December 18, 2010
Sunderland climbs to sixth while West Ham stays bottom of EPL
A Danny Welbeck goal was enough to see off Bolton on Saturday as Sunderland climbed to sixth place in the English Premier League in one of only two soccer games...
Son smothers mom in 'mercy killing': sources
A Brooklyn man smothered his frail 86-year-old mother with a pillow in what he claimed was a mercy killing, authorities charged today. Yefim Tsirinsky, 52, 2819 W. 12th St. in...
Inter Milan wins Club World Cup
Inter Milan was crowned the winner of soccer's Club World Cup on Saturday after the Italian giant saw off Africa's TP Mazembe in Abu Dhabi. Rafa Benitez's team never looked...
Rangers fall to Flyers, 4-1
PHILADELPHIA — Nikolay Zherdev scored two goals and Brian Boucher stopped 24 shots in the Philadelphia Flyers' 4-1 win over the New York Rangers today. Andreas Nodl and Ville Leino...
LeBron-less Cavs and surging Knicks worlds apart
CLEVELAND - It's like a time warp sitting here in the Tower City Mall in downtown Cleveland. Last May, after the Cavaliers got bounced out of the playoffs, I was...
Pimp killed, hooker shot in Brooklyn
A gunman shot a pimp to death and fired at two prostitutes – injuring one – as they sat in an idling green minivan early this morning in Brooklyn. The...
Immigrant DREAM act dies in Senate
The Senate today refused to advance a bill aimed at helping the children of illegal immigrants gain legal status, dealing the measure a likely death blow for the foreseeable future....
Senate votes to end military gay ban
In a historic vote for gay rights, the Senate agreed today to do away with the military's 17-year ban on openly gay troops and sent President Barack Obama legislation to...
Bank of America bans WikiLeaks payments
Bank of America today halted all transactions for WikiLeaks, joining other institutions that refuse to process payments for the website that has exposed a trove of US government cables. WikiLeaks...
South Korea to hold firing drills despite threat of retaliation from North
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea — South Korean troops geared up Saturday for artillery drills on a border island shelled by North Korea last month despite Pyongyang’s threat to retaliate again,...
California man stabs mom, carjacks vehicles and kidnaps child, sheriff says
A 30-year old Chatsworth, Calif., man was charged with committing a series of crimes that included stabbing his mother multiple times, assault, a carjacking and kidnapping, myFOXla.com reported Saturday. It...
Suspicious package closes Norway airport
A suspect package led authorities to close Haugesund Airport on Norway's west coast late Friday, Norwegian newspaper Bergensavisen reported Saturday, citing local police. The piece of luggage was found at...
New chance for Knox: Court grants review
ERUGIA, Italy — Amanda Knox won an important victory in her appeals trial of her murder conviction in Italy today, when a court ruled that it will allow an independent...
Arctic conditions paralyze Britain as airports, roads close
Britain ground to a halt Saturday as Arctic weather continued to sweep Europe, leading to hazardous traveling conditions and the closure of the UK's biggest airport Heathrow. The south of...
Zooey Deschanel sues Steve Madden for $2M
Actress Zooey Deschanel sued shoemaker Steve Madden Friday claiming the company owes her $2 million in a deal to promote the footwear, TMZ reported. Deschanel, 30, claims the New York-based...
Collins can bring Week 15 cheer
Is Aaron Rodgers’ concussion giving you fantasy headaches? Maybe your team has been riding his arm on the way to the fantasy playoffs, and now you’re stuck with a lump...
Redskins bench McNabb
It’s Rex Grossman over Donovan McNabb. Again. And this time, it’s from the opening kickoff. The Redskins plan to start Grossman tomorrow against the Cowboys, benching a six-time Pro Bowl...
10 best bowl matchups
Unless you can find a tropical island that has satellite TV and 24/7 pizza delivery, there’s no way to watch all 35 bowl games. The Post helps you narrow down...
Ed Fountaine's Stakes Spot Plays
GRAVESEND Aqueduct, eighth race. Purse: $65,000. Six furlongs, 3-year-olds and up. Post: 3:44 p.m. LOWDOWN: Driven by Success regained his best stride last out with a romping win in the...
TMLA victimized by Nazareth's length, depth
For Kevin White, eight minutes would have been enough. “Too bad we couldn’t end the game after the first quarter," the Mary Louis coach joked. “It would have been nice....
City of Palms live blog, Day 2 recap
FORT MYERS, Fla. – The top high school basketball tournament in the country continues today with six nationally-ranked teams and a bevy of major Division I players stepping onto the...
Bergtraum-St. Peter's headlines Francis Lewis girls basketball event
What: HoopsQueens Winter Ball 2010 When: Sunday, Dec. 19Where: Francis Lewis HS (58-20 Utopia Parkway, Queens)Admission: $8 (Children: $5)SCHEDULE 11:30 a.m. – Bishop Kearney vs. Long Island Lutheran1 p.m. –...
CK ready for City of Palms challenge
FORT MYERS, Fla. – Christ the King coach Joe Arbitello credited his team’s stiff non-league schedule for the Royals' success last March and it doesn’t get much tougher for the...
Girls basketball roundup: Mavs suffer first loss
A banged-up Moore Catholic team couldn't pull out a win. Jessica Coscia scored 13 points in a 44-32 loss to Shaler (Pa.) in the 'A' bracket semifinals of the KSA...
Sidney sparks Nazareth to lopsided win over Hilltoppers
It took Nazareth some time to get used to coach Apache Paschall not being on the sidelines. The Lady Kingsmen's head man was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and is...
CHSAA boys basketball roundup: St. Ray's rallies to beat Stepinac
Trailing by 13 points midway through the third quarter, St. Raymond’s rallied to defeat Archbishop Stepinac, 62-55, in a non-league game in White Plains Friday night. Daniel Dingle had 19...
The Post's All-City boys soccer honors
New York City boys soccer belonged to the borough of Manhattan, but this time, it wasn’t Martin Luther King Jr. raising all the hardware. It was Beacon upsetting the Knights...
Naz coach Paschall hospitalized with congestive heart failure
Nazareth head girls basketball coach Apache Paschall is hospitalized after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure, which forced him to miss his team’s game against The Mary Louis Academy Friday...
Lincoln-Boys & Girls video package
Lincoln has won seven city titles and nine division crowns, yet the Railsplitters never could win in Bed-Stuy -- until Thursday. Check out video highlights from Lincoln's big win at...
PSAL boys basketball roundup: Stanely helps Columbus remain undefeated
Jamail Stanely poured in 24 points, Brandon Brinson added 18 and Xavier Norgbey had 16 as Columbus remained undefeated by topping Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy, 84-70, in Bronx A East boys basketball...
'Drop' kick
If the shuttering of OTB has you down-and-depressed (as opposed to down-and-out), Fox has a remedy. Of sorts. OK, granted the remedy is of the spectator sort rather than the...
Neil's role rage
Neil Patrick Harris is telling it like it is. The "How I Met Your Mother" star took to Twitter yesterday to shame Eric Braeden for breaking the bro code when...
Larry fine in finale
Larry King's final "Larry King Live" snared 2.24 million viewers Thursday night on CNN -- nearly quadrupling his season average. King's finale -- he signed off after 25 years --...
Cut Price: 'I'm leaving CBS News for good!'
Ousted "Early Show" weatherman Dave Price is leaving CBS News altogether. "Today is my last day at CBS News," Price said yesterday. "I've had my dream job at 'The Early...
Kid stuff
Today Santa and claws: Kringle trades reindeer for dragons at the fourth annual East Meets West Christmas Parade in Little Italy, which mixes traditional holiday floats with lion and dragon...
Delight at the museum
Not even Santa has an iPad for everyone — and in these tight times, you probably don’t either, especially if you’ve waited this long to start shopping. Happily, there are...
New cork city
Guests at your next holiday party might be flummoxed when told their glasses of vino may be vintage Brooklyn, Queens or Manhattan. In the last year, several New York City...
Fire union's 911 suit
The firefighters union is taking legal action to force the city to surrender recordings and call logs that they believe will take the 911 dispatcher who directed responders to a...
Naked cynicism
Prior to the passage of the health-care law, President Obama was at his most emphatic and condescending in insisting the penalty for defying the mandate to buy health insurance is...
Google pays $1.77B cash
Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin are raiding the search giant's piggybanks for $1.77 billion in cash and will officially own 111 Eighth Avenue on Wednesday after the mortgage is...
Suicide bombing comes home to Iran
Until a few years ago, the global map of Islamist suicide terrorism included a single tiny patch of territory: Israel. Since then, the map has expanded to include first Iraq,...
Man slain by NJ 'carjacker'
A carjacker leading police on a chase in New Jersey struck and killed a pedestrian yesterday, officials said. The alleged carjacker, Jamal Silveia, drove off in a municipal vehicle in...
Chimp-maul gal thanks hosp
STAMFORD, Conn. -- The Connecticut woman severely mauled by her friend's chimpanzee has made an emotional return to the hospital where she received emergency medical care. Charla Nash, wearing a...
'Earhart' bone tests due
Three bone fragments found on a deserted South Pacific island are being analyzed to determine if they belong to Amelia Earhart -- tests that could finally prove she died as...
Palin is ailin' in 2012 prez polls
Sarah Palin faces sizable obstacles if she decides to run for president in 2012, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Six in 10 voters say they would not...
Recall 'belts' GM
WASHINGTON -- GM is recalling about 100,000 2011 versions of the Cadillac SRX, Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain to modify defective seat belts that often failed in crash tests. The...
NY priest removed from clergy after being found guilty of abusing former student
The highest-ranking New York priest ever accused of abuse has been bounced from the clergy after a church court found him guilty of sexually abusing a former student, Catholic officials...
Espada's easy street hits a dead end
THE ISSUE: Charges of embezzlement and conspiracy against state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. * State Sen. Pedro Espada's recent antics would be funny if we, the taxpayers, weren't footing the...
Mex jail bust-out
MONTERREY, Mexico -- More than 140 inmates escaped near the US border early yesterday in what officials say is but the latest breach of Mexico's notoriously insecure prisons. The 148...
B'way Spidey in tangled web
The opening of rocker Bono's $65 million "Spider-Man" musical was officially delayed again yesterday, with the show's creators due to change portions of the expensive production before its new opening...
Hall of fame patriot
His baseball card said 6 feet, 185 pounds but he was a giant of a man. A legendary player who had a well-earned reputation as surly to many a media...
War on prayer
The City Council in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, cannot recite "The Lord's Prayer" before its meetings, the state Superior Court ruled yesterday. The court issued a preliminary injunction halting the...
Seinfeld tix top 1G in London
LONDON -- Scalpers were reselling tickets to Jerry Seinfeld's one-night-only London show in June next year for more than $1,500 yesterday. They put the tickets on sale at inflated prices...
Subway wheelchair heroes
A transit worker and three passersby saved the life of a man who lost control of his motorized wheelchair on a Harlem subway platform yesterday and fell to the tracks....
Fiend gets 25 yrs. in kid slay
A 27-year-old Brooklyn man was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison for teaming up with his girlfriend to beat her 4-year-old son to death. Steven Dadaille and Myrna Chenphang,...
Leaker details his work
Former Dell Inc. Global Supply Manager Daniel Devore told a judge last week that he leaked inside information to clients of Guidepoint Global, a consulting and research firm. Devore made...
Half-off sale of Astor's '$46M' home on Park
A mystery buyer has agreed in writing to obtain the late Brooke Astor's Park Avenue home -- but for way less than half of the original $46 million asking price....
Scan us, say air travelers
The majority of American travelers prefers the prospect of a full-body scan that captures near-naked images of their bodies to having to undergo a pat-down, a Fox News poll released...
SEC subpoenas big banks
Us regulators subpoenaed JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co., seeking information on the banks' role in bundling...
Parents saying, 'Internyet!'
No Web for you! Parents have rebooted the way they punish their kids, according to a University of Southern California survey that found that nearly twice as many yank Internet...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan Police are searching for the armed thug (left photo) who killed an ex-con in East Harlem, police said. The suspect pumped a bullet into Louis Spencer on Madison Avenue...
Jersey eyes NYC school big for ed. commish
TRENTON -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is crossing the Hudson River for his next education commissioner, tapping a former New York City education official who helped Mayor Bloomberg's last...
Feds warn GE on PCBs
ALBANY -- GE must remove more PCB-tainted sediment from the Hudson and take better river-bottom samples when it resumes dredging in the spring, the federal Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday....
Unions rip 'coward' Cuomo over tax cap
ALBANY -- Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo won't take office for two weeks, but two of the state's most powerful public-employee unions yesterday fired a salvo against the Democrat's marquee proposal to...
Shot cop's miracle
The Brooklyn cop nearly killed in a bloody gun battle with a teen shooter walked out of a Manhattan hospital yesterday to the deafening applause of his brothers in blue....
Scot scoots from US 'X Factor'
The executive tasked with getting Simon Cowell's "X Factor" off the ground in the US is quitting after less than a year on the job. Ellis Watson, the chief executive...
Union big nailed for 5 yrs.
Disgraced carpenters union shop steward Michael Brennan was slammed with a five-year prison sentence yesterday, despite his apology to a judge. "I will strive through acts of contrition to help...
'Virgin' actor gets life for brutal gal-pal stab
His next role won't be so funny. Actor Shelley Malil -- who earned fame for his role in the Hollywood comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" -- has been sentenced by a...
Business briefs
Card woe Visa slipped 29 cents to $66.90 and MasterCard dropped 1 percent, or $2.28, to $221.26 on news of proposed new Fed rules for debit cards.Sentence Former Jefferies Para...
Consumed with corn
THE ISSUE: Whether the government should be subsidizing farmers growing corn for ethanol. * Rich Lowry might as well be writing about ObamaCare, because the similarities between healthcare's and ethanol...
$preadin' lotto holiday cheer
Christmas came early for four lucky local lottery winners, including a Queens woman who scored a jackpot worth a minimum $5 million. Cynthia Canete says she'll use her windfall from...
City howls at doggie tie-up law
Doggone it, we've got enough to do! That was the city Health Department's response yesterday to a bill that would make it illegal to tie up a pet outdoors for...
CUNY ousts Dem cronies
Two politically connected Democrats are being booted by the City University's Medgar Evers College. Roger Green, a former state assemblyman, and John Flateau, a top aide to state Senate Democratic...
Cleared serial-slay john's pain
The shaken Long Island man cleared in the gruesome slayings of four women said yesterday he is just starting to emerge from a surreal "nightmare." "Do you know what it's...
Pressure 'cooker'
He manipulated stocks to get into prison -- and his blood pressure to try to get out of it, prosecutors said yesterday. John Mazzuto, 62, charged as the mastermind of...
The Gaul! Ford eyes Vogue ex
In a move that stunned international fashionistas, the Editor of French Vogue, Carine Roitfeld, is stepping down in January after 10 years atop the influential monthly. In recent years Roitfeld...
Both Arizona and Nevada sue BofA
Arizona and Nevada sued Bank of America Corp yesterday, accusing the largest US bank of routinely misleading consumers about home-loan modifications. The two lawsuits, filed by each state attorney general...
Jail for Uma talk stalker
A Manhattan judge tossed Uma Thurman's psychotic stalker back in jail without bail yesterday, pending the resolution of new contempt-of-court charges for allegedly continuing to call her home and cellphones...
Obama embraces GOP bigs as he signs tax-cut legislation
WASHINGTON -- President Obama yesterday took ownership of the Bush tax cuts. Obama signed into law an $858 billion bill negotiated with Republicans that extends Bush-era tax cuts for all...
Run-no-way train
"Looks like long night ahead." When TV reporter Stephen Tschida tweeted that message on a stalled New York-bound Amtrak train, he had no idea how long -- and cold --...
The lesson of OTB's collapse
The collapse of New York City's Off-Track Betting Corp. illustrates perfectly what can happen when elected officials fail to deal responsibly with archaic, money-losing, bureaucracy-burdened public institutions. OTB has been...
Dems' deflated dreams
Scarcely two years ago, the Democratic Party was in the driver's seat. Or so it seemed. Barack Obama had just won the biggest victory by a Democratic presidential candidate since...
Wiseguy's blue Christmas
Home for the holidays? Not for 93-year-old mobster John "Sonny" Franzese, a Brooklyn federal court ruled yesterday. The Colombo crime-family underboss had asked Judge Brian Cogan for a three-week medical...
No worries, just flurries
New Yorkers probably won't need their snowshoes tomorrow. A winter storm moving up the coast will likely skirt the city, leaving the Big Apple with nothing more than a dusting....
Channel 7 weather gal: I did not say 'rape'
TV weather babe Heidi Jones claimed yesterday she never used the word rape when telling cops she was attacked. "The press accounts that say she alleged rape or attempted rape...
Inmate tells of Madoff's anguish at son's suicide
BUTNER, NC -- Now he knows how it feels. Bernie Madoff looked "like someone had shot him in the stomach" after he got word that his eldest son had committed...
And the Oscar goes to . . . PS 22!
Members of a Staten Island fifth-grade chorus that has earned widespread acclaim for its heartfelt renditions of popular hits are getting the reward of a lifetime -- they'll be singing...
That $80M fraud? It's just a slip
Somehow $80 million in alleged fraud just slipped through the cracks, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday, when asked about the mind-blowing CityTime payroll scandal. "If you want to know how big...
Congress in budget showdown
WASHINGTON -- The lame-duck Congress was flapping its way toward an ugly conclusion yesterday, as lawmakers struggled to keep the government running and Democrats tried to push a last batch...
194G sunk into toy ship
A 37.5-inch-long replica of the ill-fated Lusitania, the star lot in an auction of antique toys collected by the late Malcolm Forbes and his sons, sold for $194,500 at Sotheby's...
Rapper confesses to murder from 17 years ago
It took nearly two decades, but the guilt of murder finally became too much for Trevell Coleman. Wednesday night, after years of living with the burden, Coleman, 36, walked into...
Chavez's $8B fuel tab
After a six-year legal battle, Venezuela strongman Hugo Chavez finally struck out in federal court this week and must honor an $8 billion bond debt his government ran up --...
Madoff bonanza
The widow of late philanthropist Jeffry Picower, who made billions in phony profits investing with Ponzi king Bernie Madoff, agreed to return a staggering $7.2 billion to federal prosecutors in...
Picower settlement brings joy but new questions
After months of being criticized for the apparent snail-like pace of his recovery of Bernie Madoff assets, Irving Picard now finds himself in an improbable statistical place -- he has...
'Hit-man hire' inmate guilty
A Rikers inmate pleaded guilty yesterday to trying to put out a hit on two witnesses who were going to finger him for a murder in Queens. Gino Florencia, accused...
Assange: Look for more leaks
WikiLeaker Julian Assange celebrated his first day out on bail yesterday by vowing to keep spilling secrets like a sieve -- including insider information on banks around the world. Assange...
No mercy for hit mom
A Long Island mom who hatched a diabolical plot to bump off her husband using a hit man was slapped with the maximum sentence yesterday -- despite an outpouring of...
TSA thief gets off without jail
PHILADELPHIA -- A former Transportation Security Administration officer will be on probation for stealing electronics from luggage he screened at Philadelphia International Airport. Authorities said 37-year-old Troy Davis, of Willingboro,...
Breast-cancer gals blast FDA 'halt' bid
Long Island mom-of-three Betsy Swerksy says she wouldn't be here right now if it wasn't for Avastin -- and that the Food and Drug Administration's recommendation that use of the...
Tempers 'run' high
Angry city runners held a marathon complaint session yesterday as they claimed that the New York Road Runners club was trampling all over them. A slew of raging runners blasted...
Aqueduct Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 6 fur; $42,000; alw; 3upHOT MINUTE returned from long layoff to set pace as 1-5 favorite; blew big lead in deep stretch, settled for third. PAPPA'S NICE CAT has...
Bill Smith At Yonkers
Post time: 7:10 p.m.Best Bet: Lahaye (7th)FIRST-mile; pace; $19,500; conditional3TidewaterTomahwk(Mnz)3-5-85-11Got 'Er Done(Y Gingras)6-1-44-14Palmer'sZTam(PLachance)2-4-43-12Clooney Drummond(Db)7-6-86-15RadarInstalledN(MLewis)4-4-18-16Magnum(G Brennan)4-6-110-17Top Flight(J Bartlett)8-6-510-18DomitianHanover(SBochrd)5-6-112-1SECOND-ml pc; $19,500; conditional5Dragon King(Y Gingras)6-5-38-52AllamericanFrg(JStrttn)7-7-24-11Hit Away(S Bouchard)6-7-46-13Thistricksforyou(GBrnnn)1-7-75-14Move On(C Manzi)4-3-48-16IndianGiverN(RAnderson)5-6-38-17CuttyShark(JPantaleano)6-3-712-18Fox Valley Seth(T Buter)5-5-830-1THIRD-mile; pace;...
Humphries on 'role' for Nets
TORONTO -- Somewhere, sometime Kris Humphries got it this season. When he arrived to the Nets last January, Humphries still had a scoring mentality. But trace his career trajectory and...
Bill Smith At Meadowlands
Post time: 7:00 p.m.Best Bet: Camshaft Hanover (12th)FIRST-mile; pace; $9,325; claiming6Rare Display(J Campbell)1-2-33-14Lifes Tricks(D Miller)4-6-89-21Kings Road(P Berry)2-1-17-22Memory Book(L Stalbaum)1-7-710-13YoungAndFoolish(TTetrck)7-9-38-15BeachStBogie(MKakaley)6-7-715-17Mojito Hall(A Miller)7-3-78-18FoxValleyQuantum(JDevax)2-1-715-19Mattifioso(J Marohn)4-3-412-110TiberHanover(JMeittinis)5-2-510-1SECOND-ml pc; $12,500; conditional9SunshineSuperman(DMillr)2-4-53-15John Carroll(J Campbell)2-4-19-24There He Is(G Grismore)1-6-58-11Shark...
Vujacic plays 27 minutes in Nets debut
TORONTO -- One of the things the Nets sought from Sasha Vujacic was energy. And he brought it last night. For a while. Forced to play longer than expected because...
Triple-double gives LeBron last laugh as Amar'e streak ends
LeBron James proved the point again, hammered it home completely. He could have been King of New York -- 41 regular-season games and beyond instead of just this one, magical,...
Jets' Pryce out, Revis limited but OK
Jets coach Rex Ryan said though Trevor Pryce is out for tomorrow's game in Pittsburgh with a hip injury, the Jets are expecting the defensive tackle to be ready the...
'Second' chances missed by Knicks in loss to Heat
After the Knicks lost their second straight game, Raymond Felton looked back on the rough second half last night and pointed out the obvious. "We missed shots," Felton said. "We're...
Steelers' Polamalu doubtful to face Jets
The sputtering Jets might catch a huge break tomorrow in Pittsburgh, because Steelers safety Troy Polamalu likely will miss the game due to a strained right Achilles tendon and a...
Devils 'break' down, lose to Predators
The Power of Positive Thinking doesn't replace a worthless breakout. Not everything the Devils do wrong is coach John MacLean's fault, but the primary cause of their biggest failure --...
Brooklyn boxer gets back in 'motion'
Danny Jacobs is excited about getting his "motion back in the ocean." At least that's the way he described getting back in the ring for the first time since losing...
Bosh learning to win with Heat
Everyone may have loved talking about where all of the marquee free agents were going to go last summer -- a list headlined by LeBron James. But Chris Bosh was...
Eagles' Samuel has knack for 'Mann' coverage
PHILADELPHIA -- No one could blame Asante Samuel for rushing back to the Eagles' lineup this week. After all, when a Manning brother is under center for the opposing team,...
Giants' Seubert on 'guard' for switch
Rich Seubert said he will have no problem switching back to his normal spot at left guard on the Giants' offensive line. "I'm playin', I'm happy," Seubert said yesterday. "We're...
Tomorrow's Aqueduct Entries
Post Time: 12:30 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderFIRST6 fur; $17,000; clm($7,500); 3up(f)PNHorse Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1Money's Sweet(L),120L Rivera5-1-2DiPrima 5-12Minister's Fate(L),120J Davis3-2-4Signore 4-13Eleni's Hope(L),114B Pedroza3-4-11JImperio 12-14Primed to Be Ready(L),120J Pezua8-7-1Toscano...
Wild week over, time for Knicks to get busy winning
The week had been building to this, a slow rumble growing into an earthquake inside the walls of Madison Square Garden, Sunday to Wednesday to yesterday, Nuggets to Celtics to...
Today's Sports on Air
BasketballNoonUSC at KansasESPNNoonLoyola (Md.) at GeorgetownSNY1 p.m.Miami at Central FloridaMSG Plus2 p.m.South Carolina at Ohio StateCBS2 p.m.Arkansas at Texas A&MESPN22 p.m.UIC vs. IllinoisBIG 103:30 p.m.Florida at Kansas StateMSG Plus4 p.m.Texas...
O'Hara's return lets Giants put it all on line
Alongside the blue Giants helmet inside Shaun O'Hara's locker hangs a small, color picture of a smiling Wellington Mara. O'Hara has been out for six weeks with a Lisfranc sprain...
Yankees sign Mets reliever Feliciano
The Yankees did not have to look far to find the latest addition to their bullpen. Pedro Feliciano is making the move from Queens to The Bronx after agreeing in...
Yankees' Wood returns 'home' to Cubs
Kerry Wood and the Cubs finalized a $1.5 million, one-year contract yesterday, sending the right-handed reliever -- who spent the second half of last season as the Yankees' primary setup...
Stopping Eagles RB key for Giants
Perry Fewell and Terrell Thomas both say their focus is on LeSean McCoy. According to the Giants defensive coordinator and cornerback, the biggest key on the Eagles' offense, the explosive...
Jets coach says Billick 'wrong' about wall
Rex Ryan objected to Brian Billick in essence calling him a liar for saying he did not know about the Jets' illegal player wall set up along the team's sideline....
Desperate Jets take on Steelers
Jets coach Rex Ryan has talked loudly about the Super Bowl being the Jets' birthright, but two straight no-touchdown losses have created a sense of desperation heading into tomorrow's game...
Rangers look to get Gaborik going
PHILADELPHIA -- The Rangers are the fourth-highest scoring team in the conference as they head into today's showdown with the Eastern leading Flyers, the Blueshirts' production of 3.0 goals per...
The Post Line
NFLTomorrowFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogGIANTS 3 2½(46) EaglesSTEELERS 5½ 6 (36) JetsRAMS+2 1 (43½)ChiefsTITANS 1 1½(47½)TexansCOLTS 5 5 (48½)JaguarsPANTHERS 1½ 2½(38) CardinalsBENGALS 1 1½(40) BrownsDOLPHINS 6½ 5½(40) BillsCOWBOYS 6 7 (45½)RedskinsBUCCANEERS 4½...
Gritty Knicks more fun than Heat
Sure it was a bit sickening to watch. Seeing LeBron James seemingly score at will was like being stabbed in the heart all again. It was bad enough last summer...
Sports shorts
NBA: Yao done for season Rockets center Yao Ming will miss the rest of the season because of the stress fracture in his left ankle. The injury was found Thursday...
Nets fade again in loss to Raptors
TORONTO -- Stop us if you have heard this before. The heck with it. Stop us right now. You have heard it before. The Nets, following a highlight reel-worthy breakaway...
LeBron denies being afraid of New York
LeBron James said he's no chicken. James denied before last night's romp over the Knicks he chickened out of taking his talents to Broadway because he was afraid of its...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYDec. 18SUNDec. 19MONDec. 20TUEDec. 21WEDDec. 22THUDec. 23FRIDec. 24KnicksCleveland7:30TV -- MSG NetworkRadio ESPN 1050 AMNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEOk.C.7:30MSGESPNNOGAMENOGAMENetsNOGAMEAtl.1:00YESWBBRNOGAMEMem.8:00YESWNYMN.O.8:00YESWFANNOGAMENOGAMERangersPhiladelphia1:00TV -- MSG NetworkRadio ESPN 1050 AMNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMET.B.7:00MSGESPNNOGAMEIslandersPhoenix7:00TV -- MSGPlus NetworkRadio WHRU 88.7 FMNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMET.B.7:00MSG+WHRUDevs7:00MSG+2WHRUNOGAMEDevilsAtlanta7:00TV ...
Tourney to test Royals
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Christ the King coach Joe Arbitello credited his team's stiff non-league schedule for the Royals' success last March, and it doesn't get much tougher for the...
Weird but true
A retired aerospace engineer feels so bad about California's financial troubles, he has decided to pay back the state for unemployment compensation he received in the 1960s. Dennis Ferguson, 74,...
New Jersey product gets first shot with USC at Kansas
No one wants to go to Allen Fieldhouse. The No. 3 Jayhawks (9-0), playing at arguably the loudest arena in the nation, have won 64 straight at home, the longest...
Spike does the 'Right Thing' in DUMBO
Stacey Chapman pinched herself to make sure that it actually was Hollywood heavyweight Spike Lee chatting with her at the powerHouse Arena in DUMBO on Thursday night.The excited Crown Heights...
Knicks cooked by Heat, fall 113-91
A deafening, electric Garden crowd became quietly disappointed tonight in the third quarter when Miami's hated Dream Team and the despised LeBron James showed how good they can be and...
Man in wheelchair rescued from subway tracks
A transit worker and three passersby saved the life of a man who lost control of his motorized wheelchair on a Harlem subway platform last night and fell to the...