October 30, 2010
Bulldogs respond to coach's punishment with plenty of bite
Eric Barnett likes to think of his Campus Magnet football team as a family. The Bulldogs coach had his entire team go to a vigil together for former student Kevin...
Blackout ends: Fox, Cablevision reach deal
Fox and Cablevision reached an agreement today that will restore programming to more than 3 million New York-area subscribers who have been without some of their favorite shows and baseball...
Turnovers, big plays doom Christ the King
Chris Higgins was telling his defense not to expect a pass from Xavier on a key third-down play in the fourth quarter. The Knights had passed just once prior in...
A junior achievement: St. Anthony's beats Iona Prep for CHSFL 'AAA' top seed
St. Anthony’s coach Rich Reichert had more questions about his team this year than any in recent memory. A year ago, a senior-dominated team won the CHSFL Class AAA title...
Gamble pays off for Xavier against Christ the King
Chris Stevens chose to go for what he called “a big banana” instead of going with what was safe and working so well. His Knights were holding onto an eight-point...
Obama tells AIDS hecklers: Go bother the Republicans!
President Barack Obama today launched a weekend blitz of last-minute campaigning before Tuesday’s elections, with stops in Philadelphia and Bridgeport, Conn., where he slammed Republicans, implored supporters to get out...
PSAL football City Championship division roundup: Dixon's big play carries Jefferson past FDR
Before Dajon Dixon returned to the huddle, Thomas Jefferson coach Gus Cyrus told the talented junior to make sure he picked up the first down and got out of bounds....
Brooklyn Tech falters, winning streak comes to an end
In Brooklyn Tech’s previous four games, three of them wins, the Engineers scored 136 points while allowing only 74. They ran for over 200 yards four times and held the...
Man looking for train leans too far, struck
A man who leaned forward on a Greenwich Village subway platform to check if the train was coming was struck in the head by the approaching locomotive and knocked unconscious,...
Channel 'own worst enemy' in win over Jamaica
Beach Channel is undefeated, hasn’t allowed more than one touchdown in a single game this season and is clearly the odds-on favorite to win the PSAL Bowl division championship. But...
Nets’ Farmar: Bring on LeBron
Jordan Farmar, a hero in the Nets’ two comeback wins, sprained his right ankle late yesterday. While coach Avery Johnson said the guard is a game-time decision tomorrow against Miami,...
HS football scores, Week 8
Here is a list of scores for New York City high-school football games, updated throughout the weekend: Sunday CHSFL Fordham Prep 28, Chaminade 6 Saturday PSAL City Championship division Curtis...
Thousands attend Stewart, Colbert rally
In the shadow of the Capitol and close to the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng rallying on today for "sanity," poking fun at the...
Dempsey's brace lifts Fulham, (video); Chelsea and Arsenal drama, City slips up
Chelsea had to come from behind in the English Premier League today to defeat Blackburn, while Arsenal left it late to beat West Ham and Manchester City lost to Wolves. Fulham...
Manchester City manager Mancini slams British soccer's booze culture
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini yeterday hit out at the booze culture among British soccer players after he publicly reprimanded four of his players for a drunken night out in Scotland...
Yemeni woman arrested in bomb plot
Yemeni police arrested a woman on suspicion of mailing a pair of bombs powerful enough to take down airplanes, officials said today as details emerged about a terrorist plot aimed...
NATO troops kill 50 militants repelling Afghan raid
U.S. and other NATO troops killed about 50 insurgents during attacks in Afghanistan on today, calling in air strikes to repel an assault on an outpost in the volatile southeast....
Hurricane Tomas slams Barbados, heads toward Caribbean
CASTRIES, St. Lucia — Newly born Hurricane Tomas barreled toward a cluster of eastern Caribbean islands today after it downed power lines and damaged homes in Barbados as a tropical...
NJ tunnel closure cost: 44,000 jobs
When he killed the construction of a new rail line to New York under the Hudson River, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie saved his state's taxpayers at least $3 billion....
CHSAA boys soccer Class A intersectional quarterfinals preview
New York Post CHSAA boys soccer beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down Sunday’s CHSAA Class A intersectional quarterfinals at Maritime College in The Bronx. Here’s the schedule: 1 p.m. –...
Dems divided over '12 Bam challenge
Democratic voters are closely divided over whether President Barack Obama should be challenged within the party for a second term in 2012, an Associated Press-Knowledge Networks Poll finds. That glum...
Halloween party horror: Woman in costume shot dead in B'klyn
A woman dressed as a devil was gunned down and her boyfriend critically wounded after returning from a Halloween bash early this morning in Brooklyn. Police found the scary scene...
US-bound bomb could have brought down plane
A bomb found on a U.S.-bound cargo plane was powerful enough to bring down an aircraft, British authorities said today, as forces in Yemen searched for suspected al Qaeda militants...
4 dead after fiery car crash in Rochester
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Police in Rochester, N.Y., say an out-of-control car hit a median and struck a railroad bridge abutment before bursting into flames, killing four people in the vehicle....
Hotel where Katy Perry and Russell Brand married charged with violating noise laws
JAIPUR, India — Officials say managers at the luxury resort where Katy Perry and Russell Brand married are being charged with violating noise laws during last week’s wedding near an...
PSAL Class A girls soccer playoff preview: Francis Lewis bracket breakdown
New York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski breaks downs Francis Lewis’ journey to its second semifinal in three seasons. Teams: No. 4 Francis Lewis, No. 5 Petrides, No....
PSAL Class A girls soccer playoff preview: Bronx Science bracket breakdown
New York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski looks at Bronx Science's path to defending its PSAL Class A crown. Teams: No. 2 Bronx Science, No. 7 McKee/Staten Island...
CHSAA boys soccer Class A intersectional quarterfinals live blog recap
The CHSAA Class A boys soccer intersectional playoffs are down to the final eight teams and the four quarterfinal matches will be played Sunday at Maritime College in The Bronx....
Countdown to the Cup
The Post will profile each of the eight Breeders’ Cup races to be run next Saturday at Churchill Downs. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights potential nice-price winners as handicapped...
Rare October victory for Wilpon's Mets
The Mets won yesterday. It is not something that has happened a lot for them in recent late Octobers. This, of course, was not the kind of late-October victory that...
PSAL Class A girls soccer playoff preview: Beacon bracket breakdown
New York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski breaks down what stands in the Blue Demons way as they try to make a fourth straight trip to the final...
PSAL Class A girls soccer playoff preview: Tottenville bracket breakdown
New York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski gives an inside look at Tottenville's round back to the semifinals and a shot at its first city title since 2006....
PSAL Class A boys soccer playoff preview: Beacon bracket breakdown
New York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at Beacon’s road to the semifinals. Teams (in seed order): No. 4 Beacon, No. 5 John Adams, No. 12...
Trinity trounces Xaverian in regular-season finale
Louie Cotrone doesn’t know who was on the field last week in a blowout loss to rival St. Anthony’s, but the Holy Trinity two-way standout wanted to make sure the...
Girls volleyball roundup: Horace Mann earns top seed in NYSAIS tournament
Horace Mann’s goal this season was to win its first-ever NYSAISAA championship. Well, now the Lions are the favorites with the tournament starting next week. On Friday, Horace Mann was...
St. Catharine wins third straight Bronx/Westchester title
St. Catharine Academy needed a tiebreaker match and a trip to Westchester to do it, but Friday night the Crusaders left Sacred Heart with a third straight CHSAA Bronx/Westchester girls...
Oh Mercy: Stanners can't complete three-peat
Kyra Meli wasn’t going to watch her Archbishop Molloy career end without a fight. “I was trying to make something out of nothing,” the star senior midfielder said. “I didn’t...
Farrell guts out win over SFP, keeps 'AAA' hopes alive
Monsignor Farrell did its part, now all it can do is sit and watch. The Lions gutted out a 13-6 victory against winless St. Francis Prep at Mitchel Athletic Complex...
It's academic: Xaverian loses three key starters to grades
The losses are piling up for Xaverian, on and off the football field. The Clippers wrapped up the regular season with a 29-0 loss to Holy Trinity Friday night at...
Girls soccer roundup: Falcons top Fieldston to make history
Since the preseason Orlando Osorio had been saying that this year’s Riverdale team was the finest ever at the Bronx private school, but even he couldn’t have predicted what it...
PSAL Class A boys playoff preview: Tottenville bracket breakdown
New York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at Tottenville’s road back to the semifinals. Teams (in seed order) : No. 3 Tottenville, No. 6 Bronx Science,...
PSAL Class A boys soccer playoff preview: Francis Lewis bracket breakdown
New York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at Francis Lewis’ run to hopefully winning its first city title. Teams (in seed order): No. 2 Francis Lewis,...
PSAL Class A boys soccer playoff preview: Martin Luther King Jr. bracket breakdown
New York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at Martin Luther King Jr.’s path in its quest to win a fifth straight city title. Teams (in seed...
Lions roar: Lehman wins Bronx River Rivalry for suspended coach
There were so many reasons why Lehman wanted – no, needed – to win Friday night. The Lions were fighting for their playoff lives and a loss could have ended...
Tough Knight: Kennedy falls in heartbreaker to Lehman
This season has been hard enough for Andy Lancberg. It was just two years ago that the first-year John F. Kennedy coach was celebrating a PSAL city title as an...
Keith’s a real library card
Getting satisfaction at the New York Public Library was a whole lot easier last night when legendary rock god Keith Richards dropped into the main branch on Fifth Avenue to...
Peruvians steamed over 'Modern Family' dis
Peruvians are miffed over a "Modern Family" episode in which a character suggests that the country is full of backward, violent people. The offending dialogue comes during an argument between...
Class is dismissed
The nicest thing I can say about "My Big Friggin' Wedding" is that anyone with low self-esteem will feel much better about themselves after watching this abrasive, obnoxious trainwreck. This...
Goin' Gaga
Here's Meredith Vieira as you've never seen her be fore -- channeling her inner Lady Gaga! During yesterday's annual "Today" show Halloween costume episode, the morning show's co-anchor covered her...
More TLC for 'Sister Wives'
TLC is bringing its "Sister Wives" back for a sec ond season. Ten new episodes of the controversial series will air beginning next March, the network announced yesterday. The show...
Kid stuff
TODAY SPOOKY SWAP: Both eerie and eco-friendly, the World Financial Center’s “Screamin’ Green Halloween” will repurpose found materials for games and crafts. In keeping with the recycling theme, bring last...
Mr. Saturday night
He books tables for Prince. He sets up private shows for Kanye and finds after-parties for Shakira. His phone number is passed around the country like the password to a...
Sunset on Yiddish empire
Fyvush Finkel sees dead theaters — and not just theaters, but an entire ghostly Great White Way: the Yiddish Rialto, which stretched for blocks along Second Avenue on the Lower...
Stifled by feminism
Republican Sharron Angle famously told Sen. Harry Reid to "man up" during a Nevada debate this month -- the implication being that Reid is a wuss, or not man enough...
'M.A.D.' mullahs with nukes
THE ISSUE: Iran’s apparent development of nuclear weapons and how the US has reacted. * The editorial "Fiddling as Iran Goes Nuclear" (Oct. 27) has a bone-chilling effect. Besides the...
Jersey GI slain in Afghanistan
TRENTON -- An Army soldier from New Jersey who was stationed at Fort Drum was killed in Afghanistan. The Defense Department said Sgt. Michael Kirspel Jr., 23, died Wednesday from...
Dope big flames out
PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to federal drug charges that were filed after faulty wiring caused a fire at one of his marijuana-growing operations. Authorities said that...
Heads! It's Lennon
LONDON -- Most British coins bear the likeness of Queen Elizabeth II -- but now she's been joined by John Lennon, who was honored yesterday with a commemorative coin struck...
Pace cop 'in no danger'
The cop who fired the first shot at Pace University football player Danroy "D.J." Henry wasn't in danger, a lawyer for Henry's family said yesterday. Henry was shot in his...
DC gunman's Marine grudge
WASHINGTON -- A gunman who fired shots at a Washington-area Marine Corps museum and is believed to be responsible for three similar incidents may have a grievance against the Marine...
Principal plays games with high school sports
THE ISSUE: A Queens principal’s decision to eliminate home games to boost grades. * Obviously, Martin Van Buren HS Principal Marilyn Shevell has lost touch with reality ("Game's Over," Oct....
Oil workers in French retreat
PARIS -- Workers at France's biggest oil port broke a monthlong strike yesterday and refinery workers also called off walkouts, ending a bitter showdown with President Sarkozy over his pension...
New schools' 'fail' peril
For the second time in two years, the city is considering closing failing schools -- two which opened just three years ago. Kappa VII in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and the...
Al Qaeda sends bomb packages to Jews in US
Two explosive devices sent on cargo carriers from terrorist-friendly Yemen to Jewish institutions in Chicago yesterday touched off a scare on three continents. President Obama said "explosive material" was discovered...
Dropout 'bullies'
Two Rutgers University students who broadcast online a fellow freshman's gay tryst -- sparking his death leap from the George Washington Bridge -- have dropped out of school because of...
Lotto winners' $cary good time
Harlem handyman Tyrone Seward, 54, donned a mortarboard yesterday and "graduated" -- to life as a multimillionaire. State Lottery officials yesterday trotted out Seward, who won $5 million, and six...
A $413M Ponzi guy is guilty
A Long Island businessman pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he orchestrated a $413 million Ponzi scheme that victimized thousands of clients. Nicholas Cosmo faces up to 40 years in prison...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Bronx Cops are seeking this knife-wielding bandit (top photo) for holding up a Melrose Laundromat and attacking an attendant. He burst into the Giant Family Laundromat, on Third Avenue near...
Feds demand cyberbully education
Schools receiving subsidies for Internet service will have to teach students about cyberbullying and the responsible use of social-networking sites, the Federal Communications Commission said yesterday. Cyberbullying is increasingly being...
Why we haven't offed Mr. WikiLeaks
I'd like to ask a simple question: Why isn't Ju lian Assange dead? In case you didn't know, Assange is the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massive -- and...
Nancy's suicide squad
After ordering Pickett's charge, Robert E. Lee re putedly mingled on the Gettysburg battlefield with his soldiers fortunate enough to have survived the debacle. "It's all my fault," he said....
The assault on the ladies of the right
My military friends have a favorite saying: "If you're not catching flak, you're not over the target." This campaign season, conservative women in politics have caught more flak than WWII...
DWI-slay mom sentenced to four to 12 years
An anguished dad dramatically pulled a picture of his slain "Princess" from a folder and held it over his head yesterday at an emotional sentencing for the Cognac-soused mom who...
Telephoning from the top: Everest now 'in network'
Cell phone service has come to the top of the world. Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera yesterday started offering 3G cell and Internet service covering the 29,029-foot peak of Mount Everest...
Staten Island Democrat veers left toward Obama
Talk about mixed messages! Rep. Michael McMahon, a Staten Island/Brooklyn Democrat who has run his re-election campaign emphasizing his centrist, independent values, planned to advertise his ties to the Obama...
Giant step for baseball fans on Fox
News Corp. and Dish Network Corp. resolved a fee dispute over Fox channels that threatened to black out World Series games and shows such as "Glee" for more than 3...
Coinstar shares hit jackpot
Coinstar, owner of the Redbox movie-rental kiosks, jumped the most in five years after its third-quarter profit and 2011 forecast exceeded analysts' estimates. Based in Bellevue, Wash., Coinstar rose $11.32,...
Dead tot was drugged, beaten, starved and dehydrated
A severely malnourished and abused 4-year-old girl whose body was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment last month -- weighing just 18 pounds -- died of drug poisoning, blunt-impact injuries,...
Business briefs
Green shoots US gross domestic product expanded at a 2.0 percent annual rate, the Commerce Dept. re ported. Separately, The Institute for Supply Man agement-Chicago said business activity in the...
Coke and no smile for naked Sheen: witness
Celebrity train-wreck Charlie Sheen was found naked in a Manhattan restaurant bathroom with "cocaine all over his face" as he tried to have sex with porn star Capri Anderson, a...
NY's creepiest addresses
The only thing scarier than the economy are these Big Apple boneyard haunted houses. These spine-tingling specters, selected from among a slew of submissions from Post readers, are expected to...
GOP in late poll roll
WASHINGTON -- A wave of polls out yesterday showed voters across the country breaking in favor of Republicans. Surveys in New Hampshire, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Kentucky and Nevada show Republican...
Defense blunder sparks mistrial for LI 'hit mom'
The trial of a Long Island woman who allegedly plotted to kill her estranged husband is now sleeping with the fishes. A judge yesterday declared a mistrial in the case...
Elie Wiesel opposes death penalty in Connecticut home-invasion murders
Two men accused of killing a woman and her daughters in a horrifying home invasion should be spared the death penalty, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said in a speech at...
Vornado gets a jewel box
Vornado Realty Trust has closed on its purchase of the glass jewel box at 510 Fifth Ave. for $58 million and, while three tenants have been vying for the only...
NBA's $450M score
Mike Ilitch, owner of the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings, is the last remaining bidder for the NBA's Detroit Pistons -- and has emerged as the likely buyer of the...
'Candy bar' slay at Bronx gas station
Police were hunting last night for a man who shot dead a Bronx gas-station attendant in a botched robbery -- after the thug first grabbed a Snickers bar from the...
Dispatches from the campaign trail
Republican congressional candidate Michael Grimm wasn't that surprised to see his ex-wife turn up to watch him debate Staten Island incumbent Michael McMahon. A McMahon tipster called the Grimm team...
Bill Clinton denies Florida-race meddle
Bill Clinton insisted yesterday he didn't meddle in the messy three-way Florida Senate race to convince Democratic US Rep. Kendrick Meek to drop out -- despite the fact that his...
Mike '$cammer' powwow
Mayor Bloomberg met with a trusted campaign aide before turning over $1.1 million that the man then allegedly swiped in a phony poll-watching operation last year, according to documents released...
New York airports, synagogues on alert after mail terror plot exposed
New York airports and synagogues are on high alert after officials on three continents unearthed a mail-order terror plot yesterday. Police will be stationed at major synagogues around the city...
Paterson accuses Shel Silver of 'collusion'
Gov. Paterson secretly accused Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of "collusion" after complaints of corruption surfaced over the selection of a politically connected firm to operate an Aqueduct casino, The Post...
Theater Institute of the absurd
Looks like the curtain is coming down for good on the New York State Theatre Institute. It's about time. Even though it's been around since 1974, you probably had never...
She is Chuckie's little girl
Just because Carl Paladino can't con trol his flapping jaw doesn't mean that everything he says is wrong. Thursday, the GOP gubernatorial candidate dismissed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as "[Chuck] Schumer's...
Farley's big fat lie
The city Department of Health shot a gross-out viral video last year show ing a man drinking a glass of fat. The video's shock claim: Slurping a can of soda...
Black may go back to slammer
Despite his victory laps after his recent release from prison following the Supreme Court ruling tossing the law underpinning some of his crimes, ex-media mogul Conrad Black could wind up...
Wylys look to throw out SEC suit
Billionaire brothers Samuel and Charles Wyly asked a federal judge yesterday to dismiss a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing them of orchestrating a $550 million securities fraud. In a...
$140M con gets 40 yrs.
A convicted hedge-fund fraudster who ripped of $140 million from 250 victims -- including his own parents, family members and friends -- will spend the next 40 years in the...
Down and dirty
Terra Firma boss Guy Hands and lender Citigroup are finding that when they fling enough mud, everyone gets dirty. Their nasty legal dustup -- which has pitted Hands against his...
'Life' of a super mob rat
Former Bonanno crime-family underboss Salvatore Vitale, who switched sides to become one of the most helpful government informers in US Mafia history, was sentenced yesterday to time already served and...
MGM votes Icahn loser
Carl Icahn has been tamed. MGM received approval from lenders yesterday to file for bankruptcy in a plan that would turn over management to production company Spyglass Entertainment, thus thwarting...
Jenn Sterger's TV show canceled
The TV show hosted by the woman who caught an out-of-bounds Brett Favre pass has been sacked. The Versus network pulled the plug on Jenn Sterger's "The Daily Line," benching...
$3M thief att'y jailed
A crooked Manhattan personal-injury lawyer was sentenced to 2½ to 7 years in prison yesterday for stealing more than $3 million of his injured clients' court winnings. Marc Bernstein's victims...
Carl's 'little girl' slap
Long-shot Republican gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino angrily cut short an upstate television interview yesterday when the anchor asked him about comments he made labeling Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a "little girl."...
Obama: I got your back
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Fighting to the end, President Obama yesterday devoted shrinking campaign time for one endangered Virginia Democrat, calling his bid a national test case of whether a person...
'Jersey Shore's' Angelina Pivarnick attacked at Staten Island mall
"Jersey Shore" cast member Angelina Pivarnick and a friend wound up in scene that could have been pulled from her raucous MTV show when they were attacked at the Staten...
Halloween fight turns fatal
A Long Island nightclub turned into a house of horrors yesterday when two men were shot -- one fatally -- in a massive fight over who should have won a...
Blazers guard Fernandez loves NYC
BOSTON -- Rudy Fernandez enjoyed Manhattan last night, having a business dinner with his agent Andy Miller. The Knicks play their home opener tonight against Portland and the Blazers' Spanish-born...
Amar'e, Knicks fall short vs. Celtics
BOSTON -- Hopefully the Denver Nuggets brass didn't watch this one. Despite another Danilo Gallinari no-show that led to a second-half benching, Amar'e Stoudemire willed the Knicks into contention last...
Rangers' Stepan shows more grit after criticism from coach
Derek Stepan watched the final 13:27 of Wednesday's 6-4 loss to the Thrashers from the Rangers' bench. Prior to last night's Garden match against Carolina, head coach John Tortorella left...
Hustling Rangers fall at home again
The work ethic returned and the battle level was exemplary, but that does not alter the reality that the Rangers were not good enough in their own end or on...
Vlad's DH experience big advantage for AL champs
ARLINGTON, Texas -- With the designated hitter in play for Games 3, 4 and 5 of the World Series, the Rangers believe they get the advantage over the Giants because...
Red Bulls won't play it safe in road playoff game
With the Red Bulls opening their home-and-away Eastern Conference semis in San Jose tonight (10, MSG Plus2, joined in progress on MSG at 10:30) with the return leg Thursday in...
GM wants Mets to take new direction
The Mets have gone four years without a postseason appearance and Mets owner Fred Wilpon said the past two seasons, when the team finished a combined 41 games back in...
Sandy's reign with Mets could mean end of awful deals
What is Sandy Alderson going to be able to do as the new general manager of the Mets? How much money will he have at his disposal and how much...
Mets GM in it for long haul
Linda Alderson, the wife of 62-year-old Sandy Alderson, said yesterday that despite her husband's age, the Mets' new general manager is looking at his gig as one he will have...
Alderson 'suspected' Canseco used steroids
One thing the A's teams of the late 1980s and early '90s always have been associated with is success. Another, more recent addition to how those teams are viewed, is...
High-level meeting starts Yankees offseason
Consider Monday to be Opening Day of the Yankees offseason. That's when general manager Brian Cashman will sit down with owners Hal and Hank Steinbrenner in Tampa, Fla., to start...
Knicks' Stoudemire does Letterman Top 10
Amar'e Stoudemire made his "Late Show with David Letterman" debut last night, reading off his Top 10 reasons he is excited about playing in New York. But Stoudemire told The...
Bucs back could provide second-half boost
Kenny Britt's monster outing in Week 7 had fantasy owners in many leagues falling over each other to grab the Titans wide receiver off the waiver wires. Bills QB Ryan...
Judah gets back on path to relevance
Zab Judah is saying and doing all the right things lately. Question is how long can we trust him? How long can he trust himself? By now the Brooklyn-born Judah...
Islanders can't solve Canadiens
Alex Auld had gone nine months since his last NHL victory. It's not as bad as it might appear because the veteran goalie only played four games in that long...
Sports shorts
RED BULLS: Playoffs start With the Red Bulls opening their home-and-away Eastern Conference semis in San Jose tonight, conventional wisdom would be bunker in for a tie on the road...
Time for Jets to wing it to Holmes
The complexion of the Jets offense has a chance to change dramatically tomorrow against the Packers when the Jets unleash Santonio Holmes. The Steelers discarded Holmes last spring because of...
Zenyatta aiming for perfect 20 at Breeders' Cup
Zenyatta, the star attraction of this year's Breeders' Cup, will attempt to finish her career 20-for-20 with a repeat victory in the $5 million Classic next Saturday at Churchill Downs....
Girardi to face Yankees' age-old issues in 2nd term
Joe Girardi and the Yankees made it official yesterday, announcing a new three-year deal to keep him as manager. There never seemed to be a question of whether Girardi would...
Jets' Pace set to crack on Packers
Calvin Pace let the truth out yesterday, admitting he overdid it in his comeback from foot surgery. The Jets' veteran outside linebacker and 2009 sack leader was in a confessional...
Folk kick-or-treating for Jets
It might have been hyperbole when Jets special teams coach Mike Westhoff boasted Thursday of inventing the onside kick. But he did help kicker Nick Folk reinvent himself. Folk has...
Ryan to Jets fans: Grill 'cheeseheads'
Hey, Packers fans: Watch your backs! Rex Ryan said it with a smile on his face, but the Jets coach delivered that message to any cheesehead-wearing Green Bay follower thinking...
NFL Roundup: Favre's status game-time call for Vikings
The latest will-he-or-won't-he drama in Brett Favre's 20-year career continued yesterday when the Vikings listed him as questionable for tomorrow's game at New England. The Vikings will wait until the...
Giants' Sanchez looks to regain control
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jonathan Sanchez brought serious heat for the Giants in his last start, but only if you count an angry exchange with Chase Utley. After producing two solid...
Hondo alive with five
Hail to the C -- Vic C., that is -- who came through for Hondo yesterday at Belmont when his Best Bet, Flask, poured it on in the sixth for...
Former Yankees to Rangers: Giants' 2-0 Series lead can be topped
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Having lived through it, former Yankees Paul O'Neill and Jim Leyritz understand the degree of difficulty facing the Rangers in Game 3 of the World Series tonight...
No weeping for this state of despair
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Once upon a time, there a back-page headline in this newspaper that was, shall we say, less than charitable to the great state of Texas. "THIS PLACE...
Giants' Bradshaw unlikely league leader
Ahmad Bradshaw can be found tomorrow on the sidelines in Huntington, W.Va., returning to his college for homecoming weekend as Marshall faces Texas-El Paso. He's done this before, but never...
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Harris leads Nets to comeback win
For a second straight game, the Nets staged a furious late comeback to steal a victory. Now the fact they needed a comeback, had the coaching staff reaching for the...
Former teammate Petro: Nets can wait for 'Melo
The Carmelo Watch continues. Sort of. The Nets, who defeated the Kings last night 106-100 at the Prudential Center in Newark, remain convinced nothing will happen until mid-December with Carmelo...
Heat romp over Magic
MIAMI -- LeBron James stayed fairly quiet when the Magic questioned his competitiveness this summer. James and his new team presented an emphatic response last night. Dwyane Wade scored 26...
Elias' goal sparks Devils
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- When Alexander Vasyunov found himself on a line with Ilya Kovalchuk and Patrik Elias in just his second NHL game, the young Russian simply hoped he wouldn't...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYOct. 30SUNOct. 31MONNov. 1TUENov. 2WEDNov. 3THUNov. 4FRINov. 5KnicksPortland7:30TV -- MSG NetworkRadio--WNYM 970 AMNOGAMENOGAMEOrl.7:30MSGESPNNOGAMEChi.8:00TNTESPNWash.7:30MSGESPNNetsNOGAMEMia.1:00YESWFANNOGAMENOGAMEChar.7:00YESWBBRNOGAMENOGAMERangersToronto7:00TV -- MSG Plus NetworkRadio--WWRL 1600 AMNOGAMEChi.7:00MSGWNYMNOGAMENOGAMEPhil.7:00MSGWNYMDevs7:00MSG2ESPNIslandersPhiladelphia7:00TV -- MSGPlus2 NetworkRadio--WRHU 88.7 FMNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMECar.7:00MSG+WRHUOtt.7:30MSG+WRHUNOGAMEDevilsLos Angeles10:30TV -- MSGPlus NetworkRadio--WFAN 660 AMNOGAMEVanc.10:00MSG+WFANNOGAMEChi.8:30MSGWFANNOGAMEN.Y.R.7:00MSG+WFANRed...
Weird but true
No harm, no foul. A deer in Appelton, Wis., collided with a high-school cross-country runner. The young woodland animal ran into 15-year-old Sarah Glidden as she neared the finish line....
'War' path toward Tide showdown
If New York is not a college football town, explain this: While strolling through Union Square on Thursday morning wearing an Alabama T-shirt, an attractive woman passed and declared, "War...
BCS buster
The Buster would like to see Oregon, currently No. 2 in the BCS rankings, finish the season No. 1 and face a one-loss Alabama team in the title game, leaving...
Kelly's winding road leads Ducks to top
What grandiose career ambitions did Oregon coach Chip Kelly harbor 20 years ago when his first college coaching job meant squeezing into a one-bedroom apartment on Morningside Drive and 120th...
Still the life of the party
Let’s face it, Tuesday is going to be a bloodbath for Democrats around the country — so praise Steve Cohn and pass the cheesecake!Yes, the legendary Downtown Democratic Party insider...
Nets rally to top Kings
NEWARK — Devin Harris had 21 points and 10 assists, helping the New Jersey Nets stage another late rally in a 106-100 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night....
Knicks fall to Celtics 105-101
BOSTON — Rajon Rondo had a triple-double with a career-high 24 assists, and Paul Pierce scored 25 points with 14 rebounds on Friday night to lead the Boston Celtics to...
