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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers leaned on a mantra from a classic baseball movie in their quest to land Tom Brady. The Bucs’ front office dubbed their plan “Operation Shoeless Joe Jackson,” ESPN’s Ian O’Connor reported, with player personnel director John Spytek – Brady’s former Michigan teammate – constantly telling GM Jason Licht “if we build …

New Jets wide receiver Breshad Perriman believes the end of the 2019 season was just the beginning for him. Perriman had a monster finish for the Buccaneers last year. In their final five games, he caught 25 passes for 506 yards and five touchdowns. It was the most production he has shown in five years …

US stocks tumbled Friday after a brutal monthly jobs report gave Wall Street more proof of how hard the coronavirus pandemic has hit the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped −360.91 points, or 1.7 percent, to 21,052.53 after the feds’ March jobs report said the US economy lost 701,000 jobs last month, bringing the …

Rex Ryan has no love for Amari Cooper. The former Jets coach made a number of scathing comments on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Friday about the Cowboys’ decision to give Cooper a blockbuster five-year, $100 million contract extension earlier this offseason. “I wouldn’t have paid this turd,” Ryan said of the 25-year-old receiver. “No way …

US stocks held steady Friday even after a brutal monthly jobs report gave Wall Street more proof of how hard the coronavirus pandemic has hit the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average was off just 58.23 points, or 0.2 percent, as of 10:05 a.m. after an opening 0.7 tumble on the heels of the feds’ …

Eli Apple is back on the free-agent market. According to ESPN, the Las Vegas Raiders and Apple were unable to finalize a contract after reports surfaced that a one-year deal was agreed upon between the two parties on March 18. The 24-year-old cornerback even posted on Instagram that he was “excited to start a new …

Stocks rallied Thursday as rising oil prices overcame Wall Street’s worries about the coronavirus gutting the US labor market. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 534.26 points, or 2.5 percent, on hopes of a detente in the oil-price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia. The blue-chip index reversed the early losses it …

Broadway has temporarily gone dark, but the pod-way is up and running: A full-scale musical podcast debuted this week. “Little Did I Know,” based on a novel by Broadway producer Mitchell Maxwell, features 22 original songs over the course of its nine episodes. Set in 1976, it follows a young director named Samuel August (played …

Stocks sank for the third day in a row on Thursday as a massive spike in US unemployment claims roiled Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped as much as 167.81 points, or 0.8 percent, at the open after the feds revealed more than 6.6 million people filed initial jobless claims last week as …

The market appears to have won. Jadeveon Clowney, arguably the top remaining NFL free agent left, has lowered his contract demands from $20 million per year to as low as $17 million, according to ESPN. His former team, the Seattle Seahawks, and the Tennessee Titans are two of the interested parties. But others could get …