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US pushes world to deal final economic blow to broke Iran

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The US is pressuring all countries still doing business with Iran to cut ties with the mullahs completely, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced yesterday. Operation Economic Outcast will aim to cripple a regime already struggling with sky-high inflation and shortages.

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Dua Lipa, gracing the pages of the September Vogue Italia shirtless in a Chanel wool crêpe jacket and skirt, bares some thoughts about her two spring wedding days in London and Palermo with British actor Callum Turner. The pop star, whose fourth studio album is due later this year, tells the mag: “They gave us a lot of advice, but we decided to follow only two: live that day as if we were guests, too, and therefore with less anxiety and more fun; and look for each other among the people continuously, without ever losing sight of each other. In this way, we really have many memories together.”

By ANTHONY BLAIR

Get on a GLP-1 and take a bite out of crime.

Violence across the US has seen a historic decline in the last two years, and criminologists are still trying to figure out why exactly.

But one study from earlier this year has offered a new theory: The new class of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy could be partially responsible.

A study by Rutgers University sociology professor Daniel Semenza explored the potential relationship between GLP-1 medications, impulsivity and violent behavior — and found there's a certain logic to the theory.

"One possible explanation comes from research suggesting that GLP-1 medications affect parts of the brain involved in reward processing and self-regulation," Semenza told The Post.

The benefits of GLP-1s famously fade after users stop taking them.

Semenza's research compared current GLP-1 users and found that common risk factors for violence — namely impulsivity and alcohol use

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— were notably lower in people currently on the drugs.

“In simple terms, they may reduce how strongly people respond to certain rewards or urges,” he explained. “Our findings suggest that someone may still have impulsive tendencies, but those tendencies may be less likely to translate into violent behavior.”

'Impulse control'

Semenza pointed to growing research suggesting GLP-1 medication may reduce both alcohol consumption and craving through its effects on the brain's reward system.

“What we found was that alcohol use was associated with more violent behavior, but that relationship was weaker among current GLP-1 users compared to former users," he said.

And with 15% of the adult population reporting that they have taken a GLP-1, tens of millions of Americans could find themselves newly restrained.

Semenza stresses that his research doesn't show a direct correlation between GLP-1s and lowered violent crime nationwide, or even with directly improving impulse control.

“But the potential connection is that impulsivity and alcohol use are well-established risk factors for violence,” Semenza said.

“We found that these risk factors were less strongly associated with violence among current GLP-1 users,” he added. “So, if future research establishes that GLP-1 medications actually cause that difference, it could have implications for understanding violence prevention more broadly.”

Money woes a 'rial' crusher

Iran's currency plummeted to new lows Monday, sending citizens rushing to exchange lines to save their cash.

The rial dropped to 2.02 million to \$1 when the currency markets opened, about half of what it was worth at the start of the year.

The continued plunge during nearly six months of war has led Iranians to sprint for the exchange markets in hopes of getting US bills.

"There is no hope for a deal and peace," Sadegh Mahmoudi, 73, said as he waited at an exchange line in Tehran.

The rial has been in a free fall since November due to years of sanctions and persistently high inflation, factors that have only gotten worse during the war.

While Iran's official Central Bank rate stands at 1.5 million rial to the dollar, the market rate is what Iranians pay.

“President Trump decimated Iran’s economy to a point where the rial has never been weaker and inflation has rarely been higher,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote Sunday in an opinion piece in the Financial Times.

"The regime's final refuge now lies in the self-deception of fearful nations that still believe accommodating aggression can secure a durable peace."

Bessent warned that the additional financial penalties announced Monday would effectively “collapse the regime,” with Trump echoing the same threat on social media.

"IRAN IS COMPLETELY COLLAPSING!!!" the president wrote on Truth Social.

Tehran officials have threatened retaliation.

“Any escalation of this situation will undoubtedly bring about consequences,” a Foreign Ministry spokesperson told reporters on Monday.

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Dubai is Iran's biggest supplier of goods by far

One-third of Iran's imports come from the UAE, most flowing through Dubai

Nearly 15% of Iran's non-oil exports go to the UAE, sending \$6.5B to the regime in the last 10 months

- 70% of Iran’s fuel oil exports went to UAE

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That cut really hurts UAE big Iran partner

By RONNY REYES

A US ally in the Middle East has finally cut off Iran — and it could be one of the biggest threats to the regime yet.

The United Arab Emirates, which serves as Tehran's largest supplier of goods, suspended all trade with the Iran over the weekend — nixing \$6 billion in cash that went to the regime from exports, as well as access to vital supplies from the outside world.

Dubai — the UAE's thriving commercial hub — is by far Iran's largest supplier of goods. The Emirati government finally got fed up with Iran following repeated missile attacks that triggered evacuations for the first time during the war.

The move not only threatens the \$21.3 billion trade relations between the two nations, it also leaves Iran without its primary way to collect US dollars, Mark Kimmitt, a retired US general and former assistant secretary of state, told The Post.

"If the Emirates cease trade and blocks dollar flows, it could have a crippling effect on the Iranian economy," Kimmitt said.

Dubai essentially served as Iran's window to the world after years of being slapped by Western sanctions, with traders buying and re-exporting consumer goods, food and industrial equipment to Iran.

The two nations strengthened their economic cooperation in 2024, with the UAE surpassing China as Iran's most vital trading partner.

Iran imported about \$14.8 billion worth of goods from the UAE during the first 10 months of the 2025 fiscal year, accounting for 30% of its total imports, according to the two countries' trade data.

Dubai's ports are the primary way Iran gets goods like phones, computers, tobacco and nuts.

Meanwhile, Iran exported around \$6.5 billion worth goods to the UAE during the same fiscal period, nearly 15% of its non-oil exports.

Most notably, Iran also depended on the UAE for 70% of its fuel oil exports, making the UAE its largest market for the product.

Refined oil also come back in the opposite direction from Dubai — with gasoline and diesel imports from the UAE helping to offset Iran's supply deficit.

The blow leaves Iran with fewer means to make money and import goods as its economy continues to plummet under the strain of US sanctions.

US will sanction nations that aid Tehran

By JOSH CHRISTENSON and RYAN KING

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday the start of the Operation Economic Outcast campaign against Iran to “tighten the noose” around its regime, and warned countries against doing business with the country.

The Trump administration aims to choke off revenue streams to the Iran by pressuring countries to stop making oil, energy and business deals with Tehran.

"The clock just started ticking," he warned at a news conference, while declining to give a precise timeline before secondary sanctions against uncooperating countries would take effect.

Prez on the horn

Bessent revealed that President Trump has been burning the phone lines to other capitals with demands, and stressed that America “does not have infinite patience” with countries to comply.

"The president is making phone calls to world leaders with specific requests to cease their interactions with the regime. We are already seeing results," Bessent said, without citing examples.

He issued a final warning to world leaders “to make a decision between . . . America and Iran.”

Trump is preparing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next month. Beijing purchases

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TIGHTENING GRIP: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (left) announces Monday that the US will sanction countries that do business with Iran, sending Iranians scrambling to unload their currency at exchanges like this one in Tehran (above).

roughly 90% of Iran's oil.

“We want to make clear here today that no one is above the reach of US sanctions,” Bessent said when asked if China would be subject to them.

The United Arab Emirates already had announced last week that it was stopping all trade and financial transactions with Iran.

Asked Monday, Bessent told a Post reporter those actions were “likely causal, and I would expect that we would see a broad array of countries taking similar action as we continue our engagement.”

"The UAE has been a very good partner," he said. "You will see a wave of sanctions when you leave this meeting today and you should expect that cadence to continue."

Trump had called UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed hours before the announcement.

“And I would expect that you will see a major announcement of a financial institution being sanctioned by the end of this week," added Bessent.

Bessent is authorized, “in consultation with the Department of State,” to target countries or entities dealing with Tehran through digital assets, technology, gold, commercial aviation and shipping. That authority took effect Monday under an executive order Trump signed in January 2020.

Evasion

Treasury officials noted that the Iranian regime has been making use of cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions, stabilizing its rial currency with gold to hedge against inflation, using commercial planes or ships to transport weapons or their components, fighters, cash and gold.

As the 6-month-old war with Iran has dragged on, the Trump administration has teased an “Economic D-Day” approach.

As an example, Bessent said that countries have been told to shutter Bank Melli branches within their borders, referring to the largest government-owned commercial bank in Iran. That would include the bank's branches in the UK, France, Germany

Russia and other countries.

Bessent said the operation will “foreclose every other option available,” calling it a “zero leakage approach” that will ensure the regime will have “no minimal breathing space” to rebuild.

“Iran now faces a very clear choice, with only two paths before them: complete global isolation and a subsistence economy, or a path back to normalcy with an opportunity to rejoin the global economy,” he said.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told reporters later Monday, "The only choice they have is to come to the table and actually talk about their nuclear program, which is what the president has demanded."

In addition, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control on Monday sanctioned more than 60 entities that enable Iran to obtain illicit nuclear and missile technology, conduct malicious cyberattacks and increase the regime's oil revenue through shadow fleets and other entities.

Some of the now-sanctioned entities, located in China and Iran, helped move “proliferation-sensitive equipment” and other “highly sensitive dual-use technology” to Tehran’s Malek Ashtar University of Technology.

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DROWNING DON: A huge anti-US bill-board is posted in Tehran after US threats.

Tehran issues strait-out warn

Iran blacklisted 45 tankers that purportedly violated its protocols when transiting the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to fine the vessels or confiscate their cargo if they did so again.

The Persian Gulf Strait Authority said in an X post Sunday that the ships could be fined, detained or have their cargo, including crude oil and liquified natural gas, confiscated.

Other vessels assisting the blacklisted ships could also be penalized, warned Tehran's new authority over the waterway.

Some of the blacklisted ships included a United Arab Emirates' ADNOC Logistics and Shipping vessel, ADNOC's subsidiary Navig8 Tankers, as well as a Saudi Arabian national shipping carrier Bahri.

The threats from Tehran followed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's warning Friday that Iran would soon face the “toughest sanctions in history” that could “collapse the regime.”

On Sunday, Bessent posted on X: “We are now entering the endgame. At dawn begins an economic D-Day — the single greatest financial offensive ever marshaled against an adversary.”

Bessent and other Cabinet officials are hopeful the economic pressures will help bring an end to the six-month conflict with the US.

Iran has promised “crushing, punishing and devastating” consequences in response to potential sanctions, claiming any other nations that support the economic penalties will be assisting in an “act of war” against Tehran. Josh Christenson

By RYAN KING

WASHINGTON — Iranian state media broadcast a chilling three-minute video fantasizing about killing Barron Trump in a disturbing escalation against President Trump and his family, as Tehran braces for an onslaught of additional crushing economic penalties.

The clip titled “Where to kill Barron Trump” claimed to show the movements of the president’s 20-year-old son, claiming he is “fully monitored” and showing depictions of the dorms at New York University’s Constance Milstein & Family Global Academic Center, according to a translation of the video by Euronews.

It further stated that it uncovered Barron's accounts for Xbox, FIFA video games and Discord, as well as those of his classmates, naming two of them.

In addition to the disturbing video, multiple reports indicate the regime placed a \$10 million bounty on Barron Trump's head. The Post could not independently verify the alleged bounty, the claims about his movements or the statements about his classmates.

“This is just the beginning! Barron Trump, wait for us!” the video concluded.

Threats at family

The sickening video of the president's youngest son was distributed in media linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to Middle East news outlet Al Bawaba.

'BARRON' FANGS: Iranian state media aired this video claiming to show would-be assassins where to find Barron Trump.

It comes on the heels of a July video, released by Tasnim News Agency and paraded around IRGC-linked media, that said “Where to Kill Melania?” and similarly claimed to know Melania Trump’s location.

That same month, a bill- board emerged in Tehran's Islamic Revolution Square showing the president appearing to be dead in a coffin with the English caption, "We Kill Trump."

Iranian-backed media also pushed out a “Where to Kill Trump?!” video, claiming to present the routes that his presidential motorcade takes to and from his residences in Florida and New York.

The president has faced as- sassination threats from Iran dating back to his January 2020 drone strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Now, Iran is reeling from the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in an Israeli strike back in February.

Recently, Trump has been ratcheting up his pressure campaign on Iran, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiling an “economic

D-Day" plan to decimate Tehran's economy.

Trump has boasted about the punitive measures against Iran, and his administration has claimed that it has been getting ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

“IRAN IS COMPLETELY COLLAPSING!!!” the president crowed Monday on Truth Social.

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Trump admin's financial warfare enters endgame

RICHARD GOLDBERG

TREASURY Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday launched what he called Operation Economic Outcast, a global campaign to shut down every last source of financial oxygen feeding a fractured rump regime in Tehran that's already circling the economic drain.

Combined with the US military's growing success in covertly moving oil out of the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump will edge one step closer to checkmate against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps when he gives the green light to drop the hammer on nations that ignore America's final warning.

The United States can't force other countries to join a bombing run. It can't compel foreign navies to patrol the Persian Gulf. But it can change economic behavior through the threat and imposition of US secondary sanctions — on private banks, brokers and exchanges, airport authorities and aviation service providers, shippers and insurers, and even state-owned enterprises and government instrumentalities.

The threat of secondary sanctions can shut down trade across land borders and keep airplanes grounded. It can also disrupt the movement of cash, cryptocurrency, goods and services.

It takes courage

Pulling the trigger on these sanctions can be disruptive. It can break a diplomatic relationship, crash a foreign country's economy or cause temporary knock-on effects in the global economy.

We saw examples during the first Trump administration, from tanking the Turkish lira to free an American Christian pastor to shaking up global shipping to force China's COSCO to stop carrying Iranian cargo.

It takes courage for a president to authorize this kind of total financial warfare. But that's exactly what appears to be happening with a Treasury secretary empowered to do whatever it takes to bring down Iran's financial house of cards.

That's very bad news for the IRGC. Every escape hatch from the naval blockade is about to close. From its immediate neighbors to its sanctions evasion hubs across the gulf, Europe and China, to its one-off schemes in Africa and the Western Hemisphere, the Treasury Department has mapped out every source of remaining oxygen breathing financial life into the regime in Tehran.

American diplomats and Treasury attachés abroad are meeting with their counterparts this week to tell them what steps are necessary — and put them on the clock to either asphyxiate the IRGC or face asphyxiation from US sanctions.

Internal pressure

Secretary Bessent gave us some hints of where the Treasury will focus its enforcement efforts: Iranian bank branches still operating abroad, digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping.

But the broader financial message was clear: If it looks like Iran, if it smells like Iran or if it talks like Iran, shut it down now, or the Treasury will shut you down by the end of the week.

Last week, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said it would be better for the IRGC to “bring the war to an end now.” His comments followed Iran’s central bank governor warning about severe economic impacts.

The National Iranian Oil Co.'s bank accounts were recently frozen due to unpaid debts. Inflation tops 100% and news of Operation Economic Outcast further collapsed Iran's currency, which now trades at 2 million rial to the dollar.

Gasoline shortages are increasing, the IRGC's loyal soldiers aren't getting paid and their imaginary supreme leader is nowhere to be found. Public anger may soon boil over to the level witnessed in January.

Hopefully, President Trump is busy planning for how to covertly help the Iranian people as their next window of opportunity to seize control rapidly approaches.

Three-step plan

Meanwhile, just as the pressure builds on Tehran, the IRGC's counterpressure on the United States is slowly dissipating.

The US military continues to move more and more oil out of the Strait of Hormuz every week. Senior officials say 16 million barrels of oil came out on Friday night, while Energy Secretary Chris Wright reported 15 million barrels came out in a single night last week.

The three steps needed to crush the IRGC remain the same today as they were nearly four months ago: enforce the blockade alongside total economic warfare; use the US military to get more oil out of Hormuz; and employ American energy dominance to eliminate the IRGC's leverage forever. President Trump is following this formula to great effect.

Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, was senior counselor for the National Energy Dominance Council and director for countering Iranian WMD for the National Security Council.

The crooklyn bridge

Span's illegal sellers 'exploded' under Zo

By STEVEN VAGO and ZOE HUSSAIN

Dozens of unlicensed vendors have illegally swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge to hawk cheap New York City souvenirs and fruit cups — while their licensed competition, including disabled veterans, say they're being pushed out and unable to make a living.

The Post counted roughly 42 vendors across the historic span on Sunday and spotted one brazenly spreading out dozens of New York canvas bags directly in front of a “no vending allowed” sign.

The illicit hawkers peddled Big Apple-themed tchotchkes, including \$1 NYC magnets and \$5 hats. An 11-year-old girl even sold a Post reporter a \$1 bottle of water before pointing up the bridge and stating her mom was “selling mangos.”

'Causing chaos'

The disorderly scene has frustrated local licensed merchants, including disabled veterans who said they are unable to compete with their unlicensed counterparts.

Sammy, a 48-year-old licensed ice cream vendor and disabled veteran who has worked near City Hall for decades, said the illicit vendors returned around October 2025, but claimed “the chaos exploded under [Mayor] Mamdani.”

"It started under Adams because he didn't give a f--k," he said of the end of former Mayor Eric Adams' term. "They're illegal vendors ... They're causing chaos. They're costing the city money. Cops are chasing them."

Sammy said police occasionally issue tickets, but the fines appear to do little to curb the peddlers who rack up profits by selling illegally.

The Post witnessed several sellers flee the bridge as a pair of cops patrolled the expanse.

“They give tickets, but they give little stupid \$20 tickets, \$50 tickets,” Sammy said. “But he’s going to make \$1,000 illegally, so what’s a \$20 ticket?”

The turf wars among the vendors have also turned violent.

Last week, Sammy was left with scratches all over his arms after breaking up a fight between mango sellers.

“They’re all fighting with each other. The illegal mango [sellers] are cutting each other up, scratching,” Sammy said.

Punching each other

“They were fighting. I tried to get in between them to stop them from fighting. The wife jumps on me while I’m trying to hold her husband from getting hit by the other five guys. The next thing you know, they’re all punching me and scratching me,” he added.

"I'm doing the police work, I'm doing the Parks Department work, and I'm an ice cream guy."

In January 2024, Adams followed through on a promise to boot the “packed like sardines” vendors from the Brooklyn Bridge to the relief of pedestrians.

A rule went into effect that January to prohibit vending on pedestrian walkways and bike lanes on bridges and bridge approaches.

The regulation was slated to affect all Big Apple crossings — but was specifically created to target the Brooklyn Bridge after the 1.14-mile-long historic landmark turned into an open-air free-for-all.

But Sammy blasted Mamdani for not doing enough to stop the peddlers whose low prices he claims have forced other shops to shutter.

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WALKIN' & HAWKIN': Unlicensed vendors illegally sell their wares to people traversing the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge.

“It’s hurting everybody. The people over here are all disabled veterans,” he said of the licensed vendors outside of City Hall, many of whom are unable to set up because the illegal vendors get there at the crack of dawn and “beat everyone to the spot.”

"Mamdani is new, but the [eight] months he's been in, nothing has changed over there. The cops are not allowed to bother them, and if they arrest somebody, the DA releases them."

A 41-year-old disabled veteran and US Marine who was discharged in 2008 also told The Post that there are now more than 100 unlicensed vendors on the bridge at times.

He claimed he went to court and the city told him he could not vend on the bridge because it was a “national security” issue.

"These people who just jumped the border, there's no national security for them," he said of the unlicensed vendors.

Mam's plan to BQEase problem

A crumbling section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will finally be fixed under a \$4 billion plan unveiled by Mayor Mamdani on Monday, in the latest bid to tackle a dangerous problem that has long bedeviled city mayors.

Groundbreaking won't happen until at least 2030, but the plan would rebuild the expressway's troubled stacked roadways — known as the “triple-cantilever” — rather than demolish them completely, as proposed by some long-frustrated New Yorkers, officials said.

A temporary highway running along Brooklyn Bridge Park will be built to avoid sending tens of thousands of cars onto local roads as crews complete the fixes, which are set to take about 10 years, Mamdani said in one of his signature slick social media videos.

“This will extend the life of the BQE for another 40 years,” he said. “This plan allows us to safely fix the current problem, without slowing our city down and wasting decades more waiting while the BQE continues to get worse.”

Former Mayors Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams both fielded and pitched various plans to address the deteriorating cantilever section.

Mamdani's plan largely differs from past proposals in where it directs traffic during construction.

It calls for building a temporary, two-level highway bypass on top of Furman Street from Atlantic Avenue to Columbia Heights.

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By EDWARD LEWIS

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York — whose family is worth an estimated \$8.5 billion — was arrested on Sunday morning for trying to pay just \$140 for sex in an Ohio trailer park, according to court documents obtained by The Post.

York responded to an advertisement on Sunday from a known prostitution website in Columbiana County, and “arranged to have sexual activity with the female in exchange for \$140.”

The ad was part of a sting operation, and York was arrested by an agent from the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force.

The trailer park, Wheat Hill Mobile Home Community, later claimed on Facebook that York was arrested there because that's where he was pulled over, not that the police were using one of the homes as part of their sting.

York had “in his possession his cellular device which was used to arrange the criminal act,” according to the court documents.

Plea deal cut

The documents show York was booked into county jail on two separate charges — one count of engaging in prostitution and one count of possessing criminal tools.

On Monday, however, York cut a plea deal with prosecutors, pleading no contest to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.

He was sentenced to one day in jail, though he was given credit for time served. He was fined \$150 for the disorderly conduct conviction and \$1,000 for possessing criminal tools.

A court filing also shows that York's attorney stated he completed an online course.

The mug shot shows a shabby York

INTERCEPTED: Jed York (mug shot above) filed for divorce from wife Danielle Belluomini months before allegedly arranging for sex in an Ohio trailer park (right).

staring blankly into the camera while wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, with his unshaven face and chest hair visible above the V-neck collar.

He appears to stand around 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-10 in front of a jail-house height chart, with a blue metal door frame and prison-style-cinder block walls visible behind him.

York, 46, is from Youngstown, Ohio, about 32 miles north of East Palestine.

He's been married to Danielle Belluomini for over a decade, but on May 11, he filed for divorce, court records show, citing “irreconcilable differences.” They share two sons together.

The York family's ownership of the 49ers dates back to 1977 when Edward DeBartolo Sr. purchased the team for \$13 million. The storied franchise has featured some of the greatest players in NFL history, including Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and Ronnie Lott.

In 2000, Eddie DeBartolo Jr., was forced to cede control of the team to his sister Denise over legal troubles involving a corruption scandal involving Louisiana riverboat casinos.

York, the son of Denise DeBartolo and John York, took over as CEO in 2008. He also became the team's principal owner in 2024, when he bought out enough of the team's shares from his mom.

Previous legal troubles

Beyond owning more than 90% of the NFL franchise, York is a co-owner of Leeds United in the English Premier League (valued at \$650-800 million) and Rangers FC in the Scottish Premiership (valued at \$150-195 million) through 49ers Enterprises.

"As this is a legal matter," the team said of York's 9:35 a.m. arrest in a statement late Monday morning, "which has been resolved, we will not be providing any further comment at this time."

The NFL added through a spokesperson that it is “aware of the matter” and it “will be reviewed under the personal conduct policy.”

The arrest is not York's first legal controversy. In 2023, he was sued over alleged insider trading tied to his position on the board of education technology company Chegg. York denied wrongdoing and called the claims “completely frivolous.”

The related securities litigation was ultimately settled for \$55 million without an admission of wrongdoing.

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NOT-SO-GREAT WALLS: The site of the new jail being built in lower Manhattan has drawn opposition in Chinatown.
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C'town seeks to 'sink' jail

By CARL CAMPANILE

Chinatown leaders are urging Mayor Mamdani to reconsider building a high-rise jail in the densely populated neighborhood — saying the move could cause the ground to sink and endanger other buildings.

The proposed 16-story local “jailscraper” is part of a \$16 billion plan to replace the Rikers Island Jail Complex with four borough-based facilities close to courthouses, a project that could be completed by 2032.

"The jail site sits on the soft, waterlogged ground of the old Collect Pond," according to an Aug. 21 letter sent by 18 local leaders to the mayor, Deputy Mayor Julia Kerson, "Close Rikers" Czar Dana Kaplan and City Council Speaker Julie Menin.

"The construction plan calls for the deepest excavation ever attempted on its site, digging well below the water table. The city's report warns that pumping out that water during construction can cause the surrounding ground to sink, and once it sinks, it does not come back," the letter said.

The planned demolition of the Manhattan Detention Complex at 124–125 White St. — and proposed towering jail reconstruction there — is also fiercely opposed by local residents, businesses and community organizations.

The phase-out of Rikers for new jails was initiated by former Mayor Bill de Blasio nearly a decade ago and progressed slowly under his successor, ex-

Mayor Eric Adams. It's now Mamdani's turn.

The Chinatown leaders' letter stated that many older buildings surrounding the construction site also rest on century-old wooden foundations, which are sturdy only because they stay underwater.

Exposing submerged wood to air would accelerate its deterioration, the leaders claimed, citing an op-ed analysis from architect William Bialosky.

"The buildings in the danger zone are our homes, our small businesses, the historic buildings along Baxter Street, and Chung Pak senior housing, where some of our most vulnerable neighbors live," the China-town reps said.

But city officials last month said they are taking all necessary precautions for “building safely below the [water] table.”

A July 20 report addressing the issue was released by the city Department of Design and Construction, the city's major contractor Tutor Perini and the Corrections Department, among others.

The report states that a continuous underground retaining wall formed by overlapping concrete piles will provide adequate excavation support, limit ground movement and help control groundwater during deep digging.

The construction officials acknowledged that managing groundwater is critical to maintaining stability and “protecting surrounding structures.”

But the pile walls minimize ground movement and help protect buildings adjacent to the jail site, as well as utilities and public infrastructure, the builders said.

“Only water within the excavation area is managed, minimizing impacts to the surrounding groundwater level,” the report said.

The Gateway Tunnel Project and other sites using such Secant piles include 100 11th Ave. in Chelsea in Manhattan, the Hudson Square Project, or Project Galaxy, for the Walt Disney Company in Manhattan, and 120 Fifth Ave. in Brooklyn.

Residents have reported persistent dust emissions, uncovered and idling trucks and ongoing noise disruptions.

New plan over budget, behind sked

The Big Apple's borough-based jail program has nearly doubled in cost and remains years behind schedule ahead of the troubled Rikers Island complex's legally mandated shutdown.

The plan has ballooned into a \$16 billion boondoggle and isn't slated to wrap until at least 2032 — five years after City Council's deadline to end housing inmates on the Rikers jail complex.

The council set the Rikers closure date for 2027, under a law approved in 2019 that also began the process for building four borough-based jails, each capped at about 4,100 beds.

The budget for the project, initiated under then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, was about \$8.7 billion at the time.

But years later, costs have snowballed and the first borough-based jail, in Brooklyn, isn't expected to open until at least 2029.

Mayor Mamdani's administration admitted earlier this summer that the city won't meet the deadline to close the notorious lockup by August 2027, while insisting it remained a “top priority” — but staying mum on an updated timeline.

"It is not breaking news we are not on track to meet that timeline. We have a lot of steps along the way to get to the day when Rikers is finally closed for good," Dana Kaplan, the Mamdani-appointed “Close Rikers Czar,” said in June.

City Council Criminal Justice Chair Selvena Brooks-Powers (D-Queens) previously said new legislation would need to be introduced in order to fix the gap between the current closure date and the first facility tentatively opening in 2029.

The city's Department of Design and Construction, which oversees the project, said construction and early work has started at each of the four sites.

The city permanently shuttered Rikers' North Infantry Command facility in late June. Matthew Fischetti

By LISA FICKENSCHER

Immigrant grocers and bodegas sued Mayor Mamdani over his plan to open five government-owned supermarkets — likening his plans to the devastating competitive threat that would be posed by Walmart coming to New York City.

The Multicultural Business Coalition, which is comprised of 50 chambers of commerce representing ethnically diverse businesses, filed two lawsuits in New York state court on Monday — one of them a seven-page class-action on behalf of “hundreds” of store owners who are “members of groups historically discriminated against.”

The class-action alleges that the business owners' civil rights will be violated if the municipal stores are allowed to open, according to court papers.

The second suit — a 13-page filing in New York state Supreme Court — claims that the government-owned stores would present problems similar to those posed by Walmart, which has attempted several times to enter the Big Apple without success.

For years, the Arkansas-based discounter has faced fierce opposition from New York politicians, with legislators and labor unions claiming small businesses would be decimated by the retail giant.

The municipal grocery stores “have pledged to sell food items 30% below the market-rate, a rate that rivals or exceeds Walmart discounts,” according to the second filing.

'Study fail'

The suit likened the government-owned supermarket plan to “allowing Walmart to operate deep discount business, while bringing ‘affordability’ ” — claiming that the plan “would eliminate an untold amount of opportunity for minority businesses and small business at large.”

The suit likewise accuses the city and mayor of failing to perform a “proper review” before revealing its plans in July, including a land-use study to determine how the taxpayer-funded stores would affect existing stores nearby.

"There is no extant evidence that the respondents have undertaken any studies and/or serious

GROCERS SUE ZO

It is a direct assault on minority business by a mayor who claims to be a champion of disenfranchised poor and working-class New Yorkers. —Multicultural Business Coalition president Ken Roldan (near right)

City-owned stores 'akin to' NYC Walmart

SQUASH IT: Immigrant grocers and bodegas sued Mayor Mamdani, claiming his city-owned store plan would eliminate opportunity for minority businesses.

analysis before its current arbitrary site selection," according to the second filing.

“It is beyond debate that the municipal grocery stores openly compete with the grocery stores at large,” MBC alleges.

The city “failed to study the discriminatory effects” of the municipal stores on the family-owned bodegas and grocery stores owned by Hispanics, Arabs and Asians, according to the second filing, which asks the court to force the city to perform an economic analysis.

Asked about the Monday law-suits at an unrelated press conference in Queens, Mamdani said, "I'm confident both in the legality of this, that it will stand up in court and the importance of delivering it."

MBC was formed earlier this year to oppose the mayor's plan, which will cost taxpayers \$70 million to build. The stores will offer a 30% discount on basic items like produce, meat, milk, cheese and bread. City Hall projects the markdown will save shoppers an average of \$90 a month or \$1,000 a year.

"My grandfather opened up one of the first bodegas in the late 1960s when East Harlem was burning and the A&Ps and Waldbaums were leaving," said MBC chairman Frank Garcia.

'Withdraw plan'

"He established the first Latino Grocery Association to protect the rights of immigrant store owners. I am proud to be following up in his tradition because what Mayor Mamdani is doing is disgracing his memory."

"Make no mistake about this plan," MBC's president Ken Roldan said in a statement. "It is a direct assault on minority business by a mayor who claims to be a champion of disenfranchised poor and working-class New Yorkers."

The lawsuits do not identify the specific businesses that are impacted by the first two announced city-owned stores in East Harlem at La Marqueta and in the Bronx at Hunts Point in the former Spofford Juvenile Detention center. The stores' locations in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island have not been disclosed yet.

MBC expects to name the first plaintiffs in a press conference later this week and the filings will be amended to include them, Roldan told The Post.

Some mom and pop stores are concerned that the administration will retaliate against them by examining their permits and licenses to find ways to fine or threaten them, Roldan added.

“We will spotlight it if they are picked on,” Roldan said.

"The Puerto Ricans were the bodega pioneers and they were followed by the Dominicans, the Arabs, the Koreans, the Chinese and finally my Mexican business members," said Jairo Guzman, president of the NY State Mexican Chamber of Commerce in a statement. "Mayor Mamdani needs to withdraw his disastrous plan."

Don mail-in vote win Trump to jack up

Don Supremes OK order ahead of midterms

By VICTOR NAVA

The Supreme Court ruled Mon- day that President Trump's executive order tightening the rules around mail-in voting can be im- plemented ahead of the November midterm elections.

The 6-3 decision — with liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting — marks a major victory for Trump, but appears to leave room for future legal challenges that could delay the president's order.

In its ruling, the high court overturned a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing the March 31 mail-in voting order in response to a lawsuit filed by 23 Democratic-led states, who argued the directive unconstitutionally infringes on their authority to administer elections.

The Supreme Court did not rule on whether Trump's order was lawful, but determined it was too early for states to sue over it because harms must be “concrete” rather than “conjectural or hypothetical.”

The majority noted that federal courts are barred from adjudicating disputes that are dependent on “contingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all.”

'Fight is far from over'

Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James, who was part of the lawsuit, vowed that the “fight is far from over.”

"This decision is a painful set-back, but it will not be the final word," James said in a statement. "The right to vote is sacred, and no administration should be allowed to put that right in jeopardy by making it harder for eligible voters to cast their ballots.

"This fight is far from over. We are exploring our legal options."

Trump's executive order calls for the creation of a list of eligible

LESSON: President Trump with Pastor Caleb Griffith and his family at Monday's school choice event.

Prez: US ‘failing at education’

WASHINGTON — President Trump ripped American schools for “failing at education” and touted his choice plan as a better option for students, vowing to put parents in charge.

“They were failing at a thing called education, with only 30% of the students proficient in reading and math,” he said Monday at an event on school choice. “That was under the last administration.”

As America's children prepare to go back to school, he vowed to reverse several Biden-era school policies, promised to bring back whole milk to cafeterias and touted his school choice program as giv-

voters and directed the US Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on those lists.

The USPS on Friday published a rule that would require states to provide them with lists of voters who received mail-in ballots at least 60 days before the midterm elections.

Trump has long been a staunch critic of mail-in voting, despite using parents the freedom to direct their child's education.

“We’re putting the parents back in charge. They’re the ones that love our children. They’re the ones that should be in charge,” the president said in the Rose Garden.

"As we remove the far-left extremism from the classroom, we're taking historic action to ensure that every child in America has access to a first-class education," Trump said.

He highlighted the benefits of school choice in his “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which created a federal tax credit aimed at expanding school choice through scholarship organizations — but states need to opt in. So far,

ing the process himself to cast an absentee ballot in last week's Florida primary election.

The president and his allies argue mail-in voting is susceptible to fraud.

In dissent, Sotomayor and Kagan argued the 23 states did have standing to sue “based on the credible threat that the Government will initiate investigations

31 states have done so.

The program allows a taxpayer to contribute up to \$1,700 to a qualified scholarship-granting organization and receive a full refund. Recipients can use the scholarship money to cover basic educational costs, whether they are “public, private or religious” schools.

Gov. Hochul has expressed interest in the education program but has yet to formally opt into it — despite pleas from parents.

"Our office awaits information from the federal government on the program and will thoroughly review the details of the policy," Hochul's rep said. Emily Goodin

and prosecutions because they refuse to use the lists."

Jackson, in a separate dissent, warned that the ruling “injects additional unknowns into the already fraught pre-election period,” including whether future challenges to the mail-in voting order, or other election-related matters, may come “too late” in the cycle.

Trump to jack up tariffs on Canada

President Trump escalated his trade battle with Canada on Monday after its prime minister, Mark Carney, said the two countries were at “war” — with Vice President JD Vance dismissively calling the northern neighbor “a state.”

Carney broke off trade talks Friday and claimed "America is trying to break us so that they can own us," but that it would "never, ever happen."

Trump announced new trade actions against Canada to pressure Carney to return to the table.

“Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years. Their ridiculously high tariffs on our Farmers and farm products has made life impossible for these great American Patriots, and has long created a 60 Billion Dollar Deficit between our two Countries. Not sustainable, and NOT ANYMORE!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that on Jan. 1 tariffs would reach 50% on all vehicles, automotive parts and steel.

“Canada will be treated like a State no longer!” he wrote, referencing his taunting proposal that Canada join the US if it wants more advantageous terms.

"On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with. They feel entitled, and yet, WE DON'T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US! They do 95% of their business with the U.S., with us, the exact opposite!"

On Saturday, Trump imposed a new 50% tariff on \$20 billion of Canadian goods, including beer, cheese, wine, hockey sticks, cement and electronics.

Carney vowed that Canada would fight back with retaliatory tariffs beginning on Sept. 8, saying his country's retaliatory measures would be "dollar for dollar."

Canada will target American steel, dairy, agricultural equipment, and pulp and paper, among other items.

Emily Goodin

BOLTINHOUSE Ex-Miss North Carolina.

Stripped beauty lawsuit

Dethroned Miss North Carolina USA winner Brittany Boltinhouse has filed a defamation lawsuit after being stripped of her title — where she accused pageant bosses of covering up the reason why her crown was removed.

Her lawyers have accused pageant producers A-Blaize Productions and Miss USA President Thom Brodeur of “maliciously coordinating to publish a false public narrative portraying [her] as a racist, homophobe, and intolerable bigot to be shunned from public life,” according to the lawsuit — which was filed on Sunday, the eve of Miss USA’s Monday kickoff, and seen by The Post.

Boltinhouse, 27, was dethroned Aug. 5, following an exposé found social-media posts from 2017-19 containing the N-word.

But the suit contends that “the real reason they dethroned Brittany” was that “she is a conservative Christian.” Chris Bradford

Stewardess' fatal 'plunge'

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant was found dead near a dumpster after falling from the 24th floor of a four-star hotel while on a layover in Hawaii, according to reports.

Jenny Lupton's body was found by a hotel staffer early Thursday morning, with an investigation into her death ongoing, according to KWTV.

The Oklahoma mom, 50, a Southwest flight attendant for 23 years, was staying at the four-star Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki while on a layover. Chris Bradford

Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi officially debut as a couple in London on Friday following his appearance solo at the world premiere of his new film, "The Dog Stars."

DYIN' TO EAT LATER Early meal matters

By RACHEL SACKS

It's the most important meal of the day for a reason.

While the battle of the best breakfast sandwich rages on and others rave about oatmeal, there's no shortage of debate over what to eat first thing in the morning, especially when it comes to health.

However, it's not just what you eat that makes a difference in how long you live, but when you sit down for your first meal, according to recent research.

New Yorkers may be obsessed with brunch, but you may want to reschedule that meal earlier.

Published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the large study of more than 31,000 adults aged 40 and older found that the timing of your first and last calories of the day could be linked to how long you live.

And those who ate their first meal later — after noon, specifically — had an increased risk of dying early from any cause by 29%.

Study participants were asked to record what they ate and when they ate it within a 24-hour period, with the time between the first and last meal known as the eating window.

A pattern emerged: The later the participants ate their first meal, the greater the risk.

Compared with eating breakfast between 7 and 8 a.m., a 10% higher risk of dying early from any cause was linked to those who ate breakfast between 8 and 10 a.m.

The difference rose to 19% for those who ate between 10 a.m. and noon.

And the risk of death from a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or stroke, followed a similar pattern.

Eating after noon was linked to a 46% higher risk of cardiovascular death compared with breaking a fast between 7 and 8 a.m.

Meanwhile, those aged 50 years or older who ate later also had a shorter life expectancy by nearly 2.5 years on average.

While the findings only show an association between a later start to eating and decreased longevity, they do add to the growing evidence that health may depend not just on what we eat, but also when.

Other ailments

Last year, a study from Mass General Brigham revealed that later breakfast times in later life were not only linked to a higher risk of early death, but also to depression, fatigue and oral health problems.

In fact, breakfast shifted later as health problems accumulated.

Other research has also shown that consistently eating later can negatively affect your 24-hour biological clock, leading to blood sugar spikes and higher levels of stress hormones.

“Later eating should be interpreted as a potential risk marker, and possibly a modifiable behavior, rather than definitive evidence of a direct causal effect,” senior author of the first study Zhilei Shan told ScienceAlert.

Several other factors also limited the study's results, including the fact that researchers only looked at a single 24-hour eating window, sleep patterns, activity timing and more.

rsacks@nypost.com

BIG HOLE: Hunter College has a \$14 million deficit in its \$399 million budget.

By CARL CAMPANILE

Hunter College is grappling with a massive \$14 million deficit, officials confirmed to The Post — after the City University of New York's board of trustees discussed the flagship school's dire financial situation during a secret "retreat."

The trustees — without any public notice — held what sources called a “retreat” or “summer session” for 2½ hours at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College on Aug. 17.

The board discussed the finances at CUNY's 26 colleges and institutions, revealing Hunter was deep in the red, and that several community colleges also had operating deficits, according to the sources.

Marc Shaw, a senior advisor at the CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance, also gave a presentation to the board that addressed future enrollment and demographic trends — given declining high school student population and stiff competition from other colleges, including the State University of New York campuses.

Hunter College officials confirmed the school was contending with having to close \$14 million in red ink in a \$399 million budget.

“Hunter College is implementing financial savings measures to address its projected structural deficit while ensuring our ability to provide a high-quality education for our students is not impacted,” a school spokesperson said in a statement.

Open violation?

“Full-time faculty and staff and academic programs are not expected to be affected,” the statement said. “We may also draw on reserves if necessary to cover any remaining deficit at the end of the academic year. These decisions are being made with an aim toward minimal operational disruption."

Beyond the school's troubling financial news, sources questioned if the closed-door session violated New York's Open Meetings Law.

One former CUNY trustee blasted the current leadership for holding a secret meeting on what appears to be official business.

"I was on the board for 15 years. We never convened in this fashion. We never had a retreat like that," said Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, who was appointed by former Gov. George Pataki.

“That constitutes a meeting of the board,” Wiesenfeld said of the topics discussed.

The secret powwow took place before the board held its regular, public meeting, which lasted just two minutes, passing one resolution and shelving another.

Under the Open Meetings Law, governing bodies like the CUNY board hold public meetings for official business but can go into executive session or behind closed doors to discuss personnel matters or litigation, Wiesenfeld noted.

A CUNY official confirmed that its Institute for State & Local Governance gave a presentation at the “summer session” focused on projected demographic shifts among high school- and college-age populations and their potential impact on future enrollment.

Students at the city's public high schools provide a significant portion of enrollment, so any population drop-off would pose a challenge.

CUNY's enrollment has not recovered to pre-pandemic levels of 271,242 students in fall 2019. Enrollment has increased $9.13\%$ over the past three years, rising to 246,503 in fall 2025.

A CUNY official maintained the secret “annual summer education session” was legal and appropriate because “no official Board business was conducted, and no votes were taken.”

JD's solo stump for Maine's Collins

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance urged Republicans to support his “very independent friend” Sen. Susan Collins during his Monday visit to Maine — as Collins skipped his rally, citing an unspecified scheduling conflict.

Vance stumped for her anyway, saying that he appreciated her emphasis on delivering for constituents — with the unspoken subtext that the Democratic-leaning state's voters could determine control of the upper chamber for the final two years of the Trump administration.

“Whenever I'm in Maine, I give Susan a little bit of crap because, as you know, Susan is the most independent member of the United States Senate,” Vance said in Brewer — across the Penobscot River from Bangor.

"As the president of the United States Senate, she sometimes makes my jobs a little harder," Vance said.

“But she makes it harder because she is coming to work every single day and fighting not for a political party or not for any abstraction. She comes to work every single day and she fights for the great people of Maine. And I’ve seen it.”

Vance described Collins, 73 — who has held office since 1997 — as a frequent guest at his Naval Observatory residence in DC.

“She’s been in my house probably a half dozen times,” Vance said.

Steven Nelson

Bruce ad targets Kat's TDS | New PAC-age deal for Blake

Democratic incumbent Gov. Hochul is getting slammed in a new ad for attempting to shift focus away from her record by blaming President Trump and, by extension, her Republican opponent Bruce Blakeman.

It's the second ad released by the super PAC Strong and Safe New York — a pro-Blakeman group bankrolled by Knicks owner James Dolan — targeting Hochul in a \$1 million media campaign, running on digital and streaming platforms for multiple weeks.

The new 30-second spot features footage of the governor saying, “We have Donald Trump to deal with.”

“Kathy Hochul blames President Trump for everything,” a narrator then says. “But the president didn’t raise our energy bill 48 times — Hochul did. He didn't put illegal migrants in hotels and stick us with the bill — Hochul did.

"The president didn't raise taxes and tell New Yorkers to get the hell out — Hochul did," it adds.

The spot counters a multi-million dollar ad blitz the Hochul campaign launched that links Blakeman to Trump, describing her rival as “100% MAGA.”

Carl Campanile

A newly created political action group has vowed to inject millions of dollars into the New York gubernatorial race to help get Bruce Blakeman elected by highlighting Gov. Hochul's ties to “Zohran Mamdani and the radical Marxist, Jihadi wing of the Democratic Party.”

The Defend Empire State PAC to boost the Republican's campaign to knock

Hochul out of office was created by Jason Meister, a President Trump supporter who ran a Defend NYC PAC that targeted Mayor Mamdani during last year's City Hall race.

“We’re going to initiate the most aggressive campaign to defeat Kathy Hochul and the Marxist, Communist wing of the Democratic Party Hochul is an enabler of,” Meister, a risk insurance specialist, told The Post.

He called Blakeman a “common sense, right-of-center” candidate who will be a good governor.

State Democratic Party spokesperson Dick Addison responded, “Blakeman and these people are ‘MAGA all the way’ and proud, and New Yorkers want no part of any of it.” Carl Campanile

Someone brawl for delivery?!

Wild video shows a delivery man and a Barstool employee pummeling one another after a brawl broke out inside the company's Manhattan headquarters on Monday.

Barstool founder and president Dave Portnoy posted the shocking clip (above) to X and said that the delivery app courier attacked their security guard after he asked him to leave the office.

"We had a crazy scene today at Barstool World Hq," Portnoy wrote. "An uber eats driver got in a fight with Gia in the hallway over her order. Our security guard Dan went into the hall to tell the guy to leave and he attacked him."

Police confirmed they were called to the company's Midtown office on Seventh Avenue around 2 p.m. after a verbal dispute turned physical with a 31-year-old man punching a 45-year-old man multiple times in the face.

A “person of interest” was taken into custody and an investigation is ongoing, the NYPD said. David DeTurris

'Mad pooper' haunts Tulsa

Police are hunting a twisted “serial defecator” who has befouled several businesses in Tulsa, Okla.

— often while wearing “only a thong, a cut-open mask and a shower cap.”

Cops responded to a shopping center south of the city center at around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday after receiving reports that a mostly naked man had repeatedly pooped in a dog-waste bag and smeared it on the walls and doors of a business.

They have asked the public for any leads. Chris Nesi

Antisemitic tropes in Paramount rant

LIEL LEIBOVITZ

ARE you against "crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world"?

Excellent! You have your share of targets to protest — like Egypt, which systematically arrests its labor leaders, or Turkey, where criticizing a corporation is likely to land you in jail.

Or you can, ya' know, do the trendy thing and blame the Jews. Mark Ruffalo sure did.

Sounding like he was reading from a Mad Libs book containing just about every laughable antisemitic accusation out there, the actor argued on social media that if we're not too careful, those sinister Yids would soon have us all under their boots.

The context for his meltdown was Paramount's proposed \$110 billion merger with Warner Bros., which he opposes.

Why? Rather than argue about facts and back up his opinion with solid reasoning, Ruffalo shared a video popularized by pro-Palestinian activists of Safra Catz, the former CEO of Oracle.

The tech giant, you may recall, was founded by Larry Ellison, whose son, David, is behind the Paramount bid.

Incredible hate from Ruffalo

WHEN HE'S ANGRY: Actor Mark Ruffalo was taken aback by charges of antisemitism after he ranted that Jewish Paramount CEO David Ellison (inset), along with dad Larry, was “consolidating the wealth of the world.”

And Oracle, Ruffalo roared, is a bad company, sole Jewish state and accuse one Jewish billionaire of using his be-nighted technology and ill-gotten wealth to “crush” the rest of us.

How could anyone interpret such words as being even remotely bigoted?

Marvel at history

Such dazzling dishonesty, cloaked in cloying virtue-signaling, would've been almost comically repugnant coming from anyone.

But they're particularly rich coming from Ruffalo.

After decades of languishing largely in indie dramas, the actor had his big break after being cast as Dr. Bruce Banner, a k a The Incredible Hulk, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

Marvel, you may recall, was made famous by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, two first-generation American Jews who created their superheroes as a response to a world too ready to discount or ignore Jewish suffering.

selling technology to Israel, and is therefore complicit in powering “what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression.”

'Classic oligarch'

Let Ellison have too much power, Ruffalo continued, and disaster will ensue.

“Larry Ellison will own most of ‘Para Bros,’” he thundered.

“Larry is a classic Oligarch. They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance.”

Kirby in particular was an ardent Zionist and a

Hear that, boys and girls? "They" are crushing the poor, noble workers because “They” control all the money and all the power in the world.

This rant sounded much better in the original German.

Paramount soon fired back.

“We are, as always, troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business

dispute," a company representative said in response.

“Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe."

But tell that to Ruffalo, and the actor — who made a career as the thinking girl's on-screen sweet and sensitive love interest — claims to be “appalled.”

Ruffalo responded that some of his best friends are Jewish, and argued that anyone who accuses him of antisemitism is being dishonest.

All he did, Ruffalo argued, was choose to speak of a Hollywood merger by bringing up the world's

big fan of Israel.

It doesn't take too much imagination to see the character he created, the Hulk, as the parable of the weak Jew suddenly made strong enough to stand up to his persecutors.

That the man who made his fame and fortune playing the Hulk on screen is now one of the loudest, most mindless antisemites is a plot twist worthy of a comic book.

But if the decades-long ascendance of Marvel teaches us anything, it's that our timeless heroes stand strong long after rubes like Ruffalo fade from memory.

Liel Leibovitz is editor at large for Tablet and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

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FRAT 'DRUGS' AN

By GEORGIA WORRELL

BATON ROGUE, La. — Sorority rush week at Louisiana State University comes in with a roar and leaves with a hoarse whisper.

For the eight days before hordes of young women lined up outside the houses on sorority row to make their bids to get in last week, sorority sisters spent 12 hours a day preparing to welcome — and ruthlessly vet — the next generation of Greek leaders.

The older students perfected their “bouncing and clapping” cheers to welcome the prospective members, refreshed themselves on the 1-to-10 ranking system they would use to evaluate them, staged mock rushes with other chapters — and, of course, churned out perfectly curated social-media content every step of the way.

In the high-stakes world of sorority rush, nobody does it quite like the big schools of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) — including Alabama, Ole Miss, Georgia and LSU.

“So much money and time goes into work week and actual rush — it’s crazy,” said LSU sophomore and Tri Delta member Mary Macie Ezell.

BOUNCERS: Nora Fettig (left) and Mary Macie Ezell — Tri Delta sisters at Louisiana State University, one of the major Southeastern Conference schools for Greek life — give The Post an inside look at rush week.

Cheers ...

And it's become big business. Arizona-based Dutch Bros. coffee and Kourtney Kardashian's Lemme gummies brand both sent swag to help the Tri Delta gals power through.

It can also mean fame and success — beyond the sorority.

Ezell gained more than 1,300 followers and 40,000 likes on TikTok since she began documenting her LSU experience, helping her land brand deals and an internship.

By the end of rush, almost everyone is crying — and all the members have lost their voices from the hours upon hours of peppy cheering.

Ezell and fellow Tri Delta sophomore Nora Fettig, both 19, gave The Post a rare behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to survive the wildly demanding recruitment process at one of the biggest SEC schools — from strictly matching outfits and painstakingly rehearsed chants to the moment hundreds of would-be sisters descend upon their Baton Rouge mansion.

When the throngs arrive, little is left to chance.

As roughly 1,600 sorority hopefuls stream through the Tri Delta house during “philanthropy rounds,” the 300 members know exactly how each 45-minute visit should unfold — and who they’ll be talking to.

The first 10 minutes are devoted to synchronized “bouncing and clapping.” These are all terribly secret, but Ezell and Fettig shared one example with The Post: “D-E-L-T-A / One letter / That’s all we say!”

Then comes the real recruiting — another carefully choreographed production.

The hopefuls move through "The Snake," or a precise formation of sisters waiting to greet them in the courtyard.

At least one sister in the house knows the name and face — and background from Instagram and other publicly available info — of every prospective member who steps into the house, said Ezell, a communications major from the Houston area.

... and tears

That sister chats with the sorority hopeful for 15-20 minutes before seamlessly “bumping” her to another chapter member, Ezell said.

During these high-stakes conversations, the Tri Deltas are looking for girls who show an interest in their philanthropy, St. Jude Children's Research

Hospital, and who appear to embody the house's three core values: "brave, bold and kind."

Then comes the judgment. In the 1-to-10 rating system, a candidate would only receive the lowest score for displaying a “very disinterested” attitude toward Tri Delta, while a 3 might be given out “in a case of like, ‘She’s just not for me,’ or ‘She’s probably a better fit somewhere else,’” Ezell explained.

That's when the tears come — as the sorority sisters and the freshmen both figure out who really belongs where.

"A lot of times they will cry . . . It's been a long week for them too. And it's emotional," Fettig said, referring to the potential new members.

By KAMAL SULTAN

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The frats busted for cocaine at Penn State last week dealt out of “drug rooms” at parties and hazed freshmen even worse than making them bag up narcotics, campus sources told The Post.

Thirteen members of Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon fraternities were arrested by federal authorities last week over alleged wide-scale drug dealing and distribution.

However, those who studied with them said cocaine use and MDMA-fueled end-of-semester parties were well known at the \$21,000-a-year Pennsylvania State University, where fall classes started Monday.

"It barely scratches the surface of what's going on," one sorority sister told The Post. "It's a part of the culture at Penn State. It was normal to take cocaine at these parties, especially with freshman boys who wanted to impress their brothers and talk to girls.

"To me, it felt like they were offering it to everyone at the party. You'd look around and there would be people snorting lines of cocaine around you. It was so normalized."

Helluva 'rush'

The two accused fraternity chapters were described as being at the top of the school's social scene.

Students pledging in 2023 were made to “package the drugs into half-gram bags for sale,” according to court documents. One of the young men forced to take part had a relative who had graduated but was part of Sigma Chi, The Post has learned.

That freshman was “hazed extra hard” as a result of his connection, one of around 15 boys allegedly forced to participate.

“He knew the hazing process for fraternities was tough and intimidating, but never in a million years did he think it would involve bagging up and selling drugs,” a source close to him said.

“He didn’t want to say no and risk being seen as weak, especially because of his family connection.”

The pledges were also allegedly forced into personal servitude for the seniors, made to run errands, act as designated drivers and subjected to sexual-themed challenges too graphic to describe.

"Honestly, it was almost a break from some of the disgusting and degrading things they were being made to do," the source added.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday named New York-

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SECRET Cocaine, MDMA 'normalized' at State College

HIGHER EDUCATION: At Penn State (above), 13 Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon members were arrested for alleged drug dealing, including Lars Zeepvat (unblurred at left).

born accounting graduate Agostino Abbatiello as being a “top of the food chain” when arrests were made last week.

Thomas Robinson, Mohammed Huraibi and Lars Zeepvat were also named as key players in the alleged scheme, which took place between 2023 and 2024 — although federal authorities said they tracked cocaine sales by Abbatiello into February 2026.

A second sorority girl was a fre- quent guest at their frat parties.

"I was a freshman and I was so excited because they were famous [on campus] and getting in felt like a huge deal," the now-senior told The Post. "You didn't have to look hard to know they were selling drugs. I am honestly surprised they weren't caught sooner.

"I never had to pay for any cocaine but you would have to go into a specific room to Venmo one of the guys and they'd hand you a little bag," she said. "It was done away from the rest of the house where the others were just drinking, dancing and being stupid college kids."

On-campus sources claimed parties fueled by MDMA — also known as Molly — were thrown at Delta Upsilon and served as enormous blowouts at the end of each semester.

'Molly parties'

Invitations were sent through the app GroupMe, disguised as innocent-sounding “paint parties,” according to a third senior belonging to a different sorority.

"The Molly parties were really intense," she said. "Everyone would show up dressed in white and you would have neon paint put on you. I guess the ultraviolet lights would then make everything look ‘trippy.’

“Then people who were friends with the frat boys or could be vouched for were taken into a designated room to pick up Molly … and a giant lollipop to use to stop lockjaw.”

The frat boys weren't great at covering their tracks, according to authorities, who allege Robinson was accepting Venmo payment with the username "Tom-Robinson," while Abbatiello "would boast about how much money he was making," court papers say.

The campus is abuzz with talk about the scandal, as freshmen say it's reinforced their view of frats.

Billy Kiray, a 21-year-old freshman from Pittsburgh, told The Post: “I was never going to join a fraternity, I think I am a little too old for that now. This whole situation shows that even more. I will just be focusing on my studies and making my family proud.”

Ahead of the new school year, Penn State vice president for Student Affairs Andrea Dowhower said she was “horrified” by the allegations and that “criminal activity, including hazing, has no place at our institution.”

Making out just fine

Plea talks for ESB scalers

STEAMY: Empire State climbers Ivan Kuznetsov and Angela Nikolau have a post-court smooch Monday.

By KYLE SCHNITZER

The daredevil couple who scaled the Empire State Building were high on love outside Manhattan court Monday — wildly making out after prosecutors revealed they could land a plea deal.

Angela Nikolau, 33, and beau Ivan Kuznetsov, 32, engaged in the steamy, hands-on make-out session near a hot-dog vendor outside the building after appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court to face felony charges for their cringe Instagram engagement stunt in July.

The couple wore decorative handcuffs as they tangled in each other's arms, smooching for nearly 30 seconds while Nikolau flaunted her engagement ring for the first time in public since Kuznetsov dropped on one knee on top of the Manhattan landmark more than 1,000 feet in the air to pop the question.

Nikolau had bizarrely posted a video to her Instagram before Monday's appearance in which she donned a latex body suit while holding a knife as she licked her partner's head for what she dubbed "court prep."

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Jessica Waldman said at the hearing that her office is in “active plea discussions” with the randy duo.

It's unclear what the terms of a potential plea deal could look like, but the pair could face up to seven years if convicted of the charges currently against them, including burglary and reckless endangerment.

The couple caused \$2,000 worth of damage and required the Empire State Building broadcast antenna to be powered down when they scaled the Big Apple landmark last month, prosecutors have said.

Hid out

The duo had purchased tickets to visit the 1,454-foot Midtown building around 9 p.m. July 30 before hiding out there overnight — then emerged from a hatch on its 102nd floor around 5 a.m. the next day, sources have said.

That's when they began scrambling up the building's antenna and unfurled a banner that read, "When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace," a moment captured on video by news stations and the couple themselves.

After climbing down from the antenna, Kuzentsov — who goes by Ivan “Vanya” Beerkus on social media — dropped to one knee and proposed to Nikoula, who donned a black cat mask.

Nikoulau and Kuznetsov were hit with burglary, reckless-endangerment and criminal-mischief charges, all felonies, in addition to misdemeanor counts of possession of burglary tools, trespass and criminal tampering.

They're due back in court Sept. 29.

NJ teens ‘steal’ SUV, ‘kill’ 2 in crash

A crew of reckless New Jersey teens allegedly stole a luxury SUV valued at \$220,000 and led cops on an hours-long chase before crashing the vehicle head-on into another car — killing a beloved grandmother and her longtime partner.

Four teens allegedly swiped a 2024 Mercedes-Benz G Wagon early Saturday morning and took it for a joy ride that ended in tragedy when they slammed into a Hyundai sedan while trying to evade cops shortly before 8 a.m., NJ.com reported.

The youths were speeding down the wrong side of the road when they struck the sedan near Route 50 and Third Street in Mays Landing and sent it careening into a nearby gas station, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said.

The crash killed the sedan's two occupants, Robert

Barr, Jr., 54, and Alice Stilwell, 67, from Egg Harbor Township, prosecutors said.

Stilwell was identified as a beloved mother and grandmother, and Barr as her longtime partner, according to a GoFundMe campaign set up to help cover funeral expenses.

The teens escaped the car wreck largely unscathed and attempted to flee, but were quickly arrested, authorities said.

It's not clear which one of the teens was behind the wheel at the time of the crash.

David DeTurris

New tech IDs 9/11 victim

The remains of another 9/11 victim have been identified thanks to a groundbreaking forensic approach, bringing closure to her grieving relatives after nearly 25 years, city officials said Monday.

Officials said the woman, whose name was withheld at the request of her family, is the 1,654th victim to have had their remains identified since the terrorist attack.

"A quarter century after the day that forever changed our world, we are keeping the promise to identify those who died at the World Trade Center in 2001 and return them to their loved ones," Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham said in a press release.

The woman was ID'd through a crucial new method called “forensic investigative genetic genealogy,” or FIGG, officials said.

The technique combines DNA technology and genealogical investigation and involves the city's Office of the Medical Examiner collaborating with the NYPD's Investigative Genetic Genealogy Squad.

Officials said the approach has also allowed researchers to identify the recently discovered remains of three victims, providing additional closure for their families. David DeTurris

Sad farewell, then rescue

An electrician stranded for more than six hours inside a 130-foot-tall sign at an Illinois gas station had recorded a final goodbye to his wife and kids because he was so terrified he wouldn't make it out alive.

AJ Gow became trapped inside the swaying, sweltering sign last month after his lift malfunctioned while he was working on it at the station in Wilmington, about an hour southwest of Chicago.

While he was not initially concerned, his condition started to deteriorate after about four hours inside of the sign without water. Patrick Reilly

DORCEY APPLYRS Mayor takes off amid crisis.

Vacay shunned in Albany

Albany's Democratic mayor whizzed off to a Martha's Vineyard junket the day after a firefighter and another government worker were airlifted to the hospital after a blast at a city facility.

Critics raged that newly minted Mayor Dorcey Applyrs was more than 200 miles away in the posh locale within 24 hours of Albany Fire Battalion Chief Wayne Brennan and 20-year city employee Anthony Hughes being flown in critical condition for emergency treatment after a gas pump at the city site exploded.

Applyrs glammed it up in a snazzy red jumpsuit and aviator shades for the event, which was sponsored by the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, an industry group, according to photos posted to Instagram.

"I think it's a poor showing, particularly for a relatively new mayor, to not be there," said state Sen. George Borrello (R-Chautauqua). Vaughn Golden

Teen shot dead at Bx. car meet

A teen was fatally shot and two other people struck by gunfire when a Bronx car meetup devolved into chaos over the weekend, authorities and sources said.

Werling Mendez, 18, was killed by a bullet to the head in the violence-wracked gathering — part of a social-media-fueled street-showdown trend — around 5:40 a.m. Sunday on East 233rd Street near Boston Road in Eastchester, cops said.

No arrests had been made by Monday, and no suspect information was available.

Joe Marino, Amanda Woods

MANHOLEY 'MOLE'Y MYSTERY

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BREACH: This viral video of men climbing out of a manhole last week first tipped cops off to the possible security concern.

By KEVIN SHEEHAN, JOE MARINO, LARRY CELONA and JORGE FITZ-GIBBON

The NYPD on Monday said no busts have yet been made involving the “mole people” who climbed from a manhole just feet from the main entrance to Penn Station last week — terrifying the public.

"I just immediately thought, reconnaissance, 9/11," an Arizona tourist named Mark told The Post in packed Herald Square.

"If you're an Iranian soldier, you need to cripple New York City? Under Penn Station? Under Madison Square Garden? Aren't all the train lines crisscrossing here?"

A trio of underground scofflaws was caught on video at 4:19 a.m.

Aug. 18 wearing headlamps and overalls and pulling themselves out of a sanitation and drainage manhole at the southeast corner of West 31st Street and Seventh Avenue — about 150 feet from Penn Station — then rushed away.

Police probe

A worker with nearby Penn 2 developer Vornado Realty Trust said he was aware that cops had been snooping around the tourist-and business-choked area collecting potential surveillance footage of the creepy nightcrawlers.

"The more they told me about it, the more I wanted to get transferred to another area," he said.

The disturbing incident was eerily similar to two “mole people” sightings in Brooklyn earlier in the year, which led to a handful of arrests involving people who cops believe were hunting for valuables.

Police have collected surveillance footage to try to ID the three people via facial-recognition technology, law-enforcement sources said.

Cops only became aware of the incident Sunday after other video of the “mole people” went viral on social media.

"The NYPD is aware of the incident and is actively investigating," the department told The Post on Monday. "There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing."

A law-enforcement source said, "There is nothing to indicate there is any criminal activity here besides trespassing ... but who knows what someone is doing down there if they are looking to cause [trouble].”

“Mostly people who do this think there’s treasure. Precious metals. Lost property,” another source said, calling it “not uncommon.”

While it is “not ideal from a security standpoint,” this source said, it’s the city Department of Environmental Protection’s “infrastructure to secure.”

A DEP rep Monday referred The Post to a statement issued Sunday, saying an inspection revealed no damage to the infrastructure.

“Members of the public should never enter a pipe, drain, catch basin, manhole or outfall,” it said.

House presses Qns. DA on sanctuary info

The House Judiciary Committee is renewing a May request to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz to hand over all records on migrants accused of crimes who have received “preferential treatment” by her office as a result of “sanctuary” policies.

Katz's office was asked to hand over the records by June 10, but had claimed 10th Amendment protections in order to ignore the request, according to a Monday letter from Judiciary Committee leaders obtained by The Post.

"Your pro-criminal alien policies appear intentionally designed to thwart this authority," charged Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Chairman Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) in the letter.

The House panel advanced legislation this year seeking to stop sanctuary jurisdictions from flouting immigration laws — and called out New York officials for not honoring a majority of detainer requests.

Many of the left-leaning jurisdictions oppose coordinating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, requiring officers to obtain judicial warrants or jump through other hoops before handing over migrants charged with crimes.

Reps for Katz's office didn't respond immediately to a request for comment.

Josh Christenson

Eddie son has 'Raw' talent

COMEDY sources tell us that live in New York on Saturday night, one of Eddie Murphy's kids, Myles Murphy, did a surprise set at the West Side Comedy Club. And he then got a history lesson on his dad backstage!

"He's only been performing for less than a year," a source said of Myles, 33, the fourth of Eddie's 10 children. "He got up, did his set, and he's really good ... Though everyone remarked how handsome he was."

We hear that after the set, Myles chopped it up with some comics who reminisced about his dad back in the day, including the ubiquitous Jeffrey Gurian. "Jeffrey got to sit with Myles for almost an hour, telling him stories about his dad that he never heard before," said a witness. "One story in particular involved Joe Piscopo," an "SNL" cast member in 1980 while Eddie was a featured player. One Saturday, "the show was running short" and a producer asked Piscopo to "do five minutes of comedy. Joe was such a nice guy, and was a fan of Eddie's, and he suggested [Eddie] do the five-minute spot and give him the big break."

"Eddie called his manager [Richie Tienken] in a panic," we hear Gurian told Myles. "He wasn't sure he should do it. Richie asked him why and Eddie said, 'Because I curse!' So Richie said, 'Well don't curse!' Eddie did the five minutes — and cursed … That five minutes became a blessing for Eddie."

"When it came time to renew his contract on ‘SNL,’” our spy continued, “Richie went in to negotiate. Richie reminded them that Eddie saved the show by doing the five minutes, so they made him a regular cast member and his salary went from \$750 a week to \$3,000.”

We hear that when Gurian was driving home after meeting Myles, he was listening to Piscopo's live radio show on WABC — talking about Eddie. Night owl Gurian stopped at home in Midtown to throw on a sports jacket, then “ran over” to where his old pal Piscopo was broadcasting. Gurian got on the guest mike and told the Myles story live on the air.

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Party affiliation

FORMER Mayor Eric Adams was spotted partying into the wee hours in the Hamptons this weekend. A source tells us they saw the nightlife-loving pol at a 70th birthday bash for his former deputy mayor, power lawyer Randy Mastro. We're told Adams gave a toast at Mastro's home, where the birthday boy serenaded guests with a rendition of Frank Sinatra's "My Way." Medallion Financial CEO Andrew Murstein and Vornado real estate kingpin Steven Roth were also on the scene. Adams wasn't ready to end the night there. He was later spotted with 75 Main owner Zach Erdem at nightclub Common Ground where, according to a spy, "Adams kept the party going until 2 a.m."

Naturist habitat

CHRISTIE Brinkley and her daughters, Sailor Brinkley Cook and Alexa Ray Joel, got an eyeful at Project Zero's fund-raiser Celebration for Coral at Maison Close Southampton. We're told that halfway through the event, guests were treated to a cheeky burlesque show, prompting Brinkley (above) to joke that the benefit should have been called "Strip for Coral Restoration." Ooh la la! Also in attendance were Alexandra Richards, WWD editorial director Michael Atmore, publicist Kelly Brady, Georgia Cohen and Sophie Curtis.

Change for 'Five'

Model Brooks Nader looks strapping in a siren-red ensemble as she goes night shopping on Capri, Italy, perhaps to purchase the rest of her dress' neckline.

OX News is moving Emily Compagno to a full-time seat on "The Five," promoting the longtime network personality from "Outnumbered" to one of cable news' most-watched programs. Compagno will join Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino and Jesse Watters on Sept. 8. Compagno said, “Having an official seat at the table on what I truly believe is the most fun show on television is an incredible privilege.”

Scrumming duo

ANNALYNNE McCord tied the knot with former rugby player Danny Cipriani over the weekend after crowdfunding for their nuptials. "90210" star McCord, 39, and Cipriani, 38 — who have a combined net worth of \$8 million — asked for donations to cover their \$100 marriage license, \$1,000 toward the rehearsal dinner and \$1,200 for wedding floral arrangements. The total amount of donations was at \$14,200 on Friday, per the US Sun. Following their LA wedding, they're reportedly holding two more ceremonies, in London and in Cambodia.

Words to Liv by

OLIVIA Munn says confidence looks different to her now. “It’s less about proving something and more about knowing who I am,” she tells Page Six. As the new face for Anne Klein, Munn (above) says she’s embracing a chapter defined by evolution and gratitude after becoming a mother and being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023. She underwent a double mastectomy as part of four surgeries in 10 months. “Strength can be asking for help, setting a boundary, changing your mind, resting, or admitting that something is hard,” says Munn, 46. “There is strength in vulnerability.” The actress, who is married to comedian John Mulaney, is also a women’s health advocate and encourages asking doctors “the extra question,” she said. “Get the second opinion if you need one. If something doesn’t feel right, keep asking.”

Meg maid to 'offend' staff

MEGHAN Markle had trouble staffing her Montecito mansion with housekeepers before the family's move from California back to the UK. "She had trouble hiring maids because a lot of the housekeepers in Montecito didn't want to work for them," a source exclusively claimed to Page Six. "Meghan would interview people herself and could come across as

"Really snobbish and Yader some of them were to conclude by the way she spoke to them that word started getting around." The source added of Markle and Prince Harry, "It got to the point where people would joke that all the maids in Montecito hated them." Reps for the couple did not get back to us. In June 2025, four staffers left the couple's team, Page Six confirmed at the time, including their deputy press secretary in LA and their UK press officer. A source also confirmed that two more members of their private team have departed in recent weeks, reports PageSix.com's Sarah Jones. During

Markle's time as a working royal in the UK, she had been accused of bullying by palace aides, resulting in an investigation. The findings were never released and Markle denied the claims. A Montecito insider previously told Page Six they “couldn’t be more thrilled” that the royals are leaving.

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Visitors find oasis in Israel

Life goes on for crowds of locals and tourists enjoying Geula Beach in Tel Aviv.

FRIENDS just returned from three weeks in Israel. It was family functions — weddings, bar mitzvahs, veal cutlet dinners, who knows what.

What they said after their return:

"You wouldn't know the country was in chaos. Beaches are packed. The big obstacle is getting a reservation at a coveted restaurant.

"The wedding was on the waterfront of ancient Roman-era Caesarea. The bridal canopy waterside. Hors d'oeuvres, cocktails. The couple emerged along a parapet built by the Crusaders. Atheists, they wrote their own vows. The marriage performed by a friend. Bride and groom stomped on the traditional glass recalling the destruction of the Temple 2,000 years ago. Then eating and dancing till midnight.

“Hotel Dan Caesarea was packed. Said a couple from London, ‘We usually go to Spain — but with the outburst of antisemitism, we came here where we knew we’d be welcome.’”

More notes on the trip:

"It was an afternoon at the movies ('Minions & Monsters'), then strolling the mall in North Tel Aviv, which had Chanel, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren. Plus Israeli brands.

“Another day, brunch at a packed countryside dairy farm. This 10-minute drive from the chaos of the West Bank sold homemade jams, oils, macaroons, breads, cakes. An Arab-Israeli family — Mom, Dad, two kids gorged on the sandwiches and pastries.

"Weekend was at Jerusalem's King David Hotel. A nighttime tour of frenetic Mahane Yehuda market, sampling Libyan, Syrian, Polish, Palestinian, Turkish foods washed down with Israeli wine. Next day, the park and pool were glorious. Then, feast at an Arab restaurant. A lit garden under the trees in a village in the Jerusalem Hills. Almost surreal.

Tribe of inventors

AMERICA'S film industry was shaped by Jewish immigrants. Barbie? Jewish creator Ruth Handler, daughter of Jewish immigrants. Teddy bear? Created by Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian Jewish immigrants. Shopping cart invented by Sylvan Goldman, Jewish businessman from Oklahoma. Pushing groceries? A Jewish inventor is helping you.

Jewish physicist Robert Adler? Key inventor behind TV's wireless remote. Home video game console? Developed by Ralph Baer, a Jew who fled Nazi Germany. The child Germany rejected —

known as the father of home video games. His invention paved the way for PlayStation and Xbox.

Even inside your stomach, Israel may be present. Swallow a tiny capsule containing a camera, that's PillCam technology pioneered by Israeli engineer Gavriel Iddan.

Eighty-plus years ago, Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews. Today, the sovereign Jewish state is helping Germany, with defense technology capable of protecting German cities and lives.

And for this information we in New York thank Nadav Peretz.

“Rooms were with family north of Tel Aviv. Ritzy 10-story apartment building, four bedrooms, two bathrooms. A bedroom was also the apartment's fortified safe room.”

Flying back was Lufthansa, Air France, Swiss, KLM. They flew home nonstop — to the problems of their own country.

AND back in the USA, our most famous city is inhaling the stench of anti-semitism.

Our world-famous universities teach hate.

It's parades, signs, van- dalism in synagogues.

United States of America. One for all and all for one. E pluribus unum.

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.

5 found dead in Oregon

The bodies of five people and several dead animals were discovered on a rural Oregon property Saturday — before the “quintuple homicide” suspect was found dead by suicide in a car, according to authorities.

Five people and “several” domesticated animals were found dead on a remote property outside of Forest Grove, 25 miles east of Portland, just before 5:30 a.m., according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.

Firefighters stumbled upon the grim scene while responding to a report of a vehicle fire and called law enforcement to investigate, police said.

The suspect, identified as Benjamin Charles Parker, 36, was later found dead inside a car in Enumclaw — a small city roughly 50 miles southwest of Seattle. Parker died by apparent suicide, police announced Sunday.

The identities of the five victims have not yet been released, and authorities have not yet said whether any of them were related.

No details have been revealed about the manner in which the five people were murdered, or how the vehicle fire and dead animals are related to the investigation. Zoe Hussain

Nude man with girl, 14

A naked man was nabbed with an undressed 14-year-old girl in a car at a wildlife sanctuary on Long Island over the weekend, cops said.

Victor Elizade, 19, was busted by a Southampton town cop who stumbled on the seamy sight while on patrol at the David Sarnoff nature preserve in Riverside on Suffolk County's East End just after 9 p.m. Saturday, according to police.

The teen was arrested but only charged with endangering the welfare of a child and released with a desk-appearance ticket for a later date, authorities said. Attempts to contact Elizade were unsuccessful. Brandon Cruz

Ivanka Trump shows off her surfing skills during a family vacation to Costa Rica. President Trump's daughter, 44, hit the waves Sunday sporting a white wet suit top and black bottoms, styling her hair in a braid.

BACKGRID

JUDGED ME ALL WRONG

Thomas color war

By RYAN KING

WASHINGTON — A defiant Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas declared himself a “walking contradiction” to his critics for refusing to bow to social pressure for black Americans to have liberal political views.

The high court's second-long-est-serving justice in US history explained in a podcast interview how he's resisted pressure over the decades as one of the most prominent black conservative figures in the country.

"When I came to this town, one of the greatest difficul-"

ties, if you think about it, was that there were those who thought that I should think a certain way," Thomas (above), 78, lamented on

the “Verdict with Ted Cruz” podcast. “They said, ‘Oh, you’re

confused.' Well, I'm not confused. You're confused. You confuse me with someone who's been in indentured servitude or something," he continued on the episode that dropped Monday.

"But at any rate, they think that here's the way you're supposed to think again ... [because of] your skin color. There's this kind of deterministic view that you're supposed to think this because we say so."

Thomas, the second black justice to serve on the Supreme Court, spoke with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at the senator's book release for "Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas" on Tuesday.

Turning point

Thomas had been a “left-wing radical” during his youth, per Cruz’s description, attending an anti-war demonstration at Harvard Square in April 1970 that devolved into an angry riot.

At the time, Thomas had been attending the College of the Holy Cross and was disillusioned with the Catholic Church, frustrated with its lack of moral clarity on racism.

But Thomas explained that the riot was a turning point for him.

“I think that was the Road to Damascus moment,” Thomas said.

"[I] walked in front of the chapel because I was exhausted but couldn't sleep," Thomas explained about what happened after the riot. "I asked God to take hate out of my heart. And I said, 'If you take a hate out of my heart, I will never hate again.'

“And that was the moment for me, when I began to move in a more positive direction.”

Pushing new rules to maintain power

Pushing new rules Zo zings B'klyn's Dem chief

By PETER SENZAMICI

Mayor Mamdani on Monday accused the leader of the Brooklyn Democratic Party of trying to “circumvent the will of voters,” as she proposed last-minute rule changes that could help her hold on to power.

Chairwoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, a state assemblywoman representing Central Brooklyn, is pushing a proposal to dramatically boost the number of voting members who will choose the party's leader in the fall.

It comes after a group of reform-oriented Dems won 22 district-leader seats in the June primary, enough to oust Bichotte Hermelyn and cast off the party machine's long reign at next month's party convention.

“I very much oppose these proposed changes, by the current Brooklyn Democratic Party chair,” Mamdani said Monday. “I oppose them because they are an attempt to circumnavigate the will of voters.”

The reformers, New Kings Democrats, are suing Bichotte Hermelyn over her attempt to rewrite the party rulebook, demanding a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge halt the move ahead of a critical Tuesday night meeting at which the changes will be voted on.

CONTROL PANEL: Mayor Mamdani (left) ripped Brooklyn Democratic Chairwoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn (above) for trying to change party rules so she can hold on to power.

The changes would all but assuredly cancel out the June results, argues the suit, filed by district leader Julio Peña III, the nominee of the reform Dems and presumed next party chair.

No 'bossism'

“Brooklyn can’t turn back to bossism and the worst days of Vito Lopez,” Peña said last week, referring to the late, disgraced Brooklyn Dem party chair who tried to pull off a similar “packing” move in 2010, but at a smaller scale.

Bichotte Hermelyn put out a video unveiling the rule changes last week, and claiming they were about “expanding participation.”

“We want to create a perception of inclusiveness,” she told NY1.

Dems at all levels of local government have slammed the move, including state Party Chair Jay Jacobs. State Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Chuck Schumer.

“Given the clear results of the June Democratic primary in Brooklyn, the party should not change the rules in the middle of the game,” Schumer said Monday.

The rules include adding over a dozen new voting members to the party's executive committee, potentially entrenching Bichotte Hermelyn as chair. The changes would also mandate a nearly insurmountable $85\%$ support threshold for future amendments.

The changes would also allow the chair to exert almost unilateral control over judicial endorsements and the judge-selection process in Brooklyn, which is still heavily party-based.

Bichotte Hermelyn didn't return a request for comment.

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Dr.: 'Killer' mom not 'psycho'

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — A psychiatrist hired by prosecutors admitted Lindsay Clancy was in a “serious psychiatric state,” but still maintained she should be held criminally responsible for killing her three kids.

“She was in a serious psychiatric state, and she was suffering,” Dr. Avram Mack testified Monday morning during a tense grilling by Clancy’s lawyer.

Mack was one of the last three witnesses expected to testify before jurors are likely to begin deliberating later this week in the high-profile murder trial that is being livestreamed and has captivated the nation, drawing supporters of Clancy to show up in droves at the Plymouth courthouse.

Still, Mack, an expert brought in by prosecutors, has maintained that the 36-year-old Duxbury mother knew what she was doing was wrong when she carried out the Jan. 24, 2023, slayings of Cora, 5; Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.

Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, wants a jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity on the grounds she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis and hearing voices.

"I didn't find any evidence of psychosis in her record," said Mack, who appeared by video in court. "She did not display psychotic features," he insisted, as Reddington repeatedly grilled him about it.

Mack, a Columbia-trained doc who didn't evaluate Clancy until April 2026, said he believed she was experiencing a major depressive episode at the time she "methodically" carried out the slayings. Georgia Worrell, Priscilla DeGregory

Crash kills famed drag racer | Cops seek LI outlet thieves

A well-known veteran drag racer and Discovery star was killed in a crash during an event at a race course in southern Ohio on the weekend, according to organizers.

Chris "Block" Gordon, 40, died Saturday in the smash-up at KD Motorsports Park in South Webster, Scioto County, event organizers confirmed in a Facebook post.

"As most of you know by now, we had a devastating accident last night at the track involving our great friend and fellow racer, Chris 'Block' Gordon," KD Motorsports Park wrote in the post.

"Our staff was immedi-"

ately on scene with trained medical staff, firefighters, EMT and medical equipment, along with highly medically trained bystanders who exhausted all of their efforts at the time of the accident," organizers went on. No further details were given about the crash. Anthony Blair

Two sticky-fingered Barbie-wannabes lifted hundreds of dollars in Sephora makeup and a luxury Coach bag for each of themselves in a shoplifting spree at a Long Island outlet mall this month, cops said.

The unidentified young female filchers swiped a total of \$2,500 in the women's ing to authorities.

accessories from the two stores at the Tanger Outlets in Deer Park on Aug. 6, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.

The caught-on-camera stealing began with the thieves taking two luxury handbags worth nearly \$1,400 from the Coach outlet at around 7 p.m., accord-

The pair then made their way to the Sephora outlet in the same shopping center, where they grabbed more than \$1,000 worth of makeup products and fled, police said.

The criminals remain on the loose, officials said.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP Limiting immigration to US.

200K US visas to be nixed

President Trump's administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States, The Associated Press reported Monday.

The report cited State Department documents obtained by the AP and two US officials.

If the move materialized, it would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in US history, per the AP.

The State Department is expected to announce the revocation of B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016-26 whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, the report added, saying the action will be coordinated with the Department of Homeland Security.

The B1 and B2 visas are issued for business and tourism travel. The revocations would not necessarily result in immediate deportation, the AP said, citing officials. Reuters

Rubio, SoKo talk NoKo

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke Monday and Seoul said it agreed to maintain close communication and cooperation on resolving the North Korean nuclear issue, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

President Trump recently announced a scaling back of joint military exercises and praised nuclear-armed North Korea, while saying that Seoul had not helped his efforts to try to denuclearize Iran. Reuters

NO STOPPING HIM

MIRACLE: Fergus Farrell nearly had his spinal cord severed in 2018, leaving him in a wheelchair (below). After years of rehab, he's walking across the US (right).

Walking US years after injury

to a rehabilitation

By McKENZIE BEARD

The odds have never meant much to Fergus Farrell.

In 2018, the Irishman was given a 5% chance of ever walking again after a workplace injury left him paralyzed from the ribcage down.

Nearly eight years later, after a grueling recovery, he's hitting the open road for a 3,000-mile trek across the US — entirely on foot.

"If anybody tells me I can't do something, by God, I'll do my damndest to do it," Farrell, 46, told The Post. "It's all about taking a small step at a time."

Those small steps add up: Six million or so from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Santa Monica Pier in just 75 days.

"When I walk across America, it's to create awareness for people living with spinal-cord injuries, but it's also for my kids," said Farrell, who kicked off his mission Saturday. "I want to show them that when you get up and work hard, you can do whatever you want."

'Explosion' in back

Motor-coach operator Farrell was overseeing his fleet of 35 buses on Oct. 26, 2018, when he bent down to lift a metal bench and felt a “massive explosion” in his back, dropping him to the

ground in pain.

He soon realized he couldn't feel his legs, and later learned that he had ruptured two discs in his back — one of which had nearly severed his spinal

He was airlifted across Ireland to the National Spinal Unit in Dublin, where doctors operated immediately. But when he woke up, he said, "I still couldn't connect to my feet."

The pain was excruciating. Any feeling from the ribcage down was “completely gone.” Then the surgeon sat down beside him and put a hand on his shoulder.

Courtesy of Fergus Farrell

“I’m sorry, Fergus, but you’ve been very, very unlucky,” Farrell recalled him saying.

The doctor then gave him a stark prognosis: "If you get moving within the next 72 hours, you have a 5% chance of getting some sort of strength back. However, if you don't get movement after 72 hours, your stats go down to zero. You'll be wheelchair-

For weeks, Farrell still couldn't budge. Then, on the 21st day after the accident, came a breakthrough: a

tiny twitch in his toe.

“That was a massive moment for me,” he said. He was transferred

hospital, where he spent months pushing his body to its limits, constantly in pain and using morphine to get a bit of sleep. But he began to improve: Little by little, movement returned.

Once he returned to Galway, though, he started to feel like a “prisoner” in his own home, restricted to a wheelchair and struggling to navigate the world. His marriage was unraveling, too.

“Have you ever heard that saying, ‘The empty mind is a dangerous mind?’ ” he said. “When I got home, I was seeing all the negatives rather than the positives.”

Saved by a friend

He nearly ended his life, saved only by the grace of a “good friend.” He spent a week in a psychiatric ward.

“It was the best thing I ever did,” Farrell said. “I found out, for the first time at 39 years of age, who I was, not what I was.”

That person? One who excelled in the face of a challenge.

Farrell trained to walk 128 miles across Ireland on the first anniversary of his exit from the rehabilitation hospital. In the years since, Farrell has rowed seven marathons, run four ultramarathons and even attempted to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean in 2022.

Today, Farrell is an inspirational speaker and mental-health advocate.

His cross-country trek is aimed at raising awareness of spinal injuries and money for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation and Spinal Injuries Ireland.

Farrell will cross 11 states, slogging through mountains, deserts, prairies and farmland while racking up roughly 80,000 steps a day. By the time he reaches the West Coast, he expects to have burned through eight pairs of shoes.

He Sayed what?!

Sen. hopeful defends minors' sex surgery

CUT IT OUT: After arguing that the government shouldn't get involved in transgender medical procedures for children, Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (right) asked Fox News' Jesse Watters (inset) if he was circumcised.

By VICTOR NAVA

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed got extremely personal with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday during a bizarre defense of sex change surgery for minors.

"Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?" El-Sayed bluntly asked the "Jesse Watters Primetime" host after arguing that the government shouldn't get involved in transgender medical procedures for children.

Watters was floored by the question.

“Jesse, are you?” El-Sayed pressed.

"Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that's a personal question — doctor," Watters responded.

El-Sayed, seemingly convinced that he ended the debate with Watters, suggested: "You probably should want to move on."

“Circumcision is different than castration!” Watters fired back.

Undeterred, El-Sayed argued that it's a “problem” that Watters believes the government should step in to outlaw sex-change surgeries for minors but not circumcisions.

"I'm just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's ding-aling," the former public health official told Watters. "So if you really want to bring that up, you can ... I just think you guys are really selective about these things."

'Sick stuff'

Watters described El-Sayed's position as "wacky" and "sick."

“Abdul, Michigan’s not going for that. That is sick stuff,” he said.

The Fox host followed up by asking El-Sayed if he was in favor of “boys playing in girls’ sports,” which irritated the Senate hopeful.

"You have not asked me one time about the issues that people

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actually care about in Michigan," he fumed. "You can play this game if you want.

"I just want to understand what you're getting at here."

"I'm getting at whether you think men should play in women's sports . . . it's a big issue," Watters asked again.

El-Sayed dodged the question, arguing: "At the end of the day, the decision of who gets to play what sports ought to be decided by the people who govern sports."

He then called it “insane” that Watters would pose him such a question.

"I'm running for US Senate," he said. "Jesse, this is insane."

Earlier in the interview, El-Sayed refused to say how much his proposal to socialize the healthcare system would cost; would not answer a question about the size of the US budget; and declined to explain why he allegedly suggested the “NFL was racist.”

The far-left pol also expressed support for both arresting some criminal illegal migrants and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement — seemingly suggesting the US should bring back the long-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service to handle immigration enforcement.

"It's a bureaucratic game you're playing," Watters said in response. "And that's a dodge."

El-Sayed will face Republican nominee Mike Rogers, a former congressman and FBI special agent, in a midterm contest that could decide which party controls the Senate next year.

El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) earlier this month in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. The contest was viewed as a “battle for the soul of the Democratic Party” because it pitted a mainstream candidate against a far-left challenger.

Pardon, but beware of clemency scammers

President Trump's pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson warned of scammers asking for money in the booming clemency industry, where a presidential pardon can cost millions.

Johnson, who was named by Trump as his pardon czar in February 2025, said she became aware that fraudsters were pretending to be her and asking for cash in exchange for clemency assistance.

"If someone contacts you claiming to represent me and asks for money or sensitive information, please report it immediately to law enforcement," she wrote in a post on social media. "People seeking a second chance deserve hope – not

exploitation."

She said neither she nor the pardon office would ever ask for money for a clemency “processing fee.” She said she would never guarantee presidential review in exchange for cash.

Clemency clients have paid firms and fixers millions to advocate for their pardons. None of the money goes to Trump, but a massive pardon industry has grown around his presidency. Emily Goodin

GLENN PYSHER Shot and killed by police.

'Wrong house' student slaying

An unarmed New Jersey college student was fatally shot by cops after mistakenly attempting to enter a stranger's home instead of his friend's following a night of bar-hopping, according to his family.

Glenn “Bubba” Pysher, 22, was out celebrating a friend’s birthday at a local bar in Upper Pottsgrove, Pa., on Saturday night when the group decided it was time to move the party to the friend’s house, his mother, Erin Pysher, told WPVI.

Pysher decided to walk to his pal's house but instead "ended up at the wrong house after having a few drinks," she told the outlet.

"He didn't know that, so he was knocking on the door saying, 'Hey, let me in.' Thinking it was his friend's house, but it wasn't," she said.

Just before 12:30 a.m., local cops rushed to respond to a 9ll call of a possible attempted break-in at the residence where Pysher attempted to enter, according to the Montgomery District Attorney's Office.

The couple inside the home had gotten startled and called police, the outlet reported.

Cops found Pysher in the rear of the residence, where an “encounter ensued” — leading officers to fatally shoot him, authorities said.

“12:32, he was on the phone with his friends. By 12:35, I believe he’s already shot. So, within a few minutes, the cop pulled up and shot him. He was unarmed. He had a cellphone and a book bag,” his devastated mom said. Zoe Hussain

US takes Syria off terror list

The State Department has formally moved to take Syria off its state sponsors of terrorism list as the Trump administration continues to mend fences with Damascus, the Treasury Department announced.

The decision to drop Syria's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism was announced weeks ago and is subject to congressional review. Syria has had a designation of state sponsor of terrorism from the US since 1979.

“This action unlocks new potential for Syria’s economic revitalization and progress,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said of the move. “The Trump Administration continues to advance US national security to achieve peace, prosperity, and security in the Middle East.”

A state sponsor of terrorism means that a designated country is black-listed from critical foreign aid and military exports and is subject to financial penalties.

Since the toppling of the Bashar al-Assad regime in late 2024, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has worked to normalize relations with the United States and has lobbied for his country to be removed from all blacklists.

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Mom finds dying son

A Queens man was stabbed to death late Sunday just steps from his home, where his mother found him bleeding out, according to cops.

José Scott, 33, was knifed multiple times on Merrick Boulevard near 221st Street in Laurelton, less than 60 feet from his home, at around 9:45 p.m., authorities said.

Scott's mother found her bloody son and called the police, sources said.

He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries, cops said.

Joe Marino and Amanda Woods

\$100M endowment wasted: critics

By ISABEL VINCENT

NY State Courts

An embattled Harlem nonprofit accused of squandering tens of millions meant for the area's regeneration is hobbled by its feckless board, sources tell The Post.

Frustrated with the West Harlem Development Corp.'s failure to capitalize on its near \$100 million endowment from Columbia University, sources blame the long-procrastinating board, which has failed to make any significant investments to benefit the community.

The fund has dwindled to \$56 million and the 13 board members, many of whom have degrees from Ivy League universities, appear beholden to its chair, ex-Judge Milton Tingling, and loathe to challenge him, one former member told The Post.

The nonprofit is also being sued by former board member and employee Vincent Morgan, who alleges antisemitism, racism and harassment by the group's executive director, Zead Ramadan.

'Go off the rails'

Morgan claims Tingling called a meeting outside working hours in February 2024 at which Tingling told him “things are starting to go off the rails,” and told Morgan to check with him before raising issues, according to federal court filings.

"I'm going to say this up front: What goes on here stays here," Tingling said, according to a transcript of the meeting.

“Nobody should be going to the board. Even Zead doesn’t go to the board. He comes to me first. OK, that’s the way it has to be. There’s no direct line to the board. That’s out completely now.”

Tingling and Ramadan did not respond to requests for comment. The WHDC has denied the allegations made in Morgan's lawsuit.

Larry English, who represents Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-Harlem-Bronx) on the board, expressed his frustrations over the its inaction to The Post.

“Ultimately the money belongs

HE'S THE BOSS: Critics say the West Harlem Development Corp. accomplishes little because its board kowtows to its chair, Milton Tingling (above).

to the West Harlem community and change will only occur when we demand it," he said.

The board itself is not lacking in experience.

It includes Damon Munchus, a Harvard graduate, who worked as an aide in the Obama administration and describes himself as “a Senior Qualified Financial Expert with 25+ years experience uniting investment banking deal execution, B2B technology operating finance, and federal public-policy” on his LinkedIn profile. He declined to comment.

In April, English had introduced a motion to terminate Ramadan, who previously ran a café and had no nonprofit experience prior to assuming his role in 2020, for “a pattern of behavior characterized by systemic bigotry, professional incompetence and the cultivation of a hostile work environment,” according to a motion viewed by The Post.

In one instance, Ramadan allegedly referred to two African-American women on the board as “old black church ladies” and to Ross Frommer, a vice president of Columbia as “this messy f--king Zionist Jewish guy who has done nothing in two decades . . . he was the biggest bum . . . piece of s--t."

The motion to terminate Ramadan was denied by the board.

Earlier, board members had twice voted on whether to remove English, but he retained enough support to stay, according to documents seen by The Post.

Other board members represent Democratic City Councilmember Sean Abreu, state Assemblyman Jordan Wright and Community Board 9 chair Victor Edwards.

None returned The Post's calls for comment about the WHDC.

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Zo's \$2.3M crew to fix up playgrounds

Mayor Mamdani on Mon- day announced a 24-person "renew crew" will be em- barking on a series of blitzes to refurbish city play- grounds, recreation centers and basketball courts.

The team of plumbers, painters and other skilled workers will tackle up to 30 projects in stints of about three weeks each between

April and October annually, with \$2.3 million budgeted this year to cover the costs of the maintenance crew, City Hall officials said.

“This is a team dedicated to transforming playgrounds, sports courts, and rec centers at parks across the five boroughs,” Mamdani said at a press conference in Queens.

"The basketball hoop that is hanging on for dear life, the water fountain that has not worked since spring, or the fence that looks like it's about to give up entirely. If it is broken, this crew will fix it."

Hizzoner announced the project alongside city officials at the Dry Harbor Playground in Forest Park — as the “renew crew” kicked off its first project: repainting the basketball courts, nautical-themed climbing equipment and more.

Upwards of 5,000 complaints have been made to 311 regarding needed fixes to recreation areas over the past year, Mamdani said.

The maintenance team will address faulty horseshoe and bocce courts, rickety benches and other common park amenities in disrepair. They'll also be mulching, pruning trees and enhancing the greenery around the 9/11 memorial, city officials said.

New Yorkers can keep up with the crew's progress at NYC Parks' online tracker.

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NEW SNAP BAN FLATTENS SODA Sales decline after food-stamp changes

By ANTHONY BLAIR

It's a sugar crash.

Soda sales have fizzled out in the US after junk food was banned in some states for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients, according to a study.

Sales of soda fell around 12% among SNAP recipients after the bans were introduced in 10 states as part of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s “Make America Healthy Again” movement, STAT News reported, citing findings of a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

That translated to a person drinking roughly 34 fewer 12-ounce cans of soda per year.

The study's authors used data from the first half of 2026 on grocery purchases in 15,000 food stamp households, of which just over $20\%$ were in the 10 states that had implemented restrictions on soda, candy and other junk-food purchases.

It is the first study of its kind since the earliest state-level bans were brought in on Jan. 1 in Utah and April 1 in Texas.

Further programs were launched throughout the spring, with a total of 23 states receiving waivers from the Department of Agriculture to implement restrictions on junk food.

Bans are currently suspended in five of those states — Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee, and West Virginia — after a federal ruling.

The study's authors say the drop in sugary drink sales could reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 2.6% over the next 10 years per patient, resulting in some 34,000 fewer cases in the US.

BUBBLE POPS: Soda sales are down after junk food was banned from being bought with food stamps in some states, a study showed.

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Soda and other sweetened beverages are to blame for roughly 1 million new cases of heart disease and 2 million new type 2 diabetics worldwide each year, according to a 2025 study published in Nature Medicine.

"It leads to a billion dollars of savings for the health care system. Given how big the health care system is, it's a drop in the bucket. On the other hand, it's \$1 billion a year," said study co-author Matt Notowidigdo, economics professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Mogul divorce rages in Jersey

The ex-couple locked in New Jersey's biggest divorce battle only has one physical asset at stake, a home they bought years ago for \$3.6 million, but there's more on the table when they return to court Tuesday.

John Overdeck, 56, will resume his testimony in a Newark courtroom as he tries to keep estranged wife Laura Overdeck from successfully claiming a 35% stake in his Two Sigma Investments hedge fund.

A win by the wife not only would net her a staggering \$6.2 billion but also potentially tip the precarious balance of power atop the \$80 billion hedge fund, where the husband is battling for control against fellow co-founder David Siegel.

John Overdeck testified last week about his concerns that the rancorous divorce proceeding and dispute with Siegel could harm Two Sigma — a claim his soon-to-be ex-wife's lawyer, Theresa Lyons, challenged.

"Isn't it true that since the complaint for divorce has been filed, and since all of the press, the amount of assets under management at Two Sigma has actually increased?" she asked.

John Overdeck replied, "Yes, that's correct."

The tough questioning could be Laura Overdeck's only chance to press her case that her husband's stake in Two Sigma is a marital asset, as she was barred from taking the stand or calling expert witnesses after New Jersey state Family Court Judge Bruce Buechler found she hacked her estranged hubby's email.

The Overdecks married in 2002 without a prenuptial agreement, meaning they must split their assets.

His camp has offered his ex more than \$600 million.

John Overdeck contends the Manhattan-based Two Sigma was founded years before their marriage while his wife argues it effectively only existed on paper, with no real assets when they tied the knot. Matt Troutman and Peter Senzamici

Bad dad suicide 911 call

A newly surfaced 911 call recording captures the moment an Arizona father who left his daughter to die in a hot car while he watched porn was found dead by suicide, just hours before he was set to turn himself in to prison.

Christopher Scholtes, 38, was discovered dead inside the garage of his \$1 million Phoenix home by a family nanny on Nov. 5, 2025, the Daily Mail reported.

The nanny discovered Scholtes at around 5:20 a.m., moments after he deliberately gassed himself with the exhaust from his Honda S2000, and she quickly called 911.

“He’s in our home garage. It’s suicide, it’s suicide,” the nanny says. “He’s not breathing, and I can’t find a pulse.”

The nanny is then heard telling operators that smoke is billowing out of the garage and into the house.

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POSTOPINION Target: Target FAST TAKES Urbanist: Vagrants Are Not Our 'Neighbors'

Weingarten's war on store — at kids' expense

Michael Nigro
Wrong priority: AFT sides with anti-Target protesters over ICE policies

RANDI Weingarten knows full well that back-to-school shopping hits household budgets hard. Teachers dig into their own pockets for classroom supplies; families stretch every dollar to cover notebooks, backpacks and clothes.

Yet the president of the American Federation of Teachers is using this very moment to push shoppers toward stores that employ unionized workers — even when those retailers are pricier.

Weingarten has launched an all-out campaign, complete with a dedicated website and a raft of print and digital ads, aimed at convincing teachers and parents to steer clear of Target.

The reason has nothing to do with the chain's prices or product quality — and everything to do with partisan politics.

Per its own public materials, the AFT launched its “Shop Smart, Support Working Families” campaign because Target has refused to condemn the en-

forcement operations conducted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In other words, it's punishing the company for failing to

take a political stand against federal agents doing their jobs.

The union's website features a locator tool that claims it will help users find “back-to-school retailers that support union values.” I tested the union's new tool myself, entering San Antonio, Texas, as my location. Within a 10-mile radius, the site returned three stores — all of them Macy's outlets.

That's not a coincidence; the tool filters for retailers that “employ a significant number of unionized employees.” The practical result: Teachers and parents get steered toward higher-priced options during a season that Weingarten herself acknowledges is a financial strain.

Weingarten, who collects more than \$500,000 a year in total compensation, sits comfortably in the top 5% of earners. Yet while rank-and-file educators worry about covering basic classroom needs out of pocket, she deploys the union's platform for political warfare over an unrelated agenda. The mismatch is glaring.

Meanwhile, the same AFT materials note that its members' pension funds own 6.79 million shares of Target stock — a substantial stake, the union notes.

But directing members and other consumers away from a company in which those pensions

hold a large position creates an obvious risk: Any sustained drop in sales could lower the value of the very shares meant to secure members' retirements. That means the AFT's anti-Target campaign raises serious questions about fiduciary duty. Pension trustees, after all, are supposed to put the financial interests of beneficiaries first.

Using union leverage to punish a company over immigration policy — something that has no bearing on union business, or on maximizing pension-fund returns — looks like a departure from that standard.

Congress is examining Weingarten's use of more than \$1.4 million in union dues and resources to produce and promote her 2025 book equating conservatives with fascists. The Justice Department should open a parallel inquiry into whether the AFT has deployed its pension funds and union power to bully companies over purely political disagreements.

Fiduciaries can't treat investment holdings as weapons in culture battles: The law requires them to focus on economic returns for the workers whose money is at stake.

Actions like Weingarten's damage the teaching profession itself. Most educators entered the classroom to help students, not to serve as foot soldiers in someone else's political war.

When union leadership prioritizes immigration disputes and book promotion over classroom realities, it leaves teachers looking like partisan actors rather than professionals.

The AFT's relentless focus on political projects helps explain why so many teachers feel abandoned — and student outcomes remain dismal. New York City schools spend more than \$40,000 per student each year, yet 43% of its students attend schools where more than half their classmates fail to reach proficiency in math or reading. Money alone doesn't produce results when leadership energy goes elsewhere.

Teachers committed to instruction, not ideology, reject this model. Over the past year, more than 16,000 educators have abandoned the AFT and other teachers' unions to join the Teacher Freedom Alliance, an alternative organization that focuses on the classroom, not on political score-settling.

Back-to-school season should be about getting kids ready to learn. Instead, the AFT is making it another front in its political battle. Directing members toward more expensive stores while their pensions hold Target stock is hardly smart shopping.

Teachers and parents deserve better than lectures on immigration enforcement when they're simply trying to get by.

Corey DeAngelis is a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

"A Los Angeles city councilman just coined a new appellation for the drug-addicted vagrants who colonize city streets. They are ‘our neighbors,’” fumes City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald. Hah! “‘Neighbor’ traditionally conjures the image of someone with an equal stake in one’s community as oneself,” while “the occupants of the feces- and drug-strewn trash sites” euphemistically called “encampments” “contribute nothing, pay no rent or taxes, and inevitably bring lawlessness and predation.” They “almost invariably” turn down offered shelter and because “they want no interference with their unrestricted drug use.” “Would [Hugo] Soto-Martinez and his fellow DSA members ask an encampment occupant to watch their children while they run an errand” as “one might with an actual neighbor? The instinctive answer is: Of course not!”

Fiscal watch: AOC's 'Craaaazy' Theory Lives On

“Remember modern monetary theory?” asks The Wall Street Journal’s Ally sia Finley. That was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “craaaazy” Woke 1 economic view that deficits don’t matter because government can print money and then raise taxes to tame inflation. And that predicted “what the government did during the pandemic,” leading to “persistent inflation and a \$40 trillion debt.” Yet “MMT still undergirds” Democrats’ agenda, even if they’ve “retired the term.” Fed boss Kevin Warsh “wants no part of MMT,” but the left still pushes taxes: Sen. Bernie Sanders backs “a 5% wealth tax”; AOC proposed a “70% top marginal rate on income.” She’s still pushing the “the woke economic idea that raiding the rich can pay for their wildest spending dreams.” What will it take “for them to wake up?”

From the right: Rise of the Hatemongers

By “commodifying rage,” Hasan “Piker is reportedly raking in a fortune, as are other hatemongers like Jennifer Welch,” seethes Jonathan Turley at Fox News. On his Fear& LIVE tour, Piker led a “crowd in the meme song ‘We Are Charlie Kirk,’” all “laughing with joy.” The “essence of this movement” — where “hatemongers on the left want to enjoy hate speech while accusing others of hate and intolerance” — is “to desensitize people, particularly young people, to violence and hate.” In our current “age of rage,” these new “berserkers offer the chance to hate completely and without remorse or reflection,” turning political violence and assassination into “nothing more than a sing-a-long.”

Conservative: Raskin's Antisemitism 180

Jamie Raskin has “offered a preview” of the “Democrats’ game plan” if they win the House this November, warns Bill Barr at The Free Press: He means to probe supposed Team Trump’s “false claims of antisemitism” at the Ivies, which he calls “an open-sea fishing expedition” based solely on a Post article. But “this completely rewrites history,” as “the crisis of antisemitism in higher education” has “been unfolding in plain sight” since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and Gaza war “prompted anti-Israel students and activists to unleash a tsunami of harassment, intimidation, and violence against Jews on campuses throughout the country.” When the “investigation actually began,” Raskin said he was “shocked and as-

Jamie Raskin

tonished" at academic antisemitism. Now, notes Barr, he's turned in "the direction in which the political winds are blowing," since "anti-Zionism and antisemitism" pay "good dividends" in the Democratic Party these days.

Justice beat: DEI Ignores Reality

Despite constitutional prohibitions on racial preferences and Americans' opposition to them, “progressives won’t give up” on DEI, observes Kevin M. Spivak at RealClearPolitics. “Their race-obsessed thinking reduces America to intersectional classifications of oppressed and oppressor” — and “no group is seen as more oppressed and deserving of preferences than African Americans.” Yet “about 12% of the students in Ivy League colleges are black”; “there are 61 black members in the House” and five black senators; 14 black billionaires and 1.4 million black millionaires; 10% of first-year medical school students are black, as are 8% of law-school students. “Progressives should respect our values”: It’s past time for “restoring equality and the dignity of blacks by ending the disgrace of DEI.” — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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Squeezing Iran's Throat

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent fired a powerful shot across Tehran's bow Monday with Operation Economic Outcast. His ultimate goal: total “economic asphyxiation of the regime” — blocking “every potential source of revenue that funds the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] and the evil Iranian regime” until it cries uncle.

For now, President Trump is pressing world leaders to halt all economic interactions with Iran; holdouts could lose access to the “US dollar system.” “Those who tether themselves to Tehran should expect to share in the isolation of a withering regime,” warns Bessent.

Team Trump also slapped sanctions on nearly 60 entities, individuals and vessels tied to Iran's “nuclear and missile technology procurement, cyber operations and oil revenue generation networks.”

The threat of sanctions on Iran's business partners is already showing signs of success: Last week, its top trading partner, the United Arab Emirates, cut off all its commercial and financial ties. That's major: The UAE supplied $30\%$ of Iran's imports and took $13\%$ of its non-oil exports.

As Bessent told The Post, Abu Dhabi's action as Washington began to launch Economic Outcast is no coincidence, but “likely causal.” And just hours before the Treasury announcement, Iran’s currency hit an all-time low — 2.02 million rials to the dollar.

That comes as inflation (now $100\%$ ) and unemployment soar. And as the US blockade has taken Iranian oil exports, the regime's chief source of income, to near zero.

"To the ordinary soldiers" of Iran, warns Bessent, "as more and more of your pay-checks stop," ask if "your commanders are leading your country to triumph or ruin."

Why only threaten countries that trade with Iran, rather impose sanctions now? To give “everyone the opportunity to remedy bad behavior,” Bessent says: “Give people a cure period, but they should know that that will move very quickly and that we are serious.”

Some — like China — may resist. They'll have to learn the hard way, with Trump actually imposing tough secondary sanctions.

Iran's leaders may try to hold out, for now, but America has the upper hand, and is tightening it around the Islamic Republic's throat. It looks like the best hope yet for a lasting end to this regime's menace to civilization.

New York's Rx for Terrible Judges

Inflicting let-'em-loose judges like Janice Robinson on the city is only one foul result of New York state's judge-picking system: It feeds plenty of corruption, too.

But let's start with how she spins the revolving doors of the criminal-justice system like a crooked roulette wheel, freeing violent criminals as soon as they're arraigned.

Her egregious rulings include sending two alleged attempted murderers strutting out of court with no bail set at all; she's never OK'd a prosecutor's bail recommendations.

She's the all-too-typical fruit of the poisoned tree of the state's rotten court system.

It's the last vestige of Tammany-style bossism: Judges picked not on merit, but by the needs of local Democratic leaders who control the party judicial-screening panels: If they put you on the ballot, you win.

This system is designed and run by insiders for insiders. And Robinson — rated “not approved" by the city Bar Association — is the niece of Nick Perry, the East Flatbush pol who served as the Assembly majority whip for two decades.

Once elected, Civil Court judges like Robinson can get bumped up to fill Criminal Court vacancies. That's normally a mayor-appointed position subject to more scrutiny, but the Dems who control the courts can promote favorites as "interim appointments."

The system rewards political hackery — and because Democratic hacks swim in a lake of “abolish prisons” and “decarceral justice” lunacy, many of the spittoon-polishers who make it to the bench are crime-friendly ideologues like Robinson. Others are venal; some care only about the paycheck.

The Legislature's made a mess of the state's criminal laws, but it's the county Democratic chiefs who burden the courts with so many worse-than-useless judges.

Tale of Two Grocery Price-Cutters

the justification for Mamdani's plan.

How does the left justify keeping Walmart out of New York City when it welcomes Mamdani Marts? So asks a lawsuit the Multicultural Business Coalition just filed.

The group (repping small, largely minority store owners) also filed a class-action suit alleging civil-rights violations if the city-owned-groceries plan goes forward.

Both cases call out the hypocrisy of the left around Gotham's small business owners — and the ugly, absurd truth of the whole Mamdani Mart project.

Progs have long worked to keep Walmart out by arguing that the little guys couldn't compete against the massive price discounts the chain has the scale to offer. Yet steep price discounts, 30% on “core goods,” are

Funny: The left sees those discounts as not just good but vital to “affordability” — but it’s worked for decades to block them if it means letting a free-market competitor set up shop. Somehow, it’s OK if it’s not Big Business but Big Brother?

Yes: Progressives viscerally detest private enterprise, especially when it's run by and caters to the folks — lower-income, minority — the left claims to care for most.

Of course, the injustices flagged by these lawsuits are just the latest contradictions within Mamdani's still-incoherent scheme. Ironically enough, the main achievement of the “city-owned grocery” push turns out to be exposing the idiocy of his entire ideology.

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Lindsay Clancy on Trial: Does She Deserve Pity?

THE ISSUE: Supporters of Lindsay Clancy, who says postpartum psychosis is why she killed her children.

- There is no excuse for what Lindsay Clancy did ("Madness of rooting for a killer," Bethany Mandel, Aug. 21).

She committed premeditated murder. She specifically asked her husband to go to the store, leaving her alone with her helpless children.

They say she needed help but couldn't get it because she was overly medicated. All she had to do was pick up the phone and call 911 and state, "I don't feel good. I need help." She knew enough to lie to her husband.

Treating mental illness is usually a guessing game for the doctor. No one knows what is going through someone's sick mind. These types of doctors' work usually winds up with them prescribing meds that could be a hit or a miss.

Regardless, Clancy is guilty of murder.

Mike Caterino Oxford, Conn.

Lindsay Clancy

- I'm a former prosecutor who has been following Clancy's case with great interest. Only in exceedingly rare circumstances do I believe that someone who committed a horrific act should escape criminal liability. This is one of them.

Clancy, along with her children, are victims, and no one has “forgotten” the children, as Mandel alleges.

This trial is a sickening spectacle designed to absolve our society of failing this mother while pointing the finger at her so we can feel superior. After all, none of us would do this, right?

But how do we know if we've never suffered in the way Clancy did?

She knows what she did to her children and to herself. This is far worse punishment than any prison sentence could ever impose. Michael Brautigam Tallinn, Estonia

- People like Clancy or Luigi Mangione value their own lives so much that they cannot conceive of paying a price for extinguishing the lives of others. Instead, they fight ferociously to save themselves.

As a mother, I can't understand how Clancy consciously waited for everyone who would prevent the tragedy to leave so she could end her children's lives. Isn't that premeditation?

Colette Curry Staten Island

• These women supporting Clancy may have been through a similar situation like her. If you yourself have not been through depression, you should not be speaking about it.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Doreen Polese Whitestone

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Harry and Meg's Overdue Exit

THE ISSUE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moving back to the United Kingdom after six years in America.

- As with any head of state's family, certain standards must be followed to instill confidence in the government ("The British are going," Aug. 20).

The Sussexes refused to adhere to the most basic of these principles. They justified their abhorrent behavior by claiming they wanted to modernize the monarchy. Well, my dears, it was never up to a failed Hollywood actress and her man-child of a husband to do so. That would be up to the British people and their parliament. Jeanne Wrobleski Philadelphia, Pa.

- When Grace Kelly came over from America, we Europeans welcomed her with open arms. When John Lennon came over to you, you shot him. Therefore, thank you for sending off Harry and Meghan in time-honored fashion.

Gerry Hinde Isle of Portland, UK - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are nothing but spoiled brats who want attention. They did not get it here.

They trashed the Royal Family and ruined all the deals that were offered to them. These two are basically useless people with no defined purpose in life. Let Britain deal with them from now on.

Gary Acerra Staten Island

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Behind Hasan's Hate

The left's sick Kirk obsession

Attention-craver: Hasan Piker (I.), with Dem wannabe Abdul El-Sayed, will never get the love and respect Charlie Kirk's followers still have for him.

DANIEL McCARTHY

ASAN Piker is deeply envious of Charlie Kirk.

The hard-left influencer debated Kirk in 2017 and was set to do so again before Kirk was murdered last year. Yet now Piker is going around mocking Kirk's assassination — leading a crowd last weekend, during his live podcast tour, in a sarcastic singalong of an AI-generated song called “We Are Charlie Kirk.”

“We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame / We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name,” Piker sang off-key, the crowd howling along, while the celebrity socialist’s co-hosts guffawed and waved their arms in the air.

This wasn't satirizing a political opponent — Kirk has been dead nearly a year. Why make him the subject of this derision? It's because Piker knows his audience, and they're not looking for thoughtful politics: They want a hatefest.

Readers of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" might remember the totalitarian leftist party that runs the dystopian state in that novel regularly held events called the “Two Minutes Hate” to whip up hostility against the regime’s enemies. Piker has improved on that: His podcast and live events like this offer more than an hour’s hate.

And nobody stirs the Piker crowd into a frenzy like Charlie Kirk. The slain Turning Point USA founder represents everything they're against, and not just because he was a widely successful conservative organizer who won young Americans away from socialism on the unfriendly campuses where he spoke — and where he ultimately died for his beliefs.

Kirk's faith in God, his devotion to his family, his happiness all infuriated his enemies. His self-sacrifice did, too, and more than anything else. He knew the risks he took by going where he wasn't welcome and speaking truths the left didn't want to hear — and was determined to prevent anyone else from hearing. Yet Kirk did it anyway, fearlessly, and put his life on the line because of the strength of his convictions.

That's what Piker's mob hates most: Charlie Kirk shamed them by showing them how much better a human being could be. So Piker knew just how enthusiastically his mockery would be received. He could count on Kirk's memory to incite a jeering frenzy.

Yet there's something more going on with Piker himself. Kirk was the man Piker can never be — and as the audience reaction shows, Kirk remains important, even to his enemies, in ways that Piker isn't.

People care deeply about Charlie Kirk's memory, whether they cherish it or resent it. Piker, a guy who broadcasts his banal existence for up to eight hours a day on the streaming platform Twitch, craves the kind of attention Kirk still commands — even in death, and even among his enemies.

One place the firebrand leftist influencer does get the notice he wants is in the Democratic Party, although Democrats are starting to feel queasy about the attention they receive from campaigning with him. Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's Democratic nominee for the US Senate, evidently feels embarrassed enough by his previous appearances with Piker that he's now having to insist Piker's not an official messenger: “Nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.”

But that's a far cry from disavowing Piker outright — even after the streamer recently threatened, “If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.” What might that mean coming from someone like Piker, who gets cheap laughs off the victim of a political murder?

Piker has also said “America deserved 9/11,” a belief his buddy El-Sayed had to squirm away from on “Meet the Press” this month. “I think Hasan himself would say that was a dumb statement,” the Senate hopeful said — tellingly trying to get not only himself but also Piker off the hook for the reprehensible remark.

Abdul El-Sayed isn't the only Democrat who's campaigned alongside Piker and welcomed his support. The Piker audience is a Democratic audience, and the party wants his support, even if Democratic candidates don't want to take responsibility for what Piker and his followers actually believe. But it's all on open display — on the Twitch stream and on stage.

Hasan Piker is Charlie Kirk's polar opposite. He's not an apostle bringing reasoned argument to audiences who disagree with him; he's a man who trades on resentment, vitriol — and not just the prospect of political violence, but its lethal reality.

THE IRONY OF DATA-CENTER DEMENTIA

WHEN American manufacturing was truly coming into its own in the early 20th century, workers sometimes labored 12-hour days for seven days a week and risked life and limb working near dangerous machinery. Factories blackened the skies of American cities and poisoned waterways.

Yet some of the same people who insist that the US economy needs to re-industrialize to return to a version of those halcyon days can't bear the thought of the construction of industrial-scale computing facilities.

They complain that data centers are unsightly and use lots of energy and water. But what do they think major factories are like? If today's standards applied, we almost certainly never would have built manufacturing facilities at scale.

Industrial buildings may look pretty in Edward Hopper cityscapes, and facilities like the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge complex had a certain majesty as captured by photographers and painters. Otherwise, factories — especially when clustered together — generally looked more like William Blake's “dark Satanic mills” than anything the average local zoning commission would want in the neighborhood. No one ever said, “God, that smokestack looks gorgeous — I wish I lived closer to it!"

Data centers have caused outrage because they look like big warehouses — but imagine the vapors everyone would have if they spewed soot over streets and houses, created slag heaps, divided neighborhoods with rail lines and other supporting infrastructure, and packed workers into subpar housing nearby.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thought she had a trump card in the anti-data center

case when she brandished two jars of dirty water from a house near a data center (the house's well was perhaps disturbed during construction). But that's nothing compared to the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, which repeatedly caught fire from 1868 to 1969 as a by-product of the sort of industry that populists on the left and right look back to fondly.

The early 20th century gave us the worst of these sort of phenomena; they were finally alleviated in the postwar years. Still, even then, factories inevitably were ugly, used a lot of water and energy, and depended on workers willing to take jobs much more hazardous than service or office work.

If we couldn't have tolerated operations using prodigious amounts of water and energy — key inputs of the Industrial Revolution — we never could've had, for instance, integrated steel mills, which suck up an unbelievable amount of water to circulate through their furnaces and account for about 5% of the entire country's energy usage.

Paper mills would have been a complete non-starter. Aluminum smelters, the largest of which used as much electricity as a city? Forget about it. Chemical plants? Oil refineries? No and no.

We hear much about Big Tech titans' arrogance, and of how anger toward them explains opposition to data centers. How does their high-handedness compare to the industrial titans of yore? Well, we haven't heard of any tech companies locking out the workers building their data centers, then sending in Pinkerton guards for a gun battle with the resisting electricians and plumbers. That's what Carnegie Steel did during the 1892 Homestead Strike near Pittsburgh.

Now, data centers don't provide the regular employment of old-school factories. The blue-collar work force needed to build them and to maintain and update them is substantial, though, and that's driving up wages in exactly the fashion everyone has long said they wanted.

It's a symptom of the perversity of the current moment that we've imposed huge tariffs on the rest of the world to — at the margins and perhaps only in theory — create more blue-collar jobs, while at the same time are preparing to turn our backs on private-industry-driven investments that will make such jobs more lucrative and plentiful.

If the tariffs are tinged by nostalgia, the data centers are meant to power the next wave of innovation. It doesn't speak well of us if the backward-looking vision is more appealing than the future-oriented one.

One of the advantages of the mass manufacturing revolution at the time is that it was at the technological and economic frontier, where large-scale productivity gains and national power are forged.

The AI revolution is at the frontier now, and it should be considered a minor miracle that an economic phenomenon all about computing power is driving a blue-collar construction boom. What's not to like?

We never would have become the country we are today if the response to the physical assets necessary for economic growth and good blue-collar work had been: “Not in my backyard.”

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Boeing boon

The US Department of War on Monday awarded Boeing a \$131.23 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the F-15 Eagle Crest program, which oversees the F-15 fighter aircraft fleet.

Hop a flight

United Airlines has revived its daily half-hour flight service between LA International Airport and Bakersfield's Meadows Field for those wishing to avoid the notorious traffic between the cities, but it'll cost a sky-high fare of \$200.

AI fund probe

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the timing of trades that led to steep losses at AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Hormel CFO

Hormel Foods on Monday appointed former Tyson Foods executive Ash Bhumbla as chief financial officer, effective September, as the company continues with its leadership overhaul.

Strike over

Hyundai Motor's South Korean union said it has reached a tentative deal with management, halting more production losses after its first full strike in a decade on Friday.

Source: Reuters

KISS YOUR JOB BYE

Att'y seen smooching co-worker on outs: sources

By ARIEL ZILBER

The Wachtell Lipton partner caught canoodling with a junior associate in Central Park is being forced out by the elite law firm after the viral smooch already cost him a lucrative move to rival Gibson Dunn, sources told The Post.

Nathaniel Cullerton, 45, is headed for the exit after spending weeks on leave while Wachtell investigated his relationship with 29-year-old associate Kelsey Borenzweig, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

Another source in the know told The Post that while Cullerton is in the process of splitting with the firm, his job status has not changed since July. When asked if Cullerton was given the ax, the source insisted that it would not be accurate.

Technically, Cullerton is still employed at Wachtell and remains on leave, according to sources. The Post was unable to ascertain whether Cullerton is being paid while on leave.

Wachtell Lipton partner Nathaniel Cullerton (near left), who has been on leave from the firm, is headed for the exit after being caught canoodling with junior associate Kelsey Borenzweig. The viral kiss had already cost him a new gig at Gibson Dunn.

Upheaval

Nevertheless, it's just a matter of time before Cullerton will no longer have any affiliation with Wachtell, sources close to the situation said.

It is unclear when Cullerton's separation from Wachtell will become official.

Wachtell, Cullerton, Borenzweig and Gibson Dunn did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Cullerton and Borenzweig became an overnight sensation last month after a TikTok video showed them kissing on a Central Park bench before the camera-wielding stranger interrupted them.

The fallout was swift for Cullerton, who had been preparing to leave Wachtell alongside star litigator Bill Savitt and a group of the firm's top trial lawyers for Gibson Dunn, sources told The Post.

Gibson Dunn scrapped Cullerton's planned hiring after the video went viral, sources with knowledge of the situation told The Post.

The issue wasn't simply the embarrassing public spectacle, sources previously told The Post.

Cullerton was a partner while Borenzweig was a more junior associate in Wachtell's litigation department, creating a professional hierarchy between the two.

Borenzweig's employment status at Wachtell was not immediately clear.

Cullerton's looming exit is the latest twist in a remarkable stretch of upheaval surrounding Wachtell's high-powered litigation department, where he and Borenzweig worked alongside lawyers who represented OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in their courtroom battle against Elon Musk.

Savitt helped lead OpenAI's successful defense before leaving Wachtell last month with five partners — Sarah Eddy, Anitha Reddy, Randall Jackson, Ryan McLeod and

Brad Wilson — for Gibson Dunn's New York office.

Cullerton had been expected to make the jump with them before his Central Park encounter derailed the move, sources told The Post.

Savitt's own departure has since exposed a web of personal intrigue surrounding members of the same litigation group.

The Post revealed last month that Savitt and Eddy had been romantically involved while they were partners at Wachtell.

Sources with knowledge of the situation said the relationship began after Savitt separated from his wife.

Debt auctions ‘stay’ despite big buybacks

The US Treasury will continue with its regularly scheduled debt auctions, including for long-dated bonds despite its move to increase buyback sizes of 10- to 30-year securities, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday.

Asked about the Treasury's plans for bond buybacks and auction sizes going forward, Bessent said the department would "continue with our regular program of auctions" announced in early August, adding that the Treasury hasn't purchased any bonds yet in the enlarged buybacks, which will start on Sept. 10 for 10- and 20-year securities.

Last week he surprised global bond investors by announcing the Treasury would double the size of its quarterly repurchases of longer-dated bonds after their yields reached the highest levels in nearly two decades.

Bessent's tactic helped bring down yields on 10-year Treasury notes and 20- and 30-year bonds for a short time, providing the administration some relief from the high bond yields rapidly driving up federal debt service costs. But yields on the longer-dated maturities had largely retraced those drops by the end of the week.

They were down modestly on Monday. Reuters

Prez bought stake in SpaceX

President Trump invested as much as \$50,000 in Elon Musk's SpaceX in June, according to a public financial disclosure, giving him a financial stake in a major government contractor run by his former adviser.

He bought between \$15,001 and \$50,000 in shares on June 23, according to a financial disclosure signed by him Aug. 12 and made public Saturday. The purchase was part of more than 1,000 stock trades the president made in June.

SpaceX priced the biggest-ever US IPO on June 12, valuing the company at \$1.77 trillion.

In a statement, White House spokesman Davis Ingle said that third-party financial institutions independently manage the president's portfolio and replicate "recognized indexes, such as the Schwab 1000."

Trump's investment in SpaceX adds a new financial link between the president and Musk's (right) rocket company at a time when the administration is making decisions that could affect the firm's fortunes.

SpaceX is a US military contractor, and often seeks approvals from federal agencies. Trump on Thursday directed his team to help drastically increase the number of US commercial space launches. SpaceX is a dominant player in that sector. Reuters

P'mount talks tank Calif. AG calls off meeting as studio eyes Tenn.

By ARIEL ZILBER

California Attorney General Rob Bonta scrapped Monday's planned settlement talks with Paramount as the media giant weighs bolting the Golden State — with Tennessee reportedly emerging as its preferred landing spot.

Bonta pulled the plug late Sunday after accusing Paramount of leaking and mischaracterizing details from a preliminary meeting between the two sides on Friday.

Bonta did not specify what information he believed Paramount had leaked, but his accusation came hours after The Wall Street Journal reported details of Friday's discussions — including that he was expected to seek cable-channel divestitures and protections designed to keep Warner Bros.' movie studio separate from Paramount Pictures.

Loose lips

"Not only did Paramount leak the alleged substance of settlement discussions, but they misrepresented these discussions, demonstrating a lack of good faith," Bonta said in a statement to The New York Times.

"As soon as Paramount stops playing games and engages sincerely, my office is happy to meet again."

Paramount has denied Bonta's claim that it was the source of the leaks.

"We share AG Bonta's concerns about the public discussions and misreporting that has surrounded this deal," a Paramount spokesperson said in a statement provided to The Post.

"As we have assured the Attorney General's office,

Paramount has not been the source of the leaks of any of our confidential discussions with the AG's office."

The company rep said that “we remain hopeful and stand ready to continue good-faith discussions to resolve the Attorneys General suit and move forward with our plans for increased competition and increased output to the benefit of the talent and entertainment workers.”

The collapse of Monday's sit-down comes as Paramount has indicated it could ditch California if the legal standoff isn't resolved soon — with Tennessee emerging as the company's preferred destination for a new home, according to the Journal.

The Post also reported that Paramount CEO David Ellison has been eyeing a movie and TV studio in Austin, Texas, where Paramount has been in advanced negotiations over a potential facility.

WestJet, cabin crew pact | Crypto group backs pols

WestJet flight attendants on Mon- day voted to accept a tentative agreement that would boost wages by more than 18% over three years, their union said, after they held a strike that caused hundreds of can- cellations earlier this month.

The airline's flight attendants also secured duty pay premium as part of a broader shift in North America, where cabin crews are challenging compensation structures built mainly around flying time rather than every hour at work.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents about 4,400 WestJet flight attendants, had sought compensation from the time members check in for work until they clock out. A premium offered in the tentative agreement would provide additional compensation for previously unpaid time.

Reuters

Stand With Crypto, an advocacy group backed by crypto giant Coinbase, on Monday endorsed 32 congressional incumbents in the November midterm elections, as the industry cements influence in Washington.

The endorsements come as the Clarity Act, the crypto industry's top policy priority, stalls in the Senate amid opposition from some lawmakers.

All the candidates endorsed voted last year to pass the bill out of the House of Representatives, and Stand With Crypto hopes to return those industry-friendly candidates to office. Crypto companies say the legislation would give them long-sought legal clarity.

Stand With Crypto's 2026 campaign builds on its 2024 effort, the first cycle that the group was active, said Executive Director Mason Lynaugh.Reuters

Tech stox pull down markets

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended lower Monday, dragged down by technology stocks, as investors weighed fresh US economic pressure against Iran and braced for a week that includes Nvidia earnings and a closely watched inflation report.

The Trump administration announced Monday a possible expansion of sanctions on countries doing business with Iran as part of what it billed as an “economic D-Day,” but stopped short of actually imposing penalties.

Chip stocks sold off, dragging the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index lower. Nvidia dropped, Micron Technology fell and Broadcom slid, pressuring the S&P 500 Information Technology index.

Sentiment for technology firms was also hit by growing political opposition to AI data centers.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from a Republican to the AI industry, saying data-center companies “dug their own grave” and deserve the backlash they’re facing after failing to win community support, Axios reported Sunday.

This month, Abbott ordered a pause on approvals of new data-center projects through the state's grid interconnection process, citing concerns that a surge in electricity demand could threaten reliability. Reuters

FTC-Zillow settlement

The FTC and a group of states settled with Zillow, ending claims the online real-estate platform illegally paid Rocket Companies' Redfin \$100 million to stop competing in apartment rental listings.

The FTC and five states were ready to argue that the Zillow-Redfin partnership drove up costs for landlords.

Under the settlement, Redfin can continue to display Zillow ads on its sites, but will resume its rental advertising business within six months, the FTC and states said. Reuters

RANDALL LANE Forbes content chief fired.

Forbes 'gifter' apology

The founder of a research company that does business with Forbes has apologized for giving a cool \$6 million to the publication's former top editor, who was fired over the payment last month.

Forbes axed Chief Content Officer Randall Lane after it learned he took the cash from RJ Shook of Shook Research, with the journo claiming at the time that the payment was a “gift” from a friend, The New York Times reported earlier this month.

Now Shook is saying the payment was made “in recognition of the services and guidance” that Lane provided, including helping Shook sell the research company to a private-equity firm last year.

“I deeply regret that this has raised questions about the integrity . . . of Shook’s rankings,” Shook told the Times on Monday.

Shook Research shares rankings of financial advisers with Forbes, and the info is sometimes used for the outlet's clickbait-esque "best of" lists. Taylor Herzlich

Target pulls costume

Target apologized on Monday and said it had pulled a Halloween costume from sale depicting a circus clown that critics said evoked blackface and minstrel shows.

The product, sold as the "Kids' Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume," prompted a backlash on social media, with some consumers saying it resembled a racist caricature. Reuters

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Two members of the Brown family (inset), which controls Jack Daniel's maker Brown-Forman, have written to more than 130 relatives complaining about company leadership, including CEO Marshall Farrer (above), and its falling stock price.

Bros bring bile to 'Jack' family

By ARIEL ZILBER

The billionaire heirs to the Jack Daniel's fortune are reportedly embroiled in a bitter family feud — with a pair of rebel brothers blasting their relatives and company brass as a \$15 billion hostile takeover bid looms over the storied whiskey maker.

More than 130 members of the Brown clan received a seven-page broadside from W.L. Lyons Brown III and his brother Stuart Brown accusing the board of Brown-Forman, which owns Jack Daniel's, of "rewarding failure" as the company's shares have lost roughly $60\%$ of their value in recent years.

"The numbers are stark and undeniable," the bourbon bros wrote in the July 10 missive, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“Brown-Forman’s stock price has fallen from the mid-\$70s per share to the mid-\$20s per share over the past three years, eliminating billions of dollars of generational wealth for the Brown family and all other shareholders."

The family revolt has erupted as Louisville, Ky.-based Brown-Forman fends off an unsolicited \$15 billion cash offer from crosstown rival Sazerac.

CEO Lawson Whiting is also headed for the exit as sales have stalled and the Brown clan — whose collective fortune Forbes has put at \$11 billion — squabbles.

At the center of the drama is Lyons Brown, 66, a colorful fifth-generation heir who was pressured to leave Brown-Forman in 2002 following a clash with his uncle, according to the Journal.

Now he and his brother are targeting the relatives who wield power over Brown-Forman.

Their broadside accused the board and other family members of keeping shareholders in the dark about failed merger talks with French liquor giant Pernod Ricard and questioned why the company entertained that deal while rebuffing Sazerac.

The turmoil comes as Brown-Forman battles weakening demand. The company reported \$3.9 billion in sales for its latest fiscal year while net income fell 18%, according to the Journal.

Trying to keep the clan together is chairman Marshall Farrer, 55, a fifth-generation descendant.

“Sometimes you think of the Southern company that’s very nice and generous with each other,” Farrer told shareholders in July. “There’s a lot more toughness going on.”

NIXING BOND DUMPS 'Vigilantes' eyed

TREASURY Secretary Scott Bessent is determined to put the “fear of God” into the so-called “bond vigilantes” who have been dumping US Treasurys and sending interest rates soaring, according to a private sector economist with knowledge of his thinking.

Bessent is particularly worried that institutional investors will continue to sell long-dated Treasury bonds in a trade that will send prices lower — and yields on the all-important 10-year bond surging to 5%, according to Wall Street executives who deal with him regularly.

That, in turn, could snuff out economic growth as the midterm elections approach since it's the 10-year Treasury bond on which many consumer rates are pegged — including 30-year, fixed-rate home mortgages.

In response, insiders say Bessent has formulated a plan that could escalate if the vigilantes continue to push up interest rates. It goes beyond the \$4 trillion in longer-dated bonds the Treasury purchased last week — and could include temporarily halting the issuance of certain long-dated debt like the 20-year Treasury bond, these people say. "Bessent knows what he's up against — it's how he made his living," one economist with ties to the White House said, noting that the Treasury secretary was a hedge fund manager before joining the administration.

"He also knows this is a Band-Aid solution to our debt problems that he needs to take as the mid-terms approach," the economist added.

A Treasury Department rep had no immediate comment.

Market vigilantes — whether they're in bonds or currencies — are the ultimate mercenaries since they seek to capitalize on what they see as bad government policy. In the case of bonds, they are selling US debt while also placing negative “short” bets on US Treasurys, looking to make money on price declines as some market participants believe US debt levels are growing to near unsustainable levels.

Last week, the Treasury announced that total debt held by the public and the government has reached an unfortunate milestone of \$40 trillion, with debt held by the public surpassing 100% of GDP.

This, coupled with the financing needs to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure competing with Treasury bonds, has helped tank prices for US debt.

7.5% tariff on China set

The US is set to impose a 7.5% tariff on Chinese goods over allegations of excess manufacturing capacity before a planned summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump next month, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

Reuters

RACK 3

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SCRABBLE G ${2}$ R ${1}$ A ${1}$ M ${3}$ S $_{1}$

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$C_3$	$O_1$	$N_1$	$V_4$	$E_1$	$R_1$	$T_1$	RACK 1 = 68
$S_1$	$U_1$	$R_1$	$G_2$	$E_1$	$R_1$	$Y_4$	RACK 2 = 61
$B_3$	$O_1$	$L_1$	$L_1$	$I_1$	$X_8$		RACK 3 = 15
$U_1$	$P_3$	$S_1$	$T_1$	$O_1$	$O_1$	$D_2$	RACK 4 = 70
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PAR SCORE 155-165 BEST SCORE 214

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Double Word Score

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EAST ♠ J 9 3 ♡ 7 5 4 3 ◇ Q J 9 6 3 ♣ 7

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SOUTH ♠ A K 6 ♡ K Q 6 ◇ A 7 2 ♣ K 10 8 4

NORTH ♠ 8 5 ♡ J 10 8 ◇ K 8 4 ♣ A J 9 5 2

WEST ♠ Q 10 7 4 2 ♡ A 9 2 ◇ 10 5 ♣ Q 6 3

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Directions: Make a 2 to 7 letter word from the letters in each row. Add points of each word using scoring directions at right. 7 Letter words get 50 point bonus. "Blank" used as any letter have no point value. All the words are in the Official SCRABBLE players Dictionary, 4th Edition.

RACK 2

“Please don’t take this the wrong way,” Cy said to his partner, “but your play was wrong.”

South West North East 1 ♣ Pass 3 ♣ Pass 3 NT All Pass

When Cy was North in my club's penny game, he watched South go down at 3NT. West led a spade: five, jack, king. South then took the A-K of clubs. When East threw a diamond, declarer lost a club to West's queen. He ducked West's return of the queen of spades and won the third spade but had only eight tricks. West got in with his ace of hearts to cash two spades.

“What do you mean?” South growled. “I would usually make overtricks.”

Cy the Cynic says that statements starting with “Please don’t take this the wrong way” have a zero-percent success rate.

South should lead a heart at Trick Two; if dummy's jack wins, he shifts to clubs for nine sure tricks. If West grabs the first heart to continue spades, South ducks and wins the third spade. Then he takes the king of clubs and leads to dummy's jack. If East could win, South would lose at most two spades, a heart and a club.

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Wonderword

How to play: All the words listed below appear in the puzzle — horizontally, vertically, diagonally, even backward. Find them and Circle their letters only. Do not circle the word. The leftover letters spell the Wonderword.

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Federer to play exhibition at Open but rules out pro return

By BRIAN MAHONEY

Roger Federer is actually nervous about his tennis.

The man who won five straight U.S. Open championships during the height of his dominance of the sport is set to play again in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday night for the first time since 2019. And he's not quite sure how the game that perhaps nobody ever made look more elegant will appear now.

"I haven't played a singles set in, I don't know, (Hubert) Hurkacz at Wimbledon maybe, so it's been five years," Federer said Monday, referring to his 2021 quarterfinal loss in his last Grand Slam match. "I don't know how it's going to go tomorrow. So there is a lot of uncertainty but a lot of happiness that I can return to Arthur Ashe, a place where I have had so many beautiful moments."

It's only one set of singles in an exhibition against Andy Roddick and one set of doubles with John McEnroe against Roddick and Andre Agassi. The winner of 20 Grand Slam singles titles should be fine for those.

But a return to tennis beyond that, competing in major tennis tournaments in his mid-40s like Venus and Serena Williams?

“No, no, no, no. No, not at all,” Federer said during a news conference. “Thanks for asking. I wasn’t sure if the question was going to get asked, but I’m happy you did so I can clarify in case anybody thought.”

At 45, Federer still looks fit, and said he enjoys working out in the gym. But he said he goes through long stretches where he is rarely on the court.

His lengthy absence from the U.S. Open has done little to dampen his popularity, based on the amount of people around the grounds who were mentioning his name. The appearance of “Roger

Federer" up on the big board for all to see again, ahead of his afternoon practice on Ashe, where Federer collected the trophy every year from 2004-08, was a welcome sight for his fans.

The trip to New York is a stop for Federer on his way to Newport, Rhode Island, where he will be enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday.

Federer never really had the chance to say goodbye to New York as a player, because there was no way to know his loss to Grigor Dimitrov in the 2019 quarterfinals would be his last match. He had reached the French Open semifinals and the Wimbledon final earlier that year, falling to Rafael Nadal in Paris and then Novak Djokovic in a fifth-set tiebreaker at the All England Club.

It was easy to imagine him returning to the U.S. Open the next year and making another deep run. But after falling to Djokovic in the semifinals of the Australian Open to begin 2020, he had knee surgery that February, then another procedure in May.

He returned to play in the French Open

FOR OLD TIMES' SAKE: Roger Federer spent Monday warming up for his exhibition Tuesday at Arthur Ashe Stadium, but the tennis icon dismissed the idea of a formal comeback. SplashNews.com

in 2021 but had to withdraw before his fourth-round match. After the loss to Hurkacz — where he appeared struggling and lost 6-0 in the third set — Federer had another knee surgery that August and knew there would be no more comebacks.

"The knee can't do it anymore. It's tired," he recalled thinking. "The mind can't be patient even more and wait for another couple years and see what happens."

Federer knows Tuesday night won't be real tennis, joking that he and Roddick hopefully would be respectful and not try to drop shot each other. But it will be different from when he did return to Ashe a couple of years back to watch.

“They gave me an ovation because they saw me on the big screen, but I just feel, like, tomorrow and I guess today, as well, and Monday next week, it really gives me a true opportunity to say thank you and goodbye, which I think is important for some,” Federer said. “It’s a nice thing to do, for sure.”

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Star striker expected to stay with NYCFC

By CHRISTIAN ARNOLD

Drama has continued to swirl around New York City FC star Nicolás Fernández Mercau amid ongoing rumors surrounding his future with the club.

But with a little more than a week left in the MLS summer transfer window, Fernández Mercau is expected to remain with NYCFC barring a massive last-second offer, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Post. Rumors had started earlier this summer after a report surfaced that NYCFC had turned down a sizable offer for Fernández Mercau and that the player had requested a transfer out of the Big Apple.

Fernández Mercau has become a star with NYCFC since the club brought him in during the 2025 summer transfer window, and his 13 goals this season are tied for third among all MLS players during the regular season. While the rumors have raised questions, the source insisted that New York City FC “[doesn’t] want to let him go” and that, as part of the club’s commitment to winning, the 26-year-old Argentine footballer fits into that plan.

“Winning comes with Nico Fernández [Mercau],” the source said.

Club officials have all but confirmed the interest in Fernández Mercau during various meetings with the media, but have not outright commented on the conversations they've had with him. Journalist Germán García Grova first reported July 21 that the NYCFC star had told the club of his intention to be transferred.

And over the weekend, multiple reports indicated that Sporting Kansas City — a team whose front office is led by former NYCFC sporting director David Lee — had made a bid for Fernández Mercau worth up to \$25 million.

NYCFC officials have not been surprised by the interest in the star striker considering his success in MLS.

Sporting director Todd Dunivant told The Post and amNewYork earlier this month that the club was “having a lot of” conversations with Fernández Mercau and the parties were “keeping in close communication.”

Despite the rumblings, Fernández Mercau's play on the pitch has remained impressive.

Following the World Cup break, Fernández Mercau scored goals in three straight games, and while he doesn't have a goal since July 31, he has recorded assists in NYCFC's last four matches between the regular season and Leagues Cup.

Fernández Mercau has been happy to be with the team, the source said. The NYCFC striker has not been made available to the media since the reports surfaced.

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AL Standings

East	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Tampa Bay	78	53	.595	—	—	4-6	W-2	43-23	35-30
Yankees	74	56	.569	$3\frac{1}{2}$	+9	6-4	W-1	33-28	41-28
Boston	72	59	.550	6	$+6\frac{1}{2}$	7-3	W-4	34-32	38-27
Toronto	64	68	.485	$14\frac{1}{2}$	2	5-5	L-1	33-33	31-35
Baltimore	63	68	.481	15	$2\frac{1}{2}$	5-5	L-1	34-34	29-34

Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Chicago	68	63	.519	—	—	5-5	L-1	39-27	29-36
Cleveland	66	66	.500	$2\frac{1}{2}$	—	7-3	W-5	31-34	35-32
Minnesota	64	68	.485	$4\frac{1}{2}$	2	4-6	W-1	35-31	29-37
Detroit	61	70	.466	7	$4\frac{1}{2}$	1-9	L-6	32-32	29-38
Kansas City	58	74	.439	$10\frac{1}{2}$	8	9-1	W-8	36-30	22-44

West	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Texas	66	66	.500	—	—	6-4	W-2	36-29	30-37
Houston	65	66	.496	$\frac{1}{2}$	$\frac{1}{2}$	4-6	L-2	33-35	32-31
Seattle	63	69	.477	3	3	6-4	W-1	36-30	27-39
Los Angeles	52	80	.394	14	14	4-6	L-2	29-37	23-43
Athletics	51	81	.386	15	15	3-7	L-1	23-41	28-40

*WGB: Games behind third-place team in wild-card race

Monday

Tampa Bay 4, Detroit 1
Boston 4, Miami 2
Texas 11, White Sox 2
Cleveland 4, L.A. Angels 2
Seattle 9, Philadelphia 2
Minnesota 9, Athletics 6
Tuesday
Houston at Yankees, 7:05

Boston at Miami, 6:40 Tampa Bay at Detroit, 6:40 Kansas City at Toronto, 7:07 Texas at White Sox, 7:40 Baltimore at St. Louis, 7:45 Cleveland at L.A. Angels, 9:38 Minnesota at Athletics, 9:40 Philadelphia at Seattle, 9:40

NL Standings

East	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Atlanta	76	55	.580	—	—	3-7	W-1	42-23	34-32
Philadelphia	73	59	.553	$3\frac{1}{2}$	$+1\frac{1}{2}$	9-1	L-1	38-30	35-29
Miami	67	65	.508	$9\frac{1}{2}$	$4\frac{1}{2}$	5-5	L-1	41-26	26-39
Washington	62	71	.466	15	10	2-8	W-1	28-36	34-35
Mets	59	72	.450	17	12	6-4	L-1	30-35	29-37

Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Milwaukee	81	50	.618	—	—	7-3	L-1	45-24	36-26
Chicago	76	56	.576	$5\frac{1}{2}$	$+4\frac{1}{2}$	5-5	W-2	38-27	38-29
St. Louis	66	66	.500	$15\frac{1}{2}$	$5\frac{1}{2}$	5-5	L-3	32-34	34-32
Pittsburgh	63	69	.477	$18\frac{1}{2}$	$8\frac{1}{2}$	5-5	L-3	34-32	29-37
Cincinnati	62	70	.470	$19\frac{1}{2}$	$9\frac{1}{2}$	3-7	L-2	32-36	30-34

West	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Los Angeles	80	51	.611	—	—	7-3	W-6	40-26	40-25
San Diego	71	60	.542	9	—	7-3	W-3	40-26	31-34
Arizona	69	63	.523	$11\frac{1}{2}$	$2\frac{1}{2}$	5-5	L-1	38-29	31-34
San Francisco	53	78	.405	27	18	3-7	W-1	30-33	23-45
Colorado	50	81	.382	30	21	2-8	L-7	27-38	23-43

*WGB: Games behind third-place team in wild-card race

Monday

Boston 4, Miami 2 Washington 13, Colorado 3 San Francisco 5, Cincinnati 0 Cubs 7, Arizona 0 Seattle 9, Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh at San Diego, (n) Tuesday Milwaukee at Mets, 7:10

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Solution to Very Easy #7,381

Boston at Miami, 6:40 Colorado at Washington, 6:45 L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 7:15 Baltimore at St. Louis, 7:45 Cubs at Arizona, 9:40 Philadelphia at Seattle, 9:40 Pittsburgh at San Diego, 9:40 Cincinnati at San Francisco, 9:45

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Solution to Difficult #7,171

Rays 4, Tigers 1

Tampa Bay	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Díaz dh	4	1	1	0	1	0	.305
Vilade rf	3	1	1	0	0	0	.264
Mullins ph-cf	1	0	0	0	0	0	.205
Caminero 3b	3	0	1	1	1	1	.277
DeLuca cf-rf	4	0	2	0	0	0	.271
Aranda 1b	4	1	1	2	0	0	.280
Mateo 2b	2	1	1	0	2	0	.236
Fortes c	3	0	0	0	0	0	.263
Simpson lf	4	0	2	1	0	0	.312
Walls ss	4	0	0	0	0	2	.215
Totals	32	4	9	4	4	3

Detroit	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Keith dh	3	0	0	0	1	2	.266
Lee 2b	4	0	0	0	0	2	.276
McGonigle 3b	4	1	1	0	0	0	.283
Dingler c	3	0	1	0	0	1	.253
Callahan lf	1	0	0	1	0	0	.263
Malgeri ph-lf	2	0	1	0	0	1	.242
McKinstry rf	4	0	0	0	0	1	.221
Torkelson 1b	4	0	1	0	0	2	.221
Clark cf	3	0	0	0	0	1	.244
Báez ss	3	0	1	0	0	2	.260
Totals	31	1	5	1	1	12

Tampa Bay	200 101 000 – 4 9 0
Detroit	000 100 000 – 1 5 1

E: Callahan (1). LOB: Tampa Bay 6, Detroit 6. 2B: DeLuca (19), Mateo (7), McGonigle (24), Torkelson (22). HR: Aranda (16), off Valdez. RBIs: Caminero (84), Aranda 2 (78), Simpson (29), Callahan (6). CS: Mateo (2). SF: Callahan. S: Fortes. Runners left in scoring position: Tampa Bay 3 (Fortes, Diaz, Aranda); Detroit 2 (Torkelson, Lee). RISP: Tampa Bay 2 for 7; Detroit 1 for 6.DP: Detroit 1 (McGonigle, Lee, Torkelson).

Tampa Bay	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Rasmussn, W, 14-5	6.0	3	1	1	0	5	103	2.95
Cleavngr, H, 23	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	14	3.63
Rodríguez, H, 1	1.0	1	0	0	1	3	23	0.00
Baker, S, 38-41	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	16	1.56

Detroit	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Valdez, L, 8-9	6.0	8	4	3	2	0	84	4.35
Rainey	2.0	0	0	0	2	2	31	0.00
Holton	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	15	3.12

T: 2:36. A: 23,265 (41,083).

Nationals 13, Rockies 3

Colorado	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
McCarthy cf	4	0	1	0	0	1	.294
Fulford ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.174
Moniak rf	4	1	1	0	0	1	.260
Castro 3b	4	1	1	1	0	1	.264
Rumfield 1b	3	0	1	0	1	1	.287
Johnston dh-p	2	0	0	0	1	0	.282
Norby 2b	4	0	1	1	0	1	.217
Sullivan c	4	0	0	0	0	2	.228
Veen lf	2	0	0	0	0	2	.208
Beck ph-lf	1	0	0	0	1	0	.193
Tovar ss	2	1	2	1	0	0	.209
Ritter ss	2	0	0	0	0	1	.091
Totals	33	3	7	3	3	10

Washington	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Abrams dh	4	2	1	1	1	1	.278
Ortiz 1b	4	2	1	1	1	2	.212
Crews rf	2	1	0	1	3	1	.213
Lile lf	5	2	3	5	0	0	.246
House 3b	4	0	1	0	1	0	.236
Ruiz c	4	1	2	0	1	0	.283
Young cf	5	2	2	0	0	1	.246
Vivas 2b	5	1	3	2	0	1	.239
Nuñez ss	3	2	0	0	1	0	.219
Totals	36	13	13	10	8	6

Colorado	000 110 010 - 3 7 2
Washington	000 053 23x -13 13 0

E: Castro (11), Sullivan (5). LOB: Colorado 7, Washington 8. 2B: Tovar (21), Abrams (26), Lile (25), House (11), Young (17). HR: Castro (15), off Cavalli; Tovar (10), off Cavalli; Lile (16), off Adams. RBIs: Castro (54), Tovar (39), Norby (19), Abrams (92), Ortiz (10), Crews (30), Lile 5 (71), Vivas 2 (24). SB: McCarthy (24), Abrams 2 (26). S: Nuñez. RISP: Colorado 1 for 9; Washington 4 for 13. Runners moved up: Lile, Ortiz. DP: Colorado 1 (Ritter, Rumfield); Washington 1 (Nuñez, Vivas, Ortiz).

Colorado	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Feltner, L, 5-8	5.2	6	7	5	4	6	103	6.08
Mejia	0.1	1	1	1	2	0	20	5.76
Adams	1.0	5	5	5	2	0	3745.00
Johnston	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	14	0.00

Washington	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cavalli, W, 12-5	6.0	5	2	2	1	7	93	3.21
Tolman	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	12	0.00
Beeter	1.0	2	1	1	1	2	29	3.76
Bird	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	12	5.50

T: 3:01. A: 12,105 (41,376).

Red Sox 4, Marlins 2

Boston	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Sogard ss	5	0	1	1	0	2	.283
Rafaela cf	5	0	1	0	0	1	.289
Abreu rf	4	1	1	0	1	2	.256
Contreras 1b	4	0	0	0	0	0	.280
Rutschman c	5	0	0	0	0	1	.236
Durbin 3b	4	0	1	0	0	0	.255
Duran lf	4	1	2	0	0	1	.209
Gasper dh	2	0	2	1	2	0	.270
White pr-dh	0	1	0	0	0	0	.236
Seigler 2b	3	1	1	1	1	0	.254
Totals	36	4	9	3	4	7

Miami	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Lopez ss	4	1	2	1	0	0	.307
Hernández lf	4	0	2	0	1	0	.232
Stowers 1b	4	0	1	0	1	2	.242
Ramírez dh	2	0	0	0	1	1	.237
Caissie ph-dh	1	0	1	0	1	0	.228
Edwards 2b	5	0	1	1	0	2	.284
Marsee cf	3	1	0	0	1	1	.210
Sanoja 3b	4	0	0	0	1	0	.276
Ruiz rf	1	0	0	0	0	0	.242
Conine ph-rf	2	0	0	0	0	0	.261
Mack c	3	0	1	0	0	1	.236
Jiménez ph	1	0	1	0	0	0	.211
Navarreto c	0	0	0	0	0	0	.129
Totals	34	2	9	2	6	7

Boston	000 010 012 - 4 9 1
Miami	010 000 100 - 2 9 0

E: Duran (2). LOB: Boston 10, Miami 14. 2B: Gasper (8), Duran (14), Abreu (28), Stowers (22), Lopez (30). 3B: Seigler (1). RBIs: Gasper (17), Seigler (13), Sogard (10), Lopez (59), Edwards (50). SF: Lopez. Runners left in scoring position: Boston 9 (Rafaela 4, Sogard, Duran, Rutschman 3); Miami 8 (Edwards, Hernández, Stowers, Sanoja 4, Marsee). RISP: Boston 1 for 14; Miami 2 for 18. DP: Boston 1 (Sogard, Contreras).

Boston	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Suarez	5.0	4	1	1	4	4	93	3.35
Bello	2.0	2	1	1	2	1	42	4.68
Miller, W, 3-0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1	16	2.14
Chapman, S, 30-32	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	18	1.81

Miami	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Alcantara	7.0	6	1	1	2	6	102	3.38
Ekness, BS, 1-3	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	16	1.69
Fairbanks, L, 4-5	0.0	0	1	1	1	0	5	6.02
Zuber	0.1	2	1	1	0	0	12	3.62
Gibson	0.2	0	0	0	1	0	15	5.30

T: 3:05. A: 16,247 (37,446).

Guardians 4, Angels 2

Cleveland	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Kwan lf	5	1	2	0	0	0	.265
Ramírez 3b	4	0	1	0	0	1	.235
Adell dh	3	0	1	1	1	1	.262
N.Lowe 1b	3	0	0	1	0	0	.262
Genao 2b	3	1	1	0	1	1	.290
Martínez rf	4	0	1	0	0	0	.245
Halpin cf	3	0	1	0	1	1	.214
Hedges c	4	1	1	2	0	1	.270
Rocchio ss	4	1	0	0	0	0	.247
Totals	33	4	8	4	3	5

Los Angeles	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Neto ss	4	1	1	0	0	0	.237
Trout cf	3	0	1	0	1	0	.240
Grissom 1b	3	1	0	0	0	0	.245
Ballesteros dh	4	0	1	1	0	2	.214
Siri rf	2	0	0	0	0	1	.253
J.Lowe ph-rf	2	0	2	0	0	0	.212
Campero lf	3	0	0	1	0	2	.300
Moore 2b	4	0	0	0	0	1	.156
Guzman 3b	3	0	0	0	0	1	.227
d'Arnaud c	2	0	0	0	0	1	.164
Frazier ph	1	0	1	0	0	0	.257
Heineman c	0	0	0	0	0	0	.179
Totals	31	2	6	2	1	8

Cleveland	001 012 000 –	4	8	0
Los Angeles	000 100 001 –	2	6	2

E: Klassen (1), Guzman (7). LOB: Cleveland 6, Los Angeles 5. 2B: Martínez (18), J.Lowe (7). HR: Hedges (5), off Weiman. RBIs: N.Lowe (48), Adell (18), Hedges 2 (21), Ballesteros (27), Campero (2). SB: Kwan (9), J.Lowe (5). CS: Kwan (3), Ramírez (4). SF: N.Lowe, Campero. Runners left in scoring position: Cleveland 1 (Halpin); Los Angeles 2 (Moore, Campero). RISP: Cleveland 1 for 4; Los Angeles 1 for 6. GIDP: Martínez, Grissom. DP: Cleveland 1 (N.Lowe, Rocchio, N.Lowe); Los Angeles 1 (Moore, Neto, Grissom).

Cleveland	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Messick, W, 10-8	6.0	3	1	1	1	4	94	2.50
Holdermn, H, 11	1.0	1	0	0	0	3	21	2.29
Gaddis, H, 27	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	12	3.22
Smith, S, 34-39	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	20	2.44

Los Angeles	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Klassen, L, 2-2	5.1	6	3	2	3	3	90	3.67
Weiman	1.0	1	1	1	0	0	16	2.25
Murphy	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	12	1.74
Peralta	2.0	1	0	0	0	1	22	5.19

T: 2:33. A: 26,302 (45,517).

Rangers 11, White Sox 2

Texas	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Pederson dh	1	1	0	0	1	1	.234
Foscue ph-dh-2b	4	1	1	0	0	0	.253
Seager ss	4	1	3	3	1	0	.232
Lopez ph-ss	1	1	1	0	0	0	.262
Langford lf	5	2	2	2	1	1	.253
Nimmo rf	4	0	0	0	1	1	.260
J.Montgomery p-p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Duran 3b-rf	4	1	2	2	1	1	.272
Carter cf	4	1	1	1	1	0	.196
Burger 1b	3	1	2	2	2	1	.236
Díaz c	4	1	0	0	0	1	.228
Freeman 2b-3b	5	1	2	0	0	0	.300
Totals	39	11	14	10	8	6

Chicago	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Antonacci lf	4	0	0	0	0	1	.265
Murakami 1b	4	0	1	0	0	3	.223
Vargas 3b	3	0	1	0	1	0	.246
Benintendi dh	3	0	0	0	0	0	.244
Doyle ph-dh	1	0	0	0	0	0	.208
B.Montgomery rf	3	1	1	0	1	1	.233
C.Montgomery ss	4	0	0	0	0	3	.211
Meidroth 2b	3	0	0	0	1	2	.268
Peters cf	4	1	1	2	0	1	.271
Romo c	3	0	1	0	0	0	.147
Totals	32	2	5	2	3	11

Texas	212 021 012 - 11 14 0
Chicago	020 000 000 - 2 5 0

LOB: Texas 11, Chicago 6. 2B: Carter (13), Seager 2 (12), Foscue (9), Burger (19), Duran (25). HR: Burger (22), off Schweitzer; Langford (15), off Richards; Peters (10), off Rocker. RBIs: Duran 2 (67), Carter (32), Seager 3 (34), Burger 2 (75), Langford 2 (36), Peters 2 (47). CS: Duran (3). Runners left in scoring position: Texas 7 (Carter 2, Díaz 2, Langford 3); Chicago 2 (Meidroth 2).

Texas	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Rocker, W, 5-10	5.2	5	2	2	3	8	93	4.41
Ahlstrom	1.1	0	0	0	0	1	16	4.75
J.Montgomery	2.0	0	0	0	0	2	23	6.30

Chicago	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Urquidy, L, 2-2	3.0	6	5	5	4	2	93	6.63
Schweitzer	2.0	3	2	2	0	2	36	3.64
Brazobán	1.0	1	1	1	2	0	21	3.16
Richards	2.2	4	3	3	2	2	61	3.66
Acuña	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.00

T: 3:07. A: 11,471 (40,241).

Cubs 7, Diamondbacks 0

Chicago	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Crow-Armstrong cf	5	0	0	0	0	0	.278
Suzuki rf	5	0	1	1	0	1	.269
Busch 1b	3	1	0	0	2	2	.243
Bregman 3b	5	1	1	0	0	0	.256
Happ lf	5	1	2	1	0	0	.220
Hoerner ss	3	0	0	1	0	1	.262
Ramirez 2b	4	1	2	1	0	0	.290
Conforto dh	3	2	3	2	1	0	.232
C.Kelly c	3	1	1	1	1	0	.262
Totals	36	7	10	7	4	4

Arizona	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Nootbaar dh	3	0	0	0	0	0	.221
Fernandez ph	1	0	1	0	0	0	.269
Carroll rf	3	0	0	0	1	2	.251
Moreno c	4	0	0	0	0	0	.303
Perdomo ss	4	0	1	0	0	1	.246
Kepler lf	3	0	1	0	0	0	.219
Lawlar ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.281
Arenado 3b	3	0	0	0	0	0	.239
Tawa 1b	3	0	1	0	0	0	.251
Vargas 2b	3	0	1	0	0	1	.262
Waldschmidt cf	3	0	0	0	0	2	.273
Totals	31	0	5	0	1	6

Chicago	010 013 200 - 7 10 0
Arizona	000 000 000 - 0 5 0

LOB: Chicago 7, Arizona 5. 2B: Conforto (13), Suzuki (25), Happ (24). 3B: Ramirez (2). HR: Conforto (12), off Clarke; C.Kelly (8), off Clarke. RBIs: Ramirez (21), Suzuki (75), Conforto 2 (33), C.Kelly (45), Happ (58), Hoerner (59). SB: Carroll 2 (20). CS: Tawa (4). SF: Hoerner. RISP: Chicago 2 for 8; Arizona 0 for 2. Runners moved up: Crow-Armstrong 2.

Chicago	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Gausman, W, 7-11	7.0	3	0	0	1	6	94	4.37
Zeferjahn	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	10	3.99
Thielbar	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	22	5.09

Arizona	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
M.Kelly, L, 8-12	5.2	5	3	3	3	4	99	5.35
Clarke	0.1	2	2	2	0	0	8	2.61
Jameson	2.0	3	2	2	1	0	40	5.12
Burgos	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	12	2.45

T: 2:35. A: 28,704 (48,359).

Giants 5, Reds 0

Cincinnati	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
De La Cruz ss	4	0	1	0	0	3	.262
Stewart 1b	4	0	1	0	0	1	.263
Myers cf	4	0	0	0	0	2	.251
Stephenson dh	3	0	2	0	1	1	.246
Suárez 3b	4	0	1	0	0	2	.207
McLain 2b	4	0	0	0	0	1	.194
Bleday rf	4	0	0	0	0	1	.220
Trevino c	3	0	0	0	0	0	.229
I.Johnson lf	2	0	0	0	1	0	.071
Totals	32	0	5	0	2	11

San Francisco	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Gilbert cf	4	2	2	0	0	0	.239
Devers 1b	4	2	2	3	0	0	.243
Lee dh	4	0	1	1	0	0	.288
Hill lf	3	0	1	1	1	0	.267
Cavanaugh c	4	0	1	0	0	2	.227
Furman 2b	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000
Basabe 2b	2	0	0	0	0	0	.218
Whitcomb 3b	3	0	0	0	0	1	.115
McCray rf	3	0	1	0	0	1	.100
Koss ss	3	1	2	0	0	1	.214
Totals	32	5	10	5	1	7

Cincinnati	000 000 000 - 0 5 0
San Francisco	230 000 00x - 5 10 0

LOB: Cincinnati 7, San Francisco 4. 2B: Gilbert 2 (12), Hill (3). 3B: McCray (1). HR: Devers (27), off Burns. RBIs: Lee (47), Hill (3), Devers 3 (73). SB: Hill (1). Runners left in scoring position: Cincinnati 3 (Bleday, Suárez, Myers); San Francisco 3 (Whitcomb, Furman, Devers). RISP: Cincinnati 0 for 5; San Francisco 5 for 11. RDP: Cincinnati 1 (McLain, Stewart).

Cincinnati	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Burns, L, 14-3	3.2	9	5	5	1	5	64	2.77
Moll	1.1	0	0	0	0	1	13	4.61
Garcia	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	23	2.51
Pagán	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	11	4.15

San Francisco	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Whisenhunt	2.2	2	0	0	1	3	47	6.49
Foley, W, 1-1	1.1	0	0	0	0	3	18	3.46
Sanmartin	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	10	5.68
Walker	2.0	2	0	0	0	2	26	6.99
Seymour	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	12	4.96
Smith	1.0	1	0	0	1	1	25	2.86

T: 2:21. A: 31,123 (41,915).

Mariners 9, Phillies 2

Philadelphia	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Schwarber dh	3	1	0	0	1	1	.243
Turner ss	4	0	0	0	0	2	.243
Harper rf	3	0	2	0	1	0	.262
Arraez 2b	4	0	1	0	0	0	.321
Bohm 1b	4	0	0	1	0	1	.246
Stott 3b	4	0	1	0	0	2	.259
Marsh lf	4	0	0	0	0	2	.274
Realmuto c	3	1	1	1	0	0	.225
Crawford cf	3	0	0	0	0	0	.266
Totals	32	2	5	2	2	8

Seattle	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Arozarena lf	2	1	0	0	3	1	.274
Canzone rf	5	1	1	0	0	2	.256
Rodríguez cf	5	2	2	3	0	2	.249
Naylor 1b	4	0	3	0	0	0	.271
Ward dh	2	1	0	0	2	1	.235
Raleigh c	3	3	3	4	1	0	.167
Young 2b	4	1	1	1	0	0	.251
Wilson 3b	4	0	0	0	0	3	.202
Rodden ss	4	0	0	0	0	3	.214
Totals	33	9	10	8	6	12

Philadelphia	110 000 000 — 2 5 1
Seattle	501 020 10x — 9 10 0

E: Turner (20). LOB: Philadelphia 5, Seattle 6. 2B: Naylor (18). HR: Realmuto (9), off Gilbert; Rodríguez (20), off Wheeler; Raleigh 2 (16), off Wheeler; Young (16), off Wheeler; Raleigh (17), off Shugart. RBIs: Bohm (76), Realmuto (44), Rodríguez 3 (56), Raleigh 4 (51), Young (57). Runners left in scoring position: Philadelphia 2 (Stott 2); Seattle 3 (Rodden 2, Ward). RISP: Philadelphia 1 for 3; Seattle 1 for 5. DP: Philadelphia 1 (Arraez, Turner, Bohm).

Philadelphia	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Wheeler, L, 10-5	4.0	9	8	8	5	4	103	3.40
McFarlane	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	10	1.23
Alvarado	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	11	5.94
Shugart	2.0	1	1	1	1	4	32	4.70

Seattle	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Gilbert, W, 11-7	5.0	5	2	2	2	5	102	3.36
Domínguez	2.0	0	0	0	0	2	30	4.53
Speier	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	12	2.57
Vargas	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	8	3.86

T: 2:41. A: 35,293 (47,929).

Minnesota	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Keaschall rf	6	0	2	2	0	1	.274
Buxton cf	5	4	3	0	1	0	.256
Jeffers c	4	0	1	0	2	0	.281
Bell dh	3	1	1	3	0	0	.253
Clemens lf	5	0	2	2	0	2	.239
Lewis 1b	5	0	1	0	0	0	.233
Culpepper ss	5	1	4	1	0	0	.340
Lee 3b	5	1	1	0	0	0	.247
Kreidler 2b	4	2	1	1	0	2	.227
Totals	42	9	16	9	3	5

Athletics	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Bolte cf	4	3	3	0	1	0	.276
McNeil 1b	5	1	3	2	0	0	.267
Gelof 2b	5	1	2	1	0	1	.261
Butler rf	3	0	2	2	2	1	.223
White 3b	4	0	0	1	0	1	.254
Walton ss	3	0	0	0	0	0	.278
Muncy lf	4	0	1	0	0	1	.215
Cortes dh	4	0	0	0	0	2	.257
Heim c	4	1	1	0	0	1	.205
Totals	36	6	12	6	3	7

Minnesota	101 023 020 – 9 16 0
Athletics	001 000 014 – 6 12 0

LOB: Minnesota 12, Athletics 8. 2B: Bell (27), Buxton (18), Keaschall 2 (21), McNeil (17), Gelof (13), Butler (15). HR: Kreidler (6), off Springs. RBIs: Bell 3 (80), Kreidler (26), Clemens 2 (66), Keaschall 2 (40), Culpepper (4), Butler 2 (40), White (7), McNeil 2 (45), Gelof (37). SF: Bell, White. S: Kreidler. Runners left in scoring position: Minnesota 8 (Jeffers, Keaschall 2, Lewis 3, Clemens, Lee); Athletics 3 (White 2, Walton). RISP: Minnesota 5 for 20; Athletics 4 for 8. DP: Minnesota 2 (Lee, Kreidler, Lewis; Kreidler, Lewis).

Minnesota	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Matthews, W, 8-8	7.0	6	1	1	1	7	105	4.86
Nance	1.0	2	1	1	1	0	16	3.35
Gómez	0.2	4	4	4	1	0	20	3.79
A.Morris, S, 4-8	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3.41

Athletics	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Springs, L, 3-12	4.2	7	4	4	2	3	89	6.08
Juenger	0.2	3	3	3	1	0	19	9.00
K.Morris	2.2	5	2	2	0	2	4110.66
Rom	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	10	6.35

T: 2:53. A: 8,149 (14,014).

NASCAR

NASCAR Cup Series Schedule-Winners March 1 — DuraMAX Texas Grand Prix Powered by RelaDyne (Tyler Reddick) March 8 — Straight Talk Wireless 500 (Ryan Blaney)

March 15 – Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube (Denny Hamlin)

March 22 – Goodyear 400 (Tyler Reddick)

March 29 – Cook Out 400 (Chase Elliott)

April 12 – Food City 500 (Ty Gibbs)

April 19 – AdventHealth 400 (Tyler Reddick)

April 26 – Jack Link's 500 (Carson Hocevar)

May 3 — Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY (Chase Elliott)

May 10 — Go Bowling at The Glen (Shane Van Gisbergen)

May 17 — NASCAR All-Star Race (Denny Hamlin)

May 24 — Coca-Cola 600 (Daniel Suárez)

May 31 – Cracker Barrel 400 (Denny Hamlin)

June 7 — FireKeepers Casino 400 (Denny Hamlin)

June 14 — Great American Getaway 400 presented by VISITPA (Denny Hamlin)

June 21 – Anduril 250 (Corey Heim)

June 28 – Toyota / Save Mart 350 (Shane Van Gisbergen)

MLS

July 5 — eero 400 (Chase Briscoe) July 12 — Quaker State 400 Available at Walmart (Ryan Blaney)

July 19 – Window World 450 (Joey Logano)

July 26 — Brickyard 400 presented by PPG (Corey Heim)

Aug. 9 — Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol (Ty Gibbs)

Aug. 15 – Cook Out 400 (Joey Logano)

Aug. 23 – Dollar Tree 301 (Ryan Blaney)

Aug. 29 – Coke Zero Sugar 400, Daytona Beach, Fla.

Sept. 6 — Cook Out Southern 500, Darlington, S.C.

Sept. 13 — Enjoy Illinois 300, Madison, Ill.

Sept. 19 — Bass Pro Shops Night Race, Bristol, Tenn.

EAST	W	L	D	Pts	GF	GA
Nashville	15	2	4	49	43	17
Inter Miami CF	11	4	6	39	49	40
Chicago	11	6	3	36	37	26
New England	10	7	4	34	33	26
Charlotte FC	9	7	5	32	38	32
Cincinnati	8	6	7	31	49	47
NYCFC	7	8	6	27	35	30
Red Bulls	7	9	5	26	31	43
Orlando City	7	11	3	24	34	51
Toronto FC	5	7	9	24	31	37
D.C. United	5	7	9	24	28	36
Atlanta	6	12	3	21	25	36
Philadelphia	5	10	6	21	31	38
CF Montréal	5	10	6	21	29	39
Columbus	5	11	5	20	30	36
WEST	W	L	D	Pts	GF	GA
Vancouver	12	4	4	40	45	18
Houston	12	7	2	38	30	26
Los Angeles FC	10	7	5	35	36	22
San Jose	10	8	3	33	39	33
FC Dallas	9	6	6	33	38	34
St Louis City	9	6	6	33	30	27
Colorado	9	11	1	28	30	28
Real Salt Lake	8	8	4	28	34	32
Portland	8	9	4	28	38	37
Minn. United	7	7	7	28	27	29
San Diego FC	7	8	6	27	37	32
LA Galaxy	6	8	8	26	27	32
Seattle FC	7	9	4	25	22	27
Austin FC	5	10	6	21	26	40
Sporting K.C.	4	14	3	15	20	51

Note: 3 pts. for win, 1 for tie

Saturday

Philadelphia at Red Bulls, 7:30pm

NYCFC at Toronto FC, 7:30pm
Chicago at Seattle FC, 4:30pm
Charlotte FC at Atlanta, 7:30pm
New England at Columbus, 7:30pm
Los Angeles FC at D.C. United, 7:30pm
CF Montréal at Miami, 7:30pm
San Jose at Houston, 8:30pm
Vancouver at Sporting K.C., 8:30pm
Orlando City at Minnesota, 8:30pm
Cincinnati at Nashville, 8:30pm
Salt Lake at Colorado, 9:30pm
Austin FC at Portland, 10:30pm
LA Galaxy at San Diego FC, 10:30pm

Sunday

FC Dallas at St Louis City, 7pm Friday, September 4 Nashville at NY City FC, 7:30pm

NWSL

	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA
Gotham FC	13	3	5	44	26	13
Washington	11	6	4	37	30	19
Portland	11	6	4	37	35	29
Utah Royals FC	11	7	3	36	37	27
San Diego	11	7	3	36	29	23
North Carolina	10	7	3	33	36	30
Kansas City	9	8	4	31	32	29
Seattle	8	8	4	28	25	26
Angel City	7	7	5	26	27	20
Houston	7	9	5	26	28	29
Orlando	8	11	2	26	25	31
Denver Summit FC	6	8	6	24	25	26
Louisville	7	12	2	23	32	40
Bay FC	6	10	4	22	21	27
Boston Legacy FC	5	11	5	20	24	34
Chicago	5	15	1	16	12	41

NOTE: Three points for victory, one

Wednesday

Angel City at North Carolina, 8pm Friday

Portland at Gotham FC, 8pm Louisville at San Diego, 10pm

Saturday

North Carolina at Kansas City, 6:30pm Utah Royals FC at Orlando, 7pm Chicago at Denver Summit FC, 8:45pm

WNBA

East	W	L	Pct.	GB
x-Atlanta	25	13	.658	—
x-Indiana	25	14	.641	$\frac{1}{2}$
x-Liberty	23	15	.605	2
x-Washington	22	15	.595	$2\frac{1}{2}$
Chicago	15	23	.395	10
Toronto	11	26	.297	$13\frac{1}{2}$
Connecticut	9	27	.250	15
West	W	L	Pct.	GB
x-Minnesota	31	8	.795	—
x-Golden State	26	11	.703	4
x-Las Vegas	26	13	.667	5
Dallas	22	16	.579	$8\frac{1}{2}$
Portland	15	22	.405	15
Phoenix	13	24	.351	17
Los Angeles	13	25	.342	$17\frac{1}{2}$
Seattle	7	31	.184	$23\frac{1}{2}$

x-clinched playoff spot

Monday

Golden State 80, Minnesota 66 Atlanta 78, Los Angeles 71

Tuesday

Chicago at Connecticut, 7pm Portland at Dallas, 8pm Washington at Phoenix, 10pm

Wednesday

Golden State at Connecticut, 7pm Toronto at Seattle, 10pm

Thursday

Golden State at Liberty, 8pm Washington at Phoenix, 10pm

LLWS

At Williamsport, PA. UNITED STATES

METRO REGION, Bayonne, N.J.; MID-ATLANTIC REGION, West Chester, Pa.; MIDWEST REGION, Davenport, Iowa; MOUNTAIN REGION, Henderson, Nev.; NEW ENGLAND REGION, Bridgewater, Mass.; NORTHWEST REGION, Tacoma, Wash.; SOUTHEAST REGION, Phenix City, Ala.; SOUTHWEST REGION, Boerne, Texas; WEST REGION, Bonita, Calif.

INTERNATIONAL

ASIA-PACIFIC REGION, Seoul, South Korea; AUSTRALIA REGION, Sydney, New South Wales; CANADA REGION, Vancouver, British Columbia; CARIBBEAN REGION, Santiago, Dominican Republic; CURAÇAO REGION, Willemstad, Curaçao; EUROPE & AFRICA REGION, Brno, Czechia; JAPAN REGION, Tokyo, Japan; LATIN AMERICA REGION, Leon, Nicaragua; MEXICO REGION, Tijuana, Baja California; PANAMA REGION, Chiriquí, Panama

Elimination

Monday- International Bracket Vancouver, CAN 3, Chiriqui, PAN 2, 7 inn. Tokyo, JPN 3, Brno, CZE 2 United States Bracket Hamilton, OH. 6, Boerne, TX. 1 Phenix City. ALA. 6, West Chester, PA. 5, 7 inn. Tuesday- International Bracket Tokyo, JPN vs Tijuana, MEX, 1pm Seoul, KOR vs. Vancouver, CAN, 5pm United States Bracket Phenix City, AL. vs. Tacoma, WA. 3pm Bayonne, NJ vs. Hamilton, OH, 7pm

Soccer

English Premier League Chelsea 3 Fulham 2

German Cup

Hamburg SV 3, SC Verl 1924 0 VfL Wolfsburg 3, VSG Altglienicke 3 (VfL Wolfsburg wins 6-5 on penalties) FC Cologne 2, Wurzburger Kickers 1 Schalke 04 5, Hallescher SC 2

Italian Serie A

Lazio 1, Bologna 0 AS Roma 4, Fiorentina 0

Spanish LaLiga

Osasuna 0, Levante 0 Malaga 1, Deportivo 1

NFL Preseason- WK. 3

Thursday

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 7pm New England at Cleveland, 8pm San Francisco at Las Vegas, 8pm L.A. Rams at L.A. Chargers, 10pm

Friday

Giants at Jets, 7:30pm
Washington at Baltimore, 6pm
Atlanta at Miami, 7pm
Houston at Carolina, 7pm
Tampa Bay at Jacksonville, 7:30pm
Arizona at Green Bay, 8pm
Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 8pm
New Orleans at Dallas, 8pm
Seattle at Kansas City, 8pm
Minnesota at Denver, 9pm

Saturday

Detroit at Indianapolis, 1pm Chicago at Tennessee, 6pm

Tennis

WTA Abierto Monterrey

At Club Sonoma; Monterrey, Mexico; Purse: \$1,206,446; Surface: Hardcourt outdoor; Monday seedings in parentheses):

Ann Li (5), United States, def. Camila Osorio, Colombia, 6-1, 6-2. Alycia Parks, United States, def. Petra Marcinko, Croatia, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. Janice Tjen (7), Indonesia, def. Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

ATP World Tour Winston-Salem Open

At Wake Forest University; Winston-Salem, N.C.; Purse: \$818,240; Surface: Hardcourt outdoor; Monday (seedings in parentheses):

Men's Singles - Round of 64

Dhakshineswar Suresh, India, def. Marcos Giron, United States, 6-3, 7-5. James Duckworth, Australia, def. Quinn Vandecasteele, United States, 6-2, 6-1.

Benjamin Bonzi, France, def. Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, 6-4, 7-6 (7).

Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, def. Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3.

Adam Walton, Australia, def. Jesper De Jong, Netherlands, 6-2, 6-4.

Cruz Hewitt, Australia, def. Sebastian Gorzny, United States, 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4.

Martin Damm Jr, United States, def. Abdullah Shelbayh, Jordan, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

PGA Tour Schedule

May 14-17 — PGA Championship (Aaron Rai)

May 21-24 — THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson (Wyndham Clark)

May 28-31 – Charles Schwab Challenge (Russell Henley) June 4-7 – the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday (J.T. Poston) June 11-14 – RBC Canadian Open (Bud Cauley)

June 18-21 – U.S. Open (Wyndham Clark)

June 25-29 — Travelers Championship (Viktor Hovland)

July 2-5 — John Deere Classic (Chris Gotterup)

July 9-12 — Genesis Scottish Open (Tom Kim)

July 9-12 — ISCO Championship (Steven Fisk)

July 16-19 — The Open Championship (Ryan Fox)

July 16-19 — Corales Puntacana Championship (Stefano Mazzoli) July 23-26 — 3M Open (Jackson Koivun) July 30-Aug. 2 — Rocket Classic (Michael Thorbiornsen)

Aug. 6-9 — Wyndham Championship (Michael Brennan)

Aug. 13-16 — FedEx St. Jude

Championship (Scottie Scheffler)

Aug. 20-23 — BMW Championship (Wyndham Clark)

Aug. 27-30 — TOUR Championship, Atlanta

Sept. 17-20 — Biltmore Championship Asheville, Arden, N.C.

Sept. 24-27 — Presidents Cup, Medinah, Ill. Oct. 1-4 — Bank of Utah Championship, Ivins, Utah

Oct. 8-11 — Baycurrent Classic, Kanagawa, Japan

Yonkers entries for Tuesday

Post Time: 6:45 p.m.

FIRST: Mile pace; $24,000; claiming
1	Petrol Queen	(CKelly)	1-X-2	7-2
2	Katies Up	(JBartlett)	6-1-2	4-1
3	Earth Angel	(ASiegelman)	4-3-6	15-1
4	Over Ice	(DDube)	3-1-5	5-2
5	Th Rizzo	(JMarohn)	2-2-1	2-1
6	My Angel	(JStratton)	5-4-4	8-1
7	Survivin Fire	(GBrennan)	1-6-3	10-1
SECOND: Mile pace; $23,000; cond
1	Hurrikanelouiexiii	(DDube)	8-4-6	20-1
2	Johnny Lincoln N	(JStratton)	6-2-X	6-1
3	The Rascal N	(JBartlett)	6-6-1	4-1
4	Loumelo Ball	(CKelly)	3-8-5	5-1
5	Ballroom Affair	(BHolland)	9-1-2	8-5
6	Rocknacious	(ASiegelman)	4-5-2	10-1
7	Hes A Fein Fellow	(JMarohn)	1-1-5	8-1
8	Alabama Lucky	(VGinsburg)	7-4-6	20-1
THIRD: Mile trot; $81,000; NYSS
1	B Eyelash	(DDube)	5-5-5	5-1
2	Lauren's Chapter	(JStratton)	11-5-1	7-5
3	Jula Hot To Chill	(MKakaley)	3-2-3	2-1
4	Flying Copper	(ASvanstedt)	2-6-3	5-2
FOURTH: Mile trot; $82,500; NYSS
1	Who DaresWins	(Svanstedt)	4-4-1	5-2
2	Sharp Seven	(JBartlett)	1-4-7	1-1
3	MyPhlmene	(Smedshmmer)	1-8-1	5-1
4	Chant	(TButer)	6-3-2	8-1
5	Storybook Love	(TRatchford)	9-4-2	5-1
FIFTH: Mile pace; $21,000; cond
1	Hurrikane Lillouie	(DDube)	6-4-5	8-1
2	Edgar Hanover	(MKakaley)	4-4-5	4-1
3	AmericanRoadTrip	(Bartlett)	7-3-4	6-1
4	Calvin Hanover	(GBrennan)	6-4-7	5-1
5	Captain Amore N	(BHolland)	3-8-6	7-2
6	He Is Stingin	(JStratton)	3-3-8	5-1
7	PerfectCabernet	(PLachnce)	7-3-8	6-1
8	Alex V Diesel	(TButer)	7-4-3	20-1
SIXTH: Mile pace; $21,000; cond
1	Royal Desire	(PLachance)	3-5-7	3-1
2	Gingras Beach	(VGinsburg)	5-2-4	20-1
3	Dracarys Z	(BHolland)	6-2-1	20-1

SEVENTH: Mile pace; \$23,000; cond

Yonkers Results

FIRST-1-mile pace; 30000clm; purse \$20,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 6:52 TIME-28.1; 57.1; 1:25.2; 1:53.2

1 TopvllSombch(JBrtltt) 2.26 2.10 2.10 6 Missed The TruthA(TButer) 9.32 5.48 2 Sailboat Hanover (B Holland) 3.54

- Exacta (1/6) \$17.01 • Triple (1/6/2) \$74.44 • \$0.10 Superfecta (1/6/2/3) \$18.06

SECOND-1-mile pace; 40000clm; purse \$22,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 7:15 TIME-27.2; 56.1; 1:24.4; 1:52.3

1	CurlyJamesA(JBrtlett)	2.64	2.48	2.10
4	Simply Fast (C Kelly)		5.98	3.72
5	Lyrical Genius A (J Marohn)			2.76

- Exacta (1/4) \$5.24 • Triple (1/4/5) \$6.33 • \$0.10 Superfecta (1/4/5/2) \$3.29 • Daily double (1/1) \$1.66

THIRD-1-mile pace; 50000clm; purse \$24,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 7:36 TIME-27.1; 55.2; 1:23.1; 1:51.4

2 BettorBySesde(TButr) 10.14 4.36 2.44 3 KeayangKamkzeA(JMrohn) 4.04 2.22 6 Ever Hoping A (J Bartlett) 2.10

- Exacta (2/3) \$15.63 • Triple (2/3/6) \$27.26 • \$0.10 Superfecta (2/3/6/1) \$12.62

FOURTH-1-mile pace; invitation; purse \$43,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 8:01 TIME-27.0; 56.0; 1:23.4; 1:50.4

7	SweetBechLf(MKkly)	4.84	2.90	2.24
3	CaptnhmmerhedA(JBrtlett)		2.90	2.38
5	Mac's Delight (J Bongiorno)			2.42

EIGHTH: Mile pace; \$28,000; cond

1	NeverstopdreamnN(JBrtlett)	2-8-2	2-1
2	Boston Bound (BHolland)	4-5-2	9-2
3	Iknowbetter (CKelly)	4-6-1	8-1
4	ImaPerfectChoice (MKakley)	5-3-7	3-1
5	Courts On Fire (TButer)	1-1-4	5-1
6	Smooth Dream (JStratton)	2-7-4	6-1
7	Bet On Big Joe (DDube)	7-8-2	20-1
8	Catalpa Rescue A (Brennan)	6-9-4	10-1

- Exacta (7/3) \$5.65 • Triple (7/3/5) \$14.49 • \$0.10 Superfecta (7/3/5/1) \$7.47 • \$1 Pick 3 (1/2/7) \$30.08 • \$1 Pick 4 (1/1/2/7) \$35.20

FIFTH-1-mile pace; nw7500l5; purse \$19,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 8:27 TIME-27.1; 56.3; 1:24.3; 1:54.0

2 MufferwJoe(BHollnd) 7.42 3.98 3.04 5 TwnBPowerball(PLachnce) 14.98 8.40 4 Shipmaster (M Kakaley) 3.36

1	Yuengling	(BHolland) 2-3-2	7-5
2	Eveninstarzapsody (TButer)	5-3-5	5-1
3	Barbados Babe	(JStratton) 6-1-2	8-1
4	Onederfulbeach	(JMarohn) 3-7-3	9-2
5	Doc's Love	(MKakaley) 6-1-7	4-1
6	Sunburnt	(CKelly) 4-5-8	20-1
7	Tina's Wish	(DDube) 7-2-4	20-1
8	Ali Sweet Cake (ASiegelman)	1-3-1	20-1

NINTH: Mile pace; \$18,000; claiming

- Exacta (2/5) \$88.18 • Triple (2/5/4) \$462.40 - \$.10 Superfecta (2/5/4/7) \$459.52 • \$1 Pick 3 (2/7/2) \$85.90

TENTH: Mile pace; \$15,000; cond

1	Music Hall	(BHolland)	4-3-8	7-2
2	CollectiveWrksA	(ASegelmn)	4-3-7	4-1
3	Our Sweet Delight A	(Smith)	3-3-9	8-1
4	Manferno	(CKelly)	7-4-8	2-1
5	GoldGloveHanover	(Marohn)	5-6-1	20-1
6	Taste Of Honey	(JStratton)	6-7-7	6-1
7	Pyro	(PLachance)	8-6-3	20-1
8	Itza Dangerzone A	(TButer)	7-4-6	15-1

SIXTH-1-mile pace; nw15000l5; purse \$23,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 8:48 TIME-26.3; 55.3; 1:24.3; 1:52.3

1 BckstrtShdow(MKkly) 2.58 2.10 2.10 4 Lamandier A (A Siegelman) 2.42 2.36 2 The Miki Taker A (T Buter) 2.40

- Exacta (1/4) \$3.89 • Triple (1/4/2) \$6.10 • \$ .10 Superfecta (1/4/2/8) \$2.70 • \$1 Pick 3 (7/2/1,3,7) \$16.01

Scr: Dele Row A, Effingham.

SEVENTH-1-mile pace; nw22601l5; purse \$28,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 9:11 TIME-28.1; 57.0; 1:24.4; 1:53.0

1 ResilentN(JBongorno) 2.30 2.10 2.10 4 Whchwytothebch(JStrtton) 3.50 2.38 3 Force Full A (B Holland) 5.26

- Exacta (1/4) \$3.61 - Triple (1/4/3) \$27.27 - \$.10 Superfecta (1/4/3/2) \$7.85

EIGHTH-1-mile pace; nw15000l5; purse \$23,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 9:34 TIME-27.2; 56.2; 1:24.1; 1:52.3

3 HmsworthN(JStrtton) 3.04 2.20 2.10 4 Better B Bold (M Kakaley) 2.84 2.24 3 Panettone Hanover (J Pongiorno) 4.28

- Exacta (3/4) \$3.23 • Triple (3/4/2) \$17.69 • \$0.10 Superfecta (3/4/2/1) \$4.95 • \$1 Pick 3 (1,3,7/1/3) \$2.68

NINTH-1-mile pace; nw30000l5; purse \$33,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 9:54 TIME-27.3; 57.0; 1:24.3; 1:52.0

1 BourbnCunty(JBrtltt) 2.54 2.10 2.10 2 SpeakerOfPeace(BHolland) 4.82 4.02 4 Wish You Well (J Marohn) 3.16

- Exacta (1/2) \$7.26 • Triple (1/2/4) \$30.81 • \$0.10 Superfecta (1/2/4/3) \$5.82 • \$1 Pick 5 (2/1,3,7/1/3/1) \$19.36

TENTH-1-mile pace; 15000clm; purse \$15,000

TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 10:13 TIME-27.3; 56.1; 1:25.1; 1:55.2

1 ShorNotBch(GBrnnn) 16.36 4.88 3.02 5 Black Edition N (C Kelly) 4.14 3.44 3 It's Mahomes A (A Siegelman) 4.56

- Exacta (1/5) \$50.10 • Triple (1/5/3) \$127.53 - \$.10 Superfecta (1/5/3/4) \$35.00 • Late double (1/1) \$11.89 • \$1 Pick 3 (3/1/1) \$17.76 - \$1 Pick 4 (1/3/1/1) \$29.85 Scr: Saranac Blue Chip.

Total Handle-\$430,402.

Home team in CAPS

NEW YORK POST ACTION

The POST Line

Home team in CAPS
NFL Preseason - Wk. 3
MLB Tuesday American League

Favorite	Money Line	Underdog
YANKEES	$123-149	Astros
Rays	$113-136	TIGERS
BLUE JAYS	$102-123	Royals
Rangers	-109-111	WHITE SOX
Guardians	$113-136	ANGELS
Twins	$129-156	ATHLETICS

National League

Favorite	Money Line	Underdog
Brewers	$138-167	METS
NATIONALS	OFF	Rockies
Dodgers	$135-163	BRAVES
Cubs	-108-112	D'BACKS
PADRES	-102-118	Pirates
GIANTS	-108-112	Reds

Interleague

Favorite	Thursday PTS (O/U)	Underdog
BILLS	1.5 (35.5)	Steelers
Patriots	2.5 (34.5)	BROWNS
RAIDERS	2.5 (37.5)	49ers
CHARGERS	4.5 (38.5)	Rams
Friday
Giants	3 (37.5)	JETS
RAVENS	3 (35.5)	Commanders
Falcons	4.5 (36.5)	DOLPHINS
Texans	1.5 (35.5)	PANTHERS
Buccaneers	1.5 (35.5)	JAGUARS
COWBOYS	1.5 (38.5)	Saints
EAGLES	3 (36.5)	Bengals
Cardinals	2.5 (37.5)	PACKERS
CHIEFS	1.5 (36.5)	Seahawks
BRONCOS	6 (39.5)	Vikings
Saturday
COLTS	3.5 (36.5)	Lions
TITANS	3 (36.5)	Bears

Favorite	Money Line	Underdog
MARLINS	OFF	Red Sox
CARDINALS	OFF	Orioles
MARINERS	$100-120	Phillies

College Football Saturday, Aug. 29
Home team in CAPS

WNBA

Favorite	Tuesday PTS (O/U)	Underdog
Sky	5.5 (169.5)	SUN
WINGS	7.5 (176.5)	Fire
Mystics	3.5 (165.5)	MERCURY

Favorite	PTS (O/U)	Underdog
*Tcu	7.5 (47.5)	North Carolina
USC	38.5 (59.5)	San Jose State
N. DAKOTA ST.	7 (46.5)	Jacksonville St.
VIRGINIA	5.5 (53.5)	Nc State
STANFORD	5.5 (48.5)	Hawaii
E. MICHIGAN	9.5 (52.5)	Sacramento St.
FLORIDA ST.	31.5 (53.5)	New Mexico St.
UNLV	5.5 (57.5)	Memphis
*game held in Dublin, Ireland

SPORTS SHORTS

MLB: Astros part with GM Brown

General manager Dana Brown and the Astros mutually agreed to part ways, the team announced, when it was tied for first place in the AL West. Brown's contract was set to expire at the end of the season.

● In Miami, Anthony Seigler hit a go-ahead triple in the ninth inning, and the Red Sox beat the Marlins 4-2.

- In Seattle, Cal Raleigh busted out of a season-long slump with the first three-homer game of his career in a 9-2 win over the Phillies.

- In Detroit, Jonathan Aranda homered and Drew Rasmussen gave up three hits in six strong innings as the Rays beat the slumping Tigers 4-1.

● In Phoenix, Michael Conforto and Carson Kelly hit back-to-back homers, Kevin Gausman gave up just three hits over seven innings and the Cubs beat the Diamondbacks 7-0.

● In Chicago, Corey Seager had three hits and three RBIs, and Jake Burger and Wyatt Langford homered to lead the Rangers to an 11-2 victory over the White Sox.

ETC.: Reese grabs record 26 boards

In Los Angeles, Angel Reese broke the WNBA single-game rebounding record with 26 while also breaking the league's season record for rebounds as the Atlanta Dream beat the Los Angeles Sparks 78-71.

- In Minneapolis, Cecilia Zandalasini scored eight of her 18 points in the fourth quarter, Gabby Williams added 15 points, and the Valkyries beat the Lynx for the first time in franchise history, 80-66.

● The Texans acquired wide receiver Kayshon Boutte from the Patriots. According to multiple reports, Houston sent safety Jaylen Reed and a 2028 seventh-round draft pick to the Patriots.

Former St. John's standout RJ Luis Jr., who recently signed with LSU after spending time with two NBA clubs, was cleared by a court Monday to start practicing and potentially play for the Tigers this season.

● Trail Blazers guard Shaedon Sharpe is expected to miss six months after suffering a torn meniscus in his right knee during a recent workout session, ESPN reported.

TOP PLAY

Yanks to crank on rook

By MIKE TURAY

The Astros arrive at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday facing turmoil following Mon-day's surprising firing of GM Dana Brown.

After suffering two disappointing losses to the Athletics, the Astros entered Monday tied for first in the American League Central with the Rangers.

Meanwhile, the Yankees are coming off an impressive series win against their AL East rival, the Blue Jays, highlighted by an 8-3 victory Sunday.

Momentum is firmly on the Yankees' side, and right-hander Will Warren (8-6, 4.43 ERA) will take the mound, aiming to keep home run slugger Yordan Alvarez at bay. Astros rookie Ethan Pecko will be

making just his second start in the majors.

Pecko made his MLB debut last Wednesday against the Angels, pitching $3^{2}/_{3}$ innings, allowing three hits, striking out four, and giving up two runs on 89 pitches.

Given the recent surge by the Yankees lineup, particularly the addition of Cody Bellinger, this matchup poses a challenge for Pecko.

It's no surprise the Yankees have successfully covered the run line in their past seven games, five times as favorites. With the inexperienced Pecko pitching against The Bronx's hot hitters — including Trent Grisham, Ben Rice, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and rookie Spencer Jones — I expect this trend to continue.

Pitching Form

THE PLAY: Yankees -1.5 runs (+144, DraftKings).

		(Game time)	2026		*REC	'26 vs OPP		CAREER vs OPP	LAST 3 STARTS
			W-L	ERA		W-L	ERA		W-L	IP	ERA
Astros	Pecko (R)	-	0-0	4.91	1-0	0-0	0.00	0-0	*0-0	3.2	4.91
Yankees	Warren (R)	(7:05pm)	8-6	4.43	16-8	1-0	3.00	1-0	0-1	13.1	6.75
Brewers	Harrison (L)	-	10-3	2.84	14-6	0-0	0.00	0-0	2-1	14.2	1.84
Mets	Thornton (L)	(7:10pm)	3-4	3.04	3-6	1-0	0.00	1-0	1-2	16.0	3.38
Red Sox	Tolle (L)	-	8-6	3.08	11-10	0-0	0.00	0-0	2-0	19.0	1.89
Marlins	TBD	(6:40pm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Orioles	Bassitt (R)	-	4-4	5.08	6-6	0-0	0.00	2-1	0-1	14.0	5.14
Cardinals	Liberatore (L)	(7:45pm)	5-11	5.04	13-12	0-0	0.00	0-0	0-3	16.1	5.51
Phillies	Nola (R)	-	5-9	5.12	12-14	0-0	0.00	1-1	2-0	17.0	2.12
Mariners	Kirby (R)	(9:40pm)	8-10	4.18	11-13	0-0	0.00	0-1	0-1	13.0	8.31
Rays	Seymour (L)	-	9-4	4.17	6-5	0-0	13.50	0-0	1-1	17.0	3.71
Tigers	Jobe (R)	(6:40pm)	1-1	4.50	1-2	0-0	0.00	0-0	1-1	14.0	4.50
Royals	Lugo (R)	-	5-7	4.71	13-13	0-0	0.00	3-1	1-0	16.2	7.02
Blue Jays	Scherzer (R)	(7:07pm)	1-6	7.40	3-8	1-1	10.80	14-6	0-2	14.1	6.28
Rangers	deGrom (R)	-	9-8	3.77	13-11	0-1	9.64	0-1	2-1	13.0	2.08
White Sox	Kay (L)	(7:40pm)	9-6	3.96	14-10	1-0	3.60	1-0	1-1	17.1	3.63
Guardians	Williams (R)	-	12-7	3.72	15-11	0-0	0.00	1-0	1-1	15.2	5.17
Angels	Ureña (R)	(9:38pm)	8-9	2.80	10-11	0-1	3.60	0-1	1-2	13.1	4.73
Twins	Bradley (R)	-	9-5	3.90	15-10	0-0	0.00	0-1	0-1	14.0	5.79
Athletics	Jump (L)	(9:40pm)	5-8	4.83	7-9	0-0	0.00	0-0	1-1	15.1	5.87
Rockies	TBD	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nationals	Alvarez (L)	(6:45pm)	2-5	3.60	4-7	0-0	6.23	0-0	0-2	16.0	2.25
Dodgers	Glasnow (R)	-	3-0	2.72	6-1	0-0	0.00	2-1	1-0	14.2	1.84
Braves	Elder (R)	(7:15pm)	8-7	3.92	14-10	1-0	0.00	2-1	1-1	18.0	4.50
Cubs	Holmes (R)	-	5-6	2.49	6-6	0-1	3.18	1-1	1-2	16.0	2.81
D'backs	Pfaadt (R)	(9:40pm)	7-1	3.39	11-2	0-0	7.71	1-2	1-0	19.2	2.29
Pirates	Skenes (R)	-	9-11	3.95	10-16	1-0	1.42	1-0	0-2	14.1	4.40
Padres	King (R)	(9:40pm)	8-9	3.38	11-15	1-0	3.00	2-0	2-1	18.2	2.89
Reds	Singer (R)	-	5-11	4.72	9-16	1-0	1.50	1-1	0-1	18.0	5.00
Giants	Houser (R)	(9:45pm)	4-7	4.08	6-9	0-0	0.00	5-4	0-1	11.1	3.97

* REC: Won-lost record of pitcher's team in games he has started. *One start in '26.

STITCHES

Earn money; switch to Pecko

"The Yankees won six of their last seven games. The loss was when you bet on them. Knock it off!"

— Joe from Brooklyn

"You're getting very close to Hondo territory! I'm laughing almost every day ... and losing!" — Patrick Fergus

"Wake up, my man, or you will be down 1,000 Tempur-Pedics soon." — John

From one John to another. “Please don’t wake me. No, don’t shake me. Leave me where I am. I’m only sleeping.” — Lennon

We may have to call Hondo from the bullpen soon, Patrick. And Joe, we are going to pick against the Yanks on Tuesday. The least I can do. Will Warren has allowed 10 runs on 16 hits over the last 13 innings. Houston's Ethan Pecko gave up two runs over $3^{2/3}$ in his MLB debut. Fun fact: Pecko pitched for the Fayetteville Woodpeckers in 2024. \$50 on the Astros.

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Detroit, in their Motor City unis, fell asleep at the wheel. Rays 4, Tigers 1. Down -628 northrups.

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MLB BASEBALL

7 p.m.	Dodgers at Braves	TBS
7:05 p.m.	Astros at Yankees	YES, 660 AM, 101.9 FM
7:10 p.m.	Brewers at Mets	SNY, 880 AM
9:30 p.m.	Phillies at Mariners	MLBN
WNBA BASKETBALL
8 p.m.	Portland Fire at Wings	NBATV
TENNIS
10 a.m.	ATP/WTA U.S. Open: Qualifying, 1st Round	ESPN
2 p.m.	ATP/WTA U.S. Open: Qualifying, 1st Round	Tennis
2 p.m.	ATP Winston-Salem: Early Rounds	Tennis
2 p.m.	WTA Monterrey: Early Rounds	Tennis
MEN'S SOCCER
Noon	Saudi Pro League: Al Khaleej at Abha	FS2
2 p.m.	Saudi Pro League: Al Nassr at Al Ittifaq	FS2
LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL WORLD SERIES
1 p.m.	Int'l Bracket: Tokyo vs. Tijuana, MEX, Elimination Game	ESPN
3 p.m.	U.S. Bracket: Phenix City, Ala. vs. Tacoma, WA., Elimination Game	ESPN
5 p.m.	Int'l Bracket: Seoul vs. Vancouver, Elimination Game	ESPN
7 p.m.	U.S. Bracket: Bayonne, NJ vs. Hamilton, OH, Elimination Game	ESPN
CYCLING
8:30 a.m.	UCI: 2026 Vuelta a España, Stage 4	NBCSN

American League pennant winner

TEAM	ODDS	TEAM	ODDS	TEAM	ODDS
Yankees	+290	Mariners	15/1	Tigers	45/1
Rays	+350	Rangers	15/1	Orioles	50/1
Red Sox	+500	Guardians	17/1	Athletics	500/1
White Sox	+650	Blue Jays	33/1	Royals	500/1
Astros	11/1	Twins	33/1	Angels	500/1

National League pennant winner

TEAM	ODDS
Dodgers	-105
Brewers	+410
Cubs	+750
Braves	+750
Phillies	+850

TEAM	ODDS
Padres	22/1
D'backs	50/1
Marlins	350/1
Mets	500/1
Giants	500/1

TEAM	ODDS
Pirates	500/1
Cardinals	500/1
Nationals	500/1
Rockies	500/1
Reds	500/1

ODDS & ENDS

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2026 Over/Under regular-season passing yards (all odds currently -113)

PLAYER	O/U
Darian Mensah (Miami, Fla.)	3,125.5
Jayden Maiava (USC)	3,075.5
Julian Sayin (Ohio St.)	3,000.5
Drew Mestemaker (Oklahoma St.)	3,000.5
CJ Carr (Notre Dame)	2,875.5
Arch Manning (Texas)	2,850.5
Dante Moore (Oregon)	2,850.5
Josh Hoover (Indiana)	2,800.5
Trinidad Chambliss (Ole Miss)	2,800.5
CJ Bailey (NC State)	2,600.5
Demond Williams Jr. (Washington)	2,575.5
John Mateer (Oklahoma)	2,560.5
LaNorris Sellers (South Carolina)	2,525.5
Bear Bachmeier (BYU)	2,525.5

NBA OPENING NIGHT Oct. 20 76ers at Knicks

RESULT	ODDS
Knicks moneyline	-210
76ers moneyline	+176
Knicks -5.5	-115
76ers +5.5	-105
Over 233.5	-108
Under 233.5	-112
Jalen Brunson Over 25.5 points	-122
Jalen Brunson Under 25.5 points	-108
LeBron James Over 17.5 points	-102
LeBron James Under 17.5 points	-130
Jalen Brunson 30+ points	+172
LeBron James 30+ points	11/1

Celtics at Pistons

RESULT	ODDS
Celtics moneyline	+102
Pistons moneyline	-120
Celtics +1.5	-110
Pistons -1.5	-110
Over 221.5	-115
Under 221.5	-105
Jayson Tatum 30+ points	+148
Cade Cunningham 30+ points	+220

Thunder at Spurs

RESULT	ODDS
Thunder moneyline	+106
Spurs moneyline	-124
Thunder +1.5	-105
Spurs -1.5	-115
Over 231.5	-110
Under 231.5	-110
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 30+ points	-122
Victor Wembanyama 30+ points	+172

BET SMART

Let's go 2 & 'Nole in Week 0 wagers

By MICHAEL CALABRESE

It's make-or-break time for Mike Norvell in Tallahassee. Even a projected buyout of nearly \$50 million, should the Florida State administration fire him before Jan. 1, isn't enough to protect him from a scorching hot seat.

All the more reason for Norvell to get off to a fast start this season. The Seminoles draw two dregs (New Mexico State and Central Arkansas) and two ranked opponents (SMU and Alabama) early. A 3-1 start would set them up for a seven- or eight-win campaign.

Despite a new offensive line, a green playcaller at offensive coordinator and a walking turnover as their starting quarterback, there's plenty to like about this roster.

The receiving corps could be elite by ACC standards, especially if Duce Robinson builds on his first 1,000-yard campaign. Micahi Danzy was insanely explosive, albeit in a small sample size (21.1 yards per reception), and Jasen Lopez is the buzzy player of fall camp. The two-sport star was a three-star

recruit at point guard, and he's Florida State's answer in the slot.

Defensively, Tony White has the makings of a top 50 unit, despite significant losses in the portal. His defense was stout against the run (3.6 yards per carry, 27th), and above average against the pass thanks to a strong pass rush. White has earned the benefit of the doubt, but he'll need Rylan Kennedy (edge rusher) Mikai Gbayor (WLB) to really shine in the box this fall.

The good news, from a betting perspective, is that there are a lot of ways to attack Florida State's Week 0 opener against New Mexico State at Doak Campbell Stadium. The Aggies put up a fight last year during a 4-8 season by taking the ball away (24 takeaways, 14th) and passing it surprisingly well.

I don't anticipate the same kind of turnover luck given the talent gap in this game, and Trey Hedden, NMSU's new starting quarterback, has thrown 22 interceptions in 20 career starts at the FCS level. While I don't like Florida State in the full

game, giving away 31.5 points, I do think there's value in a first-half play.

Recommendation: Florida State -17.5 (first half at BetRivers).

As for my favorite play in FSU-NMSU, let's turn to a player prop. This is the time of year when I pore over camp reports, trying to read the tea leaves.

Luckily, Florida State has been fairly transparent this offseason. Running backs coach Cam Martin has stated plainly on multiple occasions that the Seminoles have the personnel and mindset to finish as a top 10 rushing team in 2026. And while Gus Malzahn is gone as OC, his protege Tim Harris Jr. will run a very similar system.

It stands to reason Florida State will pound the rock here, because the Noles have a deep running back room. They return so little on the offensive line it's hard to even project their starting lineup, but when facing a depleted NMSU front, that won't be much of a problem. There's a high likelihood, given the projected game flow (read: blowout), and limited starting experience from this unit, that we see Mike Norvell work in 10 to 12 different line-men over the full 60 minutes.

Undaunted by the hog molly uncertainty, I feel confident that this will

I feel confident that this will be a coming-out party for Ousmane Kromah. The former blue-chipper was the third-rated running back in the class of 2025. He's versatile at 6-foot-1 and 220 pounds with a sub-4.4 40-yard dash. He's explosive, powerful and a three-down back thanks to his

hard work in the offseason. He regularly utilized Florida State's virtual reality room to better understand his pass protection responsibilities.

If Kromah is truly Norvell's bell cow, he'll receive 20-plus carries against this porous New Mexico State front and cruise past the 100-yard mark. Recommendation: Ousmane Kromah 100 or more rushing yards (+230 Bet365).

SCHLITT' DECISION

ACE RACE: As the final month of the regular season approaches, Cam Schlittler, who has a sparkling 2.16 ERA, checks the boxes for the American League Cy Young Award — but Toronto’s Dylan Cease is right at his heels. Charles Wenzelberg / NY Post; Getty Images

D YLAN Cease and Cam Schlittler generally held serve against each other over the weekend, while their respective lineups squandered chances to bolster their aces' respective American League Cy Young candidacies.

Schlittler battled Friday night, allowing nine base runners in six

innings but just one run in what became a 3-1 Yankees victory over the Blue Jays.

The next afternoon, Cease no-hit the Yankees into the

seventh inning and ultimately allowed two hits, five walks and one run over $6^{2}/_{3}$ innings of what became a 4-3 Blue Jays triumph.

Cease and Schlittler are by far the front-runners contending for the award.

It remains close, but I give the stretch-run edge to Schlittler. In tight races, I favor the pitcher with more volume — and Schlittler has three more starts and $13 \frac{2}{3}$ more innings than Cease (all stats are through the weekend).

Among those I asked what they would prioritize if they voted for

Cy Young was Toronto manager John Schneider, who said, “I think you look at innings pitched, strikeouts and I’m a big believer in WHIP, just in terms of the traffic that you’re either allowing to be generated or not.”

Schlittler ranked fourth in the majors in innings (158) and second in the AL, and Cease was 25th in the majors at 144 $^{1/3}$ . Both were averaging six innings per start. Schlittler led in WHIP at 0.96 (fourth in the majors) to Cease's

1.06 (ninth). Only Milwaukee's Jacob Misiorowski had a better strikeout percentage than Cease's AL-leading 36.1 percent. Schlittler was fourth in the majors at 30.8.

Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake accentuated “volume (innings) and run prevention.” Schlittler led the AL in ERA at 2.16. Cease was next at 2.37.

I do not have a vote for AL Cy Young this year (two voters from each AL city get that designation, and I already know I am not on that committee). But I do my own awards annually, and for Cy Young,

I look at three categories as separators, especially in close races:

1. How did you do on the road? I want to make sure that a candidate is not just benefiting from starting half his games in a place that routinely limits offense, such as Seattle's T-Mobile Park.

Schlittler led the majors with a 1.14 road ERA, and Cease was second at 1.67. Schlittler's mark has a historic tinge. Among those with at least 70 road innings, it would be the best since Greg Maddux was at 1.12 in 1995. Cease's 1.67 is ninth-best since 1995.

2. How many super starts (at least seven innings, two or fewer earned runs) do you have? Quality starts are a nice beginning place: Schlittler had 16 starts of at least six innings and three or fewer earned runs, and Cease had 13.

But this is an award about being the ace of aces of the sport. And in an age when starters are asked to do less and drain bullpens more because of that, I want to find the starters who protect the relievers.

The AL leader in this category is neither Cease nor Schlittler. It is Kansas City's Michael Wacha at nine, which was tied with Philadelphia's Cristopher Sánchez for the MLB lead. Cease has six. Schlittler has five — the same as teammate Ryan Weathers. Schlittler has four additional starts in which he got at least one out in the seventh inning and yielded two or fewer runs. Cease has two of those.

3. What are your numbers against the best offenses/teams? I think there were times, especially when the unbalanced schedule had teams playing 19 games against division rivals, in which pitcher stats could be improved by facing a bad offense four or more times in a year.

This season, for example, the Mariners and Rangers were two of the three lowest-scoring teams in the majors. The Angels' Reid Detmers has five starts against that duo, and pitched to a 2.05 ERA and .185 batting average against those fellow AL West foes. That would add a disclaimer to what has been the lefty's best career season to date.

Conversely, it is not just that Arizona's Eduardo Rodriguez has had an incredible rebound season, but no pitcher had thrown more innings against the top 10 teams in runs scored than the lefty, who had a 2.34 ERA in $92 \frac{1}{3}$ innings across 15 starts.

In this category, Schlittler had a 1.67 ERA in six starts (eighth-best

Cy on the Line

Yankees ace Cam Schlittler and Blue Jays star Dylan Cease are the front-runners for the AL Cy Young Award. Here's a look at their seasons:

SCHLITTLER		CEASE
27	GS	24
158.0	IP	144.1
115	H	89
37	BB	64
193	K	209
11-6	W/L	8-5
2.16	ERA	2.37
5.5	bWAR	5.4

among those with at least 30 innings vs. such teams) and Cease was at 2.03 (10th-best).

Just four AL teams were .500 or better this season. But, of course, there are interleague games, and no pitcher had thrown more innings than Cease (90) against teams over .500, and he had a 2.40 ERA. Schlittler had a 2.06 ERA in $65^{2}/_{3}$ innings against those teams.

It is close. The last month will matter.

But Schlittler heads down the stretch with a slight lead.

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WNBA won't allow ex-NBAers in draft

By JENNA LEMONCELLI

Former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White will not be eligible to play in the WNBA after both declared themselves women and eligible for the next draft, league sources told Front Office Sports.

The recent declarations of Freedom and White are “simply publicity stunts” and the league is “not going to give oxygen to efforts designed to mock the league or use this topic to demean and marginalize others,” one league source said.

The WNBA “will not allow outside pressure or manufactured controversy to dictate league processes,” the source said.

In response, Freedom told The Post's Stefan Bondy: "I haven't heard anything from the WNBA officials yet. Fake News!"

The league reportedly will continue to discuss the topic, though it does not have any legitimate and immediate eligibility matters that require action.

The decision came after Freedom was kicked out of Wintrust Arena on Sunday night over a verbal altercation with Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud.

ENES KANTER FREEDOM

The WNBA's new collective bargaining agreement in Article XIII, Section 1(a), states: "Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA." The CBA, agreed upon in March, does not include any language around gender identity or gender assigned at birth.

No known transgender woman has played in the WNBA.

Freedom, who played 11 seasons in the NBA, has turned to political activism in recent years.

He and White, twice an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, declared earlier this month their eligibility for the 2027 draft amid debates regarding transgender athletes in women's sports.

ROYCE WHITE

It came after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham voiced support for barring transgender athletes from girls and women's sports in an ESPN article published in July, which sparked a larger conversation and pro- and anti-trans rallies before games.

Freedom, who sat courtside at the Sky-Fever game, got into a verbal altercation with Cloud during a timeout called in the third quarter.

Freedom was wearing a black T-shirt that read, “WOMAN noun. adult human female.”

Cloud, who is vocal in her support of trans athletes in women's sports, walked toward Freedom and shouted at him as he stood with his arms outstretched.

As he walked toward the court, Freedom was stopped by security and escorted out of the arena.

A spokesperson for Wintrust Arena told TMZ that “decisions regarding reprimanding or banning would be the purview of the WNBA.”

The league has not announced a ban on Freedom from attending future games as of Monday.

A Chicago police spokesperson said there have been no reports filed regarding the incident, per TMZ.

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Kiffin defends ex-NFL additions

By CHRISTIAN ARNOLD

Lane Kiffin defended recruiting ex-Ole Miss players to LSU after their release from NFL rosters, most recently former Saints defensive lineman Zxavian Harris.

Harris is the latest player among athletes whose eligibility was restored for a fifth season after a recent court ruling by a Louisiana judge.

Kiffin has taken advantage of the decision by recruiting Harris, Dae'Quan Wright and other class of 2022 players.

"We have, you know, made a decision to recruit some kids around the country, and through these multiple injunctions around the country, which, this is not a first time in college sports, players were granted a fifth year of eligibility in multiple sports," Kiffin told reporters Monday. "And through them winning their injunction and entry into the portal, they're available to recruit. So ourselves, like many places around the country, are recruiting them.

"At the end of the day, because of these rulings, they're either going to play for you or they're going to play somewhere else around the country. We made a decision to recruit them, like probably most people are."

Harris' commitment to LSU is intriguing, not just because of the court case playing out between many student athletes and the NCAA, but because the former Ole Miss player had strong words for Kiffin after the coach's abrupt departure.

In one interview with On3, he called Kiffin's exit a “slap in the face and then a back-hand,” and criticized him further in The Athletic.

"When Kiffin was there, he was telling us like almost every day, don't believe the rumors," Harris said to the outlet. "Like, he's not gonna leave, to keep us focused. But by the time it came, everybody was starstruck. He told us not to believe the rumors. We should have believed it, and he just left out of nowhere."

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ACE THE FACTS

McLean overcoming rocky start solidifies his Amazin' value

NOLAN McLean is probably not going to win the Rookie of the Year Award in the National League this year. JJ Wetherholt has held the pole position most of the season, although the Cardinals second baseman is only hitting .193 since July 7. Reds infielder Sal Stewart has surged into a dead heat thanks to a .310/.367/.474 stretch since July 24 and has 28 home runs to go with 98 RBIs.

McLean is generally viewed as the bronze medalist in that race, according to most tracking polls and speculation markets, and that sounds about right. There are some days he might not even seem to be the best ROY candidate on his own team, considering how strong his Mets classmate Carson Benge has been coming on in recent weeks.

Maybe there's a sense of missed opportunity given how this has shaken out. But if that's the case, it's because of two things:

1. McLean was the odds-on front-runner entering this season, based on a fine eight-game audition at the end of last year and augmented by the fact he was given the ball to start the WBC championship game against Venezuela on St. Patrick's Day.

2. He struggled a bit early in the season, a malaise not unlike the much longer one that Paul Skenes has muddled through.

That last point, that's the impossible mystery of the position, right? When a young pitcher explodes on the scene, it is usually because he has blowaway velocity and unhittable stuff, and when you watch it up close, you want to believe that it will be sustainable indefinitely. A kid with a golden arm has always had the power to take your breath away and steal your heart.

And sometimes it vanishes.

We've seen it with Paul Skenes in Pittsburgh, who did the ROY/Cy Young two-step the past two years, who backed up a 1.96 ERA as a rookie with a 1.97 last year (and 211/224 $\mathrm{ERA^{+}}$ , to boot) and then, this year, has looked utterly mortal. His year started with a five-run, two-thirds-of-an-inning dud against the Mets on Opening Day and has featured a puzzling velocity dip and an ERA that now sits almost two runs above his first two years (3.95).

And here's what might be the most alarming part: He's apparently not hurt. Sometimes, it just goes away on you.

For a while this year, it went away for McLean. The Mets were 1-6 in his first seven starts, 3-8 in his first 11, and that included a couple of especially bothersome outings. On April 21, with the Mets desperate to halt an 11-game losing streak that had already throttled the season, the Mets staked McLean to a 3-0 lead over the Twins. McLean threw five perfect innings, and then fell apart in the fifth and sixth. The Mets lost their 12th straight, 5-3.

And on May 19, after the Mets had scratched back as close to .500 as they'd get all year (21-26), they handed McLean a 5-0 lead in the top of the second at Washington and he promptly spiked the game away, surrendering nine runs (six earned) over the next three innings. The Mets lost 9-6 and have never again been as close as five games under .500.

(That loss was partially obscured and forgotten — as much of the Mets miseries were the first three months of the season — by the fact that same night, the Knicks erased a 22-point deficit with 7 ½ minutes left to go in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Cavaliers. The Mets really do owe their orange-and-blue cousins a magnum of champagne at season's end for helping to deflect a lot of flak.)

You could have started to wonder about McLean then, and after allowing seven earned runs to Cincinnati his next start, his ERA stood at 4.40.

But since then he is 7-4 across 16 games and $87^{1/3}$ innings. His ERA is 2.37 (and in the past 10 games it's even better: 1.97). He still walks a few too many hitters, and hits too many, but that's probably going to be a constant given that the spin rate on his slider is so extraordinary (and made a few of the White Sox on Sunday seem like they were swinging at Wiffle balls).

"Those are good hitters that had really been swinging it well against us all series," Mets interim manager Andy Green said after McLean's six-inning, one-hit, zero-run outing. "And they were having tough at-bats."

McLean probably won't be the fifth Mets pitcher to win Rookie of the Year, but his 9-8 record, 3.21 ERA, 10.2 strikeouts per nine, 127 ERA+, 1.143 WHIP this year certainly compares favorably with Tom Seaver (16-2, 2.76, 6.1 K/9, 122, 1.203 in 1967), Jon Matlack (15-10, 2.32, 5.8, 145, 1.243 in 1972), Dwight Gooden (17-9, 2.60, 11.4, 137, 1.073 in 1984) and Jacob deGrom (9-6, 2.69, 9.2, 128, 1.140 in 2014), the four men who've won what is now known as the Jackie Robinson Award.

ON DECK

And it reaffirms, again, what the Mets hoped coming in. They may well have found their rotation cornerstone for years to come. It's a start.

vs. Brewers Tuesday, 7:10 p.m., SNY, WHSQ (880 AM)

LHP Zac Thornton

2026 stats: 3-4, 3.04 ERA

Career vs. MIL: 1-0, 0.00 ERA

Last start: Aug. 18, vs. SEA; 5 IP, 0 ER, 8 SO

PITCH BREAKDOWN

30% Cutter

25% 4-Seamer

14% Sweeper

LHP Kyle Harrison

2026 stats: 10-3, 2.84 ERA

Career vs. NYM: 0-0, 7.20 ERA

Last start: Aug. 18, vs. SEA; 5 IP, 0 ER, 8 SO

PITCH BREAKDOWN

58% 4-Seamer

31% Slurve

9% Change

UP NEXT

WEDNESDAY: vs. Brewers, 7:10 p.m., SNY, WHSQ RHP Robert Stock vs. RHP Dustin May THURSDAY: vs. Brewers, 7:10 p.m., SNY, WHSQ LHP Sean Manaea vs. RHP Jacob Misiorowski

INJURY REPORT

BRIGHT FUTURE: After he went 4-5 with a 4.03 ERA in his first 16 starts this season, Nolan McLean has turned things around in a big way. Over his past 10 starts, the Amazin's rookie maintained a 1.97 ERA with 62 strikeouts, proving the Mets may have found the ace of their rotation. Charles Wenzelberg / NY Post ■ Mark Vientos went 0-for-5 with a walk and three strikeouts in the first two games of his rehab assignment with Double-A Binghamton this past weekend. He has been out since July 10 with a right hand fracture.

Righting the ship

After struggling a bit early in the season, Mets right-hander Nolan McLean has looked like the ace of the rotation and the pitcher who was the early favorite to win NL Rookie of the Year over his past 10 starts. Here's a look at his season:

	IP	ERA	Ks	BB	H	W/L
Past 10 starts	59.1	1.97	62	24	46	5-3
First 16 starts	89.1	4.03	106	34	66	4-5
Season (25 starts)	148.2	3.21	168	58	112	9-8

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Sally Brompton Daily Horoscope

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Mercury's move into your sign today will do wonders for the way you think and the way you communicate. You won't lack for ideas and you won't be lost for words when it comes to explaining what you are going to be doing.

$\underline{\Omega}$ LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)

A slight delay early in the day could work in your favor, because by the time you reach your destination, those who were ahead of you will have done most of the heavy lifting. Make sure you return the favor if you ever get the chance.

m SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

Try not to get dragged into situations in which you have no personal interests at stake. The more others call on you to get involved, the more you should make it clear to them that, on this occasion at least, they are on their own.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)

Opportunities to move up in the world are about to come thick and fast, so be ready to act quickly and decisively and don't waste time worrying what your actions might mean for other people. Do they ever worry about you?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)

Things that you found difficult to get to grips with in the past will come easy to you now that Mercury is moving in your favor again. Puzzles that confound other people won't stand a chance when confronted by your keen and agile mind.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)

You may be inclined to sweep away everything that went before so that you can start

again afresh but don't be hasty. The approaching lunar eclipse will do the job for you at a much lower cost, so be patient and let fate take its course.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)

Cosmic activity in your opposite sign will bring some kind of challenge over the next few days, and it is of the utmost importance that you stay calm and think logically. If you let your emotions get the better of you, it could be a challenge you lose.

ARIES (March 21-April 20)

The bigger your plans, the more closely you need to work with other people. Having a dream is not enough, you must also be able to turn that dream into a concrete reality, and that is unlikely to happen if you

insist on going it alone.

TAURUS (April 21-May 21)

You have been far too modest about your achievements in recent weeks and must now let the world know who you are and what you can do. With Mercury joining the Sun in the most dynamic area of your chart today that won't be a problem.

II GEMINI (May 22-June 21)

You will need to be more pushy on the home front today, as a loved one seems unable to make up their mind about what they should be doing. They may genuinely be confused, but more likely it's just laziness, so nudge them in the right direction.

CANCER (June 22-July 23)

Cosmic activity in the area of your chart that governs your social life will make it easy to get out and about and have a good time. The more others complain that you are neglecting your duties, the more determined you will be to sing and dance.

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)

You must not allow a partner or colleague to force you into making a hasty decision. Even if you trust their judgment, it's unlikely the situation will work out well if you act too quickly, so dig in your heels and refuse to be budged.

BIRTHDAY TUESDAY

Mercury's influence on your birthday will do wonders for

your ability to think straight. While your rivals are tying themselves in

knots over this or that theory, you will know with the utmost clarity what the truth is and what needs to be done.

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High Tide for	1st	2nd	1st	2nd
Coney Island	6:34a	6:49p	7:17a	7:29p
Fire Island	6:27a	6:59p	7:09a	7:38p
Hempstead	10:50a	10:55p	11:24a	11:28p
Huntington	10:31a	10:40p	11:09a	11:18p
Jones Inlet	6:18a	6:33p	7:01a	7:13p
Montauk Point	7:54a	8:15p	8:36a	8:52p
Port Washington	10:58a	11:04p	11:33a	11:35p
Sandy Hook	6:38a	6:53p	7:21a	7:33p

Regional cities	TODAY	TOMORROW
Albany	75/58/t	80/63/pc
Danbury	77/56/s	79/63/s
Glens Falls	75/53/t	78/56/pc
Gr Barrington	74/55/pc	77/59/s
Kingston	79/56/pc	80/61/s
Liberty	71/54/sh	76/57/s
Monticello	71/52/pc	77/60/s
Newburgh	78/57/s	80/63/s
Poughkeepsie	77/54/s	80/62/s
Saratoga Springs	76/54/t	81/57/pc
Stroudsburg	76/53/s	81/61/s
Torrington	77/57/s	79/60/s
Syracuse	73/59/sh	81/66/pc

World cities	TODAY	TOMORROW
Athens	96/73/s	94/78/s
Baghdad	117/91/pc	118/91/s
Beijing	89/73/t	79/68/c
Berlin	75/55/s	76/57/c
Cairo	99/77/pc	100/77/s
Dublin	66/59/c	68/57/sh
Geneva	81/61/pc	85/62/pc
Hong Kong	91/82/t	89/82/t
Jerusalem	90/71/s	91/71/s
Kabul	90/64/pc	90/65/pc
London	77/62/pc	79/64/sh
Madrid	83/64/pc	83/62/pc
Mexico City	72/57/r	75/56/r
Montreal	74/60/t	77/64/pc
Moscow	61/54/sh	62/50/c
Paris	78/64/r	82/65/pc
Rio de Janeiro	72/69/r	75/69/sh
Rome	88/72/t	91/73/s
Sydney	68/58/sh	64/57/sh
Tokyo	97/80/s	97/79/t

INJURY REPORT

Montefiore Einstein Official Hospital of the New York Yankees

■ Ryan Weathers (left forearm flexor strain) is hopeful that he will return to the Yankees before the end of the season. The lefty has been shut down for 2-4 weeks — in a regular season that has just under five weeks remaining — and is almost certainly done this year as a starter, though he could become a bullpen factor.

ON DECK

vs. Astros Tuesday, 7:05 p.m., YES, WFAN (660 AM, 101.9 FM)

RHP Will Warren

2026 stats: 8-6, 4.43 ERA

Career vs. HOU: 1-0, 3.27 ERA

Last start: Wed., at BAL; 4 IP, 3 H, 2 ER

PITCH BREAKDOWN

37% 4-Seamer

26% Sinker

19% Sweeper

RHP Ethan Pecko

2026 stats: 0-0, 4.91 ERA

Career vs. NYY: First start

Last start: Wed., vs. LAA; 3.2 IP, 3 H, 2 ER

PITCH BREAKDOWN

31% 4-Seamer

30% Sinker

11% Curve

UP NEXT

WEDNESDAY: vs. Astros, 7:05 p.m., Amazon Prime, WFAN TBD

vs. RHP Tanner Gordon THURSDAY: vs. Astros, 7:05 p.m., YES, WFAN RHP Gerrit Cole vs. RHP Hayden Wesneski

OH WHAT A THREELIEF!

Trio of Headrick, Blackburn, Bednar has become unexpectedly dominant

Trey Magnifique

ners in his past 44 games.

By MARK W. SANCHEZ

A look at the dominance of David Bednar, Brent Headrick and Paul Blackburn:

	G	IP	ERA	K/9 IP	WHIP
Bednar*	53	57.1	2.35	10.2	0.99
Blackburn	60	73.0	1.73	7.2	1.03
Headrick	67	66.1	1.49	11.3	1.13

The Rays were on the way to a defeat that would creak the AL East door a bit further. The Yankees were up two runs entering the seventh inning against the division rival Blue Jays. Cam Schlittler had survived six strong innings but needed to expend 96 pitches to get there.

*Also has 30 saves

It was time for Aaron Boone to call upon his three most trusted relievers to nail down the game, a trio that has been leaned on all year, has responded historically well, and figures to be the same combination that the manager dials up in October.

Robert Sabo (2) Jason Szenes

And so Friday, it was Brent Headrick — a 2025 waiver claim who could no longer crack the Twins 40-man roster — pitching a scoreless seventh. Paul Blackburn, a 32-year-old who pitched to a 4.97 ERA in his first nine seasons (nearly all as a starter), handled the scoreless eighth. David Bednar — previously a solid veteran closer known more for his guts than his stuff who has since become something more — locked down the ninth to save the game.

Consider Matt Blake among the pleasantly surprised that these three have become arguably the best bullpen troika in the game.

“It’s not what your first draft was,” the pitching coach acknowledged this weekend with a smile.

What follows is a peek into a group without the reputation or nickname of, say, “No Runs DMC” (Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman) but one that has posted numbers to rival anyone, holding opposing batters to a .200 average and .564 OPS while pitching to a 1.83 ERA in $196^{2}/_{3}$ innings.

■ ■ ■

Then with the Twins, Headrick prepared during the 2024-25 offseason as if he would be a starter. After all, he was a starter at Illinois State and throughout the majority of his five minor league seasons with Minnesota.

But he was surprisingly designated for assignment in February 2025, picked up by the Yankees and reported to Tampa as one more pitcher the Yankees would try to stretch out.

Headrick showed more as a reliever in camp, which is how he spent the entirety of a solid, if not special, 2025 season in which he split time in The Bronx and in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. That led to the first offseason of Headrick's life in which he was officially a reliever and could train as one.

“I think it’s helped to make the transition that much easier,” the lefty said earlier this season. “So now it feels more and more normal than it ever has.”

The Yankees advised Headrick as he trained for the grind of bullpen life rather than the every-fifth-day regimen to which he had grown accustomed in part because “we knew Headrick would be important this year,” Blake said. The club saw flashes of stuff they felt he could build upon.

But rarely are such masterpieces constructed in such short order. The 28-year-old has not allowed a run in 56 of his 67 relief appearances, the most in the majors and tied — with Mariano Rivera (56 games in 2004) — for the most by a reliever through the first 130 games of a season in franchise history.

He has been just as unforgiving with his teammates' base runners, stranding 22 of 23 inherited run-

"I think he's taken two standard-deviation jumps from what he was last year," Blake said, "which has been a pleasant surprise."

Headrick's differently trained body matters, but so does his stuff. Last year he struggled against lefties, which he has solved in part with better fastball and slider execution, according to Blake. He has added a sinker — a pitch that was “a focal point of my offseason,” Headrick said — and sharpened a changeup that is unkind to righties, who have swung and missed at the pitch 45.8 percent of the time.

“Every pitch has just incrementally gotten better,” Blake said. “I think his understanding of how to miss into better areas to limit the damage has gotten better. I think his confidence to attack the zone, all these things.

"It just seems like he's gotten exponentially better."

■ ■ ■

Blackburn was added on a waiver claim as a depth-starter option, got some work in relief last season and now has excelled in his first full year out of the bullpen.

The Yankees have seen this before.

"Not too dissimilar to the way that the [Luke] Weaver role expanded," Blake said, the team identifying the same abilities in both fringe starters who turned into breakout relievers.

Like Headrick, the 32-year-old Blackburn — brought in from the Mets last August, then signed in free agency for \$2 million — believes he has been helped greatly by a full offseason preparing for a different role.

Like Headrick's, Blackburn's results have been nearly unfathomable. He has not allowed an earned run in 27 of his past 29 games, a span in which he owns a 0.67 ERA — while holding opposing batters to a .115/.205/.198 slashline — in $40^{1/3}$ innings.

His sinker has spiked in usage and velocity, up from an average of 92.6 mph last year to 94.3 mph this year and especially difficult on righty hitters.

His changeup and curveball have routinely defeated lefty batters, who are a combined 8-for-88 (.091) with a .319 OPS and a 33.5 percent whiff rate against the secondary pitches.

“[Weaver] became indispensable, and that’s kind of where Blackburn is right now,” Blake said. “He just matches up with righties and lefties, understands game situations, understands how to attack different types of hitters.

"He's obviously taken another role and run with it."

■ ■ ■

The discovery and elevation of Bednar is a different case: He was a two-time All-Star with the Pirates before coming over at last year's trade deadline.

But the Yankees dealt for a veteran righty who was not a certainty after losing his closer job in 2024 then getting optioned to Triple-A early in 2025. With Pittsburgh, he fought his way back to the majors, reclaimed his job, attracted the Yankees' interest and now has reached yet another level of excellence.

Since May 22, Bednar has entered

32 games and allowed an earned run in just two, a span in which he boasts a 0.74 ERA and has held opposing hitters to 14-for-122 (.115) with 40 strikeouts.

The best of Bednar has been informed by his worst. Prior to this stretch, he gave up May games to the Brewers and Mets by using first-pitch curveballs to Brice Turang and Tyrone Taylor, respectively, who both banged home runs.

From the beginning of the season through that May 17 loss to the Mets punctuated by Taylor's three-run blast, Bednar faced 91 hitters and opened the at-bat with a curveball 40 times (44 percent). Hitters were waiting for the pitch.

"I think he got into a little bit of a habit of just using the curveball a lot in early counts," Blake said. "... Felt like maybe the game plan was getting a little too predictable. So we pivoted a little bit away from that."

Since May 18, his first-pitch curveball rate has fallen to 23 percent. Bednar has relied upon his four-seamer, as always, but also turned more often than ever to his splitter, focusing on two pitches that might be hit for singles but are rarely crushed for damage, which was the issue with his curveball.

“You’ve got to string some hits together to beat him because he’s not going to walk many guys and he’s not going to give up slug,” Blake said. “You’ve really got to piece together the inning against him.”

Against Bednar — and Headrick and Blackburn — virtually no one has.

msanchez@nypost.com

Yankees giving vet shot to help bullpen

The Yankees will have a fresh bullpen arm and a rotation question for the Astros series that begins in The Bronx on Tuesday.

The apparent corresponding active-roster move occurred during Monday's off-day, when the Yankees optioned Brendan Beck to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Beck had been recalled Sunday, when Ryan Weathers hit the injured list.

The club is planning to call up veteran reliever Justin Topa, The Post's Joel Sherman reported, for what would be the righty's Yankees debut.

Sending Beck down appears to eliminate him from contention for a start Wednesday, for which the Yankees have not announced a starter. The Yankees could opt for a bullpen game or call up Elmer Rodríguez, who has been pitching well (1.38 ERA in his past five starts) with SWB.

The Yankees still will need to create a spot on the 40-man roster for Topa, a Binghamton native and LIU Brooklyn product who has pitched in 172 major league games over seven seasons with the Brewers, Mariners and Twins.

The 35-year-old struggled with Minnesota this season (allowing 17 earned runs in 19 innings) before being released in May. He signed minor league deals with the Blue Jays and Royals, both of whom released him before he made it back to the majors.

The Yankees took a flier on Topa on Aug. 14, and he has allowed one earned run in five innings with SWB.

— Mark W. Sanchez

LOCKING IT DOWN: With a back-end trio of (from top) David Bednar, Paul Blackburn and Brent Headrick, the Yankees have had few issues closing out games the past few months.

Charles Wenzelberg/NY Post; Jason Szenes; Corey Sipkin

Watson named Browns starter

By JOE REEDY

BEREA, Ohio — Not many gave Deshaun Watson a chance of reclaiming the Cleveland Browns starting quarterback spot over the past 22 months.

Since Watson ruptured his right Achilles the first time in a Week 7 game in 2024, owner Jimmy Haslam said during last year's owners meetings that the Browns “took a big swing and miss” when they sent three first-round picks to Houston for the controversial quarter-back in 2022.

After Shedeur Sanders had a solid first half in last Saturday's 31-7 loss to Buffalo, a frustrated Watson said the boos from the crowd were “personal” and showed “disrespect” after he took the field in Cleveland for the first time in 22 months.

Despite the hurdles and a close competition with Sanders, Watson will be the Browns starting quarterback for their Sept. 13 opener at the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Coach Todd Monken made the announcement Monday after informing both Watson and Sanders.

"I took in the full body of work over the course of the offseason to training camp to the games, the joint practice, and ultimately felt like to start the season on the road, Deshaun gave us the best chance to move the ball and score points. I mean, that's really what it's about," Monken said. "I felt that way going into the last game, but wasn't sure. And after we talked as a staff and we re-looked at everything, we're going to go that direction."

Watson, a 10-year veteran, won the competition over Sanders as both split reps with the first unit throughout the offseason, training camp and the preseason.

The decision will not be popular with Browns fans, who have booed Watson repeatedly during his time in Cleveland, and have put a lot of support behind Sanders.

Monken reiterated that fan sentiment and Watson's comments did not play a role in his decision. —AP

PATH TO THE PLAYOFFS How Giants can meet Harbaugh's expectations right from the jump

THIS was John Harbaugh when he arrived in January:

“I expect and want to make the play-offs next year.”

No one around the Giants believes it is a pipe dream. Worst-to-first is not a pipe dream. Any of the teams can win the NFL East. Any of the teams can finish last.

There is a pathway to the playoffs for the 2026 New York Football Giants.

A Big Blueprint:

1. The second-year leap

No one, not even Harbaugh, should reasonably expect Jaxson Dart to author the kind of season that Drake Maye did in Year 2, leading the Patriots to the Super Bowl last season. There are certain to be growing pains for Dart as he learns the new offense. He will have a cadre of experienced coaches in his ear and is a quick study who is chasing greatness with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

We have witnessed his off-platform pro-clivities, but developing into a pocket passer is what can lift the Giants. And of course recognizing when to lower his shoulder in key moments only and when to slide or get out of bounds so he doesn't have to worry about the concussion police and that dreaded blue tent.

2. The Three Amigos

A healthy Malik Nabers is at the forefront, of course. He appears to be on a Week 1 trajectory, and even if he is on a pitch count, the Cowboys for starters will have to be on high alert. The red jersey came off Monday. Another step closer.

The other Amigos are a pair of skyscraper targets for Dart: 6-4 $^{1/2}$ Isaiah Likely and 6-4 rookie Malachi Fields. Likely fancies himself as a chess piece who is a mismatch for both linebackers and defensive backs.

Fields is a precocious quarterback-friendly weapon with an inviting catch radius.

3. The Blue Rush

The Post's podcast fans will nod their approval. Abdul Carter expects the Giants to lead the NFL in sacks and he and Brian Burns should each lead the way with 10-plus. Kayvon Thibodeaux is entering a contract year and will be a factor, especially against the run, as long as he can stay on the field.

Towering linebackers Arvell Reese and Tremaine Edmunds can help The Blue Rush by muddying the passing lanes.

Because the cornerback room remains suspect, heat on the quarterback will be paramount. It will make the Giants all the more dangerous if Dart gives them a lead, allowing the defense to pin its ears back.

4. Dennard Wall-son

New DC Dennard Wilson's foremost agenda is

stopping the run so The Blue Rush can have some fun. From Day 1, he has talked about building a wall. With Dexter Lawrence dancing on Pete Rose Way, Wilson is counting on a second-year leap from Darius Alexander to help vets D.J. Reader and Shelby Harris. Defensive players have bought into the diabolical disguises and scheme.

The Wall would enable Reese and Edmunds to roam freely and wreak havoc behind them.

5. Bullyball

Harbaugh couldn't bring Derrick Henry with him, but Harbaugh's DNA hasn't changed. It is why offensive lineman Sisi Mauigoa was drafted over safety Caleb Downs. It is why fullback Patrick Ricard was recruited. It is why Najee Harris was summoned as a short-yardage and goal-line hammer, and perhaps more. It is why run game maestro Greg Roman was hired. Harbaugh would ask Brandon Jacobs to unre-

tire if he felt the need.

The idea is to impose your will on opponents and wear them to a frazzle so you can take their heart and finish in the fourth quarter. Harbaugh's Giants won't be losing the conditioning battle.

The time of possession game will be important in keeping Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens off the field in the opener as well as Matthew Stafford in Week 2, and later Jayden Daniels and Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley.

The Bill Parcells-Jeff Hostetler Giants possessed the ball for 40:33 against Jim Kelly's explosive Bills in Super Bowl 25. The Tom Coughlin-Eli Manning Giants showed their mental toughness in the playoffs at arctic Lambeau Field and in the 2011 knockdown, drag-out NFC Championship game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

6. Special teams

Harbaugh's special teams background under Andy Reid in Philadelphia has been well-documented. The Ravens under Harbaugh had the second-best special teams EPA during his tenure in Baltimore. He made sure to bring punter Jordan Stout with him. Braxton Berrios and/or Calvin Austin III can give Harbaugh many happy returns. Games are won and lost on hidden yardage.

"We believe that if you're not a good special teams player at some point in your career, it's pretty rare that you're a good football player," Harbaugh said last season.

No guarantees, of course. Tyler Loop missing that 44-yard FG against the Steelers as time expired in the Ravens' regular-season finale booted Harbaugh to the Giants. Will undrafted rookie kicker Dominic Zvada be the answer?

7. Home Harbaugh Home

Harbaugh was 102-45 (.694) at home in Baltimore. The Giants were 13-20-1 across the past four seasons at MetLife Stadium.

Make the Blue army proud again.

steve.serby@nypost.com

CHECKMATE: Tight end Isaiah Likely considers himself a chess piece and a matchup nightmare for opponents, an important characteristic if the Giants are to make it back to the playoffs this year, The Post's Steve Serby writes. Corey Sipkin

IN THE MIX: Finally healthy after a career beset by injuries, tight end Jelani Woods is making a strong case to secure a roster spot with Gang Green. AP

Woods making Jets TE decisions difficult

By BRIAN LEWIS

For the past two years, Jelani Woods has been robbed by injuries and betrayed by his body.

But now, finally healthy again, the tight end is making a comeback with the Jets. Woods' surprising play in training camp — including the game's only touchdown Friday — could see him force his way from afterthought to roster spot.

“It’s been pretty exciting just to get back on the field, honestly,” said Woods. “I’d never complain about being on the field, every day getting a new opportunity to take the next step forward, to get better. And I feel like I’m doing that, and I just want to keep it up.

"I'm not really surprised. I try to put my best foot forward whatever they ask me to do, try to contribute maximum effort. Whatever they decide, that's how I roll. I don't have any say-so on what's going on or anything, but I just try to work hard and give the best impression of what I can do."

NFL teams almost never carry four tight ends, and Kenyon Sadiq, Mason Taylor and Jeremy Ruckert sit atop Gang Green's depth chart. Considering Woods' recent history, he was a long shot to make the Jets buck that trend.

Impressive athletic testing saw Woods get drafted in the 2022 third round and have a solid rookie campaign for Indianapolis. But he's appeared in just four games over the past three seasons combined.

First, a hamstring strain sidelined him for a year, and then turf toe cost him another. Rehabs, practice squads and disappointments.

That is, until landing with the Jets and reuniting with offensive coordinator Frank Reich, who was the Colts head coach when Woods caught 25 passes for 312 yards and three scores as a rookie.

Reich clearly has confidence in Woods, and when the tight end had his number called Saturday against the Steelers, he repaid that faith.

“You never know whether the ball’s going to come to you or not. But just make the play when they do, when your number’s called,” said Woods. “It gives you a lot of confidence. You want to be on the field, and just doing my part to be on the field, putting my best foot forward. Whatever they ask me to do, I’m gonna do. Don’t give [them] a reason not to, that’s my motto, how I’ve been going about this.

“Absolutely, just going through all the things I’ve gone through the past couple of years and then you get in the end zone and feel that, I would say that gratification [with] how things have been going, it’s definitely exciting.”

Woods capped a crisp opening drive against Pittsburgh, snaring a 13-yard touchdown from Geno Smith.

“Yeah, it was good to see,” said

Jets coach Aaron Glenn. “And somebody that’s dealt with a ton of injuries, someone that he just fights all the time. He’s a guy that plays special teams for us, and we have him go out there and do the dirty work. For him to get that touchdown, that was good to see.”

It was Woods' first since Oct. 16, 2022, during his rookie season.

“That was a long minute ago,” said Woods.

A whole lot of minutes — 1,406 days, to be exact.

“Definitely talking to family, friends, everybody’s excited to see me back on the field and playing,” said Woods. “So, it was definitely special for my family. It was a big deal.”

Could it lead to something bigger: making the final 53-man roster?

A solid Friday finale vs. the Giants would help.

With starting tight end Sadiq out following a hernia surgery setback, Woods has posted 70.2 and 67.4 pass-blocking grades through two preseason tilts, per Pro Football Focus. He provides a big frame (6-foot-7, 253 pounds, 83-inch wingspan) and a preexisting relationship with Reich.

“He’s always going to put us in the best situations, and he’s a great play-caller,” said Woods. “So, definitely it mesmerizes you when you see the success and you see the brilliance that he has.”

brian.lewis@nypost.com

FORTUNE ROOKIES

There's room for Bailey and Reese to achieve greatness in New York

THE JETS would start scheduling David Bailey's Ring of Honor induction ceremony right now if they knew that they made the same level of draft "mistake" that the Broncos made in 2011 or that the Raiders made in 2014.

Friday night's Jets-Giants preseason game will mark the first time that the top two defensive players selected in the 2026 draft share the field since the Jets opted for Bailey (No. 2) and started Arvell Reese's surprise slide to the unsuspecting Giants (No. 5).

Head-to-head comparisons now as rookies — and for what both teams hope is a decade of cross-town stardom — are inevitable, but here's the thing: Because a quarterback isn't involved, there might not need to be regret.

In defensive draft debates, there is room for dual greatness.

Did the Broncos mess up drafting Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller (138.5 sacks) over three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt (114.5 sacks) in 2011?

Are the Raiders a punchline for drafting one-time DPOY Khalil Mack (113 sacks) instead of three-time DPOY Aaron Donald (111 sacks)?

"I think Reese and Bailey both are going to be very good players for a long time and you can't go wrong either way," a scouting source familiar with the top-of-draft thinking told The Post. "Aaron Glenn just wanted a pass rusher more than anything, and the Jets felt like there was too much projection with Reese — is he a linebacker or is he an edge? — when you know exactly what Bailey is now, and what he should be as a finished product."

The only way the Jets add to their star-crossed

draft history is if Bailey flops and Reese stars.

After all, even the Texans do not get much national flak for taking three-time Pro Bowler Jadeveon Clowney (No. 1) instead of future Hall of Famers Mack or Donald.

If Bailey stars and Reese flops, the Jets will look smart. Not that nailing Myles Garrett (No. 1) over Solomon Thomas (No. 3) in 2017 did much for turning around the Browns.

"It was a long process," Glenn said. "We don't make any hasty decisions."

As Reese has made his mark as an inside line-backer in East Rutherford this summer with his lanky-armed pass coverage, popping shoulder pads on run fits and third-down pass-rush speed, Bailey has been just as impressive slid-

ing along the defensive front in Florham Park. He recorded his first preseason sack against the Steelers and was breathing on Geno Smith's neck during Monday's practice.

"A talented kid with a good motor," Jets guard Dylan Parham told The Post. "He's very quick, especially when he does come into the interior, the speed is just different than other three-techniques. Understanding that he was acquired very high, but having a coachable mindset. When I hear somebody trying to absorb as much as they can, those are the important things for a rookie to do. He's going to be a tremendous player."

The Jets overhauled their dreadful defense in free agency and started putting pieces in place for Bailey to thrive before he was even picked.

Facing pressure to improve quickly or risk not being around to see his young players develop beyond 2026, Glenn's belief in Demario Davis, 37, as the middle linebacker was the first domino. It kicked Jamien Sherwood (who this regime signed to a three-year, \$45 million extension) to Reese's home on the weak side. Two-way edges Joseph Ossai and Kingsley Enagbare were added so that Bailey could focus on the tools that led to his $19 \frac{1}{2}$ sacks at Texas Tech.

“You don’t see rooks too often who take care of their body this early or stay later for a lift and do extra,” Enagbare said. “I didn’t learn how to take care of my body until my second or third year. His demeanor and professionalism is calm, cool and collected. You never see him shook from any situation.”

The risk in drafting Bailey instead of Reese was further minimized when Matthew Sargent and Al Netter — two low-profile Jets assistant coaches who crossed over with Bailey before he transferred out of Stanford — vouched for his character and work ethic in practice. Offensive coordinator Frank Reich also maintains deep Stanford channels.

“We wanted to make sure we made the best decision for us going forward,” Glenn said. “Listen, Arvell is going to do special things in this league, but we like the direction we went. David is going to be a good player for us.”

The Giants roster construction — with investments in edge rushers Brian Burns, Abdul Carter and Kayvon Thibodeaux — likely would not have allowed for Bailey to be their pick if Reese had gone to the Jets. Excitement bubbled in East Rutherford in the days leading up to the draft as winds took news of a Bailey projection to their in-house mock drafts.

The draft is see-what-fits. Some teams like Bailey's bubbly personality, others liked Reese's no-nonsense attitude.

“Reese’s ceiling is a little higher, I think, because he can be a dynamic linebacker or a dynamic edge,” the source said, “but the Jets didn’t want to play the guessing game. That’s OK. The difference should be slight.”

And so maybe this Giants-Jets draft debate won't be as lopsided as Lawrence Taylor (No. 2) before Freeman McNeil (No. 3) in 1981 or as unsatisfying as Saquon Barkley (No. 2) before Sam Darnold (No. 3) in 2018.

A win-win for two franchises in need of more Ws.

rdunleavy@nypost.com

TWO OF A KIND: The Jets selected David Bailey (right), who recorded a sack against the Steelers on Friday (inset), with the second pick of the draft before Arvell Reese slipped to the Giants at No. 5, allowing the New York teams to select the top two defensive players in the draft. Though the players will always be compared, scouts believe each has a chance to be “very good for a long time.” Getty Images; AP; Noah K. Murray

COOPER DUPER!

Omar Cooper Jr. threw the ball a mile into the air in celebration after catching an 18-yard touchdown pass to punctuate a practice-ending two-minute drill. Geno Smith, who was 5-for-5 on the drive, looked off the coverage and found the rookie in perfect timing. A nice lift for Cooper as he battles Isaiah Williams to be WR3.

KICKING & SCREAMING

Cade York was 3-for-5 on field goal attempts and Jason Sanders was 2-for-5 from 33, 38, 43, 48 and 53 yards out. Both kickers missed from 38 and 43 — virtual gimmes in today's NFL — as the competition seems to be losing steam after a fast start. Is the Week 1 kicker on another roster right now?

CAUGHT MY EYE

The unmistakable sound of pads crunching and hollers of “Stay off the ground” came as the Jets practiced goal-line situations at the 2-yard line. There were a couple of big hits but no hard feelings emerged, surprisingly. Andrew Beck caught a touchdown pass from Smith, while Kene Nwangwu and Chip Trayanum scored on runs.

INJURY REPORT

CBs Nahshon Wright and Qwan'tez Stiggers, and LB Kiko Mauigoa were limited. Edge rushers Joseph Ossai and Kingsley Enagbare, and DT T'Vondre Sweat were full participants. It was Stiggers' first day out of a red noncontact jersey since he collapsed with a concussion.

– Ryan Dunleavy

Parham believes in 0-line Jets have built

By RYAN DUNLEAVY

It turns out Dylan Parham isn't the dynamic receiver that the Jets have been looking for to complement Garrett Wilson.

But that's OK.

Parham was signed to be the left guard on an of-

fensive line returning its other four starters, and his one catch

JETS NOTES

for a 2-yard loss off a batted ball Friday against the Steelers isn't going to be easy to replicate.

Not that offensive coordinator Frank Reich would want to draw it up again. Leave the catches to Wilson, Adonai Mitchell, Omar Cooper Jr. and more.

"I'm definitely going to see if there's something that Frank can put in there [playbook] for me," Parham joked before Monday's practice. "I'm going to be on the JUGS [machine] today, get a couple catches. We talk about trying to feed everybody the ball, get everybody [an] opportunity. I didn't know that was going to be me. That was a fun moment. Sad I didn't do what I needed to with that opportunity. We don't get many of them."

The Jets were the only NFL team to start the same five on the offensive line (all played at least 1,016 snaps) in all 17 games last season.

Parham said he has fit in seamlessly, replacing John Simpson alongside tackles Armand Membou and Olu Fashanu, center Josh Myers

and guard Joe Tippmann even without sharing the group's golf hobby.

"I'm trying to figure out who my teammates are and mesh in," Parham told The Post. "I want to bring what I offer to the table — the experience, athleticism, physicality and my energy and positive attitude — without dis-

rupting as much as possible simply because they have been together. Hopefully, I can

play at the level I want to and bring my extra to what they have built.”

The Jets averaged only 2.6 yards per carry against the Steelers. That's an area that needs to improve before Week 1.

“I feel like this offensive line can be as good as we want it to be,” Parham said.

Tippmann was the first person in the Jets organization to reach out to Parham when he signed as a free agent.

“They’ve all done a good job of bringing me into the group and all the jokes,” Parham said. “We do a lot of group dinners. We’re offensive line-men. We like to eat.”

▶ Head coach Aaron Glenn “is still thinking about” whether to play the starters against the Giants on Friday.

"The only thing I want the guys focusing on right now is getting to that next practice," Glenn said. "It's going to be a hard practice [Tuesday]."

Third-string RB Isaiah Davis, who has missed nearly three weeks with a knee injury, is on track to play Week 1, Glenn said.

Glenn loves the 'energy' Ossai brings to defense

By BRIAN LEWIS

Some pundits questioned the signing of Joseph Ossai.

But not Jets coach Aaron Glenn, who said he “loved” the edge rusher and called him a “damn good player” after the veteran had a huge day at training camp Monday.

Gang Green's defense imposed its will in a particularly physical day at practice during the red-zone team period and goal-line work. And no player was all over the field more than Ossai.

"Yeah," Glenn said. "Yeah, I mean he's been pretty consistent since he has been here, since he's been practicing from OTAs to the training camp when he did get out there. So, it's everything that I expect from him.

“Listen, I love that player. I think he’s a damn good player. We know there’s some things he’s got to work on, and we will continue to work on those things, but the energy that he brings just being out there, man, it’s good to see him out there. And the other guys, they feed on that too, because of his energy."

JOSEPH OSSAI

Ossai had just returned to practice last week and was termed “full-go” by Glenn. Monday, he had multiple sacks — one on quarterback Cade Klubnik — and stuffed a couple of runs behind the line of scrimmage.

His motor had an infectious impact on the rest of the defense.

“Oh, yeah. For sure,” edge rusher Kingsley Enagbare said. “Every time Ossai steps on the field, he brings great energy, great juice, and he’s going to fly to the football. So, I think that’s kind of expected with him.”

Ossai showed that high motor in one red-zone drill. He shed a block and came up with a tackle for loss on starting quarterback Geno Smith's pitch to running back Braelon Allen.

It was overall a solid day for one of the Jets' big offseason acquisitions, having handed him a three-year, \$34.5 million contract.

Considering he'd had a modest 14 $\frac{1}{2}$ sacks and 16 tackles for loss in four years with the Cincinnati Bengals — starting just a dozen times in that entire span — the signing was questioned by some. But Monday, Ossai flashed some of the motor and potential that sold Gang Green.

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Harbaugh: Watching Nabers, he looks like he'll be ready Week 1

By ANDREW CRANE

John Harbaugh didn't want to make any overarching statements or comments that jumped too far ahead. Something — anything — can always change between now and the Sept. 13 season opener with Malik Nabers, who shed his red noncontact jersey Monday.

But the sentiment was clear after the Giants practiced Monday: It's “reasonable to assume” that Nabers is trending toward being available, Harbaugh said. He donned a white jersey, mixing in some reps during 11-on-11 and 7-on-7 drills in a shells session — as opposed to full pads — where defenders lined up across from him and where Nabers could’ve still dealt with incidental contact. He was “probably moving the best we’ve seen him look,” Harbaugh said of Nabers. And the Big Blue head coach is content with Nabers taking “very reasonable” contact.

“Those are all kind of things that you can assume,” Har-

Call assume, Harbaugh said when asked about Nabers trending toward Week 1. "It's just based on watching the guy practice. The only

thing I know more than you guys know is what the docs and the trainers tell me, as far as his rehab. And that's doing well. He's doing really well with that. He's strong. He's in a good place."

The “reasonable to assume” phrasing served as a change of tune for Harbaugh from his typical hope that Nabers would be available. This was as close as he’d come to saying that he will be. That turned Monday into a critical timestamp in Nabers’ recovery timeline. That made the little moments, and the limited reps he took, matter that much more.

At one point, he made a catch with Greg Newsome II in coverage. Another time, he couldn't collect a throw across the field from Jaxson Dart in 7-on-7s, but then Nabers connected with third-string quarterback Brandon Allen twice — including once in an 11-on-11 period, where he made a nifty catch on a low throw that nearly hit the turf. Nabers didn't take a hit because the Giants were not in full pads, and Harbaugh acknowledged last week that Nabers would need to get hit a little bit and not go right from the red jersey to Week 1.

"It'll be a protect-each-other kind of deal," Harbaugh said when asked about being fine with Nabers taking contact, "but that'll be true for everybody right now. We'll be in this mode this week, we'll be a little more, as far as the contact part of it, probably a little more in-season-ish in terms of taking care of one another."

When combined with his crisp routes and catches during positional work, Nabers flashed his vintage form Monday, the version of the receiver who amassed more than 1,200 receiving

yards in 2025 and had another 271 through three-plus games before going down in Week 4 with a

torn ACL. That upended the Giants' plans for their offense. It added an obstacle to Nabers' trajectory as a budding star in the league.

"My soul has been dead for so long," Nabers said last week. He knew what he could accomplish. He knew where he was before this all happened.

So this, then, became the summer of Nabers, the training camp where his status — what he did on certain days, what he didn't do on others — would overshadow most other storylines. There are still questions about the wide receivers around him, from whether Odell Beckham Jr. will make the roster to whether players such as Darnell Mooney and Calvin Austin III can command consistent targets. There are still questions about what happens when Nabers takes his first crushing hit, whether it's against the Cowboys or another team, and his

knee gets tested.

But for Nabers, the only concern in the present involved the build toward Week 1 and being ready. And after Monday, that's

seem- ingly as close to a reality as it's been to this point. "I thought he looked good," Har- baugh said. "Look at the tape later, but he was moving well. ... It was a good prac- tice for him to- day."

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BIG STEP FORWARD: Malik Nabers practiced Monday without a red noncontact jersey for the first time, another sign he is likely to be ready for the season opener. Noah K. Murray (2)

Rook Davis impresses on OL

By ANDREW CRANE

PICK 6TH: J.C. Davis, a sixth-round pick, looks like he could be a viable backup on the offensive line. Getty Images

In an ideal scenario, the Giants won't need to rely on J.C. Davis much this season. That would mean their offensive line — and specifically Andrew Thomas — stays healthy. That would mean they didn't need to test their backups, let alone a rookie picked in the sixth round, to see if they

could protect Jaxson Dart against a regular-season defense.

But Davis made an impressive statement during Saturday's preseason win against the Dolphins, when he logged all 81 snaps at left tackle and finished as the Giants' highest-graded lineman for pass blocking (871) and run blocking (87.1) and Full blocking (87.0), according to Pro Football Focus. Other starters, including right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor, center John Michael Schmitz and left guard Jon Runyan Jr., made cameos, as did top backups.

But Davis — who estimated the last time he played in an environment that hot was when he attended New Mexico and they played Texas A&M in 2023 — still found a way to stand out with both his durability and his performance.

"I think it was a great opportunity for the coaches to see my ability, what I could do at left tackle, and I think it went pretty good," Davis said after the Giants practiced Monday. "Of course, I've got things to improve on, but overall, it was

a good game."

Davis said his feedback from the Giants coaching staff has been that they “notice you”—but that he needs to keep working. The 22-year-old, who also played at Contra Costa (Calif.) Community College and Illinois, has tried to learn from Thomas, taking everything from his preparation for practices and games to what he does with pass sets and the run game. Davis has tried to keep his camp steady, he said, and improve with each practice, but it became impossible not to notice his massive leap Saturday.

Coach John Harbaugh said it was a goal to test Davis in that situation, to see if the rookie could log a full NFL game at left tackle. It was only the preseason, but it still served as a major step in Davis' development, Harbaugh said. And it helped the Giants gain some trust, too — a critical variable given how they've struggled to replace Thomas (22 regular-sea-

son games missed since the start of 2023) the last three seasons.

And Davis, unlike Thomas, a former first-round pick, arrived without many expectations. That makes moments like Saturday, and the potential for him to carve out a reserve role as a Day 3 draft pick, a bonus.

“J.C. doesn’t have that,” Harbaugh said of the expectations of Thomas. “He doesn’t have that layer to it that AT had, but he’s going to be expected to play a role on the team and it’s going to be a very important role — and he could be in there at any time really. So he’s got to be ready for that.”

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CALVIN FINE

Calvin Austin III, who spent last year with Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh, made a nifty catch down the right side of the field on a throw from Jaxson Dart late during an 11-on-11 portion of practice. Afterward, John Harbaugh said Austin gives the Giants “a lot of versatility” as a reliable option who can play both inside and outside.

DROPPING THE BALL

With the Giants going no-huddle offense near the end of the practice, Isaiah Likely had a bad drop on a pass from Dart.

CAUGHT MY EYE

In the ongoing kicking competition, count Monday as another win for Dominic Zvada. The rookie, who spent his final two years at Michigan, made all five of his kicks, while Ben Sauls went 3-for-5. The consistency of Zvada this preseason has been a welcome change for the Giants, given their struggles at kicker the last two seasons, and for their fans, who've been scarred by the untimely injuries of Graham Gano and the embarrassing Younghoe Koo gaffe in which he missed the ball altogether. While Big Blue still need to name a winner of the competition, Zvada — who, like Sauls, made both kicks in the preseason win Saturday — has certainly continued to make his case at this stage of training camp.

INJURY REPORT

RT Jermaine Eluemunor didn't practice, but Harbaugh said he should be back Tuesday — as should RG Francis Mauigoa (stinger). TE Theo Johnson left early after a collision with Kayvon Thibodeaux, but Harbaugh said he didn't get a report suggesting anything serious and thinks Johnson is OK. WR Jalin Hyatt also didn't practice.

— Andrew Crane

Coach eager to see what Reese can do when it counts

By ANDREW CRANE

For the next four days, until the Giants preseason game against the Jets ends Friday night, Arvell Reese will be in the spotlight because of David Bailey, the decision by the Jets to pass on him at No. 2 overall in April and the decision by the Giants to pick Reese three spots later.

But in the context of the current training camp, Reese has already solidified himself as a critical piece of the Giants defense and continued to impress, adding another two total tackles during their preseason game Saturday. Reese sits second among defensive rookies for the best PFF grade through

GIANTS NOTES

two preseason games (88.2), trailing just the Buccaneers' Rueben Bain Jr. (88.8).

“He hasn’t really missed a beat at all,” coach John Harbaugh said. “He learns very quickly, and he executes the defenses really well. And then when he doesn’t, he listens to every word of the coaching and applies it on the next opportunity. He’s making a lot of progress real fast.”

Reese has already settled into his role at inside linebacker alongside Tremaine Edmunds, two new additions to the Giants defense that dominated during last week's joint practice in Miami. But the next test and learning experience, Harbaugh said, will occur when Reese starts playing regular-season games.

“So, after that [Cowboys] game [in Week 1], I think it'll be a big step for him as far as, ‘Oh, OK, this is kind of how I need to approach this,’” Harbaugh said.

▶ After the Giants practiced Monday, Harbaugh spent time meeting with his leadership group — voted on by players — on the field. Jaxson Dart, Jameis Winston, Brian Burns, Chris Manhertz, Jordan Stout,

Andrew Thomas and Jevón Holland were the representatives spotted.

Harbaugh had a leadership group with the Ravens, he said, and while he wants players to feel like they can go to anyone in the organization, the collection of players can serve as an outlet if something is on a teammate's mind.

"Just in-house stuff," Harbaugh said of their meeting Monday. "It really isn't anything that I want to share and it's nothing that would be very interesting, I don't think. Just schedules and things like that, what they prefer to do, what they would rather do."

Steve Serby's Big Blue playoff blueprint / Pages 48-49

Harbaugh joked that they asked for a pool table Mon-day and he replied, “We might get a golf simulator if we win enough games.”

When asked about trading offensive lineman Daniel Faalele to the Jaguars last week for a sixth-round pick, Harbaugh said that adding late-round picks “is a valuable thing” that might not matter now — but will when Day 3 of the draft comes around. In April, the Giants had only three picks on the final day of the draft, all of those occurring in the sixth round.

“I mean, if we could, we’d do it as much as we possibly could,” Harbaugh said when asked if the Giants would continue to explore trades over the next couple of weeks. “We’d like to take advantage of the opportunities, if they’ll come up, as much as we can. We do have some guys. We’re kind of deep in a few positions, and maybe that’ll happen. It doesn’t happen that often, but maybe it will.”

RT Jermaine Eluemunor and RG Francis Maui goa (stinger) are expected to return Tuesday after not practicing Monday. TE Theo Johnson exited after a collision, but Harbaugh expected him to be OK.

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Directed by John Henion, "Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young" (Netflix) explores how injuries, conflict, and loss derailed Vince Young's (left) once promising NFL career. The newest "Untold" is now on Netflix, followed by "Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly" and "Untold Mr. T: I Pity The Fool" debuting over the next two Tuesdays (September 1 and 8, respectively) on the streamer.

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SONGS OF THE SUMMER

‘Camp Rock 3’ cast talks their favorite song to recreate and bonding on set

By ALEX VENA

The hype surrounding the release of “Camp Rock 3” has been a “whirlwind” for its central group of talented young stars, so much so that

when they stopped by DECIDER's studio on Wednesday (August 19), they couldn't believe it had been almost a week since the movie premiered on Disney Channel.

"It has?" Liamani Segura exclaimed.

“Wait, what” Lumi Pollack echoed.

Casey Trotter added, "That is crazy."

Above: Casey Trotter, Liamani Segura, Lumi Pollack, and Hudson Stone.

As for how they feel about the reception to the latest entry into the Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) franchise, which sees them as part of the new generation of Camp Rockers competing to be Connect 3's (the Jonas Brothers)

opening act, Segura, Pollack, Trotter, and Hudson Stone all had positive things to say.

"I think good," Stone said of how fans have taken to the film.

Pollack quipped, “Obviously, we haven’t even had any perception of time because this whole week has been such a whirlwind for all of us. But just all good stuff I think!”

While Segura said she “can second that,” Trotter offered up a sense of gratitude for the experience and the hard work he and his co-stars put into the film, which is streaming now on Disney $^{+}$ .

“I feel so grateful. I feel like, just the amount of work that we all put in is so great and I’m just proud of everyone and so grateful,” he shared.

Outside of their auditions and screen tests, the four young actors hadn't previously known each other, but quickly took a liking to each other's company while shooting in Canada.

"I don't think there were any moments where we weren't hanging out," Pollack recalled. "Even if we had been filming all day, we were like, 'We should just watch a movie in someone's room.'"

You guys got to perform some of the most iconic songs from the first two “Camp Rock” movies. Which song was your favorite to recreate?

HUDSON STONE: I think for me, I loved recreating “Start the Party,” just because that was fun. The dancing, the choreo. We were all together, we were all in that number all at one time, and it just felt iconic.

LIAMANI SEGURA: I think "We Rock."

LUMI POLLACK: I was going to say that, too.

LS: I think “We Rock” was my favorite especially because it was also with...

HS: "We rock!"

LS: ... the Jonas Brothers. We got to perform it onstage for the Final Jam with them, and that was really full-circle.

LP: I would say “We Rock” too. It was just crazy because I think the day before we actually filmed that, later that night, we got to go to an actual Jonas Brothers concert. So being able to perform onstage with them in a soundstage and then go and watch them in an arena full of thousands of people was one of the most surreal moments of filming.

Did any of you four know each other before filming? And if not, how did you bond on set to create this chemistry?

LP: I don't think we did.

CASEY TROTTER: [To Lumi] I met you at the testing.

LP: Yeah, we met on tests. HS: On auditions.

LP: But no, we hadn't known each other. But I think, like, filming something — especially filming on location where we all were in a different country together — you

bond just so quickly. And with these people, it's really easy to become friends with them. But I think, like, we were all staying in the same hotel and we were kind of forced to hang out with each other because there's no one else when we're in a different country.

HS: Yeah, you don't know anybody but the people you're with. Like, it's crazy.

LS: This is true, this is true.

LP: I'm kidding. We all willingly [hung out with each other].

LS: It was so fun. It was never a dull moment on set.

LP: I don't think there were any moments where we weren't hanging out. Even if we had been filming all day, we were like, "We should just watch a movie in someone's room."

LS: Like we would hang out in someone's room, have movie nights, go to seafood boils.

LP: Seafood boils!

CT: [To Hudson] That was so good.

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Malik Nabers — without a red noncontact jersey for the first time this summer — is trending toward being ready for the season opener against the Cowboys on Sept. 13, according to coach John Harbaugh. Nabers is “probably moving the best we’ve seen him look,” Harbaugh said after Monday’s practice.

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