October 2, 2011
Mangold inactive for Jets
BALTIMORE — Jets center Nick Mangold is inactive again after missing last week’s game with a high ankle sprain. Colin Baxter replaced him. Ravens cornerbacks Chris Carr and Jimmy Smith...
Role reversal: Morgan, Erasmus Hall shock Tottenville
After the euphoric celebration had finally died down, when the last chest bump and hug was given out, Danny Landberg gave a succinct summation of schizophrenic Erasmus Hall. “We’re nuts,”...
Patriots pull away from Raiders in second half
OAKLAND, Calif. — Tom Brady’s least prolific day of the season proved to be enough to get the New England Patriots back to their winning days. Brady bounced back from...
Giants come back from 10 down in fourth quarter to beat Cardinals
GLENDALE, Ariz. – The trip to the desert Sunday for so long looked as if it would come up dry for the Giants, who appeared to waste a glaring opportunity...
Cardinals rally against Lee, Phillies to even series
PHILADELPHIA — John Jay knocked Carlos Ruiz backward with a hard forearm shiver, then the St. Louis Cardinals flipped this series around. Albert Pujols hit a go-ahead single in the...
‘Hidden agendas’ of Hizzoner’s top aide
She might be the most powerful woman in city government — and her workday is the most mysterious. Deputy Mayor Patti Harris, Mayor Bloomberg’s closest aide, makes $246,000 a year...
LSU, Alabama No. 1 and 2 in new AP poll
LSU and Alabama are the top two teams in the country one month before their game in Tuscaloosa. The SEC West rivals held the first two spots in The Associated...
Filipinos still trapped on roofs; typhoons kill 59
MANILA, Philippines — Rescuers scrambled today to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for days because of flooding in the northern Philippines, where back-to-back typhoons...
Bills suffer first loss against Bengals
CINCINNATI -- The kings of comebacks finally lost because they couldn't do something much easier - hold a late lead against a struggling team. Up by two touchdowns, the previously...
Bust in fatal Bronx stabbing
Cops have arrested a man in the fatal stabbing of a Bronx teen. Pedro Suazo, 22, reportedly got into a fight with Kino Brown, 17, in a parking lot near...
Vick throws for career-high, but Eagles lose to 49ers
PHILADELPHIA — When the San Francisco 49ers finally let Alex Smith air it out, he outdid Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles. Chucking its conservative approach in the second half,...
Qaeda bomb man not killed in drone strike that took out al-Awlaki: Yemen
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaeda's top bomb maker in Yemen did not die in a drone strike on a convoy, a top Yemeni official said today, a report that dashed the hopes...
Redskins hold off Rams
ST. LOUIS — The Washington Redskins roll into their bye week looking like NFC East contenders. Ryan Torain ran for 135 yards and a 20-yard score, and the defense stepped...
Cowboys blow 24-point lead to unbeaten Lions
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Tony Romo put the Dallas Cowboys ahead by 24 points with his third touchdown pass right after halftime. That lead wasn't enough after he followed that with...
It's official: Sabathia vs. Verlander in Game 3
The aces meet again. Expect a longer rematch. CC Sabathia is scheduled to start Monday night for the Yankees against Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander in Game 3 of their American...
Brewers beat Diamonbacks 9-4, take second in NL series
MILWAUKEE — Jonathan Lucroy drove in the go-ahead run with a squeeze and the Milwaukee Brewers showed they could bunt as well as bash, breaking away from the Arizona Diamondbacks...
Yankees rally falls short; Tigers even series
Detroit closer Jose Valverde held off a furious New York ninth-inning rally and the Tigers avoided a major slip-up, beating the Yankees 5-3 on a rainy Sunday and evening their...
Rangers rally past Slovakian team
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- Mats Zuccarrelo started a string of four unanswered goals and the Rangers rallied for a 4-1 victory over Slovan Bratislava on Sunday for their third straight preseason...
Conn. child mauled to death
WEST HAVEN, Conn. -- A 20-month-old southern Connecticut girl was mauled to death after being attacked by as many as three pit bulls. The child was visiting her aunt's apartment...
Wall Street protesters: We're in for long haul
Protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan's Financial District say their movement has grown and become more organized, and they have no intention of stopping as they move into...
Homicide charges for 'drunk' in flat-tire tragedy
SADDLE BROOK, N.J. — Vehicular homicide charges have been filed against an alleged drunken driver accused of hitting and killing two New York men who were changing a tire on...
Perry push back over 'incorrect' racist camp name report
WASHINGTON – GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain today took offense that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s family hunting camp used to be called “Niggerhead.” “My reaction is, that's just very insensitive,”...
Follow Jets-Ravens with Post writers
The Post has tonight's Jets-Ravens game from Baltimore covered goal line to goal line with the best writers in town.The Jets will be trying to bounce back after losing their...
Follow Giants-Cardinals with Post writers
The Post has today's Giants-Cardinals game in Glendale, Ariz covered goal line to goal line with the best football writers in the business.The Giants will look to build on last...
Tuck out, Umenyiora in for Giants
GLENDALE, Ariz. – During the week Justin Tuck said “If I’m get on that plane to Arizona, I’m playing.’’ But he will not be able to keep that promise. Tuck...
Post writers from ALDS Game 2: Yankees vs. Tigers
Our Post baseball writers have the Yankees-Tigers ALDS covered.The Yankees will try to take a 2-0 lead after winning Game 1 9-3 on Saturday night. Freddy Garcia gets the start...
Cops warned protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
Police released two videos today of a captain warning anti-Wall Street protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge that they will be arrested if they do not leave the road. "Since you...
Islanders lose preseason finale to Bruins
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Dennis Seidenberg scored with 8:07 remaining, and the Boston Bruins rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the New York Islanders 3-2 on Saturday night in the...
The Post's Yankees' pregame show
The Yankees’ Chase for 28 resumes this afternoon in The Bronx. The Post’s Mark Hale is at the Stadium to discuss the Yankees’ ALDS Game 2 matchup against the AL...
The Post's Yankees pregame show
The Yankees’ Chase for 28 resumes this afternoon in The Bronx. The Post’s Mark Hale is at the Stadium to discuss the Yankees’ ALDS Game 2 matchup against the AL...
Joe Biden's brother hospitalized after opening package containing suspicious powder
OCEAN RIDGE, Fla. — The brother of Vice President Joe Biden says he was kept overnight at a Florida hospital after opening a suspicious package containing a powdery substance. The...
Raven mad coach will have Jets jacked up
BALTIMORE — If ever there was a night for the Jets to be ravin’ mad, it is this night. Coach Rex Ryan goes back to theplace where he won a...
Cops release photos of two suspects wanted for violent livery cab robberies in Bronx
Police released pictures of two suspects wanted for three violent Bronx livery cab robberies. In the most recent attack, the goons hailed a livery cab in Bronxwood on White Plains...
Drunk man nearly hit by train after falling onto Q train tracks at Union Square
A drunk man was almost hit by a train in Union Square early this morning, authorities said. The intoxicated man tumbled into the northbound Q train tracks around 4:30 a.m.,...
Gun-toting, pot-concealing turnstile jumper arrested in Brooklyn
This gun-toting smokehound should have sprung for a MetroCard. A cop patrolling a Cobble Hill subway station made a jaw-dropping collar when a turnstile jumper turned out to be packing,...
Yemeni government warplane mistakenly bombs army post, kills 30
SANAA, Yemen — A government warplane mistakenly bombed an army position in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 soldiers and wounding many more, military and medical officials said Sunday. The...
Girls volleyball roundup: Hill takes down St. Catharine in non-league
It was just a non-league game, but St. Joseph Hill got a measure of revenge. The Hilltoppers defeated three-time defending CHSAA Archdiocesan champion St. Catharine, 25-9, 25-18, 25-17, on Saturday...
Cano’s 'grand' shot propels Yankees to Game 1 win
It took two days to win one ALDS game and limit their best starting pitcher to a single gig for however long the show lasts, but the Yankees will accept...
No one wants to face Yankees' Cano
At first, it was fair to ask if Jim Leyland had gotten himself trapped in a time machine. The last time the Tigers had faced the Yankees in an American...
Inside pitch
Yesterday: Yankees 9, Tigers 3 HERO When Game 1 resumed last night with both CC Sabathia and Justin Verlander on the bench, no one was sure how Ivan Nova would...
Nova, Cano join Fall honor roll
The Yankees are about this time of year. Other teams want to make the playoffs. But the Yankees define themselves by winning championships. It is a title or nothing in...
Martin excels behind plate for Yankees
The Yankees are planning on using Russell Martin as much as possible in these playoffs. But with the catcher reaching up to grab Derek Jeter’s relay throw from Curtis Granderson...
Yankees' Nova nails it in playoff debut
There was some uncertainty surrounding Ivan Nova last night. The Yankees rookie had never pitched in a postseason game before, so how he would fare was, for many, an unknown....
CHSFL roundup: Xavier beats SFP after death of assistant coach
The Xavier players took the field Saturday afternoon with heavy hearts. On Thursday, Knights strength and conditioning coach and JV assistant Bill Costa died just hours after telling varsity head...
Momentum, win elude Sea
There were drives and plays left unfinished. Opportunities missed. A win that got away. St. Joseph by the Sea had rival Monsignor Farrell set up for an early knockout. It...
The Rumble
Bill of sell Mara makes Parcells Hall pitch There's one giant vote for Bill Parcells in the Hall of Fame. “You just have to look at his record,” Giants owner...
Resilient Farrell holds off rival Sea to earn Bradley first win
It hasn’t been an easy start for Monsignor Farrell – so why should its first win be any different? The Loins started the year with losses to Clemson-bound quarterback Chad...
Forest Hills wins annual Zink/Kiwanis girls soccer tournament
Forest Hills won the annual Charlie Zink/Kiwanis girls soccer tournamet Friday afternoon. It is the host Rangers' fifth tournament title since it began in 1991. Townsend Harris was second after...
Railsplitters run roughshod over previously undefeated Truman
Everything was going right for Truman in its move up from the Bowl Division after winning the Bowl Title last year. The Mustangs were undefeated and their confidence was brimming....
McCullough, a top-10 national hoops prospect, weighs quitting football
The 10th-best boys basketball prospect in the 2014 class is probably also the country’s tallest wide receiver/free safety. Chris McCullough, the highly touted 6-foot-9 wing from The Bronx, is in...
Cardinals can cover vs. Giants
TODAY CARDINALS (+11⁄2) over Giants: Big Blue backed up their pregame snarling by TKOing Michael Vick, leaving Mike Kafka overwhelmed. Disconcerted by effects of bizarre Seattle wind patterns, Cards have...
Who wins title of 'best' worst collapse
Sure, we could just make a list, but what fun is that? During a week when we saw more choking than in a terrible horror movie, why not send out...
Back from suspension, Taps takes over in Stepinac win over Mount
Austin Taps was ejected from Archbishop Stepinac’s game two weeks ago for fighting and suspended for last week’s contest against Kellenberg. A good student and mild-mannered kid, Taps was frustrated...
Red Bulls need win, settle for tie in Toronto
The Red Bulls went to Toronto last night needing a win and settled for a 1-1 tie; and they needed some last-ditch heroics by captain Thierry Henry to salvage even...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with ... Derrick Mason
Post columnist Steve Serby caught up with new Jets receiver Derrick Mason before Gang Green meet Mason's former team, the Ravens, today in Baltimore. Q: When you catch a pass...
Nets owner Jay-Z straw that slurs the drink
Last week was a big preview time for the Brooklyn Nets and their part-owner and, for now, their prime attraction, Jay-Z. Why not? The Nets referred to Jay-Z as a...
Belichick gets glimpse of Patriots’ castoff with Raiders
The Patriots sending Richard Seymour to Oakland remains one of the oddest trades in recent NFL history, and it could come back to haunt Bill Belichick today -- if it...
Undefeated Packers under NFL radar
Though the Lions’ stunning 3-0 start have been all the rage in the NFL, the defending champion Packers quietly have remained at the top of the pack. As the Packers...
Former NFL star Youngblood tackling concussion problem
This is how Jack Youngblood coped with concussions during his Hall of Fame career: “I used to carry two ammonia capsules in my belt,” he said. “If I got foggy...
Jets' defense vows no repeat of last week vs. Ravens
This one is personal. No matter what the coaches and players say publicly, the Jets and the Ravens are so closely linked, because of coach Rex Ryan’s roots in Baltimore,...
Raven mad coach will have team jacked up
BALTIMORE — If ever there was a night for the Jets to be ravin’ mad, it is this night. Coach Rex Ryan goes back to the place where he won...
Jets coach says Ravens' Reed is best safety 'ever'
Jets coach Rex Ryan does not downplay how highly he thinks of Ravens safety Ed Reed. “A first ballot Hall of Famer, in my opinion. The best safety that’s ever...
Giants say letdown is not in the Cards
GLENDALE, Ariz. — The emotional expenditure was so extreme and the reward so complete that it is fair to wonder if the Giants, coming off their highly charged 29-16 victory...
No pretending, Giants contending
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Giants cornerback Aaron Ross wasn’t boasting or bragging or trying to create a headline. It’s just a belief he has after watching the way the Giants performed...
Giants will try to mend it with Beckum
GLENDALE, Ariz. — The season has not gone the way tight end Travis Beckum envisioned. Asked to increase his production and take on added responsibility after Kevin Boss signed with...
Troubling offseason ahead for Red Sox
The stain is not going away any time soon. This is life when you have the worst September collapse in history and play your games in baseball-crazy Boston. The pain,...
Hackers joining Wall Street protests
Amid the real world protests swarming around Wall Street, the Department of Homeland Security has warned financial companies to be vigilant against a looming cyber- security threat from Anonymous, a...
What’s the correct Rx for patient
It’s a scene familiar to afternoon cable-TV viewers. The highly educated 50-something doctor sits under the hot glare of the cameras, as his actions of late are called into question....
Goldman, other banks eye quarterly losses
Goldman Sachs employees got a hint of how bad things have gotten last week when they visited the bank’s free coffee tray -- the cups had been replaced with smaller...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS DAWN OSTROFF Former CW boss tapped by Condé Nast for TV project. MARTHA STEWART Domestic diva returns to board of company she founded. YALE Beats Harvard in only Ivy...
Apple comes calling
When is a press invite not just a press pass? When it says “Let’s talk iPhone.” That’s the first clue Apple dropped in its invite for this Tuesday’s unveiling of...
‘Gears of War’ turns videogame tide
The videogame industry received a much-needed . . . er . . . shot in the arm this week. Microsoft’s “Gears of War 3” blew away a full season of...
In the financial marts, September (swan) song
Two words to describe the fiscal quarter that ended Friday: Market volatility. Equity markets had three of the largest intraday point swings in history during the third quarter. The S&P...
Gas prices can’t fuel consumer comeback
New York City motorists, paying some of the nation’s highest pump prices, are being sucked dry by a combination of greedy refiners, local charges and borderline gouging, a Post analysis...
Fed chief is twisting his words
In his first public speech since enacting the “Twist,” Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke cued us into some of his -- and likely a majority of the Federal Reserve board’s...
City buck$ trend
Economically, the last three years have been brutal for big cities in the US. Metro areas haven’t had it this bad since the depressionary 1930s, officials of the National League...
Intro to innovation
MK Marsden, managing partner of Touchpoint Strategies, is a software developer who is also an entrepreneur-in-residence with the Manitoba-based Stu Clark Centre, developing programs that teach young people how to...
Hey, just the fax, ma’am
With today’s many high-tech ways of transmitting documents, it can be somewhat unsettling when someone asks you to fax something. It’s even more unsettling when you need to do so...
Congress of dunces
Members of Congress may not have the educational background to understand and make difficult economic decisions. This explains why the same economic problems of overspending never are solved. Those are...
Down a rabbit hole with Ben
Dear John: In a setting that I forget, President Reagan barked at his Cabinet: “Don’t just do something -- stand there!” Jibes well with your remark in a recent column...
Heat’s on balcony cookout
An Upper East Side couple is getting skewered for -- gasp! -- cooking on the balcony of their million-dollar apartment.An East 51st Street co-op charges that Paul and Amye Gumbinner...
Midtown electronics store sucks cash out of unwary tourists: watchdog
He’s an iPhony. Tourists streamed into Haim Zarif’s Midtown electronics shop, taken in by his promises of deep discounts on top-of-the-line items like video cameras, computers and iPhones. But when...
New ‘wrinkle’ in Audrey legend
Even the timeless beauty of Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn couldn’t escape a few artistic touch-ups, as this never-before-seen publicity photo shows. Released for the 50th anniversary of the romantic heartbreaker...
Stop thief! Crime wave swamps Rockaways
A burglary tsunami has hit the Rockaways.Break-ins have surged 119 percent there this year, the worst crime increase in any neighborhood in the city through Sept. 18 over the same...
Savage thug stomps gramps for $30
A vile thug pushed his way into a Bronx building and mercilessly pummeled and robbed an elderly man in the lobby -- a heinous attack that was captured on surveillance...
Suit over class-pic plunge
A Brooklyn teen who was injured in a school photo shoot gone horribly wrong claims the 2009 accident should never have happened.Kayla Revivo, 13, was left with a herniated disc...
Harlem slap to Dem bigs
The new guard has arrived in Harlem. A pair of relative unknowns running for party positions in the 70th District caused an uptown upset when they bested candidates handpicked by...
Horse 'thieves' hit Central Park
Tourists who book horse and carriage rides online are getting taken for a ride. CentralPark.com, designed to look like an official city site to New York’s most famous green space,...
Terror kingpin nabbed
NATO-led forces picked off a leader of a shadowy terrorist network that has emerged as one of the most deadly in Afghanistan, officials said yesterday. Haji Mali Khan, senior commander...
Bill: Give me some credit
Pundits miss the point when it comes to his political impact, says Bill Clinton, who wants more credit for balancing the budget.“I go crazy every time I read the conventional...
Paterson kid clocked beau: cops
The stepdaughter of former Gov. David Paterson was charged with assault yesterday after smashing a bottle and a frying pan over her boyfriend’s head during an early morning brawl in...
How occult-obsessed prosecutor turned Knox trial into a witch hunt
Tomorrow morning is judgment day in the four-year saga of Amanda Knox, the American convicted of murdering her roommate in what Italian police and prosecutors have called a “sex game...
Diners are just dandy
The greasy spoon is still golden. The latest high-end food trends have not made New Yorkers kick their diner habit, according to a survey of 2011 credit-card transactions prepared for...
2 days to get outta ’Dafyville
SIRTE, Libya -- Libya’s interim-government forces will call a two-day truce to allow civilians to leave the besieged hometown of Moammar Khadafy, officials said yesterday. Residents have been streaming out...
Somali militants grab wheelchair woman in Kenya raid
Ten heavily armed Somali militants kidnapped an elderly and disabled French woman from her home in Kenya in a daring middle-of-the-night raid yesterday. The gunmen fled back to Somalia under...
A Ferris squeal!
It wasn’t the ride anyone expected. An Australian pilot crashed his plane into a Ferris wheel yesterday, leaving himself, his passenger and two children dangling from the ride for hours....
Rent wrangle
A woman who married her elderly and mentally incompetent companion just 46 days before he died says she should be allowed to keep their rent-controlled West Village apartment.The owners of...
Banks in a fee for all
Banks are out for blood. Bank of America announced plans last week to drain customers of $5 a month for using debit cards -- while other big banks continue to...
City’s EMT 911 dispatch system flatlines
The FDNY computer system that dispatches 911 calls to EMTs had to be resuscitated after it mysteriously crashed for several hours Friday -- and again yesterday. Several sources said the...
'Drunken' mow-down
A boozed-up driver ran over a pedestrian in Midtown early yesterday, sending him to the hospital with head trauma, police said. Angel Perez, 41, of Brooklyn, was driving on West...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** Police have released this sketch (top image) of a man suspected of holding up parking lots in Chelsea, the West Village and NoHo. In the most recent robbery,...
Yankee Stadium beerman suspended after joking with Red Sox player
There’s no joking in baseball. Famed Yankee Stadium beerman Steve Lazarus learned that the hard way after the longtime vendor was suspended for sharing a laugh with an arch-rival Boston...
Mandarin mandatory at posh LI school
The hottest accessory in East Hampton nowadays is fluency in Mandarin. Students at the tony Ross School on the East End for the first time are required to study the...
No kidding! Firm locks playground
A developer has padlocked a popular Upper East Side park, holding it hostage unless the city agrees to its demands for a tax break. The real-estate giant Related Companies chained...
Kings County shrink claimed to work 141 hours in one week
He’s making mad money. A staff psychiatrist at Kings County Hospital who pulled in an astounding $515,700 in overtime reported working an average of more than 110 hours a week...
Russia blamed for spy’s slay
From Russia with poison. Russia’s government orchestrated the radiation-poisoning murder of dissident spy Alexander Litvinenko, says the British prosecutor who investigated the unsolved 2006 murder. “This was a particularly disgusting...
Christie down to the wire
It’s his last weekend on the fence. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie -- under pressure to mount a GOP presidential bid -- mulled his options yesterday at his Morris County...
Pushing Meeks out door
Queens Democratic leaders are so worried that the ethical and criminal probes surrounding Rep. Gregory Meeks will bring him down, they held a secret meeting to pick his successor. The...
700 busted as Wall St. protesters clog Brooklyn Bridge
About 700 protesters were arrested after a horde of anti-Wall Street demonstrators swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, halting traffic for more than three hours and clashing with cops on the...
Shiatsu storm in Queens
Queens is getting rubbed the wrong way.A single slice of northeast Queens is turning into an unlikely spa district, with increasingly elaborate massage parlors putting down stakes.Two huge pampering parlors...
FDNY welcomes 1st transgender firefighter in city history
One of New York’s Bravest is breaking barriers -- becoming the first transgender firefighter in city history. The male-to-female firefighter has been openly welcomed by the FDNY, even as a...
Good Lourdes!
The Material Mom’s gorgeous girls are helping her celebrate the Jewish New Year. Madonna brought her stylish brood -- budding beauty Lourdes Leon and adorable Mercy James -- to a...
2nd slay in barbershop
In the second fatal barbershop shooting in Brooklyn in four days, a salon owner was shot in the head at about 3:30 p.m. yesterday while watching TV in the shop...
Inside the passion of the Christie
Gov. Chris Christie can be excused for taking his time to decide whether he’s ready to jump into the White House race. It’s a huge personal decision, even as the...
They’re wonder women
Oscar winner Charlize Theron (left) and Lynda Carter, who was TV’sWonder Woman back in the ’70s, are game for anything at the Los Angeles launch party for “Rage,’’ a firstperson...
Amazing! Hypnotic! Order Now!
Mail-Order Mysteries Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads! By Kirk Demarais Insight Editions These days, the mailbox is all about bills, junk mail and unwanted West Elm catalogs that...
If you thrill them... They will come
DES MOINES, IOWA -- Lynne Bosten lingers behind the cameras and microphones at the crowded afternoon gun show, finally locking eyes with her man. A onetime Hillary Clinton fan who...
We let him go
It took 10 years and several missed opportunities, but US authorities finally brought to justice the American at the center of the 9/11 hijacking plot. Only it may have come...
The last Duchess
She is the last great, grand aristocratic eccentric of Western Europe, with titles, holdings and wealth so vast that she bows to no one: not her king, Juan Carlos of...
First, they banned inhalers ...
On Jan. 1, a new federal rule meant to make the air cleaner is going to make it much harder for millions of Americans to breathe. Yes, you read that...
What we learned from Prohibition
“People think of Prohibition as a conservative movement, but not at all. It was a movement that was embraced by progressives,” says historian Wiliiam Leuchtenburg in Ken Burns and Lynn...
O: Bashing Israel, again
Ed Koch says President Obama got his message about White House hostility toward Israel, so the ex-mayor is now back aboard the “Obama Re-election Express.” You may be jumping the...
DC snow day
With all the problems facing our country, the refreshing story about a fellow who invented a device to make the perfect snowman brought a smile to my face (“The Frosty-matic,”...
In my library: Julianne Moore
Freckles have been good to Julianne Moore. Before she became the alabaster-skinned beauty we know from the movies, her classmates called her “Freckleface Strawberry” -- a name she’s parlayed into...
Body makeover
“Our Bodies, Ourselves,” the feminist classic that inspired millions of women to grab a copy of the Constitution and a hand mirror, is turning 40. To celebrate, the Boston Women’s...
Required reading
Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy (Viking) Pulitzer-winner Kennedy (for “Ironweed”) brings readers to 1957 Havana, where journalist Daniel Quinn meets Hemingway. But he also goes back to...
High comedy
In the mid-’70s, comedic writers David Zucker, his brother Jerry and their friend Jim Abrahams took a cue from Woody Allen — who had re-dubbed a Japanese spy film to...
Bridge
In England a few years ago, an interschool math competition ended in disaster when teachers misadded the scores and awarded first prize to the wrong team. If math teachers can...
NYC's Hall of fame
Don't ask who’s played Carnegie Hall: Just figure out who hasn’t and go from there. Except for Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson (who spoke but didn’t perform) and Barbra Streisand —...
Chemo sobby
In 2009, Kim Bard, a psychologist at the Centre of the Study of Emotion at England’s University of Portsmouth, identified the 10 movies that are most likely to make audiences...
‘Lonesome’ no more
When Hank Williams died, in the back seat of his Cadillac early on New Year’s Day in 1953, the 29-year-old country superstar left behind a legend that still towers over...
Rock banned
It's only natural. You’ve had a few beers, you’re hanging out with friends — now all you need is a great soundtrack. Pump a few bucks into the jukebox and...
Snoop dog
You know what they say: When the cat’s away ... But what about when the cat or dog’s owner is away? Ever wonder what your pet is up to while...
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 3TrainerOdds1Vander Gelder(L),118V Molina7-8-xShavelsn 15-12Notsofastmyfriend(L),118J Flores6-x-xCurry 15-13Rum Diary(L),118O Castillo2-4-2Lynch 7-54St Andrews(L),118R Alvarado4-4-11Day 6-15D....
Monmouth Park Analysis
Post time: 12:50 p.m. All horses appear in post position order FIRST-6 fur; $23,000; clm($20,000); 3up SKY HOSOYA drops in class for local debut. TE ATATU broke maiden as favorite....
Rangers slice roster to 25
With their first game of the regular season five days away, the Rangers made more cuts yesterday, and now have 25 players on their roster. Seven of those trimmed --...
NHL union should get rid of salary floor
A year from now, it's going to be the NHL and NHLPA just as this summer it was the NFL and NFLPA and just as it is now the NBA...
Hondo alive with 5
Hondo threw a no-blood splitter last night as he missed with the Rays and D'backs but hit with the Yanks and Stanford to leave the debt holding steady at 2,005...
Game 2 starter Garcia using guile to get batters out
Freddy Garcia isn't the flame-thrower he was the last time he pitched in the postseason in 2005 with the White Sox, but he thinks he has enough to get people...
Brewers defeat Diamondbacks in opener
MILWAUKEE -- Yovani Gallardo barely could see the return tosses from catcher Jonathan Lucroy, losing them in the bright light filtering through the windows at Miller Park. Imagine how the...
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The Post Line
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No progress in 7-hour NBA talks
The Waldorf weekend turned into a disaster. A marathon seven-hour NBA labor meeting at the Waldorf Astoria yesterday provided no progress but did not prompt commissioner David Stern to postpone...
Sabathia will start Game 3 for Yankees
Because CC Sabathia won't start Game 2 of the ALDS today against the Tigers, the Yankees ace is likely no longer a possibility to start a potential series-deciding Game 5....
Rangers even ALDS with Rays
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Playoff baseball is like a trip to Vegas. Even if you get on a roll, sooner or later your luck runs out. The odds are stacked against...
Phillies' Howard back with a bang
PHILADELPHIA -- After going without an RBI in nine playoff games last year and becoming a scapegoat of sorts for the Phillies' early postseason exit, Ryan Howard is off to...
After slow start, Halladay, Phillies mow down Cardinals in NLDS Game 1
PHILADELPHIA -- Roy Halladay's final line might not say it, but this pitching performance was another in his collection of all-time gems. Of course, all talk of Halladay's magic begins...
Sykora looks like he'll stay with Devils
The signing must now be just a formality. Otherwise, the Devils should not have bothered bringing in Petr Sykora because he played as well as anyone on the team. "I...
Tigers starter Scherzer ready for Game 2
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