Running into a former colleague, making a delicious discovery and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Source: New York Times
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The Jets have faced their fair share of dynamic quarterbacks in the first half of this season and they don’t expect the Patriots’ Cam Newton to be any different. “Cam Newton is a former MVP for a reason,” Jets cornerback…
The coronavirus positivity rate has crossed 2 percent in New York, Gov. Cuomo announced Saturday. Of the 163,291 tests reported Friday, 3,587, or 2.2 percent were positive. The positivity rate in the state’s micro-cluster hot zones, which include parts of…
It wouldn’t be such a terrible thing if Leonard Williams winds up having the kind of career Richard Seymour did for the Patriots. And sack the haters whose noise sometimes goes in one ear hole and out the other. And…
Immediately after he takes office, President-elect Joe Biden plans to issue a slew of executive orders reversing many notable Trump administration policies, according to a report on Saturday. The Biden camp wants to immediately repeal the ban on immigration targeting…
It was no surprise this week that the last 2020 presidential election sketch of “Saturday Night Live” threw back to 2016’s memorable result. Four years ago, an emotional Kate McKinnon, playing Hillary Clinton, sat behind a grand piano on the…
Rarely are high expectations met — they certainly were at All Elite Wrestling’s Full Gear pay-per-view. There weren’t hits everywhere, but AEW’s most stacked card yet hit a ton of high notes on it’s biggest storylines Saturday night with nearly…
It’s not often that a reigning NFL Most Valuable Player is subject to criticism. Yet here we are with Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson as he readies for one of the biggest games of the season, as his Ravens (5-2) play…
Fans eager to see “Saturday Night Live’s” take on Joe Biden’s election victory were crawling up the walls when the sketch show took a backseat to the Clemson vs Notre Dame college football game. Viewers took to social media to…
The president-elect was speaking — and the president himself was nowhere in sight. This photo from the White House briefing room summed it all up Saturday night. In the foreground is a screen showing Joe Biden’s first speech as president-elect.…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Rutgers pulled out every trick in the book, but Justin Fields threw five touchdown passes and ran for another score to help No. 3 Ohio State beat the Scarlet Knights 49-27 on Saturday night. Fields, a Heisman…
After rooting for Kamala Harris as President-elect Joe Biden’s running mate, people in her small ancestral Indian village woke up Sunday morning to the news of her making history. Most of them had gone to sleep by the time Biden…
It looked like New Year’s Eve in Times Square on Saturday night, as thousands packed the Crossroads of the World to celebrate Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump. A seemingly endless line of cars also passed through the area, their…