• Giants’ Sam Beal opts out of season in potential big blow

    Giants’ Sam Beal opts out of season in potential big blow

    The Giants lost another potential starter Wednesday, as cornerback Sam Beal has opted-out of the 2020 season, according to the league’s transaction wire. Despite annual promise and expectations, the 23-year-old Beal has played just six games in two years since the Giants took him with their third-round pick in the 2018 Supplemental Draft due to …
  • Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airlines files for US bankruptcy protection

    Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airlines files for US bankruptcy protection

    Virgin Atlantic, the airline founded by British businessman Richard Branson, filed Tuesday for protection in U.S. bankruptcy court as it tries to survive the virus pandemic that is hammering the airline industry. The airline made the Chapter 15 filing in U.S. federal bankruptcy court in New York after a proceeding in the United Kingdom. A …
  • Congress to Hold Hearing on ‘Antifa’ Violence

    Congress to Hold Hearing on ‘Antifa’ Violence

    The Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution will hold a congressional hearing Tuesday on violence and criminal acts tied to Antifa. The committee, chaired by Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas), will hold a hearing titled “The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble: Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence.” “Americans have a constitutional right to gather, …
  • Giancarlo Stanton’s model ex linked to Dodgers star Cody Bellinger

    Giancarlo Stanton’s model ex linked to Dodgers star Cody Bellinger

    It appears Chase Carter’s baseball allegiances have shifted to the West Coast. Swipe Sports The 23-year-old model, who previously dated Yankees superstar Giancarlo Stanton, has seemingly moved on with Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Cody Bellinger, according to Swipe Sports. In a recent Instagram story, Chase and Bellinger, 25, are seen holding hands, with the …
  • Markus Golden officially signs tender in big Giants coup

    Markus Golden officially signs tender in big Giants coup

    Markus Golden made the only choice available. Golden re-signed with the Giants on a one-year, $4.125 million contract Tuesday, after passing his physical. He reported to training camp Friday – a few days after the rest of his veteran teammates because of personal reasons – and needed three negative COVID-19 tests in a four-day span …
  • Lisa Vanderpump hit with class-action lawsuit for allegedly not paying SUR employees

    Lisa Vanderpump hit with class-action lawsuit for allegedly not paying SUR employees

    Life is still not all rosé and diamonds at SUR. Lisa Vanderpump and her husband Ken Todd were hit with a class-action lawsuit on Friday for allegedly failing to pay overtime wages to her employees at SUR, their restaurant made famous by “Vanderpump Rules.” In the filing obtained by Page Six on Tuesday, former hostess …
  • Irish pub bans singing Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’

    Irish pub bans singing Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’

    Good times never seemed so sad. In a cheeky effort to shed light on social-distancing rules, an Irish pub on Spain’s Canary Islands announced that Neil Diamond’s classic tune “Sweet Caroline” is officially banned from the watering hole. “There will be no: touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you,” reads a chalkboard quoting the …
  • Giants’ huge Saquon Barkley contract dilemma will be here soon

    Giants’ huge Saquon Barkley contract dilemma will be here soon

    Time flies faster than Saquon Barkley running through a defense. This is the final season before the 2018 NFL Draft class is eligible to negotiate contract extensions, and thus before the Giants face one of the fiercest debates in today’s NFL: Should we pay top dollar to a running back? Finding anyone around the league …
  • 83 percent of NYC restaurants, bars unable to pay full rent, survey reveals

    83 percent of NYC restaurants, bars unable to pay full rent, survey reveals

    The coronavirus pandemic continues to impose a severe economic toll on New York City’s eateries and pubs – with 83 percent of establishments saying they’re unable to make their full July rent and 37 percent unable to pay at all, a survey released Monday reveals. The NYC Hospitality Alliance poll of 471 restaurants, bars and …
  • Strangers are becoming friends online thanks to Quarantine Island

    Strangers are becoming friends online thanks to Quarantine Island

    Instead of staying locked inside his Brooklyn home, 29-year-old software engineer Cameron Couch spent part of his quarantine on a remote island with total strangers, competing head-to-head with them in a variety of physical and intellectual challenges. Of course, this fictitious island only existed in the virtual realm — in reality, Couch was holed up …