October 16, 2011
Brady's late TD pass lifts Patriots over Cowboys
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Tom Brady got the offense going just in time to lead the New England Patriots to the winning touchdown in the final minute of a 20-16 win...
Coaches clash after 49ers beat Lions
DETROIT -- Jim Harbaugh charged across the field, lifting his shirt to expose his belly to attempt a chest bump. He extended his right hand to Jim Schwartz for a...
Giants' Tuck vows to return after bye
Justin Tuck spent most of Sunday’s 27-24 victory over the Bills waving a towel trying to exhort the crowd at MetLife Stadium and afterward fielded plenty of questions about when...
Cardinals headed to World Series after beating Brewers in NLCS
MILWAUKEE — An afterthought in early September, the St. Louis Cardinals needed every last win just to reach the postseason. Now, this wild ride is headed to the World Series....
Indy 500 winner Wheldon killed in massive race crash
LAS VEGAS — Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after his car became ensnarled in a fiery 15-car pileup, flew over another vehicle and...
Eagles top Redskins to snap four-game losing streak
LANDOVER, Md. — The Eagles know a thing or two about turnovers, having committed more than their share during a four-game losing streak. This time, they got the other team...
Bradshaw's three touchdowns lead Giants over Bills
The Giants finally found their running game, and it has them heading into the bye week with hope for a second half of the season that is bound to be...
Cuomo, union reach tentative deal to avoid layoffs
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the union representing state workers have reached a tentative agreement that could avoid close to 3,500 layoffs. The New York State Public Employees Federation says the...
'Spock' Quinto comes out; suicide prompted move
Actor Zachary Quinto, best known for playing Spock in the 2009 movie reboot of "Star Trek," said Sunday that he is gay. In a blog post on his official website,...
Dolphins' Taylor expects boos again from Jets fans
Jason Taylor expects to hear a familiar sound when he walks out of the tunnel at MetLife Stadium on Monday night. And, it won't be warm, friendly cheers. "I'm sure...
Bronx man gunned down in Conn.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Bridgeport police say a New York man has died after being shot in the head and crashing his car. Officers were called to Bishop Avenue early today...
Nets' Williams scores 11 in Turkish league debut
ISTANBUL — Nets guard Deron Williams scored 11 points and had five assists to help Besiktas to a 107-69 victory over Bandirma Kirmizi on Sunday in the NBA player’s Turkish...
Teen dies in E. Village shooting
A teen who was shot in the East Village last night died early this morning, police said. Donovan Salgado, 17, was shot in the stomach around 1:50 a.m. on East...
Cops cuff 175 in "Occupy Chicago'
CHICAGO -- About 175 "Occupy Chicago" protesters were arrested early today when they formed a human chain and refused to leave a park. Police told protesters in the early hours...
Belmont jockey has spinal fracture after fall
Jockey Eddie Castro suffered a hairline fracture of his L1 vertebra in a spill on Saturday at Belmont Park.The New York Racing Association jockey advocate said there was no resulting...
Obama says 'our work is not done' at King memorial dedication
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. during the dedication of a monument to the Civil Rights leader in Washington, D.C., today, and linked...
Jets could get nothing for Mason: report
The Jets could end up getting nothing for something. According to an ESPN report, the Jets will only get a seventh-round pick from the Texans for Derrick Mason if the...
Mentally handicapped chained in Philly basement; check scheme eyed
PHILADELPHIA -- Three suspects were facing multiple charges today, including kidnapping and assault, after four mentally handicapped people were found chained up in a secret room in the basement of...
Bills without run-stopper Williams vs. Giants
If the Giants cannot get their running game going Sunday against the Bills it is going to be a very bad sign.Why is that? Well, the Bills came into the...
Norman wouldn't have picked Tiger for his Presidents team
FT. MEYERS, Fla. — Greg Norman doesn’t think much of the way Tiger Woods plays golf these days, saying he would not have picked him to play in the Presidents...
NJ man in fender-bender struck, killed checking on other driver
WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. — New Jersey state police say a man involved in a two-vehicle crash on the Garden State Parkway was killed when he left his car to check...
Follow Giants-Bills with Post writers
The Post has today's Giants-Bills game from MetLife Stadium covered goal line to goal line with the best football writers in the business.The Giants will look to bounce back after...
Backman decides to stay with Mets
Wally Backman isn’t going anywhere- except maybe Buffalo.Backman admitted yesterday he considered leaving for a potential spot on Davey Johnson's staff with the Washington Nationals, but opted to remain with...
VIDEO: Jets-Dolphins preview
Post writers Brian Costello and Mark Hale analyze the Jets' game against the Dolphins, to be played Monday night at MetLife Stadium.The Jets are 2-3, riding a three-game losing streak....
VIDEO: Giants-Bills preview
Post writers Paul Schwartz and Mark Hale analyze the Giants' game against the Bills, to be played Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium.The Giants are 3-2 after an upset loss to...
Girls volleyball roundup: MVP Colasante, SFP win prestigious Long Beach tournament
St. Francis Prep has dominated Brooklyn/Queens for four years. Now the Terriers have conquered Long Island. Talia Colasante had 10 kills and two blocks to lead SFP to a 25-22,...
PSAL City Championship division football roundup: Adams runs past Lehman, inches toward playoffs
Gerry Weitzen had to be convinced to move John Adams up to the PSAL City Championship division. More than halfway into its return among the city’s best, the longtime coach...
How we live now
Last week, the Census Bureau relased the 2012 Statistical Abstract - a collection of facts and figures about life today in the United States. CLICK HERE TO SEE SOME OF...
Cardozo Breast Cancer Awareness Tournament notebook: Judges fall in finals
The defending PSAL city champion was dethroned, at least momentarily. Cardozo fell to Stuyvesant, 23-25, 25-22, 25-21, in its host tournament championship match Saturday in Oakland Gardens. The Judges had...
Former Knicks star rips everyone from Amar’e to Isiah
Charles Oakley hopes to see the Knicks return to the heights they reached in the 1990s, when he and Patrick Ewing patrolled the paint at Madison Square Garden. But Oakley...
Bet on Bills in Big Blue battle
TODAY Bills (+31⁄2) over GIANTS: This spread isn’t fair to Buffalo buffs, but this has been a remarkable season for teams emerging from sustained stretches of basebuilding, and not looking...
Vixens victorious over defending champ Cardozo in tourney final
The memory of last season’s quarterfinal loss to Cardozo still eats away at Phil Fisher. The Stuyvesant coach has broken it down on film multiple times and even changed his...
Injured Mattocks leads Bishop Ford to upset of Hayes
It was a show of maturation for Bishop Ford and its young quarterback. Junior signal-caller Xaviah Mattocks was unsure whether he was going to be able to play after severely...
Jets' infighting doesn't destroy chance for bicker-tape parade
There was a pretty funny narrative running through our humble sporting burg this week, and it went something like this: Santonio Holmes shot his mouth off at the Jets’ offensive...
Yankees will look for in-house offseason fixes
This is the time of year in which we have the Yankees involved in every major scenario involving the acquisition of big-time players. This is what happens when your history...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with ... Joe McKnight
Few people can catch speedy Jets returner/running back Joe McKnight, but Post columnist Steve Serby tracked him down for a Q&A session. Q: What was it like for you the...
Jets assistant knows all about outside criticism
The father not only has seen this movie before, he has starred in it. “As a father it bothers me,” former NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer said to The Post late...
Cowboys coordinator last to slow down Patriots QB
Tom Brady is a big reason why Rob Ryan has two Super Bowl rings, but Ryan doesn’t plan to do the Patriots quarterbacks any favors in return today. Now the...
Austin, Curtis clock PR in big bounce-back victory
Kevin Austin was sick with the flu last week, but he thought he’d be able to play. What the Curtis running back didn’t count on in the John F. Kennedy...
Redskins crashing NFC East party
Look who’s hosting dinner in the NFC East penthouse. The NFC East was supposed to be all about the Cowboys, Giants and “Dream Team” Eagles. The Redskins? They were an...
Harbaugh has 49ers back on map
Somewhere up there, Bill Walsh is smiling. His 49ers are no longer West Coast offensive. After all these years, all the lousy coaching and lousy quarterbacking that dishonored the legacies...
Susan Wagner shocks Clinton, gets back to .500
Last week was a big win for history. This week was a huge victory for the present. Six days after coach Al Paturzo became the PSAL’s all-time wins leader, Susan...
Time for sports TV to ‘go another direction’
What would happen — the worst that could happen — if one of the NFL’s or MLB’s partner TV networks truly decided to “go in another direction.” What possible down...
Stepinac gets swagger back with win over Holy Cross
The Archbishop Stepinac players heard the warnings all week about what can happen to teams after falling to St. Anthony’s. "Coach (Mike O’Donnell]) eally stressed after a team loses to...
CHSFL/Independent roundup: McDaniels, Kellenberg roll past rival Trinity
Kellenberg coach Keith Hanifan has called quarterback Matt McDaniels a warrior. The hard-nosed senior and the Firebirds finally have a victory for their efforts. McDaniels churned out 290 yards of...
Former Giants recall Super Bowl upset of Bills
Much time has passed since the Giants shocked the Bills 20-19 in Super Bowl XXV in January 1991, but the memories linger forever for those involved, particularly the winners. With...
Giants forced to shift defensive line
The Giants are down to one reserve defensive tackle, Rocky Bernard, now that Jimmy Kennedy is suspended for four games for violating the NFL policy on performance enhancing drugs. Bernard...
Graham's 47-yard FG in closing seconds gives Chaminade win over Iona
Matthew Graham relished the chance to play hero. The Chaminade kicker connected on a 47-yard, game-winning field goal with just nine seconds left to play against Iona Prep. He wasn't...
Buffalo brings best back nobody knows
He is one of the fairy tale stories of the NFL, a kid from Division III Coe College who should serve as an inspiration to underdogs and dreamers everywhere. His...
Coleman's big day, Gluick run lead CK to first win
Christ the King has been on the verge of its first victory, only to see comebacks fall short two of the last three weeks. The Royals were forced to go...
Giants to find out if Bills are for real
This is the spot where the Giants and coach Tom Coughlin usually come up big — shedding light after the darkness of a confounding loss. Getting beat last week by...
The Rumble
Joe Cahn is the self-anointed Commissioner of Tailgating, a man who drives in a motor home with his beloved Sophie the Cat across America from game to game, from stadium...
UBS can’t stay neutral in this war
Wall Street headhunters are out in force, telling financial advisers and wealthy investors that UBS has as many holes as Swiss cheese and they should jump ship.But insiders are fighting...
Banking on a pop
Bashing big bank stocks might come back to bite investors. The world’s largest banks have been trading at about half their book value as ongoing fallout from the mortgage mess,...
Hold off striking up band
You know it has been a tough year when the headlines on Friday read, “Miracle on Wall Street! Stocks Up for the Year!”Yes, an early October rally means that stocks,...
Apple needs a new Jobs
The biggest question about the future of Apple is how it will fare without Steve Jobs. Perhaps it’s too soon, but there is some speculation already about how long Tim...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS BONNIE HAMMER USA boss sees her small network beat out sibling NBC in ratings for 2nd time this season. LARRY PAGE Google CEO sees third-quarter earnings rise 26% search...
The IPO market is fraying at the margins
The Feds are strangling the anemic US IPO market with costly rules, according to Wall Street executives.These execs say the IPO market needs higher profit margins, and they call for...
Happy holidays . . . now prepare for battle
The two biggest US companies in the video-game industry are preparing for a gunfight. This holiday season, Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts will battle for supremacy in the $5 billion-a-year...
Consumers are $inging the blues
Two new studies do not show much cheer for the upcoming holiday shopping season for retailers, despite a surprising pop in back-to-school sales that was reported Friday. According to the...
Credit unions boom
Happy Bank Transfer Day! It’s unlikely you’ll be wishing that to your friends and family on Nov. 5. But if you are one of the millions of bank customers who...
Viva les marts & the euro
Over the past 10 trading days, the stock market has been in a spectacular rally mode, with a lightning-fast 1,000 point rise on very little positive news. While it is...
LeftOut of LinkedIn
To women, the name of the professional networking site that is all the rage should really be LinkedOut. While more and more men are finding their business connections the newfangled...
Say goodbye to Bernanke?
Dear John: Looks like Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is grasping at his last straw. He needs to leave, and soon. There has to be someone else to lead us...
Short-term help for workers and employers
If you’re an out-of-work Web developer, designer, illustrator or copywriter struggling to find long-term employment, short-term job service Tinyproj can help you stay busy and compensated until something more permanent...
Boy flunked for faith: suit
“f” is for Allah. A public Brooklyn school refused to promote a Muslim boy to the sixth grade because of his religion, says an incendiary lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court....
City bank shot
It’s the big freeze.The city -- for the first time -- has taken the extraordinary step of freezing campaign bank accounts to force elected officials into settling outstanding fines for...
Principal kind or kinda shady
Sinner or saint? A Manhattan principal who moonlights as a charity chief allowed students to bunk in his Brooklyn house, The Post has learned. John Pettinato, 60, who runs both...
Drug-bust ‘sodomy’ claim
A Staten Island man claims he was brutally sodomized and beaten by cops during a drug arrest earlier this year.Vincent Delgrosso, 26, claims in a lawsuit that he was left...
Fertility suit over disability
An Upper East Side couple is suing a fertility clinic because their baby was born with developmental disabilities.They claim their child was born with a devastating generic disorder after a...
Blade wielder rapes woman
A bandanna-masked man violently raped a 20-year-old woman in Queens early Thursday, cops said yesterday.The victim was walking near 108th Drive and Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica at about 2 a.m....
Newborn ship death mystery
The FBI is investigating the death of a newborn found aboard a Carnival cruise ship that returned to Port Canaveral, Fla., yesterday. The FBI’s Evidence Response Team was activated when...
The story behind Sid & Mercedes Bass' affair, marriage and surprising split
The only thing more scandalous than their wild love affair -- which electrified high society and upended its entire hierarchical structure -- is their very recent, astoundingly expensive, most unexpected...
Outed! NYers love their eatery food
Don’t take away our takeout! New Yorkers are addicted to restaurant food -- and love it even more when it comes to the front door. City residents dine out or...
LIE hit-run horror
A Queens bar owner died early yesterday in a horrific crash near the Long Island Expressway when the livery cab taking him home from work was hit head-on by a...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** A homeless man flung a brick through a tattoo-parlor window amid a brawl in the West Village, authorities said. Tyrone Herring, 45, was allegedly aiming for a foe...
Rebels hunt ’Dafy troops
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libyan fighters fanned out in Tripoli neighborhoods yesterday to search for armed supporters of fugitive leader Moammar Khadafy.Dozens of men combed apartment buildings in the Abu Salim...
'Sybil' is one big psych-out
“Sybil,” the shocking true story of a woman shattered into 16 distinct personalities that helped her to dig up repressed memories of monstrous childhood sexual abuse, sold nearly 7 million...
Trannies as 6G thieving bagmen
Two plus-sized transvestites shoplifted $6,000 in Chanel bags from a boutique on the Lower East Side Thursday, despite having the full attention of the gawking shop staff. One stood 6-foot-3-inches...
Blind ambition pays off
She’s Wall Street’s blind bombshell. An airborne infection robbed Lauren Oplinger of her sight in 2009 — but the mysterious illness never sapped her fighting spirit. Despite being legally blind,...
Pervert’s stroke of dorm terror
A pervy prowler is preying on young Broadway hopefuls, breaking into the dorm rooms of a prestigious Upper West Side performing-arts school and stroking the hair of one shocked student...
Horny heisters’ rubber rip-off
At least they’re practicing safe sex. Four teenagers walked into a Long Island drugstore yesterday and stole $60 worth of condoms and hair conditioner, authorities said. The horny teens pilfered...
He’s the sublet stinger
He’s pinched a professor, a Broadway actor and a rabbi. Former NYPD homicide investigator Claude O’Shea is now the city’s rent detective, stinging New Yorkers illegally subletting their rent-controlled apartments....
Groupon chopper gaffe
In the worst-timed ad ever, the national group-discount Web site Groupon is offering cut-rate helicopter rides 10 days after a tourist helicopter crashed into the East River, killing two women....
South Pole stroke drama
A South Pole engineer who suffered a stroke in August is to be evacuated tomorrow, her supporters say. Renee-Nicole Douceur will be flown out to McMurdo Station, the supporters say...
‘Artsy’-bitsy spider
This Bedford-Stuyvesant artist is really buggin’ out. Leon Reid IV wants to adorn the Brooklyn Bridge with a massive vinyl arachnid for an $800,000 art project he’s calling “A Spider...
Grimm and bear it
Angie Moore planted her yard with lawn signs. Danny Panzella gathered petition signatures. Lin Stevenson rang neighbors’ doorbells. But one year after the raucous campaign that catapulted the unknown Michael...
Con Ed says it will evict Ground Zero mosque unless developer pays $1.7 million in back rent
Pay up or get out. Con Ed has given the Ground Zero mosque an ultimatum: Pay the $1.7 million you owe in back rent, or we’ll terminate your lease and...
It doesn’t have a payer
About $70,000 down -- only $99,930,000 to go.Park51 might need a little divine intervention to raise the $100 million it needs to build its massive worship and cultural center.Last year,...
Burger ‘basher’ hailed
He’s become a McHero. Online supporters are hailing the McDonald’s cashier caught on shocking video bashing two patrons who hopped the counter during a fight at the West Village location....
Karzai-bro slay twist
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was killed by an employee angry over being disciplined for misconduct, not terrorists, a NATO official said yesterday. The man...
Occupy Wall Street protesters have amassed $230,000 and supplies
The Wall Street protesters have amassed a $230,000 war chest and a warehouse full of supplies for their long-haul campaign. And the money continues to pour in -- through online...
Angry protests around world
Anti-Wall Street demonstrations turned violent yesterday in Rome, London and Berlin as the protest movement spread to 82 countries. In Rome, some 70 people were injured when rioting broke out...
Squaring off at Crossroads
Thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators deposited their rage in Times Square last night -- and the cops paid them back with interest. Forty-five people were arrested as a mob...
Gal’s tubal nightmare
Two days after entering an upstate hospital to get her tubes tied, a 32-year-old upstate woman found herself paralyzed -- able to move only her eyelids.Ana Maria Mejia went in...
Upper West Side mom charged with killing her 18-year-old son
An Upper West Side mom was charged with manslaughter over the slaying of her 18-year-old son. Sean Hines was found dead at about 11 p.m. in the West 92nd Street...
Don’t stand for it!
Scoring a seat on a subway car isn’t a game of chance -- for savvy New Yorkers, it’s an art. Where you choose to enter the train and the seated...
‘Left’overs hold the city hostage
Each day, about 3.7 million people go to work in New York City. For the last month, fewer than 500 people have been sleeping in a park near Wall Street...
Yoel vs. the Port Authority
Yoel Weisshaus lives in a small apartment above a dance studio, where the sound of canned music and tap shoes float up through the thin floor. He is a 30-year-old...
Iran’s shadow army
Thanks to an accident of official schedules, last Tuesday, almost at the same time that President Obama was charging the Islamic Republic with plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador in...
Cheaters sometimes win
Mayor Bloomberg likes to boast of the “gains” made in city schools during his tenure, but the test scores and graduation rates he cites have long been suspect. Want to...
A councilman’s lament
The City Council was busily -- and noisily -- rewriting recent history last week while throwing a theatrical but quite juvenile temper tantrum. In the crosshairs were Schools Chancellor Dennis...
Hillary for VP? Maybe
When does “no” not really mean no? When politicians say it. Reporters understand that if the circumstances are right, the answer can always change. On Thursday, NBC News’s Savannah Guthrie...
Out to pasture
I love Maureen Callahan’s feature about South Dakota and the decline of rural America (“Great Wide Open,” PostScript, Oct. 9). I felt like I was listening to Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska”...
Required reading
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Harper) Something didn’t sit right with “Exorcist” author Blatty, despite the wild success of his book and its film adaptation (he even got an...
Land of the lost
The Unconquered In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace Crown Tribesmen covered in red and black vegetable dye aim their spears overhead and point at the...
In my library: Rachel Dratch
For an “SNL” alum best known as “Debbie Downer,” Rachel Dratch sounds surprisingly upbeat. Not only does she have a baby son -- 1-year-old Eli, whose naps determine the course...
Bright lights, big city
Believe your eyes -- that’s Mulberry Street, on the Lower East Side, teeming with immigrant New Yorkers. In 1900. In color. It’s part of a new coffee-table collection, “New York...
Prince of diagnosis
If you didn’t know that Ozzy Osbourne is a health (physical and mental) columnist for London’s Sunday Times and Rolling Stone, here’s your chance to learn from his wisdom. “Trust...
Girls gone geek
The Craigslist job posting started off simply requesting a woman to work a publisher’s booth at the New York Comic Con, currently in its final day at the Javits Center....
12 gadgets that will change your life
Try and go 15 minutes without using, interacting with or even touching a gadget. Chances are your texting fingers will be itching before the dawn of the third minute. Is...
Feline groovy
It’s the Spanish equivalent of Scorsese reteaming with De Niro: After more than two decades, writer-director Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas are once again working together in this weekend’s “The...
Woody and his sister
And you thought he was an only child who grew up under a roller coaster. Alas, “Annie Hall”-ics, it’s not true. Tumultuous as his life has been, the former Allen...
Surf, drugs and rock ’n’ roll
Few artists have so completely realized the rock ’n’ roll dream as Peretz Bernstein, a self-described “skinny, underdeveloped Jewish kid from Queens.” After high school, he crossed America to live...
Barking mad
With books like last year’s “You Had Me at Woof” and the new “Love at First Bark,” New Yorker Julie Klam has established herself as a funny, astute observer of...
Vic Cangialosi's Monmouth Grade
Post Time: 12:50 p.m.FIRST-6 fur; $28,000; clm; 3up2-Cat'sGtLgs 9-51-BearlyEngh 5-13-RhymNRhyth 8-14-Wardelle 7-25-RighttoRl 2-16-Shilh'sVn 6-1SECOND-1 mile; $16,000; clm; 3up7-Crafty Star 5-21-a-StrmnHg 5-12-FncyShmrck 15-13-MoreVeggis 3-14-Pntbttrbrw 8-15-Mr Talc 9-26-Festa Time 4-11-a-GntJmpng 5-1THIRD-1 1/16m;...
Tomorrow's Philadelphia Entries
Post Time: 12:25 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderFIRST6 fur; $23,000; clm($7,500); 3upPNHorse Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1Three Quarter Tout(L),118E Vaz2-2-4Synnefis 3-12Attack Jack(L),120A Arroyo1-1-3Lynch 7-53Dream of Atlantis(L),118FMaysonett2-5-3Giglio 8-14Uncle Eli(L),118J...
Hockey world unites behind plane crash victims
The whole world wasn't only watching when the Yak- 42 carrying the KHL Yaroslavl Lokomotiv club crashed shortly after takeoff on Sept. 7, claiming 44 lives, the entire hockey world...
Agent throws changeup on CC staying with Yankees
ARLINGTON, Texas -- After telling ESPN that every effort will be exhausted in order to keep CC Sabathia with the Yankees, agent Brian Peters backed off a bit when reached...
Monmouth Results
FIRST-6 fur; $17,000; clm; 3up2Hardly a Saint (Panas) 6.802.802.107Black Tie Spirit (Serpa)2.602.105Bckbckbckgne (Cotto, Jr.)2.10 Off 12:52. Time 1:11.65. Good. Scr: Danger Angel, Show the Way J. * Exacta (2-7) $16.40...
Plenty of Pap' for The Bronx
* In reference to Kevin Kernan's column "Last thing Yanks need is Big Papi" [The Post and nypost.com, Oct. 13], I totally disagree. The Yankees do need to get younger...
Belmont Charts
October 15, 2011 Cloudy And Fast. Turf: Good. ©2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST -6 fur(T); $23,000; clm; 3upOff: 1:00 p.m.St.good, won drivingTime: 22.71, 46.96, 58.93, 1:10.75.Trainer: Naipaul ChatterpaulWinner: B G,...
Today's Sports on Air
Baseball4 p.m.NLCS: Cardinals at Brewers, Game 7, if nec.TBS, ESPN (1050 AM)Football8:30 p.m.Dolphins at JetsWWOR, ESPN, ESPN (1050 AM)Hockey7 p.m.Avalanche at Maple LeafsVS.Horse Racing12:25 p.m.ParxCh. 711 p.m.Belmont ParkCh. 711:15 p.m.Delaware...
Brewers' lineup intact for NLCS Game 6 vs. Cardinals
MILWAUKEE -- Ron Roenicke is sticking with the players that have gotten the Brewers to this point. Though the Milwaukee manager isn't pleased with Rickie Weeks' offensive production and had...
Cardinals can reach Series with Game 6 win over Brewers
MILWAUKEE -- In plain black and white, the schedule has left room for a Game 7 of the NLCS tomorrow night at Miller Park. To the Brewers, those words seem...
The Post Line
NFLTodayFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogGIANTS 3 3½(50½)BillsPACKERS14½14 (47) RamsSTEELERS13 12 (40) JaguarsEagles 1½ 3 (47) REDSKINSLIONS 5 4 (46½)49ersFALCONS 6 4 (50½)PanthersBENGALS 7 7 (40½)ColtsRAVENS 5½ 8 (44½)TexansRAIDERS 7 6½(44½)BrownsPATRIOTS 7 6½(55½)CowboysSaints...
Sports shorts
SOCCER:Henry ejected, Bulls lose Teal Bunbury and C.J. Sapong scored second-half goals and Sporting Kansas City clinched a playoff berth with a 2-0 victory over the short-handed Red Bulls. The...
Tavares has Islanders pointing in right direction
There were a lot of stars on the ice last night at the Nassau Coliseum, but the one shining brightest was wearing a blue-and-orange sweater, the "A" emblazoned on his...
Devils storm past Predators to win in shootout
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- It's getting scary again, the Devils already channeling the spirit of last year's Preposterous Dream, but this time, they're not climbing out of an abyss. Theirs is...
Rangers still winless after loss to Islanders
So here it is, three games into the season -- three winless games into the season -- and the grand plan already has been altered following a 4-2 loss to...
Hondo talkin' parlay
Hondo's five-team parlay card crashed and burned right out of the gate yesterday when Penn State failed to cover the allotment. Then came his ALCS loss with the Tigers and...
Dawson stops Hopkins in bizarre 2nd-round finish
LOS ANGELES -- Bernard Hopkins was stopped for the first time in his career in strange fashion last night when Chad Dawson lifted him and tossed him to the canvas...
Rangers return to World Series with win over Tigers
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Move over, Yankees. And make room for the Red Sox and the Rays in the taxi. The Rangers are the new power in the American League after...
Rangers tread careful-Lee on Wilson's free agency
ARLINGTON, Texas -- So, what did Nolan Ryan and Jon Daniels learn from the Cliff Lee saga a year ago, now that C.J. Wilson will become a free agent whenever...
Rangers make 'hard' task look too easy
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Rangers manager Ron Washington was a coach with the Moneyball A's. In the movie "Moneyball" his character "Wash" offers a memorable line. When general manager Billy Beane...
Blackfish a tasty catch
If you are not fishing for blackfish, you certainly should be at the fish market buying them, because it is one of the few fish that can rival winter flounder...
Red Bulls lose, Henry ejected
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- C.J. Sapong scored and Sporting Kansas City clinched a playoff berth with a 2-0 victory yesterday over the Red Bulls, who lost forward Thierry Henry to...
Sniping Jets in need of a Rex message
Rex Ryan made this bed, which none of the Jets apparently can sleep in right now. This is what happens when you let the inmates run the asylum, and Ryan...
Home Team Lineups
RangersNOGAMEVanc.10:00MSG+ESPNNOGAMECalg.9:30MSGESPNNOGAMEEdm.10:00MSGESPNNOGAMEIslandersNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMET.B.7:30MSG+WRHUNOGAMEFla.7:30MSG+WRHUNOGAMEDevilsNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMES.J.7:00MSG+WFANPitt.7:00MSGWFANNOGAMERed BullsNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEPhil.8:00ESPN2WADONOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEGiantsSunday, October 30Dolphins1:00TV -- CBSRadio -- WFAN 660 AMJetsSunday, October 23Chargers1:00TV -- CBSRadio -- ESPN 1050 AM
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Getting actors to look like rotting pumpkins is an art on “The Walking Dead.” The sensational AMC zombie melodrama, whose second season begins tonight, has as its stars a straggling...
Send in the clowns at Ch. 7 news
I feel like Quasimodo, chased back up into the bell tower, no place else to turn, nothing left to write or holler except, “Sanctuary!” In New York City -- New...
‘Family’ trades Lilys
Look who’s talking -- and walking. And doing shtick! Why, it’s Lily, the adopted daughter of Mitchell and Cam, the doting dads of “Modern Family,” and she’s grown a lot...
‘Boss’ man
Kelsey Grammer is finally showing his dark side. After 25 years of laugh tracks and one-liners (“Cheers,” “Frasier,” “Back to You,” “Hank”), the actor is changing gears to play the...
Reel good
I Love You, Man 2009 Sunday, 1:30 p.m., TBS An under the radar, screamingly funny story of a man (Paul Rudd) who is about to be married to the woman...
Look Who’s Talking
Regis & KELLY 9 a.m., Ch. 7 Monday: Simon Baker: Jessica Capshaw. Tuesday: Kevin Spaceyl Anne Heche. Wednesday: Ricky Gervais. Thursday: Kelsey Grammer; Kevin McKidd; Carrot Top. Friday: Orlando Bloom;...
Meet market: Brooklyn artist hopes to draw in a great love
Ellen, a 24-year-old illustrator and interior designer, has a great eye for finding beauty everywhere she goes. Now she’s looking for a brush with romance. *Underground literature Ellen just finished...
This week's couple: Lush life
When we sent Doug, a 24-year-old marketing associate, and Kelton, a 25-year-old advertising manager, to Hell’s Kitchen’s bistro La Silhouette, things got a little loopy. The restaurant served the duo...
Top 5 best pick-up lines at a protest
“If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re protesting with.” Maris “Forget about Wall Street. I’d like to occupy you.” Tom “I’ll show you my...
Ask Ashley: All systems go: get it on!
My wife and I haven’t been intimate in over six months due to an accident in which I sustained serious injuries. I have now been given the green light; however,...
Bed of the table
Looking for gourmet flair without the pretention? Look no further than Bedford-Stuyvesant, the sprawling Brooklyn neighborhood immortalized in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing.” Of course, a lot has changed...
Weird but true
This case of illicit drug use will get your goat. Theodore, the grand champion goat at this year’s Colorado State Fair, was disqualified after failing a drug test. Someone tampered...
Rutgers shows Big East resolve to Navy in comeback victory
PISCATAWAY -- The Big East Conference's battle for survival was mirrored in Rutgers' 21-20 come-from-behind Homecoming win over Navy yesterday. It was a game filled with twists and turns, a...
No Big East expansion until exit fees set
When the Big East Conference holds its men's basketball media day at the New York Athletic Club on Wednesday, don't expect commissioner John Marinatto to talk much about expansion. A...
Upset bid falls short for Columbia
Billy Ragone ran 7 yards for a touchdown -- the Penn quarterback's second rushing TD of the game -- with 25 seconds left and the Quakers edged Columbia, 27-20 last...
Spartans win 4th straight battle of Michigan
Jerel Worthy and his Michigan State teammates charged across the field, holding four fingers in the air while celebrating another sweet victory over their biggest rival. "A clean sweep!" Worthy...
St. John's feeling lift from freshmen
If you think investing in the stock market is risky business, perhaps you should try your hand as a college basketball recruiter. Consider the wild fluctuations that have buffeted St....
L.I. star has Xavier looking to repeat in Atlantic 10
All-American guard Tu Holloway is sitting in the ballroom of a hotel in Downtown Brooklyn, representing Xavier at the Atlantic 10 Media Day. His responses to a slew of questions...
Jefferson scores 30 unanswered points, stunning Erasmus Hall
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn, but a thunderstorm raged between the sidelines of Sid Luckman Field. “He’s thunder and I’m lightning,” Thomas Jefferson running back Kendall (Speedy)...
PSAL Bowl/Cup division football roundup: Bayside runs through Madison, remains perfect
Long live the Oompa Loompas. That’s the nickname that has been given to Bayside’s short, thick offensive line that has been a dominant force this season. A 28-6 win Saturday...
Boys soccer roundup: Poly Prep stuns Horace Mann
Don’t count Poly Prep out of the NYSAISAA field just yet. The Blue Devils shocked Ivy Prep League leader Horace Mann, 2-1, in Bay Ridge on Saturday afternoon behind goals...
Canarsie gets 'special' win over Boys High
Canarsie and Boys & Girls’ special teams were both special yesterday – but for different reasons. Canarsie’s unit was the reason it is now 5-1, firmly among the city’s elite,...
Tavares' three goals lead Islanders over Rangers, 4-2
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — John Tavares had three goals, including the tiebreaking tally in the third period, and added an assist for the New York Islanders, who beat the New York...