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Supper Bowl: Local chef wins big in Lock Yard’s Chili Cookoff

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Feb. 12, 2024 Kirstyn Brendlen & Arthur de Gaeta

The biggest Sunday in football started as it has for the past seven years in southern Brooklyn — with the annual Chili Cookoff at Lock Yard gastropub in Bay Ridge, where nearly two-dozen chefs arrived on Feb. 11 ready to compete. 

‘A great game’: Nets fans expect a good season despite last-minute loss in season opener

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interior of Barclays Center Nets game

Oct. 27, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro Nets fans who fully packed Barclays Center for the first game of the season against the Cleveland Cavaliers stayed on the edge of their seats until the last second of Wednesday’s game. Cleveland beat Brooklyn by one point with a score that turned from 111-113 in favor of the Nets to 114-113 with the Cavaliers ahead 19 seconds before the end of the fourth quarter.   “That fourth quarter was pure adrenaline,” said Randy Huges, 38, a long-time Nets fan who came down from Queens to see the game. “I was happy with how…
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LIU agrees to keep softball team in Brooklyn following Title IX lawsuit

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Jul. 27, 2023 By Oscar Fock

Long Island University’s softball team scored perhaps its biggest win of the year last month, as LIU agreed to let the team stay in Brooklyn for another two years following a Title IX lawsuit filed against the university by some of the members of the team.