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MLB great announces divorce days after wife's brain surgery Albert Pujols announced Monday that he and wife Deidre are splitting up, days after she underwent successful surgery to remove a brain tumor.

THE NEWSREADER has been renewed for another season, to be set in 1987.

And there's Chaz Bono, whose situation changes about once a decade.

Kathy Hochul needlessly handing $850M to Buffalo Bills, legal experts say Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $850 million handout for a new Buffalo Bills stadium has bewildered experts, who say a recent, headline-grabbing legal case involving the Los Angeles Rams sets a strong precedent that could enable New York to cut a better deal. This week, Gov. Hochul announced the eye-popping sweetener from taxpayers, which will amount to the most public money ever spent on building a US stadium. The New York State Assembly will consider in the next few weeks whether to approve the $600 million from the state as part of the 2022 budget. Erie County is providing the other $250 million. Meanwhile, insiders point out that New York is taking on the massive tab despite the fact that in November, the city of St. Louis won a $790 million settlement in a suit against the NFL and Rams owner Stan Kroenke for moving the franchise to Los Angeles without first engaging in “good-faith” negotiations to stay put. A year after the NFL granted Kroenke the right to move the Rams to Los Angeles, officials for St. Louis, St. Louis County and the government entity that owns the stadium sued the NFL and Kroenke, citing league relocation guidelines it claimed require teams “to work diligently and in good faith to obtain and maintain suitable stadium facilities in their home territories.” Cities including Oakland, Calif. in the past have sued the NFL for moving teams over antitrust issues but not the NFL’s own relocation policy. The windfall for St. Louis — which had sued for $1 billion in 2017 and whose case had been slated to go to trial in January — has sparked an intense debate on whether Kroenke should foot the entire bill himself or whether other NFL team owners should also pony up. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has created an ad-hoc committee of owners to hash it out. Whoever ends up paying, it’s clear that the NFL wouldn’t be enthusiastic about another such case, notes Mark Rosentraub, a sports management professor at the University of Michigan who has done extensive research on public funding for sports facilities. “That settlement told me the NFL didn’t want to go to court,” Rosentraub said. “That is evidence if Buffalo put forth a real proposal it would be hard for the Bills to move since we know you can challenge the NFL. It is not a hypothetical.” In particular, NFL teams — the Buffalo Bills included — face the awkward fact that they effectively are granted monopolies by local governments in their respective markets. In exchange, it can become complicated for a franchise to pick up and move to another market, Rosentraub said. “We disagree with this flawed legal analysis, and the conclusion that Buffalo should be more like St. Louis — a city with no football team,” a spokesperson for Gov. Hochul told The Post in a statement. Privately, sources close to the situation say Hochul’s team never spoke to the St. Louis legal team to inform their negotiations with the Bills’ billionaire owner Terry Pegula. Hochul’s team claimed it was aware of the Kroenke case, but felt that it was a different situation because Kroenke allegedly misrepresented his intentions to St. Louis, according to the sources. Nevertheless, Gov. Hochul’s largesse to the Bills has baffled bystanders including Michael Agguire, a California-based attorney who on Jan. 25 sued the NFL and the Los Angeles Chargers in San Diego Superior Court for moving the team in 2017 to LA from San Diego. “It is kind of surprising if Governor Hochul didn’t reach out to the St. Louis lawyers and speak about her options,” Agguire told The Post. “The St. Louis result basically means cities now have a Magna Carta that protects them from unreasonable demands from the NFL monopoly. St. Louis opened up a whole new corridor of cases.” Responding to the suggestion that the Bills would have a hard time moving, a Pegula Sports Entertainment spokesman told The Post: “Relocation could have been a very real possibility if the governor had not worked so hard to get everyone to the table.” The governor’s spokesperson added that “The Buffalo Bills franchise is a proven economic driver for the Buffalo region and the state,” noting that it generates $27 million annually in direct income, sales and use taxes for New York State, Erie County and Buffalo. The governor’s office predicts that those revenues will total $1.6 billion over a 30-year lease period and bring more than $385 million to the Buffalo area each year. https://nypost.com/2022/03/31/kathy-hochul-needlessly-handing-850m-to-buffalo-bills-legal-experts-say/

Google employees in the Bay Area are unhappy over the company’s plans to remove heated bidet toilets from the office premises. ASSHOLES! BUTTHEADS! PARTY POOPERS! ASSWIPES! The tech giant started removing the Toto-branded toilet seats because they were in violation of California’s code for commercial buildings, according to Protocol, which reportedly saw a maintenance ticket ordering the removals. Company staffers took to the internal meme generator to complain about the new policy, with one worker noting: “The removal of bidets in the office is my #2 issue with RTO,” referring to returning to the office. Edgar Tovar, who handles maintenance at company facilities, told staffers that the bidet removal “has the added benefit of supporting Google’s water sustainability commitments.” “Many of our buildings are migrating to recycled water systems which cannot support bidets,” he wrote. Bidet toilets are specially outfitted so that those who need to go to the bathroom can have a stream of water strategically aimed at the relevant areas. The word “bidet” is French for “pony” or “small horse” — which is appropriate since the use of a bidet requires one to straddle it as if riding a four-legged animal. Proponents of bidets argue that it would be beneficial for the environment since it would save trees that are needed to be cut down in order to produce toilet paper. In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, sales of bidets skyrocketed as shoppers started panic-buying toilet paper. Google employees will be required to return to the company’s offices for at least three days of in-person work per week starting on April 4, the company said earlier this month. https://nypost.com/2022/03/25/google-gets-rid-of-heated-bidet-toilets-for-employees/

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WHEN HE WAKES up in the morning, Josh Hart is greeted by a smiling family. Every morning he opens his eyes and looks at the wall in his bedroom, where he sees a wedding photo and a picture of a newborn baby. Except it isn't from his wedding. And it isn't his kid (he doesn't have any). The pictures hanging on the wall of the Portland home are of Larry Nance Jr., his wife Hailey and their daughter. And that's just the way Nance wants it. "Oh I told them he can't take that off," Nance told ESPN. "Every morning he's gotta tell me good morning." Nance and Hart -- once teammates with the Los Angeles Lakers -- were on opposite ends of the Feb. 8 deal that sent CJ McCollum to the New Orleans Pelicans, with Nance and Tony Snell also going to New Orleans, while Hart, Didi Louzada, Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Tomas Satoransky became Portland Trail Blazers. Instead of being reunited, as they'd hoped, the two were passing each other in the air. And while they couldn't help each other on the court, there was one thing they could do to make the transition easier: swap houses. HART AND NANCE became close friends when the two played for the Lakers. Nance had purchased a house in the Portland area upon being dealt there last summer, while Hart owned a home in the New Orleans area, having played there for the past three seasons. Nance, who has a year left on his contract, wasn't planning on buying a home in New Orleans when he could be on the move again next summer (or even sooner if another trade materializes). Hart, who has two non-guaranteed years left on his contract, was in a similar situation in Portland. That's when the idea to swap homes -- at least temporarily -- materialized. When Hart made it to Portland, he checked out Nance's digs and reported back that he liked what he saw. "Yeah, I know it's nice, I'm living there, man," Nance joked. Nance sent movers to pack up some of the essential items in the house -- he left the couches and TVs -- so Hart could make room for some of his belongings. "I'm gonna be honest with you, I have no idea what they took out of the house [in New Orleans]," Nance said. "I guess just the immediate essentials. There's a lot of their stuff still in there. We tried to be a little more courteous and take most of our stuff outta there." Nance, who got married with only immediate family present in 2018, said if he'd had groomsmen, Hart would have been one of them. The day Nance was traded to Portland seven months ago, he was headed to stand in Hart's wedding. And while the next trade didn't make them teammates again, they'll still enjoy their friendship -- and their houses. "That's a relationship I'll have way beyond basketball," Nance said. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33568309/what-happens-best-friends-traded-other-middle-nba-season

I haven't been in a supermarket since covid cases started ticking up in September. It just makes more sense to get things delivered, especially since the store seems to have gotten into the habit of paying me to take free food from them. 2 deliveries ago I ordered 15 2-liter bottles of Coke Zero. The website glitched, and they wound up charging me -2.35 (negative 2.35) on the invoice. (I still had to pay the 75 cent deposit fee.) Then this past Wed, I ordered some Progresso soup; they were having a promotion that you get $6.95 off your delivery fee if you order a certain amount of soup, so I did, even though it wasn't on sale and the regular price is outrageous (I was in the mood for soup). The $6.95 credit was denoted in a bit of a confusing way on the invoice, so I thought I hadn't gotten it. I called customer service and the rep put me on hold to investigate. As soon as he did that I saw the credit, but when he came back on the line he hadn't see it either, so he credited me $6.95 on my credit card. As a result, I got the 3 overpriced cans free, plus $2.63 off my delivery. AND... you earn one point for every dollar spent, and can redeem them in increments of 100 for money off your order. I only had 100 points available, so I redeemed them, and $1.00 came off my order... but the website still shows that dollar as available to be applied to my next order, as well. I may never set foot in a supermarket again...

What's your point?

As Diana Ross sings, “You can’t hurry love” — or, apparently, a stumped “Jeopardy!” contestant. A couple of competitors during Monday night’s episode were supremely embarrassed following their mutual loss during Final Jeopardy. The clue given: “In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material.” The correct answer: Tony Bennett, who released “Love for Sale” last year with Lady Gaga, earning him the record-breaking title. Unfortunately for contestants Karen Johnson, who put down $7,401 of her $15,400 cash, and defending champion Finn Corrigan, who offered up his whole $11,400 pot, the answer was not their guess of Diana Ross — who is, by the way, just 77 years young. Player Margaret Chipowsky, however, did nail the answer, wagering $9,000 of her $9,800 earnings and bringing her total to $18,800. An embarrassed Johnson later sent her “deepest apologies” to the legendary R&B singer on Twitter for the gaffe. “I didn’t really think you were the answer, but was running out of time and had to put something! ,” she tweeted on Tuesday. Corrigan, who lost everything with his big bet, echoed Johnson’s defense. “Me too!” he wrote. “I knew she was not nearly that old but better to write something than nothing. Just glad we’re in this together hahahaha.” The former Supremes founder did release an album of new music last year, called “Thank You.” She also earned a Guinness World Records title in 1993 with the lofty title “Most Successful Female Singer of All Time” — not too shabby for a woman whose 78th birthday comes this Saturday, March 26. https://nypost.com/2022/03/24/jeopardy-contestants-apologize-to-diana-ross-for-supreme-age-insult/

Thank God we never have to see any of those teens again! I just wish one (or more) had died a gruesome death. The Bhullar storyline has grown on me, other than the teens' involvement.

He is so much more than that. He's a father, brother, pilot, sweathog...

Rachel Balkovec, hired by the New York Yankees as the first woman to manage a minor league affiliate of a Major League Baseball team, was hit in the face by a batted ball during a drill and will be sidelined for up to a week. Balkovec was struck Tuesday. She will not be available for her first scheduled spring training game Thursday with Class A Tampa. The 34-year-old Balkovec didn't sustain a concussion but has facial swelling, the Yankees said Wednesday. She was involved in a hitting drill in an indoor cage at the minor league complex when she was hurt. Balkovec has been instructed by team doctors to rest for the next five to seven days. She will be re-examined after the swelling goes down. "All things considered, I feel very fortunate," Balkovec said in a statement. "The doctors have asked me to be smart about limiting my activities over the next several days, and I plan on following their guidance. As much as I already miss being around the players and staff, I do not anticipate this affecting my role and responsibilities for the regular season." Balkovec is scheduled to manage her first regular-season game on April 8 at Lakeland. Balkovec has broken several barriers on her way to the position. She was the first woman to serve as a full-time minor league strength and conditioning coach, then the first to be a full-time hitting coach in the minors with the Yankees. The Yankees announced her hiring as a minor league manager in January. "The players that I've worked with, whether they like me, they don't like me, they like what I'm saying, they don't like what I'm saying, I do feel like they respect me," she said during her introduction following the hire.

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have reached a tentative agreement to bring the extra-innings ghost runner back for the 2022 season, reports Joel Sherman of the New York Post. Additionally, they have agreed to expand active rosters from 26 to 28 players this season until May 1. The league’s 30 owners need to vote next week to officially ratify the conditions, but Sherman writes that only a simple majority is needed and the provisions aren’t expected to have any issue passing. Neither development is especially surprising, as reports emerged a couple weeks ago that both were under consideration. The lockout lingered into the second week of March, compressing the Spring Training schedule by two weeks even with the start of the regular season pushed back eight days. The concern is that the shortened ramp-up period might not afford enough time for players to get ready to shoulder a typical regular season workload. By adding a couple players in the early going and limiting the potential for marathon games, the league and union will give managers some extra flexibility in keeping playing time in check. Sherman adds there won’t be any restrictions on the number of pitchers teams can carry in April. MLB is instituting its 13-pitcher limit this year. That rule change was originally slated to go into effect in 2020, but MLB scrapped it in each of the past two seasons due to concerns about overworking arms while teams were facing the possibility of COVID-19 outbreaks on their rosters. That’ll eventually be a challenge for clubs, but they’ll have some extra leeway on the mound for the first couple weeks of the season.

A North Carolina dog has been abandoned after his owners saw him humping another male pooch and feared he might be gay, animal rescuers said. Fezco was dropped off at the Stanly County Animal Protective Services, a shelter in Albemarle, which is seeking a foster home and a new family for the 50-pound dog, WCCB reported. The shelter claimed his owners were aghast when they saw Fezco mounting another male dog — a common canine behavior that is not necessarily sexual in nature, the outlet reported. The black and brown dog, who is believed to be about 4 or 5 years old, is friendly to other animals and people, the shelter said.

Not yet, but... John Travolta is ready to “Grease” the landing. among other things?!?!? The “Saturday Night Fever” star revealed via Instagram on Sunday that he upped his aeronautical credentials and is now licensed to fly a 737 airplane. “A very proud moment in my aviation history,” Travolta, 68, said in a video. “To add to my 747 and 707 licenses, I just received my 737 license, and it went very well, so just sharing my moment with you.” Travolta’s famous friends were quick to congratulate him on his achievement in the comments section, with Mötley Crüe rocker Tommy Lee writing, “Ata boy captain.” “So very cool,” added Donnie Wahlberg.” Travolta, who learned how to fly a plane when he was just 15 years old, received his first pilot license in 1978. He owns at least seven planes including a Boeing 707, Bombardier Challenger 601, Boeing 727 and three Gulfstream jets. Not a bad outcome for a sweathog! Aviation has always served as an escape for Travolta, who even has a private runway for his planes at home in Florida. “Aviation has always bailed me out of anything in my mind that is blue,” Travolta told CBS News in 2008. “I can look through an airline schedule and brochure and cheer up.” Additionally, Travolta has been an ambassador for Qantas since 2002. He regularly celebrates “National Aviation Day” by sharing selfies – taken from 30,000 feet up – with his 3.8 million followers. He should've embraced his baldness years ago; he looks great!