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Baseball offseason nearly over, but questions remain

We won’t con you. The main events of this baseball offseason have concluded. Bud Selig removed Alex Rodriguez from the game for a full season. Robinson Cano, Jacoby Ellsbury and Shin-Soo Choo secured...

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US looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying

WASHINGTON — The US government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans’ phone records. As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of...

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Christie: Super Bowl is in Jersey!

Yo, let’s be clear about one thing. The Super Bowl is in New Jersey. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made that point in a tongue-and-cheek manner Monday at an appearance at the Boys & Girls Club in...

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Calif. gallery duo cops to hawking fake Damien Hirst works

A pair of California art scammers pleaded guilty Monday to selling hundreds of thousands of dollars of counterfeit Damien Hirst artwork out of their Laguna Beach art gallery. Vincent Lopreto, 48, and...

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Giants, Jets owners eye ‘cold’ Bowl every 10 years

Super Bowl XLVIII hasn’t even been played yet, but owners of the Giants and Jets are so convinced it will be a success they hope to host one every 10 years. They also see the first open-air Super Bowl...

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There’s dumb, and then there’s Super Bowl Media Day dumb

Think of Super Bowl Media Day as the first reality TV show. It’s “Jersey Shore” and “Real Housewives” with a dash of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.” It’s Twitter gone crazy. It’s the day the NFL jumps the...

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Reeling Islanders fall to Bruins for third straight loss

So the line in the sand might instead be drawn in snow, as the Islanders have very quickly run out of excuses and are quickly running out of time as Wednesday night’s outdoor game at Yankee Stadium...

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Goofy ‘Stop Hitting Yourself’ falls short overall

One look at the decadent ’30s mansion where “Stop Hitting Yourself” is set, and it’s hard not to gasp. A giant dollar sign flashes in the background, melted cheese is pouring from a fountain and...

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The ‘war on women’ sinks to a new low

Mike Huckabee just became a field general in the war on women. He inadvertently won his promotion with one sentence at the Republican National Committee winter meeting. To wit: “If the Democrats want...

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John Kerry’s make-believe foreign policy

Peddling his “new diplomacy” to business leaders from across the globe in Davos, Switzerland, the other day, Secretary of State John Kerry said there is no term to accurately describe it, although...

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Nets lose heartbreaker to Raptors, 104-103

All the Nets needed to do was make an inbounds pass. Instead, they threw away the game. Deron Williams’ pass intended for Joe Johnson was picked off with 10.6 seconds by Patrick Patterson, who then...

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5 of the best celebrity-inspired hashtags

The latest trend in social media? Celebrity-inspired hashtags. Because you can’t really be a true A-lister until you’ve trended on Twitter, we rounded up some of the best hashtag memes brought to you...

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Democrats stacked Bridgegate panel

Instead of getting to the truth of the Bridgegate affair, the new Legislative Select Committee on Investigation is looking more likely to obscure or distort the facts. I voted in favor of forming the...

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The president’s ‘inequality’ absurdities

President Obama’s State of the Union Address is expected to focus heavily on income inequality. Swiping rather liberally from Mayor de Blasio’s playbook, the president will likely imply that the reason...

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Something cheesy in Philly — and it isn’t steak

There was a distinct impression in the Philadelphia office of the Census Bureau that someone wanted the unemployment rate to drop in the months before the 2012 presidential election, according to a...

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Bat Clemens threw at Piazza in World Series for sale

Fans of baseball history and woodworking will soon have quite an enviable piece of memorabilia to bid on. The remaining barrel of the bat Roger Clemens threw at Mike Piazza during the 2000 World Series...

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Sherman ‘Nets’ courtside seats at Brooklyn game

Richard Sherman’s close-up in New York began with a front-row seat in Brooklyn. The Seahawks cornerback, who became a national talking point for his postgame rant in praise of himself and critical of...

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Mom, grandma root for Broncos star Thomas from prison

It is a Southern drawl that wishes it could sing outside so the world could hear how proud she is of her son, Demaryius Thomas, five days away from playing in a Super Bowl. But this will have to do for...

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Fireman’s new hot property

One of the city’s most successful restaurateurs has laid claim to a giant space that was long run by another titan of the eatery business. Shelly Fireman, creator of long-running, mid-priced Italian...

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Super Bowl ticket prices plummet

So much for being the most expensive Super Bowl ever. With ticket prices in a freefall, seats for Sunday’s MetLife Stadium matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos could end up being the...

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