• DJ LeMahieu playing Opening Day is suddenly looking real

    DJ LeMahieu playing Opening Day is suddenly looking real

    DJ LeMahieu played in his second exhibition game of spring training 2.0 on Monday night and will get plenty of at-bats Tuesday in simulated games against Yankee hurlers. Is it enough for the second baseman to be ready for Thursday’s Opening Day in Washington after reporting late to the Yankees’ camp due to COVID-19? “I …
  • Rangers’ Brendan Lemieux suspended two games for controversial hit

    Rangers’ Brendan Lemieux suspended two games for controversial hit

    So the number of games the depth-challenged Rangers will be without Brendan Lemieux for the qualifying series against Carolina is two. That’s the length of the harsh, but neither unfair nor unreasonable, suspension the NHL has handed down in the aftermath of the winger’s gratuitous elbow to the head of Colorado’s unsuspecting winger Joonas Donskoi …
  • Princess Eugenie filled with ‘joy’ at sister Princess Beatrice’s wedding

    Princess Eugenie filled with ‘joy’ at sister Princess Beatrice’s wedding

    Princess Eugenie shared a loving tribute to older sister Princess Beatrice after the royal wed Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on Friday. “Couldn’t Bea happier (get it)…,” Eugenie wrote on Instagram Monday, alongside a series of photos from her sister’s wedding day. “What a complete joy and privilege to watch you,” the 30-year-old royal wrote, “my beautiful …
  • Lindsay Lohan and ‘The Parent Trap’ cast to reunite for film’s anniversary

    Lindsay Lohan and ‘The Parent Trap’ cast to reunite for film’s anniversary

    Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid and the original cast of 1998’s “The Parent Trap” will reunite on July 20, director Nancy Meyers announced via her Instagram. The virtual reunion will be the first time the cast has gotten together since its release exactly 22 years ago. Meyers, who directed the remake wrote, “Sorry for the mini …
  • TikTok removes thousands of European coronavirus videos: report

    TikTok removes thousands of European coronavirus videos: report

    TikTok has reportedly taken down some 29,000 coronavirus videos in Europe as it works to control bogus information about the pandemic. The affected videos — about 3,000 of which contained “medical misinformation” — violated the popular app’s rules that prohibit false information that could be harmful to people’s health, CNBC reported Friday. But TikTok honcho …
  • Yankees glad DJ LeMahieu is set to return from coronavirus

    Yankees glad DJ LeMahieu is set to return from coronavirus

    Luke Voit saw DJ LeMahieu on Wednesday and was bubbling with excitement that the All-Star second baseman has made it back from COVID-19. Right-hander Luis Cessa, who like LeMahieu tested positive for COVID-19 and wasn’t allowed to be at Yankee Stadium for spring training 2.0 until testing negative twice, posted on Instagram Thursday that he …
  • Bruce Smith blames ‘Family Feud’ for penis blunder

    Bruce Smith blames ‘Family Feud’ for penis blunder

    Bruce Smith played in four straight Super Bowls, but nothing prepared him for the pressure of Celebrity Family Feud. In a recent appearance on the game show, the Hall of Famer initially responded to a question — what tool Captain Hook would use to replace the hook if the character was a handyman? — with …
  • Apple wins landmark battle with EU over $15 billion tax bill

    Apple wins landmark battle with EU over $15 billion tax bill

    Apple on Wednesday was handed a major victory by Europe’s second-highest court, which rejected a European Union order for the tech giant to pay $15 billion in back taxes. It is the culmination of a tax battle that has been raging since 2016, when the European Commission ruled that Apple had artificially reduced its tax …
  • Yankees pitchers slam ‘horrible’ new rule

    Yankees pitchers slam ‘horrible’ new rule

    Adam Ottavino isn’t a fan of a runner starting an extra-inning game on second base. And he has company in Chad Green and Jordan Montgomery. In Tuesday night’s intrasquad game, the Yankees put a runner on second several times. Ottavino started the top of the third inning with Tyler Wade on second. “It is not …
  • ‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga’ review: A hilarious parody

    ‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga’ review: A hilarious parody

    The annual Eurovision Song Contest is a fever dream like no other. A 50-ish-country competition to create the best tune, in past years it has featured scary horror masks, a Russian number saluting grandmas and a German ode to Genghis Khan. Hundreds of millions of people watch, and hardly any of the songs ever make …