Women’s sports are everywhere but in the paper
Brooklyn: Saturday night was a seminal moment for women’s sports, as our local professional women’s hockey team, the New York Sirens, sold out Madison Square Garden in their first game at the arena. I was there with three generations of my New York-born family and I can say with absolute confidence that it was the most fun and intense game I’ve witnessed at the Garden. The game had all the hallmarks of a great sports storyline: a roaring crowd on the edge of their seats with each shot, a comeback win for the home team in a shootout, and even an old-fashioned hockey fight.
With such amazing hockey happening in our backyard, I’m deeply disappointed that the Daily News continues to omit any coverage of the Sirens, even after the post-Olympic surge in national interest in women’s hockey. The Sirens are one of the most exciting things happening in New York sports right now, and the Professional Women’s Hockey League is clearly on the rise. These incredible athletes are selling out arenas, driving growing interest in live sports and inspiring the next generation of great athletes. I want to take my kids to a game and then show them the box score when we pick up the paper the next morning.
When will our hometown paper start giving this hometown team the coverage it deserves? Rachel Cohen
Paying for their mistakes
Amityville, L.I.: Re “Cost of NYPD ‘impunity,’ ” (March 3): Why should Joe Public have to pay for the wrongs of the NYPD? Perhaps there would be a drastic redirection in these occurrences if the lawsuit money came from the NYPD pension fund instead of from the public. Barbara Reynolds
Anybody’s game
Manhattan: Re “UConn: The last blue blood standing” (column, March 31): “There’s no such thing as a blue blood anymore,” St. John’s coach Rick Pitino recently declared. He’s right. That’s what I love about March Madness. No teams are destined to win anymore, except for maybe a 1 seed against a 16 seed. Then again, No. 1 overall seed Duke University barely beat No. 16 Siena University. Adam Silbert
Pass the baton
Pittsburgh: As we can’t tolerate another rogue nation like North Korea, I agree with the president that Iran’s nuclear arsenal needs to be destroyed. When doing so, however, he needs to review the lessons learned from leaders who caused needless carnage and loss of lives by not having a realistic end scenario. It’s time for the president to set aside his ego and take a back seat. As we can’t afford another failed cause, Israel now needs to take the lead in dismantling Iran’s nuclear arsenal. Iran may have a larger army and missile arsenal, but Israel holds a stronger military edge bolstered by better technology, U.S. support and its air defense systems. Our president needs to take heed from lessons learned by Dwight D. Eisenhower, who said, “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” Matt Drozd
He is craven
Edinburgh, Scotland: To summarize the U.S. president’s Easter weekend: boasting about/threatening war crimes; desperately trying to appease his Middle East donors and Israeli handlers; profanity and blasphemy; golfing. Amanda Baker
F-bomber
Merion Station, Pa.: I wonder what parents of young children do when they learn that President Trump is about to publicly speak. I don’t remember my parents covering my ears when Presidents Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson spoke. Trump’s latest blunt message to Iranian leaders has brought what language is acceptable for the leader of our country to employ to another “F’n” new low. Paul L. Newman
All bad
Tomkins Cove, N.Y.: Outstanding guest essay by James Speyer (“Trump is remaking the United States in his image,” op-ed, April 4). The most frightening sentence of all was somewhat innocuous considering all the bullet points he legitimately highlighted. “It’s as if the worst features of humanity have been concentrated in a single individual, and that individual — who by a ghastly coincidence happens to be the most powerful person on Earth — has infected our country with those features.” A more succinct description would be that he’s the personification of evil. Doug Slotolowicz
Purposefully constrained
Patchogue, L.I.: Regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs (“Don’s tariffs illegal, high court rules,” Feb. 21), I think the orange man should remember that he was elected president of the United States, not king. Thus, there are court rulings that he has to accept. That’s why we have the system of checks and balances. The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. Lynda Welsh
Anti-fraud facade
Swarthmore, Pa.: What a hoot! The most transparently fraudulent president in U.S. history has now anointed Vice President JD Vance his new “fraud czar.” Vance’s dictate, Trump said, is to root out fraud, waste and abuse “everywhere,” but mostly, of course, in Democratic states that he’s called out as being the most egregious abusers anywhere. The old bogeyman of massive, out-of-control waste and fraud may make for good headlines, but let’s be real: Vance will have no more success than Elon Musk’s DOGE crusaders. They announced they’d uncovered massive fraud and abuse, then proceeded to document and root out virtually none. We can expect that Vance will do the same. It all amounts to a lot of sound and fury. Of course, with this most performative of presidents, it’s the appearance of action and resolution that matters, far more than results. Ken Derow
Agency thugs
Bronx: Trump is sending those punk ICE agents to work at airports to help TSA with the chaos. ICE loves to kill people. They already killed two U.S. citizens who did nothing wrong. ICE is like the Ku Klux Klan, hiding their faces with masks. I don’t trust anyone who wears a mask to work. Pay TSA for the work it does and get rid of ICE. Doris Festante
Actions speak louder
Ozone Park: Why do we have an incessant plethora of negative comments about Trump’s performance as president? There should be a way to remove him before 2028. There are certainly enough people who view him negatively to accomplish this. Ray Hackinson
Forgotten boro
Staten Island: A beautiful street on Staten Island was snowplowed before the blizzard and not after the major storm. My street runs from Jewett Ave., a major road, across Westcott Blvd. Residents were kind to each other, and snow was not thrown into the street. We waited and waited. Only warmer temperatures brought us sight of the street’s asphalt. My grandmother always said that Staten Island was treated as a stepchild! Our street is Goodwin Ave. — be good to us! MaryAnn DeFrancesco