October 30, 2011
Patriots fall to Steelers
PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers found a way to beat Tom Brady: Don't let him get the ball. Ben Roethlisberger passed for 365 yards and two touchdowns and the Steelers...
Red Bulls lose opening leg of series with Galaxy
In a star-studded Western Conference semifinal between the Red Bulls and Galaxy, a tilt that featured headliners David Beckham and Thierry Henry, Landon Donovan and Rafa Marquez -- it was...
White Plains wreck kills 3 from Bronx
Authorities in White Plains are investigating a head-on collision that killed three people from the Bronx and injured two others. The Journal News says police started receiving calls late Saturday...
Bills blank Redskins in Canada
TORONTO -- Turns out Canadians can warm to a winner. Ryan Fitzpatrick quickly made his expensive new contract pay off, and the Buffalo Bills finally gave their adopted - and...
Rangers to recall Avery
The Rangers are bringing back Sean Avery.Because nine games deep into a season in which the Rangers have won three times (3-3-3) while unable to reproduce the Black-and-Blueshirt identity that...
Giants' Nicks hurts hamstring, says he's unlikley to play vs. Patriots
Hakeem Nicks said “I’m a fast healer’’ but he had to leave Sunday’s 20-17 victory over the Dolphins with a strained hamstring and he also admitted he didn’t think there...
US flight attendant dead in Mexico, found naked and tied up
PHOENIX — A US Airways flight attendant based in Phoenix was found dead in a Mexico City hotel room while on a layover, and authorities are investigating the death as...
Ravens come back from 21 down to beat Cardinals
BALTIMORE — Down by three touchdowns in the second quarter, the Baltimore Ravens were being jeered by the home crowd and in danger of losing another game to a sub-.500...
Giants rally past Dolphins, avoid another upset
Tom Coughlin told his Giants to watch out for the winless Miami Dolphins and they came real close to missing the message. Luckily for New York, Eli Manning was there...
Naked, drunk driver crashes into dozen cars in Moscow
MOSCOW — Russian police say a drunk and naked driver has wreaked havoc in central Moscow, damaging 12 cars before being caught by police. The city police said they started...
New Jersey voters face sports betting proposal
FREEHOLD — Sipping a beer and killing time in the 15 minutes between races at Freehold Raceway one recent afternoon, the guy in the Jets hat pondered the possibility that...
'Field of Dreams' property in Iowa sold
DYERSVILLE, Iowa — The sprawling eastern Iowa cornfields made famous by the movie “Field of Dreams” are being sold to a company that will preserve the site’s baseball legacy, the...
K-Rod a free agent after Brewers decline option
Francisco Rodriguez's $17.5 million mutual option has been declined, and the Milwaukee Brewers reliever was among 148 players who become free agents Sunday. K-Rod's deal was reworked when he was...
Cowher says he doesn’t ‘plan on coaching next year’
Former Steelers coach Bill Cowher attempted to stifle rumors the Dolphins were pursuing him on CBS’ “NFL Today Show”, where he is now an analyst. There had been reports that...
Icy Bx. accident turns deadly when pair struck, knocked off overpass
A young woman was killed and her brother left clinging to life after they were hit by a car amid a horrific string of weather-related accidents on a Bronx highway,...
Bart's Week 8 picks
As just about everyone showed last week, the notion that no lead is safe in the NFL is – at least this season – plain truth and not just a...
Tuck, Jacobs back active for Giants
All week, Justin Tuck was moving in the direction of returning to the field for Sunday’s game against the Dolphins. What was expected became official when Tuck was activated for...
Court ends Qantas strike
CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian court early Monday ended the strikes and employee lockout that had abruptly grounded Qantas Airways and stranded tens of thousands of passengers worldwide. The airline...
Storm blackout grows to 3M, Conn. to be dark for a week
The number of homes and businesses without power on the East Coast has grown to more than 3 million as an unusually early snowstorm passes over New England. Connecticut Gov....
Follow Giants-Dolphins with Post writers
The Post has today's Giants-Dolphins game from MetLife Stadium covered goal line to goal line with the best football writers in the business.The Giants, who lead the NFC East, come...
Belmont ends Fall meet with cancellation
The live racing card at Belmont Park on the closing day of the meet Sunday has been canceled due as a result of Saturday’s inclement weather that included ice, snow,...
US citizen a Somali suicide bomber
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- An American citizen of Somali origin was one of the two suicide bombers behind a twin attack on a pro-government military base in Mogadishu, the Islamist al...
Syracuse loses to Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Syracuse coach Doug Marrone knew his team would have to manage success after last week's rout of West Virginia. The Orange didn't, and instead managed their fewest...
Countdown to the Breeders' Cup: Sprint
The Post will profile each of the nine Breeders’ Cup races to be run Saturday at Churchill Downs. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights potential nice-price winners as handicapped by...
Survivor: Tuscaloosa
On Saturday, No. 1-ranked LSU plays at No. 2-ranked Alabama in the most anticipated college football game of the season. The Post helps you get ready. This is the SEC’s...
CHSFL roundup: St. Peter's tops CK to keep 'AA' hopes alive
No team has done more with less than St. Peter’s and its hopes of a CHSFL Class AA playoff spot are still alive. The Eagles held on to beat visiting...
Fontbonne wins Cleveland tournament to cap successful season
A loss to Archbishop Molloy in the CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens Division I semifinals Thursday would have normally ended Fontbonne Hall’s season. Instead, coach Linda Strong gave her players a choice. The...
Girls soccer roundup: Cardozo upsets No. 10 Brooklyn Tech
The game had a familiar feel to Tim Demirayak. His Cardozo team’s play reminded the coach of its tough games in Queens A-IV. “We played great,” the first-year head man...
NBA lockout fragrant foul for Newark businesses
Tami Brown — owner of newly opened Loft 47, one of several restaurants sitting about a Deron Williams pass away from Newark’s Prudential Center — admits she has no definitive...
PSAL City Championship division football roundup: Tech beats Jefferson, gets back to .500
Brooklyn Tech won its third straight game and evened its record, but it did not come easy Saturday in less-than-stellar conditions. It was hard enough for most teams playing on...
The Rumble
Hey Loudmouth! Adam Schein: “I love it. I mean, that’s who we are. It’s not schtick. It’s natural.” Hey Loudmouth! Chris Carlin: “I think that’s the best part, is that...
Look back at the Mets' NLCS loss to Cardinals with those who were there
It is a look back. Just over five years ago, the Mets and Cardinals played a magnificent Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS, the Cardinals winning it 3-1 to kill...
Serby's Sunday Q&A with ... Osi Umenyiora
Post columnist Steve Serby talks with Giants defensive lineman Osi Umenyiora. Q: Bill Sheridan, your former defensive coordinator, will be on the Dolphins sideline today. Any incentive to show him...
Champagne toasts Sheepshead, leads Boys High to big victory
Neither the rare October snowflakes nor Sheepshead Bay defenders could bring down Boys and Girls running back Najee Champagne. “He was great, he came up huge for us today,” Boys...
Jets’ Pace off to huge start
Jets linebacker Calvin Pace does not have to think long when asked for the reasons for his fast start this season. It’s simple: He actually is on the field. Pace...
Giants can cover vs. lowly Fins
TODAY GIANTS (-10) over Dolphins: Big Blue looked great vs. discombobulated Eagles, but since? A fluky win at Arizona, a turnover festival against Seattle, and a life-and-deather against the Bills....
Brady has stellar history vs. Pittsburgh
It seems fitting the Steelers are facing Tom Brady on the eve of Halloween, because the Patriots star has been a one-man horror show for Pittsburgh. Brady has tormented a...
Left for dead, Chiefs coming back strong
There has been a remarkable resurrection taking place in Kansas City, one of the most rabid, old-school cities in the NFL, and it has set the stage for an unlikely...
Bad teams in ‘losing’ battle for Stanford QB
There are more than a few ominous, diabolical, Machiavellian, scenarios on the horizon that would fly in the face of the NFL’s noble and dogged integrity doctrine, and here is...
Giants can't let down against Dolphins
If they were throwing a Halloween costume party inside MetLife Stadium today, Matt Moore would be wearing a Dan Marino mask, and Tony Sparano would be wearing a Don Shula...
Giants wary of 'dangerous' Dolphins
Giants defensive end Justin Tuck is thankful he doesn’t know the feeling but he figures he has an idea what the Dolphins are thinking today as they arrive at MetLife...
Close call sends Hayes past Baptist, into CHSFL 'AA' playoffs
Less than a yard was the difference between Cardinal Hayes securing a CHSFL Class AA playoff spot and having to sit and wait for its fate. “We knew the field...
Former NJ gov poster boy for failing up
Stocks have soared this October, putting the S&P 500 on track for its best monthly performance since 1974. Meantime, the Europeans finally came up with a Plan B that seems...
Corzine’s MF leverage & trades were from bygone era
After returning from a 10-year hiatus from Wall Street, Jon Corzine stepped into the Chairman and CEO role at MF Global as the conquering hero, hellbent on creating a new...
Apple ‘swipes’ a patent on iPhone gesture
Patent lawyers, start your search engines. Apple has won a patent on the swiping mechanism that unlocks the iPhone screen, which is similar to those on rival Android touch-screen devices....
Spotify getting static
Is a Spotify boycott getting started? As streaming music services gain ground, artists’ managers and their labels are starting to give more thought to how to window their new releases,...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS LEONARDO DiCAPRIO Leading man makes move to lead investor in Big Apple tech firm Mobli. LARRY PAGE Google CEO breathes easier as FTC search de-emphasizes Web ethics. REX TILLERSON...
More NYers turn up late at work
The city’s workplaces were more dangerous in 2010, with the number of fatal falls as well as assault and violent attacks rising, according to government numbers. The number of New...
Inside a MerKozy kimono
They did it.Europe finally opened its kimono, and inside it seemed pretty close to what the markets had expected. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy -- “MerKozy,” as they’re called for...
Pay for rewards
Banks are seeking their own rewards to make up for the billions in revenues they lost in swipe fees that they charged retailers. Some banks, led by Bank of America,...
Play (war) games
Bam, Pow, Biff, Boom!!! Though the book is nonfiction, you have to be in a Saturday-cartoon mood to read “Worm,’’ which comes to the reader emblazoned with two promises: You...
Job worries trump rates
Dear John: I am not a supporter of either Ben Bernanke or President Obama. But I am not sure if you recognize that there could be a good effect as...
Phone security even if it’s lost
With all of the vital personal details stored in and transmitted via your smartphone, it’s especially important that this information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. The Lookout mobile security...
Cuomo to fill cushy judgeships
Gov. Cuomo is set to fill up to three vacancies in the Appellate Division court in Manhattan, where the caseload is already light and the 17 current justices don’t have...
A new trance-mission
Audrey Felli’s cancer had spread from her breast to her lymph nodes. So, in May 2006, Felli went to Mount Sinai Medical Center for a lumpectomy. She filled out paperwork,...
‘Pot’ tenant: Off my ash!
A Manhattan man facing eviction after being repeatedly warned about an “odor of marijuana” coming from his midtown apartment is taking legal aim at his landlord.Sebastian Rosario of 340 E....
LI woman remembers Halloween she got poison with candy
Razor blades in apples and poisoned candy have been the stuff of Halloween lore ever since the very first trick-or-treaters. But in one Long Island town almost 50 years ago,...
126 trapped on plane 7 hrs.
Passengers on a Newark-bound JetBlue flight from Florida were held prisoner on a tarmac in Connecticut for more than seven hours yesterday.The plane, Flight 504, took off from Fort Lauderdale...
Oy! Nike throws a fake
Just fake it. A new TV commercial for Nike’s Air Jordan mixes fact with fiction as it shows locked-out Knicks superstar Carmelo Anthony hooping it up with hipsters in Williamsburg,...
Freed Iran actress avoids 90 lashes
An Iranian actress has escaped the lash after a court reduced her punishment for appearing in a movie critical of the regime, Amnesty International reported yesterday. Marzieh Vafamehr’s sentence was...
Blaze leaves elderly man fighting for life
An elderly man was in critical condition last night after a fire tore through his Borough Park apartment, fire officials said. It wasn’t clear what sparked the flames that left...
Upstart gangs the scourge of the city
When the sun sets, Naomi Benjamin scurries home. And tries not to take the same route twice. “Even just standing out here ... You can’t come outside,” said Benjamin, 32,...
Hero ma tribute
Hundreds of mourners gathered at a Bedford-Stuyvesant church last night to remember Zurana Horton, 34, and how she died last week at the hand of gang violence. “Young men and...
A look inside the heartless, miserable, greedy, vain world of the Madoffs
Bernie and Ruth Madoff met in 1954 when they were teenagers, and from the beginning Bernie criticized Ruth, perpetually, pointing out every minor imperfection in his young bride. As a...
NYPD Daily Blotter
The Bronx *** A Crotona Park East tenant found the body of a neighbor in a stairwell, cops said. Frank Russell, 26, was shot in the head on the fourth-floor...
Hardhat killed in Bx. bldg. collapse
A two-story building under construction in The Bronx collapsed yesterday, killing one of the three workers on the site. The commercial structure, on Stratford Avenue in Soundview, came tumbling down...
Suit: Naked, randy boss chased me
She was anything but attracted to this magnate. Blond bombshell Adelheid “Heidi” Waumboldt, 24, of Manhattan, alleges her former boss, Greek shipping mogul Gregory Callimanopulos, couldn’t keep his hands --...
Goldie knocks
Life with comic actress Goldie Hawn was no laugh-riot, according to a nasty tell-all by her ex-husband Bill Hudson. Hudson, the father of Hollywood star Kate Hudson, portrays his ex-wife...
Peru is rocked by 6.9 quake
LIMA -- A magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck off the coast of southern Peru injured 83 people near the city of Ica, civil defense officials said yesterday. At least 88...
Vito poor? That’s rich!
Brooklyn Democratic boss Vito Lopez is not among the 99 percent. Despite leading an Occupy Wall Street march Tuesday protesting income inequality, the embat-tled assemblyman and girlfriend Angela Battaglia, who...
Fiend attacks 'Occupy' protester in her tent
Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park battened down the hatches yesterday as the early October snow turned their tents into igloos, but the close quarters also made easy pickings for...
Museum of Natural History's animals get makeovers
The bison got a nose job, the Alaskan brown bear got his hair dyed, and the bobcat may need a nip and tuck around the eyes. It’s an extreme animal...
Wurst bean counter ever
Oops. In about as big an accounting error as you could make, Germany’s mountain of national debt has been declared $78 billion lower because of a bad calculation by a...
'Harry' pal nearly potted
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says she was close to waving her magic wand and telling one of her best known characters, “You is deadus.’’ The multimillionaire writer said she...
Benz justifies the means for Meeks
Rep. Gregory Meeks needed a brake. The Queens Democrat charged nearly $7,000 in auto-repair bills to his campaign committee, possibly violating campaign-finance rules for the second time in three years....
Food-cart guy in a $90,000 name game
A crafty food-cart vendor looking to evade $90,000 in health violations cooked up aliases faster than you can fry a falafel, the city alleges. Ayman Metwally’s menu of identities included...
Harlem group sitting on Columbia-aid cash
Columbia University gave a West Harlem group $3.5 million, and all the community got for its money were some consultants and a temporary job program for teens.The money is part...
At least 12 people injured as record snowstorm hits NYC
A freak killer wintery storm socked New York with an autumn sucker punch yesterday -- smashing an 86-year-old snow record amid howling winds that scrambled air and ground travel and...
Rich dad’s ‘frame & fortune’ forgeries
Talk about an artless exit. A legendary Manhattan radio producer with a vast collection of paintings and sculptures has given a final, cruel sign-off to his estranged family -- from...
Hard luck: Viagra gal keeps 400G 'error'
It’s every fired worker’s fantasy. A Bronx woman laid off by the maker of Viagra received a severance check for more than a half-million dollars -- by mistake. And now...
DAs outside Bronx 'ignoring' ticket-fixing scandal
Their silence is deafening. The district attorneys in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island are turning a blind eye to potential ticket-fixing scandals in their own back yards -- despite...
Herman surges in Iowa
They’re raising Cain in Iowa! Herman Cain’s surprising climb to the top of the Republican presidential field continues as a significant new poll released last night has him leading the...
Daydreams of NYC helped Ilan survive
Freed after five months in an Egyptian prison, Queens law student Ilan Grapel made an emotional return home yesterday, saying the New York memories that “flashed before my eyes” helped...
Blasts jolt U.S. forces
A dozen Americans were among 17 people killed in a suicide bomb attack in Kabul yesterday that underscores Afghan-istan’s instability as the United States and other nations withdraw troops. The...
‘Lord of Flies’ in Zuccotti Park
They’re railing against freeloaders and ex-cons for stealing their stuff and spoiling their utopia. They’re squabbling with each other over money and power. The weather is turning frightful and a...
Get a gripe!
“Be a good neighbor and honk only in emergencies,” TLC chief David Yassky warned the city’s raging ranks of Travis Bickles this week, promising a $350 fine for cabbies who...
4.3%
That’s the percentage of households in the United States in 2009 that -- somehow -- had no telephone service, according to the US Census Bureau’s 2012 Statistical Abstract. That’s more...
Screw U.
It’s officially a crisis. Student loan debt has hit the $1 trillion mark, exceeding Americans’ total credit card indebtedness. Unemployed graduates with huge loan balances are camping out in “Occupy”...
As seen on TV
It was the fall of 1993 in Moraine, Ohio -- a quiet suburb just outside of Dayton. Darcy Burk was living with her boyfriend, Steve Sears, and her two young...
Where there’s a way, there’s a will
In 1967, Stanford University researchers asked 500 4-year-olds to square off against a marshmallow. In the now famous “marshmallow test,” the preschoolers were each left alone in a room with...
Testing Andrew Cuomo
Just when it looked like New York was making healthy progress with hydrofracking, along comes state Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens holding up a huge “STOP” sign. “There is no...
Obama’s party dodge
We don’t doubt for a moment that President Obama thinks he’s surrounded by Republicans -- given the Democrats’ lack of any accomplishments on Capitol Hill. But that hardly justifies what...
It’s come to this?
The Republican presidential dynamic -- various candidates rise and recede; Mitt Romney remains at about 25% support -- is peculiar because conservatives correctly believe it is important to defeat Barack...
A sickening cut
While we can’t agree more that slashing physician payments would lead to access-to-care problems for patients, “Slashing Doc Pay” (PostOpinion, Oct. 25) mixes apples and oranges. The article tries to...
Behind the music television
I Want My MTV The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum Dutton Director Pete Angelus was looking for his midgets. The set of...
Required reading
The Garner Files by James Garner and Jon Winokur (Simon & Schuster) With two TV hits -- “Maverick” and “The Rockford Files” -- and a host of acclaimed films, James...
6 pivotal videos in MTV history
Billy Squier, “Rock Me Tonight” An example of how the wrong video could sink an artist. After several big directors passed on filming this track, Squier went with Kenny Ortega,...
Night terrors
Sleep Paralysis Nightmares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection by Shelley Adler Rutgers University Press They were all Southeast Asian immigrants, young and healthy -- and dying in their sleep. Doctors...
In my library: Bill O'Reilly
So what would Abraham Lincoln have made of the current crop of GOP hopefuls? Bill O’Reilly, who with Martin Dugard wrote the new bestseller “Killing Lincoln,” concedes it’s hard to...
Politics at play
The dirty little secret of how politics poisons chess was exposed last week when Iran’s best player was kicked out of a tournament for refusing to play an Israeli. Ehsan...
New York's most haunted
As if it wasn’t enough that we New Yorkers have to cram three to a studio apartment in order to afford to live here. Now we have to share our...
Interview with a Vampyre
If you want to interview Father Sebastiaan, a professional “fangsmith,” you must first submit to a fitting for a custom pair of fangs. This is non-negotiable. “Everybody gets fangs!” he...
Child of Frankenstein
For a monster, Boris Karloff was a mensch. “He was kind, he was gentle and wise, and a good listener,” says Sara Karloff, the only child of the legendary horror-film...
Nightmare on 39th Street
As the theater columnist for The Post it’s my job (and my pleasure) to torture the Broadway producers who come up with losers like “Taboo,” “Dance of the Vampires” or...
Lou Reed’s fans get a fright
There are times when a seemingly-odd musical pairing -- Rick Rubin & Johnny Cash, Run-D.M.C. & Aerosmith -- winds up working far better than anyone could have imagined. “Lulu,” the...
Top 5 ways to steal hearts in a graveyard
“Tell them they haunt your dreams.” Steven “Say, ‘I think you’re beautiful. And I’m dead serious.’ ” Rohan “Say, ‘I bet even ghosts hit on you because you’re such a...
This week's couple: Mr. Nice Guy
On paper Kelly, 31, and Chris, 27, were a perfect pairing. The couple are both actors with a soft spot for “The Book of Mormon” and everything theater. But when...
'Heist' meets NY zeitgeist
When “Tower Heist” filmed a shoot-’em-up car chase scene on 59th Street in Manhattan last year, even jaded New Yorkers found it so realistic that one of them actually dialed...
Masked mutts
For many dog owners, Halloween is an excuse to dress their pooches as outrageously as possible -- and these sample looks from the 21st annual Tompkins Square Dog Parade last...
Bridge
“believe as you will, child,” the Queen of Hearts told Alice smugly. “I’m the most potent card in Wonderland. As a sign of their respect, no ace or king will...
Tomorrow's Philadelphia Entries
Post Time: 12:25 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderFIRST1 1/16m; $20,000; clm($5,000); 3upPNHorse Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1Cowgirlinthesand(L),115G Garcia5-9-6Vasquez 20-12Arctic Queen(L),122JHampshire8-6-6Coletti 4-13Snowy Elegance(L),122R Montanez4-6-3Chacon 3-14Riveting(L),122J Flores7-7-6Glorioso 2-15Cherry Lady(L),122R Alvarado2-9-2Day...
Belmont Charts
%%strong%%Oct. 29, 2011 Snowy and Sloppy. Turf: Off.%%endstrong%% %%strong%%©2011 Equibase. All Rights Reserved%%endstrong%% %%strong%%Races 4-10 were cancelled due to snowy conditions%%endstrong%%FIRST -6 fur; $41,200; mdn spl wt; 3upOff: 1:01. Good....
Monmouth Charts
Oct. 29, 2011 Rainy and Sloppy. Turf: Off. ©2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST -6 fur; $15,000; clm; 3upOff: 12:51. Good. rallied, up lateTime: 23.23, 47.63, 1:00.61, 1:14.19.Trainer: Kevin SleeterWinner: CH...
Not so 'wild' about Series
* In a classic example of shooting yourself in the foot, Major League Baseball's misguided attempt to give some importance to a meaningless midsummer exhibition resulted in a wild-card team...
Top seed Galaxy next obstacle for Red Bulls
Coach Hans Backe and Tim Ream say their Red Bulls are built to handle pressure and are mentally wired to play their best against the best. They better hope they're...
78-game NBA season still possible: sources
The revised schedule listed yesterday on the Knicks' website is as misleading as NBA commissioner David Stern's optimistic tone Thursday night. Following Stern's hatcheting of November's games following another NBA...
Winchester likely out of Breeders' Cup Turf
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- What little chance the home team had in next Saturday's Breeders' Cup Turf against a powerhouse European contingent took a blow yesterday when trainer Christophe Clement said...
Jury still out on recent Jets drafts
As the Jets enter the final two months of the season, they are counting on a number of players they have drafted in the last few years. The Post spoke...
Devils defeated by Stars
DALLAS -- A tight game came down to a lucky break, and the Devils weren't the beneficiaries. Vernon Fiddler scored the go-ahead goal on a fortunate bounce with 8:26 remaining...
Giants defensive ends at full strength
Now that Justin Tuck is expected back on the field, the Giants can go with their four defensive end alignment in obvious pass-rush situations, and Dolphins coach Tony Sparano says...
Islanders lose to Sharks in OT
There was snow on the ground outside the Nassau Coliseum and a snow job on the ice inside. After a disputed delay-of-game penalty on defenseman Travis Hamonic, the Sharks' Brent...
Wetlands at a loss in U.S.
Wetlands are the most important ingredient for the survival of so much of our wildlife, and ourselves for that matter, and they are threatened. This weekend's selection of the 2012...
Vic Cangialosi's Monmouth Grade
Post Time: 12:50 p.m.FIRST-1 mile; $13,000; clm; 3up5-Windy Acres 5-21-MnmthBymrn 10-12-ShtgnHrrts 8-13-Brvlttlsld 30-14-ToughEnogh 3-16-DwnstrmBll 2-17-ElizbthRs 9-2SECOND-1 mile; $18,000; clm; 3up3-CouragetB 3-11-EasttoWest 5-12-Zosogood 4-14-Zoran 5-25-Thpss'sftr 10-16-Rehoboth 6-17-Toots 8-18-Outclass 12-1THIRD-1 mile; $15,000;...
Home Team Lineups
RangersNOGAMES.J.7:00MSGESPNNOGAMENOGAMEAna.7:00MSGESPNNOGAMEMon.7:00MSGESPNIslandersNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEWinn.7:00MSG+2WRHUNOGAMEWash.7:00MSG+WRHUDevilsNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMETor.7:30MSG+WFANPhil.7:00MSG+WFANNOGAMEWinn.7:00MSG+2WFANRed BullsLos Angeles3:00TV -- ESPN2NOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEL.A.11:00ESPN2NOGAMENOGAMEGiantsTodayDolphins 1:00 TV -- CBS Radio -- WFAN 660 AM JetsBye WeekNext Game: Sun., Nov. 6 Bills1:00; TV -- CBSRadio -- ESPN 1050 AM
Sports Shorts
BASEBALL: Game 7 a rating bonanza Game 7 of the World Series between the Cardinals and Rangers averaged 25.4 million viewers to make it the most-watched ballgame since 2004.Before that...
The Post Line
NFL Today Favorite Opening Current (O/U) Underdog GIANTS 10 9 1/2 (42) Dolphins TITANS 9 8 1/2 (43 1/2) Colts TEXANS 9 1/2 9 1/2 (40 1/2) Jaguars PANTHERS 4...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing 5 a.m. Formula One: Indian Grand Prix SPEED 1:30 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup: Tums Fast Relief 500 ESPN Football 1 p.m. Dolphins at Giants CBS, WFAN (660 AM)...
NHL players resist mandatory eye guards
Three cheers for Brandon Dubinsky, the Rangers’ player rep, for not pretending that the issue of whether to make visors mandatory in the NHL is grounded in a constitutional privilege...
Rangers blow 4-1 lead in loss to Senators
Nine-nine-nine. No, that’s neither endorsement of a campaign platform nor recitation of the Rangers number worn by Andy Bathgate, Adam Graves and Reggie Fleming. Instead it is the amount of...
Rangers rookie Erixon gets D-moted
Tim Erixon played effectively and with poise through the Rangers' season-opening seven-game road trip that commenced in Stockholm, not far from his hometown in Sweden, but the 20-year-old rookie defenseman...
Hey, Joe and Tim -- analyze this!
Is it too early to ask the musical question: Do you see what I see? Fact is, I’m having trouble with my analysts. Again. I’m still not making any progress....
Cardinals must find way to keep Pujols
Cardinals players flung themselves in joy upon one another, the final out of World Series Game 7 having found Allen Craig in left field. St. Louis had its 11th championship...
Mets complete coaching staff with Goodwin
The Mets signed a speedy base-stealing threat yesterday, but it wasn’t Jose Reyes. The team hired former major league outfielder Tom Goodwin as its first-base coach, completing the coaching staff...
Yankees pick up options on Swisher, Cano
The Yankees picked up the contract options on Robinson Cano and Nick Swisher last night, but those moves, which had been expected, take a back seat to whether CC Sabathia...
Texas legacy could go either way
ST. LOUIS -- It isn’t the Buffalo Bills the Texas Rangers have to worry about this offseason. Are you kidding? If anything, what the Bills should stand for is the...
There’s ‘dead’ -- and then ‘seriously dead’
Nightly and daily newscasts have become satire-proof. The “you can’t make this stuff up” stuff never ends. Rain drops on roses, these are a few of my favorite (recent) things:...
Winning team
Mark Harmon, unlike the blowhards who’ve crowed about the ratings they were going to get but didn’t, could boast. He could gloat. But he won’t. For the 60-year-old actor, whose...
Guest stars flock to ‘NCIS’
Gary Glasberg, executive producer of “NCIS,” says he has had to field actors’ requests to do guest spots. “With the success of the show, there are people we didn’t think...
Don't miss
Flight Risk Maggie (Christina Ricci) is perilously close to losing her stewardess job, but still manages to maneuver her way onto the flight down to Rio de Janeiro. She reflects...
Reel good
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM 1966 Sunday, 10:30 p.m., TCM From the Broadway hit of the same name, comes this musical comedy -- one that’s...
Look who's talking
Regis & KELLY 9 a.m., Ch. 7 Monday: AnnaLynne McCord; Heidi Klum. Tuesday: Brian Williams. Wednesday: Billy Bob Thornton; Miranda Lambert. Thursday: Eddie Murphy (pictured). Friday: Barbara Walters; Michael J....
Smart Aleck
Allen Gregory, the title character of the animated Fox comedy that premieres tonight at 8:30, is a pretentious, intellectual 7-year-old who claims to have won a Tony award, drinks Pinot...
Remakes die hard
Farewell, “Charlie’s Angels,” we hardly knew you. Well, yes, we did know you, back in the 70s, when Farrah Fawcett was alive and her poster sold like crazy, and again...
Meet market: Seafaring sweetie hopes to land charming captain
Bubble trouble “People tend to describe me as bubbly,” says Beth of her effervescent personality. Crowd-pleaser “I love to make people laugh, and I want everyone to have a good...
Ask Ashley: Ex sex: just say no
Last weekend my soon-to-be ex-husband called asking for sex to see if there’s anything still there. I’ve moved on so my answer was no. Now he is threatening to stall...
Spooky special treats
Sockerbit 89 Christopher St.; 212-206-8170 While most candies in Sweden are sold out of bins in pharmacies and supermarkets, this modern shop — decked in minimalist all-white and as utilitarian...
Weird but true
This lady really wanted some potato salad. A Tampa, Fla., woman grabbed a knife and threatened her 80-year-old father when he refused to share his potato salad at dinner. His...
Army runs over Fordham
WEST POINT -- Max Jenkins' first career start came in his last game at Michie Stadium and it could not have gone better. Jenkins ran for two touchdowns and Army...
ND backs run Navy ragged
Notre Dame's Michael Floyd and Jonas Gray scored 1:59 apart in the second quarter to effectively put the game out of reach, and the Fighting Irish rebounded from a rough...
Rutgers loses 17th straight game to West Virginia
PISCATAWAY -- If this was indeed the last time West Virginia faces Rutgers as a member of the Big East, the Mountaineers will leave the league the same way they've...
QB rallies Stanford to edge USC in 3 OTs
Stepfan Taylor ran for the tying touchdown with 38 seconds left in regulation and the go-ahead score in the third overtime, and Stanford's defense preserved its 16-game winning streak by...
PSAL Bowl/Cup division football roundup: Underwood, Beach Channel blast Bayside
There was a driving rain, which then turned to snow. The wind was whipping furiously. Putting the ball in the air wasn’t going to be an option. And that was...
New seeding system in NYSAISAA creates oddities in boys soccer bracket
The New York State Association of Independent Schools Athletic Association (NYSAISAA) went away from a seeding committee in selecting the participating teams for the state tournament this fall to avoid...
Devils burned by lucky Stars, 3-1
Vernon Fiddler scored the go-ahead goal on a fortunate bounce with 7:26 remaining to send the Dallas Stars to a 3-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night....
Red Bulls are MLS' top TV draw, should be ratings bonanza vs Galaxy
Tomorrow’s Red Bulls-Galaxy Western Conference semi (3 p.m., ESPN2) will only be the second time in MLS history the clubs have met in the playoffs. But with all the star...
Cuomo declares 13 counties snow disasters
New York's governor has declared a state of emergency in thirteen counties that have been swept by rain and snow brought by October's rare nor'easter. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday...
Sharks bite slumping Islanders in OT, 3-2
Brent Burns scored a power-play goal 1:07 into overtime to give the surging San Jose Sharks a 3-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday night. Burns slammed a...
Folkes hero: Lincoln RB scores five TDs as Railsplitters enjoy snow, throttle Canarsie
As a driving snow pelted Canarsie's football field, creating a thick white sheet where green turf used to be, Lincoln's football team reveled in the poor conditions. The Railsplitters hadn’t...
West Virginia rallies to beat Rutgers 41-31
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Down by three and faced with a fourth-and-goal from the 1 on a miserable wet, snowy day, first-year West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen didn't hesitate. The No....
Iowa barely-theres Cain, Romney top new poll; Bachmann support plummets
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Herman Cain has emerged as the narrow leader in the race to win the Iowa caucuses, according to the Des Moines Register's second Iowa Poll released...
Boys soccer roundup: Horace Mann clinches first Ivy crown since 2008
Owen Elliott and Andrew Silberstein each scored once as Horace Mann topped Dalton, 2-1, to clinch its first Ivy Prep League title since 2008. The Lions (13-2-1, 12-2-1) are also...
Obamas hand out Halloween treats at White House
WASHINGTON — Turns out, the White House did not get egged. Trick-or-treaters marched up the White House driveway on a wet, snowy Saturday, past the spider web-like gauze, the pumpkins...