Mets bullpen delivers rare clunker after solid Zac Thornton outing in loss to Astros

For most of their games since the All-Star break, the Mets bullpen had become a relative strength, a group that produced the third-lowest ERA in the majors at 2.64 after the season resumed. For most of this month, too, Jared Young had done enough with his bat to play his way into conversations about a role for next season, an unexpected development considering his career trajectory to this point. But across two innings Sunday, an afternoon when rookie Zac Thornton once again did more than enough during his start, both combined to sink the Mets in their 6-3 loss to…

Odell Beckham makes Giants’ roster in full-circle moment

Odell Beckham Jr. made the Giants and his old No. 13 might soon be available. Beckham survived the cut down to 53 players and so now his comeback story reaches Phase II, after he showed enough during the preseason to claim one of the backup jobs with the team where…

Rams get dragged into Daejon Love’s bizarre fake NFL fantasy

Daejon Love apparently gave his alleged NFL career a change of scenery — and a newly surfaced video offers another glimpse at how he attempted to use that persona to impress women. The 35-year-old, whom federal prosecutors accuse of posing as a 49ers player as part of an alleged $1.3…

Former Lakers champion hit with insane ‘1-in-400-million’ bad omen

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope went to Philadelphia hoping to help the 76ers catch lightning in a bottle. His introduction to the city delivered the real thing first. The former Los Angeles Lakers guard’s new penthouse was struck by lightning just minutes after his wife, McKenzie, signed the lease, according to her TikTok…

Leases ARE the news amid frenzy for space in Manhattan

A reader emailed us, “Why does your column run so many lease stories? Isn’t there other news?”Well, right now, offices leases ARE the news. Manhattan’s space-gobbling frenzy is a thing to behold. Neither the pandemic’s supposed work-from-home impact, nor the election of a Marxist mayor, nor wars in Europe and…

Casper Ruud pulls out of US Open with worrisome back injury

Just minutes after the start of the U.S. Open on Sunday, Casper Ruud announced that he was pulling out of the tournament due to a back injury.  Ruud had been the No. 19 seed heading into this year’s tournament in Flushing Meadows, but questions had persisted coming in about his…

Status of Roosevelt Hotel murkier than ever as .4M contract hangs in the balance

Nobody, Realty Check included, has any idea what’s going on at the empty Roosevelt Hotel. Allow us to make things murkier. A sidewalk bridge recently popped up around the entire property between East 44th and 45th streets. Its purpose? “Installation of temporary sidewalk shed,” the city Department of Buildings none too helpfully says. “Renovations,”…

Yankees breathe sigh of relief with George Lombard Jr. injury update

There is Yankees relief, but probably not elation, after George Lombard Jr.’s MRI. Everything is structurally OK within the young shortstop’s right knee, the team and Lombard said Sunday, a day after he exited early following a scare during an awkward check swing. But Lombard said the scan found “a…

People are battling ‘ghost fat’ after losing weight on GLP-1s

Sometimes, seeing isn’t believing. Across the country, Americans are losing weight faster than ever thanks to blockbuster obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, with roughly one in eight US adults now turning to GLP-1s to slim down. But for some users, the dramatic physical changes come with an unexpected psychological…

How Lionel Messi changed everything about soccer in America

When acclaimed soccer writer Paul Tenorio followed Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami team to Dallas for one of the superstar’s first road games in America in 2023, the scene outside the team’s Renaissance Plano hotel was strangely calm. A few fans lingered behind barriers. Nothing unusual. Nothing chaotic. Not…

Science news this week: Ötzi the Iceman used to make sourdough, Italian teenagers discover Roman villa under school, Google plans to release 64 million mosquitos, and RIP to NASA’s Maven probe

Surprise discoveries that were thousands of years in the making dominated this week’s science news, with scientists discovering that Ötzi the Iceman’s body was teeming with ancient yeasts, which scientists promptly used to make a sourdough.First discovered in Italy’s Ötztal Alps in September 1991, Ötzi was a prehistoric man who…

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