October 17, 2009
Polanski undergoing medical tests
One of Roman Polanski's lawyers says the jailed filmmaker is undergoing medical tests, though his current condition "is not of exceptional gravity." Herve Temime told The Associated Press in a...
ALCS Nightmare Scenarios
OK, let’s talk some nightmare scenarios. Right now, about an hour before game time, the rain has subdued after a burst of hard stuff. Game 2 could definitely be played...
Girardi hopeful rain will hold off
This morning Joe Girardi wasn’t sure tonight’s ALCS Game 2 against the Angels at Yankee Stadium would be played due to rain. About three hours from the first pitch, Girardi...
Playoff pitching one for the books
CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte are making Yankee playoff history. They have all pitched at least six innings so far this postseason and yielded one earned run in...
Rev. Al, Rush in riot row
NEW YORK — The Rev. Al Sharpton threatened to sue conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for writing in a column that the civil rights leader played a role in two...
Yank Starters on Historic Run
CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte are making Yankee playoff history. They have all pitched at least six innings so far this postseason and yielded one earned run in...
Trapped sea cow sets off for home
Ilya, the manatee stuck several days in a tributary of the Arthur Kill, enjoyed a meal from his New Jersey hosts yesterday and then headed off down the coast —...
Does Bloomberg deserve a third term?
Not in my lifetime has New York City seen the prosperity and serenity it does today, and I am nearly 60 years old. If you're of the delusional, "But something...
Kiddie rapist: Castrate me
PARIS -- A French man charged with raping a boy after being imprisoned for two other child rape cases has written to President Nicolas Sarkozy asking to be castrated, fuelling...
Artist admits he lied about 'Hope' photo
Shepard Fairey’s claim that he had the right to use a news photo to create his famous Barack Obama “HOPE” poster became a widely watched court case about fair use...
Newark teen in cop chase crash, kills passenger
NEWARK, N.J. — A teenager driving a stolen car crashed into another vehicle after fleeing a traffic stop, killing a 15-year-old passenger and seriously injuring another teen in the car....
Mom shoots sons, 5 and 1, killing one
LOS ANGELES — A woman shot her two young sons this morning, killing a 5-year-old boy and critically wounding his 1-year-old brother, police said. The woman called 911 about 8:30...
Target rapped over 'illegal alien' costumes
LOS ANGELES — A Southern California immigrant rights group yesterday asked the Target store chain and a costume company to stop selling an "illegal alien" Halloween costume it said is...
Ft. Drum brigade to Iraq scrapped
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is canceling plans to send a 3,500-member Army brigade to Iraq, a move that speeds the drawdown there and could free up forces as President Barack...
Criminally insane among us
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Phillip A. Paul in 1987 was declared criminally insane for killing an elderly woman after voices in his head told him she was a witch. Instead of...
Another nor'easter headed for NJ
TRENTON, N.J. — Another round of nasty weather — including heavy rains, gusty winds and snow — is headed for New Jersey. The Garden State was already dealing with unseasonably...
'Balloon boy' dad: Absolutely no hoax
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — It was the "big announcement" that wasn't. The publicity-hound dad at the center of Thursday's bizarre flight of an experimental balloon that authorities feared contained his...
Costly hot dog
Was it really worth it? A Stapleton man was busted for using a stolen credit card to buy a hot dog at a department-store cafeteria. Ruben Swen, 20, was working...
Marbury "mess" slap draws usual outrage
My Stephon Marbury interview in Friday's Post drew the usual hateful reaction from the usual suspects. It is fascinating that Marbury is not allowed to bash the team but everyone...
Followin’ CC’s lead
One of the toughest acts to follow in baseball is actually one of the easiest, swears A.J. Burnett. “I’ve had the pleasure of following [CC Sabathia] often this year,” said...
All eyes remain on the sky
During manager Joe Girardi’s postseason playing career as a Yankee, he doesn’t recall The Bronx ever featuring stormy weather. Yesterday’s cold, rainy day in New York was foreign territory. “Every...
BCS buster
The best argument for a college football playoff is continued BCS failure. Here’s how to root for chaos this week: The worst-case scenario for the Buster is if Texas as...
Heisman watch
MARK INGRAM, RB, ALABAMA TIM SULLIVAN: The bigger the game, the bigger the performance from Ingram, so it will be interesting to see just how effective he is today, in...
Oklahoma will give unbeaten Longhorns trouble
TEXAS vs. OKLAHOMA in Dallas, Noon, ABC LINE: Texas –3 • O/U: 52 EYES ON: Texas QB Colt McCoy; Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford ANGLE: We’re not saying the Longhorns can’t...
Trendsetters: the top plays
GIANTS (+3) VS. SAINTS (1:00) Big Blue are 24-7 the last 31 times they have followed up a victory. The Giants also have covered five of six as an underdog...
Cash in on QB’s early success
The Steelers never have been a team reliant on the pass — save the Tommy Maddox experiment earlier this decade. So what do fantasy owners make of Ben Roethlisberger’s blockbuster...
Insurance gaps for jockeys are a catastrophe
Raul Rojas suffered a horrifying fall in the sixth race at Aqueduct on Nov. 17, 2007. The New York jockey was riding a 2-year-old maiden named Bully for Us, who...
Abraham’s goal is to book U.S. mega-fight
Carl Froch of England wanted to make a name for himself by beating up Jermain Taylor last April. Arthur Abraham of Germany hopes to do the same tonight when the...
Tottenville girls volleyball enjoying turnaround season
Sara Hwang and Song Hee Han are always thinking about the future, about how good the Tottenville girls volleyball team can be soon. The two sophomores also talk about it...
CC aces Angels to give Yankees ALCS edge
On a frosty Bronx night that featured a beefy wind dancing from left field, Yankees ace CC Sabathia sizzled, hurling the Yankees to a 4-1 victory over the clumsy Angels...
Murphy's law: Sea crushes St. Francis Prep, 65-32
Greg Manos is enjoying this season and he’s got his undefeated St. Joseph by the Sea football team in contention for the CHSFL Class AAA championship. But Manos got a...
What's up?
TODAY LET THERE BE LIGHT: Help celebrate the Hindu holiday of Diwali — a festival of lights — by making clay lamps at the Rubin Museum of Art. According to...
Take your pick o’ the pumpkin patch
Hey, Charlie Brown — still stalking the Great Pumpkin? Have we got a patch for you! There’ll be a ton of great pumpkins in the Meatpacking District (Ninth Avenue and...
Hands-on 'Hansel'
At plays, you usually sit down, relax and enjoy the show. But if you’re watching “Hansel and Gretel,” you’ll follow the performers and move from one space to another within...
Once more with feeling!
Actors are often told they should never appear with animals and children for fear of being upstaged. They should stay especially far from children who study with Trapper Felides —...
Art, paper, scissors
You can see a Gorky at the Whitney or a Rembrandt at the Frick, but it’s all about paper at the Museum of Arts and Design’s “Slash: Paper Under the...
Purrs & pups
Plan on picking up a new four-pawed pal? Don’t roll the bones, get some serious training today from pro breeders who specialize in all manner of purrs and pups. More...
For Kennedy, lost season has one final indignity
All around there were DeWitt Clinton football players flying around the field, dancing and high-fiving and partying like it was their homecoming. The Governors had just beaten John F. Kennedy,...
Girls volleyball roundup: Banged up Bronx Science gets by Lehman
Juliana Kwan had five kills and five assists to lead Bronx Science to a 26-24, 25-19 win at Lehman on Friday in PSAL Bronx A1 girls volleyball. In her return...
Hatch free
'Survivor" winner Richard Hatch was released from a Massachusetts jail early yesterday after completing a federal sentence for evading taxes on the $1 million he won during the CBS reality...
Kelly, Mark's 'AMC' return
Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos will return to "All My Children" in January to help mark the show's 40th anniversary. Ripa ("Live with Regis & Kelly") and Consuelos met...
Crime stories
Going through hell might seem like hell on the surface but it's sometimes, ironically enough, the best thing that can happen to a reporter. Hell for Paula Zahn was the...
She's panting for politics
BELLMAWR, NJ -- Many small-business owners run for the Legislature, but one candidate can tout a unique profession: hosting sex-toy parties. GOP Assembly candidate and mom-of-two Stepfanie Velez-Gentry, 29, organizes...
Rare exhibition of Lincoln docs
ITHACA, NY -- Three documents that distinguished Abraham Lincoln's presidency and now stand etched in American history will be put on rare display at Cornell University beginning next week. The...
Pakistan suicide trio kills 13 at police HQ
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Three suicide attackers, including a woman, hit a police station in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing 13 people. One of the attackers drove a car filled with explosives...
'Reform' no one wants to pay for
The legislative process can also be a learning process, and as Congress considers health-care legislation -- the latest act being the Senate Finance Committee's vote in favor of Chairman Max...
'Frank' branches out
Eleven more sites have been selected to receive saplings derived from the chestnut tree that consoled Anne Frank as she hid during Nazi occupation in Amsterdam. The Anne Frank Center...
Slap at horndogs
National Organization for Women head Terry O'Neill has harsh words for men behaving badly -- among them Roman Polanski and David Letterman. She condemned as "dangerous" suggestions that Swiss authorities...
Riot cops' photo frolic
CHICAGO -- The Police Department is investigating several officers for allegedly forcing a man they arrested during last month's G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh to appear in a photo with...
Man vs. city traffic: jaywalkers always lose
*** As a former paramedic and firefighter who has responded to numerous and tragic "pedestrian struck" accidents, I read your jaywalking editorial with interest ("Jaywalking's Steep Toll," Editorial, Oct. 15)....
Turkey's turnabout
Turkey this week broke sig nificantly with Israel and the West -- a strong sign that President Obama's outreach to the Muslim world is achieving nothing. On Monday, NATO scrapped...
Cop saves straphanger
A straphanger who suffered a heart attack on a packed rush-hour train at the Columbus Circle station yesterday was saved by a rookie cop who was able to revive him....
LI gal slain in apt.
A young Suffolk County woman was found stabbed to death in her apartment yesterday, cops said. The body of Laura Pizzini, 25, was discovered inside her Mastic apartment at 12:30...
Words escape DWI girl's dad
The grieving father of a girl killed when an allegedly drunken driver flipped her car en route to a slumber party found it too painful to say goodbye to his...
A 'South Peep-cific' voyeur rap
A stage manager for the glamorous production of "South Pacific" at Lincoln Center is accused producing a seedy sideshow as well -- creepily recording a video of an actress disrobing...
Khadafy invites Brits for 'IRA victims' talks
LONDON -- Libya has invited a delegation of British parliamentarians to discuss the case of families of IRA victims who say Moammar Khadafy's regime helped arm the Northern Ireland militants,...
Nurse's aide who would be king
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A man who worked for a dozen years as a nurse's aide outside Washington, DC, and in Harrisburg is back home in the mountains of western Uganda...
Gov to budget foes: Get real!
ALBANY -- Gov. Paterson said yesterday that lawmakers who deny the state's fiscal crisis were "embarrassing themselves" and called on them to "grow up" and accept his plan for $3...
Conan says he's $orry
Late night funnyman Conan O'Brien, saying mocking Newark was the most "expensive joke I've ever told," had Mayor Cory Booker on his show last night to make amends and forked...
Boot his glass!
ALBANY -- The Queens Democratic Party chairman and five Democratic state senators yesterday called for the ouster of Sen. Hiram Monserrate, virtually assuring the removal of the freshman Queens Democrat...
New ed. slap at Bill
Hoping to capitalize on a new study showing that the end of social promotion has produced measurable gains for fifth-graders, supporters of Mayor Bloomberg charged yesterday that Democratic rival Bill...
Hip-hop track of the trade
Who says hip-hop and hedge funds don't mix? Long before Wall Street giant Galleon became mired in an insider-trading scandal, a rap song was created to tout the success of...
Judge gives tardy diva Lohan star treatment
Lindsay Lohan showed an LA judge who was boss in Hollywood yesterday, with a Mean Girl power play straight from one of her movie scripts. The diva showed up a...
Deficit hits high of $1.4T
WASHINGTON -- The federal budget deficit has surged to an all-time high of $1.42 trillion as the recession caused tax revenues to plunge while the government was spending huge amounts...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn *They weren't home-free for long. Two vagrants were busted for playing house in a vacant Canarsie building, sources said. Stephen Louison, 24, and Latique Collins, 21, slipped through the...
Another foe eyeing elex run at Rangel
WASHINGTON -- Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV said yesterday he may run against embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel in next year's Democratic primary -- calling a series of ethics charges...
Martha Stewart, Kmart part ways
Martha Stewart and Kmart are officially splitting up. Stewart's company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., yesterday said it was unable to reach an agreement that would have allowed its partnership...
Jon cheated on us: TLC
The TLC network has sued Jon Gosselin for allegedly breaching his contract as a star of the hit reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8." The lawsuit, filed yesterday in...
No manatee's land
Rescuers are racing to free a famous Florida manatee before he freezes in the suddenly frigid waters near a New Jersey oil refinery, officials said yesterday. The stranded mammal, named...
'Falcon' quest for big T-shirt $$
Balloon boy Falcon Heene is the new Bart Simpson. First he went on TV, then he got in some naughty shenanigans that shocked the nation -- and now he's been...
Train-hit miracle
A 6-month-old boy escaped with nothing but a cut to his forehead after his stroller rolled off a rail station's platform and into the path of a train outside Melbourne,...
Bidders eye Malo brand
Malo, the Italian luxury brand long known for its $600 cashmere sweaters, may soon be unloaded by its debt-ridden owner, sources told The Post. Milan-based IT Holdings, which also owns...
An NBC look-see
Liberty Media and News Corp. are checking out NBC Universal. At their respective shareholder meetings yesterday, Liberty Chairman John Malone and News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch for the first time...
Business briefs
Consumers US consumer senti ment fell unexpectedly this month. The Reuters/ University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers preliminary index of sen timent for October fell to a reading of 69.4...
Marts pause for a breather
US stocks fell, pulling benchmark indexes down from a one-year high. The dollar rose for the first time in five days. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped 0.8 percent...
A chef's surprise as Todd's ex-flame arrested
Celebrity chef Todd English decided to press assault charges against his jilted fiancée because she did a tell-all interview with The Post that he felt damaged his reputation, his own...
Qns. 'riot' probe
The feds have launched a grand-jury probe into a Queens couple who call themselves anarchists and are suspected of participating in riots. Prosecutors revealed yesterday that Elliott Madison, 41, and...
O's 'blank screen'
IN "The Audacity of Hope," Barack Obama described himself as "a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." This is a powerful tool...
Key anti-crime moves under siege
A CHICAGO gang's recent fatal beating of a young man has brought na tional attention to the problem of urban violence. From President Obama on down, everyone is searching for...
Luxe spending rises 29%
Spending in the US on luxury goods and services spurted 29 percent in the third quarter from the previous three months, as consumers with the highest incomes unleashed pent-up demand,...
Ghoul nurse urged suicide in Web chats: cops
MINNEAPOLIS -- A nurse who authorities say got his kicks by visiting Internet suicide chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themselves is under investigation in at least two...
Lady's hell on wheels
A marketing campaign for Toyota turned into a terror onslaught for a Los Angeles woman who became convinced a crazed British thug was making a beeline for her home, according...
SEC names Goldman exec to enforcement
A Goldman Sachs executive has been named the first chief operating officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement division. The market watchdog agency said yesterday that Adam Storch, vice...
Lottery guy dies in fire
LANCASTER, NY -- A man who won a share of a $10 million lottery jackpot was killed in a fire in suburban Buffalo. Authorities in Lancaster say Roger Grandy's body...
Monserrate hoping to be stormy wedder
State Sen. Hiram Monserrate is rarin' to put a ring on his girlfriend's finger now that he's been acquitted of putting a hurt on her pretty face -- and she...
Lewis says BofA lost $1B in third quarter
Ken Lewis' swan song is getting less pretty. Driven by a slumping consumer market, Bank of America posted a $1 billion net loss for the third quarter. It was the...
Up the creek at Amazon
It looks like Jeff Bezos might be afraid of the smiley face. Amazon's founder -- known for wooing Wall Street in a relaxed, silky-smooth drone -- surprised some analysts this...
$9.4M Madoff manse
Bernard Madoff's former home in Montauk sold for $9.41 million, the US Marshals Service said yesterday. The property was listed for $8.75 million. "It goes directly to the Department of...
Tyson has Oprah's ear
CHICAGO -- No punches were thrown. And neither bit off the other's ear. Mutual praise and admiration dominated during a face-to-face meeting yesterday between former world champion boxers Mike Tyson...
B'klyn day-care gas-fume scare
A Brooklyn day-care center's kids were rushed to a hospital yesterday after the building was filled with deadly carbon-monoxide fumes, authorities said. Firefighters took two adults and seven children, described...
Now you're talkin'
City cops will be snitching soon on gabby cabbies. For the first time, police officers who ticket hacks for using cellphones and other electronics are going to turn the info...
Police believe balloon tale -- for now
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- He called the media before the police, his parents were shopping around a reality show, and even the kid said it was all "for a show,"...
3 axed over 'bars' mitzvah
Three city Department of Correction officials have been forced to resign for allowing a bar mitzvah bash for a Tombs inmate's son last December -- but each will still be...
Stompin' mad at Madonna
Madonna is spending so much time getting into the groove that she's driving her neighbor crazy. The Material Girl has turned her Central Park West apartment into a makeshift dance...
The cab crackdown
Looks like taxi rides in New York might soon become a bit less harrow ing -- now that the city is finally cracking down on gabby cabbies. It's precisely what...
Stupid superintendent tricks
Educators are charged with teaching kids, so it stands to reason that they can think clearly themselves. Wrong -- at least when it comes to "zero tolerance" policies against weapons...
Test trouble
City schoolkids may be making progress -- but compared to what? Federal test scores this week cast serious doubt on state results that suggest big gains in New York, including...
AIG, Hank in talks on legal, financial deal
American International Group and its founder, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, may be on their way toward burying the hatchet. The Wall Street Journal's Web site yesterday reported that Greenberg and AIG...
7th inning kvetch
Yankees fans were stunned after beloved "God Bless America" singer Ronan Tynan got himself tossed from last night's American League Championship Series game after making an anti-Semitic remark. The famous...
'I'll be like Martha f---ing Stewart!'
Getting caught like Martha Stewart seemed a bad thing to accused inside trader Danielle Chiesi. "I'm dead if this leaks. I really am . . . and my career is...
Ewww! Kid's sick of publicity
Balloon boy Falcon Heene bizarrely vomited not once, but twice on national television yesterday as his desperate, media-hungry dad dragged him from show to show, eager to capitalize on his...
Heavyweight political fight
The Republican candidate for New Jersey governor revealed a "little secret" at last night's debate -- he's fat. Chris Christie weighed in on the hot-button issue, accusing Democratic Gov. Jon...
Hedge-funder in stox-scam bust
This pirate is sunk. The fat-cat founder of Wall Street hedge-fund giant Galleon -- one of the world's richest men -- looked more knee-buckling than swashbuckling as he and a...
Anna was addicted: baby dad
LOS ANGELES -- Anna Nicole Smith's baby daddy, Larry Birkhead, told a court yesterday that he thought the Playboy model was taking too many drugs before she died -- including...
Houston journeys to Israel
Allan Houston, assistant to team president Donnie Walsh, embarked on a scouting mission to Israel in August, but not to scout Maccabi Tel Aviv, which visits the Garden tomorrow at...
Rangers, Maple Leafs gear for chippy battle
Let's get ready to rumble. Fight fans and Rangers fans alike will be curious to see what unfolds tonight when the Blueshirts, winners of six straight, travel to Toronto to...
Matter of daze until Elias' return
Six more games to go, and the Devils will count every one: Nov. 4 is the target for Devils all-time leading scorer Patrik Elias to start his season, The Post...
Darryl's life comes together after baseball
So much was expected from Darryl Strawberry on the baseball field. Here's the thing, Straw, at the age of 47, is finally reaching his potential -- as a person. It's...
Loss pain in the neck for CDR, Nets
So what's a Net game without an injury? Right, non-existent. The Nets went to the Garden last night to face the Knicks -- and lost of course, as they have...
Sports shorts
GRID: Ravens' Lewis fined for two hits The NFL fined Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis $25,000 for two separate plays in the fourth quarter of Baltimore's 17-14 loss on Sunday, including...
New Yanks as gritty as opponent
You kept staring at the field and thinking that something about the 2009 ALCS Game 1 Angels looked familiar. And then it hit you. They resembled the 2002 and 2005...
Yankees chill as Angels drop ball
The ball was seemingly a mile high, soaring over the infield, and just for kicks, just for laughs, there had to be a sizable portion of the clientele inside Yankee...
Sabathia helps Yanks take ALCS lead
How do you heal baseball frostbite? If you're the Yankees, you apply as many CCs of red-hot pitching as you can. On a frosty Bronx night that featured a beefy...
No cooling off A-Rod
Andy Pettitte was talking about CC Sabathia, gushing how in the season's second half, he doesn't think the ace lefty slogged through even one rough outing. Similarly -- and perhaps...
Johnny ends slump in winter weather
What, Joe Girardi worry about Johnny Damon? "I probably do a little bit less," said the manager, after being asked whether time passed more easily while waiting for a turnaround...
Angels freeze under pressure
Baseball in the AL East is a different animal. Like a cold wind in the face, the Angels were slapped with that reality last night at a chilly and a...
Drug testers back in Bronx for ALCS
Members of MLB's drug testing team might want to rent a room at Yankee Stadium. For the second time in a week the testing team was at the Stadium last...
Knicks slip past woeful Nets
If the Knicks can play the Nets the entire preseason, they would be fine. And they almost do. In their second meeting, the Knicks shot just 40.2 percent but prevailed...
Clowney catches on
David Clowney was in pursuit, following Mark Sanchez around the Jets locker room, begging. But he wasn't pleading for passes to come his way during his expected first start Sunday,...
Stopping Saints QB Giant task for Pierce
The sight has become a somewhat familiar one when the Giants are on defense: With the opposing quarterback at the line of scrimmage, Antonio Pierce alerts his defensive teammates and...
Hixon likely to handle kickoffs
Domenik Hixon appears ready to take over kickoff duties for the first time this season. The wide receiver, who returned to the field last week after a knee injury, took...
Hondo's Tex.-ting
Hondo could have had a sweep last night if not for Chase Knoblauch, who threw the game away for the Phillies. That offset his victory with the Yankees, so Mr....
Tough luck, Pedro
LOS ANGELES -- Pedro Martinez should pursue charges, because what his second baseman and bullpen did here yesterday was downright criminal. A seven-inning masterpiece by Martinez was tossed out the...
DeJesus helps Clinton finally fight off Kennedy
Nothing could keep Joaquin DeJesus from the field Friday night. Not a bruised and swollen right hand. Not trouble breathing from a crushing hit. The DeWitt Clinton quarterback shook off...
Manuel says Martinez was 'done' after seventh
LOS ANGELES -- Charlie Manuel defended his decision to lift Pedro Martinez after seven scoreless innings of two-hit ball and just 87 pitches yesterday. The move immediately backfired on the...
Roloson struggles in Isles loss
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Islanders are still looking for their first win. Clarke MacArthur scored on a penalty shot, Ryan Miller made 36 saves, and Tyler Myers scored his first...
Weird but true
This wasn't a trick or a treat by any stretch of the imagination. A stinking, rotting corpse was mistaken for a gruesome Halloween decoration for days in Marina del Rey,...
USC clash chance for Weis to show his Irish are back
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Sadly, the proudest moment of the last four-plus seasons for a Notre Dame fan is a loss -- a gut-retching, heartbreaking, needle-in-the-temple loss. It was a...
Knights' dreams in the Pitts
PISCATAWAY -- There will be no first Big East Conference championship for Rutgers this season, no first BCS bowl game, no reason to believe that the Scarlet Knights ever fully...
Robbins nest: Notre Dame could be in future for Cincy's Kelly
It's fascinating how one weekend in the fall of 2009 could reshape the entire college football landscape in 2010. Consider this: Cincinnati goes into South Florida on Thursday night and,...
PSAL boys soccer roundup: Tie could prove to be costly for Lehman
Shamel Bess and Adrian Regalado each scored once and Hajro Kolenovic made 11 saves for DeWitt Clinton, who tied Lehman, 2-2, in Bronx A boys soccer. The draw could be...
Yankees didn't give Angels warm welcome
The ball was a mile high, soaring over the infield at Yankee Stadium, and just for kicks, just for laughs, there had to be a sizable portion of the clientele...
Jefferson's Coley commits to Stony Brook
Across the country, college basketball programs were preparing for the upcoming season. Midnight Madness events were being organized and practices schedules created. Everywhere except Stony Brook. The Seawolves were still...
MSIT cannot adjust in loss to Wagner
What went wrong? Dave Mahon had a laundry list of things. “We didn’t do anything today,” the McKee/Staten Island Tech coach said. “We didn’t pass well, we didn’t set well,...
Second-half surge gives Madison fourth straight division crown
Abraham Bravo had a piece of advice for James Madison teammate Richard Hernandez as he readied to take his 30-yard free kick. “He told me to kick it like [Manchester...
Wagner limps into MSIT match, struts away with 'best' performance
Susan Wagner had every reason for a letdown. The Falcons were playing their third match in four days. The two previous days they had long tournaments. Facing rival McKee/Staten Island...
Eleven years in the making
Nothing could keep Joaquin DeJesus from the field Friday night. Not a bruised and swollen right hand. Not trouble breathing from a crushing hit. The DeWitt Clinton quarterback shook off...
Tigers tamed by Madison's second-half barrage
Mateo Arboleda saw the play before. Less than 10 minutes prior, James Madison’s Dimitri Foster found Abraham Bravo with a pass across the box to the far side post to...
Manuel pulls plug on Pedro's gem
Grady Little infamously stuck with Pedro Martinez a bit too long. Six years later, did Charlie Manuel yank Martinez a bit too soon in a crucial playoff moment? Another manager’s...