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Two months ago, college basketball guru Dick Vitale lobbied on his Twitter account for Rick Pitino to land the Knicks job. Iona got there first. Despite Pitino’s baggage from an NCAA-related FBI investigation, a Knicks redux wouldn’t have been such an oddball choice. After all, Pitino was ahead of his time in the NBA when …

Fashion brands and celebrities alike are continuing to step up to help coronavirus relief efforts. Many, like Ralph Lauren, Kim Kardashian and Donatella Versace, have made sizable donations to the cause, while Rita Ora launched charitable merch with the World Health Organization; plenty of fashion designers, meanwhile, are manufacturing masks and other personal protective equipment …

Call it déjà view. Khloé Kardashian and ex Tristan Thompson appear to be back on good terms, despite last year’s infamous cheating scandal. However, reliving the past drama by watching the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” premiere is still “awkward,” the reality star admits. “I love that tristan is watching this premiere with me and …

Angeline Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s eldest son, Maddox Jolie-Pitt, has moved back in with his mom and siblings amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 18-year-old’s freshman year at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea was cut short — like it was for many students around the globe — as world governments work to stop the spread …

Big Ben thinks his big beard is making people think he looks like a big fatty. Ben Roethlisberger promises he will shave the hipster-esque facial hair he revealed in a Twitter video last week as soon as he’s ready to return to the playing field. But the rehabbing Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback insists he has remained …

Carson Daly was able to be in the delivery room with his wife, Siri Daly, on Thursday, but their baby’s birth was still impacted by new hospital restrictions surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday morning, Carson, 46, appeared on the “Today” show from his home, telling his colleagues that he was not permitted to stay …

President Trump tweeted early Friday morning that he had “a very good” phone call about coronavirus with Chinese President Xi Jinping, signaling a more conciliatory tone between the two countries despite heightened tensions arising from competing accusations of culpability for the onset of the virus. “China has been through much & has developed a strong …

Kathy Griffin was hospitalized in an isolation ward room with “unbearably painful” symptoms that she said could have been related to the novel coronavirus. In two photos Griffin posted to Twitter Wednesday, she showed the room where she is staying — one with her nose and mouth covered by a mask. “I was sent to …

The 2020 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo will be postponed until next year, the International Olympic Committee announced after a formal request from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to delay the event because of the global coronavirus outbreak. “The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the outbreak has seen the situation in the rest of the world deteriorating,” read …

Carl Icahn is betting big against shopping malls — to the tune of $5 billion, The Post has learned. Since last summer, the 84-year-old investor has been throwing money at a complex trade that stands to make him billions if big shopping centers start defaulting on their debt. The trade is considered risky, and even …