Why New York sports in the 2020s could grow again

In and around New York, I spent a lot of my life. It's gotten to where I can't go through a single paragraph without going into some sort of sky-fallen narrative about how bad things have been around here recently. He hasn't been a 10-year-old New York sports fan. Ah, but now a new day is dawning, a new year, a new decade.

You would never have learned about Saquon Barkley or Jacob deGrom or Aaron Judge or Jamal Adams on J....