But even as the rebuilding Nets fell 119-109 to Toronto before a crowd of 17,233 at Barclays Center, coach Jordi Fernández insisted that the rebuild isn’t just about pingpong balls and lottery odds but developing the right habits.
The collapse of Chuck Schumer’s shutdown gambit when seven fellow Democrats and one independent broke ranks with him serves as a humiliating bookend to the longest government closure ever.
Observers have long shrugged off the danger with the complacent idea that students will see through their professors’ foolishness — if not right away, then when they enter the “real world.”
Mynie Steffens, 43, was flying a helicopter to spray crops with pesticides above a citrus farm in the Eastern Cape when she struck power lines and crashed.
The usual exercise for most NFL coaches is to open midweek news conferences with injury updates — as much as the coach chooses to divulge (generally not much).