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Nation GOP Sens. David Perdue

and Kelly Loeffler face off
today against Democrats Jon

holds
Ossoff and Raphael
Warnock in two Georgia
runoffs. If either or both
Republicans win, the Senate
will remain in that party’s

breath as
hands. Otherwise, it’s 50-50,
with Vice President Kamala
Harris putting it over the top
for Dems.

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Roughly 1,600 parents have signed ing them for high schools — officials reads the letter to de Blasio and Chan- celerated Curriculum and Education.
Weird But True ....... 18 a letter blasting City Hall’s silence made no mention of the city Depart- cellor Richard Carranza. “It is even Critics of screened school admis-
Post Opinion p. 19-21 on the fate of Gifted & Talented pro- ment of Education’s accelerated aca- more alarming that . . . the G&T infor- sions contend that they have pro-
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Bob McManus . . . . . . . . 19
Fast Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Editorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Abigail Shrier . . . . . . . . . 21
Rich Lowry . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Fun & Games
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gram admissions for next year.
While Mayor de Blasio revealed
middle- and high-school entry crite-
ria last month — scrapping academic
screens for middle schools and allow-
demic program, which admit kids
based on standardized-test scores.
“It is highly concerning that the
DOE has not yet renewed the contract
for the G&T entrance exams in July,”
mation was notably absent in Mayor
de Blasio’s Dec. 18 middle-school and
high-school announcement.”
The campaign is organized by the
advocacy group Parent Leaders for Ac-
duced low numbers of African-
American and Hispanic enrollees.
The DOE did not immediately
comment on the letter or its plans
for the G&T program. Selim Algar

LES pandemic panic

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A group of Lower East Siders “Petitioners have serious concerns
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to the Publishers Information Center, Inc.
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New York Post, 1211 Ave. of the Americas,
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daily by NYP Holdings Inc., Hotel at 100 Orchard St. said he was The suit seeks a temporary re-
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Americas,
going to lease the building to the city straining order and a preliminary
New York, NY for a shelter, according to their new injunction to block the shelter from
10036-8790.
Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit. opening.
Periodicals postage paid at The 22-room converted tenement The city’s Department of Home-
New York, NY, and additional
offices. The Post uses building would force at least three less Services is slated to present the
recycled paper. homeless men to live together in shelter plan to Manhattan Commu-
Lottery each room, “creating a dangerous Inn store? The Blue Moon Hotel might become a homeless shelter. nity Board 3 on Thursday.
situation in which COVID-19 could This is just the latest uproar over the
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Evening Nos. Mon.: 506 tiating a lease that was set to go into make it “abundantly clear that re- hood is packed with bars, clubs and Upper West Side Lucerne Hotel Shel-
Evening Win-4 Mon.: 2162 effect on Jan. 1, the court papers say. spondents have already made the restaurants that are more crowded ter to a Financial District hotel has
Pick-10 Mon.: 9, 11, 13, 14, The city is bypassing the normal decision to use the hotel as a perma- than normal as traffic is closed off at been at the center of a legal battle.
22, 23, 26, 27, 44, 45, 48, 49, review process under special pan- nent shelter and that the lease is certain times for outdoor dining. The city, the Department of Home-
53, 55, 61, 62, 64, 68, 76, 79 demic rules and says the site will structured in a way to allow the The area is plagued with drug and less Services and NOMW did not re-
Cash-4-Life Mon.: 3, serve as a temporary shelter with a placement of a homeless shelter alcohol use, and the plaintiffs are turn requests for comment Monday.
24, 43, 47, 51; Cash Ball: 3 six-month term — but the lease can without any of the necessary condi- concerned some of the homeless Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks
 Take-5 Mon.: 18, 29, 31,
33, 39
NEW JERsEY
Pick-3 Mon.: 844; Fireball: 0
Pick-4 Mon.: 1725; Fireball: 0
Cash-5 Xtra Mon.: 13, 28,
33, 34, 41; Xtra: 2
Boy, 4, killed, 6-year-old hurt by van at yeshiva
A 4-year-old boy was 2025 67th St. in Benson- school together from 6-year-old was taken by The driver of the van,
Pick-6 Xtra Mon.: 7, 9, 14, killed and a 6-year-old left hurst at around 9 a.m. Staten Island, where they ambulance to Maimonides who sources say is 76 years
22, 29, 35; Xtra: 4 critically injured after be- when they were struck by lived, according to a rabbi Hospital, where he was in old, did not realize he had
CONNECtiCut ing struck by a van that had the blue, 15-passenger ve- from the yeshiva who de- critical condition, accord- struck the children when
Play-3 Mon.: 725 just dropped them off in hicle. clined to give his name. ing to the NYPD. he drove away, police said.
Play-4 Mon.: 0663 front of their Brooklyn ye- The driver left the scene The 4-year-old, identi- “It’s a terrible tragedy. There were no charges
Cash-5 Mon.: 3, 9, 11, 26, 29 shiva Monday morning. before soon returning, po- fied by police as Yoshi Bal- They are managing, but it’s pressed against him, police
K

Lucky-4 Life Mon.: 2, 12, 21, The children were head- lice said. aban, was pronounced a terrible, terrible thing,” sources said.
26, 46; Lucky Ball: 7 ing for Yeshiva Ketana at The boys were going to dead at the scene, and the the rabbi said. Reuven Fenton, Tina Moore

By EMILY SMITH
and FRANCESCA BACARDI
She’s Wilde about Harry!
Actress Olivia Wilde and singer
Harry Styles were spotted holding
hands at his agent’s wedding at the
San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, Ca-
lif., over the weekend.
The two fell for each other on the
set of the movie “Don’t Worry
Darling,” and he has been intro-
ducing her to pals as his “girl-
friend,” a source exclusively told
Page Six.
The couple spent time alone
on the film’s Palm Springs set
and at James Corden’s nearby
house, where the late-night
host allowed fellow Brit and
close friend Styles, 26, to
stay, we’re told.
Wilde and Styles have
been filming the psychologi-
cal thriller over the last few
months. He stars and she
directs.
well in hand: Harry Styles — a bathrobed groomsman in agent Jeffrey Azoff’s wedding to Glenne Christiaansen (inset) Saturday — held Olivia Wilde’s hand and called her his girlfriend.
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A source said, “This relationship be-
tween Harry and Olivia is very new.
Olivia has been directing Harry in the
movie in Palm Springs, and there
were literally 10 people on the set, be-
cause they were strictly adhering to
COVID rules.
“Harry had been staying at James
Corden’s house near Palm Springs
during filming, and so they were able
to be alone and keep their relationship
very secret,” the source added.
“So everyone was really surprised
— and rather delighted — when
Harry bought Olivia as his date to the
wedding, and introduced her as his
girlfriend.”
Wilde, 36, split from fiancé Jason Su-
deikis, with whom she shares two
children, last year.
Styles — who just released the mu-
sic video for his song “Treat People
With Kindness” — made an uncon-
ventional groomsman on Saturday,
wearing a white bathrobe while chat-
ting with the bride, Glenne Christi-
BACKGRID
aansen, and groom, Jeffrey Azoff.
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Last defense vs.

Dem control: Don It’s aLL
New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021

ZUMA Wire
Reuters

Peach Pit Boss: President Trump lashes out Monday at Georgia of-
ficials who didn’t back his bid to overturn the election, vowing revenge.
President Trump held a rally in
Georgia on Monday night to boost
two GOP candidates in tight races
that will determine which party con-
trols the US Senate in 2021.
Trump threw his support behind
Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loef-
fler who are facing off against
Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff
and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, re-
spectively, on Tuesday.
“The fate of our country is at
stake,” Trump told rallygoers in Dal-
ton, Ga. “These Senate seats are
truly the last line of defense . . . It’s
really a fight for our country, not a
fight for Trump.”
Republicans need just one victory
to maintain Senate control and force
President-elect Joe Biden to contend
and your crazy secretary of state, I
guarantee you,” Trump told a
crowd of supporters.
“I shouldn’t say this, I shouldn’t
say this because I just don’t want
you to tell anybody outside of this
room, other than the millions of
people watching,” he quipped.
Trump repeatedly claimed that
he was the true victor of the No-
vember presidential election de-
spite presidential electors giving
Biden a majority of 306 electoral
votes to Trump’s 232.
“There’s no way we lost Georgia.
That was a rigged election,” Trump
said. “I ran two elections. I won
both of them, the second one much
more successful than the first.”
Trump also lashed fellow Repub-

Today’s runoffs to decide

with divided Congress.
At the rally, Trump also railed
against the state’s Republican gov-
ernor, Brian Kemp, for not over-
turning Biden’s win there — and
said he’d work to remove him from
office.
“I’m going to be here in a year
and a half and I’m going to be cam-
paigning against your governor
licans for not doing enough to con-
test the election ahead of a vote by
Congress on Wednesday to certify
Biden’s Electoral College victory.
“We have good support in the
Senate. I wouldn’t say great, it
could be better, but people will re- By EBoNy BowdEN, StEvEN NElSoN tie in the Senate that would cast Vice President-
member the people that don’t sup- and Emily JacoBS elect Kamala Harris as the deciding vote. Republi-
port us,” Trump vowed. cans would maintain their majority with a win by
Ebony Bowden The eyes of the nation will be trained on the either Loeffler or Perdue. The current balance of
Peach State today as two Republican incumbents the Senate is 50 Republicans and 48 Democrats.

NY pol joining GOP challenge attempt to fend off Democratic challengers in US

Upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik
will object during the Elect-
oral College certification
process Wednesday, she told
The Post on Monday.
Stefanik (inset), who repre-
sents extreme northern New
York, said she would oppose certify-
ing “contested electors” when Con-
gress meets to make President-elect
Joe Biden’s victory official.
“I do not take this action lightly,”
Stefanik said. “I am acting to protect
our Democratic process.
“Article II and the Twelfth
Amendment of the Constitu-
tion make clear that I have an
obligation to act on this mat-
ter if I believe there are seri-
ous questions with respect to
the presidential election.”
With her announcement, the
House Intelligence Committee
member joins a coalition of at least
140 House Republicans and 12 Sen-
ate Republicans who plan to object
to certifying Biden’s victory.
Ebony Bowden and Emily Jacobs
Senate runoff races that will decide control of the
upper chamber and whether there will be a con-
gressional check on President-elect Joe Biden.
More than 3 million Georgians have already voted
early in the critical races which will determine
whether Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) holds on to power or swaps roles with Mi-
nority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Hundreds of millions of dollars have poured into
Georgia as Republican incumbents Sens. Kelly Lo-
effler and David Perdue defend against Democratic
challengers, the Rev. Raphael Warnock and investi-
gative journalist Jon Ossoff.
Democrats must win both races to effect a 50-50
Georgia was vaulted to the national spotlight in
November when Biden narrowly carried the once
reliably red state by 11,779 votes, becoming the first
Democrat to do so since Bill Clinton triumphed
there in 1992 and sparking calls of widespread voter
fraud from President Trump.
Georgia election official Gabe Sterling on Mon-
day implored voters to participate and said there
would be no systemic fraud — countering charges
by Trump that he was cheated out of re-election by
widespread fraud, including in Georgia.
“I strongly beg and encourage you, go vote to-
morrow. Do not let anybody discourage you. Do not
self-suppress your own vote. Do not make a self-
fulfilling prophecy out of doing this,” Sterling said.

up to georgIa
fate of the Senate – & the nation
Sterling addressed reporters as Trump
prepared to host a Monday evening rally on
the eve of the election in order to fire up
support for Perdue and Loeffler.
However, Perdue was not scheduled to be
in attendance after he came into contact
with an individual infected with COVID-19
and was forced into quarantine.
Perdue is facing off against Ossoff, the 33-
year-old CEO of an investigative television
production company who would become
the youngest US senator in 40 years.
Loeffler, who was appointed by Gov. Brian
Kemp to fill the vacancy left by Sen. Johnny
Isakson in December 2019, is being chal-
lenged by Warnock, the senior pastor at Eb-
enezer Baptist Church, where the Rev. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. once preached.
Warnock has been dogged by his past dur-
ing the campaign. In a 2016 sermon, he lik-
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ened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net-
anyahu to late segregationist Alabama Gov.
George Wallace, according to a report.
The clip surfaced as Warnock was already
walking back past remarks describing Is-
rael’s treatment of the Palestinians as akin to
“apartheid.”
Warnock invoked Wallace while criticiz-
ing Netanyahu’s opposition to a two-state
solution for peace, Fox News reported.
In the sermon, Warnock described Netan-
yahu’s position as “tantamount to saying,
‘Occupation today, occupation tomorrow,
occupation forever.’ ” The line echoed the
late Alabama governor’s call for “segrega-
tion now, segregation tomorrow and segre-
gation forever.”
Ossoff and Warnock made record-shatter-
ing fundraising hauls from across the nation.
In the last two months, each candidate
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ElEx factors: Democrats Jon
Ossoff and Raphael Warnock (near
left) campaign together Monday a day
Latest polls
David Perdue (R)
48%
before their crucial Senate runoffs in
Georgia against Republican incum-
bents Kelly Loeffler (far left) and David
Perdue (below). Dems need to win both
nypost.com
races to take control of the Senate. Jon Ossoff (D)
49.3%
Kelly Loeffler (R)
48%
Raphael Warnock (D)
49.8%
RealClearPolitics poll averages
What you need to know about
theGeorgia Senate runoffs:
Reuters
■ Democrats need both the
Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon
Ossoff to defeat Republican
incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler
and David Perdue for a 50-50
split in the Senate, leaving
Vice President-elect Kamala
Harris as the tiebreaking vote.
A win by either GOP senator
maintains a Republican majority
and provides a check on the
incoming Biden administration.
■ Polling places in the Peach
State open at 7 a.m. EST and
close at 7 p.m.
■ Voters already in line at 7 p.m.
will still be permitted to vote.
■ Under Georgia law, ballot
counting may not begin until
raised $100 million, becoming the best- polls have closed. This also
funded Senate candidates in history. applies to absentee ballots or
But the bulk of those funds came not from mail-in ballots.
Georgia, but from liberal bastions like New ■ County election officials,
York and California where Democrats do- however, were required to begin
nated $26.4 million to the two challengers. processing absentee ballots
At a rally in Atlanta on Monday afternoon, (verifying signatures on the
Biden urged voters to turn out for Ossoff
outer envelopes, opening the
and Warnock, saying they would deliver on
the $2,000 stimulus check bill that Trump envelopes and scanning the
has called for but which McConnell is block- ballots) before the day of the
ing in the Senate. runoffs.
Just like in the presidential race, it is unlikely ■ Ballots submitted by mail
that Georgia will be able to declare a winner of or through drop boxes and
either race before the end of the night, mean- received by 7 p.m. Tuesday are
ing the nation may once again have to hold its eligible to be counted.
breath for days or weeks to come.
■ Just as in the presidential race,
it’s unlikely Georgia will be able
Editorial / Page 20 to declare a winner of either race
before the end of the night.
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Top medal
A stunning to Nunes
nypost.com

bikini pic – President Trump awarded Rep.

Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal
of Freedom on Monday.
Nunes (Calif.) is the top Republi-

just for the

New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021

can on the House Intelligence Com-

mittee and is best known for investi-
gating misconduct in the FBI’s 2016
Russia investigation.

Hayek of it
Trump presented the nation’s high-
est civilian award to Nunes at a
closed-door Oval Office ceremony.
Another pro-Trump stalwart, Rep.
Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), is expected to
receive the honor later.
Nunes was heralded in a White
New year, same sizzling Salma. House press release — which a
Salma Hayek rang in 2021 over the source said echoed Trump’s remarks
weekend with a sultry Instagram — for his work reviewing the Russia
shot of her flaunting her age-defying investigation, which morphed into
physique in a bikini. special counsel Robert Mueller’s
Although the 54-year-old actress probe. Mueller found no evidence
didn’t caption the post or offer its that Trump conspired or criminally
location, it had racked up more than colluded with Russia.
1.8 million likes and thousands of “Devin Nunes’ courageous actions
fawning comments by late Monday. helped thwart a plot to take down a
“Gorgeous! 2021 looking great al- sitting United States president,” the
ready!!” one comment read. “Damn White House release said.
Salma,” said another. “Devin’s efforts led to the firing,
On Tuesday, Hayek — who has a 13- demotion or resignation of over a
year-old daughter with her husband dozen FBI and DOJ employees. He
of nearly 12 years, French billionaire also forced the disclosure of docu-
François-Henri Pinault — bade fare- ments that proved that a corrupt sen-
well to 2020 with two Instagram ior FBI official pursued a vindictive
snaps of herself in a magenta bikini. persecution of General Michael
“Last days of 2020. Never been Flynn.” Steven Nelson
more grateful for being healthy and
in contact with nature,” she wrote.
In September, Hayek celebrated
US ends Arabs’

Instagram
her 54th birthday in a bright-yellow
two-piece. Jaclyn Hendricks

Qatar blockade

WikiLeaker lucks out

Saudi Arabia and its allies are ex-
pected to sign a deal Tuesday offi-
cially ending their feud with Qatar
in an agreement negotiated by
White House senior adviser Jared
Kushner, a US government official
confirmed Monday.
The détente — designed to fur-
ther isolate Iran — follows a slew of

UK judge blocks Assange’s extradition to US historic Middle East peace deals

By Lee Brown
WikiLeaks founder Julian As-
sange won a legal battle on Monday
to avoid extradition from the UK to
face US espionage charges, with a
London judge blocking his transfer
to the United States over fears that
he would likely kill himself there.
Citing Assange’s mental health,
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser
ruled that it would be “oppressive”
to extradite the 49-year-old Austra-
lian, who faces up to 175 years in
prison for obtaining and publishing
secret US government documents.
While the jurist accepted US
prosecutors’ reasons for wanting to
put Assange on trial, she described
him as “a depressed and sometimes
despairing man” who had the “intel-
lect and determination” to circum-
vent any suicide-prevention meas-
ures that would be taken by Ameri-
can prison authorities.
The US Justice Department said it
would appeal the decision.
“While we are extremely disap-
pointed in the court’s ultimate deci-
sion, we are gratified that the
United States prevailed on every
point of law raised,” a department
spokesman said. “In particular, the
court rejected all of Mr. Assange’s
arguments regarding political moti-
vation, political offense, fair trial
and freedom of speech.”
Assange’s lawyers said they
would ask for his release from a
London prison during a bail hearing
on Wednesday.
Assange, who was present for the
ruling in London’s Central Criminal
Court, wiped his brow as the deci-
sion was announced. His partner,
Stella Moris, with whom he has two
young sons, wept.
“Today’s victory is the first step
towards justice in this case,” Moris
said outside court.
Still, she said she was “extremely
concerned” about the US’s planned
appeal, adding that she would only
“celebrate the day he comes home.”
She also urged President Trump
to pardon Assange before his term
in office ends this month.
“Mr. President, tear down these
prison walls,” she said. “Let our lit-
tle boys have their father.”
Assange has been in custody in
the UK since April 2019, when he
was arrested after being booted
from his safe haven in the Ecuado-
rian Embassy in London.
US prosecutors have indicted As-
sange on 17 espionage charges and
one charge of computer misuse
over WikiLeaks’ publication of
leaked military and diplomatic doc-
uments in 2010 and 2011.
Assange’s lawyers have argued
that he was acting as a journalist and
is entitled to First Amendment pro-
tections for publishing documents
that exposed US military wrongdo-
ing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Assange’s US lawyer, Barry Pol-
lack, said the legal team was “enor-
mously gratified” by the UK ruling.
“The effort by the United States to
prosecute Julian Assange and seek
his extradition was ill advised from
the start,” he said. “We hope that
after consideration of the UK court’s
ruling, the United States will decide
not to pursue the case further.”
Meanwhile, Mexico offered As-
sange political asylum on Monday
to further shield him from extradi-
tion to the US.
“Assange is a journalist and de-
serves a chance. I am in favor of par-
doning him,” President Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
With Wire Services
brokered by the Trump White
House in recent months normaliz-
ing relations between Israel and
some of its Arab neighbors.
Tuesday’s deal will set in motion
the end of a four-year-old blockade
of Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United
Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain.
Steven Nelson, Ebony Bowden
China’s ‘hope’ for Joe
Chinese officials want to believe
that President-elect Joe Biden will
“restore normalcy” to DC-Beijing
relations.
“We hope that the next US admin-
istration will return to a sensible ap-
proach . . . [and] restore normalcy to
the bilateral relations,” Chinese For-
eign Minister Wang Yi said on state-
owned broadcaster CGTN.
The Trump administration has
battled with China over trade and
other issues. Ebony Bowden
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city in crisis

New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Gabriella Bass
Fast aND FIr-Ious
checkout: The Um-
brella Hotel in Queens
was the scene of the
city’s first 2021 homicide.

nypost.com
Blas: I’ll
shutter
‘slay’ inn battered: Sherif
Oleba (above) and
Mael Quentin (right)
were among 10 hurt
Mayor de Blasio said on
Monday that he was mov- by a raging man who
ing to shut down a notori- also carjacked this
ous Queens hotel that Jeep, cops say.
was the scene of the city’s
first homicide of 2021.
“I do want that hotel
closed,” de Blasio said at
a City Hall press briefing, By Tina Moore, set upon straphanger Mael Quen- object to commit a series of allegedly stole a car and drove it
referring to the Umbrella Kevin Sheehan & KaTe Sheehy tin, 18, who was with his girlfriend crimes,’’ Assistant District Attor- around during the rampage.
Hotel in Kew Gardens, on a date, authorities said. ney Marissa Carro told Judge She said that while Thompson
where a shooting early The crazed man who went on a The two men were among 10 Michael Frishman. “does not have a criminal record
Friday left one man dead bloody weekend rampage in Man- people wounded in Thompson’s During the remote hearing, . . . given the defendant’s behavior,
and two wounded. hattan used a Christmas-tree hourlong spree, which also in- Carro said Thompson beat three he already shows he does not lis-
De Blasio said he in- branch in his attacks, cops said on cluded two carjackings, cops said. people waiting on a subway plat- ten to orders or directives.”
structed his team to Monday — as the suspect asked to Thompson was ordered held form and an MTA worker climbing Thompson faces four counts of
“close that hotel immedi- speak to his mommy after his ar- without bail in Manhattan Crimi- the Canal Street station’s stairs. assault in the second degree, two
ately” following the raignment. nal Court on Monday pending a Thompson interjected: “That’s counts of robbery in the first de-

Scootercaster FNTV; Gabriella Bass (inset bottom)

“very, very painful re- Bryan Thompson, 43, of Atlan- psych exam. all wrong! I was going home! I was gree and two counts of criminal
port” on the shooting. tic City, NJ, wielded what one of “Am I able to contact my trying to get on the train, but the mischief in the third degree.
“We’re checking, obvi- his first victims described as “the mother?” Thompson asked. MTA guy . . . ” Law-enforcement sources said
ously, all of our legal bottom branch of a large Christ- His lawyer, Evan Rock, said he Frishman asked him to be quiet, he has one sealed arrest in New
powers here to make sure mas tree” as he clubbed people would make arrangements for and Thompson said, “Yes, sir.” York City. It was unclear what for.
what we do is legal and while cutting a swath of mayhem Thompson to call her. Rock requested the judge to or- Records show he was charged in
appropriate, but I want it from Tribeca to Chelsea starting Thompson is accused of ran- der a psych exam for his client, ex- 2007 in Camden County, NJ, with
closed,” the mayor said. at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, police said. domly battering straphangers, plaining, “My conversations with passing bad checks, pleaded guilty
Robert Williams, 20, of Thompson first randomly at- tourists, drivers and other unsus- my client . . . clearly showed me and got probation a year later.
Jamaica, and two others tacked food deliveryman Sherif pecting victims in his rampage. he had a break with reality.” Additional reporting by Larry
were shot in front of the Oleba, 57, who was sitting on a “In the span of about an hour, The judge ordered the exam. Celona, Craig McCarthy and Re-
hotel at Queens Boulevard bench waiting for a train in the the defendant used part of a tree In arguing for a high bail becca Rosenberg
and 82nd Avenue just over Canal Street subway station, then trunk and another hard wooden amount, Carro noted Thompson ksheehy@nypost.com
an hour after midnight.
Williams died; the others
were hospitalized.
Elected officials, in-
cluding Queens Borough
President Donovan Rich-
ards, have also called for
the shutdown of the hotel
B’klyn subway-attack vic slams NYPD
One of the victims in a after the attack in East Will- Benny Watts, 50, of Man- not confirm he was their
that neighbors say is a string of recent attacks at a iamsburg’s Morgan Avenue hattan, in connection with attacker. A judge released
hub for drug-dealing, Brooklyn subway stop station. “I didn’t see any po- the attack and three others him on Friday because the
prostitution and violence. ripped the NYPD on Mon- lice stationed there. There against young women at charge is not bail eligible.
The NYPD had a patrol day for what she said was a were no flyers.” the station on Nov. 17, The NYPD said the sta-
stationed by the hotel vir- failure to keep women safe. The Dec. 28 attack left Dec. 11 and Dec. 26. tion has been a special post
tually 24/7 following a “I was stunned that this the 32-year-old journalist Prosecutors charged with extra cops since Nov.
shooting over the had happened so many with bruises on her face, Watts with one count of 29. “Cops are there at the
summer. Nolan Hicks times,” Bianca Fortis (left) shoulder and chest. third-degree assault, as station,” said a department
and Natalie Musumeci said on Monday, a week Days later, cops arrested three of the victims could spokesman. David Meyer
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Queens nurse
is No. 1 again
New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Reuters
Gets her second jab
The Queens critical-care nurse
who was first in the nation to get
the COVID-19 vaccine is now also
the first in the country to be fully
vaccinated against the bug.
Sandra Lindsay (pictured Mon-
day), who works at Long Island
Jewish Medical Center, ap-
plauded after completing her in-
oculation against the virus ex-
actly three weeks since making
international headlines with her
first shot of Pfizer’s vaccine.
“My message is still that of
hope,” Linsday, 52, told reporters
just after getting the second shot
in her left arm. “I feel like I’ve
completed kind of the marathon,
I’ve closed the loop. I know we’re
not out of the woods yet, we don’t
have that herd immunity yet, but
the burden feels definitely much
lighter today.”
The frontline worker was again
Doc: It’s halve or have not
The US government is consider-
ing giving just half-doses of the
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to
help accelerate the unexpectedly
slow rollout, the program’s chief
science adviser has revealed.
Despite a concerted effort to
ramp up vaccinations over the past
few days, the number of shots dis-
pensed is still only about 4 million
— a fraction of the 20 million ini-
tially predicted by the end of 2020.
Dr. Moncef Slaoui of the Opera-
tion Warp Speed vaccine response
team told CBS’s “Face the Nation”
Sunday that the group is keen on
administering half-doses to double
the available supply.
“We know that for the Moderna
vaccine, giving half of the dose to
outbreak
administered the shot in front of
cameras at a time when the na-
tion is grappling with the slower-
than-expected rollout of vacci-
nes.
“My message is going to be just
looking at me as an example that
the vaccine is safe. I haven’t had
any side effects,” she said.
Asked whether the second shot
felt different, the nurse replied,
“No, it didn’t feel any different”
before cracking, “As a matter of
fact, maybe Dr. [Michelle] Ches-
ter’s hand got a little gentler.”
As of Saturday, 4.2 million peo-
ple have received their first jab of
the two-dose vaccine — although
more than 13 million doses have
been distributed, according to the
most recent data from the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Pre-
vention. That’s just 32 percent.
Reuven Fenton, Lia Eustachewich
people between the ages of 18 and
55 . . . induces identical immune re-
sponse,” he said.
Slaoui rejected the suggestion
that officials should prioritize giv-
ing more Americans a single full-
dose shot and spacing out the time
between doses, saying that cutting
the vaccine doses in half was “a
more responsible approach that
would be based on facts and data.”
Giving two half-dose shots
“means exactly achieving the ob-
jective of immunizing double the
number of people with the doses
we have,” he insisted.
Slaoui said his team is “in discus-
sion” with Moderna and the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) to
push for permission. Lee Brown
PaINful
Dose of
cuomo
& Blas
The only quick ‘shots’ are
By BerNAdette HogAN,
NolAN Hicks
and AAroN Feis
People in New York are dying
every day amid the agonizingly
slow rollout of COVID-19 vac-
cines, so what do Gov. Cuomo
and Mayor de Blasio do? Tear into
each other, of course.
Cuomo sparked the bitter rivals’
latest war of words on Monday
when he pinned the slow launch
on local leaders, including
de Blasio — threatening that mu-
nicipalities and public hospitals
that don’t quickly use their allot-
ted vaccines may be fined and
barred from future shipments.
De Blasio responded by blasting
Cuomo, saying the governor
should be “trusting the people
who have been our heroes” in-
stead of “threatening” them.
Speaking at an Albany press
briefing, the governor said, “We
need the public officials to man-
age those public hospitals,” argu-
ing that distribution points, in-
cluding the Big Apple’s city-run
NYC Health + Hospitals system,
have dropped the ball.
Cuomo underscored the dig us-
ing a PowerPoint slide with pho-
tos of local leaders — de Blasio
among them — and the all-caps
stamp “MUST MANAGE.”
Also included was SUNY head
and former top Cuomo aide Jim
Malatras, who oversees other
state public hospitals — and was
in the room when the governor
riffed off the slide.
“I need them to take personal
responsibility for their hospitals,”
he said. “They have to move the
vaccine, and they have to move
the vaccine faster.”
To light a fire under distribu-
tors, the state Health Department
sent a letter Sunday with a use-it-
or-lose-it proposition, Cuomo
said. Providers must use the
doses they’ve been allocated by
week’s end or face fines of up to
$100,000.
Going forward, they must use
all vaccines within seven days of
receipt or face fines — and being
cut off from future shipments.
The mayor, appearing on NY1
Monday night, accused the gover-
nor of “arrogance,” claiming he
was turning his back on health-
care workers.
“Does he think that our health-
care professionals are uninter-
ested in vaccinating people? How
about trusting the people who
have been our heroes?” de Blasio
said.
“Help them, support them.
Don’t fine them, don’t threaten
them. Respect them and help
them.”
De Blasio said that instead of is-
suing threats, the state should im-
plement new regulations to en-

The long road to COVID-19 prevention
The coronavirus vaccines must travel this route
before ending up in the arms of New Yorkers.
1 prioritize and
The federal govern-
ment allocates a
en amount of vac-
given
cines to each state
or territory,, includ-
ing New York.
those exchanged by bickering duo
courage faster vaccine delivery.
“We need rules that maximize
the pace, that help us speed up
and reach the people who are
available, who are a priority and
who are ready, willing and able,
it’s common sense,” the mayor
said. “So, the state can help us
here. Stop threatening people.”
Public and private hospitals
statewide have used only about 46
percent of the vaccines they have
been provided, according to stats
Cuomo cited Monday.
While the private NewYork-
Presbyterian Healthcare System
has led the way, with about 99 per-
cent of its allotted shots adminis-
tered, the public Health + Hospi-
tals network has used just 31 per-
cent.
“I need those public officials to
step in and manage those sys-
tems,” Cuomo said. “You have the
allocation. We want it in people’s
arms as soon as possible.”
outbreak
2
State leaders,
including
Gov. Cuomo,
identify sites
to administer
the vaccines,
populations to
workers who will
undertake the
rollout. In New York,
early preference has
gone to frontline medical
workers and those working
and residing in nursing homes.
The vaccines
4 are adminis-
tered to eligible
New Yorkers. Staffers
administer the shots in
public hospitals, while
private hospitals use
their in-house work-
ers or contract Third-party provider McKesson,
qualified temps. In under a contract with the
nursing homes,
the vaccines are
3 federal Centers for Disease
Control, delivers the vaccines
administered to designated local drop-off
by employ- points, where the shots will be
ees of CVS or administered. These include
Walgreens hospitals, nursing homes and
under a fed-
eral contract.
pharmacies statewide.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Earlier Monday, the mayor
Howard Zucker, speaking during vowed again to vaccinate 1 million
the same press briefing, said Health city residents in January and said it
+ Hospitals hasn’t fared well even in is time for the inoculation effort to
vaccinating its own employees. break into a “sprint” after a pain-
Of the system’s 23,000 employ- fully slow first three weeks.
ees eligible to receive the vaccine, Hizzoner said that the city aims
only 12,000 have gotten a shot — to use 100,000 vaccines this week,
despite the system being given building to a clip of 400,000
38,000 doses, according to Zucker. weekly by month’s end.
“Those other 11,000 employees Starting Monday, the following
need to get vaccinated,” he said. personnel were eligible for shots:
“There needs to be a sense of ur-
gency.”
testing-site workers, contact trac-
ers, outpatient- and ambulatory-
While Cuomo called on local care providers, dentists, physical
leaders to inoculate the “1A” list of therapists, workers at specialized
recipients, his aide-turned-vacci- clinics and NYPD medical staff.
nation-czar, Larry Schwartz, previ- “From this week on, I expect
ously said that the state is still sort- these numbers to increase in-
ing out what “1B” will be. tensely,” de Blasio said, calling for
“We haven’t talked to them ’round-the-clock distribution
[de Blasio’s team] about 1B be- points to meet the million-shot
cause we’re working on what the mark.
1B allocation is going to look like,” “The groundwork is laid. Now
he told The Post last week, adding it’s time to put this into action on a
that point is still “weeks away.” 24/7 basis.”
Nonstop vaccination centers
were among the ideas pitched
Sunday by two would-be succes-
sors to de Blasio:, Comptroller
Scott Stringer and Brooklyn Bor-
ough President Eric Adams.
City Councilman Mark Levine
(D-Manhattan) also demanded
24/7 vaccination centers.
“We are way behind,” Levine
told The Post on Monday. “This is
a warlike situation and we have to
respond with the appropriate
level of intensity.”
To help reach the goal, de Blasio
said that everyone needs to pitch
in, including the state.
“We need flexibility from the
state of New York, we need sup-
port from the federal govern-
ment,” he said. “We need the fed-
eral government to simplify the
rules and to join us in making
things move quicker.”
Additional reporting by Sam
Raskin
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New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
‘Hey, wanna
get vaxxed?’
Two grocery shoppers in Wash-
ington, DC, picked up a rare item at
checkout — a COVID vaccination.
Law student David MacMillan
and a friend were at a Giant Food
supermarket on Friday when a
pharmacist flagged them down and
asked if they wanted to get the shot.
MacMillan uploaded a video of
himself receiving the newly ap-
proved Moderna vaccine on Tik-
Tok, and said that two first respond-
nypost.com
ers scheduled to receive the shots
had missed their appointments.
“[The pharmacist] turned to us
and was like, ‘Hey, I’ve got two
doses of the vaccine and I’m going
to have to throw them away if I
don’t give them to somebody. We
close in 10 minutes. Do you want
the Moderna vaccine?’ ” MacMillan
wrote in a caption.
“I’m just super grateful for this
opportunity.”
He added that he expects to re-
ceive the second dose of the vac-
cine later this month.
The coronavirus vaccines from
Pfizer and Moderna must be kept
in cold storage and can be at room
temperature for only a short time
before they spoil. Ebony Bowden
Booze slashes
effectiveness
Drinking alcohol can reduce the
effectiveness of the COVID-19 vac-
cines, according to UK experts.
They found that even three
glasses of Prosecco halved the lev-
els of white blood cells that are cru-
cial in boosting immunity.
“You need to have your immune
system working tip-top to have a
good response to the vaccine, so if
you’re drinking the night before, or
shortly afterward, that’s not going
to help,” University of Manchester
Professor Sheena Cruickshank
said.
She advised people to avoid
drinking in the days before and
after being vaccinated. Lee Brown
Vile vial ‘conspiracist’
A Wisconsin pharmacist who
was arrested for destroying more
than 500 doses of the COVID-19
vaccine is an “admitted conspir-
acy theorist,” prosecutors said.
Steven Brandenburg, 46, inten-
tionally spoiled 57 vials of the
Moderna vaccine over Christmas
— enough to inoculate at least
500 people, according to the Oz-
aukee County district attorney.
“He’d formed this belief they
were unsafe,” DA Adam Gerol
said Monday. Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
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nypost.com
Mag fuels Wuhan-origin theory for COV Larry King
By Lia EustachEwich
New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
An American novelist is breath-
ing new life into the theory that
the COVID-19 pandemic was the
result of a lab leak in China — a
notion that several scientists agree
is “absolutely” possible.
In a nearly 12,000-word cover re-
port for New York magazine,
Nicholson Baker floats the idea
that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that
causes COVID-19, was tampered
with by money-hungry scientists
eager to capitalize on a new,
“emerging” disease.
“I keep returning to the basic,
puzzling fact,” Nicholson writes.
“This patchwork pathogen, which
allegedly has evolved without hu-
man meddling, first came to notice
in the only city in the world with a
laboratory that was paid for years
by the US government to perform
experiments on certain obscure
and heretofore unpublicized
strains of bat viruses — which bat
viruses then turned out to be, out
of all the organisms on the planet,
the ones that are most closely re-
lated to the disease.
“What are the odds?”
The story quotes several scien-
tists and experts who say the virus
that’s infected 85 million and killed
1.8 million globally likely escaped
from the lab in Wuhan.
“There is a reasonable chance
that what we are dealing with is the
result of a lab accident,” Alina Chan,
a scientist at Broad Institute of MIT
and Harvard, told Baker in July.
But she noted that there was a
chance that the disease developed
naturally — which has long been
suspected after being linked to
bats early on in the pandemic.
Chan said we may never know
the truth.
“I don’t know if we will ever find
a smoking gun, especially if it was
a lab accident. The stakes are so
high now,” she said.
Another expert told Baker, 63,
that he “absolutely, absolutely” be-
lieved the deadly outbreak was
due to a lab accident.
Baker spent months reporting
the piece — which focuses on the
consequences of gain-of-function
research — and conducted more
than two dozens interviews.
Gain-of-function research in-
volves “experimentation that aims
or is expected to (and/or, perhaps,
actually does) increase the trans-
missibility and/or virulence of
pathogens,” according to an article
published by the National Insti-
tutes of Health.
“It could have happened in Wu-
han, but — because anyone can
now ‘print out’ a fully infectious
clone of any sequenced disease —
it could also have happened at Fort
outbreak
If lab spread
it, here’s how
Detrick, or in Texas, or in Italy, or
in Rotterdam, or in Wisconsin, or
in some other citadel of coronavi-
ral inquiry,” Baker wrote.
“No conspiracy — just scientific
ambition, and the urge to take ex-
citing risks and make new things,
and the fear of terrorism, and the
fear of getting sick. Plus a whole
lot of government money.
“This may be the great scientific
meta-experiment of the 21st cen-
FeatureChina via AP
‘what are the odds’: A
New York magazine cover story
notes that the virology laboratory
(left and above) in Wuhan, China,
“was paid for years” by the US gov-
ernment to study obscure strains
of bat viruses, “the ones that are
most closely related” to COVID-19.
tury,” Baker concluded his piece.
“Could a world full of scientists do
all kinds of reckless recombinant
things with viral diseases for many
years and successfully avoid a seri-
ous outbreak? The hypothesis was
that, yes, it was doable. The risk
was worth taking. There would be
no pandemic.
“I hope the vaccine works.”
The story also notes numerous
denials from leading US virolo-
gists and health officials, including
Dr. Anthony Fauci, that COVID-19
stemmed from a lab.
moved
from ICU
Broadcast legend Larry King has
reportedly been moved out of inten-
sive care at a California hospital
where he has been undergoing
treatment for COVID-19.
King, 87, has been hospitalized at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los
Angeles for more than 10 days and
was moved from the ICU on Sun-
day, a source close to the family told
NBC News.
The former CNN
talk-show host (in-
set) believes he con-
tracted the virus
from a health-care
worker who went to
his home, the source
said.
Additionally, one
of King’s sons was infected with the
virus.
News of King’s bout with the cor-
onavirus came to light over the
weekend. Hospital safety protocols
have prevented his family members
from visiting him.
King has faced a host of medical
issues in the past, including heart at-
tacks, a stroke, prostate and lung
cancer and diabetes.
Last year, the veteran broadcast
journalist lost two of his five chil-
dren just weeks apart: His son Andy,
65, died of a heart attack and his
daughter Chaia, 51, died from lung
cancer. Natalie Musumeci, Wires
Danger in new
African strain
A new COVID-19 variant detected
in South Africa poses a greater risk
than the highly infectious strain that
turned up in UK patients, the British
health secretary said on Monday.
Secretary Matt Hancock called
the African mutation a “very signifi-
cant problem” in an interview on
BBC Radio.
“I’m incredibly worried about the
South African variant, and that’s
why we took the action that we did
to restrict all flights from South Af-
rica,” he said.
The strain found in South Africa
“seems even more easy to transmit
than the new variant we’ve seen
here [in the UK],” Hancock said.
Only two cases of the African
strain have been documented in the
UK and officials are hoping to stop
it. Some 55,000 new virus cases
were reported Sunday.
Amanda Woods

rep. cleaver
Dem’s oddly inclusive prayer.
Pray
what?!
‘Amen &
awoman’
A House Democrat tasked
with leading the body in an
opening prayer for the new
Congress gendered the
word “amen.”
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
(D-Mo.), an ordained minis-
ter, altered the traditional
“amen” to say, “Amen and
awoman.”
“May the Lord lift up the
light of His countenance
upon us and give us peace,”
Cleaver said on Sunday dur-
ing his two-minute invoca-
tion, “peace in our families,
peace across this land, and
dare I ask, o Lord, peace
even in this chamber.
“We ask it in the name of
the monotheistic
Brahma, and ‘God’ known by
many names by many differ-
ent faiths.
God,
“Amen and awoman.”
While Cleaver may have
been trying to be inclusive,
“amen” is not a gendered
word.
The word translates from
Hebrew as “so be it.”
The 76-year-old lawmaker,
elected to the House in 2004,
did not seem fazed by the In-
ternet reaction to his
“awoman” remark, and later
posted video of the prayer to
Twitter, writing, “I was hon-
ored to deliver the opening
prayer for the 117th Congress.
Cleaver’s prayer comes
days after Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) introduced
“future-focused” new House
rules that would “honor all
gender identities” by using
only gender-neutral terms
such as “parent,” “child” and
“sibling” in the text of con-
gressional guidelines.
The rules were approved
Monday along party lines,
217 to 206. Emily Jacobs
Editorial / Page 20
AOC: ‘I’m trying to decide’ on run vs. Schu
eyes on the target:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez, here with Senate
Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer in April, has left the
door open to challenging him
in the 2022 Senate primary.
By Emily JacoBs
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
is not ruling out a primary chal-
lenge against Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer, she re-
vealed Monday.
Speaking to Punchbowl News in
an interview to mark the launch
of its flagship newsletter, Ocasio-
Cortez (D-Bronx-Queens) ex-
plained that she had not made a
decision on whether she would
challenge Schumer (D-NY), who
will be up for re-election in 2022.
“I’m a no-bulls- -t kind of per-
son. I’m not playing coy or any-
thing like that,” she told the politi-
cal-news outlet.
“I’m still very much in a place
where I’m trying to decide what is
the most effective thing I can do
to help our Congress, our [politi-
cal] process and our country ac-
tually address the issues of cli-
mate change, health care, wage in-
equality, etc.”
Asked by the outlet whether
Schumer was doing a good job,
Ocasio-Cortez declined to give a
yes or no answer.
“It’s a hard thing to say, too.
We’ve had to deal with a fascist
president and [Senate Majority
Leader] Mitch McConnell,” she
Ready to ‘push’ Joe on U. loans
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
said Sunday she will push Presi-
dent-elect Joe Biden “hard” to
cancel student loans after he has
balked at doing so.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens-
Bronx) told the Facebook-spon-
sored startup news service
Punchbowl that “we have to push
the Biden administration hard.
This whole thing ‘We can’t cancel
student loan debt’ is not gonna
said. Rumors have swirled for well
over a year that the 31-year-old
democratic socialist would mount
a primary challenge against the
top-ranking Senate Democrat, but
her comments to Punchbowl News
were some of her most candid yet
on the matter.
In an interview with Vanity Fair
as their December cover star,
AOC acknowledged that she did
not know what her political future
would hold.
“I don’t know if I’m really going
to be staying in the House for-
fly.” Biden said in December that
he doubts he would have the au-
thority to forgive student loans.
“It’s arguable that the president
may have the executive power to
forgive up to $50,000 in student
debt,” Biden told The Washington
Post.
“Well, I think that’s pretty ques-
tionable. I’m unsure of that. I’d be
unlikely to do that.”
The interview with Ocasio-Cor-
ever, or if I do stay in the House,
what that would look like,” she
said.
“I don’t see myself really staying
where I’m at for the rest of my
life. I don’t want to aspire to a
quote-unquote higher position
just for the sake of that title or
just for the sake of having a differ-
ent or higher position.”
President Trump has also
weighed in on the potential intra-
party fight, tweeting and remark-
ing during media appearances
throughout the last year that he
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tez dominated the first digital is-
sue of Punchbowl, which aims to
be one of the best-read insider
newsletters in DC.
The 31-year-old democratic so-
cialist fell in line Sunday and
backed House Speaker Nancy Pe-
losi (D-Calif.) for another two-
year term.
She and her Squad allies pro-
vided Pelosi’s margin of victory.
Steven Nelson
believed Ocasio-Cortez would be
able to oust Schumer, 70.
For his part, Schumer has ex-
pressed confidence in his stand-
ing in the state and his ability to
keep his seat.
Asked by CNN in April about a
possible challenge from Ocasio-
Cortez, he said: “Look, through-
out my career I have done my job.
I’m totally focused on COVID. We
are the epicenter. And I have
found, throughout my career, you
do your job well, everything else
works out OK.”
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Stone expecting
EMMA Stone and Dave
McCary are expecting their first
child. The Oscar-winning actress
was seen cradling her baby bump
in photos that surfaced this week.
The couple have not yet con-
firmed the baby news. Stone was
seen strolling around LA on Dec.
30 with a pal — and a sizable
bump. In September, we exclu-
sively reported that the couple
quietly wed during the pandemic.
They’d been set to marry on
March 14 in LA, with the location
meant to be kept under wraps
from friends till the last minute.
Stone first met the former “SNL”
segment director in 2016 when
she hosted the NBC show.
‘Game’ star back
PiLou Asbæk (above) — the
Danish star who plays evil Euron
Greyjoy on “Game of Thrones” —
is coming back to HBO. Asbæk
plays a prosecutor on “The Inves-
tigation,” about the bizarre 2017
murder of Swedish journalist
Kim Wall by inventor Peter
Madsen aboard his personal
submarine. The series, from
“Mindhunter” director Tobias
Lindholm, premieres Feb. 1. The
actor also stars in Netflix’s Dan-
ish hit “Borgen,” and in Lind-
holm’s Oscar-nominated “A War.”
NYC real estate moguls Bill and David S.
Mack allegedly personally arranged for a host
of their wealthy friends from Manhattan and the
ritzy Palm Beach Country Club to get the coro-
navirus vaccine at a Florida retirement home.
While elderly Floridians wait overnight for
the vaccine, the brothers of the Mack Real Es-
tate Group and their 1-percenter friends
turned to the not-for-profit nursing home Jo-
seph L. Morse Health Center in West Palm
Beach. Conveniently located on David S. Mack
Drive, the facility’s chairman is — wait for it
— David S. Mack.
One source said, “David and Bill Mack ar-
ranged for their friends from the Palm Beach
Djeneba Aduayom for Cosmopolitan
“It’s
SZA szn!,”
claims Cosmo, to
which the musician
said of her fiery de-
meanor: “I’m not
meant to be
still.”
Country Club to be vaccinated for COVID-19. The Macks confirmed to Page Six that they
They apparently made a list of people who had been vaccinating people in Palm Beach. A
could get the vaccine . . . Supposedly some spokesperson said, “Several not-for-profit
people flew down in private jets from New health and senior care organizations in Florida
York just for the vaccine, if they were lucky are undertaking major vaccination efforts. Da-
enough to be on the list the brothers made.” vid and Bill Mack were asked to assist a not-
A second source confirmed, “A friend got the for-profit health-care institution with the or-
first shot two days ago at ‘Morse Old Folks ganization of its vaccination campaign. Some
Home’ (his description), arranged by the Palm vaccine recipients may have been Palm Beach
Beach Country Club. Another friend said, ‘Do Country Club members, but substantially
you know Bill Mack?,’ ” suggesting that know- fewer than your sources indicated, and this
ing him could help you get access to the vac-
cine. There is no indication the Morse Health
Center failed to vaccinate its residents and staff
was not a targeted effort to vaccinate club
members . . . Everything was done in accord-
ance with Gov. DeSantis’ order as it relates to
or turned away others not on the Macks’ list. persons 65 and older.”
DIY Oscar
ZEnDAyA is consid-
ered an Oscar front-run-
ner for her work on the
upcoming “Malcolm &
Marie” — but she did way
more than just act in the
film, secretly shot during
the coronavirus lockdown.
“We made a bubble,” she
said. “We all quarantined
and stayed in this very
small area in the middle of
nowhere. We shot in this
Don’t preach
house . . . We weren’t al- JuSTin Bieber (above)
lowed to leave or go any- has dismissed reports he’s
where.” During the shoot, training to become a man
“I’m doing my own hair of the cloth for his former
and makeup in the bath- church, the now-scandal-
room and brought a lot of plagued Hillsong. A source
my clothes to help with set recently told OK! magazine
[decoration],” she said on of the pop star, “He wants
Pharrell Williams’ pod- to be a full-fledged minis-
cast “OTHERtone.” Zen- ter next year.” But Bieber
daya said that the movie, said on social media: “I’m
made by “Euphoria” crea- not studying to be a minis-
tor Sam Levinson, had no ter or anything close to
assistant director, “so that.” He added, “Hillsong
we’re figuring out conti- is not my church,” and that
nuity and stuff like that on he doesn’t “need a building
our own.” The film — in to connect with god.” Hill-
which she plays opposite song’s star pastor, Carl
John David Washington Lentz, a onetime close pal
— is also being buzzed of Bieber’s, stepped down
about as a Best Picture in November after confess-
contender, according to ing he had cheated on his
the Hollywood Reporter. wife.
LISTEN NO
Black eye for Peas guy
WHERE is the love? When Black Eyed
Peas frontman will.i.am opened up to
Wyclef Jean about feeling hurt his Listen now!
band is not “considered a black
group,” it didn’t sit well with origi-
nal member Kim Hill. “For you to
make that statement as if the onus is
on the black community to celebrate
you and the band when you didn’t cele-
brate us. It’s almost like there’s this cul-
tural smudging,” she wrote on Instagram.
Will.i.am spoke about the band’s 2004 rise on Jean’s
“Run That Back” podcast. Hill joined the band in 1995,
and the group toured with artists including No Doubt
and Eminem before she left in 2000. Wild Orchid singer
Fergie then joined the act in 2002, and Black Eyed Peas
went on to become one of the biggest pop bands of the
aughts. Hill felt snubbed by will.i.am, saying in her post:
“I’ve heard in certain spaces that when you’ve had the
opportunity to say my name, you don’t. I was there.”

Nina Dobrev
channels her
inner Hippie
Smurf while
out picking
up lunch in
Los Angeles.
TheImageDirect
MEEK Mill and Fanatics
mogul Michael Rubin at
Swan in Miami on New
Year’s Eve . . . FORMER pres-
idential wanna-be Brock
Pierce at Carli’s in San Juan,
Puerto Rico . . . CROSSFIT
Remedial rap
EMiNEM had to relearn
how to rap due to drug ad-
diction. He has apologized
to Rihanna in his new song,
“Zeus,” for some offensive
lyrics about her from 2009.
But the rapper admitted to
SiriusXM that he had “zero
recollection” of the verse,
and figured he was just rap-
ping whatever rhymed at
the time because he was re-
learning how to rap. “I was
like, ‘What the f - - k, I said
that?’ ” Eminem recalled. “It
was f - - king stupid . . . when
I first started learning how
to rap again, because of the
drug situation that I went
through . . . that was one of
those things . . . like, ‘Well, if
it rhyme, say it.’ ”
More celebrity
photos at
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on St. Barts
New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
NIgHTLIFE mogul Richie
Akiva threw a massive bash in
St. Barts for New Year’s Eve,
with a source telling us there
were hundreds of people party-
ing at a three-floor private villa
till 5 a.m. “There was super
strict security,” said a source. “A
lot of people couldn’t get in, and
waited hours trying.” The
source added, “A few guests got
kicked out for pulling out their
phones and recording videos.”
As for COVID-19 precautions,
we’re told: “The staff working
there was fully masked up with
gloves. But the partygoers [defi-
nitely] didn’t have any masks
on.” When reached by phone,
Akiva told us of the island bash,
nypost.com
“It was 200 people and very pri-
vate, invite only. The whole is-
land had heard [about the
party], so they showed up and
tried to get in. We made sure we
temperature checked every-
body, our invited guests, like
they would do with any restau-
rant.” He further explained, “We
didn’t want cameras or pictures
because it was a private event,
and [we] wanted people to live
in the moment and not worry.”
The ritzy vacation destination
was full of celebs and VIPs over
the holiday, including music leg-
end Paul McCartney. One
missing guest has been island
regular Leonardo DiCaprio —
who was absent from the
French-speaking isle this holi-
day season.
Sightings West Coast filming a video
for her new single “40 Yard
co-founder Lauren Jenai Dash,” at SoFi Stadium in LA
and husband Franklin Ty- . . . ATTORNEY Ken Jewell
rone Tucker supporting a outside at Avra . . . PETER
virtual Toys for Tots event in Thomas Roth outdoors at
Portland, Ore. . . . CHANEL Cipriani Downtown.
BACKGRID
Adam Brody enjoys the last of the holiday weekend in
“The O.C.” by hanging five while out for a surf in Malibu, Calif.
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cents. Women’s shoes — $7.
Men’s — $3.
Movie theater — back when we
New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Pay attention MORE NYC people moving
here” . . . AND my year-old inter-
FROM 2015 to 2019, NY, the view just reappeared on Town &
milk cow, sent $116 billion more Country magazine’s Web site.
Threatened by serious jail time
for another crime, loyalty goes
south. A commutation is more
limited. The conviction stands,

had those — 15 cents. High life was
a radio — $35. Couple’s night out at
a diner — 70 cents. First class
stamp — 2 cents. Life insurance —
a buck a month.
1919, a century ago, summa-
to the feds than it got in state aid,
while Mitch McConnell’s
home state Kentucky — of which
surely some of you have heard —
got $148 billion more than what
it contributed . . . ALSO, there
Not sure why but I thank them
for making me immortal.
Know your rights
SOME are saying one who gets
and possibly putting yourself in
further jeopardy remains. But
your Fifth Amendment rights
stay in place. To help a buddy,
but be sure you aren’t forced to
roll over and provide dangerous

Cindy
rized as the worst year in was just an upstate ad “against a pardon can no longer refuse to testimony in future, commuta-
20th century American wealthy NYC people’s intru- testify by pleading the Fifth. He’s tion is the best bet. Just saying.
history, got us the rotary sion.” It actually said “NO required to spill his beans.

Adams dial telephone and Hotel

Pennsylvania as the
world’s most popular ho- Now with more laffs
Farewell, friend
I WAS away and wanted to say
tel. Plus revolution. Terror- one more goodbye to my great
I’M back. Listen, every 40 years ism. Race riots. The FORGET that everything old is new again. Now everything friend Howard Rubenstein. NYC
I take off two weeks. flu pandemic’s third new is new again. Chris Rock has a spiffy upcoming Net- was Rubenstein country. He
It’s the new year. For females, brutal wave. Work- flix special, due Jan. 12. The thing’s called “Tamborine.” repped the Big Apple’s big
new time for fake nails, fake ers on strike. Pro- His recently old special had programmed in it a very names. Visit his Park Avenue
lashes, fake hair, fake teeth, fake gressives pushing. few very special laugh-grabber knee-slappers that apartment — Hillary was in it.
boobs, fake behinds, fake cheeks Citizens feeling somehow got left out. Not one to overlook a guaranteed Or Al Gore. Or some president.
and fake whatever else works. alienated from guffaw that somehow got sliced onto the cutting room Or Trump, Murdoch, Stein-
In olden days nobody had these the government. floor, he has now mixed into this new special some of brenner, Leona, the Cardinal,
things. Nobody had money either. Bombings in his special leftover jokes from that last special special. UJA or that 10-minute Brit Duch-
A 1915 manicure — using high- the first wave Have a for instance: “Racism doesn’t stop. Now it’s ess Sarah Ferguson.
gloss car paint — under a quarter. of US anarchy. called ‘prices.’ Prices is the new Jim Crow. A Four Sea- We all loved LOVED Howard.
The manicurist kept the change. President sons doesn’t say ‘No Blacks Allowed.’ But a $4,000 dol-
A man earned $687 a year. In 1920 Woodrow Wilson: “I lar a night hotel suite sure does.” DISCUSSING his profession
a car — $500. Gas in 1915 — 12 predict with abso- Four Seasons will clearly be thrilled with this product over Zoom: “Odd how nobody
cents a gallon. NYC apartment — lute certainty that placement. ever asks a proctologist how

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$60 a month. Air-conditioning within another gen- does he do his work.”
was a broken window. Milk — 9 eration will be an- One of Chris Rock’s comedy specials is getting supersized. Only in New York, kids,
cents. Bagels — with or without a other world war.” only in New York.

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Cop fires at
knife susp
An NYPD officer opened
fire on a man who had lunged
at cops with a knife in Brook-
lyn Monday night, police
sources said.
Nobody was struck by gun-
fire in the confrontation,
which took place on Haw-
thorne Street near Albany
Avenue in East Flatbush at
about 7:45 p.m., according to
the sources.
Cops were called to the
scene for a reported domes-
tic dispute. One officer fired
off several shots after the sus-
pect lunged at them, the
sources said.
The man was apprehended
and taken to Kings County
Hospital. Sources said he has
an arrest history dating back
to 2010.
Several officers were taken
to Kingsbrook Jewish Medi-
cal Center for evaluation.
Joe Marino
‘Baby-abuse’
nanny busted
A Brooklyn nanny who al-
legedly shook a 3-month-
old so hard the infant was
left with brain breeding has
been charged and released
without bail.
Alexis Schultz told inves-
tigators she was feeling
overwhelmed by her duties
when she jostled the infant
on Dec. 28 in Midwood, a
police source said.
“I rocked and shook the
baby, his head was bobbing
back and forth and the baby
was crying,” she said, accord-
ing to a criminal complaint.
Schultz was arraigned
Monday on charges of sec-
ond-degree assault and
third-degree assault.
She was released to pre-
trial supervision.
Tina Moore
Subway jumper
A man is clinging to life
after he jumped in front of a
train in Manhattan Monday
morning, authorities and
police sources said.
The unidentified man was
hit by a B train at the
47th–50th Streets–Rocke-
feller Center station just be-
fore 7:30 a.m., police said.
The incident caused
northbound B, D, F, and M
trains to be delayed and re-
routed for more than an
hour, according to NYC
Transit. Amanda Woods
HISTORY CRASS
NY Post photo composite
New series swears that curse
words have innocent origins
By lauren sarner
It’s about damn time.
Premiering today, and hosted by
Nicolas Cage, the new Netflix se-
ries “History of Swear Words”
takes a deep dive into the roots of
taboo words, such as “f - - k” and
“s - - t,” as well as rude euphe-
misms such as “dick.”
And while it’s educational, the
six-episode show is also funny,
with academics, historians and co-
medians, such as Nick Offerman
and Sarah Silverman, weighing in.
“While I was getting my Ph.D. in
English literature, I noticed that
what counts as ‘bad language’ in
medieval texts is very different
from what we consider it to be to-
day,” Melissa Mohr, who appears
in the show and is the author of
“Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of
Swearing,” told The Post.
“I wanted to find out why ‘by the
blood of Christ’ was completely
offensive in the Middle Ages,
while ‘c - - t’ wasn’t,” she said. “I
find the phenomenon of swearing
fascinating in general — why En-
glish speakers kind of agree to get
offended by certain words while
other words that denote the same
thing are totally fine.”
Risk-averse movie censors al-
most didn’t let Clark Gable deliver
Rhett Butler’s famous parting line
in “Gone With the Wind” —
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a
damn” — as Cage explains in an
15
New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
episode dedicated to the word.
(He also hams it up by delivering
some of the suggested alterna-
tives, including “Frankly my dear,
I don’t give a hoot.”) Now consid-
ered to be among the more innoc-
uous curses, “damn” is the only
swear word to appear in the Bible,
said Mohr.
According to the series, a com-
mon theory for the origins of “f - - k”
is that it came from the phrase “for-
nication under consent of the king,”
as people in the Middle Ages had to
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ask their king for permission to
marry. In reality, it’s from a Dutch
word meaning “to strike.”
As it turns out, the advancement
of indoor plumbing plays a major
factor in when many of these
words shifted into something
naughty.
“ ‘F - - k’ and ‘s - - t’ started to be-
come taboo words during the Ren-
aissance because our ideas about
privacy changed,” Mohr said. “And
cuRSE
THEm all:
Netflix’s “His-
we began to insist that sexual and
excremental body parts and actions
be hidden, in life and in language.”
tory of Swear
Words” tackles
curses such
Words with more salacious con-
notations got the ax first, which is
why “s - - t” lasted longer than
as “damn” (al- “f - - k” in polite society.
most cut from “In American and British culture,
“Gone With broadly speaking, the sexual is
the Wind”), more taboo than the excremental,”
“dick” (also a Mohr said. “Sex carries a moral
male name weight that excretion lacks. It may
that’s fallen be disgusting to s - - t, but it’s never
out of favor) morally wrong, while sex is policed
and “f - - k,” by strict codes that deem many
rumored to kinds immoral and off limits. These
have origi- codes inform which swear words
nated in the are ‘worse’ in English.”
Middle Ages. She said that the end of the 16th
century, into the 17th, was the real
turning point.
“At that time, words that are now
‘obscene’ were sometimes used
without comment in places they
wouldn’t appear today,” Mohr
said. “In 1611, for example, George
Chapman published a gorgeous,
‘collector’s edition’ of ‘The Iliad,’
and called somebody ‘an envious
windf - - ker’ in the preface.” (A
“windf - - ker” was a nickname for
a type of falcon.)
“By the 18th century, ‘f - - k’ was
definitely one of these and was
gone from public discourse, but
‘s - - t’ could still sometimes be
found,” the author said. “By the
19th century, neither word could
appear in polite or literary dis-
course. They were at the height of
their power to shock and offend.”
Watching the show, you may
even pick up a new swear or two
— apparently the obsolete Old En-
glish term “swive” is a synonym
 for “f - - k.”
HOST WITH THE “ ‘Swive’ in particular is so much
GROSS: Nicolas Cage guides fun to say,” Mohr said. “Maybe that’s
the expletive exposé. why Chaucer used it so often.”
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FINEST
HOUR
60-minute
workouts are key
for weight loss.
Here’s how to
make the most
of your time
By ASIA GRACE
Lockdown love handles, Thanksgiving tummies and
Christmas pie thighs — these are just a few of the things you
may hope to leave behind in 2021.
But tacking on a few workouts a week isn’t going to get you
your weight-loss wishes.
A recent study found that people who followed a rigorous
hourlong workout on a daily basis lost substantially more
weight than those who only got their heart rates up a few
times a week.
That’s partly because people who exercise tend to eat more
to make up for their exertions, but only up to a point —
meaning those who only worked out a couple times a week
canceled out any caloric losses, while those who exercised
daily didn’t.
Even more interesting, the intense workout regimens ap-
peared to boost levels of the appetite-suppressing hormone
leptin in the body, something occasional exercise did not do.
Logging an average of 300 minutes of exercise weekly — or
working out 40 to 60 minutes, six days a week — and burning
about 3,000 calories total, was the fat-burning sweet spot in
John Basedow’s power hour:
Cross-training with cardio
Basedow, the muscle-bound mastermind
behind exercise empire Fitness Made Sim-
ple, said a healthy blend of cardio and
weightlifting is the chef’s kiss for melting off
those extra chunks.
“There’s nothing better than doing a
combination of weight training and cardio
for weight loss,” the Long Island native told
The Post. “You can do 30 minutes of any
cardio that gets you moving, gets your
heart rate up and gets you into that fat-
burning mode.”
After spending a few minutes warming
up with simple stretches, you might get
your heart pumping by running on the ellip-
tical machine, taking a power walk on the
treadmill or in the park or engaging in a a
safe game of racquetball with friends.
Then it’s onto the weights: “Combine
your cardio with another 30 minutes of
strength training different muscle groups
with a pair of adjustable dumbbells, and
you’re going to get results,” he said.
He suggests three sets of 10 to 12 reps
each of chest incline presses and dumbbell
back rows; bicep curls and tricep exten-
sions; and walking dumbbell lunges (see
breakout below) and squats. Finish with
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crunches (eventually working up to three
sets of 50 reps), then upper and lower body
stretches to cool down.
Signature move:
Walking lungeS WitH
dumbbellS
This strength-training exercise works
the butt, thighs, quads, hamstrings, core
and biceps.
How many: Three sets of 10 to 12 reps
with weights
the study, authored by Kyle Flack, Ph.D., an assistant profes- How to: With a 5- or 10-pound weight
sor of nutrition at the University of Kentucky. in each hand, stand up straight with
And while any exercise is better than no exercise, those your feet shoulders’ width apart.
looking to move the dial on the scale will need to put in the Hold the weights with your arms
time — roughly 60 minutes every day. straight down at your sides or bent up at
Unfortunately, that level of commitment is enough to make a 90-degree angle while keeping your
most would-be workout warriors want to quit mid-battle of elbows parallel to your torso.
the bulge. Extend your right leg forward, putting
So, how to stay motivated when the task appears so weight on your heel. Bend the right knee,
daunting? bringing it to a 90-degree angle, and
“The key is to not make fitness a game of how miserable lower your upper body straight down
you can make yourself,” celebrity fitness trainer John Base- until your right thigh is parallel to the
dow told The Post. “You have to make exercise something floor. Make sure the knee never extends
that’s enjoyable, something that fits into your lifestyle and over your toes. Keep your shoulders,
something that you look forward to doing.” back and chest straight. Your left knee
Experts such as him say that a new routine, and all the en- will be bent and may lightly tap the floor.
durance that comes with it, has to happen gradually. In other Once in the lowered position, pause
words, you can’t expect to instantaneously go from zero to for a beat, then return to standing.
beast mode. Transitioning to the left leg, keep your
Here, gym gurus offer the best at-home hourlong workouts right leg still, and take a wide step for-
that will help you build your strength — and commitment — ward with your left foot, and repeat the
in the new year. same routine with the left leg.
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do three sets of 20 reps, slimdown:
with a 30-second rest be- Actress Rebel
tween sets. Wilson trans-

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Finish with a brief cool- formed her body
down, 30 seconds on each in 2020 and re-
side, that includes arm- cently revealed
cross shoulder stretches, on Instagram
overhead tricep stretches that she met her
and glute stretches. goal weight of
165 pounds.
Signature move:
 Knee tucK cruncHeS
This ab-buster strengthens

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the core, makes your hips
and back more flexible and
increases mobility and
flexibility.

Stefano Giovannini (5)

How to:
Lay on your back with your
hands behind your head and
your chin tucked to your
chest.

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Tilt your pelvis in and
bring both knees to your
Abigail Williams- Williams-Joseph says circles; jumping jacks; and chest.
at-home cellulite soldiers chest-cross arm swings. Extend your legs straight
Joseph’s power
can combat the fat with a Then, it’s on to a series of out in front of you, and then
hour: Badass body

weight moves
Pole and aerial fitness trainer
Abigail Williams-Joseph
stresses the importance of
solid body-weight training
routine.
She suggests a 10- to 15-
minute workout that incor-
porates full body stretches;
Rebel’s year
body-weight exercises — bend your knees back in to
pushups, shoulder shrugs, your chest.
pullups, lateral leg raises, Repeat the motion, curl-
squats, lunges and knee ing your knees up and ex-
tuck crunches (see breakout tending for three sets of 20

in renew
building muscle and core head, wrist, arm and ankle below). For each exercise, reps.
strengthening. Simply focus-
ing on calorie loss misses the
big picture, she said.
“Burning 3,000 calories
and getting to the gym ev- By HANNAH SOUTHWICK doubled down on her health.
ery single day in order to “I really took it as time to get
lose a certain amount of When it comes to health really well-rested and de-
weight per week is not our and fitness, Rebel Wilson’s stress,” she said, in a recent
main focus,” Williams- personal trainer Jono Cas- interview with People.
Joseph told The Post. “We’re tano knows the difference a When it comes to setting
building people up to be year can make. goals, Castano says to keep
physically strong, and to in- The Sydney, Australia, it “attainable and realistic,
crease their mobility and trainer worked with the but also measurable.” From
flexibility.” “Pitch Perfect” star during there, implement “small
her “year of health” weight- changes” in your diet.
loss journey in 2020, where Indeed, Wilson’s mantra
she went from once eating was, “Nothing is forbid-
about 3,000 calories a day den.” That included her be-
to reaching her goal of 165 loved In-N-Out burger,
Cheryl Kelly’s power hour: Signature move: pounds in November. which she told People she
Heart-pumping kickboxing  Jab, croSS, HooK, upper cut “The new year is always a still eats, but about “half
combo great place to start for a fit- what I used to eat before.”
Armed with more than three decades of This heart-rate lifter is great for cardio- ness goal,” Castano told Castano also tells his cli-
exercise expertise, certified group fitness vascular health, while burning calories The Post. ents to get moving for at
trainer Cheryl Kelly’s high-octane classes and building muscle strength and bal- The fitness expert’s first least 45 minutes a day.
are kryptonite to calories. ance. step to achieving a goal is to “Everyone has 45 minutes
Like Basedow, she recommends a mix of shout it from the rooftops. somewhere and it doesn’t
cardio and weight training each day, cou- How many: Repeat combo 50 times “Make it known to anyone have to be a grueling sweat
pled with warmup and cool-down periods. that will listen,” he said. sesh either, it could even
The key to success, she said, is variety. How to: Stand with your feet stag- “This keeps you accountable just be a walk,” he said.
“Change up your cardio and weight- gered, right foot forward, knees slightly as you will get constantly re- Wilson has been getting
training routine every day,” Kelly told The bent. Put your hands up, guarding your minded about it.” creative outside the gym as
Post. “Mix it up as often as possible.” face. Wilson took that advice to of late: In November, she
When working out on your own at Jab by thrusting your right arm heart in January 2020, post- spent two weeks at an Aus-
home, the New Jersey instructor suggests straight out, extending into a full jab ing a picture of herself walk- trian retreat, hiking snowy
25 to 30 minutes of fun, fast-paced cardio punch. Don’t lean forward. ing on the beach and writing, hills, as well as swimming
such as kickboxing (try the breakout move Cross by thrusting your left arm “Who’s with me in making in the indoor pool. She’s
at right), a high-speed walk or run. across the body, extending into a diago- some positive changes this also been skiing in Aspen,
Complete the routine with some weight- nal punch toward the right. Rotate left year?” She was diligent Colo. But even if you don’t
training moves. For those who don’t have hip forward and pivot on right foot until about sharing progress on have a spa in the Alps — or
weights or kettlebells, Kelly says doing lun- heel lifts off the ground. social media, which seemed a trainer like Castano — on
ges and bicep curls with household items Hook by thrusting your bended right to keep her on track. speed dial, scoring some
such as cans of food, full water jugs or de- arm at a 90-degree angle, keeping your Wilson’s six-days-a-week new gear just might get
tergent containers will get the job done. elbow parallel to the floor. Swing the routine combined high-in- your juices flowing.
For this 20-minute muscle-building bended arm across the body. Pivot hips tensity interval workouts “If you feel like it is get-
segment, try four sets of 15 reps, with a 10- in the same direction as the punch. (she’d flip tires and whack ting a bit boring, adding in
second rest between sets, alternating be- Upper cut by bringing your left arm heavy battle ropes at the new equipment will help,”
tween the following moves: bicep curls, down to the waist. Rotate right hip for- gym to get her heart rate up), he said. “Resistance bands
lateral arm raises, hop squats, back rows, ward, pivoting on the ball of the left foot, mobility exercises and and hand weights are easy
pushups and tricep dips. and swing upward at a 45-degree angle. weight training. to store and can definitely
After lockdown hit, she amp up any home workout.”
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Chair-raising save of dangling skier true
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New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Storyful
A skier dangling by her jacket from a chair-
lift was saved in a dramatic rescue at Bristol
Mountain upstate.
“I was about to get in line for the chairlift
when I saw the person dangling,” Jacklyn
Hoch, who recorded the terrifying scene, told
Big-tech elex ‘threat’
Cruz rips Silicon Valley titans, Post censorship
By Mark Moore
Sen. Ted Cruz said he considers the
big-tech behemoths the largest
threats to “free and fair elections” in
the country because of their over-
sized influence, but Google tops the
list because of its global reach.
“I think hands down Google is the
most dangerous company on the face
of the planet,” the Texas Republican
told Breitbart News on Saturday.
“Google is the most dangerous be-
cause it’s the biggest by far. It is the
most powerful by far. It controls the
vast majority of searches people do.”
Cruz, who notably got into a heated
exchange with Twitter CEO Jack Dor-
the Web site Storyful.
Hoch said she believes the girl had been
“hanging there for a little over two minutes”
before ski patrol members got into position
with an outstretched tarp below her.
The girl was seen letting go and falling into
sey during a Senate hearing in No-
vember over The Post’s Hunter Biden
reporting, deemed the social-media
platform “the most brazen.”
“We just recently had a hearing
where Jack Dorsey testified with a
beard that looked like he had crawled
out from under a bridge,” Cruz said,
referring to the Senate Judiciary
Committee hearing about censorship
and Section 230 of the Communica-
tions Decency Act that provides big
tech with liability protections regard-
ing third-party content.
Cruz grilled Dorsey about why Twit-
ter censored The Post’s stories about
Biden’s overseas business dealings in
the days before the Nov. 3 election.
the trap to applause from fellow skiers.
Officials at the resort said they believe the
skier wasn’t injured.
It’s unclear how she fell out of the chairlift.
The resort said it plans to launch an investi-
gation into the incident.
“I asked Mr. Dorsey at that hearing,
‘Who the hell elected you and put you
in charge of what we’re allowed to
read?’ Look, Twitter brazenly cen-
sored the New York Post when it ran
stories about Hunter Biden and Joe
Biden’s corruption concerning China,
concerning Ukraine and Russia, and
they just silenced it,” Cruz said.
“Not only did they prevent you and
I from circulating those stories, for
two weeks, they banned the New
York Post,” he continued.
“The New York Post is not some fly-
by-night organization. It is the news-
paper with the fourth-highest circula-
tion in the country. It was founded by
Alexander freakin’ Hamilton.”
Jackie Salo
He was more forgiving to Mark
Zuckerberg and Facebook.
“I will give some degree of credit
that Mark Zuckerberg at least ac-
knowledges the need to protect free
speech,” Cruz said. “I think he’s bene-
fited because Twitter and Google are
so rotten that even though Facebook’s
pretty bad, just saying free speech is
important makes him appear mark-
edly better than his rivals, but all
three are very serious concerns.”
Cruz and 10 of his GOP colleagues
said they will not vote to certify the
Electoral College tally unless a con-
gressional panel is formed to conduct
a 10-day audit of alleged voter fraud in
the 2020 election.
Weird BUT
An escaped hamster in
Scotland braved freezing
temperatures on its journey
to get some treats — and now
animal rescuers are search-
ing for its owner.
The rodent was caught on
surveillance video hanging on
to a seemingly unaware pedes-
trian who entered the Pound-
land shop in Glasgow on New
Year’s Eve, officials said.
The hamster hopped off
while inside the store, where
it was captured and turned
over to the Scottish SPCA.
A regretful military veteran
who stole a sword 40 years ago
from a statue of a Revolution-
ary War general in Massachu-
setts has returned the blade.
Cindy Gaylord, the chair of
Westfield’s Historical Com-
mission, said a man contacted
City Hall saying he swiped
the bronze sword from the
town’s statue of Gen. William
Shepard in 1980.
Gaylord, who arranged for
the man to return the sword
anonymously, said, “The fact
that he did this to another sol-
dier troubled him.”
A taxi driver in Canada drove
a drunken passenger straight to
the police station on New
Year’s Day because the man re-
fused to put on a face mask.
The hack called Victoria,
BC, cops at 1 a.m. after the uni-
dentified man repeatedly
touched the driver’s face and
“belligerently” refused to ad-
here to safety guidelines. Cops
were waiting for the man
when the cab arrived, and he
was arrested and fined $690.
A Pennsylvania grad student
raised $30,000 for charity —
by dropping homemade pizzas
out of his window.
Since the COVID-19 pan-
demic began, Good Pizza
founder Ben Berman has
been doling out free pies from
his second-story apartment
in Philadelphia using a pulley
system. He’s giving any dona-
tions to groups fighting
homelessness and hunger.
An Idaho man with more
than 150 Guinness World
Records under his belt com-
pleted his goal of breaking one
world record per week in 2020.
David Rush’s last record of
2020 was for most juggling
catches — 500 — in three
minutes with three balls.
Natalie Musumeci, Wires
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NYT Blind Spot Libertarian: Stop Politicizing the Pandemic
Paper misses own role in national crime wave “There is an all-too-familiar gracelessness in politicized conversations
about the coronavirus,” sighs Reason’s Matt Welch. Anti-lockdowners
and dour mask fanatics alike “feel surrounded by murderers and denial-
HE New York Times this ists,” who “are either intentionally trying to make things worse or just too

T past weekend decorated a

chunk of its Web site with
an emotive snapshot of so-
cial disruption on Cleveland’s
east side. But the yarn had a big
blinkered to admit there’s a problem in the first place.” The result of
these competing attitudes is to turn the virus into a sort of “morality
play”: Every event in the course of the pandemic, not least individual
cases, must be tallied as the fault of one party or the other. The more
human and humane response is “to extend condition-free sympathy and
fat hole in it. kindness” to our fellow citizens.
The story described a high

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state of angst among east siders
resulting from sustained “gun-
From the left: 2020’s Worst Newsroom Wokery
fire and car crashes” caused in At his TK News blog, Matt Taibbi flags some of last year’s most absurd
turn by “the combined impact “woke” stories — signs of “an accelerating newsroom mania for political
of the pandemic and the reces- groupthink that was equal parts frightening and ridiculous.” One piece
sion that have battered the whined that wine-loving is racist, since its “vocabulary . . . is nearly exclu-
country.” sively rooted in flavors and aromas common to Western Europe”; another
No doubt this is true, as far as described the perils posed by actor Laurence Fox’s declaration that he

Paul Martinka
it goes. But it doesn’t go nearly “does not date woke women.” A Time article assailed the white privilege of
far enough. Helen Keller; a Vox critic “denounced white vegans who tout ‘recipes . . .
The auto accidents are de- that rely on racial stereotypes,’ like “African peanut stew.’ ” An ABC.com
scribed in some detail (“cars writer “railed against the ‘systemic racism’ of America’s ‘Great White Out-
have crashed into a corner gro- Urban abattoir: A NYPD detective works a crime scene in Bed Stuy, doors’ ” — the national park system. The worst of the worst: a Guardian
cery store, a home and a be- Brooklyn, where a 20-year-old man was shot multiple times last week. column ignoring the fact that tall buildings simply seek “to fit more people
loved local diner”), but the gun- in crammed real estate,” entitled “ ‘Upward-Thrusting Buildings Ejaculating
play gets short shrift. right promotional, coverage of erywhere, illegal handguns were Into the Sky’ — Do Cities Have To Be So Sexist?”
“The Cleveland police re- Black Lives Matter-linked street the murder weapon of choice in
ported six homicides in one 24- violence and looting. It has en- New York, with the NYPD re-
hour period in November,” the gaged in #DefundThePolice agi- porting 1,855 shooting victims Campus watch: War on Free Speech Isn’t Over
Times reported, which is both tation and championed success- through year’s end, a 103 per- College-speaker “disinvitations” may have declined since 2016, but only
appalling and quite true. But ful efforts to intimidate urban cent increase over 2019. because invitations to conservatives are now being blocked from the start,
here appears the hole in the police forces generally. And still Significantly, given the racial- reports Princeton sophomore Adam Hoffman — whose attempts to have
story: That bloodbath was part the paper seemingly hasn’t tum- ized rhetoric enveloping the en- Pulitzer Prize-winner George Will and federal appeals judge Neomi Rao
of a seven-day shooting binge bled to the clearly foreseeable tire debate, The Wall Street address his campus were nixed, he writes at National Review, even as “ex-
that took 15 lives consequences of Journal last weekend reported treme progressives” were OK’d. “A disproportionate share of university
— adjusting for such activism. that as of Oct. 1, a scant 4 per- events and commencement speakers around the country are progressive” —
population dif- It’s certainly cent of the city’s gunshot casu- and that “belies the purpose of universities” as “truth-seeking institutions.”
ferences, the BOB not just Cleve- alties were white, even as non-
equivalent of 330 McMANUS land that’s suffer- Hispanic whites comprise Rocker: Why AI Will Never Write a Great Song
New Yorkers ing. While year- roughly 42 percent of Gotham’s
shot dead in the end totals largely population. At The Spectator, rocker Nick Cave lays down reasons why no artificial
streets over a single week. are incomplete, Minneapolis So while no serious person intelligence “will be able to write better songs than humans can.” The key
The November slaughter was on track for a 72 percent in- denies that young minority issue: “What a great song makes us feel is a sense
brought the city’s 2020 homi- crease in murder compared males are doing almost all the of awe,” something rooted in “our audacity as hu-
cide total to 168 (3,700, ad- with 2019, an apparent new high. shooting, it turns out that virtu- mans to reach beyond our potential.” In truly
justed), a hair’s breadth closer And records, or near records, ally all the victims are minori- great songs, “we are listening to Beethoven com-
to its record, 175 (3,850) in 1991. for murder were set in cities ties, too. This seems far more pose the Ninth Symphony while almost totally
Clevelanders are anxious? You from Seattle to Louisville to relevant to a debate over racism deaf. We are listening to Prince, that tiny cluster
think? Milwaukee to Philadelphia and in policing than “the pandemic of purple atoms, singing in the pouring rain at
Now the narrative gap grows: all across New York state’s Mo- and the recession,” significant the Super Bowl and blowing everyone’s minds.
While Cleveland may indeed hawk Valley, as upstate cities though they may be. We are listening to Nina Simone stuff all her rage
have been battered by the “com- struggled to cope with the ef- Let’s face it: Criminals by defi- and disappointment into the most tender of love
bined impact of the pandemic fects of anti-public-safety po- nition push against social bound- songs.” In short, “what we are actually listening
and the recession,” it’s also true lices handed down by Gov. Cu- aries, as defined by the penal to is human limitation and the audacity to tran-
that the city has been swamped omo and the Legislature. law, and when they find flagging scend it. Artificial intelligence, for all its unlim-
by the same wave of violent Chicago, always an abattoir, resistance, they are going to Nick Cave ited potential, simply doesn’t have this capacity.”
crime that has broken over ur- responded to a strong #Defund- push all that much harder. That
ban America generally since the ThePolice demand with a 55- is, when you demonize your
spring: after George Floyd died percent hike in murders from cops, you motivate your crimi- Religion beat: The Wisdom of Kosher Slaughter
in police custody in Minneapo- 2019, hardly a record by any ac- nals, who may be malevolent in Last month, the European Court of Justice upheld Belgium’s ban on
lis; after riots rocked the nation; counting, but a very disturbing, spirit and cold of heart, but who Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter. The decision, charges Rafi Eis at First
and after a pernicious anti-po- if unsurprising, trend. aren’t necessarily stupid. Things, misunderstands how Jewish law has done a great deal “to prevent
licing movement began to gain The same was true for the Big One would think that The animal cruelty.” The Mosaic law, after all, prohibited eating limbs severed
traction in big cities nationwide. Apple, of course: no record, but New York Times, which has de- while the animal is still alive or any flesh while the animal still has “life-
The Times failed even to hint a terrifying trend line. The veloped trends-in-the-news sto- blood in it” (Genesis 9:4). The import of these rules was that “the ani-
at this, a very big fail, indeed, in NYPD reported 447 murders in ries to an art form, would have mal’s life and welfare must be respected.” Kosher slaughter achieves this:
a news story dedicated to detail- 2020, a pale shade of the city’s picked up on this one. Alas, not “The animal is killed with a swift, surgical cut with an unblemished,
ing social disorder in a major pre-Giuliani crack-wars car- so. We’re all meant to weep for razor-sharp knife.” More fundamentally, it was Mosaic law that first
US city. nage, but up an alarming 41 per- Cleveland, but the rest of urban offered humankind “training to respect the life of the animal.” Europe’s
For months, the Gray Lady has cent from 2019. America is on its own. high court, then, “has much to learn about morality from the Bible — not
offered sympathetic, if not out- As was generally the case ev- Twitter: @RLMac2 just about the primacy of faith, but about the dignity of all creatures.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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America’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper New York Pols’ Shame:
The Stakes in Georgia Bungling the Vax Rollout
New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021

I have
 been a practicing The Issue: New York’s slow and mishandled
t’s impossible to overstate the stakes in clear sign of how things would work, as she pharmacist, licensed in

I Georgia’s runoff election, where voting

finishes up Tuesday: Republicans need to
win at least one race to keep control of the
Senate, and so serve as a vital check on a
Democratic Party careening to the far left.
moved to scrap a House rule that required
new spending to be offset by savings else-
where. Under the new rule, first pushed by
Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocas-
io-Cortez, any outlays in the name of fight-
four states, since 1974
(“Throwing away
our shot,” Jan. 2).
For the majority of
this time, pharma-
distribution of the coronavirus vaccine.

worrisome when one

considers that these
vaccines have a lim-
Dems running the Senate as well as the ing the pandemic or global warming will be cists have been the ited shelf life and
House and White House would spell disas- exempted from the “pay as you go” require- No. 1 trusted profes- have to be kept very
ter for an America struggling to bounce ment. In other words, a blank check. sion. I am proud of cold.
back from the pandemic. Ossoff claims to be moderate, but he sup- that distinction, since If Cuomo and de
It’s looking close: The final RealClearPo- ports raising the federal minimum wage to it reflects on our Blasio can’t distribute
litics polling average shows the Democrats $15 an hour and is in favor of statehood for dedication and pride vaccines efficiently,
narrowly leading the Republican incum- the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. in doing our job to how can we expect
bents: Jon Ossoff over Sen. David Perdue by The 33-year-old CEO of a documentary pro- the best of our ability. them to keep them
0.8 percent and Raphael Warnock over Sen. duction company, his main talent seems to Perhaps my stan- cold? When and if we
Kelly Loeffler by 1.8 percent. Such polls are be fundraising from out of state. dards are too high, finally are inoculated,
unreliable, but it’s plainly vital that Georgi- Warnock? The pastor said in a 2016 ser- but I would expect one has to wonder if
ans worried about the radical progressive mon that “America needs to repent for its our elected officials the vaccines will be
agenda get out and vote. worship of whiteness.” In 2018, he declared, to aspire to such a any good.
A Democratic Senate would doom Presi- “Nativism and ethnocentrism and bigotry goal. who are putting the Gamaliel Isaac
dent Trump’s tax cuts, which lowered tax [are] in high places on both sides of the At- We have been aware of blame on the federal gov- Manhattan
bills for most Americans. The southern bor- lantic. Before there was Trumpism over COVID-19 since January ernment. They’re just
der could be inundated, and a job-killing here, there was Brexit over there.” He was and now have a vaccine passing the buck — a typ- I can’t
 believe how in-
Green New Deal becomes a real possibility, arrested for obstructing an investigation available. What we don’t ical move for both. ept King Cuomo and his
as do court-packing and socialized medicine. into suspected child abuse at a camp he ran have is a plan in place to There are many seniors court jester de Blasio are.
To say nothing of how a united Democratic in Maryland in 2002, though the charges distribute it. in New York who should Why isn’t every major
front will impose identity politics on the na- were later dropped. I would like to say I’m be getting this vaccine, pharmacy chain in New
tion and “cancel” offenders any way they can. Georgians should reject the politics of vilifi- shocked by this frighten- and now. We have enough York state and city ad-
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday gave a cation and hate. All America will thank them. ing incompetence. Un- vaccines here to push this ministering the vaccine?
fortunately, it reflects the through. It comes down Wasn’t it his highness
norm, rather than the ex- to Cuomo and de Blasio spouting how organized
To Cure the Crime Pandemic ception, on both federal
and state levels.
and their mismanaging.
Stop the feuding with
the distribution was go-
ing to be? And how
ust minutes after New Year’s, a stray bul- Even electing a new mayor in November By the way, your job is each other and do the quickly everyone was go-

J let struck a 33-year-old Brooklyn woman

in her bed — showing all too clearly that
while 2020 has finally ended, violence is still
may not stop it: As The Post noted Sunday,
the leading candidates have said next to
nothing about how they’d restore order. City
to serve your constitu-
ents, not yourselves
John Canfield
right thing for the people
of New York.
Robert Johann
ing to be vaccinated?
There is no blaming
President Trump for this.
surging across the city. Comptroller Scott Stringer has even pushed Saratoga Springs Queens This is a total disgrace,
The year’s first victim made it to the hos- for further defunding of the NYPD. and they should both
pital in stable condition. A 20-year-old Meanwhile, cops arrested a suspect in Gov.
 Cuomo and Mayor “If
 seniors like me can step down because a lot
Queens man wasn’t so lucky: He was killed only 32 percent of 2020’s shootings, and de Blasio had months to get the vaccine in Flor- of people are getting sick
about an hour later. more than half of those nabbed are back prepare for distribution ida, why can’t they get it and/or dying because of
The madness grew Saturday with the fatal roaming the streets. Plus, to trim a backlog and administration of the in New York?” asked their ineptitude.
Queens shooting of a 37-year-old woman. the courts are now eyeing “rocket dockets” COVID vaccine. Greg Heinrich. Tony Fasano
Hours later, a crazed man went on a wild, vi- — i.e., conferences instead of trials that in- Instead, they make it a The answer is simple, Staten Island
olent crime spree, striking several innocent siders fear will result in dropped cases. political issue. Cuomo, Greg. New York is run
victims in the head with a makeshift club, “If they dismiss hundreds of these cases,” who is responsible for by incompetent blow- One
 of the laws of
beating and threatening drivers, stealing said one cop, “we might as well do a remake the deaths of thousands hards who couldn’t run a physics is that it takes
two cars — and crashing both. of the movie ‘Escape from New York.’ ” of vulnerable seniors in fever. time for anything to get
Unchecked thuggery and untreated men- The 2020 pandemic might be curable with nursing homes, will be In the 19 days since up to speed. Cars don’t
tal illness continue to plague city streets, a vaccine, but the out-of-control violence adding to his numbers by they began, they vacci- reach 100 mph immedi-
after a year when murders rose more than won’t be reined in unless New Yorkers delaying the vaccine to nated 266,000 people — ately nor do vaccination
40 percent and gunfire struck more people themselves demand leaders who make it those who need it the or 14,000 a day. At this programs.
than in the prior two years combined. their top priority. most. Other states are rate, it will take 1,386 Instead of scaring New
doing a much better job. days to give shots to the Yorkers, The Post should
Richard Kops 19.4 million residents. be encouraging anti-vax-
‘A-Woman’: Oy Vey! Little Neck In the meantime, Cuo-
mo can write another
xers to get the vaccine.
The number of New
e pray that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver was specific language from official House doc- Israel
 has inoculated book praising himself. Yorkers getting vacci-

W just making a bad joke Sunday when he

closed his prayer marking the 117th
Congress with “amen and awoman,” but he
uments.
Instead, of course, he simply illustrated
how ham-handed that drive truly is — to the
some 1 million people,
and Florida is doing a
great job also. However,
George Czerniawski
Brooklyn
nated will increase week
after week, as the pro-
gram goes into high gear.
definitely managed to shine a light on the point of self-satire, as if words like “men- what’s happening in New The
 incompetence of For 2021, how about a lit-
absurdity of the push for gender-inclusive tion,” “mandate” or the double-whammy of York? Cuomo and de Blasio tle more positivity?
language. “amendment” are next on the chopping It just comes down to when it comes to vaccine Paul Sanders
As an ordained Methodist preacher, the block. Cuomo and de Blasio, distribution is especially Manhattan
Missouri Democrat surely knows that “Awoman” certainly suggests that, as Rep.
“amen” is Hebrew for “so be it” and has Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) put it on Twitter, E-MAIL: letters@nypost.com or WRITE to The Editor, The New York Post, 1211 Avenue of the
nothing to do with actual men. But his “Unfortunately, facts are irrelevant to pro- Americas, New York, NY 10036. Include name, address and daytime phone number. No unverifiable
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s new code of con- justifies turning a prayer into a page out of
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Nancy Cancels Mom

people and concepts beyond the

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bounds of legal protection.
No one knows this better than
Democrats. By pressing for these
changes across the country, they
have allowed biological boys into
sports competition with biologi-
House’s Orwellian language games cal girls, peeling back Title IX
protections for women’s sports. If
“mother” is now a useless concept
NE of the first acts of our new biological, emotional, familial real- under House rules, why shouldn’t

O House of Representatives ity. It captures the irreplaceable

might be to cancel Mom. bond between a baby and the
On Sunday, Speaker Nancy woman who bore her in her womb.
Pelosi’s Democratic majority pro- That others can be excellent
posed to eliminate “father, mother, guardians — a fact no one disputes
it pose an equally offensive pres-
ence in federal law?
That’s where we’re headed, isn’t
it? Erasing “mothers,” and
“women,” because the concepts
son, daughter, brother, sister” and — can’t justify extirpating Mom are insufficiently inclusive to gen-
all other language deemed insuffi- from our vocabulary. (For that mat- der ideologues. The rights women
ciently “gender-inclusive” from ter, the political erasure of “dad” is struggled to win become undone,
House rules. They would be also dehumanizing, because it paradoxically, in the name of
replaced with terms like “parent, entails the loss of our capacity to inclusion.

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child, sibling, parent’s sib- describe relationships that The female body loses its signifi-
ling” and so on. define what it means to be cance in language and in law: no

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“Mother” — among the AbigAil fully human.) need for doctors to regard the
most important concepts in Shrier House Democrats don’t healthy breasts of young girls as
human life — would be pretend to seek this anything more than noxious
erased from the lexicon of change merely for the sake lumps. The dystopian threat to in-
the US House of Representatives. of “streamlining” congressional dividuality lies in this: Without
It’s important to recognize how language. The explicit point is to The ‘mother’ of all idiocy: The House speaker has backed a radical change mother and father, we all become
radical this is. And no, it isn’t akin advance “inclusion and diversity” to erase all “non-gender-inclusive” language from her chamber’s rules. atomized and fungible, losing our
to updating federal law to replace and to “honor all gender identi- true individuality.
“policeman” with “police officer,” a ties.” Pelosi & Co. are desperate to “correct or repair the abnormal malities” depending on her subjec- Those pressing for these changes
rational corrective sought by femi- accommodate an aggressive gen- structures of the body caused by tive state of mind — carries the re- do so precisely because they know
nists for generations. der ideology that insists “man” congenital defects.” sult that female patients of all ages there is no more effective means of
There, the terms were changed and “woman” are fuzzy, subjective You read that right: The “con- would suddenly become eligible upending society than by deleting
for the benefit of clarity and accu- categories, rather than biological genital defect” is a young woman’s for insurance coverage for double the women and the natural bonds
racy. “Fireman” became “fire- ones. healthy breasts, provided that mastectomies. A small change in that make society possible. Con-
fighter” to reflect that women Lest you think this a harmless al- young woman subjectively identi- language grants doctors the green gressional Democrats move us, by
could be firefighters under the teration, consider the ways Cali- fies as “nonbinary” or anything light to remove the normal, devel- Orwellian fiat, one step closer to a
law and, in fact, were already fornia’s Democrats have run wild other than “woman.” oping breasts of an 11-year old girl. sterile world with sterile words.
serving as such. However much with Newspeak. As Quillette It matters what we call things in Still just words? We shapeless humans — fungible
fun it is to say “mailman,” we all reported last week, California’s in- the public space: Just ask the By all means, call people what as pennies — are left to await fur-
knew and know female mail carri- surance commissioner has issued female prisoners now housed with they prefer. But language in the ther instruction.
ers. It was silly, archaic and inac- a directive to reclassify double violent biological men in Califor- law, by definition, ushers words Abigail Shrier is author of “Irre-
curate to pretend such jobs could mastectomies of healthy breasts nia if our lawmakers’ words mat- into action. Words grant rights or versible Damage: The Transgender
be filled only by men. from “cosmetic” procedures to ter. This lie — that a girl’s breasts take them away. Words can en- Craze Seducing Our Daughters.”
But “mother” is a fundamental “reconstructive,” necessary to constitute “developmental abnor- hance or diminish status, placing Twitter: @AbigailShrier

Don: Stop Flirting With Historic Infamy

RESIDENT Trump has turned a nar- when contacted by investigators. attempted calls from the White House. has been made to serve worthy ends, e.g.

P row electoral defeat into a bid for in-

famy.
His goal in the post-election
interlude has been more and more explic-
itly to overturn the results; indeed, a cou-
ple of weeks ago he tweeted, simply,
#OVERTURN.
We now know, thanks to a recording of
his phone conversation with Georgia Sec-
retary of State Brad Raffensperger over
the weekend, how far he has gone to pres-
sure state officials to join him in this rep-
rehensible goal. His hour-long lobbying of
Raffensperger to declare him the winner
in the state is among the worst things an
American president has ever been caught
saying on the record.
There is no doubt that Trump lost Geor-
gia. Both machine and hand recounts have
confirmed a Biden lead of fewer than
12,000 votes. Trump has been agitating for
a signature audit, and state officials exam-
ined a statistically significant sample of
15,000 absentee ballot envelopes in Cobb
County. They found 10 mismatched signa-
tures, but the voters in question all vouch-
safed for the legitimacy of the ballots
Georgia has certified its results multiple Still, to his great credit, he did indeed
times and appointed its electors in time to tell Trump “no,” politely and firmly. Of the
meet the “safe-harbor” deadline under two elected officials on the call, only one
federal law, when they are supposed to be was calm, reasonable and cogent — and it
considered final and conclusive by the wasn’t the president.
stoking economic growth and confirming
record numbers of conservative judges as
bragging points.
Since the election, though, this tendency
has been particularly stark and unre-
federal government. Trump was repetitive and ill-informed. deemed. His personal inability to accept
Yet here comes Trump with an LBJ-style He had no idea what charges had been the sting of defeat has led him, shamefully,
bout of arm-twisting to get Raffensperger debunked weeks ago. He didn’t, or couldn’t, to wage war on a legitimate election.
to insist all that a grievous mistake. The distinguish between true and false infor- If he were to somehow succeed in his
power differential between mation. He was fuzzy on the goal of overturning the result, he would
a president of the United details of his own legal case. subvert American democracy and irrepa-
States and a state secretary rich He retailed conspiracy theo- rably harm our governing institutions,
of state is vast — Trump is lowry ries about ballots being while stoking a constitutional crisis of a
the most powerful man on burned and voting machines magnitude we have only experienced
the planet, whereas Raffen- being removed that would rarely in our history.
sperger isn’t even the most powerful man be embarrassing if your uncle shared them And for what? To avoid admitting that
in the Peach State. on Facebook. he lost.
Trump put Raffensperger in the inher- The only thing that mattered to him was Trump has gotten nowhere, except in
ently awkward position of having to tell him getting Raffensperger to pronounce him convincing some Republican senators and
“no” over and over — snowing him with a the winner — legal process and truth be House representatives to indulge his in-
variety of numbers for supposed illegal damned. sistence that he really won. Every time the
votes, making him parry wild accusations, The problem with Trump has always president hoped someone with authority
mocking him and threatening him with been his highly personal view of the presi- over the election would bend his way,
vague legal repercussions and, implicitly, dency, wherein institutions, constitutional whether an elected official or judge, he
with the end of his political career. principles and sheer propriety take a has found someone like Raffensperger:
There is a reason that Raffensperger backseat to the felt needs of his ego. dutiful and conscientious enough to say
didn’t take any of the reported prior 18 At times in his presidency, this failing “no.” Twitter: @RichLowry
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Business
Briefs
Hulu add-ons
ViacomCBS said on
Monday that it inked a
distribution deal with
GooGLe Labor pain
Furious workers form union at Alphabet
Disney’s Hulu to add
Showtime and 13 other
popular channels to the
streaming service. Fi- By NoAh MANskAr Bosses don’t give a rat’s a** about us: workers

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nancial terms of the and NIColAs VEgA
multiyear transaction
weren’t disclosed. More than 200 Google workers
have formed a union that aims to
Fiat-PSA OK press the tech titan to live up to its
Shareholders of Fiat former motto: “Don’t be evil.”
Chrysler and French The Alphabet Workers Union,
car giant PSA voted to named for Google’s parent company,
approve their massive has attracted 226 card-carrying mem-
$52 billion deal to com- bers who are fed up with bosses dis-
bine into a new com- missing their concerns about discrim-
pany called Stellantis. ination, harassment and other work-
The merger would cre- place issues, the group’s leaders say.
ate the world’s fourth- “Each time workers organize to de-
largest automaker. mand change, Alphabet’s executives
make token promises, doing the bare
Red-hot Tesla minimum in the hopes of placating
Tesla’s stock price workers,” Parul Koul and Chewy Shaw,
jumped toward a new Google software engineers who serve
record after the com- as the union’s executive chair and vice
pany nearly reached its chair, wrote in a New York Times
goal of delivering half a op-ed on Monday. “It’s not enough.”
million vehicles in The unionization effort follows The new Alphabet Workers Union
2020. Shares of the elec- years of employee activism at Google, (Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai at
tric-car maker climbed which has drawn fire for failing to ad- right) says the days of executives
3.4 percent, to $729.77. dress internal problems such as sex- “doing the bare minimum in the
ual misconduct and retaliating hopes of placating workers” are
‘iPhold’ due? against workers who speak out. over. Experts say other tech-firm

Reuters
Apple is one step Experts say it could inspire workers staffers could soon organize, too.
closer to making its at other tech firms to follow suit.
long-rumored foldable “It’s a huge shot across the bow not
iPhone a reality. The just to Google, but across Silicon Val- tors” — that makes the organization than a year, certainly hopes to repli- cent Motherboard report revealing that
tech giant has report- ley,” Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives one to watch. cate its success elsewhere. the e-commerce titan hired spies from
edly asked manufac- said. “We’re not talking about a mono- Alphabet’s union “will provide a the fabled Pinkerton agency to monitor
turer Foxconn to create “It could have a massive ripple ef- lithic demographic,” corporate gov- great example for other workers at organization efforts in Europe.
two prototype shells to fect with all the discontent that we’re ernance expert Eleanor Bloxham other companies who might be inter- The National Labor Relations
test potential future seeing out of the employee bases of said. “We’re talking about engineers ested in doing something similar,” Board ruled last month that Google il-
iPhone designs. the who’s who of tech.” joining with less-skilled workers in CWA Communications Director Beth legally monitored and then fired sev-
The Alphabet Workers Union is af- this effort.” Allen told The Post. eral workers who protested its poli-
Dunkin’ item filiated with the Communications Bloxham called the union a “monu- Allen declined to name specific cies and tried to organize a union.
Dunkin’ Brands Workers of America and represents a mental achievement” and said it companies but she said there were “a “Our employees have protected la-
struck a deal with Kel- tiny fraction of the Silicon Valley could give workers at other compa- lot of different organizing happening bor rights that we support,” said Kara
logg to add a plant- company’s roughly 120,000 workers. nies like Facebook and Amazon a in tech and elsewhere right now.” Silverstein, Google’s director of peo-
based breakfast patty But it’s the union leaders’ stated mis- model to follow because they “see But Silicon Valley has a rocky history ple operations. “But as we’ve always
from its MorningStar sion to include Alphabet workers of how it can be done.” with union organizing. Amazon, for ex- done, we’ll continue engaging di-
Farms division to the all stripes — “from bus drivers to pro- CWA, which has been quietly work- ample, has waged an ongoing battle rectly with all our employees.”
coffee chain’s menus at grammers, from salespeople to jani- ing with Google staffers for more against worker unionization, with a re- nmanskar@nypost.com
select restaurants.
Sources: AP, Dow
Jones and Reuters

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Dow takes a dive on first ’21 trading day
By ThorNToN McENEry
The first trading day of
2021 started off with a bang
before falling back to earth as
traders grappled with the
@NYPOSTBIZ hangover effects of 2020.
The Dow Jones Industrial
Average dropped 382.59
points, or 1.3 percent, to
30,223.89 on Monday after
hitting a record high in early
trading. At one point, the
Dow was down more than
700 points.
Monday marked the first
negative start to a year for the
Dow since 2016.
The S&P 500 fell 1.5 per-
cent to 3,700.65, while the
tech-heavy Nasdaq slid 1.5
percent to 12,698.45.
All three indexes dropped
to two-week lows from
record highs reached at the
end of 2020, fueled by the
pandemic monetary stimulus
and the start of vaccine roll-
outs.
“The tape is still subject to
all the same worries as last
year,” said Michael Antonelli,
managing director at Baird.
“Growing COVID cases, soft
economic data, slow rollout of
the vax, stretched valuations.”
Also weighing on stocks
were Tuesday’s Senate races
in Georgia, which will deter-
mine control of the Senate,
President-elect Joe Biden’s
agenda — including a rewrit-
ing of the tax code — and
more stimulus and infrastruc-
ture spending.
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Winter survival
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Cold reality of
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Chilled plates McDonald’s is hoping

Restaurants are still relegated to outdoor 2021 is the year it cracks
dining, and Garry Kanfer, of Japanese chain the crispy-chicken-sand-
Kissaki, said it will be a challenge to entice wich market as it rolls out

outdoor & takeout
By Jennifer Gould
Nobody is happier
to say goodbye to
2020 than the Big
Apple’s restaurant
industry. But 2021
will bring its own set
of challenges, in-
cluding indoor din-
ing areas that remain
off-limits to guests.
Indoor dining at 25 percent ca-
pacity arrived briefly in October
only to be pulled less than three
months later on Dec. 14 when the
state’s positivity rate soared to
5.66 percent.
Now with the city’s COVID-19
positivity rate at 7.07 percent —
the highest since it peaked in April
and May — restaurants have no
idea when they might be able to
diners inside when restrictions do ease up. three versions in the
United States to take on
Chick-fil-A and Popeyes.
The world’s biggest
burger chain confirmed to
ceschini, chef/ Reuters it plans to launch
owner of upscale its crispy-chicken sand-
Bar Italia, on the wich in “classic,” “deluxe”
Upper East Side. and “spicy” versions on
During lockdown, Feb. 24. All will contain a
Franceschini crispy white-meat chicken
launched an im- fillet served with crinkle-
promptu outdoor cut pickles on a toasted,
bar serving cock- buttered potato roll.
tails while custom- The new McDonald’s
ers munched on hot strategy is founded in part
calamari in paper bags as they on the long-term popular-
waited for their takeout orders. ity of Chicken McNuggets,
He’s now built a “villetta” to keep which it has sold since the
people cozy and warm while din- 1980s, and 2020’s limited-
ing outside. time Spicy Chicken
Even if indoor dining reopens McNuggets, which contrib-
again before the pandemic has uted to September US
passed, it may also be a challenge comparative sales that
to woo people back. were the highest in nearly a
“We’re going to have to work decade.
hard to make people feel comfort- “As commonplace as
able to eat inside,” said Garry Kan- chicken is, it’s a growth

resume their main business of
serving people inside again.
“Unfortunately there is no crite-
ria,” said Andrew Rigie, executive
director of the New York City
Hospitality Alliance. “We need it
so people can plan as best as
possible.”
It means restaurateurs are being
forced to fire and furlough staff as
they figure out, yet again, how to
survive on takeout alone. For
some restaurants, outdoor dining
is also an option. But even with
heat lamps and makeshift cover-
ings, demand is expected to be
limited — at least until spring
arrives.
“Our biggest challenge is to sur-
vive the winter, since we only
have outdoor dining and freezing
temperatures,” said Denis Fran-
fer, of the upscale Japanese chain
Kissaki.
Customers may also have to
show proof that they are COVID-
free — perhaps by showing on an
app that they have been vacci-
nated, or tested negative, or else
they could take a rapid test on the
spot.
For chef Guy Vaknin and his
wife Tali, the challenge will be
launching their “most beautiful
restaurant” to a world dominated
by takeout.
“We are opening without any
outdoor space, so we will just be
takeout and delivery,” Vaknin said.
“But we can’t lie under the bed
and wait for the storm to pass.
“It will be my most beautiful res-
taurant, really warm, with wood
and marble,” Vaknin said of the
vegan American bistro-style res-
taurant, Willow, which will open
in Chelsea later this month.
Vaknin is also founder/executive
chef at Beyond Sushi, a vegan
sushi chain that has five New York
City outposts. He had to close two
additional locations during the
pandemic and cut his staff from
125 people to 25 people.
“I miss the buzz that my restau-
rants had. But I believe in New
York. I’m refusing to believe that
www.instagram.com/space.ny
area. You want to partici-
pate in that growth,” said
Mark Kalinowski, an inde-
pendent restaurant equi-
ties analyst.
At least two dozen res-
taurant chains launched
new or improved chicken
sandwiches in 2020 even as
we will be in this situation for- the coronavirus pandemic
ever,” Vaknin said. “As hard as it disrupted supplies, work-
was, 2020 taught me a lot.” ers and operations, trade
Franceschini agreed, noting that publication Nation’s Res-
he has personally delivered take- taurant News said. Reuters
out from his car during this tough
time.
“I wouldn’t keep much of 2020,
but it definitely made me
stronger,” Franceschini said. “I
Mondelez hot
learned to never give up and to
keep reinventing myself.”
jgould@nypost.com
for paleos
Mondelez International is
nearing a deal to buy paleo

Health-care venture dying Airbnb, DoorDash $lip chocolate-bar maker Hu

A health-care venture con-
ceived by Amazon, Berkshire
Hathaway and JPMorgan to at-
tack soaring costs is dissolving.
Haven, which was formed
in 2018 by the three US cor-
porate giants, will cease op-
erations by the end of Febru-
ary, a company spokes-
woman said Monday. She
gave no reason for the disso-
lution of the venture.
The independent company
was created to focus on im-
proving the care delivered to
employees of those busi-
nesses while doing a better
job of managing the expense.
But benefits experts ex-
pected any plans developed
by Haven to become widely
adopted by other companies
if they proved effective in
controlling costs.
News of the venture’s crea-
tion nearly three years ago
sent a brief shudder through
the stocks of health insurers.
But the Boson-based venture
has been largely silent since
naming a high-profile CEO —
Harvard professor, author and
surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande. He
departed last May.
A Haven spokeswoman
said the company started
new designs for health-care
benefits that eliminated pa-
tient out-of-pocket payments
like deductibles and coinsur-
ance and encouraged access
to primary care. AP
Shares of Airbnb and Door-
Dash tumbled Monday after
a slew of brokerages initiated
coverage on the companies
following their recent initial
public offerings.
The IPOs underscored in-
vestor appetite for technol-
ogy firms with both being
app-based, and analysts are
predicting steady growth as
travel restrictions ease and
the global food delivery busi-
ness expands. More than 25
brokerages initiated coverage
Master Holdings, the latest
move to tap into growing de-
on the companies. mand for healthier snacks.
Credit Suisse expects pan- The snack-food giant,
demic-driven changes in be- which took a minority stake
havior to speed up the shift in Hu in 2019, is planning to
away from hotels to alterna- buy the rest in a transaction
tive accommodations and an- that values Hu at around $340
alysts see ample opportunity million, according to people
for Airbnb to increase mone- familiar with the matter. The
tization in the long term. deal could be announced this
Shares of Airbnb fell 5.2 week.
percent to $139.15 on the Nas- Hu makes a popular choco-
daq, while DoorDash’s stock late bar based on the paleo-
declined 2.5 percent to $139.19 lithic diet that is vegan and
on the New York Stock free of soy and refined
Exchange. Wire Services sugar. Dow Jones

Scaramucci
Bitcoin fund.
Mooch’s
‘bit’ of
interest
Anthony Scaramucci’s firm
SkyBridge Capital is the lat-
est traditional-fund manager
to launch a bitcoin-focused
fund after a surge of interest
in cryptocurrencies in 2020.
Scaramucci, who previ-
ously served a short stint as
President Trump’s communi-
cations director, joins Paul
Tudor Jones and Britain’s
Ruffer Investment Manage-
ment in embracing the nas-
cent asset.
SkyBridge, a fund of hedge
funds, on Monday an-
nounced it had started the
Skybridge Bitcoin Fund with
$310 million in assets under
management invested from
its $3 billion flagship fund.
“Imagine every model port-
folio where gold has become
an accepted asset class, every
model portfolio has a 1 per-
cent exposure to bitcoin and
you can see the magnitude of
where bitcoin could be,” Sky-
Bridge managing partner
Scaramucci told Reuters.
Bitcoin continued its
record-smashing rally by
piercing $30,000 for the first
time on Saturday, and surging
above $34,000 on Sunday. It
retreated to around $31,000
on Monday. Reuters
Slack-ing
off at work
Slack suffered an outage
on Monday — prompting
frustration and celebration
among workers who rely on
it.
The workplace chat service
confirmed its network was
down at 10:14 a.m. More than
two hours later, at 1 p.m.,
Slack said some users would
be able to connect but might
still “experience degraded
performance” while staffers
worked to resolve the
issues. Noah Manskar
Icahn sale is
breath of ’life
By ThorTon McEnEry
Carl Icahn has always been
good to Herbalife, even on
his way out the door.
Shares of the nutritional-
supplement seller soared as
high as 6 percent on Mon-
day after the billionaire in-
vestor confirmed that he’s
sold more than half his
stake after eight years as
Herbalife’s reigning share-
holder.
News of a majority share-
holder offloading most of
his shares usually sends a
stock into a tailspin. But
Herbalife ended higher 3.8
percent to $49.89 a share on
Monday after Icahn — who
famously rode to Herba-
life’s rescue in 2013 when it
was being attacked as a pyr-
amid scheme by Bill Ack-
man — said he sold more
than half his stake back to
the company.
“The time for activism
has passed as the Company
Energy boost
Principal shareholder Carl Icahn
gave Herbalife’s stock price a
pleasant jolt when he sold more
than half his stake back to the
nutritional-supplement company.
Herbalife
$50
49
48
47
46
9:30 a.m.
has grown, and I don’t typi-
cally invest billions of dol-
lars in companies where
our role as activist is not
needed,” Icahn said in a
statement.
Had Icahn unloaded
roughly $600 million worth
of his $1 billion Herbalife
stake on the open market, it
would have depressed the
stock, experts said.
“Icahn went from being a
white knight to being an
overhang,” explained Herb-
alife analyst Doug Lane of
Douglas Lane & Associates.
“This is a relief to a lot of
investors.”
Icahn now has a 6 percent
stake in Herbalife, down from
15 percent — marking an-
other chapter in one of Wall
Street’s most epic battles.
Icahn, 84, first invested in
Herbalife as a direct chal-
lenge to Ackman, who had
taken a $1 billion short bet
on the company, which he
claimed was a pyramid
Close
$49.89
+$1.84
Bloomberg
Close
scheme destined to go up in
smoke. The clash led to a
rare on-air verbal spat be-
tween the two billionaires
on CNBC, with Icahn de-
scribing Ackman as the
kind of kid he used to abuse
on the playground.
Under Icahn, Herbalife’s
shares have risen by as
much as 200 percent —
earning the activist inves-
tor more than $1 billion.
Ackman surrendered in
2018, covering his short po-
sition and suffering a near-
fatal loss to his reputation.
Icahn sold $550 million of
Herbalife stock almost im-
mediately, but said as re-
cently as August 2019 that
he and his team “continue
to strongly believe in the
great future of the Com-
pany” while announcing
that he had offloaded an-
other 14 million shares.
The notorious corporate
cage rattler will also sur-
render his five board seats.
CIty &
State
&Media-biz
More
buyout
EXCLUSIVE
By KEiTh J. KElly
A DC-based news agency
for politicians and bureau-
crats has acquired City &
State, a media business
covering New York state
and local politics for
elected officials and gov-
ernment workers.
Terms of the acquisition
by Government Executive
Media Group were not dis-
closed. But the company
behind publications like
Nextgov and DefenseOne
targeted at federal govern-
ment workers plans to ex-
pand City & State, which
targets state legislators,
county executives and mu-
nicipalities, to other mar-
kets outside of New York,
sources said.
City & State staffers were
told of the deal Monday
morning.
“We’ll probably add one
or two markets this year,”
GEMG CEO Tim Hartman
told The Post. “We have
about 100 employees and
City & State has about 30.
By the end of the year, we
expect to be around 150.”
Hartman said markets
under consideration for ex-
pansion include California,
Texas, Florida and New
Jersey.
Private-equity firm
Growth Catalyst Partners,
which financed Govern-
ment Executive Media
Group’s spinoff from At-
lantic Media in March
2020, is financing the ac-
quisition of City & State.
Hartman said GEMG’s
business actually grew 20
percent last year.
“The public sector is
countercyclical,” said Hart-
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man. “In a national crisis,
government becomes more
activated.”
Readership includes
elected officials, govern-
ment administrators, lob-
byists and political opera-
tives.
In addition to a weekly
magazine, City & State
publishes four policy
newsletters and runs an
events business.
As part of the deal, City
& State co-founder Tom
Allon plans to stay on as
publisher and general man-
ager while Steve Farbman,
another co-founder, will
leave the company.
City & State generates an
estimated $5 million a year
in revenue, sources said. It
grew out of monthly news-
papers City Hall news,
founded in 2006, and The
Capitol, which covered Al-
bany. It was combined and
reflagged as a weekly, City
& State, in 2011.
“I’ve been wanting to do
other states for the past
seven years, and now we
have the backing to do it,”
Allon said.
He said the company was
profitable in 2020, al-
though down from 2019
due to COVID-19.
Allon started as a weekly
newspaper editor at the
West Side Spirit, a commu-
nity newspaper covering
the Upper West Side of
Manhattan, where he rose
through the ranks as an ex-
ecutive vice president.
He then went on to co-
found Manhattan Media,
which at one time included
Avenue magazine and
Dan’s Papers before he left
and the new owners ulti-
mately sold off its publica-
tions piecemeal over sev-
eral years.
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Last State Restricted Morgan Silver

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Dollar Bank Rolls go to NY residents

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New York residents get first dibs on last remaining Bank Rolls loaded with U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver
Dollars dating back to the 1800’s some worth up to 100 times their face value for just the $59 minimum set for
state residents - non state residents must pay $118 per coin if any remain after 2-day deadline
STATE DISTRIBUTION: A strict limit of 4 State Restricted Bank Rolls per NY resident has been imposed
NEWYORK - “It’s a miracle these
State Restricted Bank nk Rolls even
exist. That’s why Hotline ne Opera-
tors are bracing for thehe flood
of calls,” said Mary Ellen
Withrow, emeritus 40th 0th
Treasurer of the Unitedd
States of America.
For the next 2 days
the last remaining
State of New York
Restricted Bank
Rolls loaded with
rarely seen U.S. Gov’t
issued Morgan Silver
Dollars are actually be--
ing handed over to New ew
York residents who call
the National Toll-Freee Hot-
lines listed in today’s newspa-
per publication.
“In all my years as the Treasurer
of the United States of America I’ve JACKPOT:
only ever seen a handful of these Imagine finding
rare Morgan Silver Dollars issued the 1892-S
by the U. S. Gov’t back in the 1800’s. Morgan Silver
But to actually find them sealed Dollar shown
above worth
away in State Restricted Bank Rolls thousands of
still in pristine condition is like find- dollars in collectorr
ing buried treasure. So anyone lucky value in one of
enough to get their hands on these these unsearched d
Bank Rolls had better hold on to Bank Rolls.
There are never VALUABLE:
V
VA LUA
them,” Withrow said. any guarantees, It’s like a
“Now that the State of New York but New York treasure hunt
Restricted Bank Rolls are being of- residents who gett - there’s
there no
fered up we won’t be surprised if ese
their hands on these telling what you’ll
thousands of New York residents State Restricted Bank becaus the
find. That’s because
eally
Rolls will be the really dates and mint marks of the th ten
claim the maximum limit allowed lucky ones becauseuse even U S Gov’t issued coins sealed away inside
U.S. i
of 4 Bank Rolls per resident before more common coins are still these State of New York Restricted Bank Rolls
they’re all gone,” Withrow said. worth up to $125 - $1,000 in have never been searched. All we know is some
“That’s because the dates and collector value. of the coins are worth up to 100 times their face value.
mint marks of the U.S. Gov’t is-
sued Morgan Silver Dollars sealed 1800’s and are worth up to 100 times And here’s the best part. If you are U. S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dol-
away inside the State of New York their face value, so there is no telling a resident of the state of New York lars’ worth up to 100 times their face
Restricted Bank Rolls have never what New York residents will find you cover only the $59 per coin state value for just $590 which is a real steal
been searched. But, we do know that until they sort through all the coins,” minimum set by the National Mint because non state residents must pay
all the coins date clear back to the Withrow said. and Treasury, that’s ten rarely seen
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$118 per coin which totals $1,180 if any IMPORTANT: The dates and mint marks of the U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dol-
coins remain after the 2-day deadline. lars sealed away inside the State of New York Restricted Bank Rolls have never been
The only thing New York residents
need to do is call the National Toll- searched. Coin values always fluctuate and they are never any guarantees, but any
Free Hotlines printed in today’s news- of the scarce coins shown below, regardless of their value that residents may find
paper publication before the 2-day or- inside the sealed Bank Rolls are theirs to keep.
der deadline ends.
“Rarely seen U.S. Gov’t issued
ued coins
like these are highly sought after,
aftter, but
we’ve never seen anything likee this
t
before. According to The Of- Off-
f
ficial Red Book, a Guide Book ok
of United States Coins manyy
Morgan Silver Dollars mintedd
in the 1800’s are now worth

$125 - $1,000 each in collector
value,” Withrow said.
“So just imagine how muchh
these last remaining, un--
searched State of New York Re- R
stricted Bank Rolls could be worthw
someday. Remember, these are re not or- r
dinary coins – these rarely seen
ee coi coinss
are over 100 years old. In fact, these
coins have been forever retired by
the U.S. Gov’t, and you can’t get them
rolled this way anywhere because
these are the only State Restricted
Bank Rolls known to exist,” Withrow
said.
“We’re guessing thousands of New
York residents will be taking the
maximum limit of 4 Bank Rolls be-
cause they make such amazing gifts
for any occasion for children, parents,
grandparents, friends and loved ones,”
Withrow said.
“We know the phones will be ring-
ing off the hook. That’s why hundreds
of Hotline Operators are standing by
to answer the phones beginning at
8:30am this morning.We’re going to do
our best, but with just 2 days to answer
all the calls it won’t be easy. So make
sure to tell everyone to keep calling if
all lines are busy. We’ll do our best to
answer them all,” Withrow said.
“That’s why the National Mint and
Treasury set up the National Toll-Free
Hotlines in order to make sure New
York residents get the State Restrict-
ed Bank Rolls before they’re all gone,”
Withrow said.
The only thing readers of today’s
newspaper publication need to do is
make sure they are a resident of the
state of New York and call the National
Toll-Free Hotlines before the 2-day
deadline ends midnight tomorrow. Q
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1886-S
Mint: San Francisco Mint: San Francisco Mint: San Francisco Mint: Philadelphia
Mintage: 750,000 Mintage: 657,000 Mintage: 500,000 Mintage: 330,000
Collector Value: $78 Collector Value: $125 Collector Value: $70 Collector Value: $175
$350 $315 $850 $1,260
NEW YORK RESIDENTS: COVER JUST $59 MINIMUM PER COIN
BEGIN CALLING AT 8:30 AM: 1-800-868-0189 EXT. RMR162
if you are a resident of the state of New York call now to claim the state
limit of 4 state of New York restricted bank rolls. all New York residents
who beat the 2-day deadline are getting the only full ten coin bank rolls
loaded with rarely seen u.s. gov’t issued morgan silver dollars dating back
to the 1800’s worth up to 100 times their face value known to exist. The only
thing New York residents cover is just the $59 per coin state minimum set
by the National Mint and Treasury, that’s ten rarely seen u.s. gov’t issued
morgan silver dollars worth up to 100 times their face value for just $590
and that’s a real steal because non-New York residents must pay $1,180
for each state of New York restricted bank roll. just be sure to call the
national toll free hotlines before the deadline ends two days from today’s
publication date.
NON STATE RESIDENTS: MUST PAY $118 PER COIN - IF ANY REMAIN
DO NOT CALL BEFORE 5:00 PM TOMORROW: 1-800-868-0573 RMR162
if you are a resident living outside of the state of New York you are
required to pay $118 for each morgan silver dollar for a total of $1,180
plus shipping and handling for each state of New York restricted bank
roll loaded with ten u.s. gov’t issued morgan silver dollars.
NATIONAL MINT AND TREASURY, LLC IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE U.S. MINT, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, A BANK OR ANY GOVERNMENT
AGENCY. IF FOR ANY REASON WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM SHIPMENT YOU ARE DISSATISFIED, RETURN THE PRODUCT FOR A REFUND
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Across
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horizontally, vertically, diagonally, even backward. Find them 17 *Football score
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leftover letters spell the Wonderword. 20 Barge movers
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Unlucky Louie has a houseful of 29 Palm starch
growing kids plus a wife, and his 31 Sausage on a grill
33 We, to Henri
expenses for clothing are substantial. 35 Deli counter cry
“We shop at thrift stores,” Louie 37 Got to one’s feet
40 Spout, as oil
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“The points of no returns,” Cy the 43 Nashville venue
Cynic chuckled. 44 Yarn coil
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Louie was declarer at today’s 3NT, 47 Wall St. events for young com-
and West led a low spade. Dummy panies
48 Monterrey years
played low, and East took the queen 50 “God” prefix
and returned a spade to the ace. Louie 52 Brian of rock 10 Prefix with sphere
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then led the ace and a second club, but tended applause
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59 Smooch that misses everything 13 Until now
spades and his fifth spade. Down one. 18 Simple shelters
61 Movie-rating org.
Louie reached a point of no return 62 Unarmed, to a cop 22 Women’s __
early: at Trick One. 63 Night driving need, and what 23 Barbecue pair
can go with the starts of the 24 Aime of “8 1/2”
Assuming he plays the clubs for no 25 *Confinement that might in-
answers to starred clues
more than one loser, his game is at 68 Proverbial waste maker volve an ankle monitor
69 Puzzle guy Rubik 26 *Right-angled flying toy
risk only if West has five spades. But if 30 Mechanical part
70 Pâté de __ gras
West held K-Q-J-4-2, he would have led 71 First name in perfumery 32 Yours, to Yvonne
the king, so East will have at least one 72 Tolled 34 Area below the knee
73 Business envelope abbr. 36 Computer repair person
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unblocking the queen. When West 2 Place to go in London?
3 Big Aussie bird 45 Candidate 61 Public education advocate Ho-
gets in with the king of clubs later, the 4 Desert landscape features 49 “Help!”-ful soap pad brand race
spades are blocked. Whether he takes 5 Arcturus, for one 51 October gem 64 Period often named for a presi-
6 Greek Cupid 53 Papier-__ dent
his K-J or leads low to East’s queen, 7 “Batman” sound effect 54 Biting desert lizards 65 Received
Louie makes an overtrick. 8 Underwater detector 56 Aisle escort 66 Two-bagger, for one
9 Apple pie prep tools 58 Israeli seaport 67 Half a score ... or a perfect
60 Evangeline Lilly’s “Lost” role score
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NOTICES MERCHANDISE

LEGAL NOTICES FORECLOSURE NOTICES MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

A LD A M , LL Notice is hereby given that a Notice is hereby given that a R NO C O SAL O

th ,L LA D , license, serial # 133311 , for an license, serial #1333125, for an On- COO RA A AR N
el or A LD a On-premises liquor license, has premises liquor license, has been
been applied for by Cajun applied for by Cajun Seafood HB BY R O
Absolute Auctions & Realty, nc -- ill Sell nder the N Y Self Storage Seafood arkchester LLC dba LLC dba Hook & Reel Cajun A L in a certain proprietary
Lien Law On 1 20 2021 11 00 00 A & On Such Succeeding ays As ay Hook & Reel Cajun Seafood And Seafood And Bar to sell beer, lease e ecuted by YL R O RS
be Necessary, or Bargold Storage Systems, LLC At 41-41 3 th Street, Bar to sell beer, wine, liquor at wine, liquor at retail in a O N RS COR , the Cooperative
Long sland City, NY retail in a Restaurant under the Restaurant under the Alcohol Corporation as lessor and
11101 Alcohol Beverage Control Law at Beverage Control Law at 133-40 LL A HAR RA S, as lessees
ersonal roperty belonging to 5 etropolitan Oval, Bron , NY 79th Street, Howard Beach, NY for the Cooperative nit 1
Ronald Stagno #0 -A17-03 osefa Avila #0 -A22-01 Adrian illis 104 2 or on premises 11414 or on premises located at 170-0 th Avenue,
#071-C 9-01 eborah Rutledge #090-A0 -01 li abeth ohnson #090- consumption consumption ueens, New York 11432 the
33-01 Connie ackson #224-A13-05 ichael Schurr #22 -A0 -05 sidro Apartment , the Cooperative
Nune -Brito #242-A03-04 wendolyn Carter #349-B22-01 S ymon Corporation, by William
Lewkowic #373-A44-03 inifred Black- ack #52 07-01 edro L Mannion, Licensed Auctioneer,
Laureiro #542-A04-01 Rowena ellosa #5 9-A01-0 Linda ashington FORECLOSURE NOTICES CA #79 322 or Matthew D.
# 04-B03-01 Yolanda scobar # 73-C19-02 Yolanda scobar # 73-C24- Mannion, Licensed Auctioneer,
01 Angelo Buford # 7-S12-01 Brenda arks # 97 01-01 ark CA # 1434494 will sell the 3

ames #709-A05-01 homas Ridley #734-A12-03 uan B olanco #797-
A07-01 risty orres # 12-A03-01 Claudio anieli # 24-A19-01 Barbara
Boyd # 59-A05-01
Stuart L edow Auctioneer CA - CA #0 21057
L N HOL R R S R S H R H O B A A C ON, R C ANY
AN ALL B S AN CANC L OR A O RN H SAL
t is the policy of elham arkway
Nursing Care & Rehabilitation a-
cility, LLC to admit and to treat all
residents without regard to race,
creed, color, national origin,
handicap, se , age, marital status,
se ual preference, source of pay-
ment, genetic predisposition, or
carrier status or any other protect-
ed classifications under local,
state, and federal laws he same
requirements apply for admission
to all Residents are assigned with-
in the facility without regard to
race, creed, color, national origin,
handicap, se , age, marital status,
se ual preference, source of pay-
ment, genetic predisposition, or
carrier status or any other protect-
ed classifications under local,
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Notice is hereby given that a
license, number 1331259 for
restaurant wine has been applied
for by the undersigned to sell
beer, and or wine at retail in a
restaurant under the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Law at 212 ast
52nd Street, Basement, New York,
NY 10022 for on-premises
consumption
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YR BY LLC Art Of Org iled Sec
of State of NY 14 2020 Off Loc
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Corporation Agents, nc
designated as agent upon whom
process may be served & shall
mail proc 7014 13th Avenue,
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NO C O SAL
O COO RA A AR N O COO RA
BY R O
A L in a certain proprietary
lease e ecuted by 1 0 OC AN
AR AY O N RS COR , the
Cooperative Corporation as
lessor and HAROL O N, as
lessees for the Cooperative nit
7 located at 1 0 Ocean
arkway, Brooklyn, New York
11230 the Apartment , the
Cooperative Corporation, by
William Mannion, Licensed
Auctioneer, CA #79 322 or
Matthew D. Mannion, Licensed
Auctioneer, CA #1434494 will
sell the 257 Shares allocated to
said Apartment at a public auction
on the 20th day of anuary, 2021
at 11 00 A A H RON S S
of the office of Hagan, Coury &
Associates located at 90 ourth
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
11232 he foreclosure auction
procedures and all attendees shall
comply with CS Covid-19 related
protocols addressing social
distancing, wearing of masks and,
if indoors, screening of attendees
his sale is subject to
all persons in possession of the
unit including any tenants or sub-
tenants, to the terms of the
roprietary Lease, the by-laws,
offering plan and any
amendments thereto and to any
other rules and regulations of the
Cooperative Corporation A down
payment, payable by certified or
bank check drawn on a member
bank of the New York Clearing
House and payable to the order of
Hagan, Coury & Associates, as
NO C O SAL
A AR N Apartment at a public auction on
BY R O
A L in a certain proprietary
lease e ecuted by 141- 0 4 H
ROA R AL Y COR , the
Cooperative Corporation as
lessor and Y N HAO HO , as
lessees for the Cooperative nit
1 located at 141- 0 4th Road,
amaica, New York 11435 the
Apartment , the Cooperative
Corporation, by William
Mannion, Licensed Auctioneer,
CA #79 322 or Matthew D.
Mannion, Licensed Auctioneer,
CA #1434494 will sell the 5
Shares allocated to said
Apartment at a public auction on
the 20th day of anuary, 2021 at
10 30 A A H RON S S of
the office of Hagan, Coury &
Associates located at 90 ourth
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
11232 he foreclosure auction
procedures and all attendees shall
comply with CS Covid-19 related
protocols addressing social
distancing, wearing of masks and,
if indoors, screening of attendees
his sale is subject to
all persons in possession of the
unit including any tenants or sub-
tenants, to the terms of the
roprietary Lease, the by-laws,
offering plan and any
amendments thereto and to any
other rules and regulations of the
Cooperative Corporation A down
payment, payable by certified or
bank check drawn on a member
bank of the New York Clearing
House and payable to the order of
Shares allocated to said
the 20th day of anuary, 2021 at
10 00 A A H RON S S of
the office of Hagan, Coury &
Associates located at 90 ourth
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
11232 he foreclosure auction
procedures and all attendees shall
comply with CS Covid-19 related
protocols addressing social
distancing, wearing of masks and,
if indoors, screening of attendees
his sale is subject to
all persons in possession of the
unit including any tenants or sub-
tenants, to the terms of the
roprietary Lease, the by-laws,
offering plan and any
amendments thereto and to any
other rules and regulations of the
Cooperative Corporation A down
payment, payable by certified or
bank check drawn on a member
bank of the New York Clearing
House and payable to the order of
Hagan, Coury & Associates, as
Attorneys of at least en ercent
10 of the purchase price is
required with the successful bid at
the time and place of sale Cash
will not be accepted Any
successful bidder will require
board approval from the
Cooperative Corporation he
board of the Cooperative
Corporation will not approve
investors he balance of the
purchase price, and any additional
payments required hereunder,
shall be payable within 30 days of
the auction he appro imate
amount of the lien is 14 ,000 00
as of ecember 1, 2020
debtor is entitled to an
he
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Attorneys of at least en ercent
accounting of the unpaid PROFESSIONAL
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10 of the purchase price is
required with the successful bid at 10 of the purchase price is
required with the successful bid at
indebtedness provided the debtor
provides a 150 00 accounting nvestment Senior Scientist for
the time and place of sale Cash fee his Notice of Sale is subject eerfield anagement Company
OPPORTUNITIES Mon @Work: Friday 2:30PM will not be accepted Any the time and place of sale Cash
will not be accepted Any
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successful bidder will require illiam R Hargraves v yler tech assessments of drug discovery
Tuesday: Monday 2:30PM board approval from the successful bidder will require owers Owners Corp et al, eerfield anagement Company
proposals to help determine target
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board of the Cooperative
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eration & reporting of quantitative novelty & disease relevance, data
availability, & feasibility of dvlpmnt
Thursday: Wednesday 2:30PM board of the Cooperative research Reqs 5 yrs of e p in the
SERVICES Corporation will not approve
investors he balance of the Corporation will not approve
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ASS N HO
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offered role, as a sr researcher or rel plan Supervise 3 Scientists ust
possess a aster of Sci deg or
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purchase price, and any additional R N CONS N O H initiation, operation & reporting of foreign equiv in Bio, Biomed Scis,
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shall be payable within 30 days of payments required hereunder,
shall be payable within 30 days of
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initiating & directing background re- 5 yrs of e p in the offered role, or rel
position ust have e p performing
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SERVICES amount of the lien is 14,000 00 as amount of the lien is 15,000 00 as
ASS N HO H R OR populations determining the scientific & tech assessments of drug
discovery proposals creating tech &
of November 1 , 2020 he R N CONS N O H honoraria for survey respondents
of November 1 , 2020 he
PAYMENTS debtor is entitled to an debtor is entitled to an
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provides a 150 00 accounting
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for companies, diseases, & tech of
fee H S CC SS L B AY B R S NO A BONA ming monitoring the survey closure
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Chargers THE ROAD TO THE SUPER BOWL
Parx Racing Entries
Post time: 12:35 p.m.
FIRST-5 1/2 fur; $21,000; waiver md cl; 4up
AP Top 25
The top 25 teams in The Associated
Press' college basketball poll, with first-

fire Lynn; Wild-card Divisional AFC NFC Divisional Wild-card PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds place votes in parentheses, records
nypost.com

round round Champ. Champ. round round 1 BucksAreMvngL127 MSnch x-x-x 7-2 through Jan. 3, total points based on 25
2 GhostFighter(L),124 RRosad 4-5-3 3-1 points for a first-place vote through one
4. Titans 4. Washington 3 ChubOnDaRunL124 ERivera 3-2-4 4-1 point for a 25th-place vote and previous

Jags drop (11-5)

Sunday
1:05 p.m.
Lowest
remaining seed

Jan. 16 or 17
Lowest
remaining seed

Jan. 16 or 17
(7-9)

Saturday
8:15 p.m.
4 Star Luck(L),124 ABwmn 5-3-7
5 MacleansLgcyL124 JRdrgz 5-4-10 9-2
6 Greenback(L),124 RSilver 8-6-5
SECOND-1 1/16 mile; $18,000; cl($7,500);
6-1

5-1
ranking

1. Gonzaga (63)
2. Baylor (1)
Rec Pts Pv
10-0 1,599 1
9-0 1,537 2

Marrone ESPN/ABC NBC 4up(f&m)

PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 3. Villanova 8-1 1,453 4
New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021

5. Ravens 5. Buccaneers 1 NotintheMood(L114 JOcasio 3-4-8 15-1 4. Texas 8-1 1,415 8

(11-5) (11-5) 2 Mija Bella(L),121 JLaprid 6-7-5 9-2 5. Iowa 9-2 1,298 10
1. Chiefs 1. Packers 3 DrivenbySpeedL121 ERivera 7-8-8 20-1 6. Kansas 8-2 1,224 3
By Peter Botte (14-2) (13-3) 4 Two Carat(L),121 RSilver 2-4-4 5-2 7. Creighton 8-2 1,140 11
3. Steelers Jan. 24, Jan. 24, 3.Seahawks 5 Florencia(L),121 JRdrgz 4-1-6 7-2 8. Wisconsin 9-2 1,085 6
6 NevisianSunstL121 LOcasi 1-6-2 4-1
After the Jets fired Adam (12-4) 6:40 p.m. 3:05 p.m. (12-4)
7 PartyintheSndL121 MSnch 7-5-10 15-1
9. Tennessee 7-1 1,076 7
Sunday CBS FOX Saturday 10. Michigan 9-0 1,039 16
Gase on Sunday night, the 8:15 p.m. 4:40 p.m.
8 Hay Buck(L),121 FPnngt 5-4-6 8-1
11. Houston 8-1 977 5
THIRD-7 fur; $17,000; md cl($10,000); 4up
Chargers and Jaguars parted NBC FOX 12. Illinois 8-3 878 15
PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 13. Missouri 7-1 747 12
ways with their head coaches 6. Browns 6. Rams 1 Field Officer(L),117 JOcasio 4-6-3 6-1 14. West Virginia 8-3 706 9
on Monday. (11-5) (10-6) 2 Shiloh Lane(L),124 HCabllr 2-6-5 8-1
15. Rutgers 7-2 703 14
Four straight wins to end Jan. 16 or 17 Jan. 16 or 17 3 Fray(L),124 JLaprid 6-9-3 7-2
16. Minnesota 10-2 559 21
4 TheBeastandI(L124 AAdorn 9-12-5 12-1
the season wasn’t enough to 2. Bills 2. Saints 5 MarnesiOnStpL124 DCastill 6-6-7 20-1 17. Oregon 8-1 545 21
(13-3) (12-4)
save Anthony Lynn’s job in Super Bowl LV 6 Uncle Manny(L),124 MSnch 1-5-5 99-1 18. Texas Tech 8-3 445 13
Saturday Sunday 7 GrayLittleMdwL124 DHdck 4-4-7 8-1 19. Clemson 8-1 411 -
Los Angeles, while Doug 1:05 p.m. Raymond James Stadium 4:40 p.m. 8 MarkofthemkrL124 ERivera 2-4-6 2-1 19. Virginia Tech 8-1 411 24
Marrone won’t get the chance CBS Tampa, Fla. CBS/Nickelodeon 9 Call Fitzroy(L),124 JRdrgz 5-4-4 5-1 21. Duke 3-2 280 20
to work with Trevor Law- 7. Colts Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m., CBS 7. Bears FOURTH-6 fur; $15,000; cl($5,000); 22. Virginia 5-2 258 23
rence next season in Jackson- 4up(f&m) 23. Saint Louis 7-1 133 -
(11-5) (8-8)
PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 23. Michigan State 7-3 133 17
ville. 1 Baaqeya(L),121 ACastill 3-8-3 9-2 25. Florida State 5-2 120 18
The Chargers fired Lynn 2 Mrs. Crews(L),121 SGnzlz 11-9-3 20-1 Others receiving votes: Florida 110,
after missing the playoffs for 3 TrappeMeLatrL124 ERivera 1-6-10 5-1 Louisville 103, Ohio State 96,

Barzal skips Day 1

4 CongrssnlstrmL121 DHdck 7-6-6 20-1
a second straight year with a 5 ChevytotheLvyL121 LRivera 5-2-2 6-1
7-9 record. 6 WomanFlyer(L),121 JGonzlz 5-7-6 20-1
7 HerDivineness(L121 JLaprid 5-6-2 7-2
“I’m not sure there is an- 8 To the Flag(L),121 JBisono 5-7-12 4-1
other person in this league FIFTH-5 1/2 fur; $17,000; md cl($10,000); 3yo
more respected as a human PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds
being than Anthony, and I 1 Voy a Ti(L),121 LOcasi 7-8-8 10-1
Northwestern 86, Oklahoma State 68,
Arizona 25, Colorado 19, Brigham Young
18, Drake 17, North Carolina State 16,
Oklahoma 15, Arkansas 14, Seton Hall 11,
UCLA 6, Xavier 5, San Diego State 4,
Connecticut 4, LSU 3, Boise State 3,
Indiana 2, Alabama 2, Syracuse 1.

want to sincerely express my
deepest gratitude for his
leadership during a time of
great change for our organi-
zation,” Chargers owner
Dean Spanos said in a state-
ment. “As we all know, this is
a results-driven business
and, simply put, the results of
the past two years have fallen
short of expectations.”
Lynn, who went 33-31 in
four seasons with the Char-
gers, became the head coach
in 2017 when the team relo-
cated from San Diego. After
going 9-7 in his first season,
the 52-year-old Lynn led the
Chargers to a 12-4 mark in
2018 and defeated the Ravens
in the wild-card round before
losing to the Patriots. The
Chargers took a big step back
in 2019 by going 5-11.
The Jaguars fired Marrone,
their head coach of four-plus
years, one day after they com-
pleted a 1-15 season that will
land them the first-overall
pick in the 2021 draft.
The sexiest name already
linked to Jacksonville is
former Florida and Ohio
State coach Urban Meyer,
who reportedly has already
told people close to him that
he’s in line to get the job, ac-
cording to NFL Network’s
Ian Rapoport.
The 56-year-old Marrone
posted a 23-43 record since
taking over in Jacksonville
after Week 14 during the 2016
season, including a loss in the
AFC Championship game to
New England following a
10-6 regular season in 2017.
GM Dave Caldwell also was
fired by the Jaguars in No-
vember.
of training camp
By Mollie Walker
The Islanders’ first on-
ice session of training
camp came and went
Monday and there was
still no sign of Mathew
Barzal.
With a 10-day camp and
no preseason games
ahead of the 2020-21 sea-
son, the No. 1 center’s
continued absence amid
his ongoing contract ne-
gotiations isn’t ideal. And
although head coach
Barry Trotz and the rest
of his teammates have
made it clear they aren’t
concerned, Barzal isn’t
doing the team any favors
by staying off the ice.
Discussions between
Barzal’s camp and presi-
dent Lou Lamoriello have
reportedly been consist-
ent for weeks now. The
flat salary cap indicates
that a shorter deal (2-3
years) is the most logical
route to take, but the sal-
ary may be the sticking
point.
The Islanders are cur-
rently $3.9 million below
the salary cap, not includ-
ing the extra $6 million of
space they’ll receive from
placing Johnny Boychuk
on long-term injured re-
serve with an eye injury.
With that, the Islanders
should be able to sign Bar-
ISLANDERS
NOTES
zal and make official the
signings of Matt Martin,
Andy Greene, Cory
Schneider and restricted
free agent Dmytro Tima-
shov — whose rights were
acquired from the Red
Wings in December.
Timashov, who was
drafted by the Maple
Leafs in 2015 shortly be-
fore Lamoriello took over
as general manager, is an
unsigned RFA like Barzal
— but he was on the ice
Monday.
➤ Cal Clutterbuck is
coming off of two major
injuries in the past two
seasons, and one is still
lingering.
The fourth-line staple
had back surgery to fix a
stress fracture, two ro-
tated vertebrae and two
slipped discs in the off-
season heading into the
last season. He then had
his wrist sliced by a skate
in December 2019, which
also required surgery.
Although he claimed it
wasn’t a big deal, Clutter-
buck said Monday that he
still has issues with his
hand. There’s numbness
in three of his fingers, as a
result of the clean cut to
his median nerve, and it
could be permanent dam-
age.
“It’s kind of normal now
I have full function, I have
strength,” he said. “It’s re-
ally not that big a deal. I
feel good, I felt good last
year too. The injury was
unlucky and the back in-
jury was not as difficult to
overcome as I thought it
was going to be and so I
feel pretty good.”
➤ The experience level
of the Islanders’ defensive
core took a hit when
Devon Toews was traded
to Colorado and Boychuk
was forced to unofficially
retire, but Trotz already
has an idea who his top
six defensive pairings will
be.
It’ll likely be Nick Led-
dy-Scott Mayfield,
Adam Pelech-Ryan Pu-
lock and Andy Greene-
Noah Dobson to start the
season. Sebastian Aho,
Grant Hutton, Samuel
Bolduc, Parker Wother-
spoon and Bode Wilde
will battle for the remain-
ing spots.
Trotz also said that
Thomas Hickey, who
hasn’t played an NHL
game since the 2018-19
season, is in the mix as
well.
2 Clickclickclick(L121 AAdorn 7-6-x 5-1
3 Harry El Gallero,121 G Milan 9-9-x 10-1
4 Oracabessa(L),114 JOcasio 9-6-x 10-1 College Hoops
5 HollywoodJet(M114 LFlrsJr 3-x-x 3-1
6 Iron Lad(L),121 SGnzlz 2-4-5 8-5 East
7 Junglist(L),121 ABwmn x-x-x 10-1 Boston U. 83, Holy Cross 76
SIXTH-7 fur; $16,000; cl($7,500); 4up Siena 76, Monmouth (NJ) 62
PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds South
1 aThousndPrcntL121 ARdrgz 2-6-5 7-2 Campbell 70, Gardner-Webb 61
2 Borsa Vento(L),121 JLaprid 3-1-7
3 Fifty(L),121 G Milan 8-5-6
4 AsphaltPaving(L114 JOcasio 9-5-4
9-2
8-1
6-1
Coppin St. 86, Delaware St. 78
Radford 79, Hampton 66
5 TheyShotSnnyL121 RSilver 4-5-5
6 Credit Cycle(L),121 MSnch 5-5-4
5-1
3-1
SC-Upstate 71, Longwood 69
Winthrop 85, Charleston Southern 69
7 Drosselmagic(L)121 JBisono 9-8-9 12-1 Midwest
8 aContyCrrctnsL121 JRdrgz 8-6-1 7-2 Drake 86, S. Illinois 55
9 WatchYorWrdsL121 DHdck 2-2-3 4-1
10 Get the W(L),121 ASalgd 7-4-8 12-1
Indiana 63, Maryland 55
a-Coupled
S. Dakota St. 93, Mount Marty 50
SEVENTH-1 mile; $27,000; starters allow; Southwest
West Virginia 87, Oklahoma St. 84
4up(f&m)
PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds Far West
Fresno St. 81, Wyoming 61
1 BambooGardnL121 JLaprid 2-4-2 12-1
2 Mabel Island(L),121 RRosad 1-3-1 2-1 Montana 56, N. Colorado 54
3 Bella G(L),121 MSnch 1-4-4 12-1 Stanford 81, Oregon St. 71
4 JudiBlueEyes(L),121 JTorres 6-1-3 5-1
5 AlwaysaQueenL121 ERivera 6-2-7 7-2
6 Sugar Streak(L),121 ASalgd 3-8-5 12-1
Soccer
7 Like a Pro(L),121 FPnngt 5-6-3 12-1
8 DillyDillyPhilly(L121 ARdrgz 3-3-2 4-1 English Premier League
EIGHTH-1 1/8 mile; $22,000; starters allow; Southampton 1, Liverpool 0
4up English League One
PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds Fleetwood Town vs. Ipswich Town, ppd.
1 SolarWarming(L121 FPnngt 3-1-1 9-2
Greek Super League
2 CastleCasanovL121 LOcasi 1-3-3 8-1
3 Terry'sCharm(L121 RSilver 4-2-1 3-1 Volos NFC 1, Atromitos 0
4 The Robert(L),121 MSnch 5-1-6 5-1 Lamia 2, Aris 0
5 PetulantDelghtL124 DHdck 1-1-6 6-1
6 SeatofHonor(L),121 ACastill 3-2-1 8-1
Israeli Premier League
Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1, Maccabi Petah-Tikva 0
7 Nileator(L),121 AAdorn 8-2-3 4-1
Portuguses Liga
8 PromiseIllgetyL121 JGonzlz 10-4-10 20-1
9 Woodbury(L),121 ERivera 4-1-2 8-1 Portimonense 2, SC Farense 0
NINTH-1 mile; $36,000; allow op cl; 4up Santa Clara 1, Benfica 1
PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds Gil Vicente 0, Belenenses 0
1 LateBrkngNwsL121 NMngl 6-1-3 9-2 Spanish Primera Division
2 Ruby Bleu(L),121 JRdrgz 9-3-6 8-1 Valencia 1, Cadiz 1
3 Admiral Abe(L),121 SGnzlz 2-4-1 5-1
4 SplicethmnbrcL121 ERivera 5-4-5 10-1
Turkish Super Liga
5 Irish Cork(L),121 ARdrgz 3-1-1 3-1 Fenerbahce 3, Kasimpasa 0
6 JumpforAlex(L),121 MSnch 4-1-6 4-1
7 DreamsUntold(L121 FPnngt 7-1-5 7-2
TENTH-6 fur; $18,000; cl($7,500); 4up NASCAR
PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds
NASCAR Cup Series Laps Led Leaders
1 CauseISaidSo(L114 JOcasio 7-4-1 5-1
Through Sunday
2 No Fly Zone(L),121 RSilver 12-4-2 9-2
3 AdmiralEastwdL121 AAdorn 2-2-3 7-2 1. Kevin Harvick, 1531.
4 OfficerMatute(L121 JLaprid 12-4-7 20-1 2. Chase Elliott, 1247.
5 Refi(L),121 MSnch 6-8-1 10-1 3. Denny Hamlin, 1083.
6 Just Enough(L),121 JRdrgz 6-9-1 20-1 4. Brad Keselowski, 952.
7 Lawyer Roy(L),121 RRosad 3-10-12 15-1 5. Martin Truex Jr, 950.
8 GameChanger(L121 ACastill 11-8-6 20-1
6. Joey Logano, 939.
9 TheDustman(L),114 LFlrsJr 5-2-1 5-2
10 Rising Storm(L),121 ASalgd 2-5-3 15-1 7. Ryan Blaney, 668.
11 TaylorsinitiatinL121 JGonzlz 5-3-4 8-1 8. Kyle Busch, 516.
12 Grays theBar(L),121 ERivera 6-2-1 8-1 9. Alex Bowman, 440.
13 Little Vinnie(L),121 SGnzlz 7-7-7 15-1 10. Aric Almirola, 305.
NBA Standings Knicks 113, Hawks 108 Magic 103, Cavaliers 83 Celtics 126, Raptors 114 Bucks 125, Pistons 115 Pacers 118, Pelicans 116, OT 31
Knicks Cleveland Boston Detroit Indiana
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
Atlantic W L Pct. GB Dotson 29:09 6-10 1-2 1-1 2 2 16 Tatum 31:40 11-19 13-13 0-6 2 5 40 Bey 30:51 3-8 2-2 0-3 0 2 9 A.Holiday 19:35 1-5 0-0 0-2 0 2 3

New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Bullock 25:50 3-6 1-2 0-3 3 1 7 Nance Jr. 34:10 2-6 0-0 0-3 3 0 4 Thompson 20:08 0-1 0-2 1-7 0 2 0
Philadelphia 6 1 .857 — Theis 13:43 1-1 0-2 1-3 0 1 2 Grant 34:11 10-25 0-0 0-4 3 2 24 Sabonis 35:02 9-16 0-0 1-11 7 6 19
Randle 43:10 11-19 6-8 4-17 9 2 28 Drummond 32:13 5-15 0-2 5-14 4 1 10
Brown 33:55 7-16 4-4 0-5 3 2 19 Plumlee 19:59 2-7 0-0 4-8 6 1 4
Boston 5 3 .625 1½ Robinson 28:17 4-7 0-0 4-7 0 3 8 Exum 0:49 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Turner 22:35 7-11 1-2 0-2 0 6 17
Waters 24:17 1-8 2-2 1-2 5 4 5 Ellington 24:50 5-7 0-0 0-4 2 1 13
Barrett 43:45 10-19 5-7 1-11 5 2 26 Sexton 38:51 10-19 2-2 1-2 2 5 24 Brogdon 45:45 8-18 1-2 0-7 11 1 21
KNICKS 4 3 .571 2 Osman 38:27 6-14 2-2 1-7 7 3 18 Pritchard 32:21 8-13 5-5 0-2 8 2 23 Hayes 13:24 3-7 0-0 0-0 1 1 7
Payton 28:30 6-18 2-2 2-3 5 3 14 Ojeleye 29:49 4-9 1-2 1-8 1 3 12 Oladipo 35:58 8-17 4-6 0-5 6 1 25
Maker 17:38 1-2 1-2 2-5 1 1 3 Mykhailiuk 29:35 3-6 4-4 1-3 4 0 13
NETS 3 4 .429 3 Rivers 33:24 3-6 0-0 0-2 1 4 8 Stevens 14:46 2-8 1-2 0-0 0 1 6 Williams 23:56 5-9 1-1 2-6 0 5 14 Rose 24:38 9-18 4-4 0-2 8 1 24 J.Holiday 44:56 3-9 0-0 3-7 5 5 9
Quickley 18:47 4-7 6-6 0-2 1 2 16 Wade 14:42 0-4 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Williams III 19:40 4-5 3-3 6-15 0 1 11 Doumbouya 22:41 3-12 2-2 0-2 1 3 10 McDermott 28:39 4-9 0-0 1-3 1 3 11
Toronto 1 5 .167 4½ Nesmith 10:28 0-3 0-0 0-2 0 4 0 McConnell 23:31 3-5 0-0 0-4 2 1 6
Knox II 18:14 2-3 0-0 0-0 2 4 6 McGee 13:34 1-7 0-0 0-2 1 1 2 Stewart 21:11 2-3 0-0 0-2 1 4 4
Bolden 5:41 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 41-84 29-34 12-56 19 29 126 Wright 9:58 2-3 0-0 0-2 1 1 5 Sampson 8:59 2-3 3-3 0-1 0 2 7
Southeast W L Pct. GB Totals 240:00 43-85 20-25 11-45 26 21 113 Percentages: FG .488, FT .853. 3-point
Totals 240:00 33-86 7-12 10-36 20 14 83 goals: 15-29, .517 (Tatum 5-8, Williams McGruder 4:44 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 265:00 45-93 9-13 5-42 32 27 118
Orlando 5 2 .714 — Percentages: FG .506, FT .800. 3-point Percentages: FG .384, FT .583. 3-point
3-4, Ojeleye 3-5, Pritchard 2-4, Brown 1- Okafor 3:56 1-2 0-0 1-1 0 1 2 Percentages: FG .484, FT .692. 3-point
goals: 7-21, .333 (Knox II 2-3, Quickley 2- goals: 10-28, .357 (Osman 4-8, Dotson 3-
Atlanta 4 3 .571 1 3, Rivers 2-3, Barrett 1-5, Bullock 0-2, 6, Sexton 2-4, Stevens 1-2, Drummond 2, Waters 1-4, Nesmith 0-2). Team Totals 240:00 43-98 12-12 6-31 27 17 115 goals: 19-45, .422 (Oladipo 5-11,
0-1, McGee 0-1, Nance Jr. 0-3, Wade 0- rebounds: 9. Team turnovers: 1. Percentages: FG .439, FT 1.000. 3-point Brogdon 4-9, J.Holiday 3-6, McDermott
Miami 3 3 .500 1½ Randle 0-5). Team rebounds: 8. Team
3). Team rebounds: 11. Team turnovers: Blocked shots: 9 (Williams 3, Tatum 2, goals: 17-40, .425 (Grant 4-10, Ellington 3-7, Turner 2-3, Sabonis 1-3, A.Holiday
turnovers: 1. Blocked shots: 6 (Payton Thompson 2, Williams III 2). Turnovers:
Charlotte 2 5 .286 3 2. Blocked shots: 4 (Drummond, Maker, 3-4, Mykhailiuk 3-5, Rose 2-4,
2, Robinson 2, Knox II, Quickley). 1-4, McConnell 0-1, Sampson 0-1). Team
McGee, Osman). Turnovers: 14 (Sexton 19 (Brown 4, Waters 4, Pritchard 3, Doumbouya 2-5, Wright 1-2, Hayes 1-3,
Washington 2 5 .286 3 Turnovers: 15 (Randle 7, Bullock 2, 6, Osman 3, Dotson, Drummond, Exum, Williams 3, Williams III 3, Ojeleye, Bey 1-6, Plumlee 0-1). Team rebounds: rebounds: 5. Team turnovers: None.
Payton 2, Knox II, Quickley, Rivers, Maker, Stevens). Steals: 12 (Stevens 3, Tatum). Steals: 3 (Brown, Thompson, 7. Team turnovers: 1. Blocked shots: 5 Blocked shots: 8 (Turner 3, Sabonis 2,
Central W L Pct. GB Robinson). Steals: 9 (Robinson 4, Nance Jr. 2, Osman 2, Bolden, Dotson, Williams III). (Grant 3, Mykhailiuk, Stewart). Brogdon, J.Holiday, Sampson).
Barrett 2, Quickley, Randle, Rivers). Drummond, Maker, Sexton). Turnovers: 8 (Hayes 3, Grant 2, Plumlee Turnovers: 14 (Sabonis 5, J.Holiday 3,
Indiana 5 2 .714 — Toronto
Technicals: None.. Orlando Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
2, Wright). Steals: 9 (Doumbouya 2, McDermott 3, Oladipo 2, Turner).
Milwaukee 4 3 .571 1 Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Ellington, Grant, Mykhailiuk, Plumlee, Steals: 10 (Brogdon 3, McConnell 3,
Atlanta Bacon 25:16 3-7 0-0 0-2 1 0 8
Anunoby 29:35 3-8 3-5 0-0 1 4 10
Rose, Stewart, Wright).
Cleveland 4 3 .571 1 Siakam 32:57 7-15 6-7 2-6 3 5 22 Oladipo 2, J.Holiday, Turner).
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Gordon 27:55 9-17 0-0 6-11 1 1 24 Baynes 13:37 0-5 0-0 3-4 0 1 0 Milwaukee Technicals: None..
Chicago 3 4 .429 2 Collins 33:07 8-15 0-0 3-8 1 3 18 Vucevic 31:09 9-16 3-3 2-8 2 0 23 Lowry 32:52 5-13 7-8 0-5 5 4 18
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VanVleet 33:26 13-20 3-4 1-8 3 2 35
Detroit 1 6 .143 4 Hunter 37:00 9-15 2-3 1-8 1 2 23 Fultz 31:00 3-9 0-0 0-5 8 2 6 Boucher 20:59 2-6 4-6 1-6 1 1 9 G.Antetok
Capela 30:37 5-7 2-2 2-12 0 3 12 Ross 31:28 5-13 3-3 0-2 1 1 15 Davis 17:09 4-8 4-4 1-2 3 2 13 36:04 17-24 7-9 2-9 4 4 43 Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
WESTERN CONFERENCE ounmpo
Reddish 30:16 4-11 0-1 0-4 1 4 10 Birch 22:53 5-7 2-2 6-12 1 4 12 Powell 16:26 1-6 2-4 0-0 0 2 4 Middleton 35:49 7-10 3-4 0-9 4 0 19 Ingram 39:59 12-31 6-6 1-4 8 0 31
Southwest W L Pct. GB Young 39:37 9-22 12-15 1-2 14 3 31 Anthony 21:29 2-9 4-5 1-5 4 3 9 Flynn 15:45 0-6 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 Williamson 35:08 9-19 6-8 4-10 2 2 24
Johnson 10:58 0-1 0-0 0-2 2 1 0 Lopez 30:08 3-7 0-0 0-7 1 4 8
Huerter 31:20 4-12 0-0 1-2 3 2 9 Clark 20:53 2-5 0-0 2-5 0 1 6
New Orleans 4 3 .571 — Len 8:57 0-1 0-0 0-2 1 2 0 DiVincenzo 29:42 2-9 0-0 1-5 9 2 5 Adams 31:01 4-7 2-4 4-8 0 5 10
Bamba 4:28 0-0 0-0 0-2 1 1 0
Bogdanovic 18:45 1-3 0-0 0-2 3 4 3 Bone 2:53 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Watanabe 4:16 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 3 Holiday 34:12 6-10 1-1 1-6 7 1 15 Ball 38:09 7-11 0-0 0-6 6 5 18
Dallas 3 4 .429 1 Hill 10:55 0-1 2-2 2-2 0 0 2 Mane 2:53 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Watson 3:03 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 Portis 22:35 5-8 0-0 3-8 1 0 10 Bledsoe 34:23 4-9 3-4 2-11 5 5 12
Houston 2 3 .400 1 Goodwin 8:23 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Totals 240:00 38-88 12-13 18-54 22 15 103 Totals 240:00 36-90 29-38 8-37 20 26 114 Forbes 19:44 4-10 0-0 0-2 0 3 10 Redick 32:59 1-9 0-0 1-1 1 1 3
Percentages: FG .432, FT .923. 3-point Percentages: FG .400, FT .763. 3-point Augustin 18:38 4-5 0-0 0-1 6 1 11 Hart 28:30 1-5 1-1 1-10 3 0 3
San Antonio 2 4 .333 1½ Totals 240:00 40-87 18-23 10-40 24 21 108 goals: 13-37, .351 (VanVleet 6-9, Siakam
goals: 15-34, .441 (Gordon 6-9, Bacon 2- Nwora 7:45 1-2 0-0 0-2 0 1 2 Hayes 13:53 4-5 1-1 2-5 0 1 9
Percentages: FG .460, FT .783. 3-point 4, Clark 2-4, Vucevic 2-5, Ross 2-7, 2-5, Watanabe 1-1, Davis 1-2, Anunoby
Memphis 2 4 .333 1½ T.Antetoko Alexander-
goals: 10-31, .323 (Hunter 3-6, Collins 2- Anthony 1-2, Fultz 0-1, Carter-Williams 1-4, Boucher 1-4, Lowry 1-5, Johnson 0- 5:19 0-0 2-2 0-0 0 2 2 10:58 2-5 0-0 1-2 1 1 6
unmpo Walker
4, Reddish 2-6, Bogdanovic 1-3, Huerter 0-2). Team rebounds: 8. Team 1, Powell 0-2, Flynn 0-4). Team
Northwest W L Pct. GB 1-6, Young 1-6). Team rebounds: 6. turnovers: 2. Blocked shots: 7 (Vucevic rebounds: 9. Team turnovers: None. Totals 240:00 49-85 13-16 7-49 32 18 125 Totals 265:0044-101 19-24 16-57 26 20 116
3, Anthony, Bamba, Birch, Carter- Percentages: FG .576, FT .813. 3-point
Utah 4 2 .667 — Team turnovers: 1. Blocked shots: 2 Blocked shots: 4 (Boucher 2, Siakam, Percentages: FG .436, FT .792. 3-point
Williams). Turnovers: 19 (Fultz 5, Watson). Turnovers: 10 (Johnson 2, goals: 14-34, .412 (Augustin 3-3, Holiday
(Capela, Hunter). Turnovers: 12 (Young 2-3, Forbes 2-4, Middleton 2-4, goals: 9-27, .333 (Ball 4-6, Alexander-
Portland 3 3 .500 1 Anthony 2, Bacon 2, Carter-Williams 2, VanVleet 2, Anunoby, Boucher, Davis, Walker 2-4, Bledsoe 1-3, Ingram 1-6,
8, Reddish 2, Bogdanovic, Collins). Clark 2, Gordon 2, Ross 2, Bamba, G.Antetokounmpo 2-6, Lopez 2-6,
Len, Lowry, Siakam). Steals: 13
Denver 2 4 .333 2 Steals: 4 (Collins 2, Huerter, Young). Birch). Steals: 9 (Ross 4, Vucevic 2, (Johnson 3, Boucher 2, Lowry 2, DiVincenzo 1-6, Nwora 0-1, Portis 0-1). Redick 1-6, Hart 0-2). Team rebounds:
Minnesota 2 4 .333 2 Technicals: None.. Bacon, Birch, Gordon). VanVleet 2, Anunoby, Davis, Flynn, Team rebounds: 7. Team turnovers: 10. Team turnovers: None. Blocked
Cleveland 19 30 18 16 — 83 Powell). None. Blocked shots: 4 (Lopez 2, shots: 4 (Ingram 2, Hayes, Williamson).
Knicks 31 23 30 29—113
Oklahoma City 2 4 .333 2 Orlando 26 25 38 14 —103 Boston 23 38 39 26 —126 DiVincenzo, G.Antetokounmpo). Turnovers: 18 (Adams 4, Ball 4, Bledsoe
Atlanta 29 29 30 20—108 A: 2,726 (18,846).
Toronto 32 14 35 33 —114 Turnovers: 19 (Middleton 6, 4, Williamson 3, Hayes, Ingram,
Pacific W L Pct. GB A: 3,740 (20,500). G.Antetokounmpo 3, Lopez 3,
Redick). Steals: 5 (Adams 3, Ingram,
76ers 118, Hornets 101 Heat 118, Thunder 90 DiVincenzo 2, Nwora 2, Augustin,
L.A. Clippers 5 2 .714 — Forbes, Holiday). Steals: 6 (Holiday 3, Williamson). Technicals: None..
Phoenix 5 2 .714 — Charlotte Oklahoma City Mavericks 113, Rockets 100 DiVincenzo 2, Lopez). Indiana 26 27 26 27 12 —118
Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Dallas Detroit 26 30 24 35 —115 New Orleans 24 27 26 29 10 —116
L.A. Lakers 5 2 .714 —
Hayward 32:36 7-14 2-2 0-8 2 4 18 Bazley 25:55 5-10 3-3 0-8 2 1 16 Milwaukee 33 34 30 28 —125 A: 750 (16,867). T: 2:24.
Golden State 4 3 .571 1 Dort 23:34 4-8 2-3 0-1 2 1 12 Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
Washington 26:49 4-10 2-2 1-8 5 5 12
Horford 21:14 1-6 0-0 1-5 1 1 2 Finney-
Biyombo 22:44 2-7 0-0 1-4 4 3 4 32:38 3-8 1-1 1-4 1 3 9
Sacramento 3 4 .429 2 Graham 24:28 5-13 0-0 0-2 1 0 15 Gilgeous- Smith Warriors 137, Kings 106
27:51 7-15 2-2 0-2 4 2 18 Kleber 18:24 0-1 0-0 2-9 3 5 0
Monday Rozier 29:24 3-8 4-4 1-3 4 2 12 Alexander
Cauley-
Ball 30:25 5-16 2-3 2-7 9 2 12 Hill 21:14 1-5 0-0 0-0 2 0 3
Stein
24:08 5-7 5-6 2-7 2 4 15 Sacramento Golden State
Knicks 113, Atlanta 108 Bridges 23:56 3-6 0-0 0-5 0 3 7 Roby 24:06 1-5 0-0 1-2 2 1 3
Jackson 18:58 2-7 2-2 1-7 0 3 6 Doncic 37:55 12-25 6-6 2-16 11 3 33 Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
Ca.Martin 17:24 2-4 3-5 2-3 2 0 7 Richardson 30:47 4-10 5-5 1-1 0 6 15
Orlando 103, Cleveland 83 McDaniels 16:29 4-6 1-2 0-4 0 4 10 Maledon 17:45 2-7 1-2 0-1 2 0 7 Bagley III 24:05 2-9 1-3 3-9 0 3 5 Green 21:14 1-3 2-2 0-5 5 3 5
Diallo 17:08 3-3 3-4 1-3 1 2 9 Hardaway Jr. 31:16 11-14 0-0 0-7 2 1 30 Barnes 29:52 5-12 7-8 1-9 1 0 18 Wiggins 28:05 7-15 0-0 0-3 5 1 16
Philadelphia 118, Charlotte 101 Monk 9:43 0-1 1-2 0-0 3 0 1
Muscala 13:42 1-7 1-1 0-2 0 1 4 Johnson 20:16 0-4 0-0 0-3 1 2 0
Richards 6:02 1-1 1-2 1-2 0 1 3 Holmes 18:45 2-4 0-0 1-3 0 5 4 Wiseman 17:26 5-9 0-1 1-4 1 2 10
Miami 118, Oklahoma City 90 Williams 8:09 0-0 2-2 0-1 2 0 2 Brunson 18:34 2-6 2-2 0-0 4 1 6
Powell 14:33 1-2 0-0 2-2 0 3 2 Fox 30:48 7-17 2-4 0-4 7 3 18 Curry 30:34 9-18 7-7 0-9 8 3 30
Totals 240:00 36-86 16-22 8-46 30 24 101 Hall 7:18 0-2 0-0 1-3 2 2 0
Boston 126, Toronto 114 Percentages: FG .419, FT .727. 3-point Burke 8:42 1-5 0-0 0-1 0 3 3 Hield 29:59 3-12 1-2 0-6 1 2 10 Oubre Jr. 25:31 6-13 2-2 1-3 2 2 18
Miller 7:18 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 1 3
goals: 13-39, .333 (Graham 5-11, Rozier Iwundu 2:44 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Joseph 22:03 2-3 3-4 2-5 4 5 8 Paschall 21:49 6-10 0-0 0-7 3 2 14
Milwaukee 125, Detroit 115 Brown 5:48 1-1 3-8 1-3 0 0 5
2-5, Washington 2-5, Hayward 2-7, Totals 240:00 39-82 19-20 10-51 24 31 113 Robinson III 18:44 1-4 5-6 0-2 0 2 8 Lee 19:54 1-3 0-0 0-6 3 2 3
Totals 240:00 29-79 19-27 6-38 20 15 90
Dallas 113, Houston 100 Bridges 1-1, McDaniels 1-2, Monk 0-1, Percentages: FG .367, FT .704. 3-point Percentages: FG .476, FT .950. 3-point Guy 16:00 2-6 2-3 0-2 5 0 6 Wanamaker 17:26 2-6 0-0 0-1 4 2 5
Ca.Martin 0-2, Ball 0-5). Team goals: 13-48, .271 (Bazley 3-5, Dort 2-4, goals: 16-39, .410 (Hardaway Jr. 8-10, Bjelica 15:55 0-4 2-2 0-3 2 0 2 Bazemore 15:31 2-3 0-0 0-2 3 4 5
Indiana 118, New Orleans 116, OT
rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 1. Gilgeous-Alexander 2-6, Maledon 2-7, Doncic 3-10, Finney-Smith 2-5, Whiteside 11:46 2-5 4-5 1-2 0 0 8 Mulder 14:29 4-4 0-0 0-2 3 2 12
Golden State 137, Sacramento 106 Blocked shots: 5 (Ca.Martin 2, Biyombo, Hill 1-3, Miller 1-3, Roby 1-3, Muscala 1- Richardson 2-7, Burke 1-3, Brunson 0-1, James 7:47 2-3 0-1 0-0 0 0 4 Looney 12:23 5-6 1-2 1-3 2 3 11
Hayward, Rozier). Turnovers: 16 7, Hall 0-1, Horford 0-4, Jackson 0-5). Kleber 0-1, Johnson 0-2). Team Metu 4:45 3-4 0-0 0-0 0 0 7 Mannion 7:47 0-2 0-0 0-2 2 1 0
Tuesday (Biyombo 3, Bridges 3, Ca.Martin 3, Ball Poole 7:47 3-5 0-0 0-1 0 2 8
Team rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 3. rebounds: 6. Team turnovers: 3. Ramsey 4:45 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 3
Utah at Nets, 7:30pm 2, Hayward 2, Monk, Rozier, Blocked shots: 4 (Bazley, Hill, Roby, Blocked shots: 3 (Cauley-Stein, Finney- Woodard II 4:45 2-5 0-0 2-6 1 0 4 Totals 240:00 51-97 12-14 3-48 41 29 137
Washington). Steals: 4 (Ball 2, Williams). Turnovers: 15 (Maledon 3, Smith, Powell). Turnovers: 15 (Doncic 8, Percentages: FG .526, FT .857. 3-point
L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 8pm Totals 240:00 34-89 28-39 10-51 21 20 106
Hayward, McDaniels). Technicals: Bazley 2, Diallo 2, Gilgeous-Alexander 2, goals: 23-43, .535 (Curry 5-12, Mulder 4-
Hardaway Jr. 2, Burke, Finney-Smith, Percentages: FG .382, FT .718. 3-point
Minnesota at Denver, 9pm None.. Williams 2, Hall, Jackson, Miller, Roby). 4, Oubre Jr. 4-6, Paschall 2-3, Poole 2-3,
Johnson, Kleber, Richardson). Steals: 4 goals: 10-35, .286 (Hield 3-11, Fox 2-4,
Philadelphia Steals: 6 (Bazley 2, Brown, Jackson, (Cauley-Stein, Finney-Smith, Powell, Joseph 1-1, Metu 1-1, Ramsey 1-1, Wiggins 2-4, Bazemore 1-2, Green 1-2,
San Antonio at Clippers, 10pm
Maledon, Williams).. Richardson). Robinson III 1-3, Barnes 1-5, James 0-1, Wanamaker 1-2, Lee 1-3, Mannion 0-1,
Chicago at Portland, 10:30pm Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts
Miami Woodard II 0-1, Bagley III 0-2, Guy 0-2, Wiseman 0-1). Team rebounds: 6. None.
Green 22:53 5-10 0-0 2-6 3 1 13 Houston Blocked shots: 6 (Oubre Jr. 2, Wiseman
Wednesday Harris 29:36 10-16 0-0 1-5 2 1 22 Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Bjelica 0-3). Team rebounds: 9. Blocked
2, Bazemore, Wiggins). Steals: 4 (Green
Embiid 24:54 4-10 6-8 1-11 4 1 14 Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts shots: 6 (Whiteside 3, Fox, Hield, Joseph).
Butler 25:42 6-12 6-6 0-3 6 1 18 2, Oubre Jr., Wiggins).
Utah at Knicks, 7:30pm Curry 25:33 4-7 1-1 0-1 2 2 11 Olynyk 27:30 7-9 0-0 0-8 1 2 19
Nwaba 28:59 2-6 0-4 0-2 1 3 5 Turnovers: 14 (Bagley III 3, Fox 3, Joseph
Simmons 34:59 6-13 0-0 1-10 6 2 12 Tucker 35:16 0-1 0-0 1-4 0 3 0 3, Hield 2, Bjelica, Holmes, Whiteside). Sacramento 20 28 27 31 —106
Cleveland at Orlando, 7pm Adebayo 28:24 9-10 2-3 1-8 4 2 20 Wood 32:44 8-15 7-8 1-7 0 3 23
Milton 26:43 3-11 3-3 1-2 6 2 10 Herro 29:05 3-9 0-0 0-9 8 2 7 Steals: 5 (Fox 3, Barnes, Holmes). Golden State 37 31 32 37 —137
Houston at Indiana, 7pm Harden 38:28 5-17 8-10 0-3 10 1 21
Maxey 21:13 4-10 1-1 0-2 2 2 11 Robinson 33:08 4-11 0-0 0-4 3 2 12 Wall 33:00 4-10 5-5 1-4 4 2 14
Washington at Philadelphia, 7pm Howard 17:31 4-6 1-4 6-13 1 4 9 Dragic 22:00 3-7 0-0 0-0 7 1 7 Gordon 25:54 5-12 6-6 1-5 2 2 20
Boston at Miami, 7:30pm
Thybulle 16:17 2-5 0-0 0-2 4 0 4
Joe 5:35 0-2 0-0 1-2 3 3 0
Achiuwa 19:36 2-5 2-5 2-7 0 3 6
Bradley 17:17 3-4 0-0 0-1 1 2 8
Tate 24:50 3-6 1-1 2-6 0 3 8 Puzzles on Page 28
Brown 15:37 1-5 2-2 0-1 0 1 5
Charlotte at Atlanta, 7:30pm Poirier 5:35 0-1 2-4 1-1 1 1 2 Iguodala 14:31 3-5 0-0 0-0 1 1 9 Cousins 2:53 2-4 0-0 1-3 0 1 4
Mathias 4:00 3-3 1-2 0-0 0 1 8 Nunn 5:59 4-6 0-0 0-0 2 1 8
Detroit at Milwaukee, 8pm Ferguson 3:45 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Okpala 5:59 1-2 0-2 0-2 0 1 2
Caboclo
Thomas
1:08 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
1:08 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 2 5 7 4 9 6 8 1 3 9 7 2 1 4 3 6 5 8
Harkless 5:48 0-0 0-2 0-0 0 1 0
Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 8pm Reed 1:24 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 2
Silva 5:01 1-1 0-0 1-5 1 1 2 Totals 240:00 30-77 29-36 7-35 17 19 100 8 3 4 5 7 1 6 2 9 3 6 4 8 7 5 1 2 9
Totals 240:00 46-95 15-23 14-55 34 21 118 Percentages: FG .390, FT .806. 3-point
Toronto at Phoenix, 9pm Percentages: FG .484, FT .652. 3-point Totals 240:00 46-81 10-18 4-47 34 20 118 goals: 11-40, .275 (Gordon 4-10, Harden 9 6 1 3 2 8 4 7 5 5 8 1 9 6 2 3 7 4
Percentages: FG .568, FT .556. 3-point
Chicago at Sacramento, 10pm goals: 11-32, .344 (Green 3-8, Curry 2-2,
goals: 16-34, .471 (Olynyk 5-7, Robinson 3-11, Tate 1-1, Nwaba 1-3, Wall 1-3, 4 7 8 9 6 2 3 5 1 8 5 7 6 2 1 4 9 3
Maxey 2-3, Harris 2-5, Mathias 1-1, Brown 1-4, Cousins 0-1, Thomas 0-1,
Clippers at Golden State, 10pm 4-10, Iguodala 3-4, Bradley 2-2, Dragic 1-
Milton 1-6, Joe 0-1, Embiid 0-3, Thybulle
2, Herro 1-5, Butler 0-2, Nunn 0-2). Team Tucker 0-1, Wood 0-5). Team rebounds: 3 9 2 8 1 5 7 6 4 1 9 6 5 3 4 7 8 2
Thursday 0-3). Team rebounds: 4. Team 6. Team turnovers: None. Blocked
turnovers: None. Blocked shots: 5 rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 2.
shots: 4 (Cousins 2, Gordon, Wood). 6 1 5 7 3 4 2 9 8 4 2 3 7 9 8 5 1 6
Philadelphia at Nets, 7:30pm (Embiid 3, Curry, Simmons). Turnovers: Blocked shots: 0 Turnovers: 14 (Silva 3,
10 (Howard 3, Curry 2, Simmons 2, Dragic 2, Herro 2, Olynyk 2, Robinson 2, Turnovers: 12 (Wood 3, Harden 2, 1 2 9 6 4 3 5 8 7 2 3 8 4 5 7 9 6 1
Cleveland at Memphis, 8pm Achiuwa, Adebayo, Okpala). Steals: 7 Tucker 2, Wall 2, Cousins, Gordon,
Embiid, Green, Harris). Steals: 7
(Achiuwa, Bradley, Butler, Herro, Tate). Steals: 5 (Harden 2, Gordon, 5 4 6 1 8 7 9 3 2 6 1 5 3 8 9 2 4 7
Dallas at Denver, 10pm (Embiid 2, Thybulle 2, Green, Maxey,
Minnesota at Portland, 10pm
Milton). Technicals: None.. Iguodala, Okpala, Robinson). . Nwaba, Wood).
7 8 3 2 5 9 1 4 6 7 4 9 2 1 6 8 3 5
Charlotte 20 23 23 35—101 Oklahoma City 26 23 17 24 — 90 Dallas 33 28 23 29 —113
San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 10pm Miami 26 37 28 27 —118 Houston 21 28 28 23 —100 Solution to Very Easy #5,323 Solution to Difficult #5,113
Philadelphia 23 35 24 36—118 T: 2:06. A: 3,070 (18,500).
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Wolverhampton (Tue.) nation in offensive rebounds per game.
NFL Playoffs — Wild Card
3-WAY BETTING ODDS Following their worst home defeat in TCU big man Kevin Samuel will look to
Saturday
Everton +190 Bill Self’s tenure, an 84-59 rout keep the Jayhawks off the glass as he is
Favorite PTS (O/U) Underdog registering 10.2 points and 10.2 rebounds
Draw +230 by the Texas Longhorns on
BILLS 7 (51.5) Colts Wolverhampton +150 Saturday, the Kansas Jayhawks per game to go with 2.6 blocks per
SEAHAWKS 4.5 (42.5) Rams Manchester United travel to the state of Texas for game, which ranks 20th among
Buccaneers 8 (46.5) WASHINGTON at Burnley (Tue.) a Tuesday night game against qualifying Division I players.
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Sunday Of the Horned Frogs’ in the nation in 2-point
Manchester United -200
Ravens 3.5 (53.5) TITANS top six scorers who shooting percentage and
Draw +340
SAINTS 10 (47.5) Bears Burnley +525 have attempted a 3- outside the Division I top
STEELERS 4 (46.5) Browns point shot this season, 100 in 3-point shooting
Brighton at five are converting at percentage defense, TCU
CFP. CHAMP. Man. City (Wed.) least 38.1 percent, has the recipe to do
Mon. Jan 11 3-WAY BETTING ODDS with three of those something that very
Brighton +1350 players also rarely happens, hand the
Alabama-a 7.5 (75.5) Ohio St.
Draw +575 generating at least Jayhawks a second straight
a-Miami Gardens, Fla. Manchester City -500 1.3 steals per game on loss.
Home team in CAPS Tottenham at the defensive end. THE PLAY: TCU, +3.5.
Aston Villa (Wed.) Kansas counters with Greg Peterson handicaps
NBA each of its top four scorers college basketball for
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Draw +260 point shot making at least 37.5 Sports Betting
NETS 2.5 (231.5) Jazz percent to go with a front line Network.
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Lakers 9.5 (218) GRIZZLIES
NUGGETS 12 (227) Timberwolves
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Super Bowl exactas
Home team in CAPS Here are the odds for every possible result of Super Bowl LV:

College Basketball Pittsburgh Steelers over... Seattle Seahawks over...

Tuesday Packers ....... 80/1 Chiefs ......... 22/1
Favorite PTS Underdog Saints........ 100/1 Bills............. 50/1
BALL ST. 9 W. Michigan Bucs .......... 100/1 Ravens ........ 66/1
KENT ST. PK Toledo Seahawks . 125/1 Steelers .... 150/1
BOWLING GREEN 11 Cent. Michigan Kansas City Chiefs over... Rams......... 300/1 Green Bay Packers over... Titans........ 150/1
Dayton 11 FORDHAM Packers ......... 9/1 Bears ..... 1,000/1 Chiefs ......... 14/1 Colts ......... 250/1
OHIO 16 No. Illinois Saints.......... 12/1 WFT ....... 1,500/1 Bills............. 30/1 Browns...... 250/1
TEXAS TECH 16 Kansas St. Tennessee Titans over... Los Angeles Rams over...
Bucs ............ 14/1 Ravens ........ 40/1
CLEMSON 6 NC State Packers ....... 80/1 Chiefs ......... 66/1
Seahawks ... 16/1 Steelers .... 100/1
PURDUE 12 Nebraska Saints........ 100/1
Rams........... 50/1 Titans........ 100/1 Bills........... 150/1
DUQUESNE PK Davidson Bucs .......... 100/1
Bears ........ 125/1 Colts ......... 150/1 Ravens ...... 200/1
KENTUCKY 13.5 Vanderbilt Seahawks . 125/1 Steelers .... 500/1
ALABAMA 2.5 Florida WFT .......... 200/1 Browns...... 150/1
Rams......... 300/1 Titans........ 500/1
TEXAS 14 Iowa St. Bears ..... 1,000/1
Buffalo Bills over... New Orleans Saints over... Colts ......... 750/1
North Carolina 3.5 MIAMI WFT ....... 1,500/1
Packers ....... 22/1 Chiefs ......... 18/1 Browns...... 750/1
E. ILLINOIS 9 Siu-Edw.
Saints.......... 30/1 Indianapolis Colts over... Bills............. 40/1 Chicago Bears over...
Missouri 2.5 MISS. ST.
Packers ..... 125/1 Chiefs ....... 200/1
Rutgers 1.5 MICHIGAN ST. Bucs ............ 35/1 Ravens ........ 66/1
Saints........ 150/1 Bills........... 400/1
MARQUETTE 2 Uconn Seahawks ... 35/1 Steelers .... 150/1
Bucs .......... 150/1 Ravens ...... 500/1
Memphis 1 UCF Rams......... 100/1 Titans........ 150/1
Seahawks . 200/1 Steelers . 1,500/1
Kansas 3.5 TCU Bears ........ 300/1 Colts ......... 200/1
Rams......... 500/1 Titans..... 1,500/1
NHL WFT .......... 500/1 Bears...... 1,750/1 Browns...... 200/1
Colts ...... 2,000/1
Wed. Jan. 13 WFT ....... 2,500/1
Baltimore Ravens over... Tampa Bay Bucs over... Browns... 2,000/1
OILERS -105-110 Canucks Cleveland Browns over...
Packers ....... 30/1 Chiefs ......... 20/1 Washington Football Team over...
MAPLE LEAFS $120-145 Canadiens Packers ..... 125/1
Bills............. 50/1 Chiefs ....... 300/1
FLYERS -105-110 Penguins Saints.......... 40/1 Saints........ 150/1 Bills........... 500/1
LIGHTNING $165-200 Blackhawks Bucs ............ 50/1 Ravens ........ 66/1
Bucs .......... 150/1 Ravens ...... 750/1
Thurs. Jan. 14 Seahawks ... 50/1 Steelers .... 150/1
Seahawks . 200/1 Steelers . 2,000/1
RANGERS -105-110 Islanders Rams......... 150/1 Rams......... 500/1 Titans........ 150/1
Titans..... 2,000/1
Bruins $130-155 DEVILS Bears ........ 400/1 Bears ..... 1,750/1 Colts ......... 250/1
Home team in Caps Colts ...... 3,000/1
WFT .......... 500/1 WFT ....... 2,500/1 Browns...... 250/1 Browns... 3,000/1
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NO 7:30 NO 7:30 NO 6:00 7:00 Chiefs +240
GAME MSG GAME MSG GAME MSG MSG
ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN Packers 11/2
Bills 7/1
Utah Saints 15/2
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SportS ShortS against the spread, but 14-2 straight up. starters would play in certain games.
Overs also went 10-6 on Sunday, to Bettors also won with the Buccaneers
finish at 126-152-2 on the season. (-7) in their 44-27 win over the Falcons,
HOOPS: ’Nova postpones 3 games earlier with another 30 points, nine rebounds
and eight assists to lead the suddenly clicking One of the biggest wins for the betting and the Ravens’ (-13.5) in their 38-3
No. 3 Villanova’s next three games have Warriors past the Kings 137-106. public was the controversial blowout win over the Bengals.
been postponed because of COVID-19 is- Washington Football Team’s 20-14 win Sportsbooks were also happy on
sues within the program. The Wildcats (8-1)
ETC.: Broncs’ Elway will look for GM over the Eagles. Eagles coach Doug Sunday that the Giants (+1.5) won
were scheduled to play Tuesday at DePaul, After a decade of being the Broncos’ Pederson chose to play third-stringer outright, 23-19, over the Cowboys. The
Friday vs. Marquette, and Jan. 13 at Xavier. chief football decision-maker, John Elway Nate Sudfeld in place of Jalen Hurts in win was good for books, but also
No makeup dates have been announced. and the team have decided it is time for a the fourth quarter and results were knocked out a ton of liability on the
 Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski says he fresh set of eyes to make the calls on the disastrous for the Giants. Cowboys winning the NFC East.
won’t be able to coach against Boston Col- Broncos’ roster. Elway said he will remain But public and sharp bettors had bet “The Giants winning was big, not only
lege on Wednesday night, but he hopes to be in place as team president, but the Bron- the spread up from Washington -2 early for the game but it also knocked out all
out of quarantine in time to return for their cos will hire a general manager “to make in the week all the way to the closing of that Dallas NFC East liability without
game against Wake Forest on Saturday. all football decisions, working in partner- line of Washington -6.5, as information having to worry about what Washington
 In Stillwater, Okla., Dean Culver, Miles ship with [coach] Vic [Fangio].’’ came out that the Eagles would be did Sunday night,” Borgata sportsbook
McBride and Taz Sherman all scored 20 or  Josh Jacobs, the Raiders’ Pro Bowl missing many starters. The Football director Thomas Gable told VSiN. “The
more as No. 14 West Virginia (9-3, 2-2 Big 12) running back, was arrested on a DUI Team didn’t cover the final number, but Giants-Cowboys game was the most
rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit to charge, hours after the team returned from the vast majority of money (85 percent heavily bet game of the day here.”
edge Oklahoma State (7-3, 1-3), 87-84. a season-finale victory in Denver. at William Hill sportsbooks) was on One interesting big wager: A bettor
 Boston University and Holy Cross will  In Edmonton, Alberta, Arthur Kaliyev Washington at lower numbers. had put $100,000 on the Colts to win the
both wear masks for Tuesday’s game. scored with 1:16 remaining and the United “Moneyline parlays and teasers AFC South back on Nov. 19. He lost that
 In Tampa, Fla., Jayson Tatum scored 40 States advanced to the championship game destroyed the book [Sunday],” said Ed wager when Tennessee Titans rookie
points and the Celtics rolled to a 126-114 win of the world juniors, beating Finland 4-3. Salmons, vice president of risk kicker Sam Sloman made a game-
over the Raptors.  Ohio State coach Ryan Day says he management at the Westgate Las winning 37-yard field goal that bounced
 In Miami, Bam Adebayo led all scorers expects Justin Fields to play in the na- Vegas SuperBook. “We did very well off the right upright to give Tennessee a
with 20 on 9-for-10 shooting, and the Heat tional championship game against Alabama on straight bets, but we were done 41-38 win over the Texans.
beat the Thunder, 118-90. after being banged up vs. Clemson. before [the Sunday night game Ben Fawkes writes for VSiN.com, The
 In San Francisco, Stephen Curry fol-  Former Wisconsin quarterback Jack started].” Sports Betting Network.
lowed up his career-high 62 points a night Coan says he’s transferring to Notre Dame.
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IT’S THAT TOM

New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021

OF YEAR AGAIN
By Matt YouMans

AS VEGAS — It’s foolish to say

L Tom Brady’s first season in Tampa

Bay has been a disappointment. The
Buccaneers have won 11 games and are
favored in a playoff game this weekend,
yet if there’s a lingering sense Brady has
not lived up to preseason hype, it’s only
because some expectations were unre-
alistic.
By the numbers, the reality is Brady
has been a big hit. He finished the regu-
lar season tied for second in the NFL in
touchdown passes (40) and ranked third
in passing yards (4,633). The Bucca-
neers topped their season win total (9.5)
set by oddsmakers and went 9-7 against
the spread. Still, his season will be de-
fined by what happens next.
Brady, a six-time Super Bowl cham-
pion, is about to take the stage for Super
Wild-Card Weekend, a six-game lineup
that promises to be a betting block-
buster.
“What jumps out to me is we have
three games Saturday and three games
Sunday, which I think is fabulous,”
DraftKings sportsbook director John BRADY BUNCH: Not only will bettors get three games on Saturday — including
Avello said. Tom Brady’s Buccaneers taking on Washington — and Sunday, but there’s also
As a bonus, the college national cham- the College Football Playoff final between Alabama and Ohio State on Monday. AP
pionship on Monday, with Alabama fa-
vored by 7.5 points against Ohio State, is Hurts, who had two early touchdown Goff can play with a thumb injury.
expected to attract a larger wagering runs, in the fourth quarter of a close The Buccaneers, seeded No. 5 in the
handle than a majority of the NFL wild- game. Pederson was accused of tanking NFC, and Ravens, seeded No. 5 in the
card games. by opting to play third-stringer Nate AFC, are the only road favorites in the
“I’m expecting that to be a huge bet- Sudfeld, whose mistakes helped Wash- wild-card round.
ting game,” Avello said. “I know we ington escape with a 20-14 win. “The bettors believed in Brady from
seem to say this a lot now, but this is go- “Pederson threw in the towel,” said the beginning,” Avello said. “The Bucs
ing to be the biggest-bet college football Vinny Magliulo, a Las Vegas bookmaker have been playing a lot better and scor-
game of all time.” and VSiN oddsmaker. “If there were ing a lot of points. The Ravens are play-
This could be the last time we see fans at the game, there might have been ing really well right now.”
some of the NFL’s all-time great quar- a riot in Philadelphia. Moneyline favor- Baltimore is laying 3.5 points at Ten-
terbacks in action. Brady, Drew Brees ites were golden, and almost everything nessee on Sunday in a rematch of a play-
and Ben Roethlisberger are nearing the went to Washington. It was definitely off game the Titans won 28-12 as road
end of their careers, but each has a shot one of the better days for the bettors.” underdogs last year. Derrick Henry, who
to make another postseason run, begin- The only underdogs to win outright rushed for 195 yards in the playoff upset
ning this weekend. Sunday were the Giants and Bills. at Baltimore, finished this season as the
The Buccaneers are 8-point point fa- “We got waxed pretty good and it was league rushing champion with 2,027
vorites at Washington, which won the a rough Week 17, but we had it coming,” yards. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jack-
NFC East with a 7-9 record. At age 43, William Hill sportsbook director Nick son is winless in two playoff starts.
Brady’s weakness is his lack of mobility Bogdanovich said. “It wasn’t the end of Brees and the Saints, the No. 2 seed in
when faced with pass-rush pressure, the world.” the NFC, are 10-point favorites over the
and that could make Washington a live Win or lose in this postseason, it’s Bears, who overcame a six-game mid-
’dog Saturday night. probably not the end for Brady. But this season losing streak to finish 8-8.
“Washington has the makeup with could be the last run for Colts quarter- “It’s absolutely insane that the Bears
that defensive front to give Brady some back Philip Rivers. The playoffs kick off get in the playoffs,” Avello said.
trouble,” said Michael Lombardi, a VSiN Saturday with Indianapolis as a 7-point In Sunday’s finale, the Steelers are
analyst and former NFL general man- underdog at Buffalo, the No. 2 seed in 4-point home favorites against the
ager. “Potentially, you always see upsets. the AFC. Rivers is opposing Bills quar- Browns. Roethlisberger needs an im-
This is typically the round where the terback Josh Allen, a young gun who pressive showing to avoid hitting the
teams are so even.” lost his only playoff start last year. end of the road.
Eagles coach Doug Pederson did not In the second game, Seattle is a Matt Youmans writes for VSiN.com.
win any bookmakers as friends Sunday 4.5-point home favorite over the Rams, VSiN programming now can be heard
night when he pulled quarterback Jalen who are uncertain if quarterback Jared on iHeartRadio platforms.
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Indianapolis to host Tide’s Smith could set new

New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021

entire Big Dance
By MICHAEL MAROT

INDIANAPOLIS — The
NCAA is giving Indiana an
exclusive ticket to show-
case March Madness and
the basketball-crazed state
can’t wait to take center
stage this spring.
The NCAA announced
Monday that its showcase
event — the Division I
men’s basketball tourna-
ment, all 67 games of it —
will be played entirely in
or near Indianapolis. The
nity to do this in Indianap-
olis was pretty self-evi-
dent for several reasons.
standard for Heisman WRs
For one, we were already
going to be there.”
By RALPH D. RUSSO
Heisman Trophy Ohio State coach Ryan Day
said. “And we’re always
Indy was already sched- DeVonta Smith would finalists looking for ways to create
uled to host the Final Four be a Heisman Trophy win- explosives, and the easiest
and it didn’t take long for ner unlike any other. MAC JONES way to create an explosive
the city to emerge as the The Alabama star re- Junior, QB, Alabama is to throw the football.”
favorite. ceiver is considered the Day and the Buckeyes
TREVOR LAWRENCE
The original plan was favorite to win the award (7-0) will be faced with
Junior, QB, Clemson
for the 67 games to be Tuesday night over three figuring out how to slow
played at 13 sites across quarterbacks: Crimson DeVONTA SMITH down Smith and the
the country, starting with Tide teammate Mac Senior, WR, Alabama Crimson Tide (12-0) in
the First Four in Dayton, Jones, Clemson’s Trevor the national champion-
Ohio. Regional sites were Lawrence and Florida’s KYLE TRASK ship game on Jan. 11 in Mi-

hope is to limit the possi-
bility that the coronavirus
pandemic cancels the
wildly popular and lucra-
tive tournament for a sec-
ond consecutive season.
“There are a number of
world-class facilities in a
close location and that
was critical because you
have to run a large number
of games simultaneously
that you can manage and
control,” NCAA President
Mark Emmert said. “There
were a number of cities
that were very interested
in hosting this event, but
the immediate opportu-
set for Minneapolis, Den-
ver, New York City and
Memphis.
Instead, the buzzer beat-
ers and jaw-dropping per-
formances will all take
place in a state known per-
haps more than any other
for its love of basketball.
“I really don’t care if
they play the tournament
on Saturn or in Indianapo-
lis,” Louisville coach Chris
Mack said. “Hopefully,
we’re a part of it and we
do our part to get there.
And wherever they put it,
they put it.”
— AP
Tide Takeover: DeVonta
Smith caught 105 passes for
1,641 yards and 20 touch-
downs for Alabama. Getty Images
Kyle Trask.
Smith would be the
fourth wide receiver to
take home the Heisman,
but none of the previous
winners had his résumé.
Unlike Michigan’s Des-
mond Howard, Notre
Dame’s Tim Brown and
Nebraska’s Johnny Rodgers,
who bolstered their cases
by being dynamic kick re-
turners and more than oc-
casional runners out of the
backfield, Smith has barely
dabbled in that stuff.
The explosive evolution
of the passing game has
made receivers more im-
Senior, QB, Florida
TV schedule
7 p.m. Tuesday on ESPN
portant than ever. Simply
being the best pass catcher
is all Smith needed to make
a case for being the best
player in college football.
“I think that the emer-
gence of seven-on-seven
has increased the skill level
of a lot of receivers and
quarterbacks, and they get
the ball on the perimeter a
lot faster than maybe they
did 10 or 20 years ago,
spreading the field hori-
zontally and vertically,”
nypost.com
ami Gardens, Florida.
Not one to brag, Smith
doesn’t see himself as car-
rying the banner for his
position group as much as
representing the grinders.
“I guess you could say
that,” Smith said Monday.
“The person that goes out
and just puts in the work,
they’re going to get the
things that they deserve.
So if you work for things,
you’re going to get the
things that you deserve.”
The senior has 105
catches for 1,641 yards and
20 touchdowns this season.
— AP

Sally Brompton Daily Horoscope

 cApricOrN
(Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)
Today's Mercury-Pluto union in
your sign means if you know your
own mind there is almost nothing
you cannot accomplish. So what is
your mind trying to tell you? Sit
quietly on your own for a while
and let the universe whisper its
wisdom in your ear.
 AquAriuS
(Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)
Fate is pointing you in a new
direction and no matter how
reluctant you may be to get
started you know that sooner or
later the journey must begin.
Think of it as a great adventure.
Replace the fear in your thinking
with a determination to have fun.
 piSceS
(Feb. 20-Mar. 20)
What you expect to happen over
the next 24 hours probably won't,
and what you don't expect to
happen probably will. If you get a
bit confused just listen to what
your closest friends are saying.
Unlike you, they can see the
DiScOver MOre ABOut yOurSelF AND whAt the Future hOlDS At
SAllyBrOMptON.cOM
bigger picture.
 ArieS
(March 21-April 20)
Mercury's influence in the career
area of your chart means you
should be making plans as to how
you are going to move up in the
world. Don't try to be all things to
all people, just be yourself and
trust that your talents will be
rewarded.
 tAuruS
(April 21-May 21)
You have very fixed opinions
about certain matters and with
mind planet Mercury linked to
Pluto today it's highly unlikely
that your views will change. The
more others point out what
you've been doing wrong the
more you will dig in your heels.
 geMiNi
(May 22-June 21)
Flattery may not get you
everywhere but it will get you to
some of the places you most
enjoy. Where money matters are
concerned try to team up with
people who have more
experience than you. The
decisions they take will benefit
you immensely.
 cANcer
(June 22-July 23)
What you say today will be
important, but how you say it
could be crucial. Pluto's influence
in your opposite sign warns you
need to be aware of how people in
positions of power are likely to
respond to your words. Try not to
be too combative.
 leO
(July 24-Aug. 23)
Common sense should be telling
you that certain routines and
methods have had their day and
need to be updated, or even
thrown out altogether. Look at
how your colleagues operate.
What can you learn from the way
they do things? So learn, and then
act.
 virgO
(Aug. 24-Sept. 23)
Mercury, your ruler, is on
excellent form today, so don't be
afraid to put yourself forward and
suggest the kind of changes that
make some people wary. Your
amazing self-confidence will go a
long way toward persuading them
to follow you.
 liBrA
(Sept. 24-Oct. 23)
Although what you choose to do
over the next 24 hours may seem
unreasonable to some people, you
must not let that stop you from
doing it. As a cardinal sign you are
at your best when pushing ahead
confidently. You'll certainly get
more respect that way.
 ScOrpiO
(Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
Others will be impressed by your
can-do attitude and it's quite likely
that before the day is done you will
have won a new set of admirers.
You must not bluff though. Saying
you can do something is not the
same as actually doing it.
 SAgittAriuS
(Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)
You seem to be searching for a
place or a set of circumstances
that is in tune with who you feel
you really are. Do you think you
will ever find it? Stop trying so
hard to make life perfect and learn
to enjoy it for what it is.
BirthDAy tueSDAy
Over the coming year you
must focus on your No. 1
ambition and you must go
after it with ruthless
efficiency. This is not a time
for fun and games, this is a
time for making the most of
the talents you were born
with. Aim high, then soar.
36
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New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
compare anD contrast: The approach
the Rangers seem to be taking with No. 1-overall
draft pick Alexis Lafreniere is not unlike how the
Yankees treated rookie Derek Jeter, mostly batting
the future Hall of Famer eighth or ninth in his first
season, writes The Post’s Larry Brooks.
Nick Homler/N.Y. Rangers
Quinn won’t tolerate lack of effort
By Larry Brooks
Here is the lesson from last
summer’s three-game, qualifying-
round sweep by Carolina as David
Quinn identifies it:
“If we’re not going to have success,
it can’t be for a lack of conditioning
or a lack of effort. That can’t be,” the
coach said following Monday’s first
training camp sessions. “Those can’t
be two reasons why we don’t have
the season we’re capable of having.
“I know our guys understand that.
We’ve certainly talked about it an
DaviD Quinn
awful lot since we got out of that
bubble last year and had our asses
LexIS Lafreniere, who
A popped out of a ping-
pong-ball machine into
the Rangers’ lives, is the shini-
est new toy to hit these parts
in, oh, I don’t know ... forever?
So while Monday marked
merely the first day of training
camp in an accelerated run-up
to the season that opens a
week from Thursday, when the
19-year-old took the ice offi-
cially for the first time as a
Blueshirt, it also represented
the dawn of an era.
It is no longer about The Let-
ter. That is old news. It is
about Igor Shesterkin, Kaapo
Kakko and Adam Fox among a
bushel filled with prospects
who have preceded Lafreniere
to Broadway and will follow
him to the Great White Way. It
is about Artemi Panarin, Mika
Zibanejad and Chris Kreider,
the soul of the club.
But let’s not kid ourselves. It
is Lafreniere who has brought
his star with him from Quebec
and is next in line to inherit
the spot on the marquee re-
served for so long for Henrik
Lundqvist. It is No. 13 with a
ceiling higher than those in all
RANGERS NOTES
handed to us by Carolina. As we
talked about when the season
ended, we don’t want to paint the
brush with three games from last
year but we can’t ignore it.
“For our team to be capable of tak-
ing advantage of the skill we have
and some of the talent we have,
we’ve got to make sure we come here
every day with a great effort and in
great shape,” the coach said. “And
this year more than ever, just because
of the schedule, the teams you’re go-
ing to see, to me, those can’t be two
Larry Brooks
the magnificent prewar build-
ings in Manhattan who sends
pulses racing on and off Broad-
way even before he has suited
up at the Garden.
Not that Lafreniere will ever
admit to that. No Reggie,
Reggie, Reggie lobbying here
for a eponymously named
candy bar. It will be left to oth-
ers to sing the praises of the
young man, who, following
Monday’s first day of training
camp, said, “I just want to im-
prove myself every day and get
better as a hockey player. I
don’t have any expectations.”
There is no need to heap too
much on Lafreniere. It is not as
if he is Manny Malhotra join-
ing a group bereft of young tal-
ent. It is not as if the Rangers
need a flag-bearer. He is start-
ing on the third line with po-
tential stud Filip Chytil in the
middle and unknown quantity
reasons why we don’t have success.”
➤ In addition, there is a renewed
emphasis on being on the right side
of the puck and creating offense
from defense.
“Over the course of [last season], I
think you could see the progress, espe-
cially on the defensive side of the
puck,” Chris Kreider said. “It’s some-
thing we’ve talked about in camp with
the coaches. We were at the top of the
league in multiple categories for a
pretty long stretch at the end of the
season before everything was stopped.
“We know that we’ve got the
scale, we know that we can bring a
Julien Gauthier on the right.
He has been slotted there in-
itially perhaps partially to min-
imize pressure, perhaps par-
tially to maximize matchup
opportunities, perhaps par-
tially because this short camp
lends itself to stability and
continuity with the top six.
Likely, a combination of all of
the above. Keep this in mind:
Derek Jeter batted eighth or
ninth in 84 of his first 108
games of his 1996 rookie sea-
son.
But Lafreniere, if not via
words but rather via deeds, is
expected to demand more.
More ice time. More responsi-
bility. And when he earns it,
when he is awarded it by Da-
vid Quinn, he will be ready for
his moment.
“He’s an awesome, awesome
guy; I mean, an awesome kid,”
said Kreider, who had trained
and skated with Lafreniere for
the past couple of months.
“You forget how young he is
because he carries himself
with such maturity.
“I’ve played with him a
bunch and the skill is very,
very evident. He’s got the
pretty dynamic offensive game. So
the thing that has been echoed
through the first few days here is
that we don’t sacrifice offense to
play defense. If anything, we can
create offense off our defense.
“We need to do things extremely
well that are under our control,”
said the winger. “So [Monday], we
were really harping on defense. I
think we found last year that when
we had success is when we played
as a five-man unit and everyone ex-
ecuted quickly and with tenacity.”
➤ K’Andre Miller skated on the
left with Brendan Smith, Jack

[puck] on a string, sees the ice
incredibly well, [his] head’s up.
The one thing that really
struck me from the last few
weeks is that he’s not an imma-
ture kid. He carries himself
with that level of maturity, but
he’s a lot thicker than the nor-
mal 18- or 19-year-old kid.
“He’s very strong on his
skates, and he competes. He’s a
dog on the puck,” said No. 20.
“Guys try to bump him, he
tries to spin off and get to that
ice. So he’s hypercompetitive,
he wants to win and you can
tell he loves playing the game.
He’s got a serious passion for
the game and enthusiasm, re-
ally good energy and just
wants to succeed and win.”
Monday’s scrimmage was es-
sentially a dip-your-toes-in-
the-water exercise. Things
picked up a bit during the sec-
ond half. Lafreniere and his
line created as many and as
few memorable moments as
the rest of the squad. To put
this in context: it was Day 1.
“There was a little bit of
nerves playing with these guys
but I think I’ll get used to it
and then I’ll get used to the
or conditioning
Johnson was on the left with An-
thony Bitetto, Libor Hajek was
on the left with Darren Raddysh
while Tarmo Reunanen played the
right with Matthew Robertson on
defense.
Morgan Barron played right
wing on a unit with Brendan Lem-
ieux on the left and Kevin Rooney
in the middle. It is quite possible
that Lemieux and Barron could
flank Brett Howden — who filled
in for the absent Mika Zibanejad
between Chris Kreider and Pavel
Buchnevich — on the season-
opening fourth unit.
Quinn said that he had not gotten
pace,” Lafreniere said. “I’ll get
better as the camp goes and I’ll
try to improve myself and my
game.”
Jack Hughes, not nearly as
physically mature as Lafreni-
ere, had a devil of a time last
year after going to New Jersey
as the No. 1-overall pick. Kakko
for the most part was a
stranger in a strange land after
coming out as No. 2 overall.
This is not one-size-fits-all.
“There’s no blueprint to
coach each player, whether it’s
a rookie or a 30-year-old vet-
eran,” Quinn said. “Every
player is different and you’ve
got to have a feeling of what
motivates him and what
doesn’t.
“It’s our job as a coaching
staff to figure out a way to
coach Lafreniere to the best of
our abilities and to allow him
to be the best player he can
possibly be.”
The journey from Saint-Eu-
stache to Manhattan is under-
way. First stop on the express:
Greenburgh. Destination: Penn
Station. Monday was All
Aboard.
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an update from the training staff on
the status of Zibanejad, Justin
Richards and Keith Kinkaid, all of
whom missed Monday’s sessions
for undisclosed reasons. The coach
said he was hopeful they would be
available Tuesday.
The Rangers will send those play-
ers who do not make the roster or taxi
squad to Hartford to skate as a group
before AHL training camp opens.
➤ John Muckler, who coached
the Rangers for parts of three sea-
sons from 1998-2000 after winning a
Stanley Cup as coach of the 1989-90
Oilers, died at age 86.
HaunTED BY THE MEMORY: Islanders coach Barry Trotz said he has still “not gotten over” Lightning
center Anthony Cirelli’s series-clinching goal in Game 6 of the conference final in September. Getty Images
Loss to Lightning
fuels fire for Isles
By Mollie Walker
The Islanders can still feel the
sting three months later from
their Game 6 overtime loss to the
eventual Stanley Cup champions,
the Lightning, in the conference
final last season.
It’s biting — and lingering.
And ahead of the Islanders’
first on-ice session of training
camp Monday, the disappoint-
ment from the collapse of their
longest playoff run in 27 years
was on full display.
“I have not gotten over the loss
from the Lightning,” head coach
Barry Trotz said Sunday. “I don’t
think you get over those things
very easily, if you do, there’s a
problem. You park it. Trust me,
you don’t lose it, you just have to
park it and move on.
“On my deathbed, that’ll be one
of the visions that will go
through my head: We didn’t beat
the Lightning. And it doesn’t go
away.”
In his third season with the
Isles, Trotz said the coaching
staff has tried to raise the organi-
zation’s expectations from year-
to-year. After reaching last year’s
conference finals as the only club
that competed in the initial
play-in series, the Islanders have
done just that.
According to Trotz, last sea-
son’s playoff run confirmed that
the Islanders are a committed
group with a legitimate chance to
contend for the Stanley Cup.
“But we didn’t win the Cup, so
we’re not happy,” he said.
What the Islanders’ playoff run
last season did give them was ex-
perience. Not just experience in
the postseason, but experience
with coming into training camp
amid the NHL’s COVID-19 proto-
cols and after an unusual period
of time off the ice.
The Islanders played their last
game of the 2019-20 season on
Sept. 17 and had a three-month
layoff to recuperate and get back
into shape for training camp,
which will last just 10 days. They
then open up the regular season
with back-to-back matchups
against the Rangers at Madison
Square Garden on Jan. 14 and
Jan. 16.
“I think before the bubble this
summer, as a group, as players, I
think we did a phenomenal job of
preparing ourselves,” captain
Anders Lee said on a Zoom call
Monday. “We came into that
camp in pretty good shape. Obvi-
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ously, Barry puts his touch on it
and forces us to be in better
shape, but I think that kind of
mentality definitely carried over
to this one.
“You knew right away it’s going
to be a 10-day camp and we’re
playing games in 13 days and
there’s really no time to break
your body in or the little things.
You really had to come into this
camp really ready to go.”
While the first on-ice session
was dedicated primarily to get-
ting their legs back underneath
them while working on some de-
fensive-zone drills and condi-
tioning, the Islanders haven’t had
to worry about getting back into
the competitive mindset.
It hasn’t gone away since Sept. 17.
“When you have a run like that,
I think it’s always disappointing
to have it end in any way,” Lee
said. “But the step we took was
inspiring in a way too, and ex-
tremely motivational. I think it’s
a combination of us working to-
ward that final step and at the
same time building off of the end
of last year.”
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the running for
Japan’s Sugano
New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021
By PEtER BottE
and MIkE PuMA
The Mets are looking to
make a free-agent splash un-
der new owner Steve Cohen,
but it appears they no longer
are in contention for Japanese
pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano.
“The Mets are not in on
[Sugano],” The Post’s Joel
Sherman tweeted Monday,
confirming an earlier report
by Jon Heyman that their
“main focus is elsewhere.”
Sugano, whose deadline to
sign with an MLB team is
Thursday, also has been
linked to the Giants, Blue Jays
and Red Sox. The 31-year-old
righty owns a career record
of 101-50 with a 2.34 ERA over
eight seasons with the Yomi-
uri Giants, who reportedly
have offered him a four-year
contract with multiple opt-
outs to return to Japan.
Meanwhile, Cohen contin-
ues to interact with fans on
social media about the Mets’
offseason activity. When one
Twitter user wrote to him,
“There is no reason we
should be out on Sugano,”
Cohen replied Monday,
“based on what.”
Another fan responded,
“What exactly are we doing?
Is [catcher] James McCann
really going to be our biggest
pickup this offseason? Please
say no.”
Cohen then added: “Let me
put it differently. Don’t you
think someone will take our
money? It just has to make
sense.”
When another Twitter user
tagged him in a post saying
“time to hibernate until
Spring Training,” Cohen shot
back, “That’s the spirit, just
give up and go to sleep…I
don’t need to be popular, I
just need to make good deci-
sions.”
’no can do: While the Mets are out, Tomoyuki Sugano,
shown pitching in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, also
has been linked to the Giants, Blue Jays and Red Sox. AP
Other available starting
pitchers include Trevor
Bauer, Masahiro Tanaka and
Jake Odorizzi, while out-
fielder George Springer re-
mains the marquee position
player remaining on the free-
agent market.
The Mets inked McCann to
a four-year, $40.6 million deal
in mid-December; they also
signed reliever Trevor May
earlier last month.
The Mets haven’t made a
significant splash in the Japa-
nese market since signing
Kaz Matsui in the early
2000s. Just the fact the Mets
showed interest in Sugano
perhaps signifies a shift in
philosophy with regard to the
international market under
Cohen and team president
Sandy Alderson.
One MLB evaluator re-
cently framed Sugano’s talent
level as somewhere between
Masahiro Tanaka, when the
right-hander was at his peak
pitching in Japan, and Kenta
Maeda.
Trevor Bauer is the top
free-agent option available
on the market, but it’s unclear
whether the Mets are willing
to break the bank for last sea-
son’s National League Cy
Young Award winner. Tan-
aka, Odorizzi and James Pax- Tuesday
ton are middle of the rotation
options that could make
Jazz at Nets
sense for the Mets, who ide- 7:30 p.m.
ally could use two starters, al- YES
lowing them to return Seth WFAN (660 AM;
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As it stands, the Mets have
Jacob deGrom, Marcus Stro-
man, David Peterson and
Lugo ticketed for the rota- By BRIAN LEWIS lot of really good teams that “We just have to manage ments for not just players
tion, with Steven Matz per- are trying to find them- realistic expectations of but also Nash, whose deci-
haps in the mix for a starting The Rockets were willing selves. And we’re new, what we want out of this sion to have Jarrett Allen
role. Lugo was moved to the to get uncomfortable in we’ve got a first-time head group right now,” said Ir- off the floor late likely con-
rotation last season out of holding onto James Harden. coach, we’ve got a new staff, ving. “Every single day, tributed to the game-win-
need but has performed at a Looks like the Nets are go- and we’ve got a bunch of week-to-week and month- ning offensive rebound for
much higher level from the ing to have to learn to deal guys that haven’t played to- to-month, and we put to- Washington on Sunday.
bullpen in his career. with another kind of dis- gether, with a short training gether a few great months of These tough lessons will re-
comfort: That of early-sea- camp that made it difficult. consistent work and consist- quire patience and not letting
son disappointment and “And here we are in a lit- ent progress. We’ll be OK. a slow start fray their nerves
on-court disconnect. tle struggle. And you know “We’re committed to it. I or fracture their chemistry. Ir-
Brooklyn came into the what? It’s good for us. It’s know the guys in the locker ving knows this well.
season as an NBA Finals con- good to get a little tension. room, everyone in the orga- Sure, some superteams
tender but — after dropping We’ve got to get comforta- nization [is] committed to come together in a flash,
four of its last five games — ble being uncomfortable, that. We want to change this like Kevin Garnett’s Celtics
started the week on the out- so here we are. We’re a lit- whole thing, and that’s not in 2007-08. Others stumble
side of the playoff picture tle uncomfortable, and it an overnight process. I didn’t out of the gate and take a
looking in, just 3-4 coming can help us grow.” commit here just for two or while to get up to speed.
into Tuesday’s tilt vs. Utah. It’s not where they ex- three years. ... So I’m excited The Heat started out 9-8
“Plenty to clean up,” Steve pected to be. But Kyrie Ir- for the journey ahead to con- in LeBron James’ first sea-
Nash said. “It’s early. We ving cautioned that manag- tinue to get better. It is as son before reaching the 2011
can’t lose our minds over it, ing expectations will be vi- simple as basketball, but the NBA Finals, then winning
and we can’t get overly frus- tal, as well as not letting team effort takes a while to the following year. And Ir-
trated. We can’t feel too frustration sink in and get together.” ving had firsthand experi-
much tension. There [are] a stunt their progress. There are teaching mo- ence when his Cavaliers

opened 1-3 in James’ return
and just 5-7 before reeling
off eight straight en route to
the 2015 Finals. Irving hit the
iconic winner the next year
to deliver a title.
Irving and Kevin Durant
have talked about playing the
long game, which is a learned
mindset — and one the Nets
haven’t experienced.
“That definitely is a mind-
set you have to learn,” said
Allen. “I never made it past
the first round of the play-
offs, personally, and [Irving]
has been all the way and
was able to hold the trophy
above his head. He has
more experience in that re-
gard, so I’m trusting what
he’s saying. I know it’s going
to be a long road for all of
us, and to have leaders like
that, we’re going to be fine.”
Fall Flat: Kyrie
Irving’s Nets, who
entered the season
with championship
aspirations, are 3-4
after dropping four of
their past five. AP
Of course, Nash has seen
supposed superteams that
didn’t turn out fine. His
2012-13 Lakers that featured
Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and
Dwight Howard never did
shore up their defense and
ended up swept in the first
round. Now in the coach’s
seat, Nash is well aware his
Nets will need to fix their
defense and rebounding to
even approach their goals.
“Just simple mistakes de-
fensively, talking, recogni-
zing scenarios and situa-
tions. Then the offensive re-
bounding, the turnovers,
those are problems for us.
The rebounding is a prob-
lem,” said Nash. “Those are
the three areas: simple de-
fensive lapses, offensive re-
bounding and turnovers.”
brian.lewis@nypost.com
KD out 1 week due
to contact tracing
By BRIAN LEWIS
Nets star Kevin Durant is
expected to need a full
week of quarantine due to
contact tracing/exposure
to COVID-19.
A league source con-
firmed that Durant had not
tested positive for corona-
virus but was simply going
through contact tracing, ac-
cording to the NBA’s health
and safety protocols, after
coming in contact with a
positive COVID-19 case.
He will miss four games
against the Jazz, 76ers, Griz-
zlies and Thunder in his
seven-day quarantine. The-
oretically, Durant would be
available for the Jan. 12 tilt
against the Nuggets.
The Nets are 3-4 going
into Tuesday’s game
against Utah, on the out-
side of the playoff picture
looking in. Durant is aver-
aging a team-high 28.2
points, third-best in the
league, and would be a
huge loss for a team strug-
gling to find its footing.
The 32-year-old revealed
that he’d had coronavirus
back in May, during the
league shutdown. He con-
tinues to register antibod-
ies and has tested negative
in multiple recent tests, ac-
cording to ESPN.
When someone in a
player’s family — or those
living in close contact — test
positive, the player is then
put in quarantine. The NBA’s
Surgery effectively ends Dinwiddie’s season
By BRIAN LEWIS
Nets guard Spencer Din-
widdie had reconstruction
surgery on his partially
torn anterior cruciate liga-
ment Monday morning.
The team announced the
surgery, which was per-
formed by Dr. Riley Willi-
ams III at the Hospital for
Special Surgery.
The Nets didn’t offer a
timetable for recovery, but
experts who spoke with
The Post said the nature of
the surgery would make it
season-ending. Dinwid-
die’s ACL was only par-
testing patience: Kevin Durant has not recently
tested positive for the coronavirus but was in contact with
a COVID-19 positive case, a league source confirmed to
The Post.
rules don’t distinguish be-
tween a player who tested
positive or one who passed
three tests, as Durant has.
Brooklyn has suffered
through more reported
cases than any other team
in the NBA, with Durant,
Spencer Dinwiddie, DeAn-
dre Jordan, Taurean Prince
and Landry Shamet having
tially torn, but getting a re-
construction instead of a
repair all but eliminated
any hopes of a return for
2020-21.
“Not if an ACL recon-
struction is being done,”
Manhattan Orthopedic
Care founder Dr. Armin
Tehrany told The Post.
“There are situations
where a partial ACL tear
could be kept intact and
sometimes if it was say a
repair if the ACL is repara-
ble as opposed to a recon-
struction. The risk there is
there is up to a 20 percent
failure rate with a repair as
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all tested positive either
after the March shutdown
or before the restart. Three
others Nets tested positive
in March, while former Net
Garrett Temple tested pos-
itive recently as well.
While staying healthy
was always going to be the
key to Brooklyn’s season —
considering Durant’s re-
opposed to reconstruction.
“[A reconstruction] is
the right thing. To me,
that’s usually what is going
to get done in 2020. Repair-
ing an ACL is now an op-
tion [but] very unlikely.
“If anything, the way to
describe expectations for
high-level athletes for re-
construction — it’d be bet-
ter for him to wait nine or
12 months to get back to a
high-functional level than
six-to-nine [months]. It’s
almost 100 percent that it’s
a season-ending injury.”
The Nets announced that
Dinwiddie will begin reha-
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turn from a ruptured
Achilles and Kyrie Irving’s
shoulder surgery — that
also applies to steering
clear of the coronavirus.
“You’re going to have 10
guys draped all over each
other at some point of your
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practice for 30, 45 minutes
of practice,” said Nets
coach Steve Nash. “To be
prepared to play the sport
at this level, let alone any
level, you’ve got to play,
bump up against each
other. It’s a leap of faith in
that we’re going to rely on
our protocols, our medical
staff, our day-to-day struc-
ture to protect ourselves
the best we possibly can.
“But there’s an evergreen
risk with this virus, not just
contracting it but all the
unknowns. We’ll do the
best we can, but at some
point we have to play the
game, and you can’t not
train the way you play … a
contact with a group of
players on the court, five,
six, seven, eight guys in the
paint.”
➤ The Nets are expected
to apply for a disabled
player exception with the
season-ending ACL injury
to Dinwiddie, according to
ESPN. The exception would
be for $5.7 million, or half
his salary. Once granted,
they can use it to acquire a
player in final the year of a
deal, although they’d still
need to clear a roster spot.
bilitation next week and is
expected to make a full re-
covery. The guard posted a
picture Sunday on Insta-
gram of himself already
working out, presumably at
HSS Training Center.
Dinwiddie had started
the first three games of the
season in the backcourt
alongside Kyrie Irving. He
averaged 6.7 points, 4.3 re-
bounds and three assists in
21.4 minutes. His injury
forced Timothe Luwawu-
Cabarrot into the unfamil-
iar role as a starter and has
robbed the Nets of their
most versatile player.
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Knicks stay hot with Quickley’s

big 4th quarter against Atlanta
By Marc BerMan
Julius Randle and RJ Barrett
carried the night and the load as
each played 40-plus minutes and
combined for 54 points.
But the rookie point guard Im-
manuel Quickley, in his third
NBA game, carried the Knicks
home in the fourth quarter as
they squeaked out a 113-108 road
win Monday in Atlanta to end
their four-game trip at 3-1.
Tom Thibodeau’s Knicks are
now a winning ballclub at 4-3 —
by far the hottest NBA team in
New York after winning four of
their last five games. It’s the first
time the Knicks have had a win-
ning record after seven games
since 2012-13 — when they won 54
games and last made the playoffs.
“We’re a mentally tough and we
didn’t let that one game [a loss vs.
Toronto] stop us,’’ Barrett said.
“It was a great road trip overall.”
With the Knicks down 15 with
4:40 left in the third quarter, Thi-
bodeau turned to his young
rookie and paired him with new
closer Austin Rivers. Thibodeau
didn’t take Quickley out until
seconds remained in the game.
And the coach got rewarded
again for his instincts as Quickley
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HawKs 108 Page 31
finished with 16 points in 19 min-
utes — 10 in the final period.
As is his knack, Quickley drew
a huge three-shot foul on Atlanta
superstar Trae Young with 2:34
left, bagging all three free throws.
Quickley also stripped Young
late, outplaying the All-Star in
crunch time.
The 22-year-old out of Kentucky
already plays like a wily veteran.
“The coaches give me a lot of
confidence, my teammates in-
spire me to give me a lot of confi-
dence,’’ said Quickley, who was 4
of 6 from the field and 6 of 6 from
the free-throw line. “When you
have great guys around you it
makes it real easy to be comforta-
ble in tight situations.
“When a coach sticks you in in
the fourth quarter it means he trusts
you, especially as a point guard
when you have to lead the guys.
Hopefully I’ll continue to do that.”
Quickley has made a solid
backcourt pairing with Rivers,
who is seizing the role of finisher.
Rivers hit a huge 3-pointer with
under a minute left, then drew a
charge on Young.
Rivers was huge in closing Sat-
urday’s big Indiana win, but the
Knicks coach decided to keep
riding Quickley.
“He can shoot,’’ Thibodeau said
when asked why he stuck with
Quickley. “Just the way he ap-
proaches the game. Attitude, ap-
proach. He does have that one
skill that opens everything up
and he’s a student of the game.
We were struggling and we
found a group that got going and
we were riding with them.’’
“He’s very confident,’’ said Bar-
rett, who was terrific with 26
points, 11 rebounds and five assists.
“That might be half the battle.”
Randle scored 12 points in the
first quarter and finished with 28
points, 17 rebounds and nine as-
sists, falling one dish shy of a tri-
ple-double to continue his All- also a testament to the coaches. from the corner after which he
Star-caliber season. The Hawks Thibs everyday is on us. He’s a raised his arms in celebration —
were the first team not to double- great leader for us and has given as the Knicks cut the deficit to
team the Knicks’ emerging star. us a game plan we believe in ev- 88-84 after three quarters.
In his previous six seasons, ery day.’’ Quickley scored on a floater to
Randle has been only on losing The Knicks fell behind by 15 start the fourth quarter, making it
clubs and now he’s getting a before rallying in the final 1:30 of 88-86 and he became the late
sweet taste, crediting his new the third quarter. Kevin Knox hit hero — not Young, despite his 31
head coach. a 3-pointer for his first bucket of points.
“It’s surprising, but I like the the night. Quickley blew by “We didn’t play great but we
confidence of our group,’’ Randle former Duke standout Cam Red- found a way to win,’’ Thibodeau
said. “Every game we come in we dish for a layup. And then Knox said. “I love the fight in the team.”
expect to win. And I think it’s hit another 3 — a buzzer-beater marc.berman@nypost.com

Fans finally get what they want, a team

oST of the buzz this morning will together, play hard, play defense, look to win,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “I have bought into each other. Thibodeau asks

M center around the kid, around Imma-

nuel Quickley, whose initials — IQ —
tell a large segment of his story and whose
fearlessness has been something to behold
during this early-season Knicks surge. It
should be that way. He is a fresh face, with
young legs, owning a game that jumps off the
screen at you.
“I try to be a leader,” Quickley said, and the
Knicks haven’t seen a player this young de-
mand — and command — this level of imme-
diate governance since Mark Jackson and the
halcyon days of MSGU 33 years ago.
But the thing that will keep you coming
back, that has to keep you coming back, is the
way these Knicks, so far, every night — and,
yes, it is only seven games, but they have
been seven mostly impressive games — play
make both the big plays and the little plays.
You win games that way.
And after this feel-good
113-108 taming of the high-
flying Hawks in Atlanta on
Monday night, the Knicks,
officially, are a winning
team: four wins against
three losses but, as impor-
tant, a collective attitude
that screams: Give us a
Mike Vaccaro
look. Give us a try. We’re
worth your time. We can be a thrice-weekly
destination for you.
And when was the last time anyone wear-
ing the blue-and-orange vestments of the
Knicks could say that with a straight face?
“We didn’t play great but we found a way to
love the fight in the team.”
That is what you are hearing more and
more, as the long-dormant
optimists of Knicks Nation
shake off their caution,
wiggle free of their skepti-
cism, and begin to em-
brace what they are seeing.
The Knicks of lore, of
course, are remembered as
a hit-the-open-man tribute
to team ball, to the whole
being more than the sum of parts, no matter
how gifted those parts are. In 1970 and ’73,
those parts were mostly Hall of Famers.
In these opening hours of 2021 they are
comprised of a gaggle of 20-something play-
ers and a soon-to-be-63-year-old coach who
the Knicks to share the ball, share the credit,
shoulder the blame, and often play more min-
utes than they’re used to because injuries
have already bloodied up the rotation.
And the players ask the coach, who’s won
almost 59 percent of his games, to teach them
how to figure out ways to win games like this
one, games when they seized an early 10-
point lead but fell behind by 15 in the third,
games that so easily can go from 15 to 25 to
oblivion instead of the other way around.
Thibodeau: “They’re playing for each
other. They’re tied together. Their willing-
ness to share is huge.”
And Julius Randle offered a volley right
back to the boss: “He’s a great leader. He’s
given us a game plan we believe in every day
and we come in locked in and believing we
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Randle shines
WE GOT THIS: RJ By Marc BerMan
Barrett goes up for
two of his 26 points to Backup center Nerlens

New York Post, Tuesday, January 5, 2021

go with 11 rebounds Noel was a late scratch with
a sprained ankle. With Obi

with another
and five assists in the
Knicks’ 113-108 win Toppin and Omari Spellman
over the Hawks, as still out with leg injuries,
Immanuel Quickley that meant the Knicks’ big-
(left) took over the 4th man depth was tissue thin.
And it also meant Julius
quarter with 10 points
and a steal on
Atlanta’s Trae Young.
Randle would have to regis-
ter a marathon amount of
minutes. Again.
Randle, already the third-
highest in the league in min-
big workload
ter but played through foul positives out of that — with
utes played, logged another trouble. Thibodeau said the team meals, the film ses-
43 minutes in Monday’s win Noel will be examined Tues- sions. Being around each
in Atlanta. And he had an- day to determine the extent other as much as we are,
other scintillating outing — of the injury that originally that’s been very productive
28 points, 17 rebounds and occurred in Indiana. for us. Obviously we prefer
nine assists. He was one as- to be home. It’s a balanced
sist shy of his second triple-
double of the season and is
➤ Traveling
during the pan-
schedule. At
some point it will
KNICKS

on a healthy pace to be con-
sidered an All-Star for the
first time after coming to
camp in superb shape.
“It’s fun I guess,’’ Randle
said smiling about the major
workload. “But the bigger
thing is I’m staying on top of
what I need to do to take
care of my body. It’s a day-in,
day-out process but I just try
to stay in the moment.’’
Toppin has been out since
after the season opener.
Spellman has not made his
Knicks debut because of
knee soreness and was to be
examined Tuesday. That’s
why the Noel injury that was
not on the injury report
could be huge.
“When he warmed up to-
night he didn’t feel quite
right so we felt it was just
better to rest in this situa-
tion,’’ Thibodeau said.
Starting center Mitchell
Robinson picked up his
fourth foul in the third quar-
demic and fol-
lowing all the
NBA protocols
NOTES
seemed like it
would be a draining experi-
ence. And reports suggest
the equipment managers
and trainers are indeed at
wit’s end.
But the Knicks’ front-
loaded road schedule early
in this pandemic season has
been beneficial, according
to Thibodeau.
The Knicks finished their
four-game road trip Monday.
Five of their first seven games
were on the road and 12 of
their first 19 are away from
the empty Garden.
“In some ways I liked our
schedule,’’ Thibodeau said
before facing the Hawks.
“When you look at it, we
played tough teams and
spent quite a bit of time on
the road. It was almost like
going away for training
camp. You try to take the
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flip.”
The Knicks
will return home
Wednesday to
host the Jazz.
“Obviously safety has to
come first and it is a chal-
lenge for everyone,’’ Thibo-
deau said. “[Equipment
manager] Mike Martinez
— I don’t know how he does
it. But it’s important to fol-
low the protocols. We’re
concerned about everything.
Hopefully we can be as safe
as possible but everything is
concerning.”
➤ The Knicks still did
not get back injured shoot-
ing guard Alec Burks,
who missed the entire trip
with an ankle sprain.
Frank Ntilikina also was
a no-go as he missed the
whole trip, too, with a
sprained knee. Thibodeau
indicated Burks figures to
be back Wednesday.

worth their time

can win every game. We give ourselves a shot
every day.”
It starts, always, with Randle, who turned in
another ho-hum 28-point/17-rebound/9-assist
stat line, and it has begun to percolate through
RJ Barrett, too, who was good for 26/11/5.
But it doesn’t end there, and didn’t Monday.
Yes, Quickley was amazing, finishing with 16
points in 19 minutes. Yes, for a second straight
game, Austin Rivers came off the bench and
played brilliantly, knocking down the
3-pointer with 1:25 left that finally seemed to
convince the Knicks they were going to pull
this one off, finish off a 3-1 road trip.
But Mitch Robinson was solid, and stayed
clear of foul trouble on a night when Nerlens
Noel was unavailable. Even Kevin Knox, the
much-maligned third-year swingman, played
18 productive minutes, knocking down a cou-
ple of 3s including one at the third-quarter
buzzer that brought the Knicks to within
88-84 and really set up what happened all
across the fourth.
“We’re mentally tough,” Barrett said. “We A NEW YORK KNICKS
didn’t let the one loss [on this trip, to Toronto in
Tampa on New Year’s Eve] stop us. We had to BASKETBALL PODCAST
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suffering precincts of basketball New York.
It’s understandable, and it’s fine, and it is LONGTIME NBA PLAYER
probably necessary. Thing is: most of these JEROME WILLIAMS
players don’t have that awful burden of his-
tory. They just seem to like playing together.
It’s fun for them. And they aren’t alone.
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J wagon to Daniel Jones. The

organization loves the kid, is
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convinced he is the right successor

to Eli Manning.
The 2020 Giants, undoubtedly
on cue from Joe Judge, took the
high road on Monday in the wake
of the unforgivable, unforgettable
stunt that Doug Pederson pulled
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on Sunday night when he pulled

Jalen Hurts for Nate Sudfeld, rec-
ognizing that the 2021 Giants had
better keep destiny in their own
hands and not count on anyone
else for help.
Which means that Daniel Jones
must take the second-year leap
that we were expecting from him
in his third year.
And he knows it.
“Playing my best football next
year is certainly my goal,” Jones
said.
As rookies, Joe Burrow and Jus-
tin Herbert made it look easy.
Daniel Jones, not so much.
He should be past his ball-secu-
rity obsession enough now to
honor the franchise quarterback’s
mandate:
Get your team in the end zone,
and win games.
Jones didn’t do enough of either
this season.
In his 14 starts, the Giants scored
only 257 points.
In his 26 career starts, his record
is 8-18 (.308). Even Sam Darnold
(13-25, .342) somehow has a better
record.
Guilty ... with some explanations.
New head coach. New offensive
coordinator. Rebuilt offensive line
with inexperienced novice left
tackle, left guard and center. And
man alive, does he need a No. 1 re-
ceiver who would make Sterling
Shepard all the more dangerous.
And yes, if Evan Engram catches
that deep shot against That Team
Down South, the Giants would be
preparing for Tom Brady.
Be that as it may, there are more
questions about Jones entering this
offseason than there were entering
last offseason.
His pocket awareness did im-
prove at the end of this season, and
he thankfully did stop being a veri-
table turnover machine (11 fum-
bles, six lost, two over the last
seven games). And when healthy,,
his legs become a weapon, even if
they did betray him at the end of
that 80-yard run against That
Team Down South.
But his TD: INT ratio fell from
24:12 to 11:10.
You cannot expect to be a playoff
team when your quarterback
throws 11 touchdown passes.
“Throughout the season, I felt
like we made considerable im-
provement week-to-week,” Jones
said. “It wasn’t a straight incline,
there were bumps in the road,
there were games that we didn’t
play as well and took steps back.”
Offensive coordinator Jason Gar-
rett’s offense wasn’t as quarter-
back-friendly as advertised, but a
lack of continuity is the enemy of
young quarterbacks.
“I’ve loved working with Coach,
and learned a ton from him,” Jones
said. “He’s a tremendous football
coach and tremendous person, and
I’d love to continue to work with
him.”
In his second season, following
seven humbling starts as a rookie,
Eli Manning (24 TDs, 17 INTs),
with a better supporting cast that
included Tiki Barber, Plaxico Bur-
ress, Amani Toomer and Jeremy
Steve Serby
Ste Serb
Shockey, led Tom Coughlin to their
first playoff berth together, a disas-
trous 23-0 loss at home to the Pan-
thers. After which a rattled Man-
ning, who threw three intercep-
tions, said: “I had some good
games and some bad games. I’m
still learning and still not anywhere
near where I need to be. There’s a
lot of room for improvement.”
Manning (24 TDs, 18 INTs) im-
proved his completion percentage
in his third season from 52.8 to 57.7,
but the won-lost record slipped to
8-8. It truly clicked for him toward
the end of his fourth season on his
march to Super Bowl MVP.
Jones will have a better offensive
line blocking for him in 2021, and
Saquon Barkley back, so there can
be no excuses. By the time next
season ends, the Giants will want
to know whether they trust him
enough to make a long-term com-
mitment to him. Ask Sam Darnold
about that.
“It’s a role that I’ve gotta con-
tinue to earn every day,” Jones said,
“and if I’m not working to keep
that role and to continue to im-
prove, I understand what the busi-
ness of the NFL is. So I’ll continue
to do everything I can to prove that
so am that guy.”
This is what he has proved defin-
itively: He is very much like a Man-
ning in a number of ways. He is
physically and mentally tough. He
is the same guy every day. He has
the right makeup for this market.
First one in the building, last one to
leave. He has the arm. He has mo-
bility. His commitment to excel-
lence has earned him universal re-
spect in the locker room and in ev-
ery precinct of the organization.
“Daniel’s a heckuva QB, every-
body loves him in the locker room,
all the coaches love him, you can’t
say a bad thing about Daniel,” Nick
Gates said.
Daniel Jones was the sixth pick of
the 2019 NFL Draft, second quarter-
back taken, after Kyler Murray.
Dave Gettleman would have been
on the first rail out of town had he
selected Dwayne Haskins. The 2021
Giants need Daniel Jones to play
like the sixth pick of the NFL draft.
“I think we’re close,” Jones said.
Close to the playoffs is not close
enough. The ball — and the fran-
chise’s destiny — is in his hands.
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Pro Bowler Engram: ‘I didn’t perform as well as I wanted to’

By Ryan Dunleavy
Evan Engram’s fourth
season with the Giants
ended on the tune of la-
menting missed opportuni-
ties.
Not exactly what’s ex-
pected from a first-time
Pro Bowler.
“There were a lot of
times I didn’t perform as
well as I wanted to,” En-
gram said. “There’s never
any excuses. There were a
lot of plays I wish I could
have had back and plays I
could’ve done better things
to allow myself to be more
of an impact to the offense.”
Engram finished with 63
catches for 654 yards and
two touchdowns from
scrimmage. He improved as
a blocker.
But Engram was plagued
by eight drops — most
among NFL tight ends —
and deflections that made
him a target of fan ire. He
was the targeted receiver
on six of the 12 intercep-
tions thrown by Giants
quarterbacks.
“There are a lot of things
I need to improve on over
the offseason, a lot of things
I will improve
on,” Engram
said. “My next GIANTS
opportunity is NOTES
next year, and I
have to go make them.”
Engram is signed for $6
million for next season on a
fifth-year option that isn’t
fully guaranteed until
March. He reiterated he
wants to be with the Giants
long-term but declined to
say if there have been any
negotiations on a contract
extension.
“Everything
will work itself
out,” Engram
said. “All that
stuff is out of my
control. I’m not going to
live in the past or try to
predict the future.”
➤ Defensive tackle Dal-
vin Tomlinson is one of
the Giants’ priority free
agents, four years after he
was a second-round draft
pick.
“I love this organization,
and I’ll take it one day at a
time,” Tomlinson said. “I al-
ways want to be a Giant.”
➤ Center Nick Gates is
the only member of the Gi-
ants to play every offensive
or defensive snap.
None of the other starters
— Cam Fleming, Andrew
Thomas, Kevin Zeitler
and Shane Lemieux/Will
Hernandez — missed a
game due to injury, which is
incredibly rare along the
offensive line. Zeitler
missed part of a game and
the Giants rotated in back-
ups.
The group had three dif-
ferent position coaches on
game days.
“The offensive line as a
whole got kind of lucky we
didn’t have injuries,” Gates
said. “We came a long way
from the beginning.”

Potential cap gains whacks
Welcome to an NFL offseason like
no other.
Because revenues were down due
to COVID-19, the NFL salary cap is
projected to drop by as much as 11
percent in 2021, forcing teams to find
spending money elsewhere.
The Giants enter the offseason with
about $10.6 million in cap space —
middle of the pack across the league
— but there are ways to free up a lot
more cash.
Ask Victor Cruz, Dominique Rodgers-
Cromartie, Alec Ogletree and other
veterans who have been cut because
their contracts dictated it was the
smart financial decision. Here are
eight Giants who could be salary-
cap casualties this offseason, with
contract data from overthecap.com:
RG Kevin Zeitler
Cap hit if on the team: $14.5 million
Dead money if cut: $2.5 million
Savings: $12 million
Age for Week 1: 31
The Giants’ steadiest offensive lineman
in both seasons since he was acquired
in a trade for Olivier Vernon could be
squeezed out for the younger duo of
Will Hernandez and Shane Lemieux.
OT Nate Solder
Cap hit if on the team: $16.5 million
Dead money if cut:
$10.5 million
Savings: $6 million
Age for Week 1: 33
Solder opted out of the season as
high-risk for COVID-19 and recently
told The Post he is undecided on his
future as he waits to see the Giants’
plans for him. He has two years
remaining on his deal and could fill
the hole at right tackle after two
subpar seasons on the left side since
leaving New England.
WR Golden Tate (right)
Cap hit if on the team: $10.8 million
Dead money if cut: $4.7 million
Savings: $6.1 million
Age for Week 1: 33
Eagles reportedly irked by late QB switch
By Mark Fischer
Even Doug Pederson’s own players
were furious with the Eagles head coach
for waving the white flag in Sunday
night’s regular-season finale.
Two Philadelphia defenders had to be
held back from confronting Pederson
after he put in third-string quarterback
Nate Sudfeld in the fourth quarter of the
loss to the Washington Football Team,
according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a
move that was immediately rebuked by
former players, analysts and fans who
claimed the Eagles were purposely
throwing the game away in order to se-
click wait: While Daniel Jones cure the sixth pick in the NFL draft.
has a lot in common with his Sudfeld relieved rookie starter Ja-
predecessor, Eli Manning (inset), the len Hurts with the Eagles down three
Giants are hoping everything will click points, threw an interception on his
for the 23-year-old quarterback next second pass, lost a fumble on the
season, writes The Post’s Steve Serby. next possession, and did not come
close to leading his team to a
It’s been a rough two years for Tate,
who has missed nine games due to
various injuries, league suspension
and team suspension. The Giants
need an upgrade at outside receiver
who can create more separation.
TE Evan Engram
Cap hit if on the team: $6 million
Dead money if cut: $0
Savings: $6 million
Age for Week 1: 27
Why does a Pro Bowler and one of
coach Joe Judge’s favorites belong
here? He probably doesn’t. But
Giants fans are tired of his drops
— six interceptions when he was
targeted — and management’s
patience could wear thin. Because
he is not injured, his fifth-year option
salary in 2021 is not guaranteed until
March.
AP
bad move: According to a report, two
Eagles defenders were upset by Doug
Pederson’s decision to replace Jalen
Hurts (left) with Nate Sudfeld on Sunday.
comeback in the 20-14 loss.
Pederson defended his decision, saying
he wanted to get Sudfeld, a career backup,
playing time for the first time in two years.
“We were struggling just a little bit to
move the ball,” Pederson told reporters
Monday. “Defensively, they kept us in the
game with a couple of takeaways late. And
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TE Levine Toilolo
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Cap hit if on the team: $2.9 million
Dead money if cut: $0
Savings: $2.9 million
Age for Week 1: 30
The Giants hit a lot of home runs in
2020 free agency. Toilolo was not one.
That’s a steep price for a journeyman
blocking tight end to complement the
receiving-first Engram.
ILB David Mayo
Cap hit if on the team: $2.3 million
Dead money if cut: $0
Savings: $2.3 million
Age for Week 1: 28
Mayo was a pleasant surprise off the
scrap heap as a 13-game starter in
2019. He missed the first five games
of 2020 due to injury and never
rounded into form, trying his hand at
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edge rusher on the line at times.
WR Cody Core
Cap hit if on the team: $2 million
Dead money if cut: $0
Savings: $2 million
Age for Week 1: 27
Core did not play due to a torn
Achilles suffered in training camp.
He was missed on special teams,
especially as a punt gunner.
LG Will Hernandez
Cap hit if on the team: $2.3 million
Dead money if cut: $874,680
Savings: $1.4 million
Age for Week 1: 26
Hernandez played
every snap in his
first 39 career
games but lost his
starting job to the
rookie Lemieux
during a bout with
COVID-19. The
former second-
round pick did not
get off the bench in Week 17. It’s
a reasonable contract even for an
experienced backup, but a fresh start
might be best for all parties.
— Ryan Dunleavy
my plan was to get Nate in the game.”
Pederson hinted last week that Sudfeld
could see playing time, but many were
stunned that he would make a change with
his team well within striking distance.
While Hurts was 7 of 20 with one inter-
ception, he had rushed for two touch-
downs and clearly gave Philadelphia,
which also sat multiple starters for the en-
tire game, the best chance at knocking its
rival Washington out of playoff contention.
After being removed from the game, the
NBC cameras panned to Hurts, who ap-
peared to say, “It’s not right.” Hurts said
afterward, “As a competitor, I play to win.
You have to trust [Pederson’s plan].”
Perhaps no team was more upset with
Pederson than the Giants, who needed the
Eagles to win because it would have sent
them to the playoffs over Washington.
“This is sickening,’’ receiver Darius
Slayton tweeted shortly after Sudfeld en-
tered the game.
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By RYAN DUNLEAVY

Joe Judge aimed a blow-

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torch at the Eagles and

stopped just short of
denouncing his Philadelphia
roots.
In a message sure to win
him more support with
Giants fans and his outraged
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players, Judge skillfully criti-

cized the way the Eagles
coached to lose in the fourth
quarter Sunday night, hand-
ing the NFC East title to
Washington.
“To disrespect the effort
that everyone put forward to
make this season a success
for the NFL, to disrespect
the game by not going out
there and competing for 60
minutes and doing every-
thing you can to help those
players win,” Judge said, “we
will never
do that as
After players take high road, Judge elects to rip Birds
long as I’m the head coach them in the eye and assure the same politically correct bite talking about the cul- Five of the Giants’ 10
of the New York Giants.” them I’m always going to do message ... but then got to ture of a team,” Judge said, losses came by eight points
Jud ge never said the everything I can to put them thinking about sacrifice. “I think he was spot-on with or less. They blew double-
word “Eagles” nor named at a competitive advantage Coming in for COVID-19 that. It’s truly all about the digit leads three times in
coach Doug Pederson — and play them in a position tests every morning. Wear- team. The [Giants] guys a four-game span during a
and paused several times of strength, to me you don’t ing masks and face shields in who went 0-5, who went 1-7 start. They were blown
to choose his words care- ever want to disrespect meetings. Unconventional 1-7, who fought through out by two non-playoff par-
fully and keep his emotions those players and their effort travel methods. Pre-sunrise those situations and went ticipants (San Francisco
in check — but it was clear and disrespect the game.” text messages canceling through Year 1 of this, who- and Arizona). Too much to
where he stood on the deci- Five hours earlier Mon- practice and moving meet- ever comes in here has to overcome despite sweeping
sion to bench starting quar- day, Giants players masked ings to Zoom. Not spending understand what’s expected division-champion Wash-
terback Jalen Hurts for the anger they aired unfil- Thanksgiving and Christ- not just by the coaches but ington.
bumbling third-stringer tered live on Twitter as the mas with your families. by the players who built this Critics of the Giants’
Nate Sudfeld in the stance
st will say no 6-10 team
fourth quarter of a
three-point game.
“To disrespect the game by not going out there and should gripe about missing
the playoffs — or that teams
If the Eagles
had upset Washing-
competing for 60 minutes and doing everything you can are
ar at half-strength in Week
17 all the time. But that is
ton, the Giants would
have won the division
to help those players win, we will never do that as long as missing
mis
that
the broader point
tha the Eagles didn’t put
on a three-way tie-
breaker and gone to
I’m the head coach of the New York Giants.” out
ou an undermanned team
with intentions to try to win
the playoffs in this — Joe Judge at a disadvantage — like the
COVID-19 impacted Jets
Je or Jaguars did for most
season. Eagles’ intentions became Delaying your wife’s birth- and helped get this going.” of the season — and weren’t
“One thing to clear. Five players all repeat- day celebration to the off- Judge did not reach out to resting stars to stay healthy
keep in mind with ed versions of the same pub- season. anyone associated with the for the playoffs. They ran
this season is we lic sentiment Judge drilled Not by coincidence, Judge Eagles for answers. away from winning.
had a lot of people home during a team meet- mentioned seeing a video of “That’s not my job,” Judge “It’s a tough pill to swal-
opt-in to this sea- ing. Eagles center Jason Kelce’s said. “I’m focused on the low,” Peppers said. “If we
son,” Judge said. “I was angry because I impassioned plea from early New York Giants and what made a play here or there,
“Coaches, play- know that we had 16 [games] December that culture- we have to do going forward. this conversation would be
ers, family mem- to make it happen,” safety building is a priority over I just directly responded to very different.”
bers, as well. To Jabrill Peppers said, “and all other things, including questions I’ve been asked The Eagles’ dominance of
look at a group any time you put your des- developing young players. throughout the day by play- the Giants — 12-1 since 2014
of men who tiny in another’s hands it Pederson’s explanation that ers and making sure that until the Giants won the last
I ask to give doesn’t bode well for you. he owed Sudfeld a chance everybody understands our meeting — sucked some of
me effort on I’m not angry at what they to play — after four years philosophy. When we say the life out of the rivalry, even
a day-in, day- did. They don’t owe us any- on the bench — doesn’t pass we’re going to come to work with a slew of crazy come-
out basis and thing.” the smell test when a more every day and make the area backs. Forget that. Schedule-
empty the Judge, who grew up as an favorable draft position was proud and we’re going to be makers should pencil it in for
tank so that Eagles fan with his friends gained. a blue-collar team, that’s not Week 1 in 2021.
I can look and family, started to deliver “To hear Kelce’s sound going to be lip service.” rdunleavy@nypost.com

Coach confident the foundation for success

By PAUL SCHWARTZ
Joe Judge thought back on his ini-
tial interview with the Giants, one
year ago Friday, and what he told
ownership about how he wanted
and needed to do if he got the job.
“I talked at length early on about
not taking shortcuts to try to go
ahead and feel good about Year 1, in
terms of win or loss column,’’ Judge
said Monday, the day after his first
season with the Giants came to an
end. “But our job is to win games,
don’t make any mistake on that. We
didn’t want to take any shortcuts,
we wanted to make sure to build it
the right way and we can build this
thing for sustained success over the
years.’’
Sustained success can only arrive
when initial success takes up resi-
dence in the building, and that has
not happened yet for Judge. The
Giants finished 6-10 in his first year
as a head coach, missing out on the
playoffs and first place in the histor-
ically bad NFC East by one game.
“We didn’t make the playoffs, it
sucks, but I think we’re trending
upwards,’’ center Nick Gates, who
did not miss a snap all season, said.
“Joe Judge is doing a really good
job changing the culture in this
place and everything is trending
upwards.’’
First place and playoffs were not
first on the list for Judge, though.
Not in 2020.
“My No. 1 goal as a coach this
year was the foundation and the
culture,’’ he said. “I can absolutely
say with certainty we accom-
plished that.’’
The Giants were engaged in 10
one-score games; they won five of
them and lost five of them. They
beat Washington, the division
champs, by one and three points,
beat the Bengals by two. They lost
to the Bears by four points, the
Cowboys by three, the Buccaneers
by two and the Eagles by one. Fid-
dling with either-or scenarios
could have the Giants sitting at 10
wins or 15 losses. They were blown
out four times and only once did
they win by as much as 10 points.
Gates singled out the 37-34 loss
in Dallas and the 22-21 loss two
weeks later in Philadelphia as the
most galling. The Giants blew a 17-3
lead and lost on a field goal as time
expired to the Cowboys and blew a
21-10 lead to the Eagles to lose after
giving up 12 points in the final 4:38.
“The first Eagles game down
in Philly, that one kind of sucked,’’
Gates said. “The Dallas game, the
last-second field goal, that one kind
of stung.’’
Judge lost his first five games and
was 1-7 at midseason. He insists he
learned more about the character
of his team amid all that failure
than he did in the second half of the
season, as the Giants went 5-3, pro-
viding evidence they were on the
way up and learning how to win.
“From the end of the games we
had to the slow start, going 0-5 and
1-7, we had some knockout-punch
games and through the adversity
nobody in the locker room ever
quit, the energy never shifted,’’
tight end Evan Engram said. “This
was a culture we built this year that
stood in the rain and stood in the
adversity and continued to fight.’’
Judge did not make any rev-

PHIGHTIN’ WORDS: Joe Judge, without naming
names, took Doug Pederson (left) to task for
pulling Jalen Hurts from Sunday night’s game,
just about handing Washington a win when he
inserted seldom-used Nate Sudfeld.
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laid in 1st season
elations as far as his coaching staff,
declining to say if Jason Garrett,
who reportedly is a candidate to fill
the Chargers’ head-coaching vacan-
cy, will return as offensive coordina-
tor. The Giants averaged 17.5 points
a game this season; only the Jets
scored fewer points.
He did say continuity is impor-
tant. Daniel Jones regressed in
almost every statistical category in
his second season, his first in Gar-
rett’s system.
“For any player on the team, nota-
bly the quarterback, it’s important
to have a solid base on it,’’ Judge
said, “but they’ve got to evolve in
their careers as we go along the way
as well. You can’t be afraid of chang-
es or adjustments within our own
systems or schemes.’’
Jones said: “I’m not sure I’m in a
position to comment on that’’ when
asked if he wanted to see Garrett
return.
“I can just say that I have loved
working with coach, and I learned a
ton from him,’’ Jones said.
In his introductory press confer-
ence, Judge spoke at length about
his desire for the Giants to reflect
the grit and determination of the
New York/New Jersey area. He
believes his team hit the mark.
“I can absolutely say yes,’’ Judge
said.
By PAUL SCHWARTZ
The Giants are moving forward
with Dave Gettleman as their
general manager, as ownership
believes the team is headed in the
right direction and Gettleman
is the right man to continue the
building process alongside head
coach Joe Judge.
The major decision of the off-
season, determining if there is a
change at the top, has been decid-
ed, The Post has learned, and it is a
lean toward continuity. Gettleman
returns for a fourth season.
That the Giants did not know
exactly when their season would
end was a step forward for a fran-
chise that for nearly the entire
past decade grew accustomed to
packing up and parting ways in an
orderly and previously-scheduled
fashion. The Giants were not elimi-
nated from the playoffs until the
very last game played in the NFL
season, and that is a sign of prog-
ress, however unimpressive their
6-10 record turned out to be.
Co-owners John Mara and Steve
Tisch were not mesmerized by
the down-to-the-wire playoff race,
realizing the roster is not yet where
it needs to be and winning six
games in a season normally puts a
team closer to last place than first
place. There is a conviction the
arrow is pointing up, though. Mara
and Gettleman will meet with the
media either Tuesday or Wednes-
day to discuss the state of the team
and the factors that went into
retaining Gettleman.
The Giants were 9-23 in Gettle-
man’s first two years. The litmus
test put out there by Mara after the
2019 season was that the team had
to show signs of growth, that Get-
tleman improve his batting average
in player personnel moves and that
there were pieces in place to boost
the franchise into Super Bowl con-
tention.
The 6-10 record is a slight
uptick from 4-12 in 2019. Gettle-
man’s rate of return in the 2020
NFL Draft and especially in free
agency in 2020 — the signings of
James Bradberry, Blake Martinez
and Logan Ryan on defense and
kicker Graham Gano were slam-
dunk successes — was quite high
and his controversial commit-
ment to Leonard Williams paid off
in a huge way. Williams finished
the season with a career-high 11.5
sacks and admitted it was gratify-
ing to “show why Dave Gettleman
took a chance on me … and it feels
good to show him that it was the
right choice.’’
Just as Gettleman, who
turns 70 on Feb. 21, took a
hit for his involvement in
the hiring of Pat Shurmur,
so too does Gettleman get
credit for the hiring of Judge,
roundly viewed in the
building as a coaching
find.
Gettleman’s
return is not the
only issue or
decision upcom-
GM Gett’s
a fourth
season
in charge
WORK TO BE DONE: The Giants are keeping GM Dave
Gettleman (above) for a fourth season and now he faces big
decisions surrounding (below, from left) offensive coordinator
Jason Garrett, Saquon Barkley and Leonard Williams.
ing as the offseason kicks in. Here
are a few of the list toppers:
The offensive coordinator:
The Giants finished up averag-
ing 17.5 points a game, 31st in the
league. They were 31st in total
yards per game, 29th in passing
yards and 19th in rushing yards. In
a season when the NFL set scor-
ing records, the Giants surpassed
30 points once in 16 games. It is no
secret where to point the finger for
the sub-.500 record. Jason Garrett
in his first year running the Giants
offense built the attack around
Saquon Barkley, and the plan
lasted six quarters before Barkley
went down in Week 2 with a torn
anterior cruciate ligament. Garrett
— who has reportedly emerged as
a candidate for the Chargers’ head-
coaching vacancy — struggled to
take Daniel Jones to the next level
and could not create many chunk
plays in the passing game. There
are no indications he and Judge
are at odds, but the results indicate
some sort of change is in order and
not merely in talent upgrade.
The defensive lineman:
When the Giants secured Williams
for the season with the franchise
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tag of $16.1 million, there did not
seem to be a way for Williams to
live up to that money or the two
draft picks Gettleman gave the
Jets to acquire him. Williams more
than did so. In his first five NFL
seasons, Williams managed just
17.5 sacks. Williams’ virtuoso per-
formance in the finale against the
Cowboys boosted his sack total to
11.5, to go along with his 57 tackles,
14 tackles for losses and 30 quarter-
back hits. He did it all and will be
paid handsomely and accordingly
as he enters free agency.
The running back: The entire
organization cannot wait to see
Barkley back on the field. The
expectation is Barkley will be
recovered from ACL surgery in
time for the start of the 2021 sea-
son. Barkley missing the final 14
games was a massive blow to the
offense. He is entering the final
year of his four-year, $31.1 million
rookie deal. If he did not get hurt,
this would be the time for a lucra-
tive extension. This is not the
time for that, though, with Barkley
needing to reestablish himself as
one of the top running backs in the
league. Perhaps the Giants find a
way to extend his con-
tract for a year to give
him a bump up from
his $920,000 salary
for 2021, but both
sides need to wait
before the next
major com-
mitment.
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schwartz@
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By Brian CosTello
The Jets made one big decision
about their future on Sunday night
when they fired Adam Gase. An-
other major decision this offseason
is what to do at quarterback.
Sam Darnold, the current quar-
terback, reiterated Monday that he
wants to stay with the team.
“I said it once I got here, I want to
be a Jet for life,” Darnold said. “I
love the people here. I love living
here. I want to turn this thing
around. I believe that we can.
There’s going to be a lot of work in-
volved in that. We all know it’s a
process. We’ve got great people in
the organization, great people in
the locker room. It’s a work in
progress, but I definitely want to
stay here hopefully for the rest of
my career.”
Darnold finished 35th out of 35
qualifying quarterbacks in passer
rating this season at 72.7. He threw
nine touchdowns and 11 intercep-
tions in 12 games. The Jets have the
No. 2-overall pick and could use it
on a quarterback, which would
most likely lead to trading Darnold.
Jets CEO and chairman Christo-
pher Johnson said he hopes Dar-
nold is back with the Jets, but that
decision will be left to the football
decision-makers.
“I’m a huge fan of Sam,” Johnson
said. “I think he’s a great QB and I
think he has really wonderful talent
and drive and leadership and part
of the reason that this team never
gave up this year is because of Sam.
I don’t think the book has been
written on Sam. He has a very big
future. I personally hope that it’s on
this team. That’s what I told him
[Sunday] night after the game. I
hope he is a Jet going forward. But
that decision is going to be made by
Joe Douglas and our new coach.”
Gase was hired by Johnson in
2019 to bring out the best in Dar-
nold. Instead, Darnold took a big
step back this year and that is a big
reason why Gase was let go.
“Personally, I didn’t play consist-
ent enough,” Darnold said. “I think
that’s one thing that I can pin it on.
I think that’s the one thing I’m go-
ing to stick to because it’s true. I
didn’t play well enough. I didn’t
play consistent enough. I had
flashes. I had stretches where I was
playing well. Last year, we had that
6-2 stretch where I played well and
a couple of games this year, but [I]
just haven’t been able to put it to-
gether for a whole season. I know I
will in the future. I think that’s
where I didn’t do well enough for
Adam.”
The Jets are 13-35 in Darnold’s
three seasons with the team. Dar-
nold said the losing is getting old.
“It sucks. No one likes losing.
Quite frankly, I’m tired of it,” Dar-
nold said. “But I think for us it really
is about putting your head down
and going to work every day.
That’s really all we can do. It’s
about putting it together for
all four quarters in a football
game. We haven’t done
that enough. If we do that,
we can be a really good
football team. We can
be a winning football
team.”
Darnold, who
missed four games
with a shoulder in-
jury, said he does
not believe he needs
surgery on the shoul-
der and plans on resting
it for the next few weeks to
let it heal before beginning
offseason training.
Darnold liked working
with Gase and was sad to see
him fired.
“Obviously when things
like that happen, you just
think about him and his family
and everything they could be going
through right now,” Darnold said.
“With Adam, he’s been great ever
since I’ve been here in terms of
helping me out right when he got
here, just the relationship we have
built through these last couple of
years has been very special. It’s ob-
viously sad news just thinking
about him and his family and wish-
ing him nothing but the best mov-
ing forward.”
brian.costello@nypost.com

Saban considering Gase for Tide OC gig

By JusTin TasCh
Bill O’Brien is also among the candidates, according
Adam Gase may go back to school to get his
coaching career on track.
After being fired by the Jets on Sunday
night, the 42-year-old Gase is among the op-
tions Alabama head coach Nick Saban is
considering to fill the team’s offensive co-
ordinator vacancy, according to The Ath-
letic.
Gase worked for Saban at Michigan
State as a student and followed him
to LSU, where they worked to-
gether for three years before
Gase made the jump to the
NFL as a Lions assistant.
Fired Texans coach and ex-Penn State head coach
to the report. Crimson Tide offensive coordinator
Steve Sarkisian took the head coaching job at
Texas after the Longhorns canned Tom Herman.
Gase was fired after a nightmarish 2-14 Jets
season that began with 13 straight losses. He
finished his two-year Jets tenure with a 9-23
record.
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick heaped willing to work: Though
praise on Gase ahead of their Week 17 Sam Darnold’s future with the Jets is
meeting, and there’s been buzz in uncertain, the 23-year-old
New England about Belichick be- quarterback reiterated that he wants
ing interested in adding Gase to “be a Jet for life.” He said with a lot
to his staff. of hard work, Gang Green can be “a
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back soon? Christopher Johnson said he wasn’t sure when his brother,
Woody (above), who has been serving as the U.S. ambassador to the
United Kingdom since 2017, would return to the Jets. Paul J. Bereswill
Timetable for Woody’s
return still an unknown
By Brian Costello
One big question that is looming
over the Jets and their new head
coach is: When is owner Woody
Johnson returning from England and
does he have a role in this hire?
Jets CEO and chairman Christo-
pher Johnson has run the team since
Woody became the U.S. ambassador
to the United Kingdom in 2017. Chris-
topher said Monday that Woody’s re-
turn date is still uncertain. He will re-
main the ambassador until Jan. 20
when Joe Biden is sworn in
as president. But even when
his brother returns, Chris-
JETS
topher plans on playing a NOTES
more active role in
the organization than he did
prior to Woody’s departure.
“I’m not going anyplace
in this building. I’m still go-
ing to be here,” Christopher
Johnson said. “There will be a
fair amount of continuity. My
role will be significant moving
forward. But when he does get
back, whenever that is, he will
have the final say on decision-
making. I’ll be an important
adviser here and a big part of
what happens here.”
As for the coaching search,
Woody will not play an active role
and will not be involved in the inter-
views. The expectation is that
Christopher will keep Woody in the
know as the search progresses.
There is no doubt some coaching
candidates will be worried about
potentially having a new boss weeks
after they are hired. The Jets are go-
ing to have to assuage those con-
cerns.
➤ Left tackle Mekhi Becton suf-
fered a high-ankle sprain in Sunday’s
season finale against the Patriots.
Becton said his priority now is to get
healthy and then he will begin train-
ing for his second season.
One of his goals is to lose weight.
He began this season at 370
pounds.
“I’m going to get that
down. I’m working on get-
ting that down,” Becton said.
Becton suffered shoulder, chest and
ankle injuries this season. He said he
just thinks that is part of football. He
wants to improve on some technique
this offseason.
“To fix the little things that I need
to work on, like technical things, get
my football IQ up, learn the game
more this offseason, just things like
that, the little things that go unno-
ticed,” Becton said of his offseason
objectives.
➤ The Jets signed the following
players to reserve/future contracts:
TE Connor Davis, LB Noah Dawk-
ins, K Sam Ficken, RB Pete Guerri-
ero, DB Zane Lewis, WR Josh Mal-
one, WR D.J. Montgomery, WR Ja-
leel Scott, QB Mike White.
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will define his
tenure with Jets
OE DOUGLAS, grab your bat and the most desirable open job.
J helmet. The Jaguars, with some $100 million
You’re up. Time for you to step to spend under the salary cap and the
to the plate. No. 1-overall draft pick, which pre-
Time for you to make a difference. sumably means Clemson quarterback
If it seems like the Jets general man- Trevor Lawrence will be on board by
ager has been on an extended honey- April, are highly attractive.
nypost.com
moon, quietly going about his busi- So, too, are the Texans, who already
ness comfortably out of the spotlight have their franchise quarterback in
since he was hired in June 2019, that’s place in Deshaun Watson.
exactly what’s been happening. That leaves the Jets, Falcons and Li-
But Douglas’ first 18 months have not ons. What if Douglas decides Chiefs of-
exactly screamed “executive of the year.’’ fensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy is his
His performance in free agency last man, but Bieniemy has the pick of the
season produced more misses than litter and views the Chargers or Jaguars
hits. His first draft was respectably as better jobs? Can he sell Bieniemy,
good with left tackle Mekhi Becton a who was passed over by ownership in
home run and a few other players, like 2019 when Gase was hired, on the Jets?
receiver Denzel Mims, potential start- Good luck with that.
ers. Regardless of any coaching defi- “This is a broad and deep search,’’
ciencies, however, his
roster is a 2-14 roster.
Now it’s time for
Douglas to truly
Johnson said. “We
want to get it right.
Clearly, we aren’t the
only team looking for
make his mark on the
Jets franchise that
handed him a six-
year contract to
a new coach.’’
As of Monday, the
Jets already had put
Mark Cannizzaro in requests to inter-
change the course of view Bieniemy, Bills
an organization that hasn’t been to the offensive coordinator Brian Daboll,
playoffs in a decade and hasn’t had a Colts defensive coordinator Matt
winning season since 2015. Eberflus and Giants defensive coordi-
That begins with finding the right nator Patrick Graham. There will be
head coach now that the Adam Gase more candidates to come.
mistake has been addressed with his “This could take a few weeks,’’ John-
Sunday night dismissal.
Christopher Johnson, the Jets CEO,
son said. “It could be quite quick.’’
No matter the timeline, just get it
made it clear on Monday that this is right. The Jets cannot afford to swing
Douglas’ show. and miss again. Another strikeout sets
“Joe has a lot of background, a lot of the franchise back more years. No
time in this league and is well re- more mistakes.
spected,’’ Johnson said. “Make no mis- Douglas can afford to make the mis-
take: He’s going to take the lead on take of misjudging the free-agent mar-
this. I think we should have every con- ketplace while low-balling receiver
fidence in him as the man on point in Robby Anderson, the team’s best re-
this search.’’ ceiver in 2019, and losing him to the
The challenges with this hire will be Panthers. He can afford to make a mis-
daunting for Douglas for a number of take on cornerback Pierre Desir, who
reasons. was signed as a free agent to be one of
The first and greatest challenge is the team’s starting cornerbacks but
choosing the right coach among a pool was benched in the first half of the sea-
of capable coordinators, college coaches son opener and released after Week 9.
and head-coach retreads. Regardless of What Douglas cannot afford is to
how many interviews you do, how miss on this head coach hire. This
many recommendations you seek, how move will define his tenure with the
do you ever really know someone’s go- Jets more than any player he drafts or
ing to be that perfect fit until you actu- signs from here forth.
ally see him out there doing it? “I am sick of losing,’’ Johnson said. “I
The second challenge for Douglas am so tired of this — as are the players,
will be his salesmanship. As of Mon- as are the fans. But I really think that
day, there were six openings for head Joe is the GM we’ve been searching for
coaches and the Jets, with their losing for years. I have a lot of faith in him. If
culture and uncertainty at quarter- we can get this coaching hire right —
back, are not even close to the most and I think we will — I think we will be
attractive of the openings. a team that no one will want to see on
The Chargers, with Justin Herbert their schedule … even next year.’’
at quarterback and a pretty good ros- Now batting … Douglas. Joe Douglas.
ter around him, probably represent mcannizzaro@nypost.com
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With Douglas leading search,

By BRIAN COSTELLO and each reports to ownership.
“Everything is up in the air here
Jets CEO and chairman Chris- and that is one of those things

Johnson wants next coach to

topher Johnson laid out his vision that we’re considering changing,”
Monday for what the team is seek- Johnson said.
ing in a new head coach. It was clear the Jets would
Johnson wants a coach who will be moving on from Gase as the

oversee both sides of the ball

be a true head coach and not solely
focused on one side of the ball.
“I don’t much like the term CEO,
but it does describe what we’re
looking for,” Johnson said. “We
want a head coach that coaches
the entire team end-to-end and his
staff. You don’t have to be offensive.
You don’t have to be defensive.
This is a coach for the entire team
and that’s very important to us
looking forward.”
Johnson was careful not to
directly criticize Adam Gase,
whom he fired on Sunday night
after two seasons as the team’s
head coach, but it was not hard to
read between the lines. Gase was
hired two years ago to fix the Jets
offense, specifically young quarter-
back Sam Darnold. The team was
laser-focused on finding an offen-
sive coach in that search for Gase
and was on board with pairing him
with defensive coordinator Gregg
Williams in a setup in which Wil-
liams was basically the head coach
of the defense.
Now, Johnson said the team
wants to land a “different kind of
coach.”
“I think that this is a really good
landing spot for a coach and once
we have that coach, once we stick
the landing with this coaching hire,
I think that the future of this team
is very, very bright,” Johnson said.
The Jets are already known
to have requested permission
to interview several candidates
— Giants defensive coordina-
tor Patrick Graham, Colts defen-
sive coordinator Matt Eberflus,
Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric
Bieniemy, Bills offensive coordi-
nator Brian Daboll, Rams defen-
sive coordinator Brandon Staley
and Titans offensive coordinator
Arthur Smith, per sources and
reports. That list will grow in the
coming days as Johnson promised
a “broad and deep” search.
The search will be led by gen-
eral manager Joe Douglas, whom
Johnson gushed over during the
conference call. Johnson and team
president Hymie Elhai will also sit
in on interviews, but Douglas will
choose the coach.
“I really think Joe is the GM
we’ve been searching
for for years,” John-
son said. “I have a lot
of faith in him. If we
can get this coaching
hire right and I think we
will, I think we can be a
team that no one is going
to want to see on their
schedule, even next
year.”
The Jets were
the team every-
one wanted to
play this season. They finished
2-14 and missed the playoffs for
the 10th straight year, the longest
active drought in the NFL. They
have had five straight losing sea-
sons for the first time in franchise
history and went 9-23 overall in
Gase’s two years.
“I am sick of losing,” Johnson
said. “I am so tired of this, as
are the players, as are the
fans.”
Johnson said the team
will consider changing its
organizational structure
to have the new coach
report directly to
Douglas. Under
the current
setup, the
coach and
GM are
equals
losses mounted this season.
They opened the year 0-13 before
winning consecutive games in
December. Johnson said he did
not fire Gase midseason because
he thought the team was still play-
ing hard for him and the Johnsons’
philosophy has been to let coach-
es finish the year.
As for fans who were hoping the
Jets would “Tank for Trevor” and
were upset when the Jets won and
lost the No. 1 draft pick and a shot
at Clemson star Trevor Lawrence,
Johnson said he could empathize.
“I understand that viewpoint
and after so much disappointment
fans were looking for something to
say this was our reward,” Johnson
said. “In this building, we play to
win. I wouldn’t want anybody in
this building who doesn’t want to
win every damn game. The will to
win is the heartbeat of the players
that will take us back to the play-
offs. You don’t want anybody in
this building who wants to lose.”
brian.costello@nypost.com

The first candidates

The Jets began submitting requests for
head coaching interviews on Monday after
firing Adam Gase. Here is a rundown on
each of the candidates, known via reports
and sources:
Patrick Graham
Giants defensive coordinator
The 41-year-old Graham is in his first
season with the Giants after spending
a year as the Dolphins defensive
coordinator.
The Giants finished this season ranked
12th in overall defense and ninth in scoring
defense. Graham spent seven seasons
with the Patriots before working for the
Giants and Packers and then the Dolphins
under Brian Flores. He left Miami after one
season to join Joe Judge in New York.
Brandon Staley
Rams defensive coordinator
The 38-year-old Staley is in his first
season with the Rams, but has turned
heads with how well his defense has
played.
He has overseen a defense that finished
the year ranked No. 1 in total defense and
scoring. Staley came to Los Angeles from
the Broncos where he spent one season as
the outside linebackers coach. Before that
he spent two years with the Bears in the
same role. He had never been a coordinator
in the NFL before this year. The Rams are
playing this weekend, so Staley won’t be
able to interview until next week.
Matt Eberflus
Colts defensive coordinator
With the Colts playing this weekend,
the Jets would not be able to interview
Eberflus until next week. Eberflus has
been with the Colts for three years. Jets
assistant GM Rex Hogan worked with him
in Indianapolis before joining the Jets in
2019, so there is some familiarity with him
inside the organization.
Eberflus, 50, took a defense that finished
No. 30 in scoring and total defense
and turned it into a defense that
finished No. 10 in scoring and No.
11 in total in 2018. The Colts do not
have a lot of defensive stars, but their
defense is consistently good. He has
helped develop second-round pick
Darius Leonard into a top linebacker. The
Colts finished this season No. 8 in total
defense and No. 11 in scoring. Eberflus
interviewed with the Browns in 2019 for
their coaching job.
Arthur Smith
Titans offensive coordinator
The Titans are
in the playoffs and an
interview could not
Patrick
occur until next week.
Smith, 38, has been Graham
the offensive coordinator in
Tennessee for two years. He has helped
Ryan Tannehill rebuild his career and
overseen a strong running game led by
Derrick Henry. The Titans ranked third in
total offense this year, second in rushing
and fourth in scoring.
Before becoming the offensive
coordinator, Smith was the Titans’ tight
ends coach for three seasons. He has been
with Tennessee in some capacity since 2011.
Smith’s father, Frederick Smith, is the
founder of FedEx.
Eric Bieniemy
Chiefs offensive coordinator
The Jets interviewed Bieniemy
in 2019 before hiring Gase, but
were concerned about his
lack of experience as a play-
caller.
Bieniemy, 51, oversees
the No. 1 offense
in the NFL. He has
been Kansas City’s
coordinator since
2018 after serving
as its running backs
coach from 2013-17.
The Chiefs have a
high-powered offense,
but there is a question
AP how much Bieniemy
is responsible for and how much is due to
head coach Andy Reid, the team’s primary
play-caller.
Chiefs players have campaigned for
Bieniemy to get a head coaching job and
were very upset last year when he was
passed over by several teams he interviewed
with. Bieniemy is expected to be one of the
top candidates in this hiring cycle. Bieniemy
can interview virtually this week since the
Chiefs have a first-round bye.
Brian Daboll
Bills offensive coordinator
Bills quarterback Josh Allen flourished
this season under Daboll’s tutelage and
that has caught people’s attention around
the NFL.
Daboll, 45, has a diverse coaching
background. He spent 10 seasons on the
staff of the Patriots in two stints under
Bill Belichick. He also coached under Nick
Saban for a year at Alabama, winning
the national championship there as
co-offensive coordinator in 2017. Daboll
worked for the Jets as their quarterbacks
coach under Eric Mangini in 2007-08.
Daboll has been Buffalo’s coordinator
since 2018. The Bills finished No. 2 in total
and scoring offense this season. Allen is
in the MVP conversation after throwing 37
toucdowns and 4,544 yards. The Bills are
playing this weekend, so Daboll won’t be
permitted to interview until next week.
— Brian Costello

ALL SYSTEM’S JOE: Jets
chairman and CEO Christopher
Johnson is ready to let GM Joe
Douglas (inset) lead the search
for the next head coach and said
he is considering changing the
power structure, having the next
coach report directly to the GM
instead of himself. Bill Kostroun
Faith in GM better
not be misplaced
T
HIS really should be an unsaid
part of the owner-fan compact
but: Of course owners want to win
every bit as much as fans do. Why in
the world would they put billions of
dollars behind something they don’t
care about?
Still, fans want to know. They need
to know. There was a large faction of
Mets fans that insisted the Wilpons’
greatest sin was that they didn’t care
about winning the way the rank and
f ile do. There are
Knicks fans who
truly believe James
Dolan doesn’t care
if the team wins or
loses, just that Gar-
den’s seats remain
mostly occupied Mike Vaccaro
Mik Va
(when such matters
are relevant).
Same deal with Jets fans and the
Johnson brothers. And it was pretty
clear Monday, on a conference call
with reporters, that Christopher John-
son is well aware of the belief, among
some green-hued constituents, that he
and his older brother, Woody, aren’t
exactly there in the foxhole of fandom
with Ira from Staten Island and Joe
from Saddle River.
“I am sick of losing,” Johnson
declared. “I am so tired of this, as are
the players, as are the fans.”
He spoke of missing his game-day
ritual when he would seek out other
longtime Jets fans — “I go back to
Namath, too,” he said — and letting
them have their say as he trolled the
MetLife Stadium parking lot. He said
he sympathized with Jets fans grown
so despondent with losing that they’d
bought into the Tank-for-Trevor nar-
rative.
“I understand the viewpoint,” he
said. “And after so much disappoint-
ment fans were looking for some-
thing to say this was our reward. But I
wouldn’t want in this building anyone
who wouldn’t want to win every damn
game. You don’t want anyone in this
building who wants to lose.”
Johnson is clearly all-in on Joe
Douglas. He said it will be Douglas
who will make a decision on Sam
Darnold, who is a personal favorite of
Johnson’s but whose fate is in the GM’s
hands. He hinted that he will abolish
the foolish corporate structure where
the coach and GM have long had equal
access to the owner’s ear. There will
be no group-of-elders assemblage this
time to identify the new coach. For
better or worse, Douglas is the man.
For better or worse, Douglas is John-
son’s man.
Now all Douglas needs to do is iden-
tify his man.
And it is neither exaggeration nor
hyperbole to say the coming days may
be the most critical in franchise his-
tory going back to April 15, 1963. On
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that day, three things happened: 1)
Sonny Werblin hired Weeb Ewbank,
freshly canned by the Colts after lead-
ing them to two NFL titles; 2) Werblin
announced the team formerly known
as the “Titans” would henceforth
be called the Jets; 3) the team colors
would switch from black and gold to
green and white.
“New York is a green-conscious
town,” Werblin explained, “from the
dividing stripe down Fifth Avenue to
nypost.com
the verdant hills and
dales of Westches-
ter to the beautifully
landscaped parks
of Long Island.
Through the ages,
green has always
s i g n i fi e d h o p e,
freshness and high
spirits.”
Hiring Ewbank, of course, was the
most significant transaction that
day, and it forged a direct line to Jan.
12, 1969, when the Jets won Super
Bowl III. All these years later, the Jets
require a coach of similar gravitas and
similar ambition, because they have
never been surrounded in their own
division by greater challenges.
The Jets have always had compa-
ny near the bottom of the standings
whenever they’ve started over in the
past, the Bills, Patriots, Dolphins and
(formerly) the Colts all taking turns in
the second division of the AFC East.
But there is no second division any
longer: There is the Jets. That’s it.
The Bills have established immedi-
ate prominence as a power and they
aren’t going away any time soon. The
Dolphins are on the rise, with excel-
lent leadership that yielded 10 wins
a year or two ahead of schedule. And
the Patriots — well, anyone who
believes this 7-9 season was anything
more than an outlier and an aberration
under Bill Belichick, please take two
steps forward.
That reality could seem pretty
hopeless even if the Jets weren’t com-
ing off 2-14 (after flirting with 0-16)
and it will take an inspired choice
to grind through that. Douglas has
resources on hand: draft picks aplen-
ty, a chance to still take a new fran-
chise QB (or stick with the old one
and turn the No. 2 pick into a haul).
As we’ve said repeatedly: Now all he
has to do is make the right choices on
draft day.
And all he has to do is make the
right coaching choice now. The Jets in
1963 were so dreadful the AFL consid-
ered allowing them to buy one player
off every other AFL roster in order
to expedite their growth. There will
be no such largess available this time.
Smarts will have to carry the day. The
owner believes he has the right man
making the call. He’d better be right.
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It’s the
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British comedian
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Who” this season broadcast television with the set of
— as rumors swirl ABC’s “The Hustler,” a “The
that series star trivia game show in which Hustler,”
Jodie Whittaker one of five contestants is a which moves
(above right) will ringer trying to fool his/her into its
leave after three competitors in a murder-mystery- regular
seasons as the type setting. timeslot
show’s first female “I don’t know who [‘The Hustler’] Thursday at
Doctor. The BBC is and that’s one of the thing I love 10 p.m. on
has neither con- about the show,” says Ferguson, 58, ABC.
firmed nor denied back on network TV for the first
the rumor. time since leaving CBS’ “The Late
Late Show” in 2015. “I’m playing
along with everyone else at the same
time — and I never once got it right.
“I didn’t want to know who ‘The
WHAT I’M Hustler’ was because then I wasn’t
WATCHING: faking anything,” he says. “It’s much
more engaging and fun to do it like
Jeff Mauro that. And there was an added bonus:
when you’re doing a game show,
“I’m watching a standards-and-practices are all over
spicy yet sweet you making sure you don’t show any
blend of ‘King- bias.”
dom,’ ‘Bridger- Each episode finds Ferguson wear-
ton,’ ‘Yellow- ing a smoking jacket and bantering
stone’ and ‘The with the contestants on a set that re-
Expanse.’ So sembles a drawing room/library. The
basically, like, five participants size each other up
every show. Oh while answering 10 trivia questions;
and ‘Ted Lasso,’ “The Hustler” already knows the an-
best comedy of swers — the questions are geared to-
the year by far.” ward their life experiences — and se-
cretly eliminates two contestants
— Mauro (be- each week for a final faceoff that
low), who won could net him/her a $100,000 payoff.
Season 7 of (The series premiered Monday
“Food Network night and moves to its regular 10
Star,” hosts p.m. timeslot on Thursday.)

“Kitchen The genre is not new to Ferguson,
Crash,” pre- who hosted the syndicated game
miering show “Celebrity Name Game”
Wednesday at from 2014-2017 and also hosted His-
10 p.m. on Food tory’s “Join or Die with Craig Fer-
Network guson” for one season in 2016.
“This is not quite a game show but
it’s kind of a reality show where you
get to know the personalities of the
contestants,” he says of “The Hus-
Courtesy of Food Network
Ferguson says the show’s format
spurred his return to network his re-
turn to network television.
“I liked the idea and wanted to do
some TV, but I wanted something
that existed within its own world,”
he says. “When I last did standup, in
2019, I made a rule for myself, a sty-
teen, a hyperactive tween, an angry
grandma or a depressed middle-
aged person. It’s entertainment for
its own sake, and it’s getting harder
and harder to do that. That’s why I
loved the challenge and what drew
me in. It didn’t matter of it was net-
work TV or streaming or anything
ABC
much more like a big, shiny game
show. There wasn’t the murder-mys-
tery vibe,” he says. “We added that
afterward and accentuated it with
the idea of putting it in a haunted-
house environment which helped
put an imaginative slant on the
game, rather than it just being a

tler.” “Who’s doing what, why is he
being such a jerk . . . and the other
part of the mix is . . . sort of a ‘Knives
Out’/’Clue’ vibe that’s going on. It’s a
hybrid of all those things which
helps create the murder-mystery at-
mosphere.”
listic choice of not doing politics at
all . . . and I kind of liked the idea that
it was topical to its own world.
Things matter, but they matter
within the show.
“This is family television,” he says.
“You can watch it with an angry
else — it’s more about the [hosting]
job itself.”
And, Ferguson says, “The Hustler”
(shot pre-COVID) morphed into a
different kind of show than was ini-
tially envisioned.
“When we made the pilot it was
cookie-cutter game show.
“As the series goes on, you’ll see
contestants who start making judg-
ments based on age, gender or race
— and suddenly that all goes out the
window because it’s wrong . . . and
messes with their internal profiling.”
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