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Gregg vs. OBJ, Justify a Triple Crown cover-up and Mets still going Wild...

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So Gregg Williams tells the media not to give Odell

Beckham Jr. the attention he wants and then Williams refers to him as “Odell Who.”

Got it.

Ballplayer­s and Olympic athletes probably wish they could get their sports to look the other way on a positive drug test the way horse racing did when Justify won the Triple Crown.

By now you know it was reported in the New York Times that the horse tested positive for a banned substance after winning the Santa Anita Derby before going on to win the Triple Crown.

Then the California Horse Racing Board, bless its heart, did practicall­y nothing to further investigat­e the matter.

Now Bob Baffert, bless HIS heart, says it was “environmen­tal contaminat­ion” that put Scopolamin­e in the horse’s system.

Don’t you hate when that happens?

The Knicks play better defense than the Giants did against the Cowboys last Sunday. But no worries.

We’ve had a culture change with the Big Blue.

You think the Mets would like that 11-10 game with the Nationals back?

I sure would.

But whether the Mets make it to a Wild Card or not, the people in charge were right not to trade away the season in July.

But there have been times this season when Mets fans have

started pining away for Armando Benitez.

Even if Armando is about to turn 47.

When does Antonio Brown try to blame this week’s problems on Mike Mayock, his former general manager in Oakland?

Sure, when Frank Ntilikina plays like a star, it’s in another country.

And FOR another country. “Law and Order: SVU,” about to start its 21st season on NBC continues to set a standard of excellence on network television. I keep waiting to hear that the Red Sox are eating fried chicken during games again and popping a couple of cold ones, the way they did in the old days.

But at least Red Sox starting pitchers, at least the ones who are still pitching, will be good and rested in October.

Does anybody remember when Cam Newton and the Panthers were 15-1 and were supposed to be the Next Thing in the NFL?

Maybe the most interestin­g stat of the first weekend of the pro football season came out of Vikings vs. Falcons, where Kirk

Cousins threw for just 98 yards and his team still won 28-12.

If the Nationals win the Wild Card Game in the National League, they will throw Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg and Patrick Corbin in the first three games of a best-of-five series. No kidding, baseballs are now

so full of life that they’re going to start throwing themselves back on the field after the other team hits a home run.

After the way the new guy kicked for the Jets last Sunday, I really did think they were franticall­y looking for Carli Lloyd’s phone number at halftime.

Julian Castro was the one with short-term memory issues on Thursday night, not Joe Biden.

Alabama is still safe from Dorian, right?

Finally today: Happy birthday to our oldest, Christophe­r.

He will be the first of our children to get married, next fall. Best of all, he is happy.

And I can’t tell you how happy that makes his dad.

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