Day: August 13, 2018

Dzanan Musa, known as the Bosnian Scoring Machine, received an unexpected phone call after being drafted by the Nets with the second-to-last pick of the NBA draft’s first round in June. It was from the Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis. “He encouraged me to just go for it,’’ Musa told The Post on Sunday at the NBA’s…

Trae Young has always talked about liking the big stage. That is why he can’t wait for Oct. 17 when the Hawks rookie point guard makes his NBA debut in the Knicks’ season opener at the Garden. Young, the electric point guard out of Oklahoma, said he has never set foot on the court of…

Knicks lottery pick Kevin Knox dominated Las Vegas last month and now thinks Vegas is giving the Knicks short shrift. While Knox sees the Knicks in the playoff hunt, Vegas’ Westgate Sports Book has put the Knicks with an over-under of 29 ½ wins. “I saw that,” Knox told The Post at the NBA’s rookie…

Sightseers hoping to find the Big Apple’s dark underbelly need do no more than sign up for a double-decker bus ride.

They’ll see aggressive confrontations between tour company ticket sellers — replete with flipped birds, colorful cursing and veiled threats of violence, says a lawsuit between two…

An Indiana man who stands accused of raping and killed his estranged girlfriend — and cooking and eating parts of her body — was found competent to stand trial by a state psychiatrist.

The update comes nearly one year after a judge ruled Joseph Oberhansley incompetent to stand trial, and placed…

At the heart of the struggle to address the affordable housing crisis in cities across the country is a resistance to building, even when that building helps address critical public needs. This resistance, buoyed by elected officials who too often heed the calls of some of their most vocal local…

Several years ago, I found myself questioning the validity of news accounts that suggested that white police officers were choosing to exercise lethal force when interacting with black male suspects. After locating reliable sources for police killing data, my colleagues and I began collecting and…

Apologists for President Trump dismiss the trial of campaign chairman Paul Manafort as busywork for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who supposedly has nothing better to do than pester peripheral targets because his core job of unraveling Russian interference in the 2016 election is coming up snake…

For 56 years, theatergoers have enjoyed Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Founder Joe Papp overcame opposition from the all-powerful Robert Moses and happily, ever since, 100,000 annually have delighted to the works of the Bard of Avon, free of charge.

The world’s…

ALBANY — Expressing frustration that urban issues are not being sufficiently addressed in New York, members of the hip hop community are looking to form their own party line for the coming state elections.

The line, which would be called the New American Party, is being pushed by Jineea Butler,…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is designing a new category to honor achievement in popular film.

Of course great movies can become blockbusters (we’re rooting for Spike Lee’s acclaimed “BlacKkKlansman”). And of course perfectly engineered box-office candy can be great (go see the…

ALBANY – Akeem Browder, whose brother committed suicide after spending three years on Rikers Island awaiting trial on charges he stole a backpack when he was 16, is backing actress Cynthia Nixon over Gov. Cuomo in the coming Democratic primary.

In doing so, Browder said Cuomo has failed to deliver…

The following is an expanded version of the second item of my “Albany Insider” column from Monday’s print editions:

ALBANY — Karen Smythe, a Democrat challenging incumbent Republican state Sen. Sue Serino in Dutchess County, is the sister-in-law of Gov. Cuomo’s campaign chairman and former top…

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has directed hundreds of thousands of dollars in Assembly pork money to help a fellow Democrat with his reelection effort, the Daily News has learned.

What makes this a rare move is that this time, the Assembly powerbroker is assisting a member of the state…

Keep your NYCHA promises, Bill

Little Egg Harbor, N.J.: To Voicer Paula Cruz, who asks why the blame for what is going on with the NYCHA is on Mayor de Blasio’s shoulders: For one thing, He promised while he was campaigning that he would take responsibility and assured those living in public housing…

It’s never Sonny in the Bronx.

Struggling Yankees’ right-hander Sonny Gray made his second appearance out of the bullpen Sunday and left after allowing two runs on five hits in an inning plus of work.

After the Rangers scored two runs off him in the seventh, Elvis Andrus and Adrian Beltre opened…

David Wright believes he took a “baby step in the right direction” toward a potential long-awaited return to the majors.

The Mets captain felt “butterflies” as he participated in his first rehab game Sunday afternoon, going 0-for-3 and playing third base for five innings with Class A St. Lucie….

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 13, 2018

An all-too-familiar theme resurfaces today, requiring us to make crucial choices between real-world responsibilities and our captivating dreams. Insistent Mars retrogrades back into industrious Capricorn for a one-month remedial program…

Didi Gregorius made it work like only he could. On a sharp groundball in the hole, the Yankees shortstop made a diving backhand grab. In the dugout his manager was thinking “No, no, no,” watching the Rangers’ speedy center fielder Delino DeShields racing toward first base. But the smooth and calm…

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — An Illinois man is charged with reckless conduct after authorities say his 4-year-old son found a gun in a backpack his father had brought to him at day care.

The Belleville News-Democrat reports that authorities say 32-year-old Joshua Finley of Maryville packed a “nap time…

An armed robber choked a Harlem man into unconsciousness as he tried to steal the man’s cell phone from his hand, shocking surveillance video shows.

The robber, who wore an “R.I.P. Youth” t-shirt, stalked the victim into the stairwell of his building on W. 147th St. building near Amsterdam Ave….

PROVO, Utah — Authorities say a man has been arrested in Orem after allegedly having $100,000 in illegal drugs mailed to him.

The Daily Herald reports 29-year-old Manteo Soto of Price was arrested Friday on suspicion of distributing, offering or arranging the distribution of a controlled substance.

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TORONTO — A defining theme of Toronto FC’s 2017 season was control. You always sensed the Reds just about clung on to it — even through the moments, in the playoffs and the Canadian Championship, when they sailed closest to the wind.

At its best — including in the MLS Cup final — Toronto was an…

The fist pump for the birdie at the 18th was demonstrative, but didn’t have the same ferocity as the celebration a decade ago at Torrey Pines.

The result was not a major triumph, but a significant step in an extraordinary comeback.

Tiger Woods didn’t win the PGA Championship on Sunday, but it sure…

Police searched Sunday for a 35-year-old woman feared pulled underwater by rising tides in Jamaica Bay.

The woman and her husband were swimming in the bay off Bayswater Point State Park Sunday evening when she disappeared around 5:30 p.m., authorities said.

NYPD divers and a police helicopter searched…

Like so many other visitors to New York, Australian tourist Madison Jane Lyden was on a “trip of a lifetime” — but hers ended in horror and tragedy.

“Dad, can you believe your little girl is in New York City?” she gushed the last time she spoke to her father in Tasmania, nearly on the other side…

“Vampire Diaries” star Kat Graham wasn’t one of the cool kids at her area thrift shop.

“When I was young, I was really poor and my mom and I use to go vintage shopping and I’d see all of these cool kids like (deejay) Steve Aoki and (photographer) Cobrasnake at the vintage shops, but we were there…

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — A Bremerton woman has been charged with second-degree assault after authorities say she stabbed her husband in the arm with a samurai sword.

The Kitsap Sun reports the man called police early Wednesday morning and was later flown to a Seattle hospital.

The man told police…