December 20, 2009
St. John's ends game on 18-1 run to rally past Hofstra
December 20, 2009 | 11:25pmSt. John's had been in this situation too many times. The Red Storm were trailing Hofstra, a team that had beaten them the last four times they met, an embarrassing...
Macy’s in Herald Square evacuated because of fire
December 20, 2009 | 10:18pmSmoke forced the evacuation of the world’s most famous holiday shopping center — Macy’s in Herald Square — today after a blaze broke out under an escalator. Already set back...
Jets fall on late Falcons touchdown, 10-7
December 20, 2009 | 9:18pmAs the Jets were quietly filing into the locker room after their 10-7 loss to the Falcons this afternoon at Giants Stadium - the latest in a string of inexplicable...
Actress Brittany Murphy dead at 32
December 20, 2009 | 7:24pmA Los Angeles County coroner's official says it appears actress Brittany Murphy died of natural causes. Murphy, 32 , collapsed in the shower of husband Simon Monjack's Los Angeles home...
MLS players braced for Feb. 1 lockout
December 20, 2009 | 7:20pmMLS players have been braced by their union for a "probable lockout date of Feb. 1,'' according to Seattle keeper Kasey Keller.The league has been conspicuously tight-lipped about its negotiations...
Giants' Webster, McKenzie don't make trip to Washington
December 20, 2009 | 6:11pmThe Giants today boarded a special chartered Amtrak train for their trip to Washington, D.C. and it comes as no surprise that cornerback Corey Webster and right tackle Kareem McKenzie...
Gametracker: Falcons at Jets
December 20, 2009 | 5:19pmMark Sanchez and the Jets take on Tony Gonzalez and the Falcons at the snowy Meadowlands looking to get to 8-6 and remain in wild-card and AFC East races.
US sends 12 Guantanamo detainees to home countries
December 20, 2009 | 3:42pmWASHINGTON - Twelve inmates have been transferred from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Afghanistan, Yemen and the breakaway Somali enclave of Somaliland, the U.S. Justice Department...
New York digs out after storm socks city
December 20, 2009 | 3:11pmThe most powerful winter snowstorm the city has seen in three years dumped nearly 11 inches of snow on the Big Apple overnight - shuttering airports, snarling traffic and disrupting...
Dear Virginia
December 20, 2009 | 8:03amYes, Virginia, your spirit lives on. Young students from The Studio School recently wrote their own answers to Virginia O’Hanlon’s famous question to the New York Sun about the existence...
Taipei quakes and shakes
December 20, 2009 | 7:55amA huge earthquake struck Taiwan yesterday, causing property damage in the capital of Taipei. The US Geological Survey said the 6.4-magnitude quake was centered off the country’s eastern coast. Local...
Girls basketball roundup: Long Beach Poly holds off CK
December 20, 2009 | 7:32amChrist the King’s biggest step as a team this season came in a loss. A day after beating nationally ranked Dillard (Fla.), the Royals nearly knocked of Long Beach Poly,...
Rhodes back starting at safety for Jets
December 20, 2009 | 7:19amKeep a close eye on Kerry Rhodes today. He could be a big factor against the Falcons — one way or the other. The Jets safety, who has been a...
Rexorcising Jets' December demons
December 20, 2009 | 7:18amYou wear the scars defiantly, almost proudly. It was T.S. Eliot who wrote, “April is the cruelest month,” but as a Jets fan you know differently. You know December is...
Snow chance at playoffs if Jets don’t beat frozen Falcons
December 20, 2009 | 7:16amThree teams have been checked off the Jets list of things to do in the last three weeks. Three more boxes need to be checked before the Jets can think...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Danny Woodhead
December 20, 2009 | 7:14amThe Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the Jets’ little wonder, who as running back at Chadron State broke the NCAA’s all-time, all-division rushing record. Q: A part of you isn’t...
Vac’s Christmas carols for New York sports fans
December 20, 2009 | 7:12amYes, ‘tis the season, and so forth. Clear your throats, put your stocking caps on, and let’s go annoy the neighbors a little bit, shall we? Onward: “Santana Baby”(Sung to...
If Miami doesn’t provide help, Wade could leave
December 20, 2009 | 7:08amMIAMI — My last visit to South Beach was for the 2006 Finals when the Heat swept four straight from the Mavericks after losing the first two in Dallas and...
The Post's All-City football honors
December 20, 2009 | 7:04amThe 2009 football season was full of outstanding performances, highlight-reel touchdowns and stout defensive efforts. There were remarkable individual performances and team accomplishments. Curtis won its fifth PSAL city championship...
The Rumble
December 20, 2009 | 6:58amFightin’ & football mix Glazer training players the MMA way Jay Glazer, the NFL Insider for “Fox NFL Sunday,” isn’t content with being the Randy Couture of NFL scoopage. Glazer,...
South Shore Invitational roundup: Castle back in groove for Medgar Evers
December 20, 2009 | 6:56amAshley Castle returned to the Medgar Evers girls basketball team two weeks ago from a school-imposed suspension. Although the Cougars were never in danger of losing to Fieldston, the versatile...
The Rucker Wadleigh Christmas Classic notebook: Samuels commits to Loyola
December 20, 2009 | 6:29amDavid Samuels didn’t know what to do last Wednesday night. He liked three schools – Iona, Fairfield and Loyola – equally and wanted to make a decision. They all offered...
Bah humbug: Edison coach tears into team after fourth straight loss
December 20, 2009 | 6:23amJohn Ulmer wasn’t in the holiday spirit Saturday afternoon. The Thomas Edison boys basketball coach lashed out at his team after the Inventors’ fourth straight loss, an 87-70 setback to...
Obama, left behind
December 20, 2009 | 6:12amBoy, this “Obama Derangement Syndrome” really has gotten out of hand. Why, just this past week the decreasingly popular president has been called a “bald-faced liar,” “an executive who can’t...
Why I like George Clooney
December 20, 2009 | 6:11amBrace yourself. Breaking news. I like George Clooney. As a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, I even helped Clooney take home the Best Actor prize for his...
Small crimes, big problems
December 20, 2009 | 6:09amThere are about 700 petty criminals in New York City who get convicted of six low-level crimes a year — one crime every other month. They are your chronic shoplifters,...
New York goes broke, pension by pension
December 20, 2009 | 6:05amWalking his shih tzu Sam in sunny Coconut Creek, Fla., easygoing and slightly stooped Henry Licker doesn’t seem like someone who could bring down a city. But it’s Licker and...
Can we forgive Tiger?
December 20, 2009 | 6:01amNow comes the part where Tiger has to say he’s sorry — and until he does, we’re all pretending that no one knows how this will end. It’s one of...
Phoenix rise despite obstacles
December 20, 2009 | 5:59amThe final score was in the low 60’s and high 50’s. Jonathan Rivera, South Bronx’s 6-foot-5 forward, was at home resting an injured knee. Dashawn Joyner, the dynamic point guard,...
Home, sweet home
December 20, 2009 | 5:57amKarim Rowson heard an odd sound after his first basket. But that noise wasn’t just relegated to him. It was for every one of his Wadleigh teammates. It was loud,...
Shoot to kill
December 20, 2009 | 5:56amThe solution to the problem of not bringing perps to trial in time is for the cops to never take a live perpetrator who is using a gun to commit...
Hypocrites!
December 20, 2009 | 5:56amKyle Smith’s column on The Huffington Post (“Liberals Gone Wild!” PostScript, Dec. 13) is certainly interesting, but it really loses any sort of authority — as it was run the...
Traitors among us
December 20, 2009 | 5:55amThe Post presents an excellent, concise summary of threats by radical American Muslims who want to put fellow Americans in harm’s way (“Jobs For Jihadis,” Editorial, Dec. 13). Since we...
River of dreams
December 20, 2009 | 5:54am“Hudson River Park Under Pier Pressure,” (Dec. 15) underscores the need for more resources and financial planning for Hudson River Park. Indeed, the park is under too much pressure to...
Armory opposition
December 20, 2009 | 5:49amGary LaBarbera reports that many, including some union leaders, are cheering the demise of the Related Co.’s plan to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory (“New York’s New Tool for Killing Jobs,”...
Beirut force
December 20, 2009 | 5:48am“Losing Lebanon” (Benny Avni, PostOpinion, Dec. 17) asserts that the Obama administration is abandoning Lebanon to the tentacles of Syria and Iran. However, while it praises the previous administration’s “clarity”...
Required Reading
December 20, 2009 | 5:47amThe Sand Fish A Novel From Dubai by Maha Gargash (Harper) Modern, can-do city state Dubai — known for its indoor ski slope and manmade resort islands — has been...
Knives at Dawn
December 20, 2009 | 5:46amDespite America’s zest for “Top Chef”-style spectacle, the fabled Bocuse d’Or cooking competition held biannually in Lyon, France, is not well known here — perhaps because America has never placed...
Summertime
December 20, 2009 | 5:44amThis is the 20th book by the reclusive South African novelist Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker Prize. The conceit may initially feel...
Loughlin earns Brookyln bragging rights and more
December 20, 2009 | 5:43amBranden Frazier hopes Bishop Loughlin’s 58-43 trouncing of Lincoln at the New Heights Holiday Hoop Festival Saturday night is a precursor. That’s because the Lions claimed the win at Rose...
Christmas in the heir
December 20, 2009 | 5:41amPractically since the day it was published — on Dec. 19, 1843 — “A Christmas Carol” has been required reading for the holidays. Upteen movie treatments later, not even a...
Beach slap
December 20, 2009 | 5:41amIt’s been awhile since anything MTV put on was so provocative as “Jersey Shore.” Which is saying a lot for a channel that founded reality TV with “The Real World”...
Holiday cheer
December 20, 2009 | 5:41amNothing says “Merry Christmas” quite like a parade in Orlando. The “26th annual “Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade,” (Friday, 10 a.m., ABC) will be a melange of pop holiday song...
The 10 most dramatic moments of the ’00s
December 20, 2009 | 5:40amIs the decade over already? Say what you want about the era of crappy reality TV, there was still plenty of jaw-dropping, tear-jerking, spine-tingling drama to be found in the...
Most watched television programs of the decade
December 20, 2009 | 5:40amIt might seem that “American Idol” has claimed all the top ratings’ slots over the last decade, but Americans actually watched a variety of shows. The agency MAGNA gathered the...
Too naughty to be true
December 20, 2009 | 5:40amIn 1968, when I was in high school, 42nd Street wasn’t a particularly nice strip. Hell, it was Sleaze Street. But that’s where this new movie, “The Odd Couple” was...
Reel good
December 20, 2009 | 5:40amBEN-HUR Sunday, 4 p.m., TCM Ben Hur (Charlton Heston), a Jewish prince, seeks revenge on the man who betrayed him and forced him into slavery — his former best friend,...
'Survivor' villain
December 20, 2009 | 5:39amCan Evil Russell win it all? From the very first episode of “Survivor Samoa,” Russell Hantz, 36-year-old multimillionaire owner of an independent Texas-based oil company, has been the guy to...
Dangerously funny
December 20, 2009 | 5:39amTom and Dick Smothers rose to fame against the backdrop of JFK’s assassination, the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War — and their wicked wit and willingness to make...
Bohemian Rhapsody
December 20, 2009 | 5:37amFor anyone wondering how Greenwich Village — one of the trendiest and most desirable neighborhoods in the city — got its start as more than just a destination for immigrants,...
Odom has answers for South Shore in Mount Vernon win
December 20, 2009 | 5:37amAnwar Gladden didn’t know how his young team would respond in a close game against a tough opponent. He wasn’t sure who would step up in South Shore’s time of...
In my library: Jesse Ventura
December 20, 2009 | 5:34amReality seems to have a hammerlock on Jesse “The Body” Ventura, at least as far as his reading list’s concerned. “I tend to like to read history — recent history,...
Frontcourt duo leads Hornets to rout of Loughlin
December 20, 2009 | 5:31amBerenda Felder couldn’t shake the memory of her Midwood girls basketball team getting handled by Bishop Loughlin in an early season scrimmage. “When I saw that we were playing them...
Seniors getting the savings $haft
December 20, 2009 | 5:28amDear John: By far the most important voting bloc to any politician in this nation is our senior citizens. This group with little to no debt and conservative savings has...
All you breed is love
December 20, 2009 | 5:02amThe holidays are typically a time when we show our loved ones how much we cherish them. According to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, about 42 percent of Americans...
Merry Slash-mas to all
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amI am spending the holiday at my snow-covered estate in Wood stock, sitting beside the fire, sipping cognac and eggnog and watching Christmas DVDs. No, not "It's a Wonderful Life."...
Nerves rack up win
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amYouth has the energy but age has the nerves -- and nerves trump energy. This was how Boris Gelfand, a 41-year-old Israeli grandmaster, explained his winning earlier this month of...
'Avatar' weekend $now drift
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amJames Cameron's space flick "Avatar" scored a solid $27 million opening day, but the snow might kill its hopes of netting the biggest December opening ever. "Avatar" -- the most...
'HIV bungle' nightmare
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amA city hospital nearly destroyed a New Jersey woman's life and wrecked her marriage after misdiagnosing her with terminal HIV, hepatitis and herpes, according to a bombshell lawsuit. Maria Osorio,...
Tiger ma furious at her cub
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amNow even his biggest female supporter has turned on him. Tiger Woods' mom -- often seen on the golf course cheering him on -- is reportedly "furious" with her philandering...
2 popes nearing sainthood
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amTwo historic Catholic leaders have moved one step closer to sainthood. Pope Benedict yesterday signed "heroic virtue decrees" recognizing the worthiness of Pope John Paul II and Pope Pius XII....
NYPD Daily Blotter
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amQueens -- A fingerprint found at the scene in Corona helped cops find a burglar months later. Segundo Santos, 50, allegedly slipped through a basement window at 42nd Avenue near...
Pajama gal survives B'klyn Bridge plunge
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThe intrepid NYPD divers above pulled a 22-year-old woman in her pajamas from the ice-cold East River early yesterday after she jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge. The unidentified Manhattanite was...
Shelter resident slain in E. Village wheelchair joust
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amTwo wheelchair-bound men in an East Village shelter got into a name-calling fight yesterday that ended with one of them stabbed to death after cops missed a chance to forestall...
Vanity tax burns tanners
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amIf Botox users could move their faces, they'd be smiling wide over the proposed Senate health-care plan, but tanning-bed fanatics are sure to be seeing red. The bill's provisions that...
Realty bigs taking up 'arms'
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amIt's pushback time for the real-estate industry on the Kingsbridge Armory. Steve Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, said the industry intends to inform residents of...
No 'Time' for a jinx
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThis week ABC's Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos quietly, almost stealthily, stepped into extended roles at the television network where they have toiled for years. In Washington, the Federal Reserve...
GOPer sets new push to oust tax-challenged Rangel
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amWhere are Charlie Rangel's tax returns? That's the question Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) is asking as he threatens next month to lead a second attempt to strip the Harlem Democrat...
EMT duo on break let pregnant mom die
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amA pregnant Brooklyn woman suffering a fatal seizure in a coffee shop in the shadow of FDNY Headquarters was ignored by two callous city medics who continued to buy their...
Tal-mood for love: Sex-tape rabbi tries to 'share' hottie
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amEww, that's not kosher! A prominent Orthodox rabbi has been caught on tape discussing his apparent love affair with a shiksa he was converting to Judaism -- whom he allegedly...
NJ hoops gal a huge star
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amCall her Air Anderson. This up-and-coming New Jersey high school basketball player is only 16, but Marvadene Anderson is already a giant on the court. At just under 6-foot-11 --...
Gee bliz! NY whited out
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amIt's the white-mare before Christmas. A winter storm is blasting the Northeast with a massive pounding of snow that could pile as high as 18 inches in New York. But...
A pressing engagement
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amIt was a nice night for a "white" wedding -- or an engagement, at least. Paul Schwartz's plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Jaclyn Quinn, last night during a...
Grumble in The Bronx
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThe lone dissenter in the City Council's vote to kill the Kingsbridge Armory mall says the city's poorest borough, The Bronx, is getting burned again. "We shouldn't cut down the...
Cops eye murder gun
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amCops found an apparently bloody gun just steps from where an ex-con killed three members of an Upper West Side family. The .380 caliber Beretta was found wedged between two...
Dems declare win on health bill
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- After weeks of bitter fighting and backdoor deals, Senate Democrats announced yesterday that they'd finally secured enough votes to pass a sweeping, $871 billion overhaul of the health-care...
Inside peek at the King's wildest days
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amElvis Presley wasn't always the King. In fact, he was a total misfit who hadn't yet grown into his looks, wore strange, out-of-style clothes and was harassed by jocks in...
Mike seeks a smarter charter
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg is planning to convene a Charter Revision Commission in the coming year, sources told The Post, making good on earlier campaign promises. Bloomberg is expected to announce his...
Trump, Icahn trade barbs in Atlantic City casino fight
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amMost Atlantic City smackdowns involve professional wrestlers, not billionaires with legal papers, but a steel-cage match is shaping up between Carl Icahn and Donald Trump over the bankrupt Trump Entertainment...
Bryant Pk. rink pulls a fast one
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThis will leave skaters cold -- the Bryant Park ice rink, which boasts it is the city's only free skating venue, now sells "VIP fast passes" for $19, allowing skaters...
Options to keep your home yours
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amSometimes the best de fense is a good offense. At least when it comes to holding on to your home when it looks like you won't be able to keep...
Don't give Harley too much credit
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amYou have to feel for the executives over at Harley-Davidson. In the fall of 2008, shares of the motorcycle maker plunged from about $40 to under $12 in less than...
Dreading our future
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amI am a baby boomer, which is to say my life has coincided with turbulent and awesome times. From the Cold War to Vietnam, from Watergate to Monicagate, through the...
MSG sues scribe over $$ leak
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amMadison Square Garden is suing a New York sportswriter because he wrote a story containing confidential finance figures. Tennis and hockey writer Dan Kaplan cited anonymous sources in a Nov....
Banks need to lend now!
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amWith financial regulatory reform looming on Capitol Hill, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is calling Wall Street firms and big banks like Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America on the...
Health-care harbinger
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amTemporary chaos in the city’s housing-assistance system is a cautionary reminder for believers in ObamaCare: As the federal government giveth, so too can it taketh away. Late last week, following...
A test for Tisch
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amBoard of Regents Chairman Merryl Tisch is spot-on in pushing to double the number of charter schools in New York state. It could mean a big chunk of federal cash...
Sayonara, Godzilla!
December 20, 2009 | 5:00am* All Yankees fans should thank Hideki Matsui for the decency and class he bestowed on the organization these past seven years. He is a credit to any team for...
Ross, Webster could play vs. Redskins
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThe Giants listed Aaron Ross as questionable for tomorrow night's game at Washington, and fellow corner Corey Webster as doubtful, but that could change. Ross, who has been battling a...
The Post Line
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amNFL Today Favorite Opening Current (O/U) Underdog JETS 4½ 4½ (36) Falcons STEELERS 1 2 (40½) Packers TITANS 4 5 (42) Dolphins Patriots 7 7 (40½) BILLS Cardinals 10½ 14...
Last-period heroics lock up Rangers win in Philadelphia
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA -- Henrik Lundqvist faced a flurry of shots in the third period, and stopped every one. When it was over, Lundqvist had made 16 of his 36 saves in...
Passing game a Giant strength
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amIt started with Eli Manning realizing he needed to rally the youngsters around him and continued with the rookies and first-year Giants starters refusing to buy into the doubters encircling...
Antler ban is reversed by airline
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThe voices of sports men were heard by United Airlines as the company made the decision to change a new policy that would have banned antlers on its flights. Hunters...
Cowboys upset of Saints puts Giants' playoff hopes in peril
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS -- The Saints were supposed to be perfect. The Cowboys were supposed to be stumbling through December and falling out of the playoff race. But the Cowboys turned...
Guerin the man to lead U.S. Olympic team
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThe Greatest Generation of American hockey players has all but receded into memory and ceremony. The boys who banded together to win the 1996 World Cup championship and the 2002...
Dolphins not ready to give up
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amSUNDAY Dolphins (+3) over TITANS: Cat's not wild about 40-degree forecast, but Dolphins are supremely focused under coach Tony Sparano, and catch Jeff Fisher and (presumably) Vince Young outside preferred...
Falcons will keep it close vs. Jets
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amTODAY Falcons (+6) over JETS: Know who the better team is, but physical questions (will Michael Turner make it back for Falcons? How rusty -- and chilly -- will Mark...
Devils rally past Thrashers after Brodeur gets yanked
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amATLANTA -- Martin Brodeur got pulled, then the Devils pulled out the win. Brodeur was yanked after he allowed three first-period goals, but the Devils rallied for three second-period goals...
Islanders, Biron buried by Canadiens, 3-0
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amOn a snowy night on Long Island, the crowd left the Nassau Coliseum happy. Unfortunately for the Islanders, the vast majority of the announced 7,842 in attendance were Montreal fans,...
Nate Robinson's agent asks for trade citing D'Antoni 'vendetta'
December 20, 2009 | 5:00am"Nate-Gate" blew up last night when Nate Robinson's agent asked Donnie Walsh that he look to trade the Knicks 5-foot-7½ guard, saying he believes his client's banishment is because of...
Kobe's big third buries Nets' upset bid
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amReality took a short holiday last night with the NBA's worst beating the best. Here were the Nets -- that's right, the 2-25, I'd rather staple my tongue to an...
Cowboys deny Giants holiday gift
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThis was supposed to be the Perfect Storm at the perfect time for the Giants: Tony Romo and the Cowboys staggering into the Superdome awaiting their doomsday from the history-starved...
Rangers send Heikkinen, Sanguinetti back to minors
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThe 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 yesterday's 2-1 victory in...
Sports shorts
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amMLB: Lowell trade to Texas in limbo Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell will have surgery to repair a ligament in his right thumb after Christmas and his recovery is...
Bender could be signing of year
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amJonathan Bender admits Friday night was "a dream come true" -- his first game in four years the stuff of storybooks. But the 7-foot Bender, who changed the game the...
NFL Network sounds like informercial
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amIf your cable system doesn't carry the NFL Network, you're not so much missing out on football as you are on laughs -- the kind we laugh when people think...
Weird but true
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amThis is going to put a crimp in his love life. A Wisconsin guy who stole his foster parents' car and fled to Tennessee with his 16-year-old girlfriend was sentenced...
Rutgers rips Central Florida in St. Petersburg Bowl
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amWith versatile freshman Mohamed Sanu doing a little bit of everything, Rutgers extended its string of postseason success with a 45-24 rout of Central Florida last night in the St....
Duke destroys Gonzaga at Garden, 76-41
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amBefore you write off Gonzaga, before you say the Zags were exposed by No. 7 Duke yesterday, 76-41 at the Garden, before the NCAA Tournament selection rhetoric gets dialed up...
St. John's out to end Hofstra hex
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amEvery now and then, college basketball fans need to hear their coach stick his head out the window and scream, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take...
Texas scores 103 vs. North Carolina
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amARLINGTON, Texas -- Damion James led a four-man scoring frenzy that carried No. 2 Texas to a 103-90 victory over No. 10 North Carolina yesterday in the first basketball game...
Temple ends Seton Hall's undefeated start, 71-65
December 20, 2009 | 5:00amWith a chance to earn the respect it so desperately craves, Seton Hall instead showed it doesn't yet deserve it. The Pirates suffered their first loss of the season, falling...
Pup's fit fur royalty
December 20, 2009 | 4:58amEmily Blunt isn’t the only one in “The Young Victoria” who steals almost every scene she’s in. That honor is shared by a 7½-month-old pup named Tori, who plays Victoria’s...
Meet market: music man sks band mate to play with
December 20, 2009 | 4:52amJohn, a 26-year-old music and events manager, knows how to strum a guitar. But he’s looking for a lady who’ll pull his heartstrings. Danica, 27editor-in-chief of a teen entertainment magazine...
Report: Mayweather-Pacquiao Set For Vegas
December 20, 2009 | 4:33amThe Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press is reporting the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight will be held March 13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. A source close to the negotiations told...
The Kings of Queens
December 20, 2009 | 4:29amCorey Edwards wasn’t having the best start to his junior season. A badly bruised left knee kept him on the bench for Christ the King’s opener Friday night and on...
5 top worst ways to flirt during a holiday party
December 20, 2009 | 4:29amAccording to randy revelers at an office holiday party in Midtown “Put Mistletoe on your belt buckle and motion for the break room.” — Jim “Say, ‘This office is already...
This week's couple: sealing the deal
December 20, 2009 | 4:27amLacy and William are pros at mixing business with pleasure. When the pair met at new West Village bistro Bar Henry, they chatted about their respective jobs and social lives....
Ask Ashley: Man is married? move on!
December 20, 2009 | 4:19amI fell in love with a guy who was engaged. He got married over the summer, but still tells me he loves me all the time. What are the chances...
Agenda: The golden age
December 20, 2009 | 4:13am1. Nancy Meyers proves making films for older women isn’t ‘Complicated’ Is Nancy Meyers the Stephenie Meyer of the postmenopausal set? Consider the similarities: Both the “Something’s Gotta Give” director/screenwriter...
The guy behind 'Gossip Girl'
December 20, 2009 | 4:04am‘Clothes make the man,” said Mark Twain. “Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Oh if the literary genius could see Blair and Serena now, climbing their way...
Tipsy treats
December 20, 2009 | 3:55amBourbon Praline Profiterole With Buttermilk Ice Cream Bar Americain, 152 W. 52nd St., near Seventh Avenue; 212-265-9700 This Midtown American-style brasserie boasts an extensive bourbon list mostly due to the...
Lakers blow away Nets 103-84
December 20, 2009 | 3:49amEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Kobe Bryant had 29 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 103-84 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Saturday night...
What up, Holmes?
December 20, 2009 | 3:30amHere’s a mystery worthy of the world’s greatest detective: how decades of filmmakers took an iconic adventurer rooted in the Victorian pulp era and turned him into a stuffy dullard....
'Maneater' moment
December 20, 2009 | 3:21amIf your memories of Hall & Oates come from lip-synced ’80s videos in which the pair dressed in funkified blazers and fedoras and Daryl Hall’s cowlick waged war against John...
The three Heathketeers
December 20, 2009 | 3:14am‘Be careful what you write.” This is the lesson Terry Gilliam has drawn from “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” better known as The Movie Heath Ledger Was Halfway Done Making...
My New York: Santa Claus
December 20, 2009 | 2:59amWhile he’s making his list and checking it twice, Santa ought to have his lawyer look into residuals — the money he could make from endless showings of “Miracle on...
Knicks' Nate Robinson wants a trade
December 20, 2009 | 1:59amAaron Goodwin, agent for Nate Robinson, told The Post today he is asking Donnie Walsh for his client to be traded in wake of his eight straight DNPs. The final...
Winter weather socking NYC
December 20, 2009 | 1:32amNew York City and its suburbs are preparing to get walloped by the snowstorm that has crippled travel and caused power outages across the East Coast. Stores closed early and...
Bitten by bedbugs, man drops pants and is arrested
December 20, 2009 | 12:33amWEST NEW YORK, N.J. — Trying to prove he was injured by bedbugs has landed a northern New Jersey man in legal hot water. West New York police say 60-year-old...
Too cold for topless, but bike lane protest rides on
December 20, 2009 | 12:17amBicyclists who planned to go topless to protest the removal of a Brooklyn bike lane have switched gears. Some pinned plastic breasts over their jackets as they rolled into a...