21+ min ago (385+ words) Mikal Bridges tried to be humble, claiming he didn't do a great job guarding Brandon Ingram. But then Miles McBride chimed in from the locker next to him, praising Bridges' effort. "You did great," McBride said. That was a more accurate representation of Bridges' showing. Ingram has been a central reason the Raptors have been one of the NBA's surprise teams of the season. But he had more turnovers than made field goals Sunday night during the Knicks' 116-94 win at Madison Square Garden. Bridges was at the heart of it. He primarily matched up against Ingram and held him to just 14 points on 4-for-11 shooting from the field. There's been just two games this year in which Ingram scored fewer than 14 points. He also had five turnovers Sunday and was a game-worst minus-22. "Guys like Ingram, it's really hard to…...

24+ min ago (576+ words) A Minnesota CEO accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars is expected to plead guilty to the scheme that "could make a TV movie," according to reports and prosecutors. Jonathan Weinhagen, the CEO of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, has been accused of embezzling over $200,000 from the organization and using the funds to splurge on an oceanfront stay in Hawaii, among other things, according to the Star Tribune and court records obtained by The Post. Weinhagen, 42, who was hit with federal charges in October, is expected to plead guilty to five counts of fraud for the embezzlement case " where the rising star allegedly created a fictional company, a phony obituary and stole from a $30,000 chamber donation to a Crime Stoppers reward fund, according to the outlet and court records. "When I first heard about it, it was like…...

57+ min ago (1184+ words) FBI Director Kash Patel is facing withering criticism from an alliance of active-duty and retired agents and analysts, days after the White House denied media reports that the president is about to fire him. A troubling new report card on the first six months of Patel's leadership concludes he is "in over his head" and'his deputy, Dan Bongino, is "something of a clown," according to the alliance, which in two previous reports warned about crippling DEI and politicization of the FBI during the Biden administration. The Patel-led FBI is described in the 115-page report as a "rudderless ship" and "all f'ked up." Patel is described by multiple internal sources as inexperienced, with one source saying he "has neither the breadth of experience nor the bearing an FBI director needs to be successful." Another source, a self-professed Trump supporter, said Patel…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago (385+ words) Where there's a will there's a way. That was basically captain J.T. Miller's assessment Saturday of the Rangers' missing ingredient as their confounding struggles at the Garden continue. Mika Zibanejad doesn't necessarily see it that way, however, saying after the Blueshirts fell to 2-8-1 on home ice with a 4-1 loss to the Lightning that he believes effort and will are only part of the problem. They also need to rediscover their creativity and their swagger offensively. "But we're just not doing anything. It just becomes meh. You can talk about will, you can talk about how much you want it, but, like, you just have to find a way to just let loose and just go play. That's at least how I feel at times. It's just not hockey. We have to find a way to make plays and play with a…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago (341+ words) Rick Pitino has a point when it comes to college football. The St. John's men's basketball head coach sees a broken college football system, and tweeted about it amid Lane Kiffin's latest ongoing drama in making the jump from Ole Miss to LSU. Kiffin led Ole Miss to an 11-1 season and a No. 7 ranking in the country, which firmly earns them a spot in the College Football Playoff. But because he's taking the job to coach LSU following the school's decision to part ways with Brian Kelly earlier this year, Kiffin won't actually coach the University of Mississippi in the playoff. Pitino said in a post on X, that while he's not knocking football, he thinks their rules may need some looking into. "I'm not knocking football," Pitino posted. "But there's something wrong with their calendar. I'm at SJU and…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago (843+ words) The US is already fighting a war against Venezuela " in the form of drug traffickers and narco-terrorists, whose poisons kill more Americans in a year than died in Vietnam, Sen. Dave McCormick warned on Sunday. McCormick (R-Pa.) underscored the thousands of American deaths from drug traffickers while defending President Trump's declaration Saturday that Venezuela airspace is closed " as ramped up pressure om the regime. "We have a war that's coming through fentanyl, through opioids, through cocaine. It killed 100,000 Americans last year. That's twice the number of people that died in eight years of Vietnam " 4,000 Pennsylvanians," he told "Fox News Sunday." "When President Trump was running, he and I both campaigned on the same thing, which was [to] secure the border, designate the cartels as narco-terrorists, and use our military in a strategic-focused way to destroy this cartel infrastructure," McCormick added....

1+ hour, 28+ min ago (203+ words) Heroes, zeros and the full blitz from the Jets" 27-24 win over the Falcons at MetLife Stadium on Sunday: Jets veteran quarterback Tyrod Taylor was a leader in every respect, finding ways all day. He completed 19-of-33 for 172 yards and a touchdown, and he rushed for 44 yards and scored a TD. His 52-yard TD pass to Adonai Mitchell tied the game at 14-14 in the third quarter and his 10-yard TD run tied it at 24-24 late in the fourth. Jets receiver Adonai Mitchell, acquired at the trade deadline as a throw-in, caught eight passes for 102 yards and that 52-yard TD from Taylor, his first NFL TD reception. Falcons cornerback and kick returner Jamal Agnew muffed a punt that was recovered by Jets DB Quan"tez Stiggers at the Atlanta 2-yard line and gifted the Jets their first TD of the game in…...

1+ hour, 39+ min ago (95+ words) Sunday will always be a part of Lane Kiffin's legacy " the day he turned his back on his championship-caliber Ole Miss team. Lane Kiffin can stack national championship trophies in Baton Rouge. He can produce NFL first-round picks by the dozen. He can go on to become one of the all-time winningest coaches in college football history. Sunday will always be a part of his legacy " the day he turned his back on his championship-caliber team, saw a group capable of winning it all, and took the money and ran anyway....

1+ hour, 45+ min ago (478+ words) A California mass shooting that left three children and a young adult dead at a little girl's birthday party was gang-related, according to the town's mayor. A total of 15 victims were struck when the "deadly chaos unfolded just before 6 p.m. on Saturday at Monkey Space, a banquet hall in Stockton, roughly 40 miles south of Sacramento, Fox40 reported. Stockton Mayor Christina Fugazi'told the outlet the shooting was related to gang violence, labeling the tragic incident "domestic terrorism." "Let's call it what it is. This is domestic terrorism. This is gang violence, and it has to stop in our city," Fugazi told the outlet. She also added that President Donald Trump's advisers had called her early Sunday to offer their assistance " and that she has asked the US District Attorney to find the gunman who remains on the lam. The White House did not…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago (843+ words) Folk hero, Part Deux. Somewhere, Rex Ryan is smiling. Years after Jets kicker Nick Folk was nicknamed that by Ryan when he was the Jets head coach and Folk was in his first stint with the team, Folk rammed a low, driving 56-yard game-winning field goal on the last play of the game to deliver the Jets a stirring 27-24 victory at MetLife Stadium. The Falcons had taken a 24-17 lead on a 9-yard scoring pass from Kirk Cousins to former Giants receiver David Sills V with 8:46 remaining in the game. On the play, Jets cornerback Ja'Sir Taylor was completely deked by Sills, who'd caught the ball in the right flat. For Sills, who spent 2021-22 with the Giants, he scored his first NFL touchdown last week and Sunday was his second. The Jets tied the game at 24-24 with 1:53 remaining in the fourth…...