January 13, 2012
Gene Hackman airlifted to Florida hospital after being hit by car
KEY WEST, Fla. -- Gene Hackman was airlifted to the hospital Friday after he was hit by a car and knocked off his bike in Florida's Key West. The 81-year-old...
Dolphins back to looking for coach
MIAMI -- Rejected by Jeff Fisher, the Miami Dolphins plan to interview several more candidates before hiring a coach, owner Stephen Ross said Friday. Fisher turned down the Dolphins’ offer...
Paterno admitted to hospital with cancer complications
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was admitted to the hospital Friday due to minor complications linked to his ongoing bout with lung cancer. "Joe...
Packers take time to support grieving assistant
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Packers have spent all week preparing for Sunday’s playoff game against the Giants and trying, as best they can, to support their grieving offensive coordinator...
E-ZPass applications now available in Spanish
Spanish-speaking New York motorists can now apply for an E-ZPass without getting lost in translation. The MTA announced today that applications for the tolling pass are now available in Spanish....
S&P reportedly downgrades Italy rating two notches to BBB+
ROME -- Standard & Poor's has decided to downgrade Italy's credit rating by two notches to BBB+ from A, Italian news agency ANSA reported Friday, citing government sources. The ratings...
12-year-old girl struck & killed by car in LES
A 12-year-old girl was struck and killed as she crossed a busy Lower East Side street today on her way home from school, authorities said. Dashane Santana, a sixth-grader at...
Man sentenced to life in JFK airport terror plot
A 66-year-old man battling depression was sentenced today to life in prison for plotting to attack New York's JFK Airport and blow up its aviation fuel pipelines with explosives. Kareem...
Sparano says Jets will play 'physical style of offense'
The Jets officially introduced Tony Sparano as their new offensive coordinator on a conference call Friday afternoon.Sparano and Jets coach Rex Ryan talked about their shared love for playing a...
Fixing fractured locker room Jets' top priority
Jets coach Rex Ryan said Friday his top priority this offseason is fixing a broken locker room.“When you look back at the 2011 season those are things that have to...
Game 12: Nets at Suns
Nets (2-9) at Suns (4-6)Game time: 9:00 p.m.Venue: U.S. Airways Arena, PhoenixTelevision: YES NetworkNets expected starting lineup:PG Deron Williams: 16.9 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 8.2 apgSG Anthony Morrow: 12.4 ppg, 2.8...
Post NBA Power Rankings: It's a Bulls market
Watching Derrick Rose and Ricky Rubio go toe-to-toe Tuesday night was one of the early highlights of the NBA season. Rose has risen to the ranks of superstardom and Rubio...
Oscar Watch: Golden Globes Twittermania
I gave up predicting the HFPA's awards years ago, though you can read my personal preferences in Sunday's Post. I do think my own choices for Best Picture/Drama ("The Descendants'')...
John Edwards has life-threatening condition: judge
GREENSBORO, North Carolina — Ex-presidential candidate John Edwards has a life-threatening heart condition that will require surgery next month, his doctor told a judge presiding over Edwards' upcoming court case...
Carmelo out for Knicks against Thunder
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony is expected to miss Saturday's game against the Thunder here due to a sprained wrist and sprained ankle, saying he’ll need "a miracle’’...
Fisher to coach Rams
ST. LOUIS -- Almost two weeks after they put away the helmets and shoulder pads, the St. Louis Rams picked up their third win of a dismal season. The Rams...
Syracuse shooting for best start
SYRACUSE -- Jim Boeheim has been down this road too many times to let it affect his team. No big deal that his Syracuse Orange are undefeated 18 games into...
Penguins' Crosby skating again
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby skated Friday for the first time in more than a month, and his teammates left little doubt they’re behind their captain as...
Nets' Morrow used to trade talk
PHOENIX -- Nets guard Anthony Morrow went through it last year. Now that he has heard his name in a trade rumor again, he shrugs it off.“It bothered me last...
Oprah Winfrey to attend graduation of first class at her South African academy
HENLEY-ON-KLIP, South Africa -- A teary Oprah Winfrey said Friday she is proud of the first graduates from her South African girls' academy and that the scandals the school has...
Heather Locklear 'is in no danger' after hospitalization, her parents say
LOS ANGELES -- Heather Locklear's parents said Friday the actress is "going to be just fine" after she was hospitalized for a possible overdose. Police told People magazine they responded...
Giants respond to Packers' Raji
Giants guard Chris Snee smirked as he finished one of his responses to comments from Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji.“I didn’t sleep all night. B.J. was just in my mind,”...
Bradshaw practices with Giants
After missing the prior two practices with a nagging foot injury as well as a new back injury, running back Ahmad Bradshaw was on the practice field for the Giants...
Gervais feels 'bulletproof' ahead of Globes
Ricky Gervais is heading into this Sunday’s Golden Globe awards feeling “bulletproof.” “I only do things that could end my career,” he told a gathering of TV critics in Los...
Yankees not likely to sign Cuban OF Cespedes
The chances of Cuban outfielder Yoennis Cespedes signing with the Yankees continue to appear slim.Not only have the Yankees been reluctant to add a long-term deal to their payroll this...
LI homeless teen's family offered apartment as she competes for $100K Intel science prize
BRENTWOOD — Samantha Garvey and her family had been living in a Long Island shelter for several days when they got word the 17-year-old aspiring marine biologist had made it...
120 from LI arrested on drug charges stemming from 'Heroin Highway'
More than 120 men and women from Long Island have been arrested on drug charges, as police have targeted those shuttling between the suburbs and New York City to buy...
Longtime CBS News correspondent Richard Threlkeld killed in car crash
Richard Threlkeld, a former correspondent for CBS News, was killed today in a car crash on Long Island. Threlkeld, 74, who lived with his wife in East Hampton, was driving...
Joran van der Sloot to serve 28 years in Peruvian prison
LIMA, Peru -- Joran van der Sloot was sentenced to serve 28 years in a Peruvian prison Friday for the 2010 murder of a young woman in his Lima hotel...
Officials to re-interview survivors of deadly Conn. fire
STAMFORD, Conn. — Investigators plan to re-interview the two survivors of a Christmas morning fire in which three young girls and their grandparents died. Police and fire officials say they...
$208M lottery winners unveiled on Long Island
The biggest lottery winners in Long Island history were unveiled today, when a financial analyst from California and his wife received a check for just over $101 million. Daniel Bruckner,...
US to start process of exchanging ambassadors with Burma
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday the US would begin the process of exchanging ambassadors with Burma in response to reforms enacted in the once-isolated country. The...
Mayor Bloomberg defends his threat to remove bad teachers
Mayor Bloomberg sought Friday to strike a more conciliatory tone with the union representing the city's teachers, one day after he threatened to remove as much as half the faculty...
Quinn to propose new 'living wage' legislation
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is going to propose legislation that requires companies receiving direct government subsidies to pay a "living wage" to their employees, sources said. But the measure...
Lawrence leaves Cardozo for Garden State
Jermaine Lawrence, one of the city’s top talents and a nationally ranked junior prospect, has left Cardozo. The 6-foot-9 forward with 17 major Division I offers from St. John’s, Florida,...
Three killed in shooting at NC lumber company
STAR, NC -- Three people were killed early Friday in an apparent workplace shooting at a lumber company in Star, NC, WXII-TV reported. Montgomery County Sheriff Dempsey Owens said four...
Beijing Apple store egged after huge crowds delay new iPhone release
BEIJING — Angry customers and gangs of scalpers threw eggs at Apple Inc.'s Beijing store Friday after the iPhone 4S launch there was canceled due to concerns over the crowd's...
'Jersey Shore' recap - Season 5, episode 2
This week’s episode of “Jersey Shore” was dominated by Vinny’s troubling bout with anxiety.Let me preface this recap by saying that while I understand that Vinny may have a clinically...
Obama claims credit where credit isn't due
The Washington Post declares "manufacturing is back" in an editorial today, insisting that President Obama is right to paint a rosy picture and claim credit. Problem with the argument is...
Christie and Oprah discuss love, politics and weight
Time to steal the doughnuts! Apparently, that’s also the way to steal New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s heart. In an interview with talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey, set to air this...
Philly cops bust NJ man accused in Winter Classic brawl
PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia police have arrested a man in connection with the beating of a New York Rangers fan after the NHL's Winter Classic. Dennis Veteri, 32, surrendered to police...
Private-equity firm TPG reportedly eyes Olympus investment
TOKYO -- US private-equity firm TPG Capital made contact with a series of Japanese technology firms about a potential joint investment in some of Olympus' businesses, people familiar with the...
Thailand arrests Hizbollah terror suspect, as US warns of attack on Bangkok tourist spots
BANGKOK -- Thai authorities announced the arrest of a suspected Hizbollah terrorist after the US embassy Friday warned Americans that foreign extremists may be planning attacks on Bangkok's tourist spots....
JPMorgan misses analyst estimates for fourth-quarter earnings; profit down 23 percent
JPMorgan Chase’s income fell 23 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 after the bank set aside a large sum for litigation reserves and its investment banking income declined. cm-bd...
Norwegian court orders new psychiatric review of confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik
OSLO -- A Norwegian court Friday ordered a new psychiatric evaluation of Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed killer responsible for last July's attacks that left 77 people dead who was...
Iona Prep hockey to host alumni game
Iona Prep will be hosting its annual alumni game after a one-year hiatus this Saturday at the Ice Hutch at 1 p.m. before its home match with Monsignor Farrell. On...
Locklear 'OD' scare
Former “Melrose Place” star Heather Locklear was taken by ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital yesterday a after taking a “dangerous mix” of prescription drugs and alcohol, according to a...
Packers player profiles
GREG JENNINGS, WIDE RECEIVER, 85 VITALS: 5-foot-11, 198 pounds, 28 years old 2011 STATS: 67 catches, 949 yards, 9 TDs LOOK FOR HIM: A lot. Jennings only played 13 games,...
Strong-armed Rodgers hits moving targets all over field
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Aside from Aaron Rodgers, the Packers names aren't exactly household or in danger of heading to Canton someday. But put Rodgers together with all of the...
MIKA Crown MLK Classic schedule
Longtime PSAL coach Barney Davis has moved from Medgar Evers to Van Arsdale and so has his MIKA Crown MLK Classic, an annual affair on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.Davis’...
INSIDE PSAL GIRLS HOOPS: Softball ace shining on court at Tottenville
It comes as absolutely no surprise to Cathy Morano that Cheryl Lopez is at her very best in the biggest moments. The Tottenville girls basketball coach is also the school’s...
Girls basketball roundup: Beacon slips past Graphic Communications
Beacon stayed a game off the pace for a division title. The Blue Demons got 24 points from Maya Wasowicz for a narrow 54-52 win over third-place HS Graphic Communication...
Tough times for blackfish anglers
The cod season appears to be off to a fast start, but just when you think everything is going so well someone comes along and bursts your balloon. The close...
Knicks' Anthony second among forwards in votes for All-Star Game; Stoudemire, Chandler would need coaches' support
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- If voting ended today, Carmelo Anthony would be a starting forward for the Eastern Conference at the NBA All-Star Game. Amar’e Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler would need...
Wolski returns to Rangers lineup
Wojtek Wolski was in the lineup. For the Rangers. Not for the Whale. For the winger, who yesterday morning diplomatically avoided saying whether he would accede to the Rangers’ request...
Moore Catholic outlasts Iona Prep in wild, overtime thriller
Ray Savage had been in the game for less than a minute. Justin Ortiz and Scott Schaefer each fouled out, forcing the reserve forward into an overtime situation with the...
PSAL boys basketball roundup: Eagle completes season sweep of Kennedy
Eagle Academy completed a surprising season sweep of traditional powerhouse John F. Kennedy with an impressive 63-57 victory in PSAL Bronx AA boys basketball Thursday night. Omar Fofana had 17...
2012 Critics' Choice Award winners
LOS ANGELES — Winners at Thursday's 17th annual Critics' Choice Awards: — Picture: "The Artist." — Actor: George Clooney, "The Descendants." — Actress: Viola Davis, "The Help." — Supporting actor:...
'The Artist' wins best picture, 3 other awards at Critics' Choice ceremony
LOS ANGELES — "The Artist" waltzed away with its first wins of Hollywood's awards season. The black-and-white ode to the silent-film era directed by Michel Hazanavicius led winners with four...
PSAL wrestling playoff roundup: Grand Street, Brooklyn Tech to meet again in finals
John Zarcone rolled the dice. The Grand Street Campus wrestling coach moved Josh Antoine, one of the best 99-pounders in the state, to 106 for the semifinals. Inexperienced sophomore Geudy...
Maturing Williams, Bayside hold on to beat Campus Magnet
Austin Williams was convinced this team wasn’t going to give another lead to Campus Magnet before ensuring it. “We were at home,” the Bayside junior point guard said. “I wasn’t...
Business briefs
AIG bonds The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may sell a $7 billion block of the mortgage bonds it assumed from AIG. Jobless claims More Americans than forecast filed...
Target markets: Retailer sets bull’s-eye on in-store shops
Target, getting pounded in a price war with Walmart, is hoping an Apple a day keeps the rival at bay. The struggling discount chain said yesterday it will carry an...
Sears jitters grow as CIT tightens credit
Eddie Lampert’s relationship with Sears’ suppliers just got a little uglier.CIT — the commercial-lending giant headed by former Merrill Lynch boss John Thain — told Sears this week it’s clamping...
Maxim-um shake-up
In a big shake-up at Maxim publisher Alpha Media, industry veteran Jack Kliger is coming on board as “executive chairman” and taking over from just-ousted CEO Joseph Mangione. As the...
Google TV software updates
Google plans to release an updated version of software for its namesake television service by year-end, adding content and making it easier for users to find shows. Google TV will...
Pandora’s loving ’12
The shares of online radio service Pandora Media Inc. have risen nearly 25 percent since the start of the year in the face of Wall Street doubters who believe it...
RIM jumps
Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, advanced on speculation that the company has hired a strategic adviser. RIM rose 5.3 percent to close at $16.44. The Waterloo,...
‘Wealth porn’ king hitting the road
There once was a time when Bloomberg LP prided itself on never laying off anyone. But that all changed in February 2009, when in the midst of the recession new...
Columbus Square apt. deal
Real-estate investment trust UDR paid $630 million in a joint venture with MetLife for 710 apartments in five new buildings along Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side yesterday, where...
Ask an end to blackout rule
The FCC, in an e-mailed notice yesterday, called for comments on a petition filed by five sports fan-related groups to void a TV blackout rule that stops cable and satellite...
MF Global customers learn they're unlikely to get back 100 percent of their money
With $1.2 billion in MF Global client cash still missing, those scorched customers had better not hold their breath waiting by the mailbox to be made whole. They are not...
Devils’ $80M debt woe is looking tough to ice
Jeff Vanderbeek’s long-simmering $80 million problem appears ready to boil over. His New Jersey Devils hockey team is months late on an $80 million debt payment to lenders and is...
VC wars: Big Apple v. Boston
The New York-Boston rivalry is heating up — and it has nothing to do with baseball. The Big Apple continues to lead Boston when it comes to Internet start-up dollars....
Starboard gains steam
Move over Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman, there’s a new activist shareholder group in town quickly elbowing its way to the front of the pack. Starboard Value Fund, which recently...
Backlog slowing US foreclosures
Foreclosure activity last year hit its lowest since the recession began in 2007 — but that’s not a good sign for the beleaguered housing market. Banks caught up in the...
Suitors circling AMR
US Airways Group, Delta Airlines and private-equity firm TPG Capital are among several parties interested in potential bids for AMR Corp., the bankrupt parent of American Airlines, people familiar with...
Shopping-cart victim revived by doctor at Harlem Target
The philanthropist who was crushed by a shopping cart that two preteen punks dropped from four stories above at a Harlem mall was technically dead at the scene — and...
O-OK on Bam recess picks
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department yesterday backed President Obama’s recent recess appointments of a national consumer watchdog and others. Republican leaders have argued that the Senate was not technically in...
SI unfare rip-off
A crooked car service ripped off the MTA’s program for the disabled by submitting tens of thousands of dollars in phony vouchers for rides that never took place, officials said...
Mom ordered to slash ‘iTime’ with son
A Brooklyn judge yesterday ordered a mother embroiled in a bitter custody dispute to cut back on all the FaceTime with her 10-year-old son. Fordham law Professor Annemarie McAvoy was...
State Dem quits
Longtime state Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, a Democrat who nearly lost her eastern Westchester County seat in 2010, announced yesterday she won’t run again this year, since she will be undergoing...
Cop kills gunman outside Brooklyn home
An NYPD officer shot an armed man to death in Brooklyn shortly before 11 p.m. last night in response to a 911 call where a woman had reported a robbery,...
Brooklyn brainiac an ace on Jeopardy
If you see this guy at your bar’s trivia night, watch out. A Brooklyn whiz kid is $62,000 richer after going on an amazing four-day win streak on the TV...
Hudson rescue
An NYPD cop saved a despondent New Jersey woman from certain death in the Hudson River yesterday morning after she crashed through a fence along a pedestrian path, authorities said....
NJ rabbi bares firebomb pain & resolve
A New Jersey rabbi yesterday described a terrifying firebomb attack on his synagogue and home as he vowed to turn the near-tragedy into a lesson about understanding.“God has a mission...
‘Racist’ cop plea deal
A cop accused of falsely arresting a black Staten Island man and making racist remarks about the incident will plead guilty to charges stemming from the case. Michael Daragjati, an...
Hit FDR fare drunk: cabby
A veteran cabby said yesterday that he was horrified when his frustrated fare bolted into traffic on the FDR Drive and got whacked by a minivan.Karim Rejaul told The Post...
Inside Beyoncé’s luxe baby suite
It’s a five-star hospital suite! Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s little bundle of joy made her world debut in a spanking-new, ultra-luxe “executive suite” that made Lenox Hill Hospital more like a...
Strike 2 in Yankees theft
These knuckleballs were called out at home. Two morons who allegedly stole a treasure trove of Yankees memorabilia from the Florida office of the team’s dentist were busted — after...
7 riders crap out
Straphangers, get ready for some subway suffering.The MTA yesterday announced it’s closing a large stretch of the 7 train line for 11 straight weekends. From Jan. 21 through April 2,...
Belittle Kim
MACAU — The oldest son of North Korea’s deceased despot Kim Jong Il blasted his ruler brother as a “symbol” whose role was stage-managed by the Pyongyang elite, South Korea’s...
Glock of the ‘walk’
A Tea Party activist busted at La Guardia Airport trying to place his California-licensed handgun into checked baggage got off with a disorderly-conduct charge yesterday. Mark Meckler’s no-jail deal comes...
Anderson Cooper buys $1.7M Hamptons home that used to belong to Oscar-winning screenwriter
Globetrotting CNN anchor Anderson Cooper didn’t have to stray far to drop close to $2 million on a new home. He just bought the property next door to his Hamptons...
TSA agent busted in laptop ‘lift’
A federal TSA screener at La Guardia Airport was arrested for allegedly swiping a pricey laptop from a college student at a security gate.“He’s supposed to be protecting our country,...
‘Fake-art’ fink nailed
A salesman from the city’s powerful real-estate brokerage The Corcoran Group surrendered at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office yesterday for allegedly selling 10 phony Damien Hirst prints to a British...
NYPD Daily Blotter
The Bronx *** A city Parks Department employee was arrested for hanging a black doll from a noose at the agency’s Bronx Park headquarters, police said yesterday. Fariz Ahmemulic, 28,...
Kardashians no longer sought-after celebrities, insiders say
You may not have to keep up with the Kardashians much longer. Everything the reality family touches turns absolutely toxic — with party promoters, magazine editors and television execs all...
Mover & shake-up on Liu team
City Comptroller John Liu’s rancorous, losing legal battle to set an excessively high “prevailing wage” for professional furniture movers caused a major shake-up in his Bureau of Labor Law, sources...
City panel pitching biz-boost plan to gov
Cut the taxes and red tape, Gov. Cuomo! New York City business leaders picked by Cuomo to help boost the local economy are urging him to eliminate a 2 percent...
First lady’s tweet debut
WASHINGTON — First Lady Michelle Obama joined Twitter yesterday, and gained more than 100,000 followers in just a few hours.The account, user name @michelleobama, will be managed by President Obama’s...
SI men sensitive softies
Hey, ladies, the perfect mate may be just a short orange ferry ride away! Against all odds, Staten Island has been ranked the 10th-most sensitive city in the United States...
Heir ‘puller’ of Broadway
The scion of a major Broadway family got cast in a criminal drama yesterday when he was arrested for allegedly violating an order of protection after pulling his girlfriend’s hair....
Bx. armory’s ‘sporting chance’
The Kingsbridge Armory might end up as one of the city’s largest indoor recreational spaces, Mayor Bloomberg indicated yesterday. In his State of the City speech, the mayor said the...
Your move, Governor – don’t blow it
Mike Bloomberg didn’t precisely call Andrew Cuomo’s public-education bluff yesterday — but he sure did cover the governor’s bet. What happens next isn’t likely to be pretty. The centerpiece of...
Rents to rocket
New York landlords will be laughing their way to the bank in 2012.Apartment rents are expected to skyrocket by as much as 12 percent by year’s end, according to a...
‘ID cons’ rung up
A ring of fraudsters was busted yesterday for a long-running scam that rang up more than $1 million in crooked charges at Home Depot, Sears, Kmart, Kohl’s and other retailers,...
Mike aims ax at teachers
It’s war. Mayor Bloomberg broke out the battle-ax against teachers in the city’s worst schools yesterday — launching a bombshell plan that would remove as many as 1,500 of them...
Obama team hauls in $68M
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s re-election campaign raised $68 million in the last three months of 2011 alone — but fell short of the record pace needed to hit the $1...
Looking finer in Carolina
WASHINGTON — A group of key South Carolina conservatives fell in line behind Mitt Romney yesterday, bolstering the former Massachusetts governor’s chances to win the first primary in Dixie. Three...
Former Long Islanders open Green Bay's only New York-style pizzeria
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Even “Cheesehead” Packers fans know there’s nothing like a cheese slice from New York. Two former Long Islanders who had to move to Green Bay in...
London hot rock in Apple
A massive, 16-carat yellow diamond stolen in a $20 million London jewel heist has turned up at a jewelry-appraisal firm in Manhattan, court papers say. The Gemological Institute of America...
Med mystery: What makes girls tic?
A mysterious illness that produces symptoms similar to Tourette’s syndrome is sweeping through an upstate high school, hitting a dozen girls since fall.The state Department of Health has diagnosed the...
FDNY river rescue
A firefighter saved a drowning man from the frigid East River near Gracie Mansion yesterday, authorities said.The man, whose name wasn’t immediately released, went into the 40-degree waters near 86th...
Syria ripped on journo slay
BEIRUT — The death of a French journalist in Syria brought new calls yesterday for an independent investigation into a series of mysterious attacks that have killed scores of protesters...
Bam & Bibi talk Iran
President Obama talked about “recent Iran-related developments” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday as new tensions rose in the Mideast and an additional US aircraft carrier took up position...
Heat’s on pee Marines amid Afghan fury
Military criminal investigators are interrogating at least two of the four Marines in the shocking battlefield videotape that threatens to further inflame tensions in Afghanistan, officials said. All four men...
Crude Iraq attack
BAGHDAD — Iraqi insurgents disguised as soldiers attacked a small oil field being developed by an Angolan company, police said yesterday. The attackers, who bombed drilling equipment near Mosul, apparently...
One lawsuit city should settle
New York City last month announced that it would appeal a jury’s award of $1 million to the family of Jesse Shipley. Sorry. My sympathies are with the family —...
A host of ‘big ideas’
The big news out of yesterday’s State of the City address was Mayor Bloomberg’s renewed push for an effective teacher-evaluation system, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore the host...
The rap against Lenox Hill: Babying Jay-Z & Beyoncé
The Issue: The extravagant arrangements for the birth of Blue Ivy Carter at Lenox Hill Hospital. *** It’s a disgrace that hip-hop “artists” Jay-Z and Beyoncé were given preferential treatment...
The real tale of the tapes
Four Marines fighting in Afghanistan have been videotaped while apparently urinating on the bloody corpses of some Taliban terrorists they’d just dispatched. A Taliban spokesman called the scene “barbaric,” which...
Mike’s bold gambit
It’s back to basics for Mayor Bloomberg, who spent a good chunk of his State of the City Address yesterday focusing on the one issue that surely must matter to...
Why evaluations matter
New York City teachers don’t need meaningful proficiency re-evaluations? Meet Mona Lisa Tello, an about-to-be-former 13-year bilingual-science teacher at the High School of Graphic Communication Arts in Hells Kitchen who...
Real-life righties
If you follow politics, you’d have spent 2011 certain that conservatives didn’t want Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee. That’s what the loudly expressed views of self-styled conservative leaders...
Shooting blanks
"Contraband” aims to be dumb fun but gets only the first half right. A better title suggests itself, but “Paycheck” was already taken. Mark Wahlberg plays Chris, a professional smuggler...
Don’t bring in ’da ‘Noise’
A showdown between Dolly Parton in her ’80s prime and Queen Latifah as dueling divas might have made the silly musical “Joyful Noise’’ far more of a campy guilty pleasure...
Revamped ‘Porgy’ ain’t necessarily so fine
After much behind-the-scenes hoopla, the new revival of “Porgy and Bess” finally opened last night on Broadway. Those expecting a bang will have to do with a whimper. To recap...
‘Rebecca’ needs more bucks
The key to “Rebecca” is cash. With their first preview only a couple of months away, the producers of the Broadway musical “Rebecca” are still scrambling to raise the money...
The Divide
After Manhattan gets nuked in this low-budget post-apocalyptic thriller, nine New York stereotypes hole up in an apartment-building basement. Tempers flare, rations run low, the threat of cannibalism lingers in...
Domain
The French affection (affectation?) for conversational film reaches absurd proportions in the talkathon “Domain.” “Betty Blue” star Beatrice Dalle, who resembles Angelina Jolie, plays a wintry mathematician named Nadia, who...
Loosies
Romantic comedies are often as contrived and irritating as “Loosies,” but few feature a lead character so lacking in appeal. A shameless vanity piece for its charm-free star and wit-deprived...
Lula, Son Of Brazil
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s reformist two-term president, gets the once-over-lightly treatment in “Lula, Son of Brazil.’’ The shallow biopic follows Lula, as he was known to the chanting...
Man On A Mission
Richard Garriott wanted to be a NASA astronaut just like his father, Owen, but vision problems prevented him. So the younger Garriott, who became a millionaire as the inventor of...
Ravens vets want their rings
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Matt Birk made his debut in the NFL as part of a Vikings team that went 15-1. Minnesota reached the playoffs in each of the next...
Sports Shorts
MLB: Selig to stay through 2014 Owners voted 29-1 yesterday in Paradise Valley, Ariz., to give commissioner Bud Selig a two-year contract extension through the 2014 season. Selig, 77, has...
Coughlin’s Giants usually respond in big games
Giants coach Tom Coughlin went from the hot seat to the hottest coach in football in just a few weeks. FOX analyst Troy Aikman watched the Giants play “one of...
5 questions for Bill Cowher
Former Steelers coach and CBS analyst Bill Cowher breaks down the divisional-round playoff games this weekend not involving the Giants and Packers with The Post’s Justin Terranova. Q: What was...
Nets offense better, now defense ailing
PHOENIX — After seven games, the Nets were averaging just over 83 points as the hunt for 25-point quarters turned into a nightly quest equal to the search for the...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-mile; trot; $12,500; Super Bowl7InNomnePatr(AMller)8.604.803.204Super Manning (D Dube)5.403.402Psyched (J Campbell)3.80* Exacta (7-4) $35.00 * Trifecta (7-4-2) $277.00 * $1 Superfecta (7-4-2-8) $1,202.60SECOND-mile; trot; $12,500; Super Bowl5GldeToVctory(DMller)9.204.603.609Bruise Cruise (J Randall)52.0025.007Mr Jim...
Mets to complete minority stakes sales soon: source
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — Fred Wilpon, the embattled Mets owner, smiled broadly yesterday as he shook hands with other executives on his way out of Major League Baseball’s quarterly owners...
Aqueduct Analysis
Post Time: 12:20 p.m. All horses appear in post position order1. 1 mile; $56,000; alw; 3YOCITIZEN WELLS broke maiden in an off the turf race this distance when making second...
Tomorrow’s Aqueduct Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1m&70yds; $57,000; alw; 4up PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Idle American(M),123A Garcia4-1-3P Kelly5-12 Sandyinthesun(L),123J Davis1-8-6Davis20-13 Big Fearless(L),118CVelasquz1-5-6Kennelly8-14 Hangover Kid(L),118RDomingz2-3-2Servis2-15 Able Bellamy(L),113R Curatolo2-2-3Stoklosa4-16 Crea's Law(L),118C Lopez4-4-5LO'Brien20-17...
Aqueduct Charts
January 12th, 2012Raining and Muddy©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur; $40,000; hdcp; 4up(f)Off: 12:20. Good. slip out pocket 5/16plTime: 23.66, 47.77, 59.97, 1:12.95.Trainer: Linda RiceWinner: DK B/ F, 4, by...
MeadowlandsGraded Entries
Post Time: 7:00 p.m. Best Bet: Desert Sign (9th) FIRST: mile trot; $14,000; cond 5 Cool Colby (TTetrick) 1-1-2 5-2 3 Crypto Man (JCampbell) 2-5-4 6-1 2 Folk Tail (YGingras)...
Gulfstream Analysis
Post Time: 12:35 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderPost Time: 12:35 p.m.FIRST-5 1/2 fur; $19,000; clm($15,000); 3YODADDYS JEWEL working bullets and drops in class for new barn. DONTGETMADALEXIS...
Gulfstream Results
FIRST-1 mile; $33,000; clm($50,000); 3YO1Joy of th Toy (Lpz)42.8016.209.603Charlie's Quest (Cruz)8.605.808Old Puerto (Alvarez)7.80* Exacta (1-3) $297.20 * $1 Superfecta (1-3-8-9) $20,021.30 * $1 Trifecta (1-3-8) $6,810.90SECOND-6 fur; $35,000; alw; 3YO(f)6Swt...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYJan. 13SATJan. 14SUNJan. 15MONJan. 16TUEJan. 17WEDJan. 18THUJan. 19KnicksNOGAMEOk.C. 8:00 MSG ESPN NOGAMEOrl. 1:00 MSG ESPNNOGAMEPho. 7:30 MSG ESPNNOGAMENetsPhoenix9:00YES Network WFAN 660 AMUtah 9:00 YES WBBR NOGAMEL.A.C. 3:30 YES WFANNOGAMEG.S. 7:30...
The Post Line
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