September 3, 2011
'Tough, tough decision' to cut Giants punter Dodge
The Giants chose Steve Weatherford over Matt Dodge. Then they heaped praise on Dodge.The second-year punter did not win his summer duel. Dodge had an eventful (to be kind) rookie...
Herzlich makes the cut for Giants
Judging by his Tweets, Mark Herzlich did a fine job on Saturday of trying to keep his mind off NFL cut-down day, watching and agonizing over every minute of Boston...
Jets trade Lowery, cut roster to 53
On the day the Jets trimmed their roster to 53 men, the biggest move the team made was a trade. The Jets shipped defensive back Dwight Lowery to the Jaguars...
Your 2011 New York Giants
The Giants got down to the 53-player limit by trimming 27 players from their roster and they did not make any truly surprising cuts. There were a few mild surprises...
Aerial attack highlights retooled Railsplitters after historic season
Magical was an apt word to describe last year for Lincoln. The Railsplitters debuted their beautiful new football stadium with lights, they boasted one of the top prospects in the...
Nationals knock off Mets in ninth, 8-7
WASHINGTON — Ryan Zimmerman's short fly ball with one out in the ninth dropped into right field for a single, driving in two runs and giving the Washington Nationals a...
Derby winner Animal Kingdom back on track
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, sidelined since suffering a hairline fracture of the left hock in the Belmont Stakes, has been given the go-ahead to resume training...
DSK returns to France
Dominique Strauss-Kahn left his rented TriBeCa digs yesterday en route to JFK Airport — and an Air France flight home last night. He and his wife landed in Paris early...
Guilty in nursing home horror that killed 8; spared death penalty
CARTHAGE, North Carolina — A man was convicted today of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of eight people at a North Carolina nursing home in 2009, meaning he will...
Thug shot by cops after wounding child in Bronx drive-by
A teenage thug wounded a child when he squeezed off bullets early this morning, and sparked a wild police chase through the streets of the Bronx, police said. The gun-toting...
Tottenham's Van der Vaart out for six weeks with hamstring tear, hopes to be back sooner
LONDON -- Tottenham Hotspur playmaker Rafael van der Vaart said he hopes to make a quicker-than-expected return from a hamstring injury despite being sidelined for six weeks, Sky Sports reported...
Chelsea leaves new $29M striker Lukaku out of Champions League squad
LONDON -- Chelsea will not be able to call upon new $29 million (£18 million) signing Romelu Lukaku during the English Premier League club's latest bid to land its first...
US coach Klinsmann taking positives despite first defeat
CARSON, Calif. -- US national soccer team coach Jurgen Klinsmann was content to take several positives despite watching his side slip to the first defeat of his reign, the Los...
Tropical storm Lee begins pelting Gulf Coast
NEW ORLEANS — Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Lee were falling in southern Louisiana and pelting the Gulf Coast today as the storm's center trudged slowly toward land, where businesses...
Furious about outage, LI man threatens to bomb power co.: cops
A Long Island man has been charged with phoning in a bomb threat against the Long Island Power Authority. Nassau County police say Rajiv Pandey called a TV news station...
Libya rebels close on Khadafy bastion
TRIPOLI, Libya — Rebel fighters closed in on one of Moammar Gadhafi's last strongholds, the remote desert town of Bani Walid, but were trying to persuade tribal elders there to...
Giants punter Weatherford kicks Matt out of Dodge
Matt Dodge put up a good fight but Steve Weatherford will be the Giants punter this season. When the Giants signed Weatherford at the start of training camp, it seemed...
NATO takes out ex-Gitmo detainee in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO and Afghan forces killed a former Guantanamo detainee who had become a key al-Qaeda affiliate after returning to Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. Sabar Lal Melma, who...
Cano a hero again as Yankees beat Toronto, build AL East lead
Robinson Cano gave the Yankees the lead for the second straight game against Toronto, this time hitting a two-run double in the seventh inning to exceed 100 RBIs, and New...
Pilot killed after midair collision with another aircraft in Alaska
NIGHTMUTE, Alaska -- A pilot was believed to have died Friday when he crashed his cargo plane after a midair collision with another aircraft near Nightmute, in southwestern Alaska, the...
Sleepers can be found in final rounds
Finding fantasy sleepers is like stumbling upon a fantastic dessert. It might leave you with a bit of satisfaction, but it doesn’t make up for a horrible meal. In other...
Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays
Saratoga enters its stretch run with three stakes races Saturday, and the Post's Ed Fountaine tells you how best to bet them. PERSONAL ENSIGN Saratoga, eighth race. Grade 1. Purse:...
Talented Hilltoppers ready to tackle new league, challenges
Mary Louis enters the season faced with plenty of unknowns. The Hilltoppers left CHSAA Nassau/Suffolk 'A' to rejoin Brooklyn/Queens for the first time since 2003 and form the first-ever CHSAA...
Last chance for Morgan, talented seniors to win it all at E-Hall
City championship or bust. That’s the unofficial motto this year at Erasmus Hall. Two years ago, with a team loaded with sophomores, the Dutchmen advanced to their first-ever PSAL semifinals...
Repeat ready: Defending champ Beacon aims for consecutive crowns
Beacon understands how hard it is to repeat as city champion. Four seasons ago the Blue Demons captured their first PSAL Class A title. They followed that up by suffering...
Business briefs
Stocks slump Investors dumped stocks as a dismal jobs report renewed fears of a recession. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 253.31 points, or 2.2 percent, to 11,240.26, falling by...
Mets owners now looking to sell smaller stakes
Mets owner Fred Wilpon just stepped up to bat and already his bid to raise $200 million for the cash-poor team is being called a swing and a miss. After...
Liz Claiborne cleans closet with Mexx sale
Liz Claiborne just shrunk by a few sizes -- again. The cash-strapped clothing conglomerate, whose CEO Bill McComb, began his rocky tenure in 2007 by putting up for sale more...
Tech king’s crunch time
AOL’s TechCrunch is losing Michael Arrington as its top blogger, dealing an embarrassing blow to the Internet giant’s online journalism ambitions. Yesterday, AOL said that Arrington would no longer work...
Seeing no Starz
High-flying Netflix fell back to Earth yesterday on fears that its soaring subscriber growth will slow. Netflix dropped nearly 9 percent after its popular online service lost access to a...
Major banks sued over mortgages
A Us regulator sued 17 large banks and financial institutions yesterday over losses on about $200 billion of subprime bonds, which may hamper a broader government settlement of the mortgage...
5 bidders for Hulu
Hulu LLC, the video Web site put up for sale by its media company owners, has received as many as five first-round bids, including one from Dish Network Corp., a...
Menu on iPad
Call it a power lunch. Upscale West Village restaurant De Santos is placing iPads in the hands of its wait staff, cropping more than a New York minute off wait...
News Corp. nominates Breyer
News Corp. nominated one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, to its board of directors yesterday. The media company, which owns The Post, said two...
Java 'head game'
LONDON -- That high you get from a cup of joe may be all in your head. A University of East London study found that self-described coffee addicts given decaf...
'When pigs fly' is officially now
FARMINGDALE -- A pig flew -- from Florida to New York on Pet Airways. A miniature potbellied pig named Bosley arrived Thursday at Republic Airport on Long Island to join...
A Weight Watcher even at 87
PARKLAND, Fla. -- The world's most famous dieter has fallen off the food wagon. Jean Nidetch, the woman who invented Weight Watchers in New York City 50 years ago, now...
Casey may foot tot-search bill
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Florida judge is considering whether Casey Anthony should pay the cost of investigating the disappearance of her late 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Anthony was acquitted in July...
Oh, deer!! That's cruel
SKOWHEGAN, Maine -- A Maine man has served a 10-day jail sentence for putting an injured deer in the trunk of his car and keeping it there for more than...
Ted Williams going postal
WASHINGTON -- Late slugger Ted Williams will win a spot on a US postage stamp next year. The last baseball player to hit .400 for a season, the Boston Red...
HBO paying MTA more than $150,000 to promote 'Boardwalk Empire' with Prohibition-era train
HBO is paying the MTA more than $150,000 to run a Prohibition-era train along the 2/3 line during four September weekends as a promo for the second season of "Boardwalk...
'Tattoo' gets reely re-inked
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Stieg Larsson fans, brace yourselves. The director of the upcoming Hollywood version of the mega-seller "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" says he has altered the ending...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan Cops are looking for a gun-toting thief who wounded two men during a botched robbery in Harlem. The brute (top photo) approached the men and tried to rob them...
Web shop's $5M 'scam'
A Long Island Internet entrepreneur is facing up to 20 years in federal prison for running up $5 million in phony credit-card charges, authorities said yesterday. Daniel Greenberg, 38, allegedly...
Tragic relics from WTC attacks to be part of 9/11 museum
A woman's bloodstained shoes. A firefighter's crushed helmet. The singed credit card and wallet of an executive. Relics from the horror of the 9/11 attacks tell the heart-wrenching stories of...
Quitting cold Turkey
Turkey expelled Israel's envoy and froze military cooperation with the Jewish state yesterday after a UN report on the deaths of nine Turks in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound...
Americans abroad told stay alert for 9/11
The State Department yesterday issued a worldwide travel alert ahead of 9/11's 10th anniversary -- calling on Americans living and traveling abroad to remain vigilant. Authorities said no "specific threats"...
Sitter dies and lands on Long Island infant
A morbidly obese Long Island baby sitter accidentally smothered to death a month-old infant when she collapsed and died on the couch where the child was lying, authorities said yesterday....
Mo's foes in no rush
Libya's rebel fighters pushed closer to Moammar Khadafy's hometown yesterday, despite the extension of a surrender deadline and negotiations with tribal leaders aimed at avoiding bloodshed. With the capital of...
Stink to cost Prince $4M
Prince has to pay a king's ransom to the makers of his failed fragrance. The pint-sized pop star should pay almost $4 million to Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics for failing...
Only 8 percent of Manhattan singles would date someone from Staten Island: survey
Sorry, Staten Island, but Manhattan says you're undateable. A Match.com survey found only 8 percent of martini-sipping Manhattan singles would stoop to dating someone from the fake tan and track-suit...
President's net August job growth is nil
President Obama was ripped as "President Zero" after alarming government figures yesterday showed that not a single new job was created last month. The president, who will unveil his much-anticipated...
'Executed' in bed
A Queens couple was shot execution-style in their beds early yesterday as the horrified wife screamed desperately for help on 911, police said. A law-enforcement source described the 4 a.m....
Spider man bite$
Well, he's no Peter Parker. A drug dealer says he was bitten by a Rikers Island spider and briefly lost a power -- to speak. Papers filed in Bronx Supreme...
Bam decides it's not easier being green
WASHINGTON -- Fear has enveloped the White House over the jobs crisis. A day after the Obama administration predicted unemployment would linger at a perilous 9 percent through the year,...
Motorcyclist's kin to city: Probe botched-rescue death
A Brooklyn family wants an investigation into the death of a motorcyclist crushed by a car during a botched rescue attempt. Relatives of City College student Karam Rampersaud, 21, yesterday...
Invisible mayor ducking scandal
Mayor Bloomberg was a glaring no-show yesterday for his regular weekly radio show -- and was blasted by his co-host and city officials for ducking from the political scandal he...
Illegal immigrant 'scammed' out of lottery winnings by store clerk
He won $3 million, but his luck ended there. An illegal immigrant was scammed out of a massive lottery jackpot by the man who ran the Rockland County store where...
Zsa Zsa hubby boo-boo
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, was hit by a car in Beverly Hills yesterday and taken to a hospital where he was treated for cuts to...
Camp David plane intercept
A fighter jet intercepted a small civilian airplane in restricted airspace near the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., yesterday and escorted it to an airport in West Virginia. The...
Gov raps 'Long' wait for power
ALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo yesterday took a swipe at the Long Island Power Authority, calling its response to Hurricane Irene not good enough. "Today, tens of thousands of Long Islanders...
Brooklyn man drowns after going into Gravesend Bay for kids' ball
A Brooklyn man who could not swim drowned after he went into the water on a secluded Gravesend Bay beach to retrieve a ball for some youngsters, sources said. Arnoldo...
A real snake harmer
A California man is in custody after being accused of biting a python in what police said was apparently an unprovoked attack on the pet snake of an acquaintance. When...
Brooklyn biker dies after being struck and dragged by car
A Brooklyn biker was fatally struck and dragged by a car after he ran a red light last night, witnesses and cops said. Nicolas Djandji, 24, was cycling with a...
Outcry at Wiki’d act
LONDON — WikiLeaks disclosed its entire archive of US State Department cables yesterday, perhaps all of it uncensored — a move that drew stinging condemnation from major newspapers which in...
Let there be 9/11 light
The first time they flipped the switch on the ethereal spectacle known as the Tribute in Light, Ground Zero was still a disaster zone, only six months had passed since...
Post’s front-page wiz dies at 43
Joseph Brendan Cunningham, a veteran Post copy editor whose sharp, caustic wit produced some of the paper’s most memorable front-page headlines in recent years, died Thursday of complications following a...
Airport ‘nudes’ nixed
Newark Liberty International Airport yesterday became the first area airport to install body scanning technology that will replace a system that was harshly criticized for invading travelers’ privacy by displaying...
Weprin’s 'double play' with Obama
ALBANY -- Democrat David Weprin is trying to have it both ways when it comes to President Obama, his opponent charged yesterday. While distancing himself publicly from Obama, congressional hopeful...
Rocket retrial a go
Game on! The feds will get a second crack at Roger Clemens over allegations the former Yankees pitcher lied to Congress when he denied using steroids, a judge ruled yesterday....
Judge Feinman’s bail flail: Are thugs getting off easy?
The Issue: Whether Judge Carol Feinman has been too lenient granting bail in her Bronx criminal court. Judge Carol Feinman is a disgrace to her profession and on the wish...
Serving the services
This year, the United Service Organizations celebrates its 70th year of providing support to America’s uniformed men and women and their families. The nonprofit, congressionally chartered USO was formed just...
Paying Irene’s tab
Federal aid to localities when nature goes rogue is as American as apple pie. But how best to pay the final bill? That question became relevant this week when House...
Rye’s reasonable rules
The finger-pointing is well under way over Tuesday’s melee at Rye Playland involving Muslim holiday parkgoers incensed that they were asked to remove religious headgear on some rides. Police were...
Un-twisting the veil
Tangling with the Muslim headscarf is no child’s play, as this week’s unpleasantness at Rye Playland proved all too well. There are lessons here both for Muslims and non-Muslims. Muslims...
How to force the United Nations to change
It won’t become law anytime soon, but a bill to be introduced in the House next week to revolutionize how America finances UN activities is already stirring up Turtle Bay....
Kid stuff
TODAY HARVEST MOON: Ready for very old-fashioned fun?The Green Corn Festival at Philipsburg Manor is offering traditional Native American harvest activities such as cornhusk doll-making and open-hearth cooking. There wil...
Tomorrow's Saratoga Entries
Post Time: 1:00 pm All horses appear in post position order FIRST 1m(T); $25,000; cl($20,000); 3up PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Hammersmith(L),117 JVelazquez 1-4-10 Pletcher 4-1...
Monmouth Analysis by John DaSilva
Post time: 12:50 pm. All horses appear in post position order FIRST-6f; $16,000; mdn cl($7,500); 3up BOBADOS drew rail after finishing second. STORMY MON drops in class after closing to...
Affrunti's Calder Grade
Post Time: 12:30 pm. FIRST-6 1/2f; $15,700; cl($16,000); 3up 5-VodkaStnSr 3-1 1-WiseOption 4-1 2-Lynch 4-1 3-LetMDwnEsy 5-1 6-WldctFrmtn 2-1 4-Hope Defered 8-1 SECOND-1m; $17,800; str alw; 3up 3-LvngstnStr 8-5 4-ThrPrtHrmn...
Bill Smith At Yonkers
Post time: 7:10 pm. Best Bet: Gallant Yankee (13th) FIRST-1 1/16m; pace; $30,000; cl. 2 Sparky (G Brennan) 3-1-1 8-5 1 AllamericanInca (CManzi) 6-4-4 10-1 4 Eragon (B Holland) 4-5-3...
Roddick aces fellow Nebraskan Sock
They met at a Nebraska football game in 2002. Jack Sock was 10. Andy Roddick was a rising tennis star. A Nebraska tennis coach told Roddick that Sock was someone...
Saratoga Charts
Sept. 2, 2011 Cloudy And Fast. Turf: Firm. ©2011 Equibase. All Rights Reserved FIRST - 6 fur; $56,000; opt clm; 3up Off: 2:31. Good. off ins,duel 5/16-1/16 Time: 22.86, 45.24,...
Del Mar Analysis by Vic C.
Post time: 5:00 pm. All horses appear in post position order FIRST-5 1/2f; $63,000; mdn spcl wt; 2YO PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 7 SpecialChrm(L),118 TBaze 2-x-x 5-2 2...
Showdown at Saratoga
JOHN DASILVA TODAY'S PLAY: In race 1, the extremely wellbred Deluxe makes her US debut for Mott and should win this with ease. Play $50 to win on her. YESTERDAY'S...
Berto looks to get career back in gear
Victor Ortiz has a date to meet Floyd Mayweather in a big-money pay-per-view extravaganza next week in Las Vegas. It's a mega-fight Andre Berto might have earned had he not...
Jets QB McElroy has surgery on thumb
Jets rookie quarterback Greg McElroy underwent surgery on his dislocated right thumb yesterday, putting him on the shelf for several weeks and leaving the team with a hole to fill....
Confident Jets eager to start their Super journey
The preseason was not over for more than 20 minutes Thursday night when the Super Bowl talk began in the Jets locker room. The Jets open the season Sept. 11...
Giants turn page on ugly preseason
There is no looking back for the Giants, because if they do they won't like what they see. Left behind is a preseason to forget, a month filled with far...
Young linebacker awaiting word on future with Giants
The marching orders were simple. Defensive coordinator Perry Fewell approached rookie linebacker Jacquian Williams to let him know what he was looking for out of him Thursday night in the...
Phil's short game goes belly up
Phil Mickelson caused a minor commotion with his pants and his putter. The Deutsche Bank Championship began yesterday in Norton, Mass., with two players on opposite ends of the world...
Sports shorts
MLB: Yankees promote Bichette The Yankees sent first-round pick Dante Bichette, Jr. to Staten Island Thursday, after Bichette helped the Yankees' Gulf Coast League affiliate claim that league's championship on...
Monmouth Results
FIRST-$20,000, cl, 3YO up, 6f 7 Liquid Fire (Santiago) 15.00 4.60 3.60 5 Katskill Bay (Luzzi) 2.80 2.40 6 Red Elephant (Moya) 3.40 Scr: Easy Gallop.*, California Cool, Propellor Jones,...
Former Mets manager says team will pay price for lower payroll
WASHINGTON -- Davey Johnson likes the direction in which his Nationals are headed. He already knows the Phillies and Braves are formidable teams. Where does that leave the Mets? The...
Sharapova upset at US Open
In a U.S. Open women's field rife with upsets and the unexpected, Maria Sharapova yesterday became the biggest name to fall. After getting shocked by Flavia Pennetta 6-3, 3-6, 6-4...
The Post Line
NFLThursdayFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogPACKERS 5 4 (47) SaintsSept. 11Giants 3 3 (38) REDSKINSJETS 4 4½(41) CowboysRAVENS 2½ 2½(36½)SteelersBUCCANEERS 3 2 (41) LionsFalconsPick 3 (41) BEARSCHIEFS 6½ 6½(40½)BillsTEXANS 2 6 (46) ColtsEagles...
Today's Sports on Air
Auto Racing1:30 p.m.NASCAR: Sprint Cup, practiceSPEED3:30 p.m.NASCAR: Nationwide, qualifyingSPEED5 p.m.NASCAR: Sprint Cup, qualifyingSPEED7:30 p.m.NASCAR: Nationwide, Great Clips 300ESPN2Baseball1 p.m.Blue Jays at YankeesYES, WCBS (880 AM)1 p.m.Pirates at CubsWGN4 p.m.Rangers at...
Del Mar Results
FIRST-$63,000, mdn spl wt, 3up, 1 1/16mi, t 1 Irish Art (Rosario) 3.00 2.10 2.10 7 Cook Inlet (Espinoza) 3.00 2.40 8 Hy Lime Time (Quinonez) 2.80 * $1 Exacta...
Colts add Tressel to their staff
Disgraced Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was hired yesterday by the Colts as a game-day consultant to help determine when the team should challenge plays. Colts coach Jim Caldwell said...
Hondo getting busy
Hondo's theory about the Yankees and Sawx let ting down after playing each other proved to be half right last night, which enabled him to lower the number on the...
Open door shuts on Jersey teen
Jersey girl Christina McHale was crestfallen in the interview room after her U.S. Open came to an end in prime time -- a 6-2, 6-3 drubbing against 25th seed Maria...
Nadal looking to get back in New York groove
Could it be Rafael Nadal is be ginning to find his form, or is he one of those great past champions fighting a changing of the guard at the top...
Duda's homer helps Mets defeat Nationals
WASHINGTON -- Lucas Duda probably isn't going to catch Carlos Beltran as the Mets' leader in home runs this season, but there is no reason he can't beat the remaining...
Not same old Young in defining Open victory
Technically, Donald Young became a man -- when he turned 21 -- on July 23, 2010. But when the tennis world asks when he grew up -- when the prodigy...
Nova keeps rolling as Yankees boost AL East lead
Ivan Nova has grown accustomed to seeing the Yankees put up plenty of runs for him this season. Last night, when offense was harder to come by, he watched his...
Injuries won't hurt Yankees' title chase
The table was mostly metal instead of wood, but that didn't matter to Joe Girardi. The Yankees manager didn't want to jinx himself yesterday when he said the injuries currently...
Teixeira, A-Rod sit out, return to Yankees unknown
The Yankees returned to The Bronx last night, healthy in the AL East standings, but not as sound in the infield. Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez were held out of...
Liberty clinch playoff berth
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Lynx entered last night with a chance to clinch the best overall record in the WNBA. The Liberty were just looking to get into the playoffs. Both...
Murray rallies for 5-set win
Andy Murray showed a rare display of emotion yesterday after shaking the umpire's hand following his rousing comeback from two sets down against 46th-ranked Robin Haase. After surviving 6-7, 2-6,...
K-Rod trade might bring relief to Mets
It was widely assumed that when the Mets were able to send Francisco Rodriguez to the Brewers, they would get little in return for their closer. Though the two players...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYSept. 3SUNSept. 4MONSept. 5TUESept. 6WEDSept. 7THUSept. 8FRISept. 9YankeesToronto1:05TV -- YES NetworkRadio--WCBS 880 AMTor.1:05YESWCBSBalt.1:05YESWCBSBalt.7:05YESWCBSBalt.1:05YESWCBSBalt.1:05YESWCBSL.A.10:05YESWCBSMetsWashington7:05TV -- SportsNet NYRadio--WFAN 660 AMWash.1:35SNYWFANFla.7:10SNYWFANFla.7:10SNYWFANFla.5:10SNYWFANAtl.*4:10SNYWFANChi.7:10SNYWFAN* - Doubleheader to make up games from Aug. 27-28. LibertyNOGAMEMinn.4:00No TVNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEInd.7:00MSG+Red BullsNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMESiyanksBrooklyn7:00No...
'NCIS' bust
David Fisher, a frequent “NCIS” guest star, has found himself on the wrong side of the law. Fisher, who has played CIA agent Trent Kort for three seasons, was arrested...
Jimmy says goodbye
Jimmy Kimmel will devote Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to his late Uncle Frank Potenza -- who appeared frequently on the show and who passed away last month while the show...
Dino-might
Call it survival of the fittest dancer. Discovery’s new four-part series, “Dinosaur Revolution” -- about how dinosaurs lived, loved and laughed -- seems to be an evolutionary morphing of the...
‘Homicide’ creators team for new CW drama
The CW has purchased a cop drama project from “Homicide” team Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson. “Musketeers 3.0” revolves around three highly intelligent, out-of-control New York detectives who meet their...
Weird but true
The feds have a new crime-fighting tool: Urban Dictionary. When a man in a weapons case sent a threatening note to a victim, investigators didn’t know he had committed a...
Opener scary for even the best college coach
Every college football coach in America sweats the opener. Here are the four coaches (and one reporter) who really should be trying to get in one last word with the...
LSU, Oregon can't duck trouble as NCAA season begins
ARLINGTON, Texas -- It seems as if not a week goes by in which a player at a big-time college football program, say LSU, is arrested, such as quarterback Jordan...
With Harding at the helm, very little changes at Boys & Girls
Boys & Girls is going to try and make the most of an unfortunate situation. Earlier this week, sixth-year coach Barry O’Connor was dismissed by the school administration after receiving...
On the record
If landing on the cover of Rolling Stone is a perennial dream for rockers, a close second would be getting their likeness on the front page of the review section,...
Gabrielle Giffords makes trip home for Labor Day weekend
TUCSON, Ariz. -- US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) will spend time with family and friends in Tucson, Ariz., this Labor Day weekend -- the second time she has been to...
Island in the fun!
Quiksilver Pro, the biggest surf event to roll into the East Coast in 20 years, hits the shores of Long Beach, LI, this weekend and brings with it 34 pro...
Explosion at California research plant leaves one dead, report says
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- One person was killed and two were seriously injured Friday afternoon in an explosion at a commercial research plant in Menlo Park, Calif., KNTV reported. The...
Wright's homer, Dickey's pitching gives Mets win
WASHINGTON — David Wright hit a three-run homer, Angel Pagan drove in two runs and R.A. Dickey pitched into the seventh inning on three days' rest as the New York...
Nova shuts down Jays, Yanks win 3-2
Ivan Nova won his 11th straight decision with some help from a rangy outfield and Robinson Cano hit a tiebreaking single in the fifth inning, lifting the Yankees to a...