May 15, 2011
Red Sox sweep Yankees with 7-5 win
Despite being the preseason favorite to win the rugged AL East, the Boston Red Sox are finding that reaching .500 in May after an 0-6 start feels A-OK. Kevin Youkilis...
Durant, Thunder too much for Grizzlies in Game 7
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Kevin Durant followed his worst playoff performance with one of his best, taking the Oklahoma City Thunder from the brink of elimination to the Western Conference finals....
Bro of NBA star Sebastian Telfair busted with guns in B'klyn
The teenage brother of former NBA player Sebastian Telfair was nabbed with three loaded guns in Brooklyn --and then tried to bribe a cop into letting him go, police said...
AL East-leading Rays drop second straight to Orioles
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- J.J Hardy hit a grand slam, Nick Markakis added a solo shot and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Tampa Bay Rays 9-3 on Sunday. The Orioles...
School report cards fail: Liu
When it comes to school report cards, the city isn’t making the grade. Education officials use a system to grade each school that changes wildly each year, doling out poor...
Djokovic now 37-0 after beating Nadal in Italian final
ROME -- Novak Djokovic extended his recent mastery over top-ranked Rafael Nadal with a 6-4, 6-4 win in the Italian Open final Sunday that stretched the Serb's unbeaten start this...
Wild fans have memorial for Boogaard
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota Wild fans are gathering at Xcel Energy Center on Sunday night to honor enforcer and fan favorite Derek Boogaard. Boogaard was found dead in his...
Posada apologizes to Girardi; out of Yankees lineup again
Jorge Posada has apologized to Yankees manager Joe Girardi, but is not in Sunday night’s lineup against the Red Sox."I just talked to Girardi,” Posada said Sunday afternoon a day...
Kovalchuk scores twice, but Russia loses bronze medal game
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Roman Cervenka scored a hat trick to lead the Czech Republic to a 7-4 victory over Russia and the bronze medal at the ice hockey world championship...
Brain of Rangers' Boogaard donated for trauma research
BOSTON -- Derek Boogaard's family has donated his brain to researchers who will check for damage that might have resulted from his career as an NHL enforcer. Boogaard's agent and...
Zurich votes to keep suicide tourism alive
ZURICH — Voters in Zurich have overwhelmingly rejected calls to ban assisted suicide or to outlaw the practice for nonresidents. Zurich's cantonal voters by about a 4-to-1 margin Sunday defeated...
Turner's five RBIs lift Mets over Astros
HOUSTON — Justin Turner homered and drove in a career-high five runs, and Jason Pridie hit a go-ahead single and stole home to help the Mets beat the Houston Astros...
At least 16 protesters killed in Israel border clashes
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters Sunday along three hostile borders, including the frontier with Syria, leaving 16 people dead and dozens more wounded in an unprecedented wave...
Cheryl Cole, Ashley's ex, to X Factor
OK, it's only barely soccer-related. But Cheryl Cole _ the ex-wife of England and Chelsea star Ashley Cole _ was hand-picked by Simon Cowell to be a judge on the X Factor this...
Space shuttle Endeavour cleared for Monday launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA unanimously approved a Monday morning launch attempt for the space shuttle Endeavour, after reviewing all the repairs for an electrical problem that grounded the next-to-last...
Beltran back in Mets lineup
Carlos Beltran returned to the Mets lineup Sunday after sitting out Saturday with a right eye infection.The right fielder went 0-for-4 with a strike out batting cleanup in the Mets'...
Rangers, Edu, secure SPL three-peat with five-star last-day display
KILMARNOCK, Scotland -- Scottish soccer giant Rangers achieved its third successive Premier League (SPL) title in style Sunday with a 5-1 thrashing away at Kilmarnock on the final day of...
K.J. Choi outlasts Toms to win Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — In a playoff for the first time on the PGA Tour, K.J. Choi conquered an island green and more pressure than he can remember Sunday...
David Beckham nets big wealth gain, Britain's 2nd-richest sports figure
LOS ANGELES -- Galaxy superstar David Beckham saw his personal fortune rise to $218 million (£135 million) over the past year, but the gain was still not enough Sunday to make...
Rooney mocks Liverpool with razor wit as Man Utd wins record 19th league title
MANCHESTER, England -- Manchester United star Wayne Rooney was sporting the result of his razor-sharp wit Sunday as he celebrated clinching the English Premier League (EPL) title. The striker was...
'Planker' falls to death in Australia
BRISBANE, Australia — A man who fell seven stories to his death in Australia on Sunday was believed to have been participating in a new craze called "planking," in which...
Grading teachers
Gov. Cuomo yesterday wrote Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the state Board of Regents, urging a drastic change of direction as the state Education Department develops a new teacher-evaluation system. The...
NYC staff cashing in
They would form the 67th largest city in the nation, just ahead of Newark, and fill six Yankee Stadiums. If they pooled their annual paychecks, they’d have $13.7 billion —...
Sony begins restoring PlayStation Network
TOKYO — Sony began restoring its PlayStation Network service in the United States and Europe on Sunday after shutting down the service almost a month ago due to a massive...
Rangers' Boogaard was in NHL 'program' before death
As loved ones, friends, teammates and the extended hockey world mourn the loss of Derek Boogaard and await the findings of an autopsy performed yesterday in Minneapolis, The Post has...
Boogard's death leaves former coach Lemaire lamenting loss
His coach for the first four of Derek Boogaard’s six NHL seasons, a forlorn and somber Jacques Lemaire yesterday tried without success to make sense of Boogaard’s death. “It’s always...
Dickey scuffles again as Mets fall
HOUSTON — All of a sudden he is B.P. Dickey. Need somebody to throw batting practice? R.A. Dickey has become that guy for the Mets. He has done it for...
The Rumble: Darling-Viola to recall classic matchup on SNY
SNY is commemorating the 30th anniversary of The Greatest Game Ever Played in college baseball -- the epic pitcher's duel between Ron Darling of Yale and Frank Viola of St....
Edwards sends New Heights into iS8 quarters; Real Scout advances shorthanded
The moment the runner left his hands, Corey Edwards knew he had sent New Heights-Artie into the iS8/Nike Spring High School Classic quarterfinals. The shot came at an awkward angle...
Randolph is a key reason Grizz keep Thundering on
With the Mavericks resting for what seems to be about a month, the Grizzlies and Thunder — brashly disregarding the NBA’s curfew for newborn contenders — return to Oklahoma City...
Creeps chase Mets' Thole off Twitter
What generously is referred to as “social media” too often shows up as antisocial media. For example: Mets catcher Josh Thole, who has shown himself through interviews and acts of...
Low payroll actually helping Rays win
Baseball poverty isn’t a blessing. But it is not quite the curse you probably think it is. Exhibit A is the Tampa Bay Rays, who for all intents and purposes...
Andre Ward advances to super six finals
Andre Ward retained his WBA super welterweight championship and advanced to the finals of the World Boxing Classic with a unanimous decision over Arthur Abraham Saturday night at the Home...
Craziest games in Yankees-Mets rivalry
Fading into the fog of history are a couple of decades’ worth of spring training games, inevitably beamed back to New York, the Mets and the Yankees sharing a field...
Posada refuses to play as conflicting stories emerge about why
The uneasy relationship between Jorge Posada and the Yankees turned bizarre and potentially ugly yesterday when the slumping designated hitter refused to play after being dropped to ninth in the...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Freddy Garcia
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the 34-year-old Yankees right-hander who will start tonight's series finale vs. the Red Sox. Q: Do you know how intense the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry...
Yankees forced to deal with rotting Core
This was about Jorge Posada yesterday and a fracture with the organization he loves. But this is not just a Posada problem for the Yankees, as bad as the blood...
Yankees drop second straight against Red Sox
Jorge Posada was the smart one: he asked out of a Yankees lineup so limp you could snake it through a small key hole. Worried that a stiff lower back...
Don't miss
Well, she finally threw him out. Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) moved her cheating husband into a new apartment. Back at work, Alicia and Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), who slept with her...
Reel good
RENT (2005) Sunday, 2:30 p.m., WWOR From the heartbreaking, exhilarating, Pulitzer and Tony award-winning Broadway rock opera of the same name comes the quintessential late -1980s musical about seven friends...
Raimondi's PSAL softball mock seeding
Yes, it’s that time again – the eve of softball seeding when I provide a logical list of playoff teams in order only for the PSAL committee to throw rationality...
Wine -- it's all in your head
What’s in a wine glass? Figuring that out can be tricky, even embarrassing, for casual tasters and experts alike. A legendary wine master, the late Harry Waugh, was once asked...
Over the border
The Latino vote is the new weather — everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it. No one doubts the growing political importance of Latinos: The group...
Sea's Dawson, Scaramella make most of starts against Moore
Alannah Dawson has come to every game prepared for her big chance, but most times is left to cheer on her more experienced St. Joseph by the Sea teammates. “I...
Behind the curtain of the United States' most secretive military base, Area 51
Area 51. It’s the most famous military institution in the world that doesn’t officially exist. If it did, it would be found about 100 miles outside Las Vegas in Nevada’s...
Bloomy's $hadow city government
Through a web of charitable donations, backdoor payments and private bonuses, Mayor Bloomberg has created a shadow government that caters to his whims and caulks over budget cuts. A Post...
NYC’s puppet advocate
Memo to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio: You’re supposed to advocate for the public — not the teachers union. Now, we understand that the United Federation of Teachers held the...
Pakistan’s perfidies
Ever since Osama bin Laden was killed on Pakistani soil, Islamabad has been playing a dangerous game. Having accommodated the world’s arch-terrorist for six years, Pakistan is taking a three-pronged...
Cautela, offensive outburst help Sea blast past Moore for Island title
Jackie Cautela was determined to set things right. The St. Joseph by the Sea ace wasn’t on the mound when her team fell in the late innings by a run...
Trading stock in private companies explodes
Barry Silbert is best known as a player in the sizzling equity market. Silbert, 34, is chief executive officer of New York-based SecondMarket Holdings where trading of shares of private,...
Madge picks Rihanna
Can flame-haired pop star Rihanna sell a product? Madonna,, an investor in Vita Coco, the New York-based coconut water company, is betting the young singer can sell millions of gallons...
Margin squeeze, not Ben, reverses high gas prices
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, Right? Right. For two years now, the American public has heard the term "deleveraging" directed at us, the citizens. Pare...
Credit balance woes hit hard
The Great Recession has taken a toll on the health and credit worthiness of America's middle- and lower-income families. That's the conclusion of a report by public interest group Demos,...
Online child protection app
As much as you use social networks and instant messaging to communicate at work, you might not want to let your kids run free online. But if you don't feel...
Labor's jobless numbers require plenty of work
Dear John: Why are extended benefits not being counted? Extended claims increased recently to nearly 4.4 million people. F.M. Dear F.M. The US Labor Department counts unemployment claims lots of...
The enemy within
Spilling insider tips over the phone has become taboo on Wall Street, thanks to Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's aggressive campaign against insider-trading and his unanimous, headline-grabbing legal win this...
TV’S $9.2B pageant
Network TV’s beauty pageant begins tomorrow. The big five broadcast networks will wine and dine and hopefully wow Madison Avenue and their clients, America’s biggest corporations into committing ad dollars...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS ADELE R&B diva hailed as music industry savior as US album sales buck six-year losing trend. TERRY LUNDGREN Macy’s boss reports a quarterly profit of $131M, raises full-year forecast....
Mike lesson not learned
The winter of public discon tent with Mayor Bloom berg has turned into the spring of white-hot anger. If he's got any more Kool- Aid in his emergency kit, Bloomy...
Bridge toll mounts
A treacherous Queensboro Bridge offramp that has already claimed two lives was the scene of another spectacular crash early yesterday. A speeding Volkswagen lost control on a hairpin turn at...
'Prom'ise to be kept
SHELTON, Conn. -- A high-school headmistress has reversed her decision to ban a student from the prom because he hung his prospective date's invitation at the school entrance in 12-inch...
US imam busted as Talibanker
MIAMI -- An imam and two of his sons were arrested yesterday on charges they provided some $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban, officials said. Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76,...
Rogue-nation duo nuke it up
North Korea and Iran appear to have been regularly exchanging ballistic-missile technology in violation of United Nations sanctions, according to a UN report. The illicit transfers had "trans-shipment through a...
Death house an illegal SRO
The Brooklyn building where two men died in a devastating fire was an illegal SRO run like a flophouse for vagrants, officials and neighbors said yesterday. As many as 10...
Probers hot on trail of Osama's moneymen
The clock is ticking for US investigators trying to track down al Qaeda's moneymen -- a shady network of financiers that has been funding the terror group and that may...
Bird strike on jet out of JFK
The fowl odor meant either a good meal or big trouble was cooking. A "very big bird" got sucked into an engine on a JetBlue plane taking off at Kennedy...
New flood woe in La.
In a last-minute attempt to spare New Orleans and Baton Rouge from severe flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers, for the first time in nearly 40 years, has opened an...
'Shore' bores on loose
In a city boasting world-class art, Renaissance architecture, famous museums, gourmet food and high fashion, The Sitch chose the gym. Jersey Shore reality star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and a...
It's 'choc a block' cafe rage
Where does the sidewalk end? Try Little Italy. Restaurateurs and residents are losing their lunch over outdoor cafes, with 1,020 of the sidewalk spots now operating citywide, up from 884...
'Cop stalk' wild man arrested
A Manhattan plainclothes cop was mowed down by an obsessed Westchester man who may have been stalking the officer's partner since a drug bust 2½ years ago, sources said yesterday....
Vito pal's 23G mystery gig
It pays to be a friend of the Democratic Party. The politically connected counselor of Brooklyn Democratic boss Vito Lopez pulled down $5,400 for a temporary job with the state...
IMF's global money mission
Dominique Strauss-Kahn heads one of the world's most powerful international organizations -- one capable of loaning massive amounts of money to struggling countries. The International Monetary Fund was created in...
Hot name for li'l cuties: Brooklyn!
Now that's a baby bump! Brooklyn, the borough, is fast becoming the inspiration for Brooklyn, the baby, around the country. The name was the 34th most popular for girls in...
Huck, no - he won't run
Mike Huckabee is out of the 2012 race for the White House. "All the factors say go, but my heart says no," the former Arkansas governor, surprise winner of the...
South St. Seaport shore-up
Fair sailing lies ahead for the troubled South Street Seaport Museum under a deal that will force execs to walk the plank but save downtown's tall ships, sources told The...
New 'X Factor' judge Cheryl Cole is a Brit hard to understand
Meet Cheryl Cole -- she's British, 27, and Simon Cowell, who has handpicked her to be one of his fellow judges on the "X Factor" this fall, reckons she could...
French pol a womanizer
International Monetary Fund Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is no stranger to scandals surrounding his frequent affairs. In fact, he's been described as an "insistent" womanizer. Last year, French journalist Tristane Banon...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Staten Island A dog walker made a grisly discovery on the Livingston waterfront at about 1 p.m. yesterday -- the body of Karl Reina, 19, who had been shot in...
City fines for bakers fuzzin'
They’ve got a bad case of bread head. The state gave out 107 violations in 2009 and 2010 for workers waltzing around without hair restraints at commercial bakeries in the...
Fiend 'fess that freed 'Jogger 5'
The rape and assault of a young white, female jogger in Central Park in 1989 paralyzed and infuriated a city in the grip of rampant crime and racial tension. The...
Espada's payday Mayday
Pity poor Pedro Espada. The former state senator indicted on federal charges of looting his Bronx health-care clinics is sniveling that he can't make a living. Espada -- who lives...
Buses hit new 'low'
This bus comes up short. The MTA's newest buses have New Yorkers scratching their heads at the numskull design, where riders 5-foot-2 or taller can easily hit their noggins on...
Mummy's the word for pet-wrap star
She’s the queen of the vile. A Brooklyn "sorceress" is the go-to ghoul for grieving pet owners looking to give their lost loved ones eternal life — by making them...
E-ZPass mail-ins take one more toll
E-ZPasses could be making the MTA some E-Z money. An agency recall of 1.2 million E-ZPasses that began last month could result in bogus toll charges as unprotected passes cross...
Municipal pension funds 'cop' out on baring data
At the same time that Mayor Bloomberg is pressing the state for urgent pension reforms, four of the city's five pension systems are hiding basic data about their members from...
Mets has-been Bonilla gets $30M last laugh
Bobby Bonilla is about to add insult to injury. The beleaguered Mets -- hammered by Bernie Madoff's fraud, free-agent flops and ballpark tumbleweeds -- will soon start forking over $1.2...
Two NYPD cops with history of hooker trouble being eyed in LI killings
Two NYPD cops are being eyed in the Long Island serial slayings after investigators learned they got into trouble for hiring prostitutes while working for the department, according to sources...
10,000 bikes
We read with great interest Heather Haddon’s article on New York City’s proposed bike-share program that mentions our company, Worksman Cycles, and makes note of several of our concerns regarding...
Tix fix blitz
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s letter to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly regarding his “deep concern” about the “alleged attempts” of police officers to cover up incidents of domestic-violence and driving-while-intoxicated...
‘Hangover’ hurtful
As the parent of a child with disabilities, the opening paragraph in “Nuclear Knuckleheads,” (May 11) which highlights the proper way to say the R-word, is offensive, hurtful and shocking....
They don't know Jack
In four short months during the summer and fall of 1888, a man known as “Jack the Ripper” killed five, perhaps six, prostitutes in a horrific and dramatic fashion on...
In my library: Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell can always tell when a book’s welling up inside her. “There’s usually a moment I either get riled up or realize how riled up I am,” she says....
That '70s show
A Tale of Movies, The Mob (and Sex) by Peter Bart Weinstein Books When Paramount Pictures was considering making a film version of the novel “The Godfather,” one Hollywood director...
Plazas work
The city not only has a clue about the effect of the plazas at Times and Herald squares, it also has the GPS data from 2 million Midtown taxi trips...
Required reading
2030 The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks (St. Martin’s) In his debut novel, film funnyman Brooks imagines a near future in which cancer is cured...
Early Coppola
Good news for horror buffs: "Dementia 13" (1963) -- Francis Ford Coppola's first mainstream movie, after turning out two nudie flicks -- has been handsomely remastered and released in a...
Countdown to mate
In the computer age, fans not only can follow grandmaster games played thousands of miles away in real time, they can literally count down to checkmate. Cyber-spectators watching the final...
Bridge
I HAD found Unlucky Louie in the club lounge, immersed in his first-of-the-month bill-paying ritual. Plowing through a stack of mail, he came to an envelope that read "This is...
Loose Cannon
So what if he’s married to one of the most famous, five-octave-range-singing, Hello Kitty-loving superstar artists on the planet? For comedian Nick Cannon, 30, being Mariah Carey’s baby daddy means...
Biggie’s shorty
This kid could be B.I.G. Take a look at 14-year-old C.J. Wallace in the new Will Ferrell film “Everything Must Go,” and he’ll probably seem familiar. Especially if you’re from...
Is Carla Bruni broody?
“We’re going to miss her. We’re happy for her because she’s living a great moment. And we love her.” Woody Allen’s seemingly innocuous words have only added to the storm...
Welcome to new deli
Since Torrisi Italian Specialties opened last year on Mott Street in NoLIta, the dinner menu has offered innovative twists on traditional Italian fare. Their lunch menu, however, mounted on the...
You got served!
Get a last-minute outfit delivered to your door! The problem with attending fancy parties that begin at 6 p.m. on a weekday is that you have to design your evening...
The secret life of Liz's daughter
On a two-lane country road a few hours north of Manhattan lives Liza Todd, a sculptor and animal lover, divorced mother of two and completely “ordinary citizen” who also happens...
Castaway kitty
It’s no secret — cats hate water. Which is why the arrival of a small calico cat with salt-crusted fur on Governors Island three weeks ago is such a mystery...
A touch of lass
There are certain things that audiences expect from a “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. We demand swordplay. We demand swashbuckling. We demand wooden legs and head scarves. And most of...
O Captain! My Captain!
When the day finally comes that Johnny Depp perishes in a tragic mascara mishap, the character Jack Sparrow will likely be considered his most memorable role. The crusty pirate will...
Tomorrow's Philadelphia Parx Entries
Post Time: 12:25 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderFIRST6 fur; $23,000; clm($7,500); 3upPNHorse Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1Right Nice Philly(L),115K Pellot7-5-1Manahan 12-12Band of Outsiders(L),120JHampshire7-5-7Dandy 8-13Desirable Desiree(L),120KCarmouche3-4-4Guerrero 7-24Sunjet Drive(L),124S Elliott1-1-2Servis...
Coach fears Red Bulls are out of practice
With three games in a span of eight days, and not a single high-intensity practice in that span, a worried Hans Backe acknowledged tonight's game against visiting Chivas USA (7...
Knicks' Barnett urges Hall to acknowledge '50-year injustice'
Knicks legend Dick Barnett wants the championship teams he played for to be enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. But he's not talking about the Knicks, who won...
Sway Away off to Preakness
Early on the Triple Crown trail, the bandwagon was building for the California colt Sway Away after he finished a fast-closing second in the Feb. 20 San Vicente, his first...
Monmouth Park Results
FIRST- 1 1/16m; $20,000; cl; 3up3Brown's Hill (Serpa) 6.803.802.604Lockup (Mariano)5.603.201Supah Alex (Figueroa)5.80 Scr: Toots, Gentle Edwin. * Exacta (3-4) $35.00 * $1 Superfecta (3-4-1-8) $230.40 * $1 Trifecta (3-4-1) $82.30Winner...
Hockey honchos have Avery's back
It should have been no surprise that Sean Avery had the courage of his convictions to endorse legalization of same-sex marriage in New York in the video he recorded for...
We're sorry, Jorge, but bat's all for you
* Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman, it's time to smell the coffee: Jorge Posada needs to become the designated sitter. He had an amazing run as a true Yankee and...
It's time for Tiger to take major time off to properly heal
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- There's only one sensible course of action Tiger Woods needs to take in his desperate attempt to get back to where he was a year-and-a-half...
Hollywood Results
FIRST- 6 fur(T); $52,000; cl; 3up3DnceWthGble (Bjrno) 4.803.202.605Lucky Mr. K (Gomez)7.004.602WarnsSmmergld (Vlnzla)3.60 * $1 Ext. (3-5) $15.20 * Quinella (3-5) $15.80 * $1 Superf. (3-5-2-6) $265.50 * $1 Tri.(3-5-2) $52.10Winner...
Monmouth Park Analysis by John DaSilva
Post time: 12:50 p.m.All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1 mile; $24,000; cl($16,0); 3upASYLUM fourth in last start this distance. L'ANIMAUX tired at Tampa Bay last out. DUTCH CAY showed...
Restless Durant set for Game 7
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Kevin Durant had trouble sleeping, trying to shake off the worst playoff performance yet in his young NBA career. After the league's scoring champion managed just 11...
Today's Sports on Air
Auto Racing8 a.m.MotoGP: Grand Prix of FranceSPEED12:30 p.m.NASCAR: Sprint Cup, Dover 400FOXBaseball1:30 p.m.Phillies at BravesTBS2 p.m.Mets at AstrosSNY, WFAN (660 AM)2:10 p.m.Giants at CubsWGN8 p.m.Red Sox at YankeesESPN, WCBS (880...
Stopping Bulls' star crucial for Heat
MIAMI -- LeBron James will take some turns guarding Derrick Rose in the Eastern Conference finals. So will Dwyane Wade. Mike Bibby, Mario Chalmers and even Chris Bosh in some...
Belmont Charts
May 14, 2011 Cloudy And Fast. Turf: Firm. ©2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST -6 fur(T); $41,000; alw; 3upOff: 1:01 p.m.St.good, won drivingTime: 22.25, 44.78, 56.47, 1:08.39.Trainer: Patricia FarroWinner: B G,...
Hondo an A's supporter
Hondo failed to gin up a victory with the Cards yesterday, which caused the accounts payable to move back into four figures at 1,025 prudis. Today, Mr. Aitch will send...
F-Mart bids for more playing time with Mets
HOUSTON -- The next trick for the Mets might be trying to find at-bats for Fernando Martinez. They certainly don't want it to happen in yesterday's manner: The team's hottest...
Mets' Beltran sits with eye illness
HOUSTON -- Carlos Beltran's watery right eye is the Mets' latest health concern. The right fielder was scratched from yesterday's lineup after waking up with a swollen right eye. Following...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-mile; pace; $11,000; cond.7Polaris N (Sears) 5.203.002.404Blue Claw (AMiller)5.203.606Lets Go Blue (Gingras)4.40* Exacta (7-4) $20.40 * Trifecta (7-4-6) $104.00SECOND-mile; pace; $15,000; cond.1Real Special (Gingras) 6.404.002.602Sir JnthnZTm(MLchnce)5.803.607Alex Bullville (Pierce)2.80Scr: John Carroll...
Weather pushes back leaders at Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- A weather delay of four and a half hours sabotaged the third round of the Players Championship yesterday, but it didn't rob the tournament of...
Jurrjens stymies Phillies
Martin Prado homered and drove in three runs, Jair Jurrjens took a perfect game into the sixth inning and the Braves beat the Phillies 5-3 yesterday in Atlanta. Jurrjens (5-0)...
Selfish Yankees are pretenders, not contenders
There has been a sense of selfishness around the Yankees for quite some, and it's not just Jorge Posada's frustration about his .165 average and the fact that manager Joe...
Lightning bury Bruins with 3 quick goals in Game 1
BOSTON -- The swift-skating Tampa Bay Lightning wasted little time taking control of the Eastern Conference finals. Surprising playoff scorer Sean Bergenheim began a stretch of three Tampa Bay goals...
Sports shorts
NFL: Ochocinco lasts 1.5 seconds on bull NFL receiver Chad Ochocinco backed up his promise to ride a 1,500-pound bull on the Professional Bull Riders circuit, earning $10,000 for making...
Red Sox's Beckett baffles Yankees -- again
The Red Sox were 1-7, facing the wrath of all of New Englanders who were pretty much begging the Braves to return to Boston. That's when Josh Beckett squared off...
Soriano missing from Yankees bullpen
The Rafael Soriano saga continues. With the Yankees trailing the Red Sox, 2-0, in the seventh inning last night, Joe Girardi's eighth-inning reliever was not in the bullpen. And when...
The Post Line
NBATodayFavoriteLine (O/U)UnderdogTHUNDER6½ (192) GrizzliesBULLS2 (181½)HeatOdds to Win SeriesHeat$165-190BullsNHLTonightFavoriteLineUnderdogCANUCKS$150-170SharksOdds to Win SeriesCanucks$150-170SharksHome team in CAPS
Red Sox's Ortiz can relate to Posada
David Ortiz may have the best understanding in the Boston clubhouse of what Jorge Posada is going through over on the Yankees side. "DH-ing [stinks]," Ortiz said. "DH-ing is not...
Posada at odds with Yankees GM
The uneasy relationship between Joe Girardi and Jorge Posada has been an open secret around the Yankees since they were the team's catchers in the late 1990s. But, if anything,...
Red Sox's Gonzalez uses Ichiro approach to homer off Yankees ace
Adrian Gonzalez had seen CC Sabathia now three times. The results? "He broke two bats and struck me out," the Red Sox first baseman said. So Gonzalez figured he would...
Yankees, Posada can't get sit story straight
The uneasy relationship between Jorge Posada and the Yankees turned bizarre and potentially ugly yesterday when the slumping designated hitter refused to play after being dropped to ninth in the...
New rules in works for anglers
The saltwater registry in New York is official and it looks like the new regulations on black sea bass have been set. The New York Marine Resources Advisory Council (MRAC)...
Ellsbury fuels Red Sox with clutch double
After sitting out all but 18 games last season, Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury wants a day off as much as an impacted molar. So when he was having...
Vic Cangialosi's Churchill Grade
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Best & worst dramas of 2011
Amid the overload of singing contests, and perplexing number of cake-based reality shows, the scripted series continued its comeback fight this season. Mama counts down the best and worst dramas...
Thy neighbor's wife
You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family. That saying rings truer than ever on the premiere of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.” In the first...
‘Hawaii’ lost and found
Daniel Dae-Kim has moved from perhaps the most complicated show on TV — “Lost” — to one that requires little more of the viewer than a love of explosions and...
Meet market: Biker babe racing to find love
Danielle, a 27-year-old furniture and lighting designer, loves her pink ’70s Schwinn bike. When she’s not riding around Brooklyn on two wheels, she’s got her eyes peeled for the perfect...
Top 5 ways to get a date at a couples resort
According to flirty tourists at the Royal Hideaway Playacar resort in Mexico: “Two words: cabana boys.” — Joanna “Ask the parasail guys to write ‘single’ on your chute so the...
This week's couple: A college reunion
When Jesse, a 29-year-old property manager, and Alyssa, a 25-year-old p.r. account executive, met up, they realized they had a lot more in common than they thought. At Midtown’s American-Asian...
Ask Ashley: Give the barman a shot!
I recently went out on a couple of dates with a bartender. My friends are horrified and think I’m setting myself up for immediate disappointment. My only argument against them...
Weird but true
This Batman has a gutter mouth. The Caped Crusader was hanging out on Tropicana Avenue in Las Vegas when he got into an argument with a man who mocked the...
The short second life of Bree Tanner
There isn’t much to sink your teeth into. Though fans lined up at midnight Friday to get the latest “Twilight” book. the spin off about Bree Tanner — a young...
In my library: Henry Winkler
“I read my first real novel in my 30s, because I was so intimidated by the language, by all those words,” says former “Happy Days” star Henry Winkler. A dyslexic,...
In my library: Lee Child
As heroes go, Jack Reacher travels light: The ex-Army cop carries just a toothbrush and none of the emotional baggage — alcoholism, divorce — that plague the protagonists of so...
In my library: Josh Hutcherson
For a guy who’s four years away from ordering a cocktail, Josh Hutcherson, 17, keeps sophisticated company. These days, you’ll catch him with Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo...
Required Reading
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart (Doubleday) Balthazar Jones is a Beefeater, one of those peculiarly dressed men who serves the queen and guards the Tower...
Sex at Dawn
Of all the arguments and ideas posited in the intriguing “Sex at Dawn,” its dominant one is the most controversial: Humans are not, nor have ever been, wired for monogamy,...
In my library: Kathy Reichs
Perhaps you’ve read “Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains.” Or the haunting “Hominid Origins: Inquiries Past and Present.” Or perhaps not. But you probably know the author...
Crystal death
Detective Conor Bard isn’t a bad cop. But to be honest, he’s sick and tired of collaring bad guys and petty thieves. He spends his off-hours nursing vodka and occasionally...
In my library: Peter Scolari
“I’ve played a lot of neurotic characters,” says Peter Scolari (“Bosom Buddies,” “Newhart”) and his latest is no exception. In “It Must Be Him,” at off-Broadway’s Peter Sharp Theater, he’s...
Flawless
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend — but they’re a thief’s, too. Their small size, their liquidity, their extreme value and their virtual untraceability make them the ultimate underworld...
PSAL/Private baseball roundup: Poly Prep clinches fifth straight Ivy crown
The Ivy Prep League crown remains in Bay Ridge. Poly Prep clinched the regular-season title for the fifth straight year, topping Hackley, 8-1, Saturday afternoon. Matt Coposio delivered four solid...
Scout Showcase opportunity for local prospects to be seen
The New York City baseball playoffs are still a week or two away, depending on the league. The upcoming handful of days will decide seeding and division titles. But Sunday...
Softball roundup: Horace Mann clinches first Ivy title since '03
Horace Mann had a chance to clinch the Ivy League title with a victory. But coach Ray Barile wanted his players to know that just squeaking one out wasn’t enough....
Tears from fellow Rangers over Boogaard's death
Rangers players reacted today to news of the death of teammate Derek Boogaard on Friday in Minnesota. Marian Gaborik: “I found out immediately, like right away...it was late at night...
You'll go 'Coconuts' for this comedy show
Comedy fans, add the third Tuesday of every month to your schedule.A new monthly show is coming to Union Hall, hosted by Gabe Delahaye, of the pop culture website Videogum.“All...
Great weekend reads from our bookworms
The BookMark Shoppe’s pick: “Cleopatra’s Daughter”Many know the tragic ending to the real life story of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. But not many people know the story continued on with...
Posada moved to 9th, asks out of Yankees lineup
The uncomfortable situation between Jorge Posada and the Yankees came to a head Saturday night when the veteran asked to be removed from the lineup an hour before the game...
Huckabee won't seek 2012 nomination
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he won't seek the Republican presidential nomination, choosing to stick with a lucrative career as a television and radio...
Chip firmly on shoulder, American Studies smokes Hunter
The Academy of American Studies isn’t just playing to win right now. The Eagles are playing with a greater purpose. With every impressive victory, they want to earn respect from...
CHSAA baseball roundup: Velasquez leads Fordham Prep to doubleheader sweep
Andrew Velasquez pulled off a unique and improbable hat trick Saturday at Coffey Field. The Fordham Prep outfielder hit three home runs – one as a lefty, one inside the...
RBNY's Henry wants gut-check win
Red Bull captain Thierry Henry agrees with his coach, says hosting Chivas USA tomorrow (7 p.m., MSG+) with just one day of practice _ and not one single high-intensity workout...