• Mets destroy Phillies as Jacob deGrom dominates

    Mets destroy Phillies as Jacob deGrom dominates

    Three weeks from Monday the Mets will either be preparing for a National League playoff series or cleaning out lockers to begin their offseason. Whether they reach October will hinge largely upon starting pitching, with the bullpen also hardly immune from worry. The lineup is by far the least of the Mets’ concerns. A fruitful …
  • Tilda Swinton gets creative with 2020 Venice Film Festival’s mask mandate

    Tilda Swinton gets creative with 2020 Venice Film Festival’s mask mandate

    Call it coronavirus couture. Tilda Swinton is taking the humble face mask to high-fashion heights at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, where nose and mouth coverings are required as part of the event’s pandemic-era precautions — as are temperature checks and social distancing. At the festival’s opening ceremony on Wednesday, the 59-year-old Oscar winner hit …
  • Why Cate Blanchett is re-wearing her old gowns for the 2020 Venice Film Festival

    Why Cate Blanchett is re-wearing her old gowns for the 2020 Venice Film Festival

    Cate Blanchett is breaking fashion’s cardinal rule at the 2020 Venice Film Festival this week. The actor, who is the festival’s jury president, is re-wearing old gowns, and for good reason. On Wednesday, she hit the red carpet for the event’s opening ceremony in Venice, Italy, in an Esteban Cortazar “Stingray” midnight blue shimmer jersey …
  • Washington Football Team surprisingly cuts Adrian Peterson week before season

    Washington Football Team surprisingly cuts Adrian Peterson week before season

    A week before his 14th season is set to begin, Adrian Peterson is looking for a new home. The Washington Football Team is releasing the veteran running back, NFL Network reported Friday morning. Adrian PetersonGetty Images Rookie Antonio Gibson has emerged as a threat in the backfield and is likely on top of the Washington …
  • This was perfect way for Mets to honor Tom Seaver

    This was perfect way for Mets to honor Tom Seaver

    One more time, at the best possible time, on the most appropriate day, the Mets reminded us all where, precisely, the home office for baseball phenomena resides. One more time, on the day the franchise formally bid farewell to The Franchise, we were presented a baseball parable that, in these parts, has always been described …
  • Mets walk off on Pete Alonso’s blast for wild comeback win over Yankees

    Mets walk off on Pete Alonso’s blast for wild comeback win over Yankees

    The Mets did everything they could to lose it, but the Yankees were better at the particular game Thursday. In a wild afternoon and early evening of blah starting pitching, bullpen malfunctions and inappropriate base running, Pete Alonso removed the Yankees from their misery with a walk-off 10th-inning homer against Albert Abreu that gave the …
  • Michael Conforto power display leads Mets to much-needed win

    Michael Conforto power display leads Mets to much-needed win

    BALTIMORE –— Through the thick Maryland humidity there were signs of life Wednesday from a Mets team that desperately needs a hot streak. Among the successes for the Mets in their 9-4 victory over the Orioles at Camden Yards to snap a five-game skid was David Peterson’s seamless adaption to a different role. Moved to …
  • Peter Facinelli shows off 30-pound weight loss in underwear photo

    Peter Facinelli shows off 30-pound weight loss in underwear photo

    Peter Facinelli has definitely not been spending lockdown bingeing on Netflix and gorging on takeout. Instead, he’s lost a staggering 30 pounds. On Tuesday the “Twilight” actor unveiled some serious abs while promoting Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Peter Facinelli in February 2020Getty Images Facinelli, 46, encouraged other men to share photos in their undies or …
  • PETA slams Elon Musk for implanting brain device in pig

    PETA slams Elon Musk for implanting brain device in pig

    PETA regards Elon Musk as swine for implanting a brain device in a pig as part of a mind-bending invention he believes can cure everything from blindness to quadriplegia. In a statement, the animal-rights group President Ingrid Newkirk challenged the tech tycoon to “behave like a pioneer and implant the Neurlink chip in his own …
  • Pete Alonso’s Mets woes are getting worse

    Pete Alonso’s Mets woes are getting worse

    Pete Alonso’s struggles at the plate have perhaps seeped into the field. The slumping Mets first baseman went hitless in four at-bats Monday, but a defensive letdown loomed larger in the team’s 5-3 loss to the Marlins at Citi Field. After Jacob deGrom had surrendered a homer to Garrett Cooper leading off the sixth, pulling …