November 19, 2011
CHICKEN Stop the Violence Hoops Classic schedule
Former Bishop Loughlin and Murry Bergtraum star Tayshana (Chicken) Murphy was tragically killed in September prior to her senior season with the Lady Blazers. Lions coach Kasim Alston, her godfather,...
No. 5 Syracuse romps over Colgate 92-47
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Playing for the first time since an assistant coach was accused of sex abuse, No. 5 Syracuse romped to a 92-47 win over Colgate in the NIT...
Finally! Columbia U. wins first game as banned marching band returns
The shamed Columbia U. marching band returned to the field today under strict orders to stop making wisecracks about the winless team — and the results were amazing. The Lions...
HS football scores, Week 11
The New York Post high school staff brings you football scores from all over the city. Updated throughout the weekend, you can find them below. CHSFL St. Anthony's 14, Archbishop...
Vermont police charge B'klyn men with drug trafficking
RUTLAND, Vt. — Two men from New York City are behind bars in Vermont following their arrest on drug-trafficking charges. Police say 30-year-old Arkim Willis and 18-year-old Frank Jenkins, both...
Lawyer: Body-dump ex-wife 'abused' by victim
A lawyer for a Long Island woman accused of stabbing her ex-husband, then dumping his corpse off a parkway, says she was a victim of spousal abuse. The body of...
Rutgers tops Cincy 20-3, gain share of Big East first place
Freshman Jawan Jamison rushed for a career-high 200 yards and two touchdowns and surprising Rutgers moved into a share of first place in the Big East Conference with a 20-3...
Probe in 'chilling' college pepper spray
SAN FRANCISCO — Video surfaced online Saturday showing an officer at a California university calmly pepper-spraying a line of several sitting protesters, who flinch and cover their faces but remain...
Shock: NJ couple who named kids after Nazis lose custody of newborn
TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey couple who gave their three children Nazi-inspired names -- including "Adolf Hitler" -- said the state has taken custody of their newborn. The Express-Times...
Woman brain dead in 'drunk' crash on LIE
A Queens woman was left brain dead after a boozed-up, unlicensed driver slammed their car into a truck on the Long Island Expressway in Queens, police said. Allegedly drunken driver...
U-Haul slams into Yale-Harvard football crowd, 1 dead
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A woman was killed and two others hurt when a U-Haul loaded with beer kegs slammed into a tailgating crowd at the Yale-Harvard football game today,...
Brooklyn porn store clerk beaten to death
Police released photos of a suspect in the brutal beating and death of a Sunset Park porn shop clerk. Nimala Randunu, 54, a Sri Lanka native, who worked in the...
Khadafy's son Seif al-Islam captured
TRIPOLI, Libya — Moammar Khadafy’s son Seif al-Islam — the only wanted member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large — was captured as he traveled with aides...
NYC Mayor's Cup girls soccer preview
NYPost.com girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski breaks down this weekend’s NYC Mayor’s Cup Senior all-star games. New York City’s three major high school sports association have each assembled team’s...
Margarito-Cotto at Garden still in doubt
It's hard to fault the New York State Athletic Commission for being overly cautious, especially when fighter safety is concerned. But it’s handling of Antonio Margarito’s licensing for a Dec....
Defense sends Friars past Stepinac for 13th CHSFL 'AAA' crown
It was a St. Anthony’s championship like none other. The Friars spent the season battling injuries and leaning on their defense to pull out tight wins. The unit was again...
Narog play reverses Stepinac's momentum in 'AAA' title game loss
Archbishop Stepinac’s first CHSFL ‘AAA’ title game took a bad turn when a play it relied on all year backfired. Trailing by a touchdown in the third quarter against St....
Naz transfers ruled eligible by CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens
Nazareth’s three out-of-state transfers will get the chance to take the court for the Brooklyn school this season. Lady Kingsmen coach Apache Paschall confirmed late Friday night that the school...
Blue-collar Stackpole puts forth game-changing performance in title game
St. Anthony’s coach Rich Reichert considers Tim Stackpole a throwback type of player and there are plenty of reasons why. “He’s got no fear,” Reichert said. “None.” The senior safety...
PSAL Class A girls volleyball semifinals preview
NYPost.com girls volleyball beat writer Marc Raimondi breaks down the PSAL Class A semifinals, set for Saturday at York College in Queens. SCHEDULE 2 p.m. – No. 1 Stuyvesant vs....
NYC Mayor's Cup boys soccer preview
NYPost.com boys soccer beat writers Zach Braziller and Marc Raimondi take a look at this weekend’s NYC Mayor’s Cup senior all-star games. Teams from all three of the city’s main...
Final step for loyal star seniors is to bring city title back to St. Ray's
It was just two years ago that six key players bolted St. Raymond, leaving the storied program with a myriad of question marks. At the time, stars Daniel Dingle and...
Palmer can be suitable Schaub replacement
There are four words that can change a football season. Theses words can destroy a team on the field. They can mangle a fantasy roster. They can ruin months of...
Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays
DISCOVERY HANDICAP Aqueduct, eighth race. Grade 3. Purse: $100,000. 11/8 miles, 3-year-olds. Post: 3:46 p.m. LOWDOWN: Raison d’Etat , after earning big Beyer numbers for his runaway maiden win at...
INSIDE GIRLS VOLLEYBALL: Lewis setter's comeback halted by car accident
It just hasn’t been Jessica Chung’s fall. The Francis Lewis setter was sidelined early with a knee injury. Then she hurt her ankle midseason at a tournament. And last week,...
Hard-nosed Farrell not shying away from 'AA' challenge
The transition to playing up in Class AA of the revamped CHSAA power structure won’t be an easy one for Monsignor Farrell, a fact coach Mike Dunn readily admits. That...
PSAL City Championship division football quarterfinals preview
NYPost.com PSAL football beat writers Zach Braziller and Marc Raimondi break down the PSAL City Championship division quarterfinals playoffs Saturday. SCHEDULE (All games begin at noon at home sites) No....
Business briefs
Not at-batAmerican Apparel said yesterday its acting president Tom Casey has resigned, a year after joining the troubled retailer.Prison timeWilliam Shternfeld, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to cheat investors with...
Street analyst in ‘rogue rage’ blast
He was mad as hell, and he couldn’t take it anymore. One rogue Wall Street analyst’s frustrations over the alleged lack of transparency at a New York real-estate investment firm...
Social net weak: Facebook shares cool off, but IPO is on burner
Facebook investors aren’t in a sharing mood. Stock in the pre-IPO social network giant has cooled down considerably since the summer, and private markets are having trouble hooking up sellers...
Judge to hedge doc: 5 years to heal thyself
Dr. Joseph “Chip” Skowron is learning that time heals all wounds. The medical doctor turned hedge-fund trader was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for his role in an...
Vultures pick MF carcass
Some Wall Street investment titans still think there’s meat on the bones of the carcass of bankrupt MF Global. Days after the firm descended into a death spiral that led...
Goldman names fewest MDs in years
Goldman Sachs named 261 managing directors yesterday, 19 percent fewer than last year as the company fights sagging revenue and new regulations that threaten to clip its wings.Last year, Goldman...
Europe weighs on stox
US blue-chip stocks closed higher yesterday, as investors weighed a potential proposal for future European bailouts with continued worries over Washington’s debt talks. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 25.43...
Guilty plea
William Landberg, the founder of the bankrupt New York-based investment firm West End Financial Advisors LLC, pleaded guilty to federal charges of securities fraud involving $3.08 million.
Debt-beat Clearwire sinks
Clearwire Corp. fell as much as 31 percent after the Wall Street Journal reported the unprofitable wholesale wireless carrier is evaluating whether to make a Dec. 1 debt payment, citing...
Gotta be the shoes
Add Foot Locker to the list of those who aren’t missing the NBA.While a bitter labor dispute has shut down the pro basketball season until at least the middle of...
S&P is updating bank ratings
Standard & Poor’s plans to update its credit ratings for the world’s 30 biggest banks within three weeks and may well mete out a few downgrades in the process, possibly...
LI killer’s Rx: 12,000 pills
The Long Island couple sentenced last week for a pharmacy holdup that cost four people their lives had legally filled prescriptions for nearly 12,000 pain pills from dozens of doctors...
Terrorists eye jail ‘break’
DENVER — Four convicted terrorists want a federal appeals court to return them to less restrictive prisons after they spent years in solitary confinement and other lockups that permitted little...
Demi dumped Ashton over Paterno tweet: report
It wasn’t the cheating — it was the tweeting. Demi Moore decided to give her straying younger hubby the heave-ho after he tweeted his support for former Penn State coach...
Tragic death, more injuries as MTA works to bring LIRR to Grand Central
Three days before a construction worker was killed at the MTA’s East Side Access site, a top transit official admitted the agency was worried about the steady rise of injuries...
Kutsher’s comeback
Famed “Borscht Belt” resort Kutsher’s goes highbrow in a new downtown bistro set to open Monday.The 140-seat Kutsher’s Tribeca will be a leaner version of the iconic 400-room resort that...
Iran gets pilloried on nukes
VIENNA — The United States and its Western allies bluntly accused Iran yesterday of deceiving the world by trying to hide work on nuclear arms, as the UN atomic agency...
Syrians OK Arab observers
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria agreed in principle yesterday to allow dozens of Arab observers into the country to oversee a peace plan, a significant concession from a hard-line regime that...
Jets execs make campaign donations to Republicans while Giants support Democrats
WASHINGTON — They share the same football stadium, but they’re on opposite sides of the political field when it comes to campaign cash. The Jets rank among the top three...
NYers get in ‘shop’ shape
The holiday gift hunt is on — and New Yorkers plan to shop till they drop. Americans will spend nearly an entire day looking for the perfect present during this...
Bam bids Heavy D goodbye
Heavy D was recalled yesterday amid laughter and tears at a star-studded service that included Jay-Z and Will Smith — and words of encouragement for his family from President Obama...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Queens *** What a dope! Cops found an ex-con smoking a blunt after a gunpoint robbery in Rochdale Village. Brian White, 34, and an unknown accomplice stormed into a barbershop...
Sonic-zoom breakthrough
It’s way faster than a speeding bullet — and a test yesterday showed it could be a fearsome weapon.The Army used a rocket to launch a glider that flew 2,300...
Gasp! It’s Gatsby!
Check out The Great DiCaprio. Looking drop-dead debonair, Leonardo DiCaprio was snapped yesterday on the set of “The Great Gatsby” — with Sydney, Australia, playing the role of Long Island,...
‘Drug’ driver ‘killer’
A bicycling Queens student on his way home from work was killed by a drug-addled hit-and-run driver near the Stony Brook University campus, authorities said yesterday. Seong Hoon Baek, 23,...
City school-bus strike alert
The school-bus workers union is threatening to strike as early as next week — throwing more than 152,000 public-school students’ families into chaos, city officials said yesterday. The union is...
River parkland money flows
New York lawmakers say they have secured funding commitments for part of the project to ring lower Manhattan with parkland.Sen. Charles Schumer and state Sen. Daniel Squadron say the project...
Fed cuts threaten NY hosps
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo yesterday warned that potential federal spending cuts could close New York health-care institutions and “widen the state budget gap next year and in the future.” Facing...
Johnny on the spot
Embattled city Comptroller John Liu admitted yesterday that the fundraising scandal that has engulfed his campaign operation is “quite embarrassing” — especially since he’s the city’s fiscal watchdog. Liu addressed...
McD’s dumps egg birdbrains
MINNEAPOLIS — McDonald’s has dropped a Minnesota-based egg supplier after an animal-rights group released an undercover video of operations at the egg producer’s farms in three states.The video by Mercy...
Marc Jacobs left without a stitch of clothing
Desperate designer Marc Jacobs is offering a reward to solve the fashion crime of the century: Who made off with his entire spring/summer 2012 clothing collection? All 64 items —...
Paterno cancer shocker
Fired Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno is in treatment for lung cancer, his son said yesterday. “His doctors are optimistic he will make a full recovery,” Scott Paterno said...
Da Silvano owner accused of groping parking-garage manager
Maybe he just wanted to know if the noodle was al dente. The longtime owner of the famed Greenwich Village Italian eatery Da Silvano was slapped with a sex-assault suit...
College deer hunt
VESTAL, NY — Binghamton University says sharpshooters can kill 90 percent of a growing deer population that’s overwhelming the 200-acre nature preserve on the state-run campus over the monthlong winter...
Wall St. butters bread
Municipal unions that backed the Occupy Wall Street movement need to get over their blame-the-rich rhetoric — and show a little love for the wealthy people who help pay their...
Bloodied but unbowed
A 20-year-old Occupy Wall Street protester bloodied after a confrontation with New York City police says he’s not guilty of grand larceny and other charges. Brandon Watts has been accused...
Gun spree kills teen
A bloodthirsty gunman shot a high-school basketball player to death on a Brooklyn street and wounded two others in a wild rampage yesterday, cops said. The thug killed Shaquille Jones,...
Crotch grabber on loose in Bx.
A sicko sexually assaulted six women in six hours in The Bronx, cops said. The man, who police describe as a black male in his 20s, violently grabbed the crotches...
Mayoral seal – for real
Maybe it wanted to seal a deal with the mayor. A young harbor seal (left) hauled itself up on a rock behind Gracie Mansion yesterday and stayed there to soak...
Rail sore at MTA over RFK pic
The MTA slapped a famed picture of Bobby Kennedy on millions of MetroCards without permission, a copyright suit claims.Stanley Tretick’s photos of the Kennedy clan won acclaim, but his heirs...
Waiters swiped credit cards, ID at top NYC eateries: DA
Dozens of Manhattan’s wealthiest restaurant-goers were stabbed in the back with a steak knife by their very own waiters, who secretly copied their high-limit AmEx cards and gave the info...
Wagner’s boat rocked
Thirty years after film superstar Natalie Wood drowned in the cold Pacific waters off Catalina Island, a group of witnesses has come forward to blow the closed case wide open....
Cart-drop kid facing probation
One of the two preteen boys charged with dropping a shopping cart over a fourth-story railing in East Harlem — nearly killing a philanthropist who was shopping for underprivileged kids...
Oh, hail, hack going to jail
A crooked cabby who swindled more than $7,000 out of unsuspecting passengers got a ride to state prison yesterday when he was sentenced to up to three years in jail...
It’s Newt’s lead to lose
Now it’s Newt Gingrich’s turn to surge. In a surprise, a new poll found the former House speaker pulling into a statistical tie with Mitt Romney in New Hampshire —...
NYC land of the fee
Mayor Bloomberg has promised not to raise taxes, but he didn’t say anything about hiking the fees charged by city agencies.The mayor yesterday released a blueprint for cutting into a...
Perry’s border war on Obama
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry yesterday accused President Obama of implementing policies that endanger agents patrolling the Mexican border. At the Waldorf-Astoria to accept an award from the Federal Law...
O, you look marvelous
He looked chill in Indonesia’s native threads. President Obama wore a traditional woven Indonesian shirt and a smile as he stood next to the nation’s president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Obama,...
Say what, Herm?
Herman Cain yesterday suggested the Taliban may be involved in Libya’s new government — his second fumbling remark on Libya in a week. “Do I agree that they now have...
So long, Reege!
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house — except for Reege’s. Making good on his vow not to shed a tear, Regis Philbin bade farewell yesterday to morning television,...
Syracuse DA will press on
A furious upstate prosecutor yesterday promised to be aggressive in the investigation of child sex-abuse claims against a Syracuse University assistant basketball coach — and vowed “to get to the...
Bank ‘thief’ note-orious
A boneheaded bank robber was arrested yesterday after police lifted his fingerprints from the demand note he passed to a teller, cops said. Ralph Delvalle, 41, allegedly robbed four banks...
GOP should back Bam on illegals
The Obama administration this week announced rules governing the deportation of illegal aliens. The administration’s new policy, which has been in development since the summer, aims to speed the deportation...
No excuses for Cain
Poor Rick Perry. His “brain freeze” is indelible, otherwise it would forever be eclipsed by Herman Cain’s more cringe-inducing meanderings on Libya. At a meeting with the editors of the...
We’re not lazy, just crazy . . . for electing Obama
The Issue: President Obama’s claim that Americans have gotten lazy in attracting foreign investment. *** According to President Obama, Americans have gotten lazy and soft (“ ‘Lazy’ Isn’t America’s Problem,”...
NBA’s Stern warning from fans
The Issue: The disrupted NBA seasons because of contract negotiations between players and owners. *** When will NBA commissioner David Stern come to his senses and realize that the league...
Greasing the solar skids
So it turns out that Solyndra may be just the tip of the iceberg that is the Obama administration’s politically charged energy-loan scandal. Even as Energy Secretary Stephen Chu was...
Reading Andrew’s lips
There was another pointed reminder this week that the fiercest opposition to Gov. Cuomo’s economic platform comes from within his own party. And it underscored just how much internal pressure...
Global warming we can all cheer
You can be forgiven if you didn’t know that we’re in the middle of an ice age right now, what with all the talk about global warming. But it’s true....
Come on in!
It might not be the best time to head outside for exercise, but that doesn’t mean you have to relegate yourself to the treadmill for the cold, snowy months ahead....
Kid stuff
Today JUST RIGHT: “The Three Bears Holiday Bash” (above) at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park combines Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa with everybody’s favorite trio of bears for...
On Santa’s ‘nice’ list
Upon hearing that there were changes in the new edition of the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular,” a friend shrieked, “They’d better not have cut the ice rink!” No worries: The...
The Post Line
NFLTomorrowFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogGIANTS 3½ 6 (45½)EaglesFALCONS 6½ 6 (44) TitansDOLPHINS 2 2 (43) BillsRAVENS 9 7 (40½)BengalsBROWNS 1½ 1 (34½)JaguarsVIKINGS+1½PICK(45½)RaidersLIONS 7 7 (47½)PanthersPACKERS14½14 (48½)BuccaneersCowboys 7½ 7½(41½)REDSKINS49ERS10 9½(40½)CardinalsRAMS 3 3 (39)...
Sports Shorts
NFL: Lions’ QB Stafford fined $7,500 Four Lions, including quarterback Matthew Stafford, and two Bears were fined by the NFL for incidents in their game last Sunday. Stafford instigated a...
St. Anthony’s tops Stepinac for title
It was a St. Anthony’s championship like none other. The Friars spent the season battling injuries and leaning on their defense to pull out tight wins. Last night, the unit...
Vic C.’s Churchill Downs Grade
FIRST-1 1/16m; $18,000; clm; 2YO3-MagicMiddletn5-26-Perdido Pass 6-11-Weagle 10-17-Duzy Jasko 8-12-Le Chevalier 8-18-Photon 5-14-Afleet Bandit 6-19-Swaggaboy 8-15-Garmento 8-1SECOND-6 fur; $37,000; clm; 3up1-Guam Typhoon 3-15-Snapshot 5-22-Lunar Pass 8-16-De Price 6-13-Auspicious Risk5-17-Canon Man...
Monmouth Park Analysis
Post Time: 12:15 p.m. All horses appear in post position order FIRST-1 mile; $14,000; clm($5,000); 3up SHOT GUN DONNA second in mud in last start this price. SOUNDS VALID ran...
Churchilll Downs Results
FIRST-6 1/2 fur; $25,000; clm; 2YO1Drthy's Arr (Gnclvs)10.604.803.006Paoli (Prado)4.202.603Banded (Leparoux)2.20* Exacta (1-6) $38.80 * Superfecta (1-6-3-5) $576.00 * Trifecta (1-6-3) $130.00SECOND-5 fur(T); $50,000; alw; 3up(f)6Muscl Prdgy (Crd)6.403.602.801Kenny Lane (Morales)6.003.607Networking (Lanerie)2.60*...
Aqueduct Analysis
1. 1 mile; $43,000; alw; 3up SOUND OF DRUMS switches to Castellano after closing to finish second in the mud this distance and level. BRUNELLI has been working steadily for...
Tomorrow’s Aqueduct Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-7 fur; $50,000; mdn; 3up(f) PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Scootles(L),117I Ortiz, Jr3-2-7Hertler8-12 CashforClunkrs(L),121A Garcia3-x-xViolette3-13 Shandrea(L),121RDomingz9-8-6Blsewcz12-14 WestsideSinger(L),121M Luzzi2-3-xParisella4-15 Enrichment(L),121J Alvarado9-8-5Albertran8-56 Mary Cole(L),116R Curatolo5-5-4Gyarmat20-17 Time Marches...
Monmouth Park Results
FIRST-$11,000, mdn cl, 2YO, 1m3Blck Bullet (DCrlo)5.802.402.604Maestro's Legacy (Ellott)3.802.605Naif (Maysonett)4.40* Exacta (3-4) $22.40 * $1 Superfecta (3-4-5-2) $47.70 * $1 Trifecta (3-4-5) $31.10Winner picked by DasilvaSECOND-$14,000, cl, 3YO up, 6f5Trbl...
Aqueduct Charts
November 18th, 2011 Clear and Fast Turf Yielding©2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur;,$21,000; clm($7,500); 3upOff: 12:21. Good. off pace fight,3w topTime: 22.38, 46.06, 58.49, 1:11.72.Trainer: Bruce LevineWinner: DK B/ G,...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYNov. 19SUNNov. 20MONNov. 21TUENov. 22WEDNov. 23THUNov. 24FRINov. 25RangersMontreal7:00TV - MSG ESPN 1050 AM NO GAMENO GAMENO GAMEFla.7:30MSG ESPNNO GAMEWash.4:00MSG ESPN IslandersBoston7:00TV - MSG Plus WRHU 88.7FMNO GAMEPitt.7:00MSG WRHUNO GAMEPhil.7:00MSG+ WRHUNO...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing1 p.m.NASACR Nationwide: Qualifying SPEED2:30 p.m.NASCAR Sprint Cup: Qualifying SPEED4:30 p.m.NASCAR Nationwide Series: Ford 300 ESPN2Baseball3 p.m.Arizona Fall League, Championship MLBNBasketball4 p.m.Colgate at Syracuse SNY, WBBR (1130 AM)4 p.m.St....
Tiger wins one point, USA keeps lead at Presidents Cup
MELBOURNE, Australia -- On a wild day of weather, the Americans stayed in control at the Presidents Cup. Tiger Woods finally won a point early Saturday morning, then couldn't buy...
Jets concerned with offensive line
After back-to-back losses — Sunday’s 37-16 humiliation against New England, and Thursday’s 17-13 Mile High Meltdown in Denver — coach Rex Ryan couldn’t narrow the Jets’ woes to a single...
Devils' Zubrus ‘OK’ after headshot, will face Lightning
TAMPA, Fla. — Dainius Zubrus, victim of a headshot from Sabres defenseman Tyler Myers, said yesterday he was “OK,” but it wasn’t a glowing judgment. As for the failure of...
Rangers seek to extend win streak to 8 against Canadiens
Two trends will collide tonight when the Rangers take on the Canadiens at Bell Centre in Montreal. On the one hand, the Rangers are riding a seven-game winning streak, their...
Offseason moving slowly for Yankees
Late Thursday night — or yesterday morning, to be precise — Brian Cashman finally turned off his phone. It was 3:49 a.m. and unlike other long nights when the Yankees’...
Bobby V talks to Red Sox
Bobby Valentine to the Red Sox took a step closer to reality yesterday, when the former Mets’ manager said he has been in touch with the team and he would...
Kemp signs $160M contract with Dodgers
Matt Kemp and the Dodgers staked their futures together yesterday, finalizing a $160 million, eight-year contract that matches the seventh-highest deal in baseball history. The star center fielder and general...
Eagles offense won’t change if Young starts against Giants
Giants coach Tom Coughlin said earlier this week he won’t believe Michael Vick isn’t going to play tomorrow night “until I see him not jog out there.” Vick officially is...
Rookie LB Herzlich likely to get first start for Giants
As a cancer survivor, Mark Herzlich already is a feel-good story for the Giants. The former Boston College standout now appears likely to get the chance to be a feel-good...
Giants' Osi gets first shot at Eagles RB after contract comments
For someone who claims to have put aside a beef with LeSean McCoy, Osi Umenyiora sure has a funny way of showing it. Umenyiora’s feud with the Eagles running back...
Time to find out if Jets can count on Sanchez
There are too many times when you watch the Jets on offense and you wonder why they do not trust Mark Sanchez. And then Sanchez throws another pick six to...
Jets coach vows Sanchez is his QB
DENVER — Jets coach Rex Ryan had a message yesterday for everyone blaming quarterback Mark Sanchez for the team’s problems: Get off his back. The day after a crushing 17-13...
Jets' Ryan admits blitz didn't work
Jets coach Rex Ryan tried to offer up an explanation for why he blitzed eight men on Tim Tebow’s 20-yard, game-winning touchdown Thursday night, but it still did not make...
Novel romance
Some guys just can’t catch a break. Handsome soccer coach and devoted teacher Jack McBride (James Van Der Beek) has just gotten out of prison after eight months on a...
Lake’s talkin’ again
Add this to the “everything old is new again” category: Ricki Lake will host another talk-show. Lake, who hosted “The Ricki Lake Show” from 1993-2004, has inked a deal with...
‘Dexter’ back for more gore
TV’s favorite serial killer will be around for a while. Showtime’s “Dexter,” starring Michael C. Hall, has been renewed for a seventh and eighth season (12 episodes apiece), the network...
Tackling turkey
This Thanksgiving, Kirsten Ferguson, the new wife of Jets lineman D’Brickashaw Ferguson, 27, has one main goal: not to run afoul with her fowl. The newlywed — who is hosting...
Weird but true
Hey, the kid said it was OK. A Texas mom was outraged when she picked up her 5-year-old daughter from day care and found that the child’s ears had been...
Rutgers, Cincinnati play for Big East lead today
PISCATAWAY — All season long, Rutgers has recycled coach Greg Schiano’s mantra that single league game was a Big East championship game. But for the first time, today it’s true,...
Fordham defeats Binghamton in home opener
Branden Frazier scored a game-high 18 points, Chris Gaston had a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds, and Fordham defeated Binghamton 64-49 in the Rams’ home opener at Rose...
OSU coaches die in plane crash
Oklahoma State women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke, and Miranda Serna, his assistant, were killed Thursday when the single-engine plane transporting them on a recruiting trip crashed in steep terrain in...
Iowa State upsets No. 2 Oklahoma State
AMES, Iowa — Backup running back Jeff Woody scored on a 4-yard run in the second overtime and Iowa State stunned No. 2 Oklahoma State 37-31 on Friday night, opening...
St. John's loses to Texas A&M by one point after missed free throws
The first free throw never had a chance. It barely scraped the front of the rim. The second did everything but drop. Nurideen Lindsey clapped his hands once in disappointment...
Ugliness oozes from Redzone
I must be getting old. Or losing my sense of humor. Or wit. Because I didn’t find anything clever about the St. John’s fans in the student section that were...
Seton Hall tops Saint Joseph's
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Seton Hall forward Herb Pope had his third double-double in as many games this season, nailed his first 3-pointer of the season and threw a picture perfect...
Mississippi State defeats Arizona at Garden
Mississippi State forward Arnett Moultrie, one of the best power forwards in college basketball, took a unique approach to celebrating his 21st birthday yesterday. He gave his teammates a present....
Size not a concern for feisty McKee/Staten Island Tech
To call McKee/Staten Island small would be an understatement. The Seagulls biggest rotation players are 6-foot-2. There are teams who can put out a lineup with everyone bigger than that....
Apple pie made Woody marry her!
Suzanne Johnson’s apple pie is so popular,it’s started a baking ritual with her young boys. “My husband and children love it. The pie has become one of our holiday traditions,”...
'Mommy and Clyde' cop to $16M SoHo embezzle
A mother and son who spent the last seven years yachting, flying and cruising -- in a $127,000 Mercedes -- on $16 million stolen from the mom's SoHo bookkeeping job...
Tiger Woods ends winless streak at 2011 Presidents Cup in Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Tiger Woods made a lengthy birdie putt on the 16th hole of his Saturday morning foursomes match alongside Dustin Johnson at Royal Melbourne to seal a 3-and-2...
St. John's loses to Texas A&M on missed free throws
Elston Turner hit a 12-foot jumper with 6 seconds to play for his only points of the second half and Texas A&M beat St. John’s 58-57 on Friday in the...
Second Mile CEO refutes report saying Sandusky charity is folding
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The chief executive of The Second Mile, the nonprofit organization at the center of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, refuted a report on Friday...