November 15, 2009
Jets let clock, game slip away in 24-22 loss
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Jacksonville Jaguars boosted their playoff chances with a big road win and sent the New York Jets to another devastating loss. Josh Scobee kicked a...
St. John's wins record 8th Big East title
After a scoreless draw in two OTs, St. John’s won its record eighth Big East tournament championship, beating Notre Dame in a penalty kick shootout 5-3. Keeper Derby Carrillo made...
Justice Dept. probing NY milk 'trust'
A top antitrust investigator from the U.S. Justice Department is investigating why New York farmers are getting record low payments for milk and consumers are seeing just a fraction of...
French and Afghan troops go after militants
TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan — Hundreds of French and Afghan troops on Sunday pushed into a hostile valley in eastern Afghanistan where militants launch quick attacks, then disappear into hillside villages....
Rudy: Trials show O's war on terror over
WASHINGTON — Bringing those accused in the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial would increase the security threat to the city and give radical Islamists a platform to...
Qns. mom set on fire in front of kids
An embittered ex-boyfriend doused a woman with gasoline and set her on fire in the doorway of her Queens home today as her horrified children looked on, officials and neighbors...
Mom prostituted missing 5-year-old: Cops
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Authorities acted on a tip yesterday and searched a wide area in south-central North Carolina trying to find a 5-year-old girl reported missing by her mother, who...
Castillo gets U.S. call-up
U.S. National Team fans breathlessly awaiting the debut of Edgar Castillo may not have to wait much longer. The talented left back _ who made headlines by switching from Mexico's...
A Woo of an idea
A French noir classic is to be remade by one of Asia's top directors, John Woo. In a call from Beijing, Woo told me he planned a redo of Jean-Pierre...
GAMETRACKER: Follow the action live
It's make or break time as the Jets try and turn around their season...
Schumer: Ft. Hood shooter shouldn't have gotten gun
Sen. Charles Schumer says a hole in federal gun laws allowed the man charged with a shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas to purchase a gun. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal...
Lens cap on trial media
It could be the biggest trial in modern American history -- and most New Yorkers won't even see it. Admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four al Qaeda co-conspirators...
Hillary Clinton says she's not running for NY governor
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is waving off rumors that she is considering a run for governor of New York. And former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani...
Cops kill one in wild Brooklyn bar brawl
Cops killed a bouncer who protected rap royalty and injured another man after a barroom brawl straight out the Wild West erupted at a Brooklyn saloon early this morning. An...
Who loves the Lady? You!
Last Sunday's story by Sara Stewart about Lady Gaga being over-hyped drew a storm of protest from her fans via Twitter and e-mail. But more than a few readers thought...
Woody: We’re ‘absolutely’ a playoff team
Woody Johnson burns to win his first Super Bowl, and it does not scare him in the least that he is chasing that magnificent obsession with a rookie quarterback and...
Jets' race to the finish starts vs. Jaguars
Consider this delicious scenario: The Jets beat the Jaguars today at Giants Stadium, the Patriots lose to the Colts tonight and — voila! — next week the Jets play the...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Nick Mangold
The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the Jets center about the Mark Sanchez hot dog incident, the good and bad traits of his linemates, and much more. Q: The difference...
Cover guys: TDs won’t come ’Ginn
Watch the Jets kick coverage teams today against the Jaguars and what you’re likely to see is equal parts anger and hunger. After being shocked by allowing two kickoff return...
The good, the bad & how Giants will make playoffs
One drip led to another as a sterling 5-0 record turned into a tarnished 5-4, and quite suddenly the Giants are in danger of getting washed away from a once-promising...
Opportunities knock for Yankees & Mets as others tighten fists
The GM Meetings lasted just one whole day and parts of two others in a Chicago airport hotel that had all the charm of Eric Mangini. “By the time you...
Long-suffering award goes to Knicks fans
There are droughts. And then there are Droughts, with the capital D. And then there are DROUGHTS, where you lock the all-caps key and you keep it locked. And if...
‘Zombies’ getting too much playing time
By now, I guess we should be used to Camp Cablevision knowing no shame. Still ... Minutes after an openly despondent Knicks coach concluded Friday night’s press conference, offering no...
The Rumble
Ready Oher not Aaron big hit on ‘The Blind Side’ Bronx-born Quinton Aaron was the perfect choice to play Ravens rookie offensive tackle Michael Oher in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The...
CHSAA boys soccer state final preview
New York Post CHSAA boys soccer beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down Sunday’s CHSAA state final at Competition Field on the campus of Adelphi University in Garden City. Who: Archbishop...
CHSAA boys soccer Class B final preview
New York Post CHSAA boys soccer beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down Sunday’s CHSAA Class B intersectional final at Competition Field on the campus of Adelphi University in Garden City....
Holy Cross limps out of CHSFL playoffs
Beating St. Anthony’s in the CHSFL playoffs in South Huntington is daunting enough. That became even more difficult for Holy Cross with star receiver Devon Cajuste on the sideline with...
Kobena leads Cardinals to Farrell flogging
Jeramiah Kobena was determined to get into the end zone, but his path along the Monsignor Farrell sideline was blocked. Most other punt returners would accept their fate, duck out...
They are 'Family'
ABC’s new hit comedy, “Modern Family,” takes its inspiration from the families it knows best: those of its producers and writers. “It’s almost the first thing we start with when...
Reel good
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) Sunday, 2:15 p.m., TCM Emily Bronte’s tale of Cathy and Heathcliff (Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier), a gentleman farmer’s daughter and the orphan boy he takes in. The...
Locklear checks into ‘Melrose’
Besides AMC’s three-night, six-hour remake of “The Prisoner,” there’s still some good TV this week. Drama Mama’s highlights: “Melrose Place” (Tuesday, 9 p.m., CW): At last, Heather Locklear returns as...
It takes a Village
In the midst of the Cold War, the late ’60s British television show “The Prisoner” gripped audiences with its allegorical tale of a secret agent — played by series creator...
Don't miss
Santa, a month early In this new, animated feature, Santa (voiced by Carl Reiner) and his sleigh crash land on Madagascar, and the Old St. Nick develops a slight case...
Deep down, Keith & Sean are best buds
What do Keith Olbermann and Sean Hannity have in common? Everything! No fooling, do you think that lefty blow-harder Olbermann and righty blow-harder Sean Hannity ever stop to consider how...
Chapter 2: Palin impossible to avoid this week
Democrats hate her; Republicans are conflicted by her. She’s been in the public eye for little more than a year, but to call her a lightning rod would be an...
Best & worst remakes
On TV, good ideas never die; neither do mediocre ideas. There’s a good chance that the shows you loved growing up will come back with a bigger budget, spiffier effects...
Getting in on the rush
There’s plenty of luster left in the gold market. Despite a whopping 26.3 percent rise in the price of gold so far this year — to a record $1,123 an...
Con jobs
Bad is good. Quagmire is progress. And jobs destroyed are jobs “created or saved,” says the Obama administration. A political columnist points out that “one ought to recognize that the...
My twisted life as a Scientologist
The Church of Scientology is under fire for a spate of recent defections and bizarre teachings, including the idea that humans are infested with the souls of dead space aliens....
Words vs. deeds at the Times
The New York Times is so desperate for cash, it’s selling its principles. Last December, with momentum building in Washington to drastically increase Big Labor’s clout through the abolition of...
Taking on the NYC projects
After years of little change at the top, New York’s largest landlord of rental housing — the New York City Housing Authority — is under new leadership. They are the...
Chilling phone calls of the Mumbai terror attack
Locked in a bathroom at Mumbai’s Trident Oberoi hotel, a young Pakistani terrorist named Fahadullah knew the end was near. He was out of food, water, energy and ammunition, and...
The little bookie that can’t
The city’s Off-Track Betting Corp. is looking to shutter some two-thirds of its betting parlors as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, The Post reported last week. A good start? Well,...
O's F on Iran
When it comes to Iran, President Obama hasn’t made it to the top of his learning curve yet. Despite Tehran’s readily apparent games-playing in talks over its nuclear program, the...
V’s message
In “What’s ‘V’ Really About?” (Nov. 10), Kyle Smith sees the show as a metaphor for President Obama and his administration. This new version of “V” follows the same basic...
Chuck’s bucks
Your article about the Rangel Center at City College questions the amount that the college has raised for the Center (“ ‘Chuck’ Bucks Have Run Dry,” Nov. 8). The college...
Distracted walkers
Your story on the rise of city pedestrian deaths, “Fatalities Afoot,” (Nov. 10) fails to mention two probable causes: the higher percentage of iPod users with the volume set too...
Throw (all) the bums out!
Peggy Noonan makes some great points, so my only disagreement is with her interpretation of the message that the Republican victories in New Jersey and Virginia sent (“ O Isn’t...
False prophet
I find Joseph Bottum’s column on Archbishop Timothy Dolan a depressing mixture of fiction, misinformation and arrogance (“Dolan’s Crusade,” PostScript, Nov. 8). Bottum writes: “There’s no doubt that [Maureen] Dowd’s...
Required reading
Lincoln, Life-Size by Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt and Peter W. Kunhardt Jr. (Knopf) A search for Abraham Lincoln on Amazon.com leads to 81,711 results. What makes the...
Louisa May Alcott: the woman behind Little Women
“Never liked girls or knew many, except my sisters, but our queer plays and experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it.” So reads the grumbly journal entry of Louisa...
Don’t follow me, I’m lost
Hippies are the most uptight people in the world. That’s the first lesson Rich Rushfield, now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, learned when he arrived as a freshman at...
A memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties
There is a tendency for memoirs written by women about The Great Man to be self-abnegating exercises in a kind of inverted narcissism — the author seeking to prove her...
Fall to pieces
Mary Forsberg Weiland is the maybe-soon-to-be-ex-wife of Scott Weiland, lead singer of the ’90s grunge-lite band Stone Temple Pilots and, later, the heavy metal co-op Velvet Revolver. He is also...
My nanny saved me from the Nazis
I was born into one of Poland’s wealthiest families. My father and his father before him were industrialists and had made millions of dollars supplying steel for the railroads to...
In my library: Mackenzie Phillips
Good writing is addictive — ask Mackenzie Phillips. “I’m a fool for Philippa Gregory,” she tells The Post’s Barbara Hoffman. “I was in Scotland making a film and came across...
Sound off!
1) There’s a chill in the air and cartoon reindeer on your Starbucks cup, which can only mean one thing — holiday shopping is in full swing and the music...
Townsend Harris, Forest Hills are familiar foes
Gisele Ruiz was met with a surprise when she saw the PSAL Class A girls volleyball playoff bracket earlier this week. In the first round, her No. 19 Forest Hills...
CHSAA state volleyball roundup: SCA in semis
The St. Catharine Academy girls volleyball team has advanced as far as it ever has. Repeating a feat it accomplished in 2005, SCA advanced to the CHSAA Class A state...
Is your sign-off a turn-off?
“Ping!” my BlackBerry sings, waking me at the crack of noon. It’s an e-mail from Hot Doctor. We just shared an impossibly sexy date. Now he’s boldly sending a morning-...
Meet market: soccer sweetie sks guy to kick it with
Angie, a 26-year-old rehabilitation technician and aspiring doctor, enjoys picnics in the park and being chased after. Ready, set, go guys! Mike, 28 label and band manager He is: a...
This week's couple: there’s something about Courtney
BOTH Eric, a 34-year-old PR consultant, and Courtney, a 32-year-old associate media director, contemplated making a run for it before they met up at East Village French bistro Casimir. But...
Brooklyn Tech, Health Professions win PSAL cross country titles
Brooklyn Tech edged Curtis by a point to claim the PSAL boys cross country title at Van Cortland Park Saturday morning. Health Professions edged Curtis for the girls crown after...
The British have come!
Attention, Anglophiles: You don’t have to cross the Atlantic for a taste of the British anymore. Instead, head uptown to the Pierre Hotel, where Le Caprice, an outpost of the...
Gaga’s google-eyed soul
Love her or hate her, Lady Gaga has shown us the countless ways she is willing to shock, suffer and bewilder for her art. But with her new video, “Bad...
Their way to ‘Heaven’
Cigarettes. You can blame them for stained teeth, black lungs and one other nuisance: the maddening ubiquity of Led Zeppelin’s classic-rock stalwart “Stairway to Heaven.” The song, which appeared on...
Kiss kiss fang fang
The making of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” has been defined by two things: abs and angst. The sequel to last year’s paranormal-romance megahit “Twilight” was a hot topic pretty...
Hawke of the town
New Yorkers have an unspoken pact about pretending we don’t notice when we see famous people. But there are certain ones who blend in particularly well, who feel like neighbors...
My New York: David Barton
While not particularly tall, David Barton is particularly wide — in a Mack truck sort of way. Even that one muscle on the back of his neck could beat you...
Pup culture star
On a recent sunny afternoon in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art, there among the artworks by Picasso, Giacometti and Calder, visitors thought they saw a real...
Woo hoo for Woo
The sprawling war movie "Red Cliff" represents John Woo's return to film making in Asia. But the epic (out Wednesday) was shot on mainland China, not in Hong Kong, where...
Bridge
CY the Cynic's least favorite holding is a K-Q doubleton -- not because the value of the honors is diminished (which it is, to be sure) but because he associates...
Fi$cher family feud
NEARLY two years after Bobby Fischer's death, his tangled personal life is being sorted out in an Icelandic court. When Fischer died near Reykjavik in January 2007, he left an...
Grim find in Death Valley
Skeletal remains found in Death Valley may belong to one or more of the four German tourists who vanished in searing summer heat 13 years ago, authorities say. Two hikers...
Man-eating bums sell body to eatery
MOSCOW -- Three homeless men ate parts of a 25-year-old man they had butchered and sold other bits of the corpse to a kebab restaurant, Russian police allege. Suspicions were...
'Mob' hurdle in SI House race
Staten Island Republicans are girding for a primary dogfight over the House seat they lost to Democrats when Vito Fossella chose not to run for re-election in a scandal over...
Bam on a bender
It wasn't what George Washington would have done, but President Obama had no problem breaking with tradition and bowing low before the Japanese emperor yesterday during a visit. The president...
This trial's an error
Take the iconic "I Love New York" poster and plunge a dagger into its heart. That's what the Obama administration is doing by bringing the mastermind of 9/11 and other...
1,000 auction buyers strip Bernie of his plunder
A $65 billion Ponzi scheme, and all I got was this lousy tree-stump table. Nearly 1,000 bidders came yesterday to the Midtown auction of Bernard Madoff's ill-gotten gains, shelling out...
Palin's 'virgin' shock
Sarah Palin had no idea her teenage daughter Bristol was sexually active until she learned the girl was pregnant, she says in a TV interview. "That's why I was shocked....
Velella in suit over slip & fall
Disgraced ex-state Sen. Guy Velella, who served time in jail for taking kickbacks on state contracts, is looking for a new kind of payday. The former Bronx Republican power broker...
Ft. Hood kin grieve at funerals
Flag-draped coffins and saluting crowds united a nation in grief yesterday as the first victims of the Fort Hood shooting were laid to rest. The usually deserted Main Street of...
NY's junkies for justice
Every day at lunchtime, an 85-year-old redhead from Brooklyn leaves her seat in Manhattan federal court and kneels in the pew at the Catholic church next door to pray for...
The bank revolt of '09
Metro area bank customers are saying no to high fees in record numbers. Looking to hang onto their hard-earned cash in a recession, tri-state residents are fleeing to low-cost credit...
3rd term will see a lot of Apple turnover
WITH the election over, the biggest guessing game at City Hall these days is: Who leaves and who stays for Mayor Bloomberg's third term? Insiders are betting that the first...
City blocks are locked & loaded
Call it the fortress of steel. When the murderous 9/11 Gang of Five finally lands in New York for trial, they'll face an impenetrable wall of security -- with five...
Goldman Sachs' born-again image is laughable
It turns out that giving back is hard to do -- especially, it seems, if you are Goldman Sachs. In a week during which Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein was...
911 goof 'plumb' stupid
Firefighters responding to a report of a water leak found that what had burst in a Harlem apartment wasn't a pipe but a pregnant woman's water. "I called 911 and...
Re-wiring Broadway revenues
Tony Ponturo is going to ruffle some feathers on Broadway. The sports marketer turned theater producer is looking to create additional revenue streams on the Great White Way and is...
Taken for a ride
Central Park's horse-drawn carriage drivers are making "hansom" profits -- charging tourists outrageous fees or shorting them on trotting time. A standard half-hour jaunt should cost $34, according to the...
Jury duty? Pick me, please!
The dreaded jury duty is a little less dreadful -- thanks to the recession. A flagging job market is good for courts desperate to fill juries, officials said, adding that,...
Pug of war: SI exes fight for dog custody
It's the struggle for the puggle. The breakup of a Staten Island couple has unleashed a legal dogfight over the ownership of an adorable 1-year-old pug-beagle mix named Benjamin. Audrey...
Use retirement funds as stimulus
Dear John: You have suggested that the government allow people to access their own 401(k) funds without the 10 percent early withdrawal penalty. Is anyone in Washington listening to you...
NY family is pussy whipped
What a cat-astrophe! A ferocious feline turned her owners into a pair of scaredy cats in their Midtown apartment yesterday, holding them hostage at claw-point until the cops came to...
Iranian hero willing to die
Neda Soltan, the young Iranian woman whose slaying became a symbol of her country's protest movement, eerily foreshadowed her death, telling her fiancé she was ready to "take a bullet...
Ex-NJ Gov McGreevey training to become priest
"Gay American" Jim McGreevey is spending his Sunday mornings with a new man -- Jesus. The former New Jersey love gov has gone from Turnpike rest stops to the church...
The next bubble
It is late 2011, months before President Barack Obama will run for re-election. The US economy is gradually recovering from four years of hovering on the brink of disaster. Banks...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Queens * Two women beat up a third in Far Rockaway, cops said yesterday. Lisa Green, 45, punched the victim in the face in a house on Beach 29th Street...
The parade passes 'bye'
The Turkey Day party is over on Broadway. Buildings that used to have a bird's-eye view of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be out of luck this year, with...
Brave NY gal's cancer crusade
A 26-year-old New York publicist is fast becoming the face of a movement she wishes she'd never heard of, finding matches for patients in need of bone-marrow transplants -- including...
LIer dies after cop Tasering
With city cops saying that they've all but stopped using their Tasers, the danger of the electric stunner was displayed on Long Island yesterday when a man died after a...
Slow fade-out
After losing its ratings lead and falling to last in primetime, the once-dominant CNN stands to lose the last piece of top-shelf value still attached to its business side: premium...
Recession influx takes advantage of 'welfare magnet' NY
Beggars can't be choosers -- unless they're in New York City. Homeless and unemployed, Kenneth Wecker, 62, moved back from Florida to his native city to take advantage of New...
Suicide groom twist
A Brooklyn newlywed who jumped to his death from a hotel balcony the night after his wedding was tormented by memories of being sexually molested as a Jewish student, sources...
It's a race to bottom of barrel
The problem with being no worse than the rest is that few choose to be any better than the rest. CBS has long chosen the raunchiest moments from its sitcoms...
PETA hounding Christie
Now that Chris Christie is the governor of New Jersey, it should be interesting to see where he goes with the black bear problem in the state. PETA already is...
Union is finished if stars won't $acrifice
In 1992, Wayne Gretzky joined the NHLPA li censing agree ment, thus sacrificing incalcu lable money of his own in order to assist every other player in the league. In...
Brick city
* An open letter to Chuck Dolan: In the 10 years you have owned the Knicks, the franchise has sunk to a level of mediocrity that is hard to describe....
Knicks president takes blame for 1-9 start
Knicks team president Donnie Walsh told The Post yesterday the club's franchise-worst 1-9 start is his fault and no one else's, taking the heat off coach Mike D'Antoni. The Knicks,...
Gardner steps in & steps up for Curtis
When it became clear star running back Shaquan Coles would be unable to go, the entire Curtis football team took turns encouraging his replacement, Jevon Gardner. The Warriors spoke to...
Aqueduct analysis
Today's analysis. 1. 6 fur; $20,000; clm($15,000); 3up(f) SWEET BAMA BREEZE goes turf to dirt and drops to lowest claiming level of career while switching to Dominguez. DRIVEN BY SEATTLE...
The Post line
NFL Today Favorite Opening Current (O/U) Underdog JETS 6 7 (41) Jaguars Broncos 4½ 3½ (37) REDSKINS STEELERS 6½ 7 (41½) Bengals TITANS 6 8 (41) Bills VIKINGS 15 17...
Rookie lifts Rangers in shootout
OTTAWA -- John Tortorella started looking down his bench as the Rangers began going deeper and deeper into a shootout standoff. Fresh from the minors, P.A. (Pierre-Alexandre) Parenteau was ready...
Tiger wins in Australia
Tiger Woods won the Australian Masters for his seventh victory of the year, closing with a 4-under 68 for a victory that record crowds at Kingston Heath in Melbourne came...
Sports shorts
FOOTBALL: Fins bench Porter Miami linebacker Joey Porter was ruled out of the Dolphins' game against Tampa Bay because of a coach's decision. The Dolphins didn't give any information about...
Williams a shot in arm for ailing Nets
MIAMI -- On some nights, Sean Williams had been the eighth man in a seven-man Nets rotation. He said he has tried to stay ready. Last night, he was. Summoned...
Islanders' rally falls short
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Two goals in the final 12 minutes earned another point for the Islanders. But getting through overtime still knotted is no formula for two points -- at...
Eighth straight keeps Devils perfect for month
Careful, the Invincibles of November are starting to score, too. The Devils have not lost since Oct. 28, and they are winners of eight straight, the longest streak in the...
Friars, Schreiber still goin'
Tommy Schreiber's a smart kid. He's headed to Princeton, after all, to play lacrosse. But it didn't dawn on him until yesterday that last night's CHSFL Class AAA semifinal against...
Bucks' rookie Jennings explodes for 55
MILWAUKEE -- Brandon Jennings was shut out in the first quarter. Then he went to work and wiped out a record held by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Jennings scored 55 points, breaking...
Pacquiao bloodies Cotto to affirm dominance
LAS VEGAS -- The legend of Manny Pacquiao reached a new level last night, not only with his winning a world title in a record seventh weight division, but also...
Mosley bout aims to continue boxing revival
LAS VEGAS -- Hours before Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto would meet at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in the year's biggest fight, a press conference was held to keep...
Brooklyn rabbi-in-training wins historic world title
LAS VEGAS -- Yuri Foreman has two dreams: to become a rabbi and win a world boxing title. He accomplished the latter last night, capturing the WBA junior middleweight championship...
Bart says Jag isn't trashy enough
Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew joked earlier in the week that the one time he faced talkative Jets linebacker Bart Scott, last year when Scott played for the Ravens, he...
NFL Network is no better than the rest
The implied promise that The NFL Net work would present football in a wiser manner than the rest of the NFL's TV partners remains unfulfilled. Then again, little on truTV...
Last-second 3-pointer burns Nets
MIAMI -- Somewhere on the planet, pigs prepped to go airborne. And in the Netherworld, they braced for Arctic temperatures. The Nets were that close to beating the Heat last...
Weird but true
A group of bumbling German thieves stole a circus van -- not realizing a lion was sleeping in the back. Police in Wuppertal said the car snatchers later turned into...
Scarlet Knights see the light, win opener
PISCATAWAY -- After Rutgers coach Fred Hill Jr. suffered through a tough first three years, athletic director Tim Pernetti openly said the fourth will be pivotal. And though they weren't...
Inspiring Jasper makes D-I debut
Kevin Laue played just three minutes yesterday, but the 6-foot-11 Manhattan College freshman didn't mind. "It's huge when any D-I athlete gets on the court for the first time," Laue...
Stanford stuns Trojans again
Toby Gerhart rushed for 178 yards and three touchdowns and No. 25 Stanford emphatically followed up its 2007 upset at the Coliseum by beating No. 11 Southern California 55-21 yesterday...
Louisville's late TD tops Syracuse
Adam Froman hit Josh Chichester for a 15-yard touchdown pass with 1:24 remaining to lift Louisville to a 10-9 win over visiting Syracuse yesterday. The victory snapped a nine-game conference...
Buckeyes come up Roses in OT
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Back-up Devin Barclay kicked a 39-yard field goal in overtime to give No. 10 Ohio State a 27-24 victory over No. 15 Iowa yesterday, sending the Buckeyes...
Depleted Binghamton starts new era with win
Moussa Camara had a career-high 16 points, newcomer Greer Wright added 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Binghamton opened a new era in its men's basketball program with a 54-49...
Surging Pitt tops Weis' falling Irish
PITTSBURGH -- It was the last painful image in a night of hurt for Notre Dame. After a 27-22 loss at Pittsburgh that wasn't nearly as close as the score...
PSAL Class A girls volleyball first round roundup: Tots ready for Kennedy
It wasn’t long after No. 10 Tottenville’s win against No. 23 Brandeis in the PSAL Class A girls volleyball first round at York College that coach Rhiannon Smith was thinking...
Inexperienced Knights get first taste of postseason victory
Doruntina Zariqi admitted to being a bit anxious Saturday. After all it was the John F. Kennedy sophomore outside hitter’s first time in a playoff situation – much like many...
Erasmus advances to first semifinals
Erasmus Hall football hasn’t been a factor in a long time. So long that despite the Dutchmen’s excellent season – they’re seeded second in the PSAL playoffs – coaches and...
'Little mistakes' end Sheepshead's season
Devontai Carlie had last week on his mind in the fourth quarter Saturday. Like this time, Sheepshead Bay was behind and marching down the field. Against Susan Wagner in the...
Rice, defense lead St. Peter's to 'A' championship
Hakim Rice had the CHSFL ‘A’ championship trophy tucked securely under his right shoulder and a wide grin on his face as he walked around the post game celebration. “’Can...
Eight is great for Devils as they notch another win
NEWARK, N.J. — Zach Parise's breakaway highlighted a three-goal second period and the New Jersey Devils won their eighth straight game with a 5-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on...
Fort Hamilton responds to early deficit with a vengeance
Fort Hamilton hasn’t faced much adversity this year. The Tigers went undefeated for the second straight regular season and, aside from a season-opening one-point win over Sheepshead Bay, have coasted...
Look out below! LI overpass collapse causes crashes
WANTAGH, N.Y. — Falling debris from a barrier wall has led to multiple car crashes on a suburban New York parkway in Wantagh. State police say there were no major...
LI man dies after cop Taser
CORAM, N.Y. — Police say a man who had locked himself and his elderly mother in her Long Island home died after he tussled with officers and was shot with...
Wounded Falcons routed by St. Peter's
You could see the extra energy in Bishop Ford early. The Falcons were loud before kickoff and aggressive on their first series on defense, where they stopped St. Peter’s. That...
HS football scores
Here's a look at this weekend's football results: PSAL Fort Hamilton 36, Lincoln 8 Curtis 20, DeWitt Clinton 8 Tottenville 24, Campus Magnet 20 Erasmus Hall 28, Sheepshead Bay 14...
Late first-half goal propels Hill to first state final
It took nearly the entire first half for St. Joseph Hill to score what seemed like an elusive goal, but once it did, it rolled. The Hilltoppers peppered the Bonnies...
Backup plan: Gardner fills in for Coles, leads Curtis to victory
When it became clear star running back Shaquan Coles would not be unable to go because of a quad injury, the entire Curtis football team took turns encouraging his replacement,...
Clinton offense sputters against stifling Curtis 'D'
The final offensive stats were ugly: three first downs, 19 rushing yards, two turnovers. The final score – Curtis 20, DeWitt Clinton 8 – was just as tough to stomach...