February 21, 2010
Obama to push own health care bill
WASHINGTON — The White House readied its last-ditch effort to salvage health care legislation today while the Senate's Republican leader warned Democrats against the go-it-alone approach. The White House was...
Lindsey gets some laughs on Woods
Fresh off her Olympic skiing gold medal win, Lindsey Vonn is cracking jokes about Tiger Woods' sleazy personal life and robotic public apology just like everyone else. Vonn cracked in...
Basketball leads Southerland to the track at Cardozo
Sabrina Southerland stood in Forest Park for her first Cardozo cross country practice and couldn’t help but think: What am I doing here? “It was different, because we were in...
Oscar Watch: 'Hurt Locker,' Mulligan, Firth take top BAFTA honors
Hometown favorites Carey Mulligan ("An Education'') and Colin Firth ("A Single Man'') won the top acting honors today at the British Academy Awards, where the best picture and directing awards...
Bode wins super-combined for first gold medal
WHISTLER, British Columbia -- Bode Miller finally won his elusive gold medal, using a blistering slalom run Sunday to complete one of the most unlikely Olympic comebacks ever. Four years...
Yankees' Vazquez moves up mound session
The original schedule called for Javier Vazquez’ initial bullpen session to be Wednesday. But Vazquez asked pitching coach Dave Eiland if he could move it up and work today which...
Pittsburgh knocks off No. 3 Villanova, 70-65
PITTSBURGH -- Ashton Gibbs scored 21 points and No. 19 Pittsburgh upset No. 3 Villanova 70-65 on Sunday. Gilbert Brown added 16 points, including a thunderous dunk off a baseline...
Yankees wish Damon luck with Tigers
TAMPA — In December there was enough common ground between the Yankees and Johnny Damon to get a deal done.They needed him to play left field or DH and he...
CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens Diocesan first round preview
CHSAA boys basketball beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down the Brooklyn/Queens Diocesan first-round games being played at St. Francis Prep Monday. Here’s the schedule: 6 p.m. -- No. 3 Holy...
Moss thinks this will be his last year with Patriots
Randy Moss told the Boston Globe that he expects this to be his final year with the Patriots."I don't think they are going to extend my contract here," said Moss,...
After blaming them for 2009 struggles, Putz defends Mets medical staff
Finally someone has come to the defense of the Mets doctors and it’s probably the last person you would expect. A month after blasting the Mets medical staff for mistreating...
Girls basketball roundup: Guerriero, Tatum lead Molloy past JFK
The recent lineup shuffle has continued to reap benefits for Archbishop Molloy. Mount St. Mary’s-bound guard Kelly Guerriero came off the bench to score 14 points, including four 3-pointers, to...
Madeira floods kill dozens
FUNCHAL, Madeira Islands — Rescue workers dug through heaps of mud, boulders and debris today in Madeira, searching for victims buried by flash floods and mudslides that already killed at...
Apartments falling apart along with economy
There was no heat or hot water, so for weeks Mary Fountain would fill a bowl and put it in the microwave, then strip off her extra layers to sponge...
Three Fla. teens crushed by train as pal watches
MELBOURNE, Fla. — Three teenage girls were joking around and taking pictures on a narrow bridge when they were hit by a train, killing them as a friend watched helplessly,...
'Determined resistance' as Marines go after Taliban
MARJAH, Afghanistan — Outnumbered and outgunned, Taliban fighters are mounting a tougher fight than expected in Marjah, Afghan officials said today, as U.S.-led forces converged on a pocket of militants...
New Israeli drone can reach Iran
TEL NOF AIR FORCE BASE, Israel — Israel's air force today introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and fly...
Box Office: Hefty 'Shutter Island' bow sets records for Marty, Leo
"Shutter Island'' was far ahead of the competition with a whopping estimated $40.2 million over the weekend, making the nuthouse melodrama the best opening weekend ever for both Martin Scorsese...
Torre commits to another season with Dodgers
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre said Saturday he has committed himself to a fourth year with the team, ending speculation about whether or not he will...
Gov. Paterson set to meet up with Obama in D.C.
Gov. David Paterson is heading to Washington D.C. later today for a potentially awkward encounter - a dinner at the White House with President Obama and other governors. The timing...
Lovin' kitty's kisses
Neither Mei Mei nor Cannoli sleeps with me all night, but they both manage to wake me up at least once for kisses and cuddles. I love how at some...
Roger Federer forced to withdraw from Dubai championships because of lung infection
LONDON - Roger Federer has been forced to withdraw from the Dubai championships starting on Monday because of a lung infection, the ATP said on their website (www.atpworldtour.com) on Sunday....
NYC transit ridership dips; total still second-highest since 1969
Ridership on the city’s subways, buses and paratransit system declined in 2009, the first drop since 2003. But the total was still the second-highest since 1969. New York City Transit...
Taxi commission announces start of 'group rides'
Let the fare sharing begin. On Friday, taxis will begin rolling out "group ride" rates, where passengers can share a cab with a stranger for steep discounts. Like a bus...
Checking in with Islanders and Rangers in Vancouver
The Post’s Dan Martin tracks yesterday’s best Olympic performances by Rangers, Devils and Islanders: MARIAN GABORIK, Slovakia Gaborik didn’t have to do much as Slovakia rolled over Latvia 6-0. The...
Today in Vancouver
Don’t-miss event In the last game of the round-robin preliminaries, the U.S. men’s hockey team can take a big step toward proving it’s a bona fide gold medal contender when...
Mets sign Barajas
PORT ST. LUCIE — The Mets seemingly ended the debate on who will be their starting catcher by yesterday signing Rod Barajas to a one-year contract, according to an industry...
After HRs fall off, Mets' Wright adds muscle
PORT ST. LUCIE — When your home run production drops from 33 to 10, you’ve got to change something. David Wright has done just that. Look closely at Wright and...
Fordham Prep flourishing in CHSAA 'A' postseason
Fordham Prep had twice as many losses as wins in a regular season Peter Carlino called “pretty good.” And the junior forward did so with a straight face. Carlino didn’t...
Hardball’s top 10 to watch this preseason
TAMPA — Spring training is about people, not results. The results, after all, are hostage to how exhibitions are played. Starters play pieces of games at a pace that honors...
The Rumble
Johan’s home show Santana takes SNY to Venezuela SNY will premiere a new series March 4 called “Going Home” featuring Mets ace Johan Santana (right) traveling back to his native...
Expert Loughery figures Nets will avoid infamy
The game, like the season, already was beyond salvation. The Lakers, with Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain among their 60-victory cast, were running roughshod over the Sixers, who were enduring...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Willis Reed
The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the captain of the 1969-70 champions, who will be honored tomorrow on Knicks Legends Night at the Garden. Q: The walk through the Garden...
Farrell is going forth after strong third vs. Nazareth
Perhaps it was postseason jitters or the unfamiliarity of the court at Bishop Ford, but the Monsignor Farrell basketball team was out of sorts even before the opening tip of...
Letterman best of a 'sorry' lot
VANCOUVER — Once you spend enough time around the Olympics, you find yourself wanting to rank everything in terms of gold, silver and bronze. Sit-coms? For me, “Modern Family” is...
American coach: Clash with Canadians will be ‘incredible’
VANCOUVER — This is not a must win, OK? Nobody is going to be eliminated from the Olympic ice hockey competition today, no matter what the result of tonight’s U.S.-Canada...
Vonn settles for third after playing it safe at end of run
WHISTLER, British Columbia — For the first time in these Olympics, Lindsey Vonn relaxed on a ski slope yesterday and it cost her a gold medal. Vonn settled for bronze...
Quick start lifts Regis over Scanlan in 'A' playoffs
Jamie Stark isn’t sure why it’s happened, but Regis has made a disturbing trend out of starting slow and digging itself a large deficit before kicking into gear. The Raiders...
NYC's secret steak
1) The Egg at Le Bernardin 155 W. 51st St.; 212-554-1515Foodies and regulars know about this famous French restaurant’s secret eel dish, but many are unaware of The Egg. Such...
Sea sails past Spellman into 'A' second round
For much of the season, the St. Joseph by the Sea basketball team plays in a bubble, rarely traversing over the Verrazano Bridge. While the folks on Staten Island have...
Meet market: Comic queen hopes to land superhero
Karla, a 34-year-old director at an industrial design firm, is a comic book buff. The only thing this Wonder Woman needs is a night on the town in Gotham. John...
Spot in the light
For hard-core devotees of “American Idol,” there are plenty of opportunities for Spot to command the spotlight — and that’s precisely where many New Yorkers feel their best friends deserve...
This week's couple: Jean therapy
When Grace and Ted met up at The Half King in Chelsea, they felt like they were looking in the mirror. Both showed up in head-to-toe denim. Besides their sense...
Ask Ashley: It ain’t all about looks
When I'm out in a social setting or even online dating, I tend to attract women I’m not attracted to. I’m a decent looking guy and I have a good...
Muslim women
Regarding Sara Stewart’s heart-wrenching column, “10 Years Old . . . and Divorced,” (PostScript, Feb. 14) let’s see who can put the blame on either former President George W. Bush...
Advisor No. 9
You just have to love disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer advising David Paterson on how to get out of the huge hole he is in politically (“Paterson Proud of Sessions...
'Wives' tale
You don’t have to be a woman to be a prison wife. Take Capt. Tim McDonald, a retired Northwest Airlines pilot and amateur handwriting analyst. He met and married Teresa...
Reel good
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Monday, 6 p.m., TCM Gloria Swanson was more than ready for her “close-up,” but was robbed of an Oscar for her iconic performance as Norma Desmond, an...
Death of a soldier
I’m sure Ann Marlowe’s column about the sacrifice of Capt. Dan Whitten’s life in Afghanistan was her honest opinion, and for that I compliment her (“A Solider’s Story,” PostScript, Feb....
Olympics tarnishes Williams
What’s worse for a big-time network newsman: Being stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time by accident or being stuck in such a place on orders from your...
Mama warms up to ‘Cold Case’
Thanks to the Winter Olympics, the February sweeps season has is more muted this year, but maybe that’s because NBC is usually the network injecting all its shows with steroids...
'Love' for Chloë
Chloë Sevigny is one of the few celebrities to be branded an “It” girl by the fashionista media, and not have that distinction be just the first step in a...
Flock them
Rat-hater Arthur Schwartz should attack the garbage piled up curbside and in uncovered bins alongside apartment buildings which do attract and feed rats, not the bird-feeders (“Dove Vs. Hawk in...
Don't miss
Glass half-full Sarah (Rachel Griffiths) rediscovers the love of her life, as Luc (Gilles Marini) re-enters the picture. But that’s not all. With her husband’s political career on hiatus, Kitty...
Gay ‘Family’ man
You wouldn’t know it to look at him — he’s such a great teddy bear of a man — but Eric Stonestreet killed three people last year. Happily, they were...
It's all relative
For years now, critics — and especially viewers — have been searching for that sitcom that would make people laugh, not just sneer, again. This fall, ABC delivered it with...
Anti-cop idiocy
If Gotham’s anti-cop busybodies are looking to undermine the foundation of the city’s safe-streets revolution, they’re going to have to work just a little harder. A pair of academics recently...
My New York: Murray Hill
Entertainer, host, comedian and all-around bon vivant Murray Hill has graced the New York nightlife scene for almost 15 years now, beginning his act at downtown clubs like the now-defunct...
Sean Bell: case closed
Meanwhile, a clear and unambiguous statement last week closed the book on the November 2006 Sean Bell shooting. In announcing that there will be no federal civil-rights prosecution of Officers...
The new pigeon wars
Rats with wings, or majestic streetwise bird? It’s a debate that’s raged almost as long as New York City has been called that. And this week, the war between the...
Why I'm challenging Charlie Rangel
For the past 22 years, I have dedicated my life to serving my community as a New York City pastor and spiritual leader. I have counseled the suffering, married couples,...
Mortal combat
Did you hear that this was the week — according to the Financial Times and the UK Independent, at least — that scientists solved the riddle of aging? No? Don’t...
GOP and Dems faceoff
A new study gives new meaning to being blue — or red — in the face. People can pretty accurately discern whether someone is a Democrat or Republican just by...
Republicans: Skip the summit!
What do Republicans stand to gain from participating in President Obama’s health care summit, the televised bipartisanship photo-op scheduled for Thursday? Nothing. Given the long, steep nosedive President Obama’s health...
Iran’s deadly ambitions
For almost 20 years, the United Nations nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did its best not to notice the slow but steady building of a military nuclear...
Silent Bob strikes back
Would-be bombers can breeze right through, but fat people better watch their backs. Eight days ago, writer-director Kevin Smith was booted off a Southwest Airlines flight because the crew deemed...
The autobiography of an execution
“The Autobiography of an Execution” is a “memoir” by a Houston death-row lawyer, David Dow, whose mission it is to disgust us with what he knows about capital punishment in...
Cash, delivered
By 2003, Johnny Cash had already suffered a lifetime of pain and loss. As a boy, he’d witnessed the suffering of his brother Jack after a gruesome table-saw accident, and...
Required reading
The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm (Other Press) Consider yourself warned: This has nothing to do with those popular American Girl dolls. It’s a murder mystery that opens in Coney...
Not without hope
“I could not have my mother come to my funeral. A year later, that is the best explanation I can give.” So begins Nick Schuyler’s harrowing tale of how he...
Hot Stuff
When “Saturday Night Fever” — set around a real-life Bay Ridge discothèque — premiered in December 1977, the movie grossed $200 million and sparked the nationwide disco craze. The soundtrack...
In my library: Mary Karr
“I was a nerd in a complicated family, and poetry saved my life,” says Mary Karr. Those who’ve read her harrowing memoirs may think she’s being awfully generous about the...
Dame Edna’s duet
When Dame Edna Everage comes to Broadway, nobody is safe — especially not her co-star, even when that co-star is cabaret icon Michael Feinstein, serving humbly as her accompanist. The...
Meet New York’s most deluded fans
How low can they go? The hapless New Jersey Nets are on track to break the all-time record for fewest wins in a season, set by the legendarily horrific 1972-73...
Grand ship of jewels
1) Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant did it. So did Fred Astaire, Ernest Hemingway and a couple of Kennedys. They all sailed on the SS Normandie, the grand dame of...
Neverson's offensive outburst leads Boys & Girls past Kennedy
Jeffland Neverson is often asked to do the dirty work for Boys & Girls. The versatile 6-foot-5 forward guards the opposition’s best perimeter player and bangs down low in the...
In the pink
IT'S always nice to discover a talented up- and-comer such as Talia Vana, star of the sensual low-budget feature "Girls' Night Out." Vana, who has a Christina Ricci thing going...
Bridge
A STORM had moved through our city, and lightning had hit Unlucky Louie's house, frying everything from his toaster to his garage-door opener. "I tried to boot up my computer,"...
Kids a growin' biz
If you're looking for a mini- industry that is thriving in this economy, check out children's chess. The Greater New York Scholastic Championships drew more than 900 kids, from kindergarten...
David's full glass of whine
Pity poor Gov. Paterson. Everybody is picking on him. Nobody understands how he's fighting the spe cial interests. How he alone is standing up for all that's good and right...
Peter Braunstein and racist attacker 'Fat Nick' Minucci best buds in jail
DANNEMORA, NY -- They are totally BFFs. In a behind-bars bromance, two notorious New York City criminals -- woman-hating "fire fiend" Peter Braunstein and racist baseball-bat attacker Nicholas "Fat Nick"...
Goldman's rehab
Lloyd Blankfein is starting to worry about his legacy. The 55-year-old chief executive of Goldman Sachs -- three-plus years into his tenure -- recently turned to a Texas corporate p.r....
Fellow sex addict: Woods is sincere
Until Tiger Woods' press conference Friday, I wasn't sure what his motivation was for seeking inpatient treatment for sex addiction. Did he really believe he was an addict, or was...
3 homicides in five hours
Three homicides in a five-hour span got the weekend off to a bloody start. Ahmed Hoyt, 31, of Queens, was shot in the head during a dispute in Crown Heights,...
Carry bats, not 'gats,' MLB warns
TAMPA -- Memo to all Major League Baseball players: Leave your guns at home. A new policy from Commissioner Bud Selig's office bars anyone in MLB from bringing firearms and...
Elin is carrying on
Tiger who? While Tiger Woods is headed back to sex rehab, his smoking-hot wife, Elin Nordegren, got on with her life yesterday, hitting a Florida mall for lunch with pals....
Hard-nosed prez aide Haig dies
WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, a four-star general who served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own, died yesterday of...
Hurler signs late
Bar mitzvah boy Mark Roth was thrilled to get responses to his mailed autograph requests from his favorite ballplayers. He just didn't think he'd have to wait until he was...
Paterson aide scrambles to explain football trip with bizman
Gov. Paterson's top personal aide, David Johnson, took in a Giant-Cowboy game during a two-day sojourn to Dallas in September -- the junket courtesy of a wealthy New York City...
Obama calls for healthy debate
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said yesterday that the health-care meeting he's holding this week with Democratic and Republican lawmakers will test their ability to solve not just this problem but...
Preppies vs. golden girls
Get out of the way, grandma. An Upper East Side all-girls prep school is accusing two elderly women in rent-controlled apartments of stalling its plan to expand to the building...
Marjah Marines move in on thugs
MARJAH, Afghanistan -- US Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields near Marjah yesterday under withering gunfire from Taliban terrorists shooting from mud-brick homes and compounds where families huddled...
Slain doc's hubby sues
A cleaver-wielding schizophrenic who hacked a beloved Upper East Side psychologist to death in her office two years ago should never have gotten into the building, her husband said. The...
Bakery bailing on Plaza over mall 'bait-&-switch'
Eloise will have to go hungry. In a move that could be seen as the biggest black eye yet for the struggling Plaza hotel, its leading retail tenant is bolting...
HS students stranded at sea
RIO DE JANEIRO -- A ship loaded with international high-school students capsized off the coast of Brazil, forcing the captain and four dozen passengers to ride out heavy seas for...
Paterson announces he's running for governor amidst pathetic turnout
What if David Paterson ran for governor and nobody noticed? Saddled with an anemic campaign bank account and nose-diving popularity, Paterson declared himself the man to beat at a campaign...
Buffett, Gates love garbage
What is up with the newfound love affair between Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and trash -- and I mean all sorts of trash like solid waste, recyclables, waste dumps, paper...
2 men claim GOP crown in Queens
Who's the Republican king of Queens? Longtime GOP county Chairman Philip Ragusa and his perpetual challenger, Bart Haggerty, both claim the office. Haggerty, who worked on Mayor Bloomberg's re-election campaign...
Paul is GOP's straw man
WASHINGTON -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul won the most support for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in an unofficial straw poll of conservative activists attending the annual CPAC conference. A...
Jay-Z stake in Aqueduct slots deal draws scrutiny
Gov. Paterson has 99 problems -- and Jay-Z might be one of them. The governor's friendship with the hip-hop impresario is raising questions because of the latter's involvement with AEG,...
Heavy lifting in FDNY's Bx. rescue
Firefighters pulled an obese, unconscious young woman to safety from an early-morning blaze in The Bronx yesterday and revived her with CPR. The two-alarm fire broke out in a third-floor...
20 unemployed vie for every one NYC position
No recovery here. While economists say the Great Recession has ended and numbers out of Washington say the economy is growing at a robust pace, the local jobs picture remains...
Hit crew's cloak and dagger in Dubai
It was a hit scripted with Hollywood precision -- with a villain straight out of central casting. Shadowy Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was a young militant with ties to the...
New credit card rules set to bow
New federal protections for America's 165 million credit-card holders kick in tomorrow. But never fear, bankers are already hard at work to recapture the estimated $7 billion to $10 billion...
Wal-Mart's economy is everybody's economy
Mark Twain's famous quote, "Lies, damned lies and statistics" can also reflects the view of many Americans these days. They're not just fed up with Washington, but increasingly skeptical of...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan * A woman was found dead last night on the Lower East Side. The body of the woman, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was discovered at around...
My life as Midtown dominatrix
Melissa Febos teetered in borrowed 7-inch stilettos, towering over the body of a naked middle-aged man. She adjusted her garter, rearranged her Bettie Page-esque black bob, licked her cherry-red 99-cent...
Horrific Bx. blaze injures 2
A fast-moving fire in a Bronx housing project left a man fighting for his life last night and a woman with broken legs after she fell from a fifth-floor window...
Decade's biggest hits highlight music's misses
The music industry ended the last decade in much different shape than when it started -- as overall album sales continued to slide, finishing 2009 down 8.5 percent, to a...
Transit court full of excuses
If Dante were a straphanger, he would have devoted a circle of hell to transit court in his "Divine Comedy." Inside the third floor of an unassuming MTA building in...
Four-star financial fix for celeb chef David Bouley
He used to be the toast of the town, but now celebrity chef David Bouley's once glittering culinary empire is awash in debt. The famed restaurateur is facing foreclosure on...
Joy of six (figures)
They get an "A" in reading, writing -- and retirement. There are 738 educators collecting city pensions more than $100,000 -- and three make more than $200,000, records show. The...
Olympian's dark off-ice anguish
Olympic hockey star Bobby Ryan is a nice Jersey boy with a dark past. He grew up on the lam with a fugitive father who fled the family home in...
Keep an eagle eye on your plastic
Dear John: Last week I sent AT&T Universal Card a check for $5,750 to pay off the balance of a cash advance. I sent the check to the "Exception Processing...
Prison stats undercut jailhouse slashings: probe
A performance-measure ment system that was set up by Bernard Kerik when he was at the city Correction Department in 1995 and is still in use today doesn't provide the...
Ailing Serena out of MSG showdown
The Garden's March women's tennis extravaganza in eight days underwent a crippling blow when Serena Williams pulled out yesterday, claiming she has an undisclosed leg injury from her Australian Open...
Hip surgery derails Delgado for four months
TAMPA -- Free agent Carlos Delgado had hip surgery on Wednesday and will miss at least four months, his agent, David Sloane, told The Post. Delgado, 37, had been working...
Talking Tiger
* Here is my take on the Tiger Woods situation. Being unfaithful to ones spouse is not uncommon. In the celebrity world, it's a way of life. So why is...
Sabathia gives Yanks wins, grins
TAMPA -- CC Sabathia aimed a fastball as if trying to throw it to the outside corner against a righty hitter and it whipped fully across the plate, forcing Jorge...
McGrady's arrival steals show at Garden
The Knicks took a number almost two years ago and, for all anyone knows, they might as well be waiting for Godot, not LeBron. So with 29 games remaining and...
Fred Wilpon: Mets set for big year
PORT ST. LUCIE -- For someone who described the last few months as "torture," Fred Wilpon yesterday had a disposition as sunny as the sky. After watching Johan Santana, Oliver...
Nets' Yi vows struggles will stop
It could be the shoulder, injured nine games ago on a reach-in against Detroit. It might be the aching back, which flared after he was banged around rebounding four games...
New watchdog for Humane Society
Animal rights has be come a key phrase for raising money, and some groups such as the Humane Society of the United States raise tons of it saying they save...
Posada to catch Burnett in spring training
TAMPA -- Yankees manager Joe Girardi isn't assigning neophyte catcher Francisco Cervelli to be A.J. Burnett's personal catcher this year. In the second half of last season, Jose Molina caught...
Yankees' boss feels good; Hal mum on lame-duck contracts
TAMPA -- George Steinbrenner didn't have a lot to say upon entering George M. Steinbrenner Field yesterday to watch his grandson Robert Molloy play first base for Tampa Prep against...
Damon gets deal in Detroit
TAMPA -- According to a source close to the situation former Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon has agreed to a one-year deal with Detroit. The deal, believed to be in the...
Neverson emerges for Boys & Girls
Jeffland Neverson is often asked to do the dirty work for Boys & Girls. The versatile 6-foot-5 forward guards the opposition's best perimeter player and bangs down low in the...
Posada compares CC to ex-Yankee David Wells
TAMPA -- God must dig large lefties. After catching CC Sabathia in a George M. Steinbrenner Field bullpen yesterday, Jorge Posada marveled at Sabathia's left arm."He could pitch for 50...
Knicks' Walsh: Cap room helps David Lee
The Knicks' extra cap room and new options, team president Donnie Walsh said, give them better odds of keeping free agent David Lee -- a point that is debatable. "It's...
Durant on T-Mac: 'He's back'
Kevin Durant thought Tracy McGrady resembled the player he was pre-surgery and pre-Knicks. "They gave him the ball," Durant said, "and he looked like the old Tracy McGrady to me."...
Caddie: I'll shield Tiger from taunts
Tiger Woods' Australian caddie, Steve Williams, said he won't tolerate any heckling of his star player whenever the world's No. 1 golfer returns to competition. "When I go back to...
Sports shorts
MLB: Torre commits to manage in 2011 Dodgers manager Joe Torre committed himself to a fourth year with the team, ending speculation about whether or not he will return in...
'Apolo 7' continues flight on Phelps' stellar trajectory
VANCOUVER -- It was an exquisite slice of symmetry that the king of the Summer Olympics should slip into a front-row seat at Pacific Coliseum last night just as the...
Danica runs 31st in Calif.
Danica Patrick accomplished one of her goals by finishing the race. She is still a long way from the lead packs in NASCAR. Kyle Busch barely overtook Greg Biffle out...
Kim heavy favorite in women's figure skating
RICHMOND, British Columbia -- The Queen has arrived. Kim Yu-na practiced for the first time in Vancouver yesterday and the top-ranked women's figure skater played it cool. Known as "Queen...
Davis stuck with another silver in 1,500
RICHMOND, British Columbia -- As he crossed the finish line Shani Davis heard the "oohs and aahs" coming from the crowd in the Richmond Olympic Oval. Then the American speedskater...
American curlers are victorious
Both American curling teams are on winning streaks after rough starts. The women have won two straight matches after opening 0-3. Debbie McCormick's U.S. team beat Britain 6-5 in an...
McGrady's 26-point effort not enough in Knicks' OT defeat
Welcome to "The T-Mac Show" at the Garden. It was a thriller and one of the more memorable Garden nights of the last nine seasons. The first of McGrady's 29-game...
Kobe could fly 'free' without extension
Until Kobe Bryant officially signs a Lakers' extension -- in the works almost as long as the construction of the Second Avenue subway -- I'm guessing he'd be another rising...
Bettman lets the truth slip
Well here's one from Gary Bettman even more stunning than, a) 10 consecutive seconds of silence from Pierre McGuire, and, b) an observation from Mike Milbury about Alexander Ovechkin that...
Yankees are high on former puck star Milo
The road to the majors is never easy. Consider the path of Yankees minor league outfielder, Justin Milo, a two-sport star. After his freshman year at Cornell, Milo transferred to...
Emrick continues to shine at Olympics
One Olympic thing NBC gets completely right -- and then some -- every four years is assigning Mike "Doc" Emrick to call ice hockey. He remains remarkable, as good as...
Weird but true
City fathers in Tampa have put the brakes on the stripper-mobile. Officials didn't think public sensibilities could handle seeing the moving ad for the Déjà Vu gentlemen's club, in which...
Surging St. John's bury South Florida, 74-58
TAMPA -- D.J. Kennedy scored 12 of his 17 points in the second half and Anthony Mason Jr. scored the 1,000th point of his career, helping St. John's to a...
Gimpy Seton Hall no match for West Virginia
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Kevin Jones and Devin Ebanks scored 16 points apiece and No. 8 West Virginia overcame another late meltdown against Seton Hall to beat the banged-up Pirates 75-63...
No. 2 Kentucky nips Vanderbilt, 58-56
John Wall sank a pair of free throws with 20 seconds left and had a big blocked shot in the final seconds to send No. 2 Kentucky to a 58-56...
Foriest saves best for last as Wings holds off Xaverian
Billy Turnage walked off the Wadleigh HS court angry. Sure, his Wings Academy boys basketball team knocked off Xaverian, 59-49, winning for the 16th time in 17 tries. But the...
Rucker High School Invitational notebook: Cardozo overpowers Brown-less Transit Tech
Cardozo played like the top seed in the city playoffs Saturday afternoon. The Judges raced out to a 14-4 lead, were ahead 33-24 at halftime and never trailed in a...
Shani wins silver in 1,500-meter race
RICHMOND, British Columbia — Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick were supposed to have an American battle for gold. Mark Tuitert didn't go along with the plan. The Dutch skater pulled...
Baggs, Moore tough out win over Cardinal Spellman
The blood started dripping from Taylor Baggs’ nose as she stood in the paint. The Moore Catholic forward was stunned at her first-ever in-game bloody nose. She was inadvertently elbowed...
St. John's surprises South Florida
TAMPA, Fla. -- St. John's coach Norm Roberts decided a bit of shock treatment was necessary for his team when it gathered for practice the day after a disheartening nine-point...