Boston is talented, but this wasn’t supposed to happen. Zach Lowe explores the ways Danny Ainge, Brad Stevens and the players have addressed the challenge.
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Lowe: Brad Stevens and the Celtics have a special brand of toughness
Boston is talented, but this wasn’t supposed to happen. Zach Lowe explores the ways Danny Ainge, Brad Stevens and the players have addressed the challenge.
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Lowe: Brad Stevens and the Celtics have a special brand of toughness
The NFL draft’s top RB was a superstar long before Penn State in a tiny town still big enough to turn out a crowd almost double its size to honor him.
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Saquon Barkley’s legend runs deep in his Pennsylvania hometown
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – By the looks of things, countless stores in Manhattan are closed for business. High rents and the ease of online shopping have left even upscale stores empty. Can anything be done to stop the disturbing trend? Madison Avenue was once considered the mecca of shopping in a city famous for selling the finest brands. But sisters from Morocco, who came to Manhattan for the luxury stores, told CBS2’s Jessica Layton not-so-much anymore. “All of these stores are closed, and those that are open are half empty,” said one sister. “It’s kind of sad,” another added. Real estate investor Sal Bescemi pointed out that even on Fifth Avenue there are plenty of vacancies, and on Broadway the homeless rest in the doorways of buildings that are for lease. Signs crying out for someone to take the spaces are seen on block after block, with spray paint on the glass of locked up stores that used to thrive. “I’m born and raised here and I’ve never seen this many vacancies,” he told Layton. “The landlords are asking too much. That’s really what it comes down to.” City Hall has also taken notice of the empty storefronts, with the mayor saying he’s considered penalizing landlords who let their properties sit vacant for too long. “A vacancy fee or a vacancy tax,” he proposed. “Because they’re looking for some top-dollar rent, but they blight neighborhoods by doing it.” “We think it’s short sighted and doesn’t necessarily understand what’s going on,” said John Banks, of the Real Estate Board of New York. “It makes no sense whatsoever for a landlord to keep their properties vacant. Seventy cents on the dollar is better than nothing.” Banks said brick-and-mortar stores are up against increasingly tough city regulations and the convenience of online shopping. As for those who say landlords purposely leave properties vacant to write off the losses, he said, “There is no benefit to keeping your income low artificially. You don’t get the tax break or the tax savings that people want you to believe.” No matter what’s to blame for the blight, Bescemi said there’s a bottom line to the sad-looking storefronts. “It looks like it’s not open for business,” he said. And that’s not a good look for New York.
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Rising Rents, Online Shopping Leave Several Manhattan Storefronts Empty
TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The Trump administration is siding with professional sports leagues in their opposition to allowing New Jersey to offer sports betting , while Republican Gov. Chris Christie is calling the leagues “hypocrites” for opposing betting while having teams in Las Vegas. The solicitor general’s office filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court this week supporting the leagues ahead of arguments scheduled for Dec. 4. Christie’s administration is challenging a 1992 federal law that bans gambling on sports in all but four states. Christie sees sports betting as a way to boost New Jersey’s casino and race track industries. In an interview Tuesday on HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” Christie said the leagues “no longer have moral ground” after the Vegas Golden Knights started playing in the National Hockey League this season and the NFL’s Oakland Raiders are set to move there in 2019. FILE — The betting line at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) “They say because we have the Giants and the Jets and the Devils that somehow we shouldn’t be allowed to have gambling here because somehow it will threaten the integrity of the game,” Christie said. “Well, you kidding? How isn’t it threatening the integrity of the game in Las Vegas for the NHL and the NFL?” Christie said the leagues “picked this fight, not me.” New Jersey officials say the high court should strike down a ban on sports betting in all but four states — Nevada, Delaware, Oregon and Montana — because it wrongly forces states to enforce a regulation that Congress wants. The solicitor general argues that while Congress can’t require states to enact specific laws, it can pre-empt state laws that “conflict with federal policy.” The state has been trying for nearly a decade to legalize sports betting and grab a share of the estimated $150 billion that is bet illegally on sports each year. After being rebuffed in its efforts to regulate legal sports betting, New Jersey tried a different tactic: repealing its regulations regarding sports betting, leaving no law in place at all. The question to be decided by the justices is: Does a federal statute that prohibits modification or repeal of state-law prohibitions on private conduct impermissibly usurp the regulatory power of states? (© Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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