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Nets overcame injury scare to sign Kevin Durant

LAS VEGAS _ For three years, Nets general manager Sean Marks laid the groundwork to have the salary-cap room to be competitive at the top level of the 2019 free-agent market while coach Kenny Atkinson developed the complementary pieces to attract star players. So imagine their shared horror while watching…

Newsday · Jul 9, 2019

Team USA arrives in New York for Canyon of Heroes parade

There were grins and there were cheers, big gold bottles of champagne and of course that swirling gold trophy, hoisted up in the air by Megan Rapinoe and then passed to Alex Morgan, who cradled it with deference.

Newsday · Jul 8, 2019

Pete Alonso, who aimed for Home Run Derby before the season, wins it

CLEVELAND _ For Pete Alonso, who has been rewriting the Mets' record books as a rookie, making the All-Star team and competing in the Home Run Derby were just a couple of items on his long list of goals. They were far from guarantees at season's start, but not exactly…

Newsday · Jul 8, 2019

What's new to stream in July on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and more

Netflix fave "Stranger Things" isn't the only biggie back in July. Soon joining it _ long-awaited revivals, final-season wrap-ups and unscripted takes on everything from fashion to football.

Newsday · Jul 5, 2019

Earthquake strikes during Knicks-Pelicans summer league game; Zion exits with knee soreness

LAS VEGAS _ While the debut of Zion Williamson was expected to shake up the NBA, he wasn't even on the floor when it actually began to shake at Thomas and Mack Center.

Newsday · Jul 5, 2019

'Chasing the Moon' review: PBS' powerful history of the Apollo program

The single most emotional moment of "Chasing the Moon" _ a sweeping six-hour history of the Apollo program beginning Monday _ also happens to be the loudest. Three miles away from the Cape Kennedy launchpad the percussive boom arrives, knocking Walter Cronkite right out of the anchor chair. Someone is…

Newsday · Jul 5, 2019

Mets' Jeff McNeil on judging Joey Chestnut's latest win: 'It was kind of gross'

NEW YORK _ Jeff McNeil almost could not conceive of the competitive display in front of him.

Newsday · Jul 5, 2019

Yankees' Gleyber Torres added to All-Star team

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. _ Gleyber Torres is an American League All-Star after all.

Newsday · Jul 4, 2019

Knicks canceled Kawhi meeting . . . was that the right move?

Knicks executives have arrived in Las Vegas, their work in free agency complete, with six new faces signed up to try to change the fortunes of the team. But it isn't the Summer League schedule that will determine whether they actually did their work right.

Newsday · Jul 4, 2019

Pete Alonso gets Home Run Derby advice from past winners Todd Frazier, Robinson Cano

If the Home Run Derby looks like mere fun and games, that's OK, because, well, it is fun and games. All of the All-Stars, children by their sides, fill foul territory. Tens of thousands of fans fill the stands. Homer landing spots turn into mosh pits. Everyone gawks at the…

Newsday · Jul 4, 2019