Tracy McGrady challenges Karl-Anthony Towns to live up to talent: ‘Gotta have the want to’

An Basketball Hall of Famer challenged Karl-Anthony Towns to live up to his talent. Tracy McGrady, speaking with The Post’s Adam Schein on “Schein Time,” was asked how the Knicks can win the East this postseason. When McGrady pointed to maximizing Towns’ ability, he put it on Towns’ mentality. “He’s just gotta have the want to,” McGrady said. “He’s gotta want that. I’m sure coaches and his teammates are talking to him about that. He’s gotta want that. He’s gotta want that for himself and for his team. And if he takes that approach, that mentality, nobody can guard KAT.…

New-look Mets torture Paul Skenes in Opening Day win over Pirates

Long ball, short ball or ball four, the Mets’ new-look lineup aced the first of at least 162 tests it will face this season. Whether it was Carson Benge and Francisco Alvarez going deep Thursday or Luis Robert Jr. milking an at-bat or using his speed to earn an infield…

Gavin Newsom shades Kamala Harris over his portrayal in her memoir

Gov. Gavin Newsom took a dig at Kamala Harris for twisting the truth of what happened in a supposed texting spat between the two in her memoir “107 days” — speculating there was a financial motive. The memoir, which recounts Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign, only gave “a little shot as…

18 million-year-old fossils of ape found in Africa, but in an unexpected place

An illustration of Masripithecus moghraensis, an early Miocene ape. (Image credit: Mauricio Antón)The discovery of an enigmatic ape’s 18 million year-old fossils in Egypt hints that the ancestors of all living apes, a group that includes humans, may have originated in northeast Africa or Arabia, a new study finds.Scientists have…

Mets chase Paul Skenes with first-inning Opening Day barrage

The kind of relentless offensive attack that the Mets had dreamed about and a Pirates defensive effort that sure looked like a waking nightmare co-conspired for a stunning scene in the bottom of the first inning during Thursday’s Opening Day. Paul Skenes, the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, was…

Judge tosses lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X accusing advertisers of illegal boycott

A US judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp.’s antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive of illegally boycotting billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s social media company. US District Judge Jane Boyle in the federal court in Dallas said Musk’s X failed to…

Smoking is cool again! Here’s what you need to know

On FX’s wildly popular series “Love Story,” Carolyn Bessette Kennedy looks incredibly chic in her ’90s minimalist outfits, taking casual drags from her cigarettes. Fast forward to a fictional world of 2026 and it’s Rachel Sennott’s Maia on HBO’s “I Love LA” lighting up, cool as a cucumber. Off set,…

Dodgers put distance between 29 other MLB clubs ahead of Opening Day

Finally, the Great Snooze is almost over. A spring training that was described as “boring” by manager Dave Roberts is in its final days, the obligatory exhibition Freeway Series against the Angels the only remaining item on the Dodgers’ to-do list between now and Opening Day. In the five weeks…

Viruses in the gut may help prevent blood sugar spikes, mouse study hints

Viruses found in the intestines — collectively called the gut virome — activate the immune system to help metabolize carbohydrates, thereby reducing blood sugar spikes, a new study in mice shows.The findings, published March 11 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, hint that the virome may play a role…

Urfa Man: An 11,500-year-old life-size statue of a man holding his penis

Urfa Man is a life-size Neolithic statue found in Turkey. (Image credit: Getty Images)QUICK FACTSName: Urfa ManWhat it is: A limestone statueWhere it is from: Şanlıurfa, TurkeyWhen it was made: Circa 9500 B.C.Over 11,500 years ago, people in what is now southern Turkey began crafting life-size human statues for the…

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