September 18, 2011
Manchester United defeats Chelsea 3-1 to stay top of EPL
MANCHESTER, England -- Manchester United delivered a clinical first-half performance that Chelsea could not match as the Premier League champions maintained their perfect start to the season with a 3-1...
More than 20 die in India quake
GANGTOK, India -- More than 20 people were killed and many more injured when a 6.9-magnitude earthquake shook northern India and Nepal today, according to media reports. The tremor hit...
Mets sign relief pitcher Byrdak to 2012 contract
The New York Mets have signed relief pitcher Tim Byrdak to a 2012 contract. A 37-year-old lefty specialist, Byrdak is 2-0 with a 2.89 ERA in 37 1-3 innings, a...
Deadly Atlantic City carjack
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — One man was shot to death and a woman was wounded during an apparent carjacking that authorities believe began inside the parking garage of an Atlantic...
Syracuse, Pittsburgh officially leaving Big East Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference has extended its northern reach, adding Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Now the question becomes, will the league stop there - or keep growing to 16? The ACC...
Sanchez, defense lead Jets past Jaguars, 32-3
Mark Sanchez and the New York Jets' offense got things started early, and the defense made things miserable for Luke McCown. Sanchez threw two touchdown passes as the offense broke...
DSK: Sex with hotel maid a moral fault
PARIS — Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, maintained Sunday his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid did not involve violence, constraint or aggression...
Toronto: Lebanon drama takes audience award
"Where Do We Go Now,'' a French-langugage international production without an American distributor, took the Cadillac audience award, effectively the top prize at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, announced...
Old hit sidelines Rangers' Staal
Marc Staal will not participate in training camp scrimmages or in any of the Rangers' three exhibition games in North America because of lingering issues resulting from a crushing hit...
Tejada's 4 RBI help Mets beat Braves 7-5
ATLANTA — Ruben Tejada had four RBIs, Lucas Duda homered off Craig Kimbrel in the ninth inning and the New York Mets slowed the Atlanta Braves' wild-card bid with a...
Drugs now more deadly than cars
Drug-related deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the US, with the rise driven by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses. Government data showed there were more deaths caused by drug...
Rivera will have to wait as Yankees are shut out by Blue Jays, 3-0
TORONTO — Mariano Rivera was denied a chance to go for the career saves record when Adam Lind homered twice to back Brandon Morrow and lead the Toronto Blue Jays...
A-Rod batting fourth in Yankees lineup
TORONTO -- Alex Rodriguez was moved up to fourth in the Yankees lineup as Freddy Garcia and the Bombers try and notch a win against the Blue Jays -- and...
Yemeni gov't guns down protesters, 26 dead
SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni government forces opened fire with anti-aircraft guns and automatic weapons on tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital demanding ouster of their longtime ruler,...
Unholy terror: Fla. gunman kills wife, then shoots 2 more church
LAKELAND, Fla. — A gunman killed his wife at their Florida home and then burst through the front door of a nearby church today, wounding a pastor and associate pastor...
Three shot dead in B'klyn, Queens
Three men have been killed and two other injured in separate shooting incidents in Brooklyn and Queens A 27-year-old man was found just after 11 p.m. Saturday on Batchelder Street...
Syracuse loses to USC
LOS ANGELES -- Quarterback Ryan Nassib and the Syracuse Orange got off to an impressive start against favored Southern California. Then reality set in. Nassib completed his first 11 passes...
Tony Blair held secret talks with Khadafy before Lockerbie bomber release: report
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Former British prime minister Tony Blair held secret talks with ousted Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy in the months before Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al Megrahi was released...
US hikers' release in Iran delayed until judge returns from leave
TEHRAN, Iran — A bail-for-freedom deal for two Americans jailed as spies in Iran hit a snag Sunday because a judge whose signature is needed on the bail papers was...
UBS CEO refuses to quit as insiders say rogue trades hit $10B
BASEL, Switzerland -- UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel on Sunday ruled out resigning over the rogue trading that cost the Swiss banking giant $2 billion in losses, as it emerged...
Yates' late-game magic propels Port Richmond yet again
Lou Vesce has yet to see the team he boldly talked about in August. Through two weeks, Port Richmond has struggled to put all three phases of the game together...
Red Bulls finally win, beat Dallas 1-0
Missing four starters _ including stars Thierry Henry and Rafa Marquez _ the Red Bulls were as shorthanded as they were desperate, dragging a two-month, eight-game winless skid into Dallas...
Girls volleyball roundup: Fresh-faced Falcons fall in Dozo tourney final
Cardozo coach Danny Scarola rattled off the names of the all-tournament team selections at his Judges’ host tournament Saturday. There was Melissa Chin from Stuyvesant, Elissa Shiau from Bronx Science,...
Xavier bounces back with Royal beating
Brent Scardapane felt his Xavier team needed a little pick me up after an excruciating season-opening loss. The junior-laden Knights fell to upstate Pine Bush on a late field goal....
Monahan leads dominant SJB defense in win over Ford
Keith Schweers expects a lot from Brendan Monahan because he knows the impact the senior can have on the defensive end. The St. John the Baptist coach admitted he’s asking...
Lucky 7: Sung, Grubler lead Cardozo to seventh straight host tourney title
If there was one thing Amy Sung did in the offseason it was work on her service game. The Cardozo libero struggled with that last season, even as the Judges...
Yankees' Rivera gets 601st save, ties all-time record
TORONTO — After years of scaling the highest peaks and spending very little time in the valleys, Mariano Rivera is one save away from ending the debate about who is...
Yankees’ gift just keeps on giving
TORONTO -- In the madness of a major league season, the Yankees always can count on one thing -- the calmness of Mariano Rivera. He is there when they need...
'Blunderful' day on bases for Yankees' Cano
TORONTO -- Robinson Cano has entered the AL MVP race with a bat so hot, Yankees manager Joe Girardi left him in the cleanup spot yesterday, even though Alex Rodriguez...
Jets-Jaguars clash will be won on the ground
There will be no using the “F” word at MetLife Stadium. No, not that one. Finesse will be the dirty word when the Jets and Jaguars hook up this afternoon....
Signs of something special for Jets
Well, this is clearly as good a time as there’s ever been to be a Jet, to be an ex-Jet, to root for the Jets, to live and die with...
Jets know falling short doesn’t always lead to Super Bowl
The Jets are trying to do something only two NFL teams have done before them — win a Super Bowl after losing at least two consecutive conference championship games in...
CHSFL/Independent football roundup: Walsh, Riverdale rally to beat Hackley
When Mark Walsh crossed the goal line, the Riverdale sideline exploded. “He’s the type of kid when he has success everyone is happy for him,” coach Declan Walsh said. The...
Low-scoring Jets giving too many points
TODAY Jaguars (+91⁄2) over JETS: Mixed signals — since Jets have nice ATS streak going in second of back-to-back homers. But this remains lotta points for inconsistent offense to lay,...
Over past 40 years, Rivera not only greatest closer, but greatest ... period
This is a tricky argument I am about to try to make — that Mariano Rivera is the best baseball player I have seen. After all, Rivera has managed just...
The Rumble
A sweet ride LaFontaine on charitable bike quest Pat LaFontaine knows a thing or two about spending time in hospital rooms. The former hockey great, who played for all three...
Eagles' Vick set to make first start against former team
Pity poor Matt Ryan, especially tonight. All the guy seems to do is win, posting a 20-2 record at home and almost singlehandedly reviving the forlorn Falcons in two seasons...
Kick return TDs unlikely to continue
When the NFL moved the kickoff spot to the 35-yard line from the 30, many believed that would mark the death of the kick return, one of the most electrifying...
NFL passing plans not going away
There are 7,842 reasons why 14 quarterbacks threw for more than 300 yards last week, and why we probably haven’t seen the last of the offensive explosions that rocked the...
Retailers getting blue for holiday $ales
Poor little rich shoppers.The gap in spending by the nation’s rich and the poor may continue to widen during the fall and holiday shopping seasons, but that’s not necessarily because...
Bricks in the ‘wall of worry’
If stocks climb a “wall of worry” as the proverbial Wall Street saying suggests, last week’s news headlines provide plenty of bricks. How so? Let’s count the ways.First, we got...
Spank of New York
Back in 2009, Bank of New York Mellon chief Bob Kelly boasted that his bank had little exposure to the mortgage-market mess that toppled Lehman Brothers and nearly pushed other...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS STEVE COHEN SAC boss dodges another bullet as judge dismisses a long-running civil suit. JORDI CONSTANS Yogurt company Danone exec will replace Yves Carcelle as CEO of Louis Vuitton...
Start a ringer’s IV & get to iHospital, stat!
A MacBook corroded by soda. An iPhone shot with a Glock.The “doctors” at the iHospital, an ER-inspired Apple repair store, have seen -- and fixed -- it all.Adding six new...
New battle of the bulge
And you thought Dov Charney was off his rocker. American Apparel Creative Director Iris Alonzo, who helped develop an online, popular-vote competition to select a plus-size model for an upcoming...
Digest CEO gets $500K
There is no golden parachute at Reader’s Digest Association. Tom Williams was ousted as the CEO of RDA Holding Co. only five months after a new board forced Mary Berner...
Audible groans: ESPN’s $15B NFL deal may snap budgets
Hank Williams Jr. may be singing a new song very soon: Are you ready to pay more for some football? For those who replied “no” . . . well, too...
‘Twist’ing the truth on econ
Cue Chubby Checker. It’s time to do the Twist.The Fed will meet this week for an extra day to search for ways to jump-start our stagnant economy at the upcoming...
Man bites dog: NY firms have worker shortage
Despite a grinding unemployment rate, at least some New York employers are desperately struggling in a different way -- to find skilled employees.Talent is so scarce in certain white-hot fields...
Directors can get good guidance
If you’re a corporate board member, your iPad can be just as useful for doing business on the go as your smartphone. With Nasdaq’s Directors Desk HD app, you can...
Signature Finra penality
Dear John: I have a great one for you. Finra -- the Financial Regulatory Authority -- is fining me $10,000 because of a discrepancy on a form I signed while...
Alec oversharing a life with new babe
Last Tuesday evening, Alec Baldwin decided to blast out one last tweet before hitting the hay. “Goodnight, @HilariaThomas,” the 53-year-old “30 Rock” star told his 27-year-old girlfriend, Mallorca, Spain-born yoga...
NJ dig gig saved
Mercer County and state environmental officials in New Jersey will each kick in $800,000 over the next 10 years to keep open an archaeological dig known as Petty’s Run. The...
Palestinians hold ‘state’ dinner downtown
Was it a premature celebration? Members of the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations had a late-night feast of expensive wine and heaping platters of pasta at Cipriani Downtown almost...
FDNY’s blaze blaster
There’s a new hero coming to town -- a remote-controlled device that lets firefighters in high-rise blazes pour water on flames from the safety of another floor. The FDNY will...
Irene 'fraud' hit $aps: AG
He was hoping for a flood of donations, and now he’s in a boatload of trouble. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has shut down a suspected fraudster who claimed to...
Fighting Internet insults
Former NFL exec Matthew Couloute Jr. was anonymously branded a devious Don Juan on the Web site LiarsCheatersRUs.com. He is suing two exes he says are responsible for the cybersmear,...
Gridder’s ‘Met’amorphosis to opera star
He once bulldozed defenders for the University of Colorado and dreamed of the NFL. But when his big chance came with the hometown Denver Broncos in 2001, Keith Miller chose...
Arizona man wakes from fall to find memory erased
Scott Bolzan was the cliche of a man who had it all -- a successful business, an attractive wife, two healthy kids, a nice house in Arizona. Then, one morning,...
New tail restores porpoise in life
This plucky dolphin has her sea leg back -- thanks to a Floridia duo who designed her a synthetic tail that’s set to propel all three to Hollywood stardom. In...
Hamilton has an open house
All that’s missing is a horse and buggy parked outside. A house built in 1802 by Alexander Hamilton reopened to the public with great fanfare in Manhattan yesterday after a...
St. Mary’s sacramental whine
It’s the Virgin Mary versus the Bloody Mary.The Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square doesn’t want sinners quaffing drinks on the hotel roof next door and is...
Landlord hit with ‘lewd’ suit
A Brooklyn woman claims she’s getting the boot because she wouldn’t give the landlord any booty.Sheretha Keaton, 55, claims she and her daughter are about to be evicted from their...
DC 37 feels pinch
The shoe’s suddenly on the other foot in the Bloomberg administration’s epic battle with municipal unions over spiraling pension and health-care costs.District Council 37 -- whose leaders claim Mayor Bloomberg...
Ted Kennedy’s eldest dies at 51
Kara Kennedy Allen, the eldest daughter of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, died Friday at 51 while exercising at a gym in Washington, DC, according to her brother. “She’s with...
Cancer kills Mondale gal
Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of former Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale, died at her Minnesota home yesterday at age 51, a family spokeswoman said.Mondale, a radio host and entertainment reporter,...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** Police are looking for a Gramercy girl who has been missing for almost two weeks, cops said. Siddeequah Taylor, 12, was last seen leaving her home on East...
Damage from Irene could lead to pumpkin shortage
This is one nasty trick! Northeastern states are facing a jack-o’-lantern shortage this Halloween after Hurricane Irene destroyed hundreds of pumpkin patches across the region, farmers say. “I think there’s...
Inside the Brooklyn set of ABC's new series 'Pan Am'
The jet set is back! The creators of a new ABC TV series about legendary Pam Am airline have meticulously rebuilt the fuselage of a 1960s-era Boeing 707 at the...
NJ cops in gator raid
Atlantic City cops raiding an alleged drug dealer’s home Friday found a pound of marijuana, more than $2,600 in cash -- and two small but toothy alligators. The gators, each...
Rich face Buffeting on taxes
Thanks, Warren. President Obama is set to roll out a new tax rate on “millionaires” that he and his staff are calling the “Buffet Rule,” after the call last month...
Lawn time coming
The grass is finally greener in Central Park. The park’s East Meadow will reopen Tuesday, concluding a 31-year, $33 million effort to bring back the park’s blades of glory. One...
Seconds to doom
Hardly any pieces were left to pick up yesterday after a high-speed, high-impact disaster killed at lest nine people at an air show in Reno, Nev. The catastrophe was so...
Meeks on crony express
The e-mail was flagged “Importance: High.” A top executive at the Stanford Financial Group wanted an answer. “Have we an update on Antigua?” demanded Lionel C. Johnson, a senior VP....
Carjack toddler drop-off
Leave the kid, take the car. A Bronx thug decided he could do without the 2-year-old passenger in the SUV he carjacked -- so he stopped the car, took the...
Sparse ‘Day of Rage’
Only about 300 protesters, mostly college kids and aging hippies, showed up near the Stock Exchange for yesterday’s anti-Wall Street rally -- far fewer than the 20,000 that organizers of...
Irene fells 200-yr.-old Qns. trees
They were majestic. Now they’re kindling. Tropical Storm Irene knocked down two giant 200-year-old oaks in Bowne Park in Queens that once towered over the family farmhouse of 19th-century Mayor...
Fort Drum GI a runaway Rambo
Cops yesterday captured a Rambo wannabe after a frenzied, three-day, five-county chase through upstate New York. Unhinged West Virginia soldier Russell Marcum Jr. -- a private first class in the...
Qns. man beaten to death
A Queens man died yesterday after being savagely beaten earlier last week, cops said. Peter J. Polizzi, 31, was found by a relative in his living room on Clover Place...
Obama leans further left
One of the enduring mysteries of the Obama presidency is why he keeps leaning far left when independent voters make it clear they want a centrist in the White House....
As NTSB investigators focus on back of plane, survivors of Reno air crash recall devastating impact
Hardly any pieces were left to pick up yesterday after a high-speed, high-impact disaster killed at lest nine people at an air show in Reno, Nev. The catastrophe was so...
Israel under siege
In 1993, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the forerunner to Fatah, signed on to the Declaration of Principles with Israel. The agreement, brokered by the United States, said the parties would...
The waiting is the hardest part
Each morning, Jeremy Cooper descended the stairs to the subway station at 110th Street and went through a routine familiar to millions of New Yorkers: He’d peer down the black...
How Battery Park City flourished
No neighborhood was closer to the World Trade Center than Battery Park City. When the Twin Towers collapsed, they blew in residents’ windows, filling homes with soot, debris and human...
5 myths about your child’s brain
In an effort to raise smart, successful children, parents will try anything, from baby videos to vitamins. But how can you tell marketing from real science? New research has revealed...
Dancing for dollars
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. just awarded $17 million in grants to city institutions looking to tap a pot of post-9/11 reconstruction cash. And for once, the hopelessly inept LMDC...
Fat cats on notice
The Cuomo administration’s inquiry into overpaid CEOs of nonprofits has taken its first scalp -- one tellingly close to the governor himself. Laurence Belinsky resigned last week, shortly after The...
The ‘ought’ decade
We tend to associate decades with presidents, even if they served for only part of a decade and the association is a lazy-minded convention (like “the Eisenhower ’50s”). The anniversary...
Budget busters
“These Cuts Sting” (Sept. 14) gets a couple of key facts wrong that combine to yield an exaggerated conclusion regarding the city budget. The local corporate tax rate tops out...
All consuming
In so many ways, it would seem ever more difficult to separate the typical American consumer -- battered by the Great Recession, bloated jobless numbers, relentless spikes in foreclosures and...
The future of shopping
In the future, supermarkets will get even smarter and more invasive. Recordant is an Atlanta-based in-store monitoring company that provides digital audio recorders to capture all customers’ conversations with store...
Required reading
Last Man in the Tower by Aravind Adiga (Knopf) Despite the title and cover illustration of a falling man, this is not a 9/11 book. But Man Booker Prize-winning author...
Rock 'n' roll models
Bob Gruen is perhaps best known as John Lennon’s “personal photographer,” invited by Lennon and Yoko Ono to take the now-iconic shots of the Beatle here in New York City....
In my library: Micky Dolenz
Micky Dolenz is a believer—in evolution. How else does a former Monkee go on to a successful solo career otherwise? He, Davy Jones and Peter Tork teamed up over the...
Crash dummies
Jared Dillian’s day had been less than ideal. As a young trader at Lehman Brothers, which went bankrupt three years ago this week, he took a position that started to...
Smoking gun
Five years after the "toilet scandal," there's a new explanation of the bizarre dispute that nearly wrecked a world championship. Vladimir Kramnik of Russia revived the controversy -- about whether...
Bridge
"JUST like a man," Wendy, my club's feminist, was saying. "Not only won't he stop to ask directions, when they're given to him free of charge, he ignores them." Cy...
Butler opens new door
For the last couple years, Gerard Butler’s been a Page Six fixture as the rumored beau of Jennifer Aniston and a poster boy for unremarkable romantic comedies that break hearts...
Still stuck on tapes
Illegal music sharing wasn’t always a digital issue. Before MP3s, cassettes were the definitive peer-to-peer, musician-to-fan music- sharing format. In the early 1980s, major record labels saw home taping as...
The sound of moo-sic
While his father and grandfather both had tussles with the country music biz, Hank Williams III — aka Hank3 — managed to surpass his legendary kin in the feud department....
Daltry reloads ‘Tommy’ gun
By the middle of 1968, The Who had released eight singles in the previous four years — all of which went Top 10 in the UK. Despite their success, they...
A furry tale come true
Talk about lovebirds! In the new film “A Bird of the Air,” out Friday, a parrot flies into a man’s home and he then becomes obsessed with trying to find...
The 'Breakfast' club
Fifty years after she first zipped up a little black dress, sang “Moon River” on her fire escape and ate a cruller outside New York’s most famous jewelry store, Holly...
Broadway hall of shame
Auditions are hell — and not just for newcomers. Even the most celebrated actors have blown it at one time or another. Sometimes it’s merely a case of bad nerves,...
Tomorrow's Philadelphia Entries
Post Time: 12:25 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderFIRST1 mile; $22,000; clm($12,500); 3,4&5YOPNHorse Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1Corpus Christi Bay(L),117ABocachica9-6-3Nagle 8-12Miss Prosody,122E Rivera3-3-2Somers 4-13Karinska,117S Elliott9-x-xAllard 20-14Scarlet Ball(L),113R Montanez8-4-xBelsoeur 15-15Cherenda(L),117A...
Fairplex Analysis
Post time: 4:00 p.m. FIRST-1/2m; $14,000; cl($32,0); 2YO PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 ClassicJrny(L),119 MPdrza 10-x-x 8-5 3 EvelynTrble(L),119 CSntgo 4-6-4 3-1 2 FriendlyMry(L),119 ACstnn 3-7-3 5-2 5...
Islanders could count on teenagers
The two teenagers weaved back and forth on the ice, both clad in yellow Islanders practice jerseys and trying to think one step ahead. It was in the middle of...
Young Giants defense learning on fly
So, Mr. Jones, what did you learn after taking the first test that counts on your permanent NFL record? "I learned that mental toughness, more than being physically tough, being...
Tuck, Nicks questionable, expect to play for Giants vs. Rams
Given what the Giants have gone through during the summer and early this season, they will take having key players on both sides of the ball at 50-50 odds to...
Hondo's Ravin'
Hondo tumbled deeper into his sinkhole last night when he hit with Oklahoma but missed with Michi gan State and the Tigers to move the red digits to 3,185 barkers....
Monmouth Park Analysis
Post time: 12:50 p.m. All horses appear in post position order FIRST-5 ½ fur; $13,000; cl($10,0); 3up SHOTGUN HARRIETSUE drops in class for new barn. SO FAST SOPHIE tired as...
Rangers need Del Zotto to avoid 'minor' setbacks
If Michael Del Zotto didn't exactly come out of nowhere to earn a spot with the Rangers as a 19-year-old two years ago, that's pretty much where the defenseman wound...
Belmont Charts
Sept. 17, 2011 Cloudy And Fast. Turf: Firm. ©2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST -7 fur; $19,640; mdn clm; 3upOff: 1:01. 5,10. leapt brk,duel 2p,gameTime: 23.49, 47.15, 1:12.44, 1:25.99.Trainer: Rudy RodriguezWinner:...
DeBoer's Devils ready to rush
The big difference will be the green light for the red-and-black defense. Another season, another Devils coach. At least Pete DeBoer obeyed the first rule of NHL coaching -- DDAS...
Monmouth Results
FIRST-$22,500, cl, 3YO up, 6f6Beacon Beach (Ortiz) 9.605.803.001Private Marque (Lopez)11.607.002Farragots Follies (Lopez)2.60 * Ext. (6-1) $107.40 * $1 Superf. (6-1-2-4) $845.40 * $1 Trifecta (6-1-2) $179.00SECOND-$40,000, mdn cl, 2YO, 5½f9Final...
Parx Results
FIRST-$40,000, cl, 3YO up, 1mi 70yd11Storm the Field (Vaz) 3.602.602.208Kudu (Hampshire, Jr.)7.204.006Hadrian's Image (Burke)3.20 Scr: Prudent Heir, Trinity Magic. * Exacta (11-8) $21.80 * $0.1 Superfecta (11-8-6-10) $31.88 * Trifecta...
Liberty stay alive with win over Fever
When your team's best player -- and one of the best players in the WNBA -- doesn't score until the second quarter, the results usually aren't good. But the Liberty...
Mets lose to Braves when Chipper strikes again
ATLANTA -- Chipper Jones 999, Mets 0. If that isn't the official tally in the Jones vs. Mets battles in clutch situations over the years, it might as well be....
Mets' Thole vows to improve catching
ATLANTA -- Josh Thole has made significant defensive strides over the last few months, but that doesn't mean he has conquered his demons. The Mets catcher said he isn't happy...
The Post Line
NFLTodayFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogJETS10 9½(39) JaguarsSAINTS 6½ 6½(47) BearsLIONS 8½ 8 (45) ChiefsBILLS 4 3 (42½)RaidersREDSKINS 4½ 3½(44) CardinalsRavens 6 6 (38) TITANSSTEELERS13½14 (40) SeahawksPackers10½10 (46) PANTHERSVIKINGS 3 3 (41½)BuccaneersBrowns 3...
Today's Sports on Air
Auto Racing8 a.m.MotoGP: Aragon Grand PrixSPEED2 p.m.NASCAR Sprint Cup: Geico 400ESPNBaseball1 p.m.Yankees at Blue JaysYES, WCBS (880 AM)1:30 p.m.Braves at MetsSNY, WFAN (660 AM)1:30 p.m.Rays at Red SoxTBS2 p.m.White Sox...
Rays cut deficit to 3 in wild card
Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester has been a part of teams that have had late-season success. So he has a sense how the Rays are feeling. "This isn't our first...
Sports shorts
SOCCER: Red Bulls snap skid Playing without injured striker Thierry Henry, who was left home to rest an inflamed Achilles tendon, the Red Bulls ended their eight-match winless streak last...
Mayweather KO's Ortiz in 4th round
LAS VEGAS --The ancient adage in boxing is to protect yourself at all times. Victor Ortiz learned that the hard way last night, losing his WBC welterweight title when he...
Norwalk Boat Show answers question: "What's up, dock?"
Norwalk Boat Show answers question: "What's up, dock?" The boating season gets a rebirth this year with the start of the Norwalk Boat Show this week. With new hands-on boating...
Gaborik returns to Rangers after plane crash victim's funeral
The Rangers were all on ice and accounted for yesterday. Marian Gaborik returned from Pavol Demitra's memorial service in Slovakia to take part in Day 2 of coach John Tortorella's...
Parise logical choice for Devils captain
Think it through. The Devils must make Zach Parise captain. The sole argument against his coronation is that he is on a one-year contract and might leave, making him a...
Red Bulls finally get a win
FRISCO, Texas -- Luke Rodgers scored in the 36th minute and the Red Bulls hung on to defeat FC Dallas 1-0 Saturday night and snap an eight-game winless streak. Goalkeeper...
Vic Cangialosi's Philadelphia Grade
Post Time: 12:25 p.m.FIRST-6 fur; $26,000; clm; 3up1-Antnthnbtk 6-52-Fashionette 9-23-PrkchpSndr 12-14-CarlnRstt 20-15-UnbrdldPtr 8-16-Freezercrowd 5-17-LavendrLn 3-1SECOND-6 fur; $23,000; clm; 3up1-Coltraider 5-22-StrghtArrw 20-13-Beacon Hall 8-14-JoetheDude 9-25-Tryan 12-16-ActiveTrdr 10-17-Dana Dynamo 8-18-KO'sPfflmp 6-19-Alioth 7-2THIRD-1...
Stating the case for Mo
* I despise the Yankees, but I would rank Mariano Rivera as the second most important player in their history. The Yankees of Babe Ruth's era still had Lou Gehrig...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYSept. 18MONSept. 19 TUESept. 20WEDSept. 21THUSept. 22FRISept. 23 SATSept. 24YankeesToronto1:07TV -- YES NetworkRadio WCBS 880 AM#Minn.1:05YESWCBST.B.7:05WWORWCBS*T.B.1:05YESWCBS$T.B.7:05YESWCBSBos.7:05YESWCBSBos.4:10FOXWCBSMets Atlanta1:35TV -- SportsNet NYRadio -- WFAN 660 AMNOGAMESt.L.8:15SNYWFANSt.L.8:15SNYWFANSt.L.1:45SNYWFANPhi.7:10SNYWFANPhi.1:10WPIXWFAN# - makeup of rainout from...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with ... Jason Pierre-Paul
Steve Serby tackled some Giants questions with defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul. Q: Do you talk trash on the field? A: It depends. If they’re holding me and the ref is...
Small market, struggling teams get best kickoff slots
How's that song go? Oh, yeah ... “It’s the root of all evil, of strife and upheaval, “But I’m certain, honey, that life would be sunny, “With plenty of money,...
Successful NFL systems require as much luck as skill
I always enjoyed talking to Tedy Bruschi when he was a member of the Patriots. If you covered football in those years, you invariably got to spend almost as much...
The sell biology of morning TV shows
In the intense race to see which network’s news divisions can be first to fully destroy their credibility and fully betray their vow to serve the public’s best interests, the...
New wings for ‘Angels’
For a show whose reputation for iconic hair, fashions and posh settings remains firmly intact, you might assume that a set visit wouldn’t require hip boots and industrial-strength bug repellent....
Zooey
Zooey Deschanel is sitting in the lobby bar of the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles, leaning forward on a table with a hand to the side of her head,...
Tune in Emmy shutouts
Prime-time Emmys are tonight at 8 p.m. on Fox. And while “Mad Men” and “Game of Thrones” battle it out for best hair, here are five Emmy-overlooked dramas -- and...
Stalked by Mirren
One thing you have to say about Maria Bello: she’s got guts. Only a brave soul -- or a fool -- would take a role already immortalized by Helen Mirren...
Reel good
Cinderella Man, 2005 Sun. 12 p.m., TNT Terrific biopic of Depression-era boxer Jim Braddock (Russell Crowe), a k a “Cinderella Man,” who as a result of breaking his hand during...
Look Who’s Talking
Regis & Kelly 9 a.m., Ch. 7 Monday: TomSelleck; Eddie Cibrian. Tuesday: Julianna Margulies; Paula Abdul; Anna Kournikova. Wednesday: Jonah Hill; Jane Lynch; Kelly Monaco. Thursday: Taylor Lautner; Minka Kelly;...
That's 'All'
Soaps have been disappearing from the airwaves on a regular basis, but people were still shocked when “All My Children,” once the most celebrated of daytime dramas, was axed earlier...
Ask Ashley: Meet at his place? no way!
I recently met a sweet, fun-spirited, family-oriented guy on a dating Web site. We met at the end of June after texting and talking for a bit. We have a...
Meet market: Fashionista sks man to watch the world strut by
Sara, a 25-year-old fashion and design student, loves Manhattan’s panorama from the Williamsburg Bridge. But she’s tired of the suspension — she’s ready for commitment. *Born to run Sara is...
Top 5 worst ways to break off an engagement
According to sparkly shoppers in the Diamond District “Say, ‘It’s not that I don’t want to marry you — it’s that I want to marry someone else.’ ” — Cecilia...
This week’s couple: Curbed enthusiasm
When Jon, a 24-year-old research assistant, and Pauline, a 24-year-old assistant media planner, sat down for dinner at Midtown’s French restaurant La Petite Maison, we hoped they’d find each other...
Refreshments are now being served
During the slower summer months, some of the city’s restaurants quietly shut down for a short vacation and, instead of just taking a simple rest, reemerge with nips, tucks and...
Weird but true
Knowledge is free but not forever! The public library in Newton, Iowa, called the cops on a 28-year-old man who checked out 11 books and six CDs in January and...
Syracuse, Pittsburgh leaving Big East for ACC
The day after Dave Gavitt, the founding father of the Big East Conference, died, the league for which he sacrificed so much was stunned by the defections of Pittsburgh and...
Notre Dame routs Michigan State for first victory
Cierre Wood ran for two touchdowns, freshman George Atkinson III returned a kickoff 89 yards for a score and Robert Blanton had a late interception yesterday as Notre Dame beat...
Hall of Famer Gavitt dies at 73
Dave Gavitt had an impact on the world of basketball. From a career as a successful coach to changing the face of college sports to introducing the Olympics to a...
Fordham's comeback stuns Columbia
For Fordham coach Tom Masella, the annual meeting with Columbia isn't just another game, the Liberty Cup isn't just another piece of silverware. A former fireman at Brooklyn's Engine Company...
No. 1 Sooners get best of Seminoles
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- As the week wore on it was clear the Oklahoma Sooners were fed up with the questions about their road record and doubts about their No.1 ranking....
Big Step: Crusaders earn first 'AAA' win in historic victory
The last time Archbishop Stepinac beat Chaminade on a football field, Lyndon B. Johnson was the President of the United States. The year was 1967, and Stepinac has endured 44...
E-Hall holds on against Boys after key fourth-down conversion
It takes more than one play to propel a season. And it’s only Week 2. But if Erasmus Hall is going to do big things this year – like many...
Thirty-four and counting: FG block ensures Tigers streak continues
Travon Reid Segure has been tabbed as one of the city’s top prospects because of his two-way playmaking ability as a ball-hawking safety and explosive wide receiver. The versatile Fort...
Finding the best fit, Brooklyn's Hall lands at Hofstra
Jimmy Hall went where he was wanted. The Brooklyn native who attends national powerhouse St. Anthony of Jersey City had offers from Temple, George Washington and Penn State and interest...
Obama deficit deal includes special 'Buffett Tax' for millionaires
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, in a populist step designed to appeal to voters, will propose a "Buffett Tax" on people making more than $1 million a year as part...
PSAL football Bowl/Cup division roundup: Jean Louis, Martin escape Tilden
August Martin’s defense had bent but not broken all game long. Marcus Louison, the team’s second-year coach, wasn’t sure how much longer that was going to hold up as Tilden...
Liberty rally to beat Indiana, keep hopes alive, 87-72
After losing the opener of their playoff series against Indiana, the New York Liberty relied on their strength in Game 2: their defense. Nicole Powell scored 19 points, Plenette Pierson...