April 11, 2010
Ageless DoSantos leads Pancyprian Freedoms in Open Cup qualifier
Nobody gets younger, but somehow it seems that Julio Cesar DoSantos doesn’t get older, especially on the soccer field. “Thirty-five is not easy,” DoSantos said. “But I train a lot....
5-year-old girl struck by stray bullet
The 5-year-old niece of a city cop playing on her Brooklyn street was shot in the leg during a wild gun battle — the latest victim of the city’s recent...
Student clings to life after 3-story fall from Brooklyn apartment
A York College student is clinging to life after plunging from the roof of his Bushwick apartment building while fleeing robbers, according to police. Harry Martinez, 20, had returned to...
Devils earn No. 2 seed, playoff date with Flyers
Now we find out which of these is the real Devils, the Atlantic Division champs with 103 points, or the team that went 16-16-6 in its final 38 of the...
Dillon Gee brilliant in season's first start
When I spoke to Dillon Gee yesterday at PNC Park in Moosic, Pa., he was excited about making his first start of the season, and his first appearance since being...
Elin flying solo
As Tiger Woods was finishing out the final round of the 2010 Masters Tournament, wife Elin Nordegren was boarding a plane -- solo.Leaving her two children at home, Nordegren flew...
Halladay goes distance in Phillies victory
HOUSTON -- Roy Halladay struck out eight in his first NL complete game, and the Philadelphia Phillies completed a sweep of the winless Houston Astros with a 2-1 victory Sunday....
Pedroia blasts Red Sox past Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Dustin Pedroia collected four hits, including a home run, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 8-6 on Sunday. Adrian Beltre had three...
Misch starts season strong; Santos disappointed to be in Triple-A
Last year, Pat Misch spent a large portion of the season with the Mets, pitching fairly effectively (3-4, 4.12 ERA, 1.37 WHIP in 59 innings) for the Amazins both as...
Rangers denied playoff bid with shootout loss to Flyers
PHILADELPHIA - The carriage on which they arrived turned into a pumpkin. Their glass skates became lead boots. It's not that the party is over for the CinderRangers, it's that...
Yankees still ones to beat after taking series from Rays
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Boston’s pitching is supposed to be superior. Tampa Bay was a sexy preseason pick to win the AL East. The Yankees? Yes, they are the defending...
Listen to JPA, Backe & Salou discuss RBNY's Saturday loss at Chivas
Listen to Red Bull coach Hans Backe, captain Juan Pablo Angel and newcomer Salou Ibrahim discuss New York's 2-0 loss at Chivas USA yesterday.
Israel PM warns of Iran threat on Holocaust Day
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused world governments on Sunday of failing to show sufficient concern about the threat posed by Iran as he marked the Jewish state's annual Holocaust...
Bonds says he's 'proud' of McGwire
SAN FRANCISCO -- Home run king Barry Bonds said he is "proud" of slugger Mark McGwire for returning to baseball as the St. Louis Cardinals' hitting coach and for admitting...
Report: Taylor won't decide on Jets until later in week
Jason Taylor’s agent told ESPN.com that his client is still a few days away from deciding whether or not he wants to sign with the Jets. "It's not even about...
Benches clear after K-Rod beams Nationals' Harris
The benches and bullpens cleared in the ninth when Mets reliever Francisco Rodriguez hit Willie Harris with a pitch. The two exchanged harsh words but no punches were thrown. "I...
Willingham's grand slam leads Nationals over Mets
The Mets season hadn’t gotten off to the start they had wanted, but with Johan Santana on the mound this afternoon against a pitcher they had released last year, they...
Nationals' Strasburg strikes out eight in minor-league debut
ALTOONA, Pa. -- Wherever Stephen Strasburg's formidable right arm eventually takes him, the record books will always show his first professional win came April 11, 2010, in his minor league...
1 dead after hit-and-run in Brooklyn
A motorist was burned beyond recognition early this morning after a crash with a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn, authorities said. The unidentified victim was driving a Ford Taurus eastbound on...
Red Bulls morning-after musings; Bouna's Blunder
The Red Bulls lost their shutout streak and unbeaten record, falling 2-0 Saturday at Chivas USA. New York keeper Bouna Coundoul gifted Chivas the pivotal score when he flubbed the...
City taking control of Governors Island
The city is wresting control of Governors Island from the state in order to move forward with redevelopment of the prime real estate. The deal, details of which will be...
Asbestos linked to punk mogul Malcolm McLaren's death: report
Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren may have been exposed to deadly asbestos-related cancer while smashing up his shop, the Independent on Sunday reported. It's believed the punk rock guru...
Gametracker: Yankees at Rays
A.J. Burnett and Jorge Posada will be battery mates for the second straight time this season. The Bombers will be looking for their second straight series win when they take...
Gametracker: Nationals at Mets
Johan Santana gave up a first-inning grand slam to Josh Willingham and the Mets have been unable to score against former teammate Livan Hernandez.
47-year-old Holyfield stops Botha in 8th
LAS VEGAS -- Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield is using George Foreman's comeback more than 15 years ago as inspiration. The 47-year-old Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KOs) knocked out 41-year-old Frans...
Mets place Green on DL
The Mets have placed right-handed reliever Sean Green on the disabled list and purchased the contract of left-hander Raul Valdes from Triple-A Buffalo.Green said Sunday that he has some tightness...
Aides who knew Bloomberg best leaving City Hall
For the first time since taking office eight years ago, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is governing without the people most responsible for shaping his national image. Trusted aides Kevin Sheekey and...
Mickelson wins Masters; Woods finishes tied for fourth
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Phil Mickelson won his third Masters title and fourth major crown in dramatic fashion on Sunday while Tiger Woods could only ponder his mistakes and wonder what...
The week's winners and losers
Winners STEVE JOBS Apple boss — armed with big gun iAd — heads into advertising market battlefield. NY YANKEES Named Forbes’ most valuable MLB franchise for the 13th-straight year with...
Yankees, Mets farm systems must develop pitching depth
In the last week, it became more important that Mike Pelfrey matures into a top-flight starter for the Mets, and Phil Hughes does the same for the Yankees. In the...
Potty-mouthed Tiger lurks behind leaders at Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. — For a guy who “sucks,” Tiger Woods isn’t doing too badly. While Phil Mickelson stole the Masters third-round spotlight yesterday with his dramatic back-nine charge, Woods was...
Finally, roars are for golf
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods is used to being the star, but as the 74th Masters enters its final round today at Augusta National, he’s merely part of the ensemble....
Mets' planned comeback foiled by Nationals
Jose Reyes started to look like the Reyes of old in the ninth. And when Rod Barajas sent a screamer to left field, it seemed that the Mets shortstop was...
Clutch hits elude Mets
When Washington’s Willie Harris went horizontal for a game-ending diving catch, he robbed Rod Barajas of a game-winning hit with a highlight-reel play that highlighted the Mets’ clutch-hitting woes. They...
Reyes' spark needs time to catch fire
Jose Reyes woke up yesterday at 6:30 a.m. and looked at his watch in 15-minute intervals until he and his tamed thyroid arrived at Citi Field by 8:30. As fidgety...
NYC's own superheroes
With great costumes comes great responsibility. “Kick-Ass,” an action movie opening this week, spins a tale of average Joes becoming masked crime fighters, but New York has been home to...
Serby’s Sunday Q&A with ... Brad Stevens
The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the 33-year-old coach of the NCAA runner-up Butler Bulldogs: Q: Have you watched a replay of your championship game? A: Yes. At 3 a.m....
The Rumble: Ojeda provides Amazin’ analysis for SNY
Ace SNY Mets analyst Bob Ojeda (right) said he believes David Wright will overpower Citi Field and return to being a 25-plus home run slugger this season. “I think they’ve...
In My Library: Laura Lippman
Maybe it’s no mystery why James M. Cain and many other newspapermen (and -women) wind up writing novels about murder. “I always say it’s because reporters sit around fantasizing about...
Dead End Gene Pool
What does the last of the money look like? For the Vanderbilts, descendents of 19th-century railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, it was drink, tranquilizers and bad manners, padded bathrooms and pornography....
Required Reading
Mint ConditionHow Baseball Cards Became an American Obsessionby Dave Jamieson (Atlantic Monthly) If you’re one of those guys whose mother tossed out your old baseball card collection after you moved...
Pension profanity
At age 55, Neil Coplan’s sitting pretty. After 20 years with the New York Fire Department, he’s just been awarded a $95,000-a-year lifetime disability pension — amounting to three-fourths of...
Crime and theater
Did last week’s violent, gang-fueled “wilding” through Times Square deliver a needed wake-up call for rookie Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr.? Well, he certainly wants New Yorkers to think so....
Wages of IDA
* Unions, nonprofits and the business community agree: Albany needs to get Industrial Development Agencies (IDA) back up and running (“This Bill Seeds $2.5B in Deals,” April 7). With a...
Shock tactics
Kudos for Jack Spencer’s sober analysis of Albany’s broadside against Westchester’s Indian Point Energy Center (“A Sneak Attack on Your Electric Bill,” PostOpinion, April 7). In addition to steep rate...
Gatto’s safe
No one at the Department of Education was threatened or harassed by Atlantic Express owner Domenic Gatto, and every representative of the DOE who was in that room knows this...
Good folks
“The Parent Trap” (Sara Cardace, PostOpinion, April 4) underscores the fact that parents (I have three children under five) have to go with their first parenting instinct and hope for...
After the boom, a neighborhood goes bust
What does the hangover after the New York City building boom look like? In my neighborhood, it’s broken buildings, unfinished holes and one giant cheese grater, empty and ugly, a...
NY school spending doesn't add up
During the state budget crisis, lawmakers moan that there’s simply nothing that can be cut. Yet during the fat times, the budget increased at rates far greater than inflation. Begging...
It's not just Tiger -- all men are cheating more
I used to think we heard more about celebrity sex scandals now because we hear more about celebrities, period. But in light of Tiger Woods and Jesse James and Tiki...
You don't know Tut
In life, he was a small, sickly ruler who died young and was quickly forgotten. In death, thousands of years later, he massaged post-Cold War US-Mideast relations, revolutionized the museum-going...
Taylor with Jets just wouldn’t work
Jason Taylor? Really? The Jets are thinking about handing their green vestments to Jason Taylor, and Taylor is pondering squeezing into them? This is uncomfortable to watch. This is uncomfortable...
Best Meadowlands arena moments ...
The great, not-so-great and sometimes silly Izod Center (nee Brendan Byrne Arena, aka Continental Airlines Arena and The Swamp) moments, from 1 to 16W 1. Devils’ First Stanley Cup The...
By any name, Meadowlands arena had share of thrills and indifference
“ ’Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam; Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.” Humble, yeah. But those who have called the Meadowlands Arena home...
'Designing Women' star Dixie Carter dead at 70
LOS ANGELES — Dixie Carter, the “Designing Women” star who used her Southern charm, quick wit and stately beauty in a host of roles on Broadway and television, died Saturday....
Unsung heroes
All year long, the “CSI” criminologists get all the glory — not to mention best punchlines — but, once a year, the lab technicians are allowed out to come out...
Reel good
THE BIG CHILL (1983) Wednesday, 2:30 a.m., TCM A bunch of old friends from the socially-conscious 1960s, now living not-so socially-conscious lives meet to spend the weekend together when the...
Weather Channel: cold front moving in
Along with “Anything worth doing is worth over-doing” and “No bad idea is unworthy of duplication,” another don’t-bet-against-it TV expectation has arisen: On commercial TV, anything reliable, practical and useful...
Life after 'Miami'
Khandi Alexander no longer has to talk to dead people. After six years of sweet-talking corpses as medical examiner Alexx Woods on “CSI: Miami,” the flinty, New York-born actress wanted...
‘Glee’ on tour
Forget the “Idol” tour. The kids from “Glee” are coming to four cities this May to sing showstoppers from the Fox series. “Glee Live! In Concert!” comes to New York...
Don't miss
Bye-bye ‘Betty’ Before it collapsed into a festival of stunt casting, “Ugly Betty” was a great show. It introduced new faces such as America Ferrera, who won an Emmy, and...
Gaga for 'Glee'
When last we saw the “Glee” kids, they were basking in the glow of winning sectionals and singing coach Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) thought he had figured out a way...
‘Brothers & Sisters’ flashes back to ‘86
What do you do when everything you want to watch is on at once? Let Mama offer her suggestions for navigating this week’s highly dramatic Sunday waters. * “Brothers &...
Meet market: Hoops star hopes for slam-dunk date
March Madness may be over, but tutor and aspiring teacher A.C. is an active 28-year-old in search of scoring a top-notch date. Brianne, 30 associate director of publicity She is:...
New York's best rabbit dishes
Don’t accuse us of being bunny boilers. Citywide butchers and chefs insist that the other-other white meat — rabbit — is one of the tastiest meats you can eat. And...
This week's couple: Marathon dating
Taylor and Matt must have been well-rested when they showed up for their date at uptown Mediterranean eatery Vareli, because the couple kept the date going for seven straight hours!...
Top 5 dating-related expenses to deduct on your taxes
According to money lovers outside H&R Block “All the flowers you buy your girlfriend. Charitable donations!” — Walter “Breast implants — they’re a medical expense!” — Kylie “Spanish class. You’re...
Ask Ashley: Rubbed the wrong way
My boyfriend and I have sex regularly, but he still masturbates a lot. Why? — Lisa, 26, Long Island What is “pretty regularly”? If it’s less than twice a week,...
Canine couture
What would it take to get you to return to school decades after you’d completed your degree? For Upper East Sider Lynne Correia, the motivation was her 7-year-old Brussels griffon,...
'Kick-ass' kid
Of Friday’s superhero flick “Kick-Ass,” England’s Daily Mail recently wrote, “It deliberately sells a perniciously sexualized view of children and glorifies violence, especially knife and gun crime, in a way...
Q&A with Tracy Morgan
“You know what sunshine is?” Mid-conversation, Tracy Morgan is suddenly wondering aloud. “Sunshine is when a beautiful woman walks in the room naked. My woman just got out of the...
NYC's greatest hits
When it comes to classic record albums, New York’s got it covered. Not only is Gotham the setting for some of the most iconic album art of the vinyl age,...
La grande Renoir
You remember the scene in "Casablanca" in which Victor Lazlo (Paul Henreid) ticks off the Nazis by leading a stirring rendition of "La Marseillaise," the French national anthem. That scene...
Win, live longer
Playing a world champi onship match "takes a year off your life," according to Mikhail Botvinnik, the sixth world champion, who endured the strain of seven title matches and one...
Living hell in high school that won't shut down
A Manhattan judge has voided the city's decision to close 19 schools for poor performance, ruling in favor of the teachers union . The schools will now stay open at...
NY state Sen. Eric Schneiderman running for Attorney General
More than two dozen elected officials turned out on the City Hall steps yesterday to back state Sen. Eric Schneiderman as he announced his run for state attorney general. The...
'Glee'ful im-Madge-ination!
There's no show more in vogue than "Glee." Stars of the breakout Fox musical hit are gracing the cover of TV Guide this week, in all their Madonna greatness. The...
Educator dog-abuse bust
A Brooklyn school administrator was arrested on charges he starved, abused and abandoned a French bulldog in his filthy Long Island apartment bathroom, authorities said yesterday. Frank Hopson, 59, was...
'Survivor' producer's wife strangled: coroner's report
The wife of a reality-TV pioneer was strangled hours before her hubby reported the woman missing in Mexico, according to published reports yesterday. A coroner's report showed that Monica Beresford-Redman...
'Everyone crying' over Polish president's death in NY's Little Warsaw
Poles in New York mourned their national tragedy yesterday, flocking to churches to pray and to restaurants to share grief. At St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Anthony Zyczynski,...
I survived to tell my tale of the Holocaust
After three days of forced marches and hours in a blisteringly hot cattle car, 18-year-old Eddie Weinstein was finally in line for a drink of water. But before he could...
Supermodel Helena Christensen sues lawyer over store-lease woes
Supermodel Helena Christensen's lawyer played a wicked game by giving bad advice that cost her a cool $100,000, according to a lawsuit. The Danish beauty, famous as Chris Isaak's love...
Poof! Former Citigroup brass transform into weasels
It was the consultants who did it. Gee, why hadn't anyone come up with that one before? Perhaps because it sounds, well, like such a weaselly excuse for putting American...
Air nightmare stuns Poland
Poland was awash with grief yesterday after a fiery plane crash killed its president and wiped out dozens of top military and civilian leaders as they were on their way...
Avast stupidity sinks pirates
Now that's guts -- or stupidity! A US Naval warship captured six pirates after they fired at the military vessel in the Gulf of Aden yesterday, the Navy said. Upon...
Metal$ are in the pits
There is no silver lining to the activities of JPMorgan Chase and HSBC in the precious-metals market here and in London, says a 40-year veteran of the metal pits. The...
Cellufun bucks typical Wall Street success story
A Wall Street firm tripled its revenue in 2009. But the 15-employee company doesn't sell stocks or bonds. Cellufun Inc., with offices at 48 Wall Street, runs a game platform...
Son of a ditch
It seems like a snapshot of picture-perfect family happiness -- a tow-headed 7-year-old Russian boy playing with his nurturing new American mom. Torry Hansen, a nurse by profession, seems to...
Pregnant St. Vincent's clients left scrambling for new hospital
These women should be shopping for diapers -- not delivery rooms. Carline Moise of Brooklyn was due to give birth to her first child at St. Vincent's Hospital in a...
Murdered money manager Shele Covlin was afraid of her husband
The Upper West Side money manager whose "accidental" death was recently ruled a murder had feared her estranged husband would physically harm her as their bitter divorce played out last...
Katyn Forest deals Poland 2nd wound
The irony that so many of Poland's elite died on their way to the scene of one of the nation's greatest 20th century tragedies was not lost amid the shock...
Can't you use your retirement $$ early
Dear John: You have suggested allowing withdrawals from Individual Retirement Accounts and 401(k) retirement plans to buy a house and/or cars. But aren't we allowed to withdraw from our IRAs...
Gory fight as Port Authority cop, FDNY aid Finest
A wild Brooklyn bar brawl left a Port Authority cop with a busted jaw and a firefighter with a severe knife wound yesterday after both rushed to the rescue of...
Pakistan frees 2 Taliban chieftains
Pakistani officials have freed at least two recently captured senior members of the Afghanistan Taliban without telling the United States, according to a report. The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence directorate sprung...
Tycoon's tyrant ties threaten Nets deal
A New Jersey congressman says he will demand a government inquiry into Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire poised to buy the New Jersey Nets, for his extensive business dealings in...
NY home mortgage rates may hit 6% by year's end
New Yorkers could see home sale prices take another hit as the record-low mortgage rates begin to climb. Interest rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage are expected to gradually rise...
FDNY $oak-eaters
An astounding 80 percent of firefighters and chiefs who have retired so far this year were given exorbitant disability pensions, further crippling the city's worst-funded retirement system. A year after...
Six Flags not just coasting
Six Flags is getting off its wild ride just in time for the start of the theme-park season. One of the biggest theme-park operators, the newly named Six Flags Entertainment...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Queens Police are asking for the public's help in finding the teen girl pictured here who vanished last month from a school in Bayside. Victoria Aschli, 16, was last seen...
Check fraud victims defenseless
Check fraud is on the rise and drawing little interest from law-enforcement authorities and I know because I was a victim last year. Check fraud crime jumped 19 percent in...
Brooklyn bigot on move
The hate has spread to Battery Park City. Cops are searching for a hate-monger who has been plastering "Kill Jews" leaflets in that community, following a similar hate spate in...
Muslim's 'shave' bias suit
A devout Muslim is suing the Gramercy Park Hotel because they wouldn't hire him as a security guard unless he shaved his beard, according to a lawsuit. Samir Suljovic, 24,...
Small biz owners rail vs. MTA tax
Next comes its own flag. The Metropolitan Transit Authority is being criticized for being its own fiefdom, with its new powers to pocket income taxes on its local turf --...
Tip-jar madness takes city
After shelling out $16 for an overpriced Budweiser and an oily sausage-and-pepper sandwich at Thursday's Met game at Citi Field, Kelsey Kiefer saw something so shocking he had to smile....
Diligent DA Cy pushes hard in 750G 'poll watch' probe
It looks like Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is very serious about getting to the bottom of the mysterious $750,000 "poll watching" operation Mayor Bloomberg funded last year. A source...
Kin sue in tragic '21' Club fall
Orlando Correa spent decades working his way up the ranks of Manhattan's legendary '21' Club, but after a hard fall in the basement of the posh hot spot left him...
Selfish state of the unions
New York state and city are drowning in red ink, but don't waste your breath telling it to government unions. They got theirs, and they'll do anything and everything to...
911 upgrade off hook
What the city has here is a failure to communicate. The newfangled 911 phone system for which the city agreed to pay $195 million can't handle tests that simulate intense...
Aqueduct Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 1 mile; $15,000; clm($7,500); 4upPOP PANEBIANCO goes turf to dirt and drops in class while switching to bug for first start since September. WADI SUKI finished third going shorter...
Once again, TV networks fawn over Woods
The Weak In Review: Here we go again. Tiger TV is back, right where it ended. If you watched the Masters on ESPN or CBS, or the wraparound shows on...
No tanks: Lottery must be revised to make teams try
It was obscured by Keith Tkachuk's victory lap at the conclusion of the Blues' victory at home Friday night over the Ducks, but Anaheim general manager Bob Murray's barely disguised...
Knicks set sights on free agency
The Garden says good riddance to nine years of losing Knicks basketball the next two days. Good riddance to bad rubbish that has permeated the World's Most Famous Arena. The...
Hondo's barking
Hondo made it two straight extra-special wins when the Padres outlasted the Rockies last night to raise the early-season runaway profits to 360 sieberns. HondoNation Bonus Stat: Mr. Aitch is...
Manuel: No plans for Mets to promote Davis
Fernando Tatis and Mike Jacobs haven't distinguished themselves at first base and Daniel Murphy isn't close to returning, but manager Jerry Manuel cautions anyone against thinking that prospect Ike Davis...
Blue Grass stunner
Stately Victor stunned the field yesterday at the Blue Grass Stakes in Lexington, Ky., surging to the front in the stretch then pulling away to beat Paddy O'Prado by 4...
Shoppach spoils Sabathia's no-hitter before Girardi can
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Joe Girardi manages the Yankees, not history. For that his bosses should be happy. So, when CC Sabathia faced Kelly Shoppach with two outs in the...
Struggling Teixeira finally 'hits' stride
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A line drive that settled into Rays second baseman Ben Zobrist's leather in the first inning extended the slump to 0-for-17 to start the season. As...
Couples five back heading into final round of Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Fred Couples is used to going home after three rounds of a golf tournament. That's the routine on the Champions Tour, where the 50-year-old Couples has been...
Mickelson 1 behind Westwood after back 9 charge
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Top that. That will be the weighty challenge facing Phil Mickelson in today's Masters final round -- to somehow better the electrifying performance he gave to fans...
Red Bulls suffer first loss
CARSON, Calif. -- Red Bulls goalie Bouna Coundoul gave up an own goal in the 47th minute and surrendered a clinching score to Jesus Padilla in second-half stoppage time in...
Ban on bluefin trade rejected
A U.S. proposal to ban trade on greatly depleted stocks of bluefin tuna was rejected, and surprisingly there are some who believe this was not a bad thing. The proposal...
Nets clinch worst record in NBA with loss to Pacers
INDIANAPOLIS -- Last night's loss sealed it: You can't get any worse than the Nets. Not this season, at least. The Nets fell to the Pacers 115-102, clinching the worst...
Sports shorts
MLB: Game-winner for Matsui Hideki Matsui singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth inning, giving the Angels a 4-3 walkoff win over the Athletics last night....
Westwood has first major in sight
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Lee Westwood figures today is his time to finally win a major championship. Westwood, who has a one stroke lead at 12-under par over Phil Mickelson after...
Opinions about Tebow's pro potential all over map
This is the last of a three-part series previewing the April 22-24 NFL Draft: Tim Tebow has turned into the NFL Draft's version of a Rorschach test. Ask 100 different...
Devils rout Islanders, clinch Atlantic title
If the NHL ever wises up and re-emphasizes its glorious history by naming divisions for its newer legends, instead of by map, the local bracket should morph into the Lamoriello...
Cervelli gets a lift from catching Sabathia gem
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- If CC Sabathia went into the ninth inning with a no-hitter yesterday against the Rays, Yankees manager Joe Girardi knew he would have a bigger challenge...
Rangers finally have something to lose
Here are the differences between todays showdown in Philadelphia against the Flyers and the preceding nine games the Rangers played when they felt they'd been counted out and had nothing...
NBA's best in West ... and East
My postseason, award-winners job would be so much easier if the NBA allowed voters to do it right -- my way, in other words. Actually, Major League Baseball originated the...
Mets' rotation Maine-ly a mess
* In reference to Kevin Kernan's article ["Maine problem: He's just not a No. 2 starter," The Post and nypost.com, April 8], I totally agree that Omar Minaya's bunch missed...
Weird but true
Weapons safety tip: Don't shoot yourself at a gun demonstration -- especially if you're the instructor. A retired police officer in Ohio was showing a class of recruits how to...
Scare's the rub
The first puzzler is the old TV out front, showing fuzzy images of a small Asian woman performing acrobatic massage techniques. Then there’s the “Back and Foot Rub” sign —...
No holds bard
Without poetry, the world would be a far different place. For starters, Jim Morrison and Bill Shakespeare would have been a lot less popular with the ladies. Lovers of verse...
My New York: Lewis Black
Lewis Black is sick and tired of everyone running their mouths about how growing older is just so fantastic. “I talk to the kids about what they have to look...
Scholarship Games offer final chance to unsigned city seniors
Kevin Nascimento was a starter on a Rice basketball team that was among the best in the city, playing with future Division I players Shane Southwell, Jermaine Sanders and Kadeem...
Trusted Triggs looks to move Eagles past inconsistent 2009
Jackie Triggs was like a lacrosse ball magnet running up the midfield. Each time her Fieldston girls lacrosse teammates scooped up a ground ball, they immediately looked for the senior....
Red Bulls lose shutout streak, fall 2-0 at Chivas
The Red Bulls' unbeaten record and shutout streak had to end sometime, and both came to a crashing haul with today's 2-0 defeat at Chivas USA. But what bothered the...