November 1, 2009
Yale student found dead in dorm
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A 19-year-old sophomore at Yale University was found dead Sunday by his roommates inside their suite, the school said. Andre Narcisse of Roosevelt, N.Y., was discovered...
PSAL football Bowl Division roundup: Truman guts out another win
Truman had four key starters – Bilal Greene, Cory Johnson, Mazelle Sappe and Andrew Reid – out with injuries for what until this point was the biggest game of the...
PSAL football rankings: Week 9
After nine weeks of thrilling regular-season action, we have reached the real season – it’s playoff time. There were constants – Fort Hamilton started atop this space and still resides...
Eagles deliver Giant pounding, 40-17
PHILADELPHIA – As he left his team in the visitors locker room at Lincoln Financial Field, Tom Coughlin kept calm as he waded through the wreckage of today's 40-17 loss...
Jets lose heartbreaker to Dolphins, 30-25
The Jets 30-25 loss to the Dolphins this afternoon at Giants Stadium was, in so many ways, inexplicable. But then, if you’ve followed the Jets long enough, you’re much more...
CIT Group goes bankrupt
WASHINGTON — Lender CIT Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a potential blow to the thousands of small and mid-sized businesses that rely on the company for loans...
Marathon results
Men 1. Meb Keflezighi, Mammoth Lakes, Calif., 2 hours, 9 minutes, 15 seconds. 2. Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenya, 2:09:56. 3. Jaouad Gharib, Morocco, 2:10:25. 4. Ryan Hall, Mammoth Lakes, Calif.,...
CHSFL 'AAA' quarterfinals set
Nothing official from the Catholic High School Football League just yet, but I’ve got it on very good information that the power points have been calculated and next weekend’s quarterfinal...
'Purgatory' is a delicious moment
It's pretty crazy that one would have to travel to LA to see Romeo Castellucci's last show -- or at least a third of the Italian director's Divine Comedy trilogy....
Nate could miss two weeks for Knicks
While the thrill of Danilo Gallinari's 30-point night still resonated today at practice, the news that Nate Robinson could be out two weeks with a sprained ankle put a damper...
American wins marathon; First since '82
Meb Keflezighi of the U.S. pulled away from Robert Cheruiyot in Central Park to win today's New York City Marathon in a 2:09.15. The time was not only a personal-best...
GAMETRACKER: Jets vs. Dolphins
Follow the action as the Jets and the Dolphins square off in the Meadowlands ...
GAMETRACKER: Giants vs. Eagles
Follow the action as New York and Philadelphia face off in that other contest, as the Giants and Eagles do battle...
Perez Takes Title From Agbeko
LAS VEGAS -- Yonnhy Perez floored Joseph Agbeko in the 10th round and won a unanimous decision Saturday night to take the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title in the first...
The Philadelphia Story: Vac's Running Diary (Updated 12:56 A.M.)
UPDATED 12:56 A.M.Well, this is it. We started this little screed at 11:27 Sunday morning, and we are fixing to shut off the computer just before 1 a.m., and it...
Afghan challenger Abdullah drops out of runoff election
KABUL — Afghanistan’s presidential challenger announced Sunday he would not participate in next weekend’s runoff election because his demands for new measures to prevent fraud were rejected. He stopped short...
Moose has no regrets
PHILADELPHIA — A year ago, Mike Mussina wrapped up a 20-win season and a career in which he played for the Yankees for eight years. He played with most of...
Serby's Sunday Q&A with... Paul O'Neill
The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the four-time Yankees champion and current YES analyst. Q: George Steinbrenner liked to call you The Warrior because you refused to lose. A: It...
Two cities’ teams, fans really mixing it up
PHILADELPHIA — There’s a buddy of mine who has a nickname for friends, neighbors and relations who stop by too often or stay too late. He came up with it...
A-Rod’s replay redux
PHILADELPHIA — Alex Rodriguez’s double turned into a two-run homer, thanks to multiple TV cameras — the one it hit and the ones that captured video of it doing so....
Game 3: Swisher & Co. provide pop for Pettitte
PHILADELPHIA — Andy Pettitte grunted through six innings without his best stuff. Nick Swisher finally broke through. Alex Rodriguez’s first World Series hit was a clutch homer that needed a...
The whole tooth about Soupy
We news folks are so eager to boil stories down to the essence that we often miss the point. To have reduced Soupy Sales to a kiddie show host who...
Sticking with Swish pays off for Yanks
PHILADELPHIA — This might well have been the game when we saw for the very first time what Joe Girardi’s best qualities as a manager really are. Girardi has spent...
Yankees grab momentum
PHILADELPHIA — For three innings last night, the Yankees got into the Halloween spirit by coming to Game 3 of the World Series as the Kansas City Royals. They appeared...
Revenge-minded Jets have killer instinct
The talk from the Jets this week leading into today’s awaited rematch against the Dolphins at Giants Stadium has focused less on bravado and more on redemption. The 31-27 Monday...
You bet your 'Wife'
Will she go or will she stay? It's the question being asked by the 14 million viewers who are watching "The Good Wife." Julianna Margulies, the show's star, isn't saying....
Woodhead does it all, and then some
All Danny Woodhead has ever wanted was to contribute in any way possible to the Jets and help them win. Now he finally has his chance. The 5-foot-9, 195-pound Woodhead,...
Cobain’s best concert
THE day after his daughter was born, Kurt Cobain, terrified that Frances Bean would be taken from him, walked into Courtney Love’s hospital room with a pistol and suggested they...
Ground Green needs air support
When Brian Schottenheimer first saw Jerricho Cotchery was healthy enough to play in today’s game against the Dolphins at the Meadowlands, the Jets offensive coordinator admitted he got a “warm...
Different Stroke
NEW Yorkers have long had a love-hate affair with the Strokes — mostly hate after the band’s albums failed to live up to the promise of 2001’s “Is This It.”...
Big Blue out to get back at Birds, stay in first
PHILADELPHIA — There are rivalries galore for the Giants, but nothing quite like their feelings about Philadelphia, which is why having the Eagles win two games at Giants Stadium last...
4-get the Series, this 1 is all about the Eagles
PHILADELPHIA — This isn’t Game 4 of the World Series for the Giants. It is Game 1 against the Eagles. And they want Game 1 against the Eagles today at...
Punter playing keep-away from DeSean
PHILADELPHIA — There is no more dangerous big-play threat in the NFL than DeSean Jackson, the Eagles’ do-everything receiver. He has a touchdown of at least 60 yards in four...
In my library: Jane Lynch
On TV’s “Glee,” she’s Sue, the mannish, take-no-prisoners head of the cheerleaders. In Off-Broadway’s “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” she’s Everywoman.In real life, Jane Lynch is a little bit...
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Ayn Rand: Christ of capitalism or messed-up Messiah? An upper-middle class Jew born Alissa Rosenbaum in Czarist Russia (where her best friend was Vladimir Nabokov’s sister), Rand once shocked her...
Required Reading
BowieA Biographyby Marc Spitz (Crown) After finishing his book on Green Day a few years back, Spitz turns his Bowie obsession into a book, exploring his early life as David...
In My Father’s Shadow
What would it feel like to grow up in the towering shadow of Orson Welles? That’s the question that drives this memoir from Chris Welles Feder, the eldest daughter of...
Paradise lost
Two best friends were working on a book about female empowerment — when one suddenly killed herself. Nona Willis Aronowitz, 25, still wonders why her co-author left her behind The...
Fordham Prep upsets Iona Prep in CHSAA quarters
Christian Quinttus advanced to the CHSAA Class A semifinals in his first year on the Fordham Prep varsity soccer team. But his second trip, which comes after the Rams defeated...
No average Joe: Cala lifts St. Francis Prep to CHSAA semis
St. Francis Prep’s undefeated season and a chance to advance to the CHSAA Class A intersectional semifinals was on the line. Xavier was on the verge of a massive upset,...
See-no-evil watchdogs
The state’s ethics panel gave Gov. Paterson and his staff a clean bill of health last week after supposedly reviewing their sleazy leak of unflattering information about Caroline Kennedy. Gee,...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS ERIC SCHMIDT Google CEO blazes a trail into GPS sector. WES CARD Jones Apparel head pares costs at the maker of Nine West and Anne Klein to post $30M...
Harlem scuffle
If you’re anything you like us, you’re getting a little tired of being ordered around by Oprah all the time. Read this book! Lose weight! Vote for this guy! Rub...
‘Anything’ for love
1) Cameron Crowe’s “Say Anything” was perhaps the most romantic teen comedy of the ’80s. But it wouldn’t have been so if star John Cusack hadn’t actually fallen in love...
Yankees get 3 HRs to take 2-1 Series lead
PHILADELPHIA -- Mr. Cool and the Excitable Boy helped carry the Yankees to within two victories of winning the World Series. Andy Pettitte’s intense focus allowed him to bounce back...
Dressing up for Jesus
The Lord works in mysterious ways. My message from The Great One came in the form of a flyer for The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance. See, my...
This week's couple: Mile sky club
Jet-setting frequent fliers, Andrea and Eric found common ground discussing their world travels over mini burgers and beer at hip downtown eatery Mark. The first-class duo covered everything from European...
Meet Market: PR assistant sks romance worth publicizing
Lindsay, a 22-year-old with a weakness for karaoke and confident men, is looking for a guy who can carry himself — and maybe even a tune. Sean, 30 set builder/production...
Jungle book
In 1984, Lafayette Street was a rather desolate block, dotted with a few art galleries and places to eat; “a bleak outpost, especially at night” is how writer Anthony Haden-Guest...
Behind that amazing chimp photo
Dorothy — the grande dame of chimpazees, whose picture this week became a worldwide phenomenon — always had the power to move both people and animals. When she died, at...
Droid vs. iPhone
THE LATEST IN A LONG line of purported iPhone-killers — T-Mobile’s G1 Google-phone and Verizon’s Blackberry Storms were previous contenders — Motorola’s Droid holds the most promise yet to challenge...
Peeping Tom Wolfe
When artist and architect Matteo Pericoli was packing up his Upper West Side apartment in 2004, he realized he couldn’t take his very favorite thing with him — the vista...
Muslim unrest hits US homes
In what may be the first recorded instance of a Muslim wife attempting to murder her husband for not being pious enough, a Staten Island woman was charged this week...
My New York: Bernadette Peters
Two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters wears her devotion to pets on her sleeve — and at times a shimmery beaded gown. The Queens native and 20-year Upper West Side resident...
We're the most pathetic men in history
When Owen Schmitt, fearsome fullback for the Seattle Seahawks, opened a game last month with a presentation of his manly bona fides that consisted of skull-bashing himself with his helmet...
Bribing the voters of New Jersey
With just two days to go, the New Jersey gubernatorial election has turned into a horse race among three candidates, a remarkable development considering that the incumbent, Democrat Jon Corzine,...
Cat’s outta the box
Today, in a market flush with Duravit toilets by the likes of Philippe Starck, no home is complete without architect-approved bathroom appliances for the well-heeled water closet. But the ubiquitous...
Girardi trusted Swisher would come through
PHILADELPHIA -- This may well have been the game when we saw for the very first time what Joe Girardi's best qualities as a manager really are. Girardi has spent...
Bridge
A READER asks how to determine the "par" result in a deal. "I presume," he writes, "that it has nothing to do with a drive, an approach and two putts."...
Hip hotel the place to spray
Graffiti vandalism is apparently so cool that an East Village hotel has decided to fake it. In a wacky attempt at earning street cred, the swanky Cooper Square Hotel has...
LI wife busted in gory slay
A Long Island mother of three launched a murderous assault against her lawyer husband, stabbing him a dozen times with a kitchen knife, authorities said yesterday. The couple's 22-year-old son...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn * Police are hunting for a killer in East New York. Michael Becht, 35, was locked in an argument with a man on Logan Street near Belmont Avenue at...
Hot coffee! 14 Bronx businesses burn
This flame-engulfed Dunkin' Donuts in The Bronx is among 14 businesses that were gutted early yesterday by a fast-moving fire that sent plumes of smoke into the night sky. The...
The hedge 'plunder'
Federal agents this week are zeroing in on a $20 million Florida beachfront mansion owned by a hedge-fund titan who, law enforcement authorities believe, financed a lavish lifestyle -- complete...
Sharpton's ex & kid in cop rage
The rabble-rousing rev should give his daughter a sermon about road rage. The Rev. Al Sharpton's ex-wife and daughter were arrested after berating two Harlem cops who had pulled them...
Shocking bus fuss over texting driver
A city bus driver caught red-handed texting on his cellphone while driving with one hand is under investigation by transit officials. A frightened front-seat passenger on the X5 express bus...
Costly 'trips' on High Line
Money had better grow on trees in the High Line Park, because the city’s newest greenway is also its latest liability. Less than five months old, the elevated promenade has...
H'ween teen shot
In a Halloween hoax gone horribly wrong, an off-duty, undercover cop shot a teen prankster in the groin early yesterday after the kid and his hooligan pals attacked him in...
'Jeter Bridge' is on deck for Bronx
Big Apple women may soon be able to take a ride on Derek Jeter -- the bridge, that is. Bronx leaders have proposed naming the soon-to-be-built East 153rd Street bridge...
Granny: Jogger mob trampled me
Call it a run and hit. Tonie Derezeas, 74, said was walking her Shih Tzu, Apollo, on the promenade at Carl Schurz Park on the Upper East Side on Sept....
Goldman guy goes to bat for A-Rod
The most amusing part of this Broad Street-to-Bronx tale is that Gerry Cardinale isn't what you would call a baseball man. "No baseball background," the Goldman Sachs investment banker said...
NY1 star 'bumps' himself off flight
An overzealous flight attendant picked a fight with embattled NY1 political anchor Dominic Carter yesterday morning at La Guardia Airport, but the newsman hopped off the Delta flight to avoid...
Amazing race for run bunch
They are three of Gotham's finest road warriors -- joining a record-setting field of 40,000 runners at today's 40th annual New York City Marathon. They told The Post what makes...
Funds exiting stocks
Investors could be rocked again tomorrow by sliding stocks after Friday's broad sell-off -- sparked in part by hedge funds hitting the cash register and selling stocks after a good...
School of hard cash
Somehow I went wrong as a father -- the other day my two daughters informed me they eventually want to go to college. I said, "No way!" and they attempted...
Big-time stars in this NYC Marathon
The New York City Marathon today will boast arguably the best men's field in this race's history, and clearly the best woman in the sport's history in world record-holder Paula...
Aqueduct Analysis
Today's analysis. 1. 1 mile; $20,000; clm($12,500); 3up SMOOTH WIND returns to claiming ranks after running evenly at this distance. He closed to finish third by neck in last start...
Zenyatta takes spot with colts in Classic
Arcadia, Calif. -- Buckle up, boys, the Big Girl is headed your way. The undefeated super mare Zenyatta will tackle the colts in Saturday's $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at...
Hondo Sweeps!!
Hondo made a strong move yesterday, sweeping with the Yankees and Cincinnati to lower the number on the big red deficit toteboard to 1,815 mackeys. Today, he's ravin' about Baltimore's...
The Post Line
NFL Today Favorite Opening Current (O/U) Underdog Giants +3 1 (44½) EAGLES JETS 4 3½ (40½) Dolphins RAVENS 3½ 3½ (41½) Broncos BEARS 13½ 13 (40) Browns Texans 3½ 3...
D'Antoni's crew falls in OT again
Mike D'Antoni saved his big lineup change for last night's home opener promoting Danilo Gallinari and demoting Al Harrington. Even when things work with the Knicks, it ultimately fails. They...
Devils ward off Lightning strike
TAMPA, Fla. -- The road has become the Devils' playground. They found another way to win away from home yesterday and another hero in shootout scorer David Clarkson as they...
CC gung-ho for Game 4
PHILADELPHIA -- CC Sabathia already has dispelled the notion he can't succeed on three days' rest in the postseason, so who better than the Yankees' $161 million thoroughbred to take...
Upon further review, A-Rod comes through
Philadelphia - Never forget that Alex Rodriguez loves being the cen taur of attention. The man knows what to do with the spotlight, and the camera. Though A-Rod continues on...
The Swishin' well
PHILADELPHIA -- Nick Swisher was crushed when he found out he wasn't playing in Game 2. But, in the end, it turned out to be pretty beneficial. Swisher said, after...
Girardi determined not 'two' overwork Rivera
PHILADELPHIA -- Joe Girardi wasn't going to use Mariano Rivera for two innings last night in Game 3 of the World Series against the Phillies, but the manager didn't commit...
No school left behind
Kids eating lunch before 10 a.m. Gym classes operating in hallways. Students getting to school at 7 a.m. and leaving at 6 p.m. This is all typical at Francis Lewis...
Shelter-crisis sham
It must be that time of year: Self-appointed “advocates for the homeless” are once again wailing about a new “crisis” overtaking the city. It’s about as predictable as cold in...
Pox vs. pawns
WITH swine flu roaring back, it's worth noting how international chess deals with a highly contagious disease: Two weeks ago at the most prestigious women's tournament of the year --...
Sir Charlie
You must be kidding, mon. Embattled Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel can't fill out a tax form, but he's now a knight -- at least in Jamaica. The Democratic Prince of...
Geez, give me a smoke break
Students to college administrators: Butt out! Officials at Columbia and NYU are considering Draconian new rules that will effectively kick smokers' butts right off campus -- even if they light...
Pass-out puzzle on plane
LONDON -- At least six passengers fainted aboard a British Airways flight from Newark to London yesterday. All recovered quickly, and none required hospitalization. The plane carried 216 passengers and...
Cheers, Dakota!
Here's Dakota Fanning, all grown up, doing some amazing gymnastics before getting crowned a real-life homecoming queen. The 15-year-old movie star was handed flowers and adorned with a tiara when...
Dreidel robbers
There's an epidemic of kosher cradle snatchers -- and a group of rabbis is out to tame them. The Talmudic titans, based here and in Israel, are calling for matchmakers...
Bx. cop's 'sobering' timeline
A timeline emerged yesterday outlining the 5½-hour gap between a fatal Bronx crash involving an allegedly drunken off-duty cop and the time that his blood was drawn to test for...
Busted with 6 bodies at home
CLEVELAND -- A convicted rapist was arrested yesterday after police found six decomposing bodies in his home. At least one of the victims, a woman, died a violent death that...
Sept. 11 chapel 'arsonist' gives up
A Harvard law grad surrendered to cops yesterday after allegedly setting fire to an East Side chapel that houses remains of 9/11 victims as part of a drunken dare, sources...
'Sworn' enemies
PHILADEPHIA -- Take that, Frillies! Yankees fans endured rude, crude verbal assaults from Neanderthals in City of Brotherly Love last night, but Bombers diehards got the last laugh -- taking...
Cipriani at deport risk
He avoided jail and kept his New York liquor license, but restaurateur Giuseppe Cipriani may not catch a break from Uncle Sam. Cipriani, who fled the United States a year...
Bucks' Jennings stars while Hill sits
Best feature about the end of Daylight Sav ings Time is it gave me an extra hour to overreact to the first few days of the season. Nothing says "didn't...
TV nonsense is by design
IT'S not that Fox's World Series tele casts are bad. They're OK. But why not design them to be good? Last night, top first, the "Home Depot Tools of the...
Sports shorts
GRID: Chiefs to reduce Johnson's suspension The agent for Kansas City's Larry Johnson says he and the Chiefs have reached agreement to cut the running back's two-week suspension in half....
Defenseless Nets crushed; Harris out a week
Washington -- The Nets' season is only three games old and already it's bad. And getting worse. The Nets lost another game after learning they lost All-Star point guard Devin...
Upstart Isles three & easy
Two weeks ago, the Islanders had lost their first six games of the season and Jeff Tambellini couldn't crack the lineup. How quickly things change. The Isles won their third...
Phillies' Hamels hammered
PHILADELPHIA -- Cole Hamels' puzzling postseason meltdown continues. The lanky left-hander is still searching for answers after another abysmal playoff outing last night in the Phillies' 8-5 loss to the...
Pettitte's a hit on, off mound
PHILADELPHIA -- For Halloween last night, Andy Pettitte went to Citizens Bank Park disguised as a major league hitter. It worked. No designated hitter in the National League ballpark? No...
Howard, Utley being left behind
PHILADELPHIA -- Did you see the guys at Citizens Bank Park dressed up as Chase Utley and Ryan Howard for Halloween? Those two wearing Phillies pinstripes last night had to...
Blanton's ready 4 action
PHILADELPHIA -- Joe Blanton does not have the resume of CC Sabathia or Cliff Lee. There is no Cy Young Award on his mantle. He has never won 20 games,...
Favre won't light it up at Lambeau
PACKERS (-3) over Vikings: Yes, Minnesota is loaded -- but still, it found itself in unfriendly technical situations against the Ravens and Steelers, and we took against-the-spread advantage both times....
First winner sparked 40-year fire
Gary Muhrcke, weary from having spent the wee hours of September 12, 1970 putting out fires, reluctantly helped Fred Lebow light one. Muhrcke decided to run in the first New...
Weird but true
The Fighting Irish are fine tippers. A woman who worked a catered event at the University of Notre Dame has agreed to pay $17,000 back to the Indiana school after...
Knights win it on miracle TD
EAST HARTFORD -- The story you are about to read is true, albeit unbelievable. Two weeks ago, Jasper Howard, a Connecticut football player, was murdered in the prime of his...
Sea lets lead, undefeated season slip away
Greg Manos was kicking himself for calling for a pass and Joseph Lane was upset that he threw it. “That’s not what we do,” Manos, the St. Joseph by the...
NY jobs don't add up
The feds and the city are using some funny math to inflate the number of jobs created by the $787 billion stimulus program so far -- with the tally including...
Hollywood's new Jaws
Tom Cruise may have lost some of his mojo at the box office but he is still a mega-watt star to Manhattan's upper middle-class businessmen. At the Midtown office of...
We will pay for Fed's borrow short, lend long strategy
You can call it Uncle Sam's big fat ARM. That's right -- the folks that brought the American taxpayer a debt clock that is ticking toward a November rendezvous with...
After the recession, what'll we learn?
Dear John: It's awesome how over the years you highlighted the blatant manipulation of the equity and debt market by the Fed and US Treasury officials. It's enriched a few...
'Straight' to the top
Sometimes you have to let the chips fall where they may. Former Bear Stearns honcho Steve Begleiter -- who helped engineer JPMorgan's takeover of his Wall Street investment firm last...
Boot for stable threatens Central carriages
Whoa, no! A quarter of Central Park's carriage horses will be left without a place to hit the hay this holiday season -- and could lose their Manhattan home forever....
It's possibly NHL's Greatest disgrace yet
The relationship with Wayne Gretzky that the NHL claims to hold near and dear has become so strained in the wake of the league's decision last week not to guarantee...
Blueshirts hoping for gift of 'Gab'
Any Ranger who would use Marian Gaborik's absence the last two games as a crutch to explain the team's inferior performances in road defeats to the Islanders and Minnesota doesn't...
It's a declaration of fans' despondence
The Knicks went through an elaborate introduction last night at the Garden where each player was introduced one-by-one in front of a portable big screen that flashed their image. After...
Gettin' the job done
If I owned a major league base ball team, Joe Girardi could be my manager any day of the week. You hear people say he's over-managed during the postseason, but...
Quiet partisans on the Philadelphia front
PHILADELPHIA -- Yankee Nation tiptoed into Citzens Bank Park last night on little crow's feet. There couldn't have been more than 3,000 of them scattered in the park for Game...
They'll show him Favre too much
Ya want bad com edy or football? Today at 4:15 you might get a little of both. Fox has Vikings-Packers here. Maybe. The way Fox is promoting it we may...
Shut up, for Pete's sake!
* It was amazing to hear Pedro Martinez, during his World Series Game 2 postgame news conference, relating a story about a New York father holding his daughter with a...
Quack! Quack! Oregon thumps No. 4 USC
Jeremiah Masoli passed for 222 yards and a touchdown and ran for 164 more yards as the No. 10 Oregon Ducks smashed No. 4 Southern Cal, 47-20, last night in...
Live blog: Yankees-Phillies (Game 3 of the World Series)
The umps went to the replay monitors in the top of the fourth and ruled that Alex Rodriguez's fly-ball double into the right field corner actually hit a TV camera behind...
GAMETRACKER: Game 3 live!
Follow the Yankees action live as they try to get some momentum over the Phillies. The series is tied 1-1...
Upstater quits House race amid GOP revolt
A conservative candidate for an upstate congressional seat got a big boost yesterday when his Republican opponent abruptly pulled out of the race amid a GOP revolt over her liberal...
Shock move hands victory to 'right' man
Call it the upstate earthquake felt around the national political world. Yesterday's dramatic decision by Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican congressional hopeful, to suspend her campaign in the face...
A-Rod's Kate is Yanks' lucky star
This blond bombshell is the Bombers' secret weapon. While she wasn't spotted at last night's win, Kate Hudson has become the Glambino of good-luck charms this season for the Yankees...
Candidate Bloomy cashes in $8M vouchers
Two weeks before the election, Mayor Bloomberg told Or thodox Jewish leaders in a private meeting that he planned to restore $8 million in day-care vouchers that the administration had...
Wobbly Prez power-trips himself up
AS BILL CLINTON reached the end of his stormy pres idency, a friend of his wor ried about how Bubba would handle demotion to private citizen. The power, the perks,...
Frederick's INT leads Holy Cross charge past Sea
The game’s biggest play felt like practice to Shaquille Frederick. The Holy Cross junior linebacker picked off a Joseph Lane pass and returned it to the St. Joseph by the...
Tarp on the field in Philly
First pitch for Game 3 of the World Series between the Yankees and Phillies is slated for about 9:15 p.m. after heavy rain necessitated placing the tarp on the field...
Devils topple Tampa Bay in 7th road win
TAMPA, Fla. -- The New Jersey Devils have become road warriors. David Clarkson scored the lone shootout goal in the fourth round of the tiebreaker and the Devils extended their...
PSAL football City Championship division roundup: Madison's 23 seniors go out winners
James Madison couldn’t completely make up for its lost season on Saturday afternoon, but the Knights were able to salvage a big part of it. Host Madison picked up its...
Girardi says Matsui 'too risky' for outfield
Joe Girardi never really considered starting Hideki Matsui in the outfield for Game 3. And nothing he saw during Friday’s workout changed his mind. So, without the DH being used,...
Yanks and Phils in rain delay
The tarp is out on the field in Philadelphia and the start of the 7:57 p.m. Yankees-Philadelphia World Series game has been delayed. The series is tied, 1-1.