Новости за 29.08.2020

Think of buying a sports team like purchasing art. It is an analogy offered to me by a few folks involved with Major League Baseball. The value is essentially a moving target, often fueled by rarity. If there are just two available Rembrandts, that is it, and it is not like he is going to...

Last year a 16-year-old-girl struggled with a 5-foot-long puma for a minute before finally beating back the beast. She suffered bites and scratches that had to be treated at a hospital.

President Trump addressed the shooting of Jacob Blake, which has been the subject of days of violent protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this week. The president was asked about the shooting after wrapping up a rally in New Hampshire Friday. He was asked point-blank if he believed the shooter was justified. “I’m looking into it very...

A German regional court has given activists permission to hold mass demonstrations in Berlin after a ruling in the capital banned the protests. The protests, expected to attract up to 20,000 people demonstrating against the government’s strict measures against the coronavirus, are scheduled for today. Police have deployed more than 3,000 officers to control the...

A day after the Yankees suffered a walk-off loss to the Mets in their own stadium, they ended a seven-game losing streak when they won it in the bottom of the ninth. Even in victory, they needed a gift from ex-Yankee Dellin Betances, as the right-hander’s wild pitch allowed Clint Frazier to score from third...

Bravo appears to be having second thoughts about canning Dorinda Medley.

A hairy beast is part of a big-bucks Manhattan marital squabble — but it’s not another man. It’s a chair. Designed by Los Angeles artists the Haas Brothers, the  $31,500 “Beast Chair” is one of several high-priced gifts at the heart of a legal battle stemming from a “sham” wedding between a car dealership heiress...

Last week’s UFC event from the Apex Center in Las Vegas might have been the most incident-affected production ever. By the end of the night, fans watched nine fights in which favorites ran 2-4-3 and seven of the 18 fighters competed on short notice or were debuting athletes. It’s becoming clear how arduous it is...

Another 7,379 cases were confirmed on Friday, bringing the country's total to 267,077, the BBC reported Saturday.

Keith Nelson received a lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Practice makes perfect, which might explain why locals in sunny Brazil struggle to make snowmen. Snow blanketed a few cities in the country’s southern region a week ago, bringing out the most creative types to try their hand at fashioning Frostys — with hilarious results. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that nearly...

It should come as no surprise that in an era of pass-happy play-calling in the NFL, the wide receiver position is routinely one of the deepest in fantasy football. More teams are moving to three- and four-receiver sets and more players are gaining fantasy relevance with every increase in target share they get. Not everyone...

A decorated New Jersey soldier was one of two helicopter mechanics who died in a Black Hawk helicopter crash off the coast of California, the U.S. military said today. Staff Sgt. Vincent P. Marketta, 33, of Brick, NJ, and Sgt. Tyler M. Shelton, 22, of San Bernardino, Calif., were killed late Thursday on San Clemente...

President Trump and the GOP are crowing that their convention attracted millions more eyeballs — and campaign donations — than the number of supporters the Democrats drew in during their soiree a week earlier. “The Republican National Convention blew the Democrat National Convention AWAY. Not even close!” Trump tweeted Saturday, touting internal campaign figures showing 147.9...

Look, I get so many of these things wrong, I like to relish and cherish the things I get right. My predictions and my prescience has been questioned and ridiculed for years, and legitimately. I once predicted a Rich Kotite Jets team would win 10 games (missed by seven). I once called for Tom Coughlin...

A second-wave spike in the coronavirus cases in South Korea has led to fears that Seoul may be running out of hospital beds, Reuters reported Saturday. South Korea has had 16 consecutive days of triple digit rises in new COVID-19 cases as of Saturday — most of them in and around the capital. As a...

Calling it a breeding ground for COVID-19, staff and students have launched a petition to demand the city close the Martin Luther King High School building in Midtown — site of the infamous toilet-paper test. Ventilation in the building — where no classrooms have windows — is so bad that teachers bring their own air...

The other day, a polar bear killed a 38-year-old Dutch man who was camping in Norway’s remote Svalbard Islands. Now, many of us wouldn’t consider camping in Svalbard, but more of us are going to islands. In the past five years, the area has had a spike in “arctic tourism” as we rush to see...

An executive from a scandal-scarred, COVID-19-ravaged meat-processing giant has been named to a federal oversight panel on the meat-packing industry. Sherri Williams, who oversees food safety at JBS, is among 10 new appointments to the US Department of Agriculture’s National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection, the agency announced earlier this month. In addition...

The Republican National Convention gave President Trump a bump. A new poll out Saturday found that Joe Biden’s lead over Trump narrowed by four points in the wake of the GOP’s four-day sales pitch that ended Thursday night. That’s in contrast to the flat response found by the same survey on the day after the...

J.A. Happ took a shellacking Saturday before he even stepped on the Yankee Stadium mound. Just moments before the Yankees and Mets resumed their Subway Series, Brian Cashman unloaded on his starting pitcher in response to the veteran left-hander’s recent insinuations that the Yankees were manipulating their starting rotation to prevent Happ from vesting his...

Classic, bougie, ratchet.

Here are 10 tennis stars you should be keeping an eye on at the 2020 US Open.  Serena Williams The 38-year-old legend doesn’t appear in championship form — as she lost early in the two WTA tune-up events, in Louisville and Queens, cramping up in the third set Tuesday night. But she saves her best...

MLB just rid itself of the stupidest rule in baseball, so, of course I want some version of it back. It is that kind of year. I think rosters should expand to 30 for September. This season, the roster rules for the last month were changing. Teams were going to be able to carry 26...

The "Real Housewives of New York" may be saying goodbye to Dorinda Medley, but the reality star is going out with a bang.