• Zion Williamson factor shaping NBA’s coronavirus return

    Zion Williamson factor shaping NBA’s coronavirus return

    The NBA doesn’t want to restart its season without its brightest young star. According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst on The Hoop Collective, the league may dismiss the idea of playing as many as 90 regular season games and go right to group-stage type opening round because it will give Zion Williamson and the Pelicans a …
  • Meet the doctor who changed Dorinda Medley’s life

    Meet the doctor who changed Dorinda Medley’s life

    Dorinda Medley is bettering herself with the help of Dr. Daryl Gioffre. The “Real Housewives of New York” star, 55, first met the health coach, who’s also a chiropractor and an alkaline diet expert, through a friend, and while she let viewers in on one of their sessions during last week’s episode of the hit …
  • Baseball may never fully recover if it loses season this way

    Baseball may never fully recover if it loses season this way

    This? This is different. We of a certain age still bear the scars of past labor wars, all sports. The World Series was called off in 1994. The entire NHL season of 2004-05 was canceled, every inch of it, as if the calendar were simply wiped clean. The official NFL record book is littered with …
  • 2020 MTV VMAs may happen Aug. 30 in Brooklyn

    2020 MTV VMAs may happen Aug. 30 in Brooklyn

    MTV is currently working with numerous government and health agencies in hopes of mounting its annual Video Music Awards live from New York this August, Variety can report exclusively. The show is eyeing an Aug. 30 broadcast date from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center for its 36th edition of the VMAs, where MTV honors the best in …
  • Justin Theroux accuses NYC neighbor of spousal abuse amid court war

    Justin Theroux accuses NYC neighbor of spousal abuse amid court war

    Actor Justin Theroux has accused his neighbor of domestic abuse for the second time in his ongoing court battle with the man. Theroux claims that lawyer and downstairs neighbor Norman Resnicow — who he’s been in a bitter co-op war with for three years — on four occasions since the coronavirus lockdown has verbally berated …
  • Coronavirus turns financial advisers into grief counselors for families who lose loves ones

    Coronavirus turns financial advisers into grief counselors for families who lose loves ones

    Most people would assume that financial planners only manage money. But advisers often see themselves as having a responsibility to help people manage their emotions. Financial planners are particularly active in this role lately, and not just because clients express fear and uncertainty about their stock portfolios. Some advisers are losing clients to COVID-19. The …
  • Coronavirus relief funds went to firms that avoided US taxes

    Coronavirus relief funds went to firms that avoided US taxes

    Last month Zagg Inc, a Utah-based company that makes mobile device accessories, received more than $9.4 million in cash from a US government program that has provided emergency loans to millions of businesses hit by the coronavirus. The money was part of the $660 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) — a linchpin of President Trump’s …
  • Champagne sales go flat as Americans stop celebrating during coronavirus

    Champagne sales go flat as Americans stop celebrating during coronavirus

    With absolutely nothing to pop the bubbly over during the coronavirus pandemic, Champagne sales are fizzling out. The widespread closure of restaurants and bars — not to mention cancelled events such as weddings, bar mitzvahs and sporting occasions — are causing the bottom to fall out of the market. Despite other types of booze seeing …
  • AstraZeneca may expose coronavirus vaccine participants to pathogen

    AstraZeneca may expose coronavirus vaccine participants to pathogen

    The chief executive of AstraZeneca, which is developing a leading coronavirus vaccine with Oxford University, said it is too early to deliberately expose trial participants to the pathogen, but it may become an option if ongoing tests hit a snag. The British drugmaker last week started phase 2 and 3 trials of the vaccine, looking …
  • How to save money during the pandemic, according to finance guru Nicole Lapin

    How to save money during the pandemic, according to finance guru Nicole Lapin

    With the coronavirus putting a damper on social gatherings — from international travel to dining out —  there’s never been a better time to save. Simple steps from rethinking subscriptions to negotiating bills can help consumers shore up their finances even as the pandemic ravages the economy, personal finance guru Nicole Lapin tells The Post. …