-run ninth inning highlighted by a solo home run by Russell Martin, proved to be the difference in the Yankees 7-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in Game One of the ALDS at Camden Yards in Baltimore. For eight innings both the Orioles and Yankees went back and forth, tied at two for most of the night as neither offense could find a way to get the go-ahead run across in this tightly contested opener. CC Sabathia, who struggled against the Orioles during the regular season, was his masterful self once again. He dominated Baltimore's powerful line-up for 8.2 innings of 120 pitch baseball, yielding only eight hits and two runs, while striking out seven and walking one. With the Bombers ahead 1-0 in the third, CC ran into some trouble when Nate McClouth worked his way into a favorable count and laced a two-run single to right to give Baltimore a 2-1 lead. The Orioles' lead turned out to be short lived. After walks to Alex Rodriguez and Nick ...

GIANTS 41 BROWNS 27  Ahmad Bradshaw was on his way to becoming the goat of the day. On the Giants first play from scrimmage, Bradshaw fumbled the ball to the Browns at the Giants own 20-yard line. Three plays later, Browns running back Trent Richardson dashed up the middle for a 15-yard score to give Cleveland a 7-0 lead. Things quickly got worse for Big Blue when quarterback Brandon Weeden found Josh Gordon in single coverage for a 62-yard touchdown stirke, and just like that less than five minutes into the ball game the Browns held a 14-0 lead. Three weeks after the Giants last home game, which saw them erase a huge deficit to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Giants would have to equal that effort to beat the Browns. This time the comeback was a lot easier.  Thanks to the calm and cool demeanor of Eli Manning, and a sudden resurgence of Bradshaw, the Giants erased a 14-point deficit in the first half, including putting up 20 striaght points to take a 27-17 halftime...

As Derek Jeter said after the regular season concluded Wednesday, "now the season begins!" While it wasn't an easy ride for the Yankees in 2012, and they come into October with plenty of worts; fact is the Bronx Bombers are here - back in the postseason for the 16th time in the last 17 years. Jeter and his Yankees teammates are now focused on winning the franchises 28th World Series title, and sixth in the Jeter era. Standing in New York's way is the Baltimore Orioles, a very familar foe, who gave the Yankees all they could handle in the regular season, as the squad's split their 18 games, 9-9. Now they will have five games to determine who will have the right to advance to the ALCS. The Orioles are a gritty lot. Forget the fact that they lost two of three to the Rays in the final series of the regular season, this Orioles team can and will create a lot of problems for New York. The O's roster doesn't jump out at you, but they won 93 games for a re...

In hour one of the Open Mike program, host Michael Cohen, welcomes Yankees 101 writer, and host of the Warning Track, Karen VanKat to talk about the MLB playoff race, as the Yankee clinched the AL East. The Yankees now wait to see whom they will place next, either the Baltimore Orioles or Texas Rangers. Michael and Karen break down the playoff picture. open mike 10-3pt1  In hour two of the Open Mike program, Michael Cohen and guest host Karen VanKat go on individual rants on their respective football teams. Karen dissects the Giants issues after their disappointing 19-17 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Can the G-Men rebound against the Cleveland Browns?  Michael then takes a heads on look at the nuclear waste land that is the New York Jets football team; from Mike Tannenbaum to Mark Sanchez, Michael breaks it down. Open Mike 10-3pt2

Chalk up another Jets superstar as out for the season. Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes is done. Three days after falling to the MetLife Stadium turf in a heap, with an apparent foot injury, it was revealed early Wednesday that their star wide out had suffered a Lisfranc injury in his left foot, and will need surgery to repair the damage. New York had been bracing for the bad news for days, and signed wide receiver Jason Hill to take his place, but let's be honest, nobody can take Holmes' place on this roster. This is a Jets team that is so devoid of depth and talent at the major skills positions that losing a player of Holmes caliber is going to be a huge detriment to this football team. Life has been hard enough for the Jets with Mark Sanchez's inaccuracy, and the inability of New York's other skills players Stephen Hill, Shonn Greene, et al. to produce in big moments during the early season. While Holmes may be looked upon as a malcontent for his antics...

YANKEES 4 RED SOX 3  For a short moment, it looked like the 2012 regular season was going to come down to the final day. Even though the Yankees have a playoff berth secure, they were trailing the Boston Red Sox 3-1 in their game on Tuesday night, fully aware that the Baltimore Orioles had beaten the Tampa Bay Rays 1-0 earlier in the evening. A Yankees loss, and the Bronx Bombers would go into the final day of baseball in the regular season tied for first place in the AL East. A 10 game lead back in July, which evaporated over the past two  months, would come down to one day to determine whether the Yankees would open the playoffs in the wild card game or in the division series. The stakes were high, and Yankees DH/left fielder Raul Ibanez was up to the task. The veteran powered the Yankees to a 4-3 victory over the Sox Tuesday night, perserving a 1-game lead in the Eastern divison, all but guaranteeing that the Yankees will win the East on Wednesday. All the Y...