Month: July 2019

The first Sunday night baseball game to include the Yankees that I recall was played 28 years before MLB sold Sunday night large-market games to ESPN. And it remains, at least in my memory, as a colossal collision between the accidental and incidental. It was June 24, 1962, Yanks at Tigers. Why bring it up?Read moreRead more

You don’t have to leave Manhattan to make a splash: Several luxury city listings now promise fantastical pool features. The 13,000-square-foot, eight-bedroom, 13-bathroom townhouse at 118 East 76th St. has all the trappings of Upper East Side splendor. There’s a formal living room, a cigar bar, a library and a six-level staircase. But more unusual is theRead moreRead more

No more planes, personal zoos, or tiny trains for convicted cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman if the feds have their way. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn Friday said they are seeking to seize over $12 billion in assets from the onetime leader of the Sinaloa Cartel following his February drug-trafficking conviction. In total, the governmentRead moreRead more

One young, buff police officer from Tennessee has become an overnight social media sensation after starring in a two-minute video explaining a new hands-free driving law on behalf of the Knoxville Police Department. The Hands-Free Law took effect on July 1 in the state, banning drivers from holding their phones on the road, WTVF reports.Read moreRead more

Three more victims have been identified in the Bahamas helicopter crash that killed billionaire tycoon Chris Cline and his daughter. Jillian Clark, Brittney Searson and Delaney Wykle were friends of the West Virginia coal magnate’s 22-year-old daughter, Kameron, and aboard the doomed flight, on which all seven passengers were killed early Thursday near Grand Cay,Read moreRead more

Ed Sheeran is “feelin’ like a bullet jumpin’ out a gun” on his new single with Bruno Mars and Chris Stapleton. “Blow,” the new single off his upcoming “No. 6 Collaborations Project” finds Sheeran, 28, Mars, 33, and Stapleton, 41, belting out the following atop a harder-than-usual (for Ed) rock beat: “I’m comin,’ baby/ I’mRead moreRead more

Earlier this week, a total solar eclipse gave skywatchers in South America a very good reason to gaze at the heavens. Only a very small number of people were lucky enough to see it thanks to the path of the eclipse gracing just a small strip of Chile and Argentina, but that didn’t stop scientistsRead moreRead more

The cold case gripping the nation has finally been licked! Texas cops on Friday said they found the girl who licked a tub of Blue Bell ice cream and then put it back on the shelf — and she even confessed after being busted with the boyfriend who filmed her in the video gone viral.Read moreRead more

CNN’s prime-time ratings are cratering. The cable news titan founded by Ted Turner in 1980 dropped to 15th place in the coveted 8 p.m.-to-11 p.m. time slot last quarter after losing 20% of its viewers, according to TV ratings tracker Nielsen. That’s five slots below where it was this time last year, Nielsen said. AlthoughRead moreRead more

On Wednesday, the bad news was good news. On Friday, the good news was bad news. Topsy-turvy thinking continued to roil Wall Street, as stocks tumbled from all-time highs set Wednesday because of a surprisingly strong jobs report which, investors wagered, took pressure off the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. There were 224,000 jobsRead moreRead more