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随着民主党提名 社会主义激进分子 共和党中期选举 前景改善

仇视以色列的社会主义者阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德以微弱优势赢得了密歇根州参议院席位的民主党提名，一些分析人士称，这增加了共和党在普选中保住该议院的机会。民主党建制派官员对激进左翼候选人的崛起感到恐慌。

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纽约邮报，6, 2026年8月星期四

州议会法案旨在废除艾滋病时代法律

板上钉钉： 1986年，一张“关闭”令被贴在东村臭名昭著的圣马克浴场约炮场所的门上。

作者：CARL CAMPANILE 和 HANNAH FIERICK

他们正试图带回真正的约炮“热点”。

一项火辣的新提案将使全市范围内的桑拿房和浴场内的性行为合法化——废除一项20世纪80年代的法律，该法律将同性恋群体中艾滋病的传播归咎于这些狂野的性欢愉。

代表曼哈顿对LGBT友好的西区的州参议员埃里克·博彻和议员托尼·西蒙内表示，现在是时候取代那项陈旧的针对“成人桑拿房”的禁令了。

“我们应该将其带出阴影，”西蒙内在周三的一次采访中表示，他认为如果受到监管，浴场将会更健康、更安全。

“这是同性恋文化的一部分。这些人是成年人。性行为是自愿的，”他说。

现行法律规定，“任何机构不得提供旨在进行性活动的设施，包括发生肛交、阴道交或口交的场所。此类设施将对公共健康构成威胁。”

但这项旨在废除该法律的新立法承认，在HIV / 艾滋病流行高峰期为了遏制感染和死亡而被关闭之前，桑拿房在数十年间一直是同性恋群体重要的聚集地。

“30年的研究”

“现在是 2026, 而不是 1986年：基于过去 30 年公共卫生研究的循证实践清楚地表明，我们应该废除对成人使用浴场和桑拿房的禁令，”西蒙内在宣布该法案的一份声明中说。“纽约的酷儿群体正被逼入阴影……我们都知道这些地方存在，”他说。

事实上，大苹果城的几家水疗中心和浴场已被传为性行为的热点——有报道称在皇后区的城堡水疗中心和中城的一家 24 小时桑拿房东区俱乐部发生了公开约炮。

资深LGBT活动人士艾伦·罗斯考夫在艾滋病中失去了亲人，他表示，浴场禁令在20世纪80年代的同性恋群体中是一个具有分歧的问题，许多同性恋者对此关闭持赞成或反对态度。

但他表示，现在是浴场回归的时候了。

“纽约的浴场在数十年间一直是同性恋生活不可或缺的一部分，”吉姆·欧尔斯自由LGBT民主俱乐部主席罗斯考夫说。

他说，浴场是社交和进行性行为的地方，但其意义不止于此。“它们是我们社区、我们文化以及我们争取民权和性解放斗争的象征。我的大部分青年时代都在那里度过，”罗斯考夫说。

他说，政治领导人曾在那里竞选，包括贝特·米德勒和巴里·马尼洛在内的艺人也曾在那里演出。

罗斯考夫认为这些地方是旅游景点，来自全球各地的同性恋者经常光顾这些浴场。

虽然LGBT游说团体支持废除禁令，但保守派反对由州政府许可的、促进匿名且滥交性行为的设施。

“这些浴场已成过去之物。它们太糟糕了，”市议员维基·帕拉迪诺（共和党-皇后区）说。“这是一个敞开的大门。如果现在开放，情况会糟糕 10 倍。”

已有超过 100,000 名纽约人死于艾滋病相关疾病。

Natalie O'Neill 参与报道

友谊区终结

作者：安德里亚·帕拉迪诺 (ANDREA PALLADINO)

被留在“友谊区”？在这种经济环境下？

一些男性表示，通货膨胀使得请女性喝饮料的成本太高，除非他们知道这能带来某种结果。

根据这些在 TikTok 上走红的视频，所谓的“慢慢来”以及从朋友努力变成情人的代价现在太高了，而且在财务上是不负责任的。

“回到 2012 年，那时候东西还便宜，”一名叫 Gordon 的 TikTok 用户在一段现已走红的视频中抱怨道，“你可以花 $2 到 $3 给那个你感兴趣的‘女性好朋友’买杯咖啡。”

如今，21 岁的 Gordon 表示，这种资金已经不可用了。“现在你为了一个完全没有任何回报的事情花掉大量钱财，”他说。

Gordon（拒绝透露姓氏）告诉《纽约邮报》，他最近在欧洲留学，那时他经常给女性买饮料，因为那里比美国“普遍更便宜”。

他可以“每晚给那些你可能没有任何浪漫吸引力的女性请几杯饮料，而不会让钱包破产”。

现在他回到了湾区，那里的饮料价格明显更高，为那些“你认为没有浪漫火花的女性”买单已不再是一个选项。

Gordon 表示，这段视频是对经济如何影响浪漫和求爱的一种评论。

“没有人再谈论友谊区了，因为我们已经到了一个甚至无法维持自身生存的程度，更不用说一个只把你当朋友的女孩了，”他解释道。

跟我走吗？

曾经被留在友谊区的年轻男性也发表了看法，分享了他们自己的沮丧。

“事实就是这样。我以前每周都会带一个把我留在友谊区的女孩去 Applebee's。加上小费我们的账单是 $19……现在绝对做不到了……”

但 TikTok 上的一些人指责这些走红观点中的建议——以及认为朋友之间花费 $20 是不可想象的想法——是不成熟的吝啬行为。

“朋友之间会互相花钱，尤其是当朋友有需要时，无论性别或是否有其他意图，”一个人写道，“拜托，伙计。”

而且，如果你买不起一杯星巴克拿铁，也许你也还没准备好迎接一个稳定的伴侣。

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2026 年大选

民主党红色警报

作者：艾萨克·肖尔 (ISAAC SCHORR)

如果你感到惊讶，那说明你一直没有关注。

阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德是一个主张“削减警察经费”的社会主义者，他曾幻想将一个“食人魔”（民主党同僚约翰·费特曼）钉在尖桩上，与一名 9 / 11 辩护者并肩竞选，并在反犹主义猖獗的流行病中，围绕着阴险的诱导反犹情绪构建了整个竞选活动。

在周二的初选中险胜建制派宠儿海莉·史蒂文斯后，他成为了民主党在密歇根州参议院的提名人。

埃尔-赛义德的胜利并不标志着该党旧卫队的终结之始，而是为其棺材钉上了最后一颗钉子。

毕竟，在（相对）温和派开始认真战斗之前，这场内战就已经结束了。

从一开始，反叛者就只接受中左翼民主党长辈的无条件投降，而后者反过来则向他们的死敌妥协、安抚并卑躬屈膝，不知为何将他们误认为是一个友好的派系，能够让他们在不改变政党本质的情况下获得胜利。

埃尔-赛义德可能会让民主党失去他竞选的席位——并且极有可能在未来两年失去对国会参议院的控制权——这对他的支持者来说无关紧要。

甘愿失败

尽管史蒂文斯与共和党提名人迈克·罗杰斯的政治主张之间存在巨大的鸿沟，但他们共享一种世界观，即美国在核心上是一个建立在每个人都能支持的原则之上的伟大国家。

正是这个前提，埃尔-赛义德的支持者希望将其彻底熄灭——而且他们愿意在重塑这个国家以符合他们自己丑陋形象的过程中，偶尔输掉几场选举。

不要误会：他们

棺材上的最后一颗钉子

旧卫兵已死

将输掉选举。

共和党上一次在五大湖州赢得参议院选举是在1994年，然而在主后2026年，罗杰斯很有可能成功，尽管他背负着沉重的包袱：一位支持率深陷海底20,000里之遥的总统，以及国会山上的共和党多数席位。

由Glengariff Group和密歇根州信息与研究服务中心（Michigan Information & Research Service）开展的两项最新调查显示，罗杰斯领先埃尔-赛义德的幅度分别为10个和3个百分点。

与此同时，在隔壁的威斯康星州，（因“取消感恩节”而闻名的）弗朗西斯卡·洪似乎准备赢得民主党提名，以担任其下一任首席执行官。

她试图取代的民主党人——州长托尼·埃弗斯（Tony Evers）已经公开对她能战胜共和党人汤姆·蒂法尼（Tom Tiffany）的前景表示怀疑。

曼哈顿研究所的一项新调查告诉了我们原因：极左翼在广泛问题上——从福利、移民到犯罪——的议程在普通选民中仍然极不受欢迎。

令人恐惧的限定词是：目前如此。

那些过早庆祝埃尔-赛义德和洪在11月可能失败的人没有意识到，这些激进分子及其背后的投票群体追求的是比铁锈地带州级中期选举更大的目标。

当然，他们更希望在明年1月宣誓就职，但他们已经提前行动了。

他们已经通过谴责20世纪和21世纪初的大写L的自由主义（Liberalism），更不用说温和主义或“第三条道路”，永远地改变了民主党的政治。

不再是边缘

美国两大政党之一现在属于这些真正的精神病患者，极左翼花了一十年的时间对他们进行洗脑，让他们痴迷于一系列道德恐慌。

“跨性别者正在被抹除！以色列正在犯战争罪！美国在帮凶！没有一个人是非法的！废除警察！废除监狱！每个人都是种族主义者，无论他们是否意识到！”

这些并不是令人翻白眼的边缘群体的尖叫，而是一个美国两大政党平台上的信条。

美国政治的性质决定了，无论选民在真空状态下如何看待他们的计划，钟摆最终必然会向他们的新容器方向摆动。

当那一刻到来时，像阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德、Hong、Daria-lia Avila Chevalier 和 Zohran Mamdani 这样的人将尽情享受战利品。

而我们其余的人则要为此付出代价。

作者：JOSH CHRISTENSON, CARL CAMPANILE 和 ALLY GOELZ

在民主党扩充了他们的“迷你 Zohran Mamdanis”大军，准备在11月为争夺国会控制权而战之后，共和党人看到了绝佳的机会。

周二密歇根州的初选呼应了纽约州、缅因州、科罗拉多州及其他地区的民主党选举，在这些对 2026 年中期选举至关重要的州，包括社会主义者在内的极左翼候选人击败了温和派。

左翼的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德医生在周二的参议院民主党初选中以微弱优势击败了中间派众议员 Haley Stevens；由美国民主社会主义者（DSA）支持的密歇根州众议员 Donavan McKinney 赶走了现任众议员 Shri Thanedar；而由参议员 Bernie Sanders (I-VL) 背书的社区组织者 William Lawrence 在一次众议院席位初选中战胜了两名温和派对手。

参议员 John Cornyn (R-Texas) 周三告诉《纽约邮报》，这些结果“让共和党人更容易应对”。

“在共和党人和一个疯子之间，你会怎么选？”Cornyn 问道。

埃尔-赛义德是一名穆斯林医生，他希望废除 ICE，通过“全民医疗保险”，并坚持认为以色列“和哈马斯一样邪恶”。他以 48.5% 对 47.5% 的得票率击败了获得美国以色列公共事务委员会支持的 Stevens。

虽然 Stevens 轻松赢得了农村地区，并在底特律及其郊区维持了竞争力，但埃尔-赛义德在大学城安娜堡以及不断增长的城市大急流城取得了巨大优势，那里聚集了年轻、白人且受过大学教育的选民，他们曾在其他地方涌向 DSA。

“密歇根州的共和党人面临投票率问题，但 Mike Rogers 刚刚抓到了一根政治救命稻草，”密歇根州共和党顾问 Dennis Lennox 表示。“阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德进入参议院的可能性是真实的，这将激励共和党人，同时将许多普通民主党人，尤其是犹太选民，转化为支持 Rogers 的民主党人。”

曾在 1996 年重新当选期间为比尔·克林顿服务 20 年、随后协助特朗普的政治顾问 Dick Morris 称其为“给共和党人的巨大礼物”，并预测 Rogers 将击败埃尔-赛义德。

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2026 选举

在密歇根州

左翼获胜在普选中“助力”共和党

JD 推动新反欺诈法

副总统 JD Vance 在周三白宫举行的一场圆桌会议上，呼吁国会在即将出台的法案中将更多反欺诈保护措施法典化——他表示，这是为了避免未来的民主党政府撤销其工作组的成果。

Vance 告诉记者，到目前为止，白宫反欺诈工作组已经发现了通过纳税人资助的福利计划流出的 2300 亿美元欺诈资金，并拦截了至少 560 亿美元原本将流向诈骗者的资金。

但他补充说，除非众议院和参议院的同事与我们合作，否则他的团队所做的努力“从根本上始终存在局限性”。

“我们不希望下一届政府，无论谁……上帝保佑，三年后你们可能会迎来埃尔-赛义德总统，”Vance 说，“我们不希望他撤销我们一直以来所做的所有出色工作。”

阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士一直对 Vance 的工作组持批评态度。

Josh Christenson

其他民主党人指出，埃尔-赛义德在与 Rogers 进行大选竞争时，必须缓和其言论。

“时间会证明阿卜杜勒是想团结人们并显著温和化，还是继续和他的哥们 Hasan [Piker] 混在一起，而后者称所有犹太复国主义者为纳粹，”另一位民主党消息人士在谈到这位备受争议的主播时说道。“如果我在民主党参议院竞选委员会（DSCC）工作，我不会抱太大希望。”

身为民主党纽约州参议院候选人的犹太裔民权律师 Rory Lancman 表示：“除了蓝色选区和投票率低的初选之外，埃尔-赛义德所代表的反犹主义和极端主义在主流选民中不会走得太远，也不会被广泛接受。”

根据 RealClearPolitics 的民调汇总，在最近的调查中，Rogers 仅略微领先于埃尔-赛义德，但此前一直落后于 Stevens 几个百分点。

“你会失去你的房子，失去你的公寓，这就是共产党将带我们走向的结局——100%，”特朗普总统在周三的一场活动中表示。“当我观察阿卜杜勒时，他满口胡言……他差点输掉，但他最终会输给我们的优秀候选人。”

共和党目前在参议院以 53-47 领先，其中密歇根州、缅因州、俄亥俄州和阿拉斯加州被认为是决定上议院党派控制权的摇摆州。

十几个众议院席位将决定哪个政党在下议院获得多数席位。

RealClearPolitics 的平均数据显示，在通用国会选票中，民主党领先 7 个百分点以上。

Miranda Devine / 第 15 页

情绪失控：Hasan Piker 在周二的一场选举派对直播中，称那些不支持阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德的民主党人为“伊斯兰恐惧症患者”。

Piker 痛批中间派

作者：CHRIS NESI

千万富翁社会主义主播 Hasan Piker 对周二密歇根州民主党参议院初选结果比预期更接近而大发雷霆，猛烈抨击那些没有投票给其心仪的极左候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德的常识派民主党人。

“每个人都说，‘阿卜杜勒在弥合分歧方面还有很多工作要做’，现在我给你们一个该死的核弹级观点：你们全都是不可思议的伊斯兰恐惧症狗屎，”Piker 在 Twitch 上超过 11 小时的选举之夜直播中，在埃尔-赛义德的选举派对上说道。

“你们连续几个月简直把那家伙称为该死的恐怖分子，还说他是性别歧视者、厌女恐怖分子、糟糕的候选人、假医生，而他明明有两个该死的学位，现在你们居然坐在那里说‘好吧，你知道的，你现在真的得来找我’——你们在说什么？你们到底想不想该死的赢？”他在充满脏话的狂言中继续说道。

埃尔-赛义德原本被预计将轻松击败众议员 Haley Stevens，但在一次扣人心弦的竞争后，他以不到 20,000 票的微弱优势险胜。

Piker 在多个平台拥有超过 600 万 粉丝，他强烈支持埃尔-赛义德，并且经常出现在竞选活动中。

他以令人厌恶的观点而闻名，例如声称美国“罪有应得地遭遇 9 / 11”以及称“Oct. 7 是否发生了强奸并不重要”，指的是哈马斯针对以色列的恐怖袭击，该袭击造成 1,200 多人死亡。

埃尔-赛义德得到了参议员 Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) 和众议员 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) 等左翼人士的支持，进步变革竞选委员会将这场竞选称为“民主党未来之战的零点”。

他将面对共和党人 Mike Rogers，这对民主党来说是一场必须获胜的比赛。

DSA 击败第 8 位众议员

底特律 —— 众议员 Shri Thumedar 周二被美国民主社会主义者 (DSA) 支持的密歇根州众议员 Donovan McKinney 击败，这是进步左翼最新的初选胜利。

Thumedar, 71, 成为本周期中第八位在初选中落败的现任众议院民主党人。这位出生于印度的国会议员此前正寻求代表密歇根州深蓝的第 13 選区（包括底特律的一部分）连任第三届。

McKinney 在 11 月的大选中将被认为更有机会击败共和党陪跑者 T.P. Nykoriak。Ryan King

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纽约邮报，Thursday, August 6, 2026

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伊朗之战

伊朗

总统被 “留在黑暗中”

视线之外： 据报道，伊朗总统 Masoud Pezeshkian（下图）在一部黑色汽车中与一名男子进行了奇怪的会面，他被告知该男子是最高领袖 Mojtaba Khamenei（右）。

对与“最高领袖”可疑会面的质疑

作者：CAITLIN DOORNBOS

华盛顿 —— 伊朗那位神秘的、“可能是同性恋”的最高领袖如此行踪诡秘，以至于连他自己的总统都不相信自己在一次诡异的、于一辆深色汽车后座进行的单独会面中见过他。

据 Iran International 的一份爆炸性报道，伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽什基安被匆匆送往德黑兰的一个秘密地点，被塞进一辆窗户贴了黑膜的深色汽车后座，并被告知他坐在最高领袖穆吉塔巴·哈梅内伊身边 —— 但他实际上从未见过此人。

据报道，这次秘密会面仅持续了几分钟，而非佩泽什基安在五月份公开吹嘘的那次温馨的 2½ 小时长谈。目前尚不清楚报道中所述的会面具体发生在何时。

消息人士告诉 Iran International，哈梅内伊的办公室是在佩泽什基安多次恳求并威胁辞职后才同意会面的。即便如此，最高领袖仍拒绝在按照惯例的官方官邸会面。

相反，总统被开车送到德黑兰的一个秘密地点，被从他自己的安保车队中拉出，安置在一辆商业车辆的后座。

车厢内保持得如此之暗，以至于两人无法看到对方 —— 卫兵还阻止佩泽什基安与最高领袖握手。

据报道，这种情况激怒了佩泽什基安，他询问助手坐在他身边的人是否真的是哈梅内伊，因为他所听到的

仅仅是一个人在黑暗中说话。总统已请求再次会面，这次要求在领袖的官邸面对面进行。到目前为止，他被拒绝了。

据报道，佩泽什基安此后再次提出辞职，抱怨伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）已几乎完全控制了国家的运行。

伊朗媒体本周报道称，哈梅内伊正式授予 IRGC 总司令艾哈迈德·瓦希迪最终的决策权，从而将佩泽什基安政府边缘化。

佩泽什基安与最高领袖的奇怪会面，进一步增加了围绕哈梅内伊的日益增长的神秘感，在战争初期的总统特朗普的一份简报中，哈梅内伊被描述为“可能是同性恋”。

陷入沉默

哈梅内伊在约五个月前掌权后，实际上已从公众视野中消失。目前尚未公布任何经过验证的伊朗新统治者的照片、视频或音频记录。他所有的声明均以书面形式发布，甚至在上个月他父亲的葬礼上也没有出席。

伊朗的官方媒体试图为其沉默寻找解释。

《哈姆沙里》（Hamshahri）报本周声称，外国情报机构可以通过音频记录中简单的背景噪音来精准定位哈梅内伊的位置。

新的 60 天海峡协议“即将达成”

据报道，美国、伊朗和阿曼即将达成一项协议，将暂时重新开放霍尔木兹海峡且不收取任何通行费 —— 预计协议最早将于今日公布。美国和地区消息人士告诉 Axios，目前正在考虑的协议将在阿曼和伊朗之间就该战略海峡的航运建立一项 60 天的协议。一名地区消息人士告诉《纽约邮报》，在这 60 天内，美国和伊朗将回到谈判桌前，敲定核让步，并试图为海峡寻找一个“永久解决方案”。伊朗外交部周一表示，在此之前，进入波斯湾的入境航运流量将通过经过伊朗水域的北向航道，而前往阿拉伯海的流量将通过经过阿曼水域的南向航道。消息人士告诉 Axios，一旦中心航道安全可通行，它将在伊朗和阿曼未来的永久协议下向入境和出境流量开放。在 60 天的期限内（该期限可延长）将不收取任何通行费或费用。作者：Patrick Reilly 和 Caitlin Doornbos

政权杀害56人以扼杀异见

根据联合国的说法，自三月以来，血腥的伊朗政权已以可疑的国家安全指控处决了至少56人——联合国因此谴责伊朗这种“令人深感不安”的做法。

在56人中，有27人与一月针对该国专制政权及其对公民残暴对待的大规模抗议活动有关。

据BBC报道，另有大约100人被认为目前正因类似指控等待执行死刑。

联合国人权事务负责人沃尔克·图尔克（Volker Türk）在最近的一份严厉声明中表示，这些野蛮的处决——通常在公开场合进行——是广泛采用的一种战术，旨在“在民众中制造恐惧并镇压异见”。

“这样的惩罚在我们的世界中没有位置，”图尔克说道。

该负责人还对导致死刑的司法程序发出警报，称伊朗的审判和正当程序几乎不存在。

“据报道，已有多次公开处决。据报道，有些人在被捕仅几周后就被处决，”图尔克说。“据报道，12名被告在一次仅三小时的闭门听证会后就被判处死刑。”

伊朗以频繁使用死刑而臭名昭著——其执行如此随意，以至于该国是地球上死刑使用率第二高的国家。

大赦国际报道，2026年，伊朗有惊人的2,159人被处决。

这是自1981年以来该国被处决人数最高的一次，且发生在该国政府对待民众的方式引发大规模公众不满的12个月期间。Alex Oliveira

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贾里德·艾萨克曼 (JARED ISAACMAN) NASA巨头的绝妙构想。

数据中心的“太空”

NASA局长贾里德·艾萨克曼针对美国关于数据中心建设的激烈公众辩论，提出了一种极具未来感的解决方案：直接把它们放在外太空。

自2025, 12月起执掌该航天机构的艾萨克曼在周三的《Pod Force One》节目中表示，将数据中心安置在太空中可以使其“利用来自核聚变反应堆的免费太阳能”，而这些反应堆也可以在地球大气层之外运行。

他暗示，这还将使你邻居中那些不想在附近建设新数据中心的嘈杂“邻避主义者”（NIMBYs）安静下来。

“埃隆 [马斯克] 和行业内的其他人就像是在说：‘让我们把那些没人想在后院看到的数据中心’——看来对此大家有很大共识——‘搬到太空中去，那里不会干扰任何人，’ NASA局长指出。

“顺便说一句，这不会影响你的电费单，因为我们将利用就安置在那里的核聚变反应堆产生的免费太阳能，”他补充道。“绝妙的主意。” Josh Christenson

缺失公平竞争

Jaylin Liu / iStockphoto

由 ROSS O'KEEFE 撰写

美国奥运花样滑冰冠军艾莉莎·刘 (Alysa Liu) 的兄弟是一名跨性别运动员，目前在加利福尼亚州的高中女生体育赛事中占据主导地位。

据Reduxx报道，Jaylin Liu在转型并认同为女性之前名为Joshua。

他现在代表加利福尼亚州的奥尔巴尼高中 (Albany HS) 和埃尔塞里托高中 (El Cerrito HS) 参加田径、女子校队篮球和极限飞盘比赛。

他在田径领域产生了最大影响，在奥尔巴尼高中今年参加的所有女子200米和400米比赛中均获得了第一名。

Jaylin最近在五月的三县体育联盟决赛中夺冠。

“对立的力量”

他在2025年的赛季比赛中还获得了八次独立的第一名，并在2025年三县体育联盟新生-二年级锦标赛的200米比赛中摘得金牌。

据Reduxx报道，他因其“在赛场上极其强势的表现”而受到赞赏。

女性体育倡导组织反对Jaylin参加女子体育赛事。

独立女性体育委员会的马尔希·史密斯（Marshi Smith）表示：“刘氏家族代表了两种对立的力量：一方面是女性体育卓越的巅峰，与此同时，又是对这些体育项目完整性的深刻威胁。”

“Alysa的成就源于从童年开始多年的奉献和努力。相比之下，她哥哥最近的个人野心威胁要破坏许多女孩依赖其开辟卓越之路的同样的发展路径。”

来自HeCheated（一个“记录男性参与仅限女性的体育类别和赛事的影响及规模的集中档案库”）的一位代表表示，Jaylin参与女性体育使Alysa陷入了困境。

该发言人表示：“允许男孩进入女孩体育项目的规则，往往使像Alysa这样可能有男性家庭成员的女性运动员处于一个不可能的境地，她们的忠诚被撕裂，被迫在支持女性运动员和体育公平，与她们深爱的家庭成员之间做出选择。”

“保护女性类别的坚定规则，将拒绝这些男孩的责任交给了体育官员，而不是年轻女性和女孩。”

Jaylin与父亲刘亚瑟（Arthur Liu）一起在2026年冬奥会上观看姐姐Alysa的比赛。

目前就读于加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的Alysa在女子单人赛和团体赛中赢得了2枚金牌。

姐夺金，弟出格：

Jaylin Liu（在过渡为女性之前名为Joshua，是奥运花样滑冰明星Alysa Liu的兄弟姐妹）在高中体育赛事中与女孩竞争并大获全胜。

FAA调查违规，总统安全无虞

华盛顿 —— 美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）正在调查为什么在总统特朗普的直升机从附近的白宫草坪起飞时，华盛顿里根国家机场的空中交通管制员在周二没有按照安全协议的要求停止航班。该机场距离行政官邸不足5英里，每当总统升空时，空中交通都应停止，以确保“标准间隔” —— 即飞机之间有足够的距离以避免碰撞风险。FAA表示，特朗普从未处于危险之中。

《华尔街日报》率先报道了此次调查。特朗普的“海军陆战队一号”直升机机组人员多次尝试联系机场管制塔台。直升机于下午2:33从椭圆形草坪起飞，将特朗普送往安德鲁斯联合基地，他在那里登上空军一号前往洛杉矶。

一分钟后，追踪数据显示一架美国航空的航班离开了机场。

FAA告诉《邮报》：“出现了短暂的间隔丢失。” Emily Goodin

Gringos：教西班牙语

你现在在美国，所以说西班牙语。

一项新调查显示，随着将西班牙语作为第一语言的家庭数量激增，超过半数的美国人认为孩子们在学校学习西班牙语“非常”重要。

根据皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）周一发布的一项研究，约53%的受访者表示，美国学校提供西班牙语课程“极其或非常”重要，在名单上的所有非英语语言中占比最高。人口普查数据显示，西班牙语是美国家庭中仅次于英语的第二大通用语言，有4500 万名5岁及以上的人使用该语言。 Anthony Blair

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MOMMY & CLYDE

她是怎么上去的

有一个喜剧演员们喜欢互相讲的经典笑话，讲的是一个家庭走进一名演艺经纪人的办公室，然后开始互相做一些肮脏、卑劣、不可言说的事情。

演艺经纪人惊恐地看着，然后问这个家庭他们的表演叫什么名字。

笑点在哪里？他们自称“贵族”（The Aristocrats）。

把这个改成“民主党”吧：这个曾经以废除警察、以“社会正义”之名释放杀人犯和强奸犯等温和主张为纲领的政党，现在已将混乱提升到了一个全新的水平，向我们展示了当你提拔那些唯一特长是擅长鹦鹉学舌般重复政党疯狂意识形态的不称职怪胎时，会发生什么。

案例研究：詹妮弗·拉克德（Jennifer Lackard）。尽管——或者恰恰是因为——在警务方面零经验，由民主党执政的蒙特弗农（Mount Vernon）聘请了拉克德担任其副警察局长，这个高级头衔伴随着每年 $138,219 的薪水。

她的任务是管理该部门的“健康单元”（Wellness Unit），这是一个致力于民主党信条的小组，该信条认为罪犯并非邪恶或堕落，而仅仅是被误解的灵魂，只要有人用一杯热可可而不是漫长而严酷的监禁来治疗他们情感上的小伤口，他们就会放弃其恶劣行径。

拉克德的丈夫曾因贩卖海洛因在联邦监狱服刑，而她的儿子是一个经常陷入暴力麻烦的帮派成员，这些事实似乎并没有让她的任何一名上司产生犹豫。

经验见鬼去吧

而拉克德用堕落回报了他们的信任，向我们所有人提供了——宏大的、戏剧性的、无可反驳的证据——当我们面对民主党拒绝常识

当觉醒

民主党人 掌权时

并将政府视为一个巨大的就业计划，聘请未经审查但忠诚的骗子担任关键角色，而让经验和能力见鬼去吧，时我们所面临的真实危险。

拉克德目前因帮助其 20 岁的儿子企图暗杀一名竞争对手而被拘留。

根据起诉书，她指导她的孩子学习精准把握刺杀时机的精妙艺术，陪同他——讽刺的是！——前往布朗克斯司法大厅（Bronx Hall of Justice），在那里他企图除掉他的帮派对手，而且她最后还开逃跑车。

感谢上帝，即使是我们最临床意义上的进步派政治家，也还没有像拉克德那样走得这么远，她选择将公职变成一个廉价的《教父》翻版。

但快速审视一下民主党机器的运作方式，就不难理解像拉克德这样一个灾难性的走狗是如何如此迅速且如此高地晋升的。

通过不断支持像取消现金保释这样让街道变得不那么安全的措施，通过用“修复性正义”而非真正的正义来娇惯罪犯，以及通过提拔喧闹的活动人士而非具有证明记录的能干官员，民主党让我们所有人陷入了风险。

只要该党掌权，同样令人愤怒的场景就会上演。

我们得到的不是警务，而是进步派的宣传。

我们得到的不是领导者，而是狂热分子和疯子。

我们得到的不是安全，而是更多的煽动、更多的暴力和更多的破碎。

“尴尬”

不要只听我的话：去问问《Black Westchester Magazine》的出版人戴蒙·琼斯（Damon Jones）就知道了。

“作为一名黑人执法人员，看到一个拥有黑人市长、黑人占多数的市议会、黑人占多数的警察局的城市如此功能失调，我感到很尴尬。在一个本应如此专业的组织中，我们不得不面对持续的功能失调和纯粹的愚蠢，”琼斯告诉《纽约邮报》。

“不幸的是，我们看到民主党人将一些不该在那些岗位上的人——尤其是执法岗位上——安置在其中。”

对此我深表赞同。拉克德（Lackard）可能是最近且最极端的例子，但她所体现的问题过于普遍，且极其不祥。

在让更多危险的疯子掌控权力杠杆之前，现在是时候将其根除。

利尔·莱博维茨（Liel Leibovitz）是 Tablet 的特约编辑，也是哈德逊研究所（Hudson Institute）的高级研究员。

作者：乔·马里诺（JOE MARINO）、史蒂文·瓦戈（STEVEN VAGO）和豪尔赫·菲茨-吉本（JORGE FITZ-GIBBON）

她不仅在违法——她还在主张违规。

这位被指控陪同其帮派分子儿子参与谋杀未遂的威斯特彻斯特县警察高官，多年来一直与罪犯打交道，既是通过她创立的有争议的囚犯援助计划，也是通过她此前与一名贩毒前科犯的婚姻。

不知怎么地，詹妮弗·拉克德（Jennifer Lackard）在蒙特弗农（Mount Vernon）获得了一份副警察局长的优渥工作，而与此同时，她对自己的帮派分子儿子在“大苹果”城（纽约市）开始制造混乱视而不见。

49 岁的拉克德现在面临谋杀未遂的指控，据称她上个月开车将其惹祸的儿子送到布朗克斯法院外进行一次帮派开车枪击，其前科犯丈夫也同行。

这名名声扫地且刚被解雇的警察在 6 月 29 日那场大胆的枪击案中被起诉，一同被起诉的还有她的儿子——20 岁的蔡斯·拉克德（Chase Lackard），据称他是“Slutty Gang”的成员，曾因用枪指向纽约市警察局（NYPD）警察而被起诉，以及她贩毒的丈夫，47 岁的詹姆斯·拉克德（James Lackard），后者目前仍在逃避警方追捕。

符合工作资格？

詹妮弗·拉克德于 2020 年被市长肖温·帕特森-霍华德（Shawyn Patterson-Howard）聘请担任蒙特弗农警察局健康部门的负责人，据报道该职位是为她专门设立的。她没有真正的执法经验，相反，她的简历显示她曾在囚犯重新融入社会计划中工作，并担任被告罪犯的倡导者。

拉克德得到了这份工作，今年的基本工资为 $125,000，记录显示她本人从未被逮捕。

在周三的一份声明中，帕特森-霍华德表示，拉克德接受了“严格的背景调查”，包括对先前就业情况的核查、指纹采集、财务披露、医疗许可和刑事背景调查——并被认为符合资格。

“没有任何信息使其失去雇佣资格，”市长说。“作为招聘过程的一部分，关于其丈夫此前刑事记录的信息已披露并经过审核，被认为不会使其失去担任文职职位的资格。”

她引用了拉克德在心理健康和药物滥用服务方面 15 年的经验。

“没有雇主能预测未来的个人行为，”她补充道。“蒙特弗农此前面临过多次挑战，我们始终以问责、透明和韧性来应对。随着此事在刑事司法系统中推进，我们继续致力于这些原则。”

消息人士称，在 2023 年一次据称与帮派相关的枪击案中，蔡斯·拉克德在市公交车上的冲突中胸部中弹，蒙特弗农的警察在布朗克斯的一家

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妈咪与克莱德（MOMMY & CLYDE）

把它除掉？

医院与拉克德汇合。

动荡城市的污点

据 lohud.com 报道，拉克德夫妇周二被捕，标志着这座动荡的郊区城市再次蒙上污点。近年来，该市已有两任在任市长在任期间被捕，且警局接连陷入争议。

今年，多名马运顿警察陷入困境，包括 4 月的一次突击行动，其中一名警员被指控从一家外州公司窃取了超过 $800,000。一个月前，该警队的另一名警员被指控犯有盗窃罪，并涉嫌向一名萨福克县的帮派成员通风报信。

两任市长——欧尼·戴维斯和理查德·托马斯——分别在被指控联邦逃税和州级重罪盗窃后，被迫离职。

记录显示，詹妮弗和詹姆斯·拉克德在 2007 年于北卡罗来纳州温斯顿-塞勒姆市创立了 Ivy House 自立中心，这是一个由政府资助的非营利项目，旨在为患有精神疾病或药物滥用成瘾的刑事被告提供咨询。

詹妮弗·拉克德担任首席执行官，而她当时的丈夫在咨询委员会任职直至 2009 年。

在关闭该项目后，她搬到纽约并在布朗克斯区创立了 Re-Entry Link LLC，在获得马运顿的职位之前，她还曾在社区委员会 9 任职。

检察官表示，6 月 29 日，切斯·拉克德离开布朗克斯法院，跳进一辆等待中的灰色克莱斯勒 Pacifica 汽车，车内有他的父母。他更换了衣服，随后全家人在街区绕圈。

检察官表示，他最终发现了预定目标并从 SUV 的车窗向外开火，随后其母亲涉嫌开车将他送回家。

由 Larry Celona 参与报道

法庭出庭几分钟后开枪

检察官周三表示，一名威斯特彻斯特县警察高官的帮派分子儿子在涉嫌向一名对手开火前几分钟，刚在布朗克斯法院出庭——而他的警察母亲和前科犯父亲则充当了逃跑司机。

据检察官称，20岁的切斯·拉克德（Chase Lackard）在涉嫌6月29日发生的帮派驾车枪击事件前仅20分钟，因2024年的一起枪支指控面对法官；此次行动得到了他的母亲、名声扫地的蒙特弗农副警察局长詹妮弗·拉克德（Jennifer Lackard）以及贩毒父亲詹姆斯·拉克德（James Lackard）的帮助。

“监控摄像头拍到他跑进这座法院，”布朗克斯助理检察官凯图拉·拉德（Keturah Ladd）告诉法官，“他在本大楼三楼有一次出庭日期和一次法庭出面。”

被指为“Slutty Gang”成员的“妈宝男”切斯·拉克德被下令不得保释。49岁的詹妮弗·拉克德曾是布朗克斯社区委员会9的成员，于2020年被聘请管理该郊区警局的健康部门，并在被捕后被解雇。

布朗克斯的起诉书中还点名了她的贩毒前夫詹姆斯，他曾因在北卡罗来纳州贩卖海洛因而在联邦监狱服刑10年——但目前仍在潜逃。

在枪击事件发生前，这个麻烦儿子在犯罪记录单上已经有两起未结的持有枪支案件，一起在曼哈顿，另一起就是他在6月29日枪击前出庭的布朗克斯案件。Steven Vago

James Kevans 为 纽约邮报, WABC-TV, Facebook, NYPD

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作者：KATHERINE DONLEVY 和 GREG CARLTON

机器正在带来改变。

巨大的自动售货亭正填补着地铁站中一些由曾经无处不在的新闻摊留下的阴暗角落，让纽约人哀悼那些逝去的人际互动时光。

MTA上周在地下揭晓了三台庞大且灯光亮眼的可口可乐机器，以启动一项旨在解决其零售空间空置问题的新计划。

这些机器位于长期荒废的店铺中，例如第二大道F线车站的一家店，但这并没有阻止像埃曼纽尔·尼亚尼德（Emmanuelle Nyanid）这样的通勤者对曾经占据该空间的销售员产生怀旧之情。

“总的来说，我觉得纽约在某种程度上已经变得非人性化了，”18岁的尼亚尼德告诉《邮报》，尽管她承认自动售货机很“酷”。

“我在这里住了10年。人们并不真的想和你说话。这对那些纽约人来说太完美了。”

更多即将到来

在23街的R线和W线车站以及116街的6号线车站也可以找到配套的设备。MTA宣布，在接下来的几个月以及进入2027年，还将在另外23个车站安装数十台此类设备。

该计划已筹备多年。在意识到传统的即买即走模式不再像以前那样受欢迎后，该交通机构最初在2023年就开始寻找供应商。

“过去几十年来大量的报刊亭已经消失了，”MTA房地产交易主管兼运营官大卫·弗洛里奥（David Florio）向纽约邮报解释道，并补充说自动售货机运营商最初主动接触了MTA。

“而且如你所知，自动售货机比步行零售单元需要的劳动力更少，所以我们决定尝试这种模式。”

目前的空置率为26%，弗洛里奥确认该比例在疫情后从未恢复。

全市大约有180个租赁地点，涵盖了从即买即走店到成熟的餐厅和艺术装置，甚至包括目前正在时代广场和中央车站建设的新亭子。这些机器被放置在难以维持租户的低需求零售空间中，并且经过配置，使其不会突出并占用宝贵的站台空间。

“它们基本上是在重新利用那些否则将保持闲置的空间，”弗洛里奥说。

到目前为止，通勤者对于更多机器进入地铁系统的看法不一。

“这让我感到难过。在这里长大，我很欣赏这种文化，”22岁的调酒师尼科·荣（Nico Jung）说。

“报刊亭——摊位后面有人。这让他们每天有工作可去。比起往机器里投币，我更喜欢人与人之间的互动……我今天早上拿了一瓶水，是从一个真实的人那里买的。”

自杀法现已生效

纽约备受争议的辅助自杀法于周三生效，允许患有绝症的成年人向其医生申请终止生命的药物。

由霍楚州长在2月份签署的《医疗辅助死亡法》面临来自宗教机构的抵制，包括天主教会，后者称其为贬低生命的“抛弃文化”的一个例子。

“这项新法律标志着我们的政府抛弃了最脆弱的公民，告诉那些患病或残疾的人，在他们的情况下，自杀不仅是可以接受的，而且受到了我们选出领导人的鼓励，”纽约州天主教会议在一份声明中表示。

根据该法律，生存期在6个月或更短的成年人将可以选择从其医生那里获得致命药物。

自我管理的安乐死药物仅适用于18岁或以上，且被诊断为绝症且生命可能在6个月内结束的患者。

“患有绝症的纽约人……应当拥有尊严死去的权利，”曼哈顿区区长布拉德·霍伊尔曼-西格尔（Brad Hoylman-Sigal）表示，他曾在担任州参议员期间赞助了该法案的2025年版本。

汉娜·菲里克（Hannah Fierick）

布朗克斯大楼致命爆炸

纽约市消防局（FDNY）表示，周三下午，布朗克斯的一栋公寓楼在发生剧烈爆炸后陷入火海——这场五级火警导致一人死亡，至少14人受伤。

根据FDNY的消息，在位于东209街374号的五层公寓楼三层发生的爆炸中，两人受了危及生命的重伤，三名消防员严重受伤。

据FDNY局长莉莲·邦西尼奥雷（Lillian Bonsignore）称，约300名FDNY消防员和急救人员赶赴现场。

大卫·德图里斯（David DeTurris） 和丹尼尔·科迪（Daniel Cody）

城市老鼠目击次数创 2020 年以来最低

这座“大苹果”正在赢得这场与老鼠的战争。

城市数据显示，随着亚当斯政府最初采取的主要反啮齿动物措施取得积极成效，2026, 年上半年报告的老鼠目击次数有望达到疫情以来最低水平。

根据 311 数据，今年前七个月约有 9,900 起老鼠报案——这是自 2020, 年以来，该时间段内的报告数量首次低于 10,000 次的阈值。

这与去年上半年向城市报告的目击次数相比下降了 22%，这一惊人的跌幅被前市长埃里克·亚当斯视为他在 2022 年宣布的持续战争中的一项重大胜利。

“当老鼠目击次数下降时，它们不会在短短一两天内下降。计划很简单，就是停止喂养它们。我们采取了一系列措施，比如容器化。我们目标非常明确。现在我们看到了数年努力的结果，”亚当斯周三告诉《纽约邮报》。

根据彭博社率先报道的数据，自 2024, 年以来，这段七个月时间内的“老鼠目击”报告每年都在下降。

这些目击次数在 2022, 年达到顶峰，当时 1 月至 8 月期间共接到了 16,230 起关于这些尖叫害虫的报告，促使亚当斯在那个秋天正式宣布“战争”。

像“帝国垃圾桶”（Empire Bins）这样的计划显然是最有效的项目之一，在安装了这些街道大型垃圾桶的少数社区中，老鼠目击次数有所下降。

曼哈顿第 8 社区委员会在去年夏天安装垃圾桶后，老鼠数量减少了 35%。

Katherine Donlevy 和 Greg Carlton

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约翰·琼斯 (JOHN JONES) 布鲁克林纵火嫌疑人。

教堂“纵火犯”被捕

消息人士称，一名涉嫌焚烧布鲁克林一座具有地标意义的 173 年历史教堂的纵火狂，在一名警察发现他在中城一家 CVS 商店偷窃火鸡三明治和甜甜圈时被捕。

消息人士称，24, 岁的约翰·琼斯在凌晨 1:39 分左右涉嫌试图从百老汇店窃取食物和一瓶可口可乐被抓获后，被指控犯有联邦纵火罪。

消息人士称，一名担任安保工作的休职纽约警察局（NYPD）警员将琼斯拘留，并在系统中查询其姓名——发现他因涉嫌破坏南布什威克改革教堂而被通缉。

他们表示，纽约警察局、纽约市消防局（FDNY）、联邦酒精、烟草、火器与爆炸物管理局以及纽约东区美国检察官办公室一直将琼斯视为 6 月 19, 日烧毁这座历史悠久教堂的三级火灾的涉嫌纵火犯。Joe Marino

市长在斯塔滕岛被嘘

周二晚上，在纽约市的一次支持警察的庆祝活动上，市长马姆达尼在斯塔滕岛迅速离开舞台前遭到了阵阵嘘声。

据《斯塔滕岛先驱报》报道，他在米兰海滩木板道上为纽约警察局第 43 巡警分局的“国家反犯罪之夜”发表了简短的讲话。

他招来了部分参会者的大声嘲笑和一连串的脏话，有人大喊让他离开。

Ella Morrison

布朗克斯球棒重创

路透社 (Reuters Connect)

洋基队的危险： 斯蒂芬妮·杜卢克（下方及右侧）在6月被何塞·拉米雷斯（左侧）挥动的球棒击中后，起诉洋基队要求赔偿 1000万美元。

作者：PETER SENZAMICI

一项新的 1000万美元 诉讼称，一名医疗保健高管在洋基体育场的豪华座位区遭受了创伤性脑损伤，原因是球员在挥棒时意外将球棒挥入看台并击中了她的头部。

诉状称，37, 岁的斯蒂芬妮·杜卢克是总部位于布朗克斯的 SOMOS Community Care 的幕僚长，她在观看 6月 2 日的洋基队比赛时，坐在本垒板后第四排的座位上，克利夫兰队的何塞·拉米雷斯在第五局将球棒甩进了她所在的区域。

杜卢克的雇主拥有该区域的季票。

法院文件称，这些是“鲁斯建造之屋”中最昂贵的座位之一，也是最危险的座位之一——这里要求安装防护网，旨在保护球迷免受界外球和失控球棒的伤害。

诉状称：“这是法律长期以来要求体育场运营商提供充足防护屏蔽的唯一位置。”

但根据她在曼哈顿联邦法院提交的诉讼，拉米雷斯在挥棒过程中失去了对球棒的控制，而防护网未能阻止这根高速飞行的球棒。

诉讼称，该防护网比相邻区域“明显低得多”，留下了一个“未受保护的开口”。

她的诉状称，球棒击中杜卢克的“力量之大，将其从座位上击落并猛烈地摔在地上，导致她遭受严重且永久性的伤害”。

随着这一恐怖时刻在直播中播出，播报员在注意到球棒飞过屏幕并击倒一名观众时发出了惊呼。

此前诉讼被驳回

根据比赛的视频片段，在 YES 网络的广播中，洋基队现场播报员迈克尔·凯说：“球棒往一个方向飞，球往另一个方向飞。球棒飞进了看台——而且飞过了屏幕。”

当镜头显示杜卢克捂着头部时，他补充道：“有一位女士被击中了；她现在站起来了。”

杜卢克称，这次打击导致了创伤性脑损伤、脑震荡、严重的畏光以及颈部和手部的永久性损伤——使她完全“无法回归其专业职责”。

尽管声称受伤，但杜卢克在7月下旬出现在 PIXII 的《Monica Makes It Happen》节目中——距离诉讼提起不到两周。

在这一短小的电视片段中，她在演播室灯光下出镜，讨论由她的公司在福特汉姆大学赞助的一场近期活动。

当被问及这段电视片段是否与她的受伤主张相矛盾时，她的律师乔恩·L·诺林斯伯格表示“完全没有”。

洋基队拒绝置评。

杜卢克的诉讼可能会在关于拥有百年历史的“棒球规则”上展开一场高风险的法律斗争。该原则通常免除球队和所有者对界外球、球棒或其他类似伤害的责任。

该规则帮助驳回了针对“布朗克斯轰炸机”的众多其他伤害诉讼，包括由界外球和飞行的球棒造成的伤害。

由 Kyle Schnitzer 参与报道

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MAM'S STORE

布莱克曼：背对市长

共和党州长候选人布鲁斯·布莱克曼周三表示，今年 9 / 11 纪念仪式上的出席者应当背对市长马姆达尼，但他并未直接要求这位市长完全不要参加仪式。布莱克曼（见上图）在 2001 年 9 月 11 日南塔袭击中失去了侄子，他在奥尔巴尼的一次新闻发布会上透露，他计划背对这位引起分歧的左翼市长，并表示他认为受害者家属要求马姆达尼留在家中是正确的。

“我会将此比作一场守灵。如果你不被欢迎，你就不要去守灵，”这位拿骚县行政长官告诉记者。

“我认为如果家属要求他不要来，这是完全恰当的；但如果他确实来了，我认为有一种尊重且和平的方式来抗议，我建议人们背对市长，”布莱克曼说。

他表示，马姆达尼拒绝谴责那些推广激进伊斯兰恐怖主义运动的反以色列口号（如“全球化起义”），这使他失去了参加这一庄重仪式的资格，今年是袭击发生 25 周年。

“他不被那里欢迎，因为他尚未对全球起义发表任何反对意见。事实上，他似乎支持这个短语，而这正是导致我们遭遇 9 / 11 悲剧的部分原因，”布莱克曼说。

马姆达尼表示，尽管一些家属恳求他远离，但他仍计划参加仪式。

“我将自豪地永远缅怀那些受到那场恐怖袭击严重影响的家庭、幸存者和第一响应者，”市长本周表示。 Vaughn Golden

作者：CRAIG McCARTHY

马姆达尼政府周三就市长开设五家市属杂货店的计划留下了大量未回答的问题，暴露了这项由纳税人支持的事业中存在的重大漏洞。

在一次在线信息会议期间，一名经济发展公司（EDC）官员被迫向潜在合作伙伴承认，市政府尚未解决简单的物流问题，包括如何报销运营商费用或支付店员工资。

该 EDC 官员甚至承认，市政府不知道将如何计算超市标志性的基本商品“核心篮子”的成本，市长马姆达尼曾表示，这些商品将以比“典型零售价”低 30% 的价格出售。

“市政府在经营商店方面缺乏专业知识或经验，因此我们正寻求开始确定能够与我们整合的运营商，”由市政府资助的准公共非营利组织 EDC 的战略计划与业务运营副总裁杰米·霍顿表示。

在 45 分钟的 Zoom 通话中，霍顿回答了约十几名出席者关于 EDC 那份 44 页“提案请求书”的提问，该请求书旨在寻求潜在运营商竞标经营这些商店，预计建设成本为 7000万美元。

“愚蠢的投资”

行业专家批评马姆达尼的提案过于草率，称这位年轻社会主义者的竞选承诺——通过五家公共资助、私人运营的超市为纽约人提供更便宜的杂货——在现实世界中毫无意义。

“存在巨大的未知数，”前 Morton Williams 所有者艾维·卡纳表示。“这份 [RFP] 的结构风险极高且回报极低，这简直是一项愚蠢的投资。”

没有参加周三上午会议的卡纳补充道：“整个概念都很愚蠢，因为它无法实现目标。”

“如果目标是降低全市的杂货成本，你不能通过增加五家小店来实现。如果你想降低杂货成本，就让其成本更低地进行”

市政厅无法回答基本问题

细节分析：

市长马姆达尼上个月吹嘘他计划在市属杂货店对必需品提供 30% 的折扣——但一名官员周三承认，他们不知道这将如何运作。

在城市中开展业务。”

当一名可能的运营商询问如何计算杂货的市场价格，以便随后将价格削减近三分之一时，经济发展公司（EDC）给出了一个含糊其辞的回答。

“在考虑获取市场数据的途径，获取……或者抱歉，如果运营商已有门店，则基于查看更广泛市场数据的方法论，”霍顿说道，随后承认该方法论尚未完成。

当被追问时，他随后表示：“关于 30%，我们设定的具体零售基准，将再次在具体的方法论中制定。”

谁为折扣买单？

虽然运营商将无需缴纳房产税，但 EDC 承认，它不知道这是否足以抵消折扣商品的成本。

“市府将如何确定资本租金和税收减免是否不足以让运营商提供核心篮子成本 30% 的削减，或者市府是否保证提供这 30% 的折扣？”一名潜在供应商追问。

霍顿表示他不知道，并指出 EDC 预计在征求建议书（RFP）过程中了解市府是否需要提供更多补贴。

“因此，RFP 要求响应者估算仅通过资本租金和税收减免可以提供的折扣水平，”霍顿说。

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“然后，如果该折扣水平低于 30%，我们将要求响应者估算他们需要多少额外的运营补贴才能提供 30% 的折扣。”

工资怎么算？

霍顿被问到了许多详细问题，关于市府将如何核算可能导致成本上升的未知变量——或者计划如何向运营商支付费用以弥补潜在损失。

“如果成本在月中激增——例如天气事件后的农产品、交付延迟——是由运营商承担利润损失，还是有补贴补齐机制？”一人问道。

但 EDC 再次无法给出答案。

“这再次是我们需要与运营商以及选定的运营商在项目开发和运营商协议过程中共同解决的问题，”霍顿说。

另一位参会者询问：“EDC 是否打算设定工资或工资范围？如果是，目前是否已知？”

但霍顿将问题推后，称“我们可以在秋季的问答环节提供更多细节”，指的是另一次即将举行的会议。

RFP 还要求工人获得利润分成，但 EDC 对于这种收入分成将如何运作没有给出答案。

Ackman 痛批政策“灾难”

作者：ARIEL ZILBER

亿万富翁对冲基金经理比尔·阿克曼（Bill Ackman）在一次新采访中警告称，如果市长马姆达尼（Mamdani）成功实施其极左经济议程，将给这座“大苹果”带来“灾难”。

作为华尔街最著名的保守派发声者之一，阿克曼认为纽约的负担能力危机源于多年糟糕的公共政策——而非资本主义——并警告称“社会主义是一场灾难”。

“关注一下如果马姆达尼成功实施这些计划，纽约市会发生什么，”阿克曼（见下文）周三告诉《财富》（Fortune）杂志。

这一警告出在马姆达尼与纽约商业建制派之间紧张关系升级之际。

本周，这位市长解散了“纽约市前进市长基金”（Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City）的整个顾问委员会，撤换了与黑石（Blackstone）、花旗集团（Citigroup）、纽约房地产委员会（Real Estate Board of New York）以及几家大型房地产公司有关联的高管。

该非营利组织长期以来依赖私营部门的关系为城市项目筹集资金，包括为 9 / 11 救援人员家属筹集超过 1亿美元，以及在新冠疫情期间筹集 $54.500 万。

市府表示，马姆达尼计划设立一个新的委员会，让那些受城市政策“直接影响”的人参与到决策过程中。

阿克曼周三特别点名批评了马姆达尼关于冻结近 100 万 套稳定租金公寓租金的提案，认为该政策将抑制投资并加剧住房短缺。

阿克曼告诉《财富》杂志，住房成本“如此之高，是因为左翼市长让开发商在这里建设变得非常困难，而马姆达尼通过冻结租金，只会让问题变得更糟”。

他补充道：“如果你让人们想居住的地方难以建设，且不允许房东回收装修成本，他们就会将房屋从市场上撤走。”

“这就是在纽约发生的情况——大约 60,000 套房屋离开了市场，因为在租金监管下，装修成本无法回收。”

创造就业者

阿克曼谴责马姆达尼将目标对准富有的工业巨头和金融大亨，例如 Citadel 的老板肯·格里芬（Ken Griffin），后者因市长新颁布的“第二居所税”（pied-à-terre tax）而与市长公开发生冲突。

在马姆达尼拍摄一段社交媒体视频，在这位对冲基金经理位于中央公园南端的顶层公寓前宣传该税项后，格里芬威胁要减少在纽约的投资。阿克曼表示：“你希望像肯·格里芬这样的人将 Citadel 设在这里——花 2.5亿美元 买一套公寓，因为这次购买能让一栋建筑在经济上可行，从而创造建筑就业机会，并吸引缴纳税款的富裕居民。”

尽管格里芬并未排除缩减在“大苹果”规模的可能性，但 Vornado Realty Trust 的首席执行官本周宣布，将继续执行在 350 Park Ave. 建设一座 45 亿美元 billion 摩天大楼的计划，该大楼将容纳 Citadel 的办公室。

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科米被解雇后，特工对特朗普展开调查

作者：EMILY GOODIN

华盛顿 —— 根据白宫周三公布的文件，在2017年5月9日解雇时任局长詹姆斯·科米后，联邦调查局（FBI）启动了一项调查，以确定特朗普总统是否在“有意或无意地”充当俄罗斯特工。

这项名为“牛津逗号”（Oxford Comma）的调查源于“交火飓风”（Crossfire Hurricane），即该局针对特朗普2016年竞选活动是否与克里姆林宫勾结以使其当选为第45任总统的调查。

一份解密的局内备忘录显示：“基于迄今为止提供的事实和情况，FBI认为启动这项调查是应对涉嫌活动所带来的严重国家安全风险且干扰性最小的方法。”

特朗普白宫最初将科米在处理前国务卿希拉里·克林顿使用私人电子邮件服务器调查中的表现列为将其解雇的原因，但后来披露，总统解雇科米是因为他拒绝公开声明特朗普并非“交火飓风”调查的目标。

这份于2017年5月16日启动“牛津逗号”调查的备忘录得到了时任FBI总法律顾问詹姆斯·A·贝克和该局反情报部门助理局长比尔·普里斯塔普的批准。

调查一项“威胁”

备忘录称，该调查旨在“确定特朗普总统是否正受到或曾受到俄罗斯联邦的指示、控制，和 / 或与其协调活动，且其方式构成了对美国国家安全的威胁和 / 或违反了联邦刑事法规”。

“此外，本次调查还将寻求确定特朗普总统及其他尚未点名的人员是否妨碍和 / 或共谋妨碍任何相关的FBI调查。”

他忍无可忍：

2017年，特朗普总统在白宫迎接时任FBI局长詹姆斯·科米，就在几个月后，三军统帅因当时传闻中针对总统的调查而将科米踢出局。

FBI加大对总统的压力

在2016年竞选期间，特朗普个人并未因与俄罗斯勾结而受到调查，但他解雇科米的行为引发了关于可能妨碍司法的质疑，这触发了由时任特别检察官、前FBI局长罗伯特·穆勒领导的调查。

当时的通信记录表明，在许多线索被穷尽之后，一些FBI官员对继续调查2016年总统大选中的勾结指控持有疑虑。

时任副助理局长皮特·斯特罗兹克在2017年5月19日发给FBI特别法律顾问丽莎·佩奇的一条短信中写道：“我犹豫的部分原因是我直觉感到，那里并没有什么大问题。”

但据前Just the News主编约翰·索罗门称，这些新记录可能会成为司法部总检察长顾问乔·迪杰诺瓦调查的素材。

目前在特朗普政府选举诚信工作组任职的索罗门在X上宣布了这些文件的发布。

“牛津逗号”调查于2019年4月9日关闭，未对特朗普提起任何指控。

新任CDC主任就职

参议院周三确认埃里卡·施瓦茨博士（Dr. Erica Schwartz）为疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的新任主任，使这家总部位于亚特兰大的公共卫生机构在近一年来首次拥有全职领导者。

施瓦茨在一次 51-44 的党派分歧投票中获得确认。

这位 54 岁的领导者将成为 CDC 的第 22 任负责人，该机构负责保护美国人免受公共卫生威胁。

施瓦茨接手的 正面临近年来最大规模的食源性疾病爆发、30 年来美国最严重的麻疹复发，以及在刚果民主共和国和乌干达发生的国际埃博拉疫情。

在去年与卫生部长罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）就疫苗政策发生争执后，苏珊·莫纳雷兹（Susan Monarez）在任职仅一个月后被解雇。施瓦茨将成为自此之后首位永久性的 主任。

在莫纳雷兹被解雇后，特朗普总统此前曾提名另外两人，但在听证会和投票开始前撤回了他们的名字。

自从特朗普进入其第二任政府以来， 已经历了 3,000 多次裁员和辞职。Ally Goelz

儿童芬太尼研究令人震惊

令人震惊的是，许多美国八年级学生认为芬太尼对其健康不构成重大风险，尽管这种危险药物是导致儿童死亡的第三大原因。

在 7 月份发表于 JAMA Network Open 的一项调查中，仅有 48% 的 13 岁和 14 岁青少年表示，服用一两次该药物会对健康构成重大风险。

StudyFinds 报道称，这意味着在被问及该药物是否危及健康时，超过一半的受访学生没有给出明确的“是”回答。

受访学生涵盖了各种人口统计特征。Alex Oliveira

致命新超级细菌在美国传播

一种被卫生官员称为“紧急”威胁的耐药超级细菌已在近 20 个美国州传播——且其高度普遍的症状使其难以被发现。

疾病控制与预防中心报告称，这种被称为耳念珠菌（Candida auris）的致命真菌已在 23 个州被发现，今年以来病例数已超过 3,000 例，主要出现在养老院和医院中。

加州大学欧文分校医学院传染病学教授苏珊·黄（Susan Huang）告诉 Healthline.com：“全球范围内的快速出现以及在美国的传播速度令人担忧。”

“公众绝对应该意识到这一担忧，以及它可能如何影响他们或他们关心的人。”

这种超级细菌——据估计导致高达 60% 的感染者死亡——是一种进入血液并扩散至全身的酵母菌。

它通过与感染者接触或触摸被污染的表面而传播。

它具有对所有类型药物耐药的菌株，并被 标记为“紧急抗菌药物耐药威胁”。

症状取决于感染部位，但通常包括寒战、发烧、疲劳——这些常见症状可能会误导医生。

根据克利夫兰诊所（Cleveland Clinic）的说法，其他症状还包括体温低和心率快。

德克萨斯州今年的真菌病例最多，达到 706 例。纽约州未报告病例，但新泽西州发现了 166 例。Natalie O’Neill

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阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（ABDUL El-Sayed）在周二的密歇根州参议院初选中险胜后，成为了民主党最新的伊斯兰社会主义恐怖分子同情者之星。

尽管他的表现低于民调数据及其媒体支持者的预测，但这位热爱封锁的卫生局官僚加速了激进左翼从内部对民主党的征服。

如果埃尔-赛义德能在11月在那个最关键的摇摆州——中西部取得胜利，那么还有什么能阻止一个马克思主义者走向白宫？

这种威胁性的极左接管对民主党来说是灾难性的，对美国来说是可怕的，但对于共和党来说，这也是一个潜在的黄金机会——如果他们不把事情搞砸的话，而这一点绝非确定。

埃尔-赛义德狡猾地与他早期在党内美国民主社会主义者（DSA）派系的根源保持距离，并宣布自己是一名“科学家”而非社会主义者，但没有人被愚弄，尤其是DSA。

就像他的同志们一样，他拥有大量已删除的社交媒体帖子，表达了他真实的极左信念——包括削减警察经费（以及其现代版本：废除美国移民和海关执法局ICE）和废除监狱——因为他试图让自己变形为一个无害的进步主义者，以便让那些厌倦了常规政治的普通公正美国人能够接受。

这种蜕变所涉及的欺骗技巧让评论家们称赞他为“政治运动员”，并将其比作比尔·克林顿。

但无论掩饰他的语言多么华丽，他的极端主义都不难察觉。

在周三上午宣布获胜后的首次演讲中，他向共和党对手迈克·罗杰斯发出了含蓄的威胁：“到我们完成时，在（密歇根州）你将没有一个季度是安全的，因为人们将让你承担责任。”

去年，在一名出生于黎巴嫩的真主党同情者对底特律郊区西布鲁姆菲尔德的一家犹太会堂和幼儿园发动恐怖袭击后，埃尔-赛义德说：“受伤的人确实会伤害他人，而发生在6,000英里之外的情况会影响我们在这里的生活。”

当他煽动其支持者时，他给了他们似乎渴望的血腥与暴力：“当他们采取低劣手段时，我们不采取高尚手段。我们将他们拖入泥潭并将其掐死。”

他现在在语言上可能更加小心，但你可以通过一个人的社交圈来了解他。

“仇恨美国”党团：左翼众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔（左一）、仇视以色列的影响者哈桑·皮克以及散布阴谋论的威斯康星州州长候选人弗朗西斯卡·洪为洪的政治竞选集会。

记住他们的话，别让他们愚弄你

埃尔-赛义德与自封为DSA吉祥物且虐待狗的Twitch主播哈桑·皮克（Hasan Piker）有着深厚的兄弟情。皮克曾说美国“活该”遭受9 / 11恐怖袭击，并且最近还一本正经地装扮成毛泽东，他称后者为“世界伟大的领导人之一”。

根据去年在社交媒体上流传的一段视频剪辑，皮克还曾调情于暗杀幻想。视频中他与泰勒·洛伦兹（Taylor Lorenz）同台，后者是前纽约时报记者，她曾写道，对于医疗保健首席执行官布莱恩·汤普森（Brian Thompson）被据称是“英俊……道德高尚”的路易吉·曼吉奥内（Luigi Mangione）谋杀一事，她感到“欣喜”。

在这段未经证实的视频中，皮克称赞她关于曼吉奥内的文章“以及当你提到‘必须有人去做这件事’时的精彩视频”。观众对这一暗指暗杀的说法发出笑声，皮克说：“看！当我这么说时，每一个人都知道这意味着什么，这表明存在着大量的愤怒、大量的怨恨和尚未开发的革命潜力，这是一个组织起来的绝佳机会。”

自大的候选人

任何正常政党的正常候选人都不会想与如此令人厌恶的观点产生任何联系。

但就像马姆达尼市长一样，埃尔-赛义德在竞选期间与派克同行，并发布了与他一起健身的视频。埃尔-赛义德在选举前夕如此自大，以至于在一次泳池派对上公开与派克一起庆祝。

他还吹嘘自己将以5个百分点的优势击败罗杰斯。

即便是在密歇根州，这种傲慢在普选中肯定也不会受欢迎。

周二晚上，在埃尔-赛义德的无酒精观选派对上，派克也得意地在事情还没定论前就提前庆祝起来：“这仅仅是个开始，”他大声叫嚷道。

“不仅是密歇根州，不仅是威斯康星州。我们希望在整个美利坚合众国继续推进这场运动。”

啊，威斯康星州。当罗杰斯谈到民主党的“疯狂列车”时，他必须在前排为弗朗西斯卡·洪留出位置，她是民主党在威斯康星州州长竞选中备受青睐的人选，将于下周参加初选。

就像派克、马姆达尼以及每一个民主社会主义者（DSA）的走狗一样，她现在正试图与那些将她推向政治名声的激进信念撇清关系。

在她的那些“金玉良言”中，她曾表示想要废除警察和感恩节，认为给小费是“种族主义”，并且认为白人如此糟糕，以至于她无法忍受看着他们吃饭，但遗憾的是，由于她的儿子是混血白人，她具有“与白人的亲近性”。

她还曾向特朗普总统发出过一次几乎没有掩饰的死亡威胁：“该他妈的 86 特朗普了。”

该政党的“路易吉派”已经找到了自己的发声渠道。

民主党似乎无法控制其内部的这头猛兽。

周三在埃尔-赛义德宣布获胜几个小时后，民主党参议员抵制了一场关于穆斯林兄弟会网络在美国之恶意影响的参议院司法听证会，声称这是一次“伊斯兰恐惧症”的演习。

难怪他们要逃之夭夭，因为埃尔-赛义德的岳父（曾资助其竞选）与穆斯林兄弟会有联系，他曾任美国-伊斯兰关系委员会密歇根州分会主席，并且是北美伊斯兰协会的创始成员，而这两个组织在圣地基金会恐怖主义融资审判中被列为未被起诉的共谋者。

恐怖组织

在沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋以及埃尔-赛义德父母的故乡埃及的引领下，穆斯林兄弟会的分支机构在美国已被宣布为恐怖组织。

埃尔-赛义德和他的妻子在密歇根大学通过穆斯林学生协会相识，该协会被描述为“穆斯林兄弟会的前台”。

现在就看迈克·罗杰斯能否说服密歇根州的选民，让他们相信埃尔-赛义德不适合担任他们的参议员。

罗杰斯是一名强有力的候选人，拥有真正的密歇根州工人阶级根基，他曾是一名汽车装配线工人，随后担任美国陆军中尉，之后在芝加哥担任联邦调查局（FBI）特工，调查有组织犯罪。

他在代表密歇根州在国会任职七届期间的记录是积极的，且作为前众议院情报委员会主席，他是警告中国带来的经济和国家安全威胁最强烈的批评者之一，包括中国对密歇根州这一前工业心脏地带中产阶级的掏空。

但民调结果非常接近，面对一个由沉醉于新获得权力的运动所推动的、能言善辩的年轻对手，罗杰斯面临着艰巨的任务。

他还与特朗普绑定在一起，而随着一场不受欢迎的战争持续拖延，特朗普的民调数字正在下滑，且美国人的生活成本仍然是一个痛点。

总统周二晚上告诉福克斯新闻，他在经济方面应该得“A+”，这对于心怀不满的选民来说并不是正确的信息。

一点谦逊将会大有裨益。

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英国教授抄袭并被追责

作者：NATALIE O'NEILL

一名被指控抄袭并对其所谓卓越职业生涯撒谎的剑桥大学教授于周三从这所英国名校辞职——与此同时，该校对他启动了调查。

多样性代言人杰森·阿尔代（Jason Arday），41岁——他是这所备受赞誉的英国大学历史上最年轻的黑人教授——在抨击这些爆炸性指控时坚称，这一突然举动不应“被误认为是对围绕我的叙事的认可”。

他在Good Law Project的一篇帖子中写道：“虽然批评是学术生活不可避免的一部分，但我所经历的已经远远超出了学术分歧。持续不断的指控、猜测和公众评论对我以及我爱的人造成了深远的影响。”

阿尔代表示他作为社会学教授的辞职立即生效，他因涉嫌在博士论文中抄袭100多处段落以及伪造简历而面临调查。

剑桥大学在周三的一份声明中表示：“[我们]在获得关于阿尔代教授学术资格和荣誉职位的最新信息后，启动了一项调查。”声明补充道：“另外，目前仍有若干关于学术不端行为的持续投诉，这些投诉正根据我们的研究不端行为政策进行处理。”

该校此前曾支持这位教授，称他是“旨在破坏其公信力的卑劣活动”的受害者。

比利时根特大学的博士后研究员内森·科夫纳斯（Nathan Cofnas）上个月在Substack上发表了一篇文章，详细列举了阿尔代的博士论文中疑似抄袭的几个例子。

简历亦“撒谎”

一项分析显示，其论文中据报有100多处段落与布鲁内尔大学学生保拉·兹沃兹迪亚克-迈尔斯（Paula Zwozdiak-Myers）的论文相似或直接抄袭。

随后，阿尔代在周二因在其剑桥大学官方个人简介页面上虚假声称曾在三家学术机构担任职务而遭到抨击。

阿尔代在简介中写道，他是俄亥俄州立大学多样性与包容办公室的客座教授——尽管该校的DEI办公室已于去年关闭，且据报道管理人员表示没有他作为员工的记录。

© Mary L. University

假教授： 剑桥大学教授杰森·阿尔代，41, 周三辞职，此前他面临一波抄袭传闻。

阿尔代还声称他在格拉斯哥大学教育学院担任客座教授，但该校表示，自从他离开前往剑桥后，就一直没有担任该职位。

格拉斯哥大学的一位发言人告诉《纽约邮报》：“杰森·阿尔代在2021和2023.之间受雇于格拉斯哥大学担任教育社会学教授。他离开该大学前往剑桥大学担任教授席位。”

阿尔代表示，他从剑桥辞职“仅仅是一个认为任何人都应合理承受的极限已经达到的人所做的决定”。

阿尔代——他自称患有自闭症、癫痫且曾是一名职业足球运动员——上周承认其工作中存在一系列错误，但坚称自己不是“骗子和幻想家”。

阿尔代还被指控对其看似难以置信的个人成就清单撒谎。

这些成就包括“在短短35天内跑了30场马拉松”、为慈善事业筹集数百万美元，以及从事职业足球和斯诺克运动。

阿尔代还表示他患有自闭症谱系障碍，直到11.岁之前无法用语言交流。他在37岁时成为剑桥大学最年轻的黑人教授。

DNA工作助力识别吉尔戈受害者

长岛检察官在唐人街采集了23份DNA样本，这是一项旨在识别一名可能被吉尔戈海滩杀手残杀的谋杀受害者的新努力的一部分。

萨福克县地区检察官雷·蒂尔尼及其团队正试图识别“亚裔无名氏”——一名于2011年4月在吉尔戈海滩沿线被发现埋在女性服装中的男性谋杀受害者。他们通过在唐人街发放传单并征集愿意参与基因检测的居民来实现这一目标。

周二，该团队在曼哈顿参加了“国家之夜”（National Night Out）的庆祝活动，这是一个警察社区建设活动。

“不幸的是，由于商业DNA数据库中亚裔志愿者的数量有限，试图识别15年前在吉尔戈海滩发现遗骸的受害者的尝试一直没有成功，”蒂尔尼告诉《纽约邮报》。

蒂尔尼及其团队告诉志愿者，他们的DNA样本可能有助于追踪与受害者的潜在血缘关系，该受害者可能是一名跨性别性工作者。

根据蒂尔尼的说法，警察将不会保留这些DNA样本，也不会将其录入任何执法数据库。

Brandon Cruz

哈？洪 ♥ 感恩节？

弗朗西斯卡·洪（Francesca Hong）是一名竞选威斯康星州州长的社会主义民主党人，她曾大肆抨击要取消感恩节，因为该节日是在“庆祝殖民主义”——而现在她却离奇地声称这是她最喜欢的节日。

这位州长候选人在周三接受Politico的Playbook播客采访时，对其已删除的2021年11月“取消感恩节”的帖子进行了撤回。

“我最喜欢的节日是感恩节，”洪打趣道。“是的。我不想取消它，实际上我很喜欢它。”

Ella Morrison

长岛PTA高管承认从团体窃取$14G

萨福克县检察官表示，一名不诚实的长岛家长教师协会（PTA）副主席承认她从该团体窃取了超过$14,000，并在Lululemon和其他商店挥霍。

萨福克县地区检察官雷·蒂尔尼表示，50岁的霍普·利文斯顿（Hope Livingston）在2021年7月至2024年6月期间侵吞了萨格哈伯小学家长教师协会的资金，周二对大盗罪指控认罪。

她预计将被强制偿还$14,500。蒂尔尼在谈到曾担任一段时间PTA财务主管的利文斯顿时表示：“从学校的PTA偷钱不仅是一项犯罪，更是对我们的孩子和社区的背叛。”

官员们表示，利文斯顿通过一张用于PTA相关采购的借记卡访问PTA的银行账户，但相反，她在亚马逊以及Target和Costco等商店进行了数千美元的个人消费。

这位前副主席将于10月6日返回法庭，预计将被判处五年缓刑，外加赔偿金。

Brandon Cruz

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多瑙河出现“历史性”干旱

这简直是一场混乱。随着欧洲多瑙河的水位跌至新低，大量沉没的第二次世界大战船只——其中包括生锈的纳粹战舰——突然浮出水面。据CBS报道，在夏季干旱和热浪席卷东欧之际，这些水下宝藏（其中还包括猛犸象骨骼）现已显现。

至少有20艘令人惊叹的战舰——其中一些仍配备有纳粹德国黑海舰队的武器——可见于河中。

在塞尔维亚普拉霍沃（Prahovo）港口附近，一艘船体饱经风霜、桅杆断裂（那里曾悬挂纳粹旗帜）的船只吸引了过路者的关注。

1944年9月，德国指挥官在遭受苏联火力攻击时，故意在多瑙河峡谷中击沉了多达200艘船只。其中一些被南斯拉夫共产主义当局从河中打捞出来，但大多数由于携带的爆炸物具有潜在危险而留在原处。

据CBS报道，官员们目前正试图维持多瑙河的航运，多瑙河是欧洲第二长河，流经10个国家。

“如你所见，[大型]船只已经无法通过了，”普拉霍沃居民克尔斯塔·布兰迪奇（Krsta Brandic）告诉该媒体。 Natalie O'Neill

1 / 3 大学毕业生搬回家中

他们走上舞台领取毕业证书，然后直接走回他们童年时期的卧室。

根据 Clever Real Estate 最近的一项研究，在过去五年中，30% 的 18 至 34 岁人群在大学毕业后搬回了家中。

在这 30% 的人群中，58% 的人表示主要原因是生活成本高昂。其次是 52% 的人表示是为了省钱，然后是 34% 的人指出是因为无法找到工作。

在与父母同住的 Z 世代中，高达 76% 的人仍然依赖于他们的经济支持。对于独立生活的年轻人，这一数字下降到 59%。

毕业生的希望与现实并不相符。

大约 61% 的人认为他们在毕业一年内能实现经济独立，但实际上只有 50% 的人做到了。

在这些未能独立的人中，近 60% 的人表示他们正祈祷住房市场崩溃，以便能买得起房子。

研究补充道，为了避免搬回童年卧室，19% 的 Z 世代表示他们愿意省掉餐食，12% 的人愿意住在车里，11% 的人愿意与刚开始交往的伴侣同居。

Lauren Elkies Schram

好了，悲观主义者！

作者：ANTHONY BLAIR

X 世代已经从拥有最夸张的发型变成了经历最严重的中年危机的人群。

一份新报告称，“懒散一代”在经济上是最悲观的，因为 40 多岁和 50 多岁俱乐部成员在步入中年时被不断增长的开支所挤压。

根据 Axios 报道的一项 Conference Board 研究，20 世纪 80 年代的孩子们在开始考虑退休时，报告了最低的消费者信心。

专家表示，典型的中年倦怠可能是这个“被遗忘的一代”产生消极情绪的一个主要促成因素。他们指出，研究显示幸福感在人生进程中呈 U 型曲线，年轻时的幸福感随时间消逝，并在 40 岁中后期触底。

该调查询问受访者认为目前的美国商业状况是好还是坏，并计算了六个月的平均值，以 1985 年的平均值为基准设定指数为 100。

X 世代对经济最消极。

35 岁以下的 Z 世代和千禧一代的整体消费者信心最高，其次是婴儿潮一代，然后是 X 世代（报告称其年龄在 45 至 61 岁之间）。

X 世代的消费者信心指数六个月平均值下降至 78 点，为至少 4½ 年来的最低点；婴儿潮一代下降至 83 点，为 2021 年 10 月以来的最低点。

数据显示，自 2025 年初以来，这两个群体的信心读数一直处于稳步下降状态。

Z 世代的信心在 4 月略有上升，达到约 108 点，仅比千禧一代高出几点。

Conference Board 首席经济学家 Dana Peterson 告诉 Axios，X 世代被困在“三明治一代”，既要照顾年迈的婴儿潮父母，又要照顾 Z 世代子女。

NielsenIQ 的一份报告称，尽管目前处于收入巅峰期，但 X 世代仍感到未为退休做好准备，只有 35% 的人觉得准备好在经济上支持父母，仅 55% 的人表示觉得在未来几年能在经济上支持子女。

预计该世代将引领全球消费支出至少直到 2033 年，在高收入市场可能直到 2036 年，并且已经占据了美国家庭支出的 30% 以上。

虽然婴儿潮一代在净资产方面仍占据主导地位，但 X 世代在 2025 年全球的支出预计将达到 15.2 万亿美元，这一数字到 2035 年将攀升至 23 万亿美元。

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创业夫妇放弃事业

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Ian Mohr

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Oli Coleman ocoleman@nypost.com Mara Siegler msiegler@nypost.com Carlos Greer cgreer@nypost.com

摄像机开拍

消息人士称，在披头士乐队（The Beatles）将由导演萨姆·门德斯（Sam Mendes）在2028年拍摄四部电影后，摇滚偶像米克·贾格尔（Mick Jagger）对拍摄滚石乐队传记电影的可能性产生了兴趣。之前的报道称，83,岁的贾格尔并不倾向于进行任何形式的自传，即便是在他的队友基思·理查兹（Keith Richards）的成功书籍《Life》于2010.年上市之后也是如此。据一位好友透露：“米克正在积极思考滚石乐队的电影项目可以如何呈现。参与其中将使他在项目中拥有话语权，甚至能传达对他而言重要的事情。披头士的电影无疑改变了他的想法。”我们已联系贾格尔的代表。

英国处于 Fuge 状态

劳伦·希尔（LAURYN Hill）和怀克利夫·让（Wyclef Jean）昨晚在伦敦重聚，庆祝 Fugees 1996年热门专辑《The Score》发行30周年。这对前队友在希尔（见上图）于皮卡迪利灯光秀（Piccadilly Lights）首展洛杉矶艺术家劳伦·哈尔塞（Lauren Halsey）的新作之前，与粉丝见面并签署周边商品。这是英国音乐节 Diaspora Calling! 的一部分。由希尔策划，希尔表示：“对于正在发生的一切，我处于一种如此深刻的体现状态，以至于我不确定是否能用语言表达。现在，我采取行动。我的行动正通过作品本身为我发声。”

他们正在处理自己的“行李”（baggage / 分道扬镳）。

Away 行李箱联合创始人詹妮弗·鲁比奥（Jennifer Rubio）与亿万富翁科技企业家、Flickr 和 Slack 的联合创始人斯图尔特·巴特菲尔德（Stewart Butterfield）在结婚六年并育有两个孩子后决定分开。

这对夫妇昨天在 Instagram 上宣布了这一消息，称：“基于对彼此深厚的爱与尊重，我们决定分开……我们的孩子永远是第一位的，我们致力于在两个积极且在场的父母所营造的充满爱的环境中抚养他们。”他们补充说，他们“在共同建立的生活中也是合作伙伴”，并且“继续致力于艺术、通过鲁比奥-巴特菲尔德基金会从事慈善事业，以及长期以来对我们至关重要的共同业务、投资和事业”。

他们圈内的一位消息人士告诉我们，他们对这个消息感到“震惊”，且这对夫妇刚刚在他们的船上招待了朋友。“他们看起来像是模范情侣，”该消息人士说。

另一位人士则表示这并非如此突然。一位熟悉情况的消息人士告诉 Page Six：“詹妮弗和斯图尔特私下走这条路已经有一段时间了。他们仍然是好朋友，今年夏天也以这种身份与朋友一起进行了多次旅行。”

鲁比奥和巴特菲尔德在五月参加 Met Gala 走红毯时，看起来完全是一对权力夫妇。在承诺捐赠 2300万美元 后，他们刚刚被任命为该博物馆的受托人。

同月，鲁比奥记录了他们旋风般的社交日程。她在一条充满魅力（glamour）的帖子中配文：“威尼斯双年展，LACMA 的 Dior 秀，与 Chanel 合作的 Dia Beacon 慈善活动，Frick 的 Louis Vuitton 秀，Alaia 晚餐……时代广场的 Gucci 秀……以及一只新小狗。”

除了积累社交声望，这对夫妇还积累了据报道价值至少 1.4亿美元 的房地产组合，他们强大的艺术收藏包括来自蓝筹艺术家赛·汤姆布雷（Cy Twombly）、埃德·鲁沙（Ed Ruscha）、理查德·普林斯（Richard Prince）、乔治·康多（George Condo）和卡拉·沃克（Kara Walker）的作品。

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对冲基金从校友手中夺走营地

在争夺迈克和大卫·沙布塞尔（Mike and David Shabsels）破产营地的战争中，私募股权公司成为了赢家。根据周二提交的法院文件，这两兄弟的二十多个营地——包括莫霍克日间营（Mohawk Day Camp）——已被收购。在Page Six报道华纳兄弟首席执行官大卫·扎斯拉夫（David Zaslav）尽管将出价提高到$80 million但仍被出价更高者击败后，文件披露私募股权公司FitzWalter Capital以1.21亿美元的价格赢得了竞标。当以色列投资者对沙布塞尔提起诉讼，声称

他们欠款$500 million时，营地校友开始筹集资金，“为了让他们的童年营地保持完整，为了他们的孩子和后代，”一名内部人士表示。不幸的是，对冲基金介入了。美国青年露营公司（American Youth Camping Inc.）以1700万美元的价格买下了六个营地，包括回声营（Camp Echo）。到目前为止，30个营地中23个的成功竞标总额为3.68亿美元。我们听说其他地点（如拉维营 Camp Lavi）的争夺仍在继续。

迷恋足部的信徒

杰森·比格斯（JASON Biggs）在与结婚18年的妻子珍妮·莫伦（Jenny Mollen）分手几个月后，透露了一个令人惊讶的癖好。“我喜欢脚，我欣赏脚，”这位《美国派》的演员在埃戈·诺沃丁（Ego Nwodim）的“Thanks Dad”播客中说道。“我认为脚可以是性感的。”但他也澄清道，“就像我喜欢好看的脚一样，[脚也可以是]那种，‘呃’。”48岁的比格斯明确表示他不喜欢“带跟的细带凉鞋”，并说在纽约，“你需要穿闭口鞋！”比格斯脱掉鞋子展示了自己的脚，承认自己是“一个做美甲美足的人”。“还行，不算差，”这位演员指出。38岁的诺沃丁回答道：“挺好的。我看到那只脚不会说，‘快把它收起来！’”

斯图特提供辛辣点评

玛莎·斯图尔特（MARTHA Stewart）坦率地谈到了梅根·马克尔（Meghan Markle）在担任演员和公主之后进入“烹饪领域”一事。“我前几天晚上和梅根·马克尔一起吃了晚餐。我们都是加利福尼亚州一场晚餐派对的客人。而她刚从宫殿回来，”斯图尔特（上图）告诉《People》杂志，指的是这位公爵夫人与哈里王子及其孩子们的英国之行。当被问及对马克尔的烹饪节目《With Love, Meghan》的看法时，这位85岁的家居女王给出了一个令人沮丧的评价。“如果你是一名演员，那么转型成公主，然后再从公主变成电视节目上的家政专家，这是很难的，”斯图尔特说。“这不合逻辑。所以就那样吧。”

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正式告别。 纽约 PIX11 新闻标志性人物凯蒂·汤 (Kaity Tong) 周二晚上宣布退休，结束了她跨越六个多十年、充满荣誉且屡获殊荣的职业生涯。

该电视台宣布，这位曾获得艾美奖的广播记者自 1992 年起就任职于 PIX11，将于 8月 30日主持她的最后一场节目。

“记者、主播、标志性人物、传奇、朋友、导师。这些词中的几个可以用来形容我们深爱的凯蒂·汤，”PIX11 执行编辑帕特里克·梅森 (Patrick Mason) 表示。

“在 WPIX 工作 34 年多之后，凯蒂选择在 8 月底进入一个实至名归的退休生活。在纽约市地区，你很难找到一个不会立即将 PIX11 与凯蒂联系起来的人。在一个可能在‘纽约分钟’（瞬间）之间就发生改变的行业中，她是一个极具影响力的人物。”

未选择的道路

汤，79 岁，出生于中国，4 岁时移居美国。她说她从未想过要成为一名出镜记者，而是在斯坦福大学攻读博士期间意外进入了这个行业。

“我从未渴望成为一名广播记者。不，

我想成为一名大学教授，”汤在 10 月入选纽约州广播协会名人堂时说道。

汤追随其母亲和叔叔（两人均为知名记者）的脚步，在 1970 年代获得了旧金山 KCBS 全新闻广播电台晨间编辑兼制作人的夏季职位。

根据她的在线简介，由于她搁置了研究生学业，从未完成中文和日语研究的博士论文，这份季节性工作变成了在该电台的一整年雇佣。

汤很快转向电视报道，加入旧金山 KPIX-TV 担任撰稿人，随后在 1976 年“立即”被转岗为记者。

在萨克拉门托 KCRA 工作一段时间后，汤搬到了纽约，并于 1981 年成为 WABC 的记者和周末共同主播。

在入职该电台两年后，汤被任命为下午 5 点和晚上 11 点播报的共同主播。

1991 年，汤加入 WPIX 并一直工作至今，起初担任首席女主播，现为周末主播。

北卡罗来纳州枪击事件导致 3 名亲属死亡

周三，北卡罗来纳州的一处住宅发生大规模枪击事件，导致三名家庭成员死亡，一名住院。

当局表示，枪击事件发生在罗利市北部的卡斯韦尔县，时间在上午 8 点之前。

县治安官表示，受害者和枪手（已死亡）均为同一家庭的成年人。

“一名枪伤患者被转移到杜克大学医院，我们目前尚不清楚其具体情况，”治安官托尼·德顿 (Tony Durden) 告诉记者，并补充说，出于“对家属的尊重”，当局尚未公布关于受害者或嫌疑人的信息。

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辛迪·亚当斯 (Cindy Adams) 已被洋基队征召。她将于下周返回。

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“一次”巨大的快感 (ONE BIG BOREGASM)

安格斯·昆斯·哈利 (Angus Kuns Haly)

穿着黄衣的温婉莫妮卡

在从事演艺工作 13 年后，《仅限一夜》(One Night Only) 的明星莫妮卡·巴巴罗 (Monica Barbaro) 对自己的职业生涯有了客观的认识。“我经历了不断的突破，”这位 36 岁的演员在接受 inStyle（插图）采访时表示，“同时也经历了挫折和恐惧。”

这部“一夜”性喜剧没能吸引我

一个版本的《肃正日》，设定为美国的单身人士一年中只有一天可以合法进行性行为，这是一个很不错的切入点。

一个极佳的切入点。可惜的是，这个设定也是《One Night Only》最有趣的部分，该片由 Callum Turner 和 Monica Barbaro 主演。在电影开始的最初几秒，当一名面无表情的解说员在快节奏的浪漫喜剧音乐中出现在纽约天际线背景的屏幕上时，观众会发出一阵 hearty 的大笑。

“三年前，美国禁止婚前性行为，除非一年中的某一个夜晚，”它突然说道。

哈。在那一刻，这部电影看起来像是《好友一起做》和《使女的故事》之间一种奇怪而巧妙的结合。然而，笑声和创意逐渐减少。到最后，我们看到的更像是由 Tina Fey 和 Steve Carell 主演的《约会之夜》——一次“午夜后没好事”的旅程，在通往一个可预见的、腻死人的结局的途中，经历了多次令人失望的停靠。

在喧闹的 12 小时里，Owen (Turner) 和 Allie (Barbaro) 为了能睡到人而陷入了愈发愚蠢的境地。类似这样的故事，我们已经看过很多很多次更好的版本了。

但导演 Will Gluck 的这部电影加入了一层几乎难以察觉的科幻反乌托邦色彩，因此心存怀疑的观众在心中一个接一个地就这些荒诞的情况提出疑问。

国会显然通过了这项法律以促进传统婚姻（配偶仍然可以 24 / 7,365 全天候亲热）。结果，每个美国人的手臂中都被植入了一个芯片，该芯片会在多巴胺水平升高（暗示他们正在亲热）时向执法部门发出警报。

关于 24 小时合法犯罪时段的《肃正日》，竟然比

《One Night Only》看起来更真实。

所以你是想告诉我，在现实世界中，我们花了 20 年才全面实施《真实身份法》(REAL ID act)，但在这部电影里，3.5 亿 人在新的国会多数派废除这项疯狂的性禁令之前，就都被强行进行了生物电子手术？

而且美国政府肯定无法在欧洲或南美强制执行美国人的“拉链”。我们那些好色的人民难道不能直接飞到其他国家去发泄他们的沮丧之情吗？

另外，为什么似乎没有人对一项最基本的人类生理功能被法律禁止感到愤怒？

每个人都沉溺于这场幼稚的酒神祭，除了城里最无聊的两个人——我们的主角！

Owen 是一位异常帅气的披萨店老板，正准备在一次精致的 omakase 晚餐上向女友求婚，结果她抛出了一个炸弹。“我今晚要和别人睡，”这个刻薄的女友说。心神不宁的 Owen 不情愿地决定

通过寻求一夜情来转移注意力。

与此同时，Allie 参加了一个旨在帮助人们寻找机会的单身社交派对。Allie 想要的不仅仅是快餐式的床上运动。她想要建立一种有意义的联系。当然，她想要。

也许她最终会与 Owen 产生真正的火花。在街头经历了一次尴尬的邂逅（在这种情况下，是邂逅呕吐）后，两人不断地相遇。防止《One Night Only》变成烂片的是 Turner 和 Barbaro 之间的化学反应。他们的能量是调情且温暖的，尽管在这部所谓的性喜剧中，最吸引人的两个人竟然是对性最不感兴趣的人，这相当可疑。

相当巧合的是，Gluck 这部常规电影最终变得像它所讲述的那么多场一夜情一样：起初计划得极其完美，但在大白光之下却令人失望。

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ONE NIGHT ONLY

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一名被指控在三军统帅访问前对其位于南加州的特朗普总统高尔夫俱乐部进行侦察的武装男子，是一名曾被授予勋章的前美国海军陆战队员，他曾完成在伊拉克和阿富汗的战斗部署。

根据《纽约邮报》获得的军事记录，来自加州道尼的 38 岁让宁·约翰·泰勒（Jeanine John Taele）在 2008 年至 2016 年期间在海军陆战队服役，在彭德尔顿营地（Camp Pendleton）精锐的第一侦察营担任仓库文员期间达到了下士军衔。

记录显示，泰勒于 2008 年 10 月至 2009 年 3 月期间部署在伊拉克，随后于 2010 年 6 月至 12 月期间在阿富汗服役。

他的军事档案显示，他获得了两枚海军陆战队良好行为奖章（ awarded for repeated periods of honorable and disciplined service），以及一枚表彰其部队卓越表现的海军单位表彰奖章。

极端主义联系？

一名执法部门消息人士告诉《纽约邮报》，联邦调查人员正在挖掘泰勒的历史，包括他是否与极端组织有任何联系，或者是否与 6 月白宫 UFC 活动中一起被挫败的恐怖阴谋中心的加州人士有联系。

泰勒现在面临联邦

中东之行： 曾作为美国海军陆战队员在伊拉克和阿富汗服役的让宁·约翰·泰勒被发现持有武器，包括在他位于加州特朗普总统高尔夫球场附近的皮卡车中发现的枪支（见下文）。

联邦指控称，在当局表示于 8 月 4 日总统前往该地进行筹款访问的前几天，发现他在位于兰乔帕洛斯弗德斯（Rancho Palos Verdes）的特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部洛杉矶分场持有武器后，他面临联邦指控。

他在一份联邦刑事起诉书中被指控持有未登记的短管步枪，这是一项最高可判处 10 年监禁的重罪。

联邦检察官表示，负责提前安全规划的特工在 7 月 31 日发现泰勒在高尔夫球场周围走动，佩戴着耳机，同时拍摄并录制安全准备工作。

据称，他在 8 月 2 日返回该俱乐部，在那里他谎称自己在国务院的安全细节部门工作，并承认他的皮卡车中有一把装有子弹的枪。

检察官表示，执法部门从他的卡车中缴获了一把装有子弹的 9 毫米手枪、空尖弹、双筒望远镜以及一枚标有“安全保护特工”的徽章。

肮脏的垃圾工被捕，涉儿童色情

一名前纽约市卫生局主管涉嫌持有数千张儿童色情图像和视频——包括在他 DSNY 夹克口袋里的一个闪存盘中。

根据纽约南区美国检察官办公室的消息，61 岁的维克多·阿尔韦洛（Victor Alvelo）周二因儿童色情指控被捕，此前联邦和纽约市警察局（NYPD）调查人员在他布朗克斯的家中发现了数千张令人不安的青春期前儿童图像。

阿尔韦洛在 2025 年退休前担任 DSNY 总主管，他面临最高 20 年的监禁。

纽约市警察局局长杰西卡·蒂施（Jessica Tisch）在声明中表示：“纽约市警察局将不遗余力地阻止那些试图剥削和伤害儿童的捕食者。我感谢我们的调查人员……以及执法合作伙伴发现了这些非法且卑劣的材料。” Zoe Hussain

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BRADY HARMON 前夫杀死了他的 4 个孩子。

父亲：杀子凶手下地狱吧

在纽约州北部的一处公寓内，四名孩子涉嫌被其祖母和母亲谋杀，孩子的父亲表示，凶手们应该在“地狱中有一个特殊的位置”。

Mechanicville警察局局长William Rabbitt周二证实，44岁的Sarah Myers及其64岁的母亲Amy Steadman“共谋在[6月10日]谋杀了四名孩子，随后自杀”。

“我知道我的孩子们被谋杀了，”Brady Harmon周二告诉News10。

Rabbitt表示，其中三名孩子——13岁的Harper、11岁的Hudson和10岁的Gracelynn——被投毒。10岁的Gavin在试图自卫时被捅刀。

“我的孩子们遭受了痛苦，”Brady Harmon告诉WRGB。“投毒而且还捅他们——地狱里有专门为这种人准备的位置。”Brady Harmon此前与前妻陷入了激烈的监护权纠纷，自2019年11月以来一直没见过他的孩子们。Chris Bradford

披萨店 vs. 吃蛋糕的人

根据一段疯传的视频，一群访问新泽西海岸海滨步道披萨店的顾客在请求对方提供一把刀以切割他们为孩子派对带来的生日蛋糕后，遭到了一名员工的强烈敌意。

这场争执发生在周六，地点位于Point Pleasant Beach的Jenkinson's海滨步道上的Joey Tomato's店。该群体在访问时认为他们被允许将外部蛋糕带到庆祝活动中。

Daniel Cody

RIKKI SCHLOTT

在7月一个温暖的周四晚上，数百名纽约人——其中大多数是单身女性——聚集在Gowanus的Littlefield，通过分享现代约会的恐怖经历来建立创伤纽带。

她们是为了参加About Last Night而来的，这是一个始于2016年的全国性活动，人们在舞台上讲述糟糕的约会故事，并哀叹寻找爱情的痛苦。

该活动旨在帮助单身人士感到不再孤独，但关于尿布癖好和变态同事的故事实际上表明，单身人士——尤其是女性——在多大程度上纵容了伴侣的恶劣行为。

一名叫Jesse的女性讲述了她在22岁时在纽约市经历的第一次一夜情。她约会的那个年长男人站起来，坐在他的升降桌上，在她的注视下赤裸地上下骑动，令她感到困惑。

放屁能引起兴奋

另一名年轻女性CJ回忆起在封锁期间与一名“有大舌头、贩卖可卡因的日本滑板少年”约会，结果意识到她实际上爱上了她所在的28人合作住房居住环境中的另一名成员。在吸食可卡因处于亢奋状态离开他的公寓后，她自发地参加了附近的一场Black Lives Matter抗议活动，在那里她被警察使用了催泪瓦斯。

一个名叫Jared的男人回忆起与一名女性约会，该女性承认她与一名年长男性处于一种24 / 7的支配-服从（dominant-submissive）kink关系中，该男性一直在阅读她所有的短信，并控制她是否能与Jared见面或与其亲密。

现场还有相当多关于厕所幽默的诉求。

Frankie回忆起与一名同事萌生的恋情，对方在第二次约会时承认，女性放屁会让他产生性兴奋。

About Last Night的创始人、常驻洛杉矶的Chase James表示，该活动灵感来自他朋友圈在早餐时分享前一晚糟糕经历的习惯。他在十年前于旧金山启动了这一系列活动，随后扩展到了芝加哥、纽约、丹佛和西雅图。很快，他们还将在奥斯汀和华盛顿特区举办活动。

“这是一种非常特别的信任感和同志情谊，我在想如何能将其扩大到更大的规模，”他告诉《纽约邮报》。“在一段时间里，这不再是最糟糕的事情。这反而成了最好的事情，因为我们都在一起嘲笑它。”

但在我听来，这些故事

所有这些故事似乎都指向一个结论：年轻人将彼此视为可丢弃的性对象，并且经常为了跟上快节奏的约会场景而忽视自己的价值观。

被日期留在急诊室

我发现自己在问，为什么你最终会和一个你曾对自己承诺不会发生关系的人上床？为什么你在开口之前，会让你的同事连续几天给你发送色情内容？

我们如此多地讨论现代约会是多么可怕——这理所应当——但我们集体放弃自主权，只会让情况变得更糟。

最后一位发言者是一位名叫戴西（Daisy）的纽约人，她告诉观众，在与一名她感兴趣的男子约会几次后，她违背了自己的底线

并允许对方说服自己在没有承诺的情况下发生性关系。

她鼓起勇气告诉那个男人：“我真的非常喜欢你。I would love to maybe not have this be casual. 我想也许可以进入一段恋爱关系，你觉得呢？”

当他拒绝她的提议时，她感到“心碎”，但她压抑了失望——并接受了随便的性行为，希望以此赢得他的感情。

“我当时想，没错，这个25岁的男人说他准备好了，那么我也一定准备好了……[而且]我一直告诉自己，‘这就是20岁意味着的事情’，”她在台上说道。

故事在最高潮处转折：戴西在孩童时期接受过三重器官移植，她在性行为过程中开始大量出血，需要去医院——结果她的约会对象将她留在

候诊室就离开了。她不得不独自进入急诊手术室。

女孩们，大胆发声

这是一个戏剧性的结局，但有一个能引起共鸣的结论。“这让我意识到，我们为了达到社会标准而强迫自己去做那些认为应该做的事情到了什么程度，”她告诉人群。

如果说从《昨夜之乱》（About Last Night）的混乱中能学到任何一点，那就是：现代约会中如此多的恐怖之处，其实是我们作为女性，说服自己参与到一个并不符合我们自身利益的系统中的结果。我们为了避免冲突而妥协，在并不真正想要的时候进行随便的性行为，并接受糟糕的行为，因为“约会太糟糕了”。

我们可以继续抱怨……或者我们可以开始要求更好的。

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PEREZ HILTON'S

作者：MEGAN PALIN 和 HAILEY EBER

佩雷兹·希尔顿（Perez Hilton）在名声与恶名、丑闻与救赎、重塑与悔恨之间往复跳跃了二十多年。

他曾梦想成为一名演员，但最终成为了好莱坞最臭名昭著的八卦博主，通过搅动2000年代最顶尖明星的生活建立了一个互联网帝国。然而，丑闻、与名人的不和以及流行文化口味的改变，迫使这位自封的“刻薄女王”去面对——并反思——过去的那个佩雷兹。

本周，这一切以一种可以想象的最恐怖的方式达到了顶峰。

周二晚上，这位48岁的人在一次恐怖的TikTok直播中似乎用刀割伤了自己，并谈到了自杀，促使惊慌的观众拨打了急救电话。他目前正在医院接受治疗。

这位三个孩子的单身父亲长期与体重和抑郁症作斗争，就在几个月前，他刚从一场近乎致命的败血症中幸存，随后戏剧性地宣布他找到了上帝。

朋友们说，他的心理健康危机毫无征兆地出现，就在他将家人从拉斯维加斯迁出，前往家乡迈阿密开始新生活几周之后。

“他几乎不喝酒。我实际上不记得上次看到他喝酒是什么时候了，而且他绝对不吸毒。所以这一切完全不符合他的性格，”一名接近希尔顿的消息人士告诉 The Post。

“这不像是一场持续下滑的恶性循环。事实并非如此。”

三个孩子的父亲

这三个孩子在基因上都是他的，是用同一位匿名捐赠者的卵子受孕，但由不同的代孕母亲携带。

消息人士告诉 Page Six，他一直是一位“尽职的父亲”，为人父让他发生了巨大的变化。

“我真的很开心。我努力让自己变得更加开心……我想在变得更开心这件事上努力。这需要思考、分析和观察。我很喜欢自己在接近 41 岁时，做事的方式与以前不同，”他在 2019 年的采访中说道。

希尔顿的母亲特雷西塔一直是他生活中的重要组成部分，并帮助他抚养孩子，同时他与姐姐芭芭拉的关系也很亲近。

“马里奥本人与他在社交媒体和网络上塑造的 Perez Hilton 形象截然不同，”这位朋友说道。“他非常善良，有点害羞，谦逊且极其幽默。”

作为公开重塑形象的一部分，希尔顿还关注自己的身体健康。

希尔顿表示，在他体重最重的时候，体重达到了 255 磅，但通过多年的饮食和锻炼，他减轻了 60 多磅。他在 2025 年表示，维持这种转变是一场每日的战斗。

“我是个食物成瘾者，”希尔顿当时告诉《纽约邮报》。“如果我破戒，就像酗酒者一样。重新回归正轨需要付出巨大的努力。”

在主持播客、运营他的网站（近年来该网站已成为更小众的兴趣点）以及参加电视节目期间，2026 年被证明是一个剧烈动荡之年。

三月份，一场流感恶化，希尔顿后来表示他一直在空腹服药并导致了溃疡，随后出现了胃

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有害之路

半名人圈子： 在 2000 年代人气最高峰时，刻薄的博主 Perez Hilton 与经常出现在他短评中的 B 级名人（如歌手 Fergie、说唱歌手 Fieve Fiev 和社交名媛 Paris Hilton，从左至右）之间的界限变得模糊。

穿孔，进而导致败血症。“我的愚蠢让我住院了 21 天，”希尔顿在 Instagram 上发布的一段讲述这段痛苦经历的视频中说道。“我的身体一直在崩溃。”

随后腿部出现的血栓带来了另一次严重的健康危机。

“这把他吓坏了，是一次巨大的觉醒，”一名消息人士告诉《纽约邮报》。

随后，在天主教环境下长大并接受过耶稣会教育但并非真正信徒的希尔顿找到了上帝。

他本人表示，他所经历的一切只能被称为“奇迹”。

在住院后的一段含泪视频中，他表达了歉意，并承认自己在追求关注、金钱和点击率的过程中伤害了他人。

“没有人是完美的，但我的错误是非常公开的，”他在今年早些时候分享在社交媒体上的一段视频中说道。“互联网是永恒的。证据是永恒的。我心中带着深深的羞愧和遗憾。我很抱歉，我会继续道歉。”

六月份，他突然宣布他及其家人将离开拉斯维加斯，并表示：“这是上天派遣的。上帝告诉我搬到迈阿密。”

拥有大量支持

希尔顿承认，对于让孩子们被迫搬家，他感到很愧疚，而且这座城市对他而言承载着痛苦的回忆。“在很长一段时间里，30多年来，我不爱迈阿密，”他在6月17日的一段剪辑中说道，并解释说他学校的牧师经常就同性恋问题让学生感到羞愧，且他的父亲和祖父都在那里去世。“尽管我出生并成长在那里……但我尽可能快地离开了那里，因为我在迈阿密度过的时光与太多的创伤联系在一起。”

消息人士周三分别表示，希尔顿发现在迈阿密建立新家比预想的更困难，且财务危机正向他袭来。

“一些相当极端的医疗账单对他打击很大，”该消息人士说。“他是我认识的最勤奋的人之一，突然面临这些不断增加的财务压力对他来说压力太大了。”

消息人士称，希尔顿还是整个家庭的经济支柱，这增加了压力。然而，没有人能为本周直播的恐怖场景做好准备，这些场景震惊了世界。

“我们的关注点仍然在佩雷斯的健康、康复以及他及其家人的隐私上，”他的代表周三表示。

而与他亲近的人希望他能听从自己七年前给出的建议，当时他说在20多岁时经历抑郁症教会了他一些东西，如果他再次陷入黑暗时期，这些东西会有所帮助。

“我会知道那是暂时的，”他说。

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他们正奔向山区。大苹果城的企业主们正逃离桥梁和隧道，前往上州寻找更好的生活——将他们独特的人才带到哈德逊河谷和卡茨基尔山脉迷人的城镇。

据当地房地产业内人士透露，厌倦城市的纽约人沿着哈德逊河向北迁移以寻找更美好生活的趋势在新冠疫情期间增强，且没有反转的迹象。

据报道，这一增长的人口——估计仅在新冠疫情期间就增加了超过100,000名新居民——似乎包括了哥谭市一些最具进取心的企业家。而且他们发现自己受到了当地新老居民的热烈欢迎。

“我看到这么多来自城市的人，真是太神奇了；他们会说‘噢我的天，不敢相信你在这里！’，”资深纽约餐饮业者丹尼尔·西普里亚尼 (Daniel Cipriani) 告诉《纽约邮报》。去年冬天，他在山顶滑雪小镇温德姆 (Windham) 开了一家名为 Dandies 的现代烧烤店。

布鲁克林迁入者

这位前海军员 turned 厨师——与那些其他著名的 Cipriani 餐饮家族没有亲戚关系——在布鲁克林热门餐厅 Sea Wolf 成名，Vogue 杂志曾称该餐厅为“文青宇宙的中心”。

现在，他从城市搬到了乡下。

“后疫情时代，全力投入上州就显得很合理，”Cipriani 表示。

“有越来越多的人来到这里，从游客到全职和周末居民，他们都热爱美食，”他说道。

Dandies 自去年冬天起就在温德姆（Windham）乡村风格的 Eastwind 酒店内营业（Cipriani 同时也是这家小型连锁酒店的联合创始人，并担任其餐饮总监），该店提供堆满手撕猪肉、烟熏牛胸肉和多汁鸡肉的大盘料理。

“我们是用一个 333-

纽约市企业主迁往上州

避风港（SHELTER）远离布鲁克林风暴： 这家以滑雪小屋为灵感的餐厅 Shelter 在业主面临巨额租金上涨后，于 2023 年从威廉斯堡迁至上州的伍德斯托克（Woodstock）。

加仑的熏制炉进行烟熏，那是我们从德克萨斯州开过来的，”Cipriani 说道。

对新场所的需求让房地产经纪人们奔波不停。

“这种情况一直在滚雪球般增长，”在河对岸时尚小镇哈德逊（Hudson）经营 Nicole Vidor 房地产公司的业主 Nicole Vidor 告诉《纽约邮报》。

她在该行业和该地区工作了近 20 年——即便是在 2020 年开始的繁荣之年之后，她仍然对近期兴趣的增加感到惊讶。

“各地的需求都非常惊人——甚至有人从加利福尼亚州搬到这里，”她说。

“同样困难”

Cipriani 表示，虽然这里的生活节奏确实可能较慢，但不要被骗了。在城市之外经营企业“同样困难——但原因不同”。

“在城市里，你会遇到规律性问题、客流量以及所有你必须面对的疯狂事情，”他解释道。

“在卡茨基尔山脉（Catskills），所有这些事情都更容易，甚至像建筑工程这样简单的事情。但在上州，困难之处可能在于人员配置和将所需物资运进来，”他说道。

在谈到经营餐厅时，即便是在风景如画的温德姆，他说：“这是世界上最艰难的生意。但如果你热爱它，它也是最值得的，而我热爱它。”

在山下的邻近小镇伍德斯托克，当地人正成群结队地前往另一家从布鲁克林迁入的餐厅。

Shelter 是一家规模宏大、以滑雪小屋为灵感的餐厅，以其熊熊燃烧的壁炉、披萨和恩潘那达（empanadas）而著称。在经营 10 年后，由于月租金飙升至巨额的 $90,000，该店于 2023 年在威廉斯堡关门。

在告别“教堂之区”（Borough of Churches）一年半后，他们开设了 Shelter Woodstock——并且从此再未回头。“我们的房东考察了我们，并说：‘这就是这个小镇需要的。’”

生意兴隆

据这对搭档称，生意极其兴隆——饥饿的狂欢者们正享用着菜单上的招牌菜，如洋葱奶酪恩潘那达、配有芝麻菜、帕尔马火腿和布拉塔奶酪的柴火披萨，以及红酒炖猪肋排。

在上州，没有哪个城镇像哈德逊那样让人感觉像是一个缺失的纽约市社区——那里在几十年前就开始绅士化，且没有放缓的迹象。

在沃伦街（Warren Street）上下及其附近侧街，前大苹果城的企业（或其分支机构）正日益密集。

近年来为他们提供服务的包括 Nora Allen 等人——这位詹姆斯·比尔德奖（James Beard）半决赛入围者的知名 Mel the Bakery 位于曼哈顿下东区，其新店已吸引粉丝前往，距离现已关闭的原店有数小时路程。

在街道上方，威廉斯堡的奢华肉铺 Meat Hook 于 2024 年在同一条街道上开设了第二家分店。

另一个邻居是 Gotham 的第四家门店，这是一家精致的大麻分发店和生活方式商店，起源于纽约市——并在切尔西（Chelsea）和布鲁克林的 Domino Sugar Refinery 等热门社区设有显眼的门店。

律师资格考试“脑损伤”诉讼 民主党人“恳请”审查伦理问题

一份令人震惊的诉讼称，一名希望成为律师的人在霍夫斯特拉大学参加律师资格考试期间失去意识并遭受严重的脑损伤，而监考人员拒绝停止考试，并无视了她的求救喘息。

纳苏县提交的法院文件显示，来自新泽西州的 36 岁玛丽·简·荣在 2025 年 7 月 30 日纽约州律师资格考试上午场期间，在长岛该学校的 David S. Mack 体育与展览综合体内的午休前不久，突然从椅子上瘫倒，据称陷入了心脏骤停。

她针对该州及其法律考试委员会的诉讼称，荣当时在“喘气”，失去了意识并全身发青，而监考人员却命令房间内的数百人继续考试——这延迟了荣在关键的“最初几分钟”内获得医疗救助。

霍夫斯特拉大学表示，其公共安全官员立即提供了心肺复苏（CPR）和其他救命措施。

法院文件称，荣遭受了脑损伤，医生需要为其植入除颤器。Daniel Cody

一名民主党区领导正敦促州伦理官员调查预期的皇后区州议员当选人布赖恩·罗梅罗，因为他发布了一个 GoFundMe 页面，恳请公众在他就职前帮助支付其房租和其他生活费用。

“他正在利用州议员席位的胜利来诱导人们给他现金，”曾是罗梅罗竞选对手的民主党区领导罗莎·桑切斯在 8 月 3 日致立法伦理委员会和政府伦理与游说委员会的信中表示。

罗梅罗是美国民主社会主义者的一员，他在 6 月赢得了民主党初选，且没有共和党对手，这使他成为了第 34 区的州议员当选人，该区包括 Astoria、Corona 和 East Elmhurst 的部分地区。

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这三人于2019年开始成为同事，LePera和Galvin雇佣Weakland来帮助经营他们的“整体心理学家”（The Holistic Psychologist）业务，该业务已从一系列畅销书发展成为一个名为“圆环”（The Circle）的订阅制在线社区，规模迅速扩大。

2021年，LePera在Instagram上宣布，她和她的妻子与Weakland处于一段全面的关系中。

根据诉讼，这两位年长的女性承诺给予她公司三分之一的股份。

但该承诺从未形成书面协议，诉讼称，当她提及此事时，Galvin据称开始发起一场“心理战”。

LePera和Galvin的律师拒绝置评，Weakland的律师未回应置评请求。

谄媚的北卡州众议员结束竞选

众议员查克·爱德华兹（Chuck Edwards，共和党-北卡罗来纳州）周三宣布，他将结束竞选第三届众议院任期。两天前，众议院伦理委员会建议其同事对他针对两名女性工作人员的“不专业且不恰当的行为”进行谴责。

“经过大量的祈祷和反思，我决定退出竞选连任，”爱德华兹在凌晨3:30发布在X上的一份声明中写道。“我将完成目前的任期。”

根据这份20页的报告，65岁的爱德华兹是一名已婚的父亲和祖父，他“通过向两名女性赠送奢华礼物”、“评论两名女性的外貌”以及“邀请她们参加私密晚餐和度假”，其行为“超出了专业行为规范”。当时，两名助手均处于20岁出头。

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每年夏天，该恐怖组织的伊玛目马赫迪童子军（Imam al-Mahdi Scout）营地都会对什叶派青年进行洗脑——甚至向年长成员提供准军事训练。大量前马赫迪童子军已加入真主党的行列。

随着以色列和黎巴嫩在近期达成解除真主党武装的协议后继续进行谈判，这一关键的恐怖分子招募渠道只会削弱微小的和平机会。

伊玛目马赫迪童子军成立于20世纪80年代中期，并在1992年获得黎巴嫩政府认可，誓要推进“法基赫的监护”（Wilayat al Fiqih）——即伊朗最高领袖的教义。该组织主要由伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队资助，目前拥有75,000名注册男女童子军。

该组织的网站解释称，今年夏天，最年幼的马赫迪童子军正忙于拔河、足球赛和在营火中烤土豆。前青春期的成员则在村庄清理瓦砾，并为因真主党最近与以色列的战争而流离失所的什叶派儿童准备救济包。

但年长的童子军有着不同的、显然不那么温和的日程。7月，青少年和辅导员前往伊朗进行实地考察，参加伊朗已故最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊（Ayatollah Ali Khameini）的葬礼，后者在伊朗战争的第一天被以色列的一次空袭杀害。

当童子军年满16岁时，他们会被提供“识字培训”——一门关于武器基础的课程。在夏季，这些青少年童子军会接受更密集的武装训练。

在早期，营员们被教授“抵抗”和“牺牲”的价值观。7月，该组织举行了一场仪式，以纪念那些毕业后加入真主党并在与以色列战斗中被杀的前童子军。

该组织网站上的一篇文章报道称，这次庆祝活动强调了这些恐怖分子的“童子军之旅……最终

在殉难中达到顶峰”。虽然目前没有“烈士”的统计数据，但马赫迪童子军自己的出版物表明，截至2006年，他们中有超过120人在战斗中丧生。

从该组织为其干部制作的每月专业级印刷和在线杂志来看，洗脑从很早地开始。例如，学龄前儿童可以玩一个铅笔迷宫，挑战他们帮助一只兔子穿过由以色列“占领军”布置的地雷阵，或者收集卡拉什尼科夫步枪和手榴弹的贴纸。

大一点的孩子可以阅读关于殉难核心地位的内容，并配有真主党葬礼上棺材的照片。教育计划似乎奏效了：2025年10月，马赫迪童子军为前真主党总书记哈桑·纳斯鲁拉（Hassan Nasrallah）举行了纪念活动，后者在2024年被以色列国防军的一次空袭杀害。

这次活动在贝鲁特一个拥有50,000个座位的体育场举行，可能是史上规模最大的童子军集会——真主党声称有74,000人参加。这是一个令人印象深刻的出席人数——同时也传递了一个信息：尽管在与以色列的战争中损失惨重，真主党仍有招募人员等待加入战斗。

在过去的一年里，特朗普总统一直推动在耶路撒冷和贝鲁特之间达成一项解除真主党武装的协议。华盛顿正与黎巴嫩政府密切合作，试图限制伊朗对其恐怖主义走狗的资金支持。

但美国的战略中缺失了一环：改革马赫迪童子军如此公开展示的恐怖主义意识形态。对于弱小且分裂的黎巴嫩国家来说，要在以什叶派为主的地区取代真主党的机构，需要时间、勇气和政治意愿。

与此同时，正如贝鲁特已宣布真主党武器为非法一样，它必须禁止马赫迪童军，以开始拆除这条培养“渴望成为烈士”的管道。该组织还必须被剥夺其国际合法性：几十年来，马赫迪童军一直是黎巴嫩童军联合会的成员组织。

就像美国童军（Scouting America）——前身为美国男孩童军（Boy Scouts）——一样，黎巴嫩联合会是世界童军（World Scouting）这一童军运动全球组织的成员。即便只是与童军官方机构保持一种疏远的隶属关系，对全球的童军来说也是一种耻辱。

最后，特朗普政府应通过将马赫迪童军指定为外国恐怖组织，或将其指定为非法破坏黎巴嫩主权和稳定的实体，从而对其触发制裁。毕竟，该组织公开宣誓效忠于伊朗最高领袖而非黎巴嫩，其意识形态议程威胁到了贝鲁特实现完全主权的愿望。

如果特朗普认真对待以色列与黎巴嫩的和平，他就应该针对真主党的“预备队”。

大卫·申克（David Schenker）是华盛顿近东政策研究所的高级研究员。

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保守派：安娜，省掉这场秀吧

随着大都会艺术博物馆舞会（Met Gala）决定在约翰·加利亚诺为2011年的反犹太主义言论赎罪多年后对其进行表彰，《评论》（Commentary）的塞斯·曼德尔宣布：“如果两个选项是‘让加利亚诺享受他的高光时刻’或者‘让加利亚诺享受他的高光时刻，但同时由安娜·温图尔策划一场关于反犹太主义的时尚展览’，我的投票给前者”——这不仅仅是因为‘我不信任温图尔能教会人们关于仇犹这些重要的教训’。相反，‘赦免’应该是一个漫长过程的终点——而这在‘当前的政治时刻’被‘跳过了’。因此：“如果加利亚诺的道歉在某种广泛意义上已被接受，那么我们就不需要一场关于他纳粹失控时期的时尚秀。”“让时尚界随其奔放的心意而行，只要犹太人不是这场秀中的道具即可。”

右翼观点：如何削弱合法大麻的影响

《自由出版社》（The Free Press）的查尔斯·费恩·莱曼指出，“记录在案的首次”，每天消费大麻的美国人比每天抽烟或喝酒的人更多——但这并不意味着大麻合法化在政治上不可逆转，因为每日使用者占所有大麻消费量的80%。这使得大麻更像“香烟：主要由少数长期依赖的用户消费”，而不是一种“被不频繁的娱乐消费者广泛消费”的药物。因此，随着公众看到“大麻使用障碍和其他负面健康结果的增加”，核心“使用者可能会发现自己在政治上的劣势日益增加”。我们可以开始走一条“征税、监管和污名化”大麻的“温和路径”；就像对待香烟一样，这“并不排除最终的禁令——它是在为此奠定基础”。

律师：福奇不能既要又要

在安东尼·福奇在参议院证词中三次“援引第五修正案关于禁止自证其罪的特权”后，杰伊·汤恩在《联邦党人》（The Federalist）上质疑，“福奇援引第五修正案是否恰当，特别是考虑到他得到了拜登总统的赦免”。拒绝回答关于他在赦免覆盖期间活动的提问“可能构成对国会的刑事蔑视”。根据最高法院之前的裁决，福奇不能在“针对其在覆盖期间之前的国会证词的具体质询”中，同时获得“赦免和第五修正案”的保护。他可能会“因为不恰当地[主张]第五修正案而被指控为刑事蔑视国会”。无论如何，他的遗产就是一个“谎话连篇的‘权力狂’，渴望名声，且充斥着私利”。

自由意志主义者：卡根警告法院扩员者

《理性》（Reason）的戴蒙·鲁特观察到，最高法院大法官埃琳娜·卡根作为“进步派反对势力最伟大的法律冠军”，在关键的保守派法律胜利中“强烈持异议”，并被“广泛视为法院自由派阵营的思想领袖”，但她同时也明智地“努力让自己与法院最激进的进步派批评者保持距离”。卡根拒绝接受最高法院的“保守派多数派站在唐纳德·特朗普总统一边”这一前提，并指出法院拒绝了特朗普的关税等裁决。她显然“担心左翼的政治风向”，这可能会危及“司法机构未来的独立性”。左翼扩员法院的计划最终将破坏最高法院“再次发挥任何形式的有意义的制衡作用，以对抗过度扩张的总统”的能力。

劳工动态：工人的最新威胁

“马萨诸塞州在5月认证了美国首个网约车司机工会，”允许一个“新成立的”工会代表其70,000名网约车司机，《华尔街日报》的C. Jarrett Dieterle对此表示遗憾。这种“部门议价”始于加利福尼亚州的《快餐问责与标准法》，并可能“在未来几十年改变工会政治”——而工人将为此付出代价。“数十万工人可能会在即使没有加入的情况下也由工会代表，”从而导致劳工谈判产生“一刀切的规则”，从而损害部分工人的利益。经济需要的是“有助于工人及公司的灵活政策”。部门议价并非如此——但它正在“兴起”。—— 由邮报编辑委员会编译

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美国历史最悠久的连续出版日报

民主党，救救你们的政党

一个造反的“红绿联盟”正在接管民主党——而该党的领导层似乎准备向这种不神圣的社会主义-伊斯兰主义混合体投降。

参议员查克·“大帐篷”·舒默周三从他的藏身之处现身，在阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德险胜密歇根州民主党参议院提名后为其背书，称赞这位反犹太复国主义狂热分子拥有“充满活力的竞选活动”。

就他而言，想要舒默被撤除民主党参议院领导职务的埃尔-赛义德在MSWOW节目中称以色列为“嗜血之徒”和“非法的种族隔离政权”。

有什么能让一个候选人失去进入舒默“大帐篷”的资格吗？该党似乎愿意接受任何能赢得其选票线的人，无论他们身上带有多少纳粹印记，多么谄媚恐怖分子，或者撒了多少反犹太主义的谎言。

奥巴马时代的战略家大卫·艾克塞尔罗德竟然在CNN上辩称，埃尔-赛义德询问“任何外国政府的代理人，无论是以色列还是其他国家”，是否应该被允许在“这样一场竞选中花费3000万美元”是一个“合法的问题”。值得称赞的是范·琼斯揭露了艾克塞尔罗德的抹黑——

资助AIPAC的是美国人，而不是“外国代理人”——并指出了埃尔-赛义德的极端主义：他希望对犹太国家实施全面的武器禁运，其明显目的是希望看到该国被摧毁。

但琼斯在进步派评论界是个异类。口无遮拦的播主哈桑·皮克尔是本季民主党最热门的竞选配件，他代表各种社会主义者在全国各地奔波。

皮克尔对47%的密歇根州民主党人投票反对埃尔-赛义德感到愤怒，称他们全都是“难以置信的恐伊斯兰主义的狗屎”。

与此同时，密歇根州总检察长达娜·内塞尔前几天宣布，她将不会参加州党代表大会，因为她将面临过多咄咄逼人的反犹太主义虐待。

既然舒默已经接纳了埃尔-赛义德，接下来会发生什么？等着看他与皮克尔同台吧，后者曾说“美国罪有应得 9 / 11”，并将受害者关于10月7日性暴力的报告斥为“强奸幻想”。

纵容极端分子的接管对民主党不利，对美国民主则更糟；理智的民主党人需要拿出勇气站起来战斗。

妈妈杂货店的魔鬼细节

市长马姆达尼（Mamdani）那些神奇的市政府运营杂货店的规格要求简直是异想天开，但购物者能找到一些过熟的绿奶酪就算走运了。

官方的招标书（RFP）列出了一份不切实际的愿望清单，其交付的内容将不到马姆达尼承诺的一半，而价格却将超过两倍。

市政府要求商店的潜在运营商提交关于进货、人员配置和运营五家超市的具体财务计划——而市政府目前一家都没有建成，其中三家的选址尚未确定。

这些虚构的商店必须按照一套出自《爱丽丝梦游仙境》的商业计划进行管理：不允许设有熟食柜台，但要销售水果、金枪鱼、豆类、鸡肉、鸡蛋和土豆沙拉。

运营商应拥有现成的“具有成本效益”的供应链，但同时还要从“当地供应商和小企业采购，同时保持低价”。

员工将不得不执行谁可以购物的规定：只有持有类似于“图书馆卡”的客户身份卡的人员（这与选民身份证完全不同，因为……好吧，因为）。

这些商店有资格获得由纳税人资助的“可负担性付款”，这是一种用于覆盖以低于零售平均水平 30% 的价格销售商品的补贴，但管理层必须具有员工利润分享的经验。哈？如果商店的财务由市政府背书，那就没有可以分享的“利润”。

周三，市政府官员对关于招标书的一系列其他问题感到困惑，例如谁将承担运营亏损。

对于任何熟悉市政府每年如何在承包商身上挥霍资金的人来说，这些胡言乱语并不新鲜——例如，向那些领导层疯狂牟利的大型无家可归者收容所非营利组织支付数十亿资金。教育局每年在供应商身上花费超过 130 亿美元 billion，却拒绝公布数百份合同的细节。

这次杂货店招标将市政府的承包行为推向了荒诞的新高度，但纽约常规开展业务的方式本身就已经疯狂了。

学界腐败的新证据

在极左翼主导高等教育导致学界失去公众信任之际，美国大学教授协会（AAUP）决定通过支持政治候选人来“反击”——首先是支持密歇根州极端分子阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德在面对众议员海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens）的初选中参选。

好吧，AAUP 这么做已经很多年了：其主席托德·沃尔夫森（Todd Wolfson）在 2024 年的一份声明中称 J.D. 万斯（J.D. Vance）为法西斯分子；在加沙战争期间，它选择站在哈马斯一边，放弃了其近二十年来反对学术抵制的立场。

但支持一个在面对针对一所犹太日校的企图屠杀事件时评论称“受伤的人会伤害他人”的人——简直是笑话。

此外，这一决定被证明是极其不民主的：事实证明，AAUP 的领导层是在 7 月 14 日的一次电话会议上做出这一关键决定的，参会者仅为密歇根州约 40 名成员——而该州约有 4,000 名成员，全国则有超过 40,000 名成员。

AAUP 声称拥护的所谓“共同治理”和“集体发声”也就这样了：这不过是又一次极左翼的政变。不过，如果全国会员不对这种愚蠢行为发起反抗，他们就证明了如今的教职员工才是美国高等教育真正的威胁。

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纽约市打击电动自行车：现在市议会关注了

• 我是一名热衷于骑行的骑行者，近几个月来，我亲眼目睹了自行车道上多次险些发生的事故。官员们应该考虑立法，要求高速电动自行车和滑板车必须注册（见 8 月 5 日 “电动自行车恐怖分子收到警告”）。

对于注册人员，应要求进行电动自行车安全教育，并且应针对鲁莽骑行、超速或非法活动采取更强有力的执法措施。

保罗·费纳，格林堡

• 时速达到 40 英里的电动自行车应该办理执照并在汽车车道行驶，像我们的摩托车一样遵守道路规则。

自行车道应该像最初计划的那样，仅限非机动自行车使用。

艾伦·特鲁斯蒂，苏豪区

• 作为大惠特斯通纳税人公民协会的主席，我就电动自行车和全地形车（ATV）不仅在我们社区，而且在每个社区所带来的危险，与我们的州和市选任官员进行了沟通。我

议题：市议会审议新法案，旨在打击纽约市的非法电动自行车。

朱莉·梅宁

要求一名州政府官员在奥尔巴尼提出一项法案，要求操作这些危险车辆的人员进行注册、投保并提供执照，但没有任何行动。

现在，市议会议长朱莉·梅宁终于采取行动了。这么多人受伤或死亡真是太遗憾了。简单来说：早就该这么做了。

金·F·科迪，惠特斯通

• 随着近期发生的所有事故和死亡事件，现在市级官员们开始关注电动自行车了。但这已经是一个严重问题好几年了。电动自行车对行人构成威胁，却无需承担后果。

如果市议会想要监管电动自行车，应该只允许 16 岁以上的人骑行，将车速限制在 25 英里每小时以下，并强制要求投保，以便骑行者能为事故承担责任。

约瑟夫·康佩基奥 布鲁克林

• 市里的疯子自由派花了过多的时间试图关闭马车行业。

与此同时，数千人在疯狂的电动自行车骑行者手中受伤，自 2019 年以来已有 133 人死亡。但警察被禁止采取任何行动，因为即使是对最温和的规则和条例进行执法，当然也被认为是“种族主义”。

杰克·麦克尼古拉斯 惠特斯通

零地不需要马姆丹

• 马姆丹市长不被欢迎参加即将到来的 9 / 11 纪念活动——但这并不是因为他是穆斯林（“伙计，我们不想要你在这里，”8月 2 日）。

他不被欢迎是因为他那分裂性的意识形态让他认为，美国在那个恐怖的日子里得到了应有的报应。他竟然认为自己会被那些仍在悲痛中的家庭欢迎出现在曼哈顿下城附近，这种自恋且丧心病狂的胆量简直令人难以置信。

这个披着羊皮的狼、靠关系上位的孩子已经揭露了他的真实

议题：9 / 11 受害者的家属呼吁马姆丹市长不要参加今年的纪念仪式。

伪装的自我，而 9 / 11 受害者的家属无法视而不见。签署请愿书要求这个骗子在 9 / 11 当天去其他地方流鳄鱼眼泪的数千人也无法视而不见。

Ray Arroyo 新泽西州，西斯特伍德

• 去年二月，人渣们用雪球袭击警察，导致一些警员甚至住院。我们优秀的市长在露出他惯有的灿烂笑容时，认为那非常

好笑。

也许参加 9 / 11 纪念活动的人应该随身携带鸡蛋和西红柿。这样，如果马姆丹能设法从他与恐怖主义辩护者伊玛目 Siraj Wahhaj 的拥抱中抽身参加仪式，在场的人就可以用这些东西袭击他，好让他更好地体会我们的警察在那个冬日所遭受的折磨。

Edward Hochman 曼哈顿

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工会 vs. 儿童 —— 再次上演

纽约的教师工会正在对一项旨在降低低收入和中产阶级家庭教育成本的联邦计划发起激烈的攻击。原因是什么？他们不希望有任何竞争——即使这种竞争对公立学校来说没有任何成本。

通过报纸、电视广告和一个专用网站，这些工会正在散布误导性信息，旨在强迫霍楚州长拒绝她曾承诺加入的一项联邦税收抵免计划。厚颜无耻的在线横幅以及在霍楚家乡的《布法罗新闻》（Buffalo News）上刊登的全页广告大声疾呼：“霍楚州长，不要加入特朗普的代金券计划。”

他们的恐吓手段旨在胁迫霍楚服从。如果她关心纽约的学生，她必须抵制。

去年，《一个伟大而美丽的法案》（One Big Beautiful Bill Act）为向非营利奖学金授予组织捐款的纳税人创建了高达10 亿美元,700的联邦税收抵免。这些组织将使用捐款来资助申请学生的各类K-12教育需求——但前提是他们必须居住在选择加入该计划的州。

这项不准确的广告活动暗示“联邦代金券计划”在榨取公立学校的资金。这是错误的：首先，该计划的资金完全来自联邦政府，而非州或地方政府。它对纽约州每年在K-12教育上花费的约400 亿美元 billion资金将产生零影响。

工会声称，该联邦计划可能意味着公立学校的学生人数减少，从而削弱学校的资金——然而就在几个月前，他们还公开为奥尔巴尼（Albany）最近通过的一项法律喝彩，该法律规定无论入学人数多少，所有学区至少增加2%的资金。

事实上，根据该计划，公立学校的学生将有资格获得联邦奖学金，以涵盖一系列教育需求，包括课后计划和辅导。来自低收入和中产阶级家庭的学生将优先获得：根据美国儿童联合会（American Federation of Children）的数据，大约2700 万名纽约学生将符合条件。

DANYELA S. EGOROV & JOHN KETCHAM

其中大多数学生就读于公立学校，这使他们成为该计划最大的受益者之一。而对于希望在私立或宗教教育环境中培养孩子的家庭来说，这些奖学金可以带来显著的缓解。

即便如此，全国的教师工会仍在敦促民主党州长选择退出。他们宁愿剥夺学生获得联邦资助奖学金的机会，也不愿让政府资金流向非工会学校。

简单来说，工会决心维持他们对公共教育的铁腕控制。然而，尽管他们拥有权力和影响力，但他们无法阻止纽约人向州外的学生奖学金捐款。

如果霍楚选择退出，帝国州（Empire State）的纳税人可以通过向一个加入该计划的州的奖学金授予组织捐款来获得10 亿美元,700的联邦抵免。这可能会将超过10 亿美元 billion的资金从纽约转移出去，用于支持其他地方的学生。

再加上近年来全国范围内通过的深受欢迎的学校选择法，这将进一步推动更多家庭为了更自由的学校系统而逃离纽约。霍楚知道这是一个问题：这就是为什么她说她将加入这项税收抵免计划。

她是正确的：本州承受不起失去更多家庭的代价。其税基、经济，甚至其国会代表席位都取决于吸引并留住居民。

教师工会并没有考虑如此广泛的利益。他们的唯一目标是最大限度地降低其成员的风险，无论付出什么代价或造成什么伤害。如果他们能让霍楚改变主意，其他民主党州长也会犹豫。因此，工会在纽约的公关活动代表了全国蓝色州的代理之战。

随着这座城市面临持续的预算问题，以及市长马姆达尼（Mayor Mamdani）要求各机构寻找节支方案，霍楚如果拒绝一大笔面向贫困学生的资金，将是不明智的。相反，她现在就应该加入该计划。

纽约人理应享有工会如此坚决否认给予他们的教育可负担性。

Danyela Souza Egorov 和 John Ketcham 是曼哈顿研究所的研究员。

让罗伯托·克莱门特获得出庭机会

罗伯托·克莱门特在进入名人堂的职业生涯中恰好击球 3,000 次。而波多黎各政府从他的名字中获取了另一种东西：大约 1500万美元。

2021 年，该自治领颁布法律，要求驾驶员在申请带有这位棒球传奇人物姓名、图像、21 号球衣号码以及其击球总数参考的车牌和注册标签时支付额外费用。这笔资金进入了一个政府基金。

但克莱门特的儿子们——他们数十年来一直致力于保护并授权其父亲的商标和人道主义遗产——对该计划表示反对，且没有获得任何收益。因此，在田纳西州 Beacon 中心的帮助下，他们根据管理商标的《兰汉法》（Lanham Act）以及第五修正案的“征收条款”提起诉讼。

美国第一巡回上诉法院允许其商标案件的部分内容继续进行，但驳回了宪法主张，理由是最高法院关于政府征收财产必须给予补偿的绝对规则仅适用于有形商品。商标由于是“无形的”，被送到了法律的“小联盟”：一个开放式的宾夕法尼亚中央平衡测试（Penn Central balancing test），在这种测试下，财产所有者很少能获胜。最高法院应该指出这种区别——因为宪法从未将无形财产视为一次“界外球”。

第五修正案规定，“私有财产”不得“在没有公正补偿的情况下被征用为公共用途”。它并未规定财产必须是可以称重、测量、围栏或塞进仓库的。

在建国之初，财产包括无形权利——特许经营权、地役权以及其他存在于法律而非物理形式中的有价值权益。詹姆斯·麦迪-

即使是在主场作战的政府也必须遵守比赛规则。

森将财产广泛描述为一个人可以赋予价值并主张权利的一切事物。

早期的美国征收案件遵循这一理解：政府可以征收无形权利，但必须支付费用。1848 年，最高法院拒绝了试图在有形财产和桥梁特许经营权之间做出区分的尝试，称其为一种“没有理性基础”的“细化”。后来的案例保护了专利、合同、留置权、利息收入和商业秘密——这些都无法用独轮车运走。

商标符合这一传统。其商业价值建立在排他性之上：所有者决定谁可以使用该标志，用于什么目的以及在什么条件下使用。

该标志承载着围绕姓名或业务建立的商誉。当未经授权的用户利用它时，所有者就失去了对赋予该标志价值的关联性的控制。

波多黎各所做的不仅仅是在公告中提及克莱门特、向他致敬，或将他的故事放入博物馆——它将他的标志印在了建筑或库存上。一种保护葡萄干（如在 Horne 案中）比保护商标更牢固的宪法学说已经失去了对球的掌控。

这就是为什么曼哈顿研究所帮助提交了一份支持克莱门特一家的法庭之友陈述书。将豁免权与对无形财产的二等宪法待遇相结合，可能会导致所有者在政府已经将其货币化之后，持有一种没有实质性救济手段的权利。

罗伯托·克莱门特的遗产属于波多黎各的历史和文化，但他的注册商业标志仍然属于他的家人。该自治领本可以自由地协商许可、寻求家人的合作或设计一种自愿的致敬方式；相反，它选择通过立法给自己授权并将其收入据为己有。

最高法院应该受理克莱门特一家的案件，并恢复宪法一直以来划定的法律界限。即使是在主场作战的政府也必须遵守比赛规则。

改编自《城市杂志》（City Journal）。

伊利亚·夏皮罗 (ILYA SHAPIRO)

政府发行产品，设定价格，收取费用，并保留资金。政府以无证商业用户的身份介入，随后宣布自己免于遵守约束其他所有人的规则。

最高法院的先例已经提供了正确的计分卡。在 Horne v. Department of Agriculture (2015) 一案中，法院裁定，政府在征用个人财产时必须支付补偿，就像征收土地时一样。而在 Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto (1984) 一案中，法院承认商业秘密是受征收条款保护的财产，尽管其具有无形性质。

第一巡回法院的裁决将使现代经济中最重要的资产处于暴露状态。品牌、数据、商业秘密、许可、公开权和商业商誉的价值往往超过了一家公司的

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道琼斯创纪录

新一轮强劲的收益报告在周三推动道琼斯指数创下新高。这一蓝筹股指数连续第五日上涨，攀升 263 点，或 0.5%。美国油价下跌近 1%，至每桶 $75.22。

招聘放缓

人力资源公司 ADP 表示，7 月私营部门雇主的招聘增长低于预期。在 6 月增加经修正后的 95,000 个工作岗位后，私营公司在 7 月净增 44,000 个工作岗位。

Etsy 裁员

Etsy 正在削减 220 个工作岗位，约占其员工总数的 12%，旨在使其市场适应不断变化的在线购物习惯。Etsy 表示，此次裁员并非由成本削减计划或人工智能驱动。

汉堡诱惑

在 Starboard Value 的负责人表示这家激进投资公司已建立该汉堡品牌的持股后，Shake Shack 的股价飙升 12%。Shake Shack 报告第二季度销售额增长。

比伯光芒

海莉·比伯的 Rhode 品牌帮助 E.I.f. Beauty 该季度的销售额提升了 36%，达到 $479.400 万。Rhode 在一年前以 10 亿美元 十亿的价格被收购。

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刻薄的尼曼 零售商在癌症诊断后解雇律师

作者：LISA FICKENSCHER

《纽约邮报》获悉，尼曼马库斯（Neiman Marcus）涉嫌处理不当多起来自高级管理人员的职场投诉，其中包括一名律师，她声称自己因“不可持续”的工作要求导致临床抑郁症而住院，随后在被诊断出脑癌后被解雇。

资深律师埃琳·博格（Erin Borg）声称，自 2022. 年被聘用以来，尼曼马库斯让她承受了过量的工作。根据《纽约邮报》获得的一份法院文件，该连锁店涉嫌在支持人员方面吝啬，并纵容她那些具有敌意的同事，随后在她投诉时视而不见。

文件显示，在经历了一阵抑郁后，博格被诊断出患有胶质母细胞瘤并不得不请假，结果在去年尼曼马库斯的母公司被收购后，她从化疗治疗中返回时被扫地出门。

“这简直击垮了我，”她告诉《纽约邮报》。

至少 4 起投诉

一名与博格无关的前尼曼马库斯高管告诉《纽约邮报》，46, 岁的博格是至少四名提交正式投诉的前内部律师之一，他们指控工作环境具有敌意。该消息人士表示，其中两起投诉以达成和解告终。

博格在尼曼马库斯任职期间有一位同事托马斯·马泰（Thomas Mattei），博格在法院文件中声称马泰对她公开敌视，并拿 E. Jean Carroll 针对特朗普总统的性侵案开玩笑。他暗示该再—

糟糕的工作

零售商利用该案件“获利”，因为涉嫌袭击的事件发生在 Neiman Marcus 的姐妹公司 Bergdorf Goodman 的试衣间内，联邦破产法院的文件如此显示。

文件指出，她就 Mattei 及其上司 Hannah Kim 的问题向公司提交了多项投诉，后者让她工作量大到不堪重负。

“这似乎表明公司整体领导层的失败，”该消息人士在提到雇佣投诉数量时表示。

在去年的仲裁程序文件中，该公司否认了 Borg 投诉中的所有指控。Neiman Marcus、Kim 和 Mat-

Mattei 没有回应置评请求。

Geoffroy van Raemdonck 在 Borg 2022 到 2025 年任职期间担任 Neiman Marcus 的首席执行官，Saks Global 于 2024 年 12 月收购了该公司。在今年早些时候的破产期间，他成为了合并实体的 CEO。该公司于 6 月走出破产，随后更名为 Exemplar Luxury Group。

Borg 于 2025 年 7 月对 Neiman Marcus、Mattei 和 Kim 发起了仲裁程序。根据文件，她声称自己在几个月前被公司排挤，原因是她正式向人力资源部（HR de-

部门）和平等就业机会委员会投诉了 Mattei 的涉嫌行为以及随后针对她的报复。

Borg 现在将她的原始投诉作为 Saks Global 破产案件的一部分，敦促法院确保她能从任何可用的保险收益中领取未来的仲裁裁决金。该索赔未指明她寻求的损害赔偿金额。

由于她仍在与四期癌症作斗争，并为此飞往德国接受治疗，她正试图加快案件的办理进度。

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监督机构加大力度推动取消 ABC 执照

纽约邮报获悉，一家保守派媒体监督机构周三加倍努力，推动美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）主席 Brendan Carr 取消 ABC 的电视执照，将该网络比作一名“非法占用者”，认为其对公共电波持有某种“权利感”。

“ 的文件归根结底是一个非法占用者的权利主张：一旦它占据了公共电波，它就认为没有人能质疑它是否有资格留下，”提交了新监管文件的媒体研究中心（Media Research Center）总裁 David Bozell 表示。“但广播执照并非永久权利。它们是基于服务于公众利益而授予的临时特权。”

“我们的回复证明， 在很大程度上回避了关于党派选举操纵、误导信息以及淡化或为政治暴力辩护的节目内容的记录证据，”他说。

上周在自己的监管文件中予以反击，指责 Carr “企图审查”，并猛烈抨击了来自 MRC 和美国权利中心的文件。

美国联邦通信委员会一直在审查迪士尼的八项广播执照，包括在纽约和洛杉矶的 频道。

Taylor Herzlich

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太空探索技术公司股价暴跌 14%

周三，太空探索技术公司（SpaceX）在披露其人工智能投资支出大幅增加后，股价暴跌近 14%，加剧了华尔街对可能出现“AI 泡沫”的不安。

在周二作为一家上市公司发布的首份财报中，埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）的这家火箭发射公司表示，其第二季度的资本支出增长了六倍，达到 184 亿美元 billion，其中大部分用于 AI 基础设施。

该股在周三触及 $108.27 的历史收盘低点，低于其 $135 的 IPO 价格，以及在 6 月打破纪录的上市首秀（当时筹集了 860 亿美元 billion）后不久触及的约 $200 的历史最高点。

太空探索技术公司还披露，第二季度营收激增 92%，亏损 5.41亿美元，低于预期，但投资者更担心其庞大的支出计划。

自 IPO 以来，太空探索技术公司的股价已下跌超过 20%，市值蒸发约 5000 亿美元 billion。

在财报发布后，一直标榜在太空建设数据中心和殖民火星等宏伟目标的太空探索技术公司也给出了乐观的预测，马斯克（右）表示，公司将在 2030 年实现 $1 trillion 的年营收，早于此前预测的 2031 年。Taylor Herzlich

新闻集团创纪录

纽约邮报的母公司新闻集团（News Corp）周三公布了创纪录的最高盈利，这主要得益于其道琼斯（Dow Jones）、数字房地产和图书出版部门的增长。

这家总部位于纽约的媒体巨头表示，其第四季度营收增长 11% 至 23.4 亿美元 billion，超过了分析师的预期。

新闻集团来自持续经营业务的收益为 2.3亿美元，即每股 33 cents，与前一年的 860 亿美元 million 相比增长了 167%。

“我们在 2026 财年结束时取得了卓越的第四季度表现，”首席执行官罗伯特·汤姆森（Robert Thomson）在声明中表示。

他补充道：“我们的纪录级表现是持续关注并重新投资于新闻集团核心增长引擎，以及在深刻且可信内容支撑下向数字优先公司转型的结果。”

在本季度，新闻集团的财务结果得益于其道琼斯部门营收增长 7% 至 6.44亿美元，该部门出版《华尔街日报》和 MarketWatch。

此前曾猛烈批评 AI 公司未能为内容支付足够费用的汤姆森，此次赞扬了新闻集团与 OpenAI 和 Meta 的人工智能合作伙伴关系。

Alexandra Steigrad

纽约时报预计增长缓慢

纽约时报（The New York Times）报告了第二季度更高的利润和营收，但由于公司预测本季度订阅用户增长将放缓，其股价下跌 13%。

周三标志着该股自 2012 年以来最糟糕的单日跌幅。

公司表示，其纯数字订阅用户数较上一季度净增约 280,000 人，为一年来最小的环比增幅。营收增长 11% 至 $762.500 万，超过华尔街预期。道琼斯

科尔伯特之女离职 制作人女儿从《60分钟》节目辞职

作者：ARIEL ZILBER

斯蒂芬·科尔伯特（Stephen Colbert）的女儿已从《60分钟》节目辞职，成为最新一名离开这家资深新闻杂志节目的幕后制作人。目前该节目正面临人才流失、一项未播出的杰弗里·爱泼斯坦调查以及对其未来所有权日益增加的审查。

据 Status 报道，30 岁的马德琳·卡莱尔（Madeleine Carlisle）是一名备受认可的助理制作人，在 Time 和 The Atlantic 担任记者后加入了该节目，她于近日从该广播节目辞职。

卡莱尔在离职前几个月，该网络刚刚砍掉了她父亲的高收视率节目《深夜秀》（Late Show），结束了他在 5 月 21 日为止的 11 个季度的播出。CBS 将此次取消称为“纯粹的财务决定”。

CBS 和卡莱尔均拒绝就她的离职发表评论。

跟随父亲离职

根据报道新闻媒体、娱乐和科技的媒体 Status，她的离职正值多名制片人离开该节目之际，此前在五月，团队中的资深成员被解雇。

包括记者 Sharyn Alfonsi 和 Cecilia Vega，以及执行制片人 Tanya Simon 和执行编辑 Draggan Mihailovich 在内的被驱逐事件，随后被留任员工称为“黑色星期四”。Status 报道称，随着《60 Minutes》节目准备在下个月在 CBS 新闻总编辑 Bari Weiss 和执行制片人 Nick Bilton 的领导下回归，可能还会有更多的人员离职。

最新的人事变动恰逢围绕一个未播出的 Epstein 故事出现的新疑问。

参议员 Ron Wyden（民主党-俄勒冈州）表示，他曾在三月接受 Alfonsi 的采访，作为关于大银行与 Epstein 之间关系的计划片段的一部分。在五月本季结束前，该采访及更广泛的故事均未播出。

CBS 向纽约邮报确认，Alfonsi 为一个潜在片段采访了 Wyden，但表示完整的故事在上一季未能完成以供播出。

一名 CBS 新闻发言人表示：“我们在内容准备就绪时播出，暗示采访因任何原因被‘压制’的说法是绝对错误的。”

“故事”驱动迪士尼第三季度，Salad and Go 破产

迪士尼表示，《玩具总动员 5》的成功在六月季度延伸到了票房之外，这部热门电影推动了周边商品的销售，提升了 Disney+ 流媒体服务的参与度，并吸引了更多主题公园游客。

该公司股价周三上涨超过 3%。

于三月接任的 CEO Josh D’Amaro 强调了他的战略，即投资于像《玩具总动员》这样的系列作品，以触达票房之外的观众。

第三财季营收增长 7% 至 252 亿美元 billion，低于预期。另外，迪士尼和 TikTok 宣布达成一项协议，允许 TikTok 创作者在短视频中使用迪士尼电影和电视节目的角色和场景，这是该社交媒体平台与传统媒体公司之间首个此类协议。路透社

快餐连锁店 Salad and Go 正在关闭运营，并在破产后寻求出售其房地产资产，此前其快速扩张和全国性的环孢子虫病爆发破坏了其扭转局面的努力。

母公司 And Go Concepts 周二申请了 Chapter 11 破产保护，列出的负债高达 10 亿美元 billion。根据周二向休斯顿联邦破产法院提交的文件，该公司请求破产法院批准其提案，将其至少 51 个得来速门店的租赁权以 1.05亿美元 现金出售给 Dutch Bros Coffee 的母公司 Boersma Bros。

这家在亚利桑那州和内华达州设有门店的连锁店，在由环孢子虫寄生虫引起的爆发性腹泻病例上个月开始激增时，已经面临流动性挑战。道琼斯

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JEFF DEAN 离职创建初创公司。

谷歌调整 AI 团队

谷歌周三披露了其 AI 领导层的全面调整，其担任近三十年的首席科学家离职——这是该科技巨头在努力争取人工智能竞赛领先地位的过程中，遭遇的一系列高管离职事件中的最新一起。

谷歌 CEO Sundar Pichai 在 X 的一篇帖子中宣布，Google DeepMind 的 CEO Demis Hassabis 将成为公司的董事长兼首席科学家，而 Google DeepMind 的技术负责人 Koray Kavukcuoglu 将领导谷歌新 Gemini 4 模型的研发工作。

根据公司的一篇博客文章，Jeff Dean——谷歌现任首席科学家及公司首批员工之一，已在该公司工作 27 年——将离职与另外三名公司资深员工共同创建自己的 AI 初创公司 Discovery Loop。

谷歌的所有者 Alphabet 将投资 Discovery Loop。Taylor Herzlich

Meta 有了新的 Muse

Meta Platforms 想要涉足硅谷目前最热门的产品：编程代理（coding agents）。

该公司周三宣布推出一款名为 Muse Code 的新编程代理，并将其定位为竞争对手的廉价替代方案。

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关于“AI 诺查丹玛斯”，即利奥波德·阿申布伦纳（Leopold Aschenbrenner）**之陨落的报道可能被夸大了，On the Money 获悉。

只需询问他的主经纪商即可。这是来自为对冲基金提供这一关键功能的华尔街银行的消息——这些银行同样属于那群“聪明钱”群体，而上周，当阿申布伦纳利用杠杆疯狂买入的人工智能股票暴跌时，他们被其巨大的单月崩盘搞得措手不及。

这是一次史诗级的剧烈波动：阿申布伦纳的基金 Situational Awareness 似乎一夜之间崩盘：在记录了自 2024, 成立以来 1,000% 的回报后，它在短短一个月内暴跌了 67%，需要抛售数十亿美元的持仓才能维持生存。

但截至本周，尽管其数日之久的崩盘广为人知，且几乎所有公开持仓在贱卖中流向了 Citadel，但阿申布伦纳的心血之作并未死亡。是的，该基金的资产从最高 450 亿美元 billion 下降到了 100 亿美元 billion，但即便经历了这次大规模抛售，他今年的收益率仍在 80% 左右。

仍处于前 50 名

而且，请记住，100 亿美元 billion 仍然是一笔可观的资金，华尔街人士告诉我，这使他仍处于全美前 50 大对冲基金之列。

这就是为什么阿申布伦纳的主经纪商——那些对对冲基金运营至关重要的华尔街公司，因为它们处理所谓的后台需求——仍然热衷于支持他，消息人士告诉 On the Money。

例如，我的消息人士指出，阿申布伦纳仍持有达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）的 AI 开发商 Anthropic 价值 50 亿美元 billion 的私人股份，该公司一直在准备上市，而且他的

尽管财务受挫，仍对 AI 奇才保持信心

基金设有锁定期，使得像 Jane Street 这样的大投资者难以简单地撤走所有资金。

因此，我被告知，一些世界上最负盛名的银行——摩根大通、高盛、美国银行和花旗集团——尚未切断与这位受挫的“AI 诺查丹玛斯”的主经纪商关系。与此同时，在摩根士丹利，主经纪业务部门原计划在 9 月将 Situational Awareness 纳入其平台。我的消息人士称，截至发布时，该计划没有停止的打算。

这些银行的代表拒绝置评，但并未否认他们作为主经纪商对阿申布伦纳基金的持续兴趣。Situational Awareness 未予置评。

华尔街喜欢赚钱，但它总是担心声誉风险，尤其是与那些极度冒险的人做生意。

即便如此，华尔街充满了“第二幕”：在拉里·芬克（Larry Fink）成为管理资产巨头贝莱德（BlackRock）的投资圣手之前，他曾在旧的第一波士顿银行（First Boston）担任交易员时输得精光，这在业内非常有名。那次令人谦卑的经历使他成为了业内最优秀的风险管理者之一。

阿申布伦纳显然很聪明（他年仅 19 岁就从哥伦比亚大学毕业），且同样经历了挫折，所以不要将他排除在外。华尔街的聪明钱还没有这么做，至少目前还没有。

Uber 看好无人驾驶出租车

Uber Technologies 周三概述了未来几年在无人驾驶出租车上投入超过 100 亿美元 billion 的计划，并表示尽管有报道称 Alphabet 旗下部门正在考虑结束双方的联盟，但 Waymo 仍是一个重要的合作伙伴。

在该公司发布疲软的利润预测后，股价下跌了 5%。

第二季度营收增长 12%，达到 141.9 亿美元 billion，略低于预期。

首席执行官 Dara Khosrowshahi 表示，他预计 Uber 和 Waymo 将继续在奥斯汀和亚特兰大共同运营，与此同时，这家网约车公司正在扩大与其他自动驾驶汽车开发商的联系。路透社

黑客攻击华尔街公司

消息人士称，近日黑客对华尔街主要金融服务公司和资金管理公司发起了一系列复杂的网络攻击，目标是其信息系统。

全球一些最大的对冲基金以及几家私募股权公司成为了目标。

消息人士称，这些黑客攻击的特点是通过电话，网络犯罪分子试图诱骗员工授予访问权限或交出其他敏感信息。

一名消息人士称，史蒂夫·科恩（Steve Cohen）的 Point72 Asset Management 周三告诉投资者，该公司遭到了黑客攻击，并补充说该公司表示没有客户信息被盗。

消息人士称，黑客还试图突破其他对冲基金的信息系统，包括 Two Sigma Investments 和 Citadel。路透社

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如果说纽约城足球俱乐部（New York City FC）前锋 Bénie Traoré 在其足球生涯中已经习惯了一件事，那就是搬迁。

这位 23 岁的科特迪瓦国脚已经先后效力于瑞典俱乐部 Häcken、处于英超联赛时期的谢菲尔德联队（Sheffield United）、法国球队南特（Nantes）以及瑞士的巴塞尔（Basel）。现在，他在 6 月的世界杯休赛期期间，作为纽约城足球俱乐部最新的指定球员来到了大苹果城。

虽然 在年轻的足球生涯中已经走遍全球，但他确实喜欢随身携带一点家乡的味道。

“我喜欢我国家的食物，而且我已经在纽约找到了，这很棒，” 在纽约城足球俱乐部位于曼哈顿的办公室接受包括《邮报》在内的面对面采访时说道。

但如果有人认为 来这里是为了在城市中观光，那就大错特错了。这位前锋表示，他还没有探索完这座城市的每一个角落——周一俱乐部带他前往 SUMMIT One Vanderbilt 的观景台参加一次宣传拍摄—— 将自己描述为一个“不经常外出”的人。

“我只想在我的团队身边，踢我的足球，然后回家，”他说。

随着纽约城足球俱乐部进入一段格外拥挤的赛程， 将有充足的机会展现他的比赛。俱乐部将于周四对阵圣拉古纳（Santos Laguna），周日对阵克鲁斯蓝色（Cruz Azul），参加两场联赛杯（Leagues Cup）比赛，然后在 8 月 13 日再进行一场，随后在该周晚些时候回归 MLS 常规赛。

自世界杯休赛期结束以来， 已经参加了纽约城足球俱乐部的全部三场比赛，尽管他尚未进球。这位科特迪瓦人坚称，为新俱乐部打入首球“很快就会到来”，而体育总监 Todd Dunivant 似乎对他这位新援目前的表现感到满意。

“他不仅能带来进球，还能提供助攻，他有很好的视野，是一名组织者。再次强调，我们还没有看到他最好的状态，但你已经看到他的一些闪光时刻，”Dunivant 说道，同时提到俱乐部曾在冬季转会窗口尝试引进 。“我认为我们对 Bénie 非常兴奋，并继续让他进入状态。Pascal 在这个早期阶段对他管理得非常好，以便他能获得成功，而这最终对我们来说是长期的。”

对纽约城足球俱乐部也有一些自己的长期目标，这也是吸引他加入这家 MLS 俱乐部的原因之一。

纽约城足球俱乐部正处于其第 11 个赛季，这意味着他有充足的机会在俱乐部的历史书中留下自己的名字。

“我想在我的职业生涯中成为这样一个项目的一部分。我得到了机会，于是我立刻把握住了，”他说。

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今日稳胆 风险承受度 (第 7 场) 稳胆记录：9 for 19 (47%) 赛事记录：52 / 202 $337.40

1 1 英里；$37,000；clm($12,500)；4岁及以上

曾赢得 5,222 场比赛的 Bobby Albarado 于周二去世，享年 52 岁。Albarado 最近接受了支架手术以清除心脏附近的阻塞，但关于其去世的更多细节尚未公布。Albarado 曾引导 19 匹一级赛冠军马冲线，包括 Curlin、Minoshatt 和 Banshee Breeze。在开赛中……INTELOCKE EMPIRE 在此距离曾获胜，随后在更长的 10k 比赛中落后 3 个马身。现在重回赛场，trad 为 Maker 挑选了这匹外来马。GOLDEN SYMPHONY 在经历一次平庸的第 7 名后，为 Rice 降低了级别。6 月在 Aqueduct 获胜。THRILL OF IT 在过去 2 年中 13 场比赛 0 胜。上次参加 20k 比赛时获得第 4 名，跑位较宽。此次参加 Ferraro 的认领赛。Zayas 代替 Rodriguez 出赛，后者转而骑乘 SCREAMING UNCLE。

PH. 马匹 重量 / 骑师 / 最近 3 场 / 练马师 / 赔率

1. Miquel Soul,123 / D Davis / 4-4-2 / Alras / 8-1
2. Espenone Curlis,123 / S Gonzalez / 5-3-2 / Kantarmaci / 5-1
3. Interlock Empire,123 / I Ortiz, Jr / 5-1-2 / Maker / 7-5
4. Golden Symphony,123 / M Franco / 7-2-1 / Rice / 3-1
5. Superpower,123 / R Gutierrez / 7-6-1 / Charlele / 10-1
6. Theft of Hill,123 / E Zayas / 4-5-2 / Ferraro / 12-1
7. Screaming Uncle,123 / J Rodriguez / 7-4-4 / Charlele / 15-1
8. First Trumpet,123 / J Ortiz / 6-6-7 / Gianuilo / 6-1

2 1 / 2 英里(草地)；$115,000；mds；2岁马

两岁马在草地上比赛，用于完成双赛。MONACO CROWN 在 Colonial 表现强劲，仅落后一个马身。从短途转为长途；Santana 骑乘；佩戴眼罩。AL MONADAMAH (Cox / Trad) 和 PARRA (转至 Make (Prot)) 在泥地赛获得最后一名后，将迎来草地首秀。HOWARDS HOPE (Dequy / Franco / Karaketshi) 和 CAPTAIN GEORGE (Green / Rodriguez / War Of Will) 是首次参赛。

PH. 马匹 重量 / 骑师 / 最近 3 场 / 练马师 / 赔率

1. All About Soul,123 / K Carmouche / 4-4-4 / Ferraro / 8-1
2. Monaco Crown,123 / R Santana, Jr / 4-4-4 / Salomon / 5-1
3. Howard's Hope,123 / M Franco / 4-4-4 / De Paz / 9-2
4. Solo St year,123 / C Elliott / 4-4-4 / Friedman / 20-1
5. All Movashah,123 / I Ortiz, Jr / 4-4-4 / Cox / 5-2
6. Mendel,123 / J Velazquez / 7-4-4 / Giddings / 15-1
7. Parra,123 / F Prat / 10-4-4 / Maker / 10-1
8. Papa Brez,123 / T Gaffalone / 4-4-4 / Green / 10-1
9. Roadhouse Warrior,123 / S Bridgeman / 9-4-4 / Giddings / 10-1
10. Captain Goreas,123 / J Rodriguez / 4-4-4 / Green / 6-1
11. Motorcycle Cop,123 / D Davis / 4-4-4 / Alras / 15-1
12. Zack the Grey,123 / M Franco / 5-4-4 / Rodriguez / 5-1

3 7 弗隆；$50,000；mds clm($35,000)；3岁及以上

KINGS LANDYN 跑位较宽，但仍以 20-1 的赔率在首秀中获得第 3 名。再次提供合理的价值；相同距离。CHRIS SONG (Rice) 在 Aqueduct 获得第 4 名，EASEMYVORRIEDMOND (Hennig) 获得第 7 名。Chris's Song 应该能从增加的 1 弗隆距离中获益。Easemyvorderimnish 有变动：Gaffalone 骑乘……佩戴眼罩……首次阉割。

1. Chris's Song,126 / R Santana, Jr / 4-3-6 / Rice / 9-2
2. Easemyvorderimnish,126 / T Gaffalone / 7-4-4 / Hennig / 10-1
3. New Much Is Enough,126 / D Davis / 7-4-4 / Rice / 6-1
4. Bye for Now,126 / C Hargrove / 5-5-4 / Handal / 10-1
5. Always Honest,126 / K Carmouche / 4-6-3 / Jimenez / 8-1
6. Recurring Byehoun,126 / M Franco / 6-8-4 / C Brown / 6-1
7. Montisoli,126 / E Zayas / 10-4-4 / James Bond / 15-1
8. Kings Landyn,126 / R Gutierrez / 3-4-4 / Miceli / 8-1
9. Mo Melonies,126 / C Elliott / 2-4-4 / Breed / 15-1
10. Ours to Start,126 / J Rodriguez / 4-4-4 / Weaver / 10-1
11. Bargain Purchase,126 / I Ortiz, Jr / 4-7-4 / Alras / 5-1
12. Burdino,126 / K Davis / 10-8-4 / Shivamagal / 30-1

4 6 弗隆；$37,000；clm($12,500)；4up(f)

机会均等。TOP OF THE TABLE 在 Finger Lakes 错过了起跑且从未发挥作用。此前在 Aqueduct 的 3 场比赛中表现良好，包括一次在落后状态下的获胜。Franco 为 Rice 骑乘。JACKSONS DIXIE 在没有借口的情况下领跑第 7 场。3 月份参加 16k 比赛时是轻松的全程领先获胜者。SHORT SHIFT 今年 0 for 4。6 月在相同距离落后约 4 个马身。将 IRISH JACKSON 放入深层组合投注中，后者在 Finger Lakes 奋起获胜。Irish 能再次发力，但她能比 Top of the Table 冲刺得更快吗？

PH. Horse Wt. / Jockey / Last 3 / Trainer / Odds

1. Jackie the Joke,123 / J Lezcano / 8-1-1 / Ferraro / 9-2
2. Play Good Pay Good,123 / F Prat / 6-1-1 / Englehart / 10-1
3. City Block,123 / S Gonzalez / 4-2-7 / Kantarmaci / 5-1
4. Short Shift,123 / E Zayas / 7-5-5 / Kantarmaci / 6-1
5. Open Soul Autism,123 / H Horkin / 1-6-4 / Kantarmaci / 12-1

6. Top of the Table,123 / M Franco / 6-2-3 / Rice / 4-1

7. Irish Jackson,123 / C Elliott / 1-4-2 / Falcone / 6-1
8. Jackson's Dixie,123 / R Santana, Jr / 7-3-5 / R Dutrow / 7-2
9. Shazanae Stiowee,123 / R Gutierrez / 4-2-6 / Jones / 20-1

5 1 弗隆(T)；$56,000；mds clm($50,000)；3up

HIGH LEVERAGE 疲惫地获得第 5 名，Keri Brion 让他退回到短途赛。注意此前 6 / 8 的天空赛跑。Irrad 是一个好迹象。SPIEGHTU, STORM 在类似情况下落后一个马身。如果我们离开草地，它会进步。5 / 8 WALTZ 为 Duggan 迎来 3 岁马首秀。11 月在 Big A 领跑，最终获得第 3 名。可能需要一场比赛磨合；也可能直接胜出。首次观察。EYE ON THE BALL 和 MYRONOS 7 月在此距离跑出第 2-3 名。

PH. Horse Wt. / Jockey / Last 3 / Trainer / Odds 1. Charlie My Boy,123 / C Elliott / 4-3-3 / Barrow / 15-1 2. High Leverage,123 / I Ortiz, Jr / 5-2-5 / Brion / 3-1 3. Twenty One Red,123 / J Rodriguez / 5-3-8 / Weaver / 8-1 4. Until Last Call,123 / M Franco / 9-4-5 / Ryerson / 15-1 5. Strobe Light,123 / L Saez / 8-8-5 / Ferraro / 30-1 6. Sir Wofnall,123 / J Castellano / 3-9-5 / Duggan / 6-1 7. Pilot Knob,123 / E Zayas / 6-5-9 / B Brown / 15-1 8. Eye On the Ball,123 / D Davis / 2-3-9 / Handal / 5-1 9. Make a Prediction,123 / R Santana, Jr / 8-3-3 / B Brown / 6-1 10. Tidearry,123 / J Lezcano / 11-8-5 / Englehart / 15-1 11. Mykonos,123 / F Prat / 3-5-2 / Maker / 9-2 12. Spieghill Storm,123 / E Zayas / 3-8-3 / James Bond / 2-1 13. Three Two Won,123 / F Prat / 12-4-4 / Maker / 6-1 14. Crazy Busted,123 / D Davis / 4-4-4 / B Brown / 8-1

6 6 弗隆；$90,000；mds；2YO(f)

两岁雌马，许多马匹将迎来职业首秀。我们的完赛顺序预测为 CREAM OF THE CROP (Bergy / Davis / Nashville)、CAPODOST (Cox / Trad / Nashville)、DOTSY (Grabowski / Carmouche / Tactius)、JUANA MARGARITA (McPerek / Ortiz / Greatest Honour) 以及 MANIKERS NICKEL (Handal / Prat / Classic Empire)。

1. Dotsy,123 / K Carmouche / 4-4-4 / Grabowski / 20-1
2. Beach Belle,123 / T Gaffalone / 4-4-4 / Beckman / 8-1
3. My Goni,123 / K Davis / 4-4-4 / A Dutrow / 15-1
4. My Sweet Tim,123 / J Castellano / 4-4-4 / Duggan / 20-1
5. Cream of the Crop,123 / D Davis / 4-4-4 / Begg / 8-1
6. Hammers Nickel,123 / F Prat / 4-4-4 / Handal / 6-1
7. Capodost,123 / I Ortiz, Jr / 4-4-4 / Cox / 5-2
8. Goodproblemshave,123 / J Rodriguez / 3-4-4 / Green / 4-1
9. Guntavia,123 / E Zayas / 4-4-4 / Sano / 20-1
10. Cody's Approval,123 / M Franco / 10-4-4 / Trombetta / 8-1
11. Juana Margarita,123 / I Ortiz / 4-4-4 / McPerek / 8-1

7 1 mile(T); $120,000; alv; 3up

Outkicked。RISK TOLERANCE 在阿奎杜克赛马场后期领先，但最终以微弱差距落败。退回至上次获胜的距离。POWHERS MTG。OSANDO 是 1 for 24. The 9 在去年 9 月的 1 英里赛中获胜。Carmouche 以高赔率让这匹冷门马领先。BEDF MANHATTAN 疲惫不堪。2024. 年 11 月在 Fair Grounds 以一场胜利首秀。DeVaux 的这匹小马是否需要一场比赛热身？I Ortiz 会知道。MARKET TIMING 从泥地转到草地，并在 Monmouth 以 10-length 赢得首胜。速度快，但在前段将面临很多竞争。

PH. Horse Wt. / Jockey / Last 3 / Trainer / Odds

1. Market Timing,123 / D Davis / 1-6-4 / C Brown / 6-1
2. Deep Manhattan,123 / I Ortiz / 1-4-4 / DeVaux / 9-2
3. Cuando,123 / K Carmouche / 6-5-8 / Levine / 20-1
4. Siroulicanda(FW),123 / I Ortiz, Jr / 6-1-4 / Sharp / 7-2
5. Highlands Way,123 / M Franco / 1-1-11 / Pletcher / 10-1
6. Risk Tolerance(FW),123 / F Prat / 2-4-2 / C Brown / 1-1
7. Griffin's Wharf,123 / T Gaffalone / 10-2-8 / Morley / 15-1
8. Mega Magic,123 / L Saez / 1-5-7 / Stall / 30-1
9. Espinberg,123 / T Gaffalone / 5-2-2 / Joseph / 9-5
10. Fort Nelson,123 / K Carmouche / 6-5-1 / Rice / 5-2

8 1 miles(T); $125,000; alv; 3up

STARSHIP TITAN 在直道上疾驰，但最终以 3 / 4 差距落败。首选，休息后第二次出赛，距离增加了一个 furlong。在休息前曾获胜。Castellano 为 Nevin 骑乘。TACTICALITY MTG。在 Monmouth 的停赛期间轻松获胜。EARS ADOPTED 为 Chad Brown 迎来 4 岁马首秀。去年 1 for 5. 去年夏天在 Spa 获得 Wide 4th。作为首次阉割马重新出赛。Franco 骑乘。RELATIVE VALUE 在 Monmouth 险胜后，为 Brown 提升了竞争力。Prat 骑乘。WALLEY WORLD 在头号热门之后获得第 3 名。

PH. Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds

1. Relative Value(GW),126 / F Prat / 1-7-3 / C Brown / 6-1

2. Starship Titan,126 / J Castellano / 2-1-1 / Nevin / 5-2
3. Early Adapter(GW),126 / M Franco / 4-7-5 / C Brown / 6-1
4. Mount Bundle,126 / K Carmouche / 8-5-2 / Nilini / 20-1
5. Slagimtheface,126 / J Velazquez / 8-1-1 / A Dutrow / 15-1
6. Walley World,126 / T Gaffalone / 3-2-5 / Joseph / 5-1
7. Dauntz,126 / R Santana, Jr / 7-6-4 / Ribundo / 20-1
8. Ocean Atlantique,126 / I Ortiz / 6-3-1 / Noda / 8-1
9. A Bourbon for Toby,126 / I Ortiz, Jr / 6-2-2 / Morley / 7-2
10. Discreet Dancer,126 / L Saez / 6-1-6 / Sano / 20-1
11. Alan Torrep,126 / J Alvarado / 6-1-2 / Quick / 5-2
12. Tacticality,126 / F Prat / 1-10-3 / C Brown / 2-1
13. Le Grist,126 / Rider TBA / 8-4-4 / Rodriguez / 9-2
14. Alternate Reality,126 / M Franco / 2-4-7 / Kantarmaci / 6-1

9 7 fur; $200,000; John Morrissey; 3up

主赛是 John Morrissey。RADIO RED 在外道奔跑并受阻，最终获得遗憾的第 3 名。曾在三月份赢得 Haynesfield。Gargany 的这匹阉马具有合理的价值。DOC SULLIVAN 去年赢得了 Morrissey，领先幅度如此之大。Haier's 自三月以来一直在参赛。在 Oaklawn 的 Essex 首场比赛中排名垫底后得到了休息。去年 11 月在该距离赢得了一场纽约培育种马锦标赛。Irrad 为 Green 骑乘。DRAKES PASSAGE 和 YO BANANA BOY 在 Finger Lakes 获胜后转战第 20 场。在 Gaffalone 的骑乘下，Drakes Passage 的价值更高。而 SACKSONSCT 在 7 panels 的比赛中 2 战 2 胜。

PH. Horse Wt. / Jockey / Last 3 / Trainer / Odds

1. Dr. Kraft,124 / S Gonzalez / 2-4-4 / Kantarmaci / 10-1
2. Light Man,124 / J Rodriguez / 2-4-4 / Levine / 10-1
3. El Grande O,124 / F Prat / 1-4-1 / Rice / 6-1
4. Hit the Post,126 / C Elliott / 5-1-3 / Giddings / 15-1
5. Buttah,124 / J Castellano / 1-2-6 / Kantarmaci / 12-1
6. Sacrosanct,124 / M Franco / 3-2-1 / Rice / 4-1
7. Acoustic Ave,124 / J Lezcano / 5-4-2 / Rice / 12-1
8. Bold Journey,126 / J Alvarado / 3-7-3 / Mott / 6-1
9. Yo Banana Boy,126 / R Santana, Jr / 1-4-7 / Maker / 12-1
10. Doc Sullivan,126 / I Ortiz, Jr / 7-2-1 / Green / 7-2
11. Donegal Surpore,124 / K Carmouche / 8-2-7 / Pletcher / 10-1
12. Drake's Passage,124 / T Gaffalone / 1-7-3 / Clement / 20-1
13. Radio Red,126 / D Davis / 3-4-1 / Gargan / 10-1

10 1 / 16 miles(T); $56,000; mds clm($50,000); 3up(f)

HOT TAPING。最近一次比赛处于中段第 4 名，但数据表明 Morley 的这匹雌马在相应赔率下具有竞争力。如果她从 AE 抽签进入，将由 Saez 骑乘。SAN ANTONIO SARA MTG。ITALIANNE 在 11 月首次亮相，但从未产生影响。为 Morley 从短途转为长途，并在休赛后降低级别。Vino Rosso 之女可能会喜欢这个距离。首次 lasc；首次 trad。

PH. Horse Wt. / Jockey / Last 3 / Trainer / Odds

1. Chaumet,123 / E Zayas / 6-8-4 / Terranova II / 6-1
2. Amicus Curian,123 / R Santana, Jr / 4-10-9 / Levine / 10-1
3. Salamno,123 / I Ortiz, Jr / 10-8-4 / Morley / 6-1
4. Bernina Express,123 / F Prat / 6-8-8 / De Paz / 9-2
5. Mia Sophia,123 / R Gutierrez / 12-7-11 / DeLauro / 20-1
6. Zelinski,123 / J Lezcano / 7-5-4 / Nevin / 12-1
7. Tank Girl,123 / F Villa Pino / 11-10-5 / Mettiver / 50-1
8. Intimethwildemess,123 / I Ortiz / 3-9-4 / Baker / 7-2
9. Luciana's Honor,123 / J Velazquez / 2-3-5 / Hennig / 20-1
10. Sky Low Low,123 / K Davis / 2-5-5 / DeVaux / 6-1
11. Sunshine Dakota,123 / J Rodriguez / 4-4-4 / Chichakly / 15-1
12. Saratoga Daisy,123 / K Carmouche / 8-4-8 / Donk / 8-1
13. Not Tapping,123 / L Saez / 6-7-6 / Morley / 8-1
14. Iwokengilkethis,123 / J Lezcano / 11-4-4 / Nevin / 20-1
15. San Antonio Sara,123 / T Gaffalone / 4-5-3 / Joseph / 2-1

PLAY OF THE DAY

Lady Firefoot (14-1) 未能发挥。损失 -$30。以下四匹马可能具有合理价值。在第 3 场比赛的 Kings Landyn、第 6 场比赛的 Cream Of The Crop、第 9 场比赛的 Radio Red 和第 10 场比赛的 Not Tapping 上各投注 $4 全包（across the board）... Vic Cangialosi

扬克斯周四赛程

开赛时间：6:45 p.m.

第一场：Mile two；$22,000；claiming

1. P.L. Oscar (Asiegelman) 6-8-6 5-1
2. B. Nickling (Bartlett) 3-1-6 1-1
3. Chet Rocco (Bhelland) 4-2-1 3-1
4. Kasha V (Marsh) 4-4-8 10-1
5. Hat Trick Marleau (Strafton) 3-2-1 8-1
6. Windsong Pioneer (Ckelly) 8-8-8 20-1
7. Credit Con (Szeron) 2-2-5 20-1
8. Ikon Vang Ok (Dubo) 2-6-3 20-1

第二场：Mile two；$12,300；Nauda

1. Baby Tao (Skoppier) 2-4-4 6-1
2. Pe Fret Wheeling (Strafton) 4-4-3 4-1
3. Cal Mile N Steel (Cazkowski) 3-7-5 6-1
4. Lucky Mum N (Farrado) 5-7-2 9-5
5. Bacardi (Lee) 5-6-3 20-1
6. Barn Credit (Aadanczyk) 7-8-2 20-1
7. Shake N Baie (Silverman) 1-2-5 5-1
8. Big Limo (Averroux) 1-5-6 8-1

第三场：Mile two；$22,000；claiming

1. Mon Amour (Ckelly) 4-3-3 7-2
2. Radio Lab (Alller) 8-5-1 10-1
3. For A Dreamer (Bhelland) 6-6-6 20-1
4. Aquarius Face S (Strafton) 2-1-6 5-2
5. Classical Jane (Tibuter) 2-1-2 7-2
6. Warrawee Whisper (Dubo) 7-7-7 20-1
7. Beacon Beach (Asiegelman) 1-7-1 8-1
8. The Bradster (Bartlett) 3-7-7 4-1

第四场：Mile two；$22,000；cond

1. My Degenerate (Alller) 1-1-2 5-2
2. Wheelsabazin (Mokaley) 4-7-1 8-1
3. Southwest Coors (Tibuter) 2-4-3 7-2
4. Asteroid (Ckelly) 3-3-4 3-1
5. Dribbling Bi (Dubo) 4-3-6 6-1
6. My Man Peter (Bartlett) 5-2-1 6-1
7. Camera Man (Asiegelman) 4-2-4 20-1
8. Full Of Muscles (Szeron) 2-2-4 12-1

第五场：Mile two；$28,000；cond

1. Seven Layer (Asiegelman) 7-3-1 6-1
2. Khaosan Road (Ckelly) 2-6-6 4-1
3. High Speed Swan (Bartlett) 2-4-1 2-1
4. Te Quiero Lindy (Alller) 3-3-7 8-1
5. Vinny De Vie (Bhelland) 1-4-4 10-1
6. Oliver The Great (Marsh) 1-2-5 5-1
7. Onajotjanin (Strafton) 2-2-2 12-1
8. Blockchain (Tibuter) 3-2-8 6-1

第六场：Mile pace；$28,000；Ny Ex

1. Taladega Express (Ballely) 5-7-5 3-1
2. Perla (Alller) 8-1-2 10-1
3. Bellbottom Country (Bartlett) 6-2-2 4-1
4. Long Shore (Mokaley) 1-1-5 8-5
5. She's In The Juice (Ckelly) 3-4-1 5-2

第七场：Mile pace；$28,000；Ny Ex

1. American Cheese (Strafton) 2-2-2 2-1
2. Anya Blue Chip (Bhelland) 4-3-5 12-1
3. Carry Back (Bartlett) 3-1-6 9-5
4. Come On Barbie (L'Friton) 1-1-5 4-1
5. Onacothum (Tibuter) 4-7-5 6-1
6. L'lyville (Ballely) 2-6-3 8-1

第八场：Mile pace；$28,000；Ny Ex

1. Ex Does It (Vizegrau) 4-7-2 8-1
2. Buckers (Szeron) 1-1-3 3-2
3. Hay Beth (Bhelland) 3-4-3 6-1
4. Lenna (Bartlett) 1-6-3 8-5
5. Lady Oakley (Ckelly) 3-7-1 6-1
6. Pinosoleightful (Strafton) 4-4-4 20-1

第九场：Mile pace；$82,500；NYSS

1. Savage Cindy (Strafton) 4-2-1 5-2
2. Saulsbrook Rolo (Vizegrau) 6-4-3 20-1
3. Ideal Beauty Queen (Szeron) 5-3-7 7-2
4. Existential (Bartlett) 4-3-6 5-1
5. Odds DeMonetary (Mokaley) 1-1-1 6-5

第十场：Mile pace；$82,500；NYSS

1. Liberty Style (Bartlett) 2-1-1 4-5
2. Miss Genie Mae (Strafton) 6-4-5 8-1
3. Two Twenty Swift (Vizegrau) 3-5-2 7-2
4. Hologhormos (Hervsberger) 7-6-2 15-1
5. Surreal Spirit (Gorgony) 3-3-1 3-1

第十一场：Mile two；$42,000；invitational

1. BayBreezeHanover (Bhelland) 5-7-1 4-1
2. Hot Flash Kimmy (Ckelly) 4-3-1 6-1
3. MenilbaysHappiness (Gngrs) 6-1-3 8-1
4. Ma Isabelle (Pluchanec) 3-1-6 8-1
5. R Lady W (Bartlett) 2-4-5 2-1
6. Nymeria (Mokaley) 1-5-4 12-1
7. Stacking Green (Szeron) 1-3-3 20-1
8. Always A Story (Strafton) 1-6-1 5-1

其他：布鲁克斯将留在太阳队

据两名知情人士透露，太阳队与老将前锋狄龙·布鲁克斯达成了一项为期三年、$73 million的续约协议，这将使他留在球队直到2030,。

现年30岁的布鲁克斯在上赛季（他效力太阳队的第一年）场均得到职业生涯最高的20.2分。

● 在迈阿密，利昂内尔·梅西打进了世界杯以来的前两球，并在联赛杯中取得了职业生涯得分领先地位，国际迈阿密在克服早期的落后局面后，以4-2击败圣路易斯竞技。

顶级博弈

瞄准红雀队的贝克传球达阵是关键所在

作者：埃里克·里希特

国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）回到了“周四橄榄球之夜”。

在俄亥俄州坎顿举行的年度名人堂之战中，红雀队将对阵黑豹队，这是本年度的第一场NFL季前赛。

大多数博彩公司认为黑豹队略占优势，Fanatics Sportsbook的赔率为-120，让分数为1.5-points。

新秀跑卫杰里迈亚·洛夫将不会出现在这场比赛中，预计他将在周四晚上处于非活跃状态。

亚利桑那队将派出前乔治亚大学和迈阿密大学的四分卫卡森·贝克作为周四的先发，对阵拥有五年经验的老将肯尼·皮克特，随后两人将为其他争取名额的球员让路。

在皮克特之后，来自乔治亚理工学院和德克萨斯A&M大学的未选秀自由球员海恩斯·金预计将完成剩余的工作。

凯登·斯洛维斯是周四晚上亚利桑那队贝克的替补。

通常情况下，不被看好的一方在近期的名人堂之战中表现强劲，在此期间直接胜率为7-4，让分胜率为8-2-1。

这将是迈克·拉弗勒第一次体验主教练的实战，这位首年主教练将派出一名新秀四分卫来执行他的新秀教练组的比赛计划。

尽管总分预估较低，仅为34.5 (-108, Kalshi)，但我实际上希望这场比赛能有一些得分。

“大分”（Over）在这个位置上的表现相当不错，在过去四个赛季中为4-0。

考虑到今晚将出场的首两位四分卫预计都相当有能力，这绝对是一个选择“大分”的时机。

瞄准贝克传出一个达阵传球，Underdog给出的赔率为+235。

博弈建议： 总分大 34.5 (-108, Kalshi)；卡森·贝克传球达阵数大 0.5 (+235, Underdog)

明智投注

让他们出汗： 贾克森·达特在去年的12场首发中取得了9次冲球达阵，因此《纽约邮报》的马利克·史密斯认为这位年轻的信号员将证明博彩公司是错误的，并押注他本赛季的达阵数将超过5.5个。科里·西普金

作者：马利克·史密斯

去年这个时候，巨人队希望年长的罗素·威尔逊或詹姆斯·温斯顿能在四分卫位置上提供竞争所需的资深存在感。事实很快证明这种想法是误导性的，但这为当时的新秀贾克森·达特作为四分卫的一个切实选项脱颖而出打开了大门。

达特在上一赛季崭露头角，立即改变了巨人队进攻端的动态。在之前的主教练布赖恩·达博尔领导下，这支进攻端往好里说只能算平均水平，往坏里说则是NFL中得分最低的单位之一。达特的闪光点不足以挽救达博尔的职位，但巨人队希望新任主教练约翰·哈博可以塑造他作为双威胁四分卫的能力。

对达特上赛季比赛的主要批评是他的激进打法。达特迅速地从口袋区冲出，由于他作为跑者的无畏，他也承受了相当多的一次性重击。

达特在对阵熊队时遭受脑震荡后缺席了两场比赛，但在对阵爱国者队的一次冲球进攻中，这位四分卫被撞飞的场面最为突出。那次进攻引发了一系列关于达特需要改变风格的讨论。

“我不会把自己变成一个口袋传球四分卫。我不会改变我的比赛风格，”达特在今年早些时候的“DeepCut”播客中说道，反驳了认为他应该停止冲球的观点。

“如果你试图做出太多的调整，把某人变成他们不是的样子，那么你将无法从那个人和那个球员身上获得最大的价值。”

哈博似乎认同达特的冲球能力是一项资产，甚至在接受ESPN足球分析师多莫尼克·福克斯沃思采访时将他与拉马尔·杰克逊相比较，称达特“在足球方面可以适应很多不同的世界”。

“现在我们也可以采用枪型阵（gun）或手枪阵（pistol），并且可以运行RPO（跑-传选项），”哈博说。“我们可以利用杰克森·达特运行由四分卫驱动的冲球，很多是我们之前在巴尔的摩与拉马尔一起做的事情。”

这将是博彩公司为达特本赛季列出的一个特定球员道具投注的关键。在bet365博彩公司，达特本赛季冲球达阵数的盘口（Over / Under）是5.5个。

达特上赛季仅在12场首发中就完成了9次冲球达阵，因此看到这个数字几乎下降了一半很有意思。他上赛季的9次冲球达阵中有7次发生在20码线以内，其中5次在10码线以内，4次在5码线以内。

我们应该预期达特会减少一些在球场中间导致被重击的冲球，并且偶尔在获得首攻时选择滑行，而不是直接挑战防守队员。

如果卡姆·斯卡特博、泰隆·特雷西二世和德文·辛格莱特里保持健康，他们可能会分走达特在红区内的一部分冲球尝试。巨人队还在达特周围增加了许多接球武器以改善传球游戏。

即便有这些变化，我仍然非常看好达特在进攻崩溃时成为一名高效跑者的能力，而且我更欣慰的是哈博将设计战术来利用这些技能。

“我押注达特能证明博彩公司是错误的，并押注他的地面达阵数将超过5.5个。”

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席卷风暴

自由人再次击败西雅图，过去七场比赛取得六场胜利

作者：MADELINE KENNEY

自由人队周三对阵西雅图风暴队的比赛走势与周一的胜利相似。自由人队在第一节就取得了强有力的领先，这次的比分是 21-6。

风暴队奋起反击，在进入半场时仅落后 4 分。

西雅图在第三节追平了比分。随后，自由人队迅速打出一波 12-2 的进攻高潮，建立了 10 分的优势。

西雅图在第四节开始前与纽约队的分差保持在 4 分以内，跟进的时间比周一要长得多。

但比赛结果与两天前一样。自由人队顶住了压力，周三在巴克莱中心以 92-86 击败了处于重建期的风暴队。

在经历了一段残酷的 2-8 战绩后，纽约队目前在过去七场比赛中赢了六场。

过去 2½ 周最大的变化是什么？

“我们开始意识到如何共同赢得比赛，”萨布里娜·伊奥内斯库说道，她克服了糟糕的上半场，最终贡献 15 分、5 个篮板和 6 次助攻。“我们在比赛中领先过，也落后过，我们不断让自己处于各种不同的情境中，而这些情境只有在实际比赛中才能遇到。……我们开始摸索在比赛末段我们试图达成什么目标以及在什么情况下达成，因此这些努力转化为胜利显然意义重大，但我们知道我们离目标还远得很，我认为这正是令人兴奋的地方。我们面前还有很多场比赛，我们可以继续进步，并朝着我们想要的方向发展，以便在季后赛到来时达到巅峰。”

自由人队在进入本赛季时承受着极高的期望。高层决定球队需要一个新的声音，因此在桑迪·布隆德洛带领球队夺得队史首个冠军仅一年后，纽约队便与她分道扬镳。

教练克里斯·德马科在接手时就清楚，本赛季的目标要么是夺冠，要么就是失败。

但自由人队并没有像季前赛预期的那样始终保持统治力。

伤病考验了球队的深度和领导者。

自由人队的战绩提升至 19-13，目前在积分榜上排名第七。

然而，在经历了一个艰难的七月后，自由人队似乎正在回升。

德马科在 7 月 20 日将丽贝卡·艾伦放入首发阵容，此前她在赛季前半段几乎不在轮换名单中。自此之后，自由人队除了的一场比赛外赢下了所有比赛。

“这套阵容现在彼此之间感觉非常舒服，”布里安娜·斯图尔特说道，她得到了全队最高的 28 分以及 8 个篮板。“显然，早期的伤病和人员进出让我们很难找到节奏，但现在首发阵容基本固定，而且坦白说，这让替补球员在进入比赛时能更好地找到舒适感，我觉得现在的比赛流畅度非常好，我们正努力继续利用这一点。”

周三的胜利可能不是最具说服力的。自由人队仅以 6 分之差击败了垫底的风暴队。

琼奎尔·琼斯距离三双仅差 3 次助攻，她并不一定在意最终比分，而是在意自由人队取得了胜利。

“我们经历了一个艰难的赛季，我认为对我们来说，关键就是能够迎来转机，在全明星赛后开启新篇章，”琼斯说道，她贡献了 14 分、15 个篮板和 7 次助攻。“能够进来并积累这些胜利，在我们的记录中增加胜场，真正看到一线曙光并给我们带来所需的额外信心，这种感觉太棒了。”

不可阻挡： 周三晚上，布里安娜·斯图尔特冲击篮筐，最终砍下全队最高的 28 分，帮助自由人队在三天内第二次击败风暴队。

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美国队世界杯名单将于今日公布

作者：MADELINE KENNEY

在下个月于柏林举行的国际篮联（FIBA）世界杯赛事中，自由人队的球员应该会有不错的代表率。

布里安娜·斯图尔特几乎肯定入选美国队，而萨布丽娜·约内斯库也可能加入，她同样在国家队 12 个名额的讨论之列。

莱奥妮·菲比希（如果健康的话）预计将为东道主德国队出战，而萨图·萨巴利的状况则不那么确定，因为她仍处于脑震荡——

协议中。

马琳·约翰内斯、保琳·阿斯蒂埃和马琳·福托是法国国家队的候选人，拉奎尔·卡雷拉可能为西班牙队效力，韩旭则为中国队效力。

该赛事计划于 9 月 4-13 日在柏林举行，届时 WNBA 处于休赛期。

大多数官方名单尚未公布。美国篮球协会女子国家队的第一任总经理苏·伯德定于周四在 NBC《Today》节目的第三小时公布美国队名单。

一年多以来，伯德一直在权衡她面临的沉重名单决定。

美国队深厚的人才储备不会让伯德的决定变得轻松。有许多崭露头角的年轻球星可能会取代某些美国队主力球员的位置。

以下是《纽约邮报》对 2026 年美国世界杯名单的预测：

后卫： 凯特琳·克拉克、佩奇·布克斯、萨布丽娜·约内斯库、凯尔西·普拉姆、切尔-

西·格雷

前锋： 卡莉亚·库珀、莱恩·霍华德、杰基·杨

内线： 阿贾·威尔逊、布里安娜·斯图尔特、纳菲莎·科利尔、阿里亚·波士顿

这基本上是 2024 年奥运会名单，仅有少量微调。

布克斯和克拉克有望取代戴安娜·陶乐西和朱尔·洛伊德，而波士顿和霍华德则准备接替艾丽莎·托马斯和布里特妮·格里纳的位置。

人们可能会好奇，普拉姆和约内斯库今年夏天的伤病是否会导致伯德在为她们确定名单名额时犹豫。

约内斯库在 WNBA 赛季初因脚伤和背部酸痛缺席了一段时间。她在回归后的前几周表现有些不稳定，但最近看起来更像她自己了。

与此同时，普拉姆本周从左小腿伤势中恢复，该伤势让她在整个 7 月都无法上场。

可能的遗珠

两年前，克拉克缺席 2024 年巴黎奥运会名单引起了轩然大波。

如果奥利维亚·迈尔斯被排除在即将公布的名单之外，这一决定是否会引起同样程度的愤怒？（不要回答这个问题。）

迈尔斯从未在成年美国女子国家队出战，也没有参加在菲尼克斯举行的 NCAA 女子四强赛期间的训练营，这就是她这次可能无法获得征召的原因。

mkenney@nypost.com

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动态

2027年赛马节后，普里阿克尼斯锦标赛将改为在3周而非2周后举行

周日欢乐日： 2025年由帕科·洛佩兹（Paco Lopez，10号）骑乘的拿破仑萨尔斯（Napoleon Sals）赢得的普里阿克尼斯锦标赛（Preakness Stakes），将在周日举行，且在肯塔基德比（Kentucky Derby）三周后举行。

作者：STEPHEN WHYNO

赛马三冠赛即将迎来重大变化，普里阿克尼斯锦标赛将移至肯塔基德比三周零一天后举行，并将首次在周日举行。

马里兰州州长韦斯·摩尔（Wes Moore）和马里兰骑师俱乐部（Maryland Jockey Club）周三宣布了这一决定。在这一系列赛事一百多年的历史中，从未有三冠赛在周日举行。

在经历了激烈的辩论和猜测后，这次调整标志着赛马日程的一次重大变更。除疫情期间的2020年外，自1950年以来，普里阿克尼斯锦标赛一直定在5月的第三个周六，即肯塔基德比两周后。

马里兰骑师俱乐部首席执行官比尔·克瑙夫（Bill Knauf）在承认传统的同时，也称现在是将普里阿克尼斯锦标赛延后的时机。

“这件事已经讨论了很长时间 [并且] 我们意识到了最近不同的趋势和训练方法，”克瑙夫告诉美联社。“我们进入讨论时甚至可能在说，‘嘿，两周是合适的时间吗？我认为那一周的安排是正确的。即使在三周后，对于一匹马和一名冠军来说，经历这一切仍然是一次极大的考验。’”

其目标是让更多德比赛的马匹参加三冠赛的第二赛段。几十年来，这曾是常态，但近年来已变得越来越罕见。

连续两届以及过去五届德比赛冠军中有三匹跳过了普里阿克尼斯锦标赛，旨在冲击6月的最后一颗明珠——贝尔蒙特锦标赛（Belmont Stakes）。在自2022年起参加德比赛的95匹马中，只有13匹参加了普里阿克尼斯锦标赛（13.7%），且该组中仅有一匹获胜。

“我们将将其延后，以确保肯塔基德比的获胜者届时能准备好参加三冠赛的第二赛段，”摩尔在安纳波利斯的一次新闻发布会上表示。“通过更改日期，你为我们的马匹以及参加德比赛的人员提供了额外的时间和空间，使他们现在能够参加并成为三冠赛的一部分。”

至少在明年，这可能会产生相反的效果，因为根据周一公布的消息，贝尔蒙特锦标赛定于6月5日举行。普里阿克尼斯锦标赛与贝尔蒙特锦标赛之间的间隔从三周缩短到13天，考虑到现代3岁纯血马通常需要显著更多的休息时间，这可能会迫使马主和训练师在两者之间做出选择。

克瑙夫表示，这是为了普里阿克尼斯锦标赛的长期未来而做出的决定。

名人堂成员鲍勃·巴费特（Bob Baffert）在2015年凭借美国法老（American Pharoah）和2018年凭借贾斯蒂法伊（Justify）成为自1978年肯定（Affirmed）以来唯一赢得三冠赛的训练师。他在周一的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，如果他在肯塔基德比中拥有合适的马匹，他将继续每年参加普里阿克尼斯锦标赛。这是在路易斯维尔的丘吉尔园（Churchill Downs）、长岛的贝尔蒙特公园（Belmont Park）和纽约上州的萨拉托加赛马场（Saratoga Race Course）公布一项新的冠军系列赛事后做出的回应，该系列赛事目前不包括普里阿克尼斯锦标赛。

2027年之后，日程表仍有可能进一步更改。这次调整确实使普里阿克尼斯锦标赛从2028年起至'31年期间，定在阵亡将士纪念日周末的周日。

“我们相信这将为我们的当地经济和企业带来巨大的兴奋感，”克瑙夫说。“随着赛马世界的目光聚焦在皮姆利科（Pimlico），巴尔的摩将成为阵亡将士纪念日周末的必去之地。” —— 美联社

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追求绿色： LIV Golf 宣布已有一位新投资者准备投入巨资，但该巡回赛以及像 Bryson DeChambeau 这样的球员的前景仍然不明朗。

作者：MARK CANNIZZARO

LIV Golf 首席执行官 Scott O'Neil 周三宣布，由于沙特方的资金支持在今年早些时候被撤回，这个初创的巡回赛已找到新投资者，这将使其在 2026 赛季之后继续生存。

O'Neil 在 Trump National Bedminster 发表了这一声明，LIV Golf 本周正在那里举行一项赛事。该声明证实了《纽约邮报》在 7 月 29 日的一篇报道，即该巡回赛正处于争取新投资者以维持生存的边缘。

“LIV Golf 已与一名领投人达成协议，该协议由投资者签署并经董事会批准，旨在锚定此次交易，并在支持该联盟下一个 era, 由球员驱动且为球员服务的发展路径中发挥关键作用，”周三表示，O'Neil 拒绝透露该投资者的姓名。“我们还看到十几个其他方表现出浓厚兴趣，可能担任少数股东，从而创建一个旨在实现长期稳定和增长的多伙伴模式。”

“值得注意的是，我们的下一个章节将使我们的球员成为 LIV Golf 的多数股权持有者，这在主要全球体育联盟中尚属首次，并为联盟在世界范围内继续推广这项运动奠定了基础。我们预计在未来几周内敲定条款，目标是在 9 月份达成交易。与此同时，我们的重点是为 Bedminster 的球迷和球员提供精彩的一周，并强力完成 2026 赛季。”

在此公告发布的一天前，O'Neil 与 LIV 球员举行了一次下午会议，随后是由 Bryson DeChambeau 领导的一次仅限球员参加的会议。

当 DeChambeau 和其他球员离开周二的会议时，他们拒绝发表评论。

尽管有新投资者的鼓舞性消息，但 LIV Golf 仍面临一系列悬而未决的问题。在本周之后，2026 赛季结束前还计划举行两场赛事——8 月 20-23 日在印第安纳波利斯，以及次周在密歇根州举行的赛季收官战队冠军赛。

然而，许多报道称密歇根州的赛事将不会举行，尽管 O'Neil 或任何与 LIV 相关的人员均未对此予以确认。

来自密歇根州高尔夫球场（底特律郊外的 The Cardinal at Saint John Resort）的报告称，该赛事的看台和其他基础设施尚未开始建设，对于这种规模的赛事来说，这极不寻常。

据报道，O'Neil 和 LIV 一直在寻求投资者提供 2.5亿美元 和 3亿美元 之间的资金承诺。

然而，这些数字引发了疑问，以及那 3亿美元 实际上将用于支付什么。例如，本周赛事的奖金池为 3000万美元。密歇根州赛事的奖金池为 4000万美元。

一些合同剩余年限较长的球员仍被欠有巨额款项。例如，Jon Rahm 在他最初签署的 3亿美元 合同中，仍被欠款约 1.5亿美元。

其他报道则称 LIV Golf 将在重新启动为带有新投资者的“LIV Golf 2.0”之前申请破产。

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救命稻草感觉并非真正的答案

场景设置得恰到好处。

这件事就发生在唐纳德·特朗普总统本周末声称以70杆的总分赢得俱乐部冠军的同一家高尔夫俱乐部，对于一名80岁的人来说，这是一个低得离谱的分数（即便他是职业选手）。

随着本周的LIV高尔夫赛事将于周四在新泽西州贝德明斯特的特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部开始，那里发生的事情有点像一场障眼法的三壳游戏。

这是一个难以理解的局面，而且极少数LIV球员愿意对此发表看法，因为他们在过去两天里一直拒绝与记者交谈。

唯一一位谈到LIV新方向（被称为“LIV 2.0”）的人是其首席执行官斯科特·奥尼尔。

奥尼尔在周三举行了一场新闻发布会，宣布这个在今年早些时候失去沙特资金支持的新兴巡回赛已经找到了新投资者，这将使其在2026赛季之后继续生存。

这一公告证实了《纽约邮报》在7月29日的一篇报道，该报道称该巡回赛正处于争取新投资者以维持生存的边缘——在周三之前，LIV一直未对此报道发表评论。

这对LIV来说曾是——现在依然是——好消息，该巡回赛一直在寻求从外部投资者那里获得约2.5亿美元 to $350 million的资金。

奥尼尔拒绝透露“领投人”的名字，并补充说还有其他规模较小的投资者加入。他还拒绝透露交易何时完成，称他知道时间表但不想公开。

现在到了困难的部分。

这将如何运作？

3亿美元 to $350 million将如何帮助振兴一个原本依靠不切实际的沙特公共投资资金，且最初为其中几位顶尖球员（例如乔恩·拉姆和布赖森·德尚博）每人提供超过该数额资金而将其吸引而来的巡回赛？

本周贝德明斯特赛事的奖金池为3000万美元。原定于8月27-30日在密歇根州举行的团体冠军赛奖金池定为4000万美元，尽管许多报道称该赛事将不会举行。该巡回赛的新版本致力于更负责任的支出。它将把赛事日程从14场削减至10场，将缩减奖金池，并且肯定会进行更多财务削减。

但是，在支出更加负责任的情况下，LIV是否能够留住像德尚博这样的人？他是该赛事最大的明星，其合同在2026年后到期。

一件似乎可以确定的是德尚博让LIV 2.0运作起来的决心。

根据奥尼尔的说法，德尚博在利用其在球坛的人脉帮助争取新投资者方面发挥了重要作用。在奥尼尔与球队队长会面后，他于周二主持了一次仅限球员参加的会议，也由此成为了LIV球员群体的领导者。

奥尼尔的LIV 2.0模式还让球员持有巡回赛的股权，这在表面上听起来很棒。但据报道，沙特公共投资资金自2022年成立以来在LIV高尔夫上花费了近60 亿美元 billion，却未获得分毫利润。

除非发生剧烈变化，包括球员拿到的钱远低于他们使用PIF资金时所获的金额，否则该巡回赛如何才能盈利？

而且，让球员持有一个不赚钱的东西的股权，其激励机制是什么？

关于新投资者的消息，另一个未解答的问题是，奥尼尔是否向新投资者保证，他们投资的产品将包括德尚博和拉姆这样的人。

当被问及留住拉姆和德尚博的重要性时，奥尼尔说：“[我们]当然希望他们能继续同行，因为他们在球坛的影响力可能比任何人都大。”

这听起来一点也不具体。

此外，在密歇根州举行的LIV高尔夫团体冠军赛问题依然存在。

“我们还没有做出任何最终的正式决定，并希望在未来几周内达成，”奥尼尔在谈到原定于三周后举行的活动时说道。“目前的情况非常不稳定。”

当被问及是否有任何事情可能会“阻碍”与新投资者的交易达成时，奥尼尔表示：“这是一个让我们非常高兴、很激动地宣布，并且很自豪能参与其中的时刻。”

被问及是否肯定会有 2027 年的 LIV Golf 赛季时，奥尼尔回答道：“还有 '28、'29 和 '30 年。”

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作者：BRIDGET REILLY

托尼·罗莫在 CBS 的流放会是永久性的吗？

许多人推测，在 7 月 23 日因 OWI（酒后驾驶）被捕以及 CBS 决定将其停职直到“另行通知”之后，他在该网络的工作可能已经结束。

然而，根据《纽约邮报》从三位合同律师和一名熟悉典型体育媒体合同的人士处收集的信息，这位前牛仔队四分卫可能并非毫无希望。

The Athletic 报道称，罗莫那份为期 10 年、价值 1.8亿美元 的协议中包含一项道德条款——与所有主要人才合同类似——“如果一名明星在发生公众丑闻后无法以积极的方式代表其品牌，网络公司可以据此提出挑战”。

罗莫在接下来的四年里将获得 7200万美元 的收入。他现在的命运可能取决于他在 2017 年被认为是 NFL 顶级分析师时所签署的那份未公开合同中的措辞。

Omni Law P.C. 的创始人亚历克斯·戴维斯（Alex Davis）曾代表人才和制作方协商过此类条款，他认为考虑到罗莫的水平和合同价值，他在这项条款中可能获得了“非常有利的措辞”。

如果该条款使用了宽泛的措辞（例如，规定 CBS 可以因任何形式的行为或丑闻而解雇他）或主观措辞（例如，规定由公司独立判定），则会对网络公司有利。鉴于他那份丰厚的合同，以及一些人认为他在播报席上的技能在下降，再加上目前陷入的法律困境，网络公司对他可能已经失去了耐心。

Pitcoff Law Group 的创始人兼管理合伙人罗斯·皮特科夫（Ross Pitcoff）补充道，CBS 先暂停罗莫的职务是一个“精明”且“保守”的举措，即便计划是将其解雇，也能向公众表明内部调查正在进行中。

由此，皮特科夫认为网络公司“显然感到有些尴尬”。

另一方面，如果道德条款中提到了重罪或定罪的限定条件，那么这将有利于 46 岁的罗莫。

罗莫尚未被定罪，而且在威斯康星州，初犯 OWI 通常被视为民事违法，而非刑事指控。

然而，Romano Law 的合伙人兼德克萨斯州法律主席乌佐马·埃泽（Uzoma Eze）暗示，合同中可能存在法律适用条款，这意味着 CBS 在涉及罗莫的问题上，可以根据需要选择适用纽约州法律、加利福尼亚州法律或任何其他州的法律。

埃泽表示，这类条款在对此类合同中是“典型”的。

据一名熟悉典型体育媒体合同的人士称，道德条款涉及的问题有多种原因——如盗窃、抗命、职场不端、暴力和重罪——但酒驾（DUI）几乎从未包含在内。

该人士预测，CBS 会想要查看警方的报告，以确认是否有任何网络公司可以利用的内容，但表示不太可能发现能够触发道德条款的事项。

罗莫由创意艺人经纪公司（CAA）代表，该公司在 CBS 拥有许多客户。戴维斯解释说，罗莫有可能被自动提供了一份 A 级先例合同（对人才最有利）。

然而，即便发送了一份基准协议——一份极大地有利于工作室的协议——戴维斯表示，这些道德条款规定“绝不会被忽视”。

如果这种情况导致合同纠纷，可能会进入仲裁程序，该程序将私下处理，

并可能最终达成和解。CBS 可以买断 Romo 的合同；或者，如果条款语言极大地有利于 Romo，这位前 NFL 球员可以坚持要求全额合同价格，或促使该网络继续履行合同并重新上播，戴维斯解释道。

皮特科夫补充说，如果 Romo 发现终止合同的原因无效，或者他认为对该条款有另一种解释且该解释不能证明该决定合理，他也可以起诉该网络。他可以主张，如果 CBS 没有不当地援引该条款，他本应获得相应的补偿，因此他有权获得损害赔偿。

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紧急会议后因凡蒂诺获得国际足联的“全力支持”

作者：CHRISTIAN ARNOLD

深陷困境的国际足联（FIFA）主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺获得了国际足联秘书长及国际足联管理委员会成员的“全力支持”，该足球管理机构在一份声明中宣布，同时似乎也在向其批评者传递信号。

该声明是在周三于摩洛哥举行的一次危机会议后发布的，正值因凡蒂诺试图将国际足联赛事股份出售给私人投资的计划（正式名称为“国际足联前进企业” (FFE) 提案）失败所引发的后果期间。

该计划引发了剧烈反弹，包括欧足联（UEFA）及其 55 个成员国威胁将因此抵制世界杯，这是让这位国际足联主席陷入被动的一系列最新争议。周三的声明旨在试图平息部分争议，并部分提到在摩洛哥的会议将“加强国际足联的治理，帮助恢复对该组织的信心，并使我们能够以团结和透明的方式为未来的重大赛事和挑战做好准备”。

因凡蒂诺已在其社交媒体账号上发布了类似的声明，并声称与会成员已对其以及国际足联秘书长马蒂亚斯·格拉夫斯特伦表示“全力支持”。

国际足联的声明和因凡蒂诺的社交媒体帖子都包含一段向批评者表达挑战的信息。

“我们也一致同意，国际足联将不容忍任何对其诚信的攻击，并将采取一切必要措施维护其名誉，”因凡蒂诺在 Instagram 上写道，该声明也使用了类似的措辞。

在 FFE 提案之后，因凡蒂诺面临着来自全球各界的日益沉重的压力。

欧足联已要求因凡蒂诺离职，威尔士足球协会已经撤回了支持其明年再次当选国际足联主席的支持信，英格兰预计也将采取同样行动。

加拿大总理马克·卡尼周三公开对因凡蒂诺表示不信任，并称这项被撤回的计划是“致命的”。

“它应该是致命的，”卡尼说。“我确实对因凡蒂诺先生没有信心。”

英国首相安迪·伯纳姆称因凡蒂诺是领导全球足球的“错误人选”。

约旦足球协会主席阿里·本·胡赛因王子对因凡蒂诺和国际足联提出了严厉指控，称其企图通过“敲诈”约旦足协来支持因凡蒂诺的连任竞选。

国际足联周三的声明并未直接回应这些批评，但试图通过承认错误来抚平对 FFE 提案的愤怒。

“会议还讨论了‘国际足联前进企业’ (FFE) 提案，并承认了其中所犯的错误，”声明称。“会议一致认为，国际足联理事会和国际足联成员协会感到被排除在过程之外并非本意，且该过程本应以不同的方式处理。会议进一步承认，在提案泄露给媒体后也出现了错误。”

“在给国际足联理事会和国际足联成员协会的一封独立信函中，对于这些错误表达了歉意，并承诺确保此类事件不再发生。目前将进行一项审查，并在下一次预定会议上向国际足联理事会提交报告。”

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这难道不令人惊叹

作者：MARK W. SANCHEZ

周三在被问及乔治·隆巴德（George Lombard Jr.）时，科迪·贝林杰（Cody Bellinger）给出了这项运动中的极高评价。

“就是一个很棒的孩子，”贝林杰说，“纯粹的棒球运动员。”

这种赞美被理解了，但并不完全正确。隆巴德也曾是一名足球运动员。

这位洋基队的新游击手推迟了在单一运动项目上的专业化，在整个高中期间同时参加棒球和足球运动。在他高年级时——在他成为洋基队首轮选秀球员的前几个月——这位防守球员（以及他的兄弟雅各布）帮助古利弗预科学校（Gulliver Prep）赢得了佛罗里达州冠军。

随着隆巴德在首两场大联盟比赛中展现出顶级新秀的风采——周二击出本垒打，周三击出单打，同时在防守端大放异彩——他那独特的背景被重点提及。

隆巴德的足球运动能力体现在流畅的防守中

“他的表现具有一种身体力量感，”经理亚伦·布恩（Aaron Boone）在谈到隆巴德的游击手表现时说，“但同时具备快速性和平衡感。我认为他的足球背景对他有所帮助，他就是一个非常优秀的运动员。”

隆巴德表示，他不想放弃他热爱的足球，但他的棒球天赋显而易见。

他认为直到18岁为止踢足球的经历是有帮助的。

“在整体运动能力、脚步以及灵活性方面，”隆巴德在周三3-1失利前表示，“我绝对认为这帮助了我成长。”

很少有人能在足球和棒球两项运动中都成为明星，也很少有游击手能在晋升小联盟阶梯期间做出隆巴德那样出名的防守动作。在短短两场大联盟比赛中，他已经让人们窥见了小联盟评估员多年来所见到的能力。

周三，在第三局中出现了一次布恩所称的“精彩瞬间”，当时JJ·韦瑟霍尔特（JJ Wetherholt）击出了一记本应是单跳中路单打的球。隆巴德只有时间迈出一步并进行一次全身飞扑，在空中将球截获，身体撞击外野草地，随即像蹦床一样弹回起立，并将球精准地传向一垒。

“特别的防守，”布恩说，“我听[瑞安]·韦瑟斯（[Ryan] Weathers）谈到他身材多么修长，这是一个很好的描述方式。”

在前一个晚上，隆巴德利用速度和臂展，用反手接住了一记滚地球，随后在惯性将其带向左外野时，撞到了贾兹·奇索姆（Jazz Chisholm Jr.）的胸口，从而启动了双杀。

“乔治是我接触过的最有天赋的防守球员，”一垒兼内野教练丹·菲奥里托（Dan Fiorito）说道，他曾在2023年作为巡回教练与隆巴德合作，随后在2024-25年担任组织的小联盟外野 / 内野协调员。“你可以看到他的脚步、动作、手臂力量，以及他在场上的沉着——比赛对他来说显得如此自然。”

“……他的职业道德也是无与伦比的。他投入其中，并且在这个领域感到非常自豪。”

在隆巴德在体系中晋升的过程中，人们对他防守的担忧很少；他出色的覆盖范围和手臂力量，配合着与其21岁年龄不符的智慧与冷静。

疑问集中在他的击球能力上，虽然他在小联盟的每个级别都能适应，但需要数周或数月的时间。在他初次面对大联盟投手的表现中，他6次击球中2次命中，包括那次本垒打和两次三振，第二次三振发生在周三第八局，面对莱恩·斯塔内克（Ryne Stanek）的一记100 mph速球，当时垒上有两名跑者。

赛前，亚伦·贾奇（Aaron Judge）称隆巴德的首次亮相“令人难以置信”。

“在春训中见过他，你能看到他的天赋，看到他的举止和个性，”贾奇说，“他具备了一切。”

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强势开局： 在洋基队输给红雀队的比赛中，乔治·隆巴德（George Lombard Jr.）飞身拦截。在两场比赛中，隆巴德展现了一些令人印象深刻的防守。Imagin Images

施密特在缩短训练课一天后情况良好

作者：MARK W. SANCHEZ

在洋基队伤病进展令人鼓舞的一个下午——最显著的是亚伦·贾奇被允许进行一些轻量活动——球队还收到了关于克拉克·施密特的积极消息。

亚伦·布恩表示，施密特在周二不得不缩短实战击球练习，因为他认为且希望是前臂抽筋，而现在他被告知这确实“看起来像”是抽筋。

“我们觉得克拉克

洋基笔记

大概可以出战了，”这位经理在周三在布朗克斯以3-1输给红雀队的比赛前说道。“他（周二）接受了很多治疗。医生似乎并不过度担心。”

当施密特感到不适时，洋基队至少感到了一定程度的担忧，施密特目前正在2025年汤米·约翰手术后开始恢复，这次不适促使他只投了2个

“局”而不是3局。

布恩表示，对于不预计在周三投球的施密特来说，下一步将是在周四进行接球练习，“然后希望在本周末的某个时间点进行他的侧投（训练）。”

如果没有进一步的波折，施密特可能很快就能进入康复任务阶段。

考虑到总经理布莱恩·卡什曼在交易截止日没有升级牛棚，部分原因是由于他认为球队会有内部

增援，施密特最终回归阵容的重要性已然增加。

➤ 科迪·贝林杰因腿筋拉伤预计将缺席四到六周，目前已缺席一周半，他在7月25日受伤后首次进行了场上击球练习。

“这是一个巨大的进步，”贝林杰说道，他补充说他一直感觉良好，但还没有明确的回归时间表。

贝林杰一直在直线跑动——虽然不是全

速——在准备激活或进行康复任务之前，他还有几个障碍需要克服。

➤ 赫利奥特·拉莫斯（3次击球1次命中，并在第二局击出二垒安打）取得了作为洋基球员的首次命中。

➤ 克文·卡斯特罗、蒂姆·希尔和保罗·布莱克本合计投了3 ½局无失分。

牛棚在过去55场比赛中的防御率（ERA）为2.56，为大联盟最佳，将对手的击球率限制在.200。

➤ 过去四周洋基队最好的击球手：奥斯汀·威尔斯。

自7月9, 以来，这位捕手在18场比赛中交出了.931的OPS，并击出4支本垒打。

“我确实觉得在过去的几周里，一直有稳定的进步，”布恩在威尔斯以2次击球1次命中之前说道，“希望今后，能更符合我觉得他能达到的状态，尤其是在阵容底端。我觉得他正接近那个版本。”

Warren 可能已被投向牛棚

作者：ZACH BRAZILLER

有人将被送往牛棚，而威尔·沃伦（Will Warren）在周三晚上的表现并没有帮助他避免这一命运。

当卡洛斯·罗东（Carlos Rodón）回归时，要么是沃伦，要么是瑞安·韦瑟斯（Ryan Weathers）离开。

考虑到韦瑟斯最近的投球状态，很难想象洋基队会降级他。

沃伦在战胜小熊队的比赛中表现出色，但在周三强势开局后，在球场以 3-1 输给红雀队的比赛中，他难以支撑到深局。这位右投手在上一局丢掉四支安打和三分后，在第六局仅能记录一个出局数。

“确实存在很多不确定性。我认为拥有这么多投手是一件好事，”沃伦说。“归根结底，我的工作就是每次拿到球时都去投。无论何时，我都会走到场上并尝试执行。”

沃伦最终完成了五次三振，但他在后期疲惫，在第五和第六局丢掉了七支安打中的五支。随着洋基队击球手持续低迷，他没有太多的容错空间，并为那个不稳定的第五局付出了代价。在将球数从 3-1 追回并三振塞萨尔·普里托（César Prieto）获得第二个出局数后，他曾接近脱困。但下一位击球手 JJ 韦瑟霍尔特（JJ Wetherholt）击出一记飞越中外野手特伦特·格里舍姆（Trent Grisham）头顶的二垒安打，打入两分。随后伊万·埃雷拉（Iván Herrera）又击出另一记轰向中外的得分二垒安打。

“我认为有很多好的方面，”沃伦说。“显然，我对韦瑟霍尔特的投球决策本可以有所不同，或许能毫发无损地结束那一局。但事实就是这样。我尝试尽可能多地获得出局数并让我们留在比赛中。总的来说，我认为表现还算稳健。”

沃伦刚刚经历了一个不稳定的七月，期间他的 ERA 为 5.47。但他确实在月末表现良好，在对阵小熊队的比赛中投了 6 2 / 3 局无失分。

与此同时，韦瑟斯在过去的 20 1 / 3 局中仅丢了一分自责分。随着赛季深入，他变得越来越强。沃伦则不能这么说。

罗东正接近回归。这位左投手最后一次为洋基队出场是在 6 月 28 日，此前一直受到左肘炎症的困扰。他计划于周六开始在 3A 球队斯克兰顿 / 威尔克斯-巴里（Scranton / Wilkes-Barre）进行康复训练。

自信的 Ruckert 对 Gang Green 拥挤的近端紧端锋阵容不以为意

Everything is gonna be a light

Atlantic Health

Jeremy Ruckert

如果你想把过去两个四月从记忆中抹去，人们不会责怪 Jeremy Ruckert。

在去年的 4 月 25 日，喷气机队在第二轮第 42 顺位选中了来自路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）的有才华的近端锋 Mason Taylor。

在今年四月，喷气机队在第一轮第 16 顺位选中了极具爆发力的俄勒冈大学近端锋 Kenyon Sadiq。

在球队连续两次选秀都使用高顺位挑选同一位置球员的情况下，在 2022 年选秀第三轮被选中的 将处于什么位置？

本周在被问及对过去两次选秀的反应时， 坚称：“我真的没有太关注这件事。我对自己有信心，相信我能在这里是有原因的，一旦我们开始运转并比赛，我们将证明我们所有人可以同时在场上。所以，至于选秀之夜的反应，我其实没什么反应。”

表示，他有“朋友和家人询问我的近况”，他坚称自己并未受到影响。

在谈到新合同时，他说：“我去年刚续约。我很兴奋能在这里，我非常认可 A.G. [主教练 Aaron Glenn]，我也认可目前发生的一切，我对我自己以及我们前进的方向充满信心。”

在职业体育领域，尤其是 NFL 那个残酷、竞争激烈的世界里，只有自信的人才能生存，在那里每个人都是可以被替代的——尤其是基于年龄。

对自己的能力充满信心——尽管这些能力远不如城里新来的两个年轻人那样具有爆发力。

如果仅将他的 NFL 职业生涯数据与 Taylor 和 Sadiq 在大学时期产生的数据进行对比，很容易假设 是可以被舍弃的。

的职业生涯共有 58 次接球，获得 443 码和一次达阵——在联盟四个赛季、出战 57 场比赛并首发 30 场的情况下，这些数字较为平庸。

与此同时，Sadiq 在大学期间接球 80 次，获得 892 码和 11 次达阵，其中 51 次接球、560 码和 8 次达阵发生在上赛季。

Taylor 在大学职业生涯中接球 129 次，获得 1,308 码和 6 次达阵。

理想情况下，这两名年轻接球手中的一人在 2026 年的单赛季数据至少能与 的职业生涯统计数据持平。

然而， 是三人中最好的封堵者，而 Sadiq 和 Taylor 更多是接球型近端锋。这就是 的价值，也是他去年签署一份为期两年、价值 $10 的续约合同的原因，该合同包括 $3 的签约奖金和 $4.97 的保证金额。

“我对自己超级自信，” 说。“无论他们要求我做什么，我有信心能高水平地完成，无论该位置的哪个方面。我相信自己，而且归根结底，球队正在变得更好，我对这一点感到兴奋。”

“作为房间里待得最久的人，我对此感到自豪，无论他们引进谁，我都会尝试领导他们，与他们并肩作战，并继续推动他们变得更好。”

如果你听 Glenn 的话，他似乎对 的评价与对那两名年轻近端锋一样高。

“伙计， 能胜任所有工作，”Glenn 在本周早些时候表示。“他是全才，而且他能精通这些。他能打 Y [传统的内线封堵者]，能打 F [灵活移动的接球手]，他还能分站。就移动能力而言，他很出色。他是将所有环节联系在一起的那个人。在那个房间里，就领导力而言，他是那个经历过这一切的人。”

“在那个房间里，技能组合截然不同，而这正是你喜欢的地方。但我觉得 ‘Ruck’ 是一个在那个 [房间] 里能胜任所有工作的人。”

当被问及近端锋位置竞争激烈时， 没有退缩。

“我非常喜欢这样，伙计，”他说。“我不会把它称为竞争，而更像是我们所有人都在努力让彼此变得更好。我们的任务是向彼此证明，无论弗兰克 [Reich，进攻协调员] 怎么布置，我们都能胜任不同的位置。”

Ruckert 表示，他认为自己在近端锋组中的作用是“带来领导力，带来身体对抗能力，让大家知道在 NFL 的战壕中拼搏究竟需要什么样的条件。”

“归根结底，作为一名在这里待过——即将进入第 5 年——的人，我必须向他们展示我在这个组织中场内外的经历，让我们做好出击准备，并努力成为球队依赖和信任的群体。”

Ruckert 对自己的自信或许就是他的超能力，而这得到了主教练的信任，主教练才是房间里最重要的人。

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旺代尔：新家是完美的田纳西

作者：BRIAN COSTELLO

田纳西州纳什维尔 —— 旺代尔·罗宾逊（Wan'Dale Robinson）很快就指出了在纽约比赛和在田纳西比赛之间最大的区别。

“交通没那么拥堵，”罗宾逊本周表示。

这一点很难反驳。对于在巨人队效力四年后于三月与泰坦队签约的罗宾逊来说，这仅仅是诸多好处之一。罗宾逊表示，他选择泰坦队有很多原因。毫无疑问，泰坦队给予他的为期四年、价值 $78 百万美元的合同几乎排在名单首位。他还与前巨人队教练布莱恩·达博尔（Brian Daboll）重聚，后者现在是泰坦队的进攻协调员。

在谈到前往田纳西州时，罗宾逊告诉《纽约邮报》：“就是各方面的一点点因素，比如生活方式。我来自这个地区 [在肯塔基州长大]，我的家人可以来看每一场主场比赛，而且只有大约三小时车程。你知道，就是居住环境。我绝对热爱纽约，但我不认为那是我想度过余生的地方。纳什维尔看起来像是一个我真的很想居住并在此度过漫长生活的地方。所以，一切都恰到好处。即使在足球方面也是完美的结合，这是一支年轻的球队，看起来我们正处于上升期，准备大干一场。我想成为其中的一部分。”

罗宾逊去年迎来了一个爆发赛季，完成了 92 次接球，获得 1,014 码码数和四次达阵。这发生在一个很好的时机，因为罗宾逊即将进入自由球员市场。巨人队有意留住罗宾逊，但由于薪金空间有限，他们无法匹配泰坦队的报价。

“起初，我确实认为我会回到纽约，”罗宾逊说。“直到我们接近自由球员市场开启的那一天，我才真正开始意识到这可能不会发生。而且，我意识到我真的不能错过这里的机会。”

由于由达博尔负责调度进攻，罗宾逊清楚地知道自己将如何胜任槽接球手（slot receiver）的位置。

在谈到达博尔时，他说：“就像我们从未分开过一样。他确实进行了一些反思，我知道他现在状态非常好。每当他在场上调度战术和执教时，你就能看出来。这感觉回到了他原本的样子，感觉太棒了。”

罗宾逊正在帮助他的新队友理解达博尔的进攻体系和术语。

其中一名球员是进入第二个赛季的四分卫卡姆·沃德（Cam Ward）。沃德最近表示，他与罗宾逊的关系已经如此亲密，以至于他给了罗宾逊一把他家的钥匙。

“那是我的哥们，”罗宾逊说。“听着，几乎每天都在一起，甚至在足球之外。我感觉我们在球场上通过彼此交流，成长得越来越多，并且将继续成长。他说话不委婉。他会告诉你事实，我非常喜欢这一点。”

WILLING & DABOL!

作者：BRIAN COSTELLO

田纳西州纳什维尔 —— 当布莱恩·达博尔（Brian Daboll）站在讲台上回答记者提问时，罗伯特·萨利（Robert Saleh）走过并大喊：“我们爱你，达博尔。”

“萨利要去锻炼了，”达博尔笑着说。“他问我想不想一起去，我告诉他帮我多做两个。”

他们的体格并不是萨利和达博尔这对现在为泰坦队工作的不寻常搭档的唯一原因。萨利是主教练，而达博尔是他的进攻协调员，这在两年前两人分别作为喷气机队主教练和巨人队主教练在联合训练中对峙时，是很难想象的。

萨利在2024赛季进行到第五场比赛后被喷气机队解雇。巨人队在上一赛季进行到10场比赛后解雇了达博尔。

当萨利在1月份被田纳西队聘用时，他转向他这位在纽约的老同事来执掌进攻端。

“达博尔可能会争辩说，天呐，如果他能把防守搞定就好了；而我可以争辩说，如果我能把进攻搞定就好了，”萨利在谈到他们在纽约失败的任期时说道。“我们还不如联手。达博斯一直很棒，是个极好的队友。”

达博尔正在享受他足球旅程的新篇章，这段旅程包括与比尔·贝利切克（Bill Belichick）和爱国者队一起赢得超级碗，与尼克·萨班（Nick Saban）和阿拉巴马大学一起赢得全国冠军，以及在布法罗指导乔什·艾伦（Josh Allen）。现在，他的任务是最大限度地发挥泰坦队四分卫卡姆·沃德（Cam Ward）的潜力，后者是2025年的状元秀，并帮助萨利扭转泰坦队的局面，该球队自2021年以来就没能进入季后赛。

达博尔表示，他与萨利是在他接手巨人队工作后的联盟会议上初次结识的。

“我们真正相识是在我们两人都在纽约担任主教练的时候，你知道，那是他的第一个主教练职位，也是我的第一个主教练职位，”达博尔本周在办公室接受《纽约邮报》采访时表示。“所以，你们会倾向于互相依靠。这就是我认识他的方式。”

“我们建立了关系。然后他得到了这份工作，他跟我谈到了这件事，[我]足够幸运，他想把我带过来。这是一次很好的经历。你知道，他来自与我不同的体系，有不同的导师。我认为在他身边是一次很酷的经历。”

YES HE CAM! 布莱恩·达博尔在上一赛季进行到10周后被解雇离开巨人队主教练之职，现在他是泰坦队的进攻协调员，准备最大限度地发挥二年级四分卫卡姆·沃德的潜力。AP (2)

达博尔没有兴趣回顾他在巨人队的时光。他在2022年以9-7-1的战绩开始，并赢得了一场季后赛，但他再也没能重现那样的成功，最终以20-40-1的战绩结束。

“我很感激这次机会，”达博尔在谈到在巨人队的时光时说。“归根结底，我们没有完成任务。这由主教练承担。”

在他担任巨人队主教练的最后一年，球队一直在寻找四分卫，他对沃德进行了深入研究，

后者是2025年选秀中来自迈阿密的顶尖四分卫。众所周知，达博尔和巨人队非常看好沃德，但泰坦队以

状元身份选中了他，因此巨人队从未有机会得到他，而是在第一轮稍后的顺位选择了贾克森·达特（Jaxson Dart）。

现在，达博尔的工作是在一个艰难的新秀赛季后，尝试让沃德的职业生涯重回正轨。

“他是一名经历了艰难首个赛季的二年级球员，无论这是否完全符合他对自己以及更重要的对球队的预期，”达博尔说。“这始终是一种挣扎，对任何人来说都是如此，包括我自己。所以，能够分享我一路走来的一些经验，我想我在联盟里已经待了26或27年了。我赢过很多场比赛，也输过很多场比赛。”

我学到在这个行业中有很多起起伏伏。我想继续变得更好，继续从错误中学习，成长，享受其中，享受与我们的队员们在一起。

—— 布莱恩·达博尔

前巨人队主教练期待与萨利赫合作，助力泰坦队及其年轻四分卫发挥最大潜力

“我做过很多让我自豪的事情，也做过很多我觉得自己本可以做得更好的事情。但我认为对于年轻球员来说，这种视角是有益的。而且我们的关系非常牢固。我们在选秀过程中就比较投缘，这种状态一直延续到了现在。”

达博尔将在第 3 周回到大都会体育场面对巨人队。他说他还没有考虑过那天会有什么感受。

“你只需要专注于眼前。我甚至还没想到过这件事，”达博尔说。随后他转向身后一块巨大的白板，指向列有星期几的区域。他指向了周二下午。“实际上，我正试着弄清楚我们现在要做什么，只要能顺利度过这一天就好。我还没想到过那件事。”

萨利赫在田纳西州获得了第二次担任主教练的机会。达博尔在 1 月面试了比尔队的职位，但布法罗聘请了乔·布雷迪。达博尔想再次担任主教练吗？

“这是一个很好的问题。我目前没有考虑这件事，”达博尔说。“我关注的是我如何能帮助萨利赫在这个组织中尝试实现每个人都想实现的目标？是的。而且我已经意识到这个行业有很多起起伏伏。我想继续变得更好，继续从错误中学习，成长，享受其中，享受与我们的队员在一起，享受与卡姆在一起。很久以前我就学到，要试着在你所处的角色中尽最大努力做好工作，然后无论接下来的机会是什么，都会由此而生。但如果你在当前的角色中做得不好，那么通常其他机会就不会出现。所以这就是我的关注点。”

brian.costello@nypost.com

陷入困扰的迪格斯以 1200万美元 合同加盟华盛顿

作者：GRACE McCARRON

斯特芬·迪格斯找到了他的新家。

据多份报道，这位两届全明星外接手已与指挥官队达成协议。

对于这位 32 岁的球员来说，合同期限为 1 年，金额最高可达 1200万美元。在训练营已经开始的情况下，他是自由市场上剩余的最顶尖外接手。

这次签约为华盛顿四分卫杰登·丹尼尔斯提供了一件新武器，但也带来了风险。

迪格斯近年来陷入了法律麻烦。他一直卷入与克里斯托弗·布莱克·格里菲斯的纠纷中，后者指控迪格斯在 2023 年对他下药并实施性侵。

迪格斯最近在另一起涉及其前私人厨师的案件中被判袭击罪名不成立。迪格斯职业生涯的大部分时间在维京人队和比尔队度过，随后在德州人队和爱国者队分别效力了一个赛季。

迪格斯还与说唱歌手 Cardi B 经历了一次备受关注的分手。两人有一个儿子，出生于 2025 年 11 月。

对于迪格斯来说，这将是一次回归故里，他出生于马里兰州盖瑟斯堡，在华盛顿特区大都会区外长大。

在爱国者队度过了一个 1,000 码赛季后，迪格斯将在华盛顿与特里·麦克劳林搭档。

新英格兰在 3 月释放了迪格斯，主教练迈克·弗拉贝尔确认球队没有在探索与这位老将重聚的可能性。

爱国者队在休赛期转而交易得到了 A.J. 布朗，为德雷克·梅耶提供一名新的 1 号接球手。

“我不认为那是我们正在探索的事情，但我永远不会说不，”弗拉贝尔说。

迪格斯是新英格兰队闯入第 60 届超级碗的关键成员。

上赛季，他以 85 次接球和 1,013 码接球码数领跑爱国者队，成为自 2019 年朱利安·埃德尔曼以来爱国者队首位达到 1,000 码的接球手。

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作者：RYAN DUNLEAVY

西弗吉尼亚州，怀特萨尔弗斯普林斯 —— 周三，一名兴奋的11岁女孩在训练营的围栏上挂了一块牌子，请求将一个巨人队的足球作为她唯一的生日礼物。

来自弗吉尼亚州的查理不仅实现了这个愿望，还得到了人群中似乎每个巨人队球迷都想要的礼物：在球队进行热身时，得到了奥德尔·贝克汉姆-小的关注和签名。

在格林布赖尔度假村的练习场上，当贝克汉姆做出精彩表现时，所引发的轰动与大多数其他球员时截然不同，且更加响亮。周三的练习——这是他连续第二个主要与首发球员一起跑位的训练——充满了贝克汉姆的高光时刻，从在与杰文·霍兰的一对一对抗中完成的一次接球，到一次穿梭接球跑动，再到一次沿边线的深球抓取。

“每个人都喜欢讨论，‘他会变成这样，还是那样？’”贝克汉姆说。“而我的想法是，‘勒布朗·詹姆斯以前在罚球线前起跳，现在他的脚就在罚球线正前方起跳。他的比赛风格变了，但他依然在保持高水平地比赛。’我相信我也能在高水平上比赛。”

贝克汉姆已经证明，他与巨人队的重聚不仅仅是为了沉浸在怀旧之中。在连续第三天穿着护具训练且处于训练营最长的一次练习中，他的身体看起来比他最后一次为2024年海豚队效力时更加灵活，并能做出精彩表现。

“昨天的达阵不能帮你赢得今天的比赛，”贝克汉姆说。“我觉得我[周二]出现时，我想的是，‘我想拥有我最好的一天，’我觉得我度过了不错的一天。有些地方需要改进，于是我想，‘我想[周三]度过更棒的一天。’”

主教练约翰·哈博在周二早上的球队会议上，邀请贝克汉姆分享当日的“睿智之言”。

“他工作很努力，一些球传向他，而他接

贝克汉姆在重返“大蓝”后的初步表现惊艳

“一些精彩的 plays，”哈博说。“他向球队发表了讲话，而且做得非常好。所以，也许这就是足球之神的眷顾。你永远不知道。”

贝克汉姆在训练营开始时与二线接球手在一起，在路线跑动中能拉开距离，但没有获得传球目标。在他年轻的时候，这种处境可能会让他举起一只手以表达沮丧，但现在他像任何一个为了争取留队名额而变得谦卑的人一样，安静地跑回原点准备下一次重复练习。

“我挺喜欢这样的，”贝克汉姆说。“我的哥们给我发短信，他说，‘这就是你大显身手的地方。’当我有压力时，我以此为生。如果我们只是随便玩玩，玩 H-O-R-S-E 投篮游戏，如果不赌 $100，我可能会输。但如果你把 $100 押上去，那么，假设地……我想在关键时刻挺身而出。我绝对会给自己压力去创造机会。我完全支持竞争。我一直如此。我觉得我能在关键时刻表现出色。”

贝克汉姆指出，在 2023 年的乌鸦队期间，他在哈博的执教下，在 465 次进攻 snap 中完成了 35 次接球，获得 565 码。如果他能获得更多机会，将工作量和数据翻倍——这也许是愿望清单——那么就没人会质疑他还能发挥多少余力。

“我觉得我在重复练习中变得更好了，”贝克汉姆说。“不幸的是，我是那种必须触碰炉灶才知道它烫手且不能再次触碰的人，所以我从错误中学习，然后觉得，‘好吧，这是我已经纠正的一件事。’”

巨人的近端锋 Isaiah Likely 在 2023 年是贝克汉姆的队友。

“他看起来就像 O，”Likely 说。“就是看到他能够真正理解自己所处的位置。当年轻球员问他，在他处于顶峰、处于巅峰时期的 Odell 是如何正确地做到这一点时。然后显然，还有黑暗时期的 Odell，他也会告诉你这段经历。以及他究竟是如何坚持下去并专注于此，并明白当他出现在这里时，他是在向你展示最好的自己。”

贝克汉姆表示，距离家乡八小时车程外的观众支持给了他“很多动力”。但他回到巨人队——他自比的同行 James 刚刚拒绝了第二次回归骑士队而选择加入 76 人队——并不是为了他们，也不是为了那些质疑他的人。

“如果这听起来很自私，我很抱歉，但这是为了我自己，”贝克汉姆说。“这是为了向我自己证明。这从来不是为了向他人证明，但当你能向他人证明时，总是很有趣。但这是为了我，为了我的儿子。在我们家里，我们绝不放弃，你明白我的意思吗？无论是什么，你都要完成你开始的事情。”

rdunleavy@nypost.com

周二糟糕收尾，周三糟糕开局后，达特结束

作者：RYAN DUNLEAVY

西弗吉尼亚州，白硫磺泉 —— Jaxson Dart 从踉跄转为掌控。

在周二的训练以低潮收尾——因为对角卫 Greg Newsome II 做出翻球动作而被约翰·哈博批评为挑衅犯规——达特投出了两次拦截

巨人队笔记

在周三练习早些时候，面对二线队防守时表现不佳，但随后在红区时段通过三次达阵传球挽回了局面。

“足球方面的反应绝对在，”哈博说。“是的，他挺身而出。我们做了很多第三档的练习。第四档的练习，在红区通过第四档赢得比赛，诸如此类。是的，他这次练习表现得非常好。令人印象深刻。”

哈博在练习前的会议上点名批评了达特，因为他在周二练习结束的一次达阵跑球后，愚蠢地将球扔向了纽索姆的脸。达特在周三又跑了两次达阵，并克制了自己的庆祝行为。

“这是一个教练指导的机会，”哈博说。“所以，我们回顾了那个过程，大家都知道了。他的态度很好。他很擅长承担责任，是一个非常有责任感的人。我觉得所有球员都是这样。”

哈博表示，他将11-on-11训练从首发对首发改为首发对二线队，原因并非为了提升信心。这样做可以让一名协调员要求对方执行特定的剧本指令，并设置更长时间的竞争时段。

纽索姆表示，他对达特没有产生任何不满。

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噢天哪，进攻线！

在一次对一次的练习中，左截锋 安德鲁·托马斯 在阿卜杜勒·卡特试图击败他时保持了内侧位置，而后者反而打滑了。随后，他将阿维尔·里斯推向外侧，扳回了前几天的比分。接着，托马斯和左卫 乔恩·鲁尼安 挡住了包括里斯在内的两人冲传。当托马斯在11-on-11练习中出现抢跑时，他被换下场了一次。没有人能凌驾于规则之上。

被击溃的单位

首发防守组在10码线以内连续三次让二线队进攻组完成了达阵传球。安全卫 泰勒·努宾 在一次对一次练习中让外接手泽维尔·吉普森完成了一次深球接球，并让近端锋以赛亚·莱克利完成了一次短接球；随后，当詹尼斯·温斯顿将球越过他的肩膀传给外接手朱朱·史密斯-舒斯特完成达阵时，他的背正对着球。

引起我的注意

前三轮秀外接手 贾林·海亚特 正处于阵容边缘，他担任了弃踢冲锋手——这与往年他在特勤组时段担任回接手的角色有所不同——并且在一次出色的练习中利用速度迅速向外并冲向球场深处，从而造成对方犯规。他还接到了温斯顿的一次达阵传球。

伤病报告

在温斯顿连续第三次达阵传球时，角卫 德鲁·菲利普斯 似乎伤到了右小腿，但巨人队希望这只是抽筋。他倒地了一分钟，跛行到边线，在训练师的注视下慢跑，随后在练习剩余时间内留在边线。根据约翰·哈博的说法，外线卫 布赖恩·伯恩斯、外接手 马拉基·菲尔兹 和安全卫 博·布雷德 都在处理轻微伤势。—— 瑞安·邓利维

竟然这样？！

当老将奥德尔·贝克汉姆-朱니어被巨人队签下作为潜在的深度储备时，人们对他并没有太高期望。但他在训练营的表现令人惊讶，并连续两次在首发进攻组中完成了扎实的练习。

以高调结束的一天

► 巨人队将防守截锋 罗伊·罗伯逊-哈里斯（跟腱断裂）列入赛季报销的伤病预备名单。最初曾希望他能回归。外接手 博·柯林斯 在训练营开局令人失望后被裁掉 / 列入伤病名单。这两个阵容名额由防守后卫 D.J. 詹姆斯 和 大卫·隆-朱니어 填补。

► 外接手 达伦·坎布雷 上赛季作为一名未被选中的新秀，在为巨人队出战的七场比赛中完成了16次进攻档和89次特勤组档，目前他凭借一系列精彩的接球正“崭露头角”。

在严苛的哈博训练营无需大吼大叫

他不是个爱吼叫的人。这是描述约翰·哈博在场上指导他的第一个巨人队训练营时的一种方式。

当然，他在格林布赖尔度假村的体育表现中心里随处可见。确实能看到他。能听到他吗？是的，但并不是因为他在大喊大叫、咆哮甚至提高嗓门。

到目前为止，哈博所展现出的是——巨人队周三在西弗吉尼亚州完成了计划中的10次训练中的第7次——他在各方面都是一名首席执行官式的主教练。因此，他的倾向既非进攻也非防守。他曾任特勤组协调员，那无疑是他的擅长领域，但最重要的是，他的专业知识是全方位的。

你不会看到他沿着边线冲刺去庆祝任何事情。当出现错误时，他不会厉声呵斥。他在场上走动，当有某些事情引起他的注意时，他会阐明自己的观点，简洁且没有高分贝的凶猛。毕竟，他是负责人。他不需要通过尖叫来传达观点。

“他不需要这么做，”外接手卡尔文·奥斯汀三世周三告诉《纽约邮报》。

为什么不需要？“通过他在球队会议上的行走方式，信息就已经传达到了，”奥斯汀说道。他在NFL的前三个赛季在钢人队度过，当时效力于另一位不爱大吼的人——迈克·汤姆林麾下。“关于我们应该如何练习，没有疑问；关于我们应该如何收尾，没有疑问；关于我们应该如何竞争，没有疑问；关于我们应该如何帮助兄弟，没有疑问。”

汤姆·考夫林可能是个爱吼叫的人，而他赢得了两次超级碗。

哈博在训练前和训练后能轻松地与球员打成一片，经常进行真正的交谈，而不仅仅是“最近怎么样？”这种走马观花式的问候。他的训练课在开始时侧重于个人钻研，而在情境训练上则更加侧重——他说，这些才是决定实际比赛胜负的关键。

每天下午，哈博在媒体环节开始时都会进行某种问候：“感谢你们能来。”“很高兴见到大家。”“希望你们喜欢”刚刚结束的训练。他提到了阿勒格尼山脉的“美丽环境”以及训练营初期的理想天气。

第5天包括了近一小时的大雨。哈博讲述了他在俄亥俄大学迈阿密分校时的大学教练汤姆·里德如何“每天都告诉我们——无论是雨、雨夹雪、雪还是酷暑——这都是踢足球的好天气。每一个。”

这通常就是哈博的看法。每一个都是一个好的。

当场上情况不那么理想时，哈博会将分析留在心中。他不会在媒体面前批评球员。进攻端表现糟糕？他会赞扬防守端。贾克森·达特在进攻端已经进入射门范围、可以将比赛拖入加时赛的情况下，在红区被拦截了？

“显然，你并不希望在这种情况发生拦截，”哈博说道，随后——在公开场合——让达特脱身。

“你把四分卫置于一个艰难的境地，”他说。“你希望他挑战极限吗？还是你要因为他在训练营里被拦截而批评他？我的意思是，这只是训练营。”

即使在 5, 出现了一场有14次犯规的糟糕表现后，哈博仍将雨天和第一次全装训练作为混乱的原因。

“所以，这并不真正令人意外，但我们会改进的，”他说。

他可以谈得很详细，并且比起宏大的主题，他更倾向于具体的话题。他实际上理解对内容的需求，并会尽力提供。在被问到为什么训练营里只有一个弃踢手时，他说“这是一个好问题”。在大型小组会议结束后，面对额外的采访请求，他也非常耐心，有时耐心得令人惊讶。尽管每一分钟都被安排得满满当当，但哈博身上有一种不匆忙的特质。

他是个极其讲究的人。在最初的几天里，他不止一次提到负责训练的裁判——当地大学和高中的裁判——并不完全熟悉NFL判定比赛动作的方式。

“我只是在提醒他们，当防守方处于中立区时，不要吹停，”哈博在第一次训练后说道，并补充道“这些家伙今天表现得很棒”。

没有什么能逃过他的眼睛。防守球员在犯规或其他失误后做俯卧撑是协调员丹纳德·威尔逊的主意。哈博赞同这种“惩罚”，但不赞同执行方式。

“你知道俯卧撑中让我烦心的是什么吗？”他问道，随后自己回答道。

“他们没有完全撑起来。他们做的是那种短促的小幅度俯卧撑。”

关于训练强度大且时间长的名声是名副其实的。巨人队在场上的时间达到了集体谈判协议允许的最长时间。

“伙计，这很艰苦，很坚韧，我们要努力工作，”角卫格雷格·纽索姆二世说道。

“对于我们来说，在竞争方面没有休息日。他会确保我们进行竞争，我们总是在进行情境足球训练，诸如此类。他是一位伟大的教练。”

他正试图将伟大注入巨人队，一次（伟大）地度过每一天。

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波兰科力求反弹

作者：MIKE PUMA

克利夫兰 —— 豪尔赫·波兰科（Jorge Polanco）正试图通过挥棒找回状态。

据安迪·格林（Andy Green）称，在周三大都会队于进步球场对阵守护者队之前，这位资深指定打击进行了大约 300 次挥棒，这让代理经理谨慎乐观地认为成功即将到来。

波兰科以 4 次机会 2 次安打的表现交出了答卷，其中包括他本赛季的第二支本垒打（也是 4 月以来的第一支）。这次三局的强攻终结了他 0-for-26 的低迷状态。

大都会笔记

“在投入大量努力之后，感觉非常好，”波兰科在 10 局 6-5 获胜后表示。

波兰科在当晚开始时的 OPS 仅为 .388，成为了运营总裁大卫·斯特恩斯（David Stearns）失败的休赛期大改造的典型代表。

“有时汗水的投入能让你重新运转起来，”格林在谈到波兰科的训练时说。“他拥有极强的能力。他有长期的记录。如果你在现场观察他，他的挥棒很出色。他拥有很多优势。”

波兰科是以一份价值 4000万美元 的两年合同加盟的，他一直受到跟腱和手腕伤势的困扰，导致他本赛季仅出场 30 场。

“任何时候，只要下肢甚至手部受伤，无论你是否感到疼痛，都会影响挥棒，”格林说。“他感觉很健康。”

► 萨米·斯塔富拉（Sammy Stafura）是周一大都会队通过交易获得的球员，他被评为 7 月南大西洋联盟（High-A）月度最佳球员。这位游击手在包括本垒打（14 次）、打点（35 次）、长打率（.926）和 OPS（1.305）在内的多项进攻指标中领跑联盟。大都会队用 卢克·韦弗（Luke Weaver）将这位 21 岁的斯塔富拉从海盗队交易而来。

► 杰弗里·扬（Jefry Yan）成为本赛季第七位完成大联盟首秀的大都会球员 —— 加入了 内特·拉文德（Nate Lavender）、卡森·本格（Carson Benge）、A.J. 尤因（A.J. Ewing）、尼克·莫拉比托（Nick Morabito）、马特·西林格（Matt Seelinger）和 扎克·桑顿（Zac Thornton）的行列。

► 布雷特·巴蒂（Brett Baty）本赛季之前的外野出场均在右外野，而周三他获得了左外野的先发机会。格林表示，这样的排兵布阵是为了让本格留在右外野。

扬在首秀中展现高调庆祝，大都会队反超获胜

跳跃前行

作者：MIKE PUMA

克利夫兰 —— 杰弗里·颜（Jefry Yan）在周三晚上用一场舞蹈派对宣布了他的大联盟到来。

一次跳跃。一次劈叉。一次拍地。这位新秀救援投手在第六局庆祝了三次 —— 两次是因为三振，一次是因为在满垒情况下记录了最后一个出局数。他在进步球场（Progressive Field）离场时伴随着嘘声。

“我真的很兴奋，但也有点紧张，”颜在纽约大都会队以 6-5 在 10 局中击败守护者队后通过翻译说道。“我想尽快完成任务离开那里，但遇到了一点麻烦。我能够深挖潜力并度过了那一局。”

大都会队不仅从颜那里得到了他们需要的，还从交易截止日期后重建的牛棚中其他球员那里得到了支持 —— 终结者德文·威廉姆斯（Devin Williams）也因代理经理安迪·格林（Andy Green）所称的手臂疲劳而无法出场。

守护者队 6 10 局 5 赛况，第 40 页

博·比谢特（Bo Bichette）在第 10 局的打点单打带入了领先分，随后丹尼尔·杜阿尔特（Daniel Duarte）在自动跑者被留在垒上的情况下拿到了最后三个出局数。

这是大都会队的第二场连续胜利，他们连续第二个夜晚获得了三个本垒打：布雷特·巴蒂（Brett Baty）、豪尔赫·波兰科（Jorge Polanco）和卡森·本格（Carson Benge）全部击出长球。

球速最高达到 101 mph 的颜增加了最多的火药味。这位 29 岁的左投手在 2016 年被天使队组织释放后，远离附属棒球运动四年，他在小联盟以高三振率而闻名，但同样以在获得第三次好球后的夸张标点动作而闻名。

颜仅用了一个击球手 —— 安赫尔·马丁内斯（Angel Martínez）在第六局开局被判第三次好球 —— 就展示了这一点。他跳向空中并做了一个劈叉，用手掌猛击地面。在三振切斯·德劳特（Chase DeLauter）后，颜再次庆祝。他的最后一项行动是让乔·阿德尔（Jo Adell）在满垒情况下击出地滚球导致强制出局，从而引发了另一次庆祝。随后是嘘声。

“我不关心那个，他们可以在那里随心所欲，”颜说。“他们付了票钱。如果他们想对我大喊，如果他们想对我嘘，他们可以随心所欲。我在我的状态区，我将以我想要的方式享受我的比赛。”

格林欣赏这一切。

“这是真实的东西，”格林说。“想想今天走到那个投手丘所经历的旅程……这真的很令人印象深刻。从满垒的困境中脱身，拿到你的

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颜不仅如此！ 大都会队救援投手杰弗里·颜周三完成了他的大联盟首秀，在记录三振时展示了他夸张的庆祝动作。在 10 局 6-5 击败守护者队的胜利中，他在一局中被击出两次安打但没有失分。图片来源：美联社

第一个三振，对他来说很兴奋。他配得上那个。”克里斯蒂安·斯科特（Christian Scott）用了 96 球完成了五局投球，期间他允许 6 次安打和 2 次保送导致 3 分自责分，并有 7 次三振。此前，斯科特在本赛季最长的先发中，在上周双赛的夜场比赛中对阵勇士队投了六局。巴蒂和波兰科在第三局的连续本垒打让大都会队取得了 2-0 的领先。巴蒂的本垒打是他本赛季的第七个，也是自 7 月 10 日以来的第四个。令人失望的波兰科自 4 月 11 日以来没有击出本垒打 —— 在因跟腱和手腕受伤缺席近三个月后，他在 7 月初回到了阵容。贾里德·杨（Jared Young）在第四局的打点二垒安打让大都会队 3-0 领先。在安赫尔·格纳奥（Angel Genao）对本格的地滚球出现两次失误后，该得分是非自责分。A.J. 尤因（A.J. Ewing）在第四局被一个击向中外的球欺骗，该球成为了纳撒尼尔·洛（Nathaniel Lowe）的二垒安打，在阿德尔开局保送后使跑者处于二、三垒。特拉维斯·巴扎纳（Travis Bazzana）击出一记打点单打，将大都会队的领先优势缩小至 3-1，但斯科特通过拿到接下来的两个出局数逃离了那一局。斯科特在第五局在无人出局的情况下通过两次单打和一次保送导致满垒后丢了两分。洛的两分单打将比分扳平为 3-3。本格在第六局击出本垒打，使大都会队 4-3 领先。这是

这是新秀Benge连续第二场比赛击出本垒打，他的13次本垒打在现役大都会队球员中最多。处于伤病名单中的胡安·索托（Juan Soto）本赛季以21次本垒打领跑全队。在Young出现 fielding error 之后，帕特里克·贝利（Patrick Bailey）和Genao在第七局各击出一支打入分数的单打，使守护者队取得 5-4 的领先。大都会队在第九局两出局时填满了垒包，随后Ewing的地面球被Brayan Rocchio处理失误，导致扳平比分的分数得分。除了守护者队在Dendriel Núñez投球的第七局中取得的两分非自责分外，大都会队的牛棚表现完美。“有很多球员在努力证明自己属于这里，并且投球表现非常好，”Green说道。mpuma@nypost.com

罗伯特将继续占据中外野核心位置

作者：MIKE PUMA

克利夫兰 —— 路易斯·罗伯特二世在进入周一交易截止日之前就有一个预感，他将在大都会队的任期将继续下去。

这位资深外野手上周从其代表那里获悉，他应该为可能的交易做好准备，但如果他在截止日期前的最后一段比赛被视为某种展示，那么罗伯特的表现简直是在大声提醒各球队应该避开他。

“在经历了主场的那一周之后，我知道在那时达成交易会很困难，”罗伯特在周三大都会队对阵守护者队之前通过翻译说道。“显然总是有可能的，但我认为在那个时间点完成交易会很困难。”

在那次主场系列赛中，7月20日从伤病名单长期休养中回归的罗伯特，在27次机会中仅击出5次安打（.185），并且看到他令人失望的OPS从.642下降到.610。即便如此，据消息人士透露，大都会队官员曾希望将他送往其他球队。

相反，球队决定不对这位29岁的罗伯特采取低价出售，本赛季剩余时间他将获得$800 万的薪水。他的合同包含一项下赛季价值$20 million的球队选项。大都会队在1月份通过交易路易斯安赫尔·阿库尼亚和特鲁曼·保利从白袜队得到了罗伯特。

这使得罗伯特目前成为球队的主要中外野手（他周三晚上在替补席上），将此前在中外野表现出色的新秀A.J.尤因挤到了左外野。代理经理安迪·格林表示，这种结构给了大都会队最好的获胜机会。

“[罗伯特]在职业棒球生涯中从未打过左外野，所以我们进行了沟通，我想在让他固定在一个从未尝试过的位置之前，给他一些时间在那里进行练习，”格林说。“一旦我们能够做到这一点，我们将增加A.J.在中外野的练习次数。让A.J.在角落位置打球并且打得非常好，对他没有坏处。如果你在考虑如何排兵布阵才能最适合赢得一场棒球比赛，那么让A.J.在打得极其出色的角落位置打球，而路易斯·罗伯特二世在顶级的中外野打球，是一个非常好的排布。”

尽管如此，格林承认，继续积累尤因的中外野经验对球队的未来至关重要。

“我们在接下来的时间里会平衡这两件事，”格林说。“但我认为在短期内，在这次客场之旅中，你必须在让某人固定在某个位置之前，给他机会在该位置进行一些练习。”

尤因在周三首发，在大都会队以6-5在10局比赛中战胜守护者队的比赛中，他在中外野没有太多防守动作，而在击球方面则是5次机会中1次安打。罗伯特在第九局代打，结果被三振，随后在第10局担任中外野手，尤因则移至左外野。

罗伯特因腰椎间盘突出在伤病名单中缺席了近两个月。这次缺席延续了这位天赋异禀的外野手在近几个赛季中因伤缺席比赛的模式。

“我们对我能做到的事情抱有很高的期望，”罗伯特说。“我非常努力地想要保持健康。训练师们也非常努力地让我保持健康，但我还是受伤了并缺席了大量时间。这令人失望。”

罗伯特是否因为没有机会潜在地帮助一支季后赛竞争球队而感到失望？

“每个球员都喜欢竞争，”他说。“我很想参加季后赛，但现在最重要的事情是我在这里，然后我只想强势收尾，因为那将比任何事情都重要。”

罗伯特将在这个已经失去希望的赛季最后的47场比赛中，努力证明自己能够做出贡献。当被问及他是否能预见到大都会队会执行他下赛季的选项时。

“他们执行选项的机会总是有的，”罗伯特说。“这是他们的决定，但我也必须在场上尽我的职责。”

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CARD? TO SWALLOW

轰炸机队击球手仅击出四次安打，得点圈 0-for-10，负于圣路易斯

作者：MARK W. SANCHEZ

这是一套不同的洋基队阵容和面貌，乔治·隆巴德（George Lombard Jr.）在早期表现出色，斯宾塞·琼斯（Spencer Jones）获得了机会，路易斯·加西亚（Luis García Jr.）和赫利奥特·拉莫斯（Heliot Ramos）也在新球队中逐渐融入。

然而，这依然是同一个洋基队问题：在缺乏球队核心的情况下，阵容毫无生气。

在亚伦·贾奇宣布他将在本赛季某个时间点回归几个小时后，他留下的打击顺序在场上的表现，仿佛是在向队长传达他最好快点回来。

这个问题最近被出色的投球和隆巴德的横空出世部分掩盖，但在周三毫无遮掩。在那场比赛中，洋基队被红雀队以 3-1 击败。这场比赛过程极其沉闷，比赛频繁暂停，且在主队进攻时几乎没有任何兴奋点。

在布朗克斯现场的 37,425 名观众在比赛开始前经历了 68 分钟的雨时延迟，随后在比赛初期的几个局中，由于洋基体育场的灯光不断熄灭而发出呻吟，接着在第六局的一场短暂暴雨中奔向掩体，然后在第七局一名红雀队投手在湿滑的投手丘上滑倒、导致场地工作人员匆忙上前耙土时，低头查看手机。

到结束时还留在现场的少数观众并未因他们的耐心而获得回报，因为洋基队

红雀队 3 洋基队 1

比分单

(64-51) 输掉了系列赛，落后光芒队 4 1 场，且在争夺顶级外卡席位时仅领先红袜队一场。

“我认为（红雀队先发投手安德烈）帕兰特（Pallante）表现不错，但我们必须完成任务，”经理亚伦·布恩在球队以四次安打结束比赛后表示，其中没有一次是在得点圈出现（0-for-10），且大多数打席看起来就像是在熄灯状态下完成的。“我们必须在那些情况下突破。”

在过去的 43 场比赛中，洋基队仅在 4 场比赛中得分超过 5 分，无论人员如何配置，这都是一次惊人的得分荒，在此期间他们场均仅得 3.3 分。整个阶段都在贾奇缺阵的情况下进行，他的肋骨骨折威胁到了球队的赛季，不过周三他开始了一些轻量活动。

乏力的进攻让投球组和防守端几乎没有容错空间，威尔·沃伦（Will Warren）以及中外野手的特伦特·格里舍姆（Trent Grisham）表现得并不完美。

沃伦在前四局表现流畅，但在决定胜负的第五局遇到了麻烦。在两出局且两角有跑者的情况下，年轻的佼佼者 JJ 韦瑟霍尔特（JJ Wetherholt）对一个横扫球（sweeper）进行了不错的挥击——“事后看来，可能应该投另一种球，”沃伦懊恼地表示——球成为了一个飞向中外野的高球。

“球离棒的那一刻，我觉得我有很大的机会接住它，”格里舍姆说。“但当我后退时，它就那样一直飞。”

格里舍姆在这次处理中失去了方向，随后决定在球触墙后处理。但球没有击中墙壁，而是短跳后变成了一次两分二垒安打，随后又是另一次二垒安打，这成为了圣路易斯队仅需的三分。

洋基队在中后期有多次机会，但都被浪费了。奥斯汀·威尔斯（Austin Wells）出现了一次结束该局的双杀；一次接近突破的机会中，三次保送和一次触身球得了一分，随后瑞安·麦克马洪（Ryan McMahon）在满垒时被三振；加西亚在两次留垒后被地面球出局；以及原本兴致高昂的隆巴德在两名跑者在垒时，被莱恩·斯塔内克（Ryne Stanek）的快球三振。

隆巴德（4次机会中 1 次安打，再次有几次出色的防守表现）继续给人们带来娱乐并激发希望，但当几乎任何其他人站在击球区时，洋基队看起来就毫无希望。

当晚的先导击球手格里舍姆（0-for-5）在过去 20 场比赛中 71 次机会仅 8 次安打（.113）。

斯宾塞·琼斯（0-for-4）在贾森·多明格斯（Jasson Domínguez）被下放期间表现足够维持大联盟席位，但在过去四场比赛中 15 次机会 0 次安打。

奇索姆（0-for-2 且两次保送）在过去五场比赛中 17 次机会仅 1 次安打。

当被问及那些未能完全演变成集会（rallies）的威胁中缺失了什么时，格里舍姆总结得很到位：“安打。”

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有心无力：威尔·沃伦在第一局中被击出 7 支安打失 3 分，在投手丘上做出反应。斯宾塞·琼斯（插图）在第二局三振出局后头盔脱落。

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美国联盟东区确实有一些事情在发生，一些真实的事情。你甚至可以称之为一场冠军争夺战。有三支球队显然足够优秀，能够获得第一名。另外有两支球队，除非发生极罕见的运气反转，否则几乎肯定会参加季后赛。

他们在赛季超过三分之二的比赛结束时，是美国联盟中最好的三支球队，当然，这对周三开赛时处于第一名的白袜队和太空人队保持应有的尊重。从本周末开始，我们将进入赛季最后七周的冲刺阶段，有七周时间让局面尘埃落定。

获胜、名次与表现。 现在，你可能想在这里打断我，给这件事泼一点冷水。你可能会宣称，自从 1968 年（最后一次仅有联盟冠军进入季后赛）或 1993, 年（最后一次仅包含第一名）以来，就再也没有过真正的冠军争夺战。没关系。你可以这么说。

你可以说，在接下来的七周里看着光芒队、洋基队和红袜队在音乐停止前围绕他们的季后赛座椅打转，这与 1949 年（或 1978 年）洋基队和红袜队战斗到赛季最后一局，或者 1951, 年巨人队追上道奇队并用一次永恒的挥棒将其埋葬的情况并不完全相同。在过去，你可以在一个赛季中赢得 103 场比赛

留在垒上：瑞安·麦克马洪，他的成绩是 0-for-2，在洋基队 3-1 输给红雀队的比赛中，于第六局最后一次出局时在满垒情况下三振出局，随后做出反应。Jason Szenes

东区冲刺将是一场激烈的竞争

（就像'54年的洋基队那样）但最终仍落后领先者8场比赛（因为克利夫兰队赢了111场）。

但我们也曾喜欢黑白电视。我们也曾为拨号上网每分钟花费约50美金。我们过去做过很多不同的事情。而事实是，你只需要看看去年的同一个分区，就能知道接下来的七周有多重要。

去年东区的结局是这样的：

• 蓝鸟队
• 洋基队
• 红袜队。 然后，就像现在一样，他们是

联盟中最好的3支球队。而事情的进展完全符合该种子排位系统的预期。洋基队通过在季后赛种子排位中领先于红袜队，获得了3场主场比赛；他们在洋基体育场赢了三场中的两场，并晋级在美联分区系列赛（ALDS）中与蓝鸟队对阵。而蓝鸟队凭借通过决胜局赢得分区，不仅获得了首轮轮空，还获得了主场优势。

名次优于排名。 而胜场优于名次。 进入最后这七周，如果我们把蓝鸟队换成

光芒队，同样的赌注依然有效。三支球队，在输球数上的差距都不到五场。让我们看看他们的对比情况：

坦帕湾光芒队

战绩：68-46，第一名。 剩余对手胜率：.500

值得注意：还剩四场对阵洋基队的比赛，三场对阵红袜队的比赛。

无论他们出人意料地陷入多少次冠军争夺战，光芒队在这三者中始终被认为是后起之秀。但他们在攻防两端都非常出色，并且在交易截止日完成了最具即时影响力的补强——捕手利亚姆·希克斯，他在作为光芒队球员的首场比赛中击出了一个满垒全垒打。

（他们在周二晚上的首秀中从弗雷迪·佩拉尔塔那里在3 2 / 3局中获得了7分自责分，这意味着在22年后，大都会队可能终于实现了维克多·赞布拉诺换斯科特·卡兹米尔的平均值。）

纽约洋基队

战绩：64-51，-4.5。 剩余对手胜率：.490

值得注意：还剩四场对阵光芒队的比赛，四场对阵红袜队的比赛。

由于其轮换阵容，洋基队仍然是这里最强的对手，尽管这个称号在他们每经历一个没有贾奇的日子时都会削弱。小乔治·隆巴多（George Lombard Jr.）的首秀注入了能量，但同时也提供了一个有益的提醒：在游击位拥有称职且自信的防守会让任何球队立即看起来好上25%。

（洋基队只需要做尼克斯队做过的事：确保一年中最健康的日期就是季后赛的第一天。如果那样的话，我们在查韦斯峡谷（Chavez Ravine）的第一场比赛见。）

波士顿红袜队

战绩：62-51，-5.5 剩余对手胜率：.483

值得注意：还剩四场对阵洋基队的比赛，三场对阵光芒队的比赛。

红袜队在最近35场比赛中取得了30-5的战绩，他们不再仅仅是一个有趣的故事，而是一支崛起至危险位置的正规球队（并且现在在输球数上与洋基队持平；就在6月24日，那个数字还是15）。

（而且拜托：在十月再次迎来一场洋基队与红袜队的约会难道不是一件美事吗？）

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Judge获准进行轻度活动，誓言本赛季将回归

作者：ZACH BRAZILLER

99号球员正在回归之路上。将周三下午视为第一步。

在核磁共振（MRI）检查显示其肋骨骨折已足够愈合，可以开始轻度活动（包括户外跑步和在健身房进行上肢训练）的一天后，Judge身着条纹球衣出现在球场上，与队友一起在外野慢跑并进行拉伸。随后，他表示他认为问题不在于他今年是否会回归，而是在于何时回归。

“噢，我本赛季会回归的。我不知道为什么我不会回归，”Judge说道。“计划一直就是回归——肯定越快越好——但我从未想过今年不打球。”

“感觉很棒。活动正常，活动得很好。我最想做的是开始稍微测试一下，看看情况如何，尤其是在得到一些好消息之后。”

周一，总经理Brian Cashman表示，他仍然“非常乐观”Judge会在某个时间点回归，但无法提供保证。而那是他在得知最新好消息之前说的。

这位三届MVP自5月31日肋骨出现压力性骨折后一直处于伤病名单中。显然，Judge还有很长的路要走，考虑到他缺阵的时间之久，需要一个漫长的恢复过程。Judge在进入棒球活动之前需要再次进行MRI检查。肋骨尚未完全愈合，但已改善到足以迈出这重要的一步。他目前还没有具体的时间表。

“我希望它能完全愈合，骨折消失，然后[我能]明天就开始打球，但事实并非如此，”他说。“我的肋骨骨折了，所以你会感觉到它，但它正在愈合。”

“这就是我们想要看到的进展，这样我们就可以开始做更多事情，测试它并看看我们处于什么状态。我们的时间不多了。我们还剩52天，53天。我们必须回到赛场上。”

经理Aaron Boone补充道：“现在随着他开始引入各项活动，更多是基于症状的。户外跑步是新尝试，他还能做一些上肢抗阻训练。然后，随着他对这些的耐受，[他将]在某个时间点开始进入棒球活动。”

正如预期的那样，洋基队非常想念Judge。在他缺阵期间，球队战绩为28-27，进攻端陷入了巨大的困境。在他不在场时，洋基队场均得分略低于4分，而他在场时为5.2分。他们目前落后于美东区领先的光芒队4场比赛，且仅领先第三名红袜队2场比赛。

Cashman在8月3日交易截止日期前增加了两名击球手，分别是来自国民队的Luis Garcia Jr.和来自巨人的Heliot Ramos，而Giancarlo Stanton和Cody Bellinger也正在从伤病中恢复。

“我们得到了我们想要的击球手，我认为这是目前最重要的事情，尤其是考虑到我们所处的位置，”Judge说。“我们正试图追赶光芒队并赢得分区冠军。这是最重要的事情。我们去年打了外卡[系列赛]。那总是像抛硬币一样，你永远不知道会发生什么。我们的目标是赢得分区冠军，为争取赢得世界系列赛做好准备。”

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《DWTS：下一任专业舞者》评委马克·巴拉斯谈论征战舞厅与百老汇

By KAREN KEMMERLE

马克·巴拉斯习惯了人们关注他的每一个步伐。作为《与星共舞》（Dancing with the Stars）中最受喜爱的专业舞者之一，巴拉斯成为了《与星共舞：下一任专业舞者》（Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro）评委的完美人选。这部竞赛系列节目追踪了来自世界各地的 12 位顶尖舞者，他们竞争成为《与星共舞》第 35. 季的专业舞者。而谁能比巴拉斯自己的母亲雪莉·巴拉斯更适合坐在评委席上陪伴他呢？被粉丝亲切地称为“拉丁舞女王”的她，在过去九年里一直担任《舞动全英》（Strictly Come Dancing）的主评委。“你找不到一位像我母亲那样热爱舞蹈艺术的《DWTS：下一任专业舞者》评委了，”巴拉斯赞叹道，并指出她的反馈“直接、坚定且诚实”。巴拉斯还很欣赏他与母亲每周邀请一位新的“”专业舞者来到评委席，帮助他们决定哪些舞者应该继-

续留在比赛中。“这让事情保持新鲜感，”巴拉斯解释道。“看到他们作为不同挑战赛的导师也非常精彩。”

在《：下一任专业舞者》首季播出期间，巴拉斯回到了百老汇，在《芝加哥》（Chicago）中饰演比利·弗林。在百老汇这部运行时间最长的剧目中的首次演出期间，巴拉斯与他在《》第 34 季的搭档、《摩门教妻子的秘密生活》明星惠特尼·利维特共同出演。“我们在《》中的很多舞段都非常有戏剧感，”巴拉斯说。“我们跳过《芝加哥》的歌；跳过《魔法坏女巫》的歌；还跳过《汉密尔顿》的歌。”现在，巴拉斯在饰演弗林的第二次任期中已渐入佳境（你可以看到他的演出直到 8 月 16），他发现自己正“更深地潜入这个角-

色之中”。“在每一次表演中与新的人一起发现新事物真的很有趣，”巴拉斯说。

巴拉斯光临了 DECIDER 工作室，讨论《：下一任专业舞者》，惊叹罗伯特·欧文作为主持人的技巧，并畅谈关于《芝加哥》的一切。

DECIDER：《与星共舞》的粉丝们一直渴望能从幕后了解专业舞者是如何对待其工艺的。《下一任专业舞者》筹备了多久？

马克·巴拉斯： 我不知道这个系列筹备了多久，但我确实知道专业舞者们一直希望发生这样的事情。《：下一任专业舞者》让你窥见幕后，看看你最喜欢的专业舞者每周经历什么——无论是你必须教授的技巧、必须建立的化学反应，还是你必须讲述的故事等等。

这也是任何“”专业舞者第一次拥有这种类型的展示。在我刚开始的时候，还没有舞团。推特（Twitter）还不存在。他们就直接把我们扔出去，然后说：“孩子，自己想办法吧。” [笑] 有人把这个节目比作“舞厅训练营”，这是一个非常恰当的说法。无论谁赢得这次比赛，都将成为第 35, 季的专业舞者，而且他们对此不会做好准备。无论你经验多么丰富都没有关系，因为直到你真正开始做这件事之前，你都没有准备好。

第 34 季冠军罗伯特·欧文在担任《下一任专业舞者》主持人方面似乎做得非常出色。你认为他表现如何？

他是一位出色的主持人。我坐在评委席后面看着他读提示卡。我对他的能量以及他如何让参赛者兴奋起来感到惊叹。我告诉他：“你天生就是干这个的。” 你将回到百老汇的

《芝加哥》中饰演比利·弗林直到 8 月 16. 。是什么让你的第一次演出如此有趣，以至于你想再次尝试？

我学习过音乐剧。《芝加哥》是我小时候看过的第一批剧目之一。像《All That Jazz》和《All I Care About》这样的歌曲在我的生命中占据了很长时间。我在英国长大时，会去西区看剧。百老汇似乎绝对是遥不可及的。在百老汇出演史上运行时间最长的美国音乐剧《芝加哥》中的比利·弗林，是一个梦想。

我第一次演的时候时间太短了。只有一个月！之前，我演了六个月的《泽西男孩》（Jersey Boys）和四个月的《kinky boots》。当他们邀请我未来回到《芝加哥》（Chicago）时，我几乎是立刻就答应了。所以，我回来了；感觉太棒了。我能够更深入地挖掘这个角色。演员阵容也发生了一些变化，所以每次演出都能与新的人一起发现新事物，真的很有趣。

当下趋势

Da Bear's! Hallmark Channel公布了加入Lyndsy Fonseca和Robert Buckley演出的该网络即将上映的电影《Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story》的演员阵容，其中包括Khary Payton（左）、Marsha Mason和Barbara Alyn Woods。

新动态

HBO / HBO MAX 播出《Monsters of God》，一部新的纪录片系列（左）。

NETFLIX 播出《My Life with the Walter Boys》第 3 季首播。

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Pulp Fiction： 8 p.m. 在PARSHO播出。约翰·特拉沃尔塔，塞缪尔·杰克逊。讲述了两名杀手、一名拳击手、一名黑帮分子及其妻子，以及一对餐厅强盗的生活。

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State bill eyes repeal of AIDS-era law

OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE: A "closed" order is pasted to the door of the infamous St. Mark's Baths hookup spot in the East Village in 1986.

By CARL CAMPANILE and HANNAH FIERICK

They're bringing back true hookup "hot spots."

A steamy new proposal would legalize sex in saunas and bathhouses citywide — repealing a 1980s law that blamed the wet-and-wild romps for spreading AIDS among gay folks.

State Sen. Erik Bottcher and Assembly member Tony Simone, who represent Manhattan's LGBT-friendly West Side, said it was time to replace the dusty old ban on "adult saunas."

"We should bring it out of the shadows," Simone said during an interview Wednesday, arguing bathhouses would be healthier and safer if they were regulated.

"It was part of gay culture. These people are adults. Sex is consensual," he said.

The current law states, "No establishment shall make facilities available for the purpose of sexual activities where anal intercourse, vaginal intercourse or fellatio take place. Such facilities shall constitute a threat to the public health."

But the new legislation to repeal it recognizes that saunas have served for decades as important gathering places for gay folks — before they were shuttered during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic to curb infections and deaths.

'30 years of research'

"The year is 2026, not 1986: evidence-based practices informed by the past 30 years of public health research make it clear we should repeal the ban on adult-use bathhouses and saunas," Simone said in a statement announcing the bill. "Queer New Yorkers are being

forced into the shadows . . . we all know these places exist," he said.

Indeed, several spas and bathhouses in the Big Apple are already rumored hotbeds for sex — with reports of public hookups at Spa Castle in Queens and the East Side Club, a 24-hour sauna in Midtown.

Veteran LGBT activist Allen Roskoff, who lost loved ones to AIDS, said the ban on bathhouses was a divisive issue in the gay community in the 1980s, with many gays for and against the shutdown.

But he said it's time for bathhouses to return.

"New York's bathhouses were an integral part of gay life for decades," said Roskoff, president of the Jim Owles Liberal LGBT Democratic Club.

He said the bathhouses were places to socialize and have sex, but they were more than that. "They were symbols of our

community, our culture and our fight for civil rights and sexual liberation. I spent much of my youth in them," Roskoff said.

He said political leaders campaigned there and entertainers including Bette Midler and Barry Manilow performed there.

Roskoff argued they were tourist attractions, with gays from across the globe frequenting bathhouses.

While the LGBT lobby backs the repeal, conservatives oppose state-licensed facilities that promote anonymous, promiscuous sex.

"These bathhouses are a thing of the past. They were awful," said Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R-Queens). "It's an open door. They would be 10 times worse today."

More than 100,000 New Yorkers have died from AIDS-related illnesses.

Additional reporting by Natalie O'Neill

E-bike sellers in Zo's sights

Mayor Mamdani would not commit to removing dangerous e-bikes from city streets or support legislation requiring the vehicles to be registered, even as he acknowledged the danger posed by the machines.

Instead, Mamdani announced at a City Hall press conference Wednesday that his administration had issued cease-and-desist orders to 42 online retailers illegally selling high-speed e-bikes and scooters in the city, threatening $2,000 fines per sale if the retailers don't comply by Aug. 18.

"We cannot and will not accept these dangerous vehicles on our city streets. And yet, the companies that sell these vehicles continue to market them to New Yorkers who trust that the product they are purchasing is legal in the city," Mamdani said.

The announcement came a day after City Council Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a slate of legislation aimed at cracking down on reckless e-bikers.

Mamdani's order targets future sales of three categories of illegal devices: stand-up scooters weighing over 100 pounds or capable of exceeding 20 mph; e-bikes with motors bigger than 750 watts or able to hit speeds above 25 mph; and seated mopeds lacking a valid vehicle identification number.

But Hizzoner demurred when asked if he would direct his administration to go after vehicles that have already been sold.

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BUY BYE, BABY

Friendzone nix

By ANDREA PALLADINO

Friendzoned? In this economy?

Some men are saying that inflation has made it too expensive to pay for a woman's drink unless they know it's leading to something.

And the price of "taking it slow" and working your way from friend to lover is now too expensive and financially irresponsible, according to these viral TikTok.

"Back in 2012, s-t used to be cheap," ranted a TikToker named Gordon in a now-viral video. "You could blow $2 to $3 on a coffee for your 'girl best friend' that you were interested in."

Today, Gordon, 21, says that kind of cash is unavailable. "Now you're blowing a lot of cheese for something where you're getting absolutely nothing in return," he said.

Gordon, who declined to share his last name, told The Post he recently studied abroad in Europe and would buy drinks for women all the time because "it was generally cheaper" than it is in America.

He could "dish out a few drinks a night for women you may not see any romantic attraction to, without breaking your wallet."

Now that he's back in

the Bay Area, where drinks are significantly more expensive, buying rounds for "women you would not see any romantic spark with" is no longer an option.

Gordon said the video is a commentary on how economics can affect romance and courtship.

"Nobody talks about the friendzone because we've hit a point where it's too expensive to even sustain ourselves, let alone a girl who sees you only as a friend," he explained.

Going my way?

Formerly friendzoned young men also weighed in, sharing their own frustration.

"Facts. I used to take a girl that friendzoned me to Applebee's every week. Our bill was $19 with tip... could never do that these days..."

But some on TikTok called out the advice from these viral takes — along with the idea that a $20 spend is unthinkable between friends — as immature cheapskate behavior.

"Friends spend money on each other, especially when a friend is in need, regardless of gender or alternative intentions," wrote one. "Come on now, man."

And if you can't afford a Starbucks latte, perhaps you're not ready for a steady lady-either.

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ELECTION 2026

DEM RED ALERT

ISAAC SCHORR

IF you're surprised, you haven't been paying attention.

Abdul El-Sayed is a "defund the police" socialist who has fantasized about putting an "ogre" (fellow Democrat John Fetterman) on a pike, stumped alongside a 9/11 apologist and constructed an entire campaign around insidious Jew-baiting amid a raging epidemic of antisemitism.

He is also the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan after narrowly dispatching establishment favorite Haley Stevens in Tuesday's primary.

El-Sayed's triumph marks not the beginning of the end for the party's old guard, but the final nail in its coffin.

After all, the civil war was over before the (relative) moderates ever started fighting it in earnest.

From its inception onward, the rebels would accept only unconditional surrender from center-left Democratic elders, who in turn appeased, placated and groveled before their sworn enemies, somehow mistaking them for a friendly faction that could deliver them victories without changing the party's very nature.

That El-Sayed may cost Democrats the seat he's running for — and quite possibly control of Congress' upper chamber for the next two years — is of little consequence to his supporters.

Willing to lose

Despite the vast ocean between Stevens' and Republican nominee Mike Rogers' politics, they share a worldview in which the United States is, at its core, a great nation built on principles that everyone can get behind.

It's that premise that El-Sayed's supporters hope to extinguish once and for all — and they're willing to lose the occasional election along the way to remake the country in their own ugly image.

Make no mistake, either: they

Final nail in coffin

Old guard's dead

will lose elections.

The last time a Republican won a Senate race in the Great Lakes State was 1994, yet Rogers may well pull it off in the year of our Lord 2026 with the albatrosses of a president whose approval rating is drowning 20,000 leagues under the sea and GOP majorities on Capitol Hill hanging around his neck.

Two recent surveys conducted by the Glengariff Group and the Michigan Information & Research Service peg Rogers' lead over El-Sayed at 10 and 3 points, respectively.

Meanwhile, next door in Wisconsin, Francesca Hong (of "Cancel Thanksgiving" fame) appears poised to win the Democratic nomination to serve as its next chief executive.

The Democrat she's seeking to replace, Gov. Tony Evers, has already publicly expressed doubt about her prospects of prevailing against Republican Tom Tiffany.

A new Manhattan Institute survey tells us why: the far-left's agenda on a wide range of issues — from welfare, to immigration, to crime — remains wildly unpopular among the general electorate.

The terrifying qualifier is this: for now.

What those prematurely celebrating El-Sayed's and Hong's potential defeats in November don't realize is that these radicals and the voting bloc behind them are after bigger fish than statewide mid-

term races in the Rust Belt.

Of course they'd prefer to take oaths of office come January, but they're already running ahead of schedule.

They've already changed Democratic politics forever by anathematizing the capital-L Liberalism of the 20th and early 21st centuries, let alone moderation or a "third way."

No longer fringe

One of America's two major parties now belongs to these veritable psychopaths, whom the far left has spent a decade programming to obsess over a murderer's row of moral panics.

"Trans people are being erased! Israel is committing war crimes! America is complicit! No human is illegal! Abolish the police! Abolish the prisons! Everybody is racist, whether they know it or not!"

These aren't the eye-rolling-inducing shrieks of the fringe, they're the tenets of one of America's two major parties' platform.

The nature of American politics is such that the pendulum is bound to swing in their new vessel's direction eventually, regardless of how voters might feel about their program in a vacuum.

When it does, it will be the likes of El-Sayed, Hong, Daria-lia Avila Chevalier and Zohran Mamdani who delight in the spoils.

And the rest of us who pay the price.

By JOSH CHRISTENSON, CARL CAMPANILE and ALLY GOELZ

Republicans are seeing red meat after Democrats grew their army of "mini Zohran Mamdanis" to take into battle for control of Congress in November.

Michigan's primary on Tuesday echoed Democratic elections in New York, Maine, Colorado and beyond, where far left — including socialist — candidates beat out moderates in states critical to the 2026 midterm elections.

Lefty Dr. Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated centrist Rep. Haley Stevens in the Senate Democratic primary on Tuesday; Democratic Socialists of America-backed Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney ousted incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar; and William Lawrence, a community organizer endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VL), triumphed over two moderate opponents in a primary for a House seat.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told The Post Wednesday the outcomes were "making it easier on Republicans."

"What's your choice between a Republican and a crazy person?" Cornyn asked.

El-Sayed, a Muslim doctor who wants to abolish ICE, pass Medicare-for-All and insists Israel is just "as evil as Hamas," defeated Stevens, who was backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, with 48.5% to 47.5% of the vote.

While Stevens easily won rural areas and held her own in Detroit and its suburbs, El-Sayed ran up massive margins in the college town of Ann Arbor as well as the growing city of Grand Rapids, home of the young, white and college-educated voters who have flocked to the DSA elsewhere.

"Michigan Republicans have a turnout problem, but Mike Rogers just caught a political lifeline," said Dennis Lennox, a Michigan Republican consultant. "The prospect of Abdul El-Sayed in the Sen-

WON THE BATTLE: Socialist Abdul El-Sayed speaks Wednesday after his victory in the Democratic primary for one of Michigan's US Senate seats. Republicans doubt his base of supporters (below) will be enough for him to win in the general election, while Democrats say he'll need to move toward the middle to appeal to swing voters.

ate is real, and that will energize Republicans while converting many normie Democrats, especially Jewish voters, into being Democrats for Rogers."

Dick Morris, a political consultant to Bill Clinton for 20 years, including his 1996 re-election, before aiding Trump, called it "a huge gift for Republicans" and predicted Rogers will defeat El-Sayed.

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ELECTION 2026

IN MICH.

Left-wing wins 'aid' GOP in general

JD pushes new anti-fraud laws

Vice President JD Vance called on Congress to codify more anti-fraud protections in upcoming bills during a Wednesday roundtable at the White House — in order to avoid, he said, a future Democratic administration undoing his task force's work.

So far, the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force has

uncovered $230 billion in fraudulent funds that have gone out through taxpayer-funded benefit programs — and halted at least $56 billion that would have gone toward scammers, Vance told reporters.

But he added that his team's efforts "fundamentally always have a limitation unless our colleagues in the House and the

Senate are working with us."

"We don't want the next administration, whoever . . . God forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years," Vance said, "we don't want him to undo all the incredible work that we've been doing."

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has been critical of Vance's task force.

Josh Christenson

Other Democrats pointed out that El-Sayed would have to moderate his messaging for the general election against Rogers.

"Time will tell whether Abdul wants to bring people together and moderate significantly or keep on hanging out with his buddy Hasan [Piker] who calls all Zionists Nazis," another Democratic source said of the controversial streamer. "If I worked at the DSCC, I wouldn't get my hopes up."

Rory Lancman, a Jewish civil rights lawyer running as a Democratic candidate for New York State Senate, said: "Outside of the

blue districts and low-turnout primaries, the antisemitism and extremism that El-Sayed represents will not travel very far or very well with mainstream voters."

According to the RealClearPolitics polling aggregator, Rogers is barely ahead of El-Sayed in the most recent surveys but had been trailing behind Stevens by several percentage points.

"You lose your home, you lose your apartment, and that's where the communists will take us — 100%," President Trump said at an event Wednesday. "When I watch Abdul, he's full of s-t. . . He

almost lost, but he's going to lose to our great candidate."

The GOP currently holds the Senate 53-47, with Michigan, Maine, Ohio and Alaska considered toss-ups for party control of the upper chamber.

More than a dozen House seats will determine which party gains the majority in the lower chamber.

On the generic congressional ballot, Democrats are ahead by more than seven points, the RealClearPolitics' average shows.

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FLIPPING OUT: Hasan Piker calls Democrats who didn't support Abdul El-Sayed "Islamophobic" during an election-party stream Tuesday.

Ball S'Piker' rips centrists

By CHRIS NESI

Multimillionaire socialist streamer Hasan Piker threw a tantrum for the ages over Tuesday's closer-than-expected Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, lashing out at commonsense Dems who didn't vote for his hard-left candidate of choice, Abdul El-Sayed.

"Everyone being like, 'Abdul has a f-k-ton of work to do mending bridges,' here's the f-king take nuke for you: You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s-t," Piker said at an El-Sayed election party during his more than 11-hour election night livestream on Twitch.

"You literally called the dude a f-king terrorist for months on end, and like, called him a sexist, misogynist terrorist, bad candidate, fake doctor, when he has like two f-king degrees, and now you're gonna sit there and be like 'well, you know, you really gotta come to me now' — like what are you talking about? Do you want to f-king win or

not?" he continued in his expletive-ridden ravings.

El-Sayed was expected to sail to victory over Rep. Haley Stevens, but eked out the narrowest of victories after a nail-biter race in which he came out on top by fewer than 20,000 votes.

Piker, a streamer with more than 6 million followers across multiple platforms, strongly supported El-Sayed and was a regular fixture on the campaign trail.

He's known for repugnant viewpoints like claiming the US "deserved 9/11" and saying that it "doesn't matter if rapes happened on Oct. 7," referring to the Hamas terror attack against Israel that killed more than 1,200 people.

El-Sayed was backed by leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in a race billed by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee as "Ground Zero in the battle for the future of the Democratic Party."

He will face Republican Mike Rogers in what is a must-win race for Democrats.

DSA routs 8th rep.

DETROIT — Rep. Shri Thumedar was taken down Tuesday by Democratic Socialists of America-backed Michigan state Rep. Donovan McKinney in the latest primary victory for the progressive left.

Thumedar, 71, became the eighth incumbent House Democrat to lose a primary this cycle. The India-born congressman was seeking a third term representing Michigan's deep-blue 13th District, which includes part of Detroit.

McKinney will be favored to win the general election in November against GOP long-shot T.P. Nykoriak. Ryan King

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THE BATTLE FOR IRAN

Iranian

prez left "in dark"

OUT OF SIGHT: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (below) reportedly had an odd rendezvous in a dark car with a man who he was told was Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei (right).

Doubts shady meet with 'supreme leader'

By CAITLIN DOORNBOS

WASHINGTON — Iran's mysterious, "probably gay" supreme leader is so elusive that even his own president isn't convinced he met him in a bizarre one-on-one in the back of a dark car.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was whisked to a secret location in Tehran, shoved into the back seat of a dark car with blacked-out windows and told he was sitting next to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei — except he never actually saw the man, according to a bombshell report from Iran International.

The cloak-and-dagger meeting reportedly lasted a few minutes, not the cozy 2½-hour sit-down Pezeshkian bragged about publicly in May. It is unclear when the reported meeting occurred.

Sources told Iran International that Khamenei's office agreed to the meeting only after Pezeshkian repeatedly begged for one and threatened to quit. Even then, the supreme leader refused to meet at his official residence, as is custom.

Instead, the president was driven to a secret location in Tehran, pulled from his own security convoy and placed in the back of a commercial vehicle.

The cabin was kept so dark the two men couldn't see each other — with guards barring Pezeshkian from shaking the supreme leader's hand.

The situation reportedly irritated Pezeshkian, who asked aides whether the person beside him had actually been Khamenei, because all he'd heard

was someone talking in the dark. The president has asked for another meeting, this time face-to-face at the leader's residence. So far, he's been turned down.

Pezeshkian has since offered to step down again, complaining that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had seized near-total control over running the country, according to reports.

Iranian media reported this week that Khamenei formally granted IRGC Commander in Chief Ahmad Vahidi the ultimate authority on decision-making, sidelining Pezeshkian's administration.

Pezeshkian's strange rendezvous with the supreme leader only adds to the growing mystery sur-

rounding Khamenei, who was described as "probably gay" in a briefing for President Trump early in the war.

Gone silent

Khamenei has effectively vanished from public view since taking power roughly five months ago. Not a single verified photo, video or audio recording of Iran's new ruler has been released. All his statements have come in written form, and he didn't even attend his father's funeral last month.

Iran's state-aligned media has tried to explain away his silence.

The Hamshahri newspaper claimed this week that foreign intelligence agencies could pinpoint Khamenei's location from something as simple as background noise in an audio recording.

New 60-day strait pact 'nearly reached'

The US, Iran and Oman are nearing a deal that would temporarily reopen the Strait of Hormuz without any tolls — with an agreement expected to be announced as soon as today, according to a report. The deal under consid-

eration would establish a 60-day agreement between Oman and Iran for shipping in the strategic strait, US and regional sources told Axios. During those 60 days, the US and Iran would return to the negotiating ta-

ble to hammer out nuclear concessions and try to find a "permanent solution" for the strait, a regional source told The Post. Until then, inbound shipping traffic into the Persian Gulf would go through a northern lane

through Iranian waters while traffic to the Arabian Sea would take a southern lane through Omani waters, Iran's foreign ministry said Monday. Once the center lane is safe for travel, it will be opened to inbound and

outbound traffic under a future permanent agreement between Iran and Oman, sources told Axios. No tolls or fees would be charged during the 60-day period — which can be extended. Patrick Reilly and Caitlin Doornbos

Regime kills 56 to stifle dissent

The bloodthirsty Iranian regime has executed at least 56 people on dubious national security charges since March, according to the United Nations — which blasted Iran for the "deeply troubling" practice.

Twenty-seven of the 56 were linked to the widespread January protests against the country's despotic regime and brutal treatment of its citizens.

Another roughly 100 people are believed to currently be awaiting execution on similar charges, according to the BBC.

The barbaric executions — which are often carried out in public — are part of a widespread tactic "to instill fear among the population and suppress dissent," UN human rights chief Volker Türk said in a recent scathing statement.

"Such punishment has no place in our world," Türk said.

The chief also raised alarm about the judicial process which leads to capital punishment — saying trials and due process were nearly non-existent in Iran.

"Several executions have reportedly been carried out in public. Some have reportedly been carried out only weeks after arrest," Türk said. "Twelve defendants were reportedly sentenced to death following a single three-hour closed-door hearing."

Iran is notorious for its use of executions — which it metes out so liberally that the country is the second-most prolific user of capital punishment on Earth.

In 2026, a stunning 2,159 people were executed in Iran, Amnesty International reported.

That was the highest number of people executed in the country since 1981 and came during 12 months of widespread public dissent over the Iranian government's treatment of its people. Alex Oliveira

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JARED ISAACMAN NASA big's stellar idea.

'Space' for data centers

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has floated a futuristic solution to the furious public debate in America over data-center construction: Just put them in outer space.

Isaacman, who has helmed the space agency since December 2025, said on Wednesday's episode of 'Pod Force One' that placing the data centers in space could allow for them 'to draw on the free solar power' from fusion reactors that would also be operable outside of Earth's atmosphere.

Not to mention it would quiet down those noisy NIMBYs in your neighborhood who don't want new data centers built near them, he suggested.

'Elon [Musk] and others in the industry are like, 'Let's take the data centers that no one likes in your backyard' — it seems like there's a lot of consensus on that — 'and put them into space where they won't bother anyone,' the NASA chief noted.

'And by the way, it's not going to mess with your power bill because we're going to draw on the free solar power from our fusion reactor that's just sitting out there,' he added. 'Fantastic idea.' Josh Christenson

IN LIU OF FAIR PLAY

Jaylin Liu / iStockphoto

By ROSS O'KEEFE

The brother of American Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu is a transgender athlete dominating California high school girls' athletic events.

Jaylin Liu was formerly named Joshua before transitioning and identifying as female, according to Reduxx.

He now competes in track and field, girls' varsity basketball and ultimate frisbee for both Albany HS and El Cerrito HS in California.

He's made his biggest impact in track and field, taking home every first-place finish in 200-meter and 400-meter girls' races that Albany HS has entered this year.

Jaylin recently took home the top spot at the Tri-County Athletic League Finals in May.

'Opposing forces'

He also took eight separate first-place finishes at seasonal meets in 2025 and secured a gold medal in the 2025 Tri-County Athletic League Frosh-Soph Championship 200-meter race.

He has been praised for his 'extremely dominant performance on the field,' according to Reduxx.

Women's sports advocacy organizations have pushed back against Jaylin's participation in girls' sports.

'The Liu family represents two opposing forces: the pinnacle of excellence in female sports and, at the same time, a profound threat to the integrity of those sports,' Marshi Smith of the Independent Council on Women's Sports said.

'Alysa's achievements are the result of years of dedication and hard work beginning in childhood. By contrast, her brother's recent personal ambitions threaten to undermine the same developmental pathways that so many girls depend on to blaze their own trails to greatness.'

A representative from HeCheated, 'a centralized archive documenting the impact and magnitude of male participation in female-only sports categories and events,' said Jaylin's participation in female sports puts Alysa in a difficult spot.

'Rules allowing boys into girls' sports often put female athletes who may have male family members, like Alysa, in an impossible position where their loyalties are torn and they are forced to choose between supporting female athletes and fairness in athletics or a beloved family member who they love,' the spokesperson said.

'Firm rules protecting the female category puts the responsibility of saying no to these boys on athletic officials rather than young women and girls.'

Jaylin watched his sister, Alysa, at the 2026 Winter Olympics with their father Arthur Liu.

Alysa, who currently attends UCLA, won two gold medals in the women's individual singles and the team event.

SIS GOLD, BRO BOLD:

Jaylin Liu — born Joshua before transitioning to female and the sibling of Olympic figure skating star Alysa Liu — is winning big competing against girls in high school sports.

Prez safe as FAA probes breach

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why air-traffic controllers at Washington's Reagan National Airport did not stop flights Tuesday when President Trump's helicopter took off from the nearby White House lawn, as re-

quired by safety protocols. The airport is located fewer than five miles from the executive mansion and air traffic is supposed to be stopped whenever the president takes to the skies to ensure 'standard separation' — enough distance between aircraft to avoid

the risk of a collision. The FAA said Trump was never in danger.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the probe. Trump's Marine One chopper crew repeatedly tried to contact the airport's control tower. The helicopter lifted off from the Ellipse

at 2:33 p.m. to take Trump to Joint Base Andrews, where he boarded Air Force One to go to Los Angeles.

One minute later, tracking data showed an American Airlines flight left the airport.

'There was momentary loss of separation,' the FAA told The Post. Emily Goodin

Gringos: Teach Spanish

You're in America now, so speak Spanish.

More than half of Americans believe it is 'very' important for children to learn Spanish in school — as the number of households who use it as a first language surges, a new survey shows.

Some 53% of those surveyed said it was 'extremely or very' important

for US schools to offer Spanish classes, the most of any non-English language on the list, according to the study from Pew Research Center released on Monday. Spanish is the second-most-common language spoken in US homes after English, with 45 million people 5 and over using it. Census figures show. Anthony Blair

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MOMMY & CLYDE

HOW'D SHE GET

THERE'S a classic joke comedians love telling each other, about a family that walks into a talent agent's office and proceeds to do filthy, vile, unspeakable things to each other.

The talent agent watches in horror, then asks the family what their act is called.

The punch line? They call themselves The Aristocrats.

Make that The Democrats: The party that used to run on mild stuff like abolishing the police and setting murderers and rapists free in the name of "social justice" has taken chaos to a whole new level, showing us what happens when you promote incompetent freaks whose only distinction is excelling at parroting the party's lunatic ideology.

Case study: Jennifer Lackard. Despite — or maybe precisely because of — having zero experience in policing, Democrat-run Mount Vernon hired Lackard as its deputy police commissioner, a fancy title that came with a $138,219 annual paycheck.

She was tasked with running the department's "Wellness Unit," a squad devoted to the Democrat mantra that criminals aren't evil or depraved but simply misunderstood souls who would abandon their dastardly ways if only some compassionate person treated their emotional boo-boos with a hot cup of cocoa rather than a long, hard prison sentence.

The fact that Lackard's husband did time in federal prison for dealing heroin, and that her son was a gangbanger who routinely ran into violent trouble, seemed to give none of her bosses any pause.

Experience be damned

And Lackard rewarded their trust by breaking bad, giving us all proof — grand, theatrical, irrefutable proof — of the very real danger we all face when Democrats reject common

When wake

Doms take the wheel

sense and treat government as one big jobs program, hiring unvetted but loyal hustlers to key roles, experience and competence be damned.

Lackard is now in custody for helping her 20-year-old son attempt to assassinate a rival.

According to the indictment, she coached her kid in the fine art of timing a hit job just right, accompanied him — irony alert! — to the Bronx Hall of Justice where he attempted to off his gang rival, and then drove the getaway car to boot.

Not even our most clinically progressive politicians — thank the Lord — have yet gone quite so far as Lackard, who chose to turn public office into a dime-store remake of "The Godfather."

But take a quick look at the workings of the Democratic Party machine, and it's not too hard to understand how a disastrous lackey like Lackard could rise so fast and so far.

By constantly championing measures like cashless bail that make the streets less safe, by coddling criminals with "restorative justice" rather than the real kind, and by promoting boisterous activists rather than capable officials with proven records, Democrats put us all at risk.

The same maddening scenario plays out wherever the party's in power.

Instead of policing, we get progressive propaganda.

Instead of leaders, we get zealots and kooks.

Instead of safety, we get more incitement, more violence and more brokenness.

'Embarrassed'

Don't take my word for it: Just ask Damon Jones, publisher of Black Westchester Magazine.

"I am embarrassed as a black law enforcement officer to see the dysfunction in a city that has a black mayor, a majority black city council, a majority black police department that we have to see continuing dysfunction and just foolery in an organization that should be so professional," Jones told The Post.

"Unfortunately, we see this with Democrats that they put people in positions — especially in law enforcement positions — that they shouldn't be there."

Amen to that. Lackard may be the most recent — and most extreme — example, but the problem she embodies is all too prevalent and all too ominous.

It's time to root it out before we allow even more dangerous maniacs to get their hands on the levers of power.

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

By JOE MARINO, STEVEN VAGO and JORGE FITZ-GIBBON

She wasn't just breaking the law — she was advocating against it.

The Westchester County police bigwig accused of chaperoning her gangbanger son to an attempted murder had spent years rubbing elbows with criminals, both through controversial inmate aid programs she founded and in her former marriage to a drug-peddling ex-con.

Somehow, Jennifer Lackard landed a cushy job as a deputy police commissioner in Mount Vernon even as she looked the other way while her gangbanger son started wreaking havoc in the Big Apple.

Lackard, 49, is now facing attempted murder charges for allegedly driving her troublemaking son to a drive-by gang shooting outside a Bronx court last month, with her ex-con husband along for the ride.

The disgraced and newly fired cop was indicted in the brazen June 29 shooting, along with her son, 20-year-old Chase Lackard — a reputed member of the "Slutty Gang" once charged for pointing a gun at NYPD cops — and her drug-peddling husband, James Lackard, 47, who remains on the run from police.

Qualified for the job?

Jennifer Lackard was hired in 2020 to head up the Mount Vernon Police Department's Wellness Unit by Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard, a position reportedly created for her. She had no real law enforcement experience but instead had a resume that showed she worked in inmate re-entry programs and as an advocate for accused criminals.

Lackard landed the gig, which carried a $125,000 base salary this year, with records showing she had never been arrested herself.

In a statement Wednesday, Patterson-Howard said Lackard underwent a "rigorous background check" that included a check of prior employment, fingerprinting, financial disclosers, medical clearance and a criminal background check — and was deemed qualified.

"There was no information that disqualified her from employment," the mayor said. "As part of the hiring process, information

regarding her husband's prior criminal history was disclosed and reviewed and deemed not to be disqualifying her for her civilian position."

She cited Lackard's 15 years of experience in mental health and substance abuse services.

"No employer can predict future personal conduct," she added. "Mount Vernon has faced multiple challenges before and we have always responded with accountability, transparency, and resilience. We remain committed to those principles as this matter proceeds through the criminal justice system."

Sources said Mount Vernon cops joined Lackard at a Bronx

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MOMMY & CLYDE

AWAY WITH IT?

hospital after Chase Lackard was shot in the chest during a confrontation on a city bus in 2023 in a reputed gang-related shooting.

Stain on troubled city

The Lackards' arrest Tuesday marks the latest stain on the troubled suburban city, which has seen two sitting mayors arrested while in office and a string of police department controversies in recent years, according to lohud.com.

Several Mount Vernon cops have been in hot water this year, including a bust in April that accused one officer of stealing more than $800,000 from an out-of-state company. One month earlier, an-

other cop on the force was charged with larceny and allegedly tipping off a Suffolk County gang member.

The two mayors — Ernie Davis and Richard Thomas — were both forced to leave office after being charged with federal tax evasion and state grand larceny charges, respectively.

Records show that Jennifer and James Lackard in 2007 founded Ivy House Center for Self-Sufficiency in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a government-funded nonprofit program that counseled criminal defendants with mental health illness or substance abuse addictions.

Jennifer Lackard served as CEO while her then-husband sat on

the advisory board until 2009.

After shutting down that program, she moved to New York and founded, Re-Entry Link LLC in The Bronx, where she also served on Community Board 9 before landing the Mount Vernon job.

On June 29, prosecutors said Chase Lackard left Bronx court and hopped into a waiting gray Chrysler Pacifica with both his parents inside, changed clothes and the family circled the block.

Eventually, prosecutors said he spotted his intended target and fired from the window of the SUV, with his mom allegedly then driving him back home.

Additional reporting by Larry Celona

Shoot minutes after court

The gangbanger son of a Westchester County police bigwig had a Bronx court date just minutes before he allegedly opened fire on a rival — with his cop mom and ex-con dad as getaway drivers, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Chase Lackard, 20, faced a judge on a 2024 gun rap just 20 minutes before the alleged June 29 drive-by gang shooting — with help from his mom, disgraced Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard, and drug-dealing dad James Lackard, according to prosecutors.

"He's captured on cameras running into this courthouse," Bronx Assistant District Attorney Keturah Ladd told the judge. "He had a court date and a court appearance on the third

floor of this building."

Momma's boy Chase Lackard, a reputed member of the "Slutty Gang," was ordered held without bail. Jennifer Lackard, 49, a former member of Bronx Community Board 9, was hired in 2020 to run the suburban department's Wellness Unit, and was fired from the job after her arrest.

Also named in the Bronx indictment is her drug-dealing ex, James, who served 10 years in federal prison for peddling heroin in North Carolina — but remains on the lam.

The troublemaking son already had two open gun possession cases on his rap sheet before the shooting, one in Manhattan and the Bronx case he was in court for before the June 29 shooting. Steven Vago

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William Farrington

By KATHERINE DONLEVY and GREG CARLTON

The machines are making change.

Massive vending kiosks are filling some of the dark corners of the subway stations left empty by the once-ubiquitous newsstands, leaving New Yorkers to mourn the bygone days of human interaction.

The MTA unveiled three sprawling and brightly illuminated Coca-Cola machines in the underground last week to kick off a new program aimed at tackling the vacancy problem in its retail spaces.

The machines are in long-deserted shops like the one at the Second Avenue F train spot, but it didn't stop commuters like Emmanuelle Nyanid from waxing nostalgic about the salesman that once occupied the space.

"In general, I feel like New York is already dehumanizing, in a way," Nyanid, 18, told The Post, although she admitted the vending machines are "cool."

"I've lived here for 10 years. People don't really wanna talk to you. This is perfect for those New Yorkers."

More are coming

Matching sets can also be found at the 23rd Street R and W station and the 116th Street 6-train station. Dozens more will be installed at 23 more stations in the coming months and into 2027, the MTA announced.

The plan had been in the works for years, with the transit agency initially seeking vendors back in 2023 after recognizing that the classic grab-and-go model was no

longer as popular as it once had been.

"The robust number of news-stands of decades past went by the wayside," David Florio, the MTA chief of real estate transactions and operations officer, explained to The Post, adding that vending machine operators initially approached the MTA.

"And as you know, a vending machine takes less labor than a walk-in retail unit, so we decided to try that model out."

The vacancy rate currently stands at 26%, with Florio confirming that it never recovered from the pandemic.

There are about 180 tenanted locations throughout the city, ranging from grab-and-go to full-blown restaurants and art installations, and even new kiosks that are currently being constructed in

Times Square and Grand Central. The machines are being put in low-demand retail spaces that have struggled to maintain tenants and have been configured so that they do not protrude and take up precious platform space.

"They're basically repurposing spaces that otherwise would have remained dark," said Florio.

Straphangers so far are split on more machines entering the subway system.

"It makes me sad. Growing up here, I appreciated the culture," said bartender Nico Jung, 22.

"Newsstands — there's people behind the stands. It gives them work to go to every day. I enjoy a person-to-person interaction over sticking a coin in a machine ... I grabbed a bottle of water this morning, and I bought it from a real person."

Suicide law now in effect

New York's controversial assisted-suicide law went into effect Wednesday, allowing terminally ill adults to request life-ending medication from their doctors.

The Medical Aid in Dying Act, signed by Gov. Hochul in February, had faced blowback from religious institutions, including the Catholic Church, which called it an example of "throwaway culture" that disvalues life.

"This new law signals our government's abandonment of its most vulnerable citizens, telling people who are sick or disabled that suicide in their case is not only acceptable, but is encouraged by our elected leaders," the New York State Catholic Conference said in a statement.

Under the law, adults with six months or less to live will have the option to receive lethal meds from their doctors.

The self-administered euthanasia meds are only legal for patients who are 18 years or older and have a terminal prognosis that would likely end their life within six months.

"Terminally ill New Yorkers ... deserve the right to die with dignity," said Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who sponsored the bill's 2025 iteration as a state senator.

Hannah Fierick

Deadly Bx. bldg. blast

A Bronx apartment building erupted in flames after a massive explosion Wednesday afternoon — with one person killed and at least 14 injured in the five-alarm blaze, the FDNY said.

Two people sustained life-threatening injuries and three firefighters were seriously injured in the blast that rocked the third floor of the five-story apartment building at 374 E. 209th St., according to the FDNY.

Some 300 FDNY firefighters and EMS responded to the scene, according to FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore.

David DeTurris and Daniel Cody

City rat sightings lowest since 2020

The Big Apple is winning the War on Rats.

Reported sightings of the scrappy scavengers are on track to hit their lowest numbers since the pandemic for the first half of 2026, as major anti-rodent measures first taken under the Adams administration are seeing positive results, city data shows.

There were around 9,900

calls for rats in the first seven months of the year — marking the first time reports have fallen below the 10,000 threshold during that time frame since 2020, according to 311 data.

That's also a 22% plummet from how many sightings were reported to the city in the first half of last year, an incredible drop former Mayor Eric Adams

celebrated as a major win in the ongoing war he declared in 2022.

"When rats sighting go down, they don't go down in just one or two days. The plan was simply to stop feeding them. We did a series of things like containerization. We were very focused. We are now seeing the results of several years," Adams told The Post on Wednesday.

Reports for "rat sightings" during the seven-month time frame have been falling each year since 2024, according to the data, first reported by Bloomberg.

These sightings hit a peak in 2022, when 16,230 reports of squeaky pests were called in between January and August, prompting Adams to officially declare the "war" that fall.

Programs like the Empire Bins have apparently been among the most productive, with rat sightings dropping in the few neighborhoods that have installed the massive on-street trash cans.

Manhattan Community Board 8 has seen 35% fewer rats since the bins were installed last summer.

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JOHN JONES Brooklyn fire suspect.

Church 'arsonist' nabbed

A firebug suspected of torching a landmarked 173-year-old Brooklyn church was busted when a cop spotted him shoplifting a turkey sandwich and doughnuts from a Midtown CVS, sources said.

John Jones, 24, was hit with a federal arson rap after he was picked up allegedly trying to swipe the food and a Coke from the Broadway store at about 1:39 a.m., sources said.

An off-duty NYPD cop working security took Jones into custody and ran his name through the system — finding he was wanted for allegedly destroying the South Bushwick Reformed Church, sources said.

The NYPD, FDNY, federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York had all been eyeing Jones as the alleged arsonist behind a three-alarm fire that burned down the historic church on June 19, they said. Joe Marino

Zo booed on Staten Is.

Mayor Mamdani was battered by boos before he quickly exited the stage on Staten Island Tuesday night at one of the Big Apple's pro-police celebrations.

Hizzoner gave some abbreviated remarks at the Midland Beach boardwalk for the NYPD's 43rd Patrol Borough National Night Out Against Crime, the Staten Island Advance reported.

He drew loud jeers and a tirade of profanities from some attendees who shouted for him to leave.

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BRONX BAT-TERED

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YANKEE DOODLE DANGER: Stephanie Duluc (below and right) is suing the Yankees for $10 million after getting hit by a bat swung by José Ramírez (left) in June.

By PETER SENZAMICI

A healthcare executive suffered a traumatic brain injury in the luxury seats of Yankee Stadium when a player accidentally swung his bat into the stands and whacked her in the noggin, a new $10 million lawsuit claims.

Stephanie Duluc, 37, chief of staff at the Bronx-based SOMOS Community Care, was taking in the June 2 Yankees game from fourth-row seats behind home plate when Cleveland's José Ramírez launched his bat into her section during the fifth inning, the suit said.

Duluc's employer owns season tickets in the section.

They're some of the priciest seats in the House That Ruth Built — and also some of the most dangerous — with required netting that's supposed to shield fans from foul balls and errant bats, the court filing said.

"It is the one location where the law has long required a stadium operator to provide adequate protective screening," according to the suit.

But Ramírez lost his bat mid-swing and the protective netting did nothing to stop the high-speed bat, according to her Manhattan federal lawsuit.

The suit claims the netting was "significantly lower" than adjacent sections, leaving an "unprotected opening."

The bat hit Duluc "with such force that it knocked her from her seat and violently threw her to the ground, causing her to sustain severe and permanent injuries," her suit claims.

As the terrifying moment aired live, announcers gasped as they noted the bat had cleared the screen and flattened a spectator.

Previous suits tossed

"Bat goes one way, ball goes another," Yankees play-by-play announcer Michael Kay said during the YES Network broadcast, according to a video clip of the game. "Bat goes into the stands — over the screen, too."

"There's a woman who got hit; she's on her feet now," he adds as cameras show Duluc holding her head.

Duluc claims the blow caused a traumatic brain injury, concussion, severe light sensitivity and permanent damage to her neck and hands — leaving her completely "unable to return to her professional duties."

Despite the alleged injuries, Duluc appeared on PIXII's Monica Makes It Happen in late July — less than two weeks before the lawsuit was filed.

During the short televised segment, she appeared on camera under studio lighting to discuss a recent event sponsored by her company at Fordham University.

When asked if the TV spot

contradicted her injury claims, her attorney Jon L. Norinsberg said "not at all."

The Yankees declined to comment.

Duluc's lawsuit will likely face a high-stakes legal battle over the century-old "Baseball Rule," a doctrine that typically exempts teams and owners from liability over foul ball, bat or other similar injuries.

That rule helped toss numerous other injury suits brought against the Bronx Bombers, including injuries from foul balls and flying bats.

Additional reporting by Kyle Schnitzer

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Blakeman: Turn your backs on the mayor

Attendees at this year's 9/11 memorial service should turn their backs on Mayor Mamdani, GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman said Wednesday, stopping short of calling on Hizzoner not to attend the ceremony entirely. Blakeman (above), who lost his nephew in the south tower on Sept. 11, 2001, revealed at an Albany press conference he plans to turn away from the divisive lefty mayor, and said he thinks families of victims are right to call on Mamdani to stay home.

"I would equate this to a wake. You don't go to a wake if you're not welcome," the Nassau County executive told reporters.

"I think it's completely appropriate if family members ask him not to come, but if he does come I think there's a respectful and peaceful way to protest that and I would suggest that people turn their back on the mayor," Blakeman said.

He said Mamdani's refusal to condemn anti-Israel slogans promoting radical Islamic terror movements, like "globalize the intifada," disqualify him from the somber ritual, this year marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks.

"He's not welcome there because he has yet to say anything in opposition to the global intifada. As a matter of fact, it seems like he supports that phrase, which is part of the reason why we had the tragedy we had on 9/11," Blakeman said.

Mamdani says he plans to attend the ceremony, despite the pleas of some families that he stay away.

"I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack," the mayor said this week. Vaughn Golden

By CRAIG McCARTHY

The Mamdani administration left scores of questions unanswered Wednesday about the mayor's plan to open five city-owned grocery stores — exposing major gaps in the taxpayer-backed undertaking.

An Economic Development Corporation official, during an online info session, was forced to admit to prospective partners that the city had yet to figure out simple logistics, including how to reimburse operators or pay store employees.

The EDC official even confessed the city didn't know how it would calculate the cost of the supermarkets' signature "core basket" of essential goods, which Mayor Mamdani has said would be sold at 30% "below typical retail prices."

"The city does not have the expertise or experience in running stores, and so we're looking to start to identify operators to integrate with us," said Jamie Horton, vice president of strategic initiatives and business operations for EDC, a quasi-public nonprofit funded by the city.

Horton fielded questions from about a dozen attendees during the 45-minute Zoom call about the EDC's 44-page "request for proposals" seeking bids from prospective operators to run the shops, which are estimated to cost $70 million to build out.

'Foolish investment'

Industry experts have panned Mamdani's proposal as half-baked, saying the young socialist's campaign vow to bring New Yorkers cheaper groceries via five publicly funded, privately operated supermarkets didn't make sense in the real world.

"There are big unknowns," said Avi Kaner, the former owner of Morton Williams. "The way this [RFP] is structured is so risky and the reward is so low, it would literally be a foolish investment."

Kaner, who wasn't at the Wednesday morning meeting, added: "The whole concept is foolish because it does not achieve the goal."

"If the goal is to reduce the cost of groceries citywide, you don't do it by adding five small stores. If you want to lower the cost of groceries, make it cheaper to do

City Hall can't answer basic questions

IN THE DETAILS:

Mayor Mamdani last month touts his planned 30% discount on essential goods at city-owned grocery stores — but an official Wednesday admitted they don't know how that will work.

business in the city."

Asked by one possible operator about how the market rate of groceries would be calculated, in order to then slash prices by nearly a third, the EDC offered up a word salad response.

"There's a consideration of access to market data, access to ... or sorry, a methodology built on looking at kind of broader market data if the operator has existing stores," Horton said, before admitting the methodology wasn't complete.

"The 30%, the exact retail benchmark that we're setting against is, again, to be developed in the exact methodology," he said later, when pressed.

Who pays for discount?

While operators will be spared having to pay property taxes, the EDC conceded it didn't know if that would be enough to offset the cost of the discounted goods.

"How will the city determine if the capital rent and tax relief is

not enough for the operator to provide a 30% reduction of core basket costs or is the city guaranteeing the offering of that 30%?" one potential vendor pressed.

Horton said he didn't know, and noted the EDC expected to learn during the RFP process whether the city would need to cough up more subsidies.

"So the RFP asks respondents to estimate the discount level that could be provided through just the capital rent and tax relief," Horton said.

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"And then if that discount level is less than 30%, we would ask respondents to estimate how much additional operational subsidy they would require to provide that 30% discount."

What about wages?

Horton was asked a number of detailed questions about how the city would account for unknown variables that could drive up costs — or how it planned to pay out the operator

to cover potential losses.

"If whole costs spike mid-month — e.g., produce after a weather event, delayed delivery — does the operator absorb the margin loss or is there a subsidy true-up mechanism?" one person asked.

But again, the EDC had no answer.

"This is, again, one of those issues that we would work with the operator and selected operator kind of through the program development and operator agree-

ment to work through that," Horton said.

Another attendee asked: "Does EDC intend to set wages or wage ranges? If so, are those currently known?"

But Horton kicked the can, saying "we can provide more detail in the fall Q&A," referring to another upcoming meeting.

The RFP also calls for workers to get a share of the profits, but the EDC had no answers on how that revenue sharing would work.

Ackman slams policy 'disaster'

By ARIEL ZILBER

Mayor Mamdani will bring "disaster" to the Big Apple if he succeeds in implementing his far-left economic agenda, billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman warned in a new interview.

Ackman, one of Wall Street's most prominent conservative voices, argued that New York's affordability crisis stems from years of bad public policy — not capitalism — and warned that "socialism is a disaster."

"Watch what happens to New York City if Mamdani succeeds in implementing these plans," Ackman (below) told Fortune on Wednesday.

The warning comes as tensions between Mamdani and New York's business establishment have intensified.

Hizzoner this week dismissed the entire advisory board of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, removing executives tied to Blackstone, Citigroup, the Real Estate Board of New York and several major real estate firms.

The nonprofit has long relied on private-sector relationships to raise money for city programs, including more than $100 million for families of 9/11 rescue workers and $54.5 million during the COVID pandemic.

City Hall said Mamdani plans to install a new board that will put people "directly impacted" by city policies in the rooms where decisions are made.

Ackman on Wednesday singled out Mamdani's proposal to freeze rents on nearly 1 million stabilized apartments, arguing the policy would discourage investment and worsen the housing shortage.

Housing costs are "so high because left-wing mayors have made it very difficult for developers to build here, and Mamdani, by freezing rents, is just going to make the problem worse," Ackman told Fortune.

"If you make it hard to build where people want to live and you don't let landlords recover renovation costs, they'll pull units off the market," he added.

"That's what happened in New York — about 60,000 units are off the market because renovation costs can't be recovered under rent regulations."

Job creators

Ackman castigated Mamdani for targeting wealthy captains of industry and finance titans such as Ken Griffin, the Citadel boss who publicly clashed with the mayor over his newly enacted pied-à-terre tax.

Griffin threatened to reduce investment in New York after Mamdani filmed a social-media video touting the levy in front of the hedge-fund manager's Central Park South penthouse. "You want people like Ken Griffin locating Citadel here — spending $250 million on an apartment, because that purchase makes a building economically viable, which creates construction jobs and brings in wealthy residents who pay taxes," Ackman said.

Despite Griffin leaving open the possibility of cutting down his footprint in the Big Apple, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust announced this week that it will continue with plans to build a $4.5 billion skyscraper at 350 Park Ave. that will house Citadel's offices.

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Agents probed Don after Comey ax

By EMILY GOODIN

WASHINGTON — The FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump was “wittingly or unwittingly” acting as a Russian agent after he fired then-Director James Comey on May 9, 2017, according to documents released by the White House on Wednesday.

The probe, called Oxford Comma, grew out of Crossfire Hurricane, the bureau’s probe into whether Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with the Kremlin to get Trump elected as the 45th president.

“Based on the facts and circumstances provided to date, the FBI believes that opening this investigation is the least intrusive method to address the serious national security risk posed by the activities alleged,” one of the de-classified bureau memos shows.

The Trump White House initially cited Comey’s handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server as the reason for his dismissal, but it was later revealed the president fired Comey because he wouldn’t publicly state that Trump was not a target of Crossfire Hurricane.

The May 16, 2017, memo opening Oxford Comma was approved by then-FBI General Counsel James A. Baker and Bill Priestap, assistant director of the bureau’s counterintelligence division.

Investigating a ‘threat’

The probe was meant to “determine if President Trump is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with, the Russian Federation in a manner constituting a threat to the national security of the United States and/or a violation of federal criminal statutes,” the memo said.

“In addition, this investigation will also seek to determine whether President Trump and others yet to be named obstructed and/or conspiracy to obstruct any associated FBI investigation.”

HE GOT FED UP:

President Trump greets then-FBI Director James Comey at the White House in 2017 just months before the commander in chief booted Comey over then-rumored probes of the president.

FBI TURNED UP HEAT ON PREZ

Trump was not under personal investigation for collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign, but his firing of Comey raised questions about possible obstruction of justice, which triggered an investigation headed by then-special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director.

Contemporaneous messages indicate that some FBI officials had misgivings about continuing to in-

investigate claims of collusion in the 2016 presidential election after many leads had been exhausted.

“I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there’s no big there there,” wrote then-Deputy Assistant Director Pete Strzok to FBI special counsel Lisa Page in a May 19, 2017, text message.

But the new records could serve as fodder for an investigation by

DOJ Counselor to the Attorney General Joe diGenova, according to former Just the News editor in chief John Solomon.

Solomon, currently serving in the Trump administration on a task force focused on election integrity, announced the files’ release on X.

Oxford Comma was closed on April 9, 2019, with no charges being filed against Trump.

New CDC director installed

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, giving the Atlanta-based public-health agency its first full-time leader in nearly a year.

Schwartz was confirmed in a 51-44 party-line vote.

The 54-year-old will become the 22nd leader of the CDC, which is responsible for protecting Americans from public-health threats.

Schwartz will inherit the CDC as it faces the largest foodborne illness outbreak in recent years, the worst US measles resurgence in 30 years and an international Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

Schwartz will be the first permanent CDC director since Susan Monarez was fired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last year — just a month into her tenure — after arguments over vaccine policy.

President Trump previously nominated two other picks after Monarez was fired, but withdrew their names before hearings and voting even began.

The CDC has been hit with more than 3,000 layoffs and resignations since Trump entered his second administration. Ally Goelz

Kid fentanyl study shock

A shocking number of American eighth-graders don’t think fentanyl poses a great risk to their health, although the dangerous drug is the third-leading cause of child deaths.

Just 48% of 13- and 14-year-olds said taking the drug one or two times posed a great risk to their health in a July survey published in JAMA Network Open.

That means more than half of students polled didn’t answer a clean “Yes” when asked if the drug was dangerous to their health, StudyFinds reported.

Students polled were drawn from various demographics. Alex Oliveira

Deadly new superbug spreading in US

A drug-resistant superbug dubbed an “urgent” threat by health officials has spread across nearly two dozen US states — and its highly generic symptoms make it difficult to spot.

The deadly fungus, known as Candida auris, has been reported in 23 states with more than 3,000 cases so far this year, the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported — mostly in nursing homes and hospitals.

“The rapid emergence around the world and the speed of spread in the US is alarming,” Susan Huang, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, told Healthline.com.

“The public should definitely be aware of this concern and how it may impact them or those they care about.”

The superbug — which is estimated to have caused death in up to 60% people infected by it — is a type of yeast that enters the bloodstream and spreads throughout the body.

It spreads via contact with infected people or by touching an infected surface.

It has strains resistant to all types of medications, and has been labeled an “urgent antimicrobial resistance threat” by the CDC.

Symptoms depend on where the infection is located but tend to include chills, fever, fatigue — com-

common complaints that can throw off doctors.

Other symptoms include low body temperature and high heart rate, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Texas has had the most cases of the fungus this year with 706. None were reported in New York, but 166 cases were found in New Jersey. Natalie O’Neill

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ABDUL El-Sayed is the latest Islamo-socialist terrorist-sympathizer star of the Democrat Party, after squeaking to a win in the Michigan Senate primary Tuesday.

Although he underperformed his poll numbers and the predictions of his media boosters, the lockdown-loving health bureaucrat has accelerated the radical left's conquest of the Democrat Party from within.

If El-Sayed can pull off a victory in November in the Midwest, in the swingiest of swing states, what will stop a Marxist heading for the White House?

This menacing hard-left takeover is disastrous for Democrats and frightening for America, but it is also a potential golden opportunity for the GOP — if they don't screw it up, which is nowhere near certain.

El-Sayed has slyly distanced himself from his early roots in the Democratic Socialists of America faction of the party, and declares himself a "scientist" and not a socialist, but nobody is fooled, least of all the DSA.

Like his comrades, he has a vast trove of deleted social media posts expressing his true hard-left beliefs — including defunding the police (and its modern-day version of abolishing ICE) and prison abolition — as he tries to shape-shift into a harmless progressive palatable to the average fair-minded American fed up with politics as usual.

The level of deception skills involved in this metamorphosis has pundits praising him as a "political athlete" and likening him to Bill Clinton.

But his extremism is not hard to detect, no matter how flowery the language disguising it.

In his first speech Wednesday morning after claiming victory, he issued a veiled threat to Republican opponent Mike Rogers: "By the time we're done, you are not going to have safe quarter [in Michigan] from people holding you accountable."

Last year, after a terrorist attack on a synagogue and preschool in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield by a Lebanese-born Hezbollah sympathizer, El-Sayed said: "Hurt people do hurt people and the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here."

When he revs up his base, he gives them the blood and guts they seem to crave: "When they go low, we don't go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out."

He may be more careful with his

THE 'HATE AMERICA' CAUCUS: Leftist Rep. Ilhan Omar (from left), Israel-hating influencer Hasan Piker and conspiracy-spouting Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong rally for Hong's political run.

Marx their words, don't let 'em fool ya

language these days but you can tell a man by the company he keeps.

El-Sayed enjoys a bromance with self-appointed DSA mascot and dog-torturing Twitch-streamer Hasan Piker, who once said America "deserved" the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and recently dressed up, unironically, as Mao Zedong, whom he calls "one of the great leaders of the world."

Piker also has flirted with assassination fantasies, according to a video clip from last year doing the rounds of social media in which he is in on stage with Taylor Lorenz, the former New York Times journalist who wrote she felt "joy" at the murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson allegedly by the "handsome . . . morally good" Luigi Mangione.

In the unverified video, Piker compliments her on her article about Mangione "and great video when you said 'someone has to do it.'" The audience laughs at this allusion to assassination and Piker says, "See! When I say that, every-

one knows exactly what it means, which shows there's a lot of anger, a lot of resentment and untapped revolutionary potential, and it's a great opportunity for organizing."

Cocky candidate

Any normal candidate for a normal party would want nothing to do with such repellent views.

But like Mayor Mamdani, El-Sayed has campaigned with Piker and posted workout videos with him. El-Sayed was so cocky on election eve that he publicly celebrated with Piker at a pool party.

He also boasted he will beat Rogers by five points.

Even in Michigan, surely that kind of hubris won't go down well in a general election.

Piker was also jubilantly counting his chickens before they were hatched at El-Sayed's alcohol-free watch party Tuesday night: "This is just the beginning," he crowed.

"It's not just Michigan; it's not just Wisconsin. We will hopefully continue this movement all across

the United States of America."

Ah, Wisconsin. When Rogers talks about the Democrat "crazy train" he will have to find room up front for Francesca Hong, the Dems' Wisconsin gubernatorial favorite who faces a primary next week.

Like Piker and Mamdani and every other DSA stooge, she is now trying to distance herself from the radical beliefs that catapulted her to political prominence.

Among her pearls of wisdom, she has said she wants to abolish the police and Thanksgiving, that tipping is "racist," and white people are so terrible that she can't stand watching them eat but she unfortunately has "proximity to whiteness" due to the fact her son is half-white.

She also once issued a barely veiled death threat to President Trump. "About f---ing time we 86 Trump."

The Luigi wing of the party has found its voice.

Democrats seem incapable of controlling the beast within.

A few hours after El-Sayed declared victory Wednesday, Democrat senators boycotted a Senate Judiciary hearing on the malign influence of the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America, claiming it to be an exercise in "Islamophobia."

No wonder they are running a million miles, since El-Sayed's father-in-law, who helped fund his campaign, has links to the Muslim Brotherhood as the former president of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and founding member of the Islamic Society of North America, which were named as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial.

Terror groups

Chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood have been declared terrorist organizations in the US, following the lead of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and El-Sayed's parents' homeland of Egypt.

El-Sayed and his wife met at the University of Michigan through the Muslim Students Association, which has been described as a "Muslim Brotherhood front."

It will be up to Mike Rogers to convince Michigan voters that El-Sayed is unsuitable to be their senator.

Rogers is a strong candidate with genuine Michigander working-class roots, as a one-time auto assembly-line worker who went on to serve as a US Army lieutenant and then an FBI special agent in Chicago, investigating organized crime.

His track record through seven terms representing Michigan in Congress is positive, and as the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee he was one of the strongest critics warning about the economic and national security threats posed by China, including its hollowing out of the middle class in the former industrial heartland of Michigan.

But the polls are tight and Rogers has his work cut out for him against a younger, silver-tongued foe fueled by a movement giddy about its newfound power.

He is also tied to Trump, whose poll numbers are sagging as an unpopular war drags on, and for whom Americans' cost of living remains a sore point.

The president telling Fox News Tuesday night that he deserves an "A-plus" on the economy was not the right message for a sullen electorate.

A little humility would go a long way.

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Quits Cambridge over 'plagiarism'

UK prof copy and chased

By NATALIE O'NEILL

The Cambridge University professor accused of plagiarism and lying about his allegedly esteemed career resigned from the prestigious UK school Wednesday — as it launched an investigation into him.

Diversity posterboy Jason Arday, 41 — the youngest black man ever to hold a professorship at the lauded English university — insisted the sudden move should not 'be mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that have surrounded me,' as he blasted the bombshell claims.

'While criticism is an inevitable part of academic life, what I have experienced has gone far beyond scholarly disagreement,' he wrote in a post on the Good Law Project. 'The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound toll on me and on those I love.'

Arday, who said his resignation as a professor of sociology goes into effect immediately, faces investigation for allegedly lifting more than 100 passages in his dissertation and fudging his resume.

'[We have] begun an investigation following new information about Professor Arday's academic qualifications and honorary appointments,' Cambridge Univer-

sity said in a statement Wednesday. 'Separately, there remains a number of ongoing complaints regarding academic misconduct, which are being handled in line with our Misconduct in Research policy,' it added.

The school has previously stood behind the professor, claiming he was a victim of a 'vile campaign to undermine his credibility.'

Nathan Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium, published a Substack article last month detailing several examples in which Arday's doctoral dissertation appeared to be plagiarized.

Also 'lied' on resume

An analysis showed more than 100 passages in his thesis reportedly appeared to be similar to or lifted from the thesis of Brunel University student Paula Zwozdiak-Myers.

Arday then came under fire Tuesday for falsely claiming to have held three positions at academic institutions on his official biography page for Cambridge University.

Arday wrote in the bio that he's a visiting professor at Ohio State University's Office of Diversity and Inclusion — though the school's DEI office closed last

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FAKE-ULTY MEMBER: Cambridge University professor Jason Arday, 41, resigned Wednesday after facing a wave of plagiarism rumors.

year and administrators reportedly said they have no record of him as an employee.

Arday also claims he works as a visiting professor in the University of Glasgow's School of Education but the school said he hasn't held that position since leaving for Cambridge.

'Jason Arday was employed as Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow between 2021 and 2023. He left the University to take up his role as Professorial Chair at the University of Cambridge,' a University of Glasgow spokesperson told The Post.

Arday said his resignation from Cambridge was 'simply the decision of someone who has reached the limits of what any person

should reasonably be expected to endure.'

Arday — who says he's autistic, epileptic and a former pro soccer player — admitted last week to a series of errors in his work, but has insisted he's not a 'liar and fantasist.'

Arday has also been accused of lying about his seemingly unbelievable list of personal accomplishments.

They include 'running 30 marathons in just 35 days,' raising millions of dollars for charity, and playing professional soccer and snooker.

Arday has also said he has autism spectrum disorder and was nonverbal until age 11. He became Cambridge's youngest black professor at age 37.

DNA work to help ID Gilgo vic

Long Island prosecutors collected 23 DNA samples in Chinatown as part of a new effort to identify a murder victim who may have been butchered by the Gilgo Beach Killer.

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney and his team are trying to identify 'Asian Doe,' a male murder victim found buried in women's clothing along Gilgo Beach in April 2011 — by handing out flyers in Chinatown and soliciting genetic tests of willing residents.

The team was in Manhattan on Tuesday during festivities for National Night Out, a police community-building event.

'Unfortunately, attempts to identify the victim whose remains were found on Gilgo Beach 15 years ago have been unsuccessful due to the limited number of Asian volunteers in commercial DNA databases,' Tierney told The Post.

Tierney and his team told volunteers their DNA samples may help track possible genealogical ties to the victim, who may have been a transgender sex worker.

The DNA samples will not be retained by police and won't be entered into any law-enforcement databases, according to Tierney.

Brandon Cruz

Huh? Hong ♥ T'giving?

Francesca Hong, the socialist Democrat running for Wisconsin governor who once ranted about axing Thanksgiving because it's 'celebrating colonialism' — now is bizarrely claiming it's her favorite holiday.

The gubernatorial hopeful walked back her since-deleted November 2021 'cancel Thanksgiving' post in an interview on Politico's Playbook podcast Wednesday.

'My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving,' Hong quipped. 'Yup. I don't want to cancel it, I actually love it.'

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LI PTA big 'fesses to stealing $14G from group

A crooked Long Island PTA vice president admitted she stole more than $14,000 from the group and splurged at Lululemon and other stores, Suffolk County prosecutors said.

Hope Livingston, 50,

pleaded guilty Tuesday to grand-larceny charges after soaking the Sag Harbor Elementary School Parent Teacher Association from July 2021 through June 2024, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said.

She's expected to be forced to pay back $14,500. 'Stealing from a school's PTA is not just a crime, it is a betrayal of our children and community,' Tierney said of Livingston, who also served as the PTA treasurer

for a stretch.

Livingston had access to the PTA's bank account through a debit card meant for PTA-related purchases — but instead racked up thousands in personal purchases on Amazon and at

stores like Target and Costco, officials said.

The former VP, due back in court on Oct. 6, is expected to be sentenced to five years of probation, plus the restitution.

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'Historic' drought in Danube

It's a total ship show. Scores of sunken World War II ships — rusty Nazi warships among them — have suddenly surfaced in Europe's Danube River as its water levels fall to new lows. The underwater treasures, which also include woolly mammoth bones, have emerged while a summer drought and

heat wave scorches Eastern Europe, according to CBS.

At least 20 of the dazzling warships — some still equipped with weapons from Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet — can be seen sticking out of the river.

One ship with a weather-worn hull and a broken mast where a Nazi flag once flew

has enthralled passersby near the Serbian port of Prahovo.

German commanders deliberately sank up to 200 ships in September 1944 in the Danube gorge as they came under Soviet fire. Some were pulled from the river by Communist Yugoslav authorities, but most have remained there due to poten-

tially dangerous explosives they hauled.

Officials are now trying to keep river traffic moving on the Danube, Europe's second longest river, which flows through 10 countries, CBS reported.

"As you can see, the [big] ships can't pass anymore," Krsta Brandic, a Prahovo resident, told the outlet. Natalie O'Neill

1/3 college grads move back home

They're walking across the stage to get their diplomas, then walking right back into their childhood bedrooms.

Thirty percent of 18- to 34-year-olds have moved back home after graduating from college in the past five years, according to a recent Clever Real Estate study.

The main reason, say 58% of that 30%, is the high cost of living. That's followed by 52% who say it's to save money, then 34% who point to not being able to find a job.

A full 76% of Gen Zers living with their parents also still rely on their financial support. That figure drops to 59% for

young people who live independently.

Graduates' hopes are not aligning with reality.

About 61% thought they'd be financially independent within a year of graduating, but just 50% were.

Nearly 60% of those failing to launch say they're praying for a housing market crash just to afford a home.

To avoid moving back into their childhood bedroom, 19% of Gen Zers say they would skip meals, 12% would live in their car and 11% would move in with a brand-new romantic partner, the study adds.

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OK, GLOOMER!

By ANTHONY BLAIR

Gen X has gone from the biggest hair to the biggest midlife crises ever.

The Slacker Generation is the most economically pessimistic, as members of the 40- and 50-something club go through middle age squeezed by growing expenses, a new report says.

The children of the 1980s report the lowest consumer confidence while beginning to contemplate retirement, according to a Conference Board study reported by Axios.

A typical midlife malaise could be a major contributing factor to the "forgotten generation's" negativity, experts said. They note studies showing happiness following a U-shaped curve in the course of our lives, with youthful happiness fading over time and bottoming out in the mid- to late 40s.

The survey asked respondents whether they felt current US business conditions were good or bad and calculated a six-month average, with 100 indexed to the average in 1985.

Gen X most negative on economy.

Gen Z and millennials aged under 35 had the highest overall consumer confidence, followed by baby boomers and then Gen X, which the report said were between the ages of 45 and 61.

The six-month average of the Consumer Confidence Index for Gen X is down to 78 points, the lowest in at least 4½ years, with Boomers down to 83 points, the lowest since October 2021.

Confidence readings for both groups have been in a steady decline

since early 2025, data shows.

Gen Z confidence rose slightly in April to just about 108 points, just a few points above Millennials.

Gen X is stuck as the "sandwich generation," caring for both aging Boomer parents and Gen Z children, Conference Board chief economist Dana Peterson told Axios.

Gen X also feels unprepared for retirement, despite currently being in their peak earning years, with only 35% feeling prepared to financially support their parents and just 55% saying they feel they can financially support their children over the next few years, says a report from NielsenIQ.

The generation is expected to lead global consumer spending at least through 2033, possibly until 2036 in high-income markets, and is already commanding over 30% of US household spending.

While Boomers still dominate in net worth, Gen X was on track to spend $15.2 trillion worldwide in 2025, a figure set to climb to $23 trillion by 2035.

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Startup couple packs it in

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Cameras Rolling

ROCK icon Mick Jagger is intrigued by the possibility of a Rolling Stones biopic, sources say, after The Beatles are getting four films in 2028 by director Sam Mendes. Reports have said in the past that Jagger, 83, was down on doing any kind of autobiography, even after his bandmate Keith Richards’ successful book, “Life,” hit shelves in 2010. According to a pal: “Mick is actively thinking about what a movie project could be for the Stones. Being involved would allow him to have a voice in the project and even put across things that would be important to him. The Beatles’ movies certainly moved the dial for him.” We’ve reached out to Jagger’s rep.

UK in Fuge state

LAURYN Hill and Wyclef Jean reunited in London last night to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Fugees’ 1996 hit album “The Score.” The former bandmates greeted fans and signed merch before Hill (above) premiered new work by LA artist Lauren Halsey in Piccadilly Lights. It’s part of UK music fest Diaspora Calling! Curated by Hill, “I am in such a state of embodiment with respect to what’s happening that I’m not sure I have the words,” Hill said. “Right now, I have action. My actions are speaking for me through the work itself.”

THEY’RE getting rid of their baggage.

Away luggage co-founder Jennifer Rubio and billionaire tech entrepreneur Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr and Slack, are splitting after six years of marriage and two kids.

The couple announced the news on Instagram yesterday, saying, “With deep love and respect for one another, we’ve made the decision to separate . . . Our children will always come first, and we are committed to raising them in a loving environment with two active and present parents.” They added they’re “also partners in the life we’ve built together,” and “remain dedicated to the arts, to philanthropy

through the Rubio Butterfield Foundation, and to the shared businesses, investments, and causes that have long been important to us.”

A source in their circle tells us they are “shocked” over the news and that the pair had just hosted friends on their boat. “They seemed like the It couple,” the source said.

Another says it’s not so sudden. “Jen and Stewart have privately been moving down this path for some time,” a source familiar with the situation told Page Six. “They remain good friends and have hosted multiple trips with friends in that capacity this summer.”

Rubio and Butterfield looked every bit the power couple in May when they walked the

red carpet at the Met Gala. They had just been named trustees of the museum following a pledged $23 million.

That same month, Rubio chronicled their whirlwind social calendar. “Venice Biennale, Dior show at LACMA, Dia Beacon benefit with Chanel, Louis Vuitton show at the Frick, Alaia dinner . . . Gucci show in Times Square . . . AND a new puppy,” she captioned a glamour post.

In addition to racking up social cachet, the couple amassed a real estate portfolio reportedly worth at least $140 million, and their formidable art collection includes pieces from blue-chippers Cy Twombly, Ed Ruscha, Richard Prince, George Condo and Kara Walker.

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Hedges cut campground from under alumni

PRIVATE equity firms have emerged as the winners in the war for Mike and David Shabsels’ bankrupt camps. More than two dozen of the brothers’ camps — including Mohawk Day Camp — have been acquired, according to court docs filed on Tuesday. After Page Six reported that Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav was outbid despite upping his number to $80 million, filings reveal that private equity firm FitzWalter Capital won the bid at $120,750,000. When Israeli investors filed a lawsuit against the Shabsels claiming

they owe $500 million, camp alumni began raising capital “to keep their childhood camps intact, for the future of their children and generations to come,” one insider said. Unfortunately, hedge funds swept in. American Youth Camping Inc. scooped up six, including Camp Echo, for $17,000,000. Successful bids for 23 out of the 30 camps total $368,307,818 so far. We hear the fight continues for other sites, such as Camp Lavi.

Bigg foot believer

JASON Biggs revealed a surprising kink months after he split from his wife of 18 years, Jenny Mollen. “I like feet, I appreciate feet,” the “American Pie” actor said on Ego Nwodim’s “Thanks Dad” podcast. “I think feet can be sexy.” But, he clarified, “in the same way that I like good feet, [feet can also be] like, ‘Oof.’” Biggs, 48, specified he’s not a fan of “a thonged sandal with a heel,” and said that in New York, “you need some closed-toe shoes!” Biggs took off his shoes and showed off his own feet, admitting that he’s “a mani-pedi guy.” “They’re OK. They’re not bad,” the actor noted. Nwodim, 38, replied, “They’re fine. I wouldn’t see that foot and go, ‘Put it away!’”

Stew serves spice

MARTHA Stewart got candid about Meghan Markle stepping into the “cooking space” after being an actress and a princess. “I had dinner with Meghan Markle the other night. We were both guests at a dinner party in California. And she had just gotten back from the palace,” Stewart (above) told People, referring to the Duchess’ trip to the UK with Prince Harry and their kids. When asked her thoughts on “With Love, Meghan,” Markle’s cooking show, the domestic diva, 85, offered a deflating critique. “If you’re an actress, it’s hard to then transition to a princess and then from a princess into a homemaking guru on a television show,” Stewart said. “It doesn’t follow. So go from there.”

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The end of a news era

By NICHOLAS McENTYRE

Signing off. New York PIX11 news icon Kaity Tong announced her retirement on Tuesday night, closing out an illustrious, award-filled career that spanned over six decades.

The Emmy-winning broadcast journalist, who has been with PIX11 since 1992, will anchor her final show on Aug. 30, the station announced.

"Journalist, anchor, icon, legend, friend, mentor. A few of the words that describe our beloved Kaity Tong," PIX11 Managing Editor Patrick Mason said.

"After more than 34 years at WPIX, Kaity has opted to move into a much-deserved retirement at the end of August. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone in the New York City area who doesn't immediately associate PIX11 with Kaity. A powerhouse name in an industry that can change in a New York minute."

Path not chosen

Born in China before moving to the US at 4 years old, Tong, 79, says she never wanted to be an on-air reporter, accidentally getting into the industry while she was a doctoral candidate at Stanford University.

"I never aspired to be a broadcast journalist. No,

I wanted to be a college professor," Tong said during her induction into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in October.

Following in the footsteps of her mother and uncle, both acclaimed journalists, Tong secured a summer position as morning editor and producer for San Francisco's KCBS All-News Radio in the 1970s.

The seasonal job turned into a yearlong employment at the station as she pushed aside graduate work, never finishing her doctoral dissertation in Chinese and Japanese studies, according to her

online biography.

Tong quickly moved into television reporting, joining San Francisco's KPIX-TV as a writer before being turned into a reporter "on the spot" in 1976.

Following a stint at Sacramento's KCRA, Tong moved to New York, where she became a correspondent and weekend co-anchor for WABC in 1981.

Tong was named co-anchor for 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts two years into her tenure at the station.

In 1991, Tong joined WPIX, where she has been since, starting as the top female anchor and is now weekend anchor.

3 kin dead in NC shooting

Three family members are dead and one is hospitalized after a mass shooting at a North Carolina home Wednesday.

The shooting erupted in Caswell County, north of Raleigh, before 8 a.m., authorities said.

The victims and the shooter — who is dead — were adults from the same family, the county sheriff said.

"One person was transferred to Duke University Hospital with gunshot wounds and we do not have a condition," Sheriff Tony Durden told reporters, adding that authorities have not released information about the victims or suspect "out of respect to the family."

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'ONE' BIG BOREGASM

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Monica mellow in yellow

After 13 years acting "One Night Only" star Monica Barbaro keeps her career in perspective. "I've had nonstop breakthroughs," the 36-year-old tells inStyle (inset), "and also hit-aluses and fears."

'Night' sex comedy didn't do it for me

A version of "The Purge" in which US singles can only legally have sex for one day a year is a good pitch.

A great pitch. Too bad the setup is also the funniest part of "One Night Only," starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro. There's a hearty laugh in the first few seconds when a straight-faced explainer pops up onscreen to upbeat rom-com music in front of the New York skyline.

"Three years ago, premarital sex was outlawed in the United States except for one night a year," it abruptly says.

Ha. The movie, at that point, appears to be a strange and clever mashup of "Friends With Benefits" and "The Handmaid's Tale." Yet the giggles and ingenuity taper off. And by the end, we've watched something closer to "Date Night" with Tina Fey and Steve Carell — a "nothing good happens after midnight" trip with multiple underwhelming stops en route to a predictable, lovey-dovey ending.

Over a rowdy 12 hours, Owen (Turner) and Allie (Barbaro) find themselves in increasingly silly situations in a frenzy to get laid. We've seen better versions of this story many, many times.

But director Will Gluck's movie adds a barely discernible dusting of sci-fi dystopia, and so the skeptical audience silently asks follow-up question after follow-up question about the preposterous circumstances.

Congress apparently passed this law to promote traditional marriage (spouses can still get it on 24/7,365). And as a result, every American has had an implant inserted into their arm that alerts law enforcement of rising dopamine levels that suggest they're getting it on.

"The Purge," about a 24-hour stretch of legalized crime, somehow comes off more realistic than

"One Night Only."

So you're telling me it took us in the real world 20 years to fully enact the REAL ID act, but in this movie 350 million people got forced bio-electronic surgery in time before a new congressional majority could repeal the loony sex ban?

And the US government surely can't enforce American zippers in Europe or South America. Couldn't our randy citizens just fly to other countries to vent their frustrations?

Also why does nobody seem all that mad about having one of the most basic human functions prohibited by law?

Everybody indulges in this baby bacchanal except for the two most boring people in town — our main characters!

Owen, an uncommonly hot pizzeria owner, is about to propose to his girlfriend over a nice omakase dinner when she drops a bomb. "I'm going to sleep with someone else tonight," the mean GF says. Distracted, Owen begrudgingly decides

to sow his oats as a distraction.

Allie, meanwhile, attends a single mingle type of party meant to help people get lucky. Allie wants more than a quick tumble in the sack. She wants to forge a meaningful connection. Of course she does.

Perhaps she'll finally get her genuine spark with Owen. After an awkward meet-cute (in this instance, a meet-puke) in the street, the pair keep running into each other. What prevents "One Night Only" from becoming bad sex is the chemistry between Turner and Barbaro. Their energy is flirty and warm, even if it's rather suspect that the two hottest people in this purported sex comedy are the ones least interested in sex.

Quite by accident, Gluck's routine film ends up resembling so many of the one-night stands it's about: A fantastic plan at first, but an unsatisfying letdown in the light of day.

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'Don menace' an ex-Marine

By ZAIN KHAN

The armed man accused of scouting President Trump's Southern California golf club before the commander in chief's visit was a decorated former US Marine who completed combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jeanine John Taele, 38, of Downey, Calif., served in the Marine Corps from 2008 to 2016, reaching the rank of corporal while assigned as a warehouse clerk with the elite 1st Reconnaissance Battalion at Camp Pendleton, according to military records obtained by The Post.

Taele deployed to Iraq from October 2008 through March 2009, and later served in Afghanistan from June through December 2010, records show.

His military file shows he earned two Marine Corps Good Conduct Medals, awarded for repeated periods of honorable and disciplined service, along with a Navy Unit Commendation recognizing exceptional performance by his unit.

Extremist ties?

Federal investigators are digging into Taele's history, including whether he had any ties to extremist groups or connections to Californians at the center of a foiled terror plot at the June UFC event at the White House, a law enforcement source told The Post.

Taele now faces federal

MIDEAST TOURS: Jeanine John Taele, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Marine, was found with weapons in his possession, including the piece (below) found in his pickup truck near President Trump's golf course in California

charges after authorities say they found him armed at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes days before the president's Aug. 4 fundraising visit there.

He was charged in a federal criminal complaint with possessing an unregistered short-barreled rifle, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

Agents conducting advance security planning spotted Taele on July 31 walking around the golf course and wearing an

earpiece while photographing and filming security preparations, according to federal prosecutors.

He allegedly returned to the club on Aug. 2, where he falsely claimed he worked for the State Department on a security detail and admitted he had a loaded firearm in his pickup truck.

Law enforcement recovered a loaded 9mm pistol, hollow-point ammunition, binoculars and a badge labeled "security protection agent" from his truck, prosecutors said.

Slimy trash man kid-porn bust

A former NYC Department of Sanitation superintendent allegedly possessed thousands of images and videos of child pornography — including on a flash drive in the pocket of his DSNY jacket.

Victor Alvelo, 61, was busted on kid-porn charges Tuesday after federal and

NYPD investigators found thousands of disturbing images of prepubescent children in his Bronx home, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

Alvelo — a general DSNY superintendent until his retirement in 2025 — faces a maximum sentence of 20

years in prison.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement: "The NYPD will be relentless in stopping predators who seek to exploit and harm children. I thank our investigators ... and law enforcement partners for finding this illegal and vile material." Zoe Hussain

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BRADY HARMON Ex killed his 4 kids.

Dad: Kid slayers go to hell

The father of four children allegedly murdered by their grandma and mom in an upstate New York apartment said the killers deserve a "special place in hell."

Sarah Myers, 44, and her 64-year-old mother Amy Steadman "conspired in carrying out the murders of the four children [on June 10] before taking their own lives," Mechanicville police chief William Rabbitt confirmed on Tuesday.

"I knew my kids were murdered," Brady Harmon told News10 on Tuesday.

Three of the kids, Harper, 13, Hudson, 11, and Gracelynn, 10, were poisoned. Gavin, 10, was knifed trying to defend himself, Rabbitt said.

"My kids suffered," Brady Harmon told WRGB. "To poison them and also to stab them — there's a special place in hell for people like that." Brady Harmon, who had been locked in a bitter custody dispute with his ex-wife, hadn't seen his children since November 2019. Chris Bradford

Pizzeria vs. cake eaters

A group of customers visiting a Jersey Shore boardwalk pizzeria were met with intense hostility from an employee after they asked for a knife to slice a birthday cake they had brought for a child's party, according to a viral video.

The altercation occurred on Saturday at Joey Tomato's, located on the Jenkinson's boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach, where the group had visited under the impression they were allowed to bring the outside cake to their celebration.

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RIKKI SCHLOTT

On a warm Thursday night in July, hundreds of New Yorkers — most of them single women — gathered at Littlefield in Gowanus to trauma bond over the horrors of modern dating.

They came to attend About Last Night, a nationwide event started in 2016 where people get up on stage to tell tales of terrible dates and lament the misery of looking for love.

The event aims to help singles feel less alone, but the stories of diaper fetishes and perverted co-workers actually showed just how much bad behavior singles — especially women — are letting their partners get away with.

One woman, Jesse, recounted having her first one-night stand in New York City at age 22. The older man she was hooking up with got up, sat on his standing desk, and rode it up and down naked as she watched, baffled.

Farting turn-on

Another young woman, CJ, recalled hooking up during lockdown with a "Japanese cocaine-dealing skater boy with a lisp," only to realize that she was actually in love with another member of her 28-person cooperative housing living setup. After leaving his apartment high on cocaine, she spontaneously joined a nearby Black Lives Matter protest, where police tear-gassed her.

A guy named Jared recalled going on a date with a woman who admitted she was in a 24/7 dominant-submissive kink relationship with an older man who had been reading all of their texts and controlling whether or not she could see Jared or be intimate with him.

There were also quite a few appeals to bathroom humor.

Frankie recalled a budding romance with a co-worker who admitted on their second date that he was sexually aroused by women farting.

Chase James, the Los Angeles-based founder of About Last Night, said the event was inspired by his friend group's ritual of sharing their own terrible experiences from the night before over breakfast. He started the series in San Francisco a decade ago and has since expanded to Chicago, New York, Denver and Seattle. Soon, they will host events in Austin and DC, too.

"It was just this really special feeling of trust and camaraderie, and I was wondering how I could bring that on a grander scale," he told The Post. "For a moment in time, it's not the worst thing anymore. It's kind of the best, because we're all laughing about it together."

To my ears, though, the stories

all seemed to be oriented toward one conclusion: young people are treating one another like disposable sexual objects, and often ignoring their own values to keep up with a fast-paced dating scene.

Left at ER by date

I found myself asking, Why did you end up in bed with a man you promised yourself you wouldn't hook up with? Why did you let your co-worker continue to send you porn for days before speaking up?

We talk so much about how horrific modern dating is — and rightfully so — but it's only being made worse by our collective relinquishment of agency.

The final speaker, a New Yorker named Daisy, told the audience about a time when, after a handful of dates with a man she was interested in, she violated her own boundaries

and allowed herself to be talked into sex before commitment.

She'd mustered up the courage to tell the man, "I really, really like you. I would love to maybe not have this be casual. I would love to maybe get in a relationship, what do you think?"

She was "devastated" when he rejected her proposition, but stifled her disappointment — and went along with casual sex hoping to gain his affection.

"I was like, yes, of course this 25-year-old man is saying I'm ready, so I must be ready . . . [and] I kept telling myself, 'This is what it means to be 20,' she said on stage.

The story crescendoed when Daisy, who received a triple organ transplant as a child, starts bleeding profusely during sex and needs to go to the hospital — only to be left by her hookup partner in

the waiting room. She had to head into emergency surgery all alone.

Gals, speak up

It's a dramatic ending, but with a relatable conclusion. "It made me realize how much we push ourselves to do things we think we should based on societal standards," she told the crowd

If there's any one takeaway from the messiness of About Last Night, it's this: So much of the horror of modern dating is the result of us, as women, talking ourselves into participating in a system that doesn't serve our own interests. We give in to avoid conflict, have casual sex when we don't really want to and accept terrible behavior because "dating sucks."

We can keep complaining about it . . . or we can start demanding better.

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PEREZ HILTON'S

By MEGAN PALIN and HAILEY EBER

Perez Hilton has spent more than two decades ricocheting between fame and infamy, scandal and redemption, reinvention and regret.

He dreamed of becoming an actor but ended up Hollywood's most notorious gossip blogger, building an internet empire by rattling the biggest stars of the 2000s. However, scandals, celebrity feuds and changing pop-culture tastes forced the self-styled "Queen of Mean" to confront — and reckon with — the Perez of his past.

That culminated in the most horrifying way imaginable this week.

On Tuesday night, the 48-year-old appeared to cut himself with a knife and talked of suicide during a horrific TikTok livestream, prompting frantic viewers to call emergency services. He is now being treated in a hospital.

The single dad of three has long battled with his weight and depression and just months ago survived a near-fatal bout of sepsis, before dramatically declaring he had found God.

Friends say his mental-health crisis came out of nowhere, just weeks after uprooting his family from Las Vegas for a new beginning in his native Miami.

"He barely drinks. I can't actually remember the last time I saw him drinking any alcohol, and he definitely doesn't do drugs. So all of this is completely out of character," one source close to Hilton told The Post.

"It's not like this has been a downward spiral. It just hasn't."

Mounting bills

However, Hilton has been open about his mounting medical bills and the cross-country move taking a toll on him, as well as struggling to escape the vicious online character that made him infamous.

"Old Perez is like a permanent tattoo I can't get rid of," he told a reporter in 2019, in a previously

unpublished interview obtained by The Post.

He started out as Mario Lavandeira Jr., born to Cuban parents in Little Havana, attending a Jesuit Preparatory School, then New York University to study drama before moving to Los Angeles.

While Hollywood didn't want him, the internet did.

Hilton launched (ahem) PageSixSixSix.com in 2004, which was quickly renamed PerezHilton.com, a moniker he also adopted as his stage name, a riff on the then-biggest internet star Paris Hilton.

It was the dawn of the anything-goes celebrity-blog era, with Britney Spears melting down in front of paparazzi and Lindsay Lohan's indiscretions ruling the tabloids.

Hilton, who is openly gay, capitalized. He became known for scribbling crude images over paparazzi shots, inventing insulting nicknames and gleefully skewering celebrities' bodies, relationships and personal crises.

He relentlessly mocked Spears during her highly publicized mental-health struggles and, following Heath Ledger's death in 2008, notoriously

sold T-shirts reading: "Why couldn't it be Britney?"

He publicly speculated about — and in some cases outed — stars, including Lance Bass and Neil Patrick Harris, arguing at the time that exposing gay celebrities was legitimate reporting.

Hilton claimed he was drawing in more than 8 million readers a day in 2007 and became as recognizable as many of the celebrities he covered.

Three years later, the tide was turning. Hilton had racked up feuds with the Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga, sparked outrage by posting a photograph that appeared to show 17-year-old Miley Cyrus without underwear and found himself embroiled in lawsuits with paparazzi over using their copyrighted photos.

"One of the many things I regret is that I hurt so many people by giving them nasty nicknames, and above all that I was unkind to

GRIM: Just weeks after moving from Las Vegas to this home in Florida, "Queen of Mean" blogger Perez Hilton appeared to self-harm in a livestream and was rushed to a hospital.

Guilt over gossip, food binges and a 'suicidal' video

the children of celebrities," he later wrote in his 2020 memoir "TMI: My Life in Scandal."

Hilton tried to show a different side of himself by appearing on reality shows such as the UK edition of "Celebrity Big Brother" and "Worst Cooks in America."

Life also changed when he became a father, welcoming son Mario Armando Lavandeira III in February 2013, daughter Mia Alma in 2015 and daughter Mayte Amor in 2017.

Father of three kids

All three children are genetically his and were conceived using eggs from the same anonymous donor but carried by different surrogates.

Sources told Page Six he has always been a "devoted dad" and fatherhood changed him a great deal.

"I'm really happy. I strive to be

even happier . . . I want to work hard at being even happier. That requires thought, analyzing, observing. And I love that as I get close to 41, I'm doing things differently than before," he said in the 2019 interview.

Hilton's mother, Teresita, has remained a major part of his life and helped him raise the children, while he's also close to his sister, Barbara.

"The person Mario is away from his social media and online character of Perez Hilton is so different from the person that people think of him as," the friend said. "He's so kind, a little shy, self-deprecating and incredibly funny.

As part of a public reinvention, Hilton also focused on his physical health.

At his heaviest, Hilton said, he tipped the scales at 255 pounds but lost more than 60 pounds through years of diet and exer-

cise. He said in 2025 maintaining his transformation was a daily fight.

"I am a food addict," Hilton told The Post at the time. "If I fall off the wagon, like an alcoholic. It takes so much to get back on."

Amid hosting a podcast, running his site — which in recent years has become a more niche interest — and making TV appearances, 2026 has proven a year of significant upheaval.

In March a bout of flu spiraled, with Hilton later saying he had been taking medication without food and developed an ulcer, followed by a stomach

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HARMFUL PATH

THE SEMI-IN CROWD: At the height of his popularity in the 2000s, the line blurred between snarky blogger Perez Hilton and the B-list celebrities who frequented his blurbs, such as singer Fergie, rapper Fieve Fiev and socialite Paris Hilton (from left).

perforation that led to sepsis. "My stupidity landed me in the hospital for 21 days," Hilton said while recounting the ordeal in a video posted on Instagram. "My body kept falling apart."

A subsequent blood clot in his leg provided another serious health scare.

"It scared the hell out of him and was a massive awakening," a source told The Post.

Then Hilton, raised Catholic and educated by Jesuits, but not really a believer, found God.

He said himself what he experienced, he could only call "miraculous."

In a tearful video after his hospitalization, he apologized and admitted he had hurt people in pursuit of attention, money and clicks.

"Nobody's perfect, but my mistakes are very public," he said in a video shared on social media earlier

this year. "The internet is forever. Receipts are forever. I carry with me deep shame and regret. I'm sorry, I will continue to apologize."

In June, he suddenly announced he and his family were leaving Las Vegas, saying "This is heaven-sent. God told me to move to Miami."

Has lots of support

Hilton acknowledged he felt guilty about uprooting his children, and the city held difficult memories for him. "For the longest time, for 30-plus years, I did not love Miami," he said in a June 17 clip, explaining priests had constantly shamed students at his school about homosexuality, and his father and grandfather had died there. "Even though I was born and raised there . . . I got out of there as quickly as I could because I had so much trauma associated with my time in Miami."

Sources separately said Wednesday Hilton found establishing a new

home in Miami more difficult than expected, and financial woes were bearing down on him.

"Some pretty extreme medical bills really hit him hard," the source said. "He's one of the hardest-working people I know, and suddenly being faced with these mounting financial pressures was a lot for him."

Hilton is also the breadwinner for his entire family, which added to pressures, sources said. However, nobody could be prepared for the horrific scenes livestreamed this week, which shocked the world.

"Our focus remains on Perez's health, recovery and the privacy of both him and his family," his reps said Wednesday.

And those close to him are hoping he takes his own advice, imparted seven years ago when he said experiencing depression in his 20s taught him something that would help if he hit dark times again.

"I'll know that it's temporary," he said.

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By ROB LeDONNE

They're heading for the hills. Big Apple business owners are fleeing for the bridges and tunnels in search of a better life upstate — taking their unique talents to the charming towns of the Hudson Valley and Catskills.

The trend toward city-weary New Yorkers moving up the Hudson in search of greener pastures gathered steam during COVID, and has shown no sign of reversing, according to area real-estate insiders.

More and more, that growing population — estimated to have swelled the regional ranks by well over 100,000 new residents in the COVID years alone, according to reports — appears to include some of Gotham's most go-getter entrepreneurs. And they're finding themselves warmly welcomed by locals both old and new.

"It's amazing how many people I see from the city; they're like 'Oh my God, I can't believe you're here!'" veteran NYC restaurateur Daniel Cipriani told The Post. Last winter he opened Dandies, a modern BBQ joint in the mountaintop ski town of Windham.

Brooklyn transplant

The Marine-turned-chef — no relation to those other, famous culinary Ciprianis — made his name at the popular Brooklyn restaurant Sea Wolf, which Vogue once called the "epicenter of the hipster universe."

Now he's gone from the city to the sticks.

"Post-COVID, it just made sense to go 'all in' on upstate," said Cipriani.

"There are so many more people coming up here, from visitors to full-time and weekend residents, who all appreciate good food," he said.

Open for business on the property of Windham's rustic Eastwind Hotel since last winter (Cipriani also co-founded the mini-hotel chain and serves as its food-and-beverage director), Dandies doles out platters piled high with pulled pork, smoked brisket and succulent chicken.

"We're smoking it all in a 333-

NYC biz owners take upscale upstate

SHELTER FROM THE BROOKLYN STORM: The ski-lodge-inspired restaurant Shelter decamped from Williamsburg to upstate Woodstock in 2023 after owners got hit with a whopping rent increase.

gallon smoker we drove here from Texas," said Cipriani.

The demand for new venues has been keeping real-estate brokers hopping.

"It's just been snowballing, Nicole Vidor — owner of Nicole Vidor Real Estate in the fashionable town of Hudson across the river — told The Post.

She's been in the business and in the region for nearly 20 years — and even after the boom years that began in 2020, she's been

impressed by the recent uptick in interest.

"There is amazing demand from all over — people are even coming here from California," she said.

'Equally difficult'

And while the pace of life may indeed be slower up here, don't be fooled, Cipriani said. Operating a business outside the city is "equally difficult — but for different reasons.

"In the city, you have regularity issues, the volume, and all of the other craziness you have to deal with," he explained.

"In the Catskills, all of those things are easier, even something as simple as construction. But up here, the hard stuff can be staffing and getting all the stuff you need shipped in," he said.

"It's the hardest business in the world," he said of running a restaurant, even in idyllic Windham. "But it's also the most rewarding

if you love it, and I love it."

Down the mountain in the nearby town of Woodstock, locals are flocking to another Brooklyn restaurant transplant.

Shelter, a sprawling ski-lodge-inspired restaurant that boasted roaring fireplaces that doled out pizza and empanadas, closed up shop in Williamsburg in 2023 after a 10-year run — following a rent increase to a whopping $90,000 per month.

A year-and-a-half after saying bye-bye to the Borough of Churches, they opened Shelter Woodstock — and haven't looked back since. "Our landlords checked us out and said, 'This is what the town needs.'"

Business booming

According to the duo, business is booming — with hungry revelers feasting on menu hallmarks like onion and cheese empanadas, wood-fired pizza topped with arugula, prosciutto and burrata, and red wine-braised pork ribs.

No town upstate quite feels like a missing NYC neighborhood as much as Hudson — which began gentrifying decades ago and shows no signs of slowing.

Up and down Warren Street and in the nearby side streets, former Big Apple businesses — or branches thereof — are increasingly thick on the ground.

Catering to them in recent years include the likes of Nora Allen — a James Beard semi-finalist whose acclaimed Mel the Bakery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been drawing fans to its new home, hours away from the now-shuttered original.

Up the street, Williamsburg's luxe butcher shop Meat Hook opened up a second location on the same street in 2024.

Yet another neighbor is the fourth location of Gotham, the refined weed dispensary and lifestyle store that originated in NYC — and has splashy locations in hot neighborhoods like Chelsea and Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery.

Bar exam 'brain injury' suit Dem 'begs' ethics question

An attorney hopeful lost consciousness and suffered a serious brain injury during the bar exam at Hofstra University, as proctors refused to stop the test and ignored her gasps for help, a shocking lawsuit claims.

Mary Jane Jung, 36, of New Jersey, suddenly slumped out of her chair and allegedly went into cardiac arrest inside the Long

Island school's David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex shortly before a lunch break on July 30, 2025, during the morning session of the New York State Bar Examination, court papers filed in Nassau County say.

Jung was "gasping for her air," lost consciousness and turned blue, while exam proctors ordered the hundreds in the room to carry on

with the test — delaying Jung critical "early minutes" medical help, her suit against the state and its Board of Law Examiners says.

Hofstra says its public-safety officers immediately provided CPR and other lifesaving measures.

Jung suffered a brain injury and doctors needed to implant a defibrillator, court papers said. Daniel Cody

A Democratic district leader is urging state ethics officials to investigate presumptive Queens Assemblyman-elect Brian Romero for posting a GoFundMe that urged the public to help pay his rent and other living expenses before he takes office.

"He is using the victory of the Assembly seat to entice people to give him cash,"

said Rosa Sanchez, a Democratic district leader who was Romero's election opponent, in an Aug. 3 letter to the Legislative Ethics Commission and the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government.

Romero, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won the Democratic primary in June and has no GOP opposition,

making him the Assemblyman-elect for the 34th District, which includes parts of Astoria, Corona and East Elmhurst.

He took the fundraising page down following inquiries and a backlash — but not before it collected more than $1,000, which he has said he didn't keep.

Romero declined to comment. Carl Campanile

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LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)

The most important thing now is that you keep channels of communication open with someone who appears to disagree with you on just about every issue. Chances are your opinions are not as far apart as you think, so keep talking.

YIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)

Try not to get bogged down in details today, because what is going on in your world requires you to stand back from events and see the bigger picture. The first thing you will notice is that your enemies could just as easily be allies.

LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)

Venus, your ruling planet, enters your own sign today and almost immediately you will sense that a shift is occurring that will tilt the world back in your favor. You may not get everything you wish for but you will get many things worth having.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

It is essential that you see people for what they really are rather than what they would like you to believe about them. Your keen Scorpio eye will pick up on a number of clues today - don't be slow in acting on what they tell you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)

The momentum you have built up in recent weeks will keep you going for some time, but as Venus moves into the networking area of your chart today it would be helpful if you could slow down a bit - not least because your friends can't keep up.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)

If you have found the going tough on the work front of late

things should become easier for you now that Venus is moving into the career area of your chart. Anyone who doubts you have what it takes to shine will soon be proved wrong.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)

Ask yourself what you would do in the world if you knew you could not fail, and then get on and do it. The cosmic forces are working in your favor at the moment, so if you believe in yourself and what you are doing success is all but guaranteed.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)

It's easy to be scared of things we don't understand but it's also easy, if we so choose, to face up to those things and refuse to feel threatened. If you look a particular fear squarely in the face today it will never bother you again.

ARIES (March 21-April 20)

Don't waste your time arguing with people who don't share your values. Today's Sun-Saturn link means you will do best if you focus on what matters to you personally and ignore those who always seem so negative. You don't need them.

TAURUS (April 21-May 21)

You may not be an obvious deep thinker but you have your moments and one such moment will bring forth an idea that strikes you with the force of a thunderbolt today. Act on that idea immediately, because 24 hours from now it may no longer work.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21)

The questions you ask of other people are not so important as

the questions you ask of yourself. If your internal voice nags at you to focus on something of a personal nature today don't try to ignore it, because it's time this question was answered.

CANCER (June 22-July 23)

As one of the zodiac's cardinal signs it's not unusual for you to clash with people whose outlook on life is at odds with your own. What you need to remember today is that though you won't change them and they won't change you, you can coexist.

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A Sun-Saturn link on your birthday will help you focus on essentials and not waste so much time and energy on stuff that has no great meaning. Let people see you are serious about improving not only your own life but their lives as well.

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Throuple breakup turns bad

By PETER SENZAMICI and ALEX OLIVEIRA

There's throuple in paradise. The married self-help influencers behind the popular Holistic Psychologist empire preached peace and trauma recovery while boasting about their "throuple" lifestyle to millions of followers, until the third wheel in their relationship sued, claiming she was abused and cheated out of a fortune.

Clinical psychologist Nicole LePera, 43, and her spouse, Lauren Galvin, 40s, creators of a megapopular Instagram account and numerous books, are being sued by their former lover, Jenna Weak-

THREESOME GLEE: In happier times are (from left) Nicole LePera, Lauren Galvin and Jenna Weakland, who is now suing the others.

land, 30s, who claims she was erased from the brand and denied a $3.5 million payday after their Phoenix-area love nest fell apart.

Weakland alleged that she was instrumental in building the Holistic Psychologist brand, which boasts more than 9 million followers on Instagram alone. She claims she was bullied and that LePera

once threw her down the stairs. LePera and Galvin countersued, alleging that Weakland assaulted Galvin, blew $1 million in fraudulent spending and sowed chaos into their lives while being little more than a customer-service agent for the brand. They also said Weakland threatened to harm herself and pen a tell-all memoir to ex-

tort millions from them.

Both parties denied the other's accusations after their throuple fell through.

'Promise broken'

The trio started out as co-workers in 2019, with LePera and Galvin hiring Weakland on to help run their The Holistic Psychologist business, which had begun exploding from a series of popular books to a subscription-based online community called The Circle.

In 2021, LePera announced on Instagram that she and her wife were in a full blown relationship with Weakland.

The two older women promised to give her a one-third share in the business, according to the suit.

But that promise was never put to paper, and as she brought the matter up, Galvin allegedly began waging a campaign of "psychological warfare," the suit claims.

LePera and Galvin's attorney declined to comment, and Weakland's lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.

Fawning NC Rep. ends run

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) announced on Wednesday that he was ending his bid for a third House term, two days after the House Ethics Committee recommended he be censured by his colleagues for "unprofessional and inappropriate conduct" toward two female staffers.

"After much prayer and reflection, I've decided to withdraw from my re-election campaign," Edwards wrote in a statement posted on X at 3:30 a.m. "I will complete my current term."

Edwards, 65, a married father and grandfather, "went beyond norms of professional behavior by giving both women lavish gifts," "commenting on the two women's appearance," and "inviting them to intimate dinners and vacations," according to the 20-page report. At the time, both aides were in their early 20s.

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Islamist summer camps make mini martyrs

IT'S summer camp season, when kids across America roast marshmallows and compete in games of color war. But in Lebanon, camps run by Hezbollah are preparing children for holy war instead.

Every summer, the terror group's Imam al-Mahdi Scout camps indoctrinate Shiite youth — and even offer paramilitary training to older members. Scores of former Mahdi Scouts have joined Hezbollah's ranks.

And as Israel and Lebanon continue negotiations after their recent agreement to disarm Hezbollah, this key terrorist recruitment pipeline can only undermine the slim chance for peace.

The Imam al-Mahdi Scouts, established in the mid-1980s and recognized by the Lebanese government in 1992, pledge to advance Wilayat al Fiqih, or the "guardianship of the jurist" — that is, the teachings of Iran's supreme leader. Primarily underwritten by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the group now boasts 75,000 registered male and female scouts.

This summer, the youngest Mahdi Scouts are busy with tug-of-war, soccer games and cooking potatoes in campfires, the group's website explains. Tween members are clearing rubble from villages and preparing care packages for Shiite children displaced by Hezbollah's latest war against Israel.

But older scouts have a different, decidedly less benign schedule. In July, teenagers and counselors took a field trip to Iran to attend the funeral of Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, who was killed on the first day of the Iran war by an Israeli airstrike.

When scouts turn 16, they're offered "literacy training" — a course in the basics of weaponry. Over the summer, the teenage scouts receive more intensive armaments training.

Early on, campers are taught the values of "resistance" and "sacrifice." In July, the group organized a ceremony to honor former scouts who graduated to join Hezbollah — and were killed while fighting Israel.

An article on the group's website reported that the celebration highlighted these terrorists' "journey in scouting . . . which culminated

Indoctrinated: Mahdi Scouts in Lebanon join an anti-Israel parade.

nated in martyrdom." And while there's no current tally of "martyrs," the Mahdi Scouts' own publications indicate that more than 120 of them were killed in action through 2006.

Indoctrination starts early, judging by the monthly professional-grade print and online magazines the group produces for its cadres. Preschoolers, for example, can enjoy a pencil maze that challenges them to help a rabbit find its way through a labyrinth of mines planted by Israeli "occupation soldiers," or collect stickers of Kalashnikovs and grenades.

Older kids can read about the centrality of martyrdom, illustrated by pictures of Hezbollah caskets at funerals. The education program appears to be working: In October 2025, the Mahdi Scouts organized a commemoration for former Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an IDF airstrike in 2024.

The event, held at a 50,000-seat Beirut stadium, may have been the largest Scout Jamboree ever — Hezbollah claimed 74,000 attended. An impressive turnout — and a message that, despite substantial losses in its war against Israel, Hezbollah still has recruits waiting to join the fight.

Over the past year, President Trump has pushed to broker a deal between Jerusalem and Beirut that will disarm Hezbollah. Washington is working closely with the Lebanese government to try to limit Iranian funding for its terror catspaw.

But there's a missing piece in the US strategy: reforming the terrorist ideology that the Mahdi Scouts put on such clear display. It will take time, nerve and political will for the weak and fractious Lebanese state to supplant Hezbollah institutions in predominantly Shiite areas.

In the meantime, just as Beirut has declared Hezbollah's weapons illegal, it must ban the Mahdi Scouts to start dismantling the aspiring-martyr pipeline. The group must also be stripped of its international legitimacy: For decades, the Mahdi Scouts have been a member organization of the Lebanese Scouting Federation.

Like Scouting America — formerly the Boy Scouts — the Lebanese Federation is a constituent member of World Scouting, the scout movement's global organization. Even an arms-length affiliation with Scouting's official body is an embarrassment to scouts worldwide.

Finally, the Trump administration should trigger sanctions against the Mahdi Scouts by designating it as a foreign terrorist organization or as an entity that illicitly undermines Lebanon's sovereignty and stability. After all, the group openly declares allegiance to Iran's supreme leader rather than to Lebanon, and its ideological agenda threatens Beirut's aspirations for full sovereignty.

If Trump is serious about Israel-Lebanon peace, he should target Hezbollah's farm team.

David Schenker is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

FAST TAKES

Conservative: Anna, Spare Us the Show

As the Met Gala moves to honor John Galliano after he spent years atoning for antisemitic outbursts in 2011, Commentary's Seth Mandel declares: "If the two options are 'Let Galliano have his day in the sun' or 'Let Galliano have his day in the sun but with a fashion-based exhibition on anti-Semitism curated by Anna Wintour, my vote is for the former' — and not just because 'I don't trust Wintour to teach these important lessons about Jew-hatred.' Rather, 'absolution' should come at the end of a long process — something that 'gets skipped' in 'the current political moment.' So: 'If Galliano's apologies have been accepted in some broad sense, then we don't need a fashion show about his Nazi blackouts.' 'Let the fashion world follow its exuberant heart wherever it leads it, so long as the Jews aren't props in the show.'

From the right: How To Blunt Legal Pot

'For the first time on record,' notes Charles Fain Lehman at The Free Press, "more Americans consume marijuana every day than smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol every day" — but that doesn't make pot legalization politically irreversible, because daily users account for 80% of all pot consumption. That makes marijuana more like "cigarettes: something mostly consumed by a small number of chronically dependent users," not a drug "widely consumed by infrequent, recreational consumers." So, as the public sees "the rise in cannabis use disorder and other negative health outcomes," hard-core "users may find themselves at an increasing political disadvantage." We can start on "the moderate path of taxing, regulating, and stigmatizing" pot; just as with cigs, that "doesn't preclude an eventual ban — it lays the groundwork for one."

Lawyer: Fauci Can't Have His Cake & Eat It, Too

After Anthony Fauci "invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination" III times in Senate testimony, Jay Town asks at The Federalist if "Fauci's invocation of the Fifth Amendment was proper, especially given his pardon from President Biden." Refusing to answer questions about his activities during the pardon-covered period "could constitute criminal contempt" of Congress. Per past Supreme Court rulings, Fauci can't have the protection of both "a pardon and the Fifth Amendment for questioning specifically related to his prior congressional testimony during the covered period." He may be "charged for criminal contempt of Congress because he improperly [pleaded] the Fifth." Either way, his legacy is that "of a mendacious 'megalomaniac,' starved for fame, and dripping in self-interest."

Libertarian: Kagan Warns the Court-Packers

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, "the progressive opposition's greatest legal champion," has "sharply dissented" on key conservative legal victories and is "widely seen as the intellectual leader" of the Court's liberal bloc, observes Reason's Damon Root, yet she's also wisely "working hard to distance herself from the Court's harshest progressive critics." Kagan rejects the premise that the high court's "conservative majority is in President Donald Trump's corner," noting its rejection of Trump's tariffs among other rulings. She's plainly "worried about where the left's political winds are blowing," risking "the future independence of the judiciary." Leftist plans to pack the court would wind up undermining the Supremes' "ability to ever act as any kind of meaningful check against an overreaching president" ever again.

Labor beat: The Latest Threat to Workers

"Massachusetts certified the first American ride-share drivers union in May," allowing a "newly minted" one to rep its 70,000 ride-share drivers, laments C. Jarrett Dieterle at The Wall Street Journal. Such "sectoral bargaining" began with California's Fast Food Accountability and Standards Act and could "change union politics for decades to come" — with workers paying the price. "Hundreds of thousands of workers could become union-represented" even if they don't join, leading to labor negotiations that yield "one-size-fits-all rules" that harm some workers. The economy deserves "flexible policies that help both workers and companies." Sectoral bargaining doesn't — but it's "on the rise." — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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Democrats, Save Your Party

An insurgent Red-Green alliance is taking over the Democratic Party — whose leaders seem ready to surrender to the unholy socialist-Islamist hybrid.

Sen. Chuck “Big Tent” Schumer emerged from his hidey-hulk Wednesday to endorse Abdul El-Sayed after he narrowly won the Dem nomination for Senate in Michigan, praising the fanatic anti-Zionist for his “energetic campaign.”

For his part, El-Sayed — who wants Schumer ousted as Democratic Senate leader — went on MSWOW to call Israel “blood-thirsty” and an “illegal apartheid regime.”

Can anything disqualify a candidate for Schumer’s Big Tent? The party seems willing to accept anyone who can win its ballot line, no matter how much Nazi ink they sport, how many terrorists they fawn over or how much antisemitic lying they do.

Obama-era strategist David Axelrod actually argued on CNN that it’s a “legitimate question” for El-Sayed to ask if “an agent of any foreign government, whether it’s Israel or any other,” ought to be allowed to spend “$30 million in a race like this.” Kudos to Van Jones for calling out Axelrod’s smear —

it’s Americans who fund AIPAC, not “foreign agents” — and pointing out El-Sayed’s extremism: He wants to impose a complete arms embargo on the Jewish state, with the obvious aim of seeing it destroyed.

But Jones is an outlier in the progressive commentariat. Potty-mouthed broadcaster Hasan Piker is Dems’ hottest campaign accessory this season, crisscrossing the country on behalf of various socialists.

Furious that 47% of Michigan Democrats voted against El-Sayed, Piker called them all “unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s – t.”

Meanwhile, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the other day that she won’t attend the state party’s convention because she’d face far too much in-her-face antisemitic abuse.

Now that Schumer’s embraced El-Sayed, what’s next? Watch him share a stage with Piker, who says “America deserved 9/11” and writes off victims’ reports of sexual violence on Oct. 7 as “rape fantasies.”

Going along with the extremist takeover is bad for the Democratic Party and worse for American democracy; sane Democrats need to find the spine to stand up and fight.

Devilish Details for Mam’s Groceries

The specs for Mayor Mamdani’s magical city-run grocery stores demand the moon, but shoppers will be lucky to find some overripe green cheese.

The official Request For Proposals outlines an implausible wish-list that will deliver less than half what Mamdani promised at more than twice the price.

The city wants potential operators of the stores to submit specific financial plans for stocking, staffing and operating five supermarkets — when the city hasn’t built any of the five, nor chosen locations for three.

These imaginary stores must be managed under a business plan out of Alice in Wonderland: No deli counter allowed, but sell fruit, tuna, bean, chicken, egg and potato salads.

The operator should have a pre-existing “cost-effective” supply chain, but also source from “local suppliers and small businesses while keeping prices low.”

Staff will have to enforce who can shop: only those with a “library card-esque” cus-

tomer ID card (which is nothing like a voter ID because . . . well, because).

The stores are eligible for a taxpayer-funded “Affordability Payment,” a subsidy to cover the cost of selling items for 30% below retail average, but management must have experience with employee profit-sharing. Huh? If the store’s finances are backstopped by the city, there’s no “profit” to share.

And city officials on Wednesday were stumped by a host of other questions about the RFP, like who’ll cover operating losses.

None of this gibberish is news to anyone familiar with how the city burns cash on contractors every year — billions to major homeless-shelter nonprofits whose leaders cash profiteer wildly, for example. The Department of Education spends more than $13 billion on vendors every year, yet refuses to release details on hundreds of contracts.

The grocery RFP takes city contracting to new heights of absurdity, but the way New York routinely does business is already insane.

Fresh Proof of Academia’s Corruption

At a time when the hard left’s dominance of higher education has stripped academia of public trust, the American Association of University Professors decided to “fight back” by endorsing political candidates — starting with Michigan extremist Abdul El-Sayed in his primary against Rep. Haley Stevens.

OK, the AAUP has been heading this way for years now: Its president, Todd Wolfson, called J.D. Vance a fascist in a 2024 statement; it opted to side with Hamas amid the Gaza war, abandoning its nearly two-decade-old opposition to academic boycotts.

But endorsing a guy whose comment on an

attempted massacre at a Jewish day school was “Hurt people hurt people” — yokes.

Plus, the decision turns out to be incredibly undemocratic: Turns out AAUP leaders got the key decision made on a July 14 conference call with all of about 40 members in Michigan — out of about 4,000 in the state, and over 40,000 nationwide.

So much for the “shared governance” and “collective voice” the AAUP claims to champion: This was just another hard-left coup. Then again, if the national membership doesn’t revolt over this idiocy, they’ll be proving that today’s faculties are the true threat to US higher education.

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NYC’s E-Bike Crackdown: Now the City Council Cares

• I’m an avid cyclist and have personally observed numerous near-accidents on bike paths in recent months. Officials should consider legislation that would require registration for high-speed e-bikes and scooters (“E-bike terrors put on notice,” Aug. 5).

E-bike safety education should be required for those who register and there should be stronger enforcement against reckless riding, speeding or illegal activities.

Paul Feiner, Greenburgh

• E-bikes that are going 40 miles per hour should be licensed and riding in the car lanes, following the rules of the road as our motorcycles do.

Bike lanes should be for non-motorized bicycles only as originally planned.

Alan Tlusty, SoHo

• As the president of the Greater Whitestone Taxpayers Civic Association, I spoke to our state and city elected officials about the danger of e-bikes and ATVs in not only our community, but every community. I

THE ISSUE: The City Council takes up new bills to crack down on illegal e-bikes in New York City.

Julie Menin

asked a state official to introduce a bill in Albany to register, insure and provide licenses to people who operate these dangerous vehicles, and nothing was done.

Now, City Council Speaker Julie Menin is finally doing something about it. It’s a shame that so many people have been injured or killed. In plain English: It’s about time.

Kim F. Cody, Whitestone

• With all of the recent accidents and fatalities recently, now city officials

are concerned about e-bikes. But this has been a serious problem for a few years. E-bikes are a danger to pedestrians with no consequences.

If the City Council wants to regulate e-bikes, it should allow only people over 16 to ride them, limit the bikes to speeds under 25 miles per hour and mandate insurance so riders can take responsibility for accidents.

Joseph Comperchio Brooklyn

• Crackpot liberals in the city have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to shut down the carriage-horse industry.

Meanwhile, thousands are injured from crazed e-bike riders and 133 people have died since 2019. But the police aren’t allowed to do anything because enforcement of even the most modest rules and regulations is, of course, “racist.”

Jake McNicholas Whitestone

Mam Not Wanted at Ground Zero

• Mayor Mamdani isn’t wanted at the upcoming 9/11 services — but it’s not because he is Muslim (“Dude, we don’t want you here,” Aug. 2).

His presence is not wanted because his divisive ideology leads him to believe America got what it deserved on that horrific day. The narcissistic, unconscionable gall for him to think he’d be welcome anywhere near lower Manhattan by those still-grieving families is almost unbelievable.

This wolf-in-sleep’s clothing nepo baby has revealed his authentically

THE ISSUE: Families of 9/11 victims calling for Mayor Mamdani to not attend this year’s memorial ceremony.

inauthentic self, and the families of the 9/11 victims cannot look away. Neither can the thousands of people who’ve signed the petition to tell this fraud to shed his crocodile tears elsewhere on 9/11.

Ray Arroyo Westwood, NJ

• Last February, scum pelted police officers with snowballs, resulting in some officers even being hospitalized. Our good mayor thought that was

hilarious as he flashed his usual radiant smile.

Perhaps those coming to the 9/11 memorial should bring eggs and tomatoes with them. Then, if Mamdani can manage to break from his embrace with terror-apologist Imam Siraj Wahhaj to be at the ceremony, those in attendance can pelt him so he can better appreciate what our cops had to endure on that winter’s day.

Edward Hochman Manhattan

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UNIONS V. KIDS — AGAIN

NEW York's teachers' unions are waging a vicious campaign against a federal program that would make education more affordable for low- and middle-income families. The reason? They don't want any competition — even if it comes at zero cost to public schools.

Through newspaper and TV ads and a dedicated website, the unions are spreading misinformation aimed at strong-arming Gov. Hochul into rejecting a federal tax-credit program she's promised to join. Shameless online banners and a full-page ad in Hochul's hometown Buffalo News blare, "Gov. Hochul, don't opt in to Trump's voucher scheme."

Their fearmongering aims to bully Hochul into compliance. If she cares about New York's students, she must resist.

Last year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act created a federal tax credit of up to $1,700 for taxpayers who donate to nonprofit scholarship-granting organizations. These groups will use the donations to fund a range of K-12 educational needs for students who apply — but only if they live in states that opt in.

The inaccurate ad campaign suggests the "federal voucher scheme" drains money from public schools. That's false: For one thing, the program's funding comes entirely from the feds, not from state or local governments. It would have zero impact on the roughly $40 billion New York state spends on K-12 education annually.

The unions claim that the federal

program could mean fewer kids in public schools, thereby sapping schools' funding — yet just months ago they publicly cheered Albany's recent law that provides a minimum 2% increase to all districts, regardless of enrollment.

In fact, public-school students would be eligible to receive federal scholarship money under the program to cover a range of educational needs, including after-school programs and tutoring. Students from low- and middle-income families would be first in line: About 27 million New York students would

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qualify, per the American Federation of Children.

Most attend public schools, making them among the program's biggest beneficiaries. And for families who wish to educate their kids in a private or religious educational setting, the scholarships could bring significant relief.

Even so, teachers' unions nationwide are urging Democratic governors to opt out. They'd rather deprive students of federally funded scholarships than let government money flow to non-union schools.

Unions are determined to retain their iron grip over public education, pure and simple. Yet despite their power and influence, they can't stop New Yorkers from sending money to fund scholarships for students out of state.

If Hochul opts out, Empire State taxpayers can get the $1,700 federal credit by donating to a scholarship-granting organization in a state that does join the program. That could send more than $1 billion out of New York to support students elsewhere.

Coupled with popular school-choice laws passed across the nation in recent years, this would only push more families into fleeing New York for a freer school system. Hochul knows that's a problem: that's why she's said she'll join the tax-credit program.

She's right: This state can't afford to lose more families. Its tax base, economy, and even its congressional representation depend on attracting and retaining residents.

Teachers' unions don't have such broad interests in mind. Their only goal is to minimize risks to their members, no matter the cost or the harm. And if they can get Hochul to change her mind, other Democratic governors will also hesitate. The unions' PR campaign in New York thus represents a proxy battle for blue states nationwide.

As the city faces ongoing budget problems and Mayor Mamdani asks agencies to identify savings, Hochul would be unwise to reject a large pool of new money for needy students. Instead, she should join the program now.

New Yorkers deserve the educational affordability that the unions are so determined to deny them.

Danyela Souza Egorov and John Ketcham are fellows of the Manhattan Institute.

Get Roberto Clemente His Day in Court

ROBERTO Clemente collected exactly 3,000 hits in his Hall of Fame career. Puerto Rico's government collected something else from his name: roughly $15 million.

In 2021, the commonwealth enacted laws requiring motorists to pay extra for license plates and registration tags bearing the baseball legend's name, image, jersey number 21 and references to his hit total. The money went into a government fund.

But Clemente's sons, who have spent decades preserving and licensing their father's trademark and humanitarian legacy, objected to the program — and received none of its proceeds. So with the help of the Beacon Center of Tennessee they sued under the Lanham Act, which governs trademarks, and the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause.

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit allowed parts of their trademark case to continue but tossed the constitutional claim, reasoning that the Supreme Court's categorical rule requiring compensation when government takes property applies only to tangible goods. A trademark, being "intangible," gets sent to the legal minor leagues: the open-ended Penn Central balancing test, under which property owners rarely score. The Supreme Court should call that distinction out — because the Constitution has never treated invisible property as a foul ball.

The Fifth Amendment says that "private property" shall not "be taken for public use, without just compensation." It says nothing about property that can be weighed, measured, fenced or stuffed into a warehouse.

At the Founding, property included incorporeal rights — franchises, easements and other valuable interests existing in law rather than in physical form. James Madi-

Even a government playing on its home field must follow the rules of the game.

son described property broadly as everything to which a person may attach value and claim a right.

Early American takings cases followed that understanding: Governments could condemn incorporeal rights, but they had to pay. In 1848, the Supreme Court rejected the attempted distinction between corporeal property and a bridge franchise as a "refinement" with "no foundation in reason." Later cases protected patents, contracts, liens, interest income and trade secrets — none of which could be carried off in a wheelbarrow.

A trademark fits in that tradition. Its commercial value rests on exclusivity: The owner decides who may use the mark, for what purpose, and on what terms.

The mark carries the goodwill built around a name or business. When an unauthorized user exploits it, the owner loses control over the association that gives the mark its value.

Puerto Rico did more than mention Clemente, honor him in a proclamation, or place his story in a museum — it put his mark on

buildings or inventory. A constitutional doctrine that protects raisins — as in the Horne case — more securely than trademarks has lost sight of the ball.

That's why the Manhattan Institute helped file an amicus brief supporting the Clementes. Combining immunity with second-class constitutional treatment for intangible property could leave owners holding a right with no meaningful remedy after the government has already monetized it.

Roberto Clemente's legacy belongs to Puerto Rican history and culture, but his registered commercial mark still belongs to his family. The commonwealth was free to negotiate a license, seek the family's cooperation, or design a voluntary tribute; it chose instead to legislate itself permission and pocket the revenue.

The Supreme Court should take up the Clementes' case and restore the legal line that the Constitution has always drawn. Even a government playing on its home field must follow the rules of the game.

Adapted from City Journal.

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government-issued products, set a price, collected fees, and kept the money. The government stepped up to the plate as an unlicensed commercial user, then declared itself immune from the rules binding everyone else.

Supreme Court precedent already supplies the proper scorecard. In Horne v. Department of Agriculture (2015), the court held that government must pay when it appropriates personal property, just as when it takes land. And in Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto (1984), it recognized trade secrets as property protected by the Takings Clause despite their intangible nature.

The First Circuit's rule would leave the modern economy's most important assets exposed. Brands, data, trade secrets, licenses, publicity rights and business goodwill often exceed the value of a company's

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"Millard is sweet," Rose told me, "but his elevator doesn't go to the top floor. He said he saw an auto accident but he couldn't call 911 because there is no 11 on his phone." Millard Pringle gets lost in the maze of defensive "rules." He was East, and at four hearts, South ducked the first club, won the next, led a trump to dummy and returned the nine of spades. "I was West," Rose said. "Millard paused, trying to sort out the rules. He knew about 'second hand low,' but there also was a rule about 'covering an honor.' The nine was almost an honor, so he finally put up his king." When the king won, Millard cashed his king of clubs and led the queen of diamonds. South lost a diamond for down one. If Millard plays low on the first spade, South succeeds. Later, he takes a ruffling finesse against Millard's king to get a diamond discard. Maybe Millard's play was right: If South had the ace of spades, the game might be unbeatable.

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• 1 "To __ their own"
• 5 One with a supporting role?
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• 15 Nutty Italian cheese
• 16 Verbal fillers
• 17 "I want all the juicy details!"
• 19 Was introduced to
• 20 Tightens (up)
• 21 "If I had to bet __"
• 23 "Use your umbrella!"
• 26 "Aladdin" figure
• 27 Features of some old socks
• 29 Figure skating jump that has only been landed in competition by the Malinin
• 31 Feature of some old socks
• 32 Replay reviewer
• 33 First aid pro
• 34 With 37-Across, place for a powdicure
• 35 Emoji from one who's down
• 37 See 34-Across
• 40 Fitting
• 41 "Gross!"
• 42 Inner workings
• 43 Makes a clutch puff, perhaps
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• 45 Heart chambers
• 46 "Want to play again?"
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• 48 Oscars, e.g.
• 49 Pretend
• 50 Wildly successful, or what three black squares in this puzzle literally are
• 51 ... lodge
• 52 Like loose laces
• 53 Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer
• 54 "Exit full screen" key
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• 57 Down
• 58 Direction that plays first in mahjong
• 59 Ment Blanc, par exemple
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• 61 Wild West costume accessory
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Dow record

A new round of strong earnings reports powered the Dow to a fresh high on Wednesday. The blue-chip index rose for the fifth straight day, climbing 263 points, or 0.5%. US oil prices fell nearly 1% to $75.22 a barrel.

Hiring slows

Hiring by private-sector employers grew less than expected in July, human-resources company ADP said. Private companies added a net 44,000 jobs in July after adding a revised 95,000 jobs in June.

Etsy layoffs

Etsy is cutting 220 jobs, or roughly 12% of its workforce, as it tries to adapt its marketplace to changing online-shopping habits. Etsy said the cuts weren't driven by cost-cutting initiatives or artificial intelligence.

Burger tempts

Shake Shack stock surged 12% after the head of Starboard Value said the activist investment firm has built a stake in the burger brand. Shake Shack reported higher second-quarter sales.

Bieber shines

Hailey Bieber's Rhode brand helped lift E.I.f. Beauty's sales by 36% in the quarter to $479.4 million. Rhode was acquired for $1 billion a year ago.

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NEIMAN MEANIES Retailer sacked att'y after cancer diagnosis

By LISA FICKENSCHER

Neiman Marcus allegedly bungled multiple workplace complaints from senior execs, including a lawyer who claims she was hospitalized for clinical depression caused by "unsustainable" work demands and later was fired after she was diagnosed with brain cancer, The Post has learned.

Seasoned attorney Erin Borg claims Neiman Marcus overwhelmed her with work from the time of her hiring in 2022. The chain allegedly chintzed on support staff and tolerated her hostile co-workers, then looked the other way when she complained, according to a court filing obtained by The Post.

Following her bout of depression, Borg was diagnosed with glioblastoma and had to go on leave, only to be kicked to the curb when coming back from chemotherapy treatment last year after Neiman Marcus' parent company was acquired, according to the filing.

"It simply broke me," she told The Post.

At least 4 complaints

Borg, 46, is among at least four former in-house lawyers who lodged formal complaints, alleging a hostile work environment, a former Neiman Marcus executive who is not associated with Borg told The Post. Two of the complaints resulted in settlements, the source said.

Borg's stint at Neiman Marcus included a colleague, Thomas Mattei, who Borg claims in the court docs was openly hostile towards her and joked about E. Jean Carroll's sexual-assault case against President Trump. He suggested that the re-

Hell of a job

retailer "capitalize" on the case since the alleged assault took place in the dressing room of Neiman Marcus sister company Bergdorf Goodman, according to the filing in federal bankruptcy court.

She lodged several complaints with the company about Mattei and her boss, Hannah Kim, who buried her with work, the filing stated.

"This seems to point to a failure of leadership overall at the company," the source said, referring to the number of employment complaints.

The company denied every allegation in Borg's complaint, in a filing in the arbitration proceeding last year. Neiman Marcus, Kim and Mat-

Mattei did not answer requests for comment.

Geoffroy van Raemdonck was the chief executive of Neiman Marcus during Borg's tenure from 2022 to 2025, with Saks Global acquiring the company in December 2024. He became CEO of the merged entity during its bankruptcy earlier this year. The company, which exited bankruptcy in June, has since been renamed Exemplar Luxury Group.

Borg initiated arbitration proceedings against Neiman Marcus, Mattei and Kim in July 2025. She alleged she had been pushed out of the company months earlier for formally complaining to the HR de-

department and to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about Mattei's alleged behavior and the subsequent retaliation against her, according to the filing.

Borg is now including her original complaint as part of Saks Global's bankruptcy case, urging the court to make sure she can collect a future arbitration award from any available insurance proceeds. The claim does not specify the amount of damages she is seeking.

She is trying to fast-track her case as she continues to battle stage-four cancer, for which she flies to Germany for treatment.

fickenscher@nypost.com

Watchdog ups push to end ABC licenses

A conservative media watchdog on Wednesday doubled down on its push for FCC Chair Brendan Carr to end ABC's TV licenses, comparing the network to a "squatter" for feeling an "entitlement" to the public airwaves, The

Post has learned.

"ABC's filing boils down to a squatter's rights argument: Once it occupies the public airwaves, it believes no one can question whether it deserves to stay," said David Bozell, president of Media Research Center, which sub-

submitted a new regulatory filing. "But broadcast licenses are not permanent entitlements. They are temporary privileges conditioned on serving the public interest.

"Our reply demonstrates that ABC largely avoids the documented evidence of

partisan electioneering, misinformation and programming that minimizes or excuses political violence," he said.

ABC clapped back last week in its own regulatory filing, accusing Carr of "attempted censorship" and

tearing into the filings from the MRC and the Center for American Rights.

The FCC has been reviewing eight of Disney's broadcast licenses, including ABC channels in New York and Los Angeles.

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SpaceX stock plunges 14%

SpaceX shares tanked nearly 14% Wednesday after it revealed a massive jump in spending on AI investments, adding to Wall Street jitters over a possible “AI bubble.”

In its first earnings report as a public company Tuesday, Elon Musk’s rocket-launch firm said its capital expenditures jumped six-fold in the second quarter to $18.4 billion, with the majority going toward AI infrastructure.

The stock hit a record closing

low of $108.27 Wednesday, below its $135 IPO price and its roughly $200 all-time high that was hit shortly after its record-breaking market debut in June, which raised $86 billion.

SpaceX also disclosed a 92% surge in revenue and a smaller-than-expected loss of $541 million in the second quarter, but investors were more concerned about its massive spending plans.

Since its IPO, SpaceX’s stock has

plummeted more than 20%, wiping out roughly $500 billion in value.

After its earnings report, SpaceX, which has touted grand ambitions like building data centers in space and colonizing Mars, also served up an optimistic forecast as Musk (right) said the company would hit $1 trillion in annual revenue in 2030, sooner than a previous forecast of 2031. Taylor Herzlich

News Corp hits a record

News Corp, the parent company of The Post, posted its highest profitability on record Wednesday, driven by growth in its Dow Jones, digital real estate and book-publishing divisions.

The New York-based media giant said its fourth-quarter revenue grew 11% to $2.34 billion, beating analyst expectations.

News Corp saw $230 million from continuing operations, or 33 cents a share, a 167% increase compared with $86 million in the prior year.

“We concluded fiscal 2026 with an exceptional fourth-quarter performance,” CEO Robert Thomson said in a statement.

“Our record performance is a product of sustained focus on, and reinvestment in, News Corp’s core growth engines and our transformation to a digital-first company underpinned by insightful and trusted content,” he added.

During the quarter, News Corp’s financial results were powered by a 7% jump in revenue to $644 million at its Dow Jones unit, which publishes The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch.

Thomson, who previously ripped AI companies for failing to pay enough for content, touted News Corp’s artificial-intelligence partnerships with OpenAI and Meta.

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NYT expects slow growth

The New York Times reported higher profit and revenue for the second quarter, but its shares tumbled 13% as the company forecast slower subscriber growth in the current quarter.

Wednesday marked the stock’s worst one-day loss since 2012.

The company said it added about 280,000 net digital-only subscribers from the prior quarter, its smallest sequential increase in a year. Revenue climbed 11% to $762.5 million, topping Wall Street expectations. Dow Jones

Colbert’s kid quits Producer daughter resigns from ‘60 Mins.’

By ARIEL ZILBER

Stephen Colbert’s daughter has resigned from “60 Minutes,” becoming the latest behind-the-scenes producer to leave the venerable newsmagazine as it grapples with a talent exodus, an unaired Jeffrey Epstein investigation and mounting scrutiny of its future ownership.

Madeleine Carlisle, 30, a well-regarded associate producer who joined the show after reporting stints at Time and The Atlantic, resigned from the broadcast in recent days, according to Status.

Carlisle left just months after the network pulled the plug on her father’s top-rated “Late Show,” ending his 11-season run on May 21. CBS called the cancellation a “purely financial decision.”

CBS and Carlisle both declined to comment on her departure.

Following dad out the door

Her exit comes as multiple producers have left the program since the May defenestrations of veterans on the team, according to Status, an outlet that covers the news media, entertainment and tech.

The ouster of journos including correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with Executive Producer Tanya Simon and Executive Editor Draggan Mihailovich, has since been come to be called “Black

Thursday” by remaining staffers. Additional departures are potentially looming as “60 Minutes” prepares to return next month under the leadership of CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari

Weiss and Executive Producer Nick Bilton, Status reported.

The latest personnel shake-up coincides with fresh questions surrounding an unaired Epstein story.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) says he sat for an interview with Alfonsi in March as part of a planned segment on the relationship between big banks and Epstein. Neither the interview nor the broader story was broadcast before the season concluded in May.

CBS confirmed to The Post that Alfonsi interviewed Wyden for a potential segment, but said the full story did not come together for airing last season.

“We air pieces when they are ready and suggesting that an interview is being ‘suppressed’ for any reason is categorically false,” a CBS News spokesperson said.

‘Story’ drives Disney Q3 Salad and Go belly-up

Disney said the success of “Toy Story 5” extended beyond the box office in the June quarter, as the hit film fueled sales of merchandise, boosted engagement on the Disney+ streaming service and attracted more theme-park visitors.

Shares of the company rose more than 3% Wednesday.

CEO Josh D’Amaro, who took over in March, highlighted his strategy to invest in franchises like Toy

Story to reach audiences outside the box office.

Fiscal third-quarter revenue rose 7% to $25.2 billion, shy of estimates. Separately, Disney and TikTok announced a deal that will allow TikTok creators to use characters and scenes from Disney movies and TV shows in short-form videos, the first agreement of its kind between the social-media platform and a traditional media company. Reuters

Fast-casual chain Salad and Go is shutting down operations and seeking to sell its real-estate footprint in bankruptcy after its rapid expansion and a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak undermined its turnaround.

Parent company And Go Concepts filed for Chapter 11 on Tuesday, listing up to $1 billion in liabilities. The company asked the bankruptcy court to approve its proposal to sell

at least 51 of its drive-through location leases to Dutch Bros Coffee’s parent company, Boersma Bros, for $105 million in cash, according to filings with the federal Bankruptcy Court in Houston on Tuesday.

The chain, which has locations in Arizona and Nevada, was already facing liquidity challenges when cases of explosive diarrhea caused by the cyclospora parasite began to jump last month. Dow Jones

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JEFF DEAN Leaving to form startup.

Google shuffles AI team

Google on Wednesday revealed an overhaul of its AI leadership, as its chief scientist for nearly three decades exits — the latest in a string of high-profile departures to plague the tech giant in its struggle to pull ahead in the artificial-intelligence race.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, will become the company's chairman and chief scientist, while Google DeepMind's technology chief, Koray Kavukcuoglu, will lead work on Google's new Gemini 4 model, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced in a post on X.

Jeff Dean — Google's current chief scientist and one of the company's first employees, working there for 27 years — is leaving to start his own AI startup, Discovery Loop, with three other company veterans, according to a company blog post.

Google's owner, Alphabet, will invest in Discovery Loop. Taylor Herzlich

Meta has a new Muse

Meta Platforms wants in on Silicon Valley's hottest product du jour: coding agents.

The company on Wednesday announced a new coding agent, called Muse Code, that it is pitching as a cheaper alternative to competitors.

Coding agents allow AI users to develop projects and complete software engineering work without having to write code themselves. Anthropic and OpenAI have similar offerings. Dow Jones

BANKS GOT HIS BACK

REPORTS of the demise of the "Nostradamus of AI," aka Leopold Aschenbrenner, may well be exaggerated, On the Money has learned.

Just ask his prime brokers. That's the word from the Wall Street banks that perform this vital function for hedge funds — part of the same smart-money crowd caught off guard last week by Aschenbrenner's tremendous one-month implosion when his leverage-fueled binge on artificial-intelligence shares went south.

It was the whipsaw for the ages: Aschenbrenner's fund, Situational Awareness, seemed to crater overnight: After recording a 1,000% return since its inception in 2024, it fell a whopping 67% in just a month and needed to unload billions of its holdings to stay afloat.

But as of this week, Aschenbrenner's baby isn't dead, despite its well-publicized days-long flame-out in which nearly all its public holdings went to Citadel in a fire sale. Yes, the fund is down to $10 billion in assets from its high of $45 billion, but even with his massive puke, he's still up around 80% for the year.

Still in the top 50

And, remember, $10 billion is still a decent chunk of money, keeping him among the top 50 hedge funds in the country, Wall Streeters tell me.

It's why Aschenbrenner's prime brokers — the Wall Street firms that are essential for hedge funds to operate because they handle so-called back-office needs — are still keen to stand behind him, sources tell On the Money.

My sources note, for example, Aschenbrenner still has his $5 billion private stake in Dario Amodei's AI developer, Anthropic, that has been preparing to go public, and his

Keep faith in AI whiz despite financial falter

fund has lock-ups that make it difficult for big investors like Jane Street to simply pull all their cash.

For that reason, some of the world's most prestigious banks — JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Citigroup — haven't yet cut off prime broker ties with the humbled Nostradamus of AI, I am told. At Morgan Stanley, mean-

while, the prime brokerage folks had planned to onboard Situational Awareness to their platform in September. As of publication, it has no plans to stop, my sources say.

Reps for these banks declined to comment, but wouldn't deny their continued interest in Aschenbrenner's fund as prime brokers. Situational Awareness didn't comment.

Wall Street likes to make money, but it always worries about reputational risk, particularly doing business with risk-takers on steroids.

That said, Wall Street is filled with second acts: Before Larry Fink became the investment sage running money-management behemoth BlackRock, he famously lost his shirt as a trader at the old First Boston. That humbling experience turned him into one of the best risk managers in the business.

Aschenbrenner is obviously smart (he graduated from Columbia at just 19 years of age) and equally humbled, so don't count him out. The smart money on Wall Street hasn't, at least not yet.

Uber bullish on robotaxis

Uber Technologies on Wednesday outlined plans to spend more than $10 billion on robotaxis over the coming years and said Waymo remained an important partner despite reports that the Alphabet unit was considering ending their alliance.

Shares fell 5% after the company issued a weak

profit forecast.

Second-quarter revenue rose 12% to $14.19 billion, narrowly missing estimates.

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he expected Uber and Waymo to continue operating together in Austin and Atlanta, while the ride-hailing company expanded ties with other autonomous vehicle developers. Reuters

Hackers hit Wall St. firms

Hackers attempted a series of sophisticated cyberattacks on major Wall Street financial-services firms and money managers in recent days, targeting their information systems, sources say.

Some of the world's largest hedge funds, along with several private-equity firms,

were targeted.

The hacking attempts featured phone calls in which cybercriminals tried to trick employees into granting them access or handing over other sensitive information, the sources said.

Steve Cohen's Point72 Asset Management told investors Wednesday that it had

faced an attack from hackers, one source said, adding that the firm indicated no customer information was stolen.

The hackers also attempted to breach information systems at other hedge funds, including Two Sigma Investments and Citadel, the sources said. Reuters

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If there's one thing that New York City FC forward Bénie Traoré has gotten used to during his soccer career, it's moving.

At 23 years old, the Ivory Coast international has already played for Swedish club Häcken, Sheffield United when it was in the Premier League, French side Nantes and Basel in Switzerland. Now he's made his way to the Big Apple as NYCFC's newest designated player during the World Cup break in June.

While Traoré has already traversed the globe during his young soccer career, he does like to keep a little taste of home with him.

"I like the food from my country and I already found it in New York, that's a good one," Traoré said during a sit-down interview that included The Post at NYCFC's offices in Manhattan.

But if anyone thinks Traoré is here to sightsee around the city, they would be sorely mistaken. The forward said he hadn't explored each of the city yet — the club took him to the observation deck at SUMMIT One Vanderbilt on Monday as part of a promotional shoot — and Traoré described himself as someone who doesn't "go out a lot."

"I just want to be around my people, play my football and go home," he said.

Traoré will get plenty of chances to play his game as New York City FC enters a particularly crowded part of the schedule. The club will play in a pair of Leagues Cup matches Thursday against Santos Laguna and Sunday against Cruz Azul, and then another Aug. 13 before returning to MLS regular-season play later that week.

Traoré has already appeared in all three of NYCFC's matches since the World Cup break ended, though he has yet to score a goal. The Ivorian insisted that first goal for his new club is "coming soon," and sporting director Todd Dunivant seemed to like what he's seen thus far from the recent acquisition.

"He can bring not just goals, but he can also provide assists, he's got good vision, he's a playmaker. Again, we haven't seen the best of him yet, but you've seen some moments of brilliance from him," Dunivant said, while mentioning the club had tried to bring Traoré in during the winter transfer window. "I think we're really excited about Bénie and continuing to get him ramped up. Pascal's done a really good job of managing him in this early phase so that he's set up for success, which ultimately is about the long term for us."

Traoré has some long-term goals of his own with New York City FC, which was part of the draw to the MLS club.

NYCFC is in its 11th season, meaning that there is ample opportunity to make his way into the history books for the club.

"I wanted to be part of a project like this in my career. I had the opportunity to do it and I jumped on it," he said.

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Lock of the Day Risk Tolerance (7th) Lock Record: 9 for 19 (47%) Meet Record: 52/202 $337.40

1 1 mile; $37,000; clm($12,500); 4up

Bobby Albarado, who rode 5,222 winners, died Tuesday. He was 52. Albarado recently had a stent placed to clear a blockage near his heart, but no further details about his death were available. Albarado guided 19 Grade 1 winners home including Curlin, Minoshatt and Banshee Breeze. In the opener...INTELOCKE EMPIRE scored at this distance then 3 lengths short in a longer 10k. Gets back to business, trad picks up the shipper for Maker. GOLDEN SYMPHONY moves lower for Rice after a vanilla 7th. Won at Aqueduct in June. THRILL OF IT is 0 for 13 over the last 2 years. Wide 4th racing for 20k last out. Races off the Ferraro claim. Zayas subs for Rodriguez who moves to SCREAMING UNCLE.

PH. Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1. Miquel Soul,123	D Davis	4-4-2	Alras	8-1
2. Espenone Curlis,123	S Gonzalez	5-3-2	Kantarmaci	5-1
3. Interlock Empire,123	I Ortiz, Jr	5-1-2	Maker	7-5
4. Golden Symphony,123	M Franco	7-2-1	Rice	3-1
5. Superpower,123	R Gutierrez	7-6-1	Charlele	10-1
6. Theft of Hill,123	E Zayas	4-5-2	Ferraro	12-1
7. Screaming Uncle,123	J Rodriguez	7-4-4	Charlele	15-1
8. First Trumpet,123	J Ortiz	6-6-7	Gianuilo	6-1

2 1/2 miles(T); $115,000; mds; 2YO

Two-year-olds on the turf to back-end the double. MONACO CROWN finished strong, a length short at Colonial. Sprint to route; Santana on; Binkers on. AL MONADAMAH (Cox/Trad) and PARRA to Make (Prot) make their grass debuts after finishing last on dirt. HOWARDS HOPE (Dequy/Franco/Karaketshi) and CAPTAIN GEORGE (Green/Rodriguez/War Of Will) are the first-timers.

PH. Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1. All About Soul,123	K Carmouche	4-4-4	Ferraro	8-1
2. Monaco Crown,123	R Santana, Jr	4-4-4	Salomon	5-1
3. Howard's Hope,123	M Franco	4-4-4	De Paz	9-2
4. Solo St year,123	C Elliott	4-4-4	Friedman	20-1
5. All Movashah,123	I Ortiz, Jr	4-4-4	Cox	5-2
6. Mendel,123	J Velazquez	7-4-4	Giddings	15-1
7. Parra,123	F Prat	10-4-4	Maker	10-1
8. Papa Brez,123	T Gaffalone	4-4-4	Green	10-1
9. Roadhouse Warrior,123	S Bridgeman	9-4-4	Giddings	10-1
10. Captain Goreas,123	J Rodriguez	4-4-4	Green	6-1
11. Motorcycle Cop,123	D Davis	4-4-4	Alras	15-1
12. Zack the Grey,123	M Franco	5-4-4	Rodriguez	5-1

3 7 fur; $50,000; mds clm($35,000); 3up

Wide trip for KINGS LANDYN but he still managed to debut 3rd at 20-1. Offers fair value again; same distance. CHRIS SONG (Rice) was 4th and EASEMYVORRIEDMOND (Hennig) was 7th at Aqueduct. Chris's Song should get more out of the extra furlong. Changes on Easemyvorderimnish Gaffalone on...blinkers on...tst time gelding.

PH. Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1. Chris's Song,126	R Santana, Jr	4-3-6	Rice	9-2
2. Easemyvorderimnish,126	T Gaffalone	7-4-4	Hennig	10-1
3. New Much Is Enough,126	D Davis	7-4-4	Rice	6-1
4. Bye for Now,126	C Hargrove	5-5-4	Handal	10-1
5. Always Honest,126	K Carmouche	4-6-3	Jimenez	8-1
6. Recurring Byehoun,126	M Franco	6-8-4	C Brown	6-1
7. Montisoli,126	E Zayas	10-4-4	James Bond	15-1
8. Kings Landyn,126	R Gutierrez	3-4-4	Miceli	8-1
9. Mo Melonies,126	C Elliott	2-4-4	Breed	15-1
10. Ours to Start,126	J Rodriguez	4-4-4	Weaver	10-1
11. Bargain Purchase,126	I Ortiz, Jr	4-7-4	Alras	5-1
12. Burdino,126	K Davis	10-8-4	Shivamagal	30-1

4 6 fur; $37,000; clm($12,500); 4up(f)

Wide open. TOP OF THE TABLE missed the break and never factored at Finger Lakes. Ran well previous 3 at Aqueduct including an off the pace win. Franco rides for Rice. JACKSONS DIXIE lead off a no-excuses 7th. Handy wire-to-wire winner racing for 16k in March. SHORT SHIFT is 0 for 4 this year. About 4 lengths short, this distance in June. Ussing in deep exotics with IRISH JACKSON who rallied to win at Finger Lakes. Irish can get up again but can she outkick Top of the Table?

PH. Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1. Jackie the Joke,123	J Lezcano	8-1-1	Ferraro	9-2
2. Play Good Pay Good,123	F Prat	6-1-1	Englehart	10-1
3. City Block,123	S Gonzalez	4-2-7	Kantarmaci	5-1
4. Short Shift,123	E Zayas	7-5-5	Kantarmaci	6-1
5. Open Soul Autism,123	H Horkin	1-6-4	Kantarmaci	12-1

6. Top of the Table,123	M Franco	6-2-3	Rice	4-1
7. Irish Jackson,123	C Elliott	1-4-2	Falcone	6-1
8. Jackson's Dixie,123	R Santana, Jr	7-3-5	R Dutrow	7-2
9. Shazanae Stiowee,123	R Gutierrez	4-2-6	Jones	20-1

5 1/2 fur(T); $56,000; mds clm($50,000); 3up

A tired 5th for HIGH LEVERAGE and Keri Brion has him retreat to a sprint. Note sky racing 6/8 previously. Irrad a good sign. SPIEGHTU, STORM Length short with similar. Moves forward if we're off turf. 5/8 WALTZ makes 3YO debut for Duggan. Led, settled for 3rd at the Big A in November. May need race; may not look back. 1st time look. EYE ON THE BALL and MYRONOS ran home 2-3 this distance here in July.

PH. Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1. Charlie My Boy,123	C Elliott	4-3-3	Barrow	15-1
2. High Leverage,123	I Ortiz, Jr	5-2-5	Brion	3-1
3. Twenty One Red,123	J Rodriguez	5-3-8	Weaver	8-1
4. Until Last Call,123	M Franco	9-4-5	Ryerson	15-1
5. Strobe Light,123	L Saez	8-8-5	Ferraro	30-1
6. Sir Wofnall,123	J Castellano	3-9-5	Duggan	6-1
7. Pilot Knob,123	E Zayas	6-5-9	B Brown	15-1
8. Eye On the Ball,123	D Davis	2-3-9	Handal	5-1
9. Make a Prediction,123	R Santana, Jr	8-3-3	B Brown	6-1
10. Tidearry,123	J Lezcano	11-8-5	Englehart	15-1
11. Mykonos,123	F Prat	3-5-2	Maker	9-2
12. Spieghill Storm,123	E Zayas	3-8-3	James Bond	2-1
13. Three Two Won,123	F Prat	12-4-4	Maker	6-1
14. Crazy Busted,123	D Davis	4-4-4	B Brown	8-1

6 6 fur; $90,000; mds; 2YO(f)

Two-year-old fillies, many making their career debuts. Our order of finish CREAM OF THE CROP (Bergy/Davis/Nashville). CAPODOST (Cox/Trad/Nashville). DOTSY (Grabowski/Carmouche/Tactius). JUANA MARGARITA (McPerek/Ortiz/Greatest Honour) and MANIKERS NICKEL (Handal/Prat/Classic Empire).

PH. Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1. Dotsy,123	K Carmouche	4-4-4	Grabowski	20-1
2. Beach Belle,123	T Gaffalone	4-4-4	Beckman	8-1
3. My Goni,123	K Davis	4-4-4	A Dutrow	15-1
4. My Sweet Tim,123	J Castellano	4-4-4	Duggan	20-1
5. Cream of the Crop,123	D Davis	4-4-4	Begg	8-1
6. Hammers Nickel,123	F Prat	4-4-4	Handal	6-1
7. Capodost,123	I Ortiz, Jr	4-4-4	Cox	5-2
8. Goodproblemshave,123	J Rodriguez	3-4-4	Green	4-1
9. Guntavia,123	E Zayas	4-4-4	Sano	20-1
10. Cody's Approval,123	M Franco	10-4-4	Trombetta	8-1
11. Juana Margarita,123	I Ortiz	4-4-4	McPerek	8-1

7 1 mile(T); $120,000; alv; 3up

Outkicked. RISK TOLERANCE led late but lost by a neck at Aqueduct. Retreats to distance of last win. POWHERS MTG. OSANDO is 1 for 24. The 9 earned at a mile last September. Carmouche puts the longshot on the lead at a price. BEDF MANHATTAN Wore-o-done. Debuted with a W at Fair Grounds in November of 2024. Does DeVaux' colt need a race? I Ortiz will know. MARKET TIMING went dirt to turf and responded with a 10-length maiden breaker at Monmouth. Fast, but will have plenty of company on the front end.

PH. Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1. Market Timing,123	D Davis	1-6-4	C Brown	6-1
2. Deep Manhattan,123	I Ortiz	1-4-4	DeVaux	9-2
3. Cuando,123	K Carmouche	6-5-8	Levine	20-1
4. Siroulicanda(FW),123	I Ortiz, Jr	6-1-4	Sharp	7-2
5. Highlands Way,123	M Franco	1-1-11	Pletcher	10-1
6. Risk Tolerance(FW),123	F Prat	2-4-2	C Brown	1-1
7. Griffin's Wharf,123	T Gaffalone	10-2-8	Morley	15-1
8. Mega Magic,123	L Saez	1-5-7	Stall	30-1
9. Espinberg,123	T Gaffalone	5-2-2	Joseph	9-5
10. Fort Nelson,123	K Carmouche	6-5-1	Rice	5-2

8 1/8 miles(T); $125,000; alv; 3up

STARSHIP TITAN flew down the lane only to miss by 3/4. Choice, 2nd off the shelf, getting another furlong. Scored prior to the break. Castellano rides for Nevin. TACTICALITY MTG. Won comfortably in the stop at Monmouth. EARS ADOPTED makes 4YO debut for Chad Brown. 1 for 5 last year. Wide 4th at Spa last summer. Resurfaces as a 1st time gelding. Franco rides. RELATIVE VALUE moves higher for Brown after winning narrowly at Monmouth. Prat up. WALLEY WORLD was 3rd behind top pick.

PH. Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds

1. Relative Value(GW),126	F Prat	1-7-3	C Brown	6-1
2. Starship Titan,126	J Castellano	2-1-1	Nevin	5-2
3. Early Adapter(GW),126	M Franco	4-7-5	C Brown	6-1
4. Mount Bundle,126	K Carmouche	8-5-2	Nilini	20-1
5. Slagimtheface,126	J Velazquez	8-1-1	A Dutrow	15-1
6. Walley World,126	T Gaffalone	3-2-5	Joseph	5-1
7. Dauntz,126	R Santana, Jr	7-6-4	Ribundo	20-1
8. Ocean Atlantique,126	I Ortiz	6-3-1	Noda	8-1
9. A Bourbon for Toby,126	I Ortiz, Jr	6-2-2	Morley	7-2
10. Discreet Dancer,126	L Saez	6-1-6	Sano	20-1
11. Alan Torrep,126	J Alvarado	6-1-2	Quick	5-2
12. Tacticality,126	F Prat	1-10-3	C Brown	2-1
13. Le Grist,126	Rider TBA	8-4-4	Rodriguez	9-2
14. Alternate Reality,126	M Franco	2-4-7	Kantarmaci	6-1

9 7 fur; $200,000; John Morrissey; 3up

The feature is the John Morrissey. RADIO RED raced wide and checked in a compromised 3rd. Won the Haynesfield in March. Gargany gelding offers fair value. DOC SULLIVAN won last years Morrissey by this much. Haier's raced since March. Given a breather after turning in last of 1st the Essex at Oaklawn. Won a NY-bred stallion stake at the distance last November. Irrad rides for Green. DRAKES PASSAGE and YO BANANA BOY move to the 20th off of wins at Finger Lakes. Drakes Passage the better value under Gaffalone. And SACKSONSCT is 2 for 2 racing 7 panels.

PH. Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1. Dr. Kraft,124	S Gonzalez	2-4-4	Kantarmaci	10-1
2. Light Man,124	J Rodriguez	2-4-4	Levine	10-1
3. El Grande O,124	F Prat	1-4-1	Rice	6-1
4. Hit the Post,126	C Elliott	5-1-3	Giddings	15-1
5. Buttah,124	J Castellano	1-2-6	Kantarmaci	12-1
6. Sacrosanct,124	M Franco	3-2-1	Rice	4-1
7. Acoustic Ave,124	J Lezcano	5-4-2	Rice	12-1
8. Bold Journey,126	J Alvarado	3-7-3	Mott	6-1
9. Yo Banana Boy,126	R Santana, Jr	1-4-7	Maker	12-1
10. Doc Sullivan,126	I Ortiz, Jr	7-2-1	Green	7-2
11. Donegal Surpore,124	K Carmouche	8-2-7	Pletcher	10-1
12. Drake's Passage,124	T Gaffalone	1-7-3	Clement	20-1
13. Radio Red,126	D Davis	3-4-1	Gargan	10-1

10 1/16 miles(T); $56,000; mds clm($50,000); 3up(f)

HOT TAPING. Midpack 4th in latest but figs suggest Morley's filly competes at a price. Saez if she draws in off the AE. SAN ANTONIO SARA MTG. ITALIANNE made your debut in November and never factored. Sprint to route and lower off the layoff for Morley. Daughter of Vino Rosso may relish the distance. 1st time lasc; 1st time trad.

PH. Horse Wt.	Jockey	Last 3	Trainer	Odds
1. Chaumet,123	E Zayas	6-8-4	Terranova II	6-1
2. Amicus Curian,123	R Santana, Jr	4-10-9	Levine	10-1
3. Salamno,123	I Ortiz, Jr	10-8-4	Morley	6-1
4. Bernina Express,123	F Prat	6-8-8	De Paz	9-2
5. Mia Sophia,123	R Gutierrez	12-7-11	DeLauro	20-1
6. Zelinski,123	J Lezcano	7-5-4	Nevin	12-1
7. Tank Girl,123	F Villa Pino	11-10-5	Mettiver	50-1
8. Intimethwildemess,123	I Ortiz	3-9-4	Baker	7-2
9. Luciana's Honor,123	J Velazquez	2-3-5	Hennig	20-1
10. Sky Low Low,123	K Davis	2-5-5	DeVaux	6-1
11. Sunshine Dakota,123	J Rodriguez	4-4-4	Chichakly	15-1
12. Saratoga Daisy,123	K Carmouche	8-4-8	Donk	8-1
13. Not Tapping,123	L Saez	6-7-6	Morley	8-1
14. Iwokengilkethis,123	J Lezcano	11-4-4	Nevin	20-1
15. San Antonio Sara,123	T Gaffalone	4-5-3	Joseph	2-1

PLAY OF THE DAY

Lady Firefoot (14-1) didn't fire. Loss of -$30. Four that may offer fair value. Bet $4 across the board on Kings Landyn in Race 3, Cream Of The Crop in Race 6, Radio Red in Race 9 and Not Tapping in Race 10... Vic Cangialosi

Yonkers for Thursday

Post Time: 6:45 p.m.

FIRST: Mile two; $22,000; claiming

1. P.L. Oscar (Asiegelman) 6-8-6 5-1
2. B. Nickling (Bartlett) 3-1-6 1-1
3. Chet Rocco (Bhelland) 4-2-1 3-1
4. Kasha V (Marsh) 4-4-8 10-1
5. Hat Trick Marleau (Strafton) 3-2-1 8-1
6. Windsong Pioneer (Ckelly) 8-8-8 20-1
7. Credit Con (Szeron) 2-2-5 20-1
8. Ikon Vang Ok (Dubo) 2-6-3 20-1

SECOND: Mile two; $12,300; Nauda 1. Baby Tao (Skoppier) 2-4-4 6-1 2. Pe Fret Wheeling (Strafton) 4-4-3 4-1 3. Cal Mile N Steel (Cazkowski) 3-7-5 6-1 4. Lucky Mum N (Farrado) 5-7-2 9-5 5. Bacardi (Lee) 5-6-3 20-1 6. Barn Credit (Aadanczyk) 7-8-2 20-1 7. Shake N Baie (Silverman) 1-2-5 5-1 8. Big Limo (Averroux) 1-5-6 8-1

THIRD: Mile two; $22,000; claiming 1. Mon Amour (Ckelly) 4-3-3 7-2 2. Radio Lab (Alller) 8-5-1 10-1 3. For A Dreamer (Bhelland) 6-6-6 20-1 4. Aquarius Face S (Strafton) 2-1-6 5-2 5. Classical Jane (Tibuter) 2-1-2 7-2 6. Warrawee Whisper (Dubo) 7-7-7 20-1 7. Beacon Beach (Asiegelman) 1-7-1 8-1 8. The Bradster (Bartlett) 3-7-7 4-1

FOURTH: Mile two; $22,000; cond 1. My Degenerate (Alller) 1-1-2 5-2 2. Wheelsabazin (Mokaley) 4-7-1 8-1 3. Southwest Coors (Tibuter) 2-4-3 7-2 4. Asteroid (Ckelly) 3-3-4 3-1 5. Dribbling Bi (Dubo) 4-3-6 6-1 6. My Man Peter (Bartlett) 5-2-1 6-1 7. Camera Man (Asiegelman) 4-2-4 20-1 8. Full Of Muscles (Szeron) 2-2-4 12-1

FIFTH: Mile two; $28,000; cond 1. Seven Layer (Asiegelman) 7-3-1 6-1 2. Khaosan Road (Ckelly) 2-6-6 4-1 3. High Speed Swan (Bartlett) 2-4-1 2-1 4. Te Quiero Lindy (Alller) 3-3-7 8-1 5. Vinny De Vie (Bhelland) 1-4-4 10-1 6. Oliver The Great (Marsh) 1-2-5 5-1 7. Onajotjanin (Strafton) 2-2-2 12-1 8. Blockchain (Tibuter) 3-2-8 6-1

SIXTH: Mile pace; $28,000; Ny Ex 1. Taladega Express (Ballely) 5-7-5 3-1 2. Perla (Alller) 8-1-2 10-1 3. Bellbottom Country (Bartlett) 6-2-2 4-1 4. Long Shore (Mokaley) 1-1-5 8-5 5. She's In The Juice (Ckelly) 3-4-1 5-2

SEVENTH: Mile pace; $28,000; Ny Ex 1. American Cheese (Strafton) 2-2-2 2-1 2. Anya Blue Chip (Bhelland) 4-3-5 12-1 3. Carry Back (Bartlett) 3-1-6 9-5 4. Come On Barbie (L'Friton) 1-1-5 4-1 5. Onacothum (Tibuter) 4-7-5 6-1 6. L'lyville (Ballely) 2-6-3 8-1

EIGHTH: Mile pace; $28,000; Ny Ex 1. Ex Does It (Vizegrau) 4-7-2 8-1 2. Buckers (Szeron) 1-1-3 3-2 3. Hay Beth (Bhelland) 3-4-3 6-1 4. Lenna (Bartlett) 1-6-3 8-5 5. Lady Oakley (Ckelly) 3-7-1 6-1 6. Pinosoleightful (Strafton) 4-4-4 20-1

NINTH: Mile pace; $82,500; NYSS 1. Savage Cindy (Strafton) 4-2-1 5-2 2. Saulsbrook Rolo (Vizegrau) 6-4-3 20-1 3. Ideal Beauty Queen (Szeron) 5-3-7 7-2 4. Existential (Bartlett) 4-3-6 5-1 5. Odds DeMonetary (Mokaley) 1-1-1 6-5

TENTH: Mile pace; $82,500; NYSS 1. Liberty Style (Bartlett) 2-1-1 4-5 2. Miss Genie Mae (Strafton) 6-4-5 8-1 3. Two Twenty Swift (Vizegrau) 3-5-2 7-2 4. Hologhormos (Hervsberger) 7-6-2 15-1 5. Surreal Spirit (Gorgony) 3-3-1 3-1

ELEVENTH: Mile two; $42,000; invitational 1. BayBreezeHanover (Bhelland) 5-7-1 4-1 2. Hot Flash Kimmy (Ckelly) 4-3-1 6-1 3. MenilbaysHappiness (Gngrs) 6-1-3 8-1 4. Ma Isabelle (Pluchanec) 3-1-6 8-1 5. R Lady W (Bartlett) 2-4-5 2-1 6. Nymeria (Mokaley) 1-5-4 12-1 7. Stacking Green (Szeron) 1-3-3 20-1 8. Always A Story (Strafton) 1-6-1 5-1

Saratoga Results

FIRST-2 mile 3 fur; $150,000; Smithwick; 4up 7. Start Uncle (Brgy) 18.08 5.04 3.24 1. Fli Dpr (FBI) (Tierney) 6.42 4.74 6. Raja Redemption (Precter) 4.90 ● $1 Exacta (7-1); $81.37 ● $0.1 Superfecta (7-1-6) $125.78 ● $0.5 Trifecta (7-1-6) $119.19 SECOND-7 fur; $100,000; mde; 3up (fAm) 2. Fbn's Process (Prt) 6.58 2.98 2.46 3. Promo M Ambls (Brgy) 2.96 2.64 7. Carmen Amalia (Blyera) 2.98 8. Srinivasta Maria, Midnight Honor ● $1 Double (7-2) $15.84 ● $1 Exacta (2-1) $7.99 ● $0.5 Trifecta (2-1-7) $21.59 ● $1 Consolation Double (7-3) $4.69

THIRD-1 mile; $115,000; mde; 3up (fAm) 3. Mr Louie (Vizqui) 5.26 3.62 3.26 2. Noble Glow (Prat) 4.34 3.56 6. Mba Twitter (Franco) 5.56 ● $1 Cons Pick 1 (7-3-3) $26.18 ● $1 Pick 3 (7-3-3) $63.18 ● $1 Double (3-3) $11.47 ● $0.5 Trifecta (3-2-6) $39.18 FOURTH-1 mile 1 fur; $125,000; alv; 3upf 3. Ontario (Ortiz) 18.18 6.46 5.12 2. Unrescible (IRE) (Frio) 5.42 3.46 6. Power of Destiny (GB) (Vizqui) 5.20 8. Svr. Purion, Board Wine ● $1 Pick 1 (2-3-3) $18.07 ● $1 Double (3-3) $25.45 ● $1 Exacta (3-2) $51.21 ● $0.5

Trifecta (3-2-6) $139.15 FIFTH-6 fur; $75,000; svc (ST5,000); 3YO 6. Shmo Bch (Ortiz) 6.54 3.06 2.34 4. Ramsay (Prat) 2.98 2.50 7. Imagine Jolin (Morelos) 2.56 8. Svr. Herdigan ● $1 Pick 3 (3-3-6) $15.84 ● $1 Double (3-6) $25.68 ● $1 Exacta (6-4) $7.67 ● $0.5 Trifecta (6-4-7) $10.01 Exacta picked by Vic C SIXTH-5/5 fur; $115,000; mde; spl wt; 2YO F 3. Embollig (Vizqui) 33.26 10.84 6.06 7. Rockabye (Franco) 3.82 2.82

6. Queenly (Ortiz) Jr. 4.14
7. Svr. McMullins, Saylans, Seaside Strup, Jolene ● $1 Pick 3 (3-6-3) $108.66 ● $1 Double (6-3) $37.58 ● $1 Exacta (3-7) $60.49 ● $0.5 Trifecta (3-7-6) $179.05 SEVENTH-6 fur; $45,000; mde (6525.8); 3up
8. Abrigado (Ortiz) Jr. 3.72 2.64 2.34
9. Lough Currie (Rodriguez) 22.18 11.36
10. Mr R T (Gutierrez) 5.08
11. Svr. Holo Dancer, Unbridled Justice, Wingfield ● $1 Pick 1 (6-3-9) $128.07 ● $1 Double (3-9) $35.40 ● $1 Exacta (9-5) $48.86 ● $0.5 Trifecta (9-5-6) $79.47 Winner picked by Vic C

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AL Standings

East	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Tampa Bay	68	46	.596	—	—	7-3	W-3	41-18	27-28
Yankees	64	51	.557	4½	+7	5-5	L-1	27-25	37-26
Boston	62	51	.549	5½	+6	9-1	W-7	27-29	35-22
Baltimore	56	58	.491	12	5½	6-4	W-2	32-29	24-29
Toronto	54	63	.470	14½	3	6-4	W-1	28-31	26-30
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Chicago	59	54	.522	—	—	5-5	L-2	34-21	25-33
Cleveland	57	58	.496	3	—	3-7	L-2	28-30	29-28
Minnesota	56	59	.487	4	1	5-5	L-4	30-27	26-32
Detroit	55	59	.482	4½	1½	5-5	L-1	30-27	25-32
Kansas City	48	67	.417	12	9	5-5	W-2	28-27	20-40
West	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Houston	59	57	.509	—	—	7-3	L-1	30-29	29-28
Texas	57	58	.496	1½	—	4-6	W-2	30-26	27-32
Seattle	56	59	.487	2½	1	5-5	W-1	33-25	23-34
Athletics	45	69	.395	13	11½	1-9	L-7	21-36	24-33
Los Angeles	43	71	.377	15	13½	2-8	L-2	25-33	18-38

*WGB: Games behind third-place team in wild-card race

Wednesday

Mets 6, Cleveland 5, 10 inn.

St. Louis 3, Yankees 1

Toronto 5, Houston 4, 10 inn.

Texas 6, San Francisco 0

Tampa Bay 4, Colorado 0

Baltimore 5, L.A. Angels 2

Cincinnati 3, Athletics 2

Boston 4, White Sox 0

Kansas City 2, Minnesota 1

Seattle 4, Detroit 2

Thursday

Mets at Cleveland, 1:10

L.A. Angels at Baltimore, 12:35

Athletics at Cincinnati, 12:40

Toronto at Cubs, 2:20

Detroit at Seattle, 4:10

White Sox at Boston, 7:10

Minnesota at Kansas City, 7:40

NL Standings

East	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Atlanta	69	45	.605	—	—	8-2	W-7	38-20	31-25
Philadelphia	61	54	.530	8½	—	5-5	L-1	30-28	31-26
Miami	58	57	.504	11½	3	6-4	L-2	34-23	24-34
Washington	56	60	.483	14	5½	2-8	W-1	23-34	33-26
Mets	49	66	.426	20½	12	6-4	W-2	25-34	24-32
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Milwaukee	71	43	.623	—	—	6-4	W-2	38-21	23-22
Chicago	66	49	.574	5½	+5	7-3	W-3	34-24	32-25
St. Louis	57	58	.496	14½	4	4-6	W-1	28-32	29-26
Pittsburgh	57	59	.491	15	4½	3-7	L-2	29-28	28-31
Cincinnati	55	58	.487	15½	5	7-3	W-3	28-31	27-27
West	W	L	Pct.	GB	*WGB	L10	Streak	Home	Away
Los Angeles	69	46	.600	—	—	2-8	L-6	33-23	36-23
Arizona	61	54	.530	8	—	4-4	W-1	33-23	28-31
San Diego	59	56	.513	10	2	7-3	L-1	32-25	27-31
San Francisco	48	67	.417	21	13	4-6	L-2	26-27	22-40
Colorado	45	70	.391	24	16	3-7	L-3	27-32	18-38

Wednesday

Mets 6, Cleveland 5, 10 inn.

St. Louis 3, Yankees 1

Texas 6, San Francisco 0

Cubs 7, L.A. Dodgers 6

Tampa Bay 4, Colorado 0

Cincinnati 3, Athletics 2

Atlanta 4, Miami 1

Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 2

Washington 10, Philadelphia 4, 11 inn.

Arizona 10, San Diego 4

Thursday

Mets at Cleveland, 1:10

Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 2:10

Toronto at Cubs, 2:20

Washington at Philadelphia, 6:05

Miami at Atlanta, 7:15

San Diego at Arizona, 9:40

POSTS OF DOKO
Puzzles on Page 34
3	1	6	8	9	4	7	2	5
7	9	5	3	2	6	1	4	8
8	4	2	1	7	5	3	6	9
6	8	9	5	4	3	2	7	1
1	7	3	9	6	2	5	8	4
2	5	4	7	8	1	9	3	6
5	2	8	4	3	9	6	1	7
4	6	1	2	5	7	8	9	3
9	3	7	6	1	8	4	5	2
Solution to Very Easy #7,362 Solution to Difficult #7,152

Cardinals 3, Yankees 1

St. Louis	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Wetherholt 2-2b	3	1	1	2	2	0	248
Herrera c	5	0	1	1	0	2	239
Burleson 1b	4	0	1	0	0	1	287
Fermin rf	4	0	0	0	0	0	237
Church c	4	0	2	0	0	0	236
Jordan 3b	4	0	2	0	0	1	252
Torres f	3	1	0	0	1	2	232
Crooks dh	4	1	2	0	0	1	188
Prieto 2b	3	0	0	0	0	1	000
Winn ss	1	0	0	0	0	0	238
Totals	35	3	9	3	3	8
Yankees	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Grisham cf	5	0	0	0	0	1	211
Rice dh	2	1	0	0	3	1	260
García 1b	3	0	0	0	1	0	283
Sánchez c	1	0	0	0	1	0	268
Ramos f	3	0	1	0	0	1	261
Jones rf	4	0	0	0	0	2	212
Chisholm 2b	2	0	0	1	1	2	217
McMahon 3b	2	0	0	0	2	1	212
Caballero pr 3b	0	0	0	0	0	0	245
Lombard ss	4	0	1	0	0	2	333
Wells c	2	0	1	0	0	0	169
Goldsmith 1b-1b	2	0	1	0	0	0	247
Totals	30	1	4	1	8	10
St. Louis	000	030	000	—	3	9	2
Yankees	000	001	000	—	1	4	0
E: Burleson (8), Herrera (1), LOB: St. Louis 8, New York 11, JB: Burleson (28), Wetherholt (11), Herrera (19), Crooks (4), Ramos (14), Goldsmith (11), RBIs: Wetherholt 2 (43), Herrera (47), Chisholm (47), SB: Rice (2). Runners left in scoring position: St. Louis 5 (Crooks, Herrera 2, Burleson, Church); New York 6 (McMahon 3, Sánchez, Lombard, Garcia). RISP: St. Louis 2 for 9; New York 6 for 18. DP: St. Louis 1 (Wetherholt, Burleson); New York 1 (Lombard, Chisholm, Garcia).
St. Louis	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP ERA
Pallets, W, 12-6 5.1	3	1	1	3	4	103	3.63
Soriano, H, 17 1.0	0	0	0	1	3	24	3.55
Bruhl, H, 7	0.2	1	0	0	1	0	15.60
Stanek, H, 20 1.0	0	0	0	2	2	24	4.63
O'Rees, S, 27-31 1.0	0	0	0	1	1	27	3.35
Yankees	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP ERA
Warren, L, 8-6 5.1	7	3	3	1	5	91	4.18
Castro	1.0	0	0	1	1	22	1.69
Hill	1.0	0	0	0	0	14	4.40
Blackburn	1.2	2	0	1	2	30	3.02

T: 3:21. A: 37,425 (47,309).

Rays 4, Rockies 0

Tampa Bay	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Mesa rf	3	1	2	1	0	0	231
Aranda dh	4	1	1	1	0	1	285
Caminero 3b	3	1	1	1	0	0	284
Hicks 1b	3	0	0	0	0	0	282
Simpson rf	4	0	1	1	0	0	299
Mullins cf	3	0	0	0	0	0	204
Palacios 2b	2	0	0	0	0	0	226
Williamson ph-2b	2	0	0	0	0	0	247
Vilade 2b	0	0	0	0	0	0	253
Walls ss	3	1	0	0	1	1	214
Fortes c	2	0	0	0	0	0	276
Totals	29	4	5	4	3	5
Colorado	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
McCarthy rf	4	0	1	0	0	0	253
Caringp cf	3	0	0	0	1	1	301
Montak dh	3	0	1	0	0	0	278
Goodman ph-dh	1	0	0	0	0	1	254
Aarros 2b	4	0	2	0	0	0	271
Rumfield 1b	4	0	0	0	0	0	291
Beck rf	4	0	1	0	0	0	191
Julien 2b	3	0	0	0	1	1	209
Tovar ss	3	0	1	0	0	2	207
Sullivan c	3	0	0	0	0	2	231
Totals	32	0	6	6	2	10
Tampa Bay	281	000	100	—	4	5	0
Colorado	000	000	000	—	0	6	0
LOE: Tampa Bay 4, Colorado 7, 28; Beck (6).
38: Mesa 2 (2). HR: Caminero (33), off Sugano. RBIs: Aranda (71), Simpson (23), Caminero (71), Mesa (18). SB: McCarthy (18), Simpson (30), Walls (18). S: Mullins, Fortes, Mesa. Runners left in scoring position: Tampa Bay 4 (Palacios 2, Aranda, Williamson); Colorado 3 (Caringp, Rumfield, Julien). RISP: Tampa Bay 2 for 7; Colorado 0 for 5. DP: Tampa Bay 1 (Walls, Palacios, Hicks).
Tampa Bay	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP ERA
Mames, H, 13-5, 2	6	0	0	4	75	2.65
Wells, H, 12	1.1	0	0	1	4	19	2.60
Ossinger	1.0	0	0	1	1	16	3.12
Booser	1.0	0	0	0	1	6	1.85
Colorado	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP ERA
Sugano, L, 11-5 5.0	5	3	3	3	85	4.51
Mushinski	1.0	0	0	0	0	14	0.00
Mejis	1.0	0	1	1	0	14	5.36
Agnos	2.0	0	0	0	2	28	6.03

T: 2:37. A: 21,100 (50,144).

Mets 6, Guardians 5, 10 inn.

Mets	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Elving cf	5	0	1	0	0	0	2.264
Linder ss	5	1	0	0	0	0	4.228
Bichette 1b	5	0	1	1	0	2	2.256
Young 1b	4	1	2	1	1	1	1.250
Alvarz c	4	0	0	0	0	3	251
Baty f	3	1	1	1	0	0	219
Pache f	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
Robert ph cf	1	0	0	0	1	1	189
Polanco dh	4	1	2	1	0	1	144
Semion 2b	3	0	0	0	1	0	208
Totals	39	6	8	5	2	16
Chicago	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Kwani cf	5	1	1	0	1	2	260
DeLuder dh	4	0	0	0	2	1	276
Ramirez pr	0	0	0	0	0	0	233
Buck rf	5	1	0	1	1	2	238
Lowe 1b	6	0	2	2	0	1	266
Buzzana 2b	5	0	1	1	0	3	244
Rocchio ss	3	1	0	0	1	0	257
Hajah cf	2	0	0	0	0	1	209
Martinez ph rf	2	1	1	0	0	1	228
Bailey c	5	0	2	1	0	2	198
Genoo 3b	5	1	4	1	0	0	800
Totals	42	5	11	5	5	13
Mets	002	101	001	1	—	6	8
Cleveland	000	120	200	0	—	5	11

Blue Jays 5, Astros 4, 10 inn.

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Braves 4, Marlins 1

Miami	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Edwards 2b	4	0	1	0	0	0	287
Stewers 1b	4	0	0	0	0	2	232
Layez 1a	4	0	0	0	0	0	320
Conine rf	4	0	0	0	0	2	256
Hernandez 8f	4	0	0	0	0	0	233
Coesie dh	3	1	0	0	1	1	228
Marsee cf	2	0	1	0	1	0	199
Mack c	2	0	0	1	0	0	240
Ramirez ph-c	1	0	0	0	0	1	224
Sanoja 1b	3	0	1	0	0	0	266

Totals	31	1	3	1	2	6
Atlanta	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO
Baldwin dh	4	0	2	2	0	2
Acuña rf	4	0	1	0	0	3
Olson 1b	4	0	0	0	0	2
Harris cf	4	1	2	0	0	0
Allies 2b	3	1	0	0	1	0
Dubon ss	4	1	2	1	0	0
Thomas if	2	0	0	0	1	1
Yastrzemski ph-lf	1	0	0	0	0	0
Riley 1b	4	1	2	1	0	2
Murphy c	4	0	1	0	0	2
Totals	34	4	10	4	2	12

Miami	000	010	000	-	1	3	0
Atlanta	031	000	00x	-	4	10	1
a Stitute out for Maize in the 8th, b Hard out for Thomas in the 8th. E: Riley (10). LOB: Miami 5, Atlanta 6. 2B: Marsee (14), Riley (17), Harris (23). RBIs: Mack (34), Riley (55), Baldwin 2 (59), Dubon (56). SB: Dubon (5).
Runners left in scoring position: Miami 3 (Lopez, Sanoja, Marsee); Atlanta 2 (Riley, Acuña). RISP: Miami 0 for 6; Atlanta 3 for 8.

Runners moved up: Mack.
Miami	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP
E.Perez, L.5-9.5-0	7	4	4	2	9	9	3.61
Frazier	1.0	2	0	0	3	3	20.4
Gibson	1.0	0	0	0	0	9	5.52
Davies	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	18.1

Atlanta	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Elder, W, 8-6	7.0	1	1	1	2	3	84	3.69
Dodd, H, 9	0.2	2	0	0	0	1	13	2.04
Fuentes, S, 2-5.1.1	0	0	0	0	2	19	2.42
T: 2:22. A: 25.136 (41,149).

Red Sox 4, White Sox 0

Chicago	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Antonucci f	3	0	1	0	0	0	273
Murakami 1b	3	0	0	0	1	1	241
Vargas 1b	3	0	2	0	1	1	239
C.Montgomery ss	3	0	0	0	1	2	214
Benintendi dh	3	0	1	0	0	1	247
Grichuk ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	258
B.Montgomery rf	4	0	0	0	0	3	229
Peters cf	3	0	0	0	0	1	262
Drole ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	217
Meidroth 2b	3	0	0	0	0	2	271
Romo c	2	0	0	0	0	0	132
Bart ph-c	1	0	0	0	0	1	218
Totals	30	0	4	0	3	14

Boston	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Segard 2b-1b	3	0	0	0	1	2	246
Rafalia cf	3	0	0	0	1	1	287
Abreu rf	3	3	2	1	1	0	254
Contreras 1b	1	0	1	1	0	0	288
Seigler 2b	2	0	0	0	0	2	231
Yoshida dh	3	0	0	0	0	0	265
Jones ph-dh	1	0	0	0	0	1	165
Durbin 1b	4	0	1	1	0	0	247
Duran 1f	3	1	2	0	0	0	206
Monasterio ss	2	0	1	1	0	0	266
Wong c	3	0	0	0	0	2	243
Totals	28	4	7	4	4	8

Chicago	000	000	000	-	8	4	1
Boston	101	000	11x	-	4	7	1
E: Romo (7), Seigler (5). LOB: Chicago 7, Boston 5. 2B: Benintendi (36), Duran (11). HR: Abreu (25), off Burke. RBIs: Contreras (70), Abreu (57), Monasterio (26), Durbin (50). SB: Monasterio (3), Abreu (7). CS: Durbin (5). SP: Monasterio. Runners left in scoring position: Chicago 3 (Peters, Durbin, Murakami); Boston 2 (Wong 2). RISP: Chicago 1 for 5; Boston 2 for 7. DP: Chicago 1 (Murakami); Boston 1 (Durbin, Monasterio, Sogard).

Chicago	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Burke, L.7-6	4.1	5	2	2	2	4	91	3.08
Newcomb	1.2	1	1	0	0	1	18	2.79
Broutobin	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	19	2.52
Murphy	1.0	1	1	1	1	2	27	4.40

Boston	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Gray, W, 14-2	6.0	3	0	0	2	8	83	2.78
Guerrero, H, 14-1.0	0	0	0	0	1	7	2.25
Whitlock, H, 21	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	11	1.93
Moran	1.0	0	0	0	1	3	15	2.74
T: 2:37. A: 37.517 (37.755).

Royals 2, Twins 1

Minnesota	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Martin rf	3	0	0	0	0	1	2.24
Jeffers c	4	0	1	0	0	1	1.283
Bell dh	3	1	0	0	1	0	2.345
Clemens cf	4	0	0	0	0	2	2.233
Lewis 2b	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.233
Caralini 1b	3	0	0	0	0	1	1.227
Lee 3b	3	0	0	0	0	2	2.240
Larrach f	3	0	0	0	0	2	2.280
Kreidler ss	3	0	0	0	0	1	1.232
Totals	29	1	2	0	1	1	10
Kansas City	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Jensen dh	4	0	0	0	0	2	2.228
Witt ss	3	0	0	0	1	0	2.281
Caglianone 1b	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.254
Perez c	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.214
Massey 2b	3	2	2	1	0	1	2.267
Collins f	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.241
Loftin 2b	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.250
Rave rf	2	0	0	0	1	0	2.278
Ibbel cf	2	0	0	1	0	1	1.247
Totals	26	2	5	2	2	4

Minnesota	000	100	000	-	1	2	0
Kansas City	000	010	10x	-	2	5	0

LOB: Minnesota 3, Kansas City 5. HR: Massey (9), off Minter; RBIs: Isbel (11), Massey (19). CS: Caglianone (2). SP: Isbel. Runners left in scoring position: Minnesota 1 (Lee); Kansas City 1 (Jensen). RISP: Minnesota 1 for 3; Kansas City 0 for 2. DP: Minnesota 1 (Lewis, Kreidler, Caralini); Kansas City 1 (Witt, Massey, Caglianone).

Minnesota	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Kremer	5.2	1	1	2	2	8	8.53
Vance	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	7	3.46
Minter, L.7-1	1.0	1	1	0	0	0	12	2.49
Hoffman	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	11	3.86
Kansas City	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cameron, W	8.0	2	1	1	1	9	106	4.37
6-8
Cruz, S, 3-4	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	16	4.29

T: 2:13. A: 13.439 (36.427).

Brewers 4, Pirates 2

Pittsburgh	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Manzum H-cf	4	0	0	0	0	1	298
Lewit 2b	4	0	0	0	0	2	254
Reynolds dh	4	1	1	0	0	2	268
Valdez f	3	0	0	0	1	3	248
Gonzales 1b	3	0	1	0	0	1	306
Rodriguez c	3	1	1	2	0	1	269
Triolo ss	2	0	0	0	0	1	240
Schulzler ph-ss	1	0	0	0	0	1	235
Flores 1b	1	0	0	0	1	1	200
Horwitz ph-1b	1	0	0	0	0	0	270
Sarcía cf	1	0	0	0	0	1	174
Simon ph-ff	1	0	0	0	1	0	200
Totals	28	2	3	2	3	14

Milwaukee	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
Turang 2b	3	0	0	0	1	2	266
Chourou f	4	0	0	0	0	1	276
Mitchell cf	2	1	0	0	2	1	257
Contreras c	3	2	1	1	1	1	270
Yelich dh	4	1	2	1	0	2	234
Vaughn 1b	3	0	1	2	1	0	300
Lara rf	2	0	0	0	1	1	236
Pratt ss	3	0	0	0	0	1	286
Hamilton 3b	3	0	0	0	0	0	235
Ortiz 3b	0	0	0	0	0	0	241
Totals	27	4	4	4	6	10

Pittsburgh	000	000	200	-	2	3	1
Milwaukee	000	001	00x	-	4	6	0

E: Rodriguez (4). LOB: Pittsburgh 2, Milwaukee 5. 2B: Yelich (18). HR: Rodriguez (7), off Hall; Contreras (11), off Bachar. RBIs: Rodriguez 2 (20), Yelich (30), Vaughn 2 (32), Contreras (58). SB: Yelich (10), Mitchell (11). RISP: Pittsburgh 1 for 2; Milwaukee 2 for 5.

Pittsburgh	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Siemes, L.9-10	5.0	2	3	3	4	6	93	3.96
Bachar	2.0	2	1	1	1	2	37	3.86
Sisk	1.0	0	0	0	1	2	20	2.17

Milwaukee	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Harrian, W, 9-2 5.0	1	0	0	1	10	69	2.84
Patrick, H, 6	1.0	0	0	0	1	2	19	3.42
Hall	0.2	2	2	1	0	20	2.76
Senzatela, H, 6	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	4	3.52
Uribe, H, 18	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	9	2.14
Megill, S, 20-22	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	12	2.70

T: 2:37. A: 33.528 (41.700).

Mariners 4, Tigers 2

Detroit	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg
McGonigle ss	4	0	0	0	0	0	282
Torres 2b	3	1	1	0	0	0	268
Dingler dh	3	0	0	0	0	0	215
Greene rf	3	0	0	0	0	0	269
Keith 3b	4	0	0	0	0	0	269
Torkelson 1b	4	0	0	0	0	0	218
Clark cf	3	0	1	0	0	0	268
Valencia c	3	0	0	0	0	0	413
McKinstry rf	1	0	0	0	0	0	219
Lee ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	266
Outman rf	0	0	0	0	0	0	168
Totals	29	2	4	2	1	9

Deit	000	000	020	-	2	4	0
Seattle	000	003	01x	-	4	7	0
LOB: San Diego 4, Arizona 9. 2B: Workman (4), Locklear (2), Vargas (17). 3B: Vargas (4).HR: Tatis (9), off Ginkel; Tawa (6), off Mize.RBIs: Tatis (30), Workman 3 (8), Moreno 2 (49), Tawa 2 (26), Noothaar (17), Carroll (53), Vargas 4 (55). SB: Cronenworth (6), Carroll (16). SF: Moreno, Tawa. Runners left in scoring position: San Diego 2 (length),Cronenworth): Arizona 6 (Vargas, McCann 2, Noothaar, Tawa 2). RISP: San Diego 1 for 6; Arizona 6 for 14.

San Diego	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Moze, W, 8-6	7.0	3	0	1	5	93	4.31
Hart	2.2	2	0	0	1	3	49	4.27
Peralta	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	17	3.41
Canning	1.0	3	2	2	0	2	27	6.65

Arizona	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Wich, W, 1-7	3.1	9	8	8	3	1	77	3.40
Hart	2.2	2	0	0	1	3	49	4.27
Peralta	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	17	3.41
Canning	1.0	3	2	2	0	2	27	6.65

Arizona	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Bratt, W, 1-7	7.0	1	0	0	3	3	92	3.90
Clarke	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	18	2.08
Ginkel	0.2	2	4	4	2	0	25	3.75
Sewald	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	5	6.23

T: 2:54. A: 17.559 (48.359).

This Date In Sports
1992	—	Carl Lewis leads a U.S. sweep in the long jump in the Olympics with a mark of 28 feet, 5 1/2 inches on his first attempt. Mike Powell takes the silver and Joe Greene the bronze. Kevin Young demolishes one of track's oldest records with a time of 46.78 seconds in the 400 hurdles. Bruce Baumgartner becomes the first American wrestler to win medals in three straight Olympics, taking the gold in the 286-pound freestyle division.

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NEW YORK POST ACTION

The POST Line

MLB Thursday American League
Favorite	Money Line	Underdog
Mets	-108-110	GUARDIANS
ORIOLES	$142-168	Angels
MARINERS	$107-129	Tigers
RED SOX	$154-186	White Sox
Twins	$100-120	ROYALS
BREWERS	$117-141	Pirates
PHILLIES	$270-334	Nationals
BRAVES	$132-159	Marlins
Padres	-106-113	D'BACKS
REDS	$132-156	Athletics
Blue Jays	$100-120	CUBS

Home team in CAPS

WNBA Thursday
Favorite	PTS (O/U)	Underdog
FEVER	1.5 (194.5)	Aces
FIRE	1.5 (187.5)	Tempo

NFL Preseason

Thursday
Favorite	PTS (O/U)	Underdog
Panthers	1 (35)	CARDINALS
game held in Canton, Oh.

College Football

Saturday Aug. 29
Favorite	PTS (O/U)	Underdog
TCU	7 (49)	North Carolina
USC	38.5 (59.5)	San Jose State
VIRGINIA	5.5 (54.5)	NC State
N. DAKOTA ST.	7.5 (48.5)	Jacksonville St.
E. MICHIGAN	8.5 (53.5)	Sacramento St.
STANFORD	4.5 (50.5)	Hawaii
FLORIDA ST.	30.5 (53.5)	New Mexico St.
UNLV	5.5 (59.5)	Memphis

CFL

Thursday
Favorite	PTS (O/U)	Underdog
Stampeders	1.5 (67.5)	ARGONAUTS
Friday
ROUGHRIDERS	7.5 (61.5)	Redblacks

SPORTS SHORTS

MLB: Cubs sweep Dodgers

Pete Crow-Armstrong homered twice and drove in four runs, and the Cubs swept Shohei Ohtani and the struggling Dodgers with a wild 7-6 victory in Chicago.

Nico Hoerner added three hits as Chicago won for the fourth time in five games. Ohtani went deep twice as Los Angeles was swept for the second straight series. The two-time defending World Series champions have dropped six in a row for the first time since a seven-game skid in July 2025.

● In Boston, Wilyer Abreu homered for the fourth time in three games, Sonny Gray struck out eight in six innings for his 14th win, and the surging Red Sox beat the White Sox 4-0. Boston has won seven straight, tied with Atlanta for the longest active streak in the majors, and has won 25 of 28.

● In Atlanta, Bryce Elder pitched one-hit ball over seven innings, Drake Baldwin drove in two runs, and the Braves won their season-high seventh in a row, beating the Marlins 4-1.

● In Denver, Junior Caminero homered for the third time in the series, Victor Mesa Jr. tripled twice and the AL-best Rays beat the Rockies 4-0 for a three-game sweep.

● In Houston, Ernie Clement's two-run homer in the 10th inning lifted the Blue Jays to a 5-4 win over the Astros.

NFL: Donald works out with Rams

Aaron Donald formally worked out for the Rams, presumably taking one of the final steps before the superstar defensive tackle decides whether to end his 2 1/2-year retirement.

The 35-year-old Donald participated in a hosted workout, according to the league's official transaction wire, which records such workouts with free agents before their possible signings to NFL rosters.

● Falcons outside linebacker Jalon Walker will miss the 2026 season with a torn ACL, the organization announced. Walker was carted off the field at training camp Tuesday after going down following a pass-rush play.

WNBA: Dream beat Mercury

Rhyne Howard had 23 points and eight assists, Allisha Gray added 20 points, and the Atlanta Dream beat the Phoenix Mercury 96-82 in College Park, Ga.

Angel Reese had 14 points and 10 rebounds for her 21st double-double of the season for Atlanta (19-11), which has won six of its past seven games.

● In Washington, Shakira Austin had 27 points and 13 rebounds, and the Washington Mystics overcame a 20-point deficit to beat the Dallas Wings 96-92 for their fifth straight victory.

ETC.: Brooks to stay with Suns

The Suns and veteran forward Dillon Brooks agreed to a three-year, $73 million extension that will keep him with the team through 2030, according to two people familiar with the deal.

The 30-year-old Brooks averaged a career-high 20.2 points last season, his first with the Suns.

● In Miami, Lionel Messi scored his first two goals since the World Cup and took the career scoring lead in the Leagues Cup as Inter Miami overcame an early deficit to beat Atlético San Luis 4-2.

TOP PLAY

Targeting Cardinals' Beck for passing TD is where it's at

By ERICH RICHTER

The National Football League is back on "Thursday Night Football."

It's Cardinals-Panthers in the first NFL preseason game of the year in the annual Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio.

Most oddsmakers have the Panthers as slight favorites, coming in at -120 on Fanatics Sportsbook and giving 1.5-points against the spread.

Stud rookie running back Jeremiah Love will not be featured in this game as he is expected to be inactive on Thursday night.

Arizona will send former Georgia and Miami quarterback Carson Beck as the starter on Thursday against five-year veteran Kenny Pickett before the two make way for some other roster hopefuls.

After Pickett, Haynes King, an undrafted free agent out of Georgia Tech and Texas A&M, is expected to get the remainder of the work.

Kedon Slovis is the backup for Beck in

Arizona on Thursday night.

Typically, underdogs have had strong performances for the Hall of Fame Game of late, going 7-4 straight up and 8-2-1 against the spread in that time.

It'll be the first time that Mike LaFleur will get a taste of head coaching action, as the first-year head coach will send a rookie quarterback to bring out his rookie coaches' game plan.

I actually like there to be a bit of scoring in this game, despite the low total of 34.5 (-108, Kalshi).

The Over has performed pretty well in this spot, going 4-0 in the past four seasons.

It's definitely an Over spot considering the first two quarterbacks that will play tonight are expected to be plenty competent.

Target Beck to throw a touchdown pass, with odds coming in at +235 on Underdog.

THE PLAY: Over 34.5 total points (-108, Kalshi); Over 0.5 passing touchdowns for Carson Beck (+235, Underdog)

Pitching Form

	(Game time)	2026		'26 vs OPP		CAREER		LAST 3 STARTS
		W-L	ERA	*REC	W-L	ERA	vs OPP	W-L	IP	ERA
Mets	McLean (R)	7-7	3.29	10-12	—	—	0-0	1-1	18.1	1.96
Guardians	Griffin (L)	12-3	3.06	17-5	—	—	1-0	2-1	19.0	4.74
Athletics	Barnett (R)	1-1	4.85	0-1	—	—	—	0-0	5.0	5.40
Reds	Abbott (L)	5-7	3.91	11-12	—	—	—	0-2	17.0	2.65
Blue Jays	Cease (R)	7-5	2.41	13-7	0-0	3.18	4-2	1-1	21.0	1.71
Cubs	Peterson (L)	—	—	—	—	—	0-2	2-0	18.2	1.45
Angels	Johnson (R)	2-6	7.63	2-7	1-0	0.00	1-0	1-2	12.2	9.95
Orioles	Young (R)	8-2	3.31	15-3	—	—	0-0	1-0	19.0	2.84
Tigers	Valdez (L)	6-7	4.41	9-13	1-0	1.80	8-4	1-1	12.2	7.11
Mariners	Miller (R)	4-5	2.80	4-8	1-0	0.00	3-0	0-2	16.1	4.96
White Sox	Castillo (R)	3-9	5.06	6-11	0-0	9.00	2-3	0-2	17.0	6.35
Red Sox	Sourez (L)	4-3	3.15	11-8	0-0	0.00	0-0	0-0	11.1	4.76
Twins	Ober (R)	7-3	4.45	10-6	0-0	3.00	1-5	1-0	15.1	4.70
Royals	Wacha (R)	5-8	3.51	7-15	0-1	6.35	6-2	0-1	19.0	1.89
Pirates	Ashcraft (R)	11-4	3.96	15-7	0-0	9.00	0-0	2-1	14.0	7.71
Brewers	May (R)	5-7	4.38	10-11	0-1	4.76	0-2	0-1	16.0	3.38
Nationals	Mikolas (R)	3-8	5.67	5-5	—	—	2-5	0-1	13.2	6.59
Phillies	Sánchez (L)	14-4	2.61	17-6	0-0	5.23	3-2	3-0	17.1	2.60
Marlins	Junk (R)	5-6	4.58	7-8	0-1	14.40	1-1	1-1	13.2	4.61
Braves	Pérez (L)	7-6	3.24	9-8	0-0	7.20	1-1	1-0	16.0	1.69
Padres	Buehler (R)	6-5	5.18	15-7	0-1	12.60	7-1	1-0	15.1	4.11
D'Backs	Drake (L)	0-0	4.85	2-1	0-0	0.00	0-0	0-0	13.0	4.85

• REC: Won-lost record of pitcher's team in games he has started.

STITCHES

Halos for the Angelic Stitches

Need a futures bet? I know it's only August, but former Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard is a lock to be named "Mother of the Year" after allegedly driving the getaway car for her son's gang shooting. Congratulations, Jennifer!

The Angels visit the Orioles. The O's Brandon Young is 3-0 in his past seven starts but gave up four runs in his latest. The Halos' Ryan Johnson has lost two in a row but tossed a one-hitter at the O's in June. Play $50 on the Angels.

We had to solve a huge problem Tuesday night. No, my son didn't need me to pick him up in our getaway car. But we hadn't won back-to-back games in a month.

The Stitch-u-weather forecast called for a Sonny Gray night at Fenway. Gray delivered, picking up his 14th win. Wilyer Abreu homered and the Red Sox wiped out the White Sox 4-0. Winner! Down -626 oilcanboyds.

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NEW YORK POST ACTION

Home Team Lineups
	TODAY Aug. 6	FRI Aug. 7	SAT Aug. 8	SUN Aug. 9	MON Aug. 10
	NO GAME	Atlanta 7:05 YES 660 AM 101.9 FM	Atlanta 3:05 YES 660 AM 101.9 FM	Atlanta 1:35 YES 660 AM 101.9 FM	NO GAME
	Cleveland 1:10 SNY 880 AM	Pittsburgh 6:40 PIX11 880 AM	Pittsburgh 6:40 SNY 880 AM	Pittsburgh 1:35 SNY 880 AM	Atlanta 7:15 SNY 880 AM
	NO GAME	NO GAME	NO GAME	Las Vegas 12:30 ABC	NO GAME
Saturday, Aug. 15
	Atlanta United 7:30 Apple TV	Today	Santos Laguna 7:30 Apple TV	Friday	SD Wave FC 8:00 Prime Video

Today's Sports on the Air

MLB BASEBALL
1:10 p.m.	Mets at Guardians	SNY, 880 AM
2 p.m.	Pirates at Brewers	MLBN
5 p.m.	Tigers at Mariners (joined in progress)	MLBN
7:30 p.m.	Twins at Royals	ESPN
NFL FOOTBALL: PRESEASON
8 p.m.	Hall of Fame Game: Panthers vs. Cardinals	NBC, Peacock
WNBA BASKETBALL
7 p.m.	Aces at Fever	Prime Video
9 p.m.	Sparks at Lynx	Prime Video
MEN'S SOCCER
7:30 p.m.	Leagues Cup: Santos Laguna at NYCFC	Apple TV
8 p.m.	Leagues Cup: Philadelphia Union at Cruz Azul	FS1
GOLF
9 a.m.	Ladies Euro Tour: PIF London Championship, 1st Round	Golf
11 a.m.	2026 U.S. Women's Amateur: Round of 64	Golf
3 p.m.	PGA Tour: Wyndham Championship, 1st Round	Golf
TENNIS
11 a.m.	ATP/WTA Canada: Singles 3rd Rd., Doubles 1st Rd.	Tennis
LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES
1 p.m.	Lake Mary, Fla. vs. Clayton, N.C.	ESPN2
5 p.m.	Owensboro, Ky. vs. Guayama, Puerto Rico	ESPN2
GYMNASICS
10 p.m.	USGA: 2026 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships	NBCSN
HORSE RACING
1 p.m.	Saratoga Live	FS2
4 p.m.	FanDuel Racing	MSGSN
AFL FOOTBALL
5:25 a.m. (Fri.)	Hawthorn at Brisbane	FS2

TENNIS

Favorites to win 2026 U.S. Open singles title

MEN	ODDS	WOMEN	ODDS
Jannik Sinner	-155	Aryna Sabalenka	+250
Carlos Alcaraz	+260	Coco Gauff	+750
Alexander Zverev	+800	Naomi Osaka	+800
Novak Djokovic	13/1	Elena Rybakina	11/1
Daniil Medvedev	27/1	Mirra Andreeva	11/1
Felix Auger-Aliassime	35/1	Iga Swiatek	12/1
Taylor Fritz	35/1	Jessica Pegula	13/1
Ben Shelton	40/1	Amanda Anisimova	19/1
Jakub Mensik	40/1	Marta Kostyuk	19/1
Joao Fonseca	40/1	Alexandra Eala	20/1
Rafael Jodar	45/1	Karolina Muchova	20/1
Lorenzo Musetti	55/1	Linda Noskova	22/1
Arthur Fils	55/1	Iva Jovic	25/1
Holger Rune	55/1	Madison Keys	30/1
Alexander Bublik	55/1	Victoria Mboko	35/1
Jiri Lehecka	55/1	Barbora Krejcikova	35/1
Jack Draper	60/1	Qinwen Zheng	40/1
Tommy Paul	65/1	Elena Svitolina	45/1
Alex de Minaur	65/1	Belinda Bencic	50/1

ODDS & ENDS

MLB Favorites to win 2026 AL pennant
TEAM	ODDS
Yankees	+240
Red Sox	+475
Rays	+500
Astros	+800
White Sox	10/1
Mariners	10/1
Guardians	14/1
Rangers	16/1
Tigers	35/1
Twins	35/1
Orioles	45/1
Blue Jays	66/1
Royals	500/1
Angels	500/1
Athletics	500/1

Favorites to win 2026 NL pennant
TEAM	ODDS
Dodgers	-110
Brewers	+450
Braves	+550
Cubs	+800
Phillies	10/1
Diamondbacks	35/1
Padres	35/1
Pirates	66/1
Marlins	125/1
Cardinals	300/1
Reds	500/1
Rockies	500/1
Mets	500/1
Giants	500/1
Nationals	500/1

ALCS
WINNING DIVISION	ODDS
AL Central	+400
AL East	-160
AL West	+310
NLCS
WINNING DIVISION	ODDS
NL Central	+250
NL East	+320
NL West	-115

Favorites to win 2026 AL MVP
PLAYER	ODDS
Yordan Alvarez	-1,000
Junior Caminero	+650
Ben Rice	25/1
Bobby Witt Jr.	66/1
Dillon Dingler	80/1
Byron Buxton	100/1
Julio Rodriguez	100/1
Willson Contreras	100/1

Favorites to win 2026 NL MVP
PLAYER	ODDS
Pete Crow-Armstrong	-120
Shohei Ohtani	+100
Kyle Schwarber	100/1
CJ Abrams	100/1

BET SMART

A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY: Jaxson Dart had nine rushing touchdowns in 12 starts last year, so The Post's Malik Smith believes the young signal-caller will prove the sportsbooks wrong and is taking him to go Over 5.5 touchdowns this season. Corey Sipkin

By MALIK SMITH

This time last year, the Giants were hoping that an aging Russell Wilson or Jameis Winston would provide the veteran presence at quarterback necessary to compete. That quickly proved to be misguided thinking, but it opened the door for then-rookie Jaxson Dart to break out as a legitimate option at quarterback.

Dart burst onto the scene last season and immediately changed the dynamic of a Giants offense that was at best average and at worst one of the lowest-scoring units in the NFL under previous head coach Brian Daboll. Dart's flashes weren't enough to save Daboll's job, but the Giants hope new head coach John Harbaugh can mold his ability as a dual-threat quarterback.

The main critique of Dart's game last season was his aggressive playing style. Dart was quick to scramble out of the pocket and took his fair share of big hits because of his fearlessness as a runner.

Dart missed two games after sustaining a concussion against the Bears, but a scramble play against the Patriots that saw the quarterback get de-cleated stands out the most. That play ignited a flurry of conversations about Dart needing to change his style.

"I'm not going to turn myself into a pocket-passing quarterback. I'm not going to change the style that I play," Dart said on the "DeepCut" podcast earlier this year, pushing back on the idea that he should stop running.

"If you try to make too many adjustments and make somebody into who they're not, then you're not going to get the most out of that person and that player."

Harbaugh seems to buy into the idea that Dart's running ability is an asset and

even compared him to Lamar Jackson in an interview with ESPN football analyst Domonique Foxworth, saying that Dart "can live in a lot of different worlds football-wise."

"Now we can also get in the gun or we can get in the pistol and we can run RPOs," Harbaugh said. "We can run quarterback-driven runs with Jackson Dart, a lot of the stuff that we did in Baltimore with Lamar as well."

That will be key for a specific player prop that sportsbooks have listed for Dart this season. The Over/Under on Dart's rushing touchdowns this season is 5.5 at bet365 sportsbook.

Dart finished last season with nine rushing touchdowns in just 12 starts, so seeing this number drop nearly in half is interesting. Seven of his nine rushing touchdowns came inside the 20-yard line last season, five of the nine were inside the 10-yard line and four of the nine were inside the 5-yard line.

We should expect Dart to scale back some of the running he does in the middle of the field that leads to big hits and, on occasion, slide for first downs instead of challenging defenders straight up.

Cam Skattebo, Tyrone Tracy Jr. and Devin Singletary will presumably eat into some of Dart's rushing attempts in the red zone if they stay healthy. The Giants also added plenty of receiving weapons around Dart to improve the passing game.

Even with those changes, I'm still very high on Dart's ability to be an effective runner when plays break down and I'm even more encouraged that Harbaugh will scheme plays to take advantage of those skills.

"I'll bet on Dart to prove the books wrong and take him to go Over 5.5 touchdowns on the ground."

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TAKE BY STORM

Liberty hold off Seattle again for sixth win in past seven games

By MADELINE KENNEY

The Liberty's game Wednesday against the Seattle Storm followed a similar pattern to Monday's win. The Liberty jumped out to a strong first-quarter lead. This time, it was 21-6.

The Storm fought back and trailed by only four points heading into halftime.

Seattle tied the game in the third quarter. Then, the Liberty rattled off a quick 12-2 run to build a 10-point advantage.

Seattle kept pace with the Liberty much longer than Monday, staying within four points of New York entering the fourth.

But the game yielded the same result as two days ago. The Liberty held on, beating the rebuilding Storm 92-86 on Wednesday at Barclays Center.

After a brutal 2-8 stretch, New York has now won six of its past seven games.

The biggest change over the past 2½ weeks?

"We're starting to realize how to win together," said Sabrina Ionescu, who overcame a shoddy first half to finish with 15 points, five rebounds and six assists. "We've been up in games, we've been down in games, and we've continued to put ourselves in so many different scenarios that you can really only do when you're

out there playing. ... We're starting to figure out late game what are we trying to get to and in what situation, and so the fact that that's turning into wins is obviously huge, but we know we're not even close to where we want to be and I think that's the exciting part. There's many games ahead of us

that we can continue to get better and build in the direction that we want to go to peak when playoffs come."

The Liberty entered this season with sky-high expectations. The higher-ups decided the team needed a new voice as New York parted ways with Sandy Brondello only a year after she led the franchise to its first championship.

Coach Chris DeMarco came in knowing that it was championship-or-bust this season.

But the Liberty haven't been as consistently dominant as they were billed to be in the preseason.

Injuries tested the team's depth and leaders.

The Liberty improved to 19-13 and remain seventh in the standings.

However, the Liberty appear to be on the upswing after a difficult July.

DeMarco inserted Rebecca Allen into the starting lineup on July 20 after she was practically out of the rotation for most of the first

half of the season. The Liberty have won all but one game since.

"This lineup is just getting really comfortable with one another," said Breanna Stewart, who had a team-high 28 points to go with eight rebounds. "Obviously, having injuries and people being out and in early on made it tough for us to kind of find our rhythm, but to have our starters be pretty much set and then honestly, it gives the bench a better idea of how to feel comfortable when they're going to get in and I just feel like the flow of the game is at a really great place right now and we just try to continue to take advantage of that."

Wednesday may not have been the most convincing win. The Liberty beat the last-place Storm by only six points.

Jonquel Jones, who was three assists shy of a triple-double, doesn't necessarily care about the final score, but rather that the Liberty came out victorious.

"We've had a tough season, and I think for us, it's just being able to turn that corner, start a new chapter after All-Star," said Jones, who had 14 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists. "To be able to come in and be able to stack those wins, get some wins under us, and really just kind of see the light of day a little bit and give us that extra confidence that we need, it feels amazing."

NOT TO BE DENIED: Breanna Stewart attacks the basket en route to scoring a team-high 28 points Wednesday night as the Liberty beat the Storm for the second time in three days.

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Team USA's World Cup roster to be unveiled today

By MADELINE KENNEY

The Liberty should be well represented at next month's FIBA World Cup tournament in Berlin.

Breanna Stewart is all but a lock for the U.S. and could be joined by Sabrina Ionescu, who is also in the conversation for one of the country's 12 spots.

Leonie Fiebich (if healthy) is expected to suit up for Germany, the host country, while Satou Sabally's status is less certain as she remains in con-

cussion protocol.

Marine Johannes, Pauline Astier and Marine Fauthoux are candidates for the French national team, Raquel Carrera could play for Spain and Han Xu for China.

The tournament is scheduled to run Sept. 4-13 in Berlin, while the WNBA is on break.

Most official rosters haven't been released yet. Sue Bird, the first managing director of USA Basketball women's national team, is set to announce the U.S. roster Thursday during the

third hour of NBC's "Today" show.

For more than a year, Bird has been weighing the hefty roster decision she faced.

The deep pool of U.S. candidates won't make Bird's decision easy. There are plenty of up-and-coming young stars who might take over certain U.S. mainstays' spots.

Here's The Post's prediction for the 2026 U.S. World Cup roster:

Guards: Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, Sabrina Ionescu, Kelsey Plum, Chel-

sea Gray

Wings: Kahleah Copper, Rhyne Howard, Jackie Young

Bigs: Aja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier, Aliyah Boston

This is essentially the 2024 Olympic roster with a few marginal changes.

Bueckers and Clark look to replace Diana Taurasi and Jewell Loyd, while Boston and Howard are poised to take Alyssa Thomas and Brittney Griner's spots.

One could wonder whether Plum and Ionescu's

injuries this summer could cause Bird to balk at securing them roster spots.

Ionescu missed time with a foot injury and back soreness at the beginning of the WNBA season. She was a little rocky in the first few weeks of her return but has looked much more like herself as of late.

Meanwhile, Plum returned this week from a lower left leg injury that sidelined her for all of July.

Potential snub

Two years ago, Clark's

absence from the 2024 Paris Games roster caused uproar.

If Olivia Miles is left off the upcoming roster, will the decision receive the same level of outrage? (Don't answer that.)

Miles hasn't played on the senior U.S. women's national team nor was she part of the training camp that took place during the NCAA Women's Final Four in Phoenix, which is why she might not get the call-up this time.

mkenney@nypost.com

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On the move

Preakness to run 3 weeks, not two, after Derby in '27

SUNDAY FUN-DAY: The Preakness Stakes, won in 2025 by Napoleon Sals with Paco Lopez (No. 10), will be on a Sunday and three weeks after the Kentucky Derby.

By STEPHEN WHYNO

A big change is coming to horse racing's Triple Crown, with the Preakness Stakes moving to three weeks and a day after the Kentucky Derby and being run on Sunday for the first time.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland Jockey Club announced the decision Wednesday. No Triple Crown race has ever taken place on a Sunday in the century-plus-old history of the series.

The shift marks a major change on the horse racing calendar, following significant debate and speculation. Except for 2020 during the pandemic, the Preakness has been on the third Saturday in May, two weeks after the Kentucky Derby, since 1950.

Maryland Jockey Club CEO Bill Knauf acknowledged the tradition while also calling this the time to move the Preakness back.

"It's been discussed for a very long time [and] we recognized the different trends and training methods recently," Knauf told The Associated Press. "We entered the discussion maybe even saying, 'Hey, is two weeks the right amount? I think the week was the right placement. It still gives an incredible test for a horse and a champion to go through that, even at three weeks.'"

The aim is to get more Derby horses to participate in the second leg of the Triple Crown. For decades, it was normalcy but has become increasingly rare in recent years.

Two consecutive and three of the past five Derby winners have bypassed the Preakness to aim for the final jewel, the Belmont Stakes in June. Of the 95 horses who ran in the Derby dating to 2022, just 13 have gone to the Preakness (13.7%) with just one winner in that group.

"We are going to move it back to be able

to ensure that the winner of the Kentucky Derby will then be prepared to compete in the second leg of the Triple Crown," Moore said at a news conference in Annapolis. "By moving the day, you're then providing additional time and space for our horses and the people who compete in the Derby to be able to then now compete to be able to be part of that Triple Crown."

For at least next year, it has the chance to produce the opposite effect, with the Belmont scheduled for June 5, as announced Monday. Going from a three-week to a 13-day gap between the Preakness and Belmont could force owners and trainers to choose between them, given that modern 3-year-old thoroughbreds typically get significantly more time off.

Knauf said it was a decision made for the long-term future of the Preakness.

Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, who with American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018 is the only trainer to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978, said in a social media post Monday that if he has the right horse from the Kentucky Derby, he will continue to go to the Preakness annually. That was in response to the unveiling of a new championship series of races at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Belmont Park on Long Island and Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York and does not — for now — include the Preakness.

Future changes to the schedule are always possible beyond 2027. The shift does put the Preakness on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend beginning in 2028 and running through '31.

"We believe this creates tremendous excitement for our local economy and businesses," Knauf said. "Baltimore will become the place to be on Memorial Day weekends, as the spotlight of the racing world descends on Pimlico." — AP

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GOING FOR THE GREEN: LIV Golf announced it has a new investor ready to pony up big bucks, but the future of the tour and players like Bryson DeChambeau remains unclear.

By MARK CANNIZZARO

LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil announced Wednesday that the fledgling tour, with its Saudi financial backing having been pulled earlier this year, has found new investors that will keep it alive beyond the 2026 season.

O'Neil's announcement at Trump National Bedminster, where LIV Golf is conducting a tournament this week, confirmed a July 29 report by The Post that the tour was on the cusp of landing new investors to keep it alive.

"LIV Golf has an agreement in place with a lead investor, signed by the investor and approved by the board, to anchor the transaction and play a key role in supporting the path forward for the League's next era, driven by and for the players," O'Neil, who declined to name the investor, said Wednesday. "We're also seeing strong interest from more than a dozen additional parties to potentially serve as minority investors, creating a multi-partner model built for long-term stability and growth.

"Notably, our next chapter will

make our players the majority equity holders in LIV Golf, a first for a major global sports league, and gives the League the foundation to keep growing the game worldwide. We anticipate finalizing terms in the coming weeks, with the goal of entering a transaction in September. In the meantime, our focus is on delivering a great week for fans and players at Bedminster and finishing the 2026 season strong."

The announcement came a day after O'Neil conducted an afternoon meeting with LIV players, which was followed by a players-only meeting led by Bryson DeChambeau.

As DeChambeau and other players exited the Tuesday meeting, they declined to comment.

Despite the encouraging news of new investors, though, a litany of questions still persists with LIV Golf, which has two more events scheduled before the end of the 2026 season after this week — Aug. 20-23 in Indianapolis and the season-finale team championship the next week in Michigan.

Numerous reports, however,

say the Michigan event will not take place, though neither O'Neil nor anyone associated with LIV has confirmed that.

Reports from the golf course in Michigan, The Cardinal at Saint John Resort outside of Detroit, say no building of grandstands and other infrastructure for the event has begun, which is highly unusual for an event of that size.

O'Neil and LIV have reportedly been seeking a financial commitment of between $250 million and $300 million from investors.

Questions arise from those numbers, though, and what that $300 million will actually pay for. The purse for this week's event, for example, is $30 million. The purse for the Michigan event is $40 million.

Some players with more years remaining on their contracts are still owed huge amounts. Jon Rahm, for instance, is owed some $150 million of the $300 million contract he originally signed.

Other reports have LIV Golf filing for bankruptcy before re-launching itself as "LIV Golf 2.0' with new investors.

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Lifeline doesn't feel like real answer

THE setting was perfectly fitting.

It took place at the very golf club where President Donald Trump this weekend claimed to have won his club championship with a gross score of 70, an outlandishly low number for an 80-year-old to shoot (even if he were a professional).

What has transpired at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., as this week's LIV Golf event is to begin Thursday is akin to a bit of a sleight-of-hand shell game.

It's a scenario that's difficult to comprehend and one that a scant few LIV players are willing to talk about as they've spent the past two days declining to speak to reporters.

The one person to speak about a new direction for LIV — being termed "LIV 2.0' — is its CEO Scott O'Neil.

O'Neil on Wednesday conducted a news conference to announce that the fledgling tour, which had its Saudi financial backing pulled earlier this year, has found new investors that will keep it alive beyond the 2026 season.

The announcement confirmed a July 29 report by The Post that stated the tour was on the cusp of landing new investors to keep it alive — a report that LIV had not commented on before Wednesday.

This was — and is — good news for LIV, which has been seeking some $250 million to $350 million from outside investors.

O'Neil declined to identify the name of the "lead investor" and added that there are other smaller investors on board as well. He also declined to say when the deal will be done, saying he knows the timeline but doesn't want to make it public.

Now comes the difficult part.

How is this going to work?

What is $300 million to $350 million going to do to help revive a tour that, with the unrealistic Saudi Public Investment Fund money, originally lured several of its top players (Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau to name a couple) for more than that sum of money for each of them?

The purse for this week's Bedminster tournament is $30 million. The purse for the Aug. 27-30 team championship event in Michigan is slated at $40 million, though numerous reports say that event is not

going to happen. The new iteration of the tour is committed to more responsible spending. It will cut its event schedule down from 14 to 10, will shrink purses and surely make many more financial cutbacks.

But is LIV, with more responsible spending, going to be able to retain the likes of DeChambeau, its biggest star whose contract is up after 2026?

One thing that seems certain is DeChambeau's determination to make LIV 2.0 work.

According to O'Neil, DeChambeau has been instrumental in helping secure new investors with connections in the game he has. He, too, has emerged as the leader of the LIV player pack, having led a players-only meeting Tuesday after O'Neil met with the team captains.

O'Neil's LIV 2.0 model also has the players with equity in the tour, which sounds great on the surface. But the Saudi PIF reportedly spent nearly $6 billion on LIV Golf since its inception in 2022 without turning a shred of profit.

Unless there are drastic changes, which include players making pennies on the dollars they've been making with the PIF money, how is the tour going to turn a profit?

And what is the incentive for players having equity in something that's not making money?

Another unanswered question with this news of the new investors is whether O'Neil has guaranteed to the new investors that the product they're investing in will include the likes of DeChambeau and Rahm.

When asked about the importance of retaining Rahm and DeChambeau, O'Neil said, "[We] would certainly love them to come along for the ride and journey because they carry maybe more weight than anybody in the game."

That hardly sounded concrete.

There also remains the issue of the LIV Golf team championship in Michigan.

"We have not made any final formal decisions and hope to in the coming weeks," O'Neil said about the event that's scheduled to take place in three weeks. "This is a very fluid situation."

When asked if there's anything that might "prevent" the deal with the new investors going through, O'Neil said, "This is a moment that we're very happy about, that we're thrilled to announce, that we're proud to be a part of."

Asked whether there will definitely be a 2027 LIV Golf season, O'Neil answered, "And '28 and '29 and '30."

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By BRIDGET REILLY

Will Tony Romo's CBS exile be permanent?

Many have speculated that he could be done at the network after his July 23 OWI arrest and CBS' decision to place him on leave until "further notice."

However, based on information The Post gathered from three contract lawyers and a person familiar with typical sports media contracts, all may not be lost for the former Cowboys quarterback.

The Athletic reported that Romo's 10-year, $180 million deal

includes a morals clause — similar to all major talent contracts — "one that networks can challenge if a star is unable to represent their brand in a positive fashion after a public embarrassment."

Romo is set to earn $72 million over the next four years. His fate now could depend on the language within the non-disclosed contract that he agreed to in 2017 when he was considered the top analyst in the NFL.

Alex Davis, the founder of Omni Law P.C. — who has negotiated these clauses himself on behalf of both talent and producers — believes Romo likely received "very favorable language" in the clause given his caliber and the value of the contract.

If the clause uses broad language (i.e. stating CBS could let him go for any kind of act or scandal) or subjective language (i.e. stating the company's sole judgment), it would favor the network, which could be souring on him given his lucrative deal — and what some consider declining skills in the booth — combined with his current legal predicament.

Ross Pitcoff, founder and managing partner of Pitcoff Law Group,

TIME WILL TELL: Tony Romo was placed on leave until further notice by CBS after being arrested July 23 on suspicion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated but could find himself back on air depending on the language in his contract. USA Today Network

added it was a "savvy" and "conservative" move by CBS to suspend Romo first, showing — even if the plan is to terminate — to the public that an internal investigation is being conducted.

From this, Pitcoff believes there was "clearly some embarrassment" felt by the network.

On the other hand, if the morals clause mentions a qualifier of a felony or conviction, that would favor the 46-year-old Romo.

Romo has not been convicted, and in Wisconsin, a first-offense OWI is typically a civil offense, not a criminal charge.

Yet, Uzoma Eze, partner and Texas law chair of Romano Law,

suggested there could be a choice of law provision within the contract, meaning CBS could have chosen to operate under New York law or California law or any other state if needed regarding Romo.

Eze said those provisions are "typical" for these types of contracts.

According to a person familiar with typical sports media contracts, there are several reasons behind morals clause issues — such as theft, insubordination, workplace misconduct, violence and a felony — but a DUI almost never falls within that.

The person predicted CBS would want to see a police report

to see if there is anything the network can use, but said it's unlikely to find something that would invoke the morals clause.

Romo is represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents many clients at CBS. Davis explained there is a possibility Romo was simply offered an A-level precedent contract (most favorable to talent) automatically.

Yet, even if a baseline agreement was sent — one heavily favored for the studio — Davis said these morals clause provisions are "never overlooked."

If the situation leads to a contract fight, it could go to arbitration, which would be handled privately

and possibly end up in a settlement. CBS could buy Romo out of the contract, or, if the clause language heavily favors Romo, the former NFLer could insist on the full contract price or push the network to proceed with the contract and go back on air, Davis explained.

Romo could also sue the network if he finds the reason behind a termination to be invalid or if he felt there was another interpretation of the clause that wouldn't justify the decision, Pitcoff added. He could argue he is entitled to damages through compensation he otherwise would have received had CBS not improperly invoked the clause.

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Infantino has FIFA's 'full support' after emergency meeting

By CHRISTIAN ARNOLD

Embattled FIFA president Gianni Infantino has the "full support" of the FIFA secretary general and members of the FIFA management board, soccer's governing body announced in a statement, while also seeming to send a message to its critics.

The statement came following a crisis meeting in Morocco on Wednesday and came amid the fallout of Infantino's failed plan to sell off stakes in FIFA competitions to private investment, officially known as the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal.

The massive backlash to the plan, which included UEFA and its 55 member nations threatening to boycott the World Cup over it, was the latest controversy that had the FIFA prez back on his heels. Wednesday's statement was meant to try to quell some of the controversy and, in part, said that the meeting in Morocco will "strengthen FIFA's governance, help restore confidence in the organization and enable us to prepare for the major events and challenges ahead in a united and transparent manner."

Infantino had taken to his own social media accounts to

post a similar statement and claim that the members in attendance had "fully upheld support" for him and FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafström.

Both the FIFA statement and Infantino's social media post also included a defiant message to those who have criticized them.

"We also agreed that FIFA will not tolerate any attacks on its integrity and will take all necessary measures to defend its reputation," Infantino wrote on Instagram, with the statement using similar language.

Infantino has been facing mounting pressure in the

wake of the FFE, which has come from across the global spectrum.

UEFA has called on Infantino to go, and the Football Association of Wales has already withdrawn its letter of support for his reelection as FIFA president next year, and England is set to do the same.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney publicly gave a vote of no confidence for Infantino on Wednesday and called the pulled plan "fatal."

"It should be fatal," Carney said. "Certainly I don't have confidence in Mr. Infantino."

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham labeled Infantino the "wrong man to

lead" global soccer.

Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, the president of the Jordanian Football Association, made a blistering accusation against Infantino and FIFA of attempting to "blackmail" the JFA into supporting Infantino's reelection bid.

FIFA's statement Wednesday did not directly address the criticisms, but attempted to smooth over the anger over the FFE proposal by acknowledging mistakes.

"The meeting also addressed the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal, where mistakes made were acknowledged," the statement read. "It was agreed

that it was not the intention for the FIFA council and FIFA member associations to feel excluded from the process and that the process should have been handled differently. It was further acknowledged that errors were also made after the proposal was leaked to media.

"In a separate letter to the FIFA council and FIFA member associations, an apology was made for these errors together with a commitment to ensure they do not happen again. A review will now be conducted, and a report will be presented to the FIFA council at its next scheduled meeting."

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AIN'T THAT A KICK

By MARK W. SANCHEZ

Asked about George Lombard Jr. on Wednesday, Cody Bellinger offered what is a high compliment in the sport.

"Just a great kid," Bellinger said. "Just a baseball player."

The praise was understood but not wholly correct. Lombard was a soccer player, too.

The new Yankees shortstop delayed specializing in one sport, playing both baseball and soccer all through high school. In his senior year — months before he became the Yankees' first-round pick — the defender (and his brother, Jacob) helped lead Gulliver Prep to a Florida state championship.

With Lombard looking the part of a top prospect in his first two major league games, homering Tuesday and singling Wednesday while putting on a show defensively, that unique background has been highlighted.

Lombard's soccer athleticism shows in smooth 'D'

"There's a physicality to what he does," manager Aaron Boone said of Lombard's shortstop play. "But there's a quickness and there's a balance. I think his soccer background helps him, but just a really good athlete."

Lombard said he did not want to give up soccer, a sport he loves, but his baseball ability was clear.

He believes the experience of playing soccer until age 18 is helping.

"With overall athleticism, the footwork, the agility," Lombard said before Wednesday's 3-1 loss, "I definitely think that helped me develop."

Few people star in both soccer and baseball, and few shortstops can make the plays Lombard became known for during his climb up the minor league ladder. In just two big league games, he has

provided a peek at what minor league evaluators have seen for years.

Wednesday, there was a "sparkler," as Boone termed it, in the third inning after JJ Wetherholt cracked a would-be, one-hop single up the middle. Lombard had time for one step and one full-body dive, stabbing the ball out of the air, hitting the outfield grass, immediately trampolining back to his feet and throwing a strike to first.

"Special play," Boone said. "I heard [Ryan] Weathers talk about how long he is, and that's a good way of describing it."

A night earlier, Lombard used his speed and length to reach and snatch a ground

ball with a backhand, then hit Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the chest while his momentum took him into left field to start the double play.

"George is as gifted a defender as I've ever been around," said first base and infield coach Dan Fiorito, who also had worked with Lombard as a roving instructor in 2023, then as the organization's minor league outfield/infielder coordinator in 2024-25. "You see the feet, the actions, the arm strength, just his poise out there — how natural the game seems to come to him."

"... The work ethic is also unmatched. He goes out there, and it's an area he takes a lot of pride in."

There were few concerns about Lom-

bard's defense as he made his way through the system; his excellent range and arm pair with an intelligence and calmness that belie his 21 years.

The questions concerned his bat, which came around at each level of the minors but required weeks or months to do so. In his first glimpse of major league pitching, he has gone 2-for-6 with that homer and two strikeouts, the second coming on a 100 mph fastball from Ryne Stanek with two runners on base in Wednesday's eighth inning.

Before the game, Aaron Judge said Lombard's debut was "incredible."

"Seen him in spring training, you see the tools, you see how he carries himself, the personality," Judge said. "He's got it all."

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FLYING START: George Lombard Jr. lays out to make a diving stop during the Yankees loss to the Cardinals. In two games, Lombard has flashed some impressive defense. Imagin Images

Schmidt OK a day after cutting session short

By MARK W. SANCHEZ

On an encouraging afternoon of Yankees injury developments — most notably Aaron Judge getting cleared for some light activities — the club also received positive news concerning Clarke Schmidt.

Schmidt, who had to cut short a live batting practice Tuesday because of what he believed and hoped was cramping in his forearm, was informed it indeed "seems like" it was cramping, Aaron Boone said.

"Clarke we feel like is

YANKEES NOTES

probably good to go," the manager said before Wednesday's 3-1 loss to the Cardinals in The Bronx. "He got a lot of treatment [Tuesday]. The doc didn't seem overly concerned."

The Yankees at least felt a level of concern when Schmidt, who is beginning to build up following 2025 Tommy John surgery, felt the discomfort, which prompted him to throw two

"innings" rather than three.

The next step for Schmidt, who was not expected to throw Wednesday, will be to play catch Thursday "and then hopefully do his side [session] at some point this weekend," Boone said.

Without further hiccups, Schmidt could graduate soon into a rehab assignment.

Considering general manager Brian Cashman did not upgrade the bullpen at the trade deadline in part because he felt the club would have internal

reinforcements, Schmidt's eventual return to the staff has grown in importance.

➤ Cody Bellinger, who is a week and a half into what is expected to be a four-to-six-week absence with a hamstring strain, took on-field batting practice for the first time since suffering the injury July 25.

"That was a big step," said Bellinger, who added that he has been feeling well but lacks a clear return timetable.

Bellinger has been running — though not at full

speed — in a straight line and has several more hurdles to clear before he is ready for activation or a rehab assignment.

➤ Heliot Ramos (1-for-3 with a second-inning double) picked up his first hit as a Yankee.

➤ Kervin Castro, Tim Hill and Paul Blackburn combined for 3 ½ scoreless innings.

The bullpen has pitched to a majors-best 2.56 ERA in the past 55 games, holding opponents to a .200

batting average.

➤ The best Yankees hitter in the past four weeks: Austin Wells.

Since July 9, the catcher has posted a .931 OPS with four home runs in 18 games.

"I do feel like over the last few weeks, there's been some steady improvement," Boone said before Wells went 1-for-2, "and hopefully moving forward, more in line with the presence I feel like he could be, especially at the bottom of the order. I feel like he's getting closer to that version."

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Warren may have pitched way into bullpen

By ZACH BRAZILLER

Someone is going to be sent to the bullpen, and Will Warren didn't help his cause to avoid that fate Wednesday night.

When Carlos Rodón returns, it's going to be either Warren or Ryan Weathers.

With the way Weathers has pitched of late, it is hard to see the Yankees demoting him.

Warren was coming off a terrific outing in a win over the Cubs, but after a strong start Wednesday, he struggled to go deep in the 3-1 loss to the Cardinals at the Stadium. The right-hander was able to record only one out in the sixth after giving up four hits and three runs in the previous frame.

"There's definitely a lot of uncertainty. I think it's a good thing we have all these arms," Warren said. "At the end of the day, my job is to take the ball every time I get it. Whenever that is, I'm going to go out there and try to execute."

Warren did finish with five strikeouts, but he tired late, yielding five of his seven hits in the fifth and sixth innings. With Yankees hitters continuing to slump, he didn't have much wiggle room and paid for that shaky fifth. He was close to getting out of the jam after coming back from a 3-1 count to strike out César Prieto for the second out. But the next batter, JJ Wetherholt, doubled in two runs with a drive over Trent Grisham's head in center field. Iván Herrera followed with another booming run-scoring double to center.

"I think there was a lot of good," Warren said. "Obviously, I could've made a different pitch decision there to Wetherholt, possibly get out of that inning unscathed. It is what it is. I try to get as many outs as possible and keep us in the game. Overall, I think it was solid."

Warren was coming off a shaky July, in which he pitched to a 5.47 ERA. But he did close it out well, tossing 6 2/3 innings of shutout ball against the Cubs.

Weathers, meanwhile, has allowed just one earned run over his past 20 1/3 innings. He is getting stronger as the year gets deeper. Warren cannot say the same thing.

Rodón is getting closer to returning. The left-hander last appeared for the Yankees on June 28 and has been dealing with left elbow inflammation. He is scheduled to begin a rehabilitation assignment Saturday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Confident Ruckert unfazed by Gang Green's crowded TE room

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YOU WOULDN'T blame Jeremy Ruckert if he wanted to purge the past two Aprils from his memory.

On April 25 of last year, the Jets drafted Mason Taylor, a talented tight end out of LSU, with the 42nd overall pick in the second round.

This past April, the Jets drafted dynamic Oregon tight end Kenyon Sadiq with the 16th overall pick in the first round.

Where would that leave Ruckert, who was drafted in the third round of the 2022 draft, with the team using high picks in the past two drafts to pick players at his position?

"I really wasn't paying too much attention to it," Ruckert insisted this week when asked of his reaction to the past two drafts. "I'm confident in myself, confident I'm here for a reason, and once we start rolling and playing, we're going to show we can all be on the field at the same time. So, as far as a reaction on draft night, I didn't really have much of one."

Ruckert said he had "friends and family check in to see how I'm doing," and he insisted he was unfazed.

"I just got extended last year," he said of his new contract. "I'm excited to be here, I really rock with A.G. [head coach Aaron Glenn], I rock with everything going on, and I'm confident in myself and the di-

rection we're going."

Only the confident survive in professional sports, particularly in the rough, cutthroat world of the NFL, where everyone is replaceable — especially based on age.

Ruckert stands behind the confidence he has in his abilities — even though those are far less dynamic than the two new kids in town.

If you look solely at his career NFL numbers by comparison to the college numbers Taylor and Sadiq produced, it would be easy to assume that Ruckert would be expendable.

Ruckert has 58 career receptions for 443 yards and one touchdown — modest numbers for four seasons in the league, spanning 57 games played and 30 starts.

Sadiq, meanwhile, caught 80 passes in college for 892 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 51 of those for 560 yards and eight TDs coming last season.

Taylor caught 129 passes for 1,308 yards and six TDs in his college career.

Ideally, one of those two younger pass catchers would have single-season numbers in 2026 that at least equal Ruckert's career stats.

Ruckert, though, is by far the best blocker among the three, with Sadiq and Taylor more pass-catching tight ends. That's Ruckert's value, and it's why he was signed to a two-year, $10 million contract extension last year that included a $3 million signing bonus and $4.97 million in guaranteed money.

"I'm just super confident in myself," Ruckert said. "Whatever they ask me to do, I have the confidence I can do it at a high level, no matter what aspect of the position. I believe in myself, and at the end of the day, the team's getting better and I'm excited about that."

"Being here the longest in the room, I take that with pride, and whoever they bring in, I'm going to try to lead them, play alongside them, and continue to push them to be better, too."

If you listen to Glenn, he sounds as high on Ruckert as he is about the two younger tight ends.

"Man, Ruckert can do it all," Glenn said earlier this week. "He's the jack-of-all-trades, but he can master those, though. He can play Y [traditional in-line blocker], he can play F [a flex receiver on the move], he can split out. He's good as far as the movements are con-

cerned. He's the one guy that ties it all together. He's the one guy in that room, as far as leadership, that's been there and done that.

"[In] that room, the skill sets are so different, and that's what you like about it. But 'Ruck' is a guy that I feel like he can do it all within that [room]."

When asked about the stacked tight ends room, Ruckert didn't flinch.

"I love it, man," he said. "I wouldn't call it a competition so much as all of us trying to make each other better. Our mission is to show each other that no matter what Frank [Reich, offensive coordinator] calls, we can all play different spots."

Ruckert said he sees his fit in the tight ends room as "bringing leadership, bringing physicality, letting the guys know what it really takes to get into the trenches in the NFL."

"At the end of the day, being the guy who's been here — going on Year 5 — I've got to show them the experiences I've had on and off the field in this organization, get us ready to roll, and try to be the group the team relies on and trusts."

Ruckert's confidence in himself may be his superpower, and it has the trust of the head coach, who's the most important person in the room.

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Wan'Dale: New home a perfect Tenn.

By BRIAN COSTELLO

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It doesn't take long for Wan'Dale Robinson to point out the biggest difference between playing in New York and playing in Tennessee.

"There's not as much traffic," Robinson said this week.

It's hard to argue with that. That is just one of the benefits for Robinson, who signed with the Titans in March after four years with the Giants. Robinson said there were many reasons he chose the Titans. Undoubtedly, the four-year, $78 million contract the Titans gave him was near the top of the list. He is also reunited with former Giants coach Brian Daboll, who is now the Titans offensive coordinator.

"Just a little bit of everything, just the lifestyle," Robinson told The Post about going to Tennessee. "Being from this area [raised in Kentucky] and my family can come watch every game at home, and it's only about three hours away. You know, just the living situation. I definitely love New York, but I don't think it's a place that I would want to live for the rest of my life. Nashville just seems like a place that I would really like to live and have a long life here. So, everything was just kind of perfect. Perfect marriage, even with football, was like this is a young team and looks like that we're in ascension to make some things happen. I want to be a part of that."

Robinson had a breakout season last year with 92 receptions for 1,014 yards and four touchdowns. It came at a good time, with Robinson scheduled to hit free agency. The Giants had interest in retaining Robinson, but with limited cap space they could not match what the Titans were offering.

"Early on, I definitely thought I would end up back in New York," Robinson said. "I didn't really start thinking that it wasn't going to happen until we started getting close to that day of free agency starting. And, I just realized that I really couldn't pass up this opportunity here."

With Daboll calling the offense, Robinson knew exactly how he would fit in as their slot receiver.

"It's like we never left each other," he said of Daboll. "He definitely did some reflecting and I know he's in a great place right now. You can see it out there whenever he's calling plays and coaching. This feels like himself again, and it just feels great."

Robinson is helping his new teammates understand Daboll's offense and the terminology.

One of those players is quarterback Cam Ward, who is entering his second season. Ward said recently that he and Robinson have gotten so close that he gave Robinson a key to his house.

"That's my guy," Robinson said. "Look, pretty much together every day, even outside of football. I just feel like we grow and grow more and more and just continue to grow out there on the field just talking to each other. He doesn't sugarcoat anything. He's going to tell you how it is and I love that."

WILLING & DABOL!

By BRIAN COSTELLO

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As Brian Daboll stands at a podium answering reporters' questions, Robert Saleh walks by and shouts, "We love you, Daboll."

"Saleh is going to work out," Daboll says, cracking a smile. "He asks me if I want to come, and I tell him to do two for me."

Their physiques are not the only reason Saleh and Daboll are an unlikely pair now working for the Titans. Saleh is the head coach and Daboll is his offensive coordinator, something that would have been tough to process just two years ago when the two were facing off in a joint practice as the Jets head coach and Giants head coach, respectively.

Saleh got fired by the Jets five games into the 2024 season. The Giants fired Daboll after 10 games last season.

When Saleh was hired by Tennessee in January, he turned to his old New York colleague to run his offense.

"Daboll could argue that, god, if he could have just got the defense right and I can argue if I could have just got the offense right," Saleh said of their failed tenures in New York. "We might as well lock arms. Dabes has been great, awesome teammate."

Daboll is enjoying a new chapter in his football journey, one that has included Super Bowls with Bill Belichick and the Patriots, a national championship with Nick Saban and Alabama, and mentoring Josh Allen in Buffalo. Now, he's charged with getting the most out of Titans quarterback Cam Ward, the No. 1 overall pick in 2025, and helping Saleh turn around a Titans franchise that has not made the playoffs since 2021.

Daboll said he and Saleh first got to know one another at the league meetings after he took the Giants job.

"We really met when we were both head coaches in New York, and, you know, his first head coach job, my first head coaching job," Daboll told The Post in an interview in his office this week. "So, you kind of lean on one another. And that's how I met him."

"We developed a relationship. And then he got this job, and he talked to

YES HE CAM! Brian Daboll, fired as the Giants head coach 10 weeks into last season, is now the Titans offensive coordinator and ready to get the most out of second-year quarterback Cam Ward. AP (2)

me about it, and, [I was] fortunate enough that he wanted to bring me on. It's been a good experience. You know, he comes from a different system, different mentors, than I do. I just think that it's been a cool experience to be around him."

Daboll was not interested in revisiting his time with the Giants. He began with a 9-7-1 season and a playoff win in 2022, but he could never recapture that success and finished with a 20-40-1 record.

"I'm grateful for the opportunity," Daboll said of his time with the Giants. "At the end of the day, we didn't get the job done. That falls on the head coach."

In his last year with the Giants, the team was searching for a quarterback and he did extensive work on Ward,

who was the top quarterback in the 2025 draft out of Miami. It was known that Daboll and the Giants were high on Ward, but the Titans drafted him

No. 1 overall, so the Giants never had a shot at him and took Jaxson Dart later in the first round.

Now, Daboll's job is to try to get Ward's career on track after a difficult rookie season.

"He's a second-year player that had a tough first season, whether it's not exactly how he wanted to go for himself but more

importantly the team," Daboll said. "That's always a struggle, a struggle for anybody, myself included. So to be able to share some experiences that I've had along, I think this is 26 or 27 years in the league. I've won a lot of games, have lost a lot of games."

I've learned that there's a lot of ups and downs in this business. I want to continue to get better, continue to learn from mistakes, grow, enjoy it, enjoy being around our guys.

— Brian Daboll

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Ex-Giants head coach excited to team with Saleh, get the most out of Titans and their young QB

I've done a lot of things I'm proud of, have done a lot of things that I wish I could have been better at. But I think that perspective for a young player is good. And then our relationship is very strong. We kind of hit it off in the draft process, and it's kind of rolled right in here."

Daboll will return to MetLife Stadium in Week 3 to face the Giants. He said he has not given any thought to how he'll feel that day.

"You just have tunnel vision. I haven't even thought about it," Daboll said. He then turned to a big white board behind him and pointed to an area that had the days of the week listed. He pointed to Tuesday afternoon. "I'm actually, like, trying to figure out what we're doing right here and just get through the day. I haven't thought about it."

Saleh has gotten a second shot at being a head coach in Tennessee. Daboll interviewed for the Bills job in January, but Buffalo hired Joe Brady. Does Daboll want to be a head coach again?

"That's a great question. I just don't think about it right now," Daboll said. "What I focus on is how can I help Saleh in this organization try to achieve the things that everybody wants to achieve? Yeah. And I've learned that there's a lot of ups and downs in this business. I want to continue to get better, continue to learn from mistakes, grow, enjoy it, enjoy being around our guys, enjoy being around Cam. I learned a long time ago to try to do the best job you can in the role that you're in, and then whatever comes to that, comes from that. But if you're not doing a good job with the role that you're in, then usually other things don't happen. So that's where my focus is."

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Troubled Diggs joins Wash. on $12M deal

By GRACE McCARRON

Stefon Diggs has found his new home.

The two-time All-Pro wide receiver agreed to a deal with the Commanders, according to multiple reports.

The deal is for one year and up to $12 million for the 32-year-old, who was the top wide receiver left in free agency with training camps already starting.

The signing gives Washington quarterback Jayden Daniels a new weapon but does come with risks.

Diggs has seen legal troubles in recent years. He's been embroiled in a battle with Christopher Blake Griffith, who accused Diggs of drugging and sexually assaulting him in 2023.

Diggs was also recently acquitted of assault charges in a separate case involving his former personal chef. Diggs spent the bulk of his career with the Vikings and Bills before single-season stints with the Texans and Patriots.

Diggs also had a highly publicized breakup with rapper Cardi B. The two share a son born in November 2025.

It will be a homecoming for Diggs, who was born in Gaithersburg, Md., and was raised outside of the D.C. metro area.

Diggs will pair with Terry McLaurin in Washington following a 1,000-yard season with the Patriots.

New England released Diggs in March, and head coach Mike Vrabel confirmed the team was not exploring a reunion with the veteran.

The Patriots instead traded for A.J. Brown in the offseason to give Drake Maye a new No. 1 receiver.

"I don't think that that's something that, you know, that we are exploring, but I would never say no," Vrabel said.

Diggs was a critical piece of New England's run to Super Bowl 60.

He led the Patriots with 85 receptions and 1,013 receiving yards last season and became the Patriots' first 1,000-yard receiver since Julian Edelman in 2019.

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CATCHING FIRE

By RYAN DUNLEAVY

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — An excited 11-year-old girl hung a sign over the fence at training camp Wednesday asking for a Giants football as her only birthday present.

Charlie from Virginia got that wish fulfilled plus the gift that seemingly every other Giants fan in the crowd wants: Odell Beckham Jr.'s attention and autograph as the team went through warmups.

There's a different, louder buzz energizing the practice fields at The Greenbrier resort when Beckham makes a play than when most others do. And Wednesday's practice — his second straight primarily running with the starters — was filled with Beckham highlights, from a juggling catch in a one-on-one matchup against Jevon Holland to a weaving catch-and-run to a deep grab down the sideline.

"Everybody likes to talk about, 'Is he going to be this, that?'" Beckham said. "And I'm like, 'LeBron James used to take off before the free-throw line, and now he's taking off with his foot right in front of it. He's got a different game, but he's still playing at a high level.' I believe that I can play at a high level."

Beckham already has proven that his Giants reunion isn't just about soaking in nostalgia. He was making plays with a body that looked spry, for a third straight day in pads and during the longest practice of camp, than when he last played for the 2024 Dolphins.

"Yesterday's touchdown doesn't win you today's game," Beckham said. "I feel like I came out [Tuesday] and I was like, 'I want to have my best day,' and I feel like I had a good day. Some things to work on, and I was like, 'I want to have an even better day [Wednesday].'"

Head coach John Harbaugh called on Beckham to deliver Tuesday's daily "Wise Words" during a morning team meeting.

"He's working hard and he got some balls that came his way and he made

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some great plays," Harbaugh said. "He addressed the team, and he did a great job with that. So, maybe that was the football gods right there. You never know."

Beckham began training camp with the second-team receivers, gaining separation on routes but not drawing targets. It was the kind of spot in which his younger self would throw up a hand to make a frustrated point, but he now quietly runs back for the next rep like anyone else humbled by trying to make the cut.

"I kind of like it," Beckham said. "My boy texted me, he's like, 'This is where you thrive.' When I have pressure, I live for it. If we were just messing around, playing H-O-R-S-E, if we're not playing for $100, I might lose. But you put the $100 on there, and then, hypothetically... I want to step up to the big of the moment. I definitely put pressure on myself to make plays. I'm all for competition. I've always been like that. I feel like I rise to the occasion."

Beckham pointed out that he had 35 catches for 565 yards on 465 offensive snaps under Harbaugh with the 2023 Ravens. If he doubled his workload and stats with more opportunities — wishful thinking, perhaps — then no one would be questioning what he has left in the tank.

"I feel like I'm getting better with repetition," Beckham said. "Unfortunately I'm one of those people who has to touch the stove to know that it's hot and to not

touch it again, so I learn from a mistake and it's like, 'All right, that's something that I corrected.'"

Giants tight end Isaiah Likely was Beckham's teammate in 2023.

"He's looked like O," Likely said. "Just seeing him really be able to understand the position he's in. When the young guys ask him how he did it the right way when he was at the top of the top, prime Odell. And then obviously, the dark-days Odell, which he'll tell you as well. And really just how he stayed the course and just honed in and understanding that when he's out here, he's giving you the best version of himself."

Beckham said the crowd support eight hours from home is giving him "a lot of juice." But he's not back with the Giants — his self-drawn counterpart James just spurned a second Cavaliers reunion to join the 76ers — for them or for his doubters.

"If this comes off selfish, sorry, but this is for me," Beckham said. "This is to prove to myself. It's never really been to prove it to others, but it's always fun when you can prove it to others. But this is for me, this is for my son. In our household, we never give up, you know what I'm saying? No matter what it is, you're going to finish what you started."

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After rough finish Tue. then bad start Wed., Dart ends

By RYAN DUNLEAVY

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Jaxson Dart went from reeling to dealing.

After finishing Tuesday's practice on a low note with a John Harbaugh-criticized taunting penalty for flipping the ball at cornerback Greg Newsome II, Dart threw two interceptions

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against the second-team defense early in Wednesday's practice before salvaging his day with three touchdown passes in a red zone period.

"The football response absolutely was there," Harbaugh said. "Yeah, he

stepped up. A lot of third-down stuff we did. Fourth-down stuff, fourth down in the red zone to win the game, things like that. Yeah, he had a heck of a practice. It was impressive."

Harbaugh singled out Dart in the pre-practice meeting for foolishly throwing the ball at Newsome's face after a touch-

down run to end Tuesday's practice. Dart ran for two more scores Wednesday and kept his celebrations in check.

"That's an opportunity for coaching points," Harbaugh

said. "So, we went over the sequence, and everybody knows. He was great about it. He's great about accepting responsibility, and he's a very accountable guy. I feel like all the guys are."

Harbaugh said he switched from starters-

versus-starters in 11-on-11 drills to starters-versus-second-teamers for reasons other than to create a confidence boost. It allows one coordinator to ask for a specific scripted call from the other side and set up longer competitive periods.

Newsome said he harbored no hard feelings toward Dart.

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In one-on-one reps, LT Andrew Thomas kept inside position as Abdul Carter tried to beat him and instead slipped. Then he pushed Arvell Reese to the outside to even the score from the other day. Then Thomas and LG Jon Runyan stonewalled a two-man rush involving Reese. When Thomas committed a false start in 11-on-11, he was pulled for a play. No one is above the law.

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The starting defense allowed touchdown passes to the second-team offense on three straight plays from inside the 10-yard line. S Tyler Nubin, who gave up a deep catch to WR Xavier Gipson and a short catch to TE Isaiah Likely in one-on-ones, had his back turned as Jameis Winston fired a pass over his shoulder to WR Juju Smith-Schuster for a touchdown.

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Former third-round pick WR Jalin Hyatt, who is on the outside of the roster bubble, worked as a punt gunner — a change from years past when he was a returner during special teams periods — and had a great rep in which he used his speed to get wide and down the field to draw a penalty. He also caught a TD pass from Winston.

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CB Dru Phillips appeared to injure his lower right leg on Winston's third straight touchdown pass, but the Giants are hopeful it was cramping. He was down for a minute, hobbled to the sideline, jogged under the trainer's eye then stayed on the sideline for the rest of practice. OLB Brian Burns, WR Malachi Fields and S Beau Brade were dealing with minor injuries, per John Harbaugh. — Ryan Dunleavy

HOW ABOUT THAT?!

Not much was expected when veteran Odell Beckham Jr. was signed by the Giants as a potential depth piece. But he has surprised at camp and has had two straight solid practices with the first-team offense.

day on high note

► The Giants placed DT Roy Robertson-Harris (torn Achilles) on season-ending injured reserve. There was initial hope that he could return. WR Beaux Collins was waived/injured after a disappointing start to camp. The roster

spots were filled by DBs D.J. James and David Long Jr.

► WR Dalen Cambre, who played 16 offensive snaps and 89 special-teams snaps in seven games for the Giants as an undrafted rookie last season, is "making a move" with a bunch of highlight catches.

No yelling needed at tough Camp Harbaugh

N OT A yeller. That is one way to describe John Harbaugh on the field as he navigates through his first Giants training camp.

He is right there, of course, a visible presence at the Sports Performance Center at The Greenbrier resort. Seen, to be sure. Heard? Yes, but not because he is shouting or ranting or even raising his voice.

What Harbaugh has shown thus far — the Giants on Wednesday completed practice No. 7 of the 10 scheduled in West Virginia — is that he in every way is a CEO head coach. As such, his leanings are not to offense or defense. He is a former special teams coordinator, and that is certainly his wheelhouse, but more than anything his expertise is all encompassing.

You do not see him sprinting along the sideline to celebrate anything. When mistakes are made, he is not barking. He moves around the field, and when there is something that catches his attention he will make his point, succinctly but without high-decibel ferocity. He is, after all, the guy in charge. He does not scream to get his point across.

"He doesn't have to," wide receiver Calvin Austin III told The Post on Wednesday.

Why not? "The message is getting his point across by how he walks in the team meeting," said Austin, who spent his first three NFL seasons with the Steelers, playing for another non-shooter, Mike Tomlin. "It's no question about how we should practice, no question about how we should finish, there's no question about how we should compete, there's no question about how we should help our brother."

Tom Coughlin could be a yeller, and he won two Super Bowls.

Harbaugh mixes easily with players before practice and again afterward, often engaging in real conversation, not merely "how ya doing?" flybys. His sessions are heavy at the start on individual drills and even heavier on situational work — the stuff, he says, that actually makes the difference in winning and losing in real games.

Every afternoon, Harbaugh opens up his media session with some sort of greeting: "Appreciate

you being here." "Good to see everybody." "Hope you enjoyed" the practice that just concluded. He noted the "beautiful setting" in the Allegheny Mountains and the ideal weather early in camp.

Day 5 included a downpour for nearly an hour. Harbaugh recounted how Tom Reed, his college coach at Miami of Ohio, "used to always tell us every single day — rain, sleet, snow, hot — it's a great day for football. Every day."

That is, generally, Harbaugh's take. Every day is a great day.

When it is not so great on the field, Harbaugh keeps the analysis to himself. He does not criticize players to the media. A poor job by the offense? He credits the defense. That red zone interception thrown by Jaxson Dart, with the offense already in field goal range to send the game into overtime?

"Obviously it's not a circumstance you want to throw an interception," Harbaugh said, before — publicly — letting Dart off the hook.

"You put the quarterback in a tough spot out here," he said. "Do you want him pushing the envelope? Or are you going to criticize him for throwing a pick in training camp? I mean, it's training camp."

Even after a 14-penalty eyesore on Day 5, Harbaugh pointed to the rain and the

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first day in full pads as reasons for the sloppiness.

"So, it's not really unexpected, but we'll be working on it," he said.

He can be expansive and prefers specific topics versus overarching themes. He actually understands the need for content and will do his best to provide it. He said "that's a great question" to an inquiry about why he has only one punter in camp. He is also patient, sometimes remarkably so, when it comes to additional interviews after the large group session has concluded. There is an unrushed nature to Harbaugh even though every minute is accounted for.

He is a stickler. The first few days, he mentioned more than once that the officials working practice — local college and high school refs — were not altogether up on the NFL way of calling the action.

"I just was reminding them that you don't blow it dead when the defense is in the neutral zone," Harbaugh said after the very first practice, while adding "these guys were great today."

Nothing gets by him. The push-ups by defensive players after penalties or other failings are coordinator Dennard Wilson's idea. Harbaugh approves of the "punishment" but not the execution.

"You know the thing that bothers me about their push-ups?" he asked, then answered.

"They don't go all the way up. They kind of do this little, short pushup thing."

The reputation for hard, extended practices is warranted. The Giants are on the field for as long as allowed under the collective bargaining agreement.

"Man it's tough, gritty, we're gonna work," cornerback Greg Newsome II said.

"There's no off days for us, in terms of not competing. He's gonna make sure we compete, we're always doing situational football, things like that. He's a great coach."

He is trying to coach greatness into the Giants, one (great) day at a time.

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Polanco takes swing at rebound

By MIKE PUMA

CLEVELAND — Jorge Polanco is trying to swing his way back to productivity.

The veteran DH took about 300 swings Wednesday before the Mets faced the Guardians at Progressive Field, according to Andy Green, leaving the interim manager cautiously optimistic that success would follow.

Polanco delivered with a 2-for-4 performance that included his second homer of the season (and first since April). The third-inning blast snapped his 0-for-26 skid.

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“After putting a lot of work in it feels great,” Polanco said following the 6-5 victory in 10 innings.

Polanco began the night with a paltry .388 OPS as the poster child of president of operations David Stearns’ failed offseason overhaul.

“Sometimes the sweat equity gets you rolling again,” Green said of Polanco’s workout. “There’s a ton of ability in him. There’s a long track record. If you’re out there watching him there’s a good swing. He’s got a lot of things going for him.”

Polanco, who arrived on a two-year contract worth $40 million, has dealt with Achilles and wrist injuries that have limited him to 30 games this season.

“Any time you have an injury to a lower extremity or even a hand it can impact the swing whether you are feeling pain or not,” Green said. “He feels healthy.”

► Sammy Stafura, acquired by the Mets in a trade Monday, was named the South Atlantic League (High-A) Player of the Month for July. The shortstop led the league in homers (14), RBIs (35), slugging percentage (.926) and OPS (1.305) among other offensive categories. The Mets traded Luke Weaver to the Pirates for the 21-year-old Stafura.

► Jefry Yan became the seventh Mets player to make his major league debut this season — joining Nate Lavender, Carson Benge, A.J. Ewing, Nick Morabito, Matt Seelinger and Zac Thornton.

► Brett Baty, whose previous outfield appearances this season have been in right field, got the start in left Wednesday. Green indicated such an alignment was a product of wanting to keep Benge in right field.

Yan displays high-flying celebrations in debut as Amazin’s rally to win

JUMP RIGHT

By MIKE PUMA

CLEVELAND — Jefry Yan announced his arrival to the major leagues Wednesday night with a dance party.

A leap. A split. A ground slap. Three times in the sixth inning the rookie reliever celebrated — twice for strikeouts and once for recording the final out with the bases loaded. He departed to boos at Progressive Field.

“I was really excited, but I was also a little nervous,” Yan said through an interpreter after the Mets beat the Guardians 6-5 in 10 innings. “I wanted to get in and out of there right away, but got into a little trouble. I was able to dig deep and get out of that inning.”

The Mets received what they needed not only from Yan but also from others in their reconstructed bullpen following the

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trade deadline — closer Devin Williams was also unavailable due to what interim manager Andy Green termed arm fatigue.

Bo Bichette’s RBI single in the 10th brought in the go-ahead run before Daniel Duarte got the final three outs with the automatic runner left stranded.

The victory was the second straight for the Mets, who received three homers for a second straight night: Brett Baty, Jorge Polanco and Carson Benge all went deep.

Yan, who peaked at 101 mph, added the most sizzle. The 29-year-old lefty, who spent four years removed from affiliated baseball after his release from the Angels organization in 2016, was known in the minor leagues

for his high strikeout rate, but also his demonstrative punctuation after getting Strike 3.

It took Yan only one batter — Angel Martínez took a called third strike leading off the sixth — to show it off. He leaped into the air with a split and pounded the ground with his palm. Yan celebrated again, after striking out Chase DeLauter. His final act was getting Jo Adell to ground into a force-out with the bases loaded, prompting another celebration. Boos followed.

“I don’t care about that, they can do what they want there,” Yan said. “They are paying for their tickets. If they want to yell at me, if they want to boo me, they can do what they want. I’m in my zone, and I am going to enjoy my game any way that I want to.”

Green appreciated all of it.

“It’s real stuff,” Green said. “You think about the road traveled to get to that mound today ... it’s really impressive. To get out of a bases-loaded jam, to get your

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YAN THEN SOME! Mets reliever Jeffry Yan made his big league debut Wednesday, displaying his over-the-top celebration when recording a strikeout. He gave up two hits but no runs in one inning in the 6-5 victory in 10 innings over the Guardians. Image Images: AP

first punch-out, it's excited for him. He deserves that." Christian Scott needed 96 pitches to get through five innings in which he allowed three earned runs on six hits and two walks with seven strikeouts. It followed Scott's longest start of the season, six innings against the Braves in the night-cap of a doubleheader last week. Back-to-back homers from Baty and Polanco in the third inning gave the Mets a 2-0 lead. Baty's homer was his seventh of the season and fourth since July 10. The disappointing Polanco

had not homered since April 11 — he returned to the lineup in early July after missing nearly three months with Achilles and wrist injuries. Jared Young's RBI double in the fourth gave the Mets a 3-0 lead. The run was unearned following Angel Genao's double error on Benge's grounder. A.J. Ewing got fooled on a drive to center in the fourth that became a double for Nathaniel Lowe, putting runners on second and third after Adell's leadoff walk. Travis Bazzana stroked an RBI single to slice the Mets lead to 3-1, but Scott escaped the inning by getting the next two outs. Scott allowed two runs in the fifth after loading the bases on two singles and a walk with nobody out. Lowe's two-run single tied it 3-3. Benge homered in the sixth to give the Mets a 4-3 lead. It was

the second straight game with a blast for the rookie Benge, whose 13 homers are the most among active Mets players. Juan Soto, who is on the injured list, leads the team with 21 homers this season. Patrick Bailey and Genao each delivered an RBI single in the seventh to give the Guardians a 5-4 lead following Young's fielding error. The Mets loaded the bases in the ninth with two outs before Ewing's grounder was misplayed by Brayan Rocchio, allowing the tying run to score. Other than the two unearned runs the Guardians scored in the seventh with Dendriel Núñez on the mound, the Mets bullpen was spotless. "There's a lot of guys trying to show they belong and pitching really well," Green said. mpuma@nypost.com

Robert to remain on center stage

By MIKE PUMA

CLEVELAND — Luis Robert Jr. had a good idea heading into Monday's trade deadline that his Mets tenure would continue.

The veteran outfielder heard from his representatives last week that he should prepare for a possible trade, but if his final stretch of games before the deadline was any kind of showcase, Robert's performance screamed that teams should avoid him.

"After the week I had at home, I knew it would be difficult to make a trade there," Robert said through an interpreter before the Mets faced the Guardians on Wednesday. "Obviously there is always a possibility, but I thought it would be difficult to pull off a trade at that point."

It was a homestand in which Robert — who returned July 20 from an extended stay on the injured list — went 5-for-27 (.185) and saw his disappointing OPS drop from .642 to .610. Even so, Mets officials, according to sources, had hopes of sending him elsewhere.

Instead, the team decided against taking a minimal return for the 29-year-old Robert, who is owed $8 million for the rest of this season. His contract holds a club option for next season worth $20 million. The Mets acquired Robert from the White Sox in January for Luisangel Acuña and Truman Pauley.

It leaves Robert as the team's primary center fielder for now (he was on the bench Wednesday night) displacing rookie A.J. Ewing, who has excelled in center, to left field. That structure, according to interim manager Andy Green, gives the Mets their best chance to win.

"[Robert] hasn't ever played left field in professional baseball, so we have had conversations, and I want to give him some time to get reps out there before you stick him in a spot he's never been," Green said. "Once we're able to do that, we'll expand A.J.'s center-field reps. 'It's not hurting A.J. to play the corners and play them really well. If you are looking at

the alignment of the way you are probably best suited to win a baseball game, A.J. playing a corner that he plays incredibly well and Luis Robert Jr. playing a plus center field is a really good alignment."

Nevertheless, Green conceded that continuing to build up Ewing's center field experience is important toward the team's future.

"We'll balance those two things going forward," Green said. "I think in the short term, though, on this road trip you have to give somebody a chance to take some reps in a position before you stick them there."

Ewing got the start Wednesday, not getting much fielding action in center while going 1-for-5 form the plate in the Mets' 6-5, 10-inning win at over the Guardians. Robert pinch-hit in the ninth, striking out, then played center in the 10th with Ewing moving to left.

Robert missed nearly two months on the IL with lumbar spine disc herniation. That absence continued a pattern the physically gifted outfielder has shown in recent seasons of missing games due to injuries.

"We had high expectations for what I could do," Robert said. "I worked extremely hard to stay healthy. The trainers work extremely hard to keep me healthy, but I just got hurt and missed a ton of time. It's disappointing."

Is Robert disappointed he didn't get a chance to potentially help a playoff contender?

"Every player likes to be competing," he said. "I would love to play in the playoffs, but the most important thing right now is that I'm here, and then I just want to finish strong, because that will be more important than anything."

Robert will spend these final 47 games of a lost season trying to show he can contribute. He was asked if he could envision the Mets picking up his option for next season.

"There's always a chance that they could pick it up," Robert said. "It's their decision, but I also have to go out there and do my part."

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CARD? TO SWALLOW

Bombers bats muster four hits, go 0-for-10 with RISP in 'L' to St. Louis

By MARK W. SANCHEZ

This is a different Yankees lineup and look, with George Lombard Jr. flourishing early, Spencer Jones given a runway and Luis García Jr. and Heliot Ramos working themselves into the mix with their new club.

And yet this is the same Yankees problem: a lineup lacking a pulse without the heart of the team.

Hours after Aaron Judge declared he would return at some point this season, the batting order he left behind played as if it wanted to convey to the captain that he better hurry up.

A problem that recently has been partially disguised by excellent pitching and Lombard bursting on the scene had nowhere to hide Wednesday, when the Yankees were silenced 3-1 by the Cardinals in a slog of a game marked by frequent pauses of play and virtually no excitement while the home team was at bat.

The 37,425 on hand in The Bronx waited through a 68-minute rain delay before the game started, then groaned as Yankee Stadium lights continually turned off in the early innings, then ran for cover during a brief sixth-inning downpour, then checked their phones as a Cardinals pitcher slipped on a slick mound in the seventh, prompting the grounds crew to hustle over and rake the dirt.

The few left by the end were not rewarded for their patience as the Yankees

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(64-51) dropped the series, fell 4 1/2 games back of the Rays and slipped to a single game clear of the Red Sox for the top wild-card spot.

"I thought [Cardinals starter Andre] Pallante was good, but we gotta get it done," manager Aaron Boone said after his group finished with four hits, none of which arrived with runners in scoring position (0-for-10), and looked as if most of its at-bats came with the lights out. "We got to come through in those situations."

The Yankees have scored more than five runs in four of their past 43 games, a startling drought regardless of personnel, spanning a stretch in which they are averaging 3.3 runs per game. The entire stretch has come without Judge, whose fractured rib has threatened to derail the team's season, though Wednesday he began some light activities.

Hollow bats give the pitching staff and defense little margin for error, and Will Warren and arguably Trent Grisham in center field were not perfect.

Warren rolled through four innings before encountering trouble in the game-deciding fifth. With runners on the corners and two outs, young standout JJ Wetherholt put a good swing on a sweeper — "Hindsight, probably throw a different pitch," Warren bemoaned — that became a high drive to center field.

"Off the bat I thought I had a pretty

good chance at it," Grisham said. "As I was going back, it just kind of kept going."

Grisham got turned around on the play, then decided to play the ball off the wall. The ball did not hit the wall, short-hopping it and going for a two-run double, which was followed by another double for the only three runs St. Louis would need.

The Yankees had many opportunities in the middle and late innings and wasted them. There was an inning-ending double play from Austin Wells; a near breakthrough in which three walks and a hit by pitch scored one run before Ryan McMahon struck out with the bases loaded; García stranding two with a groundout; and an otherwise exuberant Lombard swinging through Ryne Stanek heat with two runners on board.

Lombard (1-for-4 with a few standout defensive plays again) continues to entertain and inspire hope, but when virtually anyone else was at the plate, the Yankees looked hopeless.

The night's leadoff hitter, Grisham (0-for-5), is 8-for-71 (.113) in his past 20 games.

Spencer Jones (0-for-4), who had shown enough to keep his big league spot while Jasson Domínguez was optioned, has gone 0-for-15 in his past four games.

Chisholm (0-for-2 with two walks) is 1-for-17 in his past five games.

Asked what was missing in the threats that did not quite become rallies, Grisham summed it up well: "Hits."

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A WILL, BUT NO WAY: Will Warren, who allowed three runs on seven hits, reacts on the mound in the first inning. Spencer Jones (inset) loses his helmet after striking out in the second.

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THERE IS something real afoot in the American League East, something genuine. You might actually call it a pennant race. There are three teams plainly good enough to finish in first place. There are two other teams that, barring an odd reversal of fortune, will almost certainly partake in the postseason.

They are, with more than two-thirds of the season in the books, the three best teams in the American League, with all due respect to the White Sox and Astros, who entered play Wednesday as first-place teams. We are, beginning this weekend, entering the seven-week homestretch of the season, seven weeks for things to sort themselves out.

Win. Place. And Show. Now, you may wish to stop me here and spray a little settle-down spritz on this. You may declare that there has been no real pennant race since 1968 — the last time only league champions made the post-season — or 1993, the last time only first-place finishers were included. That's fine. You can say that.

You can say spending the next seven weeks watching the Rays, Yankees and Red Sox circle their playoff chairs until the music stops isn't quite the same as 1949 (or 1978), when the Yankees and Sox battled to the very last inning of the season, or 1951, when the Giants caught the Dodgers, then buried them with one forever swing of the bat. Back in the day you could win 103 games in a season

LEAVE 'EM STRANDED: Ryan McMahon, who went 0-for-2, reacts after striking out with the bases loaded for the final out of the sixth inning in the Yankees' 3-1 loss to the Cardinals. Jason Szenes

It's going to be a tight race to finish line in East

(like the '54 Yankees did) and still finish eight games out of the money (since Cleveland won 111).

But we also used to enjoy black-and-white television. We also used to spend about 50 bucks a minute on dial-up internet. We used to do a lot of different things. And the fact is, all you need to do is look at last year, same division, to see how important the next seven weeks are.

Last year it ended this way in the East:

• Blue Jays
• Yankees
• Red Sox. Then, like now, they were the

three best teams in the league. And things played out exactly as that seeding system is supposed to work out. The Yankees earned three home games by finishing ahead of the Sox for playoff-round seeding; they won two out of three at Yankee Stadium, and moved on to play the Jays in the ALDS. And the Jays, by virtue of winning the division with a tiebreaker, earned not only a first-round bye but home-field advantage.

Place was better than Show. And Win was better than Place. Entering these last seven weeks, if we sub the Jays out and add the

Rays, the same stakes are in play. Three teams, all separated by fewer than five games in the loss column. Let's look at how they stack up:

Tampa Bay Rays

Record: 68-46, first place. Remaining opponents winning percentage: .500

Notable: Four games left with the Yankees, three with the Red Sox.

No matter how many pennant races they unexpectedly fall into, the Rays will always be considered the upstarts of this threesome. But they are also terrific on both sides

of the ball, and they made one of the most immediately impactful additions at the trade deadline in catcher Liam Hicks, who hit a grand slam in his first game as a Ray.

(They also got seven earned runs in 3 2/3 innings from Freddy Peralta in his debut Tuesday night, meaning that after 22 years the Mets may finally have averaged Victor Zambrano-for-Scott Kazmir.)

New York Yankees

Record: 64-51, -4.5. Remaining opponents winning percentage: .490

Notable: Four games left with the Rays, four with the Sox.

The Yankees remain the team to beat here because of their rotation, although that designation withers with every Judge-free day they play. George Lombard Jr.'s debut infused energy, but also a helpful reminder that competent, confident defense at shortstop makes any team look immediately 25 percent better.

(The Yankees need only do what the Knicks did: make sure the healthiest day of the year is the first day of the playoffs. If that happens, see you in Chavez Ravine for Game 1.)

Boston Red Sox

Record: 62-51, -5.5 Remaining opponents winning percentage: .483

Notable: Four games left with the Yankees, three with the Rays.

The Sox are now 30-5 in their last 35 games and they're no longer just a cute story, they're a legit team that's risen to a dangerous place (and is now tied with the Yankees in the loss column; as recently as June 24 that number was 15).

(And come on: Wouldn't the prospect of another Yankees-Red Sox date in October be a wonderful thing?)

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Judge cleared for light activity, vows he'll be back this season

By ZACH BRAZILLER

No. 99 is on the road back. Consider Wednesday afternoon the first step.

A day after an MRI exam showed his fractured rib had healed enough for him to begin light activity, including outdoor running and upper-body work in the weight room. Judge was on the field in pinstripes with his teammates jogging in the outfield and stretching. Later he expressed a belief it's not about if he will return this year, but when.

"Oh, I'll be back this season. I don't know why I

wouldn't be," Judge said. "That was always the plan to come back — sooner than later, definitely — but I never had a thought of not playing this year."

"It was great. Moving fine, moving great. My biggest thing is I wanted to start testing it a little bit and see what we got, especially after getting some good news."

On Monday, general manager Brian Cashman said he remained "very optimistic" that Judge would come back at some point but couldn't offer a guarantee. That was before this latest dose of good news.

The three-time MVP has been on the injured list since May 31 after suffering a stress fracture to his rib. There is obviously a long way to go for Judge, a lengthy buildup required considering how long he has been out. Judge will need another MRI exam before he can advance to baseball activities. The rib isn't completely healed. But it has improved enough to take this important first step. He doesn't have a timeline at the moment.

"I wish it was completely healed and the fracture is gone and [I can] start play-

ing tomorrow, but that's not the case," he said. "I got a broken rib, so you're going to feel it, but it's healing up."

"That's the progress we want to see, so we can start doing some more, testing it and see where we're at. We're running out of days. We got 52 days left, 53 days left. We've got to get back out there."

Manager Aaron Boone added, "It's more symptom-based now as he starts to introduce things. The running outside is new, and some of the upper-body resistance stuff he'll be able to do. Then as he tolerates that, [he will]

start moving into baseball activities at some point."

The Yankees have missed Judge a lot, as expected. They have gone 28-27 without him, and the offense has struggled massively. In his absence, the Yankees are averaging just under four runs per game, compared to 5.2 with him. They currently sit four games behind the AL East-leading Rays and only lead the third-place Red Sox by two games.

Cashman did add two bats ahead of the Aug. 3 trade deadline in Luis Garcia Jr. from the Nationals and Heliot Ramos from the

Giants, and Giancarlo Stanton and Cody Bellinger are working their way back from injuries.

"We got the hitters we wanted, I think that's the biggest thing especially now and the position we're in," Judge said. "We're trying to chase down the Rays and win the division. That's the most important thing. We played the wild-card [series] last year. It's always a coin flip, you never know what's going to happen. Our goal is to win the division, set ourselves up to try to win the World Series."

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MAKING HIS MARK

'DWTS: The Next Pro' judge Mark Ballas talks taking on the ballroom and Broadway

By KAREN KEMMERLE

Mark Ballas is used to having people watch every step he takes. As one of the most beloved pros on "Dancing with the Stars," Ballas was the perfect choice to be a judge on "Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro." The competition series follows 12 of the best dancers from across the world as they vie to be a pro on "Dancing With The Stars" Season 35. And who could be better to sit next to Ballas at the judging table than his own mother, Shirley Ballas? Lovingly called "The Queen Of Latin" by fans, she has been the head judge on "Strictly Come Dancing" for the past nine years. "You couldn't find a judge for 'DWTS: The Next Pro' who loves the art of dancing as much as my mom," gushed Ballas, noting that her feedback is "direct, firm, and honest." Ballas also appreciates that he and his mother welcome a new "DWTS" pro each week to the judges' table to help them determine which dancers should con-

tinue in the competition. "It keeps things fresh," explained Ballas. "It was also wonderful to see them as mentors on the different challenges."

While "DWTS: The Next Pro" airs its inaugural season, Ballas is back on Broadway as Billy Flynn in "Chicago." During his first run in Broadway's longest-running show, Ballas started alongside his "DWTS" Season 34 partner, "Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives" star Whitney Leavitt. "A lot of our routines on 'DWTS' were quite theatrical," said Ballas. "We danced to a 'Chicago' song; we danced to a 'Wicked' song; we danced to a 'Hamilton' song." Now that Ballas is well into his second stint as Flynn (you can see him until August 16), he finds himself diving "even deeper into the char-

acter." "It's really fun to discover new things with new people with every performance," said Ballas.

Ballas stopped by the DECIDER studio to discuss "DWTS: The Next Pro," marvel at Robert Irwin's skills as a host, and talk all about "Chicago."

DECIDER: "Dancing With The Stars" fans have longed to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the pros approach their craft. How long has "The Next Pro" been in the works?

MARK BALLAS: I don't know how long the series has been in the works, but I do know that the pros always hoped that something like this would happen. "DWTS: The Next Pro" is giving you a peek behind the curtain to see what your favorite pro goes through on a weekly basis—whether it's the

technique you have to teach, the chemistry you have to build, the story you have to tell, etc.

This is also the first time any "DWTS" pro has had this type of showcase. Back when I started, there was no troupe. Twitter didn't exist. They just threw us out there and were like, "Figure it out, kid." [Laughs] Someone compared this show to "ballroom boot camp," which is a really good way of putting it. Whoever wins this competition is going to be a pro on Season 35, and they are not going to be ready for it. It doesn't matter how experienced you are because you are not ready until you actually start doing it.

Season 34 champ Robert Irwin seems to be doing a wonderful job as the host of "The Next Pro." How do you think he's doing?

He's an excellent host. I was behind the judges' desk watching him read off the cue cards. I was in awe of his energy and how he got the contestants hyped up. I told him, "You were born for this." You're back as Billy Flynn in

"Chicago" on Broadway until August 16. What made your first run so much fun that you wanted to do it again?

I went to school for musical theater. "Chicago" was one of the first shows I saw as a child. Songs like "All That Jazz" and "All I Care About" have been a part of my life for so long. When I grew up in England, I would go see shows on the West End. Broadway seemed absolutely unobtainable. Playing Billy Flynn in "Chicago" on Broadway, which is the longest-running American musical of all time, is a dream.

The first run I did was too short. It was only a month! Previously, I did "Jersey Boys" for six months, and "Kinky Boots" for four months. When they asked me to come back to "Chicago" in the future, I couldn't say "yes" fast enough. So, I'm back; it feels great. I'm able to dive even deeper into the character. There have been some changes in the cast as well, so it's really fun to discover new things with new people with every performance.

TRENDING NOW

Da Bear's! Hallmark Channel unveiled the cast joining Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Buckley in the network's upcoming movie "Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story," which includes Khary Payton (left), Marsha Mason, and Barbara Alyn Woods.

WHAT'S NEW

ON HBO/HBO MAX "Monsters of God," a new docuseries (left).

ON NETFLIX "My Life with the Walter Boys," the Season 3 premiere.

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21 WLIW	21	21	(6:00) News	Nature		NOVA	Movie		To Be Announced		BBC News	The Day
25 WNYE	25	25	Laura	Great Conversations		Food. Potluck	Roots	Feet	Hospitality and Politics		My World	LBJ Library
31 WPXN	31	31	(6:00) FBI	FBI: Protective Details		FBI: One Night Stand	FBI: Fear Nothing		FBI: Face Off		FBI: Ghost From The
41 WXTV	41	41	N Univisi	La rosa de Guadalupe		Tan Cerca de Ti, Nace el	Guardian de mi Vida		Corazon de Oro		Noticias	N Univisi
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55 WLNY	55	55	Perfect (R)	Last Man	Last Man	News 8pm	48 Hours: Capturing		Judge Judy	Judge Judy	Neighbor.	Neighbor.
A&E	46	46	First 48 (R)	The First 48: Rumors Kill		The First 48: No Exit	Accused: Guilty or		(10:01) Accused: Guilty or		(11:04) Accused: Guilty or
AMC	54	43	(6:00) Jaws (1975, Thriller) Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw. PG ★★★★				TNA IMPACT!				Jaws (1975) PG ★★★★
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CNBC	15	24	Money	Shark Tank		Shark Tank	Shark Tank		Shark Tank		Shark Tank
CNN	78	25	(6:00) Lead	Erin Burnett OutFront		Anderson Cooper 360°	The Source with Kaitlan		CNN NewsNight		Laura Coates Live
COMEDY	45	50	The Office	The Office	The Office	The Office	(9:30) The Office: Gossip		The Office	The Office	Family Guy	Family Guy
DISC	66	27	(6:00) Jobs	Dirty Jobs (R)		Dirty Jobs: Rock Sucker	Dirty Jobs: Escalator (R)		Dirty Jobs (R)		Dirty Jobs: Jellyballer (R)
DISNEY	49	31	Big City	Big City	Big City	Phineas	Wizards	Phineas	Phineas	Kiff	Miraculous	Miraculous
E!	24	51	Book Club	The Help (2011, Drama) Emma Stone. PG-13 ★★★★					The Help (2011, Drama) Emma Stone. PG-13 ★★★★
ESPN	28	36	Softball	MLB Baseball		MLB Baseball: Minnesota Twins at Kansas City Royals. Live.				SportsCenter		Sports
ESPN2	29	35	Sports	Red Bull S	Red Bull	T-Rex	Corgi Race	Meadowland	NuLu Bock	Great Baha	2026 World	2026 Blackbird
FBN	43	106	Bottom	Kudlow (R)		Cops	Cops	Cops	Cops	Cops	Cops	Cops
FNC	44	26	Spc. Rpt.	The Ingraham Angle		Jesse Watters Primetime	Hansity			Gutfeld!	Fox News @ Night
FOOD	50	97	Beat Bobby	Beat Bobby	Beat Bobby	Restaurant Impossible	Ramsay's Secret Service		Ramsay's Secret Service		Kitchen Nightmares
FREE	38	49	(6:00) Pitch Perfect (2012)			Pitch Perfect 2 (2015, Comedy) Anna Kendrick. PG-13 ★★★★			Project Runway		The 700 Club (R)
FS1	400	99	Travis	FIFA World Cup: Final		Leagues Cup Soccer Live.				Greatest Games: Big Ten Championship
FX	10	40	(6:00) The Martian (2015, Science Fiction) Matt Damon. PG-13 ★★★★				The Bear: The Original		(10:20) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
HALL	198	200	(6:00) A Country Wedding (2015) NR ★★★★			Harvest Moon (2015, Romance) Jesse Hutch. NR ★★★★			Golden	Golden	Golden	Golden
HGTV	64	98	Worst Yard	House	House	House	House Hunters: Alaska		Hunters	Hunters	Hunters	Hunters
HIST	40	47	Secrets (R)	Secrets Declassified (R)		Secrets Declassified (R)	Secrets Declassified		(10:03) Ancient Aliens		(11:05) Ancient Aliens (R)
ID	23	171	Monster	American Monster		Married to Evil	A Killer Among Friends		Game Day Murders		Murder Under the Friday
LIFE	62	45	(6:00) NCIS	NCIS: Cracked		NCIS: Broken Arrow	NCIS: Enemies Foreign		(10:03) NCIS: Enemies		NCIS: False Witness
MeTV	33	33	MAS*H	MAS*H	MAS*H	Andy	Andy	Loves Ray.	Loves Ray.	Golden	Golden	Burnett	P. Mason
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MSNOW	14	23	Art Melber	The Weeknight		All in with Chris Hayes	The Briefing Jen Psaki		Lawrence O'Donnell		The 11th Hour with Ali
MTV	20	53	Radiculous	Jersey Shore: Family (R)		Jersey Shore: Family	Jersey Shore: Ronnie (R)		You're Cordially Invited (2025, Comedy) Will Ferrell. R
NATGEO	65	162	Treasures	Treasures Bible (R)		Treasures Bible (R)	Treasures Bible (R)		Treasures Bible (R)		Treasures Bible (R)
NICK	6	121	(5:00) Trolls	Sing 2 (2021, Family) Matthew McConaughey. PG ★★★★				Friends	Bang	Bang	Bang
OWN	173	180	Videos	Funniest Home Videos		Ray (2004, Drama) Jamie Foxx. PG-13 ★★★★					First-Time	First-Time
PARMT	36	56	The Wedding Singer (1998, Comedy) Adam Sandler. (8:25) Miss Congeniality (2000, Comedy) Sandra Bullock. PG-13 ★★★★								The Wedding Singer ★★★★
SNY	26	60	Jets Nation: Inside Camp	MLB Baseball: New York Mets at Cleveland Guardians. Replay.
SYFY	17	48	MIGAN (2023, Horror) Allison Williams. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011, Action) Shia LaBouf. PG-13 ★★★★
TBS	8	39	Bang	Bang	Bang	Bang	Bang	Bang	Jokers (R)	Jokers (R)	Jokers (R)	Jokers (R)
TCM	82	41	(6:00) Love and Death (1975, Comedy)			Shoot the Moon (1982, Drama) Albert Finney. R ★★★★			(10:15) Annie Hall (1977, Comedy) Woody Allen. ★★★★
TLC	52	28	90 Day (R)	90 Day: Last: The Last		90 Day: The Last Resort	Little Singles		Jay & Pamela (R)		Baylen Out Loud (R)
TNT	3	37	Blended	(7:15) Pretty Woman (1990, Romance) Richard Gere, Julia Roberts. (9:45) Blended (2014, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore.
TVLAND	85	34	Andy	Loves Ray.	Loves Ray.	Loves Ray.	(9:20) Loves Raymond		Loves Ray.	Loves Ray.	Queens	Queens
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VH1	19	52	Wife/Kids	Wife/Kids	Wife/Kids	ATL (2006, Drama) T.J. PG-13 ★★					Baby Boy (2001) Tyrese Gibson. R ★★★★
WE	59	42	(6:00) NCIS	NCIS: Grace Period		NCIS: Cover Story	NCIS: Brothers in Arms		NCIS: In the Dark		NCIS: Trojan Horse
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Aaron Judge, on the injured list since May 31 with a fractured rib, can begin running again and doing upper-body work in the weight room. And the three-time MVP is confident he will be back to lead the Bombers into the playoffs. PAGE 57

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