When you make a list of the Jets’ biggest needs, it is easy to overlook running back. It is not as glaring of a hole as offensive line, cornerback, edge-rusher or wide receiver, but the Jets definitely need to add at this position and that could come in the draft. Despite plenty of speculation, Le’Veon...
There is no debate as to the quality of the player, but the debate rages on as to where Saquon Barkley was taken in the 2018 NFL Draft. Should a running back ever go off the board at No. 2? The Giants said yes two years ago. Based on positional value, evidence a serviceable player...
A court in Pakistan on Thursday overturned the death sentence and murder conviction of a British-born militant for the 2002 slaying of journalist Daniel Pearl. A lawyer for the militant, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, said his client’s sentence had been reduced to seven years in prison for the charge of kidnapping, according to Agence France-Presse....
Jets general manager Joe Douglas recapped his free-agency attack on Wednesday, saying the team wants to be “strategic and disciplined.” “I feel like we needed to really build a foundation moving forward of the right type of people and the right kind of depth on our team,” Douglas said on a conference call with reporters....
Former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday night that he believes the Democratic National Convention will be delayed until August due to the coronavirus outbreak. “I doubt whether the Democratic convention is going to be able to be held in mid-July, early-July,” Biden said on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” “I think it’s going...
JERUSALEM — Israel’s health minister, who has had frequent contact with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials, has the new coronavirus, the Health Ministry announced Thursday. Yaakov Litzman and his wife, who also has contracted the virus, are in isolation, feel well and are being treated, the statement said. Requests to enter isolation...
The Post’s Ryan Dunleavy gives his Top 10 running backs in this year’s 2020 NFL Draft: 1. D’Andre Swift, Georgia, 5-8, 212 Soft receiving hands allow Swift to be a three-down back and a Day 1 starter for a team drafting in the mid-to-late first round. 2. Jonathan Taylor, Wisconsin, 5-10, 226 Incredible production, but...
MIAMI — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Navy ships are being moved toward Venezuela as his administration beefs up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a U.S. drug indictment against Nicolás Maduro. The announcement came at the start of the daily White House press briefing to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, which has left much...
TAMPA, Fla. — After a prolonged standoff, Florida state troopers arrested a Georgia man accused of fatally shooting three people in his child’s mother’s family and kidnapping his child, authorities said Wednesday. Caesar Zamien Lamar Crockett Jr. safely handed his 2-year-old son over to authorities after a crash near Tampa. He then stayed in his...
Former NFL Pro Bowl defensive end Aldon Smith is returning to the league after a four-year absence after signing a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys on Wednesday, according to Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer. Smith — who last played with the Oakland Raiders in 2015 after playing four seasons with the San Francisco 49ers —...
Cardiac arrest victims whose hearts cannot be restarted at the scene are now being left there — rather than being brought to coronavirus-strained hospitals for further revival attempts, according to a new guidance for medical responders. The Regional Emergency Medical Services Council of New York, which oversees the city’s ambulance service, issued the guidance on...
Jadeveon Clowney remains the biggest name still available on the free-agent market. The Jets could desperately use an edge-rusher. So has Jets general manager Joe Douglas tried to sign Clowney? “I would say we’re going to do our due diligence on everybody who’s out there, especially at the edge-rusher position,” Douglas said on a conference...
Once upon a time, Colt McCoy was a starting NFL quarterback. He ran smack into an unwelcome impediment to his development between his first and second seasons. He hopes to be able to share this experience with Daniel Jones and help the second-year Giants quarterback overcome this challenging offseason. McCoy, 33, signed a one-year deal...
Kevin Thomas Duffy, a prominent Manhattan federal judge who presided over the trial for the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, reportedly died of the coronavirus on Wednesday. He was 87. A friend of Duffy’s, P. Kevin Castel, told The New York Times that he died at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut. Duffy,...
In a world desperate for sports — real or fictional — one newspaper editor took matters into his own hands. With a scoreboard page lacking scores because of the coronavirus pandemic, John L. Pitts, sports editor for the Tupelo, Miss., Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, looked instead to the big screen. “You never know what’s going...
Part 11 of a series analyzing the Brooklyn Nets. If the Nets are going to be a legitimate title contender a year from now, they will want to go into next season with a third star. Some feel Caris LeVert can be that man. Or think he can help Brooklyn acquire him. Either way, he...
Coronavirus-stricken CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was shivering so severely Tuesday night that he chipped a tooth, he revealed on-air Wednesday while describing his symptoms. “I’ve never had anything like it,” Cuomo, the younger brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said as he broadcasted from the basement of his home. “I never experienced any kind...
LOS ANGELES — The mayor of Los Angeles on Wednesday told everyone in the nation’s second-largest city to start wearing masks to combat the coronavirus, but California’s governor isn’t ready to take that idea statewide. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he’s focused instead on keeping people inside. He also announced the state may need 66,000...
This load of toilet paper got wiped out. A tractor-trailer hauling a shipment of the hot coronavirus commodity crashed near Dallas early on Wednesday and caught fire, singeing thousands of rolls and spilling the rest all over an interstate, officials said. The load of commercial toilet paper, typically used in stores, restaurants and other businesses,...
The coronavirus pandemic has just claimed its first big institutional victim: the New York state Legislature, which handed Gov. Andrew Cuomo broad and unprecedented leeway to cut state spending in the fiscal year that began Wednesday. Under the circumstances, the Assembly and Senate really had little choice. Lawmakers in both parties know full well they...
It’s obvious the Democrats’ impeachment obsession was a damaging distraction for President Trump, as Mitch McConnell says. That was the whole point of it. But what we now know is the coronavirus outbreak emerged right in the middle of the impeachment. The administration was distracted at a crucial time. “I think it diverted the attention...
Because of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ stay-at-home order, as of Friday the only players allowed into the Yankees’ spring training facility are those rehabbing injuries. That likely will leave Luis Severino, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton as the only players at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. Severino had Tommy John surgery during spring training....
Hours after Wimbledon announced on Wednesday that it was canceling this year’s tournament because of the severity of the coronavirus crisis, the British Open has reportedly followed suit. As coronavirus strengthened its grip on the globe, the Masters and PGA Championship became the first two golf major championships to postpone their scheduled dates, slated for...
Be prepared for a shock — the employment report for March that’s coming out on Friday may not be as bad as people are expecting. But don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. The job market right now is the worst it has been in over a decade. But quirks in how the monthly numbers are derived...
The New Orleans Saints are taking their NFL 2020 draft headquarters to a brewery. After the coronavirus forced teams to close their facilities because of the pandemic, Saints coach Sean Payton announced in a conference call Wednesday that the team is setting up shop at the Dixie Brewing Company, which belongs to team owner Gayle Benson...