newyorkpost--2020-10-02--Trump’s doctor says president ‘doing very well’ amid COVID-19 treatment

President Trump was taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical ...

President Trump has tweeted from the hospital that things are “going well.”
“Going well, I think!” he tweeted just after 11:30 p.m.
“Thank you to all. LOVE!!!”
Meanwhile, his doctor said Trump has completed his first dose of remdesivir therapy and is “resting comfortably.”
The promising anti-viral therapy is still undergoing clinical trials and has so far shown success in reducing deaths in severely ill coronavirus patients; its value in treating less-severe cases is still being studied.
“This evening I am happy to report that the president is doing very well,” said the doctor, Navy Commander Sean P. Conley.
“He is not requiring any supplemental oxygen,” the doctor added.
The president is “strong” and “upbeat” while in the hospital, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy had tweeted an hour earlier.
“I just got off the phone with President Trump,” the House minority leader said in his tweet.
“He was upbeat and told me he appreciates all the prayers and support from everyone.
“Our president is strong and will beat the virus!”
Trump was taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Friday “out of an abundance of caution,” the White House said.
“I’m going to Walter Reed hospital,” he said in a video message released before he checked in.
“I think I’m doing very well, but we’re going to make sure that things work out,” he said.
“The first lady is doing well,” he said of Melania Trump, who also contracted the virus but who has remained quarantined at the White House.
“So thank you very much, I appreciate it, I will never forget it. Thank you.”
Trump, 74, is expected to remain at the hospital “for the next few days” in a special presidential suite of rooms, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.


newyorkpost--2020-10-02--Bob Gibson, Cardinals Hall of Fame pitcher, dead at 84

Hall of Famer Bob Gibson , the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when he finished the 1968 season with a 1.12 ERA , died Friday .
He was 84 .
The Cardinals confirmed Gibson ’ s death shortly after a 4-0 playoff loss to San Diego ended their season .
He had long been ill with pancreatic cancer in his hometown of Omaha , Nebraska .
Gibson ’ s death came on the 52nd anniversary of perhaps his most overpowering performance , when he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ batters in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series against Detroit .
One of baseball ’ s most uncompromising competitors , the two-time Cy Young Award winner spent his entire 17-year career with St. Louis and was named the World Series MVP in their 1964 and ’ 67 championship seasons .
The Cards came up just short in 1968 , but Gibson was voted the National League ’ s MVP and shut down opponents so well that baseball changed the rules for fear it would happen again .
Gibson died less than a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teammate , Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock .
Another pitching great from his era , Tom Seaver , died in late August .
“ I just heard the news about losing Bob Gibson and it ’ s kind of hard losing a legend .
You can lose a game , but when you lose a guy like Bob Gibson , just hard , ” Cardinals star catcher Yadier Molina said .
“ Bob was funny , smart , he brought a lot of energy .
When he talked , you listened .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ every year .
We lose a game , we lose a series , but the tough thing is we lost one great man.
” At his peak , Gibson may have been the most talented all-around starter in history , a nine-time Gold Glove winner who roamed wide to snatch up grounders despite a fierce , sweeping delivery that drove him to the first base side of the mound ; and a strong hitter who twice hit five home runs in a single season and batted .303 in 1970 , when he also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wasn ’ t his only sport , either .
He also starred in basketball at Creighton and spent a year with the Harlem Globetrotters before totally turning his attention to the diamond .
Averaging 19 wins a year from 1963-72 , he finished 251-174 with a 2.91 ERA , and was only the second pitcher to reach 3,000 strikeouts .
He didn ’ t throw as hard as Sandy Koufax , or from as many angles as Juan Marichal , but batters never forgot how he glared at them ( or squinted , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ settling an ancient score .
Gibson snubbed opposing players and sometimes teammates who dared speak to him on a day he was pitching , and he didn ’ t even spare his own family .
“ I ’ ve played a couple of hundred games of tic-tac-toe with my little daughter and she hasn ’ t beaten me yet , ” he once told The New Yorker ’ s Roger Angell .
“ I ’ ve always had to win .
I ’ ve got to win.
” Equally disciplined and impatient , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Scully joked that he pitched as if his car was double-parked .
Ball in hand , he was no nonsense on the hill .
And he had no use for advice , scowling whenever catcher Tim McCarver or anyone else thought of visiting the mound .
“ The only thing you know about pitching is you can ’ t hit it , ” Gibson was known to say .
His concentration was such that he seemed unaware he was on his way to a World Series single game strikeout record ( surpassing Sandy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ until McCarver convinced him to look at the scoreboard .
During the regular season , Gibson struck out more than 200 batters nine times and led the National League in shutouts four times , finishing with 56 in his career .
In 1968 , thirteen of his 22 wins were shutouts , leading McCarver to call Gibson “ the luckiest pitcher I ever saw .
He always pitches when the other team doesn ’ t score any runs.
” He was , somehow , even greater in the postseason , finishing 7-2 with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 81 innings .
Despite dominating the Tigers in the 1968 Series opener , that year ended with a Game 7 loss — hurt by a rare misplay from star center fielder Curt Flood — and a rewriting of the rules that he would long resent .
Gibson ’ s 1.12 ERA in the regular season was the third lowest for any starting pitcher since 1900 and by far the best for any starter in the post-dead-ball era , which began in the 1920s .
His 1968 performance , the highlight of the so-called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left officials worried that fans had bored of so many 1-0 games .
They lowered the mound from 15 to 10 inches in 1969 and shrank the strike zone .
“ I was pissed , ” Gibson later remarked , although he remained a top pitcher for several years and in 1971 threw his only no-hitter , against Pittsburgh .
Gibson had a long major league career even though he was a relatively late bloomer and was in his early 30s in 1968 .
Signed by the Cards as an amateur free agent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with his control , a problem solved by developing one of baseball ’ s greatest sliders , along with a curve to go with his hard fastball .
He knew how to throw strikes and how to aim elsewhere when batters stood too close to the plate .
“ Don ’ t dig in against Bob Gibson ; he ’ ll knock you down , ” Aaron said , according to the Boston Globe .
“ He ’ d knock down his own grandmother if she dared to challenge him .
Don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t smile at him , don ’ t talk to him .
He doesn ’ t like it .
If you happen to hit a home run , don ’ t run too slow , don ’ t run too fast .
If you happen to want to celebrate , get in the tunnel first .
And if he hits you , don ’ t charge the mound , because he ’ s a Gold Glove boxer.
” Only the second Black ( after Don Newcombe ) to win the Cy Young Award @ @ @ @ @ @ @ otherwise .
Gibson would describe himself as a “ blunt , stubborn Black man ” who scorned the idea he was anyone ’ s role model and once posted a sign over his locker reading “ I ’ m not prejudiced .
I hate everybody.
” But he was proud of the Cards ’ racial diversity and teamwork , a powerful symbol during the civil rights era , and his role in ensuring that players did not live in segregated housing during the season .
He was close to McCarver , a Tennessean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own prejudices , and the acknowledged leader of a club which featured whites ( McCarver , Mike Shannon , Roger Maris ) , Blacks ( Gibson , Brock and Flood ) and Hispanics ( Orlando Cepeda , Julian Javier ) .
“ Our team , as a whole , had no tolerance for ethnic or racial disrespect , ” Gibson wrote in “ Pitch by Pitch , ” published in 2015 .
“ We ’ d talk about it openly and in no uncertain terms .
In our clubhouse , nobody got a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who is Black , grew close to Gibson in recent years .
The right-handers would often talk , the 24-year-old Flaherty soaking up advice from the great who wore No .
45 .
“ That one hurts , ” said Flaherty , the Cardinals ’ losing pitcher Friday night .
“ He ’ s a legend , first and foremost , somebody who I was lucky enough to learn from .
You don ’ t get the opportunity to learn from somebody of that caliber and somebody who was that good very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up on his health and where he was at .
I was really hoping it wasn ’ t going to be today .
I was going to wear his jersey today to the field but decided against it , ” he said .
Born Pack Robert Gibson in Omaha on Nov. 9 , 1935 , Gibson overcame childhood illness that nearly cost him his life .
His father died soon before his birth , and he grew up in poverty .
His mother was a laundry worker , trying to support Gibson and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without a father is a hardship and deprivation that is impossible to measure , ” Gibson wrote in “ From Ghetto to Glory , ” one of a handful of books he published .
Gibson went to Omaha Tech High School and stayed in town , attending Creighton from 1954-57 , and averaging 20.2 points during his college basketball career .
The roughly 6-foot , 2-inch Gibson , who seemed so much taller on the mound , spent the 1957-58 season with the Globetrotters before turning his full attention to baseball .
At @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was managed by Johnny Keane , who became a mentor and cherished friend , “ the closest thing to a saint ” he would ever know in baseball .
Gibson was often forced to live in separate hotels from his white teammates and was subjected to vicious taunts from fans , but he would remember Keane as “ without prejudice ” and as an unshakeable believer in his talent .
His early years with the Cardinals were plagued by tensions with manager Solly Hemus , who openly used racist language and was despised @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was fired in the middle of the 1961 season and replaced , to Gibson ’ s great fortune , by Keane .
The pitcher ’ s career soon took off .
He made the first of his eight National League All-Star teams in 1962 , and the following year went 18-9 and kept the Cardinals in the pennant race until late in the season .
In 1964 , a year he regarded as his favorite , he won three times in the last 11 games as the Cardinals surged past the collapsing Philadelphia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Gibson lost Game 2 of the World Series against the New York Yankees , but he came back with wins in Games 5 and 7 and was named the MVP .
The series was widely regarded as a turning point in baseball history , with the great Yankee dynasty falling the following year and the Cardinals embodying a more modern and aggressive style of play .
Keane stuck with Gibson in Game 7 even after the Yankees ’ Clete Boyer and Phil Linz homered in the ninth inning and narrowed the Cardinals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later say of Gibson , who retired Bobby Richardson on a pop fly to end the series , that he had a commitment to “ his heart.
” Gibson was also close to Keane ’ s successor , Red Schoendienst , who took over in 1965 after Keane left for the Yankees .
Gibson enjoyed 20-game seasons in 1965 and 1966 and likely would have done the same a third straight year , but a Roberto Clemente line drive broke his leg in the middle of the season .
( Gibson was so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inning ) .
Gibson returned in September , finished 13-7 during the regular season and led the Cardinals to the 1967 championship , winning three times and hitting a home run off Red Sox ace Jim Lonborg in Game 7 at Boston ’ s Fenway Park .
The final out was especially gratifying ; he fanned first baseman George Scott , who throughout the series had been taunting Gibson and the Cards .
But 1968 was on a level few had seen before .
He began slowly , losing five of his first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and fumed over the lack of hitting support .
( “ Starvation fare , ” Angell would call it ) .
But from early June to late August , Gibson was unbeatable .
He won 15 straight decisions , threw 10 shutouts and at one point allowed just three earned runs during 101 innings .
One of those runs scored on a wild pitch , another on a bloop hit .
He was at his best again in the opener of the World Series , giving a performance so singular that his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dedicated entirely to it .
On a muggy afternoon in St. Louis , facing 31-game winner Denny McLain and such power hitters as Al Kaline — who also died this year — Norm Cash and Willie Horton , he allowed just five hits and walked one in a 4-0 victory .
Gibson struck out at least one batter every inning and in the ninth fanned Kaline , Cash and Horton to end with 17 , the final pitch a slow breaking ball that left Horton frozen in place .
“ I was awed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later said .
“ He doesn ’ t remind me of anybody .
He ’ s all by himself.
” In Game 4 , Gibson homered as he led the Cards to a 10-1 romp over McLain and 3-to-1 advantage in the series .
But the Tigers won the next two and broke through in the finale against Gibson , who had a one-hitter with two out in the seventh inning , and the score 0-0 .
Gibson allowed two singles before Flood , a Gold Glove center fielder , misplayed Jim Northrup @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ball fell , before the warning track , for a two-run triple .
The Cardinals lost 4-1 and Gibson would grimace even decades later when asked about the game .
By the mid-1970s , his knees were aching and he had admittedly lost some of his competitive fury .
On the last day of the 1974 season , with a 2-1 lead and a division title possible , he gave up a two-run homer to the Montreal Expos ’ Mike Jorgensen in the eighth inning and the Cards lost 3-2 .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ final appearance when he gave up a grand slam home run to the Chicago Cubs ’ Pete LaCock .
( When the two faced off a decade later , at an old-timers game , Gibson beaned him ) .
Gibson was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1981 , and the Cards retired his uniform number .
He had a far less successful career as a coach , whether for the New York Mets and Braves in the 1980s , or for the Cardinals in 1995 .
He was married twice , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spent much of his retirement at his longtime home in the Omaha suburb of Bellevue .
He was active in charitable causes and hosted a popular golf event in Omaha that drew some of the top names in sports .
Gibson worried that young people were forgetting about baseball history , and he spoke with dismay about a Cardinal player who knew nothing about Jackie Robinson .
But in 2018 , Gibson himself was honored when the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra commissioned a rap song in his honor .
The lyrics inspired by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ He was a game changer The complete gamer Throw a pitch so fast It ’ ll rearrange ya He ’ s no stranger He ’ s Bob Gibson been on a mission He changed the game forever The pitcher was his position .
”

Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when he finished the 1968 season with a 1.12 ERA, died Friday. He was 84.
The Cardinals confirmed Gibson’s death shortly after a 4-0 playoff loss to San Diego ended their season. He had long been ill with pancreatic cancer in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.
Gibson’s death came on the 52nd anniversary of perhaps his most overpowering performance, when he struck out a World Series record 17 batters in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series against Detroit.
One of baseball’s most uncompromising competitors, the two-time Cy Young Award winner spent his entire 17-year career with St. Louis and was named the World Series MVP in their 1964 and ’67 championship seasons. The Cards came up just short in 1968, but Gibson was voted the National League’s MVP and shut down opponents so well that baseball changed the rules for fear it would happen again.
Gibson died less than a month after the death of a longtime teammate, Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock. Another pitching great from his era, Tom Seaver, died in late August.
“I just heard the news about losing Bob Gibson and it’s kind of hard losing a legend. You can lose a game, but when you lose a guy like Bob Gibson, just hard,” Cardinals star catcher Yadier Molina said. “Bob was funny, smart, he brought a lot of energy. When he talked, you listened. It was good to have him around every year. We lose a game, we lose a series, but the tough thing is we lost one great man.”
At his peak, Gibson may have been the most talented all-around starter in history, a nine-time Gold Glove winner who roamed wide to snatch up grounders despite a fierce, sweeping delivery that drove him to the first base side of the mound; and a strong hitter who twice hit five home runs in a single season and batted .303 in 1970, when he also won his second Cy Young.
Baseball wasn’t his only sport, either. He also starred in basketball at Creighton and spent a year with the Harlem Globetrotters before totally turning his attention to the diamond.
Averaging 19 wins a year from 1963-72, he finished 251-174 with a 2.91 ERA, and was only the second pitcher to reach 3,000 strikeouts. He didn’t throw as hard as Sandy Koufax, or from as many angles as Juan Marichal, but batters never forgot how he glared at them (or squinted, because he was near-sighted) as if settling an ancient score.
Gibson snubbed opposing players and sometimes teammates who dared speak to him on a day he was pitching, and he didn’t even spare his own family.
“I’ve played a couple of hundred games of tic-tac-toe with my little daughter and she hasn’t beaten me yet,” he once told The New Yorker’s Roger Angell. “I’ve always had to win. I’ve got to win.”
Equally disciplined and impatient, Gibson worked so quickly that broadcaster Vin Scully joked that he pitched as if his car was double-parked.
Ball in hand, he was no nonsense on the hill. And he had no use for advice, scowling whenever catcher Tim McCarver or anyone else thought of visiting the mound.
“The only thing you know about pitching is you can’t hit it,” Gibson was known to say.
His concentration was such that he seemed unaware he was on his way to a World Series single game strikeout record (surpassing Sandy Koufax’s 15) in 1968 until McCarver convinced him to look at the scoreboard.
During the regular season, Gibson struck out more than 200 batters nine times and led the National League in shutouts four times, finishing with 56 in his career. In 1968, thirteen of his 22 wins were shutouts, leading McCarver to call Gibson “the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn’t score any runs.”
He was, somehow, even greater in the postseason, finishing 7-2 with a 1.89 ERA and 92 strikeouts in 81 innings. Despite dominating the Tigers in the 1968 Series opener, that year ended with a Game 7 loss — hurt by a rare misplay from star center fielder Curt Flood — and a rewriting of the rules that he would long resent.
Gibson’s 1.12 ERA in the regular season was the third lowest for any starting pitcher since 1900 and by far the best for any starter in the post-dead-ball era, which began in the 1920s.
His 1968 performance, the highlight of the so-called “Year of the Pitcher,” left officials worried that fans had bored of so many 1-0 games. They lowered the mound from 15 to 10 inches in 1969 and shrank the strike zone.
“I was pissed,” Gibson later remarked, although he remained a top pitcher for several years and in 1971 threw his only no-hitter, against Pittsburgh.
Gibson had a long major league career even though he was a relatively late bloomer and was in his early 30s in 1968. Signed by the Cards as an amateur free agent in 1957, he had early trouble with his control, a problem solved by developing one of baseball’s greatest sliders, along with a curve to go with his hard fastball. He knew how to throw strikes and how to aim elsewhere when batters stood too close to the plate.
Hank Aaron once counseled Atlanta Braves teammate Dusty Baker about Gibson.
“Don’t dig in against Bob Gibson; he’ll knock you down,” Aaron said, according to the Boston Globe. “He’d knock down his own grandmother if she dared to challenge him. Don’t stare at him, don’t smile at him, don’t talk to him. He doesn’t like it. If you happen to hit a home run, don’t run too slow, don’t run too fast. If you happen to want to celebrate, get in the tunnel first. And if he hits you, don’t charge the mound, because he’s a Gold Glove boxer.”
Only the second Black (after Don Newcombe) to win the Cy Young Award, he was an inspiration when insisting otherwise. Gibson would describe himself as a “blunt, stubborn Black man” who scorned the idea he was anyone’s role model and once posted a sign over his locker reading “I’m not prejudiced. I hate everybody.”
But he was proud of the Cards’ racial diversity and teamwork, a powerful symbol during the civil rights era, and his role in ensuring that players did not live in segregated housing during the season.
He was close to McCarver, a Tennessean who would credit Gibson with challenging his own prejudices, and the acknowledged leader of a club which featured whites (McCarver, Mike Shannon, Roger Maris), Blacks (Gibson, Brock and Flood) and Hispanics (Orlando Cepeda, Julian Javier).
“Our team, as a whole, had no tolerance for ethnic or racial disrespect,” Gibson wrote in “Pitch by Pitch,” published in 2015. “We’d talk about it openly and in no uncertain terms. In our clubhouse, nobody got a free pass.”
Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty, who is Black, grew close to Gibson in recent years. The right-handers would often talk, the 24-year-old Flaherty soaking up advice from the great who wore No. 45.
“That one hurts,” said Flaherty, the Cardinals’ losing pitcher Friday night. “He’s a legend, first and foremost, somebody who I was lucky enough to learn from. You don’t get the opportunity to learn from somebody of that caliber and somebody who was that good very often.”
“I had been kept up on his health and where he was at. I was really hoping it wasn’t going to be today. I was going to wear his jersey today to the field but decided against it,” he said.
Born Pack Robert Gibson in Omaha on Nov. 9, 1935, Gibson overcame childhood illness that nearly cost him his life. His father died soon before his birth, and he grew up in poverty. His mother was a laundry worker, trying to support Gibson and his six siblings.
“Growing up without a father is a hardship and deprivation that is impossible to measure,” Gibson wrote in “From Ghetto to Glory,” one of a handful of books he published.
Gibson went to Omaha Tech High School and stayed in town, attending Creighton from 1954-57, and averaging 20.2 points during his college basketball career. The roughly 6-foot, 2-inch Gibson, who seemed so much taller on the mound, spent the 1957-58 season with the Globetrotters before turning his full attention to baseball.
At Omaha in the minor leagues, he was managed by Johnny Keane, who became a mentor and cherished friend, “the closest thing to a saint” he would ever know in baseball.
Gibson was often forced to live in separate hotels from his white teammates and was subjected to vicious taunts from fans, but he would remember Keane as “without prejudice” and as an unshakeable believer in his talent.
His early years with the Cardinals were plagued by tensions with manager Solly Hemus, who openly used racist language and was despised by Gibson and other Cardinals. Hemus was fired in the middle of the 1961 season and replaced, to Gibson’s great fortune, by Keane.
The pitcher’s career soon took off. He made the first of his eight National League All-Star teams in 1962, and the following year went 18-9 and kept the Cardinals in the pennant race until late in the season.
In 1964, a year he regarded as his favorite, he won three times in the last 11 games as the Cardinals surged past the collapsing Philadelphia Phillies and won the National League title. Gibson lost Game 2 of the World Series against the New York Yankees, but he came back with wins in Games 5 and 7 and was named the MVP.
The series was widely regarded as a turning point in baseball history, with the great Yankee dynasty falling the following year and the Cardinals embodying a more modern and aggressive style of play. Keane stuck with Gibson in Game 7 even after the Yankees’ Clete Boyer and Phil Linz homered in the ninth inning and narrowed the Cardinals’ lead to 7-5. He would later say of Gibson, who retired Bobby Richardson on a pop fly to end the series, that he had a commitment to “his heart.”
Gibson was also close to Keane’s successor, Red Schoendienst, who took over in 1965 after Keane left for the Yankees. Gibson enjoyed 20-game seasons in 1965 and 1966 and likely would have done the same a third straight year, but a Roberto Clemente line drive broke his leg in the middle of the season. (Gibson was so determined he still managed to finish the inning).
Gibson returned in September, finished 13-7 during the regular season and led the Cardinals to the 1967 championship, winning three times and hitting a home run off Red Sox ace Jim Lonborg in Game 7 at Boston’s Fenway Park. The final out was especially gratifying; he fanned first baseman George Scott, who throughout the series had been taunting Gibson and the Cards.
But 1968 was on a level few had seen before. He began slowly, losing five of his first eight decisions despite an ERA of 1.52, and fumed over the lack of hitting support. (“Starvation fare,” Angell would call it).
But from early June to late August, Gibson was unbeatable. He won 15 straight decisions, threw 10 shutouts and at one point allowed just three earned runs during 101 innings. One of those runs scored on a wild pitch, another on a bloop hit.
He was at his best again in the opener of the World Series, giving a performance so singular that his book “Pitch by Pitch” was dedicated entirely to it.
On a muggy afternoon in St. Louis, facing 31-game winner Denny McLain and such power hitters as Al Kaline — who also died this year — Norm Cash and Willie Horton, he allowed just five hits and walked one in a 4-0 victory. Gibson struck out at least one batter every inning and in the ninth fanned Kaline, Cash and Horton to end with 17, the final pitch a slow breaking ball that left Horton frozen in place.
“I was awed,” Tigers second baseman Dick McAuliffe later said. “He doesn’t remind me of anybody. He’s all by himself.”
In Game 4, Gibson homered as he led the Cards to a 10-1 romp over McLain and 3-to-1 advantage in the series. But the Tigers won the next two and broke through in the finale against Gibson, who had a one-hitter with two out in the seventh inning, and the score 0-0.
Gibson allowed two singles before Flood, a Gold Glove center fielder, misplayed Jim Northrup’s drive to left center and the ball fell, before the warning track, for a two-run triple. The Cardinals lost 4-1 and Gibson would grimace even decades later when asked about the game.
By the mid-1970s, his knees were aching and he had admittedly lost some of his competitive fury. On the last day of the 1974 season, with a 2-1 lead and a division title possible, he gave up a two-run homer to the Montreal Expos’ Mike Jorgensen in the eighth inning and the Cards lost 3-2.
He retired after 1975, humiliated in his final appearance when he gave up a grand slam home run to the Chicago Cubs’ Pete LaCock. (When the two faced off a decade later, at an old-timers game, Gibson beaned him).
Gibson was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1981, and the Cards retired his uniform number. He had a far less successful career as a coach, whether for the New York Mets and Braves in the 1980s, or for the Cardinals in 1995.
He was married twice, most recently to Wendy Gibson, and spent much of his retirement at his longtime home in the Omaha suburb of Bellevue. He was active in charitable causes and hosted a popular golf event in Omaha that drew some of the top names in sports.
Gibson worried that young people were forgetting about baseball history, and he spoke with dismay about a Cardinal player who knew nothing about Jackie Robinson. But in 2018, Gibson himself was honored when the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra commissioned a rap song in his honor.
The lyrics inspired by “From Ghetto to Glory” — “He was a game changer The complete gamer Throw a pitch so fast It’ll rearrange ya He’s no stranger He’s Bob Gibson been on a mission He changed the game forever The pitcher was his position.”


newyorkpost--2020-10-02--Three White House reporters test positive for COVID-19

Three White House reporters have tested positive for COVID-19 Friday following President Trump ’ s announcement that he and first lady Melania have contracted the virus .
All three journalists were in the White House over the last week ; the building ’ s medical unit is conducting contact tracing for each of them , according to the White House Correspondents ’ Association .
Several more reporters are quarantining out of an abundance of caution as they await test results , the association said , without identifying the journalists who have fallen ill. WHCA President Zeke Miller in a letter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ steer clear of the White House unless they are a part of a press pool or have an enclosed workspace .
Reporters should be especially vigilant of their health if they ’ ve attended President Trump ’ s Rose Garden event Saturday for his Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett or any other events over that weekend , Miller added .
Five in attendance at the Saturday event , including two Republican senators , have since tested positive for the virus .
“ Due to cases linked to the pools last weekend and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 9/26 Rose Garden event , we ask that if you were on the White House grounds or in the pools those days , that you pay extra attention to any changes in your health , ” Miller said .
The White House has plans to test all reporters who traveled on Air Force One over the last week , Miller added , recommending other potentially exposed journalists to get tested as well .
“ For seven months , we have been clear-eyed about the inherent risks in fulfilling our obligation to keeping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went on .
“ Today those risks are more evident than ever , but our work is only growing more vital .
”

Three White House reporters have tested positive for COVID-19 Friday following President Trump’s announcement that he and first lady Melania have contracted the virus.
All three journalists were in the White House over the last week; the building’s medical unit is conducting contact tracing for each of them, according to the White House Correspondents’ Association.
Several more reporters are quarantining out of an abundance of caution as they await test results, the association said, without identifying the journalists who have fallen ill.
WHCA President Zeke Miller in a letter to White House journalists urged reporters to steer clear of the White House unless they are a part of a press pool or have an enclosed workspace.
Reporters should be especially vigilant of their health if they’ve attended President Trump’s Rose Garden event Saturday for his Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett or any other events over that weekend, Miller added.
Five in attendance at the Saturday event, including two Republican senators, have since tested positive for the virus.
“Due to cases linked to the pools last weekend and the large number of press credentialed for the 9/26 Rose Garden event, we ask that if you were on the White House grounds or in the pools those days, that you pay extra attention to any changes in your health,” Miller said.
The White House has plans to test all reporters who traveled on Air Force One over the last week, Miller added, recommending other potentially exposed journalists to get tested as well.
“For seven months, we have been clear-eyed about the inherent risks in fulfilling our obligation to keeping the American public informed,” Miller went on.
“Today those risks are more evident than ever, but our work is only growing more vital.”


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Rick Pitino: Frank Vogel ‘perfect’ fit for star-powered Lakers

If you forgot , the Lakers ’ head coach is Frank Vogel — even if TV cameras almost never show him on the sidelines .
By coaching LeBron James and Anthony Davis , with Dwight Howard and Rajon Rondo among the supporting cast , a coach ’ s identity can be overlooked despite being two wins away from the NBA title .
Coaching legend Rick Pitino , Vogel ’ s top mentor and current head coach at Iona , thinks his former Kentucky student manager and graduate assistant is the perfect match for the Lake Show .
“ It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and he ’ s with two of the top five players , ’ ’ Pitino told The Post .
“ Frank is the perfect coach for those two guys and the team .
He ’ s going to do all his work behind the scenes , get them ready , never be on camera , never get any credit .
“ And he wants it that way .
His perfect scenario is them winning a championship , never mention his name and get ready for next season.
” The Lakers are ahead 2-0 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Sunday in Lake Buena Vista , Fla. Before the series , Vogel said he consulted with Pitino on scoring against the Miami zone , which had bottled up Boston in teh Eastern Conference finals .
So far , so great .
“ When the Celtics were having their most success late in the series , they offensive rebounded , got into the middle and had paint touches , ’ ’ the former Knicks coach said .
“ We talked the four elements beating the zone .
Their length in the middle and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re doing a great job against it.
’ ’ James and Davis became the first Lakers tandem to notch 30-plus points apiece in the same Finals game since Shaquille O ’ Neal and Kobe Bryant in 2002 .
Davis ’ 66 points in two games ranks third-best for a player ’ s first two Finals contests .
If there ’ s a recipe to allow two superstars like James and Davis to be their best selves , Vogel , a South Jersey product , has it .
Vogel ’ s Lakers posted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Western Conference .
And nobody has been able to challenge them during the four playoff rounds .
“ We had lunch when he first got the job in [ 2019 ] , ’ ’ Pitino said .
“ He loved LeBron .
I watched LeBron at his early practice .
LeBron was like having another assistant coach on the floor.… Frank loved LeBron in film sessions and practice , said it ’ s like having another coach .
He was all in with him , said it ’ s great for a team @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ He ’ s perfect for LeBron , ’ ’ Pitino added .
“ He ’ ll go up at a press conference and never say a negative word about his players .
In the NBA , you don ’ t knock a player in a press conference .
Frank is perfect for that with LeBron and AD.
” James , in turn , said Friday he has been a Vogel fan since the coach ’ s Pacers days .
“ Going against Frank ’ s teams in Indiana , when we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Miami , you understood how well those teams were coached , ’ ’ James said .
“ It starts with the head coach , and the players are an extension .
So I had that memory , battling those Indiana teams .
For me , I ’ ve always been a coachable player throughout my whole life .
I ’ ve played for multiple coaches , and I ’ ve always been a coachable player .
Most importantly , he ’ s the head coach .
The head coach should have the respect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that sounded like a subtle dig at his former teammate Kyrie Irving for making remarks the Nets don ’ t really have a head coach , it also showed genuine respect for Vogel .
James has said in the past he prefers coaches who ’ ve played in the NBA , but Vogel played for Division III Juniata College before transferring to Kentucky .
Vogel contacted Pitino — just wanting to be his student manager .
“ He wrote a long letter about following me from Five-Star Camp and he ’ d like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ Pitino said .
“ He ’ s from New Jersey and wanted to come to Kentucky .
I wrote him I think he ’ d be better off going to Villanova , Seton Hall , St. John ’ s .
The student body at Kentucky is 95 percent Kentucky .
He wrote back : That doesn ’ t matter , he ’ s just interested in basketball.
’ ’ Jeff Van Gundy and Billy Donovan are his other two of Pitino ’ s graduate assistants ( both of them at Providence ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all had same thing in common — same attributes , ’ ’ Pitino said .
“ They were selfless , no egos and it was about the work .
Did I know any would turn out the way they ’ d be — maybe Billy because he was a great player .
But with Van Gundy and Vogel , their work ethic was something to marvel .
I was getting in at 6:30 a.m. and they always there ahead of me , always there when I left .
You don ’ t see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in and said , ‘ I was there for 12 hours.
’ He ’ d just get the job done .
’ ’

If you forgot, the Lakers’ head coach is Frank Vogel — even if TV cameras almost never show him on the sidelines.
By coaching LeBron James and Anthony Davis, with Dwight Howard and Rajon Rondo among the supporting cast, a coach’s identity can be overlooked despite being two wins away from the NBA title.
Coaching legend Rick Pitino, Vogel’s top mentor and current head coach at Iona, thinks his former Kentucky student manager and graduate assistant is the perfect match for the Lake Show.
“It’s a player’s league, and he’s with two of the top five players,” Pitino told The Post. “Frank is the perfect coach for those two guys and the team. He’s going to do all his work behind the scenes, get them ready, never be on camera, never get any credit.
“And he wants it that way. His perfect scenario is them winning a championship, never mention his name and get ready for next season.”
The Lakers are ahead 2-0 over the Heat with Game 3 set for Sunday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Before the series, Vogel said he consulted with Pitino on scoring against the Miami zone, which had bottled up Boston in the Eastern Conference finals. So far, so great.
“When the Celtics were having their most success late in the series, they offensive rebounded, got into the middle and had paint touches,” the former Knicks coach said. “We talked the four elements beating the zone. Their length in the middle and dribble penetration has hurt them. They’re doing a great job against it.”
James and Davis became the first Lakers tandem to notch 30-plus points apiece in the same Finals game since Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant in 2002. Davis’ 66 points in two games ranks third-best for a player’s first two Finals contests.
If there’s a recipe to allow two superstars like James and Davis to be their best selves, Vogel, a South Jersey product, has it. Vogel’s Lakers posted a 52-19 record, tops in the Western Conference. And nobody has been able to challenge them during the four playoff rounds.
“We had lunch when he first got the job in [2019],’’ Pitino said. “He loved LeBron. I watched LeBron at his early practice. LeBron was like having another assistant coach on the floor.… Frank loved LeBron in film sessions and practice, said it’s like having another coach. He was all in with him, said it’s great for a team having his basketball acumen off the charts.
“He’s perfect for LeBron,” Pitino added. “He’ll go up at a press conference and never say a negative word about his players. In the NBA, you don’t knock a player in a press conference. Frank is perfect for that with LeBron and AD.”
James, in turn, said Friday he has been a Vogel fan since the coach’s Pacers days.
“Going against Frank’s teams in Indiana, when we had our battles and I was in Miami, you understood how well those teams were coached,” James said. “It starts with the head coach, and the players are an extension. So I had that memory, battling those Indiana teams. For me, I’ve always been a coachable player throughout my whole life. I’ve played for multiple coaches, and I’ve always been a coachable player. Most importantly, he’s the head coach. The head coach should have the respect from all his players.”
If that sounded like a subtle dig at his former teammate Kyrie Irving for making remarks the Nets don’t really have a head coach, it also showed genuine respect for Vogel.
James has said in the past he prefers coaches who’ve played in the NBA, but Vogel played for Division III Juniata College before transferring to Kentucky. Vogel contacted Pitino — just wanting to be his student manager.
“He wrote a long letter about following me from Five-Star Camp and he’d like to learn everything we do,” Pitino said. “He’s from New Jersey and wanted to come to Kentucky. I wrote him I think he’d be better off going to Villanova, Seton Hall, St. John’s. The student body at Kentucky is 95 percent Kentucky. He wrote back: That doesn’t matter, he’s just interested in basketball.”
Jeff Van Gundy and Billy Donovan are his other two graduate assistants (both of them at Providence) who made it big.
“They all had same thing in common — same attributes,” Pitino said. “ They were selfless, no egos and it was about the work. Did I know any would turn out the way they’d be — maybe Billy because he was a great player. But with Van Gundy and Vogel, their work ethic was something to marvel. I was getting in at 6:30 a.m. and they always there ahead of me, always there when I left. You don’t see that much anymore. Frank never came in and said, ‘I was there for 12 hours.’ He’d just get the job done.”


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Lightweight champ Gervonta Davis ducks $500K bling bill from jeweler: lawsuit

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Boxing champ Gervonta Davis knows how to bob and weave when it comes to paying his bling bills, claims a Manhattan jeweler-to-the-stars.
Elliot Buryev, whose Eliantte & Co. counts the Kardashians, Hailey Bieber, Offset, Lil Wayne, Roddy Ricch and a host of other boldfacers among its clients, is suing Davis for bouncing a nearly half-million dollar check.
He claims the undefeated WBA lightweight champion ordered three custom pieces in November, then had Buryev fly to Los Angeles to deliver them.
Davis, 25, a three-time champ whose nickname is “Tank,” handed over a $486,671.25 check for the diamond tennis chain, a tank charm with emeralds and diamonds and a watch with diamond baguettes, said Buryev in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
But the pugilist knew it was a rubber check, Buryev alleges in court papers.
“This was no accounting error or mistake. Since the check was returned for insufficient funds, Davis has promised to make payment repeatedly but failed to do so,” Buryev said in the lawsuit.
It’s not the first time Davis, with 22 of his 23 victories coming by knockout, has ducked a jeweler’s bill, according to a report.
He was accused in January of skipping a $250,000 payment to Shyne Jewelry in Philadelphia.
Davis did not respond to requests for comment.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Giants’ offense has been missing big plays

The word has been bandied about for a few weeks now : “ explosive.
’ ’ The Giants don ’ t have it .
Their offense is missing it .
Their longest run of the season is 23 yards , by quarterback Daniel Jones .
Their longest run by a running back ?
Just 18 yards .
The longest reception is a 41-yard touchdown pass from Jones to Darius Slayton .
The second-longest reception is just 29 yards .
“ I think it starts with running the ball , ’ ’ Slayton said .
“ Obviously , if you run @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to come up a little bit closer and it ’ s a little bit easier to get behind people .
Obviously , that ’ s something that I consider a skill of mine , so hopefully I ’ ll be able to do that .
But I know as well my teammates are also capable of doing those things.
’ ’ The Giants as a team are averaging 3.2 yards per rushing attempt and 10.3 yards per reception .
Their opponents Sunday , the Rams , average 4.6 yards per rushing attempt and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lasted just nine snaps in last week ’ s loss to the 49ers before getting hurt while on the field with the extra-point block team .
Alterations on defense are needed without him , and also on special teams .
Golden Tate most likely steps in as the punt returner , with Slayton and C.J .
Board also options .
After acclimating for two games , safety Logan Ryan last week moved into the starting lineup and played all 77 snaps on defense , supplanting Julian Love .
The injury to Peppers forced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The thought was to get Logan ’ s experience and versatility on the field , ’ ’ defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson said .
“ He ’ s got great leadership , he ’ s got great energy , he ’ s played in a lot of football games and been productive in a lot of games .
Just trying to get him on the grass .
It was nothing against Julian , it was more getting the experience and the leadership on the grass.
’ ’ One imperative moving forward : The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for 77 snaps on defense as they did versus the 49ers .
“ I don ’ t want to speak for our guys , I just know the reality , ’ ’ outside linebackers coach Bret Bielema said .
“ I got in there after the game and looked at the play sheet and realized we played that many snaps , as a coach you are into the game and you don ’ t really know .
I do remember looking at the score and going in at halftime and felt like we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hours .
It was just a different type of game as it unfolded.
’ ’ Saquon Barkley , on injured reserve and awaiting knee surgery , will not make the trip , and he will be missed .
“ Well , his personality first of all , ’ ’ running backs coach Burton Burns said .
“ He ’ s a very positive person , he ’ s a very team-minded person .
Saquon was in the locker room before the game [ versus the 49ers ] to encourage the other guys .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ has a lot of respect for his teammates , they obviously have a lot of respect for him .
Just his presence goes a long way.
’ ’ WR Austin Mack was activated off the practice squad .
Mack was undrafted out of Ohio State .
… TE Eric Tomlinson was re-signed to the practice squad .

The word has been bandied about for a few weeks now: “explosive.’’
The Giants don’t have it. Their offense is missing it. Their longest run of the season is 23 yards, by quarterback Daniel Jones. Their longest run by a running back? Just 18 yards. The longest reception is a 41-yard touchdown pass from Jones to Darius Slayton. The second-longest reception is just 29 yards.
“I think it starts with running the ball,’’ Slayton said. “Obviously, if you run the ball effectively, then defenses tend to come up a little bit closer and it’s a little bit easier to get behind people. Obviously, that’s something that I consider a skill of mine, so hopefully I’ll be able to do that. But I know as well my teammates are also capable of doing those things.’’
The Giants as a team are averaging 3.2 yards per rushing attempt and 10.3 yards per reception. Their opponents Sunday, the Rams, average 4.6 yards per rushing attempt and 13.7 yards per reception.
Jabrill Peppers lasted just nine snaps in last week’s loss to the 49ers before getting hurt while on the field with the extra-point block team. Alterations on defense are needed without him, and also on special teams. Golden Tate most likely steps in as the punt returner, with Slayton and C.J. Board also options.
After acclimating for two games, safety Logan Ryan last week moved into the starting lineup and played all 77 snaps on defense, supplanting Julian Love. The injury to Peppers forced Love back onto the field.
“The thought was to get Logan’s experience and versatility on the field,’’ defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson said. “He’s got great leadership, he’s got great energy, he’s played in a lot of football games and been productive in a lot of games. Just trying to get him on the grass. It was nothing against Julian, it was more getting the experience and the leadership on the grass.’’
One imperative moving forward: The Giants cannot stay on the field for 77 snaps on defense as they did versus the 49ers.
“I don’t want to speak for our guys, I just know the reality,’’ outside linebackers coach Bret Bielema said. “I got in there after the game and looked at the play sheet and realized we played that many snaps, as a coach you are into the game and you don’t really know. I do remember looking at the score and going in at halftime and felt like we’d been out there for four hours. It was just a different type of game as it unfolded.’’
Saquon Barkley, on injured reserve and awaiting knee surgery, will not make the trip, and he will be missed.
“Well, his personality first of all,’’ running backs coach Burton Burns said. “He’s a very positive person, he’s a very team-minded person. Saquon was in the locker room before the game [versus the 49ers] to encourage the other guys. Just little things like that, he has a lot of respect for his teammates, they obviously have a lot of respect for him. Just his presence goes a long way.’’
WR Austin Mack was activated off the practice squad. Mack was undrafted out of Ohio State. … TE Eric Tomlinson was re-signed to the practice squad.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--NYC’s famed carriage horses are back on the road — with COVID-19 protocols

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New York City’s carriage horse drivers are back in the saddle, but not before being poked in the nose.
The carriages rolled out for the first time in six months Saturday with new safety protocols.
Drivers were tested for the coronavirus before their shifts, and hand sanitizer was available for passengers. The testing was donated by Mobile Health.
The Central Park rides, a staple for tourists, were offered free yesterday for front-line workers.
Christina Hansen, a spokeswoman for the industry, said it was slowly coming back with only about dozen carriages out yesterday.
“We restarted the business so we can get back in time for Christmas,” she said. “It’s the season of the year that we get a lot of our business from the tri-state area and locals.”
She said the horses seemed to notice the proliferation in outdoor dining, although none tried to make a break for a meal.
“The horses are happy to be back at work,” said Frank Riccobono, an owner of NYC Horse Carriage Rides.
But not everyone was glad to see them. Opponents of the industry protested on 59th Street. Members of TWU Local 100, which represents drivers, were there to counter them.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee says he drank 2 gallons a day before latest rehab stint

Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was drinking gallons of vodka every day last year — so much that his new bride was afraid she ’ d wake up to find him dead .
“ I didn ’ t notice it until towards the end of it , when I was like , ‘ Oh dude , I ’ ve got to stop , ' ” the 58-year-old rocker told Yahoo Entertainment ahead of the release of his new album , “ Andro.
” He said he realized his behavior was “ f–king insane.
” “ Like , I was drinking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just wake up and be just building [ a glass with ] just all vodka and just a little eyedropper of cranberry or lemonade .
I was drinking two gallons — not pints , not quarts , but gallons , the big-handles — a day .
That ’ s f–king crazy , ” he said in the video interview from his basement studio .
Lee said he had been sober for four years before he began the bender .
“ I just realized , ‘ Whoa dude , you ’ re drinking enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . '
” His wife , social media star Brittany Furlan , 34 , also feared for his health .
She urged him to seek professional help .
“ She was like , ‘ Baby , I don ’ t think I ’ ve ever even seen anybody drink that much .
Like , you ’ re kind of scaring me , ” Lee said of the woman he married on Valentine ’ s Day 2019 .
“ She was definitely concerned , and her concern obviously helped in my decision to just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said , referring to checking himself into rehab “ I bailed for over a month and just was like , ‘ That ’ s it , I ’ m done for a while . '
” Lee said he had no lasting health effects from the drinking or the myriad other substances he ’ s abused over the years .
He ’ s spent much of the last year working on his new album , which features a host of boldfaced names , from Post Malone to rising rappers Killvein , Push Push @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lukas Rossi .
The record features industrial , rap-metal , glam-pop and traditional rock sounds .
Motley Crue had to postpone its reunion tour because of the coronavirus but plans to be back on the road in 2021 .

Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was drinking gallons of vodka every day last year — so much that his new bride was afraid she’d wake up to find him dead.
“I didn’t notice it until towards the end of it, when I was like, ‘Oh dude, I’ve got to stop,'” the 58-year-old rocker told Yahoo Entertainment ahead of the release of his new album, “Andro.”
He said he realized his behavior was “f–king insane.”
“Like, I was drinking just out of boredom. I would just wake up and be just building [a glass with] just all vodka and just a little eyedropper of cranberry or lemonade. I was drinking two gallons — not pints, not quarts, but gallons, the big-handles — a day. That’s f–king crazy,” he said in the video interview from his basement studio.
Lee said he had been sober for four years before he began the bender.
“I just realized, ‘Whoa dude, you’re drinking enough to like, you could probably die.'”
His wife, social media star Brittany Furlan, 34, also feared for his health. She urged him to seek professional help.
“She was like, ‘Baby, I don’t think I’ve ever even seen anybody drink that much. Like, you’re kind of scaring me,'” Lee said of the woman he married on Valentine’s Day 2019. “She was definitely concerned, and her concern obviously helped in my decision to just go get outta here,” he said, referring to checking himself into rehab “I bailed for over a month and just was like, ‘That’s it, I’m done for a while.'”
Lee said he had no lasting health effects from the drinking or the myriad other substances he’s abused over the years.
He’s spent much of the last year working on his new album, which features a host of boldface names, from Post Malone to rising rappers Killvein, Push Push and his former “Supernova” castmate Lukas Rossi. The record features industrial, rap-metal, glam-pop and traditional rock sounds.
Motley Crue had to postpone its reunion tour because of the coronavirus but plans to be back on the road in 2021.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Man dressed as a machete-wielding gorilla arrested for terrorizing

Police were called in the early hours of Friday morning after gunshots were heard at an apartment complex and there @ @ @ @ @ dressed as a gorilla wielding a machete — who was also threatening to blow up @ @ @ @ @ Officers were sent to the 2700 block of 8 St N in Fargo for gunshots @ @ @ @ @ told there was a man dressed like a gorilla carrying a machete , ” according @ @ @ @ @ Fargo Police Department ’ s Facebook page .
“ Officers arrived in the area and @ @ @ @ @ learned the gunshots were large fireworks .
They also learned the suspect had threatened people @ @ @ @ @ he was going to blow up the building.
” Residents were evacuated and , after @ @ @ @ @ , 26 , finally surrendered .
“ Pickus was taken to a local hospital for @ @ @ @ @ and eventually was arrested and taken to the Cass County Jail on the charge of @ @ @ @ @ PD noted .

Police were called in the early hours of Friday morning after gunshots were heard at an apartment complex and there were reports of a man dressed as a gorilla wielding a machete — who was also threatening to blow up the building.
“Fargo Officers were sent to the 2700 block of 8 St N in Fargo for gunshots heard. Officers were also told there was a man dressed like a gorilla carrying a machete,” according to a statement on the Fargo Police Department’s Facebook page. “Officers arrived in the area and spoke with witnesses. They learned the gunshots were large fireworks. They also learned the suspect had threatened people inside the building and said he was going to blow up the building.”
Residents were evacuated and, after several hours, Jorden Pickus, 26, finally surrendered.
“Pickus was taken to a local hospital for a mental health evaluation, and eventually was arrested and taken to the Cass County Jail on the charge of Terrorizing,” the Fargo PD noted.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Raiders fined again for more COVID-19 trouble

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The Las Vegas Raiders have been fined $50,000 for allowing an unauthorized team employee into the locker room following a game this season.
A person familiar with the punishment told The Associated Press on Saturday that the fine was issued for violating COVID-19 protocols following a win over New Orleans on Sept. 21. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the league didn’t announce the punishment.
NFL Network first reported the fine.
This is the second time this season the Raiders have been sanctioned by the league for violating COVID-19 protocols. Coach Jon Gruden was fined $100,000 and the team docked $250,000 when Gruden didn’t properly wear his mask on the sideline during the game against the Saints.
The league has established strict protocols to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Teams are allowed only 40 designated employees, besides players, in the locker rooms.
There is even more emphasis on the rules after two games scheduled for Sunday have been postponed because of positive coronavirus tests by several players on Tennessee, New England and Kansas City.
The NFL is also looking into the conduct of several Raiders players from a charity event held by tight end Darren Waller on Sept. 28. Several players, including quarterback Derek Carr, attended in violation of Nevada coronavirus protocols. They were seen on video without masks mingling and talking to guests.
Gruden, who said last month he was sick with the coronavirus in the offseason, has praised his team for handling the rules despite the violations.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Red Bulls fall to Orlando City as win streak gets snapped

ORLANDO , Fla. — Daryl Dike and Junior Urso scored and Orlando City beat the New York Red Bulls 3-1 @ @ @ @ @ ( 8-2-5 ) stretched its league-best unbeaten streak to nine while the Red Bulls ( @ @ @ @ @ win streak snapped .
Dike scored on a header on a cross from Kyle Smith @ @ @ @ @ his fourth goal of the season .
Urso shot from the center of the 6-yard @ @ @ @ @ crossbar in the 50th .
Four minutes later , Orlando City defender Kamal Miller tried @ @ @ @ @ it ended up with Florian Valot in the middle of the field .
Valot then @ @ @ @ @ Royer , but it hit Royer ’ s thigh and Valot scored off the deflection @ @ @ @ @ just outside the 6 .
Antonio Carlos added a goal in the fifth minute of @ @ @ @ @ City .

ORLANDO, Fla. — Daryl Dike and Junior Urso scored and Orlando City beat the New York Red Bulls 3-1 on Saturday.
Orlando City (8-2-5) stretched its league-best unbeaten streak to nine while the Red Bulls (6-7-2) had their two-match win streak snapped.
Dike scored on a header on a cross from Kyle Smith in the 24th minute for his fourth goal of the season. Urso shot from the center of the 6-yard box and just underneath the crossbar in the 50th.
Four minutes later, Orlando City defender Kamal Miller tried to clear the ball and it ended up with Florian Valot in the middle of the field. Valot then fired a cross to Daniel Royer, but it hit Royer’s thigh and Valot scored off the deflection for the Red Bulls from just outside the 6.
Antonio Carlos added a goal in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time for Orlando City.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--When Will ‘Saturday Night Live’ Season 46 Be on Hulu?

Saturday Night Live returns to the hallowed halls of Studio 8H at 30 Rock as the iconic late night staple prepares for its season premiere .
Current Fargo star and former SNL cast member Chris Rock will host the first episode of the season along with musical guest Megan Thee Stallion .
The Season 46 premiere will mark the first episode for a few new cast members — Lauren Holt , Punkie Johnson , and Andrew Dismukes — and will feature Jim Carrey portraying Joe Biden .
How can you watch Saturday Night Live online ?
When will Saturday Night @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Here ’ s everything you need to know .
WHAT TIME IS SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ON TONIGHT ?
The new season begins tonight ( October 3 ) at 11:30 p.m .
ET on NBC .
WILL SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SEASON 46 BE ON HULU ?
Yes !
Just like last year , SNL will be available for next-day streaming on both Hulu and NBC.com .
The season premiere is scheduled to arrive Sunday , October 4 on Hulu .
WHAT TIME WILL SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE BE ON HULU ?
New episodes are generally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ air on television , but there ’ s often a delay when it comes to uploading programs that air live .
Last year , there were significant delays in regards to the season premiere of SNL being added to Hulu .
Saturday Night Live will eventually be available to stream Sunday on Hulu ; there ’ s just no way to confidently predict an exact time .
WILL SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SEASON 46 BE ON PEACOCK ?
Yes !
New episodes from the current season will be available for next-day streaming on Peacock @ @ @ @ @ @ @ available to stream a week after broadcast on the free tier .
If you have a valid cable login , you watch Saturday Night Live on the NBC website or NBC app .
You can also find an NBC live stream with a valid subscription to YouTube TV , Hulu + Live TV , fuboTV , Sling TV , or AT & T TV NOW .
All of the aforementioned platforms offer NBC .

Saturday Night Live returns to the hallowed halls of Studio 8H at 30 Rock as the iconic late night staple prepares for its season premiere. Current Fargo star and former SNL cast member Chris Rock will host the first episode of the season along with musical guest Megan Thee Stallion.
The Season 46 premiere will mark the first episode for a few new cast members — Lauren Holt, Punkie Johnson, and Andrew Dismukes — and will feature Jim Carrey portraying Joe Biden. How can you watch Saturday Night Live online? When will Saturday Night Live Season 46 be on Hulu?
Here’s everything you need to know.
WHAT TIME IS SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ON TONIGHT?
The new season begins tonight (October 3) at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
WILL SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SEASON 46 BE ON HULU?
Yes! Just like last year, SNL will be available for next-day streaming on both Hulu and NBC.com. The season premiere is scheduled to arrive Sunday, October 4 on Hulu.
WHAT TIME WILL SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE BE ON HULU?
New episodes are generally added to Hulu the morning after they air on television, but sometimes there’s a delay when it comes to uploading programs that air live. Last year, there were significant delays in regards to the season premiere of SNL being added to Hulu.
New Saturday Night Live Season 46 episodes should be available to stream Sunday mornings on Hulu.
WILL SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SEASON 46 BE ON PEACOCK?
Yes! New episodes from the current season will be available for next-day streaming on Peacock’s Premium tier and will be available to stream a week after broadcast on the free tier.
HOW TO WATCH SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SEASON 46 LIVE ONLINE:
If you have a valid cable login, you watch Saturday Night Live on the NBC website or NBC app. You can also find an NBC live stream with a valid subscription to YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, fuboTV, Sling TV, or AT&T TV NOW. All of the aforementioned platforms offer NBC.
Where to stream Saturday Night Live


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--President Trump says he’s feeling ‘good’ and vows to ‘be back soon’

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President Trump promised Saturday he ’ d “ be back soon ” and said he ’ s “ doing well ” as he battles the coronavirus .
In a four-minute video message posted to Twitter , the president lavished praised on the “ incredible ” medical professionals at Walter Reed Medical Center , where he is being treated , and thanked his well-wishers .
Calling the facility “ the finest in the world , ” Trump said he ’ s “ starting to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t know , over the next period of a few days , I guess that ’ s the real test so we ’ ll be seeing what happens.
” “ I came here , I wasn ’ t feeling so well .
I feel much better now .
We ’ re working hard to get me all the way back , ” he said as he sat behind a desk , wearing a navy blazer and white shirt .
“ I have to be back because we still have to make America great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ awfully good job of that , but we still have steps to go and we have to finish that job .
“ I ’ ll be back , and I think I ’ ll be back soon , ” he added .
Trump said that he ’ d been counseled , during the pandemic , to stay safe in the White House , but didn ’ t want to stay “ locked up.
” “ I had no choice .
I just didn ’ t want to stay in the White House .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ he said .
“ ‘ Stay in the White House , lock yourself in , don ’ t ever leave , don ’ t even go to the Oval Office , just stay upstairs and enjoy it .
Don ’ t see people , don ’ t talk to people.
’ “ I had to be out front .
This is America , this is the United States , this is the greatest country in the world , this is the most powerful country in the world .
“ I can ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , totally safe , and just say , ‘ Hey whatever happens , happens . '
” “ As a leader , you have to confront problems.
” He pledged to finish the presidential campaign and said he ’ s fighting for the millions worldwide impacted by the pandemic .
“ We ’ re gon na beat this coronavirus — or whatever you want to call it — and we ’ re going to beat it soundly , ” he said .
He called therapeutics used to treat COVID-19 “ miracles coming down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lady was also doing well , and called the “ almost bipartisan consensus ” of well wishes he ’ s received a “ beautiful thing to see.
” “ I very much appreciate it and I won ’ t forget it , ” he said .

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President Trump promised Saturday he’d “be back soon” and said he’s “doing well” as he battles the coronavirus.
In a four-minute video message posted to Twitter, the president lavished praised on the “incredible” medical professionals at Walter Reed Medical Center, where he is being treated, and thanked his well-wishers.
Calling the facility “the finest in the world,” Trump said he’s “starting to feel good.”
“You don’t know, over the next period of a few days, I guess that’s the real test so we’ll be seeing what happens.”
“I came here, I wasn’t feeling so well. I feel much better now. We’re working hard to get me all the way back,” he said as he sat behind a desk, wearing a navy blazer and white shirt.
“I have to be back because we still have to make America great again. We’ve done an awfully good job of that, but we still have steps to go and we have to finish that job.
“I’ll be back, and I think I’ll be back soon,” he added.
Trump said that he’d been counseled, during the pandemic, to stay safe in the White House, but didn’t want to stay “locked up.”
“I had no choice. I just didn’t want to stay in the White House. I was given that alternative,” he said.
“‘Stay in the White House, lock yourself in, don’t ever leave, don’t even go to the Oval Office, just stay upstairs and enjoy it. Don’t see people, don’t talk to people.’
“I can’t do that,” Trump said.
“I had to be out front. This is America, this is the United States, this is the greatest country in the world, this is the most powerful country in the world.
“I can’t be locked up in a room upstairs, totally safe, and just say, ‘Hey whatever happens, happens.'”
“As a leader, you have to confront problems.”
He pledged to finish the presidential campaign and said he’s fighting for the millions worldwide impacted by the pandemic.
“We’re gonna beat this coronavirus — or whatever you want to call it — and we’re going to beat it soundly,” he said.
He called therapeutics used to treat COVID-19 “miracles coming down from God.”
Trump said the first lady was also doing well, and called the “almost bipartisan consensus” of well wishes he’s received a “beautiful thing to see.”
“I very much appreciate it and I won’t forget it,” he said.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--NYC doormen on lookout for suspect who sucker-punched Rick Moranis

Doormen up and down Central Park West are on the lookout for the man who sucker-punched actor Rick Moranis this week near his Upper West Side home .
In between calling cabs and holding doors for their well-heeled residents , the determined watchmen are studying images the NYPD released of the suspect — just in case they encounter the creep , they told The Post on Saturday .
“ If I had seen him , I would have knocked him out , ” one doorman vowed .
“ I ’ m always for the good guys , ” agreed a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my phone , ” said a third , showing an image of the suspect from a New York Post story .
“ I ’ m paying attention .
I ’ m looking.
” Several doormen an NYPD wanted poster at their lobby desk , even though the utility poles near West 70th Street are plastered with police photos of the suspect , who wore an “ I ❤ NY ” sweatshirt during the random Thursday morning attack .
“ Look — ” one said , spreading his arms wide .
“ They are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same for any crime victim , they insisted .
Still , they ’ re fans of the “ Ghostbusters ” actor , who suffered pain in his head , back and right hip from the clobbering .
When one resident noted of Moranis , “ Oh , he was in ‘ Honey I Shrunk the Kids , ' ” her doorman was quick to answer , “ and Ghostbusters.
” The NYPD has offered a $ 2,500 reward for information leading to the suspect ’ s arrest .
Tips can be called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

Doormen up and down Central Park West are on the lookout for the man who sucker-punched actor Rick Moranis this week near his Upper West Side home.
In between calling cabs and holding doors for their well-heeled residents, the determined watchmen are studying images the NYPD released of the suspect — just in case they encounter the creep, they told The Post on Saturday.
“If I had seen him, I would have knocked him out,” one doorman vowed.
“I’m always for the good guys,” agreed a comrade.
“I have it on my phone,” said a third, showing an image of the suspect from a New York Post story. “I’m paying attention. I’m looking.”
Several doormen an NYPD wanted poster at their lobby desk, even though the utility poles near West 70th Street are plastered with police photos of the suspect, who wore an “I ❤ NY” sweatshirt during the random Thursday morning attack.
“Look —” one said, spreading his arms wide. “They are all over.”
The doormen would do the same for any crime victim, they insisted.
Still, they’re fans of the “Ghostbusters” actor, who suffered pain in his head, back and right hip from the clobbering.
When one resident noted of Moranis, “Oh, he was in ‘Honey I Shrunk the Kids,'” her doorman was quick to answer, “and Ghostbusters.”
The NYPD has offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the suspect’s arrest.
Tips can be called in anonymously to 1-800-577-8477 (TIPS).


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Russell Wilson finally has shot to get well-deserved MVP love

This was the fear long before the NFL season began , ...

It is a travesty of a mockery of a sham that Russell Wilson has never received a single MVP vote.
This is the year.
This is the year he might very well win it.
“I’m sure in his mind, he would never maybe say it, but in his mind, he wants to be regarded as the best guy in the league, and I don’t blame him,” Seahawks tight end Greg Olsen told Serby Says.
Patrick Mahomes will, of course, be in any MVP conversation, and Aaron Rodgers has served early notice that he will have a say in the race as well.
But Wilson, with 14 touchdown passes in three games, is on the fast track to breaking Peyton Manning’s single-season record (55).
What makes Wilson (one interception, 76.7 completion percentage, 139.0 passer rating) a legitimate threat is Pete Carroll giving longtime ground-and-pound offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer the license to unleash DangeRuss’ nuclear strike capacity. Wilson threw 11 deep ball TDs (20-plus air yards) in 2019; he already has six this season.
The emergence of deep-threat, second-year receiver DK Metcalf (12-297-3) opposite Tyler Lockett (24-259-4) and the addition of the wily Olsen should embolden the Seahawks to keep the ball in Wilson’s hands as often as possible … but especially when it is winning time in the fourth quarter.
“The thing about him is, it’s no different than the first quarter,” Olsen said. “He doesn’t change based on the circumstances, and I think that’s something that Pete really stresses here, and something that a lot of the guys embody, but obviously Russ. There’s no turning it on, turning it off based on the situation. It’s always the most important play, it’s always the most important drive. That way when you find yourself in those situations, nothing changes. Nothing feels different that what we’ve been doing the whole game.”
Wilson was a third-round pick in 2012 only because there were concerns his height of 5-foot-11, if that, wouldn’t cut it in the NFL. Carroll coveted him anyway, and Wilson promptly beat out $26 million free agent Matt Flynn.
“I think if I could really just try to sum him up as quickly as I could, he’s always on,” Olsen said. “Whether it’s Sunday or whether it’s Tuesday, he’s always locked in, he’s always on, every single rep regardless of the tempo of the period. It’s full speed in his mind, full speed in his prep, his communication … that approach just allows you to build such great habits.”
Olsen broke down various categories that make Russell Wilson who and what Russell Wilson is:
Poise
“Whether it was a touchdown, a drop, a bad throw, a missed block, a pressure, whatever it was, by the time that next play gets called in the huddle, you can’t tell what happened the play before. And I think that’s a great quality for all players, especially for a quarterback, to be able to just continue to be present, continue to move forward regardless of the circumstances.”
Toughness
“When guys are running deep routes, you’re waiting for them to develop. As good as our O-line does giving him time, every once in a while, there might be a guy who kind of squeezes through late, and he knows as soon as this ball comes out of my hand, a 300-pound D-lineman’s gonna hit [him] in the chest. But he’s gonna let it rip on time, and he’ll take the touchdown with the hit.”
Leadership
“I think the biggest thing is just his communication skills, his ability to relay information, just get the important points across to whatever person he feels needs to hear it. His communication throughout the entire week, game day, it never changes. It’s really good.”
Accuracy
“His deep ball accuracy is kind of crazy. Turn on any game we’ve played so far and get a pretty good feel for what that looks like. The way he kind of puts that arc on the ball and the ball almost seems it’s dropping straight down. He’s very confident in it, but that’s how he throws his deep ball in walk-through, that’s how he throws his drop ball in pre-practice warm-ups … it’s not by accident.”
Mobility/Escapability
“Today’s NFL, quarterbacks have to be able to avoid pressure, extend plays with their feet, and a lot is extending plays with your eyes, feeling pressure, moving in the pocket, knowing when it’s time to abandon the pocket or stay in there. Those scramble drills, he has a great feel for where guys are gonna be and how guys are gonna react. He can scramble as a runner, but most times he’s gonna scramble as a passer. It’s very hard to play against a quarterback that can extend a play four, seconds, it puts a lot pressure on the back end to hold up.”
Arm strength
“There’s not a spot on the field that he can’t get the ball to sideline to sideline, all the way down as long as the field is on that snap, you have to defend it.”
It is easy to believe in a quarterback like this.
“It is. He’s unique, there’s no question about that,” Olsen said. “I saw it for years from afar, now I’ve had the ability to see it up close and personal.”
Wilson has one Super Bowl ring and was one yard from another when he threw that ill-fated end zone pass that was intercepted by Malcolm Butler, when a handoff to Marshawn Lynch was the only sane play call.
“I think he’s just really internally motivated,” Olsen said. “I think outside factors don’t really come into play too much with him. His desire to be great, his desire to win, is all internal. The truly special players, that’s how it works. They take a lot of pride in their performance, in their consistency. They take a lot of pride in what guys expect out of them.”
Wilson was asked over the summer by CBSSports.com about never receiving an MVP vote.
“For me, the number one and important thing is the winning part,” Wilson said. “The MVPs and stuff like and hopefully the votes — maybe I’ll get one, one day — but the reality is that I wake up to win it all and I wake up to be the best, too. I’m not going to shy away from that. If I do win MVP, it’s because we’re going great as a team and guys are making plays and we’re all doing it together.
“Hopefully, we can do that this year.”
Serby says don’t bet against him.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--NYC to pay school bus companies $106M for COVID-19 idling

Department of Education funding for substitute teachers and other emergency ...

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The city will pay school bus companies $106 million for two of the months in which they stood idle during the COVID-19 shutdown, officials told The Post.
And in a massive new deal, the cash-strapped city will be on the hook to pay bus companies at least 43% of their contracts through 2025 if schools close for more than five days in a row.
The taxpayer cost for buses when they are not transporting kids could add up to more than $500 million of the $1.2 billion a year in contracts during a lengthy school closure due to the pandemic or other major emergency.
The money is supposed to go for fixed costs such as utilities and driver benefits, such as pension contributions, officials said.
“We are required by law to provide bus service to our 60,000 students with disabilities, and tens of thousands of additional New York City children, including those in shelters, rely on us for transportation to and from schools,” said Danielle Filson, a city Department of Education spokeswoman.
“These contracts, the vast majority of which were put into effect during the previous administration, must be maintained to ensure we can restore services without interruption.”
Mayor de Blasio shut the schools in March amid the COVID-19 outbreak. After The Post reported that the city planned to spend $700 million on idle buses through the end of the school year, the city abruptly stopped payments in May.
Officials said Saturday the city would have owed the companies 85% of the cost during the shutdown, or $273 million for May and June, under the contracts. Instead, it is paying 40%, or $106 million, claiming a savings of $167 million.
But the city did not try to use a clause in the contracts that could have freed the city from its obligations during an epidemic, quarantine or other such emergencies.
Leonie Haimson, an education advocate and DOE budget watchdog, questioned the new deals, approved last week by the Panel for Educational Policy, whose members are mostly appointed by the mayor.
“Without more transparency about the rationale for these controversial contracts, it is impossible to know why the DOE is willing to sacrifice up to half a billion dollars per year in taxpayer money to busing companies through 2025, whether their buses are running or not,” Haimson said.
“This seems highly irresponsible, especially given the fiscal crisis NYC is facing, which could lead to years of damaging budget cuts to our schools.“
DOE and City Hall officials did not respond to the criticism.
Michael Cordiello, president of ATU Local 1181, which represents bus drivers, attendants and mechanics, said all 14,000 furloughed in May have been offered their jobs back. They collected unemployment payments during the shutdown, he said.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--NYC bride recounts being ditched at altar by groom who claimed Uber was late

And you thought you had a bad break up story !
A Brooklyn woman was devastated when her boyfriend of 10 years not only lied to her about paying for the wedding venue , but on the day of the wedding didn ’ t bother to show up after leaving her hanging for hours , claiming his Uber was late .
Nurse , Sasha Aristide , 29 , was excited to marry her man , office manager Kevin Hyppolite , 30 , in October 2018 .
The two got engaged in December of 2017 and started planning the $ 20,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fine … until the wedding day .
Aristide said the first sign something wasn ’ t right was a phone call from her florist on the big day .
She told her story on the podcast , RealFix — about “ real people telling their stories ” — which was picked up by the Sun .
“ My florist called me and told me that the venue had not allowed her in to set up the flowers , ” Aristide told RealFix .
“ I called Kevin and he told me he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t worry because the ceremony wasn ’ t until 5 p.m. , with a drinks reception before .
“ But then at 1:30 p.m. , one of my bridesmaids told me that her brother had called the venue asking for the address and he had been told that there was no wedding scheduled for today .
“ Alarm bells went off in my head.
” Aristide continued getting ready with her six bridesmaids and maid of honor in her Long Island hotel room before finding out the actual wedding venue had not received @ @ @ @ @ @ @ calling Hyppolite who kept insisting his Uber was late .
“ To the last minute , he said he was coming , he told me he was on his way , ” Aristide said .
“ He kept lying the whole time.
” Aristide waited three hours before realizing Hyppolite wasn ’ t coming and breaking up with him — adding she was gaslit the entire time .
“ I had no clue whatsoever that he was not planning to show up or having cold feet , ” Aristide told the podcast .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ before , he literally said ‘ I love you I can ’ t wait to marry you.
’ … We were talking the whole day .
I realized at 2:30 p.m. and at that point , I didn ’ t have any emotions .
I was so numb and in shock .
I felt like I was in a trance.
” To make matters worse , Hyppolite waited several weeks before reaching out to Aristide — by that time , Aristide was done .
“ I had no intention of getting back with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anyone who would do that to you definitely does not love you or care about you .
I cut off all connections with him.
” RealFix approached Hyppolite for comment and the runaway groom blamed “ something personal ” as his reason for not showing up , adding : “ It wasn ’ t intentional , it wasn ’ t planned , it just happened that way ” .
He then denied he ’ d tried to get Aristide back but tried to leave the door open , saying the relationship could be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not willing .

And you thought you had a bad breakup story!
A Brooklyn woman was devastated when her boyfriend of 10 years not only lied to her about paying for the wedding venue, but on the day of the wedding, didn’t bother to show up after leaving her hanging for hours, claiming his Uber was late.
Nurse Sasha Aristide, 29, was excited to marry her man, office manager Kevin Hyppolite, 30, in October 2018.
The two got engaged in December 2017 and started planning the $20,000 wedding — and Aristide thought everything was fine … until the wedding day.
Aristide said the first sign something wasn’t right was a phone call from her florist on the big day. She told her story on the podcast “RealFix” — about “real people telling their stories” — which was picked up by the Sun.
“My florist called me and told me that the venue had not allowed her in to set up the flowers,” Aristide told RealFix.
“I called Kevin and he told me he was running late. … I didn’t worry because the ceremony wasn’t until 5 p.m., with a drinks reception before.
“But then at 1:30 p.m., one of my bridesmaids told me that her brother had called the venue asking for the address and he had been told that there was no wedding scheduled for today.
“Alarm bells went off in my head.”
Aristide continued getting ready with her six bridesmaids and maid of honor in her Long Island hotel room before finding out the actual wedding venue had not received full payment.
A frantic Aristide kept calling Hyppolite, who kept insisting his Uber was late.
“To the last minute, he said he was coming, he told me he was on his way,” Aristide said.
“He kept lying the whole time.”
Aristide waited three hours before realizing Hyppolite wasn’t coming and breaking up with him — adding she was gaslit the entire time.
“I had no clue whatsoever that he was not planning to show up or having cold feet,” Aristide told the podcast. “I spoke to him the night before, he literally said ‘I love you, I can’t wait to marry you.’ … We were talking the whole day. I realized at 2:30 p.m. and at that point, I didn’t have any emotions. I was so numb and in shock. I felt like I was in a trance.”
To make matters worse, Hyppolite waited several weeks before reaching out to Aristide — by which time, Aristide was done.
“I had no intention of getting back with him,” Aristide said. “Anyone who would do that to you definitely does not love you or care about you. I cut off all connections with him.”
“RealFix” approached Hyppolite for comment and the runaway groom blamed “something personal” as his reason for not showing up, adding: “It wasn’t intentional, it wasn’t planned, it just happened that way.” He then denied he’d tried to get Aristide back but tried to leave the door open, saying the relationship could be repaired if Aristide was willing.
Aristide is not willing.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Portuguese man killed by murder hornets

Portuguese man killed by murder hornets

Just when you thought they were gone… they came buzzing ...

A man picking persimmons with a friend on a farm near Porto, Portugal, stumbled across a nest of the murderous hornets, and it cost him his life.
The man, identified only by his first name Celso, died of cardiac arrest caused by anaphylactic shock despite repeated attempts to save him by paramedics.
His friend, Abilio Rodrigues, 60, was also hurt in the incident and told the Portuguese daily Jornal de Noticias: “I’ve never seen anything like it… I went to cut the fruit from the tree and they attacked me.”
“They stung in the arm and on the head while I was on a ladder about 20 feet from the ground but I endured the pain so as not to fall,” Rodrigues’ said, translated by the Mirror. “Celso was also hurt and we went to try to get help. I put vinegar on my wounds to see if it eased the pain but by then Celso was having difficulty speaking.”
By the time paramedics arrived, Celso, 70, was in cardiac arrest. The nest was destroyed.
He isn’t the first victim of murder hornets in Europe this year. In September, Spaniard Antonio Rodriguez Loureiro was also attacked and died by the insects in northwest Spain.
The invasive insect, which can grow up to 2 inches long, are a threat to honey bees — which they can decapitate in seconds during mass attacks on hives.
They have spread globally, with Washington state first capturing a live species in January.
While a sting to humans isn’t usually fatal, the host of an extreme nature show described being stung as “Searing pain! Absolute searing pain!” Japan attributes 50 human deaths a year to the nasty buzzers.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Rays will put Aaron Boone’s Yankees honeymoon to the test: Sherman

The Yankees were free-falling in a way they didn ’ t again ...

Joe Torre won a World Series in his first season managing the Yankees, Joe Girardi in his second and here is Aaron Boone in his third. What would he give to be an ordinary Joe?
The history of the job, after all, is defined by Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, not by Bucky Dent and Stump Merrill. Boone is the 33rd manager in franchise history. Here is the list of those allowed to manage a fourth season without winning a title in their first three:
1. Clark Griffith. And the team was still the Highlanders early last century. Griffith also had this benefit and protection — he was hired as player-manager as a personal favor to the head of the American League, Ban Johnson.
2. Miller Huggins. He won the pennant in Years 4 and 5, the World Series in Year 6 and was eventually elected to the Hall of Fame.
3. Buck Showalter. Who took the baton pass of a horrible team from Dent and Merrill and didn’t even have the benefit of a World Series to win in his third year. The Yankees held the best record in the AL in August 1994 when a players’ strike led to the cancellation of the rest of the season.
As bizarre as this season is, Boone at least in Year 3 is getting the back end that Showalter did not in ’94.
Now, many managers came and went in the George Steinbrenner era before the business cards with their job title were even printed, much less made it to Year 3 or 4.
These are kinder, gentler, saner Yankees under Hal Steinbrenner. Actually, even dating back to The Boss, the Yankees have as much stability in managers as any organization. There have been 169 managers since 1992 and the Yankees have only employed four of them — Showalter, Torre, Girardi and Boone. By contrast, the Mets have had nine — not even counting Carlos Beltran.
Recently on Jon Heyman’s “Big Time Baseball” podcast, Brian Cashman acknowledged the club option the Yankees hold for 2021 after Boone’s three guaranteed years expire, but said he hoped his current manager would have the longevity in the role of Torre (12 years) and Girardi (10).
All signs are that Boone’s bosses appreciate and admire him. He is doing the job as they envisioned, namely incorporating a vast information cache into in-game strategy, unifying the clubhouse and presenting the most vanilla, positive public spin on the Yankees. Boone can bench Gary Sanchez in Game 1 of the wild-card round and hit him ninth in Game 2 and make it sound like he is handing his catcher the MVP award rather than a dis.
So no matter what occurs within the AL Division Series against the Rays, Boone will be back. Of course, we probably all felt that way about Doc Rivers no matter what happened in the Clippers’ recent playoff series against the Nuggets, and today Rivers is the coach of the 76ers.
Even with strong job security, Boone is at a defining moment. The Yankees were eliminated in 2017 under Girardi and in 2018-19 under Boone by the AL’s top-seed — Houston, Boston, Houston. They were the underdogs in those series. Boone has tried, perhaps tongue in cheek, to make the Yankees the underdog to the AL-best Rays for this Division Series. But regardless of records or odds, the Yankees are never going to be truly viewed as the underdog against the Rays because of payroll, star power and history.
The Yankees were supposed to win the AL East in 2020 and didn’t, and will not be easily pardoned if they lose a best-of-five in which the Rays do not even have the advantage of playing in their dreary, catwalk-laden Tropicana Field. The site is neutral (Petco Park in San Diego), but the reviews of Boone will not be if this goes wrong. For this is going to be a manager’s series because:
1. There are no off-days. So the need to use especially an entire pitching staff to its best advantage will be vital. The Rays are built for this style with so many mix-and-match pieces.
In this round there will, for example, be no ability to run away from Adam Ottavino and make it sound like you still trust him. Boone is going to have to use the righty fully knowing that, the way Tampa Bay is constructed, a run of lefty pinch-hitters will probably be at the ready to thwart the strategy.
This is going to be a move and countermove series, and Rays manager Kevin Cash has shown himself adept at that dance.
2. There is real animus. The Rays went 8-2 against the Yankees this year and one reason is that they aggravate the overdog. Every threat of beanballs and retaliation is an advantage to Tampa Bay, which loves playing guerilla baseball, antagonizing an opponent by exposing weaknesses and relentlessly picking at them.
The more the Yankees allow the Rays to find strength in David versus Goliath — you know, underdog versus overdog — the better for Tampa Bay. Boone needs to keep his Yankees sharp and passionate, but not distracted by all that will be said and heard in a neutral, empty stadium. The Yankees shouldn’t back down to the Rays, but the best way to back up any fury is by outplaying Tampa Bay on the field.
Boone needs to steer his players toward that mindset and the ALCS. If not, he is going to learn that the “savages” are not only in the batter’s box.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Snakes reported inside upstate Columbia observatory as workers home amid COVID-19

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While the employees of The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are away , the snakes will play .
With workers at home due to the coronavirus pandemic , word is snakes have slithered their way inside the Palisades , NY , institute .
The creepy crawlers caused quite a kerfuffle in the Twittersphere .
“ My husband is getting notifications from his place of employment that , in the 6 months since anyone has gone into the office , RATTLESNAKES have taken up residence .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” tweeted Brooklyn-based writer Seyward Darby .
The Sept. 25 missive garnered 150,000 likes and 13,000 retweets .
Darby ’ s husband , Corey Sobel , is a technical writer for Columbia University , according to his LinkedIn page .
Sobel texted The Post that he has been working remotely “ this whole time , and will be for the foreseeable future — so I didn ’ t see the snakes myself ( just photos that were shared internally ) .
” The observatory is a research unit of The Earth Institute at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earth sciences.
” It ’ s located on a 157-acre campus in Palisades , 18 miles north of Manhattan on the Hudson River .
Those with ophidiophobia — fear of snakes — should not venture anywhere near the compound , whose website warns , “ While the Lamont Campus is a very safe place as far as crime is concerned , there are a number of ‘ natural ’ hazards of which you should be aware.
” Those hazards include bears , coyotes , snapping turtles and three species of serpents , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ If you are bitten , call 911 and remember to direct the responder to take you to Nyack Hospital as they have the anti-venom , ” the site notes matter-of-factly .
An observatory rep rattled off via email that snakes “ are not infiltrating Lamont , ” but admitted the slitherers and other wildlife “ just seem to sometimes wander in.
” A Post photographer approached an old-timer at the Observatory security gate Wednesday inquiring if he had heard anything about snakes taking over .
“ Oh yeah , we got a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lot of ’ em , ” he said .

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While the employees of The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are away, the snakes will play.
With workers at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, word is snakes have slithered their way inside the Palisades, NY, institute.
The creepy crawlers caused quite a kerfuffle in the Twittersphere.
“My husband is getting notifications from his place of employment that, in the 6 months since anyone has gone into the office, RATTLESNAKES have taken up residence. And they’re happily multiplying,” tweeted Brooklyn-based writer Seyward Darby. The Sept. 25 missive garnered 150,000 likes and 13,000 retweets.
Darby’s husband, Corey Sobel, is a technical writer for Columbia University, according to his LinkedIn page. Sobel texted The Post that he has been working remotely “this whole time, and will be for the foreseeable future — so I didn’t see the snakes myself (just photos that were shared internally).”
The observatory is a research unit of The Earth Institute at Columbia University that “focuses on the earth sciences.” It’s located on a 157-acre campus in Palisades, 18 miles north of Manhattan on the Hudson River.
Those with ophidiophobia — fear of snakes — should not venture anywhere near the compound, whose website warns, “While the Lamont Campus is a very safe place as far as crime is concerned, there are a number of ‘natural’ hazards of which you should be aware.”
Those hazards include bears, coyotes, snapping turtles and three species of serpents, including the poisonous copperhead and timber rattle.
“If you are bitten, call 911 and remember to direct the responder to take you to Nyack Hospital as they have the anti-venom,” the site notes matter-of-factly.
An observatory rep rattled off via email that snakes “are not infiltrating Lamont,” but admitted the slitherers and other wildlife “just seem to sometimes wander in.”
A Post photographer approached an old-timer at the Observatory security gate Wednesday inquiring if he had heard anything about snakes taking over. “Oh yeah, we got a lot of ’em. A whole lot of ’em,” he said.


newyorkpost--2020-10-03--Two men shot in head in separate shootings across NYC

Two men were shot in the head Saturday across the Big Apple, police said.
The first shooting happened in the Bronx, at East 149th Street near Timpson Place in Mott Haven at 5:26 a.m., but the 29-year-old victim escaped serious injury, cops said.
He walked into Lincoln Hospital, where he was treated for a graze wound, and gave cops no information about the shooter, police said.
At around 1 p.m. in Brooklyn, police responded to the corner of East 103rd Street and Glenwood Road in Canarsie and found a 19-year-old man on the ground with a single shot to the head, the NYPD said.
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The unidentified victim was rushed to Brookdale Hospital and is not expected to survive, police said. No other details were immediately available.