November 22, 2009
Kennedy communion ban over abortion
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated today when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy...
Last-second jumper KOs Knicks
Kevin Garnett made a jumper to beat the overtime buzzer, giving the Boston Celtics a 107-105 victory over the New York Knicks today. Paul Pierce scored a season-high 33 points,...
OT field goal wins it for Giants, 34-31
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Eli Manning and the New York Giants' offense bailed out their top-ranked defense. Lawrence Tynes kicked a 36-yard field goal 3:54 into overtime to make up...
GAMETRACKER: Jets in a must-win against Patriots
Follow the action live as the struggling Jets take on New Englend ...
Iran preps for strike on nuke sites
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran today began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country...
Flying out of New York? Good luck
Fewer people are expected to fly this holiday season, but travelers shouldn't expect a full reprieve from the horrid flight delays of Thanksgivings past, especially if they need to land...
Chuck: A public option can pass
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says health care reform that includes a public option can pass the Senate. Schumer says he is assuring his more conservative Democratic colleagues that...
In the deep, it's a scrounger's life
NEW ORLEANS — Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on the snowlike decaying matter that cascades down, and even sunken whale...
9/11 fiends to use trial as soapbox
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of...
Cops kill armed teen; 18 y.o. shot 11 times
Cops fatally shot a Queens teenager who pointed a loaded semi-automic at them — hitting the 18-year-old with 11 bullets, authorities said today. Three officers fired at total of 14...
GAMETRACKER: Giants try to get lift over Atlanta
Follow the action live as Eli and the Giants try and right their recent struggles by beating the Falcons...
Box Office: $140M for 'New Moon,' all-time best opening for Bullock
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon'' scored the third best opening weekend of all time with an estimated $140 million. Though the $72M Friday set a new record for an opening...
Ward Dominates Kessler To Win Title
OAKLAND, Calif. -- With a stunning victory in his hometown, Andre Ward proved he's ready for the world. Ward claimed the WBA 168-pound title with an unanimous technical decision over...
Traffic agent sues bus-stop 'bop' cop
A Bronx traffic enforcement agent is suing the city, claiming she was assaulted by an off-duty cop to whom she was trying to issue a ticket. Tarsha Bonneau said she...
Spotlight on Curry as Knicks face Celtics
So today at 1 p.m. vs. the Celtics, we will see if Eddy Curry's Knicks are actually going to fight to get back into the season. Today is as critical...
Subway riders sealed in murder car
Nearly 30 petrified passengers were trapped on a Midtown hell train yesterday with a knife-wielding madman and the blood-soaked body of a straphanger he just stabbed to death in a...
Why I bought Sarah Palin's bestseller
The rogue politician from Alaska is ruling the best-seller lists. Sarah Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue,” has been the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com since it debuted last Tuesday. Even in...
Overloaded Indonesian ferry sinks; 4 dead, most survive
JAKARTA - An overloaded ferry sank in bad weather off Indonesia’s Riau islands on Sunday, killing four while nearly 300 passengers survived the accident, officials said. A transport ministry official...
Life-threatening diagnosis may have saved life of Princeton RB
PRINCETON — Fatigue? Headache? “Those are symptoms of playing football,” said Jordan Culbreath, who found the hamstring costing him August practice time far more nagging than any thoughts that something...
No winner in contest of dreadful disasters
There were no winners in the Hudson River Loser Bowl yesterday, though the score had the Knicks beating the 0-13 Nets, 98-91. In fact, the biggest loser at the Meadowlands...
Curry struggles in 2nd outing
So this is why the Knicks claimed they passed on Allen Iverson? As good as Eddy Curry was in his season debut Wednesday in Indiana, he was just as awful...
Knicks run Nets to 0-13
Heap every indignity, hurl every insult, heave every ignominy upon the Knicks. But keep one thing in mind. They’re not the Nets — who, at 0-13, are just the ninth...
Meet Market: Bartender takes a shot at punch-drunk love
Kyle, a 24-year-old bartender, is new to the city and looking for a social gal who can show him a better view than what’s just behind the bar. Milan, 20Student...
The Rumble
Bringing the pain How Kiwanuka made his coach cry Rex Ryan’s crying game brought back memories for Giants defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka. Asked whether he had ever seen a coach...
Backman on his firing, hiring and more
The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the 49-year-old new manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones about the champion ’86 Mets, his ill-fated hiring and firing by the Diamondbacks, and much more....
C’mon, Eli, earn those Big Blue bucks
The most recent member of the $100 Million Club needs to play Moneyball today. Moneyball isn’t throwing the ball all over Giants Stadium in a shootout with Matt Ryan. Moneyball...
Giants need to end losing streak vs. Falcons
Call this the No Excuse game for the Giants. Everything leading up to today’s meeting with the Falcons fell into place for the Giants. They are rested coming off their...
Sweep of Patriots would redefine Rex’s first year
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — All the frustration, all the disappointment, all the early expectations that have gone thus far unfulfilled; for all the mistakes by a rookie quarterback and a rookie...
4-5 Jets fight for survival in New England
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Put simply, this is what faces the Jets today in their rematch against the Patriots at Gillette Stadium: Win and they’ve catapulted themselves back into the conversation...
Battle of the bulge
The First question everyone asks about “The Biggest Loser” is: Can the winners keep the weight off? Contestants on NBC’s fat-camp reality show start the show in tremendously bad shape:...
Bullet-proof babe
When actors say that they love the TV show they’re on, they really mean that they love it — until a chance at silver screen success comes along. Talking with...
It's the neverending Christmas special, Charlie Brown!
Thirty-four years after CBS first aired legendary animator Chuck Jones’ 1966 TV take on the Dr Seuss classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” director Ron Howard and Jim Carrey evidently...
Don't miss
Lets talk turkey A new balloon of the Pillsbury Doughboy debuts this year, along with Spider-Man on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Co-hosted by “Today” warhorses Matt Lauer and Meredith...
The holiday that keeps on giving
Television has taken the 12 days of Christmas and expanded them to about 40, with holiday programs that start Thanksgiving weekend and run through New Year’s Day. Oldies but goodies...
Oprah bashing: pro & con
Remember debating class? Do high schools still have debating classes, debating teams? The debating class teacher often would find two students on opposite sides of an issue then assign them...
Reel good
THE GOONIES (1985)Sunday, 1:30 p.m., TBS Stephen Spielberg’s charming ’80s story about a bunch of kids, a big, bad developer, and a bigger, badder crime family and, of course, a...
TV we’re thankful for
As Mama gets up at 3 a.m. to start cooking her Thanksgiving turkey, she is mindful of the things on TV she is grateful for: * The complicated leading men...
Xmas cavalcade
* “National Tree” Oregon teenager Rock Burdock (Evan Williams, “Save the Last Dance 2“) wins a national Christmas tree contest and convinces Corey (Andrew McCarthy) his overprotective father to travel...
Fat camp for Fido
Living with cats can make a dog fat. Canines love to swipe feline food — both before and after it’s digested. (Yuck!) A pit bull I know named Lazarus packed...
Why we should leave Afghanistan
At first, Matthew Hoh didn’t think he was doing anything that consequential — maybe he’d attract some attention for the first day or two before becoming, as he puts it,...
Agenda: A Brooklyn 'Streetcar'
Cate Blanchett is Blanche in Liv Ullmann’s new production Despite her decades-long career on both stage and screen, actress Liv Ullmann has somehow never played the iconic role of Blanche...
Little girls going straight to heel
So Suri Cruise has been photographed wearing high heels. At age three. As one friend of mine, a downtown nightclub owner, put it, “I’m trying to come up with a...
Feline risk for swine
This month, a cat in Iowa and another in Utah were diagnosed with H1N1 flu virus, also known as the swine flu. In both cases, the cat contracted the flu...
This week's couple: Where there's smoke there's fire
Things heated up for Angie, a 26-year-old rehabilitation technician, and her date Jason, a 23-year-old business analyst, at Midtown’s Indian and Latin fusion restaurant Vermilion. They shared everything from coconut...
Sarah Palin, weapon of mass distraction
Sarah Palin is going rogue. The Democrats are going rottweiler. Liberals in the media make heinous personal attacks, dress up quibbles and debating as “fact-checking” and compare her to such...
5 top ways to score while shopping for Thanksgiving
According to hungry hearts at Whole Foods “Say, ‘Nice yams!’ ” — Jamie “Tell her you know a great recipe for stuffing her bird.” — Joel “Say, ‘If I knew...
Albany's casual corruption
There’s only one thing remarkable about the federal corruption trial of former Senate boss Joe Bruno: He was charged. For three weeks, 12 jurors have watched as prosecutors — in...
Fort Hood: facing facts
A bill now before Congress would make official what’s already plain: The 42 victims, including 13 fatalities, in this month’s Fort Hood shooting were casualties of war. Whether they took...
A $787 billion waste
So many billions out the door — and nary a clue about what Americans got in return. That’s the tragic-but-too-true story of last February’s $787 billion federal stimulus program —...
AMA’s stance
The AMA supports health-system-reform efforts because we believe our system can work better for patients and physicians (“The AMA’s Reform Sellout,” PostOpinion, Marc K. Siegel, Nov. 12). While the House...
Unwelcome guests
Permit me to be crystal clear concerning the appearance of unindicted terrorist co-conspirator Siraj Wahhaj at Queens College (“Imam in Queens College Flap,” Nov. 19). Those of us involved in...
Blame Israel
The Post rightly notes the abject failure of President Obama’s current policies toward Iran (“O’s F on Iran,” Editorial, Nov. 15). Obama’s overall strategy, however, is quite simple: Do nothing,...
Scientology rebuts
Mandy Mullen’s story about Scientology (“Weird Science,” PostScript, Nov. 15) is all lies in the service of Anonymous, a hate group that targets our Church, or even anyone who just...
Required reading
The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker and Dick Lochte (Delacorte Press) In his first novel, Roker writes what he knows — the highly charged world of network morning TV....
Too much happiness
Widely regarded as one of the greatest living writers in the English language, Alice Munro has drawn comparisons to Joyce and Chekov. At 78, she remains remarkably, thankfully, prolific —...
The Great Money Binge
Right away from the title, former Wall Street Journal columnist George Melloan doesn’t leave you guessing which side he favors in the ongoing economic policy fight. Reading his deeply informed...
Confessions of a Gigi girl
The French film actress and dancer Leslie Caron tangoed with Fred Astaire, partied with Barbra Streisand and matched wits on screen with Cary Grant. But the girl best known for...
Growing up Bin Laden
He enjoys growing sunflowers, has daddy issues, and suffers from disabling blindness in his right eye. But this man is no sympathy figure — he’s the world’s most wanted terrorist...
George Carlin's "Last Words"
When he was 12 and growing up in Morningside Heights, George Carlin would overhear phrases from neighborhood toughs such as “longhair f***ing music p****” and “burly loudmouthed c*********,” and loved...
Joe Papp
Joe Papp — volatile, tyrannical and egomaniacal — was, from the 1960s until his death in 1991, the most influential force in American theater. He battled Robert Moses, the omnipotent...
In my library: Michael Tucker
It took a book to get Michael Tucker cooking. Someone gave him a cookbook for his (first) wedding, decades ago, and he immediately decided to have a dinner party. “I...
'Band' of brothers
The Olsens. The Hiltons. The Kardashians. The Bresnitzes? Brothers Darin and Greg Bresnitz don’t have a catchy last name, but what they lack in nomenclature they make up for in...
'The Road' to Hellville
As the film crew of “The Road” prepared to shoot on one of the production’s final days, the weather turned unexpectedly foul. It was early spring in Oregon, but the...
Hello, gospel!
It's so nice see Carol Channing back where she belongs — belting out big tunes. Although this time, the Tony-winning stage icon — most recognized for her portrayal of that...
My New York: Vincent Pastore
He’s played everything from a mobster to a mobster. But his breakout role was as mobster Salvatore “Big Pussy” on HBO’s “The Sopranos.” Vincent Pastore grew up in New Rochelle,...
Pains in the neck
Get the garlic! Vam pires have invaded movie houses across the nation in the form of "New Moon," which Post critic Kyle Smith gave a measly 1½ stars in his...
Change is progress
Great games, it's been said, have to be won three times: You have to outplay your opponent in the opening, the middle game and the ending. But this week's game,...
Curses! Bistro big is foiled
Those "f- - -ing lazy motherf- - -ers" didn't learn their lesson. Waiters at Meatpacking District eatery Paradou were still not pushing patrons for e-mail addresses, even after owner Vadim...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Staten Island * Torched. A pair of not-so-bright students forced the sudden evacuation of a high school in Port Richmond after they set a fire in the auditorium. Ronald Baker...
Vamp teen crush
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" grossed $72 million at its Friday opening -- breaking the $67 million record set last year by "The Dark Knight." Joan Li, a 15-year-old "Twihard"...
Nearly half of Albany's pols have 2nd jobs
No wonder Albany's a mess. Nearly half of the state's legislators are part-time politicos, preoccupied with second jobs ranging from lawyering to teaching to acting. A Post analysis of 2008...
$10B city boost for unions
A new deal hatched between Mayor Bloomberg and the Building and Trades Council will net union hardhats an estimated $10 billion in work in coming years, The Post has learned....
Germans weasel in on 9/11 trial
Fearing for the lives of the 9/11 fiends, the German government will send a team of observers to the New York terror trials to make sure evidence by its agents...
Wall Street turkeys full of. . . stuffing
It's Thanksgiving week and that means it's time to roast the biggest turkeys in business from the year just past -- and 2009 certainly had its share of bird-brained characters....
Wife digs up 'missing millions' after biz big's split
The Manhattan wife of an international businessman claims her husband of nearly 30 years hid significant assets during their divorce last year, including a $1 million French racehorse, millions in...
Jailbird O.J. in killer shape
Meet the new-and-improved OJ Simpson – a buff, fearless jailbird who preaches racial harmony among his fellow inmates while lapping up pulp fiction and pro wrestling. Since being tossed into...
'Hand'-some Jacko profit
The glittery, iconic glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk in 1983 has been auctioned off for $350,000 at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square. As...
Israeli jets strike Gaza
Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip yesterday, injuring seven Palestinians, medical workers said. An army spokesman said the strikes, which occurred after a rocket fired...
NY1 anchor preps for jail
NY1 political anchor Dominic Carter was fingerprinted and photographed in upstate Ramapo yesterday -- one day after being convicted of attempted assault for punching, choking and kicking his wife in...
Pedi-laws put end to spin city
For one day, at least, it was a pedestrian's dream come true. A city crackdown on pesky pedicabs went into effect yesterday, leaving the streets blissfully clear of many of...
Look both ways before crossing the $treet
Dear John: If I can be a little self-serving, I'd suggest a column relating to a problem I, and probably lots of other people, have: Where should we invest our...
Vet sues over Big Mac attack
A decorated disabled Iraqi War veteran is slapping McDonald's with a $10 million lawsuit -- claiming he was pummeled by employees at a Brooklyn franchise when he tried to bring...
Holiday season sheer torture for this shoplift-a-holic
"Joy" is a middle-class, middle- aged Manhattan resident who keeps a secret from her friends and family -- she's a compulsive shoplifter. Although she was never arrested, Joy's obsessive stealing,...
The price is wrong: How city stores nickel and dime us all
New Yorkers are getting short-changed by supermarkets, delis, drugstores and gas stations that illegally inflate weights and measures, charge higher-than-marked prices and slap the sales tax on nontaxable items. City...
Woman, 49, oldest in-vitro pregnancy
A Park Avenue fertility doctor has broken the age barrier for women longing to be moms. Dr. John Zhang says a 49-year-old patient at his New Hope Fertility Center gave...
Key vote advances health bill
WASHINGTON -- The Democrats' nearly $1 trillion health insurance reform plan passed a crucial hurdle in the Senate last night -- bypassing the threat of a filibuster after leadership nailed...
'Boss' Tweed, we need you now
The mad scramble to figure out whether Rudy Giuli ani is running for any thing is more than media fantasy about having an entertaining brawler to kick around again. The...
Qns. maniac butchers kid & wife: cops
A man slit the throats of his wife and teenage son and stuffed their bodies in a closet inside their Queens apartment -- but blamed the grisly slayings on his...
City gal named a Rhodes scholar
A West Point student from Manhattan is among the winners of this year's Rhodes Scholarships, it was announced this morning. Alexandra Rosenberg, who is ranked number one in her class...
Pirated iPhone apps
E-books aren't the only digital booty on pirates' minds. The explosive growth of the iPhone and Apple's iPhone App store has sparked a free-for-all across the Internet for pirated Apps...
It's good to be chief
The pay of America's top corporate chief executives has increased nearly five times as fast as the wages of rank-and-file workers over the last 20 years -- this despite the...
A diploma I can't read
Wayne Knowland graduated from a Bronx high school in June, and was given a standard 8-by-6-inch New York City Department of Education diploma. It's exactly like the diploma tens of...
Schools' Iran $$ pipeline
Anti-Israel, pro-Iran university professors are being funded by a shadowy multimillion-dollar Islamic charity based in Manhattan that the feds charge is an illegal front for the repressive Iranian regime. The...
Labor's love lost for Working Families Party
There's griping di rected at the labor- backed Working Families Party from a surprising quarter -- other labor leaders, according to sources. One source said some labor leaders weren't happy...
Back on the beat
William J. Bratton is back in New York, this time taking on common criminals and terrorists around the world -- and sparring with his old boss, Rudy Giuliani, as the...
The sky is falling: Debris peril up as hi-rise projects stall
The city's building boom has come crashing down -- in some cases literally. Scores of mothballed construction projects are on the verge of collapsing, forcing officials to spend millions to...
Vada 'gang' ducked jail via pleas, screw-ups
Lenient judges and bungling prosecutors let the vicious thugs busted in last week's shooting of an innocent teenager freely walk Bronx streets despite ample opportunities to put them behind bars,...
One small problem: Welker's presence could be big trouble
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Keep a close eye on the small guy wearing No. 83 for the Patriots. It won't be difficult, because he will be active. Randy Moss is a...
A.I. decision earns 'F'
* In declining the services of Allen Iverson, the Knicks organization threw more salt on the wounds of their suffering fans. Iverson may be far from the tantalizing force he...
Aqueduct Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 6f; $30,000; str hcp; 3upJACOB'S RUN tired as the favorite this distance and level in starter allowance at Philadelphia. Entrymate BROOKS STAR came off the pace to win at...
Only 'stunted growth' for sorry Knicks: fan interest
So, James Dolan, lead en abler for Isiah Thomas, and Donnie Walsh, fresh from picking "out goes y-o-u" third string power forward Jordan Hill over point guards Brandon Jennings, Ty...
Shanahan's legacy greatest in Detroit
Brendan Shanahan turned the Red Wings into cham pions, took a group of players that had underachieved through a string of humiliating playoff upsets through the 1990s, none more humiliating...
Pierce ready to 'rally the troops'
Antonio Pierce no longer can help the Giants on the field, as he'll sit out today's game against the Falcons and most likely many subsequent games because of a bulging...
Nets' Harris plays well in first game back
He twice dove out of bounds. He blew down the lane and dunked. He made a handful of those, "how'd he do that?" passes. He felt no pain. Yes, Devin...
Citi Field gets Mets' makeover
Mets fans have spoken. Saying they had heard their irate followers "loud and clear," the Mets yesterday revealed several changes to Citi Field to better reflect the team's history. As...
Bluefin tuna quotas cut again
Future bluefin tuna quotas will be cut by a third under pressure from a trade ban being considered by the United States. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic...
Princeton-bound Schreiber leads St. Anthony's to crown
As the final seconds ticked down and St. Anthony's was about to lock up its eighth CHSFL Class AAA championship in the last nine years, Friars quarterback Tommy Schreiber turned...
For Jets & colleges, the sell smells bad
What's green and white and full of it? A year ago, the Jets had a 20-year tickets waiting list. Now? With PSL Stadium opening next season, good seats still unsold...
Kotalik fails Rangers' top-line tryout
So Ales Kotalik got one game at the coveted left wing spot on the first line with center Vinny Prospal and right wing Marian Gaborik. Next! "I don't think he...
Islanders singing the Blues
ST. LOUIS -- David Perron scored twice, and Patrik Berglund's first goal in 13 games proved to be the difference in the Blues' 4-1 victory over the Islanders last night....
Sports shorts
NFL: Holmgren interested in Browns Former Seattle and Green Bay coach Mike Holmgren is interested in working for the struggling Browns. Holmgren said on his weekly radio show on Seattle's...
Stars stomp Danis, Brodeur
DALLAS -- Defenseman Stephane Robidas had two goals and two assists, rookie Tom Wandell scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period and the Stars beat the Devils 5-3 last...
Panthers hand Rangers 3rd straight defeat
Fire Renney! Oh right. The Rangers already did that last year. But then why is it almost impossible to tell the difference between the team that got defense-minded Tom Renney...
Rangers' concussed captain takes first skate
Chris Drury never knew what (or who) hit him. "I thought I ran into my own guy because I knew I didn't have the puck or wasn't really near the...
Sunday's best
The experts make their picks: THE LINE GREG GALLO STEVE SERBY MARK CANNIZZARO PAUL SCHWARTZ TIM BONTEMPS RICO PANTHERS 3 (42½) Dolphins (Dolphins, 24-17) Panthers Panthers ★ Dolphins Panthers Panthers...
Weird but true
A Pennsylvania Dutch distelfink is supposed to ward off evil -- but one in Greenwich, Pa., didn't do a very good job. Someone stole the 5-foot wooden cutout of a...
LSU's crazy comeback runs out of time at Ole Miss
So many unusual things happened in the final 3 minutes of Mississippi's victory yesterday in Oxford, Miss., against No. 10 LSU, it got confusing -- even for the participants. "I...
Slain teammate inspires UConn upset of Notre Dame
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- After a string of stinging losses, the Connecticut Huskies finally won one for their slain teammate. Coach Randy Edsall called the Huskies' 33-30 double-overtime victory against...
Syracuse 'sacks' it to No. 25 Rutgers
SYRACUSE -- Greg Paulus had 142 yards passing and a touchdown as Syracuse earned its first Big East victory of the season with a 31-13 upset of No. 25 Rutgers...
Wild day in Pac-10
Jeremiah Masoli, who threw three touchdown passes, tied it with a TD pass to Ed Dickson with six seconds left, then won it with a 1-yard run in the second...
Head-scratching call lets Harvard beat Yale
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Yale's first-year coach Tom Williams said he's ready to take responsibility for the Bulldogs' eighth loss in the last nine games to rival Harvard. Yale (4-6,...
Rams rout Hoyas on Skelton's 5 TDs
John Skelton threw for 405 yards and five touchdown passes to lead Fordham to a 41-14 win over Georgetown in the season finale for both teams yesterday in Washington. Skelton...
Kentucky storms past Rider
Kentucky center DeMarcus Cousins saw Rider's Brandon Penn pull up from well behind the 3-point line and stretched every last inch of his 6-foot-11 frame in an effort to get...
Machado keeps Iona undefeated
Scott Machado scored 20 points, including 11 in the final 5:49, as Iona remained undefeated with an 80-68 home victory over Norfolk State. Six of Machado's final 11 came from...
Red-hot Panthers put hurt on Rangers, 3-2
Nathan Horton, Jordan Leopold and Steven Reinprecht scored goals and Tomas Vokoun made 32 saves as the streaking Florida Panthers beat the slumping New York Rangers 3-2 tonight. Vinny Prospal...
Lewinger returns to the bench for Mary Louis
Joe Lewinger is back on the sidelines for The Mary Louis Academy this season, after taking a leave of absence last year, the girls basketball head man told The Post....
Life in prison for 'scaring' granny to death
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old...
Curtis' last-second victory over Fort Hamilton was a classic
There were tears streaming down the faces of each side. Fort Hamilton’s cheeks were red after its perfect season came to a close while Curtis was so overjoyed, the Warriors...
Falcons striving to fly with city's elite
To say Mike Toro is raising the expectations for this Bishop Ford girls basketball team is an understatement. Last season, the Falcons were 13-17 and finished fifth in CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens,...
PSAL Bowl and Cup football championships preview
The New York Post’s PSAL football beat writers, Zach Braziller and Marc Raimondi, take an in-depth look at Sunday’s Bowl and Cup division championship games at Midwood Field. CUP 10:30...
MJ's moonwalk glove goes for $350Gs
NEW YORK (AP) — The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 was auctioned off for $350,000 — plus tax — today....
Holy Cross hoops has high hopes
Paul Gilvary is optimistic when he looks at his Holy Cross basketball team, much more so than he was this time last year. “This time of the year last year...
