Returning from an Achilles tendon rupture didn’t cost Wesley Matthews money. And it probably isn’t going to cost Kevin Durant any either. “If Wes Mathews can get a max after an Achilles injury, Durant will have no problem,’’ one NBA general manager told The Post. In 2015, Matthews signed a maxed-out four-year, $70 million package. … Continue reading "Knicks’ greatest Kevin Durant question draws intrigue all over"

Christopher Meloni has segued from “Happy!” to the dystopian bleakness of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Wednesday’s episode of the Hulu drama series, entitled “Household,” introduces Meloni’s alter-ego, Commander George Winslow, one of Gilead’s most powerful men who’s based in Washington, DC, with his wife, Olivia (Elizabeth Reaser), and their six “children.” Winslow takes a shine to … Continue reading "Why Christopher Meloni joined the dark world of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’"

Everyone, don’t place your bets. New Jersey, which became one of the first states outside of Nevada to allow sports betting after a 2018 Supreme Court ruling, has put the kibosh on betting on the popular Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. The annual hot dog eating contest occurs on the Fourth of July in Coney … Continue reading "New Jersey bans betting on Nathan\u2019s Hot Dog Eating Contest"

PHILADELPHIA — As general manager Brodie Van Wagenen continues to insist his manager has full autonomy on game decisions for the Mets, a specific example has surfaced that indicates otherwise. According to an industry source, it was the rookie GM who instructed Mickey Callaway to remove Jacob deGrom from a game in Arizona earlier this … Continue reading "Van Wagenen is managing Mets games from home in ‘unusual’ struggle"

An Italian Mafia boss nicknamed the “Cocaine King of Milan” broke out of a Uruguayan prison by climbing out of a hole in the roof, authorities said Monday. Notorious mobster Rocco Morabito and three other inmates made their exit from the Montevideo central prison Sunday night and immediately robbed the owner of a nearby house … Continue reading "Italian ‘cocaine king’ mafia boss escapes from prison in Uruguay"

Looks like the “Long Island Lolita” may be inspiring a new generation of violent vixens. Valerie Cincinelli, 35, the NYPD officer accused of trying to arrange a hit on her estranged husband and a teenage girl, spent time Googling the infamous 1992 Amy Fisher case as she was plotting her ultimately failed assassination attempt, new … Continue reading "Amy Fisher may have inspired NYPD cop’s murder-for-hire plot"

HONOLULU — Yesenia D’Alessandro loaded a GPS tracking app on her cellphone and trudged into a remote Hawaii forest, joining more than 100 other volunteers looking for a missing hiker. She climbed through muddy ravines, crossed streams and faced steep drop-offs in the thick tangle of trees and ferns where her college friend Amanda Eller … Continue reading "New tech helping search teams find people in the wilderness"

You won’t need binoculars to spot these birds. Along the Broadway Mall, from 64th to 157th streets, are 10 oversized birds, whose real-life counterparts are threatened by climate change. Working with the NYC Audubon Society, Brooklyn artist Nicolas Holiber used lumber from old floorboards and shipping pallets to fashion a flotilla of colorful fowl. The … Continue reading "Broadway is for the birds this summer thanks to this artist"

After the 2016 presidential election, there wasn’t a lot that could unite Brooklynite Fig Chilcott and her conservative dad, Don — except, as it turns out, for a bright red wig, a leather mini-dress and fabulously long false eyelashes. Transforming Don, 66, into a drag queen for a day was just the thing to bring … Continue reading "Becoming a drag queen saved my relationship with my daughter"

We still can’t diagnose diseases like Alzheimer’s with a blood test, despite decades of trying. But scientists are getting closer. Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) are working on a blood test called the APEX system, which took two years to develop, to detect an early-stage molecular marker of the brain-robbing disease — … Continue reading "New blood test could detect Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear: study"