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Stephen Yang
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Need help from Public Advo-
cate Jumaane Williams? Good
Public Advocate
Jumaane Williams can
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luck with that! seldom be found at his

Williams was elected in 2019 to
head a $5 million-a-year office
that’s supposed to assist New
Yorkers with complaints about
government-related services and
regulations. But he and his staff
have been largely missing in ac-
tion since the COVID-19 pan-
demic struck in early 2020, with
Williams allowing dozens of em-
ployees to continue working from
home after lockdowns were lifted.
On Tuesday, The Post visited
the Public Advocate’s Office in
lower Manhattan and found
mostly empty cubicles, with just
five workers sitting at their
desks out of a staff of 59.
And anyone who tries calling
Williams’ main “constituents”
line gets a recorded message that
says, “Our office is currently
working remotely.”
“Due to higher than normal call
volume, an associate will respond
to your call within three to five
business days,” the message adds.
Rain on his parade
The situation led to outrage on
social media, with Jennifer Har-
ris of Victims Rights NY re-
tweeting a photo of Williams at a
parade in Queens.
“His staff cant go to the office
but he can go to parades,” Harris
wrote, adding sarcastically,
“Thank you for your hard work.”
Twitter user “Jean,” who uses
the handle @queens_parents,
was flabbergasted, responding,
“Wait, what? Is Jumanne’s office
is still working remotely?”
Williams, who is paid $184,800
a year as public advocate, re-
sponded defensively, saying,
“Most of these tweets are more
about trolling than improve-
ments. In case you actually need
help @nycpa office is open daily.
It’s on hybrid schedule, some-
thing I’ve consistently advocated
for where possible. There is a ro-
tating remote schedule to insure
office coverage.”
But those claims just incited
more fury.
“In the name of being produc-
tive and helpful instead of just
trolling – how can constituents
get in touch with your office for
IMMEDIATE attention in urgent
situations @JumaaneWilliams?”
Harris tweeted. “Hybrid is fine
for private employers. Not for
taxpayer funded offices when no
one is available to answer the
phone and address constituent
concerns immediately.”
User “NYC Parent,” whose
handle is @nycfreethinker, also
piled on, saying, “I never heard
back from your office @Jumaa-
neWilliams Not once. But I did
get thru to @bradlander office
and spoke with staff who were
appalled by both of you for try-
ing to mandate covid vax for
office, critics say.
children to attend school.”
The Public Advocate’s Office,
created in 1993, is widely consid-
ered a path to bigger and better
government jobs, with Williams’
predecessor, Letitia James, now
the state attorney general.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio also
used the Public Advocate’s Office
to launch himself to City Hall.
ccampanile@nypost.com
bail limits
Gov. Hochul turned up the heat
Tuesday on fellow Albany Demo-
crats by publicly pushing them to
change “absurd” limits on cash
bail despite resistance from their
legislative leaders.
“We’re talking about protecting
society in a way that people would
think is com-
mon sense.
And so many
members of
the Legislature
have stepped
up in support
— others have
not,” Hochul
said at a Ro-
chester event.
The gover-
nor has a proposal in her $277 bil-
lion state budget that would make
it easier to jail people by remov-
ing what on Tuesday she called
“an absurd standard” requiring
that criminal defendants get the
“least restrictive conditions”
ahead of their trials.
“We can’t let data hide the reali-
ties of fear because in the neigh-
borhoods that I represent, public
safety isn’t a data point. It’s a feel-
ing and when you feel safe, you
feel safe. And when you don’t, you
don’t,” said state Sen. Jeremy
Cooney (D-Rochester), among the
few Democratic senators publicly
backing Hochul’s bail effort.
Cooney later walked back his
support in a statement sent by a
spokesman late Tuesday. “Senator
Cooney supports many of Gover-
nor Hochul’s public safety pro-
posals, including newly an-
nounced funding for gun violence
prevention programs, pretrial ser-
vices and re-entry programs. He
also believes continued discus-
sion on tweaks to bail reform is
necessary, but he did not state his
support for all of the proposed
bail reform changes,” it said.
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‘zip-a-
Dee’ zap
Parks pull ‘South’ song

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By Emily CranE

Proving that it’s a woke world,

after all, Disney has quietly
axed the beloved “Zip-a-Dee-
Doo-Dah” tune from its twice
daily Magic Happens parade
performances at its theme parks
because the catchy song is tied
to the 1946 film “Song of the
South.”
Instead, the parade’s playlist
will now feature a song from the
“Peter Pan” film.
“Song of the South,” made in
1946 and set on a Georgia plan-
tation, has been panned over
the years for having racial un-
dertones and offering a roman-
Jenna Or- ticized view of the South during
tega doesn’t
Reconstruction.
suffer from But the song itself — com-
stage fright —
plete with the upbeat lyrics
starring as “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-
Wednesday
dee-ay. My, oh, my, what a won-
Addams in the derful day” — is a classic chil-
Netflix show
dren’s bop with no racial conno-
“Wednesday” and tations.
appearing in the up- Disney didn’t respond to The
coming “Scream VI.” Post’s request for comment
It’s dating that gives Tuesday about its push to re-
her the heebie-jee- move the popular tune.
bies. “Maybe I am
too obsessed with
my work,” Ortega, Ride also retired
20, says in the The decision, first reported by
April issue of the Los Angeles Times, follows
Elle, “but the the theme parks’ move to retire
idea of relation- the 33-year-old Splash Moun-
ships stresses tain, which is based on “Song of
me out.” the South.”
When the final ride was car-
ried out at Florida’s Disney
World in January, crowds were
filmed loudly singing along to
“Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.”
The Splash Mountain ride,
which still remains operational
at Disneyland in Anaheim, Ca-
lif., for now, will become Tiana’s
Bayou Adventure, which is
based on the 2009 film “The
Princess and the Frog” at both
parks next year.
It isn’t yet clear when Splash
Mountain will carry out its last
ride at the Anaheim park.
The move is just the latest in a
“Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” was
featured in Disney’s 1946
film “Song of the South.”
Here are the lyrics:
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh, my,
what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine
headin’ my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
zip-a-dee-ay!
Mister Bluebird’s
on my shoulder
It’s the truth,
it’s “actch’ll”
Everything
is “satisfactch’ll”
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling,
wonderful day!
wave of reckoning at Disney.
Disney CEO Bob Iger had an-
nounced in March 2020 that
“Song of the South” would be
axed from the Disney+ stream-
ing service because the “out-
dated cultural depictions” es-
sentially made it inappropriate
in today’s world.
Just last week, critics also ac-
cused Disney of pushing a woke
agenda after the trailer for the
upcoming live-action film “Pe-
ter Pan & Wendy” revealed that
girls would be portraying some
of the Lost Boys.
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New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023
blacklist
‘Risky’ media flap
By STEVEN NELSON
and CAITLIN DOORNBOS
WASHINGTON — Con-
gressional Republicans are
probing federal funding of a
UK-based organization that
falsely declared The Post
and other major news outlets
to be “risky” possible spread-
ers of false information.
House and Senate sources
say investigators are trying
to get to the bottom of how
the Global Disinformation
Index (GDI) secured tax-
payer money before creat-
ing a December 2022 black-
list of 10 outlets with con-
servative or libertarian-
leaning opinion sections.
The GDI, which calls it-
self “the world’s first rating
of the media sites based on
the risk of the outlet carry-
ing disinformation,” report-
edly secured $100,000 from
the State Department’s
Global Engagement Center
and $545,000 from the gov-
ernment-funded National
Endowment for Democracy.
Both entities have said
they don’t plan to provide
additional funding, but the
past spending has raised
alarms on Capitol Hill.
“No program or office like
this should be receiving any
federal funding; I can tell
you that much,” said Rep.
Dan Bishop (R-NC).
“US taxpayer dollars
should never be funneled to
left-wing disinformation
groups that are trying to
blacklist American news
outlets like the New York
Post,” said House Oversight
Committee Chairman James
Comer (R-Ky.).
The GDI’s 25-page report
that included a proposed
advertising blacklist said it
analyzed 20 articles per
news source and also re-
viewed publications’ poli-
cies for bylines, corrections
and other issues. The analy-
sis also assessed whether
outlets engaged in “negative
targeting,” including the
“use of ridiculing, deroga-
tory or hateful remarks,
along with the promotion of
unsubstantiated doubts or
distrust in a specific actor.”
The report said that ad-
vertisers should consider it
“lowest-risk” to work with
NPR, The New York Times,
USA Today, The Washing-
ton Post, BuzzFeed and the
Huffington Post. The Wall
Street Journal, which like
The Post is owned by News
Corp., also got a green light.
Conservative bias
The report’s list of “the
ten riskiest online news
outlets” was topped by The
Post and included libertar-
ian Reason Magazine, Real-
ClearPolitics, the Federalist,
the Daily Wire, the Ameri-
can Conservative magazine
and Newsmax.
“The New York Post was
rated as high-risk, largely be-
cause of its lack of transpar-
ency around operational pol-
icies and practices,” the re-
port said. “The site published
no public guidelines for the
use of bylines on its content,
the types and number of
sources its content relies on,
or pre-publication fact-
checking and post-publica-
tion corrections processes.”
The Post publishes by-
lines on news stories, cites
by name or transparently
describes sources and pub-
lishes corrections when er-
rors are reported, as is com-
mon practice for major
news organizations.
teenage wasteland
By ASIA GRACE
Teenage boys on TikTok are flooded
with misogynistic, racist, sexual and
violent content — even when they
don’t go looking for it, a Post investiga-
tion found.
I’m a woman in my early 30s, but I
recently created profiles for a fake 14-
year-old boy named Jayden on TikTok
and YouTube.
My aim wasn’t to use Jayden’s profile
to interact with other people online
but rather just to see what sort of con-
tent the algorithm fed him if he was
completely passive.
Within seconds of opening TikTok
and YouTube as him, I was bombarded
with a dizzying stream of videos of
girls lip-syncing and twerking in mini
shorts. After about a minute, things
took a darker turn.
Mega influencers like stunt man-
boxer Logan Paul, 27, started popping
up. Paul stars in videos alongside the
Sidemen, a popular British YouTube
group know for offensive content —
one member faced a backlash for his
“rape face” video series in 2015.
In their “Sidemen Tinder in Real
Life” YouTube series, the men often
talk graphically to women who are in-
vited to their studio to make a poten-
tial love connection. But instead of
finding Mr. Right, the girls are often
pummeled with insults about their
physical appearances.
The most disturbing video I came
across on TikTok, however, featured
slow-motion footage of a boy, likely
around Jayden’s age, in a classroom
standing over a girl and swinging his
fist toward her face as she recoiled.
Jayden was fed another TikTok
video stamped with the title “Calling
my girlfriend the ‘B’ word for her reac-
tion” and featuring a young guy re-
peatedly barking the epithet at his sig-
nificant other in hopes of infuriating
her for laughs.
Wait, it gets worse
Similar videos were in heavy rota-
tion. I also heard hate-speak about kill-
ing orphans, hanging black people and
mocking Asian accents disguised as
“dark humor” to tickle 14-year-old
funny bones as I swiped.
My curiosity about what’s popping
up on teen boys’ timelines was piqued
by controversial online personality
Andrew Tate, who was recently de-
tained in Romania for an ongoing rape
and sex-trafficking investigation.
Tate amassed 4.6 million Instagram
followers and 740,000 YouTube fol-
lowers — many of them impressiona-
ble young boys — before being banned
from those platforms and TikTok last
year because of misogynistic content.
His hate-fueled sermons labeled
women as a man’s property, justified
domestic violence and blamed victims
of sexual assault for their attacks.
Reposted snippets from his heinous
“TateSpeech” channel continue to
haunt the Internet today, despite the
ban on Tate. On TikTok, posts tagged
#AndrewTate — including one in
which he vows to brutalize a “bitch”
with a machete if she ever dares to ac-
cuse him of cheating — have earned
more than 22.8 billion views.
A clip titled “Do women like getting
murdered?” shared via an account
called @SocialMediaMoney, appeared
on my timeline soon after. In the
video, comedian Theo Von, 42, and
rapper Logic, 33, joke that women have
a fetish-like desire to be “f--king mur-
dered” by their romantic partners.
Another post from an account dedi-
cated to the Sidemen featured a
woman asking the boys, “Do you know
any good jokes?” to which one re-
sponded “gender equality,” inciting an
eruption of laughter from the other
guys.
The misogyny was most savage on
Chinese-owned TikTok. On Google’s
YouTube, there were more guns. My
timeline was filled with shorts about
firearms, both real and Airsoft guns.
I’d spent five days, scrolling for at
least an hour each day as him, and I’d
seen enough.
But the vast majority of young men
are still watching. According to a De-
cember 2022 survey from Morning
Consult, 93% of boys ages 13 to 25 in
the US have YouTube accounts and
62% are on TikTok.
While the platforms do promote
some content that’s largely harmless
and legitimately entertaining — from
Mr. Beast’s stunts to thrilling sports
highlights — much of it is seriously
sinister.
We should all be terrified.
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teenage wasteland

New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

WH eyes
power to
shut down
US usage

nypost.com
The Biden administration urged
both Democrats and Republicans
Tuesday to quickly pass newly intro-
duced legislation that would give the
president the power to shut down
TikTok over possible national-secu-
rity concerns.
The strong signal from the White
House comes as lawmakers from
both sides of the aisle introduced a
bill in the Senate on Tuesday that
could squash the Chinese-owned so-
cial-media app in the US, where it is
currently used by more than 100 mil-
lion Americans, many of them
younger than 30.
National Security Adviser Jake Sul-
livan said the proposal would buff up
the country’s ability to fight off risks
from other countries.
“We look forward to continue

App trapped working with both Democrats and

The Post created an account for a made-up teenage boy named
“Jayden” — with no other details included — on TikTok and You-
Tube, and the account was flooded with content that was appall-
ingly misogynistic, sexual and obsessed with guns. Also steered
to “Jayden” was hate speech about killing orphans, hanging black
people and mocking Asian accents disguised as “dark humor.”
Republicans on this bill and urge
Congress to act quickly to send it to
the president’s desk,” Sullivan said in
a statement.
Under the bill, the Commerce De-
partment would be able to restrict
and even banish TikTok, owned by
ByteDance, and other technologies
that pose national-security threats,
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said.
Foreign technologies from China,
Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela
and Cuba would all be targeted, the
Senate Intelligence Committee chair-
man said.
Concerns have been ongoing that
the short-video sharing platform
gives the Chinese government access
to data of Americans glued to the
popular platform.
Six Democrats and six Republicans
in the Senate are co-sponsoring the
legislation.
“Over the past several years, for-
eign adversaries of the United States
have encroached on American mar-
kets through technology products
that steal sensitive location and iden-
tifying information of US citizens, in-
cluding social-media platforms like
TikTok,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)
said in a statement.
“This dangerous new Internet in-
frastructure poses serious risks to
our nation’s economic and national
security.”
David Propper with Post Wires
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Bike really takes off

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Fly high
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

fANtAStic: The
XTURISMO “luxury
air cruiser,” inspired BEN SAVAGE
by the speeder bikes Running as a Democrat.

with ‘Star in “Star Wars,” will set

you back a cool
$555,000 and can
only be flown above a
Savage
Wars’-like closed track in Japan.
bids for
speeders Congress
Actor Ben Savage, best
By jack hoBBs known for starring on the
hit ABC sitcom “Boy Meets
Not so long ago in World,” has officially

a galaxy not so far
way . . .
The “world’s first
flying bike” has officially
been released in Japan — with a
nearly $555,000 price tag.
The 12-foot-long XTURISMO
“luxury air cruiser” — inspired
by the speeder bikes in “Star
Wars” — was developed by the
aircraft company AERWINS.
The 661-pound vehicle, a final-
ist in the 2023 Edison Awards, is
designed to draw power from two
large central rotors running on a
228-horsepower gas-fueled Ka-
wasaki motor.
Additional oomph comes from
an electrical battery that powers
four fans on the vehicle’s outer
edges that provide stability to the
ride.
The bike — hyped as “a mani-
festation of the dream of air mo-
bility” — can reportedly hit
speeds of 50 to 62 miles per hour.
“Bringing science fiction to life:
Imagine a world where humans
have free rein over the skies.
Surely, life would be more free,”
reads the official description.
“Expand your ideas about trans-
port, experience the world like
never before. Pioneer the next
generation of transport. XTUR-
ISMO was created with this in
mind. A new journey begins.”
The bike bears a resemblance
to the speeder bikes used by the
Galactic Empire to chase Luke
Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and
Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher)
through the forests on the planet
of Endor in 1983’s “Return of the
Jedi.”
In June 2022, AERWINS an-
nounced the global launch of
XTURISMO Limited Edition at
December’s Top Marques Mon-
aco conference, and its perform-
ance at America’s Detroit Auto
Show in September was also
well-received worldwide, accord-
ing to brand reps who said they
are “currently receiving orders
and inquiries from all over the
world.”
Alas, “Star Wars” fans and oth-
ers who are itching to take part in
Jam Press/@xturismo_official
launched a bid for Con-
gress.
In an Instagram post
shared Monday, the Demo-
crat vowed to “restore faith
in government” as the rep-
resentative of California’s
30th District seat, currently
held by Democratic Rep.
Adam Schiff, who has an-
their own chase will be heart- nounced he’s running for
broken to hear that the flying the Senate.
bikes are currently only available “Together, we can do bet-
in Japan — where they are limited ter. I am a proud Califor-
to test rides over a closed race nian, union member and
track. longtime resident of Dis-
The air cruisers — hailed as trict 30 who comes from a
one of the “19 most mind-blowing family of unwavering ser-
science stories of 2022” by BBC vice to our country and
Science — could eventually be community,” Savage posted
used to assist in rescue opera- to his 1.1 million followers.
tions, disaster relief and inspec- The actor, who is the
tions of infrastructure, according younger brother of actor
to their creators. A video touting and director Fred Savage,
XTURISMO Limited Edition fea- portrayed Cory Matthews
tures the vehicle hovering above on “Boy Meets World” from
the waters of Lake Yamanaka 1993-2000 and its spinoff
with Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji in “Girl Meets World” from
the background. 2014 to 2017.
“In publishing this video, it is Nika Shakhnazarova
our hope that viewers will be
moved by the natural beauty of
Yamanashi,” the brand’s reps said
in a statement, “and feel the an-
ticipation and excitement of the
Missing man
future mobility which can be
achieved through our technologi-
dead in La.
cal capabilities.” A Georgia father of five
jhobbs@nypost.com who went missing during a
business trip in Louisiana
has been discovered dead

Don floats Lake as veep
Could two losers make a
winner?
Former President Donald
Trump is strongly consider-
ing a woman to be his 2024
running mate and views
failed Arizona gubernato-
rial candidate Kari Lake as
the model for a potential
vice president, according to
a report.
Trump, 76, who launched
his third White House bid on
Nov. 15, sees Lake as someone
who could help him shore up
the necessary support among
suburban women to defeat
President Biden, Axios re-
ported on Tuesday.
More importantly, Lake
meets Trump’s main crite-
rion as a tenacious defender
of the 45th president, the
report said. Mark Moore
Sex-abuse raps vs. hoax Hasid
A phony Hasidic dad who
found social-media acclaim
for adopting nine boys has
been charged with sexually
abusing most of them while
out on bond in an earlier
child-sex case, according to
disturbing reports.
Single dad Hayim Nissim
Cohen, 38, regularly blogged
about his “unique family” in
Houston, gaining nearly
200,000 followers on TikTok.
But “behind all that is ex-
cessive abuse,” local prose-
cutor Janna Oswald told a re-
cent court hearing, according
to the Houston Chronicle.
Cohen — who claimed to
be a Hasidic Jew from
Brooklyn despite being
born Jeffrey Lujan Vejil in
— wrapped in plastic and
rolled in a carpet.
The body of Nathan Mil-
lard, 42, was found at about
the Lone Star State — was 3:30 a.m. Monday in a vacant
busted last month after one lot in Baton Rouge, about
of his sons went on a pod- 3 miles from the Happy Irish
cast to anonymously report Pub, WBRZ reported.
being raped and abused, the Miller went to the pub at
local paper noted. about 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 23,
Five other kids also came according to reports. WBRZ
forward, with Cohen now was told that after bar staff
facing 12 charges, KHOU 11 cut him off, he left alone for
said. Their ages were 9, 10, 14, his hotel around 11:30 p.m.
15, 16 and 17. Lee Brown Yaron Steinbuch

Standing
in way of
Gotham
families
By POST EDITORIAL BOARD
HE hundreds of parents and
T children who rallied Tues-
day at City Hall to urge state
lawmakers to lift the cap on city
charter schools are just one sign
of the justice of this cause.
Gov. Hochul simply wants to
let 21 “zombie” charters be re-
cycled for the city and let Got-
ham use some of the 85 charters
still available under the state-
wide cap.
The so-called progressives
who control the state Legislature
are resisting — at the behest of
the teachers unions who’d be the
only losers from letting charters
flourish.
It’s a simple fact that charters
are often
the only
good pub-
lic schools
in a neigh-
borhood —
but too
many
neighbor-
hoods
don’t yet have them, even
though at least a dozen promis-
ing charters are eager to open as
soon as the cap stops stopping
them.
As parent activist Wai Wah
Chin wrote last month: “It’s hard
to go to a parents’ gathering
without hearing their com-
plaints about district schools,
their anguish over the poor op-
tions and stories of how they or
their friends left or are planning
to leave the system — whether
to charter schools, parochial
schools, private schools or out-
side the city entirely.”
Charters overall do a far better
job at teaching than the regular
public system, with far more of
their students testing proficient
in math and English — even
though charters largely enroll
kids from lower-income families
and get less than half the per-pu-
pil funding.
The only lawmakers standing
in the way are the ones who put
the special interests’ needs
ahead of those of children.
FREE THE CHARTERS
parenTS’ clear
School choice
By KyLE SChnITzER
and CARL CAmPAnILE
More than 500 parents and stu-
dents rallied at City Hall on
Tuesday, urging resistant state
lawmakers to lift the cap and al-
low more New York City charter
schools to open.
Parents and students carried
signs that read “Our kids can’t
wait — lift the cap” and “My child
— my choice.”
The push comes as Gov. Ho-
chul’s plan to lift the cap has
faced fierce resistance from state
Democratic legislators allied with
the anti-charter teachers union.
But only two politicians — As-
sembly members Brian Cunning-
ham of Brooklyn and John Zac-
caro of The Bronx — showed up
to back the campaign.
“I would think that most Demo-
crats would support this,” said
Harlem mom Natasha Burrell,
whose two children, Maverick
and Monarch, attend the Success
Academy charter in Hell’s
Kitchen. “This is like upward mo-
bility. Public schools are not do-
ing well. They haven’t been doing
well for a long time. The success
of charter schools in general
should speak for itself.
“They need to lift the cap be-
cause education is key — educa-
tion is important. It creates op-
portunities. Charter school is the
way — it’s the way for my family.”
‘We should have a voice’
The city has 287 approved
charter schools, but others in the
pipeline or planning stages can’t
open because of the legal cap —
and parents in neighborhoods
served by failing public schools
want the chance to put their kids
in a better learning environment.
Anyta Brown, a public-charter
grandma from Brooklyn’s East
New York, said state legislators
“ought to be for the people” —
giving more educational opportu-
nities for kids rather than siding
with defenders of the status quo.
“That cap has to be lifted . . .
where does our money go? We
should all have a voice for where
our money goes,” Brown said.
7
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Stephen Yang
Help! A large crowd of
nypost.com
New York City families
gathers Tuesday
outside City Hall in
support of lifting the cap
on local charter schools,
which is opposed by the
teachers unions.
Case 1 Case 2
HARLEM MOM HARLEM PARENT KATHRYN MARROW
,
NATASHA BURRELL, 56, said the KIPP NYC College Prep
45, said the Success High School charter has inspired her
Academy Charter 16-year-old son, Christopher, to beco
me
School in Hell’s a caring citizen.
Kitchen has been a Christopher was a keynote speaker
godsend for her two in one of the 2018 student-led March
of
kids. Our Lives demonstrations for stricter
Maverick is in gun safety laws.
second grade “KIPP charter
and Monarch is in allows him free
h wer e hon ored as “Scholars of speech, creativity,
kindergarten. Bot innovativeness,
the Week” in class last mon th.
it’s the way for extra curricular
“Charter school is the way — activities outside
my family,” Bur rell said .
ause education the school,”
“They need to lift the cap bec creates Marrow said.
— edu cati on is imp orta nt. It
is key s Charter “KIPP just kept
We cho se Suc ces
opportunities. him covered and
cess. My kids love
because of my nephew’s suc supported.”
theater club.”
the school and they’re in the
erick: “Ma th is my favorite subject
Said Mav
ntin g and wri ting numbers.”
because I love cou
— Kyle Schnitzer
Harlem parent Kathryn Mar- should be allowed to open to help should support both traditional
row, whose 16-year-old son, close the racial achievement gap. and publicly funded charter
Christopher, attends the KIPP “There are people of color who schools instead of pitting them
NYC College Prep Charter HS, want to open up these charter against each other.
said, “I was amazed that there schools so they can assist the Noting the increase in funding
were only two politicians here, children of color who are under- for traditional public schools, Cun-
because this is a very hot topic.” valued,” she said. ningham said, “This choice is not a
About 90% of charter school Cunningham, who represents choice of saying that one doesn’t
students are black and Hispanic Crown Heights and Prospect Lef- matter or the other. It is giving par-
— and Marrow said more charters ferts Garden, said lawmakers ents the choice to choose.”
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eric’s office of
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Help

via REUTERS
’em in,
move
’em out
By Bernadette HoGan
and Bruce GoldInG

Mayor Adams announced the

By IsaBel Keane Guatemala and El Salva-
dor and brought the total
More than 100 unac- number of migrants to
companied migrant chil- 343. The trailer was
dren were discovered in- found abandoned with-
side an abandoned trailer out a driver along the
in Mexico on Sunday — side of the Cosamaloap-
one of the largest recent an-La Tinaja highway, ac-
discoveries of minors mi- cording to the INM.
grating through the coun- It had been rigged with
try. fans and a metal struc-
Most of the 103 unchap- ture that created a sec-
eroned minors had been ond level inside. It also
traveling through Mexico had several fans an-
from Guatemala, the gov- chored to the lower level
ernment said Monday. and makeshift vents in its
In addition to the chil- ceiling.
dren were 212 adults A photo of the concern-
from Guatemala, Hondu- ing discovery (right)
ras, El Salvador and Ec- shared by INM showed
uador, the National Mi- plastic water bottles and
gration Institute said. other trash scattered across
Authorities also found the floor of the truck.
28 migrants traveling as Many of the migrants
families inside the truck. (above) appear to be
The families came from young men, several of
creation of a new government
agency Tuesday to deal with the
Big Apple’s $4.2 billion migrant
crisis — and said he was in talks
with other mayors across the US
to take some migrants off his
hands.
Adams said the Office of Asy-
lum Seeker Operations would
open a 24/7 processing center for
arriving migrants and move those
services out of the Port Authority
Bus Terminal in Midtown.
Adams said the new location
would be “centralized” but didn’t
say where or when it would open.
Also unclear was who will run
whom are shirtless as the new agency and the cost of its
they jump out of the annual budget.
packed truck. Workers will focus on helping
Migrants inside the truck adult migrants file the paperwork
donned colored bracelets needed to get federal work per-
as a means of identification. mits, in addition to providing
The unaccompanied them and their families with “ba-
children will be placed sic needs, like food and a safe
into the custody of Vera- place to sleep,” Adams said.
cruz’s family services “Our goal is to help them to be-
system. The other mi- come self-sufficient as soon as
grants will be processed possible. That is the No. 1 goal,”
to determine their legal he said during a news conference
status in Mexico. at City Hall.
Nearly 60 children Adams said that “no matter
without adult supervi- where I go, I’m hearing the same
sion were discovered in- thing from the asylum seekers:
side a crowded truck ‘We don’t want to be a burden.
bringing about 70 mi- We want to work. We want to be
grants from Guatemala part of all this, what we heard
into Mexico in January. about being in this country.’ ”
Most of the truck’s occu- Hizzoner also said he was going
pants were young, unac- to “move towards long-term
companied boys, between housing and resettlement, includ-
the ages of 14 and 17. ing resettlement to pre-vetted cit-
With Wires ies and municipalities that wel-
come asylum seekers.”
“There are many cities within

miGrant mess
And guess who pays?
Mayor Adams says the
new taxpayer-funded
Office of Asylum Seeker
Operations will:
Move migrant
processing from the
Port Authority Bus
Terminal to a new “24/7
Arrival Center”
Provide job training
and language classes,
and assist migrants
with paperwork for
federal work permits
Help migrants
relocate to their
“preferred city of
choice” elsewhere in
the state, including
Sullivan County
50,000+ 31,000+
Number of migrants
processed by the city
the state and across the country
that are saying they want to help.
We want to create the pathway to
do that,” he said.
But the mayor preemptively told
reporters not to ask for details,
saying, “I don’t need you running
to the cities and stopping us from
getting asylum seekers there.”
As of Monday, the city’s
migrant population in-
cluded more than
50,000 who have been
processed by offi-
cials since last
spring.
Of that
number,
more than
31,000
were liv-
ing in 101
emer-
gency
shel-
$364
Number housed in 101 Daily cost for each of
emergency shelters 12,700 households
ters, with the total daily cost of e to the Asylum Seeker Crisis.”
housing, food and other services The 25-page pamphlet detailed
pegged at $4.6 million. plans to provide migrants with
City Council Minority Leader English-language classes and fed-
Joe Borelli (R-SI) said he believed eral workplace-safety instruction,
Adams’ plan “stems from reality as well as training for jobs in
setting in that we can’t be the health care, food service and
world’s municipal refugee camp. other “in-demand industries.”
“The quicker we can process Migrants would also be taught
people out of the system, to avoid getting scammed by
the better off New York shady employers who violate la-
taxpayers will be. $4.6 bor laws by paying less than the
million a day is more minimum wage and stealing tips.
than the Department And despite the mayor’s stated
of Sanitation desire to keep under wraps mi-
spends,” he said. grants’ potential destinations out-
At one point dur- side the city, the report outlined a
ing his speech, the “workforce training pilot” pro-
mayor held up a gram in upstate Sullivan County.
glossy, magazine- The city, “in partnership with
style report titled The Center for Discovery and
“The Road Forward: SUNY Sullivan, will offer asylum
A Blueprint to Ad- seekers the opportunity to relo-
dress New York cate to Sullivan County, attend
City’s Re- SUNY Sullivan Community Col-
spons lege, live in college residence
halls and earn a post-secondary
credential or degree,” it said.
“Asylum seekers will also re-
ceive workforce training through
The Center for Discovery in
$4.6M
Total daily cost
health care, human services, hos-
pitality, culinary and agricultural
sectors,” it added.
“One of the program’s goals is
to develop a blueprint so that
others around the state can repli-
cate the model.”
In addition, it said Gov. Hochul’s
proposed $227 billion state budget
for fiscal 2024 “includes $25 mil-
lion to assist in the resettlement of
certain families” within the state,
including up to one year of free
housing and other services.
“The New York State Office of
Temporary and Disability Assist-
ance (OTDA) will administer and
oversee the program, which will
include contracts with nonprofit
organizations who have proven
experience in successfully reset-
tling refugee populations,” it said.
City Hall also acknowledged an
error that mistakenly put the esti-
mated total cost of the migrant
crisis at $5.6 billion through the
middle of next year, 50% more
than officially projected.
Goodwin / Page 15
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Guards
bolster
Canada
border
More than two dozen Bor-
der Patrol officers have been
nypost.com
transferred to the northern
border to respond to a his-
toric spike in the number of
Mexican immigrants cross-
ing into the United States
from Canada, according to a
report.
Customs and Border Pro-
tection has assigned 25 extra
agents to a busy section of
the Canadian frontier that
borders New York, Vermont
and New Hampshire, NBC
News reported Monday, cit-
ing an agency spokesperson.
Some of the reassigned
agents were reportedly
pulled from their duties on
the US-Mexican border.
“While the apprehension
numbers are small compared
to other areas with irregular
migration flows, Swanton
Sector apprehensions con-
stitute a large change in this
area,” the CBP spokesperson
told the network.
“The deployed team will
serve as a force multiplier in
the region and assist to deter
and disrupt human smug-
gling activities being con-
ducted in the Swanton Sec-
tor area of responsibility.”
Since Oct. 1, 2022, appre-
hensions have surged 846%
in the sector compared with
the same period 12 months
earlier, CBP stats show.
More than any other na-
tionality, Mexican migrants
seeking asylum in the US
have been turned away at the
southern border because of
Title 42 COVID-19 restric-
tions that took effect in
March 2020, the report said.
But those with the finan-
cial means to buy a $350 one-
way plane ticket from Mex-
ico City or Cancun to To-
ronto or Montreal can at-
tempt to cross into the US
from Canada because they
are less likely to be turned
back because of Title 42,
which is used less frequently
than on the southern border.
Mark Moore
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Deadly tummy-tuck
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Getty Images
A haunting
By Jesse O’NeiLL

Last weekend’s fatal

kidnapping of a group of
Americans in Mata-
moros, Mexico, harkened
back to the 1989 murder

echo of
of a spring breaker in
that border city that
made international head-
lines.
University of Texas
student Mark Kilroy, 21,
and his friends booked a
hotel to party in on
South Padre Island,
Texas, that year. On
March 14, he vanished
while bar hopping with
friends across the border
in Matamoros.
’89 horror natural powers.
The next month, inves- Authorities dug up 13
tigators found that Kil- mutilated corpses at the
roy had been kidnapped, compound and two oth-
tortured, raped and ers from a nearby farm.
killed by a satanic drug The victims included
outfit bluntly dubbed rival outlaws and ran-
“Los Narcos-Satanicos.” dom targets.
Drug suspect Serafin In addition, officials
Hernandez Garcia led learned that the gang had By HaLey BrOwN in Lake City, SC, them to communicate with the doctor’s
authorities to a rural slaughtered countless and OLivia LaNd and office. While trying to sort out their loca-
compound about 13 miles “cats, dogs, chickens, BeN kessLeN in NY tion, the four became caught in the cross-
outside Matamoros, snakes, goats and even hairs of a violent cartel showdown.
where Kilroy’s remains
Slain: A cult member zebras and a lion club,” The two Americans found dead in Mex-
had been burned along-
(top) is forced by police the Investigation Discov- ico after being kidnapped at gunpoint dur-
side those of a 14-year-
to dig up bodies near ery channel said. ing a terrifying shootout between rival
State of ‘confusion’
old Mexican boy.
Matamoros, Mexico, in In the wake of the ex- cartel gangs were identified Tuesday as Harrowing video of the shootout shows
The cult had purport-
1990. One victim was humations, the “human Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown. the moment the group was forced into the
edly sacrificed humans
Mark Kilroy (above). slaughterhouse” smelled Woodard and Brown had traveled from back of a pickup truck in broad daylight
for magical protection. of the pungent odor of South Carolina to Mexico with Latavia after being shot at.
“It was our religion, decomposing human “Tay” McGee and Eric James Williams so Tamaulipas state chief prosecutor Irving
our voodoo. We did it for cooked his brain matter flesh — a scene that had McGee, a mother of six, could undergo a Barrios said he believes the deadly am-
success. We did it for in a blood-filled caul- sickened even the most tummy-tuck procedure, relatives said. bush was a result of “confusion, not a di-
protection,” Garcia, dron. hardened police officials, But shortly after the foursome crossed rect attack.”
known as Little Serafin, Kilroy’s heart was also The Associated Press re- the border Friday into the crime-ridden Matamoros’ reputation for ruthless or-
reportedly told cops. ripped from his chest in ported in 1990. city of Matamoros, located in the north- ganized crime had led to initial specula-
After members tor- the ritual, which Con- The State Department eastern state of Tamaulipas, they found tion the abduction was drug-related, but a
tured and raped the stu- stanzo reportedly be- warns Americans not to themselves lost. source close to the investigation told the
dent, leader Adolfo de lieved would help pro- travel to Mexico’s Tam- The group couldn’t find the doctor’s of- Dallas Morning News the Americans may
Jesus Constanzo report- tect the drug shipments aulipas state, where Mat- fice where McGee, 33, was due for surgery have been mistaken for Haitian smugglers.
edly chopped off the top for which he was re- amoros is located, due to that Friday, CNN reported, and poor cell McGee and Williams survived the attack
of his skull with a ma- sponsible and help him “crime and kidnapping.” service in the region made it harder for and were rushed Tuesday to Brownsville,
chete before members and his gang gain super- With Wires
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BORDER CRISIS

New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

trip of Yanks in Mex. cartel crossfire Lindsey:
Two Americans dead, two
alive in Mexico kidnapping
Military
Austin
TEX.
Big stop for drug
MEX.
for ops
Brownsville
50 mi.
war fray
Gulf of Sen. Lindsey Graham
Matamoros Mexico said Monday he will in-
Cosmetic surgery is extremely popular troduce a bill laying the
Tamaulipas in Mexico, where four Americans were groundwork for Presi-

nypost.com
kidnapped over the weekend — and two dent Biden to use US mil-
were killed — while on a trip to get a itary force against Mexi-
tummy tuck. can drug cartels.
Some 1.2 million total surgical and Graham (R-SC) was re-
non-surgical procedures were per- acting to the kidnapping
formed there in 2021, according to the of four Americans in the
International Society of Aesthetic Plastic border city of Mata-
Surgery. That total was surpassed only moros — two of whom
by the United States (7,347,900), Brazil were found dead Tues-
(2,723,640) and Japan (1,270,605), data day — and the continued
shows. proliferation of danger-
Botox, hyaluronic acid skin treatments ous drugs, including
and hair removal were the most common highly lethal fentanyl,
procedures in Mexico in 2021. World- brought into the United
wide, liposuction, breast augmentations States by the cartels.
and eyelid surgeries led the way — with “This administration
a 19.3% increase in total procedures com- has done nothing about
pared to 2020, according to ISAPS. it,” Graham told Fox
Some clinics in Mexico City advertise News’ Jesse Watters.
the Tragic: The foursome of
Eric James Williams, Lat-
tummy tucks for as low as $3,500. For
just $300 more, patients at TopPlastic-
“I’m going to introduce
legislation, Jesse, to make

survivors avia McGee, Zindell Brown

and Shaeed Woodard
(clockwise from top left)
SurgeonsMexico.com also receive a
weeklong hotel stay, a bilingual assistant
and pre- and post-op consultations. The
certain Mexican drug
cartels foreign terrorist
organizations under US
met havoc over the border. practice is one of Mexico’s top medical law and set the stage to
tourism destinations, according to its use military force if nec-
the dead website.
Health and Wellness Bazaar, a San Die-
essary to protect Amer-
ica from being poisoned
go-based medical group, claims getting a by things coming out of
tummy tuck in Mexico — with fees start- Mexico,” he added.
ing at $5,500 — can save patients up to Graham said he agrees
60%. Joshua Rhett Miller with former Attorney
General Bill Barr, who
wrote in a Wall Street

Texas, in a convoy of ambulances
and SUVs escorted by Mexican mil-
itary Humvees and National Guard
trucks with mounted .50-caliber
machine guns.
Williams was shot in the left leg,
but the wound was not life-threat-
ening, Tamaulipas Gov. Américo
Villarreal said. McGee survived the
ordeal without physical injuries.
Local authorities will examine the
bodies of Woodard and Brown be-
fore they are repatriated to the US,
the governor added.
The Americans were found in a
shack in a rural area east of Mata-
moros called Ejido Tecolote, on the
way to the Gulf coast known as
“Baghdad Beach,” Barrios said.
Villarreal said they were being
guarded by a man who has now
been arrested.
He added that the abducted
Americans had been moved around
by their captors and at one point
were taken to a medical clinic “to
create confusion and avoid efforts
to rescue them.”
McGee and Woodard were first
cousins, their aunt Retha Darby
told The Post from her home in
South Carolina on Tuesday before
news broke of Woodard’s death.
She said her niece had told her
about the medical procedure.
“She came by and visit me. She
said I’m gonna be going to get sur-
gery. I said surgery on what? She
said tummy tuck. She said, ‘My
tummy getting too big.’ That was
about a week ago,” Darby recalled
of her last conversation with her 33-
year-old niece. “I didn’t know
where she was going. I thought it
Twitter
Journal op-ed last week
that the US should desig-
nate the cartels as terror-
ist groups and confront
them the same way past
administrations con-
fronted ISIS in the Mid-
dle East.
“I would follow Bill
Barr’s advice,” Graham
said. “It’s not just the
hostages. No. 1, I’d do ev-
erything I could to get
them back. I’d do what
was somewhere local.” [former President Do-
White House press secretary Ka- nald] Trump did. I’d put
rine Jean-Pierre said the adminis- Mexico on notice. ‘If you
tration is “working with Mexican continue to give safe ha-
officials to learn more and to have ven to fentanyl drug deal-
all Americans returned to the ers, then you’re an enemy
United States.” of the United States.’ ”
Additional reporting by Jesse Graham added he
O’Neill and Wires would warn Mexico “to
haley.brown@nypost.com clean up your act” or
“we’re going to clean it
up for you.” Mark Moore
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Apple Peach ‘terrorist’

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Cop City
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

‘agitator’
is son of
NY elite
By DEshEAniA AnDrEws,
LArry CELonA
and EmiLy CrAnE Sneaks caught
on heat camera
A rich-kid New Yorker is
among the nearly two dozen “vi-
olent agitators” charged with do-
mestic terrorism after a protest
at the site of a future Atlanta po-
lice training facility descended
into chaos. Cops in Atlanta have re- have slammed as a “coordi-
Mattia Luini, 30, and his fellow leased aerial footage that nated attack.”
protesters are accused of carrying shows dozens of protesters At least 23 of the protest-
out Sunday’s “coordinated attack” sneaking into the site of a fu- ers were slapped with do-
on the under-construction At- ture police training facility mestic terrorism charges on
lanta Public Safety Training Cen- in the moments before they Monday. They were still in
ter, which saw cops pelted with allegedly unleashed hell. custody as of Tuesday, ac-
Molotov cocktails and fireworks. The large group, described cording to jail records.
Luini, whose late father, Ivan by authorities as “violent ag- The training facility site
Luini, helped popularize high- itators,” were caught on a has seen clashes between
end plastic furniture in the US, police helicopter’s heat-sen- police and left-leaning pro-
was still stuck behind bars as of sitive camera flooding into testers since it was ap-
DeKalb County Sheriff's Office

Tuesday afternoon, online court
records showed.
His mother, Micaela Martegani,
who is involved in the Big Apple’s
art world, told The Post on Tues-
day that she’d only spoken to her
son briefly since his arrest — and
that he’d insisted the violent inci-
dent was “completely random.”
“We haven’t been able to talk in
much detail. He doesn’t know
much of what happened,” Mar-
tegani said. “[Mattia] said it was
completely random. I don’t know
more than that.”
Luini had said he was heading
to Atlanta over the weekend only
to attend a concert and “protest
the development of the forest,”
according to his mom.
the under-construction At- proved by the Atlanta City
GOtham’s Own: New lanta Public Safety Training Council in 2021. Environ-
York’s Mattia Luini is among Center on Sunday. mental activist Manuel
23 protesters arrested and The video shows the Esteban Paez Terán, 26, was
charged with domestic terror- throngs of protesters later shot dead by cops during a
ism in the “coordinated at- setting fire to construction raid at a protest camp there
tack” on a controversial Atlan- equipment in what police in January. Emily Crane
ta-area police training center.
Police, however, say he was His businessman father, Ivan, founder and director of More “cover of a peaceful protest” to
among those who allegedly staged was president of the New York- Art, a nonprofit organization that unleash havoc.
an attack to protest the $90 mil- based Kartell US — a high-end helps create public art projects “They changed into black
lion development of the training Italian furniture company that across the city. clothing, entered the construc-
center dubbed “Cop City.” specialized in plastic design. The Martegani told The Post she tion area, and began to throw
It wasn’t immediately clear elder Luini was killed in a small- wasn’t sure if she would head to large rocks, bricks, Molotov
what Luini, who appears to have plane crash near the Colorado- Atlanta to meet with her cur- cocktails, and fireworks at police
been raised in New York City, Wyoming border back in 2006, rently imprisoned son. officers,” cops said. “The agita-
does for a living or if he still calls The New York Times reported. Cops have accused Luini and tors destroyed multiple pieces of
the Big Apple home. Meanwhile, Luini’s mom is the his fellow protesters of using the construction equipment.”

Beijing link$ to top HS China to US: Lose the attitude

An Alexandria, Va., public
high school ranked as the
best in America by US
News and World Report
has raked in big bucks from
entities linked to the Chi-
nese state.
According to documents
obtained by the conserva-
tive group Parents Defend-
ing Education, Thomas Jef-
ferson HS has received do-
nations of at least $350,000
to $750,000 from the Ame-
son Education and Cultural
Exchange Foundation.
The founder of the orga-
nization has ties to a Bei-
jing group that the United
States claims works to “co-
opt and neutralize” opposi-
tion to the Chinese Com-
munist Party.
Josh Christenson
China warned Tuesday
that the US must change its
“distorted” attitude toward
the country or face “conflict
and confrontation” — in the
latest escalation as relations
between Washington and
Beijing are at their lowest
point in decades.
Washington’s China pol-
icy has “entirely deviated and containment of China first button in the shirt be-
from the rational and sound rather than engaging in fair ing put wrong.”
track,” Foreign Minister Qin competition. Relations between the two
Gang told journalists on the “The United States’ percep- nations have been tense for
sidelines of an annual meet- tion and views of China are years, but took a nosedive
ing of China’s parliament. seriously distorted,” he said. last month after the US shot
According to Qin, a “It regards China as its down what it said was a Chi-
trusted adviser to President primary rival and the most nese spy balloon off the coast
Xi Jinping, the US has been consequential geopolitical of South Carolina.
engaging in suppression challenge. This is like the Snejana Farberov, Wires
Murdaugh
hope for
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New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

bro: Alex
still lying
Alex Murdaugh’s older
brother is convinced the
convicted murderer is still
lying over the brutal slay-
ings of his wife and son.
A ‘buzz
Kill’ pill
“He knows more than
what he’s saying,” Randy
Murdaugh, 56, told The
New York Times of his
drug-addicted, serial-lying
brother who still denies
gunning down wife Maggie,
52, and son Paul, 22.

Sober-up fast Rx eyed
“He’s not telling the truth,
in my opinion, about every-
thing there.”
Randy’s statement contra-
dicts a claim by his 54-year- By Jane Herz
old brother’s defense team
that the whole family was A new hormone shot could be
“more convinced” of Mur- your solution to getting sober
daugh’s innocence after his faster.
six-week trial. In a study published Tuesday in
“The not knowing . . . is the journal Cell Metabolism, re-
the worst thing there is,” searchers at the University of
Randy said of his ongoing Texas Southwestern suggested
doubts about his brother, that the hormone FGF21 might be
who is serving two life sen- able to reverse the effects of alco-
tences for the June 7, 2021, hol in half the time.
double murder. The hormone — fibroblast
Randy echoed Maggie’s growth factor 21 — works to help
sister, Marian Proctor’s tes- regulate your metabolism, accord-
timony that she found it ing to the National Library of
“off” that Murdaugh “never Medicine.
talked about finding” the “FGF21 mediates its anti-intoxi-
killer. He said he “spent cant effects by directly activating
considerable time, calling noradrenergic neurons in the lo-
people” for any potential cus coeruleus region, which regu-
leads — while his brother lates arousal and alertness,” the
did nothing. Lee Brown researchers wrote in the study.
In humans, FGF21 is naturally
produced in our livers, but having
an extra dose of it could be help-
ful when drinking, the study
claims.
In the study, the scientists ex-
perimented with giving two kinds
of mice the hormone after they
Jennifer Lopez were injected with a “binge dose”
shares these sexy of ethanol, the compound found
snaps of herself in in alcoholic beverages that makes
a silky bra, you drunk. The mice who didn’t
underwear and have FGF21 took longer to recover
robe set in fuchsia from the injection.
that hints at a In another experiment, they in-
collaboration jected the mice with ethanol
between the 53- again, and then about one hour
year-old star and later while unconscious, the ani-
Italian intimates mals were given a dose of recom-
brand Intimissimi.
nypost.com
binant FGF21. Scientists wrote
that this was able to reduce the
amount of time that both male
and female mice needed to “re-
cover their righting reflex” by
50%.
The “righting reflex,” which cor-
rects the position of one’s head
and the position of the body, is “a
standard marker of inebriation,”
scientists explained.
This means that it was able to
bring the mice out of their intoxi-
cation a lot quicker than the ani-
mals could without a dose of the
hormone.
Promising Rx
“These results suggest that this
FGF21 liver-brain pathway
evolved to protect against etha-
nol-induced intoxication and that
it might be targeted pharmaceuti-
cally for treating acute alcohol
poisoning,” the researchers wrote
in the study.
However, there were a few limi-
tations in the study, including
whether or not the noradrenergic
system, a part of your brain that
helps control the nervous system,
can contribute to the effects of the
FGF21 hormone.
The study’s “results reveal a
mechanism for selectively target-
ing noradrenergic neurons that
could prove useful for treating
both the loss of consciousness and
impaired mobility that occur dur-
ing acute alcohol poisoning,” sci-
entists wrote.

NoKo’s Kim has 3 kids: report

Jennifer Lopez / Instagram

North Korean dictator Kim gence Service said in a closed-

Jong-un has at least three chil-
dren, South Korea’s spy officials
told Seoul lawmakers Tuesday,
just months after the supreme
leader unveiled his daughter to
the world — as speculation swirls
about the line of succession in the
secretive Communist state.
South Korea’s National Intelli-
door parliamentary committee
meeting that the tyrant’s “be-
loved” 9-year-old daughter, Kim
Ju Ae, also has an older brother
and another sibling whose gender
cannot be confirmed, according to
politicians Youn Kun-young and
Yoo Sang-bum, who were in the
room. Josh Christenson
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bike-path
terrorism
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

A Manhattan federal
prosecutor showed eight
gruesome photos Tuesday
at a sentencing hearing for
West Side Highway bike-
path terrorist Sayfullo Sai-
pov — one of each of his
victims — as jurors weigh
whether to execute the
mass murderer.
In her closing argument,
Assistant US Attorney
Amanda Houle also de-
scribed in excruciating de-
tail the anguish that family
members of the victims face
to this day.
She highlighted testimony
from slain New Yorker
By Josh Christenson Nicholas Cleves’ mother,
Monica Missio, who had
Far-left “Squad” Rep. Cori Bush told jurors grief was seared
(D-Mo.) has paid more than into her and “consumed me
$100,000 in campaign money to a and never left me since.”
former Black Panther who claims The prosecutor also de-
he is more than 1 trillion years scribed to jurors the mo-
old, can teach “psychic self-de- ment New Jersey resident

fense,” and that the Rothschild
banking family helped start the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Nathaniel Davis III, also known
as Aha Sen Piankhy, has received
around $137,000 from Bush’s cam-
paign since 2020 for “security
services,” according to Federal
Election Commission filings.
The St. Louis-based “spiritual
guru” — whose online antics
were first reported by the Wash-
ington Free Beacon — has
claimed on Facebook that he is
“109 trillion years old in this gal-
axy” and can teach how “to pro-
tect yourself from telepathic and
telekinetic attacks.”
“I’m going come teach [sic] the
people how to survive. It’s what I
came to this planet for in this life-
time,” Davis said during a July 17,
2020, Facebook livestream. “I’m
109 trillion years old in this gal-
axy, the Milky Way galaxy.”
Davis, who joined the New
Black Panther Party in the wake
of the 2014 Ferguson, Mo., riots,
also has a history of promoting
anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
on his social-media account.
In two Facebook posts on July
17, 2020, Davis said the Roth-
CRAZY OUTLAY: Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) has paid $137,000 to ex-Black Pan-
ther Nathaniel Davis III (inset), who has made unhinged claims about himself.
schilds have had “every president
elected in every country in the
Western Hemisphere” and that
they and other members of the
“global elite” unleashed the coro-
navirus because they are trying to
“kill every last one of us.”
“That’s what this global pan-
demic is about. We’re getting a
new global system put in place by
the families that run the planet.
It’s not a conspiracy theory, man,
it’s just facts,” he said. “How do
we have a global pandemic and
everybody was affected by a virus
that was created in a lab? It’s not
natural. That means it was
planned . . . Which means they
planned this pandemic on us as a
people.”
“You got the global elite looking
to kill every last one of us. They
want to wipe out half the popula-
tion of the planet,” Davis reiter-
ated.
The St. Louis shaman — who
has also flirted with fringe
QAnon conspiracies — encour-
aged people viewing his posts to
till gardens and produce food on
their own property to fight back
against the ruling elite.
FEC complaint
Bush was slapped with an FEC
complaint last week related to
$60,000 in campaign payments to
her now-husband, Cortney Mer-
ritts— who was paid to guard his
now-wife despite not having
a required private security
license.
Bush, who backs the anti-Is-
rael Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions movement, also en-
joys a relationship with pro-Pal-
estinian activist Neveen Ayesh,
who said on Twitter in 2014 that
she wanted to “set Israel on fire
with my own hands & watch it
burn to ashes along with every
Getty Images
Darren Drake’s parents
identified his body at the
Medical Examiner’s Office
the day after the Oct. 31,
2017, attack. Drake’s father,
Jimmy, “ran out of the
building and onto the street
Israeli in it.” because he could not bear
The far-left congresswoman to see what the defendant
and her spiritually inclined secu- had done,” Houle said.
rity guard are Facebook friends The Uzbekistan immi-
and were seen together on July 3, grant killed eight people on
2020, as they marched outside the the West Side Highway bike
home of Mark and Patricia path in lower Manhattan by
McCloskey, who a week earlier mowing them down with a
had drawn their firearms on a rented Home Depot truck.
crowd of Black Lives Matter pro- Ben Feuerherd
testers in St. Louis.
Davis stayed right next to Bush,
according to a Twitter video
posted the next day on her per-
sonal account, wearing an identi-
Judge nixes
cal outfit to one he had worn for
his city’s annual Juneteenth festi-
val just days before. Additionally,
Mo. gun law
he filmed two videos of himself A federal judge ruled
walking behind the congress- Tuesday that a Missouri
woman at the same protest. state law aimed at invalidat-
Neither Bush’s campaign nor a ing many federal gun regu-
spokeswoman for her office re- lations was unconstitu-
sponded to a request for com- tional, handing the Justice
ment. Department a victory in its
jchristenson@nypost.com bid to get the law tossed
out.
Judge Brian Wimes in the

Two teen students shot near Brooklyn HS

Two teenagers were shot
in a corner store across
from their Brooklyn high
school Tuesday, cops said.
The bullets flew around
2:30 p.m. at Fourth Avenue
and 36th Street in Sunset
Park, striking the two 18-
year-olds, police said.
Both were shot in the left
shoulder, cops said. They
were taken to NYU Lan-
gone Brooklyn in stable
condition.
They are students at PS
371 Lillian L. Rashkis HS
across from the store, po-
lice said. It wasn’t immedi-
ately clear if they were the
intended targets.
One of the victims had
once been busted for illegal
gun possession, robbery
and grand larceny, law-en-
forcement sources said. He
was arrested in September
in the gun crime, sources
said. The second victim
does not appear to have a
record, police sources said.
A worker at the bodega
told The Post one of the
teens got into a “big fight”
Monday with one of the
assailants.
Two suspects were picked
up by NYPD patrol officers
on a city bus, cops said.
Larry Celona, Tina Moore
and Kyle Schnitzer
Western District of Mis-
souri wrote that the state’s
Second Amendment Pres-
ervation Act violates the
supremacy clause of the US
Constitution, a doctrine
that holds that federal laws
take priority over conflict-
ing state laws.
A department spokesper-
son had no comment.
Reuters
 Michael Goodwin
mgoodwin@nypost.com
AYOR Adams is no new-
M bie, so he should be fully
aware of the Law of Holes.
It’s a simple concept, ad-
vising those who find
themselves in an unwanted hole to
immediately drop the shovel, climb
out and find a new strategy.
Assuming the mayor knows about
the law, his refusal to follow its
commonsense reasoning reflects
something other than ignorance.
Foolish pride? Bad judgment?
The subject is the city’s migrant
crisis. Despite inviting tens of thou-
sands of illegal border crossers to
come here and spending $4.6 mil-
lion of taxpayer money EVERY
DAY to house, care, feed and edu-
cate just some of them, Adams still
won’t admit he made a mistake.
Instead, he’s compounding it by
using a bigger shovel to expand the
hole. There’s no other way to de-
scribe his latest idea, which moves
city efforts off an emergency basis
and institutionalizes them.
No help from Joe
On Tuesday, he created a new
agency to deal with the crisis.
Dubbed the Office of Asylum
Seeker Operations, it will open a
round-the-clock processing center
for new arrivals and move existing
services out of Midtown’s Port Au-
thority Bus Terminal.
Part of the plan aims to get other
cities to take some of the estimated
50,000 migrants already in New
York. The mayor should expect to
have as much success with that ef-
fort as he has in getting Washington
and Albany to help the city pay for
the 31,000 living in municipal facili-
ties, including pricey Midtown
hotels.
Which is to say, next to zero.
His budget director waved the
white flag Monday, saying Adams
did not expect to get significant
help from President Biden despite a
projected migrant price tag of $4.2
billion over two fiscal years.
So even though Adams did the
president a favor by not pushing
him to close the border, he gets
bupkis in return. With friends like
Biden, who needs enemies?
Meanwhile, Gov. Hochul is offer-
ing money with one hand and tak-
ing it with the other. She is offering
Pro-biz Texas, Fla. win race for Chase
Bloomberg News interviewed Jamie Di-
mon about JPMorgan Chase’s expansion in
Florida and Texas.
“We love Florida, we’re growing in Flor-
ida left and right,” said Dimon, the bank’s
chief executive officer.
costly: Mayor
Adams’ $4.6M/day
migrant policy is
crushing the city.
to pay 29% of the migrant costs,
while demanding the city pay
$500 million more for mass transit
and also increase its already mas-
sive school spending because of a
state mandate requiring smaller
class sizes.
Despite all that uncertainty, plus a
new costly labor agreement and
warnings from fiscal monitors
about deficits as far as the eye can
see, the mayor went ahead with
what he calls “The Road Forward.”
Soft on lawbreakers
His press release was littered
with compassion for the migrants,
who broke American law to enter
the nation without permission.
Most, coached by activist, open-
border lawyers, claimed asylum
when arrested, knowing they don’t
Bloomberg notes that Morgan, Goldman
Sachs and other financial institutions are
shifting operations to Florida as employees
and clients gravitate “toward its low taxes,
warm weather and the perceived pro-busi-
ness stance of its Republican Governor
qualify because they did not suffer
religious, ethnic or political perse-
cution but also that they could stay
for years until their cases are
adjudicated.
They came for a better life, and
while that’s understandable and
would be commendable if they
obeyed the law and waited their
turn as tens of millions of others
did before them, it is a mystery
why they should be praised and
encouraged.
Yet here was Adams, erasing the
line between legal and illegal immi-
grants by declaring that “New York-
ers know that the asylum seeker of
today is the citizen, the leader, and
the innovator of tomorrow, and I’m
proud that New York City is leading
the way, turning a crisis into an op-
portunity for progress for the entire
country.”
Ron DeSantis.”
Texas and Florida “like business, they
want you to come,” Dimon said. “We now
have more employees in Texas than in New
York state. It shouldn’t have been that way
but Texas loves you being there.”
Twitter
A deputy mayor was quoted as
boasting “the city has worked to
center our services with dignity, re-
spect, and care for every individual,
family, and child.”
Touching. But breathes there a
taxpaying citizen who believes the
city treats him or her with “dignity,
respect and care”? The question an-
swers itself.
Compassion, time and dollars are
finite, and, intentionally or not, City
Hall has set up a competition for re-
sources between residents and
newcomers.
Midtown cops, for example, are
often called to the hotels where mi-
grants are housed to settle disputes,
some violent, and monitor demon-
strations. Time spent there is time
not available elsewhere.
This is not a minor, temporary
problem. Adams, by adding a new,
For Pete’s sake
Reader Jim Rowbotham suggests a new
gig for Pete Buttigieg, the overmatched sec-
retary of transportation. He writes: “Presi-
dent Biden should create a Department of
Identity and appoint Mayor Pete Secretary.
Structure and responsibilities TBD.”
15
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unlimited demand on services, is
putting his mayoralty on the line.
He has yet to solve any of the major
problems he inherited, some of
which are growing worse.
He was elected to save the city
from the scourge of crime, and has
made real progress, especially in re-
ducing murders and shootings. But
he’s got a long way to go before
most people feel safe enough to
walk the streets and ride the sub-
ways.
nypost.com
Drain on city
Bodega owners and others are be-
side themselves over rampant rob-
beries and organized shoplifting.
Stores are closing and many mer-
chants are hiring private security
guards because they can’t count on
cops to protect them and their
customers.
The public dollars spent on car-
ing for migrants could have been
spent to hire more police officers
and speed up the crackdown on
lawbreakers and get more illegal
guns off the streets faster.
Or consider the public school sys-
tem, which appears to be collaps-
ing. Total enrollment has shrunk
dramatically and upwards of 40% of
those signed up for classes are ab-
sent for a month or more, meaning
they are learning next to nothing.
And what of the nearly 60,000
homeless people already living in
city shelters, some of whom com-
plain the migrants are treated bet-
ter than they are? Who gets first
dibs when more permanent hous-
ing is available?
Here’s a novel idea: The mayor
could take a big chunk of that $4.2
billion of migrant money and give a
massive tax cut to the people who
live and work here and pay taxes.
Any or all those ideas might help
stem the tide of those fleeing the
city, an exodus that endangers
Gotham’s future. But anybody who
is thinking of leaving because of
crime, poor schools, the high cost
of living and low quality of life is
not likely to be persuaded to stay
because the mayor is turning the
city into a sanctuary for the whole
world.
Quite the opposite. Adams is giv-
ing them another reason to head for
the exits.
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Kyiv IDs Vlad’s

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executed POW
‘War crime’ on viral video
By Snejana FarBerov
Ukraine’s military Tuesday
identified the soldier seen shot
dead in an execution by Russian
forces in a horrific video that has
spread online as Tymofiy Shad-
ura.
The footage has sparked wide-
spread condemnation and allega-
tions of war crimes.
Ukraine’s 30th Mechanized
Brigade wrote in a Facebook post
that Shadura (inset), 41, had gone
missing Feb. 3 during heavy
fighting near the eastern city of
Bakhmut, which Moscow’s sol-
diers and mercenaries have been
trying to capture for months.
The online message noted that
the identification is based on
preliminary data. Formal confir-
mation of the fallen soldier’s
identity would be made once his
body was returned from territory
occupied by Russian forces, the
brigade said.
Shadura’s identity was also
confirmed by his sister, Olga,
who told a Ukrainian journalist,
referring to the soldier in the
video:
“One hundred percent — it’s
my brother. [Those are] his eyes,
his voice, and the way he smoked
a cigarette.”
In the undated 12-second video
that has gone viral on social me-
dia, a seemingly unarmed be-
draggled soldier with a Ukrain-
ian flag insignia on his uniform is
seen smoking a cigarette in a
wooded area. He proclaims
“Glory to Ukraine” in Ukrainian
before he is apparently cut down
by a volley of bullets fired by an
unseen shooter or shooters.
Shadura falls into a
shallow hole in the
ground as a voice
off-camera exclaims
in Russian, “Die,
bitch!”
Ukrainian Presi-
dent Volodymyr Zel-
ensky addressed the
purported execution
of the soldier in his
nightly address
Monday and vowed
to obtain justice for
the “hero.”
“Today, a video emerged of the
occupiers brutally killing a war-
rior who bravely said to their fa-
ces: ‘Glory to Ukraine!’ ” Zelen-
sky said. “I want us all to respond
to his words together, in unity:
‘Glory to the Hero! Glory to the
Heroes! Glory to Ukraine!’ And
we will find the murderers.”
Andriy Yermak, the head of the
presidential office, claimed that
Shadura was a Ukrainian pris-
oner of war and that the shooting
was part of a “deliberate policy
of terror” by Moscow.
“The murder of a captive is the
latest Russian war crime,” Yer-
mak wrote in a tweet Monday.
“For every such war crime there
will be retribution.”
A lawyer who was wounded in
battle last year said he was col-
lecting money for a reward to
anyone who identi-
fied those responsi-
ble for Shadura’s kill-
ing. He personally
pledged $1,000.
Andriy Kostin,
Ukraine’s prosecutor
general, said
Ukraine’s security
service had launched
a criminal investiga-
tion into the un-
armed soldier’s kill-
ing, while human
rights chief Dmytro
Lubinets argued that it was a vio-
lation of the Geneva Conven-
tions pertaining to the treatment
of POWs.
Ukrainian and Western author-
ities have long claimed that there
is evidence of thousands of war
crimes committed in Ukraine
since the start of the invasion
last year.
Russia has repeatedly denied
that its forces have committed ‘Terror’ campaign: A man who has been identified by Ukraine’s
atrocities or targeted civilians. government as Tymofiy Shadura appears unarmed and smoking a ciga-
With Wires rette before being shot down by apparent Russian forces in a viral video.

‘Pro-Ukraine group’ struck Putin pipelines: intel

New intelligence seen by
US officials suggests a pro-
Ukraine group attacked the
Nord Stream 2 pipelines
that transported natural gas
from Russia to Western Eu-
rope, The New York Times
reported Tuesday.
US officials told the paper
there is no evidence Ukrain-
ian President Volodymyr
Zelensky or his top aides
were involved or that the
Ukrainian government oth-
erwise directed those who
attacked the pipelines that
run under the Baltic Sea.
The US and NATO ini-
tially called the September
2022 attack an act of sabo-
tage, discounting a natural
disaster such as an earth-
quake.
Speculation over who
was to blame ranged from
Ukraine to Russia to Brit-
ain to the United States.
Ukraine, which was in-
vaded by Russia on Feb. 24,
2022, immediately came
under suspicion because it
had opposed the project
for years, considering it a
national security threat be-
cause it would allow Rus-
sia to continue selling gas
in Europe while prevent-
ing Kyiv from collecting
lucrative transfer fees.
A review of the new in-
telligence, the Times said,
sheds little light on who
carried out the attack, who
was associated with it or
who financed it.
The intel does suggest,
however, that the culprits
opposed Russian President
Vladimir Putin and were
likely Ukrainian or Russian
nationals, or a combina-
tion of the two.
The officials told the
outlet that no Americans
or Brits were involved in
the breach. There is also
no evidence the Russian
government had a hand in
the attack.
It was believed early on
the attack was state-spon-
sored because of its sophis-
tication, which required the
placing of explosives deep
below the surface of the Bal-
tic and detonating them
while escaping detection.
Russia blamed the Brit-
ish navy for the attack, a
claim London accused
Moscow of inventing.
Mark Moore
 Rikers
guard’s
sick ploy
A corrupt Rikers correc-
tion officer pleaded guilty
Tuesday to ripping off the
city by collecting more than
a year’s worth of sick pay
while he was off bowling,
doing house work and trav-
eling abroad.
Eduardo Trinidad was the
last of three guards to cop
to a single count of federal
program fraud. They have
since been fired and now
face up to 10 years behind
bars.
Trinidad raked in
$140,000 while faking an in-
jury from June 2021 to No-
vember 2022, Brooklyn fed-
eral prosecutors said.
During the time he was
AP
out on leave, Trinidad
showed up to medical ap-
pointments with the city
Department of Correction
wearing fake slings, a cane
and boot, prosecutors
charged.
But otherwise, investiga-
tors found, Trinidad would
do housework, go bowling
and travel to the Dominican
Republic and Florida with
his fiancée, Monica
Coaxum, a fellow correc-
tion officer who pleaded
guilty to the same charge in
February.
A third officer, Steven
Cange, siphoned off
$139,000 in faulty sick pay
from March 2021 to Novem-
ber 2022 and copped to the
same count. Ben Feuerherd
Ire. will vote
on sexist text
Ireland plans to hold a
referendum in November to
delete from its constitution
references to a woman’s
place being in the home, the
government announced
Wednesday.
Article 41.2 says the state
recognizes that “by her life
within the home, woman
gives to the state a support
without which the common
good cannot be achieved”
and that “mothers shall not
be obliged by economic ne-
cessity to engage in labor to
the neglect of their duties in
the home.”
A forum recommended
replacing the references
with nondiscriminatory
language. Reuters
DeSantis touts Fla. with eye on WH
star: Casey DeSantis,
with son Mason, 4, shines
Tuesday as husband Ron
(below) announces her
winning battle against
breast cancer.
By victor nava
Gov. Ron DeSantis in his State of
the State address Tuesday touted
Florida’s strong economy and low
crime rate while blasting the
Biden administration’s “catch and
release” immigration policies —
further fueling speculation that
the Republican has his eyes set on
the White House in 2024.
“Florida is No. 1, and working to-
gether, we will ensure that Florida
remains the No. 1 state in the
United States,” DeSantis told Flor-
ida lawmakers in Tallahassee.
“Working together, we have met
big challenges, and we led the na-
tion on many big issues. We don’t
make excuses. We don’t complain.
We just produce results,” the pop-
ular governor added.
In his roughly 20-minute-long
speech, clocking in almost 50 min-
utes shorter than President
Biden’s State of the Union address
last month, DeSantis called Flor-
ida the fastest growing state in the
nation. With him as its chief exec-
utive, Florida ranked No. 1 in net
in-migration, new business for-
mation and economic growth
among large states, he said.
DeSantis, re-elected in a
landslide last November, high-
lighted that Florida has more peo-
Slams COV policies as ‘Djok’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took
a swipe Tuesday at the Biden ad-
ministration’s immigration and
COVID-19 vaccination policies,
asking the White House whether
tennis great Novak Djokovic
would be allowed to come to Flor-
ida by boat to compete.
“The only thing keeping Novak
Djokovic from participating in the
ple employed now than before the
COVID-19 pandemic, and one of
the lowest unemployment rates
on record, at 2.7%.
He also boasted that in the last
two years, the state has seen its
largest budget surpluses in history
while having the lowest per-capita
state tax and lowest per-capita state
debt burden among large states.
“And, maybe most famously, we
rank No. 1 for protections of our
citizens against the biomedical se-
curity state, from prohibiting ‘jab
or job’ mandates, to banning vac-
cine passports, to ensuring
hospital visitation rights,”
DeSantis added.
“We defied the experts,
we buck the elites, we ig-
nored the chatter, we did it
our way, the Florida way.
And the result is that
we are the No. 1
destination for
our fellow
Americans
who are look-
ing for a
better life,”
he said.
Miami Open tennis tournament is
President Biden’s misguided and
unscientific COVID-19 vaccina-
tion requirement for foreigner
[sic] travelers,” DeSantis tweeted
Tuesday, along with a copy of his
letter.
“Mr. President – lift your restric-
tions and let him compete,”
DeSantis added. Victor Nava
RON:
‘WE’RE
NO. 1!’
The 44-year-old Florida gover-
nor lauded his state’s crime rate,
just a week after Chicago Mayor
Lori Lightfoot was ousted by vot-
ers over her handling of rampant
crime in the Illinois Democratic
stronghold.
“We are number one in law-en-
forcement recruitment and sup-
port. Florida’s crime rate stands at
a 50-year low,” DeSantis said.
“Florida’s proud to stand for law
and order,” he declared. “We are
tough on crime and we support
the men and women of law en-
forcement. And we have made
it very clear to prosecutors
who believe they can disre-
gard the law, you will be held
accountable.”
While never mentioning
Biden, 80, by name directly,
DeSantis ripped the ad-
ministration’s poli-
cies as contribut-
ing to illegal im-
migration.
“We believe
that borders
matter and
we
No support for blogger watcher
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dis-
tanced himself Tuesday from a
widely criticized blogger registra-
tion bill, saying he does not sup-
port the legislation.
DeSantis said he was surprised he
became associated with state Sen.
Jason Brodeur’s proposal that would
require bloggers who cover govern-
ment to register with the state.
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have fought against illegal immi-
gration in the state of Florida from
banning sanctuary cities to suing
the Biden administration over its
catch-and-release policies to
transporting illegal aliens to sanc-
tuary jurisdictions. We have put
Floridians first and we will con-
tinue to do that,” DeSantis argued.
The governor’s wife, Casey, a
breast-cancer survivor, drew the
loudest applause of the speech
when her husband praised her work
in “Florida’s battle against cancer”
and said she is “cancer-free.”
“I was here last year saying we
would be able to announce that she
was cancer-free, and I can tell you
she is cancer-free and she is doing
better than ever,” DeSantis said.
The governor’s speech comes
amid a busy travel schedule sig-
naling a strong likelihood that he
will launch a 2024 presidential
primary campaign this year.
Donald Trump, who announced
his third White House run last
November, is the front-runner
among 2024 GOP presidential
candidates with an average of 45%
support in early polls, according
to RealClearPolitics.
DeSantis is the 76-year-old
former president’s most formida-
ble adversary, averaging 29% sup-
port, per RealClearPolitics.
“Every person in the Legislature
can file bills,” the governor said.
“I see these people filing bills
and there are these articles with
my face on the article saying that
bloggers are going to have to reg-
ister with the state . . .
“That’s not anything I’ve ever
supported,” he said.
Mark Moore, with Wires
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Gotta be the shoes
CINDERELLA wishes! Camilla
Parker Bowles could choose any
high heel in the world, but when it
comes to public engagements, the
sensible royal has worn the same
pair dozens of times, reports Page
Six Style. The British brand Sole
Bliss specializes in stylish but
comfortable footwear with wider
toes, stretch panels and three lay-
ers of cushioning to accommo-
date issues such as bunions. The
queen consort, 75, has publicly
worn the shoes “an estimated 80
times” since buying them in 2018,
“without purchasing a replace-
ment,” per the footwear label. It’s
believed she gets them “repaired
and reheeled rather than splash-
ing out on a new pair,” which go
for about $270.
One viral couple
ChRIS TINe Taylor (above)
revealed that quarantining during
the pandemic helped her reconcile
with husband Ben Stiller, 57. “We
had all this time to talk,” Taylor, 51,
told Drew Barrymore on the lat-
ter’s talk show of her and Stiller’s
2020 reunion following a three-
year separation. “There were no
other distractions,” she added,
calling their renewed romance
“organic” and “natural.” They have
two kids and, she said, “We always
stayed a family unit [and] contin-
ued to do things together.”
ATTORNEYS for reality star Brandi Glan-
ville have sent a letter to Warner Bros. de-
manding that it release audio tapes that, they
claim, will prove that she didn’t sexually har-
ass a co-star.
Fellow “Real Housewives” alum Caroline
Manzo has claimed that Glanville touched
her in the breast and genital areas without her
consent while they were off-camera during a
shoot for “Housewives” spinoff “Ultimate
Girls Trip.”
Attorneys for Glanville say that Shed Media
— a production company owned by Warner
Bros. — should have immediately released ev-
idence to show the claims were unwarranted.
Fashion emergency before Oscars
IN the words of Tim Gunn on “Project Runway,”
the show’s former standout designer Christian Sir-
iano is just going to have to “make it work!” On
Monday, the reality TV alum revealed his work-
space flooded days before the impending Academy
Awards, endangering the gowns he’s designed for
celebs to wear on the red carpet. “Well it’s 6 days
before the Oscar’s [sic] and a pipe burst in our stu-
dio yay happy Monday to us!” Siriano captioned a
clip of the mess on Instagram. He called the situa-
tion “the worst ever.” In a clip, water was seen drip-
ping from the ceiling and soaking boxes of fabric
“It is absolutely unacceptable that your com- Levin claimed it’s a “cynical ploy for ratings”
pany would knowingly and willingly allow — the idea presumably being that potential
such a story to take hold in the media, without viewers’ interest would be piqued by press re-
any regard for the truth or the impact on Ms. ports about Glanville’s alleged behavior.
Glanville’s reputation,” wrote lawyer Duncan The letter alleges that, after sending Glan-
P. Levin. “You are in possession of audio and ville home because of the incident, Shed real-
video recordings that clearly demonstrate that ized she wasn’t guilty and “is now attempting
Ms. Glanville acted appropriately and within to insinuate that Ms. Glanville engaged in sex-
the bounds of the law.” ual harassment with an entirely different indi-
The letter — seen by Page Six — also claims vidual, a producer,” as a means to justify her
that the studio is “aware that three eyewit- ejection from the show.
nesses corroborate [Glanville’s claims of inno- It also claims that “Real Housewives of New
cence]; yet, Shed Media and Warners Brothers Jersey” star Manzo did nothing to discourage
has [sic] chosen to sit idly by and let this false Glanville from touching her.
narrative continue.” Reps didn’t get back to us.
August response
Currently on tour YES, August Alsina — the
and starring on singer who was the other half of
“Daisy Jones & the Six,” Jada Pinkett Smith’s romantic
Suki Waterhouse tells “entanglement” — watched Chris
Flaunt mag of being too Rock’s comedy special. And he
busy to indulge in rock ’n’ thought it was “funny.” “August
roll debauchery, “I’m just watched the Netflix special and
kind of aiming for sur-
vival over actual
he laughed,” a source said. “He
thought it was not only funny but
hangovers.” truthful. That was the best part for
him.” On his live special Saturday,
Rock addressed being slapped by
Will Smith onstage at the 2022
Oscars. He speculated Smith was
unleashing built-up anger over his
wife’s very public affair with Als-
ina. “Everybody in the world
called him a bitch,” Rock said of
Smith. “And who’s he hit? Me.” The
source told The Post’s Michael
Kaplan that Alsina “was happy to
see that Chris Rock seemed to be
advocating for the truth.” Pinkett
Smith, 51, revealed in 2020 on her
talk show — with Will as a guest
— that she and Alsina were in-
volved during a rough patch in the
Smiths’ marriage. Meanwhile,
Smith has not personally apolo-
gized to Rock. “Will did call Chris
last year after the Oscars, but
Chris didn’t pick up. And they ha-
ven’t spoken since,” a source who
knows both men told Page Six ex-
Federico De Angelis for Flaunt
clusively. And now it’s likely that
the Hollywood heavyweights will
never make up. “Chris was open
for a call until Will made his public
apologies,” the insider said.
Real horror story
DESPITE some bad blood be-
tween original “Scream” star Neve
Follow us Campbell and the horror fran-
on Twitter chise, creator Kevin Williamson
@Page
says the “door is wide open” for
Campbell to return. “If she ever
Six
wants to come play with us again,
and other supplies. While “only we’re here,” the scribe, 57, told us at
a few dresses” were “ruined,” the “Scream VI” premiere. “[Neve]
Siriano added, his team quickly set is a friend of mine. We stay in touch
up a “makeshift studio” to try and re- all the time.” Last year, Campbell,
create the lost looks. The designer shared a clip of 49, revealed she wouldn’t reprise
the new workroom yesterday, writing, “This is our her role from the first five slasher
studio this week I guess.” Employees could be seen films. “As a woman, I have had to
hard at work, measuring and sewing fabric to meet work extremely hard in my career
their urgent Sunday deadline. While it’s unclear to establish my value,” and an offer
which stars Siriano will dress for the Oscars, he has presented to her “did not equate to
previously outfitted Cardi B, Lizzo, Jennifer Lo- the value I have brought,” she said
pez, Ariana Grande and Oprah Winfrey. in a statement.
 Swiss stickup 19
HIGH-END jewelry store
Graff — a favorite of billion-

New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

aires and celebs — was
robbed of millions worth of
items last month in ritzy
Gstaad, Switzerland. A
source tells us there is buzz
around the resort town that
armed thugs entered the
store at lunchtime, making
off with some $10 million in
goods. Page Six was unable
to reach Swiss police, and
reps for Graff did not re-
spond to a request for com-
ment. A translation of the
French-language site Balin,
states, “On Thursday [Feb.
9], shortly after noon, two
armed men entered the main
door of the Graff jeweler’s
shop in Gstaad. They threat-
ened several employees who

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were in the store with hand-
guns and demanded that
they hand over various val-
uables.” A TikToker also
posted on the robbery,
Olivia Munn / Instagram

claiming the robbers

made off with the en-
tire store’s merchan-
dise, and separate re-
ports followed in the
Spectator and ArtNet. In
2021, Graff was also the vic-
tim of a digital heist by Rus-
Olivia Munn and John Mulaney spend some quality sian hackers who threatened
parenting time in the sun and sand with their son, Malcolm. to leak top client info.

Lady’s royal dish

LADy Victoria Hervey, who
dated Prince Andrew in 1999, be-
lieves his nephew Prince Harry’s
“self-sabotaging” his relationship
with his brother will cause his exile
from the royal family. Talking to the
Mirror Monday, the socialite said,
“It’s becoming a bit of a blood sport.
Harry is getting himself closer and
closer to being exiled. I think he’s
only one or two steps away from
that happening.” She added, “he’s
pushing the line as much as possi-
ble so that happens and he can wal-
low in victimhood.” She went on to
paint Harry’s relationship with
Prince William in biblical terms. “I
think Prince Harry is self-sabotag-
ing his relationship with his
brother so much that it has now be-
come Cain and Abel,” she noted.
Then again, in his memoir “Spare,”
the Duke of Sussex claimed he and
William got into a squabble over
Meghan Markle that allegedly
turned physical. Harry wrote that
the two shouted at each other until
William pushed him to the floor. Paulina
Gretzky dons
Sightings her usual
Paulina Gretzky / Instagram

formal attire
ahead of her
FORMER NFL players Eli Man-
ning and Shaun O’Hara hosting a
weekly Mensa
charitable event with the Children’s meeting. Just
Place in New Jersey . . . MONKEES kidding: She’s
drummer Micky Dolenz having a on a tropical
birthday lunch Monday at Avra in vacation!
Midtown . . . VICTOR Cruz and fel-
low athletes including Bruce Smith,
Jevon Kearse and Brian Orakpo More celebrity photos at
playing in the Celebrity Golf Invita-
tional at Baha Mar in the Bahamas. nypost.com
 20

Phoenix rises
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to promo ‘Sex’
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Drugs and Pilot Season: encouraged him to write a

Confessions of a Casting book. Now everyone can
Director.” enjoy his wild remem-
Why? Because he says brances in ‘Sex, Drugs
this man had encouraged and Pilot Season.’ ”
Phoenix’s mother, Heart Meanwhile, in his spare
— Thurm’s secretary five time, Joaquin has become
years — to pursue the affianced to Rooney
specialness of her kids: Mara.
Cindy River, Rain, Leaf (Joa-
quin), Liberty and
Adams Summer — and to do
something truly special.
Why? Because he un-
JOAQUIN Phoenix derstood they were
has become a book whis- something truly special.
perer. Joaquin: “Joel Thurm
Usually a low profile was instrumental and
type, he’s opened his helpful at the start of
mouth for Joel Thurm. our careers. We
He’s even prodded this wouldn’t be where we
guy to immortalize cer- are without him.
tain experiences in Through the years I’ve
Thurm’s new book, “Sex, heard his stories and

Even superheroes win prizes

FORGET Oscars. I Best Actor in a Super-
mean, most people will. hero Movie. Zoë Krav-
Instead, comes the itz is up for Best Ac-

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

3,000th other who cares
— the Critics Choice Su-
per Awards on the 16th.
Host this powerful show
collared? Who knows.
Probably Casper the
Ghost. Maybe Clark
Kent.
“The Batman” grabbed
six nominations includ-
ing Best Superhero
Movie. Robert Pattin-
son, Paul Dano, Colin
Farrell nailed nods for
tress. Paul Dano for
Best Villain.
Best Action Movie in-
cludes Brad Pitt’s “Bul-
let Train,” Indian kick-
fest “RRR,” Tom cruis-
ing in “Top Gun: Maver-
ick,” “The Woman King”
and some Nic Cage
thing starring Nic Cage
as Nic Cage in “The Un-
bearable Weight of Mas- “The Batman,” a k a Robert
sive Talent,” which is Pattinson, is up for best
Nic Cage. actor in a superhero movie.

Onboarding a theater legend

THE Entertainment Community
Fund, formerly the Actors Fund, just
renamed its boardroom office to
honor B’way’s late giant James M.
Nederlander. 2002 they awarded him
Medal of Honor.
Jimmy owned nine B’way theaters
such as Marriott Marquis, the Neder-
lander, the Palace bought in ’65 for
$1.4 mil — plus others in London, De-
troit, plus LA’s legendary Pantages. He
was involved with “The Iceman Co-
meth,” “Annie,” “Sweet Charity,”
“Come Fly Away.” Over 100 shows.
Board chairman Brian Stokes
Mitchell: “Our upcoming 25th anni-
versary concert [celebrating ‘Rag-
time’] will be in his Minskoff Theatre.”
Me, I miss this friend whom I loved
dearly.

Bits & bobs phone messages went out

THINGS you maybe
never knew: Clinton told
Variety that his wife — as
a young girl — wrote
NASA to ask how to be-
come an astronaut . . . ST.
Andrews female students
kept tabs on fellow stu-
dent Prince William with
a text network. Coded
within seconds informing
girls of his movements . . .
ANGELA Bassett was
once a US News & World
Report photo researcher
. . . IN his yearbook Tom
Cruise was listed under
“least likely to succeed.”
TODAY, the day to
honor those of my sex,
dredges up this JFK gem.
Back when women’s lib-
bers were demonstrating
outside the White House
one blond cried out “Free
Women!”
The Prez hollered back:
“Great idea! Do you de-
liver?”
Only in DC and NYC,
kids, only in DC and
NYC.
Hardhat
killed in
collapse
A construction worker
died from his injuries and
three others were hurt after
the rear wall of a building
under demolition collapsed
in lower Manhattan on
Tuesday, according to au-
thorities.
The wall of the three-
story building gave way at
around 1 p.m., leaving a
hardhat crushed beneath
the debris, officials said.
“When the wall collapsed,
one of the construction
workers was trapped by the
debris, and two of the work-
ers fell on top of the debris.”
FDNY Chief of Department
John Hodgens said at the
scene on Lafayette Street
near Canal Street.
The hardhat buried in the
rubble had to be dug out by
firefighters, who were at
the scene in under 4 min-
utes, the chief said. He was
taken to Bellevue Hospital
and later died.
The three other people
who suffered non-life-
threatening injuries were
treated at the scene, offi-
cials said. The workers
were employed by RJB Con-
tracting Carting Corp.
“It just happened sud-
denly,” said a security guard
working nearby.
“We were all out here,”
she told The Post. “There
was no noise.”
Amanda Woods
and Steven Vago
2 killed on
train tracks
A 59-year-old straphanger
was fatally struck by a
Queens train early Tuesday
— possibly while trying to
retrieve something she
dropped on the tracks, cops
said.
Cops believe the woman
went onto the tracks just
before a northbound E train
rolled into the Kew Gar-
dens-Union Turnpike sta-
tion around 2:45 a.m.
Hours later, an unidenti-
fied person was struck and
killed by a D train while
walking on the tracks at the
West Fourth Street station
in Manhattan, police sour-
ces said.
Amanda Woods
and Tina Moore
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Wreckers: Video
shows masked thugs
Twitter
running through a
Queens restaurant
Saturday causing
By Tina Moore, random destruction. “It’s getting less and less safe,”
Zach WilliaMs he said of the city.
and JorGe FiTZ-GiBBon Guardian Angels founder Curtis
Sliwa called the rowdy bunch “a
Shocking video captures a wolf pack” and said his communi-
young mob violently trashing a ty-watch crew would step in and
Chinese restaurant in Queens patrol the eatery.
over the weekend, overturning ta- “This was a wolf pack, a bunch
bles and breaking chairs and of teenage thugs rampaging
plates as terrified staff and cus- through the restaurant,” Sliwa told
tomers look on helplessly. The Post Tuesday. “Another Asian
The heinous hooligans left Fish merchant gets treated like a speed
Village in College Point a sham- bump.
bles Saturday, as seen in a video “Your whole life is being put in
posted on Twitter by community front of you, and there’s nothing
activist Yiatin Chu. you can do about it,” he said.
“We’ve fallen so low that there’s
no expectation of consequences
for this horrific attack on private
“Nothing is going to happen to
[the criminals]. They will be
charged as juveniles and be back
property,” Chu, president of Asian
Wave Alliance and a co-founder of
PLACE NYC, wrote in the post.
after 8:15 p.m., wrecking tables
and chairs and damaging plates
the restaurant. The employee is
helpless to stop the more-than-a-
out on the street. Their friends
will see the video, and they will be
treated as heroes in the ’hood.
“This video is going viral on and a large window in the sense- dozen brutes. “This is College Point. This
WeChat. Fish Village, a restaurant less destruction. “It was a bit frightening,” restau- never used to happen in College
in College Point, Qns was ran- There have been no arrests in rant worker Tong Yi Hu told The Point,” the onetime mayoral can-
sacked by a gang of masked kids in the case. Post in Mandarin Chinese Tues- didate said. “The city is out of
hoodies.” A worker is seen in the disturb- day. “We have no idea what the control.”
Police said the mob stormed the ing footage looking on in disbelief cause was, and it was pretty Additional reporting by Carl
127th Street restaurant shortly as the cowardly crew then flees nerve-wracking. Campanile and Joe Marino
Feds: Jailed ‘prophet’ had sex call with girl, 13
A polygamous leader ac- trafficking, Samuel Rappy- Doe 4, about “all the sacred marks during the same call conversations, Bateman or-
cused of kidnapping under- lee Bateman referred to a times” they shared together, to two 16-year-olds, the dered his wives to send “in-
age girls used the jailhouse 13-year-old girl as his “sexy in addition to more explicit document claims. timidating messages to a
phone system to have “ex- darling” during a video call sexual remarks. He is a self-proclaimed government witness,” the
plicit sexual conversations” that included his adult At the time, Bateman was prophet of the Fundamen- feds said.
with children, a federal fil- wives, the US attorney in barred from contacting Jane talist Church of Jesus Christ Bateman has since been
ing states. Arizona alleged Friday. Doe 4. of Latter-Day Saints, an off- barred from communicat-
While in custody last No- Bateman, 46, also asked The accused child traf- shoot of Mormonism. ing with anyone but his
vember on suspicion of sex the teen, identified as Jane ficker also made similar re- On the same day as the lawyers. Olivia Land
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By alex mitchell
In the early hours of March 8,
2014, pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah
sent Malaysian Airlines flight
MH370 into air just before 12:45
a.m. local time.
Everything was routine on
board the Boeing 777 from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing as the plane
readied to leave Malaysian air-
space and fly toward Vietnam
across the South China Sea.
“Good night, Malaysian 370,”
Shah tells air traffic controllers
as they ready to relay communi-
cations duties to the Vietnamese.
Those were the final words
ever heard from the 239 people
on board flight MH370, which
mysteriously lost all radar contact
a mere minute and a half later.
The flight had vanished with-
out a trace and, to this day, what
actually happened in the air re-
mains one of the biggest mys-
teries in aviation history. A new
Netflix docuseries, “MH370:
The Plane That Disappeared,”
examines several theories as to
what happened that night.
Although MH370 had lost all
radar communications, the plane
was still electronically speaking
to a satellite run by a British
company called Inmarsat.
“Every hour, the Inmarsat sys-
tem was checking that the satel-
lite terminal on the aircraft was
responding . . . these pings contin-
ued for up to six hours after last
contact,” Inmarsat representative
Mark Dickinson says in the doc.
The Inmarsat data did not
possess GPS-tracking capabili-
ties, but it was able to determine
how far away the aircraft was
from the satellite with which it
had been communicating.
Based on this information,
two speculative routes have
been drafted. In both scenarios,
MH370 did not continue toward
mainland Vietnam but instead
veered westbound back over
Malaysia. From there, it is pro-
jected that the flight either went
north over central Asia — or
down toward the southern In-
dian Ocean by Australia.
The latter route is the likeliest
scenario, widely agreed upon by
experts. But what actually hap-
pened in the air is still in dis-
pute. Following are three theo-
ries explored in the series.
The pilot
The most incriminating piece of
evidence to the theory that Shah,
a veteran pilot, intended to com-
mit a mass-murder suicide by put-
MYSTERY IN THE AIR: Flight MH370 lost all radar
contact while flying over the South China Sea toward
Vietnam. This piece of debris was found washed up on a
beach on Réunion island off the coast of Africa in 2015.
LOST &
NEVER
FOUND
ting the plane down into the In-
dian Ocean was found on a flight
simulator he had inside his home.
It was there that Shah had re-
portedly flown a simulation
similar to the airplane’s sus-
pected, off-charted final course
over the ocean a mere month
before MH370 was airborne.
But the home simulator data is
not be quite the “smoking gun”
it seems, says Mike Exner of the
Independent Group, a watchdog
panel of aviation experts estab-
lished to get the truth on the
flight’s final hours.
“It’s very odd you would have
a simulation end with fuel ex-
haustion in the southern Indian
Ocean,” Exner admits. “I don’t
think taking the simulator data
by itself proves a whole lot . . .
The simulator data is not the
whole puzzle, it’s just one piece
in the puzzle that fits.”
A potential motive remains un-
Where the radar stops
clear and the final report on
MH370 found that “there is no ev-
idence to suggest any recent be-
havioral changes for the [pilot].”
Russian hijackers
Jeff Wise, a former member of
the Independent Group, has an-
other working theory on the
whereabouts of MH370, but it
sounds closer to the plot of a
James Bond movie.
A few months after the flight
was lost, Malaysian Airlines Flight
17, another 777, was shot down by
a surface-to-air missile over
Ukraine at the same time Russia
was invading nearby Crimea.
Checking flight logs, Wise ob-
served that there were three Rus-
sian passengers on board MH370
— all of whom were seated near
an electrical hatch. He theorized
that two of the three created a di-
version while the other member
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snuck below deck to remotely
control the plane’s flight, which
he believes headed north. But his
conjectures have been debunked.
“Anyone who gets into the
hatch can disable the transpon-
der and disable the communica-
tions systems,” Fuad Sharuji,
former crisis director for Malay-
sia Airlines, says. “But it is im-
possible to fly the aircraft from
the avionics compartment.”
American interception
Another wild theory is that
the American military, which
was doing training exercises at
the time in the South China Sea,
had downed MH370 at the point
where it had first lost radar con-
tact in between Malaysian and
Vietnamese airspace.
French journalist Florence de
Changy has observed that the
cargo carried — and delivered
“under escort” — by MH370 in-
cluded 2.5 tons of electronic de-
vices. “It’s public knowledge
that China was very eager to ac-
quire highly sensitive US tech-
nology,” de Changy says.
The United States had two ra-
dar-jamming planes suited with
an Airborne Warning & Control
System in the vicinity the night
MH370 took off. De Changy theo-
rizes that they were used to
Netflix; NY Post photo composite
knock the plane electronically off
radar and instructed Shah to land.
When he chose to keep the flight
on course, she claims that “either
through a missile strike or a mid-
air collision, MH370 met its fate.”
But de Changy has no proof —
and it’s not backed by the In-
marsat data projections either.
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Bombshell ’fess in autistic-kid slay trial Migrants

nypost.com

By Kevin Sheehan
and Steve JanoSKi
on raggedy
Killer ex-cop Michael Valva’s
former fiancée admitted at her raft saved
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

own Long Island trial Tuesday

that she did something “evil’’ —
forcing Valva’s 8-year-old autis-
tic son into a sub-freezing garage
the night before he died.
“I treated them bad. I treated
them evil. I put them in the ga-
rage. It was horrible. Yes, I did
. . . I exiled them,” Angela Pol-
lina, 45, told Suffolk County
jurors, referring to Thomas
Valva, 8, and his brother, An-
thony, 10, who survived the tor-
turous ordeal at the Center Mo-
riches home.
Pollina’s testimony contradicted
her own lawyer’s earlier claim
that her ex-beau was responsible
for the heinous 2020 act.
Pollina also admitted she tried
to delete footage of the incident
from the family’s Nest home-sur-
veillance cameras to protect her
and Valva after the fact.
“He had asked me to delete
footage,” Pollina testified of her
former beau, who was already
convicted in Thomas’ murder
and sentenced in December to
25 years to life behind bars.
“I did it for him. I did it for my-
self,” she said of Michael.
‘Depraved’ cruelty
Assistant District Attorney
Kerriann Kelly told the jurors
that Pollina, in concert with
Michael Valva, “acted with de-
praved indifference. She simply
did not care if Thomas lived or
died,” Kelly said.
When Pollina’s trial began last
week, prosecutors told jurors that
she was as guilty of Thomas’
death as is his father, a 43-year-
old former cop.
Thomas Valva was pro-
nounced dead at 10:28 a.m. Jan.
17, 2020, at Long Island Commu-
nity Hospital, a paramedic said
during Valva’s trial, after the
abused child emerged from the
freezing garage, stumbled and
hit his head preparing to go to
school.
Pollina has been charged with
second-degree murder and child
endangerment.
cruel: Angela Pollina (above) admits she “exiled” Thomas Valva (inset), 8, to the frigid garage where he died.
Earlier in her trial, a witness
testified that Pollina would
curse and scream at the boy and
the couple would mock him for
his autism.
On Tuesday, Pollina sat stone-
faced as prosecutors played
heartbreaking audio clips of the
couple abusing Thomas before
he died. At one point, Pollina
screamed at Michael Valva when
he complained that Thomas was
sleeping in the garage, covered
in his own feces.
“It’s a game! He s--ts for you,
he pisses from me! I’m disgusted
with both of you!” Pollina said.
In another clip, the naked boy
could be heard collapsing after
his dad hosed him off in the 21-
degree weather.
“Stop falling on the floor!
What’s wrong with you! Get up!
Get up! You’re such a f--king
slob!” Valva howled. Pollina tried
to hush Valva so he wouldn’t be
heard by the neighbors.
Migrants floating on a makeshift
raft crafted from plastic inner tu-
bes and tree branches have been
rescued in the Florida Straits, ac-
cording to the Coast Guard.
The cutter Charles Sexton res-
cued the four men from the jury-
rigged vessel Sunday afternoon
some 60 miles off the coast of
Marathon, officials said.
“Unpredictable weather could
have cost these people their lives.
Thankfully, our crews are patrol-
ling to ensure these voyages don’t
end in loss of life,” the Coast
Guard said.
The agency posted two photos
of the raft, which was propelled
by an improvised sail mounted on
a branch, with the migrants sitting
on crisscrossed pieces of wood
along with plastic containers.
The whole contraption ap-
peared to be floating on inner tu-
bes covered in a blue tarp.
The Coast Guard did not pro-
vide information about the mi-
grants or where they came from.
Last month, the agency posted a
photograph of a wooden boat fea-
turing a prayer painted on its side
and carrying more than 20 mi-
grants off the Alligator Reef, near
Florida’s Matecumbe Keys, WPLG
reported.
Members of the agency’s Islam-
orada station intercepted the boat
Feb. 28.
“Illegally migrating on unsafe
vessels w/o safety equipment is
dangerous. Small craft advisories
are being instituted for incoming
weather. #DontTaketotheSea,” the
Coast Guard tweeted.
Yaron Steinbuch
Feds to probe
train derail co.
The National Transportation
Safety Board on Tuesday an-
nounced a wide-ranging investiga-
tion into Norfolk Southern’s safety
practices and culture after recent
derailments and urged the railroad
to take steps to improve safety.

Love-triangle murder suspect busted

Cops have busted the
man they say fatally
stabbed his ex-girlfriend’s
new beau, whose body
was found in an SUV in
Queens last week.
Semair Taylor, 25, of
Queens, was nabbed Mon-
day and charged with
murder in the Feb. 27 slay-
ing of Michael Izquierdo,
25, a Brooklyn resident, in
an apparent feud over
money, cops said.
Taylor is believed to
be the ex-boyfriend of
Izquierdo’s girlfriend,
authorities said.
Cops suspect Izquierdo
was stabbed at an unspec-
ified location and then
managed to get into the
SUV, where he was dis-
covered with stab wounds
to the torso at Woodhaven
Boulevard and Atlantic
Avenue in Woodhaven at
around 8:10 p.m., cops
said.
Izquierdo was rushed to
Jamaica Hospital Medical
Center, where he was
later pronounced dead.
Taylor, who lives in
South Richmond Hill,
Queens, was also charged
Norfolk Southern has been un-
der fire after several derailments
of its trains, particularly one Feb. 3
in East Palestine, Ohio, that
caused cars carrying toxic vinyl
with robbery, assault and chloride and other hazardous
harassment. chemicals to spill and catch fire.
He was picked up by the “Given the number and signifi-
Regional Fugitive Task cance of recent Norfolk Southern
Force, according to po- accidents, the NTSB also urges
lice. the company to take immediate
It’s unclear where he action today to review and assess
was arrested. its safety practices,” the agency
Amanda Woods said in a statement. Reuters
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New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

crime
derAil

Down 21.5% since Jan. 1
By Tina Moore
and Craig McCarThy
Crime-battered straphangers
finally may be seeing some light
at the end of the subway tunnel,
according to the latest police fig-
ures.
Subway crime has dropped so
far this year to levels not seen in
decades aside from the pan-
demic, as cops significantly
ramped up their crackdown on
fare evasion, doling out nearly
10,000 more summonses in 2023
than at the start of last year.
Major crime on the subways is
down 21.5% year to date when
compared with the same period in
2022, with every category of seri-
ous felonies but one in the system
showing a decrease. Burglaries re-
mained flat, with two reported.
“Obviously, crime is down.
We’re proud. This is real
progress,” Transit Chief Michael
Camila Alves
McConaughey Kemper told a small group of re-
and two of her porters inside One Police Plaza on
kids with actor Tuesday.
husband Kemper said the start of 2023
Matthew (inset) saw the lowest levels of felony
— Levi (above crime on subways dating back to
left) and Vida the beginning of the data-collect-
(above right) — ing Compstat system in the
hit the Stella mid-’90s, if you take out the kick-
McCartney off of 2021 during the height of the
show during COVID-19 pandemic.
Paris Fashion Cops have issued 75.6% more
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nypost.com
to police data. Overall, all sum-
monses were up by more than
12,000 to 27,785, an 83.5% increase
from 15,143 for the same period
last year, the data shows.
Kemper credits proactive polic-
ing on minor offenses as well as
serious crimes with helping drive
the decrease.
“I want to be clear, and I gotta
give credit where credit is due:
This is a direct result of the hard
work of the men and women of
the NYPD,” he said. “I think
there’s so much to just the in-
creased presence to deter crime.
“But focusing on quality of life,
whether it’s fare evasion, whether
it’s disorderly conduct, whether
it’s smoking, just setting the tone
of law and order in the subway
system is absolutely part of the
reason,” the chief added.
‘Good detective work’
He also credited “phenomenal
detective work” for catching bad
guys before they could strike a
second or third time and adding
to the tallies of serious crimes.
The chief said much of the re-
cent progress in 2023 was built on
the increased presence of police
rolled out under Mayor Adams
and Gov. Hochul in October. Be-
fore that, crime in the transit sys-
tem was up more than 40% for the

Week. fare-evasion tickets over the first year. The next month saw a 12.8%
nine weeks of 2023, totaling 21,360 decrease in major felonies, but
compared with 12,154 tickets over was followed up by a 4.6% in-
the same time last year, according crease in December.

Aircraft sale to Japan OK’d House panel OKs ‘Wuhan’ bill

The State Department has
approved the potential sale
of E-2D Advanced Hawkeye
Airborne Early Warning
and Control Aircraft and re-
lated equipment to Japan in
a deal valued at up to
$1.38 billion, the Pentagon
said Tuesday.
The principal contractor
will be Northrop Grumman
Corp., the Pentagon said.
The Japanese government
has requested up to five of
the aircraft, plus support
equipment, spares and
technical support, it said.
The Pentagon’s Defense
Security Cooperation
Agency notified Congress
of the possible sale.
Despite approval by State,
the notification does not in-
dicate that a contract has
been signed or that negotia-
tions have concluded.
Reuters
The House Intelligence
Committee on Tuesday
passed its version of a Sen-
ate-approved bill that
would force the Biden ad-
ministration to declassify
information about the coro-
navirus’ origins — includ-
ing its ties to a Chinese lab.
Director of National Intel-
ligence Avril Haines would
be required to declassify
“any and all information re-
lating to potential links be-
tween the Wuhan Institute
of Virology” and COVID-19,
as well as “make available
to the public as much infor-
mation as possible” regard-
ing the virus’ origin.
The panel approved the
legislation with a bipartisan
voice vote Tuesday with no
dissent. It now goes to the
House floor, and if passed
then to President Biden’s
desk. Caitlin Doornbos
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Home girl shaken by Pete crash Tex. sued

By Lee Brown
and Francesca Bacardi
nypost.com

A teenage girl was home alone

when Pete Davidson’s speeding
car smashed into her family’s Bev-
erly Hills house — leaving her “a
over its
bit” traumatized and convinced
there’d been an earthquake, ac-
cording to her family. abort law
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

The 16-year-old’s dad told TMZ

that his daughter was reading a Five women who said
book late Saturday when the 29- they were denied abortions
year-old comedian crashed his in Texas despite grave risk
Mercedes with girlfriend Chase to their lives have sued the
Sui Wonders, 26, riding shotgun. state, in the first case of
The high-end car — which pregnant women suing over
cops said was being driven “at a curbs imposed after the US
high rate of speed” — struck just Supreme Court overturned
outside the living room, damag- Roe v. Wade last June.
ing a wall and knocking a win- The lawsuit filed Monday
dow out of its frame, the home- asks a state court in Austin
owner said. to clarify that doctors can-
The impact was so intense that not be prosecuted for pro-
the teen was convinced she was in viding abortions, if in their
an earthquake, leaving her “a bit” good-faith judgment the
traumatized, said her dad. procedure is necessary to
Luckily, the girl was uninjured — treat emergencies that
and the family has no plans to sue threaten patients’ life or
the “Saturday Night Live” alum, health.
who immediately apologized to Like most of the 13 states

APEX / MEGA
the teen at the scene, the outlet with near-total abortion
said. The father and daughter bans, Texas allows excep-
were not identified. tions when a doctor finds a
Beverly Hills police confirmed medical emergency.
to The Post that the car crash also But the suit, backed by the

A bAd cAse
damaged city property — a fire abortion-rights group Cen-
hydrant seen gushing water at the ter for Reproductive Rights,
scene — but did not say if there is says Texas’ law is unclear,
an ongoing investigation. leading doctors to refuse to
There were no arrests, and sour- perform abortions even
ces previously told TMZ that when exceptions should ap-
drugs and alcohol are not believed ply, for fear of losing their
to have been a factor. licenses and facing up to 99
Davidson and Wonders were not years in prison.

of THe benz
injured. Neither has publicly spo- A spokesperson for Texas
ken about the accident. Attorney General Ken Pax-
The pair, who co-starred in the ton, a Republican, pointed
2022 horror-comedy film “Bodies to Paxton’s guidance last
Bodies Bodies,” had returned from July that the Texas law
a vacation to Hawaii just before “protects women facing
the accident. life-threatening physical
conditions resulting from
pregnancy complications.”
Reuters

Anti-$antos
bill in House
A group of New York Re-
publicans introduced legisla-
tion in Congress Tuesday
that seeks to ban House
members from profiting from
hit & fame that results from being
stun: A girl convicted of certain crimes.
was rattled The legislative package,
when Pete consisting of the “No Fame
Davidson and for Fraud Resolution” and the
Chase Sui “No Fortune for Fraud Act,”
Wonders appears aimed squarely at
(right) Rep. George Santos (R-NY),
smashed his despite the fact he is not men-
Mercedes tioned by name in the bills.
Reps. Anthony D’Espos-
BACKGRID USA

(above) into
her home (top, ito, Nick Lalota, Mike
left), leaving Lawler, Marc Molinaro,
skid marks Nick Langworthy and Bran-
(bottom, left). don Williams sponsored the
package.
Victor Nava
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New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Fascism Rising
That’s exactly what Biden’s policies add up to
Conservative: The New ‘Blasphemy’
Britain shed its last blasphemy laws in 2008, but “from that moment,
people began to be persecuted for offending against the values that a post-
Christian society had sacralized,” notably “the creed of identity politics,”
ASCISM involves govern- laments Dan Hannan at the Washington Examiner. When, for instance, a

F ment control, but not owner-

ship, of the means of produc-
tion. Private companies exist,
but they’re simply arms of the
government.
14-year-old boy with autism in northern England brought to school a Ko-
ran, which was then dropped and scuffed, rumors flew that the book had
been intentionally desecrated; the boy got death threats. Yet the school
suspended the boy, not those making the threats. “The authorities are not
acting out of religious sensitivity but out of concern for unofficial, nonre-
That’s pretty much how things ligious blasphemy codes.” The First Amendment has so far protected
work in America today, except Americans from such “intolerance” — but “for how much longer?”

Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA

that even functions traditionally

nypost.com
government-performed in coun-
tries like Hitler’s Germany and
From the right: The Struggle Over TikTok
Mussolini’s Italy have been out- “Should the U.S. government ban TikTok from the phones of private U.S.
sourced to private organizations. citizens?” asks National Review’s Jim Geraghty. “Ordinarily, if you declare,
Take reordering the economy. ‘This app is Chinese spyware and will vacuum up all of your personal data
The Nazis’ program of Gleichs- and put it where the Chinese government can use it as it wishes,’ you
chaltung rearranged everything might expect people to stop using it. We might think the revelation that
to suit the party’s goals, with the Scourge of independents: The prez’s labor secretary nominee, Julie Su. TikTok is Chinese spyware and that it is exposing minors to inappropriate
supervision of party officials and sexual material and exploiting teens would be sufficient to get people to
government boards. gress wants to put an end to it Control and Prevention, National ditch and uninstall the app.” Yet it’s growing more popular, so “I don’t
In America, on the other hand, (with legislation that passed Institutes of Health or World want to ban TikTok; I want to ‘take off and nuke the site from orbit.’ ”
the corporations that control the both the GOP-controlled House Health Organization might have
commanding heights of our na- and the Democrat-controlled been wrong about the COVID
tional economy do it themselves, Senate) the Biden administra- pandemic? (Which they often COVID watch: ‘Gain-of-Function’ Is Too High-Risk
following the philosophy of en- tion is making sure the rule stays were.) Did you share stories (per- Despite the latest federal assessment that COVID “likely escaped from
vironmental, social and govern- in place anyway. haps from this very newspaper) the Wuhan Institute of Virology” where “researchers were allegedly con-
ance investing. Team Biden would have to about Hunter Biden’s laptop? ducting ‘gain-of-function’ experiments on coronaviruses,” observes David
Before ESG, they were sup- raise taxes to tax people for Then you got silenced by Big Tech Zweig at The Free Press, “the Biden administration remains supportive of
posed to run their companies for these purposes itself, which companies, from Facebook to gain-of-function research,” which makes “pathogens more virulent” and/
shareholders’ benefit, something would cost votes. By deputizing Twitter to Google. or “more transmissible.” But “if there is evidence of a direct benefit” of
required by their fiduciary obliga- fund managers to do this, it They acted at the behest of such research, it’s “not obvious” — and often such “experiments happen
tions to the people who, you avoids responsibility. If your re- government — Elon Musk’s pub- so scientists can” publish “in prestigious journals.” Plus, lab “accidents
know, actually own the company. tirement savings tank, you’ll lication of the Twitter Files still occur even at the highest safety levels,” to say nothing of “the bald ob-
But under the blame the fund, made plain just how thoroughly, fuscations from government officials” around it “and the willingness of
ESG philosophy, not President with these platforms eager to scientists to disregard the risks.” To quote an MIT biologist: “ ‘I implore
they’re supposed Biden. At least please bureaucrats by silencing every scientist, funder and nation working in this field: Please stop.’ ”
to run their com-
GLENN HARLAN under traditional their critics — but again, the ac-
panies for the
REYNOLDS fascism, people tual action was by private actors.
benefit of “stake- knew to blame It would’ve been much harder From the left: Dems’ Kamala Conundrum
holders” — who can be employ- Der Führer or Il Duce when and more awkward for Anthony President Biden’s likely “decision to seek re-election at an advanced
ees, customers, “the community” things went bad. Fauci or Joe Biden to shut critics age” puts “unprecedented prominence” on “his vice-presidential running
or pretty much anyone they want Likewise, Congress passed the down directly; it was easy for mate,” warns The American Prospect’s Harold
— and things like “social justice” CHIPS Act to bail out US semi- tech firms acting at his behest. Meyerson. But does Kamala Harris “have any po-
and environmental preservation, conductor companies. Now the And it’s all made easier by a me- litical identity at all with swing voters, or the pub-
buzzwords that let them do pretty Commerce Department decrees dia/political class that is basically lic at large, that could lead them to conclude she
much whatever they want. that along the way, the firms an ideological monoculture that could step up to the presidency?” And “it’s hard
In practice, they’re given gui- must provide their employees doesn’t welcome opposing ideas. to find Democratic pols or liberal activists who
dance not by some political party free child care. If that’s not enough, the Biden spring to her defense, either in general or because
or government board but by vari- For years, mandatory national team wants to ensure everyone is she played a crucial role promoting or defending
ous nonprofits that aren’t really pre-K has been Democratic pol- under the corporate thumb some- a progressive cause.” Yet “dropping her from the
accountable to anyone but, oddly icy; instead of enacting it them- how. Biden’s nominee for labor ticket would create problems of its own.” All “op-
enough, all seem to espouse selves, they’re mandating that secretary, Julie Su, is an enemy of tions — not least, renominating Harris — likely
pretty much the same programs. corporations do it. And you can freelancers and gig workers. come with a major political downside. Such are
But if you had any doubt these bet the federal government and If you’re independent and self- the by-products of seeking to stay in the Oval Of-
organizations are basically doing the usual tag-along swarm of employed, it’s harder to put the Kamala Harris fice until age 86.”
the Biden administration’s bid- lefty nonprofits will have the squeeze on you. If you work for a
ding, look at what happened major say in what’s taught. corporate boss who’s in the Dem-
when Congress tried to block Even that mainstay of fascistic ocrats’ pocket, it’s much easier. Libertarian: The Truth on Vinyl Chloride
401(k) accounts from being run oversight, censorship, has been Su was the architect of Califor- For residents of East Palestine, Ohio seeing “black fumes of burning
according to ESG guidelines: a outsourced. nia’s AB5, which wrecked the chemicals” pouring from a train wreck, thunders Josh Bloom at Reason,
Biden veto promise. In early-modern England, the prospects of freelancers, inde- the “last thing they need is the news media spreading even scarier — but
People rely on 401(k) funds for Court of Star Chamber licensed pendent truck drivers and other inaccurate — information about the accident.” They’re being “bom-
their retirement savings. If man- printers and punished those who people outside the reach of cor- barded with horrifying claims” about the health risks associated with
agers can run those funds with got out of line. In Germany, Italy poratist America. If given the vinyl chloride, “most of which have been just plain wrong.” Fact: Vinyl
goals other than maximizing and the Soviet Union, government chance, she’ll do that nationwide. chloride is “considerably less toxic than many common, everyday drugs
customers’ returns, it’s basically oversaw what people said, wrote Is what we’ve got now a kinder and chemicals” such as caffeine and aspirin. Its cancer risk has also “been
a tax on retirees to fund the and published. Now there’s denia- and gentler fascism than we saw badly exaggerated” — as “cancers do not result from single exposure to
managers’ social goals. bility: Big Tech censors people. in Germany and Italy? Sure. But chemical carcinogens.” In reality, “the threat from the accident could
The Labor Department ruled Did you criticize lockdowns or it’s fascism nonetheless. And it have been far worse had the train been carrying some of the highly toxic
this is kosher, and now that Con- suggest the Centers for Disease must stop. chemicals — far worse than vinyl chloride — that are routinely shipped
around the country.” — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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The Right Way To Address
Jan. 6 Questions Alleged Anti-White Texts
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

an. 6, 2021, was a shameful day in Amer- what happened on Jan. 6. The people that If these allegations are

J

The Issue: Screenshots of anti-white messages
ican history, a riot stirred up by sore disgustingly broke into the Capitol or struck found to be true, this ig-
allegedly sent by DOE superintendent Marion Wilson.
loser Donald Trump to stay in power. police should be prosecuted. norant, racist buffoon
There are also questions about the Trump is typically declaring himself “to- should be put out to pas-
actions of the Capitol Police that day, tally innocent,” which is ridiculous. He riled ture (“White whine,” the Department of Edu-
and whether some of the people who en- up a mob, set it against his own vice presi- March 5). cation takes against Wil-
tered the building were treated unfairly by dent, then watched the whole thing unfold If, on the other hand, it son if the texts attributed
the courts. on TV as he did nothing to stop it. He’s re- turns out to be a smear to her are really hers.
Both things can be true. But it’s a mark of sponsible for what happened, and unworthy campaign, those respon- Were she a white super-
how polarized we are as a society — and the of a return to elected office. sible should be penalized intendent, she would be
way that elites insult the intelligence of accordingly. suspended during an in-
Americans — that such balance is vilified et Democrats and the liberal media be- New York City schools vestigation and would be
and even censored.
On Monday night, Tucker Carlson aired
Jan. 6 footage the public hasn’t seen. Some
Y lieve that once you come to that conclu-
sion, you aren’t allowed to examine any-
thing else about that day. The Twitter
are finding it difficult to
educate our children to
begin with and do not
canceled. Her career as an
educator would be over,
and protestors would cir-
of it was very familiar: People breaking hordes descend on anyone who doesn’t need racist administra- cle her home. Not likely
down windows and doors, flooding into the stick to “the narrative.” tors making things more to happen here, though.
Capitol to try to stop Joe Biden from becom- This happens again and again and again. complicated. Another We can expect many
ing president. Take Jeff Zucker, who told CNN reporters reason to leave New York more instances of anti-
But some of the material is frankly bizarre. not to probe the possible lab leak of COV- City. Jerry Chiappetta Marion Wilson white racism in the years
Why do two cops follow “QAnon Shaman” Ja- ID-19 because it was a “Trump talking point.” Monticello to come, so long as the
cob Chansley around, even opening the door So the truth took a back seat to politics. Room or poor perform- progressive left controls
for him to get onto the Senate floor? Why isn’t Do not question the mental fitness of John There
 had to be signs of ance on tests, it’s some- city politics.
he escorted out of the building, or arrested? Fetterman, lest you jeopardize Democratic Staten Island Superin- thing else. Now, it’s a su- Robert Mangi
The Capitol Police tell The Post that their chances of holding the Senate. Don’t report tendent Marion Wilson’s perintendent who is ac- Westbury
forces were outnumbered, that they asked on Hunter Biden’s laptop, because it might alleged hateful nature and cused of threatening and
Chansley to leave but he wouldn’t. They hurt Biden’s campaign. Better yet, Twitter bias before she was hired. showing total hatred for Marion Wilson needs to
weren’t trying very hard. should censor it. The bigger question is: whites. be put on immediate sus-
Reasonable-minded people, shocked by the How do deplorables Who appointed this pension while being in-
he behavior and effectiveness of the Cap- events of Jan. 6, might look at the video of wind up in positions of person? I am sure there vestigated for racism at

T itol Police certainly should have been part

of the inquiry into that day, but the Jan. 6
Committee didn’t even nod in that direction.
Chansley and wonder what else was omitted
by the committee. Their disgust becomes
tempered by distrust. Just as someone who
power over children?
We need more charter
schools, where education
are many more totally
qualified individuals who
don’t see color but want
the workplace.
I am tired of the double
standards. If this was the
Chansley argued at trial exactly what the finds out that the lab leak is likely true is curi- trumps agendas and per- the best for the kids. other way around, and
video shows — that police aided him. The ous about what else the CDC isn’t telling us. sonal vendettas. Lee Fleischman the superintendent was
judge still sentenced him to nearly four What news story being suppressed today Kathryn Donnelly Stamford, Conn. white, there would be
years in prison. Is that punishment fair? And will end up being common knowledge to- Queens calls for her immediate
were other riot defendants held too long or morrow? It
 will be interesting to firing. Lance Lovejoy
in questionable conditions? That is the damage done when the public If
 it isn’t the Rubber see what action, if any, Maspeth
To ask these questions is not to dismiss is told not to ask questions.

Fauci’s Selfish Coverup The Danger of E-Bikes

rom the start of the pandemic, Anthony After that chat, those four scientists did a

F Fauci was putting his own agenda ahead

of the public interest, using his power
behind the scenes to quash questions
about COVID’s origins. It was about pro-
tecting him, not the nation.
180 in their beliefs and produced the re-
quested paper. Two, Kristian Andersen and
Robert Garry, ran projects that then got mil-
lions in grants from the NIH purse whose
strings Fauci significantly controlled. Was a
The best thing Fire Com-
missioner Laura Kavan-
agh can do is convince
Mayor Adams and the
City Council to ban
The Issue: A fire started by an e-bike on Sunday that
damaged a grocery store and injured seven people.

pedestrians on side- city as a result of a lithi-

The good doctor, emails uncovered by the promise of pay for compliance understood? e-bikes and their lithium- walks, especially when um-ion battery. This one
House Oversight Committee have revealed, Fauci had draft approval authority over that ion batteries from New they disregard rules of took out a supermarket
ordered up a paper in February 2020 to end paper; Andersen said he had “prompted” it. York City until they’re the road in traffic and in in The Bronx.
all argument over whether the virus had Nor were these Fauci’s only shady power proven safe (“E-bike fire bike lanes. The city was in such a
leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. moves. He aligned with Big Tech early in guts Bx. store,” March 6). Forget warnings about rush to “go green” with
Yet in April, Fauci went before the American the pandemic to quash any dissident public How many people have battery charging and the e-bikes and e-scooters
people and cited that paper to forward his voices on the lab-leak theory. to die or buildings have sale of cheap replace- and shove this green
claim that the virus came from nature, as if Meanwhile, EcoHealth chief Peter Daszak to burn down until some- ment batteries, as they agenda down everyone’s
he had nothing to do with the work. was engaged in his own long campaign to thing is done? This, Ka- will never stop. throat. Yet once again,
Worse, the ugly order went out after Fauci, quash lab-leak discussion, engineering a near- vanagh, is what you E-bikes need to be these doomsdayers have
National Institutes of Health head Francis blackout on the issue in science journals and should be doing: saving completely banned from created a larger problem.
Collins and others engaged in a conversa- also playing a key role in the World Health lives, not advancing your our streets, and users And, of course, no one
tion with four scientists who themselves had Organization “investigation” that rejected the political career. need to go back to will admit he was wrong
raised concerns over signs pointing to lab idea. And Fauci’s NIH in turn showered Eco- Kenny Knapp pedaling. Susan Forman and that more time is
origins of the pandemic. Health with more grants than ever. The Bronx Manhattan needed to figure out these
The whole affair looks like desperate butt- Fauci now claims to have “an open mind” batteries.
covering. Fauci himself had managed to on the lab-leak theory, after spending years E-bikes
 are a danger to Yet
 another fire in the Rob Cerone, Manhattan
loosen Obama-era restrictions on gain-of- doing his best to quash it: More butt-covering.
function research, which engineers viruses He has plenty else to answer for, but his E-MAIL: letters@nypost.com or WRITE to The Editor, The New York Post, 1211 Avenue of the
to attack humans in the name of learning use of his power to protect himself stands Americas, New York, NY 10036. Include name, address and daytime phone number. No unverifiable
how to counter them. He oversaw grants via out as the very opposite of public service. letters will be published. The Post reserves the right to edit all letters.
the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance that The House probe is beyond necessary to en- The New York Post is published by N.Y.P. Holdings Inc., 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036.
funded such research at the Wuhan lab. sure such abuses are never repeated. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman; Sean M. Giancola, Publisher; Keith Poole, Editor-in-Chief;
Stephen Lynch, Print EIC; Mark Cunningham, Editorial Page Editor
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Railroaded ‘Shaman’
fore Lamberth and implored that

New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

there was “a lot of bad juju that I
never meant to create.”
Yet none of those mitigating fac-
tors seemed to count for much.
I agree with Lamberth that Chans-
Deranged rioter got raw deal ley and others warrant longer than
average sentences due to this attack
on our constitutional process. How-
“give [Democrats] a platform for ever, Chansley seems to have a
making a broader case about why unique “aggravating factor” in his
JONATHAN they deserve to stay in power.” sentencing for “iconic costuming.”
TURLEY I supported the committee’s cre- An out-of-work actor, Chansley
ation, and I was highly critical of instantly became a sensation by ap-
President Donald Trump’s remarks pearing in his animal headdress,
Ox’S Tucker Carson aired the before the riot. Indeed, I publicly horns and red-white-and-blue face

F long-awaited release of previ-

ously undisclosed footage from
the Jan. 6 riot this week.
The first tranche of videotapes
elicits major concerns over Jan. 6
committee members’ past claims.
condemned Trump’s speech while
it was being given, and I called for
a bipartisan vote of censure over
his responsibility in the riots.
I also found much of the testimony
paint. Had he merely worn a MAGA
hat and chinos, he’d likely have
faced a fraction of this sentence.
Chansley did not appear to be a
leader of any group that day as he
to be highly disturbing from re- wandered about the Capitol. The

Yet the most serious disclosures,
in my view, relate to the case of
“QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley.
I previously expressed reserva-
nypost.com
spected public servants opposed to only people with him were often
the violence and the election denial. two attending and remarkably at-
The committee sacrificed its le- tentive Capitol police officers. On
gitimacy by putting on hearings the Senate floor, he is described as

tions over the heavy sentence
given to Chansley. The new foot-
age raises more questions about
the Justice Department’s and the
court’s handling of the case.
After the Republican Party boy-
cotted the committee following the
rejection of its proposed members,
the panel could have strived to offer
a balanced inquiry. Instead, it hired a
former ABC producer to put on a
television production, with tightly
scripted statements and questions.
Witnesses were used as virtual
props, and the committee consist-
ently blocked any alternative
views and evidence.
The members repeatedly used
the hearing to make a pitch for the
midterm and 2024 elections.
Even The New York Times ad-
mitted the narrative was meant to
“recast the midterm message” and
that often sounded more like a
show trial than an objective con-
gressional inquiry. It could have
been so much more.
But the footage of Chansley was
most disturbing.
I have supported the prosecution
of those who rioted on Jan. 6. As I
said immediately after the riot, it
was a desecration of our constitu-
tional process.
Yet many of us were surprised
Chansley was given a 41-month sen-
tence for “obstructing a federal pro-
ceeding.” The sentence exceeded
those handed down for violent of-
fenses. Indeed, an Antifa member
who took an axe to a member’s of-
fice in Fargo, ND, was later given
probation . . . and his axe back.
I also objected to the Justice De-
partment’s draconian treatment in
holding figures like Chansley in
Sentenced for costume, not crime: Jacob Chansley at the Capitol Jan. 6.
prolonged solitary confinement
without any apparent justification.
We knew Chansley was not
shown engaging in violence or prop-
erty destruction. The footage, how-
ever, showed Chansley walking
through one of the doors with hun-
dreds of others but escorted through
the Capitol by a couple of officers.
The officials appear to be assist-
ing him in gaining access to inter-
nal areas. He walks past a dozen
armed officers who do not try to
stop him. He even appears to thank
the officers for their assistance.
It’s not clear if the defense had ac-
cess to all of these videotapes. Re-
gardless, these tapes are in sharp con-
trast to what was presented in court.
The Justice Department por-
AP
trayed Chansley as a violent of-
fender. Prosecutor Kimberly Pas-
chall played videos to show Chans-
ley yelling along with the crowd.
“That is not peaceful,” she insisted.
In his sentence, Judge Royce
Lamberth noted, “He made himself
the image of the riot, didn’t he? For
good or bad, he made himself the
very image of this whole event.”
I have great respect for Lam-
berth, but the sentence was hard to
justify, particularly when com-
pared with other defendants.
A Navy veteran, Chansley had no
prior criminal record and pleaded
guilty. His case became increas-
ingly embarrassing as his personal-
ity disorder and other emotional
issues came to light. He stood be-
“chanting an unintelligible man-
tra” before leaving.
Chansley reaffirms the old ex-
pression among defense attorneys:
“One day on the cover of Time,
next day doing time.” That is a
price that comes from being a ce-
lebrity shaman.
Once again, Chansley and any ri-
oters deserve jail time. What oc-
curred on Jan. 6 was a disgrace that
has caused a lasting wound for this
nation. But making him an exam-
ple because he was the most visi-
ble is dangerously detached from
his underlying conduct.
I have no particular sympathy for
Chansley, but I do have concerns
for the system that sentenced him.
In the end, justice has to remain
blind. In this case, that means fo-
cusing on the crime rather than the
costume.

Joe’S Medicaid Rx: PuRe FantaSyland

RESIDENT Biden announced a plan access to medicines.” ing patients with fewer treatment options. lion life years lost from COVID-19 in Amer-

P Tuesday to keep Medicare solvent by

relying on even more aggressive price
negotiations with the pharmaceutical
industry than Congress has already agreed
to. The president claims it’ll result in $200
billion in savings. The president is living in
fantasyland.
In just a decade, $200 billion? That’s
quite a claim considering the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office has said such
negotiations “would have a negligible ef-
fect on federal spending.” Talk about play-
ing poker with money you don’t have.
The reality is these negotiations’ main con-
sequence will be the US health-care system
falling further down the slippery slope of fed-
erally mandated price controls, restricting
patient choice and destroying the research-
and-development system that makes Amer-
ica the world leader in medical innovation.
Uncle Joe Fantasyland Part Two is that
the Federales “negotiate.” In fact, Uncle
Sam will set the price, and the only “negoti-
ation” is “Take it or leave it.” As the CBO
notes, “no further savings are possible un-
less the government restricts beneficiary
Without putting too fine a point on it, price Fewer options result in poorer treatment
controls equal choice controls. Biden’s fan- outcomes, which result in . . . sicker, more
tasy Medicare scheme will create a death spi- expensive patients. And the costs of caring
ral, literally and financially. Under his plan, for people who are sicker instead of health-
the price of newer, more expensive medici- ier will cause Medicare spending to surge.
ica to date. And again, the costs for caring
for people who are sicker instead of health-
ier will cause Medicare spending to surge.
Biden’s new plan would significantly accel-
erate these losses.
nes will be cut by up to 75%. If companies Oh no, Uncle Joe. Say it ain’t so. Uncle Joe has chosen to ignore reality in
don’t “negotiate,” they pay a penalty of 95% Numerous high-impact, highly regarded health-care policy because it doesn’t suit
of their total revenue for that year. studies have shown that every $1 spent on the shibboleths of his political agenda.
Organized crime never had new medicines saves Medi- The predictable outcome of his price-
such clout. Talk about an of- care $5. In a very real way, the control feeding frenzy is the significant
fer you can’t refuse. PEtER J. Pitts & administration is trying to re- disincentivization of the R&D system that
This isn’t a wild prognosti- RobERt GoldbERG duce spending that could be allows Americans the benefits of being the
cation. The US Department avoided by making existing world’s top medical innovator.
of Veterans Affairs plan illus- drugs more readily available. At the heart of the debate is whether we
trates the point. The VA offers 1,300 drugs Price controls mean higher risk and are going to improve our health-care sys-
compared with 4,300 available under the lower rewards for investors. tem using smart and evolving free-market
free-market-designed Medicare Part D. Biden already secured a tough “negotia- principles or go down the sound-bite-laden
The unsurprising result is that more than tion” scheme in the Inflation Reduction path of government negotiation (today)
one-third of retired veterans choose to en- Act. University of Chicago economist To- and rationing care (tomorrow).
roll in Medicare drug plans. mas Philipson analyzed that and found the In the words of great American novelist
A Columbia University study found the reduction in R&D investment that’ll result Philip K. Dick, “Reality is that which, when
VA covered just 19% of all new drugs ap- will cause a loss of 331.5 million life years in you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
proved since 2000 — and only 38% of the United States because of the new drug Peter J. Pitts is president of the Center for
drugs approved since 1990. programs that will be scrapped or never Medicine in the Public Interest. Dr. Robert
VA negotiating tactics are driving out begun. Goldberg is CMPI’s vice president of re-
some drug providers from the program, leav- That’s 31 times larger than the 10.7 mil- search programs.
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New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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Business
Briefs
Facing Bernie
Starbucks interim
Brimming with big expectations

‘
fTC’S
TwiT
Chief Executive How-
ard Schultz agreed to We now
testify before a Senate
committee, Vermont have more
Sen. Bernie Sanders
said Tuesday, the latest
employees
development in the 18- in Texas than

nypost.com
month conflict between
in New York

job
the company and baris-

’
tas seeking to unionize.
state.
A’zon victory
Amazon defeated a
proposed class-action — JPMorgan
lawsuit on behalf of Chase CEO
nearly 7,000 workers in Jamie Dimon
California claiming the
company should have
reimbursed employees
who worked remotely JPMorgan Chase CEO
Jamie Dimon says
Musk ‘squeezed’
during the COVID-19 By VICTOR NAVA documents and/or files.”
pandemic for home- “pro-America” states After Musk took over the
office expenses. like Texas and Florida The Federal Trade Com- firm, he allowed select jour-
are more appealing mission has sent more than nalists to view internal

Reuters
Eye warning to businesses. a dozen letters to Twitter communications, later re-
The Food and Drug since Elon Musk took over ported on in a series
Administration posted as CEO, demanding a broad dubbed the “Twitter Files.”

Chase-ing $$
separate recall notices array of internal communi-
for certain eyedrops cations — including the
distributed by Phar- names of all reporters who
‘Attacking’ speech
medica and Apotex, got access to the so-called The reports revealed doz-
warning of contamina- “Twitter Files,” House Re- ens of FBI and government
tion risks that could publicans revealed Tuesday. employees actively sought
lead to vision problems The FTC demands were to censor users for their
and serious injury.
Weighty deal
Shares of WW Inter-
national soared 79% a
day after the company,
known as Weight-
Watchers, said it was
down South
By ARIel ZIlBeR JPMorgan Chase, the
largest bank in the US,
“If you were running the
state . . . you should be
revealed in a report by the
GOP-led Select Subcom-
mittee on the Weaponiza-
tion of the Federal Govern-
ment, which accused the
agency of waging “an ag-
gressive campaign to har-
ass” the social-media giant
viewpoints, including for
obvious jokes and criticism
of Democrats.
The FTC letter name-
checked journalists in-
volved in producing the
“Twitter Files” reports, in-
cluding Matt Taibbi, Bari
acquiring a digital JPMorgan Chase CEO has expanded its presence thinking, ‘How can I make and making requests that Weiss, Michael Shellenber-
health platform to move Jamie Dimon has joined in Florida, which has had the state well off for my “have no basis in the FTC’s ger and Abigail Shrier —
into the obesity drug- the growing list of corpo- a large influx of migrants people?’ ” Dimon said. “So statutory mission and ap- and asked if Twitter con-
prescription business. rate executives who are flocking from high-tax Florida likes business. pear to be the result of par- ducted background checks
touting the advantages of states such as New York, They want you to come.” tisan pressure to target on them and whether they
Yellow iPhone expanding their business Illinois and California. Dimon also hailed the Twitter and silence Musk.” were able to access users’
Apple’s iPhone 14 footprints in Sun Belt “Small businesses, large Lone Star State, where One request, according to direct messages.
and iPhone 14 Plus will states like Texas and Flor- companies, we got, I forgot JPMorgan Chase recently the report, sought “[e]very “There is no reason the
now come in yellow ida that, in his words, are how many total employees unveiled a new, state-of- single internal communica- FTC needs to know every
but won’t be available “pro-America, optimistic, we have here,” Dimon told the-art campus in the Dal- tion ‘relating to Elon Musk,’ journalist with whom Twit-
for the Pro models. pro-business.” Bloomberg. “I’m on my las-Fort Worth area that by any Twitter personnel — ter was engaging,” the com-
“We love Florida, we’re way to Tampa, we’ve got the bank says accommo- including communications mittee’s report said. “Even
Sources: Reuters, Dow growing in Florida left and major operations there, dates some 6,500 jobs. sent or received by Musk — more troubling than the
Jones, AP right,” Dimon told Bloom- Orlando major operations, “Texas is the same way not limited by subject mat- burden on the company, the
berg News Monday. we’re opening branches, [in its pro-business atti- ter, since the day Musk FTC’s demand represents a
Dimon singled out Flor- and so the mayor just tude],” Dimon said. bought the company.” government inquiry into
ida and Texas as states joined us at a small-busi- “If I [were] some other At the center of the report First Amendment-pro-
Follow us on that “like business, they
want you to come.”
ness event we did here.”
Dimon added: “We’re
states, I would be thinking
about, ‘Why do people like
is a Dec. 13 letter in which
the FTC demanded that the
tected activity.”
“While the FTC’s inquiry
“We now have more em- very pro, pro-Florida.” going to these states?’ ” company identify “all jour- would be inappropriate in
ployees in Texas than in Dimon, whose net He added: “It’s their nalists and other members any setting, it is especially
New York state,” Dimon worth is estimated by For- taxes, it’s [that] they’re of the media to whom inappropriate in the context
said. “It shouldn’t have bes to be around $1.7 bil- pro-business, they want a [Musk has] granted any of journalists disclosing

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been that way but Texas lion, praised Florida’s better life for their people.” type of access to the Com- how social-media compa-
loves you being there.” political leadership. azilber@nypost.com pany’s internal communica- nies helped the government
tions, resources, internal to censor online speech.”
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Meta get ready for the ax

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Meta Platforms is set to slash
thousands of more jobs this
week on top of the 13% work-
force reduction that CEO Mark
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023
ing to Bloomberg News. tuted a new “flattening” policy
The job cuts set to be announced aimed at getting rid of middle
this week are separate from the managers deemed to be keeping
company’s overall “flattening” the company from being more

Zuckerberg announced this strategy, Bloomberg said. nimble and productive.

Dampening Spirit
DOJ moves to block merger with JetBlue
By Thomas BarraBi
Wing zing
The Justice Department
sued Tuesday to block Jet-
Blue’s pending $3.8 billion
acquisition of Spirit Air-
lines, arguing the deal
would rob millions of
American travelers of low-
cost flying options.
The DOJ’s complaint ar-
gues that competition be-
tween JetBlue and Spirit
has benefited cost-con-
scious consumers by
bringing “low fares to hun-
dreds of routes across the
country.”
Eliminating that compe-
tition “would put travel
out of reach for many cost-
past November, according to a Meta directors and vice presi- Management hopes to complete gigi sohn
report. dents have been asked to compile the layoffs just before Zuckerberg Biden pick bows out.
The tech giant, which owns lists of employees who are deemed (right) goes on parental leave.
social networking behemoths
Facebook and Instagram, plans
to notify employees within the
coming days that their services
are no longer needed, accord-
expendable, the outlet reported.
Zuckerberg pledged to investors
earlier this year that 2023 would be
Meta’s “year of efficiency.”
The Facebook founder also insti-
Last September, Zuckerberg and
his wife, Priscilla Chan, an-
nounced that they were expecting
their third child — a girl.
Ariel Zilber
Swan
‘Sohn’
on FCC
hopeful
Gigi Sohn, who was Presi-
dent Biden’s controversial
pick for a seat on the Fed-
eral Communications Com-
fifth-largest US airline, be- mission, withdrew Tuesday
hind American, United, hours after Democratic Sen.
Delta and Southwest. The Joe Manchin said he would
A JetBlue-Spirit agreement was announced oppose her confirmation.
merger “would last year. Manchin cited Sohn’s
result in higher According to the com- “years of partisan activism,
plaint, Spirit’s internal es- inflammatory statements
fares . . . for mil- timates show that when it online and work with far-
lions of travelers begins flying a route, aver- left groups” for his decision
. . . who rely on age air fares plunge 17%, not to back her to fill the
. . . ultra-low-cost and JetBlue’s estimates open spot on the five-mem-
carriers,” AG show fares rise by an aver- ber FCC.
age of 30% when Spirit The progressive telecom
Merrick Garland abandons a route. lawyer had suggested that
said Tuesday. JetBlue and Spirit execu- the FCC examine whether
tives had long signaled right-leaning Sinclair
that they expected the Broadcast Group was “qual-
DOJ to challenge the ified” for a broadcast li-
merger. cense and retweeted posts
The airlines argue that that called for defunding
the deal would actually in- the police.
Reuters

conscious travelers,” the
suit alleges. Officials said
JetBlue planned to remove
10% to 15% of seats from
Spirit planes as part of the
tie-up.
“The merger of JetBlue
and Spirit would result in
higher fares and fewer
choices for tens of millions
of travelers, with the
greatest impact felt by
those who rely on what are
known as ultra-low-cost
carriers in order to fly,” At-
torney General Merrick
Garland told reporters.
The suit emerged as the
Biden administration aims
to crack down on consoli-
dation among major air-
lines and other industries.
The legal action also
comes as the feds face
pressure to address a se-
ries of airline issues over
the past year that has in-
cluded flight cancellations
and baggage-handling mis-
haps.
JetBlue shares fell 2.86%.
Spirit Airlines shares rose
4.71%.
A JetBlue-Spirit merger
would have formed the
crease competition by cre-
ating a larger low-fare
challenger to the Big Four
carriers that control 80%
of the US market.
“Customers deserve a
competitive airline mar-
ketplace and we will pur-
sue this merger to ensure
they get it,” JetBlue CEO
Robin Hayes said.
Sohn also faced sharp
pushback from Republican
lawmakers who argued she
has a history of anti-con-
servative bias.
The FCC panel is cur-
rently deadlocked with two
Democrats and two Repub-
licans. Sohn’s candidacy
had stalled since she was
nominated by Biden for the
post in October 2021.
“The FCC deadlock, now

Staff surge in the water Hershey’s even vegan

Watercoolers have reportedly
emerged as a key way for compa-
nies to track office occupancy lev-
els during the ongoing return-to-
office push.
Data on the amount of water
poured from Internet-linked models
sold by Bevi have moved in tandem
with office attendance levels posted
at businesses across the country,
Bloomberg reported last week, citing
data from the Boston-based company.
Some hedge funds and investors
have expressed interest in examin-
ing the watercooler data to glean
some insights about office occu-
pancy rates, Bevi CEO Sean Grundy
told Bloomberg.
“The amount of water people
drink turns out to be a good indica-
tor of how much time they’re
spending in the office,” Grundy said.
“For us, it’s positive that it’s been
trending up.” Thomas Barrabi
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are
getting the vegan treatment.
Hershey Co. said Tuesday that
Reese’s Plant Based Peanut Butter
Cups, which go on sale this month,
will be its first vegan chocolates
sold nationally. A second plant-
based offering, Hershey’s Plant
Based Extra Creamy with Almonds
and Sea Salt, will follow in April.
The chocolates are made with
oats instead of milk, Hershey said.
The plant-based versions will
cost more. Hershey wouldn’t share
details because it said retailers set
final prices. But Rite Aid lists a
1.4-ounce package of two plant-
based Reese’s Cups at $2.49; that’s
about $1 more than consumers
would pay for a regular package.
Hershey charges a similar pre-
mium for organic versions of its
Reese’s Cups, which went on sale
in 2021. AP
over two years long, will re-
main so for a long time,”
Sohn said in a statement.
“Unfortunately the Amer-
ican people are the real los-
ers here. As someone who
has advocated for my entire
career for affordable, acces-
sible broadband for every
American, it is ironic that
the 2-2 FCC will remain
sidelined at the most conse-
quential opportunity for
broadband in our lifetimes,”
she continued.
Thomas Barrabi, Wires
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Fox put
ShErry-‘lEmonS’

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out an
invite to Debts bad Getting ‘wasted’

vote firm for UES

Fox News anchor

wine shop
Maria Bartiromo in-
vited the CEO of
Dominion Voting Sys-
tems to appear on-air
to refute claims the

EXCLUSIVE
company’s voting ma-
chines were engaged

in fraud, but the firm
didn’t take her up on
the offer, according to
a court filing.
Fox attorneys cited
a November 2020
email from Bartiromo
to Tony Fratto, who at
the time was the chief
spokesperson for
Dominion.
Dominion is suing
Fox News for defama-
tion. The company is
seeking $1.6 billion in
damages.
In the email, Bartir-
omo invited the com-
pany’s chief executive
to appear on her show
nypost.com
By Lisa Fickenscher
Sherry-Lehmann has been
scrambling to keep the lights on —
literally — as the iconic New York
City wine shop fends off lawsuits
from angry clients and struggles
to pay down a massive tax bill,
The Post has learned.
The swanky store at 550 Park
Ave. got a Feb. 27 visit from reps of
Con Edison, who gave staff a “30-
minute warning” to gather their
personal belongings before the
power was shut off over unpaid
bills, according to a source close
to the situation. Famed Upper East Side wine shop Sherry-Lehmann is on the verge of having its lights

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to refute claims made Shyda Gilmer — the shop’s chief shut off and struggles to pay staff, as CEO Shyda Gilmer (inset) ducks phone calls from
by Donald Trump’s executive and co-owner, who creditors and fends off complaints and lawsuits brought by unhappy customers while
lawyer Sidney Powell: sources claim has used the shop utilizing the 88-year-old retailer as his personal booze stash, sources tell The Post.
“Tony. She is pushing like his personal booze stash, even
on this. Do you want as its finances have deteriorated
to have dominion ceo — eventually coughed up enough weathered angry complaints from York Department of Taxation and company files bankruptcy or not,
on?” cash to keep the lights on, accord- customers demanding either cash Finance records show. Neverthe- experts say. State tax authorities
Fratto did not re- ing to insiders. or immediate delivery of pricey less, it still owes $2,766,431 in back hold the power to shut down a
spond to the offer. Fox “Shyda was not answering calls,” wines they paid for weeks, months taxes, according to the agency. business and sell off its assets over
lawyers said the email a source told The Post. “Finally at or even years ago. A spokesperson for the store unpaid arrears, a spokesperson for
shows that “numerous the last minute, he spoke with the Staff, meanwhile, hasn’t been told The Post: “Sherry-Lehmann the state agency told The Post.
media outlets, includ- guy and paid off online a little paid since the showdown with has been in constant contact with Sherry-Lehmann’s tax payments
ing Fox News, offered more than half of the balance to Con Ed, sources close to the situa- the state tax agency and has been aren’t helping customers who
Dominion opportuni- keep us in the light.” tion said. paying the balance down since last claim they were stiffed. Raymond
ties to tell its side of The company has defended the Last Wednesday, the 88-year-old March, and the company is work- Fong and Pak Chung are suing
the story.” free booze, insisting the practice retailer — whose clients have in- ing diligently to get to zero bal- over $800,000 worth of rare Bor-
Attorneys argue wasn’t unusual. However, the Con cluded Greta Garbo and Andy ance.” deaux they claim they paid for and
Bartiromo “did not Ed incident was the latest dra- Warhol — dropped from being As a co-owner, Gilmer is likely should have received in 2019.
act with actual mal- matic scene inside the upscale New York state’s ninth-largest tax giving priority to the tax man be- Sherry Lehmann’s law firm
ice” and was “acting store on Manhattan’s Upper East deadbeat to the 13th thanks to a re- cause he’s personally liable for the Nixon Peabody has filed a motion
responsibly” while Side, which in recent months has cent payment of $506,627, New company’s taxes — whether the to dismiss the case.
anchoring her show.
Fox lawyers also
cited transcripts of a
Bartiromo exchange
with Powell in which
she offers pushback
on voter-fraud claims.
Capitalist ‘ESG’ bank
Bank of America chief ex- “I’ve sometimes been sur-
Fed eyes ‘steep hike’
“Thanks to today’s ecutive Brian Moynihan prised to be asked — in- The Federal Reserve will have come in stronger than 1.5%, respectively.
filing, Dominion has had a clear message for cluding at congressional likely need to raise interest expected, which suggests Powell’s comments reflect
been caught red- shareholders on Tuesday: hearings — ‘Are you a capi- rates more than expected in that the ultimate level of in- a sharp change in the eco-
handed using more “We are capitalists.” talist?’ ” Moynihan wrote in response to recent strong terest rates is likely to be nomic outlook since the
distortions and misin- The proclamation from the bank’s annual report data and is prepared to higher than previously an- Fed’s February policy meet-
formation in their p.r. the head of the second-larg- published Tuesday. “You move in larger steps if the ticipated,” Powell said in his ing, when the central bank
campaign to smear est US lender might seem might also find the question “totality” of incoming infor- semi-annual testimony be- raised its key rate by just a
Fox News and trample obvious but comes at a time unusual. Of course I an- mation suggests tougher fore the Senate Banking quarter point.
on free speech and when Wall Street titans face swered, ‘Yes.’ ” measures are needed to Committee. The comments were
freedom of the press,” more criticism for embrac- Bank of America is one of control inflation, Fed Chair The Dow Jones Industrial Chairman Powell’s first
a Fox rep said Tues- ing environmental, social the largest US corporate Jerome Powell told lawmak- Average dropped 575 points, since inflation unexpect-
day. Ariel Zilber and governance considera- issuers of ESG-themed ers Tuesday. or 1.7%. The Nasdaq and edly jumped in January.
tions. bonds. Reuters “The latest economic data S&P 500 retreated 1.3% and Reuters
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To solve a Su Doku, 4 1 3 5 9 8
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canal
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panic
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SOUTH
♠ Q 10 5
♥AK2 Across
♦Q 1 Roughly
♣KJ7542 5 Skin blemish
Wonderword 9 Poetic contraction
12 Inheritance recipients
South West North East How to play: All the words listed below appear in the puzzle –– 14 Slurpee-like drinks
1♣ 1♠ 2♣ Pass 16 Astronaut Jemison
4♣ Pass 5♣ All Pass horizontally, vertically, diagonally, even backward. Find them 17 Parade with strict precision
and Circle their letters only. Do not circle the word. The 19 Body shop fig.
Opening lead — ♥ J leftover letters spell the Wonderword. 20 __ Lanka
21 Conclusion
22 One providing misguided sup-
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24 Milan opera house
26 Pull up stakes for one’s co.
Cy the Cynic says that if you want to 27 Hint
30 Starbucks size
kill time, you might try working it to 31 Gains a lap
death. But some players are lazy; they 32 “Stay right there!”
34 Fuel economy meas.
are content to let contracts play 35 Tropical storm
themselves. 36 More inclusive
Today’s North-South might have 40 See red?
41 Sorting factor in some directo-
stolen nine tricks at 3NT. Against five ries
clubs, West led the jack of hearts, and 42 Blessing
44 British noble
South took the ace, drew trumps with 45 “Saving Private Ryan” event
the A-K and led a spade. He hoped West 46 Medical pros
47 Opens, as a gift 11 Nostalgia-inducing
would foolishly rise with the ace, but 49 Sound bite, e.g. 13 “__ Butter Baby”: Ari Lennox/J.
West played low. Dummy’s king won, 51 Sked info Cole song
but West got the jack and ace later, plus 52 April 15 payment 15 Hydrotherapy spot
55 Original Beatle Sutcliffe 18 Not negotiable
a diamond. 56 Metaphor for something that 23 Bandits
South’s play was lazy. Could you do can’t be changed, and what’s found 24 Live it up
five times in this puzzle? 25 Pub choice
better? 59 Keystone figure 27 Public health agcy.
South can take the ace of trumps at 60 Lofty nest 28 Poet Mina or actress Myrna
61 Shrub that may be toxic 29 Chapel Hill sch.
Trick Two, then lead a diamond, 62 Informer, maybe 31 Ad
preparing an end play. As the cards lie, 63 Saxophone insert 33 Like freshly cut lawns
East can’t gain by putting up the king, so 64 Repair 34 Fred Flintstone’s boss
36 Raced (along)
West captures South’s queen and leads Down 37 Family man
another heart. South wins, leads a 1 Electrical units 38 Horvath of “The Rings of Power”
2 Caboose 39 Marina del __, California PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER
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his last heart in dummy and ruffs a 4 Goblinlike fantasy creature 42 Cereal eater’s proof of purchase 52 Umpire’s cry
5 South Dakota national park 43 Keep busy 53 Mathematician Turing
diamond. known for its air currents 44 Unabridged 54 Randall Munroe’s webcomic of
South then leads his queen of spades 6 Rm. coolers 46 Secretaries, e.g. “romance, sarcasm, math, and lan-
at the ninth trick. West can’t gain by 7 Share again, as a joke 47 __ Peninsula: Michigan home of guage”
8 “Ooo La La La” singer __ Marie Yoopers 57 Two truths and a __: icebreaker
ducking, and if he takes the ace, he is 9 Brunch dish 48 Cushions game
end-played, forced to lead from his jack. 10 Stands in a studio 50 Pretoria’s land: Abbr. 58 Autumn flower, for short
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to Title 5, Chapter 3, Subchapter 3 of the Fla. — Cameron Smith,
Administrative Code of the City of New York, a Real Property A&D Public Hearing will the 2022 winner of the
be held on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 10:00 AM. The Public Hearing will be held
via Conference Call. Call-in #: 646-992-2010, Access Code: 717 876 299: Players Championship, won’t
REAL PROPERTY PUBLIC HEARING in the matter of the acquisition by the City of New be defending his title at TPC
York of Fee Simple (Fee) interests, including properties in the Streamside Acquisition
Program (SAP) on the following real estate in the Counties of Delaware, Greene, Sullivan Sawgrass when the tourna-
and Ulster for the purposes of providing for the continued supply of water, and for preserving ment begins Thursday.
and preventing the contamination or pollution of the New York City water supply system:
NYC ID County Municipality Type Tax Lot ID Acres (+/-)
That’s because he’s prohib-
1409 Delaware Tompkins Fee 333.-1-1 53.41 ac. ited from doing so, having
3432 Andes Fee p/o 365.-1-4.1 72.80 ac.
3941 Hamden Fee p/o 212.-1-18 60.00 ac. been banned by the PGA Tour
Hamden Fee p/o 212.-1-19.142 5.00 ac. for joining LIV Golf.
4286 Andes Fee p/o 324.-1-14 43.48 ac.
Andes Fee 324.-1-15 44.09 ac. That is the most notable
5841 Kortright Fee 105.-2-3.4 16.80 ac. tournament-week stain re-
8195 Stamford Fee 88.-1-12.3 16.30 ac.
lated to the divide in the game
9257 Greene Town of Hunter SAP p/o 185.07-4-20 7.00 ac.
4362 Town of Halcott Fee p/o 158.00-4-1.1. 200.00 ac. since PGA Tour commis-
8670 Town of Windham Fee 114.00-1-36 14.00 ac. sioner Jay Monahan took his
9829 Sullivan Town of Neversink Fee 26.-1-18.1 50.24 ac. hard-line stance a year ago
915 Ulster Town of Wawarsing Fee 66.4-2-74 8.70 ac. when players began signing
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SUMMONS How is golf better with this
FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF
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Carlos David Lopez
Legal It isn’t.
How is the Players Champi-
Isaiah Mikael Gonzalez
Dependent Children
Under the Age of 18
Docket Nos. B- 17951-2/22
Notices onship, which every year Oust, that hurts: Cameron Smith, who won the Players Championship last year,
boasts about having the won’t be there because PGA commissioner Jay Monahan (inset) banned all players who
TO: Leslie Gonzalez – strongest field in golf, better joined the LIV tour, a decision Mark Cannizzaro writes makes golf worse.
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in all NYS ers, such as Dustin Johnson, nahan made, and it’s a bad three on the final leaderboard: are contractually obligated to
Brooks Koepka and Bryson one. Smith, runner-up Anirban La- play on that tour. So, any hy-
DeChambeau, competing Golf’s leaders, such as Mo- hiri of India and English vet- potheticals at this point really
counties. against Rory McIlroy, Jon nahan, are constantly pound- eran Paul Casey.
Rahm, Scottie Scheffler? ing their chests in public
aren’t relevant. Our position
The 29-year-old Aussie also has not changed.”
It’s not. about making the game better. had his member playing privi- Bad answer. Bad for the
Nor is it the best field in golf Banning some of the best leges at TPC Sawgrass re- game.
a anymore. Not players from voked, forcing him to go else- Max Homa, one of the rising
even close. playing on the where to practice and hone stars in the game and one of
The Players PGA Tour, his game. His personal park- the most popular players on
Championship however, does ing space, which is one of the the PGA Tour, disagrees with
has forever nothing to ac- perks as a defending Players Monahan’s stance.
pushed itself complish that. champion, has had his name “All of those guys that you
as golf’s “fifth Mark As a result, removed from the sign which can name that left [for LIV]
major’’ cham-
pionship.
Cannizzaro while McIlroy, now reads: “Tour players are great for golf — champion
Rahm, Schef- only.” golfers, interesting golfers, so
That’s now fler and many “Would it be better if the de- many great stories across their
pure folly considering that the other top players in the world fending champion was here careers,’’ Homa said Tuesday.
four actual major champion- will be teeing it up this week, this week? Absolutely,” McIl- “Having them back would be a
ships (at least for the mo- Smith, who was ranked No. 2 roy, the 2019 Players winner, good thing for golf at large. It’s
Place your notice ment) have not prohibited in the world when he joined said Tuesday. “But he made a a shame that I find Bryson to
LIV players from competing. LIV, will be fishing. decision that he felt was the be one of the most interesting
in NYP Classifieds. Smith, who’ll be defending “I think it’ll be a pretty quiet best thing for him, and he people who has probably ever
his British Open title in July, week on the water,” Smith told knew that decision was going swung a golf club.
lives 5 miles away from TPC Golf Digest recently when to come with consequences.” “The most frustrating part
Sawgrass, but he’ll be spend- asked about his plans for Play- Monahan and his PGA Tour of the fracture of golf right
Email Karen at ing much of the week fishing ers week. “I think all the resi- policy board members have now is that everyone plays a
kinscho@nypost.com instead of defending his Play- dents will be out watching the the power to change those role in entertaining the fans.
ers title. golf tournament, so I’ll be able consequences and improve And since there’s a divide,
That’s not good for golf or to strap out and have the wa- the sport by making some ef- you’re missing something at
for its fans. ter to myself.” fort to coexist with LIV, but the very least. As a fan of golf,
“Yes, it’s awkward,’’ Mona- Smith, who since 2016 has the commissioner wants no that’s a shame that you have to
watch them in two separate
han conceded Tuesday, refer- lived in Ponte Vedra, just part of it.
ring to the absence of the de- down the street from PGA “That’s not a possibility,’’ he events. But such is life, I
fending champion. “But … ulti- Tour headquarters and TPC said. “We are who we are. guess.’’
mately that’s a decision he Sawgrass, is one of 31 golfers We’re the most pro-competi- And yet it doesn’t have to be.
made.’’ now with LIV who played in tive, legacy-driven tour in That’s the frustrating part.
Not allowing Smith to de- the 2022 Players Champion- men’s professional golf. The mcannizzaro@nypost.com
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New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023
start behind
By Mark W. Sanchez
WEST PALM BEACH,
Fla. — After a difficult de-
but with the Mets, Darin
Ruf unofficially began his
comeback attempt Tues-
day night.
Ruf, who had been side-
lined early in camp be-
cause of arthritis in his
wrist, appeared in his first
Grapefruit League game
and got the start at first
base as the Mets tied the
Astros, 5-5.
The 36-year-
old primarily was
used as a desig-
nated hitter last
season, but he is capable
of playing first base and
left field. With Pete
Alonso away from the
Mets to play in the World
Baseball Classic, Ruf
stepped in at first.
“Felt good,” manager
Buck Showalter said after
Ruf went 0-for-3 with two
strikeouts at the Ballpark
of the Palm Beaches. “See
if he plays again [Wednes-
day], see how he feels.”
Ruf had been ramping
up his baseball activities in
January when his wrist be-
gan to bother him, and he
received a cortisone shot
two weeks ago that has ap-
peared to help. He has
been swinging in the bat-
ting cage and taking
ground balls in camp.
Showalter said “in a per-
fect world” the Mets
would try him in the out-
field this spring, too, but
the outfield picture is
more crowded than first
base.
Without Alonso, Daniel
Vogelbach, Luis Guil-
8 7 9 4 6 2 1 3
2 4 1 3 7 5 9 6
6 3 5 9 8 1 2 4
9 1 8 2 4 3 5 7
7 6 2 5 1 8 3 9
4 5 3 6 9 7 8 1
5 9 7 8 3 6 4 2
1 8 4 7 2 9 6 5
3 2 6 1 5 4 7 8
R
Solution to Very Easy #6,115
NHL Maple Leafs 4, Devils 3 Islanders 3, Sabres 2 Men’s Coll. Hoops
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic
Boston
W L OL* Pt GF GA
49 8 5 103 237 132
Toronto
Devils
0 1 3— 4
0 1 2— 3
First Period: None. Penalties: Brodie,
Buffalo
Islanders
0 1 1— 2
0 1 2— 3
First Period: None. Penalties: Pelech,
Conference Tournaments
America East Semifinal
TOR (Tripping), 8:21; Siegenthaler, NJ NYI (Holding), 5:04; Power, BUF Mass.-Lowell 75, New Hampshire 64
Toronto 39 17 8 86 216 171 (Tripping), 18:39. (Hooking), 13:02; Palmieri, NYI Vermont 79, Binghamton 57
Tampa Bay 38 21 5 81 225 198 Second Period: 1, Toronto, Jarnkrok 14 (Interference), 13:10.
Atlantic 10 First Round
Florida 32 27 6 70 221 218 (Lafferty, Nylander), 7:30. 2, Devils, Second Period: 1, Buffalo, Cozens 25, Richmond 71, UMass 38
Ottawa 32 27 4 68 199 198 Haula 6 (Palat), 16:47. Penalties: 5:00. 2, Islanders, Cizikas 5 (Fasching,
Saint Joseph's 72, Loyola Chicago 67
Buffalo 32 27 4 68 233 224 Holmberg, TOR (High Sticking), 19:31. Romanov), 12:38. Penalties: Dahlin, BUF
Third Period: 3, Toronto, Marner 23, La Salle 73, Rhode Island 56
Detroit 28 26 9 65 188 208 (Slashing), 15:43.
4:57 (sh). 4, Devils, Palat 8 (Haula, Third Period: 3, Islanders, Bailey 8 Atlantic Coast First Round
Montreal 26 33 5 57 176 229 Mercer), 6:00 (pp). 5, Devils, Haula 7 Georgia Tech 61, Florida St. 60
(Cizikas, Romanov), 1:51. 4, Buffalo,
Metropolitan W L OL* Pt GF GA (Palat, Boqvist), 9:02. 6, Toronto, Okposo 8 (Power), 4:59. 5, Islanders, Boston College 80, Louisville 62
Carolina 42 12 8 92 216 158 Bunting 20 (Kampf, Holl), 15:10. 7, Fasching 4 (Koivula, Bailey), 7:37. Virginia Tech 67, Notre Dame 64
Devils 41 16 6 88 226 174 Toronto, Matthews 29 (Marner, Penalties: None.
Nylander), 17:07 (pp). Penalties: Big Sky Semifinal
Rangers 35 19 9 79 209 179 Shots on Goal: Buffalo 8-7-10—25.
Nylander, TOR (Slashing), 4:03; Meier, N. Arizona 83, Montana 71
Islanders 33 25 8 74 191 179 Islanders 8-17-14—39.
NJ (High Sticking), 16:08. Power-play opportunities: Buffalo 0 of Big West First Round
Pittsburgh 32 22 9 73 206 203 Shots on Goal: Toronto 5-14-6—25. CS Bakersfield 51, CS Northridge 47
2; Islanders 0 of 2.
lorme, Mark Vientos and Washington 31 28 6 68 201 196 Devils 15-9-9—33. Goalies: Buffalo, Luukkonen 15-10-2
even outfielder Mark Philadelphia 24 29 11 59 168 211 Power-play opportunities: Toronto 1
CAA Championship
(39 shots-36 saves). Islanders, Sorokin Coll. of Charleston 63, UNC-
Canha should see time at Columbus 20 37 7 47 167 239 of 2; Devils 1 of 4. 22-18-6 (24-22).
Goalies: Toronto, Samsonov 23-8-2 (33 Wilmington 58
first. Of the group, Vientos WESTERN CONFERENCE A: 17,255 (17,113). T: 2:27.
shots-30 saves). Devils, Vanecek 27-7-3 Horizon League Championship
is the biggest threat to Central W L OL* Pt GF GA (25-21). N. Kentucky 63, Cleveland St. 61
Ruf’s job as a righty hitter Dallas 34 17 13 81 215 171 A: 16,514 (16,514). T: 2:21. Flames 1, Wild 0, SO
Minnesota 36 21 7 79 182 169 MAAC First Round
who can be platooned Calgary 0 0 0 1— 1 Mount St. Mary's 67, Canisius 66, OT
Colorado 35 21 6 76 201 174
with Vogelbach at DH. Penguins 5, Blue Jackets 4, OT Minnesota 0 0 0 0— 0 St. Peter's 70, Fairfield 52
Winnipeg 36 25 3 75 200 179
Calgary won shootout 2-1 Marist 61, Manhattan 50
Nashville 31 23 7 69 178 180 Columbus 3 1 0 0— 4
First Period: None. Penalties: Ritchie, CGY Northeast Championship
➤ After throwing a sec-
ond scoreless inning, Ty-
St. Louis
Arizona
27 31 5 59 193 233
22 32 10 54 177 229
Pittsburgh 0 1 3 1— 5
First Period: 1, Columbus, Bemstrom 5
(Tripping), 2:15; Hartman, MIN (Slashing), Merrimack 67, Fairleigh Dickinson 66
12:47; Hartman, MIN (Cross Checking),
(Johnson, Sillinger), 4:02 (pp). 2, Southland Semifinal
lor Megill talked at Chicago 22 36 5 49 158 225
Columbus, Pederson 2 (Foudy), 7:54. 3,
12:47; Hanifin, CGY (Holding), 15:01.
Second Period: None. Penalties: Texas A&M-CC 80, McNeese St. 63
length with home-plate Pacific W L OL* Pt GF GA Columbus, Laine 20 (Johnson, Foligno, MIN (Slashing), 0:25; Stecher, Northwestern St. 74. New Orleans 70
umpire Lance Barksdale. Vegas 38 20 6 82 204 179 Roslovic), 10:11. Penalties: Rutta, PIT
(Holding), 2:16.
CGY (High Sticking), 4:24; Ritchie, CGY Summit League Championship
Barksdale’s message, ac- Los Angeles 37 20 8 82 222 217 (Cross Checking), 7:29; Pelletier, CGY
Oral Roberts 92, N. Dakota St. 58
Second Period: 4, Columbus, Foudy 3
Seattle 37 21 6 80 225 202 (Roughing), 18:23; Dumba, MIN
cording to Megill: (Bemstrom), 2:37. 5, Pittsburgh, Zucker
Edmonton 35 22 8 78 251 219 20 (Nylander, Malkin), 10:23. Penalties: (Roughing), 18:23; Mangiapane, CGY Western Athletic First Round
METS A shoe-tie counts
as a mound visit.
Calgary
Vancouver
29 23 13 71 203 201
26 32 5 57 214 249
Laine, CBJ (Hooking), 16:08.
Third Period: 6, Pittsburgh, Guentzel 25
(Interference), 19:41.
Third Period: None. Penalties: None.
Cal Baptist 69, Abilene Christian 62
Grand Canyon 82, Texas-Arlington 77
Overtime: None. Penalties: None.
NOTES Megill had tied Anaheim 21 35 8 50 163 262
(Crosby, Rakell), 0:21. 7, Pittsburgh, Zucker
21 (Malkin), 3:16. 8, Pittsburgh, Heinen 6 Shootout: Calgary 2 (Huberdeau NG,
Andersson NG, Kadri G, Toffoli G),
West Coast Conf. Championship
Gonzaga 77, St. Mary’s (Cal.) 51-
his cleats, which San Jose 19 34 12 50 189 248 (Crosby, Rakell), 3:59. Penalties: O'Connor,
PIT (Interference), 12:29. Minnesota 1 (Zuccarello NG, Kaprizov
counted against the Mets’ OL*: Lost in OT (for 1 point) Overtime: 9, Pittsburgh, Crosby 28 NG, Gaudreau G, Boldy NG).
five mound visits allowed. Tuesday (Malkin), 2:45 (pp). Penalties: Jenner, Shots on Goal: Calgary 10-7-6-3—26.
Women’s Coll. Hoops
Toronto 4, Devils 3 CBJ (Hooking), 1:13. Minnesota 12-10-16-2—40.
Pitchers cannot knot their Shots on Goal: Columbus 10-9-8-0—27. Power-play opportunities: Calgary 0 of
cleats to buy extra time on Islanders 3, Buffalo 2 Pittsburgh 7-16-18-6—47. 3; Minnesota 0 of 5. Conference Tournaments
Florida 2, Vegas 1 Power-play opportunities: Columbus 1 Goalies: Calgary, Markstrom 17-17-8 American Athletic
the pitch clock, which Me- Pittsburgh 5, Columbus 4, OT of 2; Pittsburgh 1 of 2. (41 shots-40 saves). Minnesota, Quarterfinal
gill learned. Tampa Bay 5, Philadelphia 2 Goalies: Columbus, Merzlikins 7-17-2 Gustavsson 17-8-4 (26-26). Wichita St. 65, South Florida 53
Carolina 4, Montreal 3, SO (7 shots-7 saves). Pittsburgh, Jarry 19- A: 18,998 (18,064). T: 2:43.
7-5 (12-8), Pittsburgh, DeSmith 12-13-4 Houston 52, SMU 33
➤ Joey Lucchesi made Calgary 1, Minnesota 0, SO (15-15). Memphis 48, UCF 46
his Grapefruit League de- Colorado 6, San Jose 0 A: 17,400 (18,387). T: 2:34. Avalanche 6, Sharks 0 East Carolina 69.Tulane 58
Arizona 6, St. Louis 2 Big Sky
but after he missed all of Seattle 5, Anaheim 2 San Jose 0 0 0— 0
last season recovering Lightning 5, Flyers 2 Colorado 3 3 0— 6 Semifinal
Wednesday N. Arizona 74, E. Washington 57
from Tommy John surgery. Chicago at Detroit, 7:30pm Philadelphia 1 1 0— 2 First Period: 1, Colorado, Makar 14 Sacramento St. 60, Portland St. 42
In one inning, the lefty Tampa Bay 1 3 1— 5 (Toews, Nichushkin), 4:08. 2, Colorado,
Minnesota at Winnipeg, 7:30pm MacKinnon 26 (Toews, Nichushkin), Big West
let up a run on two walks Anaheim at Vancouver, 10pm First Period: 1, Philadelphia, Frost 12 12:51. 3, Colorado, Rantanen 42 First Round
and a single. Thursday (Farabee, Tippett), 5:52. 2, Tampa Bay, (Lehkonen, Girard), 17:01 (pp). CS Bakersfield 55, CS Northridge 52
Killorn 18 (Kucherov, Sergachev), 7:38 Penalties: Hertl, SJ (Hooking), 15:39. UC Riverside 63, Cal Poly 54
Islanders at Pittsburgh, 7pm Second Period: 4, Colorado, Nichushkin
(pp). Penalties: Farabee, PHI Horizon League
Rangers at Montreal, 7pm
➤ Utility infielder
Danny Mendick, who Devils at Washington, 7pm
(Tripping),
(Tripping),
7:00;
14:32;
Sanheim,
Farabee,
PHI
PHI
12 (Makar, MacKinnon), 1:22. 5, Colorado,
Malgin 7 (Nieto, Makar), 2:45. 6, Championship
Dallas at Buffalo, 7pm (Boarding), 19:38. Colorado, Lehkonen 18 (Nichushkin, Cleveland St. 73, Green Bay 61
crashed into White Sox Philadelphia at Carolina, 7pm Second Period: 3, Tampa Bay,
Makar), 18:21. Penalties: Zetterlund, SJ Metro Atlantic Athletic
teammate Adam Engel Vegas at Tampa Bay, 7pm Kucherov 24 (Sergachev, Killorn), 0:34
(High Sticking), 4:53; Johnson, COL
(Slashing), 7:25; Benning, SJ (Tripping), First Round
last June and tore his Edmonton at Boston, 7:30pm (pp). 4, Tampa Bay, Colton 15 (Jeannot, 9:18; Byram, COL (Tripping), 19:00. Mount St. Mary's 54, Canisius 41
ACL, is expected to make San Jose at St. Louis, 8pm Paul), 8:46. 5, Tampa Bay, Killorn 19 Third Period: None. Penalties: San Jose Rider 63, Marist 50
Los Angeles at Colorado, 9pm (Hagel, Cirelli), 10:49. 6, Philadelphia, bench, served by Gregor Manhattan 59, St. Peter's 56
his Mets exhibition debut Nashville at Arizona, 9pm Lemieux 1 (Ristolainen, York), 12:40. (Unsportsmanlike Conduct), 3:27; Mountain-West Conference
Wednesday in Port St. Ottawa at Seattle, 10pm Penalties: Stamkos, TB (Holding), Karlsson, SJ (Misconduct), 3:27; Johnson,
14:49; Sergachev, TB (High Sticking), COL (Roughing), 12:43; San Jose bench, Semifinal
Lucie against Team Nica- Friday served by Barabanov (Holding), 14:40; UNLV 71, San Diego St. 68
18:41.
ragua. Chicago at Florida, 7pm Third Period: 7, Tampa Bay, Kucherov Vlasic, SJ (Misconduct), 20:00. Southland
Anaheim at Calgary, 9pm 25 (Point), 17:38 (pp). Penalties: van Shots on Goal: San Jose 2-5-6—13.
Colorado 19-15-9—43.
Quarterfinal
➤ Starling Marte, who Riemsdyk, PHI (Hooking), 5:46; Killorn,
Power-play opportunities: San Jose 0 Texas A&M Commerce 65, Incarnate
TB (Holding), 6:41; DeAngelo, PHI Word 62
is coming back from sur- Hurricanes 4, Canadiens 3, SO (Spearing), 17:20; DeAngelo, PHI
of 3; Colorado 1 of 5.
Goalies: San Jose, Kahkonen 8-15-5 (24 Lamar 80, McNeese St. 75, OT
geries on both groins this Carolina 1 1 1 1— 4 (Misconduct), 17:20. shots-19 saves), San Jose, Reimer 10- Summit League
offseason, is expected to Montreal 2 1 0 0— 3 Shots on Goal: Philadelphia 7-16-12— 16-6 (19-18). Colorado, Georgiev 27-13-5
35. Tampa Bay 15-11-13—39. (13-13). A: 18,092 (18,007). T: 2:26.
Championship
make his Grapefruit Carolina won shootout 3-2 Power-play opportunities: S. Dakota St. 93, Omaha 51
League debut Friday. First Period: 1, Montreal, Belzile 3 Philadelphia 0 of 3; Tampa Bay 3 of 6. West Coast Conf.
(Tierney, Pezzetta), 10:17. 2, Montreal, Goalies: Philadelphia, Hart 17-19-10 Coyotes 6, Blues 2 Championship
Hoffman 10 (Drouin), 16:16. 3, Carolina, (39 shots-34 saves). Tampa Bay,
Slavin 5 (Stepan, Stastny), 16:31. St. Louis 1 0 1— 2 Portland 64, Gonzaga 60
Vasilevskiy 28-16-3 (35-33).
Second Period: 4, Carolina, Skjei 12 Arizona 1 1 4— 6
Puzzles on Page 34 (Pesce, Teravainen), 1:00. 5, Montreal,
A: 0 (19,092). T: 2:36.
First Period: 1, St. Louis, Buchnevich 19 Kraken 5, Ducks 2
Pezzetta 5 (Belzile, Tierney), 2:49. (Faulk, Kyrou), 2:12. 2, Arizona, Fischer
Third Period: 6, Carolina, Fast 8 Panthers 2, Golden Knights 1 Anaheim 0 1 1— 2
5 7 9 2 8 6 3 1 5 4 11 (Mackey, Maccelli), 12:53.
Seattle 2 1 2— 5
(Pesce), 16:22. Vegas 0 1 0— 1 Second Period: 3, Arizona, Schmaltz 20
8 6 4 1 2 5 9 7 8 3 Overtime: None. Florida 1 1 0— 2 (Keller, Hayton), 16:25 (pp). First Period: 1, Seattle, Oleksiak 9
Shootout: Carolina 3 (Burns G, Third Period: 4, Arizona, Boyd 10 (Eberle, Beniers), 3:41. 2, Seattle,
7 3 8 5 7 1 4 2 9 6 Svechnikov NG, Teravainen G, Aho NG, First Period: 1, Florida, Lomberg 9 (Keller, Moser), 2:01. 5, St. Louis, McCann 31 (Larsson, Beniers), 10:58.
(Mahura), 4:25. . Buchnevich 20 (Thomas, Tucker), 8:18. Second Period: 3, Anaheim, Zegras 21
6 8 3 4 9 2 1 6 7 5 Jarvis NG, Kotkaniemi G), Montreal 2
Second Period: 2, Florida, Barkov 17 6, Arizona, Boyd 11 (Soderstrom, (Harrington, Strome), 0:35. 4, Seattle,
(Pitlick G, Suzuki G, Drouin NG, Dvorak Sprong 16 (Tanev, Schultz), 17:16.
4 5 1 7 4 3 6 9 2 8 (Cousins, Duclair), 4:05. 3, Vegas, Fischer), 10:59. 7, Arizona, Keller 26 Third Period: 5, Seattle, Tolvanen 13
NG, Harvey-Pinard NG, Anderson NG). Theodore 8 (Eichel, Smith), 13:23 (pp). (Hayton, Schmaltz), 12:49. 8, Arizona, (Dunn, McCann), 8:29 (pp). 6, Anaheim,
2 2 6 9 5 8 7 4 3 1 Shots on Goal: Carolina 10-12-13-4— Third Period: None. Crouse 21 (Maccelli), 17:54. Comtois 6 (Fowler, Silfverberg), 18:33.
39. Montreal 10-7-6-1—24. Shots on Goal: St. Louis 12-11-19—42. 7, Seattle, Schwartz 15, 19:42 (en).
Shots on Goal: Vegas 12-11-10—33.
1 1 7 6 3 9 8 5 4 2 Power-play opportunities: Carolina 0 Florida 15-13-14—42.
Arizona 10-8-9—27. Shots on Goal: Anaheim 7-8-7—22.
Power-play opportunities: St. Louis 0 Seattle 10-15-6—31.
3 4 2 8 1 7 5 3 6 9 of 2; Montreal 0 of 4. Power-play opportunities: Vegas 1 of Power-play opportunities: Anaheim 0
of 6; Arizona 1 of 2.
Goalies: Carolina, Raanta 16-2-3 (10 shots-8 4; Florida 0 of 2. of 3; Seattle 1 of 2.
Goalies: St. Louis, Binnington 21-23-5
9 9 5 3 6 4 2 8 1 7 saves), Carolina, Andersen 16-6-0 (14-13). Goalies: Vegas, Hill 16-7-1 (42 shots-40 (27 shots-21 saves). Arizona, Vejmelka
Goalies: Anaheim, Gibson 13-24-7 (30
Montreal, Allen 14-20-3 (39-36). shots-26 saves). Seattle, Grubauer 12-
Solution to Difficult #5,905 saves). Florida, Bobrovsky 20-17-2 (32-31). 17-19-5 (42-40). 11-3 (22-20).
A: 21,105 (21,288). T: 2:49. A: 15,100 (19,250). T: 2:23. A: 4,600 (5,000). T: 2:30. A: 17,151 (17,100). T: 2:26.
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Charlotte Nets Philadelphia Golden State
EASTERN CONFERENCE Tuesday-Grapefruit League- Florida
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
W L Pct. GB Harris 33:54 2-8 6-6 3-14 4 2 10 DiVincenzo 33:12 2-8 2-2 3-6 7 5 7
Mets 5, Houston 5
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Milwaukee 47 18 .723 — 26:28 1-6 0-0 2-2 3 2 2 Tucker 21:34 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 Kuminga 27:46 8-11 4-4 0-3 2 2 21 Minnesota 7, Baltimore 6
Washington 29:57 5-10 1-2 2-7 2 5 13 Smith Embiid 27:59 13-22 9-9 1-7 4 2 39
Williams 27:52 3-4 1-4 1-3 0 2 7 Johnson 24:23 2-9 2-4 0-2 3 1 8 D.Green 32:43 5-7 0-0 0-1 11 2 11 Pittsburgh 7, Toronto 2
Boston 45 21 .682 2½ Maxey 30:50 9-16 5-5 0-4 5 3 27
Curry 35:28 14-23 2-2 1-6 7 4 40
Oubre Jr. 35:34 10-17 4-4 1-5 2 4 27 Claxton 28:55 8-9 2-5 1-13 1 4 18 Melton 31:42 4-10 0-0 1-7 1 0 11 Detroit 16, St. Louis 3
Philadelphia 43 22 .662 4 Rozier 38:24 10-22 3-3 1-5 7 3 25 Bridges 36:01 9-20 8-8 0-0 5 2 30 Milton 21:45 2-3 0-0 0-3 5 1 4 Thompson 39:40 9-17 0-0 1-4 2 1 23
Reed 20:01 1-7 0-0 2-3 0 3 2 Poole 31:30 4-12 2-2 0-3 3 2 11 Tampa Bay 7, Philadelphia 3
Cleveland 41 26 .612 7 Smith Jr. 23:40 1-6 0-0 0-5 6 1 3 Dinwiddie 28:44 8-16 4-4 0-1 4 2 23
O'Neale 32:40 3-6 3-4 2-11 3 4 11 Niang 19:14 3-6 0-0 0-6 1 1 8 J.Green 12:56 2-3 4-4 1-3 1 2 9 Washington 5, Miami 3
Richards 19:09 1-1 5-5 1-5 0 2 7
KNICKS 39 28 .582 9 McGowens 18:58 1-4 0-0 0-2 0 1 2 Harris 23:21 4-8 0-0 0-1 2 0 12 Jal.
16:37 2-4 1-2 1-5 0 3 5
Iguodala 11:32 1-1 0-0 0-2 3 0 2 Boston 10, Atlanta 2
McDaniels Looney 11:03 2-4 0-2 2-5 0 3 4
NETS 37 28 .569 10 Thor 9:56 2-4 0-0 0-1 2 0 5 Curry 21:39 4-6 4-4 0-3 2 1 12
House Jr. 11:43 2-2 0-0 0-3 1 1 5 Baldwin Jr. 4:10 0-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Cactus League- Arizona
Noel 17:48 1-1 0-0 0-3 0 5 2
Miami 35 31 .530 12½ Totals 240:00 42-85 16-21 10-42 27 20 112 Korkmaz 4:41 2-2 1-1 0-1 0 0 6 Totals 240:00 47-89 14-16 8-33 36 21 128 Texas 9, Chicago Cubs 6
Totals 240:00 40-81 23-29 5-36 23 21 118 Totals 240:00 40-81 22-23 8-54 21 17 117
Percentages: FG .494, FT .762. 3-point Percentages: FG .528, FT .875. 3-point Chicago White Sox 5, Milwaukee 2
Atlanta 32 33 .492 15 goals: 12-32, .375 (Hayward 3-6, Oubre Percentages: FG .494, FT .793. 3-point Percentages: FG .494, FT .957. 3-point goals: 20-51, .392 (Curry 10-16, Thompson Cincinnati 7, San Francisco 3
Toronto 32 34 .485 15½ Jr. 3-6, Washington 2-5, Rozier 2-7, goals: 15-40, .375 (Harris 4-7, Bridges 4- goals: 15-25, .600 (Embiid 4-4, Maxey 4-7, 5-13, D.Green 1-1, J.Green 1-2, Kuminga 1- Oakland 9, Arizona 3
Smith Jr. 1-3, Thor 1-3, McGowens 0-2). 10, Dinwiddie 3-7, O'Neale 2-4, Johnson Melton 3-5, Niang 2-5, House Jr. 1-1,
Washington 31 34 .477 16 2-6, Curry 0-1, Finney-Smith 0-5). Team Korkmaz 1-1, Harris 0-1, Tucker 0-1). 3, DiVincenzo 1-6, Poole 1-7, Baldwin Jr. 0-
L.A. Angels 5. San Diego 4
Team rebounds: 16. Team turnovers: 2. 3). Team rebounds: 5. Team turnovers:
rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: None. Blocked shots: 6 (Embiid 3, Harris,
Chicago 29 36 .446 18 Blocked shots: 5 (Washington 2, Maxey, Reed). Turnovers: 15 (Embiid 3, None. Blocked shots: 3 (J.Green, Poole, Wednesday-Grapefruit League Florida
Hayward, Oubre Jr., Williams). Blocked shots: 7 (Claxton 4, Bridges 2, Thompson). Turnovers: 21 (Curry 6,
Indiana 29 37 .439 18½ Dinwiddie). Turnovers: 12 (Noel 3,
Maxey 3, Korkmaz 2, Melton 2, House Jr., St. Louis vs. Yankees at Tampa, 1:05pm
Turnovers: 10 (Hayward 3, Smith Jr. 2, Jal.McDaniels, Milton, Niang, Reed). Iguodala 3, Looney 3, D.Green 2,
Orlando 27 39 .409 20½ Washington 2, McGowens, Oubre Jr., Claxton 2, Curry 2, Dinwiddie 2, Finney- Steals: 8 (Harris 4, Embiid, Jal.McDaniels, DiVincenzo 2, Kuminga 2, Thompson 2, Nicaragua vs. Mets at Port St. Lucie,
Smith 2, Bridges). Steals: 12 (Finney- Maxey, Reed). Technicals: None. 6:10pm
Charlotte 21 46 .313 27 Williams). Steals: 2 (Washington,
Smith 2, Harris 2, Johnson 2, O'Neale 2,
J.Green). Steals: 8 (DiVincenzo 3,
Williams). Technicals: Oubre Jr., 5:21 Minnesota Kuminga 2, D.Green, Looney, Thompson). Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore at Sarasota,
Detroit 15 51 .227 32½ third; coach Steve Clifford, 4:28 third. Bridges, Claxton, Curry, Noel). Technicals: Poole, 10:01 fourth.
Technicals: None. Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts 1:05pm
WESTERN CONFERENCE Knicks Anderson 28:22 3-7 1-2 2-5 2 0 7 Oklahoma City Washington vs. Detroit at Lakeland,
W L Pct. GB Houston Jad.
25:46 1-6 0-0 1-3 1 3 3 1:05pm
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts McDaniels
Denver 46 19 .708 — Barrett 35:08 10-24 6-8 1-6 4 2 27 Gobert 24:58 2-6 2-4 1-9 2 2 6 Dort 36:01 4-11 8-8 3-8 1 5 18 Minnesota vs. Toronto at Dunedin,
Randle 35:10 5-17 4-6 1-8 3 4 16 Martin Jr. 26:51 4-7 0-0 0-4 1 1 8 Conley 24:21 1-6 3-3 0-0 3 0 6 Aa.Wiggins 33:03 5-12 2-2 3-4 0 2 13
Memphis 38 26 .594 7½ Smith Jr. 31:49 6-13 0-0 3-8 0 2 15 Jay.
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Robinson 31:40 7-8 0-0 3-8 0 3 14 Edwards 33:50 12-24 3-4 0-7 1 2 32 27:05 6-10 0-0 3-6 2 3 15
Sacramento 38 26 .594 7½ Grimes 28:59 3-8 4-5 0-4 2 1 12 Sengun 33:38 6-12 4-5 4-12 2 3 16 Prince 25:03 5-12 2-3 0-3 2 2 13 Williams Cactus League- Arizona
Quickley 35:11 5-16 1-1 2-3 5 2 14 Green 37:29 9-21 6-11 0-2 1 2 25 Alexander- Giddey 37:57 6-11 4-4 2-11 17 2 17 Colorado vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe,
Phoenix 36 29 .554 10 Porter Jr. 28:55 2-11 3-4 4-8 7 3 8 20:24 2-6 0-1 1-2 0 2 5
Hart 32:51 3-5 3-4 2-8 2 3 10 Walker Gilgeous- 3:10pm
Eason 27:48 3-5 2-2 2-4 1 5 8 McLaughlin 20:09 2-4 0-0 0-1 3 1 5 36:05 14-24 3-4 0-3 6 4 33
Dallas 34 32 .515 12½ Hartenstein 15:21 1-2 0-0 1-2 2 3 2 Alexander
Texas vs. Arizona at Scottsdale,
Tate 22:27 4-7 2-2 1-5 1 4 11 Reid 17:37 4-9 2-2 1-3 3 3 11 Joe 29:39 3-7 0-1 0--1 1 0 9
Golden State 34 32 .515 12½ McBride 12:49 3-5 0-0 0-0 0 0 7 Garza 5:25 1-1 2-2 0-1 1 1 4
Christopher 16:28 1-4 0-0 0-0 1 1 2 Dieng 19:08 4-7 1-2 1-5 0 0 11 3:10pm
Toppin 12:49 1-4 0-0 0-0 0 0 3 Garuba 8:10 0-0 0-0 1-3 0 1 0 Minott 5:25 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Saric 15:03 6-8 1-1 1-5 1 1 14 Cincinnati vs. San Diego at Peoria,
Minnesota 34 33 .507 13 Totals 240:00 38-89 18-24 10-39 18 18 105 Kaminsky 3:12 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 3 Moore Jr. 4:41 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 0 2 Waters III 5:59 2-4 1-2 0-2 0 0 7
Rivers 3:59 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 3:10pm
L.A. Clippers 34 33 .507 13 Percentages: FG .427, FT .750. 3-point Washingto
3:12 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 50-94 20-24 13-44 28 17 137
n Jr. Totals 240:00 34-86 15-21 6-34 19 16 94 Seattle vs. L.A. Dodgers at Phoenix,
L.A. Lakers 32 34 .485 14½ goals: 11-40, .275 (Quickley 3-10, Percentages: FG .532, FT .833. 3-point
Percentages: FG .395, FT .714. 3-point 8:05pm
Grimes 2-7, Randle 2-9, Hart 1-1, Totals 240:00 36-83 17-24 15-48 14 22 96 goals: 11-36, .306 (Edwards 5-10, goals: 17-37, .459 (Jay.Williams 3-5, Joe
New Orleans 31 34 .477 15 McBride 1-2, Toppin 1-4, Barrett 1-7). Chicago White Sox vs. Kansas City at
Percentages: FG .434, FT .708. 3-point Alexander-Walker 1-3, Conley 1-3, 3-6, Dieng 2-4, Waters III 2-4, Dort 2-5,
Oklahoma City 31 34 .477 15 Team rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: goals: 7-26, .269 (Smith Jr. 3-7, Kaminsky McLaughlin 1-3, Jad.McDaniels 1-4, Reid Gilgeous-Alexander 2-5, Saric 1-1, Surprise, 8:05pm
None. Blocked shots: 4 (McBride 2, 1-2, Tate 1-2, Porter Jr. 1-4, Green 1-7, 1-4, Prince 1-5, Anderson 0-1, Minott 0-1, Aa.Wiggins 1-3, Giddey 1-4). Team
Portland 31 34 .477 15 Hartenstein, Robinson). Turnovers: 8 Moore Jr. 0-1, Rivers 0-1). Blocked shots: rebounds: 10. Team turnovers: 3.
Christopher 0-1, Washington Jr. 0-1,
Utah 31 35 .470 15½ (Quickley 2, Randle 2, Robinson 2, 7 (Jad.McDaniels 3, Anderson, Garza, Blocked shots: 2 (Aa.Wiggins, Waters Astros 5, Mets 5
Martin Jr. 0-2). Team rebounds: 9. Team Gobert, Prince). Turnovers: 11 (Conley 2,
Barrett, Hart). Steals: 3 (McBride 2, turnovers: None. Blocked shots: 1 III). Turnovers: 15 (Dort 4, Gilgeous-
San Antonio 16 49 .246 30 Robinson). Technicals: None. Edwards 2, Gobert 2, Anderson, Garza,
Alexander 4, Giddey 3, Joe 2, Mets Houston
(Green). Turnovers: 19 (Sengun 4, Eason Jad.McDaniels, Prince, Reid). Steals: 9
Houston 15 50 .231 31 Charlotte 21 29 37 25—112 3, Christopher 2, Green 2, Porter Jr. 2, (Conley 2, Gobert 2, Prince 2, Anderson, Aa.Wiggins, Jay.Williams). Steals: 10 AB R H BI AB R H BI
Knicks 21 45 23 16—105 Smith Jr. 2, Tate 2, Garuba, Martin Jr.). Moore Jr., Reid). Technicals: (Dieng 2, Dort 2, Gilgeous-Alexander 2,
Teams 1-6 in playoffs Aa.Wiggins, Jay.Williams, Joe, Saric). Lcastro cf 3 1 1 0 M.Dubon 2b 2 0 0 0
A: 19,812 (19,812). Steals: 6 (Eason 3, Green, Tate, Timberwolves, 7:57 first; Reid, 1:54 third.
Teams 7-10 in play-in Philadelphia 24 34 29 30 —117 Technicals: None. Br.Baty 3b 2 0 1 1 Whtcomb 2b 2 0 1 0
Washington Jr.). Technicals: Smith Jr.,
tournament 12:00 second; Martin Jr., 10:17 fourth. Minnesota 27 18 23 26 — 94 Golden State 30 34 35 29 —128 Gllorme ss 2 0 0 0 Bregman 3b 3 0 3 0
Bucks 134, Magic 123 A: 17,136 (19,356). Oklahoma City 40 28 37 32 —137 Almonte rf 1 1 0 0 Whtaker 3b 2 1 1 0
Nets 27 32 33 26 —118
Tuesday Houston 32 22 24 18 — 96 A: 16,142 (18,203). To.Pham lf 3 0 1 0 B.Mdris rf 2 0 1 0
Charlotte 112, Knicks 105 Milwaukee A: 14,833 (18,500). Mavericks 120, Jazz 116 Cedrola lf 1 0 0 0 J.Perez rf 3 0 0 0
Nets 118, Houston 96 Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
Middleton 30:33 5-9 13-14 0-4 11 0 24
Lakers 112, Grizzlies 103 M.Canha rf 3 0 2 1 J.Abreu 1b 3 0 0 0
Washington 119, Detroit 117 Utah
Portis 30:52 8-13 0-0 0-11 1 2 16 Wizards 119, Pistons 117 Muricio ss 2 0 1 2 C.Stbbs 1b 1 2 1 3
Milwaukee 134, Orlando 123 Lopez 34:06 9-14 8-9 2-6 1 3 26
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Memphis Dar.Ruf 1b 3 0 0 0 Daniels lf 2 0 0 0
Fontecchio 28:41 2-8 0-0 0-3 1 2 6
Philadelphia 117, Minnesota 94 Allen 30:05 3-8 2-2 0-0 1 4 8 Washington Markkanen 39:00 12-20 4-7 2-6 2 4 33 Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Ramirez cf 1 0 0 0 Mtjevic lf 2 0 1 0
Oklahoma City 137, Golden State 128 Carter 34:31 9-13 2-2 0-2 5 2 24 Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Olynyk 27:39 3-8 6-7 2-7 3 2 12 Brooks 26:35 5-17 0-0 0-1 0 5 13
Agbaji 25:54 2-11 1-2 0-1 2 4 6 Jackson Jr. 31:09 8-15 8-11 0-8 0 5 26 Vientos 3b 3 0 1 0 Salazar c 2 0 0 0
Dallas 120, Utah 116 Ingles 27:05 5-6 0-0 0-3 6 3 12 Kuzma 34:41 9-20 2-2 0-3 2 0 23
Crowder 23:26 5-9 3-3 1-5 2 2 15 Horton- Tillman 32:02 5-9 1-2 4-10 2 2 11 Winaker 1b 1 0 0 0 C.Price c 1 0 1 0
L.A. Lakers 112, Memphis 103 Porzingis 31:40 8-15 5-6 4-7 2 6 24 33:35 7-14 6-7 0-6 4 1 21
Connaught Tucker Bane 34:45 3-14 1-2 0-5 5 3 7 To.Nido c 3 0 1 0 K.Crona cf 2 0 0 0
21:05 1-4 4-4 0-5 1 0 6 Gafford 24:38 4-5 0-0 2-7 1 4 8 Dunn 23:58 4-8 2-2 0-8 5 4 11
Wednesday on Beal 37:54 14-21 3-5 1-7 7 1 32 Jones 33:55 6-14 3-3 1-3 3 0 16 M.Perez c 1 0 0 0 L.Cerny cf 2 0 1 1
Jones 23:24 3-3 0-0 1-6 1 3 7
Leonard 7:36 1-2 0-0 0-2 0 2 3 Wright 32:08 1-4 1-2 1-3 6 0 3 Gay 16:39 4-7 0-0 1-6 4 3 10 Aldama 26:28 4-8 1-2 0-5 1 5 11
Atlanta at Washington, 7pm Wigginton 0:41 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Konchar 21:25 2-4 2-3 1-3 0 2 6
Alvarez dh 3 1 1 0 Kssnger ss 2 1 1 1
Kispert 32:07 6-7 0-0 1-2 1 0 16 Juzang 14:08 2-9 0-0 0-0 0 0 5
Cleveland at Miami, 7:30pm Totals 240:00 46-78 32-34 3-38 28 18 134 Avdija 20:45 2-2 2-2 0-5 2 4 7 Toscano- Kennard 18:47 1-4 4-4 0-7 5 1 6 J.Davis dh 1 1 1 1 Gnzalez ss 3 0 0 0
7:01 2-4 0-0 0-4 1 0 5
Dallas at New Orleans, 7:30pm Percentages: FG .590, FT .941. 3-point Goodwin 16:27 3-4 0-0 0-3 6 3 6 Anderson Roddy 9:37 1-5 2-2 0-2 1 1 5 J.Praza 2b 3 0 0 0 C.Brber dh 2 0 0 0
Portland at Boston, 7:30pm Nunn 5:17 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 41-92 19-25 6-47 23 23 116 Williams 5:17 1-3 0-0 0-1 1 1 2 L.Rtter 2b 1 1 0 0 C.Julks dh 1 1 0 0
goals: 10-28, .357 (Carter 4-5, Ingles 2-3,
Chicago at Denver, 9pm Crowder 2-5, Leonard 1-2, Middleton 1- Gibson 4:23 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 Percentages: FG .446, FT .760. 3-point Totals 240:00 36-93 22-29 6-45 18 25 103
Totals 37 510 5 Totals 37 511 5
3, Lopez 0-1, Allen 0-3, Connaughton 0- Totals 240:00 47-81 13-17 9-37 27 20 119 goals: 15-44, .341 (Markkanen 5-9, Gay Percentages: FG .387, FT .759. 3-point
Oklahoma City at Phoenix, 9pm 2-5, Fontecchio 2-7, Jones 1-1, Dunn 1-2,
3, Portis 0-3). Team rebounds: 2. Team Percentages: FG .580, FT .765. 3-point goals: 9-37, .243 (Brooks 3-10, Aldama
Toronto at Clippers, 10pm Toscano-Anderson 1-2, Horton-Tucker 2-4, Jackson Jr. 2-6, Jones 1-3, Roddy 1-
turnovers: 1. Blocked shots: 5 (Lopez 3, goals: 12-25, .480 (Kispert 4-5, Porzingis 1-3, Agbaji 1-6, Juzang 1-6, Olynyk 0-3). Mets 001 000 310 — 5 10 1
Thursday Carter, Crowder). Turnovers: 16 (Lopez 3-7, Kuzma 3-8, Avdija 1-1, Beal 1-2, Team rebounds: 10. Team turnovers:
4, Williams 0-1, Kennard 0-2, Konchar 0-
2, Bane 0-5). Team rebounds: 6. Team Houston 010 000 013 — 5 11 1
Nets at Milwaukee, 8pm 5, Middleton 3, Portis 3, Ingles 2, Carter, Nunn 0-1, Wright 0-1). Team rebounds: None. Blocked shots: 4 (Gay, Horton-
Connaughton, Leonard). Steals: 5 8. Team turnovers: 1. Blocked shots: 5 Tucker, Juzang, Markkanen). turnovers: None. Blocked shots: 6 E: Pham (1), Whitaker (1). DP: New York 2,
Knicks at Sacramento, 10pm (Crowder 2, Ingles, Lopez, Middleton). (Beal, Gafford, Goodwin, Kuzma, (Jackson Jr. 2, Aldama, Bane, Brooks,
Turnovers: 16 (Horton-Tucker 5, Olynyk Houston 1. LOB: New York 8, Houston 12. 2B:
Charlotte at Detroit, 7pm Technicals: Crowder, 00:31 first; Allen, Wright). Turnovers: 14 (Avdija 4, Beal 4, 3, Agbaji 2, Dunn 2, Markkanen 2, Tillman). Turnovers: 7 (Bane 2, Kennard
2, Aldama, Brooks, Williams). Steals: 6 Bregman 2 (2). HR: Davis (1), Stubbs (1),
Houston at Indiana, 7pm 3:44 second. Kuzma 3, Gafford 2, Porzingis). Steals: 9 Fontecchio, Gay). Steals: 10 (Horton-
(Wright 5, Kuzma 2, Beal, Gafford). Tucker 2, Markkanen 2, Olynyk 2, Dunn, (Tillman 4, Jackson Jr., Konchar). Kessinger (1). SB: Locastro (5), Baty (1),
Utah at Orlando, 7pm Orlando Technicals: None. Gay, Juzang, Toscano-Anderson). Technicals: None. Whitcomb (1).
Golden State at Memphis, 7:30pm
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Dallas L.A. Lakers Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Friday Detroit
Banchero 32:54 7-18 4-8 1-4 3 4 20 Carrasco 3.0 4 1 1 0 2
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
Nets at Minnesota, 8pm F.Wagner 36:40 10-20 0-0 0-3 6 1 21
Bagley III 29:29 6-9 3-3 2-5 4 1 15 Bullock 7:39 0-1 0-0 0-2 1 0 0 Brown Jr. 33:25 4-10 2-3 1-4 2 1 13 Megill 2.1 1 0 0 2 3
M.Wagner 20:40 6-7 4-4 2-8 3 3 18 Green 26:50 3-10 0-0 0-3 2 2 7
Atlanta at Washington, 7pm Fultz 31:05 7-13 2-2 0-1 4 4 16 Livers 37:20 3-12 0-0 0-2 1 4 9 Vanderbilt 23:53 2-5 1-2 0-8 2 4 5 Woods 0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Powell 19:28 2-2 0-0 0-3 0 2 4
Portland at Philadelphia, 7pm Suggs 25:45 1-4 0-0 0-2 2 2 3 Wiseman 34:16 10-13 1-2 2-5 3 2 21 Doncic 34:26 10-23 5-8 1-10 6 2 29 Davis 35:32 11-17 7-9 4-22 3 2 30 Curtiss H, 2 1.0 1 0 0 0 3
Cleveland at Miami, 8pm Anthony 33:00 9-17 4-5 1-5 3 2 23 Ivey 31:54 9-20 5-6 2-5 12 5 26 Irving 38:40 10-18 10-10 0-6 8 2 33 Beasley 22:22 2-10 0-0 0-5 3 2 5
Schroder 34:35 5-14 7-7 0-6 9 1 17 Lucchesi 1.0 1 1 1 2 0
Houstan 22:15 1-4 0-0 0-3 0 0 3 McGruder 30:02 3-5 0-0 0-3 1 1 9 Hardaway
Denver at San Antonio, 8pm 32:55 8-12 1-2 0-4 4 4 24 Greene BS, 0-1 0.2 2 3 3 1 1
Bitadze 20:16 6-9 0-0 5-8 2 3 12 Joseph 30:57 4-7 2-2 0-3 6 0 11 Jr. Reaves 32:42 6-13 4-6 0-4 7 3 17
Toronto at L.A. Lakers, 10:30pm Omoruyi 22:54 5-11 4-5 4-6 1 3 15 Holiday 30:35 4-9 0-0 0-2 2 4 11 Hachimura 27:35 7-11 2-2 2-6 0 1 17 Courtney 0.1 2 0 0 1 0
Bol 16:11 2-7 0-0 1-4 1 3 4
Hampton 17:41 3-7 3-4 0-1 1 0 11 Kleber 26:16 2-5 0-0 1-7 1 1 5 Walker IV 16:23 3-9 0-0 0-2 1 1 6
Okeke 1:14 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 3 Wood 20:39 3-8 1-2 1-5 0 3 7
Rhoden 5:27 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Gabriel 13:33 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 3 2 Houston IP H R ER BB SO
ATP Rankings Totals 240:0050-100 14-19 10-38 24 22 123
Percentages: FG .500, FT .737. 3-point Totals 240:00 43-84 18-22 10-30 29 16 117
Ntilikina
Pinson
2:28 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
0:03 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 41-90 23-29 7-57 27 18 112 Valdez 3.0 6 1 1 0 2
Singles Percentages: FG .512, FT .818. 3-point Totals 240:00 42-89 17-22 3-43 24 20 120 Percentages: FG .456, FT .793. 3-point Montero 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
goals: 9-30, .300 (M.Wagner 2-3,
Through Monday Banchero 2-5, Okeke 1-1, Anthony 1-3, goals: 13-30, .433 (McGruder 3-4, Ivey 3- Percentages: FG .472, FT .773. 3-point goals: 7-28, .250 (Brown Jr. 3-6, Davis 1- Stanek 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 7160 Suggs 1-3, Houstan 1-4, F.Wagner 1-6, 6, Livers 3-9, Hampton 2-5, Joseph 1-2, goals: 19-45, .422 (Hardaway Jr. 7-9, 2, Hachimura 1-3, Reaves 1-3, Beasley 1- Martinez 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Bitadze 0-1, Bol 0-2, Fultz 0-2). Team Omoruyi 1-2, Bagley III 0-2). Team Doncic 4-11, Holiday 3-7, Irving 3-7, 6, Vanderbilt 0-1, Schroder 0-3, Walker
2. Carlos Alcaraz, Spain, 6780 Kleber 1-4, Green 1-5, Bullock 0-1, Wood Davis 0.2 1 3 0 2 0
rebounds: 11. Team turnovers: None. rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 1. IV 0-4). Team rebounds: 11. Team
3. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 5805 Blocked shots: 3 (Wiseman 2, Livers). 0-1). Team rebounds: 9. Team turnovers: turnovers: 2. Blocked shots: 2 (Davis 2). Hansen 1.1 2 1 1 1 2
Blocked shots: 0 Turnovers: 13
4. Casper Ruud, Norway, 5560 Turnovers: 11 (Ivey 5, Bagley III 2, 1. Blocked shots: 6 (Holiday 3, Wood 2, Turnovers: 13 (Davis 7, Beasley 2, Ruppenthal 1.0 1 0 0 0 2
(Banchero 3, Bol 3, M.Wagner 3, Doncic). Turnovers: 16 (Doncic 6, Irving
5. Taylor Fritz, USA, 3795 F.Wagner 2, Fultz 2). Steals: 7 (Anthony Wiseman 2, Joseph, Omoruyi). Steals: 6 Schroder 2, Walker IV 2). Steals: 4
6. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 3775 (Livers 2, Ivey, Joseph, Omoruyi, 3, Powell 3, Holiday 2, Green, Wood). (Brown Jr., Reaves, Schroder, HBP: by_Carrasco (Salazar). WP: Davis.
2, M.Wagner 2, Bitadze, Fultz, Suggs). Steals: 10 (Doncic 2, Hardaway Jr. 2,
7. Andrey Rublev, Russia, 3660 Wiseman). Technicals: None. Vanderbilt). Technicals: None. Balk_Ruppenthal. Umpires: Home, Lance
Technicals: Suggs, 3:44 second. Holiday 2, Irving 2, Kleber, Powell).
8. Holger Rune, Denmark, 3321 Washington 29 24 36 30 —119 Memphis 21 36 23 23 —103 Barksdale; First, Ron Kulpa; Second, David
Milwaukee 36 34 32 32—134 Utah 31 28 27 30 —116
9. Rafael Nadal, Spain, 3315 Detroit 26 32 30 29 —117 Dallas 34 25 28 33 —120 L.A. Lakers 23 33 26 30 —112 Rackley; Third, Carlos Torres;. T: 2:55. A:
Orlando 26 34 32 31—123
10. Felix Auger-Aliassime, Canada, 3245 A: 17,855 (20,491). T: 2:06. A: 20,277 (19,200). A: 18,997 (18,997). T: 2:24. 4088
A: 16,110 (18,846). T: 2:12.
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College Basketball
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a. Davidson
a. George
Wednesday
PTS
3.5
Underdog
St. Bonaventure
great shot to oust Bayern
Updated lines at BetMGM.com
Mason 1 Richmond By MichaeL LeBoff slow teams down in transition and
b. Wake Forest 3 Syracuse actionnetwork.com Mbappe makes PSG one of the world’s
most dangerous counterattacking sides.
MLB Exhibition b. North 9.5 Boston College
Carolina Two European giants will meet with He, along with Lionel Messi, should be
everything on the line in the Champions able to open up this suspect Bayern de-
Wednesday b. Pittsburgh 6.5 Georgia Tech
League on Wednesday afternoon. Bayern fense enough to give PSG a chance to
Favorite Money Line Underdog c. Colorado St. 2 Fresno State Munich leads Paris Saint-German, 1-0, pull the upset on Wednesday.
YANKEES $130-150 Cardinals c. Unlv 7 Air Force after the first leg in France, but there’s Not only is PSG worth a bet at +380 to
c. New Mexico 7.5 Wyoming reason to believe the French champions advance to the quarterfinals, but it
ORIOLES $140-165 Pirates d. Colorado 4.5 Washington could come back and flip this script. makes sense to chuck a few bucks on
TIGERS $135-160 Nationals d. Utah 1 Stanford First of all, PSG will have a healthy Ky- the French side to win the Champions
BLUE JAYS $125-145 Twins d. Arizona State 9.5 Oregon State lian Mbappe in its ranks for the second League at 18/1. If they are able to elimi-
d. Washington leg. Mbappe was able to play only the nate Bayern, their odds will likely drop
D’BACKS $100-120 Rangers State 13.5 California last 30 minutes in the first match and to around +350 to win the tournament,
ANGELS $140-165 Rockies e. St. John’s 5.5 Butler once he came on the field, the entire as the quarterfinals are already projec-
tenor of the tilt changed. PSG was un- ted to be wide open and would only get
PADRES $140-165 Reds e. Seton Hall 6.5 DePaul lucky not to have at least evened the softer with Bayern out of the mix.
ROYALS $100-120 White Sox e. Villanova 11 Georgetown score at home. THE PLAY: PSG to advance +380.
f. Ohio State 1 Wisconsin Bayern is one of the best teams in the Michael Leboff handicaps soccer for
DODGERS $145-170 Mariners f. Nebraska 5.5 Minnesota world, but the Bavarians struggle to Action Network.
g. Western PK Utep
NBA Kentucky
Wednesday g. Louisiana 2 Florida SportS ShortS
Favorite PTS (O/U) Underdog Tech International
g. Rice 5 Utsa NHL: Maple Leafs defeat Devils NBA: Davis leads Lakers to win
Cavaliers 1.5 (212.5) HEAT
h. Ole Miss 6.5 South Carolina
CELTICS 9.5 (OFF) Trail Blazers h. Lsu 1 Georgia Austin Matthews scored on a power Anthony Davis had 30 points and 22 re-
NUGGETS 8 (229) Bulls play with 2:53 remaining and the Maple bounds, Dennis Schröder added 17 points
i. West Virginia 2.5 Texas Tech Leafs rallied from a one-goal deficit in the and nine assists and the Lakers moved into
SUNS 12.5 (234) Thunder 1. Oklahoma St. PK Oklahoma third period to beat the Devils 4-3 on ninth place in the Western Conference with
CLIPPERS 3.5 (229) Raptors j. Grambling 10 Bethune Tuesday night at Prudential Center. Mich- a 112-103 victory over the Grizzlies in Los
Cookman ael Bunting tied the game on a rebound Angeles on a night where Pau Gasol’s jer-
Hawks 3.5 (OFF) WIZARDS
j. Alcorn State 1.5 Texas Southern with 4:50 to play for Toronto. sey was retired.
Mavericks 2.5 (OFF) PELICANS
k. Howard 8 South Carolina  Erik Haula had two goals and an as-  Kyrie Irving hit a clutch 3-pointer and
State sist and Ondrej Palat had a goal and two scored 17 of his 33 points in the fourth quarter,
NHL k. N.c. Central 10.5 Delaware St. assists for New Jersey, which is now 17-4-3 and Luka Doncic added 29 points as the
Wednesday l. Iona 12 Mt. St. Mary’s since Jan. 7. Vitek Vanecek had 21 saves Mavericks beat the short-handed Jazz 120-116
m. COLGATE 13.5 Lafayette for the Devils. in Dallas.
Favorite Money Line Underdog
a. A-10 - Barclays Center  In Pittsburgh, Sidney Crosby’s pow-  In Orlando, Fla., Brook Lopez scored
RED WINGS $190-250 Blackhawks er-play goal 2:45 into overtime finished off 26 points, Kris Middleton and Jevon
b. ACC- Greensboro
JETS $105-125 Wild a frantic rally as the Penguins slipped by Carter each added 24 points and the
c. Mountain West: Las Vegas- the Blue Jackets 5-4. The Penguins had Bucks defeated the Magic 134-123 for their
CANUCKS $180-225 Ducks Thomas & Mack Center
trailed the Blue Jackets by four goals early 18th win in 19 games. The Bucks played
d. Pac-12: Las Vegas- T-Mobile Arena in the second period. without All-Stars Giannis Antetok-
XFL e. Big East- Madison Square Garden  In Sunrise, Fla., Sergei Bobrovsky ounmpo (non-COVID-19 illness) and Jrue
Saturday- Week 4 f. Big Ten- Chicago made 31 saves as the Panthers defeated the Holiday (sore neck).
Favorite PTS (O/U) Underdog
g. Conference USA- Frisco, Tx. Golden Knights 2-1, ending Vegas’ three-  In Oklahoma City, Shai Gilgeous-Al-
h. SEC- Nashville game winning streak. Ryan Lomberg and exander scored 33 points, Josh Giddey
Roughnecks 8.5 (37.5) GUARDIANS i. Big 12- Kansas City Aleksander Barkov each scored a goal finished with 17 points, a career-high 17 as-
SEA DRAGONS 4.5 (40.5) Brahmas j. SWAC- Birmingham for the Panthers. sists and 11 rebounds and the Thunder
k. MEAC- Norfolk, Va.  In Montreal, Jesperi Kotkaniemi beat the Warriors 137-128.
Sunday
l. MAAC- Atlantic City
scored the deciding goal in the sixth round  In Minneapolis, Joel Embiid scored
BATTLEHAWKS 3.5 (36.5) Renegades of the shootout, and the Hurricanes rallied 39 points, Tyrese Maxey added 27 and
m. Patriot League- at higher seed to beat the Canadiens 4-3. the 76ers beat the Timberwolves 117-94 de-
DEFENDERS 6 (41.5) Vipers Home team in CAPS spite playing without star James Harden,
NFL: Brady dismisses return who was held out with left foot soreness.
Tom Brady jokingly cited his new fam- MLB: Clevinger feels vindicated
GOLF ily responsibilities on social media Tues-
day as his reasoning against ending his White Sox pitcher Mike Clevinger said
Odds to win The Players Championship — Thursday-Sunday second retirement from the NFL and re- he feels vindicated and is focusing on the
GOLFER ODDS GOLFER ODDS GOLFER ODDS turning for a 24th season. Brady’s response season, speaking two days after Major
on social media came after “The Rich League Baseball announced he will not be
Jon Rahm +175 Patrick Cantlay 20/1 Hideki Matsuyama 66/1
Eisen Show” suggested that the decorated disciplined following the investigation of a
Max Homa +550 Xander Schauffele 20/1 Matthew NeSmith 66/1 quarterback could make another come- domestic violence allegation.
Scottie Scheffler +650 Tom Kim 25/1 Matt Fitzpatrick 80/1 back, this time with the Miami Dolphins.  Braves right-hander Kyle Wright, the
Rory Mcllroy +900 Justin Thomas 30/1 Sam Burns 80/1  Veteran left tackle Donovan Smith majors’ only 20-game winner last season,
Keegan Bradley 14/1 Seamus Power 30/1 Cameron Young 80/1 was released by the Buccaneers in a cost- said his shoulder feels good despite not
Collin Morikawa 16/1 Si Woo Kim 50/1 Jordan Spieth 80/1 cutting move. The durable 2015 second- appearing in a spring game. Wright had a
Tony Finau 16/1 Will Zalatoris 66/1 Sungjae Im 80/1 round draft pick started 124 regular-season cortisone shot to address a right shoulder
and seven playoff games over eight seasons. issue in January.
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Home Team Lineups HOME
TODAY
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Odds & Ends BET SMART
COLLEGE HOOPS
St. Louis
1:05
YES
Bost.
1:05
YES
Det.
1:05
Phila
1:05
YES
Bos.
1:05
Minn.
1:05
Tor.
6:35
Odds to win
conference tournament

COLLEGE
Big 12
ODDS
Home in on Homa
to win The Players
T.B. Kansas +275
Ven. Hou. Wash. Wash.
Nicaragua 1:10 Mia.
6:10
1:10 1:10 7:05
PIX11 1:10
1:10 Texas +300
SNY SNY WCBS SNY Baylor +450
WCBS
TCU +700
Sac. LAC LAL Port. Kansas State +700
NO 10:00 NO 4:00 9:00 NO 10:00 Iowa State +800
By JaSon SoBel major championships, but being the best
GAME TNT GAME MSG ESPN GAME MSG West Virginia 16/1
actionnetwork.com of the other ones certainly isn’t a bad
ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN
Oklahoma State 30/1
thing. I love this event. I love what it
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — I’m represents. I love that the players treat it
Oklahoma 40/1
Milw. Minn. Den. OKC going to start out this predictions column with reverence and importance. It’s just
NO 8:00 8:00 NO 3:30 NO 8:00 Texas Tech 40/1
with a not-so-bold one for this week’s not a major, that’s all.
GAME YES YES GAME YES GAME YES Big East Players Championship: The final-round How weird is it going to be that the

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WFAN WFAN WFAN WFAN COLLEGE ODDS leaderboard is going to be packed with a defending champion won’t be playing
Connecticut +220 bunch of big-name players. this week? In a word … very. One year
Mtl. Buf. Pitts. Wash. Creighton +300
NO 7:00 NO 5:00 4:00 NO 7:00 There’s your sizzling hot take. ago, Cameron Smith was celebrated for
GAME MSG GAME MSGSN TNT GAME ESPN Marquette +300 For years, we asked “what will the outlasting both his fellow competitors
ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN Xavier +500 professional golf landscape look like once and the weather. Now playing for LIV
Villanova +900 Tiger Woods isn’t playing?” While I still Golf, expect Smith’s absence to become a
Pitts. major subplot to the early-week
7:00
Wash. L.A. Providence 16/1 won’t write off Woods for when he does
NO NO 7:30 NO NO 10:30 Seton Hall 33/1 return (presumably at next month’s headlines, especially since he still lives
MSGSN
GAME GAME MSG GAME GAME MSGSN Masters), what was once one dominant just a few minutes down the road.
WRHU St. John’s 50/1
ESPN ESPN
WRCN Butler 300/1 presence within the game has morphed
Mtl. DePaul 500/1 into a generation with 15-20 legit Outright winner
Wash.
NO 7:00 NO
7:00 Car.
NO
T.B. Georgetown 500/1 superstars, each of whom is capable of Max Homa (20/1): When I first
MSGSN 7:00 7:00 contending on any given week, as we’ve started researching and studying the
GAME MSGSN GAME GAME Big Ten
MSGSN MSGSN MSGSN
2
2 witnessed at the PGA Tour’s designated board for this week’s event, Homa was
COLLEGE ODDS
events. the first name that struck me as a strong
Big East Purdue +175
1st Round
Of course, that doesn’t mean a guy from outright. I then veered, in order, to
NO NO Indiana +500
Butler TBD TBD TBD TBD somewhere below the uppermost Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland,
GAME GAME Michigan State +700
3:00 echelon can’t beat ’em all. As we Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay,
FS1 Maryland +700
witnessed at the Arnold Palmer before finally landing on Homa once
Northwestern +900 Invitational, on any given Sunday, a Kurt again.
Saturday Saturday Illinois 10/1 Kitayama can defeat a bunch of Scottie All of which is to say that the toughest
Michigan 14/1 Schefflers and Rory McIlroys. tournament of the year to predict won’t
Minnesota United Inter Miami Iowa 16/1
8:30 7:30 Before we get into the top pick for The be any easier this week.
TV - Apple TV+ TV - Apple TV+ Rutgers 25/1 Players, here are a few thoughts as we Back to Homa. He’s a guy I’ve felt was
Penn State 25/1 enter the biggest tourney of the year so far. more feel-good story than impending
Wisconsin 50/1  With seemingly all of the game’s best superstar for too long and I’ll readily
Ohio State 66/1 players showing some semblance of admit I was wrong. Sure, he’s great on
Today's Sports on the Air Nebraska 100/1 strong form, it can be a bit intimidating to social media and loves jumping on
MLB 1:05 p.m. Cardinals at Yankees YES Minnesota 500/1 stare at the entire odds board and make a friends’ podcasts, but Homa has proven
Exhibition 9 p.m. United States at Giants MLBN SEC few picks. OK, maybe that’s just a me to be a stone-cold closer down the
NBA 7:30 p.m. Mavericks at Pelicans ESPN problem. In any case, like in most stretch, with a half-dozen wins to his
COLLEGE ODDS
10 p.m. Raptors at Clippers ESPN decision-making, starting the process of credit.
NHL 7:30 p.m. Blackhawks at Red Wings TNT Alabama +150
Tennessee +300 elimination and whittling it down from Colt Knost, commentator for CBS
10 p.m. Ducks at Canucks TNT
World 6 a.m. Panama vs. Chinese Taipei FS2 Kentucky +400 there should be a weekly exercise, but Sports and SiriusXM, has played a lot of
Baseball 10 p.m. Australia vs. South Korea FS1 Texas A&M +500
that might be even more helpful golf with Homa and believes he’ll be the
Classic 11 p.m. Panama vs. Netherlands FS2 Arkansas 12/1
for this one. No. 1-ranked player in the world before
5 a.m. (Thu.)China vs. Japan FS2 Auburn 14/1
 As you start your own the end of 2024. Plenty of bettors
College
11:30 a.m. A-10 2nd Rd.: Davidson vs. St. Bona. USA
research for the week, have already played Homa for this
Missouri 25/1
Basketball here’s one tip: Don’t fall year’s U.S. Open in his home state
ACC 2nd Rd: ACCN, Mississippi State 50/1
Noon in love with the data of California and for good reason.
Wake Forest vs. Syracuse WNYM (970 AM) Vanderbilt 50/1
from last year’s edition But TPC Sawgrass, where he
2 p.m. A-10 2nd Rd.: Richmond vs. George Mason USA Florida 100/1
of this event. That finished T-13 last year,
2:30 p.m. ACC 2nd Rd.: Georgia Tech vs Pittsburgh ESPN LSU 250/1
3 p.m. Big East 1st Rd.: Butler vs. St. John's FS1
one lasted five days should be similarly
Georgia 350/1 and included all perfect for his game.
5 p.m. A-10 2nd Rd.: Saint Joe's vs. G. Wash. USA Ole Miss 350/1
5:30 p.m. Big East 1st Rd.: DePaul vs. Seton Hall FS1 four seasons, with Fresh off a final
South Carolina 500/1 more starts and stops round during which
6:30 p.m. Big Ten 1st Rd.: Ohio State vs. Wisconsin BTN
7 p.m. ACC 2nd Rd.: Boston College vs. UNC ESPN2 Pac-12 than rush hour traffic. his iron play led the
7 p.m. SEC 1st Rd.: Ole Miss vs. S. Carolina SECN COLLEGE ODDS Look at the numbers, field at Bay Hill, but a
7:30 p.m. A-10 2nd Rd.: Duquesne vs. La Salle USA UCLA +140 sure, but keep in mind cold putter led him to
7:30 p.m. Patriot Final: Lafayette at Colgate CBSSN Arizona +175 how many different just an even-par 72,
8 p.m. Big East 1st Rd.: Georgetown vs. Villanova FS1 USC +750 variables existed. Homa should have the
9 p.m. Big Ten 1st Rd.: Minnesota vs. Nebraska BTN  Don’t come at me right form to get off
9 p.m. SEC 1st Rd.: LSU vs. Georgia SECN Oregon +800
9:30 p.m. ACC 2nd Rd.: Virginia Tech vs. NC St. ESPN2 Arizona State 16/1 with your fifth-major to a hot start and
Tennis 2 p.m. BNP Paribas Open, 1st Rd. MSGSN, TENNIS Washington State 16/1 stuff. I’ve been writing stay there
Golf 4 a.m. (Thu.) DP: Magical Kenya Open, 1st Round GOLF Utah 30/1 about this topic for the past throughout the
UEFA Champions League Round of 16: Paris Colorado 40/1 20 years, and my opinion has weekend.
Soccer 3 p.m.
Saint-Germain at Bayern Munich, 2nd Leg CBS Washington 100/1 never wavered. There are only four Jason Sobel
CONCACAF Champions League Round of 16: analyzes golf
6 p.m. Stanford 100/1
Leon at Tauro, 1st Leg FS2 for Action
Oregon State 350/1
8 p.m.
CONCACAF Champions League Round of 16:
California 350/1
Max Homa Network.
Atlas at CD Olimpia, 1st Leg FS2
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 piSceS
(Feb. 20-Mar. 20)
You know what you want, you
know where to get it and you
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know that if you believe in
yourself no force on Earth can
stop you from reaching your
goal. So what are you waiting
for? Start changing your life for
the better today.
 ArieS
(March 21-April 20)
You cannot afford to let anyone
take liberties today. If you allow
a friend or colleague to get away
with a small transgression it
won't be long before they are
making big ones, at your
expense. Protect your interests.
Cause a scene if you have to.
 tAuruS
(April 21-May 21)
As one of the zodiac's "fixed"
signs you have strong opinions
on just about everything but you
need to recognize that other
people have strong views too
and if you don't take them into
consideration today then a
major falling-out may occur.
Sally Brompton
DiScOver MOre ABOut yOurSelF AND whAt the Future hOlDS At
SAllyBrOMptON.cOM
 geMiNi
(May 22-June 21)
Cosmic activity in the area of
your chart that governs your
standing in the world at large
will encourage you to seek out
opportunities for advancement.
Look at each new person you
encounter as a potential partner
rather than a dangerous rival.
 cANcer
(June 22-July 23)
If you let your imagination off
the leash today it could lead you
in some interesting new
directions. You won't find it
hard to see opportunities, in fact
your hyperactive mind will
notice links and connections
way before anyone else does.
 leO
(July 24-Aug. 23)
Expect a nice surprise, or two or
three, over the next 24 hours. It's
not every day that Lady Luck
Daily Horoscope
smiles on you to this extent, so
make the most of it and make a
point of sharing your good
fortune with friends and loved
ones.
 virgO
(Aug. 24-Sept. 23)
You may be tempted to push a
project through to a swift
conclusion so you can move on
to something else but the
planets urge you to think again.
Take your time and make a good
job of it so you can look back on
it later with pride.
 liBrA
(Sept. 24-Oct. 23)
The most important thing now
is that you are motivated by a
desire to do good in the world
rather than a craving for success
of a material nature. Libra is the
sign of partnerships, so join with
like-minded people today and
do something amazing.
 ScOrpiO
(Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
Cosmic activity in the most
dynamic area of your chart may
encourage you to believe you
can do as you please but
Saturn's influence will remind
you that even a Scorpio must
play by the rules. Learn that
lesson the easy way rather than
the hard way.
 SAgittAriuS
(Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)
Are you being nice to someone
because you genuinely care for
them, or is it because you think
you may get something of
material value out of your
friendship? If it's the latter you
need to adjust your way of
thinking. They don't exist for
your benefit.
 cApricOrN
(Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)
Go out and enjoy yourself today.
Laugh and sing and have a good
time. And if anyone tries to
make you feel guilty for having
fun while others are suffering
tell them to get lost. A smile
does more good in the world
than a frown.
 AquAriuS
(Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)
You will go out of your way to
help other people over the next
24 hours but you must also be
aware that some of those people
won't hesitate to take advantage
of your generous nature. Being
of service does not mean you
have to be a fool.
BirthDAy weDNeSDAy
You will be attracted to
people who are in some
way out of the ordinary
over the next 12 months,
and they will be attracted
to you because they see
you the same way.
Together you will take
great strides in finding out
what life is about.

Wealth of opinion: Rory McIlroy, who has become something of a spokesman for the PGA Tour, ripped into fellow tour member James Hahn (inset) for not attending a
player meeting ahead of the Players Championship after having criticized the new PGA rules that Hahn said will “funnel more money to the top players.” Getty Images (2)
By Mark Cannizzaro
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. —
Rory McIlroy will be trying this
week at TPB Sawgrass to win the
Players Championship for the sec-
ond time in his career, just as he
tried to win the Arnold Palmer In-
vitational for the second time last
week, before he finished run-
ner-up.
McIlroy, too, has become the face
of the PGA Tour as unofficial
spokesperson for the tour’s play-
ers, and it’s become quite a lot to
juggle.
He has been one of the most out-
spoken against the controversial,
Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour. He
also has been candid about PGA
Tour policy as one of the leaders of
the tour’s player advisory council
(PAC), which recently approved
some drastic changes to the sched-
ule.
On Tuesday, McIlroy lashed out at
fellow PGA Tour player James
Hahn, who was critical of the
changes to the tour. Hahn said he is
concerned that the revamped format
will hurt the middle-class players
while making the top players richer.
McIlroy’s biggest beef stemmed
from the fact that Hahn, who ranted
to Golfweek a couple of days ago
about his problem with the new
schedule, did not attend the PGA
Tour player meeting at TPC Saw-
grass on Tuesday morning.
“You say all this s--t and you’re
not even in the meeting?” McIlroy
said in an interview with Golf.com.
“The fact that he wasn’t even in the
room was a slap in the face to ev-
eryone there.’’
The 41-year-old Hahn, a two-
time winner on tour, denounced
the new schedule’s features that in-
clude reduced-field events with no
cuts that cater to the tour’s elite.
“All the big names that are talk-
ing about this ‘new product,’ if you
just came out and said, ‘Hey, we’re
doing this for the money,’ they
want more guaranteed money and
this is another way to funnel more
money to the top players in the
world, I’d have a lot more respect
for them,” Hahn told Golfweek.
“Right now, they’re just covering
their ass and saying everything
that the PGA Tour basically has
trained them to say, have taught
them to say and try to make it not
about money when everyone
knows 100 percent it’s about more
guaranteed money being funneled
to the top players in the world.
“We’ve been talking about
money for the last two years and
for them not to say that that’s not
the No. 1 reason why they’re mak-
ing these changes … it’s very, very
hypocritical.”
McIlroy got full public support
from PGA Tour commissioner Jay
Monahan, who showered him with
praise for his work with the PAC.
“When you look back over the
last 12 to 18 months, Rory sat in a
board meeting for seven hours last
Tuesday night and finished one
shot off the lead last week,’’ Mona-
han said Tuesday. “It’s extraordi-
nary. He was in the room this morn-
ing for an hour and a half. His lead-
ership has manifested itself in a way
where he has a very good grasp on
and balance on the full picture and
on the entire membership.’’
Well, maybe not the entire mem-
bership.
As for the juggling act between
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player and PGA Tour spokesper-
son, McIlroy conceded on Tuesday Players
that it’s been taxing.
“I think I’ve been doing a pretty
Championship
good job of trying to balance both TPC Sawgrass
of those things,’’ he said. “I feel like Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
over the past 12 months I’ve played Par 72 l 7,275 yards
pretty well, but at the same time, Purse: $25M
I’ve had all of this other stuff to deal First-round
with. When I went on the board of
notable tee times
the PGA Tour, I didn’t imagine it
would take up this much time. 7:45 a.m. (10): Collin
“But I think it’s been important Morikawa, Adam Scott,
work, and I’m proud of the steps Rickie Fowler
that we and the PGA Tour have
7:56 a.m. (10): Jon Rahm,
made to try to make everything
better for the membership and try Scottie Scheffler,
to stem the flow of players that Rory McIlroy
have went to LIV. 8:07 a.m. (10): Justin Rose,
“Hopefully with these new Billy Horschel, Hideki
changes that have been an- Matsuyama
nounced, the majority of my time
will be spent on concentrating on 12:56 p.m. (1): Max Homa,
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P
ATRICK Kane has been in the spotlight
since he was selected first overall by the
Blackhawks in 2007 before playing
nearly a decade’s worth of marquee games
for the NHL’s favorite-son franchise that cli-
maxed with three Stanley Cups in six years.
But never quite in this context, where the
focus was on him and him alone, as the Ran-
gers — another team! — disrupted their op-
eration for nearly a week in order to accom-
modate his acquisition. There is no prece-
dent for the machinations the organization
took in order to slip Kane into Blueshirt No.
88.
No precedent for willingly playing two
men short in a game as on Feb. 26 against the
Kings, when the club kept Braden Schneider
and Ryan Carpenter on the bench through-
out in order to protect
against injury ahead of their
planned demotion to AHL
Hartford.
Carpenter, who did get
onto the ice for 13 seconds
after serving K’Andre Mil-
ler’s 5:00 match penalty for
spitting, had been a team-
Larry Brooks
mate of Kane’s for three sea-
sons in Chicago.
“Just watching some of the games, you
know, guys were sitting on the bench, other
things were going on, and I was just, like,
shaking my head,” Kane said following his
first Rangers practice on Tuesday.
“And actually, Carpenter texted me before
that one game and was like, ‘You better be
worth it, I’ve got to sit on the bench the
whole game.’ ”
The Rangers are certain the temporary up-
heaval will indeed be worth every maneuver
and every discomfort once the 16-year vet-
eran is fully integrated into the program. The
first two games, both defeats, didn’t even
meet the definition of dress rehearsals. No.
88 was either deferring to his new teammates
or he was forcing passes to once-and-present
If Rangers hope to get far in playoffs,
they will need the Kane they traded for
teammate Artemi Panarin. any toes but I’m trying to just fit in,” said the “It might not be the same as it was, it might
“It’s been a nutty two weeks, put it that winger. “I think it’s the way to go to start but be a little different, but I know he really
way,” head coach Gerard Gallant said. “But if as time goes on, I think it will be important wants to do well. I want to do well, so we’ll
they asked me to do it over again for the for me to be myself, especially as we get figure it out.”
same result we’re going to get, I would say, ‘In closer to the playoffs. The Rangers have stumbled through the
a second.’ It’s well worth it.” “That’s the real reason I’m probably here, fortnight, their 2-5-1 mark putting a top-three
Kane would never tell you that he brought for playoff experience and playing and com- division finish in jeopardy if the team is una-
his star to New York, as a famous Yankees’ ing through in those big moments.” ble to fully incorporate Kane and previous
right fielder once did. He will never say that The anticipation of seeing Panarin and acquisition Vladimir Tarasenko into the mix
Chris Kreider, for instance, can only stir the Kane together again six years after they were sooner than later.
drink bad. But the fact is linemates for two seasons in Chicago “Going back to the teams we won with in
that there has got to be equated to enthusiasm that Chicago, there’s always a certain time and a
some Reggie in Kane, no would greet a Paul certain period where you had to face adver-
candy bar required. He McCartney-Ringo Starr sity and had to get through it,” Kane said.
must be himself. The reunion. It’s likely, how- “Sometimes it was in the regular season and
Rangers did not, after ever, the one-time sometimes it was in the playoffs.
all, trade for a comple- Beatles would not have “It seems like this team has battled adver-
mentary piece here.
They want him and
missed as many notes
as did Nos. 10 and
sity now, not playing with a full lineup, a
lot of games for a while, acquiring
need him to be on the 88 through their new players, so hopefully this
marquee. opening two is our adversity here, we get
“It is your team now, but there are guys matches. Appar- through it and we’re bet-
who really built this culture up and built the ently this is not ter off for it.”
team to where it is,” Kane said following his as easy as riding The operative
first Rangers practice. “Guys like Kreider, a tandem bicycle. word was, “We.”
Zibanejad, Panarin, [Jacob] Trouba and “I know what peo- lbrooks@
[Adam] Fox, all these guys who have been ple think and I know nypost.com
here a long time. what people want but
“I say I want to fit in but also at the same it was tough to do that
time, I’ve always been better when I demand right away,” said Kane,
the puck and want the puck and have the who has decided to
puck more often. I’m pretty confident it will live in Manhattan.
come, I’m confident in that, but I think right “He’s one of the top
away, too, you don’t want to be coming in, five or 10 players in
and especially coming from a losing team, the league and when
this team has such a winning culture right you have a chance to play GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR: Patrick Kane needs to
now … with a guy like that it’s go- play like himself to get the Blueshirts to the next level,
“I don’t want to say, I don’t want to step on ing to be special. writes Post columnist Larry Brooks. Getty Images

Miller returns from 3-game ban that gave ‘reset’

By Larry Brooks
If there was a silver lining to
K’Andre Miller’s three-game
suspension for expectorating
saliva in Drew Doughty’s face
on Feb. 26 while the Bluesh-
irts were already playing
short, it is that it allowed the
23-year-old defenseman to
catch his breath following a
series of contests in which his
play had leveled off.
“Obviously an accident
and unfortunate that it hap-
pened,” Miller said without
apology after his return to
the team for Tuesday’s prac-
tice. “It’s a disgusting habit
that I’m assuming that a lot
of athletes in other sports
have in general, but I’m mov-
ing on and just looking to
play good hockey the rest of
the stretch here.
“It was really hard [to
watch the team], the days get
pretty boring being out that
long. But I think it’s good
[for] a mind-and-body reset
and a little break away from
the rink, but still coming in
and getting good workouts
and skates in and staying in
the best shape I could under
the circumstances.”
Miller had originally
tweeted just after noon the
day after the incident that
he’d been an accidental spit-
ter and apologized to
Doughty, whom he thanked
for taking the time
to meet with him RANGERS
and explain him-
self following the NOTES
match.
The Blueshirts played with
only four defensemen
against the Kings for the fi-
nal 43:23 following Miller’s
ejection and then with five
for the following three con-
tests. The club will be back
to six for the match in Mon-
treal that kicks off a three-
game trip on Thursday,
while Ryan Lindgren re-
mains “day-to-day” with the
upper-body injury he sus-
tained in Washing-
ton on Feb. 25.
Miller will skate
with Jacob Trouba
while Fox is paired
with Niko Mikkola and Bra-
den Schneider is joined by
Ben Harpur.
“All my friends, my family,
the guys in this room, all
these guys know the type of
person I am,” Miller said.
“That’s not my personality,
that’s not the type of player
or person I am.
➤ The Rangers are under-
going a dramatic change in
power-play personnel in
moving Mika Zibanejad
and Chris Kreider onto a
different unit than Artemi
Panarin and Adam Fox.
Unit 1A will have Panarin,
Patrick Kane, Vincent Tro-
check, Alexis Lafreniere
and Fox while Unit 1B will
feature Zibanejad, Kreider,
Vladimir Tarasenko, Filip
Chytil and Jacob Trouba.
The reason for this is es-
sentially so Zibanejad can
station himself in the left cir-
cle for his lethal one-timer.
“It’s not a huge issue, they
had two games, but honestly,
we just want to put people in
the right spot,” head coach
Gerard Gallant said.
➤ Lindgren, who has
missed the last four games
with the left shoulder injury
he sustained during the first
period in Washington on
Feb. 25, skated on his own
prior to practice and re-
mains, “day-to-day.”

Bailey
keeping
head down
despite role
By Ethan SEarS
It would be easy for Josh Bailey to
complain.
The 33-year-old, just a few games
into the season, was a healthy
scratch — moving his 1,000th game
from a home date against the Ran-
gers to a road game. His role has
largely been diminished, with Bailey
sometimes finding himself on the
fourth line. In the first period on
Tuesday, he played just 0:44 at even
strength.
ISLES NOTES
Whether those decisions are jus-
tified or not, Bailey has the status
to throw a tantrum. He’s third in
franchise history in games played,
top five in assists, top 15 in goals.
His number might eventually be
retired. Instead, here he was in the
dressing room on Tuesday after
scoring a crucial goal and netting
the game-winning assist in the Is-
landers’ biggest win of the season,
3-2 over the Sabres, joking about
how he hadn’t heard fans sing his
goal song so loud “since the Coli.”
There’s a reason Bailey wears an
“A” on his uniform and is so well-
liked in the dressing room. This is
why.
“Yeah it’s different,” he admitted,
regarding his role. “I think at the
same time, you’re just trying to stay
focused and in the game and ready
for when your number’s called.
That’s really just been my mindset.
When your number’s called, make
sure you’re ready and give it my
best.”
That was what Bailey did on
Tuesday, jumping onto a loose
puck for a backhand goal 1:51 into
the third to give the Islanders a 2-1
lead. After the Sabres tied it, he
blindly shot a puck from the point,
hoping it would hit something. It
went off Hudson Fasching’s knee
and into the goal for a 3-2 lead, the
initial call being confirmed after a
review.
“I wasn’t aiming for anything,”
Bailey said. “Just a quick shot tip
from the point, You’re just trying to
hopefully get it on net. You hope
for some good bounces too.”
➤ Though Jean-Gabriel Pageau
was a practice participant on Mon-
day, he did not play Tuesday as
Otto Koivula continued to center
the fourth line. Lambert described
Pageau as day-to-day and did not
say whether he would travel to
Pittsburgh for Thursday’s game.
A LEG UP: Hudson Fasching celebrates his go-ahead goal that was
confirmed on review in the Islanders’ 3-2 win over the Sabres on
Tuesday. The goal was originally disallowed after it went in off
Fasching’s leg, but it was deemed not to be a kicking motion. Corey Sipkin
By Ethan SEarS
The Islanders’ playoff odds
have never been better.
It will still take a strong five
weeks to close out the season,
but the Islanders could not have
dreamed of a better run of events
over the last three weeks. And in
the biggest game and best victory
to date, the Islanders beat the Sa-
bres 3-2 on Tuesday night — a
complete and sustained effort in
a moment that called for such.
For the final 30 minutes, the Is-
landers dominated a team nip-
ping at their heels in the playoff
race, climaxing with Hudson Fas-
ching’s game-winner and culmi-
nating with UBS Arena reaching
a rare crescendo.
“I don’t know if you could call
it taking over the game,” coach
Lane Lambert said. “But we im-
posed our will.”
After a long period where
things looked completely tangled
between the teams involved, the
race is starting to come more and
more clearly into focus. The Pen-
guins and Sabres still have three
games in hand over the Islanders,
but after Tuesday, the Isles hold a
six-point lead over the Sabres
and have a crack at Pittsburgh on
Thursday. If they can win that
game, it would go a long way to-
wards not just boosting the Is-
landers’ playoff odds, but boost-
ing their chances of avoiding the
big bad Bruins in the first round.
“I think the bigger the game,
the more you want to get it
Isles outlast Sabres
to keep pace in race
done,” Josh Bailey said. “This is a
fun time of year. I think every
game’s gonna keep getting bigger
and bigger. We gotta embrace
that, keep moving forward.”
That this is the conversation
surrounding the Islanders less
than three weeks after Mathew
Barzal suffered a suspected knee
injury in Boston, sidelining him
for the foreseeable
future, is nothing
ISLaNdErS
short of remarka- SabrES
ble. But since then,
the Isles have gotten back to the
roots that made them a Stanley
Cup contender a couple of sea-
sons ago, making themselves
hard to play against with struc-
tured, defensive hockey.
On Tuesday, though, it was a
sustained offensive push that
won the Islanders the game.
That culminated a high-inten-
sity third period of fire-wagon
hockey, which started with Bai-
ley’s backhand into an open net
off a loose puck just 1:51 in to give
the Islanders a 2-1 lead. Kyle Ok-
poso would quickly come back to
tie the game with a wrist shot
that made its way through traffic
at 4:59.
And just as everyone was still
digesting that, the Islanders re-
took the lead as a pass from Bai-
ley hit off Fasching’s knee and
went in at the 7:37 mark. Initially
waved off for a kick, a lengthy re-
view found that the puck went
3 Summary off his knee, not
his skate, thus
2 Page 42 counting as a good
goal.
“I’m always thinking it’s a goal,
right?” Fasching said. “I’m always
rooting for it to be a goal. I didn’t
think I kicked it, but it’s the offi-
cials’ call. Glad they got it right.”
Instead of sitting back and de-
fending, the Islanders kept the
pressure on. It turned out to be
the right call as the Sabres strug-
gled to generate much offense at
five-on-five. When Buffalo
pulled the goalie, the Islanders
dug in, defended and leaned on
Ilya Sorokin as the netminder
finished with 22 saves.
After an opening 40 minutes in
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which Dylan Cozens and Casey
Cizikas traded second-period
goals, this was the final 20 the Is-
landers needed.
“Going into the game, the situa-
tion in the standings, I think it
gets you excited,” Bailey said.
“Juiced up before the game and
you want to go out there and
have your best performance as a
team.”
Indeed, this one was up there
as the best the Islanders have
played all season.
Nothing is guaranteed until the
Isles can see an X next to their
names in the standings, and that
is still a long way off. Thursday’s
match in Pittsburgh is still vital,
and everything can still change
on a dime.
Right now, though, you
wouldn’t bet against the Island-
ers to make the playoff field.
And with Barzal expected to
return towards the end of the
season, you probably wouldn’t
want to see them on the other
side if they get there.
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Wednesday
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

By Zach BraZiller
Iona vS.
For months, the rumors have Mount St. Mary’S
been out there.
Whispers that Rick Pitino wants 7 p.m.
one more bite of the high-major MAAC
apple, particularly after the Inde- quarterfinal
pendent Accountability Resolu-
tion Process, which reviews cer- field-goal percentage defense,
tain NCAA Division I infractions, turnover margin, assists and
exonerated him following its rul- blocked shots. It has a NET rank-
ing in the case against Louisville ing of 66 and KenPom ranking of
from his days at its coach. Two 78, very strong metrics for a mid-
northeast Big East schools — Ge- major program. Clayton and jun-
orgetown and St. John’s — are ex- ior forward Nelly Junior Joseph
pected to have openings. Pitino, were selected to the All-MAAC
who doesn’t have a buyout, has first team, and Jenkins was on the
also been linked to Central Flor- second team.
ida, which is moving to the Big 12 “We all know if we guard and
and could part ways with Johnny come ready to play and run our of-
Dawkins. fense with great pace, then the
But to the 70-year-old Pitino, sky’s the limit,” Jenkins said.
and his Iona College players, that’s “There’s no ceiling for this team.
all noise. He hasn’t talked to them That’s been our motto the whole
about it. They don’t year. We’re in control of
seem concerned about it. our own destiny.”
Two of the Gaels’ top It all has led to this
players, Walter Clayton point for Iona, which
Jr. and Daniss Jenkins, was one-and-done in
both told The Post it isn’t the MAAC Tournament
something they have a year ago after winning
worried about at all, that it in Pitino’s first season
their only concern is fin- and putting a scare into
ishing this successful fourth-seeded Alabama
year off right. in the first round of the
“The one thing I can 2021 NCAA Tourna-
assure you of is, the play- Rick Pitino ment. Clayton thinks
ers pay absolutely zero Could leave for about that 2022 quarter-
attention to that,” said high-major job final loss to Rider fre-
Pitino, who has coached quently. He missed the
two national champions and front end of a crucial 1-and-1 in the
reached seven Final Fours. “Now defeat that could’ve iced the game. By Zach BraZiller St. John’s (17-14) should keep the Tournament. He recruited the
other people pay attention to it, Saint Peter’s ended up winning the 63-year-old coach following an bulk of the 1999 Elite Eight team
but the staff, myself and the play- tournament and became the first Think high energy. Think of a eighth-place finish in the Big East that Mike Jarvis inherited when
ers pay no attention. The internet 15th seed to ever reach the Elite grinder. Think of someone who and no NCAA Tournament bids in Fraschilla left for the job at New
is not going to hire a coach, I can Eight. will tirelessly work to return St. four years, barring a run to the Big Mexico.
assure you. It never has and it “For me personally, it’s definitely John’s to national relevance. East Tournament crown. But if St. St. John’s really hasn’t been the
never will.” on my mind a lot,” said Clayton, Those are the characteristics John’s decides to make a change, same since. It last reached the
The season has seemed to back Iona’s leading scorer at 16.5 points that Fran Fraschilla believes his he believes it should go the route main draw of the NCAA Tourna-
up the assertion that the rumors per game. “We’ve been saying the old school should identify if it that Providence took when it ment in 2015. It last won an NCAA
haven’t distracted the Gaels. Iona same things to the new guys, really chooses to part ways with coach hired Ed Cooley in 2011. Tournament game in 2000. The
(24-7) has won 11 straight games the mentality is don’t take any- Mike Anderson, as is expected. Under Cooley, who was hired by Red Storm were expected to com-
(eight by double figures) and is the thing lightly.” “It would take somebody with current St. John’s president, Rev. pete to reach the dance each of
No. 1 seed in the MAAC Tourna- When Iona hired Pitino three incredible energy. I would say a Brian Shanley, Providence has the last two years, but unless they
ment, which it will begin Wednes- years ago, it always knew there younger guy that maybe is on his reached the NCAA Tournament win the Big East Tournament,
day in a quarterfinal match with was a possibility he could leave for way up and let them grind away,” six times since 2014 and is a pro- they won’t have come close. If St.
Mount St. Mary’s. The Gaels won a bigger school. Several sources Fraschilla told The Post in a jected at-large team this year, John’s doesn’t keep Anderson, it
the league’s regular-season crowd believe if the right program came phone interview on the eve of the after advancing to the Sweet 16 will have had three different
for the second straight year, this calling, he would make the move. eighth-seeded Red Storm’s open- last March. A few years ago, Prov- coaches in an eight-year span.
time by four games. Pitino pre- He hasn’t hid his displeasure at be- ing-round Big East Tournament idence built a state-of-the-art “Times have changed. When I
pared them well for league play by ing in a one-bid league and the game against No. 9 DePaul at the practice facility that is as up-to- was coaching in New York in the
putting together a non-conference MAAC Tournament structure, Garden on Wednesday. “You need date as any in the nation. 1990s, both at Manhattan and St.
schedule ranked 65th in the coun- which he believes puts the top incredible energy at that place “[Shanley] hired a guy that John’s, the high school talent was
try, a slate that included CAA reg- teams in the conference at a disad- and a guy that’s just not going to wanted to be there and was young still as good as there was in
ular-season champion Hofstra, vantage because there is no home- take no for an answer. Somebody enough that he had incredible en- America,” Fraschilla said. “There
American East champion Ver- court advantage. But right now, that they’re going to be willing to ergy,” Fraschilla said, referring to was enough talent back then,
mont, St. Bonaventure and Saint Pitino has insisted his only focus is allow to grow and build a pro- the hiring of Cooley. “Ed came where of the top 10 players in the
Louis of the Atlantic 10, SMU and on getting back to the NCAA gram.” from Fairfield. It’s not like he area, five wanted to stay home
New Mexico, his son Richard’s Tournament. Fraschilla, a college basketball came from Notre Dame or North and five wanted to get away. They
team. “Let’s get down to Atlantic City and NBA draft analyst for ESPN, Carolina.” wanted to stay home because
Iona looks the part of the heavy and win,” he said. “We’re putting wanted to be clear that he wasn’t After a strong tenure at Manhat- they wanted to be close to their
conference tournament favorite. It in 12-13 hour days right now and to advocating for Anderson to lose tan, the 64-year-old Fraschilla family, they wanted to play at
is No. 1 in the MAAC in points think about anything except win- his job after four seasons. He spent two years as St. John’s Madison Square Garden. St.
scored, field-goal percentage, ning would be an injustice.” didn’t have an opinion on whether coach, reaching the 1998 NCAA John’s still had a very rich tradi-

Running out of
time: Mike Anderson, W
ELCOME back for
Year XIII. I assume
that Jim Boeheim
without a big run in the will be on the sideline for
chapter XXXIII, too.
Big East Tournament,
likely won’t be back at
St. John’s next season.
Fran Fraschilla said the
Syracuse (+3) over Wake
Forest: Boeheim is looking
at a second straight season
without a trip to the NCAA
Johnnies should find an
energetic coach, Tournament, but the 78-
perhaps from a smaller year-old Orange coach
program, similar to the hasn’t lost the first game of
way Ed Cooley (below) an ACC Tournament since
moved from Fairfield to the 2017 event in Brooklyn,
Providence. AP (2)
where he infamously de-
cried: “There’s no value to
playing in Greensboro.
None.” He returns to the
longtime ACC base with a
team four days removed
from toppling the Demon
Deacons, whose struggles
against the Orange zone —
featuring seven turnovers by
ACC Player of the Year
Tyree Appleby — will re-
turn with a quick turn-
around.
St. John’s (-5.5) over
Butler: Madison Square
Garden will help. A matchup
with the Big East’s worst of-
fense matters more for a Red
Storm defense that forced
the Bulldogs into 22 turn-
overs in a 16-point victory in
Queens. Disaster looms in
Round 2 for a St. John’s
squad that has gone 2-13 in
Quad 1 and 2 games this sea-
son, but Mike Anderson’s
latest underwhelming sea-
son should add one more
soft win (St. John’s has gone
Zags stomp Saint Mary’s
Associated Press
tion at the time. We were able to
really dive into the city’s talent
Drew Timme scored 18
points and became Gonz-
base, in a way that I’m not sure aga’s all-time leading scorer
can be done today.” to lead the sharp-shooting
It clearly hasn’t been done re- No. 9 Bulldogs past No. 16
cently. St. John’s recent history is Saint Mary’s 77-51 in the
all the evidence that is needed. West Coast Conference
Ultimately, more than a coach, Tournament title game.
Fraschilla believes a change has to The Zags (28-5) continued
happen in the Queens school’s ap- their domination of the
proach to basketball on a grand WCC with their fourth
scale. Shanley, it should be noted, consecutive tournament
has said one of the keys for St. championship and 10th
John’s is to improve what he has in 11 years.
termed facilities that aren’t up to
par with most of the Big East. Summit Championship
“Why does Villanova, Xavier, Oral Roberts 92, NDSU 58
Dayton, Gonzaga and Creighton In Sioux Falls, South Da-
get it, and some other Catholic kota, Max Abmas scored
schools don’t? I have always won- 26 points and Oral Roberts
dered that,” Fraschilla said. “Often- rolled past North Dakota
times it’s leadership and it’s a com- State and into the NCAA
mitment to say that we want bas- Tournament for the sec-
ketball to be the front porch of the ond time in three years.
university. Not the most important
part of the university, but the part NEC Championship
that people see first. That was Merrimack 67, FDU 66
the case for many, many decades, In North Andover, Mass.,
and unfortunately it’s not the case Merrimack, which is ineligi-
right now. … I just think there has ble for the NCAA Tourna-
to be more of a commitment to in- ment due to a four-year
credible facilities.” transition to Division I,
zbraziller@nypost.com closed on an 8-0 run. FDU
Orange ya glad
Howie Hoops
has returned?
HOWIE
HOOPS
Throughout
March Madness,
The Post’s
Howie Kussoy
will provide his
plays of the day.
15-1 in Quad 3 and 4 games).
DePaul (+6.5 ) over
Seton Hall: It’s tough to
pick against Shaheen Hollo-
way in March — the first-
year Pirates coach went 8-3
in MAAC Tournament play
at Saint Peter’s — but the
Blue Demons stayed within
five points in both losses to
Seton Hall despite 40-plus
percent 3-point shooters
Umoja Gibson and Javan
Johnson combining to go
8-for-29 from deep. DePaul’s
leading scorers — who led
the team to upsets of Xavier
and Villanova — should fare
better in a house-money af-
fair, with the pressure
NCAA
ROUNDUP
had already secured the
conference’s automatic bid
in the Big Dance but was
seeking its seventh NEC
Tournament title.
Colonial Championship
Charleston 63, UNCW 58
In Washington, Ryan Lar-
son scored 23 points and
his effort at both of ends of
the floor late helped send
Charleston past upset-
minded UNC Wilmington
to clinch its first trip to the
NCAA Tournament since
2018 and sixth overall.
Horizon Championship
No. Kent. 63, Cleveland St. 61
In Indianapolis, Marques
Warrick scored 18 points
and Sam Vinson added 16 to
lead Northern Kentucky to
the NCAA Tournament for
the fourth time since 2017.
MAAC first round
Saint Peter’s 70, Fairfeld 52
In Atlantic City, Jaylen
Murray had 23 points as the
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squarely on a Seton Hall ros-
ter whose tournament
hopes have faded with five
losses in the past seven
games.
Villanova (-11) over Ge-
orgetown: Patrick Ewing
will always have 1984. He
will always have the improb-
able 2021 Big East title run.
But his final two seasons at
nypost.com
his alma mater will make it
hard for him to get another
shot to be a head coach
again. After Ewing has lost
37 of 39 Big East games in
the past two seasons, the
Knicks legend’s final game
with Georgetown will come
at his longtime home. While
the Wildcats have begun to
find their form late in their
first season under Kyle Nep-
tune, the Hoyas have lost
their past two games by a to-
tal of 60 points. Georgetown
won just one opening-round
game in Ewing’s previous
five seasons.
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10th-seeded Peacocks
(13-17) tried to recapture
some of their March magic,
setting up a quarterfinal
against No. 2 Rider.
Marist 61, Manhattan 50
Patrick Gardner carried
the Red Foxes (10-19, 6-14)
with 22 points and 11 re-
bounds to knock out the Jas-
pers (12-17, 10-10).
In another first-round
game, Canisius beat Mount
St. Mary’s 67-66 in overtime
to earn a date with No. 1 Iona.
ACC first round
Va. Tech 67, Notre Dame 64
In Greensboro, N.C., Grant
Basile scored 20 points, Jus-
tyn Mutts added 18 and Vir-
ginia Tech rallied to beat No-
tre Dame in what is likely
coach Mike Brey’s last game
with the Irish after 23 sea-
sons. The 11th-seeded Hokies
next faces No. 6 N.C. State.
In the other first-round
games, Georgia Tech nipped
Florida State 61-60 to earn a
date with fifth-seeded Pitt;
and Boston College beat
Louisville 80-62, to face sev-
enth-seeded North Carolina.

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Braziller
prediction
Champion: No. 4
Connecticut
Most Outstanding
Player: UConn
soph. guard Jordan
Hawkins (right)
I love the draw
for Dan Hurley’s
Huskies — struggling
Providence followed
likely by Marquette,
which Connecticut
recently manhandled. This
team has gotten over its
January problems and is
surging at the right time
of the year. The 6-foot-
5 Hawkins is underrated
nationally, but he won’t be
when this tournament is
complete and he shoots
down Creighton in a
classic title game.
AP
BELLY OF
THE EAST
By ZACH BRAZILLER
Top-seeded Marquette has won
11 of its last 12 games and isn’t even
the betting favorite in this week’s
Big East Tournament.
That would be fourth-seeded
Connecticut, which is entering
the tournament having won five
straight games. Villanova, the dan-
gerous sixth seed, has played its
best basketball of late now that Jus-
tin Moore is healthy. Third-seeded
Creighton, the preseason favorite,
may be the best team. No. 2 Xavier,
fueled by the dynamic backcourt
of Souley Boum and Colby Jones,
somehow feels like a dark horse
despite winning four of its last five
games. No. 5 Providence, skidding
of late, is viewed as a major under-
dog, but that’s where coach Ed
Cooley thrives.
It really seems like anybody’s
tournament to win, at least from the
top half of the conference. The big
five all have Sweet 16 potential,
which makes the next four days
so fascinating.
It all gets going Wednesday
when eighth-seeded St. John’s
meets No. 9 Butler at 3 p.m.
Here’s a team-by-team break-
down:
No. 1 Marquette (25-6, 17-3)
Coach: Shaka Smart
Star: Soph. G Tyler Kolek (12.7
ppg, 7.9 apg).
My pick for Big East Player of
the Year, Kolek is one of the
country’s best point guards,
the motor for the fourth-
ranked offense in the nation by
efficiency. His vastly improved
3-point shot — Kolek hit 39.6
percent from downtown after
shooting at a 28.1 percent clip
a year ago — has made the
shifty sophomore so difficult
to defend.
X factor: Soph. F Oso
Ighodaro (11.9 ppg, 5.8 rpg).
In four of Marquette’s
six losses, Ighodaro has
struggled. Marquette
is thin up front, and
is dependent on the
6-foot-9, rim-protecting
sophomore to make an
impact inside.
Conference tourney
should be wild time
2023 Big East Tournament
FIRST ROUND QUARTERFINALS SEMIFINALS TITLE GAME
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
9. Butler
3 p.m.
Noon
8. St. John’s 1. Marqutte
6:30 p.m.
5. Providence
2:30 p.m.
4. UConn
10. DePaul Games on FOX Sports 1
6:30 p.m.
5:30 p.m. Game on
FOX
7. Seton Hall 7 p.m.
2. Xavier
11. Georgetown
9 p.m.
8 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
6. Villanova 3. Creighton
At Madison Square Garden
Strength: Taking care of the ball. is also an adept playmaker who
Despite playing fast, Marquette boasts a 2.2 assist-to-turnover
is rarely out of control, notching a ratio.
plus-5.5 turnover margin. X factor: Sr. F Jerome Hunter (7.3
Weakness: The paint. Marquette ppg, 4.2 rpg).
lacks a true big man, part of the Zach Freemantle’s season-ending
reason it is next-to-last in the foot injury turned Hunter from a
league in defensive rebounding reserve to a starter. Xavier has
percentage at 68.7. gone 6-3 since it lost Freemantle,
Can win title if: It can avoid and Hunter has played a critical
Connecticut. It’s not a good role in the Musketeers being able
matchup for Marquette, which was to survive without their third-
blown out by the Huskies on leading scorer and top rebounder.
Feb. 7, and needed a second-half Strength: Offense. Xavier is the
rally at home to beat them in the Big East leader in assists (19.9),
first meeting. 3-point percentage (39.8) and
BetMGM Odds: 3/1 scoring (82.1).
Weakness: Defense. Miller has
No. 2 Xavier (23-8, 15-5) repeatedly said the Musketeers
Coach: Sean Miller will only go as far as their defense,
Star: Soph. G Souley Boum (16.8 ranked 83rd in efficiency, will carry
ppg, 4.5 apg). them.
The former UTEP guard has been Can win title if: Boum and Jones
one of the best transfers in the perform up to their potential as the
country. The league’s third-best best backcourt in the league and
3-point shooter at 42.2 percent, he sharpshooting forward Jack Nunge

avoids foul trouble to anchor
Xavier’s sometimes suspect
defense.
BetMGM Odds: 5/1
No. 3 Creighton (20-11, 14-6)
Coach: Greg McDermott
Star: Jr. C Ryan Kalkbrenner (15.1
ppg, 2.2 bpg).
The Bluejays nearly fell apart
when the 7-foot-1 Kalkbrenner
was ill, losing six straight games
from late November into mid-
December. The league’s Defensive
Player of the Year is that pivotal at
both ends of the floor.
X factor: Soph. G Ryan Nembhard
(12.0 ppg, 4.9 apg).
Somehow, the play-making point
guard wasn’t included in any Big
East honors. He’ll play with a chip
on his shoulder this week.
Strength: Balance. Creighton isn’t
overly reliant on one player to
score. Its entire starting lineup
averages in double figures.
Weakness: Bench. 85.1 percent of
Creighton’s offense comes from
its starters.
Can win title if: Fatigue isn’t an
issue. Three games in as many
days will be a challenge for a
team that relies so heavily on its
starting lineup.
BetMGM Odds: 3/1
No. 4 Connecticut (24-7, 13-7)
Coach: Dan Hurley
Star: Soph. G Jordan Hawkins
(16.4 ppg, 3.9 rpg).
One of the most improved players
in the country, the high-scoring
guard has elevated himself into
a potential NBA first-round pick.
He’s a big-time shotmaker, nearly
tripling his offensive output from
a year ago.
X factor: Jr. G Andre Jackson Jr.
(6.8 ppg, 4.3 apg).
Jackson has started to find his
offense, scoring in double figures
in four of the last five games, and
it’s not a coincidence the Huskies
have turned it on during that span.
Strength: Defense. UConn allows
a Big East-low 64.8 points and also
leads the league in blocked shots
at five per game. Scoring against
the Huskies is a chore.
Weakness: Consistency. For such
a strong team, this is a group
that lost six of eight early in the
conference season, dropping
games to lower-tier opponents
St. John’s and Seton Hall.
Can win title if: The early- and
late-season Huskies show up
rather than the January version.
Connecticut has the most talent
in the league, and has shown it of
late, winning eight of its last nine
games.
BetMGM Odds: 11/5
No. 5 Providence (21-10, 13-7)
Coach: Ed Cooley
Star: Soph. F Bryce Hopkins (16.1
ppg, 8.5 rpg).
A disappointment in one season
at Kentucky, the 6-foot-7 wing
found his game at Providence,
developing into one of the
premier players in the Big East.
He’s physical and skilled, a
strong 3-point shooter who can
score at all three levels and is an
underrated playmaker averaging
2.3 assists per game.
X factor: Sr. G Jared Bynum (10.1
ppg, 4.4 apg).
It was a down year for the
senior across the board. His
3-point shooting percentage
and scoring average dropped
after a sensational junior year.
When he’s on, Providence is a
different team. It won’t make a
run this week unless Bynum can
rediscover his form.
Strength: Rebounding.
Providence is second in the Big
East in rebounding margin at
plus-6.9.
Weakness: The road. Providence
is just 6-8 away from the Amica
Mutual Pavilion. The Friars have
lost five of seven on the road, and
played poorly in their one game
at the Garden, a loss to St. John’s.
Can win title if: This last month
was an aberration, and Cooley
is able to get this team to flip a
switch. The Friars have lost five of
their last nine games, and haven’t
looked right even longer than
that.
BetMGM Odds: 16/1
No. 6 Villanova (16-15, 10-10)
Coach: Kyle Neptune
Star: Sr. G Justin Moore (13.6 ppg,
3.5 rpg)
After missing most of the
season’s first three months after
tearing his right Achilles tendon
last March, Moore has started to
resemble the player he was pre-
injury. He has keyed wins over
Seton Hall, Creighton and Xavier.
X factor: Fr. F Cam Whitmore
(12.6 ppg, 5.1 rpg).
It’s not a coincidence that in
Villanova’s best performances,
the projected NBA lottery pick
has been at his best. It would be
interesting to see where the uber-
skilled 6-foot-6 freshman would
be now iin hi
b his d
development
l t
had he not missed ed the
h
first month of thee
season with a rig ght
thumb injury.
Strength: Free-th hrow
shooting. Villanova is
the No. 1 team in the
country at the ch harity
stripe at 82.3 percent.
Weakness: Offen nsive
rebounding.
The
Justin
Moore
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Wildcats depend on offensive
execution, because second-
chance opportunities are so
infrequent for them. They are
10th in the league in offensive
rebounding percentage at 22.6.
Can win title if: Villanova’s strong
stretch to close the season was a
sign this team is hitting its stride.
Finally healthy, the Wildcats
have won six of their last eight
games, and were playing as well
as anyone in the league before a
loss to Connecticut to close the
regular season.
BetMGM Odds: 9/1
No. 7 Seton Hall (17-14, 10-10)
Coach: Shaheen Holloway
Star: Sr. G Al-Amir Dawes (12.6
ppg, 2.6 rpg).
Kadary Richmond’s likely
absence due to a back injury adds
even more responsibility onto
Dawes, an elite-shooting guard
from Newark. Seton Hall needs
him to produce offensively, and
lately he has, scoring in double
figures in nine of his last 10
games and shooting 39.3 percent
from 3-point range in that span.
X factor: Jr. G Dre Davis (10.0 ppg,
3.5 rpg).
Seton Hall is 7-4, with wins
over Providence, Rutgers and
Memphis, when the versatile
6-foot-6 Louisville transfer scores
in double figures.
Strength: Defending the 3. Seton
Hall, long and deep on the wing,
is 27th nationally in 3-point
defense, holding its opponents to
30.6 percent.
Weakness: Frontcourt depth.
Seton Hall has only one true big
in senior Tyrese Samuel. When
he gets into foul trouble, it forces
Holloway to go small.
Can win title if: Last March was
an indication of what kind of
tournament coach Holloway is.
Nobody gave Saint Peter’s a shot
to win one game in the NCAA
Tournament, let alone three. He’ll
make sure the Pirates believe
they can cut down the nets, as
long as their odds may be.
BetMGM Odds: 33/1
No. 8 St. John’s (17-14, 7-13)
Coach: Mike Anderson
Star: Sr. C Joel Soriano (15.2 ppg,
11.8 rpg)
The biggest bright spot of
a dismal season, the high-
character big man has carried
St. John’s for most of the year.
Soriano, the league’s Most
Improved Player, is tied with
Purdue center Zach Edey for
the most double-doubles in the
country with 23.
X factor: Jr. G Posh Alexander
(10.3 ppg, 4.4 apg)
An All-Big East preseason
first-team selection, Alexander
struggled throughout a
disappointing season, shooting
a career-worst 40.4 percent from
the field. The Brooklyn native
has performed better of late,
averaging 12 points and five
assists in his last nine games
while shooting 47 percent from
the field.
Strength: Familiar surroundings.
The Garden is St. John’s home
away from home. It played there
four times during the regular
season, although that hasn’t
helped the Johnnies in this
tournament. It last reached the
semifinals in 2000.
Weakness: 3-point shooting. It
was a preseason concern that
was justified. St. John’s attempts
only 17.4 3s a game, ranked 324th
nationally, and shoots it at a
woeful 33.2 percent clip.
Can win title if: There is Garden
magic. Something abnormal
would need to happen for this
underachieving team to win four
games in as many days.
Fanduel Odds: 75/1
No. 9 Butler ((14-17,, 6-14))
Coach: Thad Matta
Star: Soph. G Jayden Taylorr (13..2
ppg, 3.8 rpg)
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basket, and has quality sizze for a
guard at 6-foot-4.
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us
(11.2 ppg, 4.2 rpg)
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who plays both end ds of
the floor, distrib
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and rebound ding
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Perimetter
Kolek depth. Butler
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can come at you in waves.
Weakness: Shotmaking. Butler
is last in the Big East in scoring
(65.3), eighth in field-goal
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percentage (43.8) and ninth in
3-point shooting percentage
(33.0).
Can win title if: Mike Conley Jr.
and Greg Oden, Matta’s former
stars at Ohio State, have any
eligibility left.
BetMGM Odds: 350/1
No. 10 DePaul (9-22, 3-17)
Coach: Tony Stubblefield
Star: Sr. G Umoja Gibson (15.8
ppg, 4.6 apg).
A fantastic shooter and quality
playmaker, the Oklahoma
transfer’s brilliant season was
wasted by DePaul. Big East
coaches whiffed by not including
him on any of the all-league
teams.
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X factor: Sr. C Nick Ongenda (11.5
ppg, 7.3 rpg).
The talented center missed the
season’s first 25 games with a
wrist injury, and has provided
DePaul with the inside presence it
was severely lacking.
Strength: 3-point shooting.
DePaul isn’t a very good shooting
team overall, but it is oddly
second in the league from beyond
the arc at 36.1 percent.
Weakness: Rebounding margin.
DePaul is minus-6.3 on the glass,
tied for 343rd in the country.
Can win title if: Nothing makes
sense. This team has lost 12
straight games, casting doubt on
Stubblefield’s future at the school.
BetMGM Odds: 500/1
No. 11 Georgetown (7-24, 2-18)
Coach: Patrick Ewing
Star: Soph. G Primo Spears (15.9
ppg, 5.2 apg)
A terrific talent that struggles
with shooting efficiency and
taking care of the ball. It’s easy to
see him becoming one of the best
guards in the league if the next
Georgetown coach can keep him.
X factor: Sr. C Qudus Wahab (9.9
ppg, 7.4 rpg)
The big man helped the Hoyas to
their miracle Big East Tournament
title run two years ago, and hasn’t
been the same player since.
Leaving for Maryland last season
didn’t work out, and neither has
his return to Georgetown.
Strength: Nothing to lose.
Georgetown can play fast and
loose, knowing major change is
coming no matter what happens
this week at the Garden.
Weakness: 3-point defense.
The opposition shoots a lights-
out 38.8 percent from distance
against Georgetown. Only five
schools in the country defend the
3-point line worse.
Can win title if: Ewing has a
time machine and throws on a
jersey. The end of his time at
Georgetown should arrive shortly
after the Hoyas are eliminated
Wednesday night.
BetMGM Odds: 500/1
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EMPE, Ariz. — Andy Pettitte
T was set to be Team USA’s
pitching coach for the 2020
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Summer Olympics, working
alongside his former Yankees
teammate Scott Brosius, who was
to be the manager.
And then the COVID-19 pan-
demic shut down the world. The
Summer Games were postponed
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until the following year. But in the
interlude, Pettitte lost both of his
in-laws to complications from the
virus and felt he couldn’t leave his
wife for six weeks to work the
Olympics at such a tragic time.
Still, he left USA Baseball CEO
Paul Seiler with these words,
though: “Don’t forget me.”
Pettitte wasn’t forgotten.
When Team USA gathered for
the first workout in preparation
for the World Baseball Classic,
which begins for the Americans
on Saturday night against Great
Britain, there was Pettitte. He
was not wearing his familiar No.
46. That belongs to Team USA
first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.
Still, even wearing No. 13, Pet-
titte, at 50, looked and sounded
like his exuberant self, thrilled to
be the pitching coach in this
tournament.
“I always wanted to put on the
Team USA uniform,” Pettitte said
at the Papago Sports Complex.
The Americans are large favor-
ites to win Pool C — which also in-
cludes Great Britain, Canada, Co-
lombia and Mexico. In the dream
scenario for MLB, the U.S., Do-
minican Republic, Japan and South
Korea would make it to the semifi-
nals, which will be played March
19-20 in Miami before the final on
March 21.
“I want to win this pretty badly,”
said Pettitte, a five-time World Se-
ries champion with the Yankees.
Pettitte retired after the 2013 sea-
son. He has been a high school
pitching coach at Houston Second
Baptist for the past eight years. His
youngest child, Luke, is a senior
who pitches (right-handed), plays
the corner infield and has commit-
ted to be a two-way player at Dal-
las Baptist University.
Even with an empty nest upon
him now, Pettitte said he has no
ambitions to be a major league
pitching coach. Nevertheless, he
has thrown himself into his cur-
rent position. Team USA manager
Mark DeRosa picked two coaches,
his pals Brian McCann and Mich-
ael Young, whom he said would
“take a bullet for him.” For the
other positions, he listened to rec-
ommendations. In August, Pettitte
was enlisted, with Dave Righetti,
the Giants’ pitching coach for
eight seasons and three champion-
ships, serving as the bullpen
coach.
DeRosa called Pettitte “an abso-
lute beast” for how persistently
and thoroughly he has stayed in
touch with managers and pitching
coaches from MLB teams to map
out how those who will pitch for
Team USA can be comfortably
used. Pitchers ramping up in
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Pett’ Project
DAnDy AnDy: Andy Pettitte, who won five World Series championships with the Yankees, is the
pitching coach for Team USA (including Kyle Freeland, left), which begins play in the World Baseball
Classic on Saturday night against Great Britain.
March and getting injured is the
No. 1 concern for MLB clubs about
this tournament.
“We want to make everybody
feel comfortable with what we’re
gonna do and we’re gonna take
care of these guys,” Pettitte said.
“We are going to be in the dugout
making decisions, but we are
gonna take care of these guys and
do what teams want us to do with
their players.”
Then Pettitte — the all-time
leader in postseason starts (44),
wins (19) and innings (257 ²/₃ ) —
chuckled a bit and added, “And we
are going to be trying to win this,
of course.”
➤ The star power among the
American positional group is go-
ing to leave DeRosa with all kinds
of difficult choices, such as: Will
Pete Alonso or Goldschmidt play
first base? And if you say, just DH
one, then what about Kyle Schwar-
ber? And if you say then just play
Schwarber in the outfield, then
which two sit among Mookie
Betts, Cedric Mullins, Mike Trout
and Kyle Tucker?
“I’ll do everything in my power
to get everybody playing time and
their at-bats and their innings in
pool play,” DeRosa said. “And then
if we get to Miami [for the single-
elimination, which begins with the
quarterfinals], the best players are
going to play [nine innings].”
It still will be difficult to deter-
mine who those are within this
group. Well, except one player in
particular sticks out. That would
be Kyle Higashioka — the only
non-star, backup type on the club.
The two main catchers are stars
J.T. Realmuto and Will Smith. Hi-
gashioka will probably be used to
complete games if there are blow-
outs in pool play. DeRosa said he
Inside the WBC
Jump in the pools
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Will Smith & Mookie Betts
The 2023 World Baseball Classic
opened pool play on Wednesday
morning in Taichung, Taiwan, with
a Pool A game between Cuba and
the Netherlands.
Pool play, with four pools
consisting of five teams apiece,
will take place in Taichung (March
8-12) Tokyo (March 9-13), Miami
and Phoenix (both March 11-15).
The quarterfinals will take place
in Tokyo (March 15-16) and Miami
(March 17-18), while the semifinals
(March 19-20) and finals (March
21) will be held in Miami.
Team USA will open play this
weekend, with four scheduled
games in Pool C at Chase Field
in Phoenix, leading into the
quarterfinal round:
OPP DATE TIME TV
Great Britain Sat. 9 p.m. Fox
Mexico Sun. 10 p.m. FS1
Canada Mon. 10 p.m. FS1
Colombia March 15 10 p.m. FS1
All times ET
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picked Higashioka, in part, be- has played 30 games at second in
cause he is a player who would un- the majors and told his Dodgers
derstand the third catcher respon- bosses he would be willing to play
sibility on this kind of stacked ros- it regularly if they wanted to make
ter. a free agent run at Aaron Judge
“I know my role here. J.T. and last offseason. There are plans for
Will are two of the best catchers in Betts to play second base some
the entire game of baseball,” Hi- this season for the Dodgers.
gashioka said. “I know they’re go-
ing to do the majority of the work,
if not all the work. As far as I’m
➤ The WBC has not been con-
tested since 2017 due to COVID, so
concerned, I’m really glad to be the Americans are the defending
here and in a supporting role champs. When he was named
nonetheless. Just willing to do manager, DeRosa said his first call
whatever it takes to hopefully was to that 2017 club’s manager,
bring home a trophy.” Jim Leyland. And the best advice
he received?
➤ Jeff McNeil is the only pure
second baseman on the Team USA
“He said, ‘Listen, don’t script it,
plan it,’ ” DeRosa said. “Because if
roster, so DeRosa said Betts will
get time at the position.
it goes sideways you don’t want to
be not knowing where to go. So
Betts began his minor league ca- that’s what I’ve tried to do. In a
reer as a second baseman before perfect world. I know how every
becoming arguably the best defen- pool play game goes, but I know
sive right fielder in the sport. He that’s not going to be the case.”
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Bridges the gap

By Brian Lewis

HOUSTON — The Nets

New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

faced the last-place Rockets
on Tuesday night, and they
did exactly what a team
heading for the playoffs is
supposed to do to a cellar
dweller.
Mikal Bridges scored a
game-high 30 points and the
Nets throttled Houston much as 23-12 with 4:51 left
118-96 for their third straight in the first quarter. They still
win, before a crowd of 14,833 were down 35-27 when they
at Toyota Center. changed the game, reeling
off 16 unanswered points,
NETS 118 Box: mostly from their bench.
ROckETS 96 P. 43 They never trailed again.
“That second quarter was
The score was knotted at a big difference-maker for
54-all in the waning seconds us. That group [Johnson],
of the second quarter when Seth [Curry], Joe [Harris]
the Nets reeled off a 21-3 run was out there, they really
that spanned halftime. That shifted the momentum,”

surge broke the tie — and
broke the Rockets.
The Nets tightened the
defensive screws, holding
the Rockets to just 1-for-10
shooting with three turn-
overs in the game-changing
blitz.
“We’re staying together as
a unit, as a team. Despite not
all of us being here for that
long, we just got that cama-
raderie where it’s us out
there. And we all feel it,”
Bridges said. “That’s the big-
gest thing. Even when they
go on runs. We’re all just
staying mellow and getting
ready for the next posses-
sion. Just staying together is
the biggest thing.”
For the first time all sea-
son, the Nets (37-28) have
won three straight games by
double digits. And Bridges is
fast becoming the key.
Bridges, who had 18 points
in the second half, is averag-
ing 25.5 points on .526/.481/
.922 shooting splits since he
was acquired in the trade
that sent Kevin Durant to
Phoenix. He’s the first
player in NBA history to top
25 on 50/40/90 splits in his
first 10 games with a new
team.
“He’s an ultimate compet-
Mik’d up: Mikal Bridges powers past the Rockets’ Jabari Smith Jr. during the Nets’ 118-96 victory Tuesday night in
Houston. Bridges finished with 30 points as the Nets won a third straight game by double digits.
itor,” coach Jacque Vaughn
said. “I love that piece about
him.”
Bridges wasn’t alone.
Spencer Dinwiddie scored
23 points and helped hold
Houston’s Kevin Porter Jr. to
just seven. Nic Claxton had
a stellar night with 18 points
on 8-for-9 shooting, 13 re-
bounds, four blocks and ex-
cellent defense both in
switching and in drop cov-
erage.
After giving Houston’s
young, drive-happy team a
parade to the rim in the first
half, allowing 57.5 percent
shooting, the Nets packed
the paint and held the Rock-
ets to just 30.2 percent in the
second half.
“Just had to lock in. A lot of
that is on me, especially with
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us being in the drop, just be-
ing attentive, being ready to
protect the rim. Houston,
they lead the league in rim
attempts, so going into the
game I knew that would be a
thing I have to lock in,” said
Claxton, who is getting used
to playing in the drop to ease
the transition of Bridges and
Cam Johnson.
“It’s all a part of the game.
If I say I want to be a defen-
sive player of the year, I
need to be able to be effec-
tive in any coverage. So it’s
something that I’m working
on. And it’s going to be a
work in progress.”
Jalen Green had 25 points
to lead the Rockets (15-50).
The Nets stumbled out of
the starting blocks, trailing
12-2 and falling behind by as
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Vaughn said.
During that 16-0 run, they
held Houston to 0-for-4
shooting with three turn-
overs as the Nets got out
and ran. A Harris 3-pointer
capped the run and gave the
Nets a 43-35 lead with 8:07
left in the second quarter.
The Rockets managed to
pull even at 54-all on a Jabari
Smith Jr. put-back with 48.2
seconds left in the half. But
that’s when the Nets put it
away.
A Dinwiddie layup broke
the tie and Johnson stole a
bad Alperen Sengun pass
and found Bridges, who hit a
3 that just beat the buzzer.
Smith’s ensuing technical
got the Nets off on the right
foot after the break, and
they scored the first six
points coming out of the
locker room.
Claxton capped the 21-3
spurt with a highlight play, a
steal and coast-to-coast
dribble for a 75-57 lead with
6:49 left in the third. The
Nets’ lead reached 22 in the
fourth.
“We’re starting to figure it
out,” Claxton said. “It all
starts on the defensive side
of the ball.”
blewis@nypost.com

Noel makes debut as Claxton sub for B’klyn

By Brian Lewis
HOUSTON — After Nerlens
Noel’s first NBA action in a
month, and his first-ever game
with the Nets, he was tired and
winded. And, as Mikal Bridges
reminded him from across the
victorious locker room, unde-
feated.
Noel signed a 10-day contract
with the Nets on Monday, and
coach Jacque Vaughn vowed to
play him Tuesday.
Vaughn did just that, playing
Noel 17:48 in the Nets’ 118-96 vic-
NETS NOTES
tory over the Rockets, his first
game since a 3:22 cameo for De-
troit on Feb. 8, his last appear-
ance with the Pistons before he
was bought out and waived.
“It felt good,” said Noel, 28, a
former Knick. “It felt good to get
some rust off. Yeah, a little
winded in the first minutes, but
it’s normal. Nobody can get away
from that. But I’ve been doing a
fair share. But at this point I just
want to keep building on that, de-
fensive-first mentality, rebound-
ing, just try and make sure I bring
a winning mentality to the game.”
Noel helped the Nets cruise.
“I wanted to see could Nerlens
play in a basketball game and
contribute and be able to pick up
what we’re doing as a group. Also
see his quickness if he can pro-
tect the rim,” Vaughn said. “He’s
on a 10-day [contract], so I de-
cided to use one of those 10 days
pretty quickly to see what he was
going to give us. So [this] was the
night.”
Noel also helped spare starter
Nic Claxton, who had 18 points,
13 boards and a game-high
plus-23 in 28:55 minutes. Vaughn
said Claxton has been overused.
➤ Bridges had his right wrist
wrapped after his 30-point game
Tuesday. He had taken a knock to
the wrist against the Hornets on
Sunday, but said he’s OK.
➤ Edmond Sumner rejoined
the Nets after his wife gave birth
to their first child, a daughter
named Amara. She weighed in at
8 pounds, 7 ounces.
“Everything went great, every-
body is good, wife and baby,”
Sumner, who did not play, told
The Post.
“Nothing like being a dad. So
happy for him. Excited for him.
Glad he’s back with us,” Vaughn
said. “Awesome, but he’ll learn
how to appreciate sleep on the
road for sure.”
➤ Long Island won its 15th
straight game — the third-longest
streak in G-League history — and
already has clinched a playoff
spot.
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By Peter Botte his first five shots, including four from

3-point range, in 10 scoreless minutes in
Part of being a successful NBA team is the first quarter. The Knicks shot 3-for-13
the notion that a matchup against a lower- from beyond the arc and were tied, 21-21,
echelon opponent can be construed as a through one period.
trap game, especially coming off the emo- Barrett found his groove alongside the
tional nature of a win such as the Knicks’ four-man second unit, with 13 points in the
double-overtime thriller at Boston on Sun- first six minutes of the second quarter, for
day. 17 before halftime.
Tom Thibodeau’s rolling hornets 112 Boxscore Quickley buried his first
squad fell flat Tuesday knicks 105 Page 43 3-pointer of the night from
night, blowing a 16-point the corner for a nine-point
halftime lead to the Hornets, while shoot- cushion, and then hit another from the
ing 5-for-26 in the fourth quarter, to halt right side for a 13-point cushion with 3:14
their nine-game winning streak with a le- remaining until intermission. He con-
thargic 112-105 loss at the Garden. verted a traditional three-point play less
“We just ran out of gas, that’s all,” Julius than one minute later.
Randle said. “We gotta be better and take Quentin Grimes (12 points) nailed his
care of business. We gotta take care of second 3-pointer of the half before beating
business, regardless.” the clock with a reverse layup as the
RJ Barrett scored 27 points, but Randle Knicks led 66-50 through two quarters.
shot 5-for-17 and finished with 16 for the The Hornets chipped away in the third,
Knicks (39-28), who will embark on a four- however, and used an 11-0 run to grab a
game West Coast swing beginning Thurs- one-point lead, 87-86, with 52.1 seconds
day night in Sacramento. left.
One game after Immanuel Quickley had Obi Toppin’s 3-pointer put the Knicks
a standout performance against the Celtics back up by two entering the fourth,
— 38 points in 55 minutes with starting Josh Hart (nine points) netted four
point guard Jalen Brunson sidelined — he points and Deuce McBride (seven
also endured a rough shooting night, scor- points) sank a runner early in the fi-
ing 14 points on 5-for-16 from the floor. nal period to push the lead back to
Brunson sat out a second consecutive eight. Consecutive 3-pointers by
game with a sore left foot, but point guard Hayward and Oubre made it a one-
LaMelo Ball (ankle) also was out for the point game, and Rozier tied it, 100-
Hornets, who own the second-worst 100, with a jumper with 3:22 to go.
record in the Eastern Conference (21-46). Hayward’s three-point play put
Kelly Oubre Jr. led Charlotte with 27 the Hornets ahead one possession
points, Terry Rozier had 25 and Gordon later, and after Randle forged an-
Hayward added 23. other tie with a spinning drive,
“There’s a lot we can learn from tonight,” Hayward sank a pull-up jumper
Thibodeau said. “We’re not gonna be per- and Oubre buried another 3 for a
fect. We didn’t play a great game, but 108-103 Charlotte lead with 58
bounce back tomorrow. seconds to play.
“In the end, we fell short. We ran out of After Randle hit two free
time.” throws, Hayward committed an
Before the game, Thibodeau didn’t want offensive foul to give the Knicks
to hear about a potential letdown. back the ball. But Randle was called
“I think every game is a trap game,” he for a loose ball foul off a Quickley miss at
said. “You’re right, it’s human nature, too. the other end, and Rozier swished both
You let your guard down, a free throws to replenish the five-point lead
little bit, you’re going to with 29.1 seconds to play.
slip. This “I think we didn’t play our style of bas-
league is too ketball. We didn’t play winning basketball,”
good. … You Hart said after suffering his first loss in 10
have to games with the Knicks. “We gotta make
make sure we’re full
sure you of energy and
get the lively every
proper time we step on
amount the court. … I don’t off night: Julius Randle, who finished with 16
of preparation think we can blame this on points and eight rebounds, disagrees with a ref’s call
and that we’re fatigue. But we have to continue to grow during the third quarter of the Knicks’ 112-105 loss to
ready to play.” and play winning basketball.” the Hornets. Tom Thibodeau (left) gets frustrated by a
Quickley missed pbotte@nypost.com call during a loss that snapped a nine-game win streak.
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ELL it seems that one of wasn’t even worth mentioning

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called the cops on us. ond straight game with a sore
The music was a little too loud. foot; he wasn’t there in Boston,
The beer was a little too cold, either, and they figured that out.
and a little too plentiful. The They just never did Tuesday.
hour grew a little too late. Every- Once the Hornets seized the
one was having way too good a lead late, it was as if the lights
time. dimmed at the Garden.
We were due for a buzzkill. “There’s a lot we can learn
And the Knicks gave everyone from tonight,” Thibodeau said.
a buzzkiller’s buzzkill. It would be helpful if those les-
sons could take across a 3,000-
mile flight to Sacramento on
Wednesday. The Knicks have
been a terrific road team all year
— despite their recent surge
they still own a better record
away from MSG (20-12) than
Mike Vaccaro they do in their cozy confines of
home (19-16).
And they’re going to need to
There was a full house at Mad- be. The Nets won for the third

ison Square Garden Tuesday
night, and all 19,842 were hope-
ful for a sweet joyride against
the woeful Hornets, the better to
bid the Knicks adieu for the
week as they pursue their West
Coast business interests in Sac-
ramento, L.A., and Portland.
But a funny thing happened on
the way to their 10th win in a
row.
“You can’t turn it on and off,” a
stone-faced Julius Randle said.
Consider the Knicks duly
humbled, and consider the win-
ning streak a memory. The Hor-
nets may be playing out the
string, may be dreaming that the
pingpong balls somehow yield
the golden ticket that is Victor
Wembanyama. But for one night,
anyway, they were also a stone
in the Knicks’ shoe.
The Knicks led by 16 points at
halftime and seemed primed to
cruise home and zip to the air-
port, carried west on a tank
filled with momentum. Instead
there was this 112-105 loss to
falling down: P.J. Washington (left) reacts as Josh Hart falls to the ground during the fourth quar-
ter of the Knicks’ 112-105 loss to the Hornets on Tuesday.
Charlotte and the sudden re-
minder that despite playing at a
scorching-hot pace the past few
weeks they are as vulnerable as
anyone when they show up flat-
ter than a Triscuit.
“We were playing with fire,”
Tom Thibodeau said, and you
have to know that there’s a small
portion of the Knicks’ coach’s
heart that hopes that if losing a
game like this in March will help
them fight through a tough night
in April, it’ll be a sound invest-
ment.
For now, it was just aggrava-
ting.
“At the end of the game,” RJ
Barrett said, “they were the hun-
grier team.”
The fact is, the same funda-
mental traits for which the
Knicks earned universal praise
during the 25 days between
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losses were still on display in the
aftermath of a snuffed streak
and a killed buzz. Thibodeau has
consistently praised their ac-
countability and their unwilling-
ness to make excuses.
Tuesday, the Knicks waved off
questions about whether Sun-
day’s epic two-overtime win
over the Celtics cost them their
legs in the second half as the
Hornets overran them. And it
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straight game and are tied with
the Knicks in the loss column.
The Heat are still only three
back. As quickly as the bullet-
proof veneer can tumble off a
team in the face of one loss, so
too can their place in the East-
ern Conference order of merit.
“We have to be better,” Randle
said. “We have to take care of
our business.”
They do. It was a tough night
to be reminded of that, because
the Garden really did want to
send the Knicks off in style be-
fore welcoming the college kids
into the house for the next four
days. They really did want to see
the Knicks take a double-digit
winning percentage with them
on the charter west.
But someone called the cops.
Someone murdered the mojo.
The Knicks received a harsh re-
minder that if they don’t prac-
tice what Thibodeau preaches,
they can kick the plug out of the
wall with shocking ease. Such a
buzzkill.

Quickley can’t save day as Brunson sits again

By Peter Botte
Starting point guard Ja-
len Brunson missed
his second consecu-
tive game Tuesday
night for the Knicks with a
sore left foot, but Immanuel
Quickley couldn’t post another
starring performance.
Quickley, who played 55 minutes
and scored 38 points in Sunday’s
double-overtime win in Boston,
managed just 14 on 5-for-16 shooting
in Tuesday’s streak-busting loss to
the Hornets at the Garden.
“Obviously we had a double-over-
time game but I’ve gotta play better
than that,” Quickley said. “But we’ll
learn from it, I know I will. Look at
the film, see how we get better and
move on to the next game against
KNICKS NOTES
[Sacramento on Thursday].
“I’m fine. Ain’t no excuse. Just got
to find ways to win the game. We
did it in Boston. So just gotta do it
every night we can.”
Tom Thibodeau said Brunson was
“much better today” but “not ready
yet” to return to the lineup. He
added that Brunson is expected to
accompany the Knicks on their
four-game western trip.
Asked if the $104 million point
guard would be playable if Tues-
day’s game was a playoff contest,
Thibodeau responded, “I leave that
up to the medical staff and the
player. To me, I know he’ll play if he
can play and if the medical people
and he feels that he needs another
day, then we give him the day. We
love our depth. The next guy, get in
there and get it done.”
➤ Obi Toppin hit a key 3-poiner
late in the fourth quarter, but he fin-
ished 1-for-4 from long distance and
is mired in a 7-for-39 shooting
slump from beyond the arc over his
past 13 appearances.
“Just, if you’re open, shoot it,”
Thibodeau said. “I think he had
a great drive in the Boston
game on a closeout. So just
read the game, the game will
tell you what to do.
“I think we’re shooting a
really good percentage
from three the last 10, too. I bad call! Immanuel Quickley,
think everyone shares in that re- who finished with 14 points and five
sponsibility, it’s not necessarily one assists, argues a call during the
guy.” fourth quarter.
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getting
there:
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Michael King,
who threw two
innings at the
Yankees’
development
complex on
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Tuesday, says
he thinks he will
be ready to go
on Opening Day
after breaking a
bone in his
elbow last July.
Three weeks
ago, he didn’t
think he would
be ready that
quickly.
N.Y. Post: Charles
Wenzelberg

By GreG Joyce
TAMPA — Considering it
was only seven-plus months
ago that Michael King broke
a bone in his right elbow, the
Yankees reliever appears to
be in a great spot midway
through spring training.
“ ‘Only’ is a tough word,
because it felt like forever,”
King said Tuesday, after
throwing two innings of live
batting practice at the club’s
player development com-
plex on an off day for most
of the team.
While King was crushed
to miss the stretch run last
season as he began a gruel-
ing rehab process, he real-
izes he was fortunate to only
miss two-plus months of
games instead of potentially
much more had he needed
Tommy John surgery on top
of the operation that re-
paired his fractured elbow.
“So it feels quick when I
look at it from that perspec-
tive,” King said, “but for the
most part, I’m so itching to
get back out there in a game
because it sucks having to
watch my team play when
I’m just sitting there bro-
ken.”
The Yankees are just as
eager to get him back.
King remains on track to
break camp with the team
and provide the weapon it
was sorely missing out of its
bullpen for the final two
months of the regular sea-
son and into the playoffs last
year.
Before King got hurt, it
was hard to find a more
dominant or valuable re-
liever in the game. The
right-hander had posted a
2.29 ERA with 66 strikeouts
across 51 innings and 34
games. He emerged as a
multi-inning threat who
could mow down a lineup
and bridge the gap from
starter to closer, often giv-
ing other high-leverage re-
lievers important days off in
the process.
Through the day of his fi-
nal appearance, July 22,
King’s 1.7 fWAR was tied for
the second-highest mark of
all relievers. And in case his
value to the Yankees wasn’t
obvious enough, it only be-
came more clear when they
struggled to make up for his
absence, especially in the
postseason.
Now, King is building up
his workload in camp to
give the Yankees options in
how to utilize him — the
plan is for him to get up to
three innings at some point
this spring — though man-
ager Aaron Boone said re-
cently they will “probably”
use him as “that multi-in-
ning weapon.”
Last season, 16 of King’s 34
appearances lasted longer
than one inning. He pitched
on back-to-back days five
times, but only when both
ends of it lasted an inning or
less. For the former starter,
it was a learning experience
with regards to how many
days off he would need after
a multi-inning outing.
“It got to the point where
it didn’t really feel good at
any day, but I would not tell
trainers that and this is
what happens,” King said
with a grin, pointing to his
elbow. “But usually I’d say
… I could throw a 40-pitch
inning and actually feel
good in a day or so,
whereas if I spread out
those 40 pitches over three
ups [innings], the ups kind
of get your heart rate down,
back up, down, back up.
And that, I think, takes a lit-
tle bit more time. So if I go
those three innings, usually
I’d say I need two days. But
then if they need me for a
really short outing, I can do
that quicker than if they
only need me for three.”
It would not be surprising
if the Yankees treat King
with extra caution, though,
especially early on to make
sure he stays healthy.
In the meantime, King is
feeling closer to being ready
for the season. It took him
some time to get comforta-
ble in his mechanics after
the long injury layoff, but
the more he gets off the
mound — including two
scoreless innings with four
strikeouts Friday in his
Grapefruit League debut —
the more he feels like him-
self.
“I’ve been feeling like
myself, I’d say for the last
three outings,” he said. “If
you asked me that question
two weeks ago, I would
have said [I felt] nowhere
close to regular-season
ready. But my last three, I
think I’ve developed a little
bit more confidence just
based on results [and] also
just the comfort of my me-
chanics.”
gjoyce@nypost.com

No rush
to decide
SS battle
By GreG Joyce
TAMPA — Halfway through
spring training, the Yankees’ short-
stop competition is well underway
— but not exactly close to being re-
solved.
While Thursday will mark three
weeks away from Opening Day,
when the Yankees will have to final-
ize their 26-man roster, they appear
set on letting the shortstop battle
among Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Oswald
Peraza and Anthony Volpe run its
course.
YANKEES NOTES
“We’re early,” manager Aaron
Boone said Monday, ahead of Tues-
day’s off day. “I’ve seen a lot of
things that I like, but I also want it to
just play out. Right now looking at it
as, I gotta get these guys ready for
their season in the best possible
way. Then as we get closer and
closer and we start having those de-
bates or conversations in more ear-
nest, we’ll do that.
“But right now, I try to treat it as
making sure these guys are getting
the right number of looks, at-bats,
built up properly, in a position to
physically be in a good spot as we
continue to move forward.”
As the Yankees arrived at their
first off day of camp, Volpe had
made the most noise in the early go-
ing. Across six games — starting
three of them at shortstop and two
at second base and entering one as a
defensive replacement — the 21-
year-old is batting 6-for-17 (.353)
with a 1.097 OPS and three steals.
Peraza has made three starts at
shortstop and one at second base,
batting 2-for-9 (.222) with a .639 OPS
and one steal, though his status bears
watching after he “tweaked” his
lower left leg stepping on first base
in a game last Thursday. He played
again on Saturday and is expected to
return to the lineup this Thursday,
but if the issue lingers, it could throw
a wrench into the competition.
Kiner-Falefa, meanwhile, has
started all five of his games at short-
stop (with one fielding error) while
batting 1-for-9 (.111) with a .472 OPS
and one steal.
➤ Gerrit Cole will make his sec-
ond start of the spring on Wednes-
day afternoon as the Yankees host
the Cardinals at Steinbrenner Field.
Aaron Judge is also scheduled to
make his left-field debut — with a
second straight start there on
Thursday possible — as part of a
plan to have Giancarlo Stanton
play some right field at Yankee Sta-
dium this season.
T
AMPA — It was the latest
maddening, infuriating end to
another season for the Yankees
and for Yankees fans, but this one
has accompanied them to George
M. Steinbrenner Field and will
come north with them when they
begin stalking that elusive 28th
World Series championship for the
14th consecutive season.
It has been more than three
months since the Astros slapped
the Yankees silly and danced on
their Yankee Stadium grave the
minute the four-game ALCS sweep
ended.
Time heals all wounds, but this
one hasn’t healed yet, and the Yan-
kees are OK with that because they
say now that the memory of such
an ignominious Rocktober Bottom
has lit a fire inside them and made
them more sick and tired of being
sick and tired than ever before.
“That was my first time feeling
that type of pain in the big leagues,”
Isiah Kiner-Falefa told The Post.
“You feel that in high school and
coming up, but this was my first
taste of how bad it actually hurts in
the big leagues. You get that far,
you come so close with a team, and
to get kind of embarrassed the way
we did, it didn’t feel good, and I
think in a way it was an opportu-
nity for us to go into the offseason
with a different mentality, a little
more urgency in the offseason. Ev-
erybody seems like they made big
strides in the offseason because it
hurt so bad last year. So I’m just
hoping that we can stay healthy all
the way through the season and see
those guys again, or whoever it
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Aaron Judge
made the last out
of the Yankees’
four-game ALCS
sweep at the
hand of the rival
Astros. The new
captain and the
Yanks are using
that ugly sweep
to keep them
focused on the
ultimate prize.
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Painful sweep motivates “It was incredibly painful,” Nes-
tor Cortes said. “It’s the team that’s
beat us every time we’ve got into
Yanks to finish the job the LCS. I feel like we gotta get over
that hump to get there. Them cele-
brating and sweeping us in four
games was like a dagger, so hope-
may be. But I think it left a sour Cashman to Aaron Boone to Cap- fully we can change that around
taste in everyone’s mouth, and tain Aaron Judge on down. this year.”
we’re ready to redeem ourselves.” “I know that resonates all the way Holmes watched the Astros beat
Redeem Team, anyone? to the front office in terms of off- the Phillies in the World Series.
“I think it’s still in back of a lot of season moves, ’cause they see the “Obviously you sit there and im-
minds here,” Clay Holmes said. “It’s same thing,” King said. “There’s agine if we were there how things
something that I just like a different would be,” he said. “I just kept envi-
think drives us, es- attitude after a loss sioning myself, ‘I should be in this
pecially coming in like that. Coming moment, what would I do if I’m in
here this spring.” back in here obvi- this moment?’ That’s obviously
Ace reliever ously it’s great to where we wanted to be, and I think
Michael King was see everybody, but our minds were all there in some
relegated to cheer- Steve Serby you know that we capacity.”
leader following his all have one goal in All well and good that their
July elbow stress fracture. mind, and it adds fuel to the fire.” minds are all there in March. Better
“The way that we meshed and The Astros won Game 7 in Hous- that their minds are all there in Oc-
vibed was something that I haven’t ton to beat the Yankees in the 2017 tober.
felt in my four years here,” King ALCS and Game 6 in Houston to “When you get swept at home,
said. “I felt like last year was the beat them in the 2019 ALCS. Then it’s never a good feeling,” Clarke
best team that we put on the field came Rocktober Bottom. Schmidt said. “It leaves a sour taste
in terms of chemistry and talent. “I think anytime you lose, espe- in your mouth for sure. It puts a lit-
We always talk about the teams cially at home, it stings with you,” tle bit of hunger in your butt and
that get hot in the playoffs are the Judge said. “I even go back to losing makes you want to put a lot of work
teams that have that magic. And I the ALDS to the Red Sox in 2018 in to come back there and be able
felt like we never fully got to that when they beat us on our field [in to come back the next year and do
magic point. Game 4] and eventually went on to it to them. It definitely motivates us
“But the attitude coming in here win the World Series. They all a lot.”
is like we can’t just be complacent sting, I wouldn’t say any one more King briefly watched the Astros’
with being the best team in base- than the other just because a loss is Yankee Stadium party.
ball in the regular season, or win- a loss.” “It’s good to see,” he said. “Sucks
ning the AL East, we can’t be com- Asked if he watched the Astros to see, but it’s good to have that
placent that way.” fill the Bronx night with whooping motivation. But I don’t want to see
The Yankees aren’t supposed to and hollering, Judge said: “I was the it for more than a couple of sec-
merely knock on the World Series last batter, so I kinda grabbed my onds. I watched a little bit of it, and
door. It is past time for them to kick stuff and headed out.” then was back in the clubhouse.”
the door down, and they all know His historic 62-home run season Rocktober Bottom.
it, from Hank Steinbrenner to Brian over. steve.serby@nypost.com
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A ’pen-up model
By Dan Martin
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Next to
Justin Verlander’s locker in the Mets club-
house in Port St. Lucie is the one for John
Curtiss.
Verlander’s addition this offseason
thanks to a two-year, $86.7 million deal
signaled once again how much different
the Mets are operating under the steward-
ship of owner Steve Cohen. But having
Curtiss around also represents the fact
the Mets are finally acting like a true su-
perpower.
A year ago, the Mets were the only team
to offer the right-hander a major league
deal after Curtiss tore his UCL the previ-
ous August, while pitching for the Brew-
ers. It allowed Curtiss a year to rehab
from surgery, while gaining another year
of service time.
It’s something the Yankees have done in
the past and the Dodgers did more re-
cently with Tommy Kahnle before he re-
turned to The Bronx this past offseason.
“Players are extremely aware of what
the Mets are doing,’’ said Curtiss, who
was in the bullpen for the Mets’ game
against the Astros at Ballpark of the Palm
Beaches on Tuesday.
“I was impressed by Steve even before I
signed with the team,’’ Curtiss said. “It’s
Reliever Curtiss example of how
Cohen Mets work differently
not just the money they spend, it’s the
wanting to win. We don’t need 30 Steve
Cohen billionaire owners willing to spend
everything, but we should have 30 teams
trying to win. I’m grateful to be in a place
where they looked at a guy like me and
were willing to take a chance.”
For the Mets and their payroll that sits
around $350 million — and would have
been even higher had the Carlos Correa
deal not fallen through due to his physical
— Curtiss’ salary isn’t even a drop in the
bucket.
Curtiss, who turns 30 next month, is set
to make less than $1.5 million total over last
year and 2023. He was productive enough
before the elbow injury that he pitched to a
1.075 WHIP in 35 games with the Marlins
before being traded to Milwaukee at the
deadline. And Curtiss was solid over 17 ap-
pearances with the Rays in 2020.
But the Mets were the only team inter-
ested in giving him a major league deal in
2022.
“That’s a whole economic and labor
thing,’’ Curtiss said. “I’m not surprised 29
other teams didn’t want to pay me an-
other year of service time and minimum
for me to rehab. Only big-market teams
do that. Now, was I surprised about hav-
ing gone from a trade-deadline chip that
went to a team trying to win a World Se-
ries to then not being on a 40-man roster?
That’s a different question.”
It’s one he understands as a reliever
who has pitched more than 25 innings in
the majors just once.
“That’s how it is as a reliever,’’ Curtiss
said. “If you’re healthy and producing,
you get a job. But if not, you don’t, and
that’s just the way it goes.”
If he returns to form, the Mets have
Curtiss under control until 2026.
“I was thrilled to come here because I
wanted to be on a contender,’’ Curtiss
said. “I couldn’t be more grateful to be
here with this team. I’m sincerely trying
to pay them back for the favor they did for
me last year. It truly meant something to
me and I want to make it worth their
while.”
dan.martin@nypost.com
No change
in Nimmo’s
approach
after payday
By Dan Martin
PORT ST. LUCIE — Unlike most of his
teammates, Brandon Nimmo hasn’t started his
Grapefruit League season yet.
After last year’s success following a late
start to the spring due to the MLB lockout,
Nimmo said he’s following a similar schedule,
with the expectation that he’ll get into a game
later this week.
“Then I’ll ride into the season,’’ Nimmo said.
“I think that sets me up perfectly for the sea-
son.”
And when he does get on the field, Nimmo
said he will bring the same mentality he’s had
since being drafted by the Mets in 2011 —
even after signing an eight-year, $162 million
deal in the offseason.
“Everybody has always been, ‘Yeah you
were a first-round draft pick, but from where?
Wyoming? Really?’ ” Nimmo said before
working out on Tuesday at the team’s spring
training complex.
“I’ve always carried that chip on my shoul-
der, of having to prove myself,’’ Nimmo said.
“I’m going to put myself in a spot to succeed,
and if it doesn’t happen, it won’t be because I
didn’t turn over every stone and work hard
and be there everyday.”
The chip on his shoulder, Nimmo said, isn’t
going anywhere, even with the contract.
“Of course it is,’’ Nimmo said. “I hope it
never goes away.”
He likened it to what he heard Michael Jor-
dan say during “The Last Dance” documen-
tary.
“No matter what he’d already done, he
would make up reasons to motivate himself
sometimes,’’ Nimmo said. “You’ve got to find
something. That’s what I do.”
So what will it be this year, now that Nimmo
has a big contract and bigger expectations.
“I’m holding myself accountable,’’ said
Nimmo, who will turn 30 this month.
“I think there’s more in the tank for me,’’
Nimmo said. “Last year was great, but I think
I’m better. I think there’s more meat on the
bone, and I have to have a higher standard.
Now I have to go and prove it.”
Beyond that, Nimmo said, there was the
free-agent process that ended well, with him
returning to the Mets, but also included a few
uncomfortable conversations elsewhere after
finishing 2022 with a career-high 5.4 WAR ac-
cording to Fangraphs and in several other of-
fensive categories — including games, plate
appearances, hits, doubles, triples, runs and
RBIs.
“There were little things I heard in some
meetings from other teams, or even other
teams that were not in on me,” said Nimmo,
who declined to share what those things were.
“But I’m going to use the doubts other teams
had in me to get better,’’ Nimmo said. “I think
that’s what the Mets saw in me, as well and
that’s what they were so in on me. They saw I
was a 5 WAR player and think there’s even
more there. We’ll see.”

By Mark W. Sanchez
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A
day later, the Mets provided no fur-
ther updates on the health of Jose
Quintana, who sustained “a small
stress fracture on his fifth rib on his
left side,” the club said Monday.
The Mets lefty traveled to New York
— a bit late, after his flight got can-
celed, manager Buck Showalter said —
for further examinations, the results of
which had not yet been returned.
So there was no timetable available
for when the middle-of-the-rotation
starter could return, but Quintana
being ready for Opening Day would
be a stunner. While the next round of
imaging would determine the sever-
ity of the injury, a doctor reached
Monday stated it typically takes at
least six weeks for stress fractures to
the ribs to heal. Such injuries can
leave players, especially pitchers,
sidelined for months.
“We were hoping for a little bit bet-
ter news as far as what the issue
was,” Showalter acknowledged be-
fore the Mets tied the Astros, 5-5, at
the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches.
“But it’ll heal and it’ll pass, and he’ll
pitch for us.”
Until then, the rotation depth will
be tested immediately.
The Mets’ second wave of starters
last season was a strength, and their
reinforcements entering this season
remain the same. David Peterson and
Tylor Megill have been stretching out
as starting depth rather than anticipat-
ing they would be used in the bullpen.
Peterson, who sustained a foot
contusion on a comebacker Saturday,
said he still feels soreness but the in-
jury is not serious. He threw a side
session Tuesday and will be skipped
Thursday — with Venezuelan Jose
Butto expected to start in an exhibi-
tion game against Team Venezuela
— but should not be sidelined long.
Peterson said nothing changes for
his work or his mindset after Quin-
tana’s injury. With a rotation featur-
ing 40-year-old Justin Verlander, 38-
year-old Max Scherzer, 35-year-old
Carlos Carrasco, 30-year-old Kodai
Senga and the 34-year-old Quintana,
Peterson understood entering camp
he and Megill likely would be needed
at some point.
“There’s been a lot of attention as
to the average age of our starting ro-
tation as it stands. You look at last
year, we didn’t make it out of spring
training with five healthy starters,”
Peterson said after Jacob deGrom
missed the first four months of last
season. “I don’t think it really needed
to be said. I think we understood
where we stand.
“The likelihood of those guys mak-
ing 30 starts each is highly unlikely.
At some point, something’s going to
happen.”
It happened quickly and to perhaps
the Mets’ most dependable starter.
Quintana started 32 games last sea-
son, has accumulated more than
1,700 major league innings in 11 years
and has pitched more than 160 in-
nings in a season eight times.
Showalter said he was not sure if
Quintana had felt anything in his rib
preceding Sunday, when he was lim-
ited to one scoreless inning and ex-
ited citing left side tightness.
“Sometimes, when you got a guy
who’s been as healthy as he has
[been], you’re used to having [nag-
ging] things and you go pitch and it’s
not really an issue,” Showalter said.
Quintana was the only lefty in a
strong Mets’ rotation. Peterson, a
lefty, could make the most sense,
though Showalter said handedness
would not be a consideration be-
cause he wants “the best pitcher
available.”
The Mets could settle on Megill,
who posted a 1.93 ERA in five April
starts last season before injuries
wrenched the rest of his season.
“It’s unfortunate what happened
[to Quintana],” Megill said after he
threw 2 ¹/₃ scoreless innings Tuesday.
“Me and Peterson, we’re ready for
whatever gets thrown at us. Who-
ever’s name gets called and what not,
we’re available to help the team.”
Further depth options include Butto,
Joey Lucchesi and Elieser Hernandez,
all of whom could begin the season in
the Triple-A Syracuse rotation.
With a rotation as veteran as the
Mets’, they planned for these hic-
cups. They are hoping Quintana’s
setback qualifies as a hiccup and not
a gut-punch.
“[Rotation depth is] something
that Billy [Eppler, GM] and the front
office have been very adamant
about,” Showalter said. “We’re in po-
sition to do that. But it does take one
more notch down on the depth list.”
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DAY
ON TIME
Carlos Carrasco had no
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issues with the pitch
clock and looked strong
over three innings in the
Mets game against the
Astros that ended in a
5-5 tie at Ballpark of the
Palm Beaches in West
Palm Beach, Fla.
GREENE WITH ENVY
Zach Greene, selected
from the Yankees in
the Rule 5 draft, had a
second straight rough
outing, giving up a
game-tying, three-run
homer to C.J. Stubbs in
the bottom of the ninth.
CAUGHT MY EYE
Brett Baty made an
excellent play at third
base in the bottom of the
sixth, ranging deep into
foul territory to make a
backhanded grab and
a strong throw to get
Cristian Gonzalez at
first.
WEDNESDAY’S
SCHEDULE
Max Scherzer will make
the start against Team
Nicaragua at 6:10 p.m. at
Clover Park.
— Dan Martin
get well soon:
Jose Quintana who was
slated to be a middle-of-the-
rotation starter but is out
with a “small stress fracture”
in his ribs, and his spot likely
will need to be filled at the
start of the season. Reuters
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By Paul Schwartz

They have a deal.

With the clock running down and
the deadline in full sight, the Giants
and Daniel Jones got it done on
Tuesday.
There was never a doubt in the
minds of the Giants that Jones
would be their starting quarterback
for the 2023 season. They wanted
more, though. They wanted him
around for the foreseeable future,
and now they have him.
Jones and the Giants grinded out
an agreement on a four-year deal
worth $160 million, with the quar-
terback able to earn an additional
$35 million in incentives.
“I said after the season I love this
place,” Jones said. “I’ve really en-
joyed my time here and I want to be
here. I have great respect for this
organization, the Maras, the Tis-
ches, my coaches and teammates. I
am happy we were able to come to
an agreement.”
Jones is guaranteed $82 million
over the first two years of the con-
tract and a total of $94 million is
practically guaranteed. His salary
cap hit in 2023 should come in
around $18.5 million — a much
more manageable number than the
$32.4 million the franchise tag
would have cost the Giants.
With a 4 p.m. cutoff for the Giants
to apply the tag on Jones — a sce-
nario neither side wanted — the
deal arrived just in time for the Gi-
ants to go about their business
knowing Jones, 25, has been secured
for a price that allows the team sala-
ry-cap flexibility.
That flexibility was used to put the
non-exclusive franchise tag of $10.1
Jones sticks with Giants
for $160M over 4 years
million on Saquon Barkley. He can
negotiate with other teams, and the
Giants retain the right to match any
offer. If they decline to match any
offer, they would receive two first-
round draft picks as compensation.
The Giants, during their bye week
in early November, offered Barkley a
three-year deal averaging $12.5 mil-
lion annually, and they are not in-
clined to go much higher than that.
Barkley does not want to play on the
tag, and it remains to be seen
whether a compromise can be found.
Negotiations with Jones went
down to the wire. In the end, the
Giants got their quarterback at a
price they could accept, and Jones
reached the $40 million annual av-
erage he wanted. He is the ninth
NFL quarterback to average at least
$40 million per year.
The deal will be met with ap-
proval in the Giants’ locker room,
where Jones is extremely popular.
“Congrats brudda’’ Barkley
tweeted, adding fist pound and
heart emojis.
“Nobody more deserving con-
grats brudda,’’ receiver Darius Slay-
ton, a 2019 draft classmate of Jones,
posted on Twitter.
After the Giants met with Jones’
agents from Athletes First several
times last week in Indianapolis at
the NFL Scouting Combine, enough
progress was made for the two
sides to meet face-to-face Monday
in New Jersey. Those talks contin-
ued into Tuesday, with general
manager Joe Schoen and contract
negotiator Kevin Abrams, the sen-
ior vice president of football opera-
tions and strategy, eventually draw-
ing a line in the sand. It came down
to the final minutes before Jones’
camp signed off on the deal.
“We had productive conversa-
tions with Daniel and his represent-
atives over the course of the past
week or so,” Schoen said. “We are
all pleased that we were able to
come to an agreement prior to to-
day’s deadline. This gives us a
greater ability to continue to build
our roster.”
For Jones, this is validation. He
was a polarizing selection among
fans when the Giants took him with
the No. 6 overall pick in 2019. Jones
had modest numbers and did not do
much winning at Duke, but the Gi-
ants’ previous front office liked his
physical traits, mental acuity and
personal makeup.
Jones was tasked with replacing
franchise icon Eli Manning, a seis-
mic shift that hit in Week 3 of Jones’
rookie year. Jones threw 24 touch-
down passes as a rookie, but also
had 12 interceptions and lost 16
fumbles. He went 3-9, 5-9 and 4-7 in
his first three years as a starter,
playing for two different head
coaches in two different offensive
systems.
The new
decision
makers,
Schoen
and head
coach
Brian
Daboll,
declined
to pick up
Jones’ fifth
year option —
which would have
paid Jones $22.5 mil-
lion in 2023 — making
the 2022 season a prove-it
challenge. For the first time,
Jones stayed healthy for an entire
season and established career highs
in completion percentage (67.2),
passing yards (3,205), passer rating
(92.5), rushing (708) and rushing
touchdowns (seven) as the Giants
went 9-6-1 in Jones’ 16 starts.
Jones parted ways with his original
agency, CAA, and hired Athletes
First for these negotiations. His ini-
tial asking price soared above $45
million per year — it might have
reached as high as $48 million — but
those were never going to be worka-
ble numbers for the Giants. The Gi-
ants owned the leverage of the fran-
chise tag, which would have given
Jones no security beyond this season.
Now he has security. The two
sides made sure of that.
paul.schwartz@nypost.com

Dan must step up play to justify Big Blue’s

ANIEL Jones just made it to the big lea- plus $35 million in incentives, and will forget like a star in the big city. fore the franchise-tag deadline of 4 p.m.

D gues, and he deserves a healthy round of

applause for that. Despite a career record
of 21-31-1, he convinced the Giants to pay him
that “only” a reported $94 million was his
(practically) promised pot of gold. To the
paying public, Jones will now be known as a
“Daniel’s got a lot of pressure on him,” con-
ceded one Giants source. “But I think he’ll be
up to it, because he always prepares himself
Tuesday, and some were surprised the deal
went down to the wire.
None of that matters anymore. The Giants
$40 million a year. $40 million-per-year quar- and there will be better talent around him. have their quarterback of the future, same as
In the history of dual- terback. His arrow is definitely pointed up, and with their quarterback of the present, and they get
threat quarterbacking, Just as Aaron Judge is the coaching staff and system in place, I think to keep Saquon Barkley on the $10.1 million
there never has been a now known as a $40 mil- he can easily become a top 10 quarterback.” franchise tag after offering him a multiyear
pocket escape quite like lion-per-year slugger. Top 10, top 15, top 5, whatever. Everything contract at $12 million-$13 million a year dur-
this one. Truth is, Jones’s story has changed for Jones overnight, because ing their failed bye-week talks in November.
When it comes to mega- might soon be a tale of two suddenly he’s being paid to win a champion- “We just got 75 percent of our offense back
money deals, football and Aarons — his salary being ship. Team owner John Mara said two years in those two players,” the source said. It was a
baseball are entirely dif- Ian O’Connor linked to that of Judge, who ago that he saw Jones definitely winning one good day at the office.
ferent animals. MLB con- is the Babe Ruth of his Super Bowl title, and maybe matching Eli Barkley wanted no part of the franchise tag
tracts are 100 percent time; and his play being Manning’s two. and yet he graciously tweeted “Congrats
guaranteed. In the NFL, the only thing that is linked to that of Aaron Rodgers, who is look- The Giants just put their money where brudda !!!” to his good friend Jones for land-
fully guaranteed is intense physical pain. ing more and more like the probable Jets Mara’s mouth was. General manager Joe ing the kind of deal a running back could
But when assessing Jones’ performance starter on opening day. Schoen had been telling people over the past never land. As always, Barkley says and does
next season, fans will remember he signed In other words, if you want to be paid like a couple of days he was optimistic a multiyear the right thing. The Giants should continue
for the $160 million figure over four years, star in the big city, you had better perform agreement would be reached with Jones be- working hard to get him off the tag and onto a

big-buck investment
contract that reflects his true value.
Meanwhile, by coming off his initial asking
price ($47 million-$48 million per) and avoid-
ing the tag, Jones helped the greater cause.
His salary cap hit for 2023 is expected to be
about $18.5 million, or about $14 million less
than the hit the Giants would’ve absorbed if
they couldn’t close the long-term deal with
their quarterback.
So Schoen has more to spend on receivers
and other available playmakers who can close
the considerable gap between the Giants and
the Eagles (and the Chiefs, of course). That’s
a good thing.
But make no mistake: This transaction
wasn’t about the holes around Jones as much
as it was about Jones himself. The Giants
aren’t paying him now to throw for 15 touch-
downs and 3,205 yards, and to run around in
what Barkley called “Vanilla Vick” form.
Danny’s dime$
How Daniel Jones’ new Giants
contract breaks down:
$40M Average per year
$160M Total value
$82M Guaranteed
$35M Extra incentives
$18.5M Salary-cap hit this
upcoming season
$32.4M Cap hit if franchise
tag had been used
On top of the athleticism he used to rush for
seven scores and 708 yards, Jones is now ex-
pected to put up some meaningful passing
numbers. If Rodgers is going to deliver 35-40
touchdown throws for the Jets (or some other
team), it shouldn’t be too much to ask Jones to
deliver 25-30 touchdown throws for the Giants.
Can he do it with the upgraded roster that’s
expected to be in place? Can Jones thrive in a
second year under creative offensive coaches
the likes of head coach Brian Daboll and coor-
dinator Mike Kafka?
Mara once famously said that the Giants
had “done everything possible to screw this
kid up since he’s been here.” Tuesday, they
made it up to their quarterback 40 million dif-
ferent ways.
It’s a new day in the Meadowlands. It’s time
for Daniel Jones to perform like a money player.
ioconnor@nypost.com
Barkley gets slapped
with franchise tag
By Ryan Dunleavy
The franchise tag kept the
Giants from potentially los-
ing Saquon Barkley and
changing the face of their
franchise.
As soon as quarterback
Daniel Jones agreed to a new
contract Tuesday, the Giants
pivoted to tagging Barkley
to keep the star running
back from unrestricted free
agency. If the Giants had
not re-signed Jones min-
utes before the 4 p.m.
deadline to end tense ne-
gotiations, the tag instead
would have gone to him,
and Barkley would have
been headed to the open
market to determine his
value, with at least six teams
expected to be in pursuit.
There remains optimism
that an extension will be
completed before an NFL-
imposed July 17 deadline
shuts down talks for the
length of the season, possi-
bly as soon as over the five
days before free agency
opens. A multiyear deal
would free up even more
salary-cap space for the Gi-
ants to improve the roster
by lowering Barkley’s hit
from the $10.1 million salary
just added to the books.
But now that Jones’ agree-
ment has freed up the tag, it
also has created a leverage
swing. Barkley turned down
a multiyear extension aver-
aging about $12.5 million per
year in November. That
number increased slightly,
according to league sources,
as negotiations continued
after the season. Other hold-
ups include the length of the
deal (three or four years)
and the distribution sched-
ule of guaranteed money.
The Giants have an exten-
sion offer out to Barkley that
he can accept, general man-
ager Joe Schoen said last
week, but it appears they
drew a much firmer line in
the sand with him than with
Jones, even after the latter
shot for the moon by asking
for $48 million per year with
his new agents, per sources.
Barkley and Schoen met
briefly Monday.
“I think [playing on the
tag] would upset anybody,”
Barkley told The Post after
the Giants lost in the play-
offs.
Allowing Barkley, the No. 2
overall pick in 2018, to test
together again: When the Giants came to a last-
minute deal with QB Daniel Jones (right), that meant
Saquon Barkley (left) was going to get the franchise tag.
The team now has until July 17 to get a multiyear deal
done with its star running back.
free agency would’ve been
unthinkable at one point. He
arrived with Hall of Fame-
hype, and is a two-time Pro
Bowler and a Walter Payton
Man of the Year Award nom-
inee. Because the non-exclu-
sive franchise tag was used,
another team could sign
Barkley to an offer sheet.
The Giants would have the
chance to match the deal or
receive two first-round picks
as compensation, which is
extremely unlikely.
Barkley does not have to
immediately sign the tag
and could choose to follow a
common message-sending
practice by not showing up
for spring voluntary work-
outs. That never has been
Barkley’s way — he has
propped up teammates
when he was the lone bright
spot amid years of losing,
spoken with reverence
about the Giants’ tradition
and bought into all messag-
ing — but team-first behav-
iors didn’t pay off at the ne-
gotiating table.
Running backs accounted
for three of the six franchise
tags used around the league:
Barkley, NFL rushing leader
Josh Jacobs (Raiders) and
Tony Pollard (Cowboys).
Miles Sanders (Eagles) now
heads the class of free-agent
running backs. Teams can
remove an unsigned tag — a
rarely employed move — if
the process drags out.
Barkley has earned $38.6
million over his first five
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seasons and looked headed
for a big payday after he
rushed for a career-high
1,312 yards and 10 touch-
downs to bounce back from
two injury-plagued seasons.
Success for him and Jones in
a two-headed ground attack
goes hand-in-hand.
“Congrats brudda,” Bark-
ley wrote on Twitter, along
with Jones’ handle and
raised fist and black heart
emojis.
After initially asking for
money in line with top-paid
running back Christian
McCaffrey’s $16 million per
year deal, Barkley lowered
his price and acknowledged
he wasn’t looking to “reset”
the market because he
wanted to be a “Giant for
life.” But belief around the
league is Schoen belongs to
the school of thought that
salary cap space is better
spent elsewhere, and the
physical toll endured by
running backs means a rota-
tion of cheap options is the
way to build a team.
Extensions for Todd Gur-
ley and Ezekiel Elliott didn’t
work out for the Rams and
Cowboys, respectively, but
the past five running backs
to receive extensions worth
at least $12 million per year
all had career-best rushing
totals after signing. Ad-
justed for salary-cap infla-
tion since then, a compara-
ble deal for Barkley averages
about $14 million per year.
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By Brian Costello
The Jets made an important
road trip on Tuesday.
A contingent including owner
Woody Johnson, general man-
ager Joe Douglas, head coach
Robert Saleh and offensive coor-
dinator Nathaniel Hackett flew
to California on a private jet to
meet with Packers quarterback
Aaron Rodgers, a source con-
firmed.
The Jets have been clamoring
for Rodgers for months, and it
appears they are making
progress toward acquiring the
four-time league MVP in what
would be a franchise-altering
trade. It is still unclear what
Rodgers plans to do this season,
but the fact he is talking to the
Jets and meeting with them face-
to-face indicates he is willing to
consider joining the franchise.
According to flight records,
the Jets departed Morristown
Municipal Airport at 9:40 on
Tuesday morning and landed at
Camarillo Airport at 12:49 Pa-
cific time. That is where the
group picked up Rodgers. They
then flew to Los Angeles and
were scheduled to fly back to
New Jersey overnight and land
Wednesday morning. It is un-
clear whether Rodgers would
make the trip East with them.
The Jets have been open about
wanting to add a veteran quar-
terback since Johnson said he
“absolutely” would spend big
money on a quarterback this off-
season. Rodgers has been the
team’s first choice despite flirta-
tions with Derek Carr over
the past month. Carr signed
with the Saints on Monday.
The question has always been
what would Rodgers want, and
that remains uncertain. Rodgers
has not said whether he wants to
retire, return to the Packers or
seek a trade. It seems likely now
that if he and the Packers decide
to part that the Jets would be the
leaders to trade for him.
The Packers had to grant per-
mission to the Jets to speak to
Rodgers, and that clearly hap-
pened in recent days. The first
report of the Jets speaking to
Rodgers came late Monday
night from former ESPN per-
sonality Trey Wingo.
Things escalated Tuesday and
word came of the transconti-
nental flight to woo Rodgers.
Responding to a Pro Foot-
ball Focus tweet featuring
Rodgers in a Jets uniform,
Defensive Rookie of the Year
Sauce Gardner appeared to
support the efforts to
bring Rodgers
aboard, replying,
“Aye @Aaron-
Rodgers12 I offseason
promise if
you become
a Jet, I won’t
pick you
off in
practice
& I’ll
burn the
cheese-
head.”
Breece Hall replied, “Don’t
mind me…Just Manifesting
@AaronRodgers12.”
It is safe to assume the Jets and
Packers have agreed to the pa-
rameters of a trade, something
that is almost always a precursor
to allowing the acquiring team
to speak to a player under con-
tract.
Any trade for Rodgers will be
complicated, and the Jets surely
want to get this done well in ad-
vance of the new league year,
which hits at 4 p.m. March 15.
That is also when any trade
would become official.
Besides reaching an agree-
ment with the Packers, the
Jets also must ensure
that Rodgers wants to
come to New York.
They are probably
also looking for clarity
on how long he wants
to play and how
engaged he
would be
during the
pro-
gram.
Then, there is Rodgers’
contract, which will likely
need to be reworked before
a trade can be executed.
Rodgers’ contract calls for
him to receive $59.5 million
this season with $58.3 million
coming in the form of an option
bonus. That is a lot of cash to
pay Rodgers. The salary-cap hit
is not bad because the bonus
money is prorated, and there are
two dummy years at the end of
the contract. The Packers would
be hit with a $40.3 million dead-
money charge in 2023 if they
trade him.
A reworked contract could
help both the Jets and the Pack-
ers. The Jets also may be looking
for the Packers to pick up some
of Rodgers’ salary.
As of now, the Jets appear to
be the only serious suitor for
Rodger,s but perhaps an-
other team will emerge if
this drags out. The Raiders
have indicated they will
not pursue Rodgers, and
the Packers may be re-
luctant to trade him to
a quarterback-needy
team in the NFC such
as the Panthers.
This is all reminis-
cent of 15 years ago
when the Jets traded for
Brett Favre, Rodgers’
predecessor in Green
Bay.
The Jets lost their
last five road trips of
the 2022 season.
Let’s see if they
win their first of
2023.
brian.costello
@nypost.com

ES, AARON Rodgers broke
Y his thumb — actually, to be
completely accurate, he suf-
fered a “avulsion fracture” in that
right thumb — on the final play of
a Week 5 game against the Giants
in London last October.
Optimally, a quarterback needs
all the fingers on his right hand to
be in working order. A bum thumb
is a problem. It’s like Billy Joel try-
ing to play piano with his elbows
— he’d figure out something, but
he probably couldn’t do the intro
to “Miami 2017” as well as he’d like.
Rodgers tried to figure it out. He
kept playing. Against Dallas in
early November he was brilliant —
14-of-20, 224 yards, three touch-
downs, a passer rating of 146.7 —
and the Packers knocked off the
Cowboys at Lambeau Field, 31-28.
Mostly, he looked diminished. He
looked like a guy trying to throw a
football with a broken thumb.
Mike Vaccaro
The Jets are banking everything
on that thumb. The team’s brass
flew out to California to meet
Rodgers for what amounts to
as important a recruiting
trip as the team has ever
had. They need a quar-
terback. Plan B will
be playing quarter-
back in New Or-
leans now, Derek
Carr signing Mon-
day with the
Saints.
Woody Johnson
has made little secret
of his desire here. The
Jets’ owner likes stars.
Rodgers, even at 39, even pos-
sibly pondering retirement, re-
mains one of the brightest in the
NFL constellation. There is some
belief that with even a remotely
competent quarterback playing all
17 games last year the Jets’ 7-10
record would’ve looked substan-
tially different.
And Rodgers, across his first 14
seasons as Green Bay’s QB1 spent
about 20 minutes achieving “com-
petence” before speeding through
“star” and then “superstar” and
then “future Hall of Famer.” He is
one of the 10 or 15 best to ever play
the position by just about any
measure. Maybe even higher.
So on one hand, you want to dust
off your old Latin textbooks and
exhort the Jets: “Carpe diem!”
Seize the day.
But on the other, it’s difficult not
to keep that book open and flip it a
few pages to find another apho-
rism that is equally relevant: “Ca-
veat emptor!”
Buyer beware.
Five years ago — hell, two years
better be right! Woody Johnson boarded his private jet Tues-
day morning with offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett (far left to
right), GM Joe Douglas and head coach Robert Saleh to meet with
Aaron Rodgers, proving they Jets are all-in on the future Hall of Famer.
They just better be sure they’re right, writes The Post’s Mike Vaccaro.
ago — there would be no such
concerns. As recently as 2020 and
2021 Rodgers won back-to-back
MVPs. And his 2022 was compro-
mised on the last play of that Gi-
ants game when his hand collided
with Oshane Ximines while trying
to fire off a desperate heave.
The next week against the Jets,
he clearly wasn’t right. And he
wasn’t right the rest of the year.
Maybe that was all because of the
thumb. Maybe the loss of Davante
Adams to Vegas, combined with
the thumb, was too much to over-
come. And maybe there’s a part of
Rodgers that wants a better final
chapter than the one he was au-
thoring in Wisconsin: win a boat-
load of regular-season games
capped by lots of playoff potholes.
Maybe.
But one thing is certain: If the
Jets are going to go all-in on Rodg-
ers — and the cost, between salary
and draft assets says they are noth-
ing if not all-in — they’d sure bet-
ter be right. They’d sure better
hope that they are getting a ver-
sion of Rodgers that resembles the
bulk of his career and not the one
we saw last year, bad thumb or no.
And if Johnson and Joe Douglas
want to see what it’ll mean if they
pull that trigger and it goes side-
ways? Maybe have a look at some
Broncos games from this year.
Maybe see how the Russell Wilson
experience was received in Den-
ver, and what that’s done to that
football-mad city and that till-now
model football operation.
Doesn’t mean Rodgers is going
down that path.
Doesn’t mean he’s done.
Doesn’t mean it’ll be a repeat of
the Brett Favre Experiment from 15
years ago, though it’s also fair to re-
member that the Jets were 8-3 be-
fore Favre got hurt and became
barely a shell of himself across that
season’s final five games. Still … Fa-
vre turned 39 (and had previously
been awfully durable) during that
’08 season. Rodgers will turn 40 in
December. Time is time. Age is
age. It will be an issue every time
Rodgers drops back, every time a
defense bears down on him.
That’s the risk.
The reward? If the Jets are right,
and if the defense can approximate
what it was last year, and if the
running game returns to where it
was headed before Breece Hall
was hurt …
Well, the AFC is a bear, but if
they’re right and Rodgers is Rodg-
ers, I certainly would like to see
what that season looks like. But
they’d sure better be right.
mvaccaro@nypost.com
65
Ravens use
New York Post, Wednesday, March 8, 2023
non-exclusive
franchise tag
on Jackson
By Jenna LemonceLLi
The Ravens have used the fran-
chise tag on quarterback Lamar Jack-
son, the team announced Tuesday
before the league’s 4 p.m. deadline.
Baltimore placed the non-exclu-
sive franchise tag on the former
NFL MVP, according to NFL Net-
work’s Tom Pelissero.
The designation means Jackson,
nypost.com
26, can negotiate and sign an offer
sheet with any other NFL team.
The Ravens still have the option
to match an opposing offer sheet or
receive two first-round picks if they
decline.
The non-exclusive tag comes with
a 2023 salary of $32.5 million, which
is about $13 million less than the ex-
clusive tag would have cost.
If Jackson is unable to secure a
deal with another team, he would
remain with the Ravens for another
year upon signing the tag.
“Having not yet reached a long-
term deal with La-
mar Jackson, we
will use the fran-
chise tag,” Ravens
general manager
Eric DeCosta said.
“There have been
many instances
across the league
and in Baltimore lamar
when a player has jackson
been designated
with the franchise tag and signed a
long-term deal that same year.
“We will continue to negotiate in
good faith with Lamar, and we are
hopeful that we can strike a long-
term deal that is fair to both Lamar
and the Ravens. Our ultimate goal is
to build a championship team with
Lamar Jackson leading the way for
many years to come.”
Though it is unclear which teams
may be interested in Jackson’s servi-
ces, the Falcons will not be pursuing
the quarterback, according to
ESPN’s Dianna Russini.
DeCosta mentioned that the Rav-
ens have a history of tagging players
and negotiating a deal at a later date
— which is something they’ve done
with five of their previous seven
franchise-tagged players.
Jackson is the first quarterback to
get the franchise tag from the Ravens.
The Ravens and Jackson — who
does not have an agent and is repre-
senting himself — have until July 17
to negotiate and get a long-term deal
done before Jackson would have to
be on the tag for 2023. If they can’t
reach an agreement by that NFL-
mandated deadline, a new deal can’t
be signed until after the 2023 season.
jlemoncelli@nypost.com
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By eRIn KeLLeR
kAty petty Katy
‘A
merican Idol” fans are
scrutinizing Katy Perry, Perry took flak
for her interaction
38, for how she treated
contestant Sara Beth with “American Idol”
contestant Sara Beth
Liebe, a happy-go-lucky
25-year-old mother of three, on Sun- Liebe (left). Lionel Richie
(below) thought Liebe
day’s episode.
The red-headed, quirky California wasn’t serious
enough.
native openly admitted that she’s not
much of a musician except in her
church choir and on karaoke nights.
Perry, who made an off-color re-
mark about being such a young
three-time mom, loudly interjected,
“Is this your dream?”
“Um,” the seemingly already nerv-
ous Liebe muttered.
“If it’s not your dream, you might
need to leave because there’s a lot of
dreams behind you,” Perry said.
A flustered Liebe revealed that
she was “still processing” being
away from her kids to stand in
front of Perry, as well as fellow
judges Lionel Richie, 73, and
Luke Bryan, 46, as the “Teen-
age Dream” singer nudged her
to perform a song.
“Freak us out, Freaky Fri-
day,” Perry said.
Liebe first sang Amy Wine-
house’s “You Know I’m No instructed. he didn’t think she took the competi- treated Sara Beth on #AmericanI-
Good” as an unimpressed All three judges clapped for tion seriously. dol,” one tweeter said. “I don’t watch
Perry interrupted, “Come Liebe’s second try, although she “Sara Beth, you’re in the dream this show at all and my tv was al-
on, we need more,” as Liebe said that she felt like she was going now. Go get your golden ticket,” ready on the channel but what I wit-
continued. to pass out from following Perry’s Perry dismissed Liebe. “Hurry before nessed was not right. They let Katy
“That’s not enough,” Perry recommendations. the dream ends!” Perry bully this woman on live na-
determined at the song’s end. “Accidental American Idol,” Perry The Post has contacted a rep for tional tv before she even started sing-
“Try ‘Bennie and the Jets,’” she in- nicknamed Liebe. Perry for comment. ing. So ugly.”
structed, claiming Liebe had nothing “I feel like a comic strip charac- “Boo to Katy Perry for mom sham- “Some of the things Katy perry
to lose because it’s “not her dream ter just came to life,” Perry said ing Sara Beth. Insinuating that she says to the female contestants is
yet.” after Sara Beth was done, with has been ‘laying on the table [mind-blowing emojis],” another
Perry then urged her to Bryan expressing his “love” for her too much’ to have 3 kids by fan noticed.
“show us what your voice can performance. age 25. A young mother fol- Last week, Perry broke down
do, take it to the limit, no “Look, if it’s not your dream, it’s lowing a dream while rais- in tears after a survivor of the
looking’ back. not gonna go far because I also re- ing her children should be 2018 mass shooting at Santa Fe
“Sing it like it’s your new spect everyone that’s walking raised up not put down,” High School auditioned with
an emotional per-
dream,” she added. through that door who will lay one person tweeted.
The contestant took down their life for this golden “Truly, @katyperry formance of “Stone”
Perry’s advice and pushed ticket [to Hollywood],” Perry has proven she by Whiskey Myers.
her voice to its wailing lim- added about other hopefuls ad- doesn’t care “Our country has
its during her rendition of vancing to the next round of com- about all f–king failed us!”
the Elton John classic — ap- petition. women,” an- Perry shouted.
parently impressing Perry, who Ultimately, Bryan and Perry voted other claimed. “This is not OK!”
continued shouting demands for Liebe to move on to the next “I really do “American Idol”
during the second song. round, while Richie “went with his not like how airs Sundays at 8
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