Suzanne Ament, a 60-year-old Virginian who is legally blind, competed in a show Saturday at the Lloyd Harbor Equestrian Center. Newsday's Steve Langford spoke to Ament as she prepared for her competition.


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Nneka Ogwumike had 20 points and a season-high 17 rebounds, Dearica Hamby added 22 points and 12 rebounds, and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Portland Fire 89-72 to snap their three-game losing streak.

Ogwumike and Hamby have double-doubles to help Sparks beat Fire 89-72

Cubs starter Jameson Taillon left Chicago's game against the San Francisco Giants with a strained left hamstring with no outs in the second inning.

Cubs starter Jameson Taillon leaves game against Giants in 2nd inning with hamstring injury

They defeat Bayport-Blue Point to set up a state semifinal match against Section I's Pleasantville at 4:30 p.m. Friday.

CSH girls lacrosse wins Long Island Class D title

Landry Shamet has shot 27-for-48 (56.3%) from three-point range in the playoffs, including 12-for-13 in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Cavaliers, and has hit at least three three-pointers in six of his last seven games.

Knicks' Shamet has been a shooting star this postseason

Bayport-Blue Point and Cold Spring Harbor met for an LI crown on Sunday at LaValle Stadium.

Photos: Long Island Class D girls lacrosse final

This year's edition of the World Cup will be the biggest ever with an expanded field of 48 teams, three host countries and 16 stadiums staging the record 104 matches over the 39-day tournament.

World Cup by the numbers: 104 matches, 48 teams and 3 countries make this the largest ever

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The rookie finished a double shy of a cycle and became just the fourth player in franchise history to go 5-for-5 with a homer.

Albanese: A star is born? Mets rookie Benge rocks out with 5-for-5 day

President Donald Trump, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, plenty of celebrities and thousands of maniacal Knicks fans will attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night at the Garden.

Barker: Think this Knicks playoff run has been crazy? You ain't seen nothing yet.

Cody Bellinger hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the eighth as the Yankees earned an important win over the Red Sox without Aaron Judge.

Lennon: Bellinger shows why he can take lead in Judge's absence

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Dennis Arfa, the architect of the Piano Man's record-breaking residency at Madison Square Garden, was inducted on Saturday into the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook. NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano reports.

Billy Joel inducts longtime collaborator into LI Music Hall of Fame

NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa visits Yaphank Deli to try their "chip bag sandwich."

Trendy Bites: It's a bag of chips ... it's a sandwich ... it's the chip bag sandwich! 

NYU researchers are surveying the Eastern box turtle population to better understand how they are faring against habitat destruction, roadways and global warming.`

Turtle-sniffing dogs searching LI woods to help protect a species

Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is back for a second stint with the Giants. Head coach John Harbaugh on Wednesday said Beckham seems healthier and Beckham said he is looking forward to making the most of the opportunity.

Odell Beckham Jr. back with the Giants

Recently passed state auto insurance reforms could help lower car insurance rates as much as 10% for New York drivers, according to some estimates. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.

NYS takes crack at lowering auto insurance premiums. Here's what that means for LI.

NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits the Long Island Game Farm for an inside look at the incredible hands-on wildlife encounters there.

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If approved, it would be the first new hospital on Long Island since 1980. Newsday business reporter James T. Madore has more.

NYU Langone plans new hospital in Melville 

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visited Main Event, an entertainment center that recently opened in Deer Park.

Arcade, bowling and giant claw machine at Main Event 

Newsday food writer Erica Marcus helps make a strawberry crunch ice cream at Coyle's Ice Cream in Islip.

Making ice cream at Coyle's in Islip

Rockville Centre's Lavert Henderson-Hobbs has been a Knicks' season-ticket holder since 1969.

Rockville Centre's Lavert Henderson-Hobbs a Knicks' season-ticket holder since 1969

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