November 27, 2011
Jets score in final minutes to defeat Bills
One down for the Jets -- barely. Five more to go in their desperate playoff push. Mark Sanchez threw a career-high four touchdown passes, including the winning 16-yard score to...
Bills' Johnson mocks Burress shooting
Bills receiver Stevie Johnson mocked being shot in the thigh after scoring a second-quarter touchdown against the Jets on Sunday. Jets receiver Plaxico Burress served 20 months in prison for...
Showdown over payroll tax cuts
WASHINGTON -- US Senate lawmakers today laid the groundwork for a showdown over President Barack Obama's call to extend payroll tax cuts by the end of the year, with a...
At least six Togo players die in bus crash, 28 others critically injured
ATAKPAME, Togo -- At least six Togolese soccer players were killed and another 28 people critically injured Saturday after their team bus crashed into a ravine and caught fire, the...
Napoli star's girlfriend hits out after being robbed at gunpoint in Italy
NAPLES, Italy -- The girlfriend of Napoli star Ezequiel Lavezzi tweeted her fury after becoming the latest partner of a player with the Italian soccer team to be robbed at...
Uruguay coach's wife hospitalized after acid attack
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Silvia Martinez, wife of Uruguay national team head coach Oscar Tabarez, was admitted to a hospital on Saturday with burns to her face and arms after being...
Arab League approves sanctions for Syria
BEIRUT — In an unprecedented move against a fellow Arab nation, the Arab League today approved economic sanctions on Syria to pressure Damascus to end its deadly suppression of an...
New feat for 'Jet man' (VIDEO)
GRENCHEN, Switzerland -- A self-styled "jet man" performed another death-defying stunt -- flying alongside two Albatross aircraft above the Swiss Alps. Adventurer Yves Rossy flew in a custom-built jet suit...
Cain: Harassment claims hurt my support
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain acknowledges slipping from the top tier of candidates while addressing accusations of sexual harassment and confusion about his policy stands. The Georgia businessman...
NJ man kills mom, then self
CLIFTON, N.J. — Prosecutors say a man apparently shot his mother to death inside their northern New Jersey home this weekend before he fatally overdosed on some type of narcotic...
New sex claim against Syracuse coach Fine: report
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The police search of Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine's house Friday was prompted by a third claim of child sexual abuse against him, it was...
Philly woman kills boyfriend with car after fight: cops
PHILADELPHIA -- Police in Philadelphia said a woman fatally crushed her boyfriend with a car early today following an argument. The incident occurred at around 2:00 a.m. in the city's...
Schumer warns stores: Don't track shoppers' cells
Technology that uses shoppers' personal cellphones to track their movements through a mall or store should not be used without their consent, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said today. Schumer said...
Tomlinson, Kerley will sit for Jets
The Jets will be without running back LaDainian Tomlinson and wide receiver Jeremy Kerley for the second straight game Sunday.Both players are inactive for the Jets' game against the Bills....
Largest NH paper endorses Newt
WASHINGTON — New Hampshire's largest newspaper today endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the 2012 GOP presidential race, signaling that rival Mitt Romney isn't the universal favorite and potentially...
Afghan officials: Fire from Pakistan led to NATO strike
ISLAMABAD — Afghan troops and coalition forces came under fire from the direction of two Pakistan army border posts, prompting them to call in NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani...
Bronx woman who had been surviving on ventilator dead after power outage
A power outage in the Bronx left one woman dead, after a back-up generator in a rehabilitation center failed early today, authorities said. A phase went down about 1:20 a.m.,...
Follow Jets-Bills with Post writers
The Post has today's Jets-Bills game at MetLife Stadium covered goal line to goal line with the best football writers in the business.The teams each bring a 5-5 record into...
Jets coach Ryan needed medical attention in Denver: report
It turns out Rex Ryan’s trip to Denver was worse than we even thought.The Denver Post reported Saturday that an Emergency Medical Service unit was dispatched to the Denver International...
Ready for PrimeTime: Girls prep team gets start in NYC
Diani Mason thought her basketball life was going to be put on the hold. The former Bishop Ford standout had trouble setting up a prep school for this year in...
PSAL Bowl division football championship game preview
NYPost.com football beat writer Marc Raimondi takes a look at the PSAL Bowl division football championship game between No. 1 James Madison and No. 2 August Martin, set for 1:30...
New York City of the future
Fifty years from now, in 2061, more than 9 million people will inhabit New York City — yet the city will feel less cramped than it does today. Garbage dumps...
PSAL girls basketball preseason rankings
Welcome to the start of a new era in PSAL girls basketball. The ‘AA’ super league, with 13 teams not including Staten Island, has been unveiled and the excitement headed...
CHSAA girls basketball preseason rankings
The CHSAA hierarchy looks much like it did a year ago, minus the now closed St. Peter’s. Defending state Federation Class AA champion Nazareth again sits atop the list, with...
NYC girls basketball preseason rankings
Nazareth is the arguably the best team in the country, CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens Division I could be the top league in the nation and for the first time in more than...
CHSAA boys basketball preseason rankings
Another year is set to start for the league which many have called the best in the United States. Except this season will be a little different. Rice has closed...
NYC boys basketball preseason rankings
Another year has dawned and both the CHSAA and PSAL have a myriad of contenders. Can Christ the King win a third straight CHSAA Class AA intersectional title? Can Boys...
CHSAA Class A boys basketball preview
Call him a gift from God. No, really. Shammgod Wells, the son of LaSalle legend God Shammgod, will be running the point for his father’s old school this year after...
Preseason All-City and all-borough boys basketball teams
New York Post boys basketball beat writers Zach Braziller and Marc Raimondi break down the city's elite players as the 2011-12 season begins in earnest this week. ALL-CITY Preseason Player...
Brother, sister carry Christ the King
Shooting drills. Dribbling workouts. HORSE. All of those are fine for Omar and Sierra Calhoun. One on one? Not so much. “We played against each other when we were younger,...
Hat's off to Rangers' Hagelin after first NHL goal
Carl Hagelin, the Flyin’ Freshman, had gotten a glimpse of the Broadway Hat before, but that was in Gothenberg, Sweden, during the exhibition portion of the Rangers’ European tour and...
Cod fishing picking up
You cannot overstate how important codfish were to western civilization, their numbers so great they fed an entire world. Cod fishing was the American colony’s first industry and the source...
Preseason All-City and all-borough girls basketball teams
New York Post girls basketball beat writers Marc Raimondi and Joseph Staszewski break down the city's elite players as the 2011-12 season begins in earnest this week. ALL-CITY Player of...
C.H.I.C.K.E.N. Stop the Violence Invitational roundup: Vaughan leads Ford for fallen friend
Bishop Ford guard Shanice Vaughan took the court on Saturday with an extra emotional lift and thrived off it. On a special afternoon at Nazareth HS in Brooklyn, three girls...
CHSAA Class B boys basketball preview
Almost overnight, Nazareth became a national sensation in girls basketball. Lost in the buzz was a successful season for the boys, which finished second in the regular season in CHSAA...
PSAL Class A and B girls basketball preview
The goal has not changed. And, for the Wings Academy girls basketball team, there’s a sense of unfinished business. “They’re determined to go out and get what they left in...
PSAL Class A boys basketball preview
Brooklyn Collegiate felt it was one quarter shy of a city championship last year, leading top-seeded Midwood, the eventual champion, by 14 points late in the third quarter of the...
PSAL Cup division football championship game preview
NYPost.com PSAL football beat writer Zach Braziller breaks down Sunday’s Cup division championship game between No. 1 McKee/Staten Island Tech and No. 2 South Shore Sunday at Lincoln at 10:30...
McKenzie's absence creates a void Clinton can't fill in loss to Lincoln
There weren’t obvious signs of dejection or players going over to see if Ashton McKenzie was OK when he limped off the field early in the first quarter with a...
Gibson, Loughlin best Bergtraum in memory of 'Chicken'
It was a game and finish fitting to bear Tayshana (Chicken) Murphy’s name. “Chicken just gave us a little more of the edge,” said Kasim Alston, Murphy’s godfather and the...
Cancer scare a catalyst for Xaverian hoops star
Jack Alesi has coached boys basketball at Xaverian for 17 years, and the only player who’s ever worked as hard as Chris Mullin, he says, is current senior Brian Bernardi....
My New York: Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson
The Roots’ drummer moved to New york in 2009, after his influential hip-hop group landed a gig as house band on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” (Last week, they made...
Jets can get back on track by beating reeling Bills today
The Jets have had to sit on that brutal Broncos loss for 10 days now. This afternoon, they finally get the chance to get back on the field and erase...
Playoffs start today for Jets
You know the deal when you sign up to play quarterback in New York. You can do pantyhose commercials if you win. You better not listen to talk radio or...
Corzine’s return to Congress as disgraced banker
One month after the spectacular collapse of Jon Corzine’s MF Global, thousands of investors and millions more decent Americans found something to be thankful for last week when the House...
11-year road trip: Americans keep their cars longer
Americans’ love affair with the automobile is growing by the day — literally. The average age of vehicles on the road has jumped to 11 years, a huge leap from...
Rice half-cooked tweets
Kids these days have no sense of humor! Anne Rice was hoping to sink her fangs into a younger demographic. The author, 70, dove into the social-media pool with a...
Pols’ pirate raids
Hollywood’s new anti-piracy push in Congress is shivering the timbers of America’s tech industry. The House’s Stop Online Piracy Act and Senate’s Protect Intellectual Property Act, currently in committee hearings,...
Baum fall throws NY foreclosures a curve
The implosion of the foreclosure-mill law firm of Steven J. Baum has thrown close to 10,000 New York families into legal limbo. Baum announced last week that he was closing...
Hoop$ jerseys’ air ball
NBA apparel maker Adidas may have gotten an early Christmas present — with the tentative end to the league lockout — but will in result in sales? The athletic giant,...
Now we’re all with Super Stupid
Dear John: I think you fail to understand what the real mission of the Supercommittee was. It actually was to establish a mechanism for continued, unaccountable increases in the debt...
DC ditherers dog econ
You could blame it on the consumer, but you’d be wrong. Last week, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the third quarter was once again revised downward to a sub...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS JOE KENNEDY Pandora boss announces 3Q revenue of $75M, with a growing subscriber list. HENRY KRAVIS KKR snaps up oil-and-gas explorer Samson Investment Co. JOHN SKIPPER Former programming QB...
Gold is winner
Gold traders are more bullish after investors accumulated the biggest-ever hoard of the precious metal, as a hedge to Europe’s deepening debt crisis. The turmoil in Europe drove investors to...
CME hits trader with $850K fine
The CME Group has levied an $850,000 fine on a high-frequency trading firm for three computerized trading errors that disrupted futures trading, according to Securities Technology Monitor.The exchange owner fined...
City’s hottest HS? In out-of-the-way S.I.
Every school day, Ashley Ng, a petite ninth-grader who lives in Chinatown, endures a three-hour odyssey. She take the D train to Brooklyn, transfers to another subway line, catches the...
Pope rips sex-abuse ‘scourge’
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI insisted yesterday that all of society’s institutions and not just the Catholic Church must be held to “exacting” standards in their response to sex...
Careless Rihanna’s UK Savoy soaker
They all needed umbrellas during Rihanna’s visit. The 22-year-old pop star, performing in the UK a week ago, forgot to turn off the bathwater in her $3,100-a-night suite at the...
Ain’t Vincent’s
Here’s a first look at the new plaza planned for the old campus of St. Vincent’s Hospital. The small triangular space bounded by West 12th Street, Seventh Avenue and Greenwich...
Craigslist corpse
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A body found in a shallow grave in northeast Ohio was that of a man missing more than a week who answered a deadly Craigslist ad that...
Firefighters collar Bronx 'mugger'
Bronx firefighters went beyond the call of duty last night, tackling a mugger who had robbed and assaulted a 15-year-old girl, authorities said. Engine 90 had just finished a job...
Kin livid over ‘honor’ killing suspicion
A Jersey City man suspected of arranging the gruesome “honor” killing of his daughter and son-in-law is being unfairly targeted by Pakistani cops, a son claimed yesterday. “My sister has...
Terror blasts kill 15 in Iraq
BAGHDAD — A string of explosions hit a Baghdad market and the capital’s western outskirts yesterday, killing at least 15 people.The series of bombings came just over a month before...
Weekend bloodshed in Egypt
CAIRO — Fresh clashes between security forces and protesters demanding that the military step down broke out yesterday in front of the Egyptian cabinet building — leaving a 19-year-old dead...
Pak rage at US
Already rocky US-Pakistan relations reached a new low yesterday after Pakistani officials accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of killing at least 24 of their troops in a horrific friendly...
Burning bridges
There are 3,140 licensed professional engineers in New York City, but when the city went looking for a new director of engineering review for bridges, it couldn’t find a single...
‘Future’ taxi a ‘weakling’
“The Taxi of Tomorrow” isn’t tough enough. A taxi medallion leasing organization insists that the city’s one and only choice of vehicles for the future — the $29,000 Nissan NV2000...
Her logic is half-biked
Hey — I’m cycling here! An irate pedal pusher claims she was hurt after slamming into a pedestrian — who had the audacity to step into the bike path in...
‘DWI’ city prober slams into SUV
An allegedly drunken city employee careened his car into a minivan early yesterday, leaving both vehicles a tangle of fiery metal, witnesses said.Jesse Strauss, 29, an investigator for the city’s...
Missing teen found at OWS
A Wisconsin teen who had been reported missing was found with protesters occupying Zuccotti Park, sleeping on a piece of cardboard. Relatives called the cops Nov. 10, two days after...
‘Invent’ of the season
It’s the weird-science gift of the season. Maker Bot’s Thing-o-Matic — a device that takes in two-dimensional computer images and creates actual 3-D objects — is not just a big-ticket...
Fed-up butt of fat ‘jokes’ sues boss
Even in such a thin economy, he could no longer stomach the fat “jokes.”Thomas Hunt, 48, claims his manager at a Raymour & Flanigan furniture store in Queens was so...
Booze brawl bust
An off-duty Bronx cop coming back from his Thanksgiving vacation in the Caribbean wrestled a rowdy, boozed-up passenger to the floor, police said. A flight attendant told Antonio Ynoa, 22,...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Queens *** Police are investigating the death of a man found floating in the waters of Jamaica Bay. A 911 caller spotted the body near the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial...
SI fire tragedy
A Staten Island woman found dead in her apartment after a fire yesterday is being mourned by her friends and neighbors.“She walked her dog in a baby carriage,” a neighbor...
Svengali behind rise of Paris & her kopykats
If you’re wondering who to hold responsible for the smothering ubiquity of Kim Kardashian, the Real Housewives, various and sundry Bachelors and Bachelorettes, the Situation, Snooki and anyone else famous...
Kim plays fame game to the Hilt
If you’re wondering who to hold responsible for the smothering ubiquity of Kim Kardashian, the Real Housewives, various and sundry Bachelors and Bachelorettes, the Situation, Snooki and anyone else famous...
NYC lightens up
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway — but never like this! The Great White Way and the rest of the Midtown nightscape is simply awash in dazzling...
Friday a $oar winner
Black Friday was a red-letter day. Sale-crazed consumers are believed to have shelled out as much as $11.4 billion, a 6.6 percent rise from the same day a year ago...
Apple putting on warm-up jacket
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — but feel a lot like spring.This streak of shirt-sleeve weather will continue today and tomorrow, with highs in the 60s, said...
‘Tixed-off’ fans slam delay of game
Bah, humbug! Ending the second-longest lockout in NBA history may have seemed like an early Christmas present to some Knicks fans, but for others it felt more like coal in...
NBA's 66-game season to start at Garden
Hoopy holidays! The NBA Grinches who almost stole the season hit a buzzer beater early yesterday, dramatically reaching a tentative deal following a 15-hour, all-night negotiating session that allows games...
$5M ‘stuck on tarmac’ suit
The treatment of international passengers stuck in a blizzard at JFK Airport last year was as cold as ice, claims a Manhattan woman who’s suing for $5 million. Vivian Vumbaca’s...
GOP’s ‘tie’ game
You can tell a lot about a man by his tie — and what the Republican cravats tell us is that Herman Cain is eccentric, Newt Gingrich is conservative and...
Woman did not stash sperm to get pregnant, lawyer claims
A Long Island man who claims his exotic-dancer gal pal stashed away his sperm knew all along that his former flame was itching to get pregnant, the woman’s lawyer told...
The plot to destroy DSK
It sure seemed like employees of Midtown’s posh Sofitel were happy to hear Dominique Strauss-Kahn was in trouble. Two employees of the high-end hotel high-fived and performed a bizarre, 3-minute...
Pol pushes cart health grades
“C” you later, filthy food carts. A Queens lawmaker has drafted a bill that would mandate posted letter health grades for street-meat sellers. State Sen. José Peralta (D-Queens) is introducing...
Rich CEOs performing cashectomy on hosps
Who wants to be a hedge funder when you can run a hospital? The heads of New York City’s biggest medical centers and even of some of the smaller ones...
Questions dog Wyclef's Haiti fund
In the months following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, a charity run by hip-hop star Wyclef Jean spent a pittance of the money it took in on disaster relief and...
Mars gets cars! US robo-explorer on way
Nasa yesterday launched a nuclear-powered “monster-truck sized” flying saucer to Mars in search of little green men. The ship, which looks like it was taken straight out of a sci-fi...
Leash the hounds
For some, they’re pets. For many New Yorkers, they’re the pits. Pit bulls accounted for a whopping 28% of all dog bites recorded by the city in 2011 — more...
Breaking the silence
The numbers are startling — in the past two years, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’ office says it has arrested and charged 89 Orthodox Jewish men with child sex abuse....
90 cents
That’s roughly the amount that state governments set aside for arts activities per person in 2011, according to the US Census Bureau’s 2012 Statistical Abstract. That works out to a...
In Bloombergistan, government lackeys have gone mad
In the spirit of the holiday, it’s time for us all to show gratitude to the higher power watching over us all. For all you do — not just on...
A pound of pot & no jail
Want a prime example of how recent Rockefeller drug-law “reforms” miss the mark when it comes to basic justice? Drug-dealing Columbia University student Christopher Coles was caught on tape selling...
Metastasizing Medicaid
Get ready, New York, for universal health care. OK, not tomorrow, perhaps. But soon. And with troubling consequences. As The Post’s Carl Campanile reported last week, New York’s Medicaid rolls...
Read Andrew’s lips
“You are kidding yourself if you think you can be one of the highest-taxed states in the nation, have a reputation for being anti-business — and have a rosy economic...
Newt the geek rises
Whether his recent rise in the polls will last, Newt Gingrich has already shifted Campaign 2012 for the better. The feisty former speaker of the House has reminded us through...
A teen tell-all
“Among the smuts” (PostScript, Nov. 20) left me with a heavy heart. The story of what it’s like to be a teenage girl in NYC schools should be required reading...
In my library: Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone is a passionate person — just watch her perform, or read “Patti LuPone: A Memoir” — and she’s passionate about books, too. “I love historical novels,” she says,...
Twisted fortune
The Nazi Séance The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler’s Circle by Arthur J. Magida Palgrave Macmillan In the early 1930s, Erik Jan Hanussen was Germany’s most highly...
Beatles & Trekkies & Gaga, oh my!
The Complete Record Cover Collection by R. Crumb Norton As a teenager, Robert Crumb collected old 78s of country music and long-forgotten blues artists. When he later became known as...
Almodovar’s ‘Breakdown’
For nearly a quarter of a decade, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has been the enfant terrible of international cinema. With an eye poppingly colorful, flamboyant style, he has consistently been...
A clothes call
You can fit the basic rules of chess — how each piece moves — on one printed page. None has changed since the en passant pawn capture was introduced more...
Adopt Me!
Lowell is a 5-year-old energetic Jack Russell Chihuahua mix who loves to play, especially with toys! Meet him at the New York Humane Society, 309 E. 59th St.
Good dogs
Last month, the American Humane Association’s Hero Dog Awards crowned their winner: Roselle, a guide dog who led her blind master Michael Hingson down 78 stories and out of the...
Bridge
At every North American Championships, a “Daily Bulletin” provides news, results and interesting deals. (See acbl.org.) Usually, the focus is on play and defense. I find it quixotic that bidding...
Battle star
Anyone who saw Robert Battle as a bowlegged baby never expected he’d walk straight — let alone lead one of the nation’s most beloved dance companies. As the cousin who...
Jerry blossoms
Jerry O’Connell would like you to know that he is nothing — at all! — like the pretentious preppy he plays in Broadway’s “Seminar,” the Theresa Rebeck comedy now at...
The new ear parade
Video may have killed the radio star, but it’s the Internet that has strangled every other pop-music medium before it. In the past few months, the Web has stepped up...
The Post Line
NFLTodayFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogJETS 8½ 9½(42) BillsRAMS 3 2½(39½)CardinalsBENGALS 7½ 7½(37½)BrownsTexans 3½ 6½(37) JAGUARSPanthers 4 3½(46) COLTSTITANS 3½ 3½(43) BuccaneersFALCONS 9 9½(44) VikingsRAIDERS+1½ 3½(41½)BearsSEAHAWKS 4½ 3½(37½)RedskinsPatriots 3 3½(50½)EAGLESCHARGERS 7 5½(41½)BroncosSteelers10½10½(40) CHIEFSTomorrowSAINTS...
Serby's Sunday Q&A with ... Matt Slauson
Jets offensive lineman Matt Slauson blocked out some time to chat with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: Do you think you would have been a perfect old-time Oakland Raider? A:...
Give this horse a big Cigar
What goes around, came around yesterday at Aqueduct for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, who saddled To Honor and Serve to notch his first Grade 1 victory in the...
Sports Shorts
NCaa: Big East courting San Diego St. According to the San Diego Tribune, the Big East is involved in negotiations to have San Diego State’s football program join the conference’s...
Aqueduct analysis
1. 6f; $19,000; cl($7,500); 3up; (f&m) HEY VALENTINA was a gate to wire maiden winner at this distance last out. ROCK STAR ROYALTY drops in class after tiring this distance...
Tomorrow’s Calder Entries
All horses appear in post position order FIRST-1m&70y; $11,600; mdn cl($12,500); 3up PN Horse, Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Five Star D J(L),118 AGonzalez 4-12-4 Dwoskin 6-1 2...
Affrunti’s Calder Grade
FIRST-1m&70y; $13,500; cl($10,000); 3up; (f&m) 6-Marilla 5-2 4-For Terina 6-1 1-SweetLlCheree 4-1 5-Cat Can Do 3-1 2-Blushing Tiger 6-1 7-Blke'slckypey 12-1 3-Bob'sJwbreker 5-1 SECOND-1m(T); $25,750; cl($40,000); 2YO; (f) 6-Jazz 5-2...
Aqueduct Charts
November 26th, 2011 Clear And Fast. Turf Firm.©2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur; $19,000; clm($7,500); 3upOff: 12:01. Good. bid 1/4,gear down lateTime: 22.67, 46.2, 57.72, 1:1.09.Trainer: Michael HushionWinner: DK B/...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYNov. 27MONNov. 28TUENov. 29WEDNov. 30THUDec. 1FRIDec. 2SATDec. 3RangersNO GAMENOGAMEPitt. 7:30 MSG ESPNNO GAMECar. 7:00 MSG ESPNNO GAMET.B. 7:00 MSG ESPNIslandersNO GAMENOGAMEBuff. 7:00 MSG+ WRHUNO GAMENOGAMEChi. 8:30 MSG+ WRHUDal. 8:30 MSG+2WRHUDevilsNO...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing10:30 a.m.Formula One: Brazilian Grand Prix SPEEDBasketballNoonMichigan State vs. Eastern Michigan ESPNU2 p.m.Women: Baylor at Tennessee ESPN2 p.m.Old Spice Classic: DePaul vs. Arizona State ESPNU4 p.m.76 Classic: Boston College...
Churchill Results
FIRST-6 fur; $46,000; mdn; 2YO3In the Beat (Borel)53.2012.208.009Radnt Tlent (Brdgmohn)2.402.1011Mr Saturday (Lanerie)5.80Scr: Atlantic Titan, Train Heist.* Exacta (3-9) $103.00 * Superfecta (3-9-11-8) $4,812.00 * Trifecta (3-9-11) $724.80SECOND-1 1/16 miles(T); $46,000;...
Hollywood Results
FIRST-6 1/2 fur; $27,000; clm($20,000); 3YO5Wrrn's Flyr (Pdrz)10.403.402.201Queenie Marini (Garcia)2.402.106Lily Amore (Rosario)2.60* $1 Exacta (5-1) $10.90 * Quinella (1-5) $5.80 * $1 Superfecta (5-1-6-3) $77.60 * $1 Trifecta (5-1-6) $31.90SECOND-1...
Buck stops at top for Giants
* Last week against the Eagles, the nation witnessed one of the worst coaching performances in recent Giants history. Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride continues to call plays that lack imagination...
Francesa strikes out again on MVP call
What a shame that Ryan Braun, last week named the National League MVP, didn’t take a few seconds to give credit where credit is deserved. Braun, after all, became a...
Nets need upgrades to keep Deron
When discussing the Nets, there is one element to remember: They’ve stunk recently. OK, two elements to remember. Keeping Deron Williams is the prime directive. Yeah, they’ve stunk recently. But...
Devils lose to Islanders after last-second video review
It came amid controversy, complaints, gripes and charges of robbery, but the Islanders’ first road victory of the season came, finally, in Newark. The Islanders moved out of the NHL...
Rangers shut out Flyers, find identity in back-to-back wins
The Rangers had been able to find ways to win while attempting to find themselves through the first seven weeks of the season, but it wasn’t until the last 48...
Sinking, deserted Islanders again NHL's worst
All right. Let’s play Final Jeopardy: The answer is “Duds.” I will bet all of my money on this one, Alex. “What is the synonym for the Islanders’ new black...
Red Sox must determine if fiery Bobby V is best choice
On the final night of the GM meetings, word circulated that Dale Sveum was going to become the Cubs manager and, just as interesting, not the manager of the Red...
Knicks’ labor rep Mason turns page
Roger Mason did his best work this year in Manhattan board rooms as the key face of the union’s nine-player executive board. He would now like to show New Yorkers...
Finally, shoes can squeak
I can’t wait to see how Isiah Thomas leaks that he was responsible for working out the tentative agreement between the NBA owners and the players. The Litmus test for...
NBA lockout among top 5 worst stoppages
NEW ORLEANS — Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? If you are a veteran sports fan, then you have come to accept that every couple of years, part of the...
Texans’ Leinart has 2nd chance to rejuvenate career
Jim Plunkett won a Heisman at Stanford in 1970, was the first overall pick of the 1971 draft, and was bounced from the Patriots to the 49ers to the Raiders....
Awakened Patriots ready to seize control of AFC
With thanks to the great Pete Townshend and The Who, we offer this bulletin to the rest of the AFC in reference to the New England Patriots: “Meet the new...
Raiders, Bears on opposite ends of passer problems
The Raiders might not have been so crazy after all. Oakland was the butt of jokes around the NFL last month for giving the Bengals potentially two first-round picks for...
Jets punter needs to improve
Jets punter T.J. Conley headed to the sideline in Denver after his terrible 13-yard punt not sure what to expect from special teams coordinator Mike Westhoff. “He was pretty good,”...
Saints' Sproles like Bush, only better
NEW ORLEANS — Hands down, it was the best free-agent signing of the offseason. The same day the Saints traded the spectacular but porcelain-legged Reggie Bush to the Dolphins because...
Jets will soar past banged-up Bills
Today JETS (-8) over Buffalo: This appears to be a comfy, short-haul hop for Gang Green, with Ryan Fitzpatrick’s pass protection and recent accuracy leaving much to be desired ......
Saints TE Graham big test for Giants
Back in the spring of 2009, his college eligibility in basketball all used up after playing 120 games for the Miami Hurricanes, primarily as a shot-blocker and rebounder, Jimmy Graham...
Manningham missed third straight Giants practice
The Giants are accustomed to being without key players, because this season has not been a kind one as far as injuries. They might have to face the high-powered Saints...
NBA lockout over, Knicks begin quest for playoffs
To borrow from Amar’e Stoudemire’s famous line, “The Knicks are back!’’ Remember the Knicks? Now that the NBA is returning, you may need a refresher course on the Knicks’ roster....
Fans finally can focus on basketball
You go to bed angry at the NBA, you wake up anxious about the Knicks. It’s a healthy trade-off. Friday night brings another marathon bargaining session between players and owners,...
NBA deal could help Knicks land Paul
As soon as commissioner David Stern uttered the words “tentative agreement’’ at 3:30 a.m. yesterday in the GM Building, and ended the nearly five-month-old NBA lockout, Chris Paul got a...
The Rumble
Marv Albert presents his incomparable Albert Achievement Awards, NFL-style, from the booth at MetLife Stadium before working Jets-Bills on CBS today with Rich Gannon. “My recommendation,” Albert tells The Rumble,...
Don't miss
The Kyra Sedgwick farewell tour Most people give two weeks notice when they leave a job. Stars take longer. Actors and television hosts quit months and sometimes years in advance...
The gift of good TV
Nothing says the holidays like an animated special. “SpongeBob SquarePants: Holidays With SpongeBob” ($29.99) wraps up every SpongeBob Christmas, Halloween and Valentine’s Day special in one handy package. Special features...
Your guide to Christmas TV specials
ANIMATION Nov. 29 RUDOLPH, TH E RED-NOSED REINDEER 8 p.m., CBS The Rankin and Bass classic. Sam the Snowman (Burl Ives) tells the story of a shy reindeer whose shiny...
Muslims and democracy don’t mix
This newscast is rated F, for fools. No viewer discretion, whatsoever, is needed. The not-so-funny funny thing about watching national newscasts is that if some organization of ritual-murderers chose to...
Reel good
SOME LIKE IT HOT, 1959 Sunday, 12:15 p.m., TCM Marilyn was never hotter than when she was being funny — or in this case, hilarious. Two struggling musicians (Tony Curtis...
Look Who's Talking
THE VIEW 11 a.m., Ch. 7 Monday: Meredith Vieira; Richard Cohen; Nancy Travis. Wednesday: Dane Cook; Jeremy Piven. Thursday: Harry Connick, Jr; Emily Watson. Friday: Viola Davis; Octavia Spencer ....
Same old Christmas
Year in, year out, we watch the Christmas specials we’ve always watched. The classics that are in the neighborhood of 50 years old. Rudolph. The Grinch. Charlie Brown. And to...
Meet market: Yogi sks hottie to practice positions with
Pitch perfect Most people are surprised to find out Lauren is a musician. “I studied oboe performance, and I am a classically trained pianist. I sing a bit, too!” Franco-phile...
Top 5 Ways to get a date while giving to charity
“Say, ‘I’ll give them $100 if you give me a kiss.’ ” Marek “Say, ‘I’m a giver — both in charity and in bed.’ ” Becca “Say, ‘If I dress...
Ask Ashley: The humpty glance
A few months ago, my husband and I decided to rent out a room in our home to a college student who is a friend of a friend. A few...
This weeks couple:S’more please?
When we sent Ezra, a 23-year-old litigation support analyst, and Ashley, a 24-year-old law student, to Union Square’s Max Brenner restaurant, we hoped the eatery’s focus on chocolate would make...
Weird but true
Maybe DUI conviction No. 18 will do the trick. A Massachusetts man who has been caught driving drunk so many times that his license was permanently revoked years ago convinced...
St. John’s loses to Northeastern; Lavin misses another game
St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin picked a good game to miss. Sitting out his second straight game as part of his modified schedule for his recuperation following successful surgery...
UNLV shocks top-ranked UNC
Chace Stanback had a career-high 28 and added 10 rebounds to help UNLV beat top-ranked North Carolina 90-80 last night in the championship game of the Las Vegas Invitational. Mike...
BU puts Cornell on ice at Garden
Ross Gaudet’s goal with 2:12 left in overtime led the No. 15 Boston University men’s hockey team past No. 17 Cornell, 2-1, last night in the third installment of Red...
Rutgers loses to UConn, out of Big East title picture
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — Entering yesterday’s game against Connecticut, Rutgers needed help to win the Big East championship, with its automatic BCS Bowl bid. The Scarlet Knights needed lots of...
Stony Brook rallies to FCS playoff victory
Brock Jackolski scored three touchdowns in the second half to rally Stony Brook past Albany 31-28 yesterday in the first round of the FCS playoffs in Stony Brook, N.Y. The...
Alabama defeats Auburn, on target for BCS berth
AUBURN, Ala. — The day after LSU won the West, Alabama took The Plains. Come Jan. 9 in New Orleans the Tigers and Crimson Tide should play the most brutally...
Creating its own legacy, Lincoln crushes Clinton, returns to Yankee Stadium
From August through November, Lincoln has heard about the players it lost rather than the players it returned. The 2011 season has been mostly about proving itself compared to the...
Run for the ages: Lewin's OT score puts E-Hall in first city title game
Wayne Morgan, the city’s lone All-American, was out of the game with cramps. Star running back Shaquell Jackson hurt his thigh and wouldn’t return. There was a little less than...
St. John's loses to Northeastern without Lavin
Joel Smith scored 29 points, including knocking down 7 of 12 from beyond the arc, to lead Northeastern in a 78-64 win over St. John's on Saturday. The Red Storm...
Manningham misses Giants practice again
Giants wide receiver Mario Mannigham on Saturday missed his third consecutive practice with swelling in his knee. Manningham on Friday said he was feeling better and vowed to play in...