Mike Lupica’s future as the high-profile sports columnist of The Daily News was in doubt Wednesday when the tabloid laid off several sportswriters and its managing editor for sports.

The sports department was heavily hit on a day when people across the paper’s newsroom were fired....

Bill Madden, the longtime national baseball columnist, was laid off, as were Filip Bondy, Wayne Coffey, Roger Rubin, Hank Gola and Stephen Lorenzo. Teri Thompson, the assistant managing editor for sports, was also dismissed. She oversaw the sports department’s investigations team.

Surprised there has been no chatter given the slow news coming out of our Knicks.

Whether you like any of them or not, the fact is we'll have less to read from quality sources - though I can well imagine they will get picked up by new players like Yahoo, etc.