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Russian hacks, ’15/’16 Mets & how about that Ice Bucket Challenge . . .

- Phil Mickelson Fitzpatric­k, Chris Sale Ryan Kim Koji Uehara Peyton Manning/ Kanye Craig Kimbrel Williams, Barack Obama Michael Phelps Monty Ingrid Phil Jackson Dennis Hopper’s Bernie Sanders’ Pete Frates, Daniel Murphy

As far as I can tell, the Russians have hacked just about everything except the St. Louis Cardinals database.

I always said there’d be another Harry Potter book before the Knicks were back in the playoffs.

Pretty sure that wild opening drive hit on Friday at old Baltusrol didn’t even land in Jersey. Well, at least our long national nightmare is over with

which means Fitzpatric­k is still the Jets’ quarterbac­k of the present, but not the future.

And not the quarterbac­k who’s going to win them their first Super Bowl in nearly half-a-century, if you’re keeping score at home.

I think ought to get some credit for not turning those throwback jerseys into a dumpster fire.

Let’s just say that the NFL’s investigat­ion of the whole Al Jazeera America thing wasn’t exactly the Warren Commission report.

Make me watch that new and video. July of ’16, no kidding, really has felt like July of ’15 for Mets fans. Like Groundhog Day, right? Where you go days waiting for a big hit, and feel as if Olympic soccer teams will light up the scoreboard more than the Mets have lately?

I’ve always been a big “Suits” guy, but if they don’t get Mike out of prison soon, I’m going to bust him out.

The Yankees used to have three closers, still have two, and the Red Sox — after injuries to and — have none. Sometimes you get the idea that the Rules of Golf is longer than a Russian novel.

A really long, really bad Russian novel.

But through it all, the golf nerds act as if every single rule in it is some kind of sacrament.

You have to keep asking this question: If all the Republican fanboys and fangirls in the media are the powerful opinion-shapers they all think they are, how come they couldn’t stop from getting elected President twice? A lot of things change in the Olympics, but not this: One of the few things I actually care about is jumping into the water.

There is no better news in basketball than the news that

who lost his wife – the mother of their five children – in a terrible and tragic automobile accident last February, has a job waiting for him with the Spurs. Class joining class. Wait, there’s a “Sharknado 4”? Did I miss “3”? The more continues to go on and on — and on — about the triangle, the more he sounds like he’s telling the rest of the basketball world to get off his lawn.

Or character yelling, “We’re gonna run the picket-fence at ’em!” after Coach Dale gets kicked out of that game in “Hoosiers.”

Now he says that modern players lack the skills to play the triangle.

Good grief. supporters will give it up on Bernie’s candidacy before Phil gives it up on the triangle. This one today is for the great Boston College man, whose spirit and courage did the most to inspire the Ice Bucket Challenge, and raise a fortune for ALS research:

Because it was announced this week that researcher­s have now identified a gene that is common to people suffering from ALS.

Maybe in the end my friend Pete, the former BC baseball player diagnosed with amyotrophi­c lateral sclerosis four years ago, will end up changing the world.

Sometimes, around all the meanness and division and hateful rhetoric of a Presidenti­al campaign like this one, you still can.

Seriously, what DID ever happen to after last year’s postseason? Good guy. Hope he landed on his feet.

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Joe Girard and Terry Collins

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