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Eric Adams was all but assured of winning the race for mayor yesterday when the latest tally — including absentee ballots — gave him a narrow lead.

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By Sara NaThaN, Emily SmiTh and TiffaNy Garcia

Britney Spears’ court-appointed attorney, Samuel D. Ingham III, asked to resign from her conservatorship case — less than 24 hours after the pop star’s manager, Larry Rudolph, quit and days after the co-conservator of her estate announced its exit.

Ingham said in court papers filed in LA Tuesday that he wishes to step down “upon the appointment of new courtappointed counsel.”

The law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP, which had recently been brought on to the case to assist Ingham in his duties, is also seeking to resign.

TMZ reported earlier on Tuesday that Ingham came to the decision after being “extremely upset” over claims that Spears, 39, made about him in her court hearing on June 23.

The ”Toxic” singer told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny at the time, “Ma’am, I didn’t know I could petition the conservatorship to end. I honestly didn’t know that.”

Ingham did not return Page Six’s request for comment.

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Contestants from 14 of Mexico’s 32 states at a Miss Mexico contest tested positive for the coronavirus, a health official in the northern border city of Chihuahua said Tuesday.

State Health Secretary Eduardo Fernández Herrera said all the contestants had submitted negative tests before the pageant, but authorities received an anonymous tip that one person was in fact infected.

After new tests confirmed the breakout,a shortened version of the contest wrapped up on Saturday.

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Scarlett Johansson is pregnant!

The Oscar-nominated actress, 36, is expecting her first child with husband Colin Jost, 39, multiple sources tell Page Six. One source told us: “Scarlett is actually due soon, I know she and Colin are thrilled.”

Another insider added: “Scarlett is pregnant but has been keeping it very quiet.

She has been keeping a very low profile.”

The “Avengers” star sparked pregnancy rumors in June after skipping out on several “Black Widow” events.

“She hasn’t been doing many interviews or events to promote ‘Black Widow’ which is surprising since it is a huge Marvel/Disney release and she is both the star and an executive producer,” our source explained.

Instead, she’s been carrying out promotional appearances via Zoom, appearing virtually on the “Tonight Show” to chat with Jimmy Fallon on June 21 and conspicuously shot only from the shoulders up.

She was also absent from a “Black Widow” screening in the Hamptons Friday — attended by her co-star David Harbour and followed by a party at Mariska Hargitay’s home — even though she and Jost own a home in Montauk, where they’re frequently seen out and about.

A Hamptons source told us: “Scarlett usually spends a lot of the summer out in Amagansett and Montauk, and you’d often see her walking her dogs on the beach or getting coffee. But this summer, it seems like she is deliberately trying to keep a low profile.”

Disney has already held “Black Widow” events in Manhattan, Los Angeles and

London, but all sans ScarJo. She stars in the big-budget flick — which hits multiplexes this weekend after being postponed last year due to the pandemic — as the titular character, a Russianborn spy-turned-Avenger. It’s among a number of potential blockbusters that Hollywood hopes will revive the box office.

“Midsommar” star Florence Pugh, who plays Romanoff’s sister, Yelena, has been heavily promoting the movie, appearing via Zoom on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday and also attending a red carpet premiere in London on June 29.

The new arrival will be Johansson’s second child. She previously welcomed daughter Rose, now 6, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.

Johansson and Jost, the “Saturday Night Live” head writer and star, quietly tied the knot in October 2020 after three years of dating.

This will be his first child.

The two met on the set of “SNL” in 2006 but weren’t romantically linked until May 2017, when they were spotted kissing at an afterparty for the 46-season NBC stalwart, a few months after Johansson filed for divorce from Dauriac. The duo made their relationship public in December 2017 before announcing their engagement in May 2019, and the “Lucy” star called Jost “the love of my life” while hosting “SNL” in December 2019.

“I’ve met someone I love.

And who I feel more comfortable with than I ever have before,” Jost subsequently wrote of Johansson in his 2020 memoir, “A Very Punchable Face.”

Jost already seems ready for fatherhood, as he was spotted carrying his stepdaughter out in New York in April after a family dinner with Johansson.

A rep for Johansson was unavailable for comment.

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Blessed: Pregnancy rumors swirled in recent weeks when Scarlett Johansson (with hubby Colin Jost) was absent from red-carpet events like this.

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Lander prevails for comptroller Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander defeated City Council Speaker Corey Johnson with the absentee ballots factored in for the Democratic primary race for comptroller, according to unofficial results released Tuesday by the Board of Elections.

The left-wing Lander, who represents Park Slope and surrounding neighborhoods, maintained his separation from the pack and earned 51.9 percent of the vote in the 10th round of ranked-choice voting, while Johnson garnered 48.1 percent for second place.

Lander’s new 24,683-vote margin comes after the initial rankedchoice voting tabulation, which did not include the more than 125,000 absentee ballots, showed Lander with a 3.8 percent edge over Johnson. That identical edge was maintained with the absentee ballots counted.

In a statement, Lander claimed victory Tuesday evening.

“Thank you, New York City! I promise to work hard every single day to build a city that is more just, more equal and more prepared for the future,” he said.

“This was the most grassroots campaign for comptroller in NYC history — and I couldn’t be more grateful to everyone who was part of it.

“I’m honored to be the Democratic nominee for New York City comptroller.”

Shortly after, Johnson conceded.

“Today, after seeing the numbers released by the Board of Elections, it’s clear that the right thing to do is to suspend my campaign for comptroller,” Johnson said in a statement. “This was a hard-fought campaign and I congratulate Brad Lander on his victory.”

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Comeback kid Vito wins GOP Beep nod Former Congressman Vito Fossella won the Republican nomination for Staten Island borough president on Tuesday, 12 years after leaving politics amid scandal.

The seven-term congressman opted not to seek re-election for his House seat in 2008 after a drunken-driving bust in Virginia revealed he was quietly keeping a second family.

A late entrant to the race in March, Fossella captured 9,306 votes, or 50.8 percent, to 9,016 votes, or 49.2, percent for Councilman Steven Matteo after absentee ballots were included in the ranked-choice voting count.

Fossella told The Post he received a congratulatory call from former President Donald Trump, who backed his candidacy.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani also endorsed him.

“We want to do the best possible job for the people of Staten Island,” Fossella said. “We want Staten Island to have the strongest voice possible. I will make sure Staten Island will not be the forgotten borough.”

Fossella will face off against Democrat Mark Murphy in the general election. A Democrat hasn’t won the office in four decades.

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Stringer: Curb Blas’ power$ City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced Tuesday that he is suing Mayor de Blasio to end the practice of awarding fast-track contracts due to the pandemic.

The comptroller’s Manhattan Supreme Court suit is aimed at bringing back procurement laws and regulations that mandate comptroller oversight over City Hall’s spending, regulations that have been suspended since March 16, 2020, when de Blasio signed an executive order that allowed him to

circumvent regular procurement rules with the aim of expediting the process the city used to purchase goods and services during the emergency.

A rep for the mayor said the emergency procurements “saved lives” and accused Stringer, who in June received just 5 percent of firstchoice Democratic-primary votes in a failed bid to succeed de Blasio, of filing the suit in an attempt to stay relevant.

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By Sam RaSkiN, NolaN HickS and BRuce GoldiNG Eric Adams won the Democratic nomination in the race to replace Mayor de Blasio — squeaking out a narrow victory in the ranked-choice primary, according to a preliminary count of the final vote tally Tuesday.

Adams emerged ahead of Kathryn Garcia, 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent, according to unofficial figures posted on the city Board of Election’s Web site.

And with that, Adams declared the primary race over.

“While there are still some very small amounts of votes to be counted, the results are clear: an historic, diverse, five-borough coalition led by working-class New Yorkers has led us to victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City,” he said in a statement.

“Now we must focus on winning in November so that we can deliver on the promise of this great

city for those who are struggling, who are underserved, and who are committed to a safe, fair, affordable future for all New Yorkers.”

The 403,333 votes for Adams gave him an edge of 8,426 over Garcia, who got 394,907.

The margin is less than the 14,755-vote spread Adams enjoyed after last week’s count — but appears to be enough to ensure a win.

That’s because there are only 942 of about 126,000 absentee ballots left to count, due to technical errors that voters will be allowed to correct. The tentative deadline to fix those ballots is Friday.

During a Board of Elections meeting earlier in the day, acting Executive Director Dawn Sandow told the commissioners there were 3,699 absentee ballots left to be counted.

But that number was later revised downward by a spokeswoman who said the deadline for the remainder had already expired.

The blunder was the latest to

plague the primary race, which was thrown into chaos last week when the BOE botched its first count of ranked-choice votes.

There is also an unknown number of affidavits that have yet to be counted, the BOE spokeswoman said.

A total of about 36,000 affidavit ballots were cast but the majority was disqualified — and cannot be corrected — and it’s unclear how many remain and will be valid.

A Garcia campaign spokeswoman said, “We are currently seeking additional clarity on the number of outstanding ballots and are committed to supporting the Democratic nominee.”

Adams, 60, is the outgoing Brooklyn borough president and a former state senator and exNYPD captain.

His campaign focused heavily on restoring public safety amid a surge in shootings — including two in the heart of Times Square recently — that endanger the city’s economic recovery from

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Close Call: The city Board of Elections latest count — including absentee ballots — made Eric Adams the all-butcertain winner of the Dem mayoral contest over Kathryn Garcia by a single point.

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string of snafus that have plagued city elections run by the patronage-riddled agency.

Following the meeting, board President Frederic Umane, a Manhattan Republican, told The Post one or more unidentified BOE employees made the mistake, saying, “This was not a vendor error.”

The introduction of ranked-

choice voting turned the Democratic primary into a closer race by dramatically boosting Garcia’s numbers throughout the process, but Adams never surrendered his lead after the initial round of first-choice, in-person votes on primary night, June 22.

Maya Wiley, who was eliminated in the second-to-last round of the ranked-choice

count Tuesday, said, “It would be an understatement to express dismay at the BOE’s administration of this election.”

Wiley also mocked the BOE for a mid-morning tweet in which it promised that the timing of Tuesday’s results would be “more brunch special vs. club hours.”

After the results were released at about 6:40 p.m., Wiley said “that has made today’s brunch at dinnertime, a long and drawnout day for New Yorkers.”

Adams will face Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in the Nov. 2 general election to succeed outgoing Mayor de Blasio, a two-term Democrat barred by term limits from seeking reelection.

The city’s Democrats outnumber Republicans 7 to 1 and the Big Apple hasn’t elected a GOP candidate for mayor since Michael Bloomberg ran in 2001 and 2005. He was re-elected in 2009 as an independent.

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the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adams, who is seeking to become the city’s second black mayor, has said he favors reviving and reforming the NYPD’s undercover units to focus on seizing illegal guns and has also called the controversial “stopand-frisk” tactic a necessary part of policing.

Tuesday’s results were based on the addition of the absentee ballots, which weren’t factored in when the BOE Wednesday updated its initial — and botched — count of rankedchoice votes.

The massive screwup was the result of bumbling officials having failed to clear 135,000 fake ballots that were entered into a BOE computer system for a test run ahead of the city’s first ranked-choice elections.

Red-faced board members later held a secret — and apparently illegal — meeting to discuss the humiliating blunder, which marked the latest in a

RIC Adams’ much-deserved victory in the Democratic primary for mayor came because he understood what his opponents didn’t: If city residents don’t feel safe, nothing else matters.

Now, with a victory in November’s general election anticipated, he must put those words into action as New York City’s 110th mayor.

He has promised to reinstitute the NYPD gun unit, get weapons off the streets and curb the surge in shootings and murders. He must hold fast against Albany legislators and the DAs who believe no crime deserves punishment. As both a former cop and agitator for change, he brings a common-sense approach to policing, aiming to rebuild the trust of the community while not vilifying police officers, as so many “defund” Democrats do.

New York City is poised to bounce back from the lost year of the pandemic, but only if its government keeps the streets safe and clean and gets out of the way as businesses rebuild.

Mayor de Blasio is leaving as he came, selfish and deluded. He’s spending every dime of federal aid, burning away cash on pet projects and donors, doing nothing to shore up New York’s finances for years to come — or even help the mayor that follows him. De Blasio will go down in history as one of the worst leaders Gotham has ever had, and we can only hope he scurries off to Boston and never comes back.

Adams will need to halt what wasteful spending he can. Hopefully Scott Stringer will succeed in his efforts to rein in de Blasio’s endlessly extended “emergency” powers to stop Blas from doing even more damage on his way out the door. De Blasio believed the only economic growth worth bragging about was an increase in government employment and spending — private industry be damned. Adams understands that companies can move somewhere else; it’s imperative we keep them here.

Crisis after crisis has been ignored these past eight years. Adams has a chance to fix them. Black families in Queens are crying out for better schools.

Let’s get a chancellor who actually cares, push to lift the charter cap and stop believing that the answer to educational inequality is making sure smart kids can’t be challenged. The mentally ill homeless can be treated, rather than left to sleep on the floor of Penn Station. Restaurants and small businesses can be encouraged, rather than regulated and fined to the brink of bankruptcy. There’s a better way for New York; we know there is.

So congratulations, Mr. Adams. And good luck. The work starts soon.

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New Wollman operators replace Trump The owners of the New Jersey Devils and two partners have been selected to run Wollman Rink in Central Park after the city booted its long-term operator, the Trump Organization.

The new firm — Wollman Park Partners — is a joint venture among Newark, NJ-based Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, Related Companies and Equinox.

Harris Blitzer owns the New Jersey Devils and the Prudential Center arena in Newark.

Community partners include Great Performances + Melba’s Restaurant, YMCA, Ice Hockey in Harlem, Figure Skating in Harlem, The Boys’ Club of New York, and Green City Force.

“As we plan for our City’s future, our cultural institutions are at the forefront of imagining and revitalizing the type of urban experience we aspire to, one that’s inclusive, accessible and welcoming to all New Yorkers,” Josh Harris and David Blitzer, co-founders of Harris Blitzer Sports

& Entertainment, said in a statement.

Mayor de Blasio pushed to remove the Trump Organization as the operator of Wollman Rink (right) and three other attractions — Central Park’s Lasker Rink and Carousel and the Bronx Ferry Point golf course — after accusing former President Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The Trump Organization, which is suing the city for ending the golfcourse contract, had no immediate comment.

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The closing ceremony of the city’s ticker-tape parade honoring essential workers along the Canyon of Heroes Wednesday has been canceled due to scorching temperatures, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday.

“We have a little bit of a challenge because we do have some heat tomorrow,” de Blasio first said earlier in the day, before the closing event was nixed altogether.

“It’s something we have to work with, and we are going to make some changes to keep people safe.”

The city will be under a heat advisory on Wednesday, although the 94-degree high will feel “less bad” than the sizzling heat last week.

The parade — honoring pandemic heroes, such as nurses, doctors and transit workers — will begin at 11 a.m. in Battery Park, with “thousands” marching up Broadway to City Hall, according to Hizzoner.

With the real-feel high forecast to reach 105 degrees, de Blasio opted to

Grand! NYC nurse Sandra Lindsay, the first US nontrial recipient of a COVID vaccine, will be the grand marshal of a parade Wednesday honoring heroes of the pandemic — an event slightly downsized due to extreme heat.

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cancel the ceremony at the end of the march. In lieu of it, the mayor and First Lady Chirlane McCray will “cheer marchers to applaud New York City’s hometown heroes,” according to a press release.

Queens nurse Sandra Lindsay, the first American to receive a COVID-19 vaccine dose outside of a clinical trial, will serve as the parade’s grand marshal, de Blasio said.

The city will add cooling and water stations along the parade route, de Blasio said.

Hizzoner insisted the event will be “memorable” and “major celebration.”

“We’ve got a lot to celebrate and a lot of people to celebrate,” he said.

“This is going to be memorable, this is going to be a parade for everyday people, for working people who

made a difference for this city. We want to welcome all New Yorkers to come be a part of it and celebrate our heroes.”

At the pandemic’s peak in April 2020, de Blasio first vowed to pay tribute to the Big Apple’s essential workers who put their lives on the line, once COVID-19 safety restrictions were lifted.

“The day is coming where we will overcome this disease,” de Blasio told reporters at the time.

“When that day comes that we can restart the vibrant, beautiful life of this city, the first thing we will do is have a ticker-tape parade.”

“We will honor those who saved us.”

De Blasio announced the July 7 date for the parade last month.

The Broadway Canyon of Heroes parade has celebrated major figures, such as Charles Lindbergh, Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, several astronauts, Pope John Paul II and Nelson Mandela, as well as the Mets, Yankees, Rangers and Giants championship teams.

Scouts selling camps to pay sex victims The Boy Scouts have put three of their New York campgrounds up for sale to help cover the $850 million they just agreed to pay sexabuse victims, a report says.

The Boy Scouts of America agreed last week to shell out the sum to about 60,000 victims in its ongoing bank-

ruptcy case, with the national organization contributing $250 million and local councils covering the remaining $600 million.

Now at least one council in New York has listed three campsites — one each in Rockland, Dutchess and Putnam counties — for sale to pay

its portion of settlement funds, according to a Lohud report.

“To ensure we are best positioned to continue serving local youth, families and communities for years to come, the Boy Scouts of America Greater Hudson Valley Council has made the difficult decision to list some

camp properties for sale,” the group said in a statement.

The council said the sale could affect “one or more properties, including Camp Bullowa, Durland Scout Reservation and Camp Nooteeming.”

“We have not finalized any sales and will continue operations as planned in these lo-

cations for the summer,” the statement continued.

In a June 25 newsletter, the council previously said that leaders “will look at every option and will vote on the solution that will pay our debt and point us all toward the brightest outcome.”

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Soap Box: Gwen Berry’s display on the podium during the national anthem is a taste of the woke agenda you might see athletes push at the Olympics.

fended the suspension by stating German and the only American the rules and saying that the ath- that sits on the governing board lete should have known to abide of the IOC is an African-American woman. That, of course, did by them.

It got racial, inevitably. Michael not stop Dyson or several other media outlets and outEric Dyson, a noted rage mongers from professor and political using this incident as commentator on race, just another racial took to Twitter to say: wedge to justify their “Smoking weed ain’t petty grievances and the problem.

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“Weeding out,” “blunts” — such a swim cap designed for natural wordplay! They don’t make you a black hair and created by a blackowned brand, on the grounds that professor for nothing, you know.

The IOC is based out of Switz- the cap does not fit the natural erland. The current president is form of the head. Once again, the

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HE Olympic Games in Tokyo are doomed. Before the opening ceremony, before even the torch is lit, it’s not going to be OK. The Games, I’m afraid, just aren’t woke enough.

Apologies to Tokyo and Japan — and #StopAsianHate and so on.

But for the international left, sport no longer matters unless it can be used to win on Twitter and advance the War for Progress.

Professional football can no longer be about the game. It must be a staging ground for raising awareness of racism and police brutality. Classrooms can no longer be about math and reading. They must be a nursery for implanting and implementing critical race theory. Now, the Olympics must be about anthems, swimming caps — and weed.

During the US Olympic track and field trials, Gwen Berry refused to face the flag on the podium and stood with a disinterested mope, before breaking out a T-shirt she had clearly preplanned for the event should she find herself on the winner’s podium. The fact she had not won the hammer event — she finished third — did not deter her.

She did, however, trend to the top of Twitter. Several American media outlets lavished praise on her. ESPN ran a full front-page splash — not on the winner of the competition, DeAnna Price, who broke her own world record in the hammer to qualify for the Olympic team. The story, the drama, the viral element was Gwen Berry.

What was even more extraordinary about Berry’s stunt was that she claimed there was a large conspiracy to play the national anthem at the specific time that she was standing on the bronze finisher’s podium. The media, of course, mostly went along with this nonsense.

Another controversy arose when American sprinter and Olympic gold-medal favorite Sha’Carri Richardson tested positive for marijuana use, to which she admitted. She accepted a onemonth ban. This effectively eliminated her from competing in the 100-meter heats at the Olympics.

There can be a debate about the rule, or if cannabis should fall under an international doping policy for the International Olympic Committee. Federal and state drug laws in the United States had nothing to do with Richardson’s suspension. Yet many in media and the left began to push the debate on decriminalization immediately. President Biden de-

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debate should be centered around the rights and wrongs of FINA’s policy. Oh, no. It became, natch, about structural racism in the United States.

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah attributed the ban to “white folks still trying to think of ways to make it harder for black people to swim,” in a since-deleted tweet. Once again, though, white folks cannot exclusively be blamed for the rule. FINA is not an American organization. It is overseen by Husain al-Musallam, a Kuwaiti national. He was elected FINA president last month.

What these stories have in common is that none has to do with racism — unless, of course, you believe, as many seem to, that everything is racism.

The anthem was not aimed at Gwen Berry, whatever she be-

lieves. Richardson’s suspension is not down to her race, nor is it down to harsh drug laws in the United States that target poor black communities. The ban on a certain type of swim cap was not about white people keeping black people out of swimming pools.

However, once again, an event that is meant to bring peoples together in the name of sport must become a woke circus on a world stage where bad-faith actors can take advantage. The anthem will become another kneeling-type BLM controversy. The flag is to be treated as a racist symbol — perhaps as part of a political stunt from a Nike-sponsored athlete with a new range of sportswear coming out soon. These competitors should enjoy the spectacle they create. At this rate, they will be the only ones watching.

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Shooter-onscooter fright in East Harlem Photos: NYPD

A passenger ona Lime scooter opened fire outside an East Harlem bodega in a broad-daylight shooting that sent bystanders running for cover, police said.

Two men were riding on the scooter when the passenger fired at least one shot on Second Avenue near East 115th Street at about 3:35 p.m. on June 13, according to the NYPD. Police released video footage of the shooting Monday night.

No injuries were reported.

The suspects were last seen heading south on Second Avenue before turning right onto East 116th Street, according to police and witnesses.

They remained on the loose as of Tuesday night.

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Empire under assault Cuo declares disaster emergency over gun violence

By Bruce GoldinG Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday declared a state of “disaster emergency” over gun violence across New York — and announced $138 million in new spending in an effort to stop the surge in shootings.

“Gun violence and crime should be the top priority for every mayor in this state because every city has been affected by it,” Cuomo said.

“It’s a matter of saving lives — and New York’s future depends on it.”

Speaking at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, Cuomo (inset) said that “people are not coming back to this city — they are not coming back to any city — until they know it’s safe.”

Cuomo made no mention of hiring more cops, although he said he wanted to “rebuild the police-community relationship.”

In a speech that at times sounded like a campaign pitch, the

embattled three-term Democrat unveiled a seven-point plan that included treating gun violence as an “emergency public-health issue” and using “data and science” to zero in on shooting “hot spots.”

Cuomo — who’s facing multiple probes tied to sex-harassment allegations and the coverup of nursinghome deaths from COVID-19 — also said he would provide “positive engagement for at-risk youth,” including by creating summer jobs and funding arts and other social programs.

“We also want to form a council on gun-violence prevention that gets your minds at the table to develop a strategy and the laws that we need to make a difference,” he added “Everything is on the table.”

At one point, Cuomo also went on

a bizarre riff clearly aimed at former President Donald Trump, during which he jokingly outlined his “vision” of building a “magic” wall to stop traffickers from smuggling weapons into New York from southern states with less-restrictive gun laws.

“We build a tall, big — a beautiful wall. And we have the wall go for miles. And we have a little gold leaf up at the top of the wall, little gold shiny leaf. And then we put a big name across the wall, and the name, the name has five letters,” he said, grinning broadly.

“You know the name? I can see it.

Can you see it? C-U-O-M-O.” Tuesday’s declaration came 16 months after Cuomo announced a disaster emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, which he lifted two weeks ago.

But he invoked the newer declaration by saying, “We’re in a new epidemic. It’s gun violence.

“And you know what? It’s a matter of life and death, also.”

State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt (R-Lockport) blasted Cuomo for “declaring another emergency” just “days after finally relinquishing his emergency powers.”

“The crisis in cities across our state today directly correlates with the passage of the disastrous bail and other criminal justice ‘reforms,’ an out-of-control Parole Board that has released countless murderers and other dangerous criminals, and calls by Democrats to defund our police,” he said in a statement. “These heinous acts of violence and the victims affected deserve real solutions — not political grandstanding.”

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At least four people were shot — with one left in critical condition — as gun violence continued across the Big Apple overnight, cops said.

The latest incident unfolded at around 2:50 a.m. on 39th Avenue near 103rd Street in Queens, where multiple people pulled up on scooters and opened fire — striking a 24-year-old man three times, authorities said. The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center with life-threatening injuries.

About an hour earlier, a 25-yearold man was shot in the chest at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 133rd Street in Harlem, police said. He was taken to Harlem Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

In Coney Island at around 12:15 a.m., a 38-year-old man was shot in the hand at 31st Street and Mermaid Avenue, authorities said. He was taken to NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn with non-life-threatening injuries.

Hours earlier in The Bronx, a 22year-old man was standing on East 175th Street near Walton Avenue at around 7:10 p.m. Monday when someone opened fire, striking him in the left side of the torso, police said. He was taken to BronxCare Health System.

Shots were also fired during a mugging at around 11 p.m. in Rego Park — but no one was struck, authorities said.

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Cop stats show June a bit safer The Big Apple saw a nearly 20 percent drop in gun violence in June, according to statistics released Tuesday — although top cop Dermot Shea believes there’s still “so much more work to do.”

Last month, the NYPD logged 165 shootings, a decrease from 205 acts of gunplay during the same month last year amid an unprecedented spike in shootings citywide.

“We started to reverse the trend that we’ve been seeing since last May of increased gun violence,” Commissioner Shea said at a press conference with Mayor de Blasio.

June’s tally, though, is nearly double the number of shootings than in June 2019, when 89 were reported. Shea and de Blasio credited the NYPD’s nearly 100 percent increase in gun arrests for the drop in shootings last month.

Data from last June showed gun busts had been down more than 40 percent.

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While Nagalem still has some healing to do and one more minor surgery, for the first time in her life, she’s breathing easy.

“She is playing, enjoying everything,” said Gebremariam.

“There is a big difference, she is different.” erosner@nypost.com

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The white New Jersey man who was caught on camera hurling racial slurs at his black neighbor will be hit with new charges, prosecutors said Monday.

Edward Cagney Mathews, 45, will face charges of bias intimidation and assault after a video of the racial tirade sparked protests over the weekend outside his home in Mount Laurel, said Burlington County Prosecutor Scott A. Coffina.

Mathews initially had been charged with harassment and bias intimidation, police said.

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Rep. John Katko, top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, is calling the massive ransomware attack that affected hundreds of companies worldwide a “moment of reckoning” in the USRussia relationship.

In a statement to The Post Tuesday, Katko (R-NY) lamented that the cyberattack, allegedly conducted by Russia-linked cybercrime group REvil on Friday, followed President Biden boasting about taking Russian President Vladimir Putin to task on the matter of ransomware.

“Only weeks after President Biden sat down with Putin and allegedly talked a tough game with Russia, hackers from Russia again attacked thousands of US companies, compromising our nation’s critical infrastructure,” Katko said.

“We’re facing a moment of reckoning when it comes to deterrence,” he added.

The comments come one day after REvil claimed to be behind the attack.

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Manhattan doctors removed a lethal tumor the size of a cantaloupe from a 5-year-old Ethiopian girl’s face in an intense, hourslong surgery — and she proudly showed off her new smile on Tuesday.

Little Nagalem Alafa, who lives in a rural village in the African country, has suffered since birth from a vascular malformation on her face that’s kept her out of school and prevented her from socializing with kids oH, Happy day: Lenox Hill Hospital’s husband-and-wife her own age. team, Dr. Milton Waner and Dr. Teresa O, removed a lethal “They were hiding her vascular malformation from Nagalem Alafa, 5, of Ethiopia. at home,” explained Kalkidan Alemayehu Gebremariam, who’s been helping the child and her father translate after they came to New York for the surgery in late June.

“They don’t let her go to school and now thanks to God for this . . . she’ll go to school,” he said.

The benign growth has been developing “rapidly” and Nagalem would’ve suffocated or starved, due to the inability to swallow, if the tumor wasn’t removed.

Luckily for her, a US government official met Nagalem in Ethiopia last year while on a mission and decided to help.

Following a worldwide search for doctors who could treat the rare condition, the official found Dr. Teresa O and Dr. Milton Waner, a married couple and surgical dream team from Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side, which agreed to conduct the $500,000 procedure pro bono.

“This is why I became a doctor,” Waner told The Post on Tuesday during a press conference at the hospital to unveil Nagalem’s new face.

“On a scale of 1 to 10, this is a 12,” the doctor said of the procedure, one of the most complicated he and O have ever done.

“This type of surgery is very difficult, very dangerous, and certainly life-threatening,” he said.

“We explained what would happen to the child’s father. her facial and neck nerves and when Nagalem was wheeled out There was a possibility she may carefully removed the tumor and of the operating room, her father not make it.” parts of her skin, which had dropped to his knees and O said the condition is rarely grown around the malformation. thanked God when he realized seen in the United States beThe surgeons had to “cau- that she had made it. cause kids typically get such a tiously navigate branches of “I was crying before, now I’m growth removed well before it nerves and vital arteries” that smiling and praising God and the reaches the size of Nagalem’s tu- could’ve caused paralysis, severe doctors,” said dad Matios Alafa mor. blood loss and death if they were Haile through Gebremariam, the The child underwent the com- accidentally severed, hospital of- translator. plex, 12-hour operation on June ficials explained.

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Zero crawl spaces

By Lee Brown and JorGe Fitz-GiBBon First responders at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building have yet to discover any “livable spaces” in the ruins, officials acknowledged Tuesday — as eight more bodies were found, increasing the death toll to 36.

Another 109 people are still unaccounted for after the Champlain Towers South crumbled in Surfside early on June 24.

“We’re definitely searching,” Miami-Dade Fire Chief Alan Cominsky said at a press briefing Tuesday. “Unfortunately, we’re not seeing anything positive that

continues in that sense.

“The key things we are looking for all throughout in regards to void space, livable spaces. We’re not coming across that,” he said.

Asked if there were plans to reclassify the 13-day-old searchand-rescue operation for possible survivors into a recovery mission for just bodies, the chief said authorities have been “having different dialogues.”

No survivors have been found since the day of the collapse, when part of the 12-story beachfront tower pancaked shortly before 1:30 a.m., burying nearly 150 people under tons of concrete and debris.

The demolition of the unstable remaining standing portion of the building late Sunday safely gave crews access to more of the site, leading to more bodies being recovered.

But while hundreds of first responders continued to toil on the pile in hopes of finding anyone alive underneath, the weather was working against them on Tuesday.

Video posted on Twitter by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue showed first responders in hard hats braving gusty winds and rain from Tropical Storm Elsa — some working with cranes, others with their bare hands.

Behind them, palm trees sway violently, a sign of the extreme weather and sweeping rains from the approaching storm.

Elsa was expected to make landfall near Tampa as early as late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning, officials said.

Numerous damning reports have described yearslong warnings from engineers about the building’s sturdiness.

The condo board had just embarked on a massive, multimillion-dollar improvement project at the site to try to address construction shortcomings when the tower collapsed. jfitz-gibbon@nypost.com

Queens funeral for tower couple ‘Pillars’: Ingrid and Tzvi Ainsworth died in the condo collapse.

A grandma and grandpa who died in the Surfside building collapse were remembered as “pillars of their community” at an emotional ceremony before their burial in Queens on Tuesday.

Tzvi Ainsworth, 68, and his wife, Ingrid “Itty” Ainsworth, 65, were among the first victims of the June 24 tragedy to be laid to rest.

The couple’s wooden coffins were placed side-byside outside the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for mourners to pay their respects before the couple was to be buried at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens.

“The Ainsworths were pillars of their community wherever they lived,” Rabbi

Motti Seligson, spokesman for Chabad-Lubavitch, told The Post at the Brooklyn ceremony.

“They were people that everyone admired and looked up to and people who inspired others in the community by how they lived and always being there as a helping hand for others when they needed,” he said.

More than 500 mourners showed up to pay their final respects to the couple.

The Ainsworths moved from Australia to the Sunshine State four years ago to be with their children and other relatives — and celebrated the birth of a granddaughter the day before the building collapsed. Jorge Fitz-Gibbon and Lee Brown

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Grim: Rescuers dig this week through the rubble of the deadly condo collapse in Surfside, Fla.

LIRR OT ‘cheats’ changing tracks Two former Long Island Rail Road workers who pleaded not guilty in February to charges they conspired to collect massive amounts of illegitimate pay have requested hearings to change their pleas, court papers show.

MTA “Overtime King” Thomas Caputo wants a conference as early as July 20 to reverse his earlier plea, said Manhattan US Attorney Audrey Strauss in a letter Tuesday to Judge Paul Engelmayer.

Former LIRR track foreman Joseph Balestra “intends to plead guilty,” but has requested time “to confirm the effect of the plea on his pension,” Strauss said.

Balestra and Caputo, a former track inspector, are accused with three others of reaping thousands of dollars in pay for time they did not work by taking advantage of what the MTA Inspector General’s Office has called an “honor system” for reporting hours.

Caputo, now 57, earned $461,000 in 2018 alone — more than any other MTA employee that year, The Post reported in 2019.

Those earnings included an unfathomable 3,864 overtime hours, averaging out to 10 hours of OT for all 365 days of the year, according to prosecutors.

The scheme helped all five defendants rake in annual OT payments of $240,000 or more, according to court papers. Caputo retired in 2019 amid the probe but has continued to receive pension payments from the MTA. Balestra, 51, was suspended without pay after his own arrest, MTA officials said.

Lawyers for Caputo and Balestra did not return requests for comment.

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By david meyer What a bunch of maskholes.

A group of more than 30 teens from Boston refused to wear face masks on a plane to the Bahamas on Monday — forcing American Airlines to cancel the flight.

“It was bad. First they were yelling. They were cursing. They were being very obnoxious,” witness Malik Banks told WSOC-TV. American Airlines Flight 893 was set to depart Charlotte, NC, at 9:30 a.m.

Monday when a mechanical issue forced flyers to switch planes. The highschool students began acting up after boarding the second jet, WSOC-TV reported.

“It wasn’t all of them,” Banks recounted. “I would say 75 percent to 80 percent of them were being terrible kids, saying smart stuff.”

The flight was then canceled altogether. American Airlines acknowledged the incident and said the trip was delayed until Tuesday, the station reported.

Racists target MLK statue A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in California was vandalized with “horrific graffiti” in a despicable act that’s being investigated as a hate crime, officials say.

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said the likeness of the civil-rights icon at Martin Luther King Jr. Park was defaced over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

“Our MLK statue is a symbol of hope and justice for the community,” Garcia tweeted Monday.

A photo posted to Twitter showed the statue spray-painted with what appeared to be a swastika and SS bolts — two common neo-Nazi and white-supremacy symbols, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

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Former Yankees outfielder Bronson Sardinha was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Hawaii over the Fourth of July weekend.

Sardinha, 38, was arrested shortly after midnight Sunday, according to Honolulu police. He posted bail and was released.

Sardinha played in 10 games for the Yankees in 2007.

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“All they had to do was follow the rules, put the mask on, sit there. No smart-mouth comments,” said another ticked-off passenger Christina Randolph.

“And they couldn’t do it.”

Adults stranded as a result of the shenanigans received hotel vouchers — but age rules for hotel bookings forced the teens to spend an uncomfortable night at the airport.

But the karmic justice wasn’t enough for some travelers, who were not happy to lose a day of vacation.

“Well I’m a nurse, and it’s really, really hard to get time off work. So when you finally get time off, you really want to be somewhere you want to be,” Randolph told the TV station.

“Some people’s vacations are ruined. They were only going for a couple of nights.

Now they have to get rebooked,” added Stephanie Krzywanski.

“Nobody likes it. Nobody wants to sit around and do this, but you’ve got to follow the rules.”

No arrests were made.

Supermodel Bella Hadid attends the “Annette” screening and opening ceremonies Tuesday at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival in the South of France. The 24year-old beauty enjoyed both the red-carpet attention and then the musical starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver.

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The golf pro who was gunned down at a Georgia country club over the weekend was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, police said Tuesday.

Gene Siller, 41, was shot and killed Saturday likely because he stumbled on and “witnessed an active crime taking place,” Cobb County police told WGCL-TV. Cops said Siller, the director of golf at Pinetree Country Club near Kennesaw, was shot in the head when he approached a white Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck that had driven onto the course around the 10th hole. Police later found two bodies in the truck.

Paul Pierson, the owner of the pickup truck, and an unidentified man had both been shot to death and left in the bed of the truck.

The shooter remains on the loose, with police still investigating the motive for the shootings.

The country-club course is next to Kennesaw State University and is used by the school’s golf teams. Police said there is no danger to the public. “We are aware that the public has many questions,” police said in a statement. “The most pressing one being why this happened.”

Siller left behind a wife and two young children. Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

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Dye-hards spend big for rare tanning lotion

bronze idol: Fans are selling old bottles of the discontinued Bain de Soleil Orange Gelée online for more than $200. Thalia Pappas (below) is holding on to her beloved bottle.

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Sun-worshipping fans of the “St-Tropez tan” are in an uproar over the discontinuation of Bain de Soleil’s 94-year-old Orange Gelée sunscreen, which has promised sleek and glowy tanned skin for generations.

Bayer, which has owned Bain de Soleil since 2014, halted production of the line in December 2019.

Now, 3-ounce tubes of the brand’s signature Orange Gelée, which could once be purchased for $10 at your local drugstore, are selling at online resale sites such as eBay and Poshmark for upward of $200.

“I’ve used it all my life,” said Thalia Pappas, 67, an environmental consultant from Landenberg, Pa. “Until last year, I thought it would be there for me forever.”

Pappas is one of some 6,000 signees to an online petition calling for Bayer to resume production of the beloved sunscreen.

The product’s one-of-a-kind scent and ability to keep her skin sleek after tanning led Pappas to jury-rig her own Orange Gelée.

She’s tried mixing Bayer’s Coppertone suntan lotion with orange and clove essential oils, but the homemade dupe pales in comparison to the original.

“Nothing out there smells like it or compares in its color or texture and capability to make tanned skin glow,” she said.

With such a strong outcry from consumers, Pappas said she doesn’t understand why the skincare line isn’t being bought by a different personal care company, but suspects the discontinuation has to do with the product’s minimal sunburn prevention. Orange Gelée is less of a sunscreen and more of an after-tanning lotion — it barely offers protection from the sun with only SPF 4 coverage.

“It’s quintessential summer,” said Pappas. “Any girl back in the ’70s and ’80s used it.”

Originally called Antoine de Paris, the first iteration of Orange Gelée was created in 1925 in Paris, where it gained popularity until branching out to the United States during the 1940s. The brand’s French name translates to “sunbath.”

When Melissa Savoy, a 30-year-

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old sun worshipper from Cape Cod, Mass., first heard that the lotion she grew up on was being fazed out, she stalked every store and Web site to get her orange-y hands on that inimitable product.

“It [feels] like the beach — the texture, the color, the smell. You just don’t get that anywhere else,” said Savoy, who started using the product as a 7-year-old.

With summer in full swing, Savoy is hoarding her last Orange Gelée bottle until she can find a secondhand-market stash within her price range.

“I saw one today for $140, but I’m willing to spend no more than $100.”

Her mom, Pam, has been a devotee of the tube since its ’80s heyday.

“I have no problems with my

skin at all,” said the 58-year-old.

“I’m in my late 50s, so that says a lot.” With only two tubes left, Pam is desperate to procure more of the product.

But with tanning no longer in vogue and high-SPF sunscreen now considered a must — the American Academy of Dermatology recommends SPF 30 as a minimum — demand for Bain de Soleil has been in decline.

According to a statement from Bayer, it “discontinued the production and sale of Bain de Soleil products due to limited consumer interest.”

The company, which sold the Coppertone brand to Beiersdorf last year, added: “Given the fondness for the product, we can understand the disappointment.”

One such disappointed die-hard isn’t even a beach babe.

Sister CarolAnn Clark, 70, a nun from San Diego, signed the petition when she found out that the Orange Gelée was available only for hundreds of dollars.

“I just don’t like the smell of other lotions,” said Clark, who has been using it since childhood. “I don’t get burns with it. I don’t know what it was about the Bain de Soleil that just protected me from everything.”

Since her siblings have battled skin cancer, Clark credits her untarnished skin to the lotion, which she used while walking her Maltipoo and for other gentle pursuits.

“I use it to protect my skin in the backyard while I’m feeding the birds,” she said.

US oil prices jumped to sixyear highs Tuesday after OPEC failed to reach a deal on oil production — raising concerns that output could fail to keep up with surging demand.

Futures for West Texas Intermediate, the main US oil benchmark, advanced 1.3 percent, or about $1, to $76.16 per barrel. At one point, WTI crude reached $76.98, the highest price since November 2014.

Brent crude, the global energy benchmark, traded roughly flat at about $77.04 per barrel, the highest price since late 2018.

The surging prices came after talks that began last week between OPEC and its oil-producing allies, known as OPEC+, fell apart. The group’s meeting sought to establish production policy for August and the remainder of the year.

But a Saudi Arabia-backed plan to raise output and let the price stabilize failed to win agreement, with the United Arab Emirates, a key OPEC member, refusing to sign off.

Discussions were set to resume on Monday but got called off in a sign of simmering tensions and stalling talks.

Americans are already feeling the crunch at the pump, with national average gas prices over $3 per gallon at a seven-year high. The US has pushed OPEC to reach a deal that would see output rise.

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Deadly Iran pipeline blast An explosion ripped through oil and gas pipelines at a pump house in Iran’s southwest Tuesday, killing three workers and injuring four others, media reported.

The blast struck the Einkhosh field some 310 miles southwest of the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to several news outlets.

The condition of the injured workers was not immediately clear. A photo widely circulated from the scene showed a corpse under a blanket next to a charred building that apparently had served as a rest place for workers at the pump house.

The reports did not say if the cause of the explosion was known.

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Stone rolls with rapper RMR Page Six® Emily Smith

“BASIC Instinct” icon Sharon Stone is sparking dating rumors with RMR — a rapper less than half her age.

Page Six spies have spotted Stone, 63, and RMR, 25, on dates together all over LA. Last week, they hit up hot spots Delilah and the Highlight Room, where they were seen dancing to hip-hop music.

“She’s definitely having a hot girl summer.

They were together hanging out with Drake’s [artist] PartyNextDoor, and they were canoodling and popping bottles. They were dancing to hip-hop. Chris Brown was also there,” a source told Page Six. RMR, a burgeoning artist who protects his

identity by wearing a ski mask and gold grillz on his teeth, “respects her and thinks she’s cool as f - - k,” according to an insider, who says they have been spending the last few months together. The source added that he’s a huge fan of Stone’s 1995 mobster film “Casino.”

“They’re enjoying each other’s company right now and hanging out. They’re having a great time together,” the source said.

The “Dealer” rapper even got Stone to don one of his signature ski masks in the club (photo below). “They’re on the same frequency and it’s a very unique friendship,” the source said.

Their “unique friendship” has spilled over to Instagram, with him liking several of Stone’s

photos — including one of her doing watercolors — while she has been supporting his career updates. “Can’t wait to see all you Rascals at my shows, and everyone else . . . Doing a US & Canada tour,” he captioned a video last month.

Stone responded with applause emojis.

A rep for RMR did not comment and Stone responded, “No comment.”

She has been open about her dating life. She revealed she was kicked off the dating app Bumble in 2019 after some users reported the account was a fake. She was quickly unblocked and said, “I’m looking for someone who wants to have a caring and compassionate and loving relationship like anybody else.”

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A-Rod aloof . . .

Has Sharon Stone gone Patty Hearst?

Nope, she’s just enjoying her time hanging out with rapper RMR, her rumored fling, in an LA club.

ALEX Rodriguez was surrounded by a “bevy of beauties” at a starry Hamptons July Fourth party Sunday. But the slugger seemed more interested in hanging with Jay-Z. A-Rod arrived at 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin’s bash at his $50 million Bridgehampton mansion via helicopter, where a spy told us exclusively, “A-Rod came to the party with his nephew Nick [Silva],” who works at the star’s A-Rod Corp.

“He goes and sits with Jay-Z, Robert Kraft and Rubin. Alex had not seen Jay since the pandemic started. Then all these girls surrounded their table. It was literally a bevy of beauties trying to get to Alex.” But “all Alex was doing was chilling with his nephew and Jay,” said the source. “He knew what was going on, but he kept to himself.”

A-Rod’s ex-fiancée Jennifer Lopez has been shacking up with Ben Affleck at her nearby Water Mill estate. Sources close to Rodriguez have insisted he’s not looking for love, instead concentrating on baseball broadcasting, his new NBA team and his family.

A pal told us of the scene at the party: “He’s not looking to find any girls . . . but it’s nice to know that girls are still interested.”

Eraser head WHILE stars add ink to their bods for increasingly trivial occasions — Priyanka Chopra just got tattoos in honor of her three dogs with Nick Jonas — Pete Davidson says it’ll take over two years to laser off the more than 100 tats covering the comic. The “SNL” star — who has ink homages to Hillary Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Game of Thrones” and “Harry Potter” to name a few — said in a new report, “I get my next treatment [in] like a month or so . . . They said by the time I’m 30, they should all be gone. So they got, like, two more years left of this.” He’s removing the tattoos to help his film career.

. . . as J.Lo ‘bugs’

Big ‘Daddy’ ALEXANDRA Cooper’s march toward world domination continues. The “Call Her Daddy” podcast star (above) — who just signed a $60 million deal with Spotify — is being repped by celebrity p.r. firm Align, Page Six has learned. The company, founded by Hollywood vet Nicole Perez-Krueger, counts Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Osaka, Jameela Jamil and Lea Michele as clients. UTA reportedly repped Cooper in moving her show to Spotify from Barstool Sports, which launched it.

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MAYBE he was trying to win some of that moolah he nearly made in the NBA Finals?

Hawks player Trae Young was spotted incognito at a blackjack table at Bahamas resort Baha Mar over the weekend — wearing a hoodie and a mask. But the NBA star was noticed by some younger fans, who began to proliferate. A spy said that ultimately, “about 200 kids, I am not kidding, who looked about 15 or younger were standing around the casino chanting ‘Trae Young.’ ” The underage crew wasn’t allowed in the casino, so they had to spy on Young from outside the gambling area. Said one insider of the group, “I’ve seen Michael Jordan, Magic [Johnson] at the casino there, and I’ve never seen anything like this. They were all kids.” Also spotted at the resort over the weekend were NFL stars Odell Beckham Jr., Ezekiel Elliott and Vince Young, plus DJ Khaled.

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IT’S been fun and games over at Jennifer Lopez’s place in the Hamptons — where she has been staying with her new-old beau, Ben Affleck. Sources tell us that the “Hustlers” star is holed up at her estate with her rekindled love interest, emerging to ride dune buggies and paint outside together. A source said that recently “they painted all day in the backyard. They had big canvases set up. Then they drove go-kart, dune buggy things around the garden, chasing each other. She was screaming her head off, having the time of her life.” While she has yet to publicly comment on the Affleck romance, Lopez said, “I’m super happy” in an Apple Music interview Monday.

“I’ve never been better.”

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Cindy Adams I went to Maine. Having already set foot — plus my other parts — in Siberia, the Galapagos, Congo and downtown Afghanistan, I figured what’s left is Maine.

How far the crow flies couldn’t be farther than Ogunquit.

Czechoslovakia’s closer. With airlines suffering lately I worried they’re not just losing my luggage — they might soon be selling it. So, eight hours by car.

After you spot your 30th lighthouse, you turn right and it’s only another 10 minutes and by then you could reach crosstown Manhattan.

The state’s beautiful. Prefer

most eastern city in the New World is our first to see the sun.

And the people who came from there include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Stephen King, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Patrick Dempsey, Linda Lavin and Anna Kendrick. I don’t say they stayed there. I only say they came from there.

skyscrapers? It’s New York. Texas? It’s oil.

Lawyers? Los Angeles.

Delaware? The Bidens.

This state’s got air.

Trees. Farms. Health.

The official state animal is the moose.

With us it’s the politician.

However, want a bagel? You have to import it. And the local version of English would not work in Bed-Stuy.

But Maine’s historic. Even if it doesn’t crop up a lot in conversation, Maine is historic.

America’s first chartered city.

Joined the Union 1820. Our 23rd chartered state — whose hotels even predate that. Its

a photo op in Democratic Portland. With her, the state’s governor, the city’s mayor and a Secret Service kennelful which her husband’s increased taxes pay for.

She came to Becky’s Diner where people wait in line to get in. One car idled at the curb. A Secret Service guy removed the keys and stood with his arm inside its open window. The street was closed and a patron sitting at the diner’s bar got removed.

Her pit stop was just for cameras. It was 10 minutes. Happens that lunching there were my friends Rich Harris, Spencer Harris and Cooper Harris. She posed with them, asked where they’re from, shook hands, took photos, collected a brown paper

It has famous visitors, too SATURDAY even our ventriloquist First Lady Jill Biden showed up for

More than just lobstahs MAINE’S dress code is plaid shirts. L.L. Bean is considered black tie. Calling for takeout dinner, they replied, “We don’t take orders after 6:30.” Shops feature home furnishings tchotchkes which all feature signs that say “Made in China” and last until you get to the Lincoln Tunnel and throw them out. The state has 3,478 miles of coastline, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds and nice people — maybe because they’re happy to see visitors — anything that’s not waterlogged.

Anna Kendrick: She may be from Maine, but she ditched her flannel shirts long ago.

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Not my problem. My problem was to get the hell out and back to whatever civilization’s left of New York.

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bag filled with whoopie pies — and split. Secret Service stood on both sides of her car.

One ungracious Republican murmured: “She looks like Alice Cooper.”

Another sight to see — besides Jill — is the mini Coney Island.

It’s Old Orchard Beach. Amusements, rides, souvenirs, Ferris wheel, roller coaster, crappy food. Inside the main hall — Hooligan’s Landing, tattoos, psychics, Caribbean braids and a sign saying “Rest Room — 75 cents.”

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Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was living a double life with two women — including one he had secretly married — when he was murdered in Istanbul, Turkey, his fiancée said on a podcast.

The Washington Post columnist was tortured, slain and dismembered on Oct. 2, 2018, in the Saudi Consulate, where he had gone to get documents he needed to marry Hatice Cengiz.

At the time, Cengiz had no idea that Khashoggi had secretly married Egyptian flight attendant Hanan El-Atr in Virginia just four months earlier, Cengiz told Yahoo!

News’ “Conspiracyland.”

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departs, militants take our arms from Afghans

By Mark Moore

Taliban fighters can be seen in recently released videos celebrating the seizure of US Humvees, tanks and assault weapons from Afghan security forces as the Biden administration begins its troop withdrawal before the Sept. 11 deadline.

The Taliban have been capturing key districts in the northern part of the war-torn country — including Kandahar and Badakhshan — with little or no resistance from Afghan national forces since the United States announced a timetable for the departure in April.

They are extending their control of Afghanistan from their southern strongholds by filling the void left by departing US forces. More than a thousand Afghan soldiers fled across the border to Tajikistan after clashing with the Taliban in Badakhshan and surrendering their weapons.

The Taliban are touting the capture of the US weapons as a propaganda ploy in videos released on social media, heralding their return to power after being defeated by American troops in 2001 for harboring al Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden and allowing the terror group to plan its 9/11 attack.

The speed of the US pullout is marked by the hasty abandonment of Bagram Airfield — the hub of US military operations during the 20-

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War games: This video shared on Twitter warned, “All over Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan army troops are surrendering, with their weapons and equipment, to the Afghan Taliban.”

year war — over the weekend without giving the Afghan government a heads up, a sudden departure that allowed looters to overrun the facility and help themselves to the numerous items left behind by the Americans.

Meanwhile, a Taliban commander told Sky News that his fighters had taken a cache of weapons from Afghan security personnel that included 70 sniper rifles, 900 guns, 30 Humvees, 20 pickup trucks and 15 armored vehicles.

The report also said the Taliban had a shipping container full of satellite phones, grenades and mortars, with many having labels saying: “Property of the USA Government.”

Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller, who is overseeing the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, said the Taliban’s advances should be a cause for worry.

“We should be concerned,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ “This Week” that aired Sunday.

“The loss of terrain and the rapidity of that loss of terrain has — has to be concerning, one, because it’s a — war is physical, but it’s also got a psychological or moral component to it. And hope actually matters.

And morale actually matters.

“And so, as you watch the Taliban moving across the country, what you don’t want to have happen is that the people lose hope and they believe they now have a foregone conclusion

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A plane carrying 28 people crashed Tuesday as it came in for a landing in bad weather in Russia’s Far East, killing everyone on board.

Wreckage from the An-26 turboprop plane was found on a coastal cliffside and in the sea near the airport in the town of Palana, according to officials.

The plane was on approach for a landing in fog and clouds when it missed a scheduled communication and disappeared from radar, officials said.

The plane “practically crashed into a sea cliff,” which wasn’t supposed to be in its landing trajectory, according to Sergei Gorb, deputy director of the company that owns the aircraft, Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise.

The plane had been in operation since 1982, Russian state news agency Tass reported. Alexei Khabarov, director of Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise, told the Interfax news agency that the aircraft was technically sound before taking off from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

The head of the local government in Palana, Olga Mokhireva, was among the passengers, said Kamchatka government representatives.

However, no bodies had yet been found and there was no official confirmation of the reports.

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presented to them,” Miller said.

The general said he fears that Afghanistan will fall into civil war once US troops are gone, noting that the Taliban are rapidly taking ground in the north.

“You look at the security situation, it’s not good. The Afghans recognize it’s not good. The Taliban are on the move,” he said. “We’re starting to create conditions here that won’t look good for Afghanistan in the future if there’s a push for a military takeover.”

Some countries have shuttered their consulates in northern Afghanistan following the Taliban advancement and others have scaled down operations. Turkey and Russia have closed their consulates in the north-

ern Balkh province and recalled their diplomats. The consulates of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, India and Pakistan have cut back on their services.

Tajikistan said it was deploying 20,000 military reservists to bolster its border with Afghanistan, and Russian helicopters based in Tajikistan began conducting training exercises by firing air-to-surface missiles.

But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said while there was “heightened concern” over the fighting between Taliban and Afghan forces, Moscow has no plans to send troops.

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Apple’s hotels still struggling to fill rooms

The New York City hotel industry is mired in an economic depression despite an uptick in travel as the country emerges from the COVID-19 outbreak, ac-

cording to a report released Tuesday.

New York hotel revenues per available room were still 67 percent lower this past May compared with

May 2019 — the year before the coronavirus pandemic triggered lockdowns and bans on domestic and international travel, according to the analysis conducted by

the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

Gotham has seen onethird of its hotel rooms closed during the pandemic, the report said.

The Big Apple was one of seven large cities whose hotel industry was still described as being in an economic depression.

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Ex-ICE chief: Don’s policies worked COV soars at immig centers Action needed now: Ron Vitiello (above) says the immediate problem of child migrants like these (right) at a facility in Donna, Texas, won’t be relieved by ending corruption in Central America.

By Mark Moore

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The former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the “root cause” of the border crisis is not to be found in Northern Triangle countries, but in President Biden’s reversal of the immigration policies of his predecessor.

“Working with Guatemala, working with the Northern Triangle on governance and anticorruption activities, that’s all well and good, but that’s not going to stop the surge that’s occurring on the border right now,” Ron Vitiello, who ran ICE from June 30, 2018, to April 12, 2019, said during an interview Monday on “Fox & Friends.”

“We’ve encouraged people to send or bring their children to the border, and the root cause of the chaos is the reversal of the policies,” he continued.

His comments came as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas traveled to Guatemala on Tuesday to meet with his counterparts “regarding shared priorities,” his department said.

Biden began rolling back former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies within weeks of taking office in January.

‘Root of border crisis is Biden’

Biden ended border-wall construction, rescinded the “remain in Mexico” policy that required asylum-seekers to wait out the process in their home countries and created a task force to examine family separations at the border — actions that have prompted hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to stream into the country.

The influx of illegal crossings into the US, especially of thou-

sands of unaccompanied children, has overwhelmed government facilities, leaving the Biden administration struggling to respond to the crisis.

Vitiello said cartels are also benefiting from the chaos at the border.

“People who come up to the border and the people who are smuggled into the pipeline, they’re controlled by smugglers and cartels,” he said. “They’re

the ones that are getting over because of this surge at the border.”

Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden tapped to lead the White House’s response to immigration, didn’t visit the border until 94 days after she was named the migration czar in March. Before that appearance at the end of June, Harris visited Guatemala and Mexico to discuss the “root causes” of immigration.

Coronavirus cases are surging in crowded government detention centers, as the number of illegal immigrants held in the facilities has nearly doubled in recent months, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data.

More than 7,500 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the centers between April and last week, The New York Times reported Tuesday after analyzing the data. In that same period, the number of people being held in detention rose to more than 26,000 from 14,000, and COVID-19 cases in that time account for more than 40 percent of all cases in ICE facilities since the pandemic began, the Times said.

Public health officials told the newspaper that few migrants are vaccinated, making the jammed detention centers ripe for outbreaks of the deadly disease.

Just 20 percent of detainees coming through the facilities have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine while in custody.

Dr. Carlos Franco-Paredes, an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said there are a number of reasons for the rise in cases, including lax safety precautions, a lack of testing and the transporting of migrants between facilities.

During an inspection at a center in Aurora, Colo., Franco-Paredes said he saw staffers not wearing masks properly.

“There is minimal to no accountability regarding their protocols,” he said.

ICE spokeswoman Paige Hughes said detainees are tested for the coronavirus and placed in quarantine for 14 days when they arrive.

But public health officials note that detainees are transported to the facilities by bus before they are tested, raising the possibility that they could expose others during the trip.

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9 busted in HK bomb ‘plot’ OT probe vs. correx capt.

Nine people, including six secondary-school students, were arrested in Hong Kong Tuesday for allegedly plotting to set off homemade bombs in courts, tunnels and trash cans.

Police said the suspects were detained on suspicion of engaging in terrorist activity under a harsh nation-

al-security law that Beijing imposed a year ago as part of a crackdown on dissent in the former British colony that has long enjoyed freedoms not seen in the rest of China.

If the allegations are true, the group appears to represent a more radical fringe of the protest movement,

which has demanded broader democratic freedoms for Hong Kong.

Police said the group was attempting to make the explosive triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which has been widely used in bombings in Europe and elsewhere, in a makeshift laboratory in a hostel.

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A New York City correction captain is under investigation for allegedly stamping his own timecards with inflated overtime hours, sources told The Post.

Wayne Prince, 41, allegedly billed for 16½ hours on 16 days between April and June 2019, even though he didn’t work all of those hours, sources said.

Prince started working overtime on or about April 7 to teach classes for a promotional exam, “despite the class already being taught by retired members of service,” a source said.

On each of those days, he allegedly clocked in 16½ hours of OT, sources said, even though each class typi-

cally lasted four to five hours.

Prince could not be reached for comment.

In a statement, the DOC said, “For questions about possible DOI [Department of Investigation] investigations, please contact DOI,” which did not immediately return a message.

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“PATROLLING THE TOUGHEST PRECINCTS IN NEW YORK”

July 7, 2021

Joseph Bracco 1st Vice President Glenn Morgan 2nd Vice President

The Honorable Bill de Blasio Mayor of New York City City Hall New York, NY 10007

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Dear Mayor de Blasio,

Michael Maiello Treasurer Lionel Cumberbatch Financial Secretary Herman Jiminian Legislative Chairman Antoinette Anderson Corresponding Secretary Angel Castro Recording Secretary Felix Sanchez Sergeant-At-Arms Ashaki Antoine First City-Wide Trustee Charles J. Wingate Manhattan Borough Trustee Edward Yates Brooklyn Borough Trustee Matthew Romano Bronx Borough Trustee Neil Renois Queens Borough Trustee Bishop William Raymond Whitaker II Chaplain William Kwasnicki Retiree Consultant Karasyk and Moschella General Counsel Joey Jackson Law PLLC Criminal and Discipline Queller, Fisher, Washor, Fuchs & Kool and The Law Office Of William

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As New Yorkers resume their post-pandemic lives across the city, elected d lleaders, d iincluding l di yourself, lf are celebrating l b i N New Y York’s k’ essential workers in a ticker tape parade today as heroes of the pandemic. It’s true, our essential workers and first responders deserve every ounce of credit for keeping our city solvent and functioning throughout the pandemic. However, rather than participate in celebratory fanfare, I wanted to take this opportunity to share with all New Yorkers why the New York City Correction Officers' Benevolent Association will not be present in today’s celebrations.

I want all New Yorkers to know that because of the Department of Correction’s gross mismanagement and sheer negligence, far too many of our pandemic heroes are no longer with us. Over 1,700 Correction Officers contracted COVID-19 and tragically nine of them succumbed to this deadly disease.

When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the U.S., the world’s eyes were on our city. As hospitals reached their capacity and everyday life came to a screeching halt, New York City Correction Officers answered the call as essential workers and braved the frontlines, working at the epicenter of COVID-19 in the city’s jails. While other public service agencies were being lauded as heroes, our Correction Officers were being treated as if we were expendable.

As public health officials instructed millions of New Yorkers to begin wearing masks, the Department of Correction refused to provide even the baseline amount of PPE to our members. For weeks, we had to plead with DOC leadership to provide our members with even one mask. When the DOC refused, our Correction Officers were forced to use their own homemade protective equipment. Unbelievably, the DOC responded by actually punishing our Correction Officers for dress code violations and forcing them to remove their only line of defense or face additional punitive action. This would be unimaginable in any other line of work, but in the Department of Correction, it was allowed to continue for months.

Without PPE, our last line of defense was a strict testing regimen. In line with federal, state, and local protocol, we fought for frequent COVID-19 testing for our members in order to keep both inmates and staff safe from infections. When the DOC was finally able to provide limited testing on Rikers, inmates – not COs – were the priority. And when Correction Officers tested positive for COVID-19, they were prohibited from using their sick leave benefits to safely quarantine. Those who did were penalized for “chronic absenteeism” and our union had to fight to pass legislation to make it illegal to discipline or retaliate against our members and other public employees in New York for their COVID-19 related absences.

Now, sixteen months after the pandemic began, our city’s jails continue to be a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. Correction Officers are still working triple shifts, without a break for meals, even after you, Mr. Mayor, declared that triple shifts were a “dumb managerial mistake that would never happen again.” Officers continue to be brutally assaulted by inmates and female officers continue to be sexually assaulted and harassed by inmates. Many of the cell doors in our facilities are inoperable and the poor ventilation and lack of air conditioning during these scorching hot summer months make our jobs almost unbearable. Given these atrocious working conditions, it’s hard to find a reason for us to celebrate.

So no – we won’t be in today’s parade. You won't see us on your Twitter page. You sure as hell won't see us in a photo op. We will never forget DOC’s failure to keep New York’s Boldest safe. And neither should New York City.

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innocent victim: Max Solomon Lewis was commuting home when a bullet smashed through his train window.

Stray-bullet subway slay Chi. student tragedy

By Jackie Salo A University of Chicago student has died three days after a stray bullet ripped through his subway-car window during his commute home from a summer internship job, police said Monday.

Max Solomon Lewis, 20, a junior from Denver, Colo., succumbed Sunday morning to wounds he suffered at rush hour on Thursday when the slug struck him in the neck at the 51st Street Green Line station, they said.

No suspects or a motive have been identified, but police don’t believe he was the intended target.

Lewis was taken to a hospital, where his family and friends rushed to his side.

“It’s a senseless tragedy for so many reasons,” classmate Zach Cogan told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Lewis, who was pursuing a double major in economics and computer science, had snagged a competitive internship at an investment firm in downtown Chicago for the summer.

Although he had the option to work from home, Lewis preferred to head into the office because he “loved getting to know as many people as he could,” Cogan said.

“He was incredibly special, and he was brave to the very

end,” Cogan told the Denver Channel, a TV news station.

“Chicago has so much gun violence, like every city. It’s so senseless,” Cogan said.

“I can’t lose another friend to gun violence. I just can’t.

It’s too much.”

Friends at the university remembered Lewis as a fixture on campus through his role as leader of Promontory Investment Research, a group that helps undergraduate students produce and write research reports, as well as president of his fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. “He was so incredibly caring, loyal and genuine,” Cogan said. “He loved working hard for other people because he was so damn selfless. And he never wanted people to thank him for what he did.”

Another friend, Victoria Gin, told the Sun-Times, “My latest conversations with him were so optimistic.”

The school released a statement, saying, “Max was a talented student and beloved campus leader and friend who will be greatly missed.”

Lewis’ fraternity has launched a GoFundMe page that will donate some of the contributions to benefit antigun-violence efforts.

He is survived by his parents and a younger brother.

40 years later, ‘Rapture’ captures NYC hip-hop history By raquel laneri

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ORTY years ago, Debbie Harry went on TV to introduce a new musical phenomenon called hip-hop.

“The most recent fad to catch on with kids in our big cities and metropolitan areas is rapping,” the Blondie singer explains to the audience on a 1981 episode of the syndicated variety show “Solid Gold.”

After mentioning some of the genre’s rising stars from uptown and The Bronx — the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, the Funky 4+1 — Harry introduces her band’s latest video.

“Using our new single, ‘Rapture,’ ” Harry says in a professorial tone, “Blondie and some of our friends put together a number to show you what rapping in the street scene is like.”

What follows remains one of the most surprising, delightful and groundbreaking videos of all time. It has everything: Jean-Michel Basquiat playing a DJ, graffiti artists Lee Quiñones and Fab 5 Freddy, Debbie Harry rapping, voodoo dancers, a goat!

The mini film — directed by Keith Macmillan, a k a Keef — was a revelation, coming out in an era when most music videos consisted of a band pretending to perform a song on a soundstage. It not only told a story, it also merged New York City’s hip-hop, art

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and clubbing cultures in a totally unprecedented way. When the new cable channel MTV launched later that year, in August 1981, “Rapture” was not only the sole “rap” video it aired on its first day, it was one of the few clips that had any kind of urban grit at all — not to mention one of the few that included people of color. (MTV wouldn’t air a video by a rap group until Run-DMC’s “Rock Box” a whole three years later.)

“One of the things that strikes me about ‘Rapture’ is that it really was the first in many ways,” Harry told The Post. “It’s funny because at the beginning, I didn’t like [the video] so much — I was probably thinking in a more grandiose kind of style, to get the true atmosphere of the Lower East Side where the train yards are

and create something truly wild . . .

But now, I like it.”

“It is one of the all-time great New York City videos,” said Sean Corcoran, who curated the exhibit “New York, New Music: 1980-1986” at the Museum of the City of New York. “It really encapsulates the kind of crosspollination and energy that was happening in the city at that time, especially downtown. It shows Blondie — who were already a successful band with hits at this point — taking this new form of New York music and really absorbing it and honoring it.”

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APTURE” couldn’t have happened without Fred Brathwaite — a k a Fab 5 Freddy.

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“You know something? I feel so good about this, I’m going to make a record about you.” Six months later, he heard Harry rapping “Flash is fast, Flash is cool” on the radio.

“She kept her word!” he whooped.

Harry and Stein wanted the video to combine the uptown hiphop world with the arty downtown scene they frequented. It would feature a house party DJed

by Flash and attended by a host of eccentric New York characters.

“It ended up being kind of the cartoon version of reality,” Stein told The Post.

Because they couldn’t execute such a complex treatment on the actual streets of New York, an Upper East Side soundstage had to

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HE video opens with Barnes — the Man From Mars — high-stepping down a dark New York City sidewalk. He peers into a window of a basement apartment, where Harry, in a tube top and short shorts, wanders through a house party, dancing and singing.

“I don’t know if [Keef] had the fancy idea of having the guys kind

of dance awkwardly with Debbie [in the party scene],” said drummer Burke, who sports a beard in the film. “We weren’t exactly *NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys, but I guess it’s somewhat endearing.”

Harry stops to spit some bars in front of Basquiat’s DJ booth, before wandering out into a graffitisplattered street scene. Behind her, Quiñones and Brathwaite pretend to tag their already-painted walls, a little girl does ballet, people in kooky outfits saunter back and forth, voodoo dancers shake.

(During the shoot, one of the voodoo practitioners, whom Barnes brought with him, fell into a trance, and the crew had to stop filming until she came out of it.

“That’s their religion, so it probably wasn’t as extraordinary for them as it was for us,” Harry said.)

At the end, Barnes leads the band outside, where they disappear into the night.

“It somewhat reminded me of ‘Sesame Street,’ in the way that it looked like a friendly ghetto,” said Ahearn. “I love the video; I love the song. It’s very important that it didn’t steal anything away from hip-hop.”

It did take a long time for much of the mainstream to catch up with Blondie. MTV refused to air another rap video till 1984, and it wasn’t until 1987 that it would launch its first hip-hop program, “Yo! MTV Raps,” hosted by “Rapture” vet Fab 5 Freddy.

Yet Flash said that Harry helped introduce hip-hop — and him — to a far greater audience. “She kind of opened the gates for us to take [rap] from The Bronx to downtown to Queens, to different parts of the city,” he said. “So for that, I want to say thank you.”

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man about town, met Blondie guitarist Chris Stein through the public access show “TV Party,” and he took Stein and Harry to their first hip-hop show in The Bronx, in 1979, where they saw then-21-year-old turntable whiz Grandmaster Flash perform.

“I was playing at a place called Webster Gym when I saw Freddy coming from the rear with somebody with blond hair,” Flash told The Post. “I just kind of froze.”

When Brathwaite introduced them, Harry said, “I’ve been staring at you for the past 20 minutes or so, and I must say, you are quite incredible on those turntables. I’ve never seen anything like that before,” Flash recalled. Then she said,

That replacement: Basquiat, who happened to be hanging out on set.

“Jean really wanted to do graffiti on the set, but Keef didn’t want him to — he wanted it to just be a blank red wall behind him,” said Stein. However, the artist did enhance Quiñones’ and Brathwaite’s scribblings with some of his own famous phrases, like “Build a fort, set it on fire” and “Pay for soup.”

“The soundstage people just couldn’t wait to paint it over,” Harry said.

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RAPT ATTENTION: Blondie’s “Rapture” was the first “rap” video to air on MTV, on the day the network launched in 1981. The set shows a house party with graffiti by local artists and extras from downtown’s Mudd Club, including Jean-Michel Basquiat (far left) joining singer Debbie Harry (center, and inset).

substitute for the Lower East Side.

So Harry and Stein asked graffiti artists Brathwaite and Quiñones to spray-paint the walls to give the set a gritty authenticity.

“Freddy and I got there that morning, and we basically improvised as we went,” said Quiñones.

Years of painting subway cars had taught him to paint very quickly. “I said, ‘Let’s make it this big. Let’s make it this small. Let’s flavor it up with some vintage, you know, patina-looking tags, just to give it a really gritty, street, downtown [vibe].’

I wanted to make it very unique and very genuine to the time.”

The band members then started asking everyone they knew to be in the video. “The [person who plays a] policeman was a UK journalist who was doing a story on us at the time,” said Stein. “[Drummer] Clem [Burke’s] girlfriend Diane was in there, [punk violinist] Walter Steding was in there — it was a lot of people we knew.”

“The room was quite crowded with people that I recognized from the Mudd Club,” said filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, who was on set observing. “I remember in particular, there was a woman with a goat, who I used to call Monica, because when I would see her at the Mudd Club she reminded me of ’60s Italian film star Monica Vitti. She had that hard elegance of an Italian actress, so I thought she was really cool. And there she was, leading the goat.”

“The goat’s name was Mona,” said Stein. “We found some guy who was a farmer in New Jersey or something, and he brought a goat.”

The director, Keef, hired choreographer William Barnes to play the top-hatted Man From Mars.

Barnes arrived to set already dressed in the white suit he wears in the video. “It was incredible to meet him,” Harry said. “He was very self-assured. He had a strong persona.” The band never heard from him again after the shoot.

“He has an IMDb page with this video and that’s it,” said Stein.

The last piece of the puzzle: the DJ. Flash was supposed to play the turntables, but he was unable to make it.

“I wanted to be in that video so bad,” Flash told The Post. “But the record label I was at wouldn’t allow me to appear in it . . . I was so angry . . . I was supposed to be in the video with Fab. Like, that was my moment. But my replacement was pretty good.”

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one for the album: Everyone’s having a blast at Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani’s Oklahoma wedding, where Carson Daly officiated at the union of his two friends and “The Voice” colleagues.

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By Francesca Bacardi Carson Daly described his pals Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani’s wedding as “a perfect blend of country and glamour.”

Daly, who officiated at the couple’s Oklahoma nuptials Saturday, said it felt “incredible to be part of such an important moment in their lives.”

“The best way to describe it is, it was perfectly them — the whole weekend and the marriage itself,” Daly said on the “Today”

show Tuesday. “It was as elegant and refined and cool as Gwen is, and it was as country and down-home and fun as Blake is.”

Daly acknowledged that some fans might think the country singer and the rock artist make for an odd pairing, comparing them to mixing “delicious fried chicken with a glass of champagne.”

“On paper and on the menu, it doesn’t seem to work, but it works,” shared Daly, who hosts competitive singing show “The Voice” with judges Stefani and Shelton.

“It’s comfort food with class. And everybody roots for that.”

The former “TRL” host revealed he convinced the duo to write their own vows, and that Stefani, 51, brought the small group of guests to tears as she read her heartfelt words. Shelton, 45, then surprised the No Doubt frontwoman by pulling out his guitar and serenading her.

Stefani wore two dresses designed by Vera Wang at various points on her big day and paired them with white stiletto

cowboy boots. In typical country fashion, Shelton wore jeans but dressed his denim up with a bowtie and blazer.

“Today” confirmed that about 40 guests attended the wedding, including Stefani’s three sons — Kingston, 15, Zuma, 12, and 7-year-old Apollo — and her parents.

Stefani was previously married to Bush alt-rocker Gavin Rossdale. Shelton had been married twice — to his high-school sweetheart, Kaynette Williams, and to fellow country singer Miranda Lambert.

Pfizer shot less effective vs. variant, Israel warns The efficacy of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has plunged in Israel as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads, Israel’s Health Ministry warned on Monday.

The vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing both infection and symptomatic disease has dropped to 64 percent — down from the 95 percent protection it offers against

the initial strain of the bug, the ministry said.

However, the mRNA jab is still 93 percent effective in preventing hospitalizations and serious illness resulting

from the coronavirus.

Eran Segal of Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science said residents can “continue with life back to normal and without restrictions” — as

long as the country’s vaccination campaign continues.

Infections have plummetted in Israel since January, with 60 percent of people getting at least one Pfizer jab.

But in June, with the emergence of the Delta variant — the highly contagious mutation first found in India — the virus has spread to many vaccinated people. Sam Raskin

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By Emily JacoBs A major coalition of moderate House lawmakers is endorsing the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal in the Senate, it announced Tuesday, marking a huge step forward as lawmakers wrestle with how to push the legislation through the lower chamber.

In a statement, the Problem Solvers Caucus — a bipartisan group of 29 Democrats and 29 Republicans in the House — said it supported the compromise agreement.

“The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus strongly supports the Senate infrastructure framework, which is closely aligned with our own ‘Building Bridges’ proposal released last month,” the group said, noting its own $1.25 trillion compromise package.

The vote on endorsing the Senate’s measure passed with 75 per-

cent as each party surpassed 50 percent in support, Fox News reported.

The endorsement made no reference to House Democrats’ partisan infrastructure bill, which would need to be passed by budget reconciliation.

That tactic allows the majority party to bypass the legislative filibuster, the Senate rule requiring 60 members to end debate on most topics and move forward to a vote.

The Senate is split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, though Vice President Kamala Harris, as Senate president, has a tiebreaking vote. Still, 51 votes are not enough under current rules to break through the filibuster.

Reconciliation would allow Democrats to pass spending for critical projects, but the process cannot be used to change or create laws.

President Biden split his infrastructure package, a centerpiece of his

post-COVID agenda, into two for Congress to pass.

The first, the “American Jobs Plan,” focused on traditional infrastructure, while the second, the “American Families Plan,” is aimed at funding Democrats’ domestic policy platform.

Republicans took issue with the second package, which they argued stretched the definition of infrastructure.

Biden announced a deal last Thursday on hard infrastructure spending, made with a bipartisan group led by Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).

The agreement would spend $1.2 trillion over eight years, a little more than half the $2.3 trillion proposal by House Dems, who have continued the process of writing the partisan legislation in the event that the Senate deal falls through.

For her part, House Speaker

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Nancy Pelosi has thrown cold water on the idea of the House passing the compromise package if the Senate did not take up the “Families Plan” legislation, which would only pass through reconciliation.

If additional moderate Democrats begin backing the Problem Solvers Caucus-endorsed compromise, it would make the partisan packages that much harder to push through the House, where Democrats hold a slim majority.

“With this new endorsement, there’s an even greater chance that we can get a standalone, bipartisan infrastructure package across the finish line,” Problem Solvers Caucus co-chair Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) said in a statement.

Sinema, meanwhile, cheered the seal of approval from the caucus, of which she used to be a member when she served in the House.

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A federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid by an Arizona man nicknamed the “QAnon Shaman” to be released from prison while awaiting trial on criminal charges stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.

The ruling by US District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, DC, which came out exactly six months after Capitol riots, marks a blow for Jason Chansley, who is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation by the Bureau of Prisons to determine if he is competent to stand trial.

Chansley was famously photographed inside the Senate Chamber wearing a horned hat, and is known for supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory that casts former President Donald Trump as a savior figure and elite Democrats as a cabal of Satanist pedophiles and cannibals.

He faces six criminal charges, including violent entry, and is one of approximately 500 defendants charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol.

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Affordable Housing for Rent 534 NEWLY CONSTRUCTED UNITS AT 5203 CENTER BLVD, LONG ISLAND CITY HUNTER’S POINT SOUTH Amenities: 24-hour Attended Lobby, On-site Resident Manager, Package Room Attendant, Lounge* Club Room*, Roof Terraces*, BBQ Grills* Fitness Center*, Yoga Studio*, Bicycle Room, Laundry Room (*additional fees apply) Transit:

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5203 Center Blvd redefines waterfront living with soaring views in all directions, a multitude of public recreational outdoor spaces, and the efficiency of being situated close to a variety of transportation hubs. In addition to the vibrancy and convenience of the neighborhood, residents of 5203 Center Blvd can enjoy exquisitely designed resident common areas and apartments with modern appliances and finishes, as well as complimentary access to the laundry facilities and bicycle storage. Subject to a monthly community fee, residents may also enjoy the wide range of amenity offerings that include: Co-working Space, a Fitness Center & Yoga Studio, a Children’s Playroom, a Lounge, a Clubroom with Billiards Tables & Kitchenette, and an impressive collection of expansive amenity roof terraces featuring BBQ Grills, Unbeatable Views, and a Sundeck.

No fee to apply • No broker’s fee • Smoke-free building • More information on: hunterspointsouthaffordablehousing.com This building is being constructed through the Mixed-Middle Income Program of the New York City Housing Development Corporation and of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

Who Should Apply?

Individuals or households who meet the income and household size requirements listed in the table below may apply. Qualified applicants will be required to meet additional selection criteria. Applicants who live in New York City receive a general preference for apartments.

Units are set aside for: o Mobility–disabled applicants (5%) o Vision/Hearing–disabled applicants (2%) o Seniors aged 62 or older (100 units) Preference for a percentage of units goes to: o Residents of Queens Community Board 2 (50%) o Municipal employees (5%)

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Apply online or through mail. To apply online, please go to https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/. To request an application by mail, send a self-addressed envelope to: 5203 CENTER BLVD APARTMENTS, PO BOX 1543, NEW YORK, NY 10159. Only send one application per development. Do not submit duplicate applications. Do not apply online and also send in a paper application. Applicants who submit more than one application may be disqualified.

When is the Deadline?

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What Happens After You Submit an Application?

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Conservative: Wokeness Kills Diversity

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“Intellectual diversity at universities has greatly suffered,” laments Aron Ravin at National Review. “But it is not only intellectual diversity that suffers in today’s college climate. Even the diversity that admissions officers favor, diversity of background, is weakened by wokeness.” Some two-thirds of schools surveyed by the National Association of Scholars recently reported offering “separate, racially designated graduation ceremonies and residential areas.” Which raises a tough question: “How will the broader student body reap the benefits of a diverse campus if the students opt into self-segregated programs?”

From the right: Defund Biden’s IRS For the Internal Revenue Service to be the agency President Biden wants, “it needs the $80 billion in extra funding” he’s proposing, The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn reasons. If that money can “bring in” the estimated $700 billion a year it fails to collect from “tax cheats” and others, it will “more than pay for itself,” at least according to the “Joe Biden School” of thought. Yet the “Milton Friedman School” would argue that “the best tax collection system” is based on fair, simple and low taxes. Besides, considering the agency’s past performance — the Lois Lerner scandal, say, and recent leaks of individuals’ tax info — should we “even be talking about giving it more power”?

Sociologist: The Rise of Progressive Fascism “In many ways,” warns Joel Kotkin at UnHerd, Benito “Mussolini’s notion of fascism has become increasingly dominant . . . in the worldview of those progressives who typically see ‘proto-fascism’ lurking on the right.” His “idea of an economy controlled from above, with generous benefits but dominated by large business interests, is gradually supplanting the old liberal, capitalist model” in the name of “serving racial and gender ‘equity,’ as well as saving the planet.” The Democratic Party is “increasingly a subsidiary of the corporate elite,” as “today’s oligarchs” push “politically correct statements about climate change, gender and race, while still obtaining . . . unprecedented wealth.”

Opponents must aim “to restore competition and protect consumers from the overweening power and vast wealth of the corporate elites.” We need “a reawakening of the spirit of resistance to authority that has long marked human progress.”

Benito Mussolini

Iconoclast: Fear a Friendless Future “Friendlessness is on the rise,” cautions The Week’s Damon Linker.

“That’s the troubling takeaway” from a study showing the number of Americans with “no close friends” has risen “fivefold over the past 30 years.” It’s not just “bad for the lonely,” it’s “a bad sign for our country and our society.”

We’re “social, communal creatures” who “enjoy engaging in common enterprises and the emotional intimacy that can follow.” But the “wasting away” of civil society has led to “virtual communities” more like “collective groups of topic-specific pen pals than real-world friendships.” Without testing “against the hard limits and constraints” of “the physical world,” ideas “can run wild,” partly explaining “why our politics have become much more polarized.” Stark loneliness can make “even the most toxic forms of political association” seem attractive.

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OUR first visit to a Korean spa can be a bit . . . jarring, if you don’t know what to expect. I’ll be blunt: Everyone is naked, and you’re required to be, too. You enter the locker room and leave behind everything: phone, wallet, shirt, shoes — and all of your modesty.

What makes it tolerable is that it’s a truly safe space: We’re all real women. Normal women, not models, their looks enhanced by plastic surgery and Photoshop.

Women are comfortable walking around naked because we’re surrounded by other women.

But at a spa in California called Wi Spa, that safety has fallen victim to the latest intrusion of gender ideology.

The spa found itself at the center of a firestorm recently after a biological male who self-identifies as female entered the fe- Where are the feminists? Hard leftists confront a small group protesting male-only, nude areas. The hul- the intrusion of biological men into Los Angeles’ women’s-only Wi Spa. labaloo, which began because One woman protesting the sit- males trump women’s need for women and girls in the gendersegregated areas saw the trans- uation was surrounded and phys- emotional and physical safety.

Oh, how far we’ve come. What gender customer’s penis and ically intimidated by a group of complained, got physical over largely male Antifa activists, who progress.

Critics of gender ideology saw the weekend, as hard-line gender chanted in her face, denouncing her as a “trans- this coming. The anti-reality ideologues viophobe” after she theory that gender has no biolently attacked repeatedly and logical basis, that “man” and women and men BETHANY simply informed “woman” are purely subjective who objected to MANDEL them that “I just and, therefore, interchangeable the intrusion. don’t want to see categories, was bound to reTransgender penises.”

It dound to women’s disadvantage. activists believe the customer has a right to be in looked like a scene from China’s The progress of the women’s movement in the last century, a female-only area on the sole Cultural Revolution.

Curiously, there were few after all, rested on sex differenbasis of subjective self-identification. Detractors were seen on other self-identified feminists ces as an embodied reality. Revideo fuming, “So, it’s OK for a among those protesting the pol- move that cornerstone, and man to go into the women’s sec- icy allowing biological men into America’s suite of rights and tion, show his penis around the a traditionally female space. Los protections for women will beother women, young little girls?” Angeles, the city where celebri- come simply meaningless.

Meanwhile, progressives, even As for the spa, there isn’t much ties wore all-black just a few it can do one way or the other. years ago in honor of the #Me- many who likely find all this abWi Spa defended its policy in a Too movement, is suddenly de- horrent, are silent. #MeToo, it statement to Fox LA, clarifying void of liberals and progressives turned out, was just that: a hashthat California law “prohibits willing to take a stand for tag, a fashion statement.

The silent feminist celebrities discrimination against transgen- women and for femininity as an are more culpable still. They like der and gender-non-conforming embodied reality.

Women are expected to sit to preen about having stood up people. As a spa located in Los Angeles, Wi Spa complies with down buck-naked next to a simi- to Harvey Weinstein and other California law prohibiting dis- larly naked biological male — Hollywood creeps. But it turns crimination by a business, in- and shut up about their worries. out many were mere opportuncluding the Civil Code provision And if they don’t? They’re physi- ists who feted Weinstein for cally intimidated into silence by a years until it became untenable. set forth above.”

And now the pack has turned The battle lines are drawn, violent mob of men. And the law with Antifa thugs shouting down rests on the side not of women against the women of Wi Spa, anyone on the other side, some objectors concerned about safety, those who just want to be safe and comfortable in a of whom seemed to have reli- but of the biological men.

Men are predatory, and women’s-only space. Never again gious objections. One wore a shirt emblazoned with the women must always be believed: should progressives be confused phrase “OBEY JESUS”; another That was the message of the with real feminists. When they urged those gathered to “read #MeToo era, and that era is over. tell you who they are, believe Now, the feelings of biological them. Twitter: @BethanyShondark the Bible.”

European researchers have determined that, “to save the planet from catastrophic climate change, Americans will have to cut their energy use by more than 90 percent,” fly just “once every three years” and “live in housing no larger than 640 square feet” for a family of four, reports Reason’s Ronald Bailey. But since “there are absolutely no examples of lowenergy societies providing decent living standards,” the researchers recommend a “fundamental transformation,” including free health, education and public transportation along with “fairer income distribution.” But the far better and easier solution is “to aim for a high-energy planet,” which will “spur economic growth and innovation.” Rather than forcing “Americans to live on the amount of energy currently available to Bolivians, the goal should be to enable people in energy-starved poor countries to gain access to energy supplies currently enjoyed by average Americans.”

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Cuomo’s ‘Crime’ Piffle aking up to the fact that voters are worried about crime, scandal-battered Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday lurched for some good headlines by dropping an executive order declaring a statewide gun-violence emergency.

But his initiatives were all plainly chosen with an eye on not offending lefty sensibilities (after all, the hard-left Assembly still has an impeachment probe going). They won’t do much to turn the tide that over the holiday weekend saw 14 shot in Buffalo, five in Syracuse and 26 in New York City in the latest statewide surge in gun crime.

To do that, he’d need to start working to un-do all the foolish laws passed on his watch. But there’s not a word in his long release about fixing the disastrous bail reforms that he so proudly signed onto — not even the one that guaranteed that nobody would see jail time “just” because he got caught with an illegal gun.

Nor about undoing his “Say Their Name” package of restrictions on cops, which encourage police all across New York to look the other way rather than act when they see suspicious activity, lest the officer’s career be ruined by good-faith attempts to proactively protect the public.

Instead, he’s telling the State Police to do more to cut the flow of illegal guns from out-of-state — but guns used illegally in

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New York are typically a decade old. Imports aren’t driving this crisis, they’re just a safe target for “bold action.”

The gov makes a big deal of treating the bloodshed as a “public-health crisis” — signaling that his “help” will be all about supposed “root causes,” not actually getting guns off the street. His $138.7 million for “intervention and prevention” means more “violence interrupters” and social workers, not more or even better policing.

Heck, his new state Office of Gun Violence Prevention will report to his Health Department — the very agency that so bungled the pandemic’s onset, to deadly effect for thousands of elderly nursing-home residents.

Anyway, it’s plainly absurd to think that micromanaging policing from Albany will improve results. All the gov’s orders to local police departments — from his new demand that they share data on shootings to his mandate last year that they all come up with plans for de-policing reforms to appease Defund protesters — are just loud posturing.

New York needs its cops getting guns off the streets, and its prosecutors and judges jailing those caught with illegal firearms.

But the politicians have spent the last several years making that work near-impossible: That’s the “root cause” of the crime spike Cuomo pretends he’s addressing, and his own fingerprints are all over it.

Making the Pullout Look Like a Rout emaining in Afghanistan forever never made sense, but a rushed, chaotic departure of US forces — as what took place at Bagram Airfield last week — is senseless, too.

Afghan soldiers who’ll now defend the base were caught off guard when generators suddenly shut down and lights went out as they sat for dinner. Even the site’s new Afghan commander, Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani, didn’t know the Yanks had skedaddled: “We [heard] some rumor that the Americans had left . . . and finally by 7 o’clock in the morning . . . it was confirmed.”

The move set off a mad rush of looters. It also fueled resentment: “In one night, [the Americans] lost all the good will of 20 years by leaving the way they did,” one Afghan soldier told the Associated Press.

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power of the Taliban, who still maintain ties to al Qaeda and who’ve already retaken more than 150 districts. But it didn’t have to enrich the extremists, who’ve captured impressive stores of US equipment, including Humvees, tanks and assault weapons.

“The loss of terrain and the rapidity of that loss of terrain has to be concerning” because morale “matters,” frets US Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller, who’s overseeing the withdrawal. “What you don’t want to have happen is that the people lose hope.”

President Biden argues that post-pullout, we can use all our tools to “defend ourselves” as needed, while maintaining the status quo indefinitely could cost trillions and more US lives. Fair enough — but even Biden’s folks could’ve taken care to depart without making it seem like all is already lost.

Fighting for the Right To Indoctrinate merica’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, has declared war on those looking to keep critical race theory out of the schools.

No matter that parents rightly object to force-feeding kids what Christopher F. Rufo calls “a form of race-based Marxism”: The NEA resolved at its convention to fight for the right to indoctrinate, pledging to create “a team of staffers” to help teachers “fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric.”

The pretense is that CRT is just a critique of “white supremacy, anti-Blackness, antiIndigeneity, racism, patriarchy . . . capitalism

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. . . and other forms of power and oppression.” But the union specifically vowed to fight for curricula using the 1619 Project, which falsely claims that “out of slavery grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system.”

Children should be educated about the stains of slavery and Jim Crow on America’s heritage. But teaching kids that the nation and all white people are inherently racist is a destructive slur. The NEA might as well change its name to the National Propaganda Association.

Division in the Classroom: The NEA’s Support of CRT  It was interesting reading the column “Union pushes race on kids” by Christopher Rufo (July 6).

I do not and never have supported this type of indoctrination for our children. The National Education Association, the same organization whose members are responsible for horrible test scores in math and reading and could not find a way to get our children back in the classroom for over a year, now supports the divisive teaching of our children and grandchildren.

We need to band together and stop this, before this organization is successful in initiating this racial training.

Instead of the “woke” movement, lets all wake up to what is going on here and stop it.

Joe Marco, Hatboro, Pa.

The Issue: The National Education Association’s plan to fund the teaching of critical race theory in schools.

asserts that racism is more than individual bias and is part of the heart and soul of American society.

Silence is surrender.

CRT is all about dividing Americans.

Parents are saying loud and clear that CRT must go. They must organize and fight back at every opportunity.

Salvator Giarratani Boston, Mass.

An anti-CRT rally sign.

Plus, nowhere in their manifesto did I read that they support charter schools, which benefit the poor and the minorities, so I take it they’re racist.

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NEA teachers union is all for critical race theory and against capitalism.

I guess in all those years of studying, they never learned that if not for the private-sector workers in our capitalist system, they wouldn’t be getting all those great benefits.

I read the news concerning the NEA going whole-hog on fighting any attempt to stop teaching critical race theory, I believe the pushback against CRT and the 1619 Project must be making headway.

The push to re-educate our children into viewing themselves as either oppressed or oppressors

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NEA dimwits who think an aggressive, antiwhite CRT curriculum is necessary “to teach truth about black, brown and other marginalized races” clearly know nothings about real education.

Any decent American history course taught by a qualified teacher — whether in elementary, middle or high school — would certainly cover the truth about racial injustice throughout American history — without having to demonize all of Western Civilization and its values, which seems to be the focus of the CRT zealots.

Jay Roberts, Jericho

Sha’Carri’s Olympic Mistake  Everyone’s

decisions have consequences (“Up in smoke,” July 3).

Unfortunately, Sha’Carri Richardson, under extreme stress, made a decision that got her disqualified from the 100 meters at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. When you join an organization, there are rules that must be followed.

Yet I have the utmost respect for Richardson.

Why? Because she took responsibility for her de-

The Issue: Sha’Carri Richardson’s one-month ban from the Olympics after she tested positive for marijuana use.

cision and didn’t try to make some lame excuse.

Kudos to her.

I only hope that the Olympic Committee does the right thing by including her on the 4 by 100 meter relay team.

L. Schaefer Levittown  I finally agree with President Biden on something:

Richardson shouldn’t be allowed to participate in the Olympics because she smoked weed.

When you make the Olympic team, you agree to certain rules. If you break them, you should be out. Otherwise, it’s not fair to those who do follow the rules.

Stephen Colasacco The Bronx

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California’s Best Shot I T’S on. California will vote on whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 14.

I am deeply conflicted on the question. I am opposed to recalls on principle. In 2003, I was one of the few conservatives to oppose the recall of then-Gov. Gray Davis. The problem with recall efforts is that they often focus on individual personalities, not policies. They end up being about spite. As a result, they tend to let parties off the hook.

California’s problems — homelessness, crime, tax flight, etc. — are largely the result of years of one-party rule. The only way to cure one-party rule is to reform the opposing party — in this case, the GOP — to be competitive. Recalls put off that reckoning.

Davis was unpopular for a number of reasons, but the recall boiled down to a referendum on his personality (or lack of one) and the possibility of replacing him with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a celebrity with personality to spare.

Schwarzenegger didn’t revitalize the California GOP. He saw the party as nothing more than a tool of convenience for his own ambitions. (This seems to explain California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner’s thinking as well.)

His governorship accelerated the descent of his party into dysfunctional crankery, in part by making the state’s woes a superficially bipartisan affair.

I still don’t like recalls. But California may be an exception to the rule, precisely because the California GOP seems unsalvageable at this point. Republicans are outnumbered 2 to 1 statewide, but

even that disparity masks the larger structural imbalance in how voters are distributed.

Democrats have stable supermajorities in both houses of the California legislature. Given the power of incumbency, partisanship, liberal special interests and, again, the dumpster fire that is the state Republican Party, it’s unlikely voters will have meaningful alternatives any time soon.

So, what recourse do Californians rightly upset with the status quo have? They can vote with their feet — as many are in record numbers. Or, they can use the only means available to them: the direct

Jonah GoldberG democracy mechanisms instituted

by Gov. Hiram Johnson, a progressive, in 1911. And that’s what they’ve been doing.

In 2020, a year when Joe Biden crushed Donald Trump in California by nearly 30 percentage points, California voters nonetheless rejected a number of progressive ballot measures.

But the stunning failure of Proposition 16 — which would have repealed Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that banned public agencies from considering race, gender or ethnicity for contracting, hiring and student admissions — was the most telling. Supported by every major Democratic official in the state with an estimated 15 to 1 funding advantage, it still

failed by 14 percentage points.

In a state with a healthy, competitive two-party system — a state where calling valuable reforms a “Republican proposal” isn’t a fatal insult — the GOP would be able take advantage of the fact that Dems are out of step with their own voters. Since that’s impossible, having the voters themselves serve as a counterweight to oneparty rule seems preferable.

That said, I still think the California recall effort is about spite.

In the wake of the pandemic, voters are understandably cranky, and Newsom is almost a caricature of what people don’t like about unaccountable “do as I say, not as I do” progressive politicians. His disastrous dinner at French Laundry, in defiance of his own guidelines, almost seemed scripted by screenwriters to distill the arrogance of politicians.

Newsom’s style of governance seems to be about exactly that: style.

Hence my ambivalence. On the one hand, in an age when politics is driven by personalities, holding the personalities accountable is better than nothing. On the other hand, the recall will almost surely fail, and an emboldened Newsom (and Democratic Party) will take all the wrong lessons from that.

Direct democracy in California is a necessary bulwark against the excesses of one-party rule, but it’s insufficient in the long run. The only lasting fix for one-party rule is two-party competition. And that remains a pipe dream in California for the foreseeable future.

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Gov. Cuomo made hundreds of changes to laws and regulations.

New York’s the health industry that should be made permanent.

Experts at one point predicted that peak COVID-19 hospitalizations could reach 110,000 — and New York had only 53,000 total hospital beds. To ensure adequate medical staffing, several of Cuomo’s orders relaxed laws and regulations to expand treatment capacities.

For some patients, the best form of patient-centered care is a home visit by the provider. Done well, a telehealth visit can be a close substitute. And for patients who miss appointments because they can’t arrange childcare, can’t make the commute, don’t feel well enough to travel or suffer from memory loss, a virtual visit is better than no visit.

Telehealth appointments have been widely popular among providers and patients. So much so that the state Department of Health issued emergency regulations the day after the state of emergency expired allowing Medicaid reimbursement for telehealth visits for the duration of the federal COVID emergency.

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licenses, inactive in-state licenses and Canadian licenses to practice in the state without an active New York license. Underserved areas of the state could have an opportunity for increased access to qualified health professionals if New York were to remove licensing barriers permanently.

The state’s emergency response to the pandemic helped expose just how much unnecessary regulation New Yorkers labor under. Every change to a law or regulation Cuomo made by executive order should be reviewed with an eye to making permanent the changes that are already improving the way New Yorkers live and work.

The Legislature could do some good by trading a few more days of its summer vacation to make New York a better, easier place to live and work Cam Macdonald is an adjunct fellow for the Empire Center for Public Policy and executive director of the Government Justice Center. This piece was adapted from a new Empire Center report, “Keep the Change.”

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EPUBLICAN lawmakers in Albany are calling for a special session to revive the popular alcohol-to-go provision that has helped restaurants stay afloat during and after the pandemic.

It’s a good idea — but it doesn’t go far enough.

The alcohol-to-go provision is perhaps the most widely known COVIDera change and certainly the most popular: More than 70 percent of New Yorkers support making it permanent, according to a restaurant-industry survey. Why shouldn’t we be able to bring a specialty cocktail home to enjoy with our takeout burger, especially if it provides a revenue stream for restaurants ravaged by the lockdowns?

Yet alcohol to-go is far from the only positive change made to Empire State regulations during the pandemic by temporary executive fiat. If lawmakers return to Albany, they shouldn’t limit themselves to just one issue.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made hundreds of changes to laws and reguCaM MaCdonald lations while working to address the crisis. Early in the pandemic, for The Legislature could permaexample, he loosened regulations on pharmacists, allowing them to nently reform state law to remove order and administer COVID tests. barriers to telehealth service opLater, the Legislature amended the tions for New Yorkers based on law temporarily to allow pharma- patient needs. Providers should also be given opportunities to cists to administer the vaccine.

This was a good idea — and the provide their services in the interLegislature passed a bill this year state market and not be left beallowing pharmacists to adminis- hind in this new nationwide teleter a wider range of vaccines to a health reality.

To that end, the Legislature wider range of New Yorkers. It was long overdue. This wider vaccine could consider the merits of an exavailability at pharmacies can help isting interstate licensing compact raise immunization rates for that make it easier for New YorkCOVID and other diseases like the based physicians to get licensed to flu, especially in rural and other practice across state lines, includunderserved communities. And it ing via telemedicine, as 29 other provides patients choice and con- states have already done.

New York already went further venience, while improving public than the compact last spring. In a health. Win, win, win.

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Cy the Cynic continues to struggle with his weight. The closest he comes to dieting is erasing his computer’s browser history with all the diets he has Googled.

“I hate myself,” Cy told me, “when I go to order a salad, and my mouth says, ‘I’ll have a triple cheeseburger with fries.”‘ Cy’s impulses also take over when he is declarer. Against today’s four hearts, West led the jack of diamonds (not best), and Cy won, led a trump to his hand and returned a spade to dummy’s king. East took the ace and led a second trump. The Cynic won and led the queen and a third spade, but East won and led his last trump.

Then Cy’s fourth spade was a loser, and he also lost a club. Down one.

When Cy led a trump from dummy at Trick Two, he took one round of trumps too many. He must lead the king of spades.

East wins and leads a trump, but Cy wins, takes the queen of spades and loses a spade. He can win East’s trump return and ruff his last spade in dummy to assure the contract.

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Struggling sandwich chain Subway is revamping its menu — but keeping its “100% tuna” sub, even though a study found no identifiable tuna DNA in the product. Subway claims DNA testing on cooked tuna isn’t reliable.

Very taxing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will press her G-20 counterparts this week for a global minimum corporate tax rate above the 15 percent floor agreed upon by 130 countries last week.

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E-investment Vauxhall parent company Stellantis — maker of Peugeot, Citroen and Opel autos — announced that it will invest $138 million to make electric vans and cars at its factory in northwestern England.

Swiss import Credit Suisse hired Morgan Stanley banker Kyle Berry to take on a senior role within its global industrials group as the scandal-hit Swiss lender seeks to revamp its investment banking team after a series of recent departures.

Art return Belgium’s Africa Museum, once a celebration of the country’s colonial rule, will begin a multiyear process of returning stolen art to Democratic Republic of Congo.

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By LIsA FICkeNsCher Subway is adding more than 20 new menu items in a bid to win back lapsed customers — but it won’t be tweaking the tuna.

The “Eat Fresh Refresh” slated for July 13 — which the struggling sandwich chain said Tuesday is the largest menu update in its 55-year history — won’t replace, upgrade or otherwise alter its “premium 100% tuna” — digging in further against a report last month that said lab tests found no identifiable tuna DNA in its sandwiches.

“While many of Subway’s core protein choices were improved as part of the Eat Fresh Refresh, one ingredient that doesn’t need an upgrade is the Subway highquality, premium tuna,”

Subway said, claiming, “the 100% wild-caught tuna remains a fan favorite.”

The defiant statement came after a New York Times investigation last month said tests on tuna in Subway sandwiches found no tuna DNA and a January lawsuit by two California customers alleged Subway uses fake tuna.

On its Web site, Subway claims, “DNA testing is simply not a reliable way to identify denatured proteins, like Subway’s tuna, which was cooked before it was tested.”

Subway said its new menu revamp, for which all locations will shut down for a full day on July 12, includes six new or returning sandwiches, four revamped signature sandwiches, two new baked breads — Arti-

san Italian and Hearty Multigrain — and 11 new ingredients to existing menu items.

“We wanted to give our guests more new and improved flavors,” Subway’s North American president, Trevor Haynes, said in a statement.

The chain, meanwhile, is facing other pressures.

Among them is a revolt from franchisees with gripes about onerous new rules, including requirements they stay open during snowstorms, and expensive promotions.

The restaurant’s late founder, Fred DeLuca, was also accused of chasing store owners’ wives while former spokesman Jared Fogle is serving a 15-year sentence for child pornography.

The Internal Revenue Service was still facing a backlog of more than 35 million unprocessed tax returns at the end of the 2021 filing season in May — more than four times the size of the 2019 pileup, according to a government watchdog.

The National Taxpayer Advocate found in its annual Objectives Report that the most recent tax-filing season “was perhaps the most challenging filing season taxpayers, tax professionals, and the IRS have ever experienced.”

The agency had 35.3 million unprocessed returns at the end of the 2021 season, way up from the 7.4 million unprocessed returns in 2019, the watchdog said.

The watchdog also noted that most taxpayers are entitled to a refund. This filing season, 70 percent of individual income tax returns received refunds, with an average refund of $2,827, the NTA said.

But with a record number of unprocessed returns, Americans are scrambling to get answers from the IRS. “The IRS received more telephone calls this filing season than in any previous filing season, and at one point in the height of filing season, the IRS received over 1,500 calls per second,” the NTA said in its report.

The agency received more than 85.1 million calls to its critical 1040 customer-sup-

port phone line, the watchdog said, up a staggering 978 percent from 2018 levels.

Of the millions who called over the past year, just 3 percent were able to connect with a human being, the NTA found.

The watchdog noted that the IRS has faced a surge in demand for its services as federal relief efforts relied on the agency’s support.

The agency has processed 136 million individual income tax returns and issued 96 million refunds totaling $270 billion during the 2021 filing season, the NTA said.

The NTA called the IRS underfunded by Congress, which allocated enough money for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 to reach “a 60 percent level of service.”

That didn’t stop Michelle Singletary, a Washington Post columnist, from claiming last week that the IRS is “critically malfunctioning.”

“The agency is a hot mess,” she wrote. “You are right to be mad as hell when you can’t reach somebody to help explain why your filing or refund hasn’t been processed..”

In a statement, the IRS defended itself, saying it’s done what it can with limited staff.

“Our ability to answer phone calls reflects the amount of staffing available,” the IRS said. “Pending budget proposals would help the agency’s ability to assist more taxpayers, including on the phones.” wfeuer@nypost.com

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Teneo intrigue Disgraced chief out, old friend in

By AlexAndrA SteigrAd RSULA Burns is the first black woman to helm a Fortune 500 company, the former CEO of Xerox, and now the chairwoman of the powerful strategic advisory firm Teneo.

She’s also an old crony of Declan Kelly, who just On the resigned from the helm of Teneo last week after news that he allegedly got drunk at a VIP charity event and acted inappropriately with as many as six women.

Burns and Kelly’s ties stretch back to the early days of Teneo, when she hired the firm while at the helm of

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Can’t help but wonder With Ursula Burns in as chair at strategic advisory firm Teneo, insiders are asking if the move is meant to help salvage disgraced founder Declan Kelly’s career.

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Xerox. When she left Xerox in 2017, Teneo handed her a lucrative consulting gig (in keeping with Teneo’s playbook with other big-named CEOs, including IBM’s Ginni Rometty and Dow Chemical’s Andrew Liveris.)

In April, Burns and Kelly

even founded a buyout firm with two other partners called Integrum. According to one source, Kelly stepped away from Integrum when he stepped down at Teneo last week. A spokesman for Integrum declined to comment, citing that the firm is

in active fundraising.

On one hand, Tuesday’s appointment of Burns as chair of Teneo looks like a coup for the embattled firm, industry insiders said.

“Teneo was hemorrhaging clients so they needed to do something bold,” said a source, who called Burns’ appointment “compelling” as it sends the message that the company is embracing a new direction.

But the source added that the 62-year-old CEO is a “longtime pal” of Kelly, and that the news couldn’t help but look like it had Kelly’s fingerprints all over it. Insiders are speculating, admittedly with no evidence, whether part of Burns’ job will be to help Kelly salvage his career.

Teneo declined to comment. Private-equity firm CVC, which owns a majority stake in Teneo, did not return requests for comment.  Tips: biztips@nypost.com

Teen workers to the rescue The owners of restaurants, amusement parks and retail shops, many of them desperate for workers, are sounding an unusual note of gratitude this summer: Thank goodness for teenagers.

As the US economy bounds back with unexpected speed from the pandemic recession and customer demand intensifies, high-school-age kids are filling jobs that older workers can’t — or won’t.

The result is that teens who are willing to bus restaurant tables or serve as water-park lifeguards are commanding $15, $17 or more an hour plus bonuses in some instances, or money to help pay for school classes. The trend marks a shift from the period

after the 2007-2009 Great Recession, when older workers often took such jobs and teens were squeezed out.

An acute labor shortage, especially at restaurants, tourism and entertainment businesses, has made teenage workers highly popular again.

The proportion of Americans ages 16-19 who are working is higher than it’s been in years: In May, 33.2 percent of them had jobs, the highest such percentage since 2008.

Though the figure dipped to 31.9 percent in June, the Labor Department reported Friday, that is still higher than it was before the pandemic devastated the economy last spring.

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Services sector on rise US services-industry activity grew at a moderate pace in June, likely restrained by labor and raw-material shortages, resulting in unfinished work continuing to pile up.

The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday its nonmanufacturing activity index fell to 60.1 last month from 64.0 in May, which was the highest reading in the series’ history. A reading above 50 indicates growth in the services sector.

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Embattled McCammond back at Axios LEXI McCammond — who resigned as editorin-chief of Teen Vogue in March days before she started the job after an uproar over racially charged social-media posts — is returning to her former job as

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On Tuesday, Axios — where McCammond had notable bouts with everyone from Donald Trump to former NBA star Charles Barkley since starting in 2017 — said it was happy to have her back. She had been working at NBC News since her Teen Vogue withdrawal.

“Alexi McCammond is an accomplished journalist and professional,” Axios cofounder and CEO Jim VandeHei said. “We’re excited and proud that she is returning to Axios.”

Some of McCammond’s former colleagues at Axios — where she had covered Joe Biden’s presidential campaign — were among her staunchest defenders as she got slammed over comments she had made about Asians a decade earlier as a freshman at the University of Chicago.

“I worked with her for four years,” Axios political reporter Jonathan Swan said in an appearance on the Fox

By KEITH J. KELLY News show “America’s Newsroom.” “She doesn’t have a racist bone in her body. If we can’t as an industry accept somebody’s sincere and repeated apologies for something they tweeted when they were 17 years old, what are we doing?”

The hiring of McCammond, 29, initially looked like a step by Teen Vogue publisher Condé Nast to diversify its leadership. She had been named “Emerging Journalist of the Year” in 2019 by the National Association of Black Journalists.

But when deleted comments she had made a decade earlier on social media

complaining about Asians resurfaced, she became a victim of the woke crowd.

She issued several public apologies, and Condé Nast, headed editorially by chief content officer and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, initially hoped to weather the controversy.

But editorial staffers at Teen Vogue publicly expressed their anger over the hiring to Wintour and CEO Roger Lynch. As the controversy continued to swirl in March, McCammond and Condé Nast issued a statement saying she had decided to step down.

“I became a journalist to help lift up the stories and voices of our most vulnerable communities,” McCammond said in a statement announcing her decision to not take the job.

“As a young woman of color, that’s part of the reason I was so excited to lead the Teen Vogue team in its next chapter. My past tweets have overshadowed

the work I’ve done to highlight the people and issues that I care about — issues that Teen Vogue has worked tirelessly to share with the world — and so Condé Nast and I have decided to part ways.”

Wintour cast a wide net in her search for a replacement for McCammond, and in May announced the hiring of Versha Sharma from NowThis News.  Get ready for dueling Tucker Carlson books.

Sources tell Media Ink a smackdown is gearing up on the controversial Fox News host, with a tome commissioned by Little Brown, just as Carlson’s latest book, “The Long Slide,” prepares to hit the shelves.

Vanessa Mobley, an executive editor at Little Brown, who has published best-selling authors ranging from Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill”

to Wesley Lowery’s “They Can’t Kill Us All,” has quietly signed a book on Carlson in recent months slated to be released next year.

The book’s author is Jason Zengerle, a political writer whose contributions have included a New York Times Magazine cover story titled “Fort Trump: The War on Congress,” about the former president’s battle with legislative branch over his impeachment.

Zengerle, a writer at large for the magazine and a correspondent for GQ , won the Toner Prize for political reporting in 2019.

Neither Zengerle nor Little Brown’s Mosbey returned calls for comment, but a source close to the situation confirmed that a book is in the works and will not hit until sometime next year. Reps for Carlson and Fox did not get back to us at the time of writing.

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Gary Gensler Agency boss pushes change.

Mutual-fund boards would be required to disclose information on the gender and racial diversity of their directors under a proposed rule at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The suggestion from an SEC advisory subcommittee — which would need further approval — mirrors a growing focus in other quarters on the financial industry’s lack of diversity.

Gilbert Garcia, chair of the subcommittee and managing partner of a Houston investment firm, said the data should lead to more diversity.

“The theory is that by shining transparency on this, market forces will change the makeup” of boards, he said.

SEC chair Gary Gensler said last month he had asked his staff to propose “human-capital disclosure” details that could include information on diversity and other workforce demographics.

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FDA snubs diabetes Rx The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday declined to approve Provention Bio’s experimental diabetes drug, citing insufficient data, sending the company’s shares down 26 percent.

The FDA said a study in healthy volunteers failed to show that the drug is comparable to its older version.

The company said data from an ongoing late-stage trial, expected later in its third quarter, could address the agency’s concerns. Reuters

nearly 6 percent in early Tuesday trades. The stock was recently up 0.6 percent at $52.31.

AMC chief executive Adam Aron also tweeted out the announcement on Tuesday, saying: “It’s no secret I think shareholders should authorize 25 million more AMC shares. But what YOU think is important to us.

Many yes, many no. AMC does not want to proceed with such a split.”

AMC had been seeking shareholder approval to sell 25 million shares at some point next year in or-

der to fund value-creating investment opportunities, as the company put it. But Aaron emphasized the plan would be “tabled.”

Like GameStop, AMC’s stock has been a favorite of traders using platforms like Reddit to boost their stock picks. Wild gains in its stock price, which to date has risen more than 2,350 percent this year, helped AMC stave off bankruptcy as the coronavirus pandemic all but destroyed its business.

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$TREAM DREAMS Media moguls’ urge to merge ‘not done yet’

By Lydia Moynihan and Theo WayT Allen & Co.’s “summer camp for billionaires” kicked off Tuesday with David Zaslav of Discovery promising that the mediamerger frenzy created by the videostreaming wars is far from over.

“We’re not done yet,” Zaslav said when asked about addi- CHRONICLES tional deal targets following Discovery’s $43 billion merger with AT&T’s entertainment unit WarnerMedia.

Although the planned merger will create a media behemoth — joining AT&T’s CNN, HBO and Hollywood studio Warner Bros. with Discovery’s Food Network and TLC — Zaslav says he’ll continue

Titans on parade Among the first media execs seen Tuesday at the annual “summer camp for billionaires” in Sun Valley, Idaho, are (from left) Jason Kilar of WarnerMedia, Brian Roberts of Comcast and David Zaslav of Discovery Communications.

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to be on the lookout for other possible targets after the deal closes in about eight months.

“There’s a lot of assets out there that have good IP [intellectual property] that will probably get new

homes,” said Zaslav upon entering the posh conference grounds wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt.

While Zaslav was one of the few media moguls to stop to speak to the press upon entering the invitation-

only event, his comments are undoubtedly also on the minds of other top execs scrambling to compete with the likes of Netflix.

Other media bigs seen arriving Tuesday included Bob Chapek of Disney,

Brian Roberts of NBCUniversal’s Comcast, Shari Redstone of ViacomCBS, Jason Kilar of WarnerMedia and Netflix co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos.

While all eyes are on the old-guard media and Silicon Valley titans, the storied confab, run by secretive investment bank Allen & Co., will kick off Wednesday with a keynote from younger tech stars like Patrick Collison, the CEO of red-hot fintech startup Stripe, which is among the world’s most valuable private companies, The Post has learned.

Missing from the public eye on Tuesday were the tech moguls slated to attend, including Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world.

Their lack of showmanship comes as Silicon Valley faces antitrust probes in Washington.

Campus delivery bots Twit gets hit for hate Driverless robots will soon deliver food to students on college campuses in the United States after Russian tech giant Yandex and online foodordering company Grubhub agreed to a multiyear partnership, Yandex said Tuesday.

Described as Russia’s Google, the multi-service Yandex already operates autonomous delivery robots in Moscow and Ann Arbor, Mich.

“We are delighted to deploy dozens

of our rovers, taking the next step in actively commercializing our selfdriving technology in different markets across the globe,” said Dmitry Polishchuk, CEO of Yandex SelfDriving Group.

Yandex’s delivery robots will join Grubhub’s platform, with the service to be made available at select college campuses this fall. Grubhub partners with more than 250 college campuses across the US. Reuters

A French court has ordered Twitter to provide clear details on what it is doing to tackle hate speech, according to a court judgment obtained by Reuters.

The ruling from magistrate Fabrice Vert said Twitter had to show within the next two months steps it was taking to tackle hate speech.

An official for Twitter in France declined any immediate comment when asked about the verdict, which fol-

lowed pressure from lobby groups including the UEJF French Jewish students association, SOS Racisme and SOS Homophobie.

Tech firms have been accused of doing too little to address online abuse.

In May, Britain said a planned new law would fine social-media companies millions if they failed to stamp out online abuses such as racist hate crimes, while senior managers could also face criminal action.

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AMC said Tuesday that it will scrap a controversial proposal to issue up to 25 million new shares of its surging stock, citing a mixed response to the idea from investors.

The world’s largest movie-theater chain — which has been a key beneficiary of this year’s “meme stock” frenzy — said in a securities filing the plan has been withdrawn from its annual meeting set for July 29 and it wouldn’t propose another share sale until next year at the earliest.

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PROFESSIONAL irector of arketing Research & Analytics sought by Spotlight Oral Care, nc. in New York, NY to estab lish role, value & integrity of data at Spotlight Oral Care through dvlp mnt/implement data systs & practi ces for ongoing insights generation, performance analysis & optimi a tion. Re s: S, or foreign e uiv, in arketing or rltd field & 2 yrs e p in ob offered or rltd. ust possess e p w/digital & traditional research analytics ualitative/ uantitative research & using data & research to fuel strategy & tell a story interpret ing consumer behavior & marketing practices across different S & E markets & etc. omestic & nt l travel re . Resume to: Spotlight Oral Care, nc., Attn: Shereen olland, ead of Retail, 1 udson Yards, 11th Flr, New York, NY 10001 Technical Architect SFCC sought by arketing Solutions company. ust have proof of legal authori ation to work in the S. on Fri, 0 hrs/wk. ob to be performed in New York, NY. Please refer to the internet posting at https://www.borngroup. com/careers/technical architect sfcc born pa 2021/ and refer to ob Number: ORN PA 2021, for full info. about the ob opportunity. To apply send Res. to Attn: irector R, orn roup, nc., 11 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001.

irector, Sales and Trading Securi ties Lending T Securities SA LLC New York, NY F/T. Liaise w/ anks operations to assist in meet ing ob ectvs & ma imi e profitabili ty. Re aster s deg, or forgn e uiv, in us Admin, ath, Finance, Econ, or rltd, & 2 yrs of e p in ob offd, as P, Trader, or rltd. Altrntvly, emplyr will accpt achelor s deg & yrs of progrssvly respnsble e p. E p must incl at least 2 yrs in each of the fllwng: wrkng in .S. & Canadian se curities lending & prime brokerge businesses Canadian ROC & S F NRA mrkets Securities Lending indstry trade platforms Loanet, Phase Three Sungard & N T E uilend setting sales strategies, identifyng evolvng client re mts, & leading pricing/contract negotiatns implmtg prime brokerge platform identifyng client needs & wrkng w/ technlgy to implmt pro cts to meet re mts & wrkng w/ hedge funds, agent lenders broker dealers, & pen sion funds in the NA mkts. Emplyr will accpt any suitable combo of educatn, training, or e p. Remote wrk permittd. p to 10 domestic &/or intl travel is re d. Email resume to T NYC.T S S RServices tdsecurities.com. Ref: T A. Risk Analyst multiple openings at P Operations in NY, NY will focus on the measurement & monitoring of the mkt risk of our e uity portfo lios for more than 120 distinct port folio mgmt teams, each performing independently. Re s a ach deg in ath, Statistics, or a closely rltd field, yrs of prof l e p measuring, mon itoring, & analy ing mkt risk in the investment industry. ust incl yrs of e p w/ each of the following: stat istical prgmg lang in R S L d/base systems A prgmg in E cel moni toring & managing the risk of inde rebalance strategy analy ing istor ical nde Rebalance ata analy ing & controlling risk profiles for multi ple portfolio mgmt teams interview ing prospective nde Rebalance portfolio mgrs creating statistical models to measure risk, incl stress testing, factor risk analysis, & per formance attribution bldg & main taining d/bases to store historical data & validating data & automated processes. Send resume to recruiting mlp.com & reference ob code 0211 when applying.

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irector Senior Research Analyst sought by ofA Securities, nc. to an aly e capital structure by evaluating e uity & credit risk in Latin America, in effort to assist clients interested in investing in those companies. Re s: ach degree or e uiv. & 7 yrs e p. composing research notes, incorpo rating econ analysis of a countrys economy, & evaluating the impact on diff companies w/in the Latin America nfrastructure sector uild ing e uity valuation models to fore cast the performance of diff compa nies & analy e how the macro envi ronment affects their infrastructure.

Portuguese fluency oral & written .

20 int l travel, as nec. ob Site: New York, NY. Ref 21 1 & submit re sume to ofA Securities, nc. NY1 06 0 , 111 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 100 6.

No phone calls or emails. EOE.

P lobal kts Risk anager sought by ank of America N.A. to collaborate w/ senior managers & decision makers to identify & solve a variety of problems & to clarify mgmnt ob ectives. Present the re sults of mathematical modeling & data analysis to mngmt or other end users. Re s: aster s degree or e uiv. & yrs e p. in assessing com ple derivatives pricing models to provide mgmnt transparency for the trading desk eveloping relevant stress scenarios for various asset classes to determine potential losses in various stress market conditions. ob Site: New York, NY. Ref 2 2 2 & submit resume to ank of America N.A., NY1 06 0 , 111 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 100 6.

No phone calls or emails. EOE.

irector Senior Research Analyst sought by ofA Securities, nc. to an aly e capital structure by evaluating e uity & credit risk in Latin America, in effort to assist clients interested in investing in those companies. Re s: ach degree or e uiv. & 7 yrs e p. composing research notes, incorpo rating econ analysis of a countrys economy, & evaluating the impact on diff companies w/in the Latin America nfrastructure sector uild ing e uity valuation models to fore cast the performance of diff compa nies & analy e how the macro envi ronment affects their infrastructure.

Portuguese fluency oral & written .

20 int l travel, as nec. ob Site: New York, NY. Ref 21 1 & submit re sume to ofA Securities, nc. NY1 06 0 , 111 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 100 6.

No phone calls or emails. EOE.

irector Sr uantitative Fin Analyst sought by ank of America N.A. to maintain the main onte Carlo sim ulation & pricing engine used for Regulatory Capital, Credit Risk Limits & C A. evelop & enhance simula tion models across all asset classes & in particular, devise the calibration routines for the models. Re s: as ter s degree or e uiv. & 6 yrs e p. de veloping & validating nterest Rate simulation models based on market implied calibrations & fast nterest Rate erivatives pricing models used in onte Carlo simulations & Risk gmnt eveloping & validat ing Credit erivatives simulation models & fast Credit erivatives pric ing models used in onte Carlo sim ulations & Risk gmnt. ob Site: New York, NY. Ref 27 2 6 & submit re sume to ank of America N.A. NY1 06 0 , 111 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 100 6.

No phone calls or emails. EOE.

P / Structurer sought by ofA Se curities, nc. to inform investment decisions by analy ing financial info to forecast business, industry, or econ conditions. Re s: asters de gree or e uiv. & yrs e p. assessing pricing of comple e uity & cross asset derivatives transactions using various mathematical frameworks, incl but not limited to black&scholes, S E stochastic differential e ua tion , Local olatility, American onte Carlo, & Stochastic olatility Providing structuring derivative products using multiple wrappers, incl e change listed, swaps, over the counter options, tri party, warrants, certificates & notes. 0 domestic travel, as nec. ob Site: New York, NY. Ref 216211 & submit resume to ofA Securities, nc. NY1 06 0 , 111 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 100 6. No phone calls or emails. EOE.

Research Associate loomberg LP NY, NY F/T. Revw, check and curate data into comprhnsve and logiclly arrngd dashbrds to supprt resrch and to provde loomberg Terminal users a platfrm to view and anly e the data as well. Pstn re s ach s deg or the frgn e vlnt in Statstcs, or rltd and 1 yr of e p in the ob offrd or reltd work e p. ust have 1 yr of e p in each of the foll skills: ata analysis nterpreting data research Statistical modeling and analysis of pharmaceutical data and, rug modeling in the pharmaceutical in dustry. Send resume to loomberg R 7 1 Le ington Ave., NY, NY 10022. ndicate 2021. EOE.

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FINANCIAL P, uant Finance Analyst sought by ank of America, N.A. to design & implement new statistical models designed to forecast specific fin mkt items such as revenues, prices, & vol umes. se machine learning techni ues & statistical knowledge to en hance bus data capabilities & offer new & innovative solutions in the mkt. Re s: aster s degree or e uiv. & yrs e p. utili ing various statisti cal forecasting models such as linear regression models & AR A/ ARC to predict financial market behavior across multiple asset classes tili ing machine learning techni ues such as LASSO/ridge regressions, neural networks, & collaborative fil tering techni ues to assess financial apps. ob Site: New York, NY. Ref 11121 & submit resume to ank of America, N.A.NY1 06 0 , 111 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 100 6. No phone calls or emails.

EOE.

TECH CAREERS Applications Support Engineer, A P sought F/T by Neuberger erman roup LLC in NY, NY to analy e & conduct comprehensive due dili gence on potential primary fund investments & direct e uity co investment opportunities. R ts: ust have a aster s deg or a for eign e uiv in nfo Tech, Comp Sci, gmt nfo Systems, or a rltd field yrs of e p in the position offd or Sr. vlpr, or rltd. ust have yrs of e p w/ all of the following: nvest ment gmt SAP S L Confluence ServiceNow Agile methodology A AP/ .NET T L L endor & internal systems integrations & working knowl of billing systems.

To apply go to https://nb.wd1. myworkday obs.com/N Careers & Search obs by ob R000 27. EOE/ /F/ / .

Associate irector, Social Club e velopment New York, NY . Coor dinate dvlpmnt activities across Online Srvcs ptmnt & other engr & business teams. ob re s achelor s in igital Comms, Web sgn, Comp Sci, Engr or rltd & yrs of e p dvlping comple custom S .NET apps throughout entire S LC. Employer will accept single degree or combo of degrees, dipl omas &/or prof e p e ual to achelor s. ail cvr ltr & C to Rob Spampinato, Rockstar ames, 622 roadway, th Floor, New York, NY 10012 A P Software Engineer sought by ofA Securities, nc. to develop & maintain mobile apps along with delivering enhancements specially for lobal anking & arkets divi sion in iOS & Android mobile plat forms. Re s: ach or e uiv. & yrs e p. in: eveloping iOS mobile apps using Swift, Ob ective C & maintain ing apps using ava on Eclipse or An droid Studio Es Supporting apps with minimal recovery time ob ect with knowledge of different system components incl , Services layer, & database systems. ob Site: New York, NY. Ref 67 6 & submit resume to ofA Securities, nc. NY1 06 0 , 111 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 100 6.

No phone calls or emails. EOE. anager, ata Operations NY, NY Caissa LLC. uties: Works w/ teams to define plans for features. mprove code & dvlpmt incl bug triage. Re d to dvlp a multi platform testing plan to incl & AP s & Angular SPAs. E plore new technologies uild REST ful AP s using .NET Core & build An gular 7 components for core SPA. Works w/ team in dsgn & idea gener ation. Further, duties incl: ldg code to analy e massive datasets E plore new technologies sgn S L code, inc. massive data sets with multiple S L servers. Re mts: ach eg in ata Sci or Finance, yrs progres sive e p as a ata Analyst speciali ing in S L or asters in ata Sci or Finance 1 yr e p as a ata Analyst speciali ing in S L or the ob offd.

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ata Engineering anager sought

by We Work anagement LLC in NY, NY: Work w/ the Engg team to find technological solutions for bldg our platform. ail Resumes: WeWork, ylan onovan, 7 Le ington Ave, Fl 12 NY, NY 10022. ust reference ob code NY0121Y .

Solutions Engineer NY, NY Con tribute to dvlp t of ad tech solut ns/ integrat ns. Establish/support cstmr deployments/e pansion pr cts/in ternal initiatives. vlp/share best practices/provide tech support to ops/sales teams. andle tech config/ implement n of argo platform on publisher ntwrk. Re s ach comp sci, comp progrm g, S/W dvlp t, or close ly rltd field 2 yrs e p w/in ad tech cmpny, or, altern, S comp sci, comp progrm g, S/W dvlp t, or close ly rltd field. Func l knwl of web techs incl T L/P P/ avaScript/Restful AP s programmatic wrkflow for trblshoot g in tech oriented environ data analysis data files/databases incl L/ SON/CS /S L & cross browser compliance test tools.

Func l knwl may be gained thru edu crswrk/internships/train g/wrk e p.

Res argo lobal nc., marianne kargo.com.

S I E needed I in to by ensure health and functionality of platform wide integrations through scope, design, integration, upgrades, and maintenance. Apply at http:// att. obs/, select O SEARC and APPLY and select Search by Re uisi tion Number at the left bottom of the page and enter :

P Feature Lead Technology sought by ofA Securities, nc. to analy e in fo to determine, recommend, & plan install of a new system or modify an e isting system. Analy e user needs & sftwr re s to determine feasibility of design w/in time & cost con straints. Re s: ach degree or e uiv. & yrs e p. supporting systems through maintenance, modification, prob resolution, risk assessment, code migrations, architecture re views & performance optimi ations Assessing E uity fin derivatives & P&L to e plain analytic, methods, & front user interactions. ob Site: New York, NY. Ref 2 12 & sub mit resume to ofA Securities, nc.

NY1 06 0 , 111 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 100 6.

No phone calls or emails. EOE.

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BY VIRTUE OF DEFAULT under that certain Secured Note Promissory Note effective as of August 2, 2019 (the “Note”) and that certain Mortgage, Assignment of Leases and Rents and Security Agreement effective as of August 2, 2019 (the “Mortgage”), as secured by that certain Ownership Interests Pledge and Security Agreement (the “Pledge Agreement”), pledging the ownership interest (the “Pledged Membership Interests”) as defined in the Pledge Agreement, duly effective as of August 2, 2019, by Choy Ling Lam (the “Pledgor”), and in accordance with its rights as holder of the security, 6 Maple Court Funding LLC (the “Secured Party”) by virtue of possession of that certain Share Certificate held in accordance with Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York (the “Code”) and by that certain UCC1 Filing Statements in favor of Secured Party all in accordance with Article 9 of the Code, Maltz Auctions (“Maltz”), under the direction of Richard B. Maltz (DCA # 1240836) or David A. Constantino (DCA# 1424944) (the “Auctioneer”), will conduct a public sale consisting of the Pledged Interest (as set forth in Schedule A below), via online bidding, on July 12, 2021 at 10:00am, in satisfaction of an indebtedness in the approximate amount of $1,262,516.84, including principal, interest on principal and reasonable fees and costs, plus default interest through June 15, 2021, subject to open charges and all additional costs, fees and disbursements permitted by law. The Secured Party reserves the right to credit bid.

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Giannis Antetokounmpo never thought he would return so soon. In fact, when he was injured against the Hawks last week, he didn’t think he’d play again until next season.

After looking close to full strength while scoring 20 points with 18 rebounds in the Bucks’ 118-105 loss to the Suns in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night in Phoenix, Antetokounmpo revealed he thought the worst.

“When I went down I thought I’d be out for the year,’’ Antetokounmpo said in his first comments since he hyperextended his left knee. “I thought I hurt everything in my leg.”

Antetokounmpo missed the last two games of the Eastern Conference finals and initially was listed as doubtful for Game 1. But he worked his butt off to get back and played very well.

“I did my best to get back, did the right treatment and took care of my body,’’ he said. “I felt great. The medical staff let me play. I felt I had my balance. My knee was stable. I didn’t feel pain.’’

Even as he had a solid outing, Antetokounmpo did grab at his knee at one juncture in the second half. Otherwise, it wasn’t noticeable.

Antetokounmpo skied for an alley-oop pass on Milwaukee’s first possession. Though it got broken up, he was fouled on the play and went to the line.

He lived down to his freethrow reputation by badly missing the first attempt with the loud crowd counting to 10

— as Nets fans had during the second-round series.

Antetokounmpo wound up with 10 points, five rebounds and three assists by intermission, attacking the rim with abandon. He also had a sensational block in the final minute of the half, racing back to bat off the glass what looked to be an uncontested fast-break layup attempt by Mikal Bridges. Antetokounmpo also committed a goaltending on Devin Booker, leaping well above the rim with the Suns up eight.

The Bucks wouldn’t let the media in on his return until about 30 minutes before tipoff.

“He had a good workout before the game,’’ coach Mike Budenholzer said. “I think you’ve got to listen to Giannis first. He felt good. The sports performance group felt good, he had been checking boxes the last couple days and making progress and so he was cleared. And he wanted to go and everybody was on the same page. It’s just a credit to him. For him to be back playing in Game 1, it’s really impressive what he did.’’

And it at least hints at the promise of a better Game 2 result for Milwaukee.

NBA FINALS NOTES

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Ex-Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy is calling his 13th straight Finals for ABC after spending the weekend in Las Vegas with the U.S. Olympic coaching staff as its director of scouting. Van Gundy will join Team USA after the Finals and be in Tokyo, though is not considered an assistant coach.

Head coach Gregg Popovich’s assistants are Steve Kerr, Jay Wright and Lloyd Pierce.

Racing guru Pack dies at 94

By ViC Cangialosi

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Harvey Pack, beloved by New York horse racing fans for his knowledge, honesty and humor, died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 94.

Pack was hired as NYRA’s director of promotions and special events in 1973 after finding success on WNBC Radio with his show “Pack at the Track.” He became the voice of the everyday bettor while hosting the recap show, “Thoroughbred Action,” along with Frank Wright, Charl-

sie Cantey, Jan Ruston and John Veitch.

“He was a visionary who meant a great deal to thoroughbred racing and we look forward to honoring his legacy in the near future,” NYRA President and CEO Dave O’Rourke said.

Win or lose, Pack made it fun.

Understanding the $2 bettor probably walked away emptyhanded, he ended every broadcast by tossing his Racing Form in the air while offering encouraging words for the next day’s card: “May the horse be with you.”

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FIRST: Mile pace; $12,500; claiming 1 Fast On The Draw (DDube) 1-5-4 2 EnergyzoneHanver (MKkley) 6-4-3 3 Nihilated Truth (BHolland) 5-7-4 4 Sluggem N (ASiegelman) 1-3-4 5 Ginger Tree Pete (SZeron) 3-6-6 6 Roger Mach Em (JBartlett) 2-5-3 7 LodiMachetteMan(GBrennn) 3-3-7 SECOND: Mile trot; $12,500; cond 1 Showmeyourguns (JBongirn) 3-4-6 2 Zagster (JStratton) 2-7-6 3 Torkil (JMarohn) 4-7-6 4 Peter's Express (SZeron) 8-7-6 5 Mighty Surf (BHolland) 7-5-3 6 Tax Savings (JBartlett) 4-2-5 7 Lifetime Royalty (GBrennan) 2-6-5 8 Circle Of Life As (TButer) 5-1-8 THIRD: Mile pace; $12,500; cond 1 Islay N (JMarohn) 2-8-1 2 Madame Leza A (SZeron) 8-3-6 3 All About Amy (JBongiorno) 3-1-6 4 Watch My Luck (TButer) 3-1-7 5 Triple Dip (BHolland) 8-2-6 6 CveredndmndsN(ASegelmn) 2-2-2 7 E R Hilary (DDube) 7-3-6 8 Followthewind N (JStratton) 4-3-4 FOURTH: Mile pace; $18,000; cond 1 French Shaker (SZeron) 4-3-3 2 Loud Brazilian (ASiegelman) 5-6-5 3 Santafe's Mj (PLachance) 4-3-5 4 Beachblanketlindy (JStrattn) 3-2-2 5 Mean Irene (DDube) 8-2-5 6 Dc Batgirl (GBrennan) 5-6-3 7 Uptown Callie (BHolland) 6-4-4 8 Eyes Don't Lie (JBartlett) 6-5-8 FIFTH: Mile trot; $15,000; cond 1 Hayek (JStratton) 5-3-2 2 Mufasa As (ASiegelman) 2-5-8 3 Stinglike A B K (JBartlett) 4-4-3 4 Bazillionaire (GBrennan) 7-6-7 5 Casino Cutie It (TButer) 1-4-7 6 Uva Hanover (JMarohn) 5-5-1 7 Bridge Works (SZeron) 2-4-4 8 Willie B Worthy (BHolland) 4-2-6 SIXTH: Mile pace; $12,500; cond 1 AmericanTourN(JBongiorno) 7-7-7 2 Tyronbettorsella N (Bartlett) 7-5-3 3 Pappy Rocks (DDube) 4-7-4 4 Sweet You (JStratton) 6-7-5 5 Zoe Ellasen (BHolland) 6-3-5 6 AcefortyfourDome (Marohn) 3-7-3 7 PrayTheRosary (Siegelman) 5-7-6 8 Little Honeybadger (SZeron) 7-6-5

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4-1 20-1 9-2 5-1 5-2 3-1 20-1 15-1

7-2 5-2 5-1 6-1 20-1 7-2 20-1 12-1 9-5 2-1 20-1 5-2 12-1 20-1 9-1 20-1

Yonkers Results FIRST-1-mile pace; 12500clm; purse $12,500 TRACK: CONDITION-SY OFF: 7:31 TIME28.0; 56.4; 1:25.0; 1:54.3 3 LanasDesre(JStrtton) 6.20 6.80 5.50 1 Art History (G Brennan) 10.60 5.70 8 Village Champ (D Dube) 7.50

• Exacta (3-1) $109.50 • Triple (3-1-8) $1,459.00

Scr: Father Fred.

SECOND-1-mile pace; chgnw2pm; purse $18,000 TRACK: CONDITION-SY OFF: 7:49 TIME28.4; 58.0; 1:26.2; 1:54.1 1 ThorAndDrJns(TButr) 4.10 2.10 2.10 4 NorthernBaccarat(JMrohn) 3.40 2.10 2 Rockin The Arena (M Kakaley) 3.70

• Exacta (1-4) $6.90 • Triple (1-4-2) $30.80 • Superfecta (1-4-2-5 ($.10 Payoff)) $4.30 • Daily double (3-1) $27.40

THIRD-1-mile pace; chgnw2pm; purse $18,000 TRACK: CONDITION-SY OFF: 8:07 TIME28.2; 58.0; 1:26.2; 1:54.4 3 AndresHnovr(JBrtltt) 40.60 9.90 4.00 6 Icangogo (M Kakaley) 2.50 2.20 1 Barrywhite Hanover(ASiegelman) 2.20

• Exacta (3-6) $99.00 • Triple (3-6-1) $354.50 FOURTH-1-mile pace; nw5000l5; purse $12,500 TRACK: CONDITION-SY OFF: 8:24 TIME27.2; 56.0; 1:25.0; 1:52.4 7 Branquinho (T Buter) n/a 1 Velocity Komodo (G Brennan) n/a 4 Hitman Hill (J Bartlett) n/a

• Pick 3 (1-3-all) $74.00 • Pick 4 (3-1-3-x (3-of4)) $495.00

FIFTH-1-mile pace; chgnw4pm; purse $20,000 TRACK: CONDITION-SY OFF: 9:07 TIME28.1; 57.2; 1:25.3; 1:52.4 4 SouthwndPtyr(JBrtltt) 2.40 2.10 2.10 6 Captain Sleaze (B Holland) 3.10 2.60 1 Well Done Son (J Stratton) 3.40

• Exacta (4-6) $5.50 • Triple (4-6-1) $23.00 SIXTH-1-mile pace; nw5000l5; purse $12,500 TRACK: CONDITION-SY OFF: 9:23 TIME28.0; 57.3; 1:25.3; 1:53.2 2 FlmngFluttrN(JBrtltt) 3.80 2.60 2.60 1 Macintosh N (J Marohn) 5.70 3.60 4 Virgin Storm (M Kakaley) 3.70

• Exacta (2-1) $14.00 • Triple (2-1-4) $39.00 • Superfecta (2-1-4-5 ($.10 Payoff)) $14.15 • Pick 3 (all-4-2) $6.20

SEVENTH-1-mile pace; nw15000l5; purse $25,000 TRACK: CONDITION-SY OFF: 9:44 TIME27.2; 55.4; 1:24.0; 1:51.3 5 GryDrgon(MMcDonld) 2.30 2.10 2.10 1 Skip To My Lou(JChindano) 3.00 2.10 2 Tin Roof Raider A (J Bartlett) 2.60

• Exacta (5-1) $5.40 • Triple (5-1-2) $16.60 Scr: Heaven's Gait.

EIGHTH-1-mile pace; chgnw6pm; purse $22,000 TRACK: CONDITION-SY OFF: 10:04 TIME27.0; 55.4; 1:23.2; 1:51.0 8 WtrSportsTn(JStrttn) 9.70 6.00 7.40 2 Crunch Hanover (S Zeron) 2.50 2.10 3 Gamblingterror (J Marohn) 2.50

• Exacta (8-2) $26.20 • Triple (8-2-3) $59.00 • Superfecta (8-2-3-4 ($.10 Payoff)) $5.52 • Pick 3 (2-5,8-8) $43.80 • $1 Pick 6 (3-all-4-2-5,8-8) $0.00 • $1 Pick 6 (3-all-4-2-5,8-8 (5-of-6) $1 payoff) $42.50

Scr: Coalition Hanover.

NINTH-1-mile pace; nw7500l5; purse $15,000 TRACK: CONDITION-SY OFF: 10:23 TIME27.1; 56.0; 1:23.0; 1:52.3 6 PatStanleyN(JStrtton) 2.80 2.40 2.10 5 Yayas Hot Spot N(JBartlett) 4.60 3.20 3 Proven Desire (J Marohn) 5.80

• Exacta (6-5) $10.20 • Triple (6-5-3) $54.00 • Superfecta (6-5-3-2 ($.10 Payoff)) $11.27 • Pick 5 (4-2-5,8-8-6,8 ($.50 Payoff)) $42.62

Scr: Seeuinnashville A. TENTH-1-mile pace; nw10000l5; purse $20,000 TRACK: CONDITION-GD OFF: 10:41 TIME27.1; 56.3; 1:25.2; 1:53.2 1 Tokdvffdppr(PLchnc) 2.80 2.10 2.10 2 Gingras Beach (G Brennan) 3.50 2.10 4 Lets Have Another (J Stratton) 2.10

• Exacta (1-2) $6.60 • Triple (1-2-4) $11.60 • Superfecta (1-2-4-7 ($.10 Payoff)) $0.82 • Pick 3 (8-6-1) $31.20 • Pick 4 (5,8-8-6,8-1,3,6) $52.50

Scr: Dark Energy N, Mister Donald A. ELEVENTH-1-mile pace; chgnw8pm; purse $24,000 TRACK: CONDITION-GD OFF: 10:58 TIME28.3; 58.1; 1:26.0; 1:53.3 6 GrdysLegcyA(JBrtltt) 2.80 2.50 2.20 3 Sumthinboutim (MKakaley) 4.60 2.70 2 Diamondbeach (A Siegelman) 3.30

• Exacta (6-3) $19.00 • Triple (6-3-2) $71.00 • Pick 3 (6-1-6) $10.20

TWELFTH-1-mile pace; nw10501l5; purse $20,000 TRACK: CONDITION-GD OFF: 11:19 TIME27.4; 57.3; 1:26.1; 1:54.1 6 KeystonPhonx(DDub) 4.00 2.90 2.30 3 Highland Tartan (JStratton) 3.40 2.70 2 Kasey John A (J Bartlett) 4.50

• Exacta (6-3) $12.20 • Triple (6-3-2) $48.60 • Superfecta (6-3-2-1 ($.10 Payoff)) $6.37 • Late double (6-6) $7.50 • Pick 3 (1,6-6-6) $12.60 Total Handle-$568,453.

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England vs. Denmark semifinal, Wednesday 3-WAY BETTING*

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England -140 Draw +260 Denmark +425 *90 min. plus injury time TO ADVANCE

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England Denmark

-300 +220

BOTH TEAMS SCORE ODDS

Yes No

+115 -160

HARRY KANE PROPS ODDS

Score first goal 3/1 Anytime goal +120 Outscore Denmark 3/1 Score in both halves 11/1

SportS ShortS Carlos Rodon allowed one run over WiMBLEdoN: Barty reaches semis sixinnings to pick up his seventh victory Top-ranked Ash Barty has reached her first Wimbledon semifinal. Barty beat Ajla Tomljanovic 6-1, 6-3 in the first all-Australian Grand Slam quarterfinal in 41 years.

Barty will play 2018 Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber on Thursday.

Kerber, the owner of three Grand Slam titles, moved back into the final four by defeating No. 19 seed Karolina Muchova 6-2, 6-3 at No. 1 Court.

No. 2-seeded Aryna Sabalenka used her attacking style to beat No. 21 Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-3.

Karolina Pliskova claimed 24 of 26 points on her serve in one stretch on the way to a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Viktorija Golubic.

No. 14 seed Hubert Hurkacz came back to beat No. 2 Daniil Medvedev 2-6, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the resumption of a fourth-round match suspended on another court Monday night.

MLB: Cubs lose 11th in a row Bryce Harper homered and tied a career high with five hits, Andrew McCutchen smacked a grand slam and the Philadelphia Phillies won 15-10 over the Cubs to hand Chicago its 11th straight loss at Wrigley Field.  All-Star Shohei Ohtani pitched seven innings of five-hit ball and hit an early RBI double, leading the Angels to a 5-3 victory over the Red Sox in Anaheim, Calif.  In Miami, Starling Marte scored the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning on a wild pitch and an ensuing throwing error, leading the Marlins to a 2-1 victory over the Dodgers.  Yordan Álvarez hit two homers and drove in five runs and the Astros rallied to beat the Athletics 9-6 for its fifth straight win in Houston.

of the season to help the White Sox to a 4-1 victory over the Twins in Minneapolis.  Bryan Reynolds drew a four-pitch walk from a Tyler Matzek, forcing in the winning run in the ninth inning and giving the Pirates a 2-1 victory over the Braves in Pittsburgh and a three-game winning streak.  In Baltimore, Pedro Severino, Cedric Mullins and Anthony Santander hit two-run homers, Spenser Watkins won his first major league start and the Orioles defeated the Blue Jays 7-5.

NFL: Jones signs four-year deal Patriots quarterback Mac Jones on Tuesday signed his four-year, $15.6 million rookie contract which includes a fifth-year option. It comes with a signing bonus of roughly $8.7 million for the former two-time national title winner with Alabama, per NFL Network.  U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has granted permission for Buccaneers rookie cornerback Cameron Kinley to attend training camp, the player’s agents announced Tuesday.

ETC.: Argentina advance to final Emiliano Martinez was the hero for Argentina as he saved three times in a shootout to take his team into a Copa America final matchup with Brazil after Tuesday’s semifinal against Colombia finished 1-1 after 90 minutes in Brasilia, Brazil.

Jessica Springsteen, the 29-year-old daughter of rock icon Bruce Springsteen and singer-songwriter Patti Scialfa has been selected as one of four equestrian riders on the U.S. jumping team that will compete at the Tokyo Olympics.  The Devils re-signed goaltender Scott Wedgewood to a one-year, two-way contract worth $825,000 at the NHL level.

TOP PLAY

Manaea will be ’Stro good

By GreG Peterson The Athletics are chasing the Astros in the AL West and will look to make up ground on Wednesday against Houston’s breakout starter Luis Garcia.

Garcia has a 3.14 ERA with a 6-5 record and 10.1 strikeouts per nine innings this season and has been at his best at home with a 2.58 ERA and 0.8 home runs and 2.4 walks per nine innings allowed.

Oakland’s Sean Manaea has given up a total of 10 runs in his past eight starts and has allowed two runs or fewer and

no home runs in six of his seven road starts in 2021.

The Athletics rank third in MLB in road batting average, and the Astros will be without Alex Bergman and have had starters Michael Brantley and Kyle Tucker in and out of the lineup of late to due injuries. With Houston having gone just 4-5 in home games in which Garcia has pitched, the Athletics should tighten up the AL West race with a win on Wednesday.

THE PLAY: Athletics, +130.

Greg Peterson handicaps MLB for VSiN.com, The Sports Betting Network.

Pitching Form (Game time) Yankees Mariners Brewers Mets Brewers Mets Reds Royals Indians Rays White Sox Twins Tigers Rangers Indians Rays Red Sox Angels Blue Jays Orioles Athletics Astros Braves Pirates Dodgers Marlins Phillies Cubs Rockies D'Backs Cardinals Giants Nationals Padres

Germán (R) Kikuchi (L) Burnes (R) deGrom (R) Anderson (R) Stock (R) Gray (R) Singer (R) Hentges (L) Wacha (R) Lynn (R) Pineda (R) Mize (R) Gibson (R) Mejía (R) TBD Rodríguez (L) Heaney (L) Ryu (L) Harvey (R) Manaea (L) Garcia (R) Smyly (L) Crowe (R) Urías (L) TBD Wheeler (R) Mills (R) Senzatela (R) Castellanos (R) Oviedo (R) Wood (L) Corbin (L) Paddack (R)

(10:10pm) Game 1 (2:10pm) Game 2 (7:10pm) (2:10pm) Game 1 (12:10pm) (1:10pm) (2:05pm) Game 2 (3:10pm) (4:07pm) (7:05pm) (8:10pm) (12:35pm) (7:10pm) (8:05pm) (9:40pm) (9:45pm) (10:10pm)

W-L 4-5 6-3 4-4 7-2 2-5 0-1 1-4 3-6 1-3 1-2 8-3 3-4 5-5 6-0 1-3 — 6-4 4-6 7-5 3-9 6-5 6-5 6-3 1-5 10-3 — 6-4 3-2 2-7 0-1 0-4 7-3 5-7 4-5

2021 ERA 4.50 3.18 2.42 0.95 4.69 11.25 3.27 4.74 8.22 5.26 2.02 3.70 3.55 1.98 6.18 — 5.42 5.40 3.65 7.34 3.13 3.14 4.42 6.26 3.80 — 2.05 4.85 4.58 3.09 5.14 3.89 5.56 4.56

*REC 8-7 8-7 7-7 10-4 6-6 0-1 5-6 6-11 4-3 6-3 8-7 4-7 9-7 10-6 2-4 — 11-5 5-9 9-7 7-10 11-6 7-7 7-7 4-7 13-4 — 10-7 2-3 5-11 — 3-7 9-5 8-8 9-6

'21 vs OPP CAREER W-L ERA vs OPP — — 1-0 — — 1-1 — — 0-0 — — 3-3 — — — — — 0-0 — — 3-2 — — 0-0 — — — — — 0-0 1-0 1.64 1-0 0-1 5.06 5-4 — — 0-0 — — 10-9 — — — — — — — — 0-1 — — 1-1 2-0 3.29 3-0 0-1 6.30 1-1 0-1 4.86 3-6 1-0 3.60 1-0 0-0 4.50 0-1 0-0 7.20 0-0 0-0 0.00 0-1 — — — — — 2-1 — — 0-0 1-0 2.55 3-6 — — — — — — — — 0-1 — — 6-8 — — —

LAST 3 STARTS W-L IP ERA 0-1 11.0 8.18 3-0 19.2 1.37 1-0 18.2 2.89 1-0 18.0 2.50 0-2 11.1 5.56 0-1 4.0 11.25 0-1 12.2 2.84 0-1 11.2 4.63 0-2 11.0 9.82 0-1 10.2 5.06 1-1 13.0 4.85 0-2 11.1 7.94 1-1 14.0 3.86 2-0 18.0 1.50 0-2 15.0 7.80 — — — 1-0 18.0 2.50 0-3 14.0 9.64 2-1 17.2 4.58 0-1 14.1 5.65 0-3 16.1 3.86 1-1 17.0 3.71 3-0 17.1 0.52 1-1 14.1 5.02 1-1 15.1 5.28 — — — 1-1 17.2 1.53 1-1 14.2 2.45 0-0 18.0 3.50 — — — 0-2 13.2 6.59 1-0 13.1 4.73 1-2 16.2 5.40 1-0 14.1 6.28

* REC: Won-lost record of pitcher's team in games he has started.

STITCHES

Sonny day in Kansas City Yankee pitchers Gerrit Cole and Aroldis Chapman were both booed off the mound by the hometown fans and they weren’t happy about it. Hey, no big deal gents, Hunter Biden gets booed at home every time he visits.

Word around the league is that the Yanks are not “athletic” enough. Hey Brian Cashman. Two words. Bartolo Colon.

Reds are rolling. Royals are reeling.

Cincy is in K.C. Sonny Gray (1-4, 3.27 ERA) returned to the Reds rotation after missing close to a month due to a right groin strain.

And Gray was sharp, limiting the Cubs to one run over five frames, fanning eight.

Matched against the Royals’ Brady Singer (3-6, 4.74 ERA). Brady is singin’ the blues lately. He’s allowed six runs over his last 11 ²/₃ innings, issuing 10 free passes. Taking Gray and the Reds for 20 units.

-$ Go Fish! Marlins outlasted the Dodgers 2-1 in 10 innings. Will Smith’s throwing error allowed Starling Marte to score the winner. W has us at -1,243 timsalmons. stitches@nypost.com

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Odds & Ends Canadiens at Lightning Game 5, Wednesday PUCK LINE

ODDS

Canadiens +1.5 goals TOTAL GOALS

Hudson Valley 7:05

NO NO NO NO NO NO GAME GAME GAME GAME GAME GAME

HV 7:05

HV 7:05

HV 6:05

HV 4:05

Jersey NO Shore GAME 7:00

-135

Under 5

+110

Odds to win series ODDS

Canadiens

12/1

Lightning

-2500

Exact series outcome ODDS

Canadiens in 7

12/1

Lightning in 5

-200

Lightning in 6

7/2

Lightning in 7

8/1

GOLF Favorites to win John Deere Classic

PLAYER

Today's Sports on the Air

NHL Playoffs Tennis

WNBA Golf Soccer

Cycling Rugby

Noon TBD

MLBN MLBN SNY, 2:10 p.m.

WCBS (880 AM) Brewers at Mets, Game 2 SNY, 7:10 p.m.

WCBS (880 AM) 10 p.m.

2021 Home Run Derby Bracket Show ESPN 10 p.m.

Nationals at Padres MLBN Yankees at Mariners YES, 10:10 p.m.

WFAN (660 AM/101.9 FM) 8 p.m.

Indians at Rays, Game 1 Indians at Rays, Game 2 Brewers at Mets, Game 1

Canadiens at Lightning, Game 5

ODDS

Thursday-Sunday, Silvis, Ill.

*- at Orlando, Fla.; + Second game starts at 7:10 p.m. on SNY.

MLB

+125

Over 5

RESULT

*CF Montreal 7:30 YES

-155

Lightning -1.5 goals

NBC

WTA Hamburg European Open, Early Rounds TENNIS 8 a.m.

Wimbledon, Quarterfinals ESPN, ESPN2 5 a.m.

WTA Hamburg European Open, (Thurs.) Early Rounds TENNIS 8 p.m.

Wings at Lynx ESPN2 10 p.m.

Sparks at Storm CBSSN Champions Tour: U.S. Senior Open, 11 a.m.

Practice Round GOLF European Championship: England vs.

2:30 p.m.

Denmark, Semifinal ESPN 7:30 p.m. NYCFC vs. CF Montreal YES 8 p.m.

Orlando City SC at Chicago Fire UniMas 6:30 a.m. Tour de France, Stage 11 NBCSN 6 p.m.

IRU: Cell C at British And Irish NBCSN 6 a.m.

ODDS

Daniel Berger

10/1

Brian Harman

14/1

Sungjae Im

16/1

Russell Henley

18/1

Kevin Streelman

22/1

Alexander Noren

28/1

Cameron Davis

30/1

Seamus Power

33/1

Si Woo Kim

33/1

Aaron Wise

40/1

Maverick McNealy

40/1

Troy Merritt

40/1

Zach Johnson

40/1

Doc Redman

40/1

Hank Lebioda

40/1

Jhonattan Vegas

40/1

Kevin Na

40/1

Kyle Stanley

50/1

Lucas Glover

50/1

Pat Perez

50/1

Patton Kizzire

50/1

Steve Stricker

50/1

Scott Stallings

50/1

These guys will be near in Deere

By WeS ReyNoldS The John Deere Classic is back in its customary spot before The Open Championship, after having been canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. It is typically one of the weaker fields on the PGA Tour schedule, but provides an opportunity for rise in the FedEx Cup standings.

Here are some value plays.

Alexander Noren (28/1): Finished T-4 last

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week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit and held the clubhouse lead for a while on Sunday. Noren likes the Bentgrass greens, as all 10 of his European Tour victories have come on this putting surface.

Patton Kizzire (50/1): His 64 in the final round Sunday matched the low round of the day. Kizzire has four top 10s this season in 17 events and is always at his best in low-scoring

events where a multitude of birdies are required.

Steve Stricker (50/1): No player is “Mr. John Deere Classic” more than Steve Stricker. He has won the event three times (2009, 2010, 2011) and elected to play here in lieu of defending his 2019 title at the U.S. Senior Open.

Wes Reynolds handicaps golf for Point Spread Weekly, VSiN’s digital magazine for sports bettors.

THOU SHALT NOT PASS: England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford latches on to the ball with both hands during Saturday’s 4-0 victory over Ukraine. The Three Lions enter Wednesday’s Euro 2020 semifinal against Denmark having not allowed a single goal in the tournament.

By Nigel Seeley England produced a fantastic performance against Ukraine on Saturday night in Rome in the Euro 2020 quarterfinals, and the scary thing about that 4-0 victory is that the Three Lions still have two or three gears to move up into.

England had the luxury of resting players with the match secured, and kept its game-changers Jack Grealish and Phil Foden on the bench, so they are totally fresh for Wednesday’s semifinal match against Denmark if called upon.

At the same time England was resting players and easing to victory, the Danes were hanging on against the Czech Republic for a narrow 2-1 win in their quarterfinal.

It has been an emotional tournament for Denmark, and that raw emotion following the Christian Eriksen cardiac arrest incident in their first match has carried them through (especially in Copenhagen). But in the second half against the Czechs the Danish players looked totally exhausted — and that is encouraging signs for England supporters.

Wednesday’s match will be played in front of 60,000 fans at Wembley with only 2,000 Danish fans in the stadium, which is obviously a massive advantage for the Three Lions.

I was at England’s match against Germany and in 31 years of watching sport at the highest level, I have never experienced an atmosphere like it; now with more fans allowed into the stadium, it will be just as raucous an environment, if not more so.

Denmark has started off matches in a

very quick, fast tempo and although England hasn’t conceded a goal at these championships, this will be its toughest test by far. For Denmark, the big concern is that Harry Kane is back amongst the goals following his brace against Ukraine. I think this match could see some goals scored, but the over 2 goals on the Asian line has moved to 2.25 — that was going to be a play but at the current line it looks about right.

England is -140 at BetMGM to win the match in regular time, and despite Denmark’s 1-0 victory over England at Wembley last October, this is a very different meeting.

In that Danish win, England was reduced to 10 men following Harry Maguire’s sending off after just 31 minutes, and it had another red card late in the match with Reece James’ departure seeing England end the match with nine players on the pitch. Denmark won thanks to a penalty kick by Eriksen (who won’t play Wednesday), so it’s tough to use that match as a guide to this one.

England sides in the past have frozen on the big occasion, but this young team doesn’t have any fear. The majority of them have played in big European finals at an early age, so the magnitude of the match won’t faze them.

With the partisan Wembley crowd behind it and a resurgent Kane, I just can’t see how England won’t win this match against a Danish side which looked really leg weary and had to make the long travel back from Baku to London.

Nigel Seeley handicaps soccer for VSiN.com. VSiN programming can be heard on iHeartRadio platforms.

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54

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9½

3-7 W-2

23-22 20-19

Baltimore

28

57

.329 25

5-5 W-1

13-26 15-31

Central

W

L

Pct. GB

L10 Streak

Home Away

Chicago

50

35

.588

6-4 W-1

31-14 19-21

Cleveland

42

40

.512

— 6½

1-9

L-7

21-19 21-21

Detroit

39

47

.453 11½

6-4

L-1

21-22 18-25

Kansas City

36

49

.424 14

3-7 W-1

21-21 15-28

Minnesota

35

49

.417 14½

4-6

18-24 17-25

West

W

L

Pct. GB

L10 Streak

—

L-1

Home Away

Houston

53

33

.616

6-4 W-5

27-16 26-17

Oakland

49

38

.563

4½

3-7

L-2

27-22 22-16

Seattle

45

41

.523

8

6-4

L-1

26-18 19-23

Los Angeles

43

42

.506

9½

7-3 W-1

25-20 18-22

Texas

34

52

.395 19

6-4 W-1

21-22 13-30

White Sox at Minnesota, 1:10 Detroit at Texas, 2:05 Cincinnati at Kansas City, 2:10 Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 3:10, 2nd gm.

Boston at L.A. Angels, 4:07 Toronto at Baltimore, 7:05 Oakland at Houston, 8:10

Tuesday Yankees 12, Seattle 1 Baltimore 7, Toronto 5 Texas 10, Detroit 5 White Sox 4, Minnesota 1 Houston 9, Oakland 6 Kansas City 7, Cincinnati 6 L.A. Angels 5, Boston 3 Cleveland at Tampa Bay, ppd.

Thursday

Wednesday Yankees at Seattle, 10:10 Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 12:10, 1st gm.

Yankees at Seattle, 4:10 Oakland at Houston, 2:10 Toronto at Baltimore, 7:05 Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:10 Detroit at Minnesota, 8:10

NL Standings East

W

L

Pct. GB

L10 Streak

Home Away

Mets

44

37

.543

—

5-5 W-1

25-11 19-26

Philadelphia

41

42

.494

4

6-4 W-2

24-16 17-26

Washington

41

43

.488

4½

5-5

L-1

24-22 17-21

Atlanta

41

44

.482

5

5-5

L-2

24-22 17-22

Miami

37

47

.440

8½

6-4 W-2

20-18 17-29

Central

W

L

Pct. GB

L10 Streak

Home Away

Milwaukee

51

35

.593

8-2

L-2

26-18 25-17

Cincinnati

44

41

.518

6½

6-4

L-1

23-20 21-21

St. Louis

43

44

.494

8½

6-4 W-2

23-18 20-26

Chicago

42

44

.488

9

0-10 L-11

26-15 16-29

Pittsburgh

32

53

.376 18½

4-6 W-3

19-24 13-29

West

W

L

Pct. GB

L10 Streak

Home Away

San Francisco

53

32

.624

4-6

L-2

26-13 27-19

Los Angeles

53

33

.616

½

8-2

L-2

28-13 25-20

San Diego

51

37

.580

3½

5-5 W-1

31-16 20-21

Colorado

37

49

.430 16½

6-4

31-17

Arizona

24

63

.276 30

3-7 W-1

Tuesday Milwaukee at Mets, ppd.

Pittsburgh 2, Atlanta 1 Kansas City 7, Cincinnati 6 Miami 2, L.A. Dodgers 1, 10 inn.

Philadelphia 15, Cubs 10 Arizona 4, Colorado 3 St. Louis 6, San Francisco 5 San Diego 7, Washington 4

Wednesday Milwaukee at Mets, 2:10, 1st gm Milwaukee at Mets, 7:10, 2nd gm.

Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 12:35

—

—

L-1

6-32

14-27 10-36

Cincinnati at Kansas City, 2:10 L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 7:10 Philadelphia at Cubs, 8:05 Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 St. Louis at San Francisco, 9:45 Washington at San Diego, 10:10

Thursday Pittsburgh at Mets, 7:10 L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 12:10 Colorado at Arizona, 3:40 Philadelphia at Cubs, 8:05 Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10 Washington at San Diego, 9:10

Atlanta Acuna Jr. rf Freeman 1b Albies 2b Riley 3b Heredia cf Swanson ss Arcia lf K.Smith c I.Anderson p Adrianza ph Totals

AB 3 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 1 30

R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

H 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 5

BI BB SO Avg 0 1 0 .275 0 0 1 .268 0 0 2 .263 0 0 1 .274 0 0 0 .269 0 1 1 .228 1 0 1 .364 0 0 1 .200 0 0 2 .080 0 0 0 .252 1 2 9

Pittsburgh Frazier 2b Hayes 3b Reynolds cf Gamel lf Nogowski 1b Difo ss Perez c Oliva rf Kuhl p Tucker ph Castro ph Totals

AB 5 4 2 3 3 4 3 4 2 1 0 31

R 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2

H 2 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 9

BI BB SO Avg 0 0 1 .325 0 1 1 .261 2 2 1 .305 0 1 1 .258 0 1 1 .429 0 0 1 .250 0 1 0 .135 0 0 0 .063 0 0 1 .059 0 0 0 .188 0 1 0 .000 2 7 7

Orioles 7, Blue Jays 5

White Sox 4, Twins 1

Toronto Semien 2b Bichette ss Guerrero Jr. 1b Springer cf Hernandez dh Biggio 3b Grichuk rf Gurriel Jr. lf McGuire c Totals

AB 4 3 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 33

R 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 5

H 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 3 0 8

BI BB SO Avg 0 1 1 .282 0 1 0 .290 2 0 1 .336 0 0 2 .228 0 1 0 .291 0 0 0 .227 1 0 1 .266 2 0 0 .267 0 0 1 .279 5 3 6

Baltimore Mullins cf Hays lf-rf Mancini dh Mountcastle 1b Santander rf McKenna lf Urias ss Severino c Valaika 2b Leyba 3b Totals

AB 4 5 4 4 4 0 4 3 4 4 36

R 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 7

H 1 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 2 1 11

BI BB SO Avg 2 1 1 .317 0 0 3 .246 0 0 0 .254 0 0 1 .257 2 0 1 .236 0 0 0 .186 0 0 0 .291 2 1 1 .229 0 0 1 .196 0 0 1 .172 6 2 9

Chicago Eaton rf Moncada 3b Abreu 1b Goodwin cf-lf Garcia 2b Sheets dh Burger ph-dh Vaughn lf Hamilton cf Collins c Mendick ss Totals

AB 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 3 1 3 3 30

R 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4

H 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3

BI BB SO 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 4 3 14

Avg .201 .274 .250 .243 .248 .296 .308 .242 .222 .236 .205

Rangers 10, Tigers 5

Minnesota Arraez 3b Polanco 2b Cruz dh Kirilloff lf-rf Jeffers c Kepler rf-cf Sano 1b Celestino cf Larnach ph-lf Simmons ss Totals

AB 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 1 3 34

R 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

H 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 8

BI BB SO 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 12

Avg .288 .245 .305 .269 .189 .210 .201 .156 .261 .235

R ER BB SO NP ERA 1 1 3 4 91 3.27 0 0 0 1 9 1.74 0 0 0 1 13 3.48 0 0 1 1 23 4.35 1 1 3 0 20 3.41

Toronto 100 000 112 — 5 8 1 Baltimore 000 250 00x — 7 11 0 E: Bichette (15). LOB: Toronto 5, Baltimore 8.

2B: Hays (9), Mountcastle (14). HR: Grichuk (16), off Tate; Guerrero Jr. (28), off Scott; Gurriel Jr. (10), off Wells; Severino (4), off Matz; Mullins (16), off Matz; Santander (6), off Thornton. RBIs: Guerrero Jr. 2 (71), Grichuk (56), Gurriel Jr. 2 (35), Severino 2 (17), Mullins 2 (34), Santander 2 (23). SF: Guerrero Jr.. RISP: Toronto 0 for 0; Baltimore 1 for 7. DP: Baltimore 1 (Urias, Valaika, Mountcastle).

Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Matz L,7-4 4.0 6 4 3 0 4 68 4.72 Thornton 0.2 3 3 3 0 1 28 4.78 Saucedo 0.2 1 0 0 1 0 16 1.59 Barnes 1.2 1 0 0 0 2 28 0.00 Castro 1.0 0 0 0 1 2 19 4.50

Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kuhl 6.0 4 1 1 0 7 97 4.73 Stratton 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 13 2.96 Bednar 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 23 3.27 Rodriguez, W, 4-1 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 15 2.43 T: 3:20. A: 10,844 (38,747).

Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Watkins W,1-0 5.0 3 1 1 3 2 89 1.50 Tate 2.0 2 1 1 0 2 29 4.29 Scott 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 16 2.91 Wells 1.0 2 2 2 0 1 11 3.86 T: 3:03. A: 7,388 (45,971).

Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Berrios, L, 7-3 7.0 1 2 1 3 10 106 3.36 Colome 1.0 2 2 1 0 1 14 4.99 Coulombe 1.0 0 0 0 0 3 12 1.35 T: 2:57. A: 18,437 (38,544).

Phillies 15, Cubs 10

Royals 7, Reds 6

Marlins 2, Dodgers 1

Atlanta 000 010 000 — 1 5 0 Pittsburgh 001 000 001 — 2 9 0 No outs when winning run scored. LOB: Atlanta 5, Pittsburgh 13. 2B: Hayes 2 (7). HR: Arcia (1), off Kuhl. RBIs: Arcia (2), Reynolds 2 (48). SB: Arcia (1). CS: Tucker (1). SF: Reynolds. RISP: Atlanta 0 for 1; Pittsburgh 0 for 8. DP: Pittsburgh 2 (Difo, Frazier, Nogowski; Difo, Frazier, Nogowski).

Atlanta IP I.Anderson 5.0 Jackson 1.0 Martin 1.0 Minter 1.0 Matzek, L, 0-3 0.0

H 5 0 1 2 1

Philadelphia Segura 2b Realmuto c Harper rf McCutchen lf Torreyes ph Hoskins 1b Gregorius ss Bohm 3b Jankowski cf Nola p Miller ph Williams lf Totals

AB 6 3 6 5 0 5 5 5 3 3 1 1 43

R 4 3 2 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 15

H 4 0 5 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 1 16

BI BB SO 2 0 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 4 0 2 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 4 12

Avg .330 .259 .282 .233 .250 .236 .224 .236 .346 .179 .250 .294

Chicago Pederson lf Wisdom 1b Bryant 3b Baez ss Rizzo 1b Chirinos ph Contreras c Heyward rf Happ cf-lf Alcantara 2b Arrieta p Ortega ph T.Williams p Marisnick ph-cf Totals

AB 4 1 5 4 3 1 4 5 5 4 0 1 1 1 39

R 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 10

H 2 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 14

BI BB SO 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 1 12

Avg .225 .270 .270 .234 .246 .500 .235 .202 .184 .183 .111 .232 .286 .250

Philadelphia Chicago

430 200 600 —15 16 0 003 001 321 —10 14 3

Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO India 2b 2 1 1 1 1 0 Freeman ph-2b-cf 1 0 0 0 1 0 Stephenson c 5 1 3 0 0 1 Castellanos dh 5 1 1 0 0 2 Votto 1b 4 0 1 2 1 1 Suarez 3b 4 0 1 1 0 0 Aquino lf 4 0 0 0 0 3 Naquin rf 4 1 1 0 0 3 Farmer ss 4 1 3 2 0 1 Akiyama cf 3 1 0 0 1 1 A.Lopez cf-2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 36 6 11 6 4 12 Kansas City Merrifield dh Benintendi lf Perez c C.Santana 1b O'Hearn rf Dozier 3b Taylor cf Alberto 2b Soler ph N.Lopez ss Totals

AB 4 5 5 3 3 3 4 3 1 4 35

Cincinnati Kansas City

Chicago Arrieta, L, 5-9 Brothers T.Williams Winkler Wieck

Kansas City IP Bubic 4.1 Hernandez 3.2 Staumont 0.2 Lovelady, W, 2-0 0.1

R ER BB SO NP ERA 7 7 2 4 55 6.30 0 0 0 1 16 3.86 7 3 1 3 74 5.51 1 1 0 0 5 2.10 0 0 1 4 39 0.00

T: 3:45. A: 30,095 (41,649).

BI BB SO Avg 0 1 2 .280 2 0 2 .278 1 0 1 .281 0 1 1 .247 0 1 0 .229 0 0 1 .167 1 0 0 .238 0 0 1 .262 0 0 1 .185 2 0 0 .266 6 3 9

Two outs when winning run scored. E: India (7), Suarez (15), Aquino (2). LOB: Cincinnati 7, Kansas City 6. 2B: India (11), Farmer (7), Castellanos (28). 3B: Votto (1). HR: Farmer (7), off Bubic; Taylor (8), off Castillo; Benintendi (9), off Perez. RBIs: India (33), Votto 2 (39), Farmer 2 (28), Suarez (49), Taylor (31), Benintendi 2 (33), N.Lopez 2 (14), Perez (51). RISP: Cincinnati 3 for 13; Kansas City 2 for 7.

Cincinnati Castillo Perez Brach, H, 7 Hembree, L, 2-4, BS, 3-4 Garrett

H 6 0 6 1 3

H 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 7

003 200 100 — 6 11 3 000 010 024 — 7 7 0

E: Pederson (1), Baez (15), Contreras (3). LOB: Philadelphia 8, Chicago 6. 2B: Segura (14), Hoskins 2 (20), Harper (11), Pederson (9), Marisnick (4), Happ (7). HR: McCutchen (14), off Arrieta; Hoskins (20), off T.Williams; Harper (15), off Winkler; Baez (20), off Nola; Baez (21), off Falter; Chirinos (1), off De Los Santos. RBIs: McCutchen 4 (46), Hoskins 4 (53), Harper 4 (30), Segura 2 (23), Pederson 2 (35), Bryant (43), Baez 4 (56), Happ (22), Marisnick (19), Chirinos (1). SB: Jankowski (3). SF: Hoskins, Baez, Marisnick. RISP: Philadelphia 9 for 18; Chicago 4 for 6.

Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nola, W, 6-5 6.0 6 4 4 1 8 100 4.53 Falter 1.2 6 5 5 0 1 38 5.17 Neris 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5.12 De Los Santos 1.0 2 1 1 0 3 17 7.04 IP 1.2 1.1 3.2 0.1 2.0

R 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 7

Avg .267 .182 .281 .335 .260 .179 .200 .245 .223 .210 .333

IP 7.0 0.2 0.1

H 3 2 0

R ER BB SO NP ERA 1 1 1 4 99 4.81 2 1 0 2 15 7.91 3 2 1 1 18 3.10

0.1 1 1 0

1

1 11 5.00

0.1 1 0 0

0

1 10 6.92

H 8 3 0 0

R ER BB SO NP ERA 5 5 3 4 100 5.40 1 1 0 6 59 4.98 0 0 1 2 17 3.74 0 0 0 0 6 5.79

T: 3:32. A: 14,491 (37,903).

Chicago 020 000 020 — 4 3 0 Minnesota 000 001 000 — 1 8 3 E: Jeffers (1), Sano (6), Simmons (8). LOB: Chicago 3, Minnesota 6. 2B: Collins (10), Kepler (11). RBIs: Collins 2 (21), Eaton (28), Abreu (63), Kirilloff (30). SF: Abreu. RISP: Chicago 2 for 5; Minnesota 1 for 6 DP: Chicago 1 (Moncada, Garcia, Abreu).

Chicago IP Rodon, W, 7-3 6.0 Kopech, H, 3 1.0 Hendriks, S, 2.0 22-25

H R ER BB SO NP ERA 7 1 1 0 8 104 2.31 1 0 0 0 0 15 1.62 0 0 0

0

4 27 2.43

Los Angeles Betts rf Muncy 1b-2b Turner 3b Bellinger cf Smith c Taylor 2b-lf-cf Lux ss Pollock lf Pujols ph-1b Gonsolin p McKinstry lf Barnes ph Beaty lf Totals

AB 5 3 4 4 4 5 5 3 1 2 1 1 0 38

R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

H 1 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 9

BI BB SO 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 12

Avg .246 .260 .297 .192 .260 .274 .237 .245 .253 .286 .250 .220 .250

Miami Chisholm Jr. 2b Marte cf Cooper rf Aguilar 1b Rojas ss Sanchez lf Alfaro c Panik 3b-2b Lopez p Sierra ph Duvall ph Berti ph-3b Totals

AB 5 4 4 5 4 3 3 4 1 1 1 1 36

R 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

H 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 7

BI BB SO Avg 0 0 1 .254 0 0 0 .291 0 1 3 .272 0 0 1 .261 0 0 0 .255 0 1 0 .227 0 1 1 .230 0 0 2 .188 0 0 0 .067 0 0 0 .240 0 0 1 .229 0 0 0 .225 0 3 9

Los Angeles 000 100 000 0 — 1 9 2 Miami 000 001 000 1 — 2 7 2 Two outs when winning run scored. E: Lux (8), Smith (6), Aguilar (6), Cooper (1). LOB: Los Angeles 14, Miami 10. 2B: Lopez (2), Rojas (16). RBIs: Smith (30). SB: Marte 2 (16), Taylor (8). CS: Chisholm Jr. (5). RISP: Los Angeles 2 for 11; Miami 1 for 14. DP: Miami 2 (Aguilar, Rojas, Aguilar; Rojas, Panik, Aguilar).

Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gonsolin 5.1 2 0 0 1 3 72 2.11 Reed, BS, 0-1 0.2 2 1 0 1 1 22 0.00 Cleavinger 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 14 1.93 Bickford 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1.93 Nelson 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 20 2.00 Alexander 0.2 2 0 0 1 2 27 2.03 Treinen, L, 2-4 1.0 0 1 0 0 1 20 2.86 Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lopez 4.0 4 1 1 1 8 91 2.94 Okert 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0.00 Bass 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 21 4.26 Floro 1.0 1 0 0 1 2 20 3.09 Bleier 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 14 2.64 Garcia 1.0 2 0 0 1 0 22 3.55 Hess, W, 2-0 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 10 0.00 T: 4:34. A: 7,993 (36,742).

Detroit Baddoo cf Schoop 1b Grossman lf-rf Cabrera dh Candelario 3b Mazara rf Haase ph-lf Short ss W.Castro 2b Rogers c Totals

AB 4 4 3 2 4 2 2 3 4 4 32

R 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 5

H 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 5

Texas Holt 3b Lowe dh Garcia cf Gallo rf Hicks c Dahl lf Ibanez 1b Solak 2b Kiner-Falefa ss Totals

AB 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 4 35

R 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 10

H 1 1 3 1 2 3 0 0 1 12

Detroit Texas

BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 2 5 4 12

Avg .268 .274 .226 .238 .269 .212 .252 .250 .218 .237

BI BB SO Avg 1 0 0 .224 0 1 1 .261 1 0 0 .276 0 2 2 .234 3 0 1 .500 2 0 0 .215 0 1 1 .179 0 0 0 .229 2 0 0 .263 9 4 5

000 101 300 — 5 5 1 000 410 32x —10 12 0

E: Haase (3). LOB: Detroit 4, Texas 6. 2B: Kiner-Falefa (15), Dahl 2 (9). 3B: Rogers (3).

HR: Grossman (11), off Dunning; Rogers (5), off King; Haase (12), off King; Hicks (4), off Urena; Holt (2), off Garcia; Garcia (21), off Garcia. RBIs: Grossman (38), Rogers (13), Haase 3 (25), Hicks 3 (6), Kiner-Falefa 2 (30), Dahl 2 (14), Holt (15), Garcia (59). CS: Garcia (4). RISP: Detroit 1 for 2; Texas 5 for 13.

Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Urena 4.2 6 5 5 4 3 84 6.43 Farmer 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 20 8.18 Norris, L, 0-3 0.1 2 2 2 0 1 10 6.90 Jimenez 0.2 2 1 1 0 0 15 6.41 Garcia 1.0 2 2 2 0 1 16 7.31 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Dunning 5.0 1 1 1 1 6 64 4.22 King, W, 7-5 2.0 4 4 4 1 3 49 3.52 Patton, H, 3 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 18 0.84 Sborz 1.0 0 0 0 1 2 16 4.50 T: 2:50. A: 24,367 (40,300).

Houston 9, Oakland 6 Oakland Laureano cf Andrus ss Olson 1b Chapman 3b Pinder lf-rf Brown ph-rf Lowrie 2b Murphy c Piscotty rf Kemp ph-lf Schwindel dh Totals

AB 4 5 3 4 3 1 4 4 2 2 4 36

R 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6

H 2 3 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 11

BI BB SO 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 2 10

Houston Altuve 2b Brantley dh Gurriel 1b Alvarez lf Correa ss Tucker rf Toro 3b Straw cf Maldonado c Totals

AB 5 4 5 3 4 4 4 3 4 36

R 2 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 9

H 2 1 1 3 0 1 2 2 0 12

BI BB SO Avg 2 0 2 .286 0 1 0 .338 1 0 1 .319 5 1 0 .308 0 0 2 .294 0 0 2 .264 0 0 1 .250 1 1 0 .272 0 0 1 .177 9 3 9

Oakland Houston

Avg .238 .234 .283 .230 .214 .190 .254 .221 .221 .257 .200

330 000 000 — 6 11 0 200 133 00x — 9 12 1

a-flied out for Piscotty in the 6th. b-struck out for Pinder in the 7th. E: Maldonado (5).

LOB: Oakland 5, Houston 6. 2B: Laureano (12), Lowrie (17), Piscotty (7), Andrus (17), Altuve (10). HR: Alvarez 2 (16), off Bassitt.

RBIs: Olson 2 (55), Pinder (13), Lowrie (37), Andrus (20), Alvarez 5 (56), Straw (28), Altuve 2 (49), Gurriel (54). Runners left in scoring position: Oakland 4 (Murphy 2, Brown); Houston 2 (Maldonado, Correa).

RISP: Oakland 6 for 16; Houston 5 for 11.

Oakland Bassitt Wendelken L,1-1 Petit Guerra Smith

IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA 4.1 8 6 6 1 6 86 3.41 1.0 1 2 2

1

2 29 4.86

0.2 2 1 1 1.0 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0

1 0 0

0 17 3.25 1 20 3.73 0 15 5.47

Houston IP Valdez 5.0 Abreu W,3-3 2.0 Stanek H,10 1.0 Pressly S,15-16 1.0

H 10 1 0 0

R ER BB SO NP ERA 6 5 2 6 93 2.86 0 0 0 2 24 3.90 0 0 0 1 9 4.21 0 0 0 1 8 1.50

T: 3:15. A: 26,353 (41,168).

Angels 5, Red Sox 3 AB 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 0 3 32

R 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3

H 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 6

Los Angeles Fletcher 2b Ohtani p Mayfield 3b Walsh 1b Gosselin lf Mayers p R.Iglesias p Stassi c J.Iglesias ss Ward rf-lf Lagares cf Rengifo 3b-rf Totals

AB 4 4 0 4 4 0 0 4 4 4 3 2 33

R 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5

H 4 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 11

BI BB SO 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 0 1 5 1 12

Avg .295 .276 .000 .279 .321 ----.312 .273 .242 .218 .159

100 001 001 — 3 6 0 300 002 00x — 5 11 0

LOB: Boston 4, Los Angeles 6. 2B: Hernandez (18), Verdugo (18), Wong (1), Fletcher 2 (16), Ohtani (18), Stassi (5), Gosselin (6). HR: Renfroe (13), off R.Iglesias; Stassi (6), off Eovaldi. RBIs: Martinez 2 (58), Renfroe (45), Ohtani (68), Stassi 2 (16), J.Iglesias (27), Fletcher (27). CS: Walsh (1). SF: Martinez. Runners left in scoring position: Boston 2 (Devers, Santana); Los Angeles 4 (Ohtani 2, J.Iglesias). RISP: Boston 1 for 10; Los Angeles 4 for 11.

Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Eovaldi L,9-5 5.2 9 5 5 1 9 104 3.66 Workman 1.1 2 0 0 0 2 20 1.38 Rios 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 12 4.50 Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ohtani W,1-0 7.0 5 2 2 0 4 89 2.57 Mayers H,11 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 17 4.17 R.Iglesias 1.0 1 1 1 0 2 13 3.66 S,17-20 T: 2:54. A: 28,689 (45,517).

Diamondbacks 4, Rockies 3 Colorado Tapia lf Daza cf Chacin p Story ss Blackmon rf Rodgers 2b McMahon 3b Cron 1b Diaz c Gray p Hampson ph-cf Totals

AB 3 4 0 3 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 33

R 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 3

H 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 7

BI BB SO Avg 1 0 0 .292 1 0 0 .300 0 0 0 .000 0 1 0 .253 0 0 0 .259 1 0 1 .274 0 0 0 .248 0 0 0 .252 0 1 0 .197 0 0 1 .148 0 0 1 .258 3 2 3

Arizona Rojas ss-2b Peralta lf Escobar 3b Walker 1b P.Smith rf VanMeter 2b Young ph Vogt c Fairchild pr Varsho cf Kelly p Ahmed ss Totals

AB 3 2 4 4 4 3 1 4 0 3 2 2 32

R 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4

H 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 7

BI BB SO Avg 0 2 1 .251 2 2 0 .254 1 0 1 .248 1 0 0 .223 0 0 2 .263 0 0 2 .176 0 0 1 .205 0 0 0 .203 0 0 0 --0 1 1 .141 0 0 1 .034 0 0 0 .220 4 5 9

Colorado Arizona

000 110 100 — 3 7 0 300 000 001 — 4 7 0

LOB: Colorado 6, Arizona 9. 2B: Rodgers 2 (6), Rojas (17), Peralta (18), Escobar (12), Walker (8). RBIs: Rodgers (20), Tapia (39), Daza (26), Peralta 2 (40), Escobar (55), Walker (21). SB: Tapia (13). S: Tapia. Runners left in scoring position: Colorado 4 (McMahon, Daza, Cron, Story); Arizona 3 (Vogt, Kelly, Escobar). RISP: Colorado 1 for 10; Arizona 3 for 10.

Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gray 6.0 6 3 3 1 8 91 3.94 Chacin 1.0 0 0 0 2 0 18 5.17 Estevez 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 11 5.27 Bard L,4-5 0.1 1 1 1 2 0 22 4.29 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA 5.1 6 2 2 1 1 91 4.60 1.0 1 1 1 1 0 13 3.48 0.2 0 0 0

0

0

1.0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0

0 0

1 18 2.25 1 18 4.43

T: 3:17. A: 6,847 (48,686).

9 6.97

Totals San Francisco Wade Jr. 1b Ruf ph-1b Yastrzemski rf Flores 3b Dickerson lf Estrada ph Crawford ss Solano 2b Duggar cf Tromp c Cueto p Slater ph Vosler ph-lf Totals

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Baseball Today 1936: The NL won its first All-Star game 4-3 at Braves Field in Boston.

1937: Lou Gehrig drove in four runs with a home run and a double to pace the AL to an 8-3 victory over the NL in the All-Star game at Washington's Griffith Stadium. In attendance was President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1959: At Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, the first of two All-Star games played that season went to the NL, 5-4. The NL scored the tying and winning runs in the bottom of the eighth when Hank Aaron singled in a run and scored on a triple by Willie Mays.

1964: The NL beat the AL 7-4 in the All-Star game on Johnny Callison's two-out, three-run homer off Dick Radatz in the bottom of the ninth inning at New York's Shea Stadium.

The win pulled the NL even with its rivals (17-17-1) for the first time since the series began.

1998: Coors Field lived up to its billing as a hitter's haven as the American League beat the Nationals 13-8 at Coors Field in the highest-scoring All-Star game in major league history. The 21 runs broke the record set in the AL's 119 win in 1954.

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MLB: Named Tom Hallion to serve as umpire crew chief, CB Bucknor (first base), Chris Guccione (second base), Lance Barrett (third base), David Rackley (left field) and Adam Hamari (right field), manager Dave Robers invited Reggie Smith and Bud Black as honorary coaches for the National League, manager Kevin Cash invited Terry Francona to be honorary coach for the American League and Dave Einspahr named official scorer for the 2021 All-Star Game.

American League Chicago White Sox: Placed C Yasmani Grandal on the 10-day IL. Recalled C Seby Zavala from Charlotte (Triple-A East).

Cleveland Indians: Signed C Wilson Ramos to a minor-league contract.

Optioned LHP Logan Allen to Columbus (Triple-A East).

Houston Astros: Reinstated RHP Bryan Abreu from the 10-day IL. Los Angeles Angels: Recalled 2B Jack Mayfield from Salt Lake (Triple-A West). Placed 3B Anthony Rendon on the 10-day IL, retroactive to July 5.

Sent RF Scott Schebler outright to Salt Lake (Triple-A West) after clearing waivers.

New York Yankees: Placed RHP Darren O'Day on the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP Nick Nelson from Scranton/Wilkes Barre (Triple-A East).

Toronto Blue Jays: Acquired RHPs Trevor Richards and Bowden Francis from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for INF Rowdy Tellez.

Reinstated RHP Thomas Hatch from the 60-day IL and optioned him to Buffalo (Triple-A East). Transferred LHP Ryan Borucki from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL.

National League Atlanta Braves: Recalled RHP Jacob Webb from Gwinnett (Triple-A East).

Placed 1B Pablo Sandoval on the restricted list.

Los Angeles Dodgers: Selected the contract of RHP Jake Reed from Oklahoma City (Triple-A West).

Designated LF Steven Souza Jr. for assignment. Recalled LHP Garrett Cleavinger from Oklahoma City. Placed LHP Victor González on the 10-day IL. Milwaukee Brewers: Traded LHP Nathan Kirby to Pittsburgh Pirates.

Reinstated LHP Brett Anderson from the 10-day IL. New York Mets: Placed RHP Corey Oswalt on the 10-Day IL, retroactive to July 5. Recalled RHP Robert Stock from Syracuse (Triple-A East).

San Francisco Giants: Placed RF Jaylin Davis on the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP Tyler Beede from his rehabilitation assignment and reinstated him from the 60-day IL. Recalled 3B Jason Vosler from Sacramento (Triple-A West).

Designated RHP Jimmie Sherfy for assignment.

Washington Nationals: Reinstated RHPs Erick Fedde and Kyle Finnegan from the 10-day IL. Optioned RHP Ryne Harper and LHP Kyle Lobstein to Rochester (Triple-A East). Signed RHP Nick Goody to a minor-league contract.

BASKETBALL Women's National Basketball Association Atlanta Dream: Suspended Chennedy Carter until further notice for conduct detrimental to the team.

Minnesota Lynx: Signed Natasha Mack to a seven-day first contract.

FOOTBALL Jacksonville Jaguars: Signed QB Trevor Lawrence.

New England Patriots: Signed QB Mac Jones.

New York Jets: Signed OT Morgan Moses. Waived DB Jordyn Peters.

Pittsburgh Steelers: Placed DT Demarcus Christmas on injured reserve.

HOCKEY Buffalo Sabres: Named Sam Ventura vice president of hockey strategy and research.

New Jersey Devils: Re-signed G Scott Wedgewood to a one-year, two-way contract worth $825,000 at the NHL level and $375,000 at the AHL level.

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Best-of-7; x-if necessary Phoenix leads series, 1-0 Gm. 1, Suns 118, Bucks 105 Gm. 2, Thurs.: at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Gm. 3, Sun.: at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Gm. 4, July 14: at Milwaukee, 9 p.m. x-Gm. 5, Sat., July 17: at Phoenix, 9 p.m. x-Gm. 6, Tues., July 20: at Milwaukee, 9 p.m. x-Gm. 7, Thurs., July 22: at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

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Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Bridges 29:42 5-13 2-2 0-1 1 0 14 Crowder 32:55 0-8 1-2 0-9 0 2 1 Ayton 38:44 8-10 6-6 2-19 0 3 22 Booker 41:53 8-21 10-10 0-2 6 3 27 Paul 37:22 12-19 4-4 1-4 9 0 32 Johnson 20:36 3-6 2-2 0-3 2 2 10 Payne 16:45 4-8 0-0 1-1 0 1 10 Craig 15:46 1-2 0-0 1-3 0 3 2 Kaminsky 3:53 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Saric 2:24 0-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 41-88 25-26 6-43 18 14 118 Percentages: FG .466, FT .962. 3-point goals: 11-34, .324 (Paul 4-7, Bridges 2-4, Johnson 2-4, Payne 2-5, Booker 1-8, Craig 0-1, Crowder 0-5). Team rebounds: 5.

Team turnovers: None. Blocked shots: 1 (Crowder). Turnovers: 9 (Booker 3, Crowder 2, Paul 2, Payne 2). Steals: 9 (Booker 3, Johnson 2, Ayton, Bridges, Paul, Payne). Technicals: None.

Milwaukee 26 23 27 29 —105 Phoenix 30 27 35 26 —118 A: 16,557 (18,422). T: 2:17.

Wednesday NYCFC at CF Montréal, 7:30pm Toronto FC at New England, 7pm Orlando City at Chicago, 8pm Houston at Seattle FC, 9pm Los Angeles FC at Austin FC, 9pm Minnesota at Colorado, 9pm Salt Lake at Vancouver, 10pm FC Dallas at LA Galaxy, 10:30pm

Thursday Philadelphia at Red Bulls, 8pm Atlanta at Nashville, 8:30pm

Friday Columbus at Cincinnati, 7:30pm

Saturday Miami at Red Bulls, 7pm NYCFC at Columbus, 7:30pm New England at Atlanta, 5pm Cincinnati at CF Montréal, 7:30pm D.C. United at Philadelphia, 7:30pm Orlando City at Toronto FC, 7:30pm Chicago at Nashville, 8:30pm San Jose at Colorado, 9pm LA Galaxy at Vancouver, 10pm FC Dallas at Portland, 10:30pm Salt Lake at Los Angeles FC, 10:30pm

European Championship SEMIFINALS Tuesday-At London Italy 1, Spain 1 FT (Italy advance 4-2 on penalties Wednesday- At London England vs. Denmark, 3pm FINAL Sunday, July 11 At London TBD vs. Italy, 3pm

Copa America SEMIFINALS Tuesday- At Brasilia, Brazil Argentina 1, Colombia 1 FT (Argentina advance 3-2 on penalties) THIRD PLACE MATCH Friday-At Brasilia, Brazil Peru vs. Colombia, 8 pm FINAL Saturday- At Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Argentina vs. Brazil, 8 pm

Tampa Bay leads series, 3-1.

Gm. 1, Lightning 5, Canadiens 1 Gm. 2, Lightning 3, Canadiens 1 Gm. 3, Lightning 6, Canadiens 3 Gm. 4, Canadiens 3, Lightning 2, OT Wed.: at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m. x-Fri.: at Montreal, 8 p.m. x-Sun., July 11: at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m.

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Aug. 1 - Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest.

Aug. 29 - Belgian Grand Prix, SpaFrancorchamps.

Sept. 5 - Dutch Grand Prix, Zandvoort, Netherlands.

Sept. 12 - Italian Grand Prix, Monza.

Sept. 26 - Russian Grand Prix, Sochi.

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Thursday No games scheduled.

Friday Liberty at Indiana, 7pm Atlanta at Connecticut, 7pm Seattle at Phoenix, 9pm Minnesota at Las Vegas, 10:30pm

Soccer CONCACAF Gold Cup - Qualifying French Guiana 1, Trinidad and Tobago 1, (Trinidad win 8-7 on penalties) Haiti 4, Bermuda 1 Guatemala 1, Guadeloupe 1 FT (Guadeloupe win 10-9 on penalties) UEFA Champions League Qualifying 1st Leg Ferencvaros 3, Prishtina 0, Flora 2, Hibernians 0 HJK Helsinki 3, Buducnost Podgorica 1 CFR Cluj-Napoca 3, Borac Banja Luka 1 Zalgiris Vilnius 3, Linfield 1 CS Fola Esch 2, Lincoln Red Imps 2 NS Mura 1, KF Shkendija 0 Club Friendly Ajax Amsterdam 1, Quick ‘20 1

Wimbledon At All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club; London; Surface: Grass; Tuesday (seedings in parentheses): Women's Singles - Quarterfinals Karolina Pliskova (8), Czech Republic, def. Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, 6-2, 6-2.

Aryna Sabalenka (2), Belarus, def. Ons Jabeur (21), Tunisia, 6-4, 6-3.

Angelique Kerber (25), Germany, def. Karolina Muchova (19), Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-3.

Ashleigh Barty (1), Australia, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, 6-1, 6-3.

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UP IN SMOKE: Sha’Carri Richardson, already out of the 100 meters in Tokyo following a positive drug test during the Olympic trials, was not selected to run in the 4x100 relay either, even though it takes place after her 30day suspension is completed.

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Richardson’s Olympic hopes dashed after being skipped for relay squad

By JeReMy Layton Sha’Carri Richardson’s Olympic dreams have gone to pot.

Amid a turbulent week when the 21year-old phenom’s failed drug test — and ensuing suspension — became national news, it remained a possibility that Richardson could still be a part of the 4x100 relay team in Tokyo. However, she was not selected to the roster for that event, which was released by USA Track and Field on Tuesday.

Richardson tested positive for THC, the chemical in marijuana, after winning the 100 meters at the Olympic trials last month, nullifying her win in that event and disqualifying her from the spot in Tokyo she received by winning. She also accepted a one-month ban from participating in track and field as a result of the positive test.

The 30-day ban is set to expire on July 27, well before the relay event begins on

Aug. 5. Richardson could have still made the trip to Tokyo if USA Track and Field selected her for the event.

Instead, it chose the two-fastest finishers in the 100-meter dash who originally missed the cut — English Gardner and Aleia Hobbs.

Richardson admitted on the “Today” show that she smoked marijuana after learning from a journalist that her biological mother had died in the week leading up to her race.

“I’m not making an excuse or looking for empathy in my case,” Richardson said.

“However, being in that position in my life, finding out something like that … dealing with the relationship I have with my mother, that definitely was a very heavy topic on me.”

Marijuana is legal in Oregon, where Richardson tested positive. However, it is a banned substance by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

In a statement from USA Track and

Field, the federation said it is “incredibly sympathetic toward Sha’Carri Richardson’s extenuating circumstances” and agree that the rules surrounding marijuana should be re-evaluated.

However, it added, “While our heartfelt understanding lies with Sha’Carri, we must also maintain fairness for all of the athletes who attempted to realize their dreams by securing a place on the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team.”

Richardson was considered a strong contender for the gold medal in Tokyo and had become a fan favorite due to her fun-loving personality and distinctive style. Several high-profile athletes wrote public messages of support, including Patrick Mahomes, Odell Beckham Jr. and Damian Lillard.

More than 500,000 fans had also signed a petition to USADA and the International Olympic Committee to get her reinstated as of Tuesday night. jlayton@nypost.com

Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks was about to “go into convulsions” after a freak fireworks accident at a Michigan home — where three women begged cops to respond immediately, frantic 911 calls show.

Three 911 calls released Tuesday by the Novi Police Department show the rapidly increasing concern at the home of Blue Jackets goaltending coach Manny Legace, where Kivlenieks attended a large gathering Sunday, the Detroit News reported.

The first female caller requested help for a “fireworks misfire” before telling a dispatcher that Kivlenieks, 24, was conscious and breathing following the accident.

A second 911 call made 41 seconds later described a more dire scene, according to the 22-second audio MatISS clip.

KIvlENIEKS “Hey, we have someone who’s hit by a firework,” the woman told a dispatcher. “Can you come here immediately?”

The woman said Kivlenieks was breathing and noted that a nurse was also at the party, but added the goaltender was not “doing very good,” according to the audio.

“Ma’am, they’re on the way, just stay there,” the dispatcher replied.

Less than a minute later, a third caller said Kivlenieks was “getting ready to go into convulsions” after being struck by fireworks.

“They’re already on the way to help you, ma’am, just stay there,” a dispatcher insisted.

Kivlenieks, a native of Latvia who signed with the Blue Jackets in 2017, was later pronounced dead at a hospital in Novi. A medical examiner said Tuesday that he died after a shell from high-powered fireworks hit the left side of his chest, causing “devastating” injuries to his heart and lungs.

“He sustained chest trauma as a result of the impact of this projectile,” Oakland County medical examiner Dr. Ljubisa Dragovic told the Detroit News.

Kivleniek’s official cause of death was trauma to the chest, Dragovic said.

“I think the message out there should be that any handling of fireworks, being and containing explosives as they do, is potentially dangerous,” Dragovic said.

There was no indication of head trauma, Dragovic said Tuesday. Kivlenieks was in a hot tub in Legace’s backyard when the accident happened, the newspaper reported.

The goaltender reportedly tried to get out of the hot tub, but fell, leading investigators to initially suspect he sustained a head injury.

No other injuries were reported at the party, described by Novi police as a “large gathering” at Legace’s home.

— With Post wires jmiller@nypost.com

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Inspired by fallen friend, N.J. native faces NBA decision His experience playing at Dyckman Park and Rucker and West 4th was invaluable. Etienne played alongside Cole Anthony with the PSA Cardinals.

“New York is the mecca of basketball,” Etienne said. “You have to be tough. If you’re not tough you’re gonna be exposed. People are gonna come after you and that’s not a good feeling.”

His favorite players growing up were Allan Houston, Latrell Sprewell, Jamal Crawford, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and, of course, Camby.

“By no means am I saying that I am him, but Damian Lillard is somebody that I look up to and I see similarities, just being continuously overlooked, having to prove himself time and time again,” Etienne said.

Camby, the second-overall pick of the 1996 NBA Draft, has offered his advice.

“He obviously was in a different situation in his draft, he told me be who I am,” Etienne said. “Have no fear and just know that you belong in this because you worked for this.”

His mother, Anita Gibson, is an Emmy-nominated makeup artist.

“A lot of my discipline comes from seeing my mom work the way she worked every single day,” Etienne said.

A man of faith, Etienne will

HEAVY HEART: Wichita State star Tyson Etienne, who has a tattoo on his left leg of Armoni Sexton, a childhood friend in New Jersey who was shot and killed in 2015, will announce Wednesday his decision whether to depart the college ranks after two seasons and enter the NBA draft or return to school.

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make his announcement Wednesday.

“I’ll let God speak to me,” Etienne said.

Meditation has taught him to stay in the moment. A huge moment awaits him.

“My purpose on this Earth is to inspire and to lead,” Etienne said.

“You don’t have to be necessarily the most talented or the biggest or the most athletic person to make yours dreams possible, and whatever you do, it doesn’t have to be basketball, you can be trained to be a doctor or a lawyer, just staying with the process.”

His is a basketball dream. And wherever it leads him, he’ll be bringing Armoni Sexton along for the ride. steve.serby@ nypost.com

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definitely see New York moving in a really positive direction as you can see from the past season.”

Etienne would gladly realize his NBA dream with any franchise, but forgive his current Knicks bias — he is a lifelong Knicks fan, playing on his Little Tikes hoop his father, Max, set up for him in the living room while the Knicks were playing on the family TV. Marcus Camby is his godfather.

DeAndre Jordan is a cousin.

“I used to go to games, I used to be in Madison Square Garden getting my diaper changed,” Etienne said.

He grew up in Englewood, N.J., and spent a life-altering junior year at Long Island Lutheran High School.

“Waking up at 4 o’clock going to school, getting on two trains, it really tested me to see how bad I wanted it to go to a high-level Division I school,” he said.

It was often a 2 ¹/₂-hour trip. It would steel him for the adversity that hit Wichita State when coach Gregg Marshall resigned in November amid multiple allegations of verbal and physical abuse against former players, which he denied.

“I committed to Wichita State to play for Coach Marshall,” Etienne said. “I knew that you control what you can control. I don’t really take things personal, but I feel like they wrote us off because of Coach Marshall leaving and I feel like they counted out Coach Isaac Brown and the rest of our coaches and all the players that we had. I just definitely wanted to do whatever I could to show the world that Wichita State was strong and they can withstand any storm and make it through.”

Etienne — the 2021 American Athletic Conference Co-Player of the Year as a sophomore — led the Shockers to the First Four of the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Drake.

Asked what he would tell an NBA general manager about why he should draft him, Etienne says: “I believe you should draft Tyson Etienne because he’s gonna do whatever is needed. For one, help the organization be the best that it can be, but also be the best that he can be for himself. He’s never gonna shy away, never gonna be afraid to accept any challenge or to accept any type of responsibility or role on the team, and he’s just gonna have an undying commitment to be being the greatest he can be.”

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HE TATTOO on his left leg is a picture of a fallen friend.

Tyson Etienne: “He lost his life to gun violence in 2015. It shook the basketball world; it shook me. That was one of my closest friends. It kinda happened at a time where I didn’t really know if I was gonna continue to even play basketball, but from that experience, that changed my perspective on life. I kinda just said I’m gonna start working hard for him, and then through that, I discovered my love for the game of basketball again.”

Armoni Sexton was shot in the head, the victim of a drive-by shooting on April 18, 2015. Sexton’s brother called Etienne with the tragic news that Sexton was fighting for his life in the hospital.

“The last thing he ever said to me was that he missed me,” Etienne said. “We just saw each other at an event that the team was having. That’s the last memory that I’ve got of him.”

Tyson Etienne continues: “Going through life, you take a lot of things for granted. We think that we have all this time, endless amount of time, so we put things off. Tomorrow’s not promised. I began to develop myself as a man, as a young man, then develop myself in the game of basketball. I was doing it to honor him.

“My Instagram profile is a picture of him. It came from his yearbook picture.”

Etienne wears No. 1 because Armoni Sexton, who appeared destined for basketball greatness, wore No. 1 when they were teammates on the New Jersey Playaz, an AAU team based out of Paterson.

“I said that one day the whole world’s gonna know who he was,” Etienne said, “so whatever I do in the game of basketball, he also does.”

Tyson Etienne has until Wednesday to decide whether he will carry the memory of his lost friend into the NBA, or back to Wichita State.

“It’s definitely a big decision,” he said. “It’s definitely something I’ve been meditating on, praying about, just leading myself to the right answer.”

Etienne tells The Post the NCAA’s new name, image and likeness rules will not affect his decision. He has had workouts with the Knicks and Nets and several others. Etienne is an emerging 6-foot-2 shooting guard with maturity beyond his 21 years and high character who could be a steal as a second-round projection.

“My workout with the Knicks went well,” Etienne said. “I was really interested to see all the changes that they made to their organization, the different core values that they had in place. I

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42 RAISING THE BAR: Mondo Duplantis, who competes for his mother’s native Sweden, is the world record holder in the pole vault at the age of 21, while his brother, Antoine, 24, (right) knows the pressure is on for him to advance past Single-A Brooklyn.

Emerging from a makeshift sports paradise behind their home, Mondo Duplantis strives for Olympic pole vault glory while his big brother Antoine holds on to his big league aspirations as he plays ball in Brooklyn

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EAD down to Lafayette, La. Make your way toward Ducharme Lane.

Please, obey the 25 mph speed limit. About halfway down the tree-lined street is a backyard unlike any other.

Greg and Helena Duplantis had a baby boy and began filling their oversized lot with a swing, slide and monkey bars. They would add a trampoline, skateboard ramp, batting cage, rope — dangling from a tree branch 20 feet overhead — and three more children.

“My wife and I are really just jocks, and she’s not concerned with aesthetics at the house,” Greg said.

“Early on, the boys liked doing stuff outside, like the way I grew up. I wanted to create this environment for them to do fun, healthy stuff outside.”

Andreas, Antoine and Armand (known to awestruck international track and field audiences as Mondo) were unacquainted with boredom, competing at whatever was most appealing that moment.

“It was one part playground to do whatever you want to do, but also a nightmarish liability of kids getting hurt,” said Andreas, 28. “We had kids double bounce off the trampoline and break their arm. We made an obstacle course and had wrought iron gates and someone cut their leg. Kids dropped like flies left and right, but they’d keep coming back because the environment was so fun.”

The pole vault pit was the pièce de résistance.

“It was always a fun party trick and some would try it, if they were brave,” said

Antoine, 24, a Brooklyn Cyclones outfielder in his first full season in the Mets farm system. “Most of the time you’d have to explain what it is. They just knew we did something different. They’d ask, ‘What’s that thing y’all do with the jumping stick?’ ... You have that mystery about you: ‘What is that weird thing that family does?’ ” The landing pit remains a magnet for water. Overgrown bushes encroach upon the track. The brick wall straddling the property line threatens to break any bone it meets.

But when the coronavirus pandemic hit, it was the only place the world’s best pole vaulter could practice his craft. Instead of training for gold overseas, Mondo would grab one of the backyard’s aging poles, run through a hole in the front gate and fly past bedroom windows, imagining he was in Tokyo.

“It was essential. He had no other place to pole vault,” Greg said. “It was like having a bomb shelter: You don’t think you’re gonna use it and then you have to have it.”

It was essential. Mondo, 21, plans to be the greatest of all time, to use this summer’s Olympics to bend his legacy — and the status of his dramatic but TV-sidelined event — to new heights.

Antoine — taken in the 12th round of the 2019 MLB Draft — is just trying to bide time in the bushes, trying to extend his dream, trying to string together enough good at-bats to avoid another line of work. nnn reg grew up in New Orleans. His bloodline traces back to France.

“I’m not a Cajun proper,” Greg said, “although you can refer to me as a Cajun.”

Helena came from Sweden to star in track and field and volleyball at LSU,

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Courtesy Duplantis family (2) Because record-height jumps would catapult Mondo into the neighbor’s yard, he now uses the site to work on technique — or create viral videos by vaulting from a hoverboard.

“Pole vaulters are just naturally daredevils, risk-taker guys,” Greg said. “You have to have that mindset. It’s this crazy kind of rush and adrenaline: You get flung up in the air with this stick and when it bends it adds a new dimension of craziness to it. He never really needed a lot of guidance other than me being out there to make sure he didn’t kill himself.” nnn ntoine came out of left field.

His first love was America’s pastime.

“I was the unique case in our family,” Antoine said. “My older brother and younger brother had a hard time choosing to leave baseball. I didn’t have a tough time leaving pole vaulting. Maybe because my younger brother was almost as good as me.”

Unlike his brothers — Mondo spent one year pole-vaulting at LSU before turning pro — Antoine didn’t expect to follow his family’s footsteps. The Tigers had minimal interest in the light-hitting outfielder.

“I was a late bloomer,” Antoine said. “I think I was the last guy they committed to that class. I don’t

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blame them for not offering earlier.

LSU’s a pretty prestigious program and I wasn’t ready. ... I understood I might not be good enough. I was open to going to another place, but I ended up living out my dream.”

When Antoine left LSU, he had collected more hits than any player in program history. He never hit below .316 in any of his four seasons.

He was named to the 2017 College World Series All-Tournament team, played on the U.S. national collegiate team and was taken by the Indians in the 19th round of the 2018 draft. He returned for one more season in Baton Rouge, hitting 12 homers after totaling six in his first three years.

Antoine hit a combined .324 in four seasons in the SEC, the country’s best conference.

Jeff McNeil, who hit .296 at Long Beach State, was also a 12th-round pick of the Mets, as Antoine was in 2019.

“What’s holding me back from being a pl aye r l i ke

people don’t know him,” Greg said.

“That’s kind of grounding.”

When the world was under lockdown, Mondo’s face became even more recognizable.

While Antoine had his minor league season canceled and was unable to face live pitching, Mondo continued performing in an event designed for social distancing. He became the world’s top-ranked pole vaulter in February 2020 after breaking the world record with an indoor jump of 6.18 meters (20 feet, 3 ¼ inches). In September, he seized the all-time outdoor mark that had been held by Sergey Bubka for 26 years by leaping 6.15 meters.

Mondo was named the male world track and field athlete of the year at the World Athletics Awards, the youngest person to win an award that has been given out annually since 1988.

“He has a lot left that he wants to prove,” Andreas said. “He can be the Tiger Woods of pole vaulting.”

Gold is just the beginning.

“I want to be known as the best to ever live,” Mondo said. “To be able to have that, you have to be able to get the job done in the most important moments, like the Olympics. … I want to win gold. Now after breaking the world record, everyone expects that out of me.”

Antoine might face even more pressure.

Antoine batted .237 in 52 games with the Brooklyn Cyclones in 2019, ending the season with the tying triple and winning run in the deciding game of the 2019 New York-Penn League championship.

Last March, he was at his first spring training — renting an apartment with five other prospects, who alternated between the couch and sharing a queen bed — when COVID-19 ended the experience after six days.

Following a year of training in Louisiana, Antoine took his first live at-bats in nearly 20 months.

Playing left field and batting leadoff for High-A Brooklyn, Antoine is hitting .242/.310/.335 with two home runs, 12 RBIs, three stolen bases and 37 strikeouts in 182 atbats.

“It was good to step away for a little bit because it’s hard to make adjustments when you’re playing all the time,” Antoine said. “Step away, slow everything down, analyze myself. I felt even more ready this year.”

There is no time to waste. He lost a year of his career and will soon be eligible to collect Social Security, as far as High-A ball is concerned.

“I’m 24 and I haven’t played my first full season yet, so I’m kind of feeling the pressure,” Antoine said.

“It feels like time’s not really on your side at this point. You gotta go out there and really show them what I can do this next year or I’m probably done in the next two years, if I don’t. That’s how I go about it every day.”

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that? He made it with the same route I took,” Antoine said. “Jeff McNeil and other guys that made it that aren’t high draft picks or don’t have that much power or don’t have those big tools that are really sought after, I look at that as sort of an inspiration, but I’m also my own type of player. I gotta figure out what’s gonna make me the best player I can be.”

The area scout who watched Antoine develop at LSU believes the outfielder’s potential lies in his consistency, compact swing, plate approach and “outstanding defensive instincts.”

“Everybody felt pretty good about what we were getting,” said Jet Butler, who was named the Mets’ scout of the year in 2019.

“Everybody was on the same page.

The hit tool is gonna be there. The defense is gonna be there. The upside is there. He can certainly be a player that brings value at the highest levels of our organization.

“The ball is in his court. He’s gonna have every opportunity.” nnn inter in Louisiana is pleasant. Summer in Sweden is perfect.

Mondo splits his time accordingly between both sides of the Atlantic, living in the Swedish town of Uppsala when he competes on the pro circuit in Western Europe.

The Duplantis children have spent a significant amount of time in their mother’s homeland since they were young, leading Andreas to compete for Team Sweden. At age 15, Mondo made the same decision.

“There were certainly people who weren’t happy about it and said, ‘How could he with everything the United States has done for him?’ ” said Helena, who serves as Mondo’s trainer and dietitian.

“It was his decision, and I was confident he would be happy with the decision. It’s such a small country.

It just feels like a big track community. It’s a big family.”

Unlike the U.S. — which requires athletes to qualify through potentially heartbreaking Olympic trials — Mondo’s spot on Team Sweden is guaranteed. Unlike in America, Sweden allowed Mondo to become a massive star in a marquee European sport.

In Louisiana, Antoine remains far more famous than his younger brother. In Sweden, Mondo is stopped for pictures and autographs, and holds a portfolio of endorsement deals.

“It helps him that he lives this dual reality. He goes to Sweden and he’s this god and then he comes back to the United States and mostly

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where she met Greg, an All-American pole vaulter. They married in August 1987. She represented Sweden in the heptathlon in international championships. Greg was a U.S. Olympic team alternate in 1996.

“They’re pretty different, but they represent where they come from really well,” Mondo said. “Where my mom comes from, you can’t have that big of a personality or be cocky or think you’re better than anyone else. My dad grew up in New Orleans. It’s a little bit different.”

Andreas had first dibs on the backyard, a two-sport star, who played baseball in the Little League World Series, represented Sweden in the pole vault at junior world championships and later competed in the sport at LSU. Next came Antoine. Then, Mondo. Later, Johanna, an incoming LSU freshman and three-time state champion in the pole vault.

The bar was always high. Greg placed it there while holding backyard track meets for his kids.

“It would get heated,” Andreas said. “The more we saw how bad the other one wanted to win, the more we wanted to make them lose, whether we were pole vaulting or [playing] baseball or football or doing backflips on the trampoline. … They were coming at my throat constantly.”

The three brothers remain best friends, linked and differentiated by their DNA. Mondo is like their father. Antoine is like mom.

Andreas is a Cajun-Swede blend.

“We have a lot of the same interests, but different personalities,” Antoine said. “Mondo’s a little more fiery, more outgoing. I’m pretty isolated, kind of a loner. My older brother’s a bit of a mix. It works out in a good way that we all keep each other in check.”

Mondo set his first world record at age 7 (3.86m) and captured every age-group record through 12 years old. He took a one-year, baseballfueled sabbatical to be like his older brothers — “Mondo didn’t care about anything other than getting to Williamsport,” Greg said — then resumed his historic journey.

His first jumps came inside the home, clutching a broken broom stick to soar over the ottoman onto the living room couch.

“The broom had no trouble holding me up back then with how light I was,” Mondo said. “That’s a pretty big advantage to this journey that I’ve been able to have, is that I was able to start at such a young age because my father built a setup and I was able to build a technique from 3 years up to now. Without the backyard, I’m not whatever I am today.”

His father is his coach, the architect of the backyard and the dream.

The home setup has undergone several renovations. It started with carpet foam in a trawling net for a landing area — it’s now a regulation pit — and a dirt runway, which was eventually replaced by a conveyor belt and then by plywood.

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by Rodgers at Match Field Level Media There was no comeback for Tom Brady in The Match.

And no hint from Aaron Rodgers about where he’ll play during the upcoming NFL season — despite some goading during the nearly sixhour round.

The pairing of Rodgers and Bryson DeChambeau proved too much for Brady and Phil Mickelson in The Match on Tuesday at The Reserve at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Mont.

Brady, whose golf balls were decorated with his Super Bowl-winning numbers, sounded confident even while trailing on the back nine.

“We got them right where we want them,” Brady said, figuring this was a more compelling storyline than holding a late-round lead. “Everyone is going to talk about us being down three with five to play.”

Not really.

Rodgers and DeChambeau, the 2020 U.S. Open champion, won 3 and 2 in the modified alternate-shot format in the made-for-TV celebrity event on the Jack Nicklaus Signature Course, located at 7,500-feet elevation.

Nothing seemed to faze Rodgers, who was hounded from the playing group and the TV studio crew about his future with Green Bay. “Aaron, who’s leader of the Packers — I think,” Brady said.

By the 16th hole, when Brady and Mickelson were in a desperate situation and Brady stood over a long putt, Mickelson made reference to Green Bay’s decision in the NFC Championship game against Brady’s Buccaneers.

“I equate this to fourthand-3 and we’re down eight,” Mickelson said. “I don’t think we should kick a field goal.

We should go for it.”

The words didn’t matter.

Brady rolled a nice putt, but missed. Then Rodgers rolled in the match-clinching putt.

“I don’t know why I brought my putter,” DeChambeau said. “This dude is making everything. ... This guy just rolls it in every time.”

At one point, the RodgersDeChambeau team used Rodgers’ tee shots on six of seven holes.

By Steve DougLaS LONDON — Facing a wall of nervous blue-and-white clad Italy fans behind the goal, Jorginho took his trademark hop and skip before calmly stroking in the winning penalty.

So much for the pressure of a shootout in the European Championship semifinals.

A dash of Italian panache completed a 4-2 penalty-shootout win over Spain at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday, setting up a title match against either England or Denmark back at the same stadium on Sunday.

The match finished 1-1 after extra time and provided Italy with its toughest test of the tournament, with Spain controlling possession for long periods. Federico Chiesa scored for Italy with a curling shot in the 60th minute, but substitute Alvaro Morata equalized for Spain in the 80th.

Morata, who had been dropped from the starting lineup for the first time in a tournament during which he

the second Spain has received verbal player to miss in abuse and even Italy 1 England the shootout — death threats from after Olmo — folhis own fans, will go lowing 30 minutes down as Spain’s Italy London advances of extra time. scapegoat once Wednesday Italy on PKs, 4-2 3 p.m.

“He really has a again after his penlot of personality,” alty kick was saved Spain 1 Denmark FINAL Spain coach Luis

by Gianluigi DonnaWembley Stadium, London Enrique said of rumma in the nextSunday, 3 p.m., ESPN Morata.

“He to-last kick of the wanted to take a shootout.

As Morata walked back to ther, leaping over the advertis- penalty even though he’s been the center circle with his head ing boardings to get even through some tough times in bowed, Jorginho made the op- closer to the crazed supporters this competition.”

Italy started the shootout posite journey and didn’t make whose loud cheering had lifted the team in their most difficult with Manuel Locatelli’s shot the same mistake. saved by Unai Simon, but AnThe Chelsea midfielder has moments.

Riding a national record un- drea Belotti, Bonucci and Fedhis own style when it comes to taking penalties and he didn’t beaten run of 33 games, Italy erico Bernardeschi all scored abandon it when it mattered will play in its fourth European before Jorginho.

Spain, a three-time European most, sparking a throng of cel- final and look to win the title champion, beat Switzerland in ebrations as Italy’s players for a second time, after 1968.

It’s quite the redemption a penalty shootout just to get sprinted from the halfway line.

Jorginho was mobbed. Italy story for a country that failed to Wembley and went to extra coach Roberto Mancini was to qualify for the 2018 World time against Croatia in the last 16. hugged by the rest of coaching Cup. “Everyone made Italy big faAfter his game-tying goal, staff. The players lined up on the edge of the area and ran to- Morata grabbed a camera be- vorites,” Spain midfielder Sergether, holding hands, toward hind the goal and thrust his gio Busquets said, “but we face into it. But he had no- demonstrated we were supethe fans.

— AP Leonardo Bonucci went fur- where to hide after becoming rior to them.”

England semi-certain of finally returning

By RoB HaRRiS LONDON — After playing in two semifinals and losing both, England captain Harry Kane knows to be wary.

“We don’t have as a good as football history as we like to believe sometimes,” the striker said Tuesday.

It has been 55 years since England even reached a final, when it won its only World Cup title at Wembley

Stadium in 1966. England is one step away from another final, however, facing Denmark in the European Championship semifinals on Wednesday.

“These players are making massive strides and breaking barriers all the time. We have broken barriers in this tournament and we have another opportunity to do that tomorrow,” Kane said. “We’ve never been to a European

Championship final, so we can be the first.”

They can do it by learning lessons from the previous semifinal setbacks — against Croatia at the 2018 World Cup and the Netherlands in the 2019 Nations League.

England coach Gareth Southgate reflected on the “two very different experiences” in those losses.

“The Croatia [game], it was the furthest we’ve been

[since Euro ’96] and I think we would acknowledge we could have made changes during that game to improve the situation,” Southgate said.

“But equally, we weren’t as brave with the ball once we’d gone ahead. We went ahead so early in the game and so I think the tournament played out differently for us. Fatigue became a factor definitely in the second half. We’d had extra time in one of our

matches prior to that, we’d had a very consistent team, so we are in a slightly different place in terms of the depth and strength of the squad now.”

In 2019, in the new UEFA competition, Southgate cited the disruption caused by Liverpool and Tottenham contesting the Champions League final just before the Nations League mini-tournament.

“We made errors through

By Brian Lewis

camp in Las Vegas, where he practiced alongside Durant, among others. It was the presence of Durant and Kyrie Irving that attracted James Harden to Brooklyn, and that Big 3 lured Griffin and Aldridge.

Griffin will be a free agent this offseason. Love, coming off a season in which he started just 25 games and averaged just 12.2 points on

40.9 percent shooting, is hardly free. Yet. Love has two years and $60 million left on his current deal. Cleveland is expected to explore offseason trade possibilities, and Love has been linked to the Clippers, Heat, Pelicans, 76ers and Trail Blazers by Hoops Wire.

Just because Love isn’t his old self doesn’t mean he’s too

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to another final fatigue in extra time,” Southgate said. “So they were two different experiences, but it’s given us the understanding of preparing for those big matches and what they feel like. And I think that’s part of a journey sometimes teams have to go through.”

At least England has avoided extra time in its five matches so far at Euro 2020 — and also has not conceded a goal.

Temporary TeammaTes: Kevin Love (left) and Kevin Durant practice together Tuesday during training camp for Team USA in Las Vegas.

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old to contribute to NBA teams, such as the Cavaliers (or Nets), and to Team USA, which picked him over Knicks All-Star Julius Randle.

But Love knows he has something to prove.

“Yeah, just that I can still be the player that I was before I had a couple tough injuries,” Love said. “This is the best I’ve felt in a long time.

“In a way I understand it, because I came off a season where I didn’t play that many games and wasn’t at the top of my game. … So for me to come here, I just feel like I have a lot to prove.”

That was part of Love’s motivation in committing to the Olympics.

“We all know he didn’t have a great year, but he’s worked diligently to get his body ready for this. He wanted to do it badly,” said coach Gregg Popovich, who added that not only will Team USA benefit from Love’s floor-spacing and international experience (something Randle lacks), but also the veteran will benefit from the Olympics.

“Absolutely,” Popovich said. “We’re going to work his ass off [the] next four, five weeks, and demand a lot. And that’s going to definitely get him back into the rhythm he needs to be in. …

And that’s one of the big reasons he wanted to do this, to get himself back to who he was.”

“We’ve never been to a final [as this group], so the pressure is what you choose it to be,” Southgate said. “I think it is a motivating thing, it is a challenge for us.

“Denmark have won it [in 1992], so maybe there is more pressure on Denmark to replicate that. But it is not the way we are viewing the game. We know it is about performing on the day.”

— AP

By Brian Lewis After a heartbreaking end to a tough season — one that began with his recovery from Achilles surgery, included thigh, hamstring and COVID-19 woes, and ended with a seven-game second-round playoff loss to the Bucks — few could’ve blamed Kevin Durant if he skipped the Olympics.

But Team USA coach Gregg Popovich would have stopped at nothing to change the Nets star’s mind.

“Well, first of all, if he said ‘no,’ I would have begged, cried, anything I could to change his mind,” Popovich said Tuesday during the first day of Team USA camp. “That’s pretty obvious. But what it says about him, number one, is that he loves the game. He really

loves to play basketball. He loves to win.

He loves the camaraderie.

“He wants to be part of this all the time, as we all know. And that’s his motivation at the core. That’s what he loves to do. And luckily for all of us, that’s who he is. So it’s a testament to his character and just desire to be part of a team and have a challenge and seek the success.”

Durant has a 39-0 record in FIBA events and has won three gold medals, including at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic games.

NETS NOTES

The NBA Finals started Tuesday ➤ night, but the Lakers already have announced their preseason slate for 2021-22. Their opener will be Oct. 3 at Staples Center against the Nets. Train-

ing camp opens Sept. 28, so it may be the Nets’ preseason opener as well.

The Nets played 2019-20 preseason games in China, facing the Lakers in Shanghai and Shenzen. The Nets played at Boston this past preseason and in Montreal against the Raptors in 2018-19.

The NBA draft will return to Bar➤ clays Center, after it was held virtually last offseason because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Nets named Adam Caporn as ➤ the fifth head coach of their G-League affiliate on Long Island. He adds to the franchise’s collection of Aussies, and currently serves as an assistant on the Australian national team and head coach of Basketball Australia’s Centre of Excellence.

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TasTe of vicTory: Italy’s Jorginho celebrates his successful penalty kick that gives the Azzurri a 4-2 win on PKs after a 1-1 tie with Spain through extra time. The win sent Italy into the Euro 2020 final, to face either England or Denmark on Sunday.

Love out to prove value at Olympics

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Nets fans are going to be watching Kevin Durant at the Tokyo Olympics later this month. But they also might also want to keep an eye on another Team USA big man: Kevin Love.

The 32-year-old Cavaliers star might be coming off his worst statistical season, but he’s going to be a big name on the trading block this summer or even on the buyout market. If Love is bought out, he figures to be a prime target of the Nets, who scooped up Blake Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge the same way this past season.

For a five-time All-Star who sounds as if he realizes his time as a franchise star is done and his time in Cleveland could soon be over as well, Love would be a fit in Brooklyn.

“Yeah, I understand going into my 14th season that being that No. 1 guy, playing 35 minutes, getting 20 touches a game is probably in my rearview,” Love said Tuesday. “But how I can affect the team, and feeling how I’m feeling now, I know that I can do it at a very high level. I don’t try to put a ceiling or limit on myself at all.

So long as I’m feeling good, I know I’m going to play good.

“If it’s asked for me to have to pivot in my career for a team to win, I’m more than willing to do that. …

But I do feel like on that [Cavaliers] team, or whichever team I end up on, USA Team, this is definitely something that I can continue to progress in the right way for really anybody. It doesn’t matter who I’m out there with, or who I’m playing with out there on the floor.”

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fearsome inside and racked up 22 points and 19 rebounds. It’s the first 15-and-15 Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo game in a Finals debut since San Antonio’s looked in picture-perfect health and played Tim Duncan against the Knicks in 1999.

Suns small-forward standout Mikal Game 1 of the NBA Finals. And it didn’t matter one bit. The Suns have too many Bridges, whom the Knicks bypassed in the 2018 draft in favor of Kevin Knox, was a weapons.

The stars shined in the Valley of the Sun, whirling fast-break dynamo and racked up and it was mostly the Phoenix cast. Chris 14 points. And for the unheralded stat of the night, the Suns hit their Paul led a third-quarter demolition and was first 24 free throws, a surgeon in finishing missing their final atwith 32 points and nine NBA FINALS tempt to go 24 of 25. assists in a spectacular The Bucks switched on Finals debut in which he most of Paul’s pick-andfloated in 12 of 19 shots.

All games on ABC rolls and wound up givBackcourt partner-inGame 1: Suns 118, Bucks 105 ing CP3 too much space. crime Devin Booker had “He was ready, he’s a scorching start and Suns lead series, 1-0 prepared his whole life pumped in 27 points Thursday: at Suns, 9 p.m. for this,’’ Bridges said of Tuesday as the Suns Sunday: at Bucks, 8 p.m.

Paul. routed the Bucks, 118Wed, July 14: at Bucks, 9 p.m.

There were no first105, at Phoenix Suns ever Finals nerves for Arena. *Sat., July 17: at Suns, 9 p.m. these Suns as Phoenix’s “He’s one of those *Tues., July 20: at Bucks, 9 p.m. high-tempo, quick-passrare guys that can see *Thu., July 22: at Suns, 9 p.m. ing attack was a joy to the floor and he knows * if necessary watch The Suns hit 10 of where all five guys their first 18 shots in the should be,’’ Suns coach Monty Williams said of Paul. “He took ad- franchise’s first Finals appearance since vantage of his opportunities versus their 1993. They took a 57-49 halftime lead deswitching defense and thankfully he made spite Antetokounmpo being a force.

“We play a lot basketball,’’ Paul said of the shots. Every so often he’ll look over to me and he’ll squint and I’ll know he’s wanting a Suns’ precision. “I was watching soccer toplay, and then I’ll call it. Before it was just day and a hockey game last night and I’m me like, run this, run this, run this. Now I like, ‘How do they know to pass there?’ try my best to stay out of his way, because I They probably think the same thing with us. We do it so often and seen every coverknow what he’s seeing.’’

Old-school center Deandre Ayton was age we can possibly see.’’

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Antetokounmpo scored 20 points with 17 rebounds in 34 minutes despite the Bucks listing him as doubtful with a hyperextended knee on the eve of the Finals and still not saying whether he’d play until 30 minutes before tipoff.

“We planned on him to play,’’ Williams said. “Just a guy like Giannis, how hard he works on his body, we figured a guy who works that hard would find a way back on the floor for the Finals. This time of year you sacrifice everything.’’

From the opening possession, it was clear the Bucks’ listing of Antetokounmpo as doubtful was a pile of rubbish. He looked as limber and athletic as ever — no signs he had suffered a hyperextended knee a week before.

No, Antetokounmpo was 100 percent, and the Suns thankfully had planned for him.

But the Suns’ offense was too snazzy and high tempo, however, for Antetokounmpo to be a difference-maker.

“I just trying to be aggressive,’’ Paul said.

“The coaches talked about playing with pace. I’m an old head but in this series we have to play with pace.’’

And the fans loved every moment. Phoenix set the NBA regular-season record this season for pandemic attendance at 8,063 in May, and now their arena is completely full as the Suns moved three wins from their first title.

“It got crazy loud in one of those timeouts,’’ Paul said. “It’s exciting. It’s one win and still focused on the task at hand.’’ marc.berman@nypost.com

HEAT WAVE: Even with Giannis Antetokounmpo (inset) playing despite a knee injury, Chris Paul and the Suns overwhelmed the Bucks during Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night in Phoenix.

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F YOU looked close enough, you could see points. He was everywhere, doing everyactually see Chris Paul embrace the mo- thing: playing defense, penetrating, shooting ment. Sixteen years he’d waited for a stage 3s, hitting layups, hitting midrange jumpers, like this. Sixteen years he’d bided his time, finding teammates, looking like the most eswatched other star basketball players take sential player on the floor. Because he was their turn in the floodlights, drink cham- the most essential player on the floor.

The Bucks had gotten an emotional lift pagne, ride in parades. Sixteen years he’d when Giannis Antetokounmpo was cleared waited his turn. to play, and he played well. But they were Now there was no need to wait any longer.

The game was there for the taking for the sprinting straight into a buzz saw Tuesday Phoenix Suns, and Chris Paul took it. An op- night. Paul had waited a long time for this portunity was there for Paul, after 16 years of moment, and so had the Suns. They’d waited just over 52 years to exact disappointment, 16 years of their revenge when the ball frustration, and he said, was tipped just past 9 “Yes, please.” o’clock EDT, a rematch the “He’s ready,” Suns forSuns have coveted since ward Mikal Bridges would March 19, 1969. say after this 118-105 victory That, too, involved the over the Bucks in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. “He’s preMike Vaccaro Bucks as a foil. There were no basketballs in play that pared his whole life for this day, just a four-way confermoment and it shows. CP3, ence call At stake was the most important man … we know he can do this every game.”

For days, Paul has had to read about how sweepstakes in the sport’s history. Both the this was the first Finals in — what, 25 years? Suns and Bucks had been awful in their Forty? — that didn’t feature an all-time star. maiden NBA voyages of 1968-69. The Bucks, And you have to believe there was at least playing in the East, were 27-55, five games one moment when Paul asked to no one and clear of the next-worst team in the conference (Detroit). to everyone: “Says who?”

The Suns were even worse, at 16-66, some When he said: “Did I just show up?”

Paul electrified Phoenix Suns Arena with 14 games worse than Seattle. There was no 32 points and nine assists. Back that up with questions of tanking. These were expansion the 41 he scored in the West clincher against teams who’d earned their record on merit (or the Clippers, and it’s the first time he’s ever lack thereof). Of course, the prize in question scored as many as 73 points in back-to-back would’ve been worth a full-blown tank.

That was Lew Alcindor, UCLA All-Amerigames. After 16 years, it was like floodwaters can, who in a few days would lead the Bruins bursting through a dam.

“I was just so locked into the game, trying to their third straight NCAA championship to stay in the moment,” Paul said. “It’s excit- in his three-year stay in Westwood. There ing but it’s just one win. I’m focused on the had never been a bigger prize in an NBA draft, ever. The winner got the rights to Altask at hand.”

It was a quintessential Paul game in so cindor, and all the tantalizing promise that many ways: he didn’t score a point in the first went along with that.

Loser didn’t. quarter. He didn’t scratch until there were 3 Commissioner Walter Kennedy flipped a ½ minutes gone in the second. He helped ease his teammates into the Finals, helped coin inside the NBA’s offices in Manhattan. the building percolate to maximum boil. The He carefully explained the kind of coin they would be using — a 1964 JFK half-dollar. The Suns took an eight-point lead at the half.

Suns had the call; their fans, by acclimation, And then exploded in the third quarter.

“When it’s going like that we want to space had directed them to call “heads.”

“Tails,” Kennedy said. the floor well and let him orchestrate,” Suns Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abcoach Monty Williams said. “He was making the right plays and they were switching a ton. dul-Jabbar and led the Bucks to the 1971 title.

He was making shots. When he’s in that The Suns are still waiting for their first. Their star player is still waiting for his first. That mode we just feed off that.” wait may well be on its final legs. Chris Paul The coach smiled. will see to that.

“And I try my best to stay out of his way.”

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T IS hard to figure out who looks the worst in the whole ESPN-Rachel Nichols-Maria Taylor drama, but let’s give it a whirl.

It starts with ESPN management.

Nichols’ comments — whether taped illegally or not — were known about for a year throughout the top executive ranks.

They were an open wound.

Instead of actually addressing it, they and hypocritical, her comments seem let it linger, trying passive-aggressive more like a misdemeanor than a felony.

But ESPN management did her no faBand-Aids until now, after a New York vors by allowing a wound to become inTimes story broke .

As a result, Nichols’ ESPN career is in fected, failing to act in any significant way, except by appeasing jeopardy and Taylor may Taylor’s request to not follow her out the door. have them appear toEven on Tuesday, there gether on-air. By doing so, was no show of strength ESPN let others control from ESPN. First, ESPN the narrative — and now took Nichols off the has completely lost any NBA Finals sideline, semblance of control. while initially saying that While Nichols and TayNichols would continue to host “The Jump,” her weekday pro- lor have been rivals, they aren’t that difgram. Then, “The Jump” did not air. ferent. Taylor is the superior host, ESPN said it will give “The Jump” a try smoother and more polished. But Taylor has proven adroit at working angles, too, on Wednesday.

Oh, this is all while a little thing called to borrow a phrase, in the “snake pit” that is the corporate ESPN. the NBA Finals is going on.

In her seven years at ESPN, Taylor has Nichols, 47, is known as hard-working, political and territorial. These are not been relentlessly promoted. Taylor, 34, uncommon traits at the top of sports tel- has risen to be the college football national championship sideline reporter, evision.

She rose on TV as a sideline reporter, the host of the NCAA Women’s Tournadeveloping strong enough relationships ment and NBA Finals. She makes $1 million a year, but, as The Post rewith star players so they all stopped ported last week, her contract is for postgame interviews, which is up on July 20 and she hopes to the main skill for the position. land in the “Stephen A. On Nichols’ daily show, “The Smith” neighborhood of Jump,” she had created a well$8 million a year. ESPN received meeting place for the at one point had a deal, NBA. The former newspaper which eventually writer has now become sort of reached close to $5 a part of the league, as much million, on the taas someone who covers it. ble.

While it is easy to pile on NBC could Nichols, she did have a have signed contract that intersaid she would be the host of the NBA Finals before it was yanked away without much of a reason.

Her private conversation emanated from Florida and was recorded in Connecticut. Both states have two-party consent laws, meaning anyone on a phone line must agree to being taped.

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est in Taylor to replace Mike Tirico next year as the host of “Football Night in America.” Amazon also likes her work.

Maybe Taylor owes Nichols nothing, but she also could have put out this fire, if she had wanted to. Over the past several days, Nichols has publicly said she has tried to talk to Taylor, but Taylor has decided against a dialogue.

ESPN’s leaders were too weak to force them into a room to hash it all out as adults. That was a mistake they all should regret.

“If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it. Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away,” Nichols said on the recording The Times was given.

She added, “I just want them to go somewhere else — it’s in my contract, by the way; this job is in my contract in writing.”

Now, Taylor’s contract is up. She and ESPN have not seen eye-toeye on the numbers.

ESPN decided to take Nichols’ sideline job away. They already took back her hosting role. The whole mismanagement has put in question whether she will be able to cover the league she loves.

The soap opera has sports media and beyond gawking, which is unsurprising and was preventable.

From management to Nichols to Taylor, they all could have stopped this out-ofcontrol spiral. amarchand @nypost.com

BeTTer Than Trevor: Trevor May has been dominant since he started getting his slider over for strikes more consistently. Heading into Tuesday night, he had a run of nine straight scoreless appearances.

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Carlos Carrasco (torn hamstring) took another important step in his rehab process Tuesday afternoon by throwing a 20-pitch live batting practice session at Citi Field. Rojas said Carrasco was hitting mid-90s with his fastball and could throw another session this weekend as he works towards a potential return by late July or early August.

“It was a really good live BP session for him,” Rojas said. “He came out and he was really excited.”

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May finding his groove thanks to a better slider

By Jared Greenspan For Trevor May, one pitch is making all the difference.

Since his ERA ballooned to 4.57 on June 14, May has turned his season around with nine consecutive scoreless appearances, dropping his ERA to 3.23.

To Mets manager Luis Rojas, the secret to May’s success lies in his slider.

“He’s always had a really good fastball, but when he

didn’t have the secondary pitches, he was becoming a one-pitch pitcher,” Rojas said before Tuesday night’s game against the Brewers was rained out. “That’s when his fastball, which is a flyball pitch, was becoming a home run at times because he’s a big-time power supplier with his fastball. So the secondary [stuff] is helping.”

On the season, hitters are batting just .179 against May’s slider, compared to

.239 against his fastball and .321 against his changeup.

May hasn’t allowed a hit off his slider since June 14, when the Cubs’ Patrick Wisdom connected for a home run.

“He’s been throwing it for a strike,” Rojas said of the slider. “He’s been throwing it in the same line as his fastball and he’s been able to get some chases. The changeup has been a good pitch for him the whole

year, but he needed the breaking ball. I think that’s what’s helping the most right now.”

May’s recent success is the sort of late-inning production the Mets envisioned when they signed the 31-year-old right-hander to a two-year, $15.5 million contract in the offseason. In Edwin Diaz and Seth Lugo, the Mets feature one of the premier back-end bullpen duos in the league. Factor in

May’s dominance and the unit grows all the more formidable.

May’s resurgence couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Though injuries have stretched the Mets’ rotation thin, performances from May and others out of the bullpen have enabled them to keep winning despite a lack of innings from the starting pitching, especially the back end of the rotation. That was on display

in Monday’s victory over the Brewers, when four relievers combined to limit Milwaukee to one run on three hits across the game’s final four innings.

Central to that effort was May, who tallied a scoreless eighth inning on just eight pitches.

“He worked on stuff that he needed to work on and look at him now, he’s throwing the ball great,” Rojas said.

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Fans who came to Citi Field on Tuesday night waited around for a whole lot of nothing — even after the Mets owner announced on Twitter that the game had been called.

After a two-and-a-half-hour rain delay, the Mets’ game against the Brewers was postponed, as first revealed by a Steve Cohen tweet at 9:40 p.m. But the fans who had stuck around got left in the blue for another 13 minutes until the postponement was announced over the public address system.

“We tried but weather didn’t cooperate,” Cohen tweeted before the fans found out at Citi Field. “I can control some things but that isn’t one of them.”

Cohen had tweeted earlier in the delay that the Mets were going to play, but the rain would not relent to allow Jacob deGrom to make his penultimate start before the All-Star break. Right as Cohen sent out his initial tweet announcing the game was postponed, offering his “sincere apologies,” the PA announcer told fans the Mets were still hoping to play.

After Tuesday’s snafu, the Mets and Brewers are now scheduled to play a split doubleheader Wednesday with Game 1 at 2:10 p.m. — featuring deGrom vs. Corbin Burnes — and Game 2 at 7:10 p.m. Both games will be seven innings.

The Mets left their Game 2 starter to be announced, but it could be Robert Stock, who was called up earlier in the day.

Francisco Lindor laid down his fifth sacrifice bunt of the season Monday night, and while it directly led to the Mets’ first run on the way to a win, the decision to bunt is not coming from his manager.

“I always want him swinging,” Luis Rojas said Tuesday. “But this is what he believes is part of his game.”

Lindor is batting a disappointing .219 with nine home runs and 29 RBIs. His five sacrifice bunts ranked tied for third in MLB — tied for second among position players.

“I’m not going to get in the way of a player like Francisco, who has this mentality and has brought a lot to this team, to have the mindset of winning games,” Rojas said. “And he wants to be productive this way at times. I have his back.”

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Jacob deGrom (7-2, 0.95) vs. RHP Corbin Burnes (4-4, 2.41)

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RHP Robert Stock* (0-1, 11.25) vs.

LHP Brett Anderson (2-5, 4.69) *Projected starter Games on SNY, WCBS (880 AM) Four-game home series vs. Pirates begins Thursday.

INSIDE THE MATCHUPS GAME 1 METS: With his start pushed back a day, deGrom likely won’t make another start before the break which would free him up to pitch in the All-Star Game in Denver. The ace had previously said he would like to skip the event to rest up for the second half of the season.

BREWERS: Burnes last started Thursday at Pittsburgh and earned a 7-2 win — giving up one run on four hits in a season-high 7 ¹/3 innings. He has 120 strikeouts in just 82 innings this season.

GAME 2 METS: No official starter has been announced, but there is speculation Stock could get his first start as a Met, after being claimed off waivers from the Cubs on June 22. In his one start for Chicago this season, he gave up five runs on four hits, walked six and struck out three in four innings in a 6-3 loss to the Mets.

BREWERS: Milwaukee has lost Anderson’s past three starts, getting pulled after giving up three runs in 1 ¹/3 innings against the Diamondbacks his last time out. He was coming off a no-decision in which he shut out the Reds for seven innings, but the Brewers ultimately lost 2-1.

By GreG Joyce The Mets finished the first half of their season Monday night still in first place in the NL East with 81 games left to play.

The first 81 games featured a heavy dose of injuries, strong starting pitching and resilient comebacks, mixed with a widespread lack of offense and the rest of the division not exactly giving them a run for their money.

The next 81, set to begin Wednesday with a doubleheader against the Brewers at Citi Field after Tuesday’s game was washed out, will decide whether the Mets play into October or end up as a disappointment.

“I’m pleased with how we’ve played,” manager Luis Rojas said.

“But this is where we gotta tell each other that we gotta keep going.”

Here are five questions that follow the Mets into the second half of their season:

1. Can the top of the rotation keep this up?

The Mets have largely been bolstered by a terrific trio of starting pitchers in Jacob deGrom, Taijuan Walker and Marcus Stroman. One is an All-Star and the other two had arguments to join deGrom in Colorado next week.

While deGrom carried a 0.95 ERA into Wednesday’s start in the midst of a historically dominant season, Walker (2.44) and Stroman (2.60) have also been critical to the Mets’ success. Equally important is that they have remained mostly healthy — aside from a few scares, including an IL stint for deGrom.

But can they keep this up the rest of the way? Even if they fall slightly back to Earth, or closer to their career ERAs, they should still give the Mets a chance to take care of business in the division.

2. What do they get from the rest of the rotation?

Just how tight things get down the stretch could depend on what the Mets get from the back end of their rotation. Acting GM Zack Scott said Monday he’s approaching the trade deadline thinking of Carlos Carrasco (potential late July return) and Noah Syndergaard (potential Sept. 1 return) as “bonuses” rather than givens.

With Joey Lucchesi (Tommy John surgery) and David Peterson (oblique strain) also unavailable, it seems likely that Scott will add at least one arm before the deadline.

Just how impactful that arm is remains to be seen, as does whether Tylor Megill can keep up his promising introduction to the big leagues.

3. Can the lineup finally play up to its potential when healthy?

The Mets, who scored 3.69 runs per game in their first 81 games (second-worst in MLB), have talked about being a strong offense when they get everyone back from the IL. After having as few as three regular starters in the lineup at one point earlier in the season, the Mets’ starting posi-

tion players could be fully healthy by the time they get to the All-Star break, with J.D. Davis potentially the last one back this weekend.

“One of the things I want to see is our offense get going like it has been for the last couple days and for us to be consistent and get more quality at-bats and be able to score more runs because we can count on good pitching, but we don’t know,” Rojas said.

4. Will Francisco Lindor rise to the occasion?

One big way to deliver a jolt to the offense is by getting more production from Lindor.

The shortstop has been healthy

all season and key to an improved defense, but is hitting .219/.318/.358.

He’s mixed brutal slumps with promising stretches, but the Mets need more of the latter to get their offense clicking.

5. What kind of test will the rest of the NL East give them?

What was expected to be one of MLB’s toughest divisions coming into the year instead had just one team over .500 entering Tuesday — the Mets. While the Nationals have played better of late, the Braves and the Phillies have not played up to their potential. But all three teams could serve as legitimate challengers in the NL East if they get their act together or perhaps add at the trade deadline. gjoyce@nypost.com

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he thought about deGrom appearing at Coors as an ineligible player.

“That’s his decision if he pitches Sunday like the plan is,” Rojas said. “I know it’s tough for the event not to have the presence of Jake there. It’s unfortunate, all the fans and baseball itself, like everything, just to see Jake at the event, the uniform, everything.

But that’s more for Jake to [decide]. If he’s not going to participate, knowing Jake’s competitiveness, it’s probably going to be tough to be in uniform and not participate. So I don’t know. It’s a tough one for the All-Star Game without him there present.”

Look, if the righthander was wired differently, then he’d probably want to go to Denver, be it for the player-party scene or to meet with sponsors and boost his brand or just to revel in the festivities of the Home Run Derby and the game itself. However, you know darn well that’s not how deGrom rolls, and you can easily draw a line from his low-key approach to his sky-high success, which helps the sport far more than his blowing off the Denver trip hurts it.

Again, though, the calculation of that blowoff changes with deGrom not starting on Sunday. Rojas allowed for the possibility of deGrom pitching out of the bullpen Sunday against the Pirates, on what would normally be a throw day for him, although that wouldn’t make much sense. Then again, it didn’t make much sense for Cohen to tweet, “Hang in there everybody, we are going to play tonight” before 9 p.m. — before the weather defied the forecast — nor for an apologetic Cohen to tweet of the game being “canceled” (pet peeve — the proper term is “postponed”) 13 minutes before the team formally notified its fans via the Citi scoreboard. To the Mets’ credit, they announced late Tuesday night that ticket holders to this game would be rewarded with credits for a makeup plus a second game.

Anyway, deGrom surely will offer his thoughts Wednesday after he pitches. He’s in a tough spot. While he has every right to prioritize his health and his team’s interests over the sport’s promotion, that won’t make this call any more pleasant.

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ERRIBLE looks abounded at Citi Field on Tuesday night, the Mets keeping their fans around through a rain delay for nearly three hours, rookie owner Steve Cohen tweeting weather updates, only for the showers to persist and lead to a postponement of their game against the Brewers.

Which leads to another conundrum for the Mets, one that forebodes another potentially terrible look for their ace: How can Jacob deGrom get out of the All-Star Game now?

The planet’s best pitcher, scheduled to start Tuesday, will instead take the mound for Wednesday’s Game 1 and ... then what?

Surely he won’t start Sunday’s firsthalf finale on short rest, and that in turn robs him of the excuse he possessed to not pitch for the National League — for whom he is the slamdunk candidate to start — in the July 13 Midsummer Classic at every pitcher’s least-favorite site, Coors Field.

I’m very sympathetic to deGrom, who told The Post’s Mike Puma last week that the Denver location, its high altitude murder on hurlers, factored into his desire to skip baseball’s jewel event — which was the plan with his pitching Tuesday and then Sunday, the latter of which officially would have excused him from the commitment. You certainly don’t want people participating against their will, and you sure as heck don’t want people sustaining injuries. Yet with the rain spoiling those plans, deGrom’s brilliant season, exemplified by his insane 0.95 ERA, only intensifies the pressure on him to participate.

You know that Major League Baseball would love to market a matchup of deGrom against Angels stud two-way player Shohei Ohtani.

At the least, the situation will turn up the heat on deGrom — who went on the injured list once this first half and left two other starts early with ailments, providing him some cover — to at least fly to Denver to join his NL teammates for the pregame introduction.

On Tuesday afternoon, when the forecast appeared more favorable, I asked Mets manager Luis Rojas what

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TEST TIME: The Mets and manager Luis Rojas (inset) have questions to answer in the season’s second half, like whether Jacob deGrom can keep his dominant form, will Francisco Lindor lead the dormant offense and can the back end of the rotation, including rookie Tylor Megill (bottom right), add enough to get the Amazin’s the NL East crown.

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By Dan Martin SEATTLE — The regular season is barely half over, but the Yankees’ future could be decided in the coming weeks, as the organization decides whether to stay all-in or to sell at the trade deadline.

Aaron Boone is aware of the stakes of the next few weeks.

“We understand the importance of these games and the hole we dug ourselves in the first half of the season,’’ Boone said before the Yankees opened a series against the Mariners. on Tuesday night. “It’s a very important week for us and hopefully we get it off on a good note.”

A 12-1 win will suffice.

The Yankees pounded the Mariners from the jump, as Giancarlo Stanton crushed a three-run homer with one out in the first and they added three more runs in the second off former Yankee Justus Sheffield.

Sheffield, acquired along with Clint Frazier and others from Cleveland in the Andrew Miller trade in 2016 and sent to Seattle in exchange for James Paxton in 2018, lasted just 1 ²/₃ innings before Luke Voit ended his night with a two-run single. Sheffield’s ERA jumped to 6.48 in the loss.

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third in support of Jameson Taillon.

Rougned Odor’s three-run shot in the eighth off former Mets prospect Rafael Montero gave the Yankees’ a season-high in both runs and hits.

It was at least a temporary respite from their recent woes, which included three losses in their previous four games that dropped the Yankees to just a game over .500.

While general manager Brian Cashman and managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner both said last week the team was in buy mode as the July 30 trade deadline approached, Cashman acknowledged that perspective could change “if we fall like a stone.”

Tuesday’s victory left the Yankees 9 ½ games back of firstplace Boston.

They have two more games against Seattle at T-Mobile Park before closing out the first half with three games in Houston, facing the first-place Astros.

“I’m sure it

rise to power: Giancarlo Stanton, who went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, watches his 434-foot, three-run home run during the first inning of the Yankees’ 12-1 victory over the Mariners. Jameson Taillon (above) delivered his best start of the season, allowing one earned run on four hits over seven innings while striking out nine.

all matters,’’ Boone said of the team’s performance as the deadline nears. “Our focus is on [the games].

That’s more for the front office to focus on what moves to make, to not make.”

And one victory doesn’t mean a turnaround is on the horizon, particularly coming off a 2-7 stretch that included a three-game sweep in Boston and losing two of three to the Mets in The Bronx.

“We’ve still got to right our ship and play our game and play to our capabilities,’’ Boone said. “I hope we’re in a position to do something to help us out, but we’ve got to earn that and play well.”

In order for that to happen, their wildly disappointing lineup needs more nights like Tuesday — as well as more starts like the one Taillon provided against Seattle.

The right-hander won his third consecutive start after an eightstart stretch in which he didn’t win a game.

In his previous outing, Taillon was mostly the beneficiary of strong run support.

But on Tuesday, he took advantage of the Yankees’ early outburst and pitched well and efficiently.

Taillon gave up one run in seven innings, his longest outing of the season, while walking just one and striking out nine.

He allowed just a pair of singles through the first five innings before the Mariners scratched out a run on three hits in the sixth.

The run came in part because of another shaky play

by Miguel Andujar in left.

With two on and two out, he got a poor jump on a Ty France fly to shallow left-center. Andujar dove and the ball glanced off his glove and fell for a run-scoring single. dan.martin @nypost.com

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WEDNESDAY 10:10 P.M.

RHP Domingo Germán (4-5, 4.50) vs. LHP Yusei Kikuchi (6-3, 3.18)

THURSDAY — 4:10 P.M.

By Dan Martin

LHP Jordan Montgomery (3-3, 4.17) vs.

RHP Logan Gilbert (2-2, 4.10)

Both games on YES, WFAN (660 AM, 101.9 FM)

INSIDE THE MATCHUPS

JOIN TOGETHER: Gary Sanchez (center) and Aaron Judge (center left) are greeted in the dugout after they scored on a single by Luke Voit during the second inning.

AP of respect for them, the way they played and what they did.

And then to find out it wasn’t earned — they cheated — that didn’t sit well with me.”

He also called the penalties handed out by MLB — none of which impacted any active players — “pretty weak for a

player-driven scheme.”

Of Altuve and Correa this season, Judge said, “They’re having great years. It’ll be fun to be there.”

The Yankees close out the first half of the regular season with three games against the Astros in Houston starting on Friday.

The teams met for the first time since the scandal became public in May, when Yankee fans rode the Astros throughout the series — singling out Altuve in particular, with a “[Bleep] Altuve” chant that has continued throughout the year.

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Gleyber Torres wasn’t in Tuesday night’s starting lineup due to a left hamstring issue, according to Boone.

Torres had hamstring cramps during Sunday’s doubleheader with the Mets and that issue didn’t resolve itself by Tuesday night. Torres was scheduled to test the hamstring before first pitch to see if he could be available off the bench.

“Still lingering a little bit in there today,” Boone said. “I’m hoping it’s not anything too serious, but we’ll have to see where it’s at. ... Just decided to hold him out and wanted to see how he looks going through the pregame routine today.”

Without Torres in the lineup, Gio Urshela (1-for-6) was at shortstop, Rougned Odor (2-for-4, HR, three RBIs) started at second base and DJ LeMahieu (3-for-6) moved to third. Torres felt the cramping while he was warming up to enter the second game on Sunday.

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MARINERS: Kikuchi was named an AL All-Star on Sunday, the first major league All-Star bid for the lefty. His 11 quality starts are tied for the league lead among left-handers with Clayton Kershaw and Robbie Ray. In his last 11 starts, Kikuchi is 6-2 with a 2.33 ERA, 22 walks, 73 strikeouts and .173 opponent average.

STAT SO? YANKEES: Kyle Higashioka hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the second inning on Sunday.

Eleven of his 19 hits this season have gone for extra bases (five doubles, six homers).

MARINERS: Drew Steckenrider, Paul Sewald and Kendall Graveman each tossed a scoreless inning in Seattle’s 4-1 win over Texas on Sunday as the Mariners improved to 11-4 in ex-Met Chris Flexen’s starts this season.

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SEATTLE — At least Aroldis Chapman didn’t blow this one.

But he is still far from right.

The Yankees used Chapman in the lowest of low leverage situations in Tuesday’s 12-1 win over the Mariners and the left-hander was anything from dominant in yet another alarming performance.

His velocity was down — dipping to 94 mph on more than one occasion — he loaded the bases on a single and two walks before finally finishing the game without giving up a run.

Prior to the game, Aaron Boone indicated he might use someone else in the closer’s role, at least for the time being, as they try to fix what’s wrong with Chapman.

“It could be anyone,” Boone said when asked who would close the game in a save situation.

Chapman was an option.

Chapman ended up being called on to pitch the bottom of the ninth and didn’t make anyone forget his recent disasters.

He’d given up leads in three consecutive appearances — and had an ERA of 18.90 in his 10 previous outings prior to Tuesday.

Boone still believes they can get an effective Chapman back if they get his mechanics back on track.

“It’s as simple as getting him unlocked from a delivery standpoint,’’ Boone said. “Once we get that going, we’re not that far removed from the best Aroldis Chapman we’ve ever seen.”

Chapman shot back at critics on Instagram on Monday night.

“For all those people that criticize my bad moments, I will tell them that I do not know how my story ends, but in its pages you will never read, ‘I gave up,’ ” Chapman wrote in both English and Spanish. “So I will move on. I still have many wars to win and many mouths to shut up.”

YANKEES: German took a no-decision last Wednesday, allowing three runs on three hits over three innings in the Yankees’ 11-8 loss to the Angels. He struck out two, walked three and allowed a home run. German has not won since May 20, going 0-3 with a 6.54 ERA and .264 opponent average over his past seven starts.

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SEATTLE — Aaron Judge hasn’t spoken with Jose Altuve or Carlos Correa since the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal from Houston’s 2017 World Series title run became public.

That hasn’t been an issue, but they’ll be teammates at Tuesday’s All-Star Game in Colorado and Judge said he hasn’t decided what he’s going to do.

“If it happens, it happens,’’ Judge told The Post before the Yankees’ 12-1 win over the Mariners at T-Mobile Park. “We’ll be there to celebrate the game and I don’t want to bring any past drama to take away from anything.”

The Astros ended the Yankees’ season in 2017 when Houston beat them in seven games in the ALCS in a season in which Altuve beat out Judge for the American League MVP — accomplishments that have since been tarnished or discredited in the wake of MLB’s investigation that found Houston used an elaborate electronic sign-stealing scheme in which signs would be relayed by banging a garbage can to alert hitters what pitch was coming.

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LDIS Hodge said that revisiting the world of “Leverage” for the show’s revival was “surreal.”

“I don’t know how many times in anyone’s career they get a chance to return to a show they started years ago,” Hodge, 34, told the Post.

“It’s been ten years since we shot the last season. [The cast] always stayed in touch, this is just the first time we've been together in person on set in a while. For me, I had to recall who and what the character was that I created.”

Premiering July 9 on IMDbTV (Amazon’s free streamer), “Leverage: Redemption” is a revival of the TNT series “Leverage” that aired from 2008-2012. The action crime drama followed a group of people with unique skills who help ordinary citizens fight back against injustices from corporations and governments. “Leverage: Redemption" brings the team back eight years later, sans Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton), whose absence is explained in the first episode. There’s hacker Alec Hardison (Hodge), hitter Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane), grifter Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman) and thief Parker (Beth Riesgraf).

The revival also adds some new faces to the team, including reformed corporate lawyer Harry Wilson (Noah Wyle) and Breanna Casey (Aleyse Shannon), Hardison’s computer-savvy foster sister.

“Everybody is fantastic," said Hodge. "Oddly enough I worked with Noah when I was like 12 years old on ‘ER.’ And Aleyse is hilarious and has great energy. I want people to keep an eye on her; she’s a rising star.”

Despite having a wide range of movies and shows under his belt, Hodge said that "Leverage" is still the project that fans approach him about the most.

“The love for this show -- I have never seen anything like it. I think it’s awesome. Fans typically ask me, ‘When is it coming back?’ and now I finally have an answer.”

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the underdog.

“Oftentimes, people tell us about feeling hopeless but then watching the show and getting into the fun nature of these guys getting justice for the little guy. I think people tie their personal journeys of dealing with tough times to our show. And to me, that’s the highest honor that we could be bestowed by our audience. I take that quite seriously.”

Hodge started on the first season of “Leverage” when he was only 20.

Since it ended, he’s become a star, appearing in movies such as “Straight Outta Compton,” “Hidden Figures,” and “One Night In Miami.”

“There’s a privilege that comes along with being able to grow in your career and then when some-

thing like this comes back around, you still step into it because of love and the dedication,” he said. “I can just do this job knowing it’s purely to enjoy myself. There’s a nice ease to it that rarely has been afforded to me in my career. It teaches me about the value of what it is that we do as artists. People have been asking for this show consistently and loyally for 10 years! That’s unreal.”

Hodge’s resume is nonstop today: in addition to “Leverage: Redemption” he’s also starring in Showtime’s ’90s era police drama “City on a Hill,”(renewed for a third season), he’s developing an anime series (“It’s an original idea that I came up with myself — I’ve got to sell it first, that’s the plan” ), he’s starring in and producing the film

“Parallel Forest” with his brother Edwin Hodge, and he’s co-starring in the superhero blockbuster “Black Adam” with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (slated to hit theaters in July of 2022). “[Dwayne Johnson] is a real cool cat, he’s really giving and supportive. We’re having some tough days when it comes to the physical aspect of [the shoot] and how we want to show what these characters are capable of,” he said.

“But it’s nice to be around DJ and his camp. Everybody is swole and fit; it’s great motivation to stay in shape and to find new limits that your body can achieve. I look at this [movie] as a huge opportunity in many different ways. And it’s living up to the hype — in every way possible.”

“Everything HBO has been giving us recently like ‘Hacks’ and ‘Mare of Easttown’ were important in my life. And every once in a while, I’ll have ‘Rick and Morty’ playing in the background.” — Feldman stars in “Monsters at Work” on Disney+

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