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  • Mayor Adams puts positive spin on bail reform in state budget

    Mayor Adams puts positive spin on bail reform in state budget

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  • Billie Eilish puts a twist on the trench on Grammys 2022 red carpet

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    Billie Eilish is dedicated to her latest look.

    The “No Time to Die” singer wowed on the Grammys 2022 red carpet, wearing a deconstructed trench coat and sock boots ($780), both by Rick Owens.

    The chart-topper wore the striking coat — which is cut so that the wearer’s head sits behind the collar and lapel, which hangs over the chest — over a black dress.

    She added rectangular sunglasses and styled her hair in a very 2000s updo.

    The 2022 ceremony, held Sunday, April 3 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and hosted by Trevor Noah, is a big one for the “Ocean Eyes” singer.

    The hitmaker is nominated for a total of six Grammys at tonight’s ceremony: Record of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Music Video, Best Music Film and Song of the Year for “Happier Than Ever.”

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    Eilish sported dark shades on the Grammys red carpet.
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    The Academy Award winner, who won Best Original Song for the James Bond theme “No Time to Die” at last week’s Oscars, wore a voluminous black Gucci gown to the March 27 event.

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    The singer stepped out in another all-black look at the Oscars last month.
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    The “Bad Guy” singer, 20, drew mixed opinions on her ruffled Oscars outfit, and even responded to one fan’s criticism on TikTok; in response to a video saying he was “sick of her s–t,” the singer reacted by sitting on a toilet with her pants down, flashing a middle finger in response.

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    “I HAVEN’T had enough of my s–t,” she captioned the TikTok. “I am s—ing right now.”

    Clearly Eilish isn’t sick of her all-black red carpet looks and continues to evolve the style.

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  • Jacob deGrom injury puts him on New York’s ‘What if’ All-Stars

    Jacob deGrom injury puts him on New York’s ‘What if’ All-Stars

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    The immediate problem for the Mets is the hole in the rotation that Jacob deGrom was going to fill every five days. We aren’t likely to see deGrom until June 1 at the earliest, so that’s 10-12 starts he isn’t going to make, after the 20-22 he didn’t make last year.

    And that means deGrom is about to join another New York category, one no athlete ever wants to be added to.

    Call them the “What-If” All-Stars.

    It is hard to believe that after eight years in the major leagues deGrom’s lifetime record is just 77-53. Even in an era when wins and losses no longer define a starting pitcher as they once did, that’s an amazing figure at age 33. And look, we understand it isn’t just injury that has kept deGrom’s win total at 77, thanks to regular bullpen sabotage.

    But now that deGrom is going to lose a chunk of significant action for a second straight season — and don’t forget, he missed his last eight starts in 2016, too — it’s clear his overall career, his overall body of work, will suffer by this absence. There is no denying his greatness in real time, when healthy. But it will be forever difficult to talk about his career without using those defining, qualifying words:

    “When healthy …”

    There is a rich list of New York athletes who share a similar burden. For many of them it didn’t hinder their ability to qualify for a Hall of Fame, or at least secure a permanent place in the fans’ memory bank. But all of them also have the melancholy preface.

    When healthy … Joe Namath was one of the greatest players who ever threw a football. It was a different game then, and the Jets weren’t as good toward the end of his tenure as they were at the start. But Namath also lost huge sections of 1970, ’71 and ’73 — his age-27, -28 and -30 seasons. That should have been the cream of his prime. It wasn’t.

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    Bernard King
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    When healthy … Bernard King was one of the best forwards in NBA history. As it was, his glorious 1983-84 season — 27.4 points per game on 57.2 percent shooting from he floor — nearly won him an MVP, and he was averaging 31.6 the next year when he blew out his knee. That cost him his next 185 games as a Knick. It almost certainly is what’s kept his No. 30 out of the rafters at the Garden, and it’s impossible not to wonder what a healthy King/Patrick Ewing tandem might’ve looked like.

    When healthy … Mickey Mantle was one of the two to three best baseball players who ever lived. But after 1951 he was never truly healthy, even as he played through myriad aches and pains. But injuries cost him the last nine games of his 1961 pursuit of Babe Ruth’s record, helped plummet his lifetime batting average under .300 late in his career and took a toll on his lifetime numbers, too. From 1963-68 he missed close to 200 games, a minimum of 800 at-bats. At his career average of one homer every 15.12 at-bats, that’s an extra 52 to his total and brings him to 588 — certainly within distance where he might’ve been the second player all time to reach 600, before Willie Mays did it.

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  • Dell’s Dual Charge Dock puts a Qi phone charger on a laptop dock for $368.99

    Dell’s Dual Charge Dock puts a Qi phone charger on a laptop dock for $368.99

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    Dell’s latest laptop dock adds a little something extra: a Qi wireless charging stand that lets you see and charge your phone while also connecting your laptop to monitors and peripherals (via Ars Technica). The Dual Charge Dock can provide 90W to your computer over USB-C and 12W of power to your phone via the fabric-covered wireless charger.

    In a press release, Dell says that the charging coils in the Qi portion of the dock are widely spread out — meaning that you can charge your phone while it’s in portrait or landscape, and you c an even use the charger to juice up a pair of wireless earbuds.

    Of course, as a dock, it’s also meant to let you plonk your laptop down on a desk, plug in a single cable, and be able to use external displays and peripherals. To that end, it’s got a decent selection of ports — four USB-A ports, one USB-C port (in addition to the USB-C cable you use to connect the dock to your laptop), an ethernet jack, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort 1.4 ports. That USB-C port can also supply 15W of power if you’ve got a device that you have to charge with a cable.

    There’s also a USB-C port on the other side.
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    The Dual Charge Dock isn’t cheap — it’ll cost $368.99 when it becomes available on May 12th. For that price, you could pick up this Anker Dock (which has a similar port selection and SD card slots), a Pixel Stand, and one inexpensive but satisfying lunch. If you’re on a budget, you could take a look at this $125 dock / laptop cooler Dell sells on its website, get a standard Qi charging pad to go with it, and have over $200 leftover.

    None of that says that the dock is overpriced or that nobody should buy it. I can absolutely see the value of having a compact, all-in-one charging solution that also adds a good number of ports to your laptop. I won’t be surprised if I see a few desks with the Dual Charge Dock on them in the near future.

    PS — if you prefer Thunderbolt, Dell’s also got a Thunderbolt 4 dock coming out in “Q2” for $469.99. It features fewer USB-A ports (and doesn’t have an integrated Qi charger) but does have Thunderbolt passthrough and more display outputs.

    The Thunderbolt dock is more expensive, but is more flexible than USB-C.
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  • Paolo Banchero puts on show in Duke’s win: ‘beautiful to see’

    Paolo Banchero puts on show in Duke’s win: ‘beautiful to see’

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  • Kentucky win puts St. Peter’s on the map

    Kentucky win puts St. Peter’s on the map

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  • Windfall review: Netflix’s old-school thriller puts Mark Zuckerberg on trial

    Windfall review: Netflix’s old-school thriller puts Mark Zuckerberg on trial

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    There are three characters in Windfall, and none of them have names: a wealthy tech CEO played by Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog), his wife, played by Lily Collins (Emily in Paris), and the man who robs them, played by Jason Segel (The Muppets). They weren’t supposed to meet — at the start of the film, the thief is alone in the couple’s empty villa. it’s only when the couple changes their plans and arrive to find him in their home that the film’s tense, 90-minute negotiation kicks off. In the ensuing one-act play, the real hostage isn’t a person, it’s the idea of the meritocracy, as Windfall slowly becomes a class-rage thriller about holding the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world prisoner.

    The latest film from director Charlie McDowell (The One I Love), now streaming on Netflix, is a Hitchcockian throwback, an exercise in restrained, clear filmmaking and the tension that arises when you put three people and a gun in a room together. Each character arrives onscreen and reveals a little about themselves, even though they’re trying not to. The more time they spend together, the more they reveal, even when it’s bad for them. They can’t help being who they are.

    Filmed with wide shots and long takes, Windfall feels like a play, even though it doesn’t ditching the pleasures of cinema. Its single set — the villa and its surrounding orange grove — is lovingly portrayed with symmetrical compositions and gold-tinged colors. The film’s score is full of reedy woodwinds that take listeners through peaks and valleys as the power dynamics shift between the trio, whose performances are just loud enough to bring them firmly out the range of “subtle,” but not so much that they become outright cartoonish.

    Plemons is a delight as “the CEO,” a man who, for much of the film’s runtime, cannot believe he’s being robbed. He suspects he’s somehow victimized the intruder, whose full motivation is never fully revealed — that his livelihood was somehow harmed by the successes of the CEO’s companies, or that he’s enraged by the CEO’s stature and perceives it as unearned. That belief manifests as smug condescension toward the guy holding him hostage: In one scene where the couple’s unexpected guest demands money, the CEO laughs, and says he should be asking for twice as much.

    Much of Windfall consists of the male leads going back and forth about what they each want, and whether the other deserves to achieve his desires. In that sense, the CEO becomes an avatar for the new tech-billionaire elite, believing he’s earned his status and actually faces significant adversity, as the whole world eagerly waits for someone like him to fall. The thief, faced with his quarry’s pettiness, takes comfort in his belief that his understanding of people remains superior, no matter how desperate his situation gets. As the thief, Segel is a separate highlight: skittish and gaunt, displaying a bit of a mean streak rarely seen in his acting work. And in the balance is the wife: the film’s quiet fulcrum, whose sympathies shift and sway depending on who’s actually listening to her and who isn’t.

    Windfall’s script, written by Justin Lader and Andrew Kevin Walker (from a story by Lader, Walker, Segel, and McDowell), isn’t quite subtle enough to make the film a success. Its commentary is heavy-handed, its characters sketched in too neatly. But the script lets all three characters get satisfyingly messy, as each of them crosses small lines that surprise the others, in a series of transgressions that pile up until the three people at the end of the film are entirely different from the three at the start. That’s the dangerous thing about so-called meritocracies: They’re often built on lies rewarded with money. Hold those lies to account, and the real person underneath starts looking a lot less exceptional than they did before.

    Windfall is now available to stream on Netflix.

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  • Google’s McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car

    Google’s McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car

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    Season five of Formula 1: Drive to Survive could potentially include scenes of McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown smashing a Chromebook or Android tablet, Tom Brady-style, thanks to a new arrangement between the team and Google.

    In 2020, McLaren exited its deal with OnePlus that produced several powerfully-specced black and orange Android phones, but there’s no indication of a similar branding exercise coming to the Pixel series anytime soon.

    Instead, the new “multi-year” agreement between Google and McLaren is putting branding on the MCL36 driven by Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo (who is now available to drive in this weekend’s season-opening Bahrain GP after multiple negative tests following a case of COVID-19), their race suits and helmets, and on McLaren’s Number 58 McLaren MX Extreme E race car drivers and team.

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    You can spot the Android logo peeking along the engine cover in these pictures (thanks, Benjamin Cartwright) while the familiar colors of Google Chrome are clearly visible on the covers of the 18-inch wheel rims.

    If you’re not familiar with these branded wheels in F1, it’s an opportunity arising as wheel covers are being reintroduced for the first time since 2009. As noted by Formula1.com, the covers are a mandatory addition to all cars this season, and while they have a simpler design than the ones seen on some cars in the mid-00s, they’re part of the changes instituted to lower turbulence created by each car to enable closer following and, ideally, more passing opportunities. Motorsport.com has more information on the history of wheel covers in F1, why they were banned prior to the 2010 season, and why they’re back now, including a not that the dished design is supposed to make them easier for mechanics to handle during pit stops.

    They also say that McLaren will use “5G-enabled Android devices and Chrome browser across its operations during practice sessions, qualifying and races to support the drivers and team, with the goal of improving on-track performance.” In a statement, Brown said “By integrating platforms like Android and Chrome across our operations, our team will be better supported to focus on driving performance. We’re looking forward to an exciting partnership that spans across Formula 1 and Extreme E.”


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  • Tom Brady’s return puts him in this group of all-time greats

    Tom Brady’s return puts him in this group of all-time greats

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    March Madness is Tom Brady announcing on Selection Sunday that his retirement is over.

    Brady knows now how Brett Favre used to feel every time he tried to retire.

    He knows now how Michael Jordan felt when he twice tried to retire.

    It is hardly shocking news: The GOAT’s love of the game — and apparently an understanding Gisele — expedited his change of heart. Not that his heart was ever in leaving.

    He always knew that he had more to give, but appeared to feel a certain sense of guilt that he had been sacrificing too much family time, and convinced himself that his outside ventures could sustain him.

    He may be a Superman wearing No. 12, but he is very much like every other human in the sports arena who realizes that the void is often impossible to replace. Many icons have thought that the grass was greener in retirement and then thought again.

    You’re only young once. Or in his case, you’re only 44 once.

    The lion heart inside the GOAT roars on. As it must. As it should.

    Jordan was a 30-year-old pup when he retired because his competitive fire had waned, but of course it flamed up again following a dalliance with baseball.

    Jordan was 32 on March 18, 1995 when, pre-Twitter, he declared: “I’m back.”

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    Tom Brady unretired on Saturday.
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    In January 1999, he told us he was 99.9 percent certain it was over.

    On Sept. 25, 2001, he was back again, at age 38. Until, finally, April 16, 2003, when it was obvious to everyone that Air Jordan had been grounded.

    During his Hall of Fame induction speech, he mused: “One day you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. (laughs) Oh, don’t laugh. Never say never. Because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”

    Favre’s first retirement lasted four months. His second retirement lasted six months. His third retirement lasted two weeks. Mercifully, his fourth retirement stuck.

    Hopefully Brady won’t allow himself to travel down Laughingstock Road.

    Brady isn’t the beaten-down war horse that John Elway was when he decided against a three-peat at age 38 with the Broncos. He is still toying with NFL defenses.

    “These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands,” Brady tweeted. “That time will come. But it’s not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible. I’m coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. Unfinished business LFG.”

    His retirement statement: “I have always believed the sport of football is an ‘all-in’ proposition — if a 100% competitive commitment isn’t there, you won’t succeed, and success is what I love so much about our game.”

    Retired on February 1.

    Unretired on March 13.

    40 days and 40 nights.

    Forgive Roger Goodell, in the wake of the stench from the one-year Calvin Ridley gambling suspension, for doing cartwheels as he welcomes back the face of the NFL.

    Brady undoubtedly sees a clear path to the playoffs in a division where Sean Payton is no longer coaching the Saints, where Matt Rhule is desperate for a quarterback and on the hot seat, where the Falcons won’t have Ridley back. If the Panthers were to sign Deshaun Watson, he could still face a league suspension or find himself on the commissioner’s exempt list. Only the Rams, Packers and Cardinals, if they can navigate through the stormy Kyler Murray seas, appear to be NFC roadblocks to the Super Bowl.

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    Tom Brady celebrates a Super Bowl win with his kids.
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    Bucs offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich and defensive coordinator Todd Bowles were shut out in the most recent hiring cycle, and Rob Gronkowski should be announcing the end of his retirement any day now.

    Not that he has to worry about inflation, but Brady is under contract for $10.4 million this year, plus $4.5 million in incentives. But money doesn’t buy happiness, and Brady is happiest when he has a team to lead and a game and a championship to win.

    In the ongoing Tom vs. Time death struggle, Tom still maintains the upper hand.

    For the GOAT, seven Lombardi trophies are not enough. Maybe eight is enough. Maybe he wants to ride off into the sunset following one more Super Bowl championship. Maybe this will turn out to be his Farewell Tour.

    Only three years ago, he told ESPN’s Randy Moss: “I sit here and think, ‘Well, if I wasn’t playing football, what would I be doing?’ I can’t find an answer to that. So, it’s like, ‘Why not keep doing what I love doing?’ ”

    Three years later, nothing has changed. Why not? Indeed.

    We’ll thank you for the memories again when you retire for good. Welcome back, Tom Brady.

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  • Mother-Daughter Duo Puts the Moves On Andy Cohen and Joe Gorga

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    “You want me to be your dad? I would not be a satisfying partner for your mom. I would not be able to fulfill her.”

    Andy Cohen and Joe Gorga were certainly entertained by a lively mother-daughter duo on Monday night’s “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.”

    “First off, I was going to call you Candy Cohen because you looking like a snack,” the daughter began, who along with her mom were virtual audience members on the show.

    The comment triggered a hilarious head nod from the talk show host (watch the video below). However things took a turn as she then put her own mom in the hot seat, “My mom has a crush on you, sorry.”

    Cohen then asked the duo to clarify who the matriarch was crushing on — to which she replied: “You, honey… sorry you’re gay.”

    In an effort to cheer up her mother, the daughter put an arm around her shoulders and asked the 53-year-old host to “be my dad.”

    “You want me to be your dad? I would not be a satisfying partner for your mom. I would not be able to fulfill her,” he laughed. “This is a mother daughter here?… you kind of seem like sisters, I got to tell you in the best possible way.”

    When Cohen asked the duo what they had been doing while waiting for their turn on the show, they confirmed that they had been “drinking quite heavily.”

    As her mother blew Andy a kiss, the daughter explained that ever since she met Melissa Gorga and Joe at the Monroe Convention Center, she’s harbored a “WAP” for the 42-year-old.

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    Joe then let out a fist pump as Melissa laughed and revealed that the song “WAP” by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion was her husband’s favorite tune to sing.

    “The daughter… you have a thing for Joe Gorga?” Andy asked as she confirmed, “I mean Melissa I love you but who doesn’t?”

    But her mom was quick to make her own stance clear. “Um, no not me Andy I’m in love with you,” she adamantly waved her hand as she pulled down her low cut top with a glass of wine in her hand.

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