September 21, 2009
Jets deny tampering charges
The Jets today vehemently denied allegations made by the 49ers that they tampered with unsigned San Francisco draft pick Michael Crabtree. Rex Ryan yesterday confirmed that the 49ers have filed...
Gametracker: Yankees at Angels
Andy Pettitte makes his first start since complaining of arm fatigue last week. Pettitte will have a tough test in Anaheim, where the Yankees always seem to struggle against the...
Gametracker: Braves at Mets
Follow live as Pat Misch and the Mets play host to the rival Braves. Atlanta is trying to make a desperate playoff push in the season's final two weeks.
Toronto: SPC Buys 'Get Low'
Sony Pictures Classics has bought Aaron Schneider's '30s dramedy "Get Low,'' one of my favorite movies at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, for a price Variety reports is in the "low seven figures.'' No release...
Coughlin concerned about Tuck's shoulder
Read into this what you will. Asked this afternoon if there's any reason to believe the shoulder injury sustained Sunday night by DE Justin Tuck might be serious, Tom Coughlin...
3 teens charged in Albany college student killing
ALBANY, N.Y. — Police have arrested three teens in the shooting death of a 22-year-old University at Albany student from Long Island. Richard Bailey was shot in October while walking...
Cryer, Collette among stars at Emmy after-parties
LOS ANGELES -- Grammy-winning R&B diva Mary J. Blige summed up the Emmy after-parties during a soulful, sassy performance complete with a glittering golden microphone. "Don't forget how important we...
Islanders' Morency suspended five games
Islanders forward Pascal Morency has been suspended for the remainder of the preseason and five regular-season games after leaving the bench to start a fight in a game against the...
Jets have revisionist history
Being 2-0 with a rookie quarterback beats being 0-2. Bart Scott can play — no offensive touchdowns allowed in two games is arching eyebrows around the NFL and beating the...
Jets have revisionist history
Being 2-0 with a rookie quarterback beats being 0-2. Bart Scott can play — no offensive touchdowns allowed in two games is arching eyebrows around the NFL and beating the...
Patriots' Wilfork: Give Jets credit
Vince Wilfork stood at his locker and faced the unpleasant facts: The Jets talked trash and then backed it up. Now the Patriots must figure out how to correct the...
Obama makes guest appearance on Letterman
Add this one to the presidential experience: the heart-shaped potato. By the time Barack Obama came on stage to the taping of the "Late Show" on Monday, host David Letterman...
Ryan denies Jets tampered with Crabtree
The 49ers have filed tampering charges against the New York Jets regarding top San Francisco draft pick Michael Crabtree, Jets coach Rex Ryan confirmed Monday. "My understanding is they filed...
Netflix awards $1M prize to improve movie picks
Netflix Inc. declared a seven-member group of researchers, scientists and engineers from around the world as winners Monday of its three-year, $1 million contest to improve its movie recommendation system...
Stocks end off lows as health care, tech recover
Stocks mostly fell Monday but ended off their lows as investors moved into technology and health care shares. News of Dell Inc.'s plans to buy information technology company Perot Systems...
Batman: Arkham Asylum ships 2.5 Million
[Insert tired WHAM! KAPOW! 'Holy ____, Batman' thingy here]This is really, really fantastic news. Finally, not only did gamers get a totally badass and high-quality superhero game, but all the...
The road to 'Kristina'
When I first heard that Carnegie Hall was going to host a concert performance of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' "Kristina från Duvemåla," I was absolutely thrilled. Of course they...
Queens woman takes page out of Bobbitt playbook
A young Queens woman accused of killing her abusive stepfather and then -- in a move reminiscent of Lorena Bobbitt -- castrating him said today she did it so he...
Game 151: Braves at Mets
The Mets will try to make it three in a row tonight when they open a three-game set with the Braves at Citi Field behind left-hander Pat Misch.Misch pitched well...
California police use stun gun twice on unarmed amputee
MERCED, Calif. -- A California man whose legs are amputated says police used a stun gun on him twice and violently manhandled him even though he was unarmed. Internal affairs...
Inter: Game should have been stopped after racist abuse
Inter Milan's Serie A game at Cagliari on Sunday should have been halted when fans started to racially abuse striker Mario Balotelli, president Massimo Moratti said on Monday.Juventus were forced...
Slight ratings increase for the Emmy Awards
NEW YORK -- The Emmy Awards can boast of an audience bigger than it's been in three years, despite some tough competition from pro football. The Nielsen Company estimates that...
Is "Life" worth seeing?
I was bummed by the latest Mint Theater offering, "Is Life Worth Living?" First, because I really like the Mint and its mission ("bringing new vitality to worthy but neglected...
Bucking Obama
Some Dems don't want new bureaucracy (Politico)
Former Gov. Pataki mulling over return to politics
Former Republican Gov. George Pataki says he's considering several opportunities that could get him back in New York politics, including a run for the U.S. Senate. A Marist College poll...
Report: More US troops need for Afghan war
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's top commander in Afghanistan has told him that without more troops the United States could lose the war that Obama has described as the nation's...
Oscar Watch: PGA Ups Field to 10
The Producers Guild announced today it will increase the nominees for its annual award for producers of features from five to ten, following the lead of the Motion Picture Academy, which next...
U.S. confirms ousted prez is back in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Deposed President Manuel Zelaya said Monday he has returned home to Honduras to reclaim his presidency, defying threats of arrest and summoning supporters. While the State Department...
Giants-Cowboys draw huge ratings
The Giants’ last-second win over the Cowboys at the opening of Dallas’ new stadium drew the highest preliminary television ratings for a prime-time game in 11 years. New York’s 33-31...
Hughes’ rules need to be different than Joba’s
Let’s hope the Yankees have learned something from their mis-handling of Joba Chamberlain. The Bombers brass has basically turned the most exciting pitcher in the organization two years ago into...
Police begin digs on Garrido property
ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Police investigating two child abductions are starting to dig on the property where a Northern California couple held a girl captive for 18 years. Police are trying...
Toronto Oscar Watch: A 'Push' for 'Precious'
Lee Daniels' "Precious,'' which was called "Push'' when it won the audience award at Sundance, captured the corresponding honor at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend. Last year, audiences in...
AIG bailout repayment uncertain: GAO
WASHINGTON -- Despite some progress, congressional investigators say it's still too soon to judge whether efforts by American International Group Inc. to restructure its operations and pay back the government...
Toddler missing in Ga. floods
ATLANTA — Authorities are searching for a toddler swept away in a rain-swollen creek in west Georgia as heavy rains and thunderstorms claimed at least 2 other lives in the...
Closing arguments made in Marshall trial
The government is making a final push in its case against Brooke Astor's son. Closing arguments resumed Monday at the Manhattan trial of Anthony Marshall and his co-defendant, attorney Francis...
Dumbest things about baseball
Tremendous job by Marty Funkhauser’s cousin in the new Curb Your Enthusiasm last night. Best part was when she and Larry witness the robbery across the street, and as she...
Four presumed dead in Fla. plane crash
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Rescue crews are returning to the Florida Everglades to comb the site of a small plane crash that killed as many as four people on board....
11 dead after quake hits Bhutan, India
GAUHATI, India -- A 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the remote mountain nation of Bhutan on Monday, killing at least 11 people, damaging an ancient monastery and forcing hundreds to flee, officials...
World's oldest man celebrates 113th birthday
GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- A Montana resident who is considered to be the world's oldest man celebrates his 113th birthday Monday. A party for Walter Breuning was planned at the...
Jury selected in Travolta extortion case
NASSAU, Bahamas -- A jury was selected Monday for a trial that could see John Travolta take the stand against two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from...
Experts: US, Russia face difficult arms talks
MOSCOW -- A new round of Russian-U.S. arms control talks began Monday, and Russian military experts predicted they will not be easy, despite President Barack Obama's decision to scrap plans...
Police: No more arrests in Yale slay
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police do not expect to make more arrests in the killing of a Yale graduate student in her lab building, police said Monday, two days after...
Breakdown of the Nets picks for Marcus
The "future draft considerations" Nets received when they dealt Marcus Williams to the Warriors 14 months ago have changed considerably. The Warriors are discussing some sort of trade (not with...
Man tackles would-be robber to save wife
WEST ALLIS, Wis. - An alert bank customer in Wisconsin trying to protect his wife leaped over rope lines and wrestled a would-be robber to the ground. Surveillance video inside...
Poll: 'Big government' not the solution
Americans believe that the government is taking on too much responsibility for solving the nation's problems, according to a poll released today. A new Gallup poll shows that 57 percent...
Fans, celebs seek to rescue Hamptons' NPR station
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Imagine the Hamptons without the ocean. Residents of one of the world's best known playground for the haves and have-mores use the dramatic comparison when talking about...
Feds: Gotti a lifelong 'professional criminal'
John "Junior" Gotti is a man who lived his life as "a professional criminal" who left a "trail of victims in his wake," federal prosecutors said today during opening arguments...
Judge delays 9/11 mastermind's trial
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A military judge agreed Monday to another delay in the war crimes trial of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks. Army...
Thai king hospitalized for third day
BANGKOK - Thailand's 81-year-old king, the world's longest-serving monarch, remained hospitalized for a third day Monday with low fever and loss of appetite, the palace said Monday. A statement from...
91-year-old Fla. man makes arrest while nude
LAKE WORTH, Fla. -- Authorities say a 91-year-old South Florida man jumped out of bed naked and held an intruder at gunpoint until deputies arrived. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's...
Breaking Promises
David Frum says Obama may indeed raise taxes on families (New Majority)
Monserrate's assault trial starts
State Sen. Hiram Monserrate's drunk girlfriend was slashed across the face in a freak accident, after he tried to get her a glass of water and she stumbled into him,...
Suspect sought in fatal Bx. stabbing
New York City police are investigating the death of a man in the Bronx who was brutally stabbed. Police say officers were called early Monday to a building on the...
Arrividerci Acorn
Megan McArdle says good ridance (The Atlantic)
Nanny State New York
Jacob Weisberg bemoans Bloomberg's paternalist utopia (Slate)
Inventing War Crimes
Unfair to Israel (Los Angeles Times)Sins of Omission (UK Guardian)
Kid saves 'drunk' Hasselhoff again: report
DAVID HASSELHOFF has been saved by his teenage daughter for the second time this year. Seventeen-year-old Hayley called for help for the TV star when he collapsed after a booze...
Left Stifles Dissent
Michael Barone says liberals unused to disagreement (Creators Syndicate)
Coverage in The Post
John Maine continued to encourage the Mets for next season by pitching five innings of two-hit, shutout ball against the Nationals on Sunday in an eventual 6-2 win.Despite the win,...
Losing Everyone
Charles Krauthammer says Obama Misleads, Doesn't Lie (NRO)ObamaCare Angers Seniors (Washington Times)
Man under house arrest in Italian PM's sex scandal
ROME — Italian news reports say a businessman involved in Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandal has been placed under house arrest as part of a drug probe. The ANSA news...
Fake Green Labels
Not As Green As They Seem (US Infrastructure)More Data Won't Help (Green Real Estate Law Journal)
Obama lauds Cuomo at event with gov
ALBANY -- President Obama today greeted Gov. Paterson as "a wonderful man," neglecting to mention his political track record a day after a report emerged that the White House had...
Toddler 'pregnant' with her twin
A 'PREGNANT' one-year-old has survived a ten hour operation to remove her unborn twin from her belly. Little Kang Mengru had doctors baffled after her tummy began to swell. They...
Still no president for District 21
The struggle to elect a president for School District 21’s Community Education Council (CEC) continues.At the group’s meeting last week, Yoketing Eng, who held the presidency until his term expired...
Up, up and away...on the Belt Parkway!
The Belt Parkway would be a great place to construct an elevated express lane from Sheepshead Bay all the way to Kennedy Airport, a couple of community leaders are proclaiming...
Crossing the Rubackin
The Finger Building will be capped at 14 stories, and there is little Williamsburg’s activists will be able to do about it. The new developers of the notorious residential tower...
Truck troubles on North 11th Street
Residents of North 11th Street in Williamsburg are steamed about trucks that roll down their street, though city Transportation officials pledged to reduce traffic through the block. At a Community...
Odd Free Marketeer
Industry Divided (Wall Street Journal)Fed Hypocrisy (CNN Money)
Feds: Two men busted in ATM Ponzi scheme
Two men have been busted for allegedly running a massive $80 million Ponzi scheme that involved fake investments in ATM machines, federal prosecutors in Manhattan announced today. Vance Moore, 55,...
Serie A: Sampdoria climb into first with Juve
Four games into the Serie A season and it's not too shocking to find Juventus at the top of the league standings with 12 points. More stunning is that Inter...
Imam held without bail in Qaeda terror probe
A New York City imam accused of lying to officials investigating a terrorism plot has been ordered held without bail. Ahmad Afzali smiled and waved at relatives as deputy marshals...
City jails may implement ATMs for prisoners' cash
E-book 'em, Danno. Inmates entering Rikers Island and other city jails may soon be able to deposit all the cash they have on them in automated jailer machines. The new...
3UP: Yanks postseason, AL MVP, Bradley
1. The Yankees are going to make the playoffs. The Rays and Rangers have made sure of that by falling apart late and leaving no potential wild card trapdoor. But...
Hiram to beat the rap, too
YOU always hurt the one you love. For one man, making her bleed is a bonus. All eyes in the city today will be trained on the courthouse in distant...
Code red at Emmys!
NO one pulled a Lady Gaga on Emmy’s red carpet last night. After all, as Glenn Close pointed out, the Emmys are more and more like the Oscars — with...
Bucket of cold water
ONE former “American Idol” finalist has some harsh advice for the finalists who ended their 50-city tour last week: Welcome to the end of the road. In a long and...
Murphy fashioning Dan-dy finish
This isn’t the way Daniel Murphy would have mapped out his first full season in the majors He probably could have done without the ugly performance in left field and...
The Daily Whacks, Monday edition
To have been a Jets fan across the past 40 years, and to have retained a thread of your sanity, you have had to build a wall around your optimism,...
PSAL Football Rankings
1. Lincoln (11-0) 2. Tottenville (10-1) 3. Erasmus Hall (8-3) 4. DeWitt Clinton (8-3) 5. Fort Hamilton (8-3) 6. Campus Magnet (7-4) 7. Boys & Girls (7-4) 8. Thomas Jefferson...
PSAL football rankings: Week 3
A third of the way through the PSAL season, the contenders and pretenders have begun to separate. Constants Fort Hamilton and Tottenville remain atop our rankings after impressive victories. We,...
Full list of Emmy Awards winners
Winners in all categories for the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards announced by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Complete list of winners at Sunday’s 61st Annual Primetime Emmy...
60 seconds with Abigail Gehring
What’s the most dangerous job someone can take? Statistically, fishermen and loggers top the list for fatal injuries. But that may be misleading, because there are more fishermen and loggers...
Fund city
When Zish Margulies moved to New York in 2001, starting a career in the financial services industry didn’t seem like a risky proposition. “The boom was just taking off,” says...
Giants beat 'boys with last-second FG
ARLINGTON, Texas — Lawrence Tynes sent home the largest crowd in NFL regular season history muttering about what might’ve been. Tynes kicked a 37-yard field goal as time expired, giving...
Chill factor
Top music downloads 1. Best I Ever Had, Drake 2. Knock You Down, Keri Hilson 3. Boom Boom Pow, Black Eyed Peas 4. Birthday Sex, Jeremih 5. I’m Me, Lil...
Dear old dad
ED O'Neill now has two mod ern families. On ABC's new series "Modern Family," he plays the middle-aged husband of a feisty Latina wife, three decades his junior, and stepfather...
Oprah pays Chicago $54G
Oprah Winfrey paid more than $54,000 to the city of Chicago for her block party last week, according to the mayor's office there. The show closed half a dozen blocks...
Limp puts crimp in Laurie step
HUGH Laurie says that having to play the lead character in "House" with a severe limp is giving him real-life trouble. Laurie says that faking Dr. Gregory House's signature limp...
Baby mama drama
IF ever a sitcom was slated for my personal "delete" button, for sure it was going to be "Accidentally On Purpose." How could I like a show that was hyped...
Starr report
Last Friday I wrote in The Post about Lee Woodruff and Rene Syler joining Kate Gosselin and Food Network's Paula Deen in a Telepictures talk show pilot. Deen's pub licist,...
Groove is in the heart
TAKE equal parts "Fame" and "A Chorus Line." Add hip-hop and mix well. Result? "Groovaloo," an eye-popping display -- though you might prefer your dancing with a smaller helping of...
Not enough life in listless 'Living'
AS artistic director of the Mint Theater, Jonathan Bank has lifted from obscurity delicious nuggets by the likes of Dawn Powell and Harley Granville Barker. As director, he's made a...
Group can $core on Atl. Yards
Despite a string of scandals that recently led Congress to cut off its federal funding, ACORN still stands to make millions of dollars off its support for Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic...
State agency to Con Ed: Watt up with rate hike?
With the state threatening to chop nearly 40 percent from its latest one-year request to hike electricity rates, Con Ed is beginning negotiations with the Public Service Commission in hopes...
Bicycle blitz in Central Park
Cops looking to cripple illegal bike-rental businesses that cater to tourists in Manhattan have launched a crackdown around Central Park -- chopping through hefty chains to haul off dozens of...
Too few docs for O's plan
ObamaCare poses a problem: If all city residents had medical coverage today, there wouldn't be enough primary-care doctors to treat them. The shortage of family doctors is a major concern...
Code blue for clinics
Lutheran Family Health Centers in Brooklyn is scrambling to serve 95,000 patients in neighborhoods already suffering from a shortage of doctors. ObamaCare would likely swamp its network of eight primary-care...
'Hosp forgot our dead ma'
A Brooklyn hospital neglected to inform two loving sons that their mother was dead, insisting for 11 days after the elderly woman died that she'd been "discharged," according to a...
Yale grad's bones broken to fit in hole
Accused murderer Ray Clark was so desperate to hide his heinous handiwork that he allegedly broke the bones and mangled the body of a strangled Yale grad student to fit...
School-bus rage
Bungling bureaucrats who once doled out MetroCards to 5-year-olds after rerouting their yellow bus are taking the same hard-line tack with some Bronx 10-year-olds whose middle school was moved into...
Dave's ejection is Andy's election
All hail Andrew Cuomo, the de facto governor-elect of New York. And all pity David Paterson, now the state's de facto lame-duck governor. This sudden and breathtaking transformation of the...
Jet fool cost me eye: gal
A woman returning home from an overseas trip got elbowed in the face and was blinded in one eye after she walked into a man who was doing exercises in...
Doc squeezes bosom buddy
A Norwegian-born Playboy model scored more than $550,000 from her plastic surgeon after he allegedly used photos of her on his Web site without permission -- but now the doc...
Dave crony collects 'money for nothing'
Gov. Paterson's former economic-development czar, Avi Schick, stepped down from his post at the helm of the Empire State Development Corp. in January -- but, astonishingly, continued to quietly draw...
O: Tape worms deserve probe
WASHINGTON -- President Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp. The two...
City construction mishaps soar 40 percent
Construction accidents and injuries have skyrocketed across the Big Apple, according to Buildings Department statistics. The number of mishaps jumped more than 40 percent, to 158, through last Friday, compared...
'Nut'-house empire
ACORN has quietly become one of the Big Apple's biggest owners of low- and moderate-income housing, amassing a real-estate empire worth at least $50 million, The Post has learned. New...
Luxe-home market in cellar
More people signed to buy new homes in Manhattan last month than in the previous August, but most of those homes sold for $1 million or less. And it doesn't...
Marrow search for cop's ill kid
The ailing son of a retired city cop is not only suffering from leukemia but also has an extremely rare form of bone marrow, prompting a desperate search to find...
Mideast foes & O to meet here
JERUSALEM -- President Obama will try to get Mideast peacemaking back on track this week in a meeting with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in New York. Obama will bring...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Bronx A driver was killed yesterday when his car plunged more than 30 feet from the Bronx River Parkway and struck the third rail of the Metro-North tracks below, bursting...
'Meatballs' tastes victory at box office
The forecast is bright at the box office for "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," which earned $30.1 million to lead this weekend's films. Sony's 3-D, animated family comedy was...
Doc's killer Rx
BERLIN -- A doctor leading a group-therapy session gave participants drugs and other substances that killed two and put 10 in the hospital, Berlin cops said yesterday. One person was...
$1.5B pig-flu plan
Rich nations and development banks will be asked to donate to a $1.48 billion UN plan to help poor countries fight the "damaging consequences" of swine flu. Most of the...
Hope for city Republicans
IF New York City ever remotely resembles a two-party town, it'll be largely thanks to folks like Ashok Chandra. Chandra, a charismatic, 30-year-old lawyer, last week won the Republican nomination...
Miller is exception to recession's tale
In a year of big losses for women in finance, Heidi Miller came up big. Miller, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase's treasury and securities services division, tops the Crain's New...
Bloomberg blasts Amtrak gun bill
A federal bill to allow guns in checked luggage on Amtrak trains took a beating from Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Kelly and a host of mayors and lawmakers yesterday. "If...
Her art really imitates life
Don't tell Alyssa Monks these paintings look like photographs. For now, the Brooklyn artist will take the picture-perfect compliment -- but she wants to make it clear that she's not...
On-the-air prez seems like endless 'infomercial'
WASHINGTON -- During his first eight months in office, President Obama has sat down for three times as many television interviews as his most recent two predecessors combined. And with...
Bam cuts Gov on the bias
ALBANY -- It was all over after Gov. Paterson played the race card. Sources familiar with President Obama's shocking effort to force Paterson out of the 2010 elections told The...
Guests recoil from mad 'Jad
They put up metal detectors -- but, unfortunately, not mental ones -- at the Midtown hotel where hate-spewing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be spending the week. Guests at the Intercontinental yesterday...
Business briefs
Dodd's dare Sen. Chris Dodd plans to propose a merger of four bank agencies -- in cluding the Federal Re serve and the FDIC -- into one super-regulator in a...
'Kill O' caller busted in Bronx
A Bronx teenager was arrested yesterday after he made five threatening phone calls to 911, vowing to kill President Obama and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, cops said. Jonathan Avalos, 18,...
A drive to create 'Israeli war crimes'
IT'S September -- prime time for Israel-bashing as world leaders and dignitar ies convene at the United Nations. This year, Israel's antagonists have intensified their efforts to smear the Jewish...
Fake green labels
THE green-building craze sweeping the nation isn't so much a movement as a highly lucrative regime of payouts and misinformation. You could call it a moral-protection racket. In fact, "green"...
Queens bust in Qaeda probe
A Queens funeral director linked to alleged al Qaeda bomb-maker Najibullah Zazi was charged yesterday in a frightening terror plot that may have targeted New York stadiums, authorities said. Ahmad...
'Fess in boozy sex slay at posh hotel
A housekeeping manager has admitted to strangling and slashing a well-heeled businesswoman at Manhattan's tony Essex House while on a booze binge -- in what cops believe was a sex...
A lesson in crying wolf
THE ISSUE: The false claims of rape by Hofstra student Danmell Ndonye. *** I would like to personally thank Andrea Peyser for again pointing out that false allegations of this...
The Con-Con con
EVERY time the fiscal excesses of Albany pols catch up with them, they point the finger of blame not at themselves, but at the state Constitution -- and call for...
DNA bust in rape spree
The serial rapist who brutally attacked four women in Harlem and Washington Heights was arrested after he shockingly admitted to police that he looked like the sketch of the suspect...
Old glory on TV's big night
The Emmys last night made repeat winners of "30 Rock" and "Mad Men," but a star turn by host Neil Patrick Harris made the evening far from a rerun. It...
Gen. in plea for surge in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON -- The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly...
ObamaCare: Losing everyone
THE elderly were the first group to turn against President Obama's health-care pro posals, alienated by the plans to cut $500 billion cut from Medicare. The young and the uninsured...
Gov says goodbye . . . Shevell says Hell no
THE ISSUE: The power struggle between Gov. Paterson and MTA board member Nancy Shevell. *** Ulterior motives -- real or believed -- aside, MTA board member Nancy Shevell was correct...
Deal's third man
Investment bankers are keeping an eye on John Malone's Liberty Media as the deadline for Vivendi's 20 percent put option on NBC Universal draws near. Vivendi CEO Jean Bernard-Levy signaled...
Buyout firms rush IPOs into upbeat market
Private-equity firms are hustling to complete IPOs for companies they own while the stock market is on an upswing. Over the past two weeks, at least five private equity-owned companies...
Parental guidance
Now that the kids are back in school, you might have a few minutes to spend with a magazine -- about kids. Here's what the parenting pubs have to offer...
'Help' the Gowanus doesn't need
Everyone knows that a major cleanup of Brooklyn's notoriously gunky Gowa nus Canal has long been overdue. Question is, who should clean it? Actually, there are options. But choosing the...
An odd 'free marketeer'
Even as President Obama vowed last week that he's "a strong believer" in the free market, he and his DC pals were moving to undermine it. The most troubling sign:...
Newswoman Toomey dead
Pioneering journalist Jeanne Toomey has died at 88. Toomey, one of the founding members of the New York Press Club, became the first woman to cover Brooklyn police after she...
Philadelphia Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 5 fur; $26,000; clm($25,000); 2YOFORWARD OBSERVER adds Lasix after finishing third in both career starts. ENDOFCONVERSATION faces maiden claimers for first time in local debut for new barn. STETZELBERGER...
Mets buoyed as Maine sharp again
For three months, John Maine was on the disabled list with a weak right shoulder. Yesterday, the Mets righty admitted that while his shoulder has good strength now, its game...
Ghost of Reyes haunts Mets season
A BRAND new pair of spikes, still wrapped in plastic, sat on a box in front of Jose Reyes' locker yesterday. That is the Mets season in a nutshell. Without...
Mayweather sour on Sugar's stunt
LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. had only moments to celebrate his one-sided victory over Juan Manuel Marquez when the lobbying to be his next opponent began. Shane Mosley, who...
Long Tom since Brady was this bad
It has been eight years since Tom Brady and his Patriots came to the Meadowlands and tasted defeat. It seems about that long since their offense has been made to...
Saints march over McNabb-less Eagles
Drew Brees tossed three more touchdown passes, and the Saints rolled past an Eagles team missing Donovan McNabb because of a cracked rib, 48-22, in Philadelphia. Making his first NFL...
CBS, NFL offer obstructed view
PATS-JETS, as Week 2 games go, was a big one, something certainly not lost on CBS. Its national pregame show was in large part dedicated to reminding folks who needed...
Behind frenzied D, Jets make case as beasts of East
ONE by one, as they trudged through the Giants Stadium west tunnel and made a left-hand turn toward the locker room, Patriots offensive players wore dazed looks on their faces...
Battered Patriots admit getting outplayed, outcoached
From Rex Ryan to safety Kerry Rhodes, the Jets had talked more junk this week than Fred Sanford had in his yard. Ryan said he wasn't coming into yesterday's tilt...
Martin takes Chase opener
Mark Martin held off Denny Hamlin and Juan Pablo Montoya on a late frantic restart to win the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship opener at New Hampshire Motor Speedway....
Renault faces ban after ordering crash
PARIS -- The Renault Formula One team will learn its fate today at a hearing into how its former driver Nelson Piquet Jr. was ordered by management to deliberately crash...
Ryan, team kiss off Belichick
Kiss that, Patriots! The Jets delivered the goods on their words of bravado yesterday with a rousing 16-9 win over their hated rival, the Patriots, before a raucous Giants Stadium...
Sanchez outswaggers Brady
REX RYAN'S Jets had talked the talk, but they weren't going to walk the walk unless their kid quarterback could stop crawling. Now the second half began and here came...
Rolling Revis gathers plenty of Moss
In case you were wondering whether prolific Patriots receiver Randy Moss was dressed for yesterday's game, he was. He was, however, about as much a factor in the game as...
Cutler drives Chicago to game-winning FG
CHICAGO -- Hounded in the opener and harassed in the early going again yesterday, Jay Cutler simply wanted a shot at redemption. He got it and finally lived up to...
Bengals, Chad leap past Packers
GREEN BAY -- Watching the clock about to tick down to 0:02, Aaron Rodgers took the snap, faked a spike and looked to the end zone. For a split second,...
Joba delivers dud
SEATTLE -- To most of the baseball galaxy, Joba Chamberlain's outing yesterday was hard to look at. Asked to prove he belongs in an important October role, and to help...
Next up for Yanks: Hellish Halos
SEATTLE -- Three games against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium this weekend could provide the suddenly mediocre Yankees with an outside chance of clinching the AL East. However, the...
Sports shorts
MLB: Red-hot Sawx sweep Orioles In Baltimore, Jason Bay and Jacoby Ellsbury both homered and drove in three runs to lead Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Red Sox past the Orioles...
Horse play for Hondo
The turnover machine known as Tony Romo cost Hondo a win last night, directing the Cowboys to a defeat that put the IOUs at a big fat 1,515 perrys. Tonight,...
Bad trip for Tuck
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Giants might have been dealt a major injury blow in last night's 33-31 come-from-behind victory. Defensive end Justin Tuck left the game in the second quarter...
Winning no surprise with this Giant 'team'
ARLINGTON, Texas -- All around Lawrence Tynes fell the sound of triumph, the sweet, ear-splitting percussion of relief. There were 105,121 people crammed inside Jerry Jones' sparkling new spaceship of...
Big Blue FG ruins night for 'boys fans
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jerry Jones nearly had everything he ever wished for — dancing girls, a video screen as big as Texas and seemingly every bell and whistle a billion...
Weird but true
In a modern version of "The Scarlet Letter," a 19-year-old Ohio woman paraded around Sandusky wearing a sign apologizing for her infidelity -- hoping to win back her boyfriend. The...
Lenn Robbins' Top 25
1. Florida (3-0, beat Tennessee, 23-13) UP NEXT: At Kentucky PREVIOUS: (1) THE SKINNY: Tim Tebow takes a pounding but still delivers. 2. Cal (3-0, won 35-21 at Minnesota) UP...
Don't be fooled by big Big East weekend
The most deceiving stat of the weekend is that the Big East came up a big winner by winning 6-of-8 games. The two losses were devastating, each in their own...
Hilltoppers starting to believe
Coming into the season Tom Siller had a general idea of how good his team was and what it might be able to accomplish. The fifth-year St. Joseph Hill girls...
No. 15 St. John's plays Seton Hall to scoreless draw
Sverre Wegge Gundhus raced in behind the Seton Hall defense and the chance to seal a critical Big East home win was at the feet of the St. John’s soccer...
CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens girls soccer preview
The Christ the King girls soccer team is in its final season in CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens. The Royals, who have been one of the league’s top teams, will make the move...
New York City girls volleyball rankings
The CHSAA had its first serve last week and the PSAL will take center court this week. Girls volleyball is about to get into full swing. This week could already...
Pitching set for Braves series
The pitching matchups are now set for the Mets' three-game series with the Braves that starts Monday at Citi Field.Here is the breakdown:Monday -- RHP Derek Lowe (14-9, 4.53) vs....
Kiwanis Girls Soccer Tournament results
The PSAL girls soccer season was supposed to hinder the ability to have weekend tournaments. But with no games this weekend and the field available because of Rosh Hashanah, Forest...
CHSFL/Independent football roundup: Turnovers ground Eagles
Hakim Rice was having a big day on the ground for St. Peter’s, but the Eagles were without him at a key juncture. The senior running back was off the...
"30 Rock," "Mad Men" win top Emmys
LOS ANGELES - The comedy “30 Rock” and advertising drama “Mad Men” won television’s highest honors for a second year on Sunday on a night where old favorites triumphed over...
Ford tough: Falcons steamroll Christ the King
Steven Browne was the one who had the huge first week, the one everyone was talking about and surely the Bishop Ford running back Christ the King set out to...
Frustrated Royals hoping for turnaround
Terrel Hunt and William Hunter are two of the most dangerous skill players in CHSFL ‘AA-A.’ Bishop Ford coach Jim Esposito called the Christ the King duo “as good as...
Gametracker: follow it here
Keep up to the minute as the G-Men take on Dallas...