December 19, 2009
Rangers send pair back to minors
The Rangers assigned Ilkka Heikkinen and Bobby Sanguinetti to the AHL Wolf Pack immediately after the youngsters combined to form the third pair on defense in this afternoon’s 2-1 victory...
Lundqvist saves help Rangers snag 2-1 win
PHILADELPHIA — Henrik Lundqvist faced a flurry of shots in the third period, and stopped each and every one. When it was over, he'd made 16 of his 36 saves...
Tiger's mom 'disappointed,' and hurt by scandal
Tiger Woods' mother, Kutilda Woods, is "hurt, angry and disappointed in Tiger," a family friend told People.com. "She wants to know how he could do this to his family." The...
Woman survives Brooklyn Bridge plunge into frigid East River
A woman wearing just pajamas hurled herself off the Brooklyn Bridge this morning, and miraculously survived a 100-foot plunge into the frigid East River, cops said. The 22-year-old, who has...
Wheelchair-bound men in knife fight, one dead
Two wheelchair-bound men in an East Village shelter got into a name-calling argument early today that ended with one man stabbed dead and cops struggling to explain why they missed...
Curry worry over Bender situation
It was a storybook night for Jonathan Bender, playing his first game in four years and helping the Knicks beat the Clippers, scoring, blocking a shot, being an interior intimidator.But...
9/11 cop wins cool $1M in poker challenge
Mike Kosowski was dealt a bad hand on 9/11 – but now the former NYPD detective has come up all aces. Kosowski, a 53-year-old amateur card-player, won $1 million on...
CHSAA boys basketball roundup: Sykes leads St. Peter's
Trevor Sykes scored a game-high 24 points, including 14 in the second half, to lead St. Peter’s to a 54-45 win against West Catholic (Pa.) in the opening round of...
Senate clinches final health care vote
After days of inter-party bickering and back door negotiations, Sen. Ben Nelson, the lone Democratic holdout on the health care bill, said they've reached an agreement that will likely allow...
Democratic holdout, Sen. Ben Nelson, to support health-care bill
WASHINGTON — A holdout no more, Democratic Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson agreed Saturday to provide the 60th and deciding vote for Senate passage of sweeping health care legislation, capping a...
Late Pope John Paul moves closer to sainthood
VATICAN CITY - The late Pope John Paul moved closer to sainthood in the Catholic Church on Saturday when his successor, Pope Benedict, approved a decree recognising that John Paul...
London-Paris trains suspended after more than 2,000 stranded
LONDON — Eurostar train service between Britain and France was suspended Saturday morning after more than 2,000 passengers were stranded for hours when four passenger trains broke down in the...
Gonzaga a national school now
There isn’t a basketball-crazy town or city in the nation that Duke coach Mike Kzryzewski can walk the streets with anonymity. Welcome to Coach K’s world, Gonzaga coach Mark Few....
Local players trying to shake Quakers’ slow start
Zack Rosen closed his eyes, took a deep breath and tried to figure out a way to best respond to a question he didn’t have the answer to. Just what’s...
Time for Beanie, baby!
BIG WEEKS Beanie Wells, RB, Cardinals Still has fumble problems, but so does backfield mate Tim Hightower, who had just two carries last week. Lions defense will put up little-to-no...
Big plays torment Big Blue
The moral of last week’s shootout with the Eagles? Don’t get “big-played.” Giants defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan said yesterday he was pleased with the intensity his unit showed last week...
Forgotten rivalry always seems to have meaning
There are the Cowboys, the object of so much obsession among Giants fans for so many years, the team that used to lord its success over the Giants for so...
Trendsetters: week 15
DALLAS (+71⁄2) AT NEW ORLEANS Dallas has dropped four of five to winning teams and five straight in this series. ATLANTA (+6) AT JETS Gang Green have won four of...
'Boys line likely to rise, making New Orleans a jolly ol' Saints pick
The hotline to Las Vegas takes you inside Week 15 of the NFL season, telling the bettors what direction the lines are moving, and by how much. TONIGHT COWBOYS-SAINTS Saints...
Mark set to bundle up for return to starting lineup
Jack Lambert once advocated putting quarterbacks in dresses. The Jets are coming close this week with Mark Sanchez. The team officially named Sanchez the starting quarterback for tomorrow’s game with...
Ross, Webster injuries could put Dockery at CB
It’s on to Plan C at CB. The Giants are headed in that direction for Monday night’s game at Washington after Aaron Ross missed yesterday’s practice with a left hamstring...
Tide of competition ebbing in ‘Bay Watch’
Jason Bay’s leverage against the Mets is running out. The number of teams believed to be interested in the free-agent left fielder — and willing to trump the Mets’ four-year,...
Door opens for Johnson, slams on Damon
Nick Johnson is back and Johnny Damon said so long, explaining he and the Yankees couldn’t get together on a two-year deal. The Yankees agreed with the 31-year-old Johnson on...
We've got games
It’s tough enough finding presents for your own brood, especially when list-toppers like Zhu Zhu Pets and Rocky the Robot Truck are selling out fast. But buying for other people’s...
What's up?
TODAY TRICKY TREATS: The Met Opera’s “Hansel and Gretel” — now a holiday classic — is a confectionary cautionary tale, complete with a male-in-drag witch and an eerie forest blanket;...
Play it again
Out with the old, in with the new? Before you toss last year’s “It” toy — or the Barbies and Legos languishing in your storage closet — think green. One...
Smart giving
With luck, not everyone on your list this year wants a giant flat-screen TV. How much nicer to find gifts that say more than “I cashed in a CD for...
The art of the meal
Like ballparks, museums are getting a major culinary upgrade. And while behemoths like the Met and the Museum of Natural History haven’t exactly gone gourmet, others are adding splashy eateries,...
Former Met, Yankee takes swing in films
Todd Zeile is looking for another kind of hit these days. He collected 2,004 of them over his 16-year major league career, playing for 11 teams, including the Mets and...
Pavlik back in ring after battle with hand injury
Kelly Pavlik might be nicknamed “The Ghost” because of his pale complexion, but it also could apply to his absence from boxing in 2009. Pavlik hasn’t been seen in a...
Nick's new star
Her name is Cymphonique, and she could be Nickelodeon's next teen star. The kids cable network has inked a substantial talent development deal with the 13-year-old actor/singer/dancer to develop a...
Jon, Kate divorced
Jon and Kate Gosselin are officially divorced after 10 years of marriage, eight children and a year of tabloid headlines. A lawyer for Kate Gosselin said she gets the family...
Clever casting
Forget about the child prodigies on the upcoming Fox show "Our Little Genius" -- it's the parents who are the nervous nellies, says show creator Mark Burnett. "At one point...
'America's Best Dance Crew' judge busted
Shane Sparks, a judge on MTV's "America's Best Dance Crew," was busted yesterday on eight counts of child molestation, according to tmz.com. According to the criminal complaint filed by the...
How O says he's about to mislead
'There are those who claim we have to choose between paying down our deficits . . . and investing in job creation and economic growth," President Obama said last week....
Lessons unlearned
The trial of the century will take place when Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the al leged 9/11 mastermind, and his cohorts stand trial in New York City. Yet Attorney General Eric...
Feds in autism numbers game
ATLANTA -- One in every 110 kids is autistic, federal health officials said yesterday, tweaking the 1-in-100 estimate they had released in October. The Centers for Disease Control attributed the...
Border-bashed
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A Brazilian national who assaulted a US agent near the Vermont-Quebec border will spend the next 3½ years behind bars. Alexsandre da Silva, 34, was convicted on...
Beyonce's parents split
HOUSTON -- Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles, has filed for divorce from the pop diva's father and manager, Mathew Knowles. She began proceedings to dissolve the 29-year marriage Nov. 11, according...
'Insulted' judges growl
Several judges are seething over what they charge was an "insulting" call by Mayor Bloomberg's top legal adviser to make the bench "more accountable." Eighteen appellate judges signed a letter...
Clueless commander: prez is off his game
* Michael Goodwin's column, "Barack Has No Deaf-ense for a Tin Ear," (Dec. 16) is right on the money. The beautiful part about the column is that it's concise and...
New water rates eyed
A consultant is recommending that the city study new rate structures for the water system -- one of which could leave homeowners soaked. After conducting a review of how cities...
Vandals in Auschwitz hate heist
OSWIECIM, Poland -- The Nazis' infamous sign declaring, "Arbeit Macht Frei" -- German for "Work Sets You Free" -- was stolen yesterday from the entrance of the former Auschwitz death...
Riches to rags: Mike forgoes inaugural fete
After springing for more than $102 million to win a third term, Mayor Bloomberg has decided to shut the cash spigot -- he's not holding a reception after his inauguration,...
Iran 'invades' Iraq to seize rich oil field
Armed Iranian troops crossed their border and seized an Iraqi oil field in a daring raid yesterday, officials in Baghdad charged. Iran denied the incursion but the tension between the...
GM to pull plug on Saab
General Motors said it will shut the money-losing Saab unit after talks collapsed on a sale to Spyker Cars NV -- the second failure in less than a month to...
Stable 'mate' perv bust
An 18-year-old man has been accused of having sex with horses at a harness track in upstate Goshen. Erick Rivera was charged with five counts each of sexual misconduct with...
Gal hangs self in cell
A 32-year-old woman hanged herself inside a Brooklyn police holding cell, after she was arrested on marijuana charges, police sources said. The woman, whose name was withheld pending family notification,...
Re-marker-ble Palin escapes
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin said she has cut short her Hawaii vacation because of paparazzi, who photographed her wearing a visor with John McCain's name blacked out. Palin has...
'Fiend' bust in LI sex attack
Six months ago, he was spotted fleeing the scene of a sex assault two blocks from Hofstra University, leaving damning evidence behind -- but it wasn't until The Post asked...
DWI guy hit by 'Leandra'
A Staten Island man who was caught driving with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit has become the first person in the state to be punished under...
Suicide Democrats
Rushing to lock the nation into expensive health-care and climate-change commitments, Democrats are in an understandable frenzy because public enthusiasm for both crusades has been inversely proportional to the time...
Best for The Bronx
* It's unfortunate that The Post continues to ignore the real issue at the Kingsbridge Armory -- the use of taxpayer subsidies to finance private industry while offering little or...
Law has a bully pulp-it
If you peep at Jude Law, prepare to get juiced. That's the message the "Sherlock Holmes" actor sent this week when he declared that he had no regrets about hurling...
Ex-union big out on $100K bail
A former newspaper union president was free on $100,000 bail yesterday after he was charged with embezzling more than $200,000 from the union he ran. Wayne Mitchell, president of the...
Mack holds back
John Mack, Morgan Stanley's chairman and chief executive officer, won't accept a bonus for a third-straight year amid predictions his bank will report an annual loss and public pressure to...
Blue York turns out for 'Avatar'
Big Apple earthlings braved turning blue from the cold yesterday to be among the opening-day crowds for the sci-fi fantasy "Avatar." A spokesman for Twentieth Century Fox said that based...
Business briefs
AIG grounded AIG's plane-leasing unit was slashed to junk by Moody's Investors Serv ice on prospects the bailed- out insurer may cut off funding for the business next year. Moody's...
Jail for Merry Mikey Cigars
With a "sincere" yuletide wish, a Brooklyn federal judge sentenced Genovese mob capo Michael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola to 16 years in prison for 30 years of union extortion. A jury...
Helping Dem-selves
Congressional districts that elected Democrats are getting nearly twice as much federal stimulus cash as Republican ones -- and the payouts have no relation to how recession-battered an area is,...
Mayor: Albany set to make city suffer
Get ready to "suffer" if Albany puts the city in a budget squeeze. That was the warning yesterday from Mayor Bloomberg, who has been issuing increasingly dire predictions about what...
Sienna warms to once-cheatin' ex
Jude Law has found someplace where he can find comfort from the cruel prying eyes of NYU girls -- in the arms of his old flame Sienna Miller. The stars...
Wackos pollute the eco debate
As the Copenhagen climate summit comes to a close, it seems fair to say that rarely has a gathering of so many doing so little gotten so much attention. But...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Queens -- Talk about a fashion victim. A catfight between two women in St. Albans turned bloody when one assaulted the other with her stiletto heel, cops said. Kimmoya Wilson,...
Ashanti crotch-texter: You're welcome!
It was all "for the ladies." A sex-obsessed Ashanti fan insists he meant no harm when he sent pictures of his genitals and other lurid text messages to the R&B...
Ugg-ly boot business
Pirates are looking to cash in on one of this holiday season's hottest fashion buys: Ugg boots. Analysts have long predicted that the fad would flame out, but the bulky...
The local angle
Google is going local. The search giant is reportedly in talks to acquire Yelp Inc., a popular site for searching for local businesses, for as much as $500 million. Like...
Qaeda narco trio's '$$ plot'
A trio of al Qaeda thugs plotted to raise cash for their terror group by helping to smuggle hundreds of kilos of cocaine into Europe through Africa, Manhattan federal prosecutors...
Tag Heuer drops Tiger
It was only a matter of time. High-end Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer said yesterday it was dumping Tiger Woods from its US ad campaigns in the wake of the swirling...
'Six' and the city: winter inching in
Mother Nature isn't waiting until Monday to kick off winter. The city's first big snowstorm of the holiday season is set to come roaring in later today -- and could...
Diebold may see recount
The Department of Justice could vote down an already-completed merger of the two biggest makers of voting machines. The Justice Department, Florida and 13 other states have opened investigations into...
Chevy car ads switch to Publicis
After emerging from bankruptcy protection and shaking up its management ranks, GM is now shuffling ad assignments for its Chevrolet brand. GM has reportedly tapped Publicis, part of French ad...
Just the first farce
And so it begins. The legal, political and national-se curity nightmare attending the civilian trials of Guantanamo Bay terrorists, that is. Lawyers for accused embassy bomber Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani have...
Obama does it again
President Obama reportedly was re luctant to attend the final day of the UN's Copenhagen climate-change summit unless it was front-end wired to be a major political success. But he...
Pro-Iran hackers' twit snit
The "Iranian Cyber Army," a previously unknown cabal of computer hackers who espouse loyalty to Tehran's America-hating ayatollahs, hijacked Twitter yesterday. Visitors to the micro-blogging Web site were redirected to...
Times says editing of staff done for now
The New York Times is finished wielding the ax -- for the foreseeable future. In a memo brazenly entitled "We can exhale now," Executive Editor Bill Keller said he has...
Stolen history
"If they are pranksters, they'd have to be sick pranksters, or someone with a political agenda. But whoever has done it has desecrated world memory." -- Poland's chief rabbi, Michael...
Cat killer coaxes a walk
Notorious "self-defense" cat bludgeoner Joseph Petcka finally got his kitten-sweet sentence yesterday. The D-list actor and former Met minor-league pitcher walked out of Manhattan Supreme Court with no prison time,...
Twitter mom tells of anguish
The Florida woman who shockingly tweeted about her 2-year-old son's drowning death has a new message -- she's misunderstood. "There is a lot of erroneous information out there," a grieving...
Kick in arsenal for plumber
A Long Island plumber was busted after state troopers found 41 guns -- including 27 high-powered assault rifles -- stashed at his home. Bing Sang, 40, was arrested Dec. 11...
Strapped Ed. Dept. dishes out raises
It's the season of giving -- even at the city's cash-strapped Department of Education. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has approved retroactive raises for about 1,400 administrative managers despite the looming...
A wheelie cold protest
It'll be a chilly reception tonight for Brooklyn cyclists planning a topless ride to protest the city's removal of a popular Williamsburg bike lane. The forecast calls for 6 to...
Bloody butcher rob
A robber blasted a 50-year-old woman in the chest as she worked in a popular Brooklyn butcher shop yesterday, police sources said. The unidentified victim was putting money into the...
Clintons came close to indictment
Prosecutors investigating Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were prepared to seek indictments of them for their roles in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky affairs, an explosive new book about the...
Murder weapon from UWS massacre missing
The weapon used to murder two men in a horrific Upper West Side massacre is mysteriously unaccounted for, officials said yesterday. Cops originally believed a semi-automatic pistol recovered at the...
Cops 'park' sex fiend
A convicted sex offender figured out a way to prosper during the recession -- by turning a public Department of Transportation garage into his own private parking business. Steven Pappas,...
Kerik's explosive e-mail
The e-mail that led to the fall of former New York top cop Bernard Kerik has been made public. In the missive to the White House -- part of his...
'Healthy' holiday wrap-up
The final countdown for the Senate's health-care legislation is expected to begin today with Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiling an amendment designed to unite feuding Democrats and win passage by...
Obama praises a climate flop
WASHINGTON -- After a day spent frantically darting around Copenhagen trying to locate world leaders, getting snubbed by China's premier and crashing a meeting where he had initially been kept...
Thorn wants to return as team president
TORONTO -- Rod Thorn wants to return to the Nets. Thorn, the man who drafted Michael Jordan in Chicago, took over as Nets team president and turned them from laughingstock...
Bender makes his comeback count big
After a painful bone-on-bone condition forced Jonathan Bender off the basketball court four years ago and into the operating room over and over, returning to the NBA wasn't foremost in...
Nets rookie much better after benching
TORONTO -- Terrence Williams is proof good things can come from a bad situation. Williams has picked it up -- really in every category -- after he was banished to...
Rex kept an eye on Jags loss
The Jets know that winning is paramount in their quest for the playoffs, but that does not mean they aren't keeping one eye on their competition for postseason berths. Several...
Knicks' new blood gives Garden life
There was a new face on the Garden court last night and it wasn't the resurfacing of banished Nate Robinson. The fresh blood was Jonathan Bender, who played his first...
D'Antoni tires of Nate debate
In trying to quell "Nate-Gate," Knicks team president Donnie Walsh said he expects Nate Robinson to return to the rotation eventually, once he starts fitting in better with the system....
The Post Line
NFL Tonight Favorite Opening Current (O/U) Underdog SAINTS 7 7½ (53½) Cowboys Tomorrow JETS OFF OFF (OFF) Falcons STEELERS 1 2 (40½) Packers TITANS 4 3 (42½) Dolphins Patriots 7...
Philadelphia Analysis
Today's analysis. 1. 5 1/2f; $44,000; mdn spcl wt; 2YO HARDLY DARK OUT makes local debut after finishing third in both career starts. BIG CITY DEPUTY shows a bullet work...
Sports shorts
NCAA: Calipari fires back Kentucky coach John Calipari says he disagrees with Bobby Knight's assessment that college basketball lacks integrity and that he is proof the game has a problem....
Rangers coach says vets' jobs aren't safe
Coach John Tortorella essentially put the entire Rangers' team -- especially its "underachieving veterans" -- on notice yesterday. One day after benching high-priced veterans Wade Redden and Ales Kotalik and...
QB must prove he is built for Dec. weather
The weather outside is supposed to be frightful. That's perfect. "Our team is built for playing in December," Jets coach Rex Ryan proclaimed yesterday after practice. The Jets may be...
Injury-prone DiPietro set to practice again
It still is unknown when Rick DiPietro will play his next game for the Islanders, but the goalie will at least get back on the ice with the team this...
Tiger named PGA player of the year
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Tiger Woods was voted the PGA Tour player of the year by the players yesterday, the 10th time in his 13 years on tour that...
Phils exercise club option on Rollins
Jimmy Rollins' $8.5 million club option for 2011 has been exercised by the Phillies. The 2007 NL MVP will make $7.5 million next year, the final season originally guaranteed under...
Another record for Brodeur
After setting the NHL goalie record of 1,030 games played, he could have taken the safe route, left the game for precautions and nobody would have said boo, the way...
'Inexcusable' loss a new low for Jersey
TORONTO -- No more calls, ladies and gentlemen. We have a winner for the category of the Nets' worst performance of the season. Or decade. Maybe century. "Pitiful. Horrible. Horrible...
Weird but true
You'd have to be drunk to pay more than a dollar for this stuff. A slobbering sot wandered into an Ohio Taco Bell and plunked down $72 for a single...
Bowl win can boost RU's Fla. mission
When coach Greg Schiano began to build Rutgers into the perennial bowl program it has become, one state -- other than the Garden State, of course -- stood out: Florida....
Curry leads Christ the King in a hurry
With junior Corey Edwards sidelined with a badly bruised left knee, Christ the King coach Joe Arbitello was looking for someone else on his deep roster to run the point...
Wadleigh runs win streak to six with impressive victory over Wings
Wadleigh was supposed to be tested visiting Wings Academy Friday night. A litmus test, this was not. The Tigers handled the challenge extremely well, leading from start to finish and...
Knicks rally from 20 down to beat Clippers 95-91
avid Lee scored 17 of his 25 points in the second half, and the New York Knicks erased a 20-point deficit to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 95-91 on Friday...
Girls basketball roundup: Royals topple nationally-ranked Dillard at TOC
Christ the King couldn’t have asked for a better start to its annual trip to the desert. Junior guard Bria Smith led CK with 23 points and six rebounds as...
Johnson, Bosh lead Raptors past struggling Nets
Amir Johnson scored a season-high 18 points, Chris Bosh had 16 points and eight rebounds, and the Toronto Raptors easily dispatched the New Jersey Nets 118-95 Friday night. Andrea Bargnani...
Brodeur sets record, gets assist in Devils win
Martin Brodeur set a National Hockey League record for games played by a goaltender and helped make the milestone a win with 27 saves and an assist, leading the New...
DC United signs Cristian Castillo
A year after the Red Bulls scouted Cristian Castillo -and inconceivably chose to acquire the sorry Khano Smith instead - the slick-dribbling engine for El Salvador's National Team is coming...
Shannon Briggs To Fight MMA
Shannon Briggs is set launch a career in mixed martial arts, sources told the Post. Briggs, a two-time former heavyweight boxing champion, has signed a deal with Madison Avenue Sports...
Red Storm win third straight, regaining old form
St. John’s Prep undefeated run to the CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens Division II Diocesan championship was a memorable experience. But it had a negative impact to the Red Storm's start of this...
The Times' misspelled memo
New York Times executive Bill Keller may have fired one copy editor too many in laying off 100 people from the Gray Lady.In his memo Friday to reassure the shell...
Man, you gotta see the crash picture from Red Hook
That was one pretty serious-looking accident at the troubled corner of Van Brunt Street and Dikeman Street in the heart of Red Hook on Friday afternoon.But cops say that no...
ABC News' Charles Gibson signs off after 34 years
Charles Gibson has signed off for the last time from the ABC News anchor desk. He brings 34 years at the network to a close with Friday's edition of "ABC...
Devils' Brodeur sets goalie game record
Another major NHL record belongs to Martin Brodeur. When they dropped the puck in Newark tonight, he played his 1,030th NHL game, most by a goalie, passing Patrick Roy."If you...
B'klyn robber shoots woman in heist
A brazen robber blasted a 50-year-old female worker in the chest inside a popular Bensonhurst butcher shop, police source said. The unidentified victim was shot and wounded at about 4:35...