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Three Things to Watch for As Baseball Returns

Today is a great day. I’m listening to “Take It Easy” as I begin this newsletter, temperatures in Brooklyn are in the 50s, and all of us get to look forward to some baseball. This paragraph is the last in which I’ll mention the lockout in this introduction section. You…

Sports Illustrated

After 2 days of ACC drama, UNC finally arrives in Brooklyn and finds none in easy win

NEW YORK -- Through the first 10 games of the 69th ACC tournament, the one essential truth of this event had been proven yet again. No matter where you play it, in Brooklyn or Charlotte or wherever, and whether the league has three No. 1 seeds or is as down…

Tribune News Service

2022 NBA draft race: March 11 update for Rockets, Nets picks

With two straight wins, including an emphatic one on Thursday over former teammate James Harden and the 76ers, Brooklyn seems to have stopped its slide for the time being.

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Brooklyn serial killer, 83, charged with murder after cops find woman’s severed head in apartment

NEW YORK — An 83-year-old serial killer was charged with second-degree murder after a woman’s severed head was found in the transgender suspect’s apartment, prosecutors said Thursday.

Tribune News Service

18-Year-Old Courtney Burnett Is Redefining the Skateboarder Stereotype

The Brooklyn native talks about how the pandemic and a gap year after graduating high school helped her discover her passion.

Sports Illustrated

ACC Tournament: Boston College vs Pittsburgh, live stream, TV channel, time, NCAA college basketball

The Boston College Eagles will meet the Pitt Panthers in the ACC Tournament on Tuesday afternoon from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Tributes pour in for Irish woman found dead in Brooklyn as NYPD continue investigation

The 51-year-old will be laid to rest on Wednesday in her hometown of Castleblayney as NYPD officers continue their investigations into her death

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Kyrie Irving ‘Grateful’ NYC Mayor Eric Adams is On His Side Regarding Return to Nets Home Games

The Nets point guard is hoping to play in Brooklyn before the season comes to a close.

Sports Illustrated

Luke DeCock: NC State’s last stand has arrived. In Brooklyn, Wolfpack tries to extend 2022 season.

NEW YORK — Casey Morsell alone on the N.C. State roster can claim to have never lost an ACC tournament game, although it’s a very thin distinction.

Tribune News Service

How we met: ‘I told him he had to get rid of his girlfriends before I’d go out with him’

Bronwyn, 60, met Sean, 57, after he wrote to the radio station where she had a show. They have been married since 1991

The Guardian - UK

2022 NBA draft race: March 7 update for Rockets, Nets picks

Thanks to a monster game on Sunday by Boston’s Jayson Tatum, the outlook for Brooklyn’s first-round pick (due to Houston) in the 2022 NBA draft continues to improve.

USA Today Sports Media Group

This You Gotta See: Big Ten, Big East, ACC go tournament wild as Selection Sunday nears

Can Northwestern make some noise in Indy? Or DePaul in New York? Maybe Notre Dame can win the whole thing in Brooklyn?

Chicago Sun-Times

Cuomo goes on offensive in Brooklyn church speech

NEW YORK — Former New Yorker Gov. Andrew Cuomo took his attempted comeback tour to a Brooklyn church Sunday, where he claimed he was the victim of “political sharks” in his first in-person speech since leaving office.

Tribune News Service

The New York trial that has it all: Hollywood, megayachts, giant sums of money

The 1MDB swindle is one of the most remarkable cases to hit New York’s justice system in years – and the trial has had some surprising moments

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USA Today Sports Media Group

2022 NBA draft race: March 6 update for Rockets, Nets picks

Sunday is an important day to watch for 2022 NBA draft purposes, since Houston (home vs. Memphis) and Brooklyn (at Boston) are both in action. Here’s where things stand going in.

Reuters

In New York's 'Little Odessa,' Ukrainians see Russians as neighbors, not enemies

In just one day, Inga Sokolnikova filled two rooms in her beauty salon in New York City's Brighton Beach with donated diapers, clothes and medical supplies for her native country of Ukraine.

Miami Herald

Heat escapes with short-handed win over Nets behind Adebayo, Herro

NEW YORK — There was so much working against the Miami Heat in Brooklyn: The Heat’s fifth game in seven nights while missing three starters against a Nets team welcoming back superstar Kevin Durant from injury.

Tribune News Service

Brooklyn judge rejects bail bid by accused Jam Master Jay killer

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn judge rejected a bid for release Thursday by the man accused of shooting Run-DMC deejay Jam Master Jay to death in his Queens studio nearly 20 years ago.

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The Independent UK

Hochul rallies support for to-go sales of cocktails

New York could legalize to-go sales of cocktails, bottles of wine and other alcoholic beverages under a proposal Gov. Kathy Hochul boosted Wednesday at a wine bar in Brooklyn

Tribune News Service

Nets' Kevin Durant set to return Thursday vs. Heat

NEW YORK — After missing six weeks that turned out to be catastrophic and franchise-altering for the Nets, Kevin Durant is back. The superstar small forward will return Thursday night in Brooklyn against the Eastern Conference-leading Heat.

Los Angeles Times

Harvey Fierstein — warts, ego and all — in his juicy memoir 'I Was Better Last Night'

Harvey Fierstein was born, not made. Becoming a playwright and theatrical grandee took time. But as his scrumptious new memoir, "I Was Better Last Night," reveals, it was only a matter of time before this chubby Brooklyn boy with an itch for drag commandeered a stage.

USA Today Sports Media Group

2022 NBA draft race: March 2 update for Rockets, Nets picks

Tuesday was a productive night for Houston from a 2022 NBA draft perspective, since the combination of a Nets loss and Clippers win bumps Brooklyn’s first-round pick to No. 15 overall.

Tribune News Service

Dennis Young: The Nets’ blame game should start and end with Kyrie Irving

NEW YORK — Even before the Nets’ first superstar got injured and their second superstar forced a trade, home games in Barclays Center were a civic embarrassment. Rowdy local teenagers rained M-V-P chants on Steph Curry in November; a half-full arena worshipped LeBron James’ every move when the Lakers visited…

Tribune News Service

Kristian Winfield: Nets shock Bucks behind Kyrie Irving’s 38 points ... and Kevin Durant is coming back soon

This is why the Nets — despite the ongoing circus in Brooklyn — still have a shot to win it all.

Benzinga

New York State Assembly Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes Joins Business Of Cannabis Summit In Brooklyn

New York Assembly leader, Crystal Peoples-Stokes, who recently announced an EquityPAC to place a strong focus on electing candidates that support cannabis reform, will attend the Business of Cannabis Summit, sponsored by Women Grow and Emmanuel Baptist Church's

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