The Dallas Wings won the WNBA draft lottery that is widely presumed to be a selection of Paige Bueckers with the top overall pick, but the UConn star apparently coveted a different destination. ESPN’s Michael Voepel reported that Bueckers had another team she hoped to wind up with. “Sources around the league have indicated that … Read more
Jamal Crawford knows he has big — and stylish — shoes to fill, but the former Knicks guard is excited for his new role as a game analyst on MSG Network subbing for Clyde Frazier beginning with Wednesday’s contest in Phoenix. Crawford, whose nine NBA teams included a five-year stint with the Knicks from 2004-08, … Read more
Getty Images It was the first question that came up. Moments after Mike Tyson and Jake Paul’s final press conference, at the Toyota Music Factory in Las Colinas, Texas, last Wednesday, a Dutch journalist from NOS — a TV station in the Netherlands — asked me for an interview. He was asking American journalists their … Read more
Inmate firefighters hike near Yosemite National Park in 2008. (Ron Lewis / Associated Press) Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed. That’s troubling. Do voters really believe forced prison labor is acceptable? The state Constitution (like its federal counterpart) has long outlawed slavery … Read more
South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace says she has been getting death threats over her push to ban incoming transgender Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride and others from using female restrooms inside the Capitol. The backlash came after Mace unveiled a new bathroom bill resolution earlier week that seeks to prevent trans women from using the … Read more
Mushie, the missing spayed black brindle French bulldog, was lost in North Hollywood. (Gabriella Sidhu) A Southern California couple who lost their French bulldog have gone to great lengths over the last two months to find the pooch, resorting to bloodhounds, animal psychics, cash rewards and door-to-door canvasing. But the dog — Mushie — has … Read more
A 4-month-old baby was gunned down alongside his young mom in a broad-daylight drive-by shooting in Hartford, Conn. Little Messiah Diaz was inside a vehicle with his 20-year-old mom Jessica Mercado and an unidentified man around 3 p.m. Tuesday when another car pulled up and someone opened fire, according to cops. All three were dropped … Read more
6Kate Cassidy arrived at late boyfriend Liam Payne’s funeral on Wednesday. WireImage Liam Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, mourned her boyfriend’s death at his private funeral on Wednesday. Cassidy joined Payne’s other close friends and family to mourn the former One Direction member’s death as he was laid to rest at a private service outside of … Read more
“Owning Manhattan” camera crews have been in and out of the top pad at 15 W. 96th St. Eytan Weber, Evan Joseph Images This Upper West Side penthouse duplex overlooking Central Park is getting its close-up — and a price chop. Camera crews have been spotted coming in and out of the posh pad at … Read more
The mix of sun and cloud will give way to rain by Thursday morning. A man works inside the Palais de congrès.Photo by Christinne Muschi /The Canadian Press Montreal’s sunny streak is set to end — but not yet. Expect a high of 8 C Wednesday, with a UV index of 2, or low. At … Read more
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