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Tom Thibodeau’s Knicks coaching staff continues to have an offbeat feel to it as the Knicks will add Utah Jazz assistant Johnnie Bryant as an associate coach, a source confirmed. According to a source, the hiring was made from a player-development angle but it also could be a lure for Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell. The …
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Taking time for thoughtful consideration has fallen out of fashion, writes Emily Chamlee-Wright. How can we restore good faith and good judgement to our increasingly polarized conversations? The clamor of the crowd during a heated discussion can make it hard to tell who is right and who is wrong. Adam Smith wrote that the loudness …
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The Jets wide receivers corps was dealt another blow on Monday. Vyncint Smith, who started four games for the Jets last season, learned he needs to undergo surgery on a core muscle injury and will miss the next five to eight weeks, according to a source. Smith practiced Friday, but was then shut down. The …
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Alex Smith nearly lost his leg after a gruesome injury and complications from the 17 surgeries that followed. Sunday, less than two years later, he cleared another huge hurdle in his NFL comeback. Washington activated Smith off the physically unable to perform list, clearing the quarterback to practice in pads when that portion of camp …
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COVID-19 is hitting home for employees of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s production company, Westbrook Inc., as at least 10 have tested positive for the virus. LA County’s public health website lists nine staff members with laboratory-confirmed coronavirus cases at the company’s Calabasas office, The Jasmine Brand reported. In a moment of transparency, Westbrook Inc. …
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The Senate adjourned on Thursday until September 8, the day after Labor Day, without reaching a deal for the next round of coronavirus relief legislation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated that Democrats would pare down their $3 trillion relief bill to $2 trillion if Republicans were willing to compromise and boost their $1 trillion …
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Since Jacob deGrom’s Cy Young run began in 2018, the Mets have gone 31-37 in games he’s pitched. They know how inconsequential a day’s starter can ultimately be. Revealing hours before Wednesday’s game against the Nationals that Robert Gsellman would make his first start in nearly three years, the Mets watched the right-hander surrender the …
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Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson decided on welcoming their baby girl at home well before the coronavirus pandemic hit for a specific reason. “We had already decided on a home birth because of concerns about negative birth outcomes for black women in America,” the “Queen & Slim” star, 33, said in British Vogue’s September 2020 …
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Will Smith has signed on as executive producer for a dramatic reboot of his ’90s sitcom, “The Fresh Prince of Bel- Air.” Morgan Cooper will co-write and direct the project, after he created a 2019 trailer for the concept that went viral and caught Smith’s eye. The show’s reportedly being shopped to streaming outfits. Read …
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Nick Cannon says that his maternal great-grandfather was a Spanish rabbi. The comedian made the claim while appearing on the American Jewish Committee’s online program “AJC Advocacy Anywhere,” telling the host that he only learned about his family’s Hebraic roots after he was fired from ViacomCBS last month for spouting anti-semitic comments. “My mother has …
Tom Thibodeau’s Knicks coaching staff continues to have an offbeat feel to it as the Knicks will add Utah Jazz assistant Johnnie Bryant as an associate coach, a source confirmed. According to a source, the hiring was made from a player-development angle but it also could be a lure for Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell. The …
