April 14, 2012
Still tickin': With new heart, Cheney speaks over an hour in Wyo.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Former Vice President Dick Cheney walked onstage without any assistance and spoke for an hour and 15 minutes without seeming to tire in his first public engagement...
Niese, Wright lead Mets over Phillies
PHILADELPHIA — David Wright's swing looked just fine, even with the broken finger on his right hand. Wright homered on the first pitch he saw after missing three games, Jonathon...
McKee/Staten Island Tech's Astel picks Manhattan College
Kaitlyn Astel can add a Division I scholarship to her list of achievements this season.The McKee/Staten Island star guard ended her long college search by committing to play women’s basketball...
PHOTOS: 20 firefighters hurt battling huge Bronx blaze
More than 20 firefighters and two civilians were injured when a four-alarm blaze ripped through a stretch of Bronx homes today. The ferocious blaze started at 1:15 pm at a...
WATCH: Fraudster Marc Dreier nitpicks his prison accommodations
Former Manhattan attorney Marc Dreier may have pled guilty to committing more than $700 million in securities fraud, but that didn't mean he was willing to simply accept whatever conditions...
Best Buy to close 42 stores by mid-May
RICHFIELD, Minn. -- Best Buy will close another 42 stores by May 12 as part of its restructuring effort, the company said Saturday. Best Buy had said in March it...
Trayvon Martin's mother, brother visited Knicks locker room before Wizards game
Carmelo Anthony said he was honored to have Trayvon Martin’s mother and brother visit the Knicks locker room before the team's game vs. the Wizards Friday night. Anthony invited Sybrina...
Two teens killed after driver, on prescription Rx, falls asleep behind wheel on LI
A Long Island driver on prescription drugs fell asleep at the wheel early this morning, slamming his car into a tree and killing two teenage passengers who were flung from...
Ahead of Game 2, Rangers look to improve while Senators look to build on momentum
The Rangers had Thursday’s Game 1 against the Senators in hand when there was 10 minutes remaining in third period. Already up 4-0, the Rangers slacked a bit and the...
Wallace likes Nets future
PHILADELPHIA -- The view has not been exactly scintillating on the surface. Since he became a Net, Gerald Wallace has yet to see Brook Lopez play a game. He has...
Hughes gives up 6 as Angels crush Yankees
After a sharp spring training, Phil Hughes seemed all set for another All-Star season. And then the games started counting. Hughes struggled once again Saturday as Albert Pujols and his...
Red Bulls' Thierry Henry: Defense wins championships
Offense sells tickets, but defense wins titles. Even an offensive star like Thierry Henry admits that; and unless the Red Bulls shore up a leaky defense, their fate will likely...
WATCH: Zimmerman's account 'doesn't sound like [Trayvon],' older brother says
George Zimmerman's contention that Trayvon Martin attacked him, "doesn't sound like [Trayvon]," according to Martin's older brother, Jahvaris Fulton. Fulton told CNN that Martin "wasn't confrontational or violent," and disputed...
Tevez swings into golf celebration after Man City hat-trick
NORWICH, England -- Carlos Tevez swung out at his critics with a golf celebration Saturday after he helped to drive Manchester City's unlikely comeback in the English Premier League title...
Carroll heads Liverpool past Everton into FA Cup final
LONDON -- Liverpool's much-criticized $55.5 million (£35 million) striker Andy Carroll scored a priceless late winner to see off Everton and U.S. keeper Tim Howard, booking his team's place in the...
TCM Classic Film Festival: DCP and 35mm reign together
If anything, the TCM Classic Film Festival has been demonstrating showing that showing classic films both on traditional 35mm and the newer digital DCP format can peacefully, and fruitfully co-exist....
UN Security Council votes unanimously to authorize observer mission to monitor Syrian cease-fire
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to authorize an observer mission to monitor the cease-fire in Syria. The vote came after two days of intense negotiations over the...
TCM Classic Film Festival: Bela Lugosi Jr. and the Three Stooges
In my Friday review of "The Three Stooges,'' I mentioned a 1993 suit brought by the original Stooges alleging, among other things, that development funds when the movie at Columbia...
Key figure in GSA conference scandal will not testify, lawyers say
WASHINGTON -- The Government Services Administration (GSA) official who is emerging as a key figure in the inquires into a lavish, 2010 agency conference in the Las Vegas area will...
High-ranking banker brothers raided Bank of America as they left for UBS and VTB Capital
LONDON -- A pair of high-ranking banker brothers have hit Bank of America Merrill Lynch hard, by leaving and taking a team of trusted staff with them to foreign rivals...
Amazon's Kindle creator takes time off
Steven Kessel, a 13-year veteran of Amazon's digital business who was responsible for the company's original e-reader, is taking time off, the company confirmed. As SVP of Worldwide Digital Media, Kessel...
Japan clears two nuclear reactors for restart
TOKYO -- The Japanese government decided Friday that two nuclear reactors in western Japan are safe to restart, in a major step toward bringing idled plants back online for the...
North Korea has second long-range missile program: report
SEOUL -- North Korea has been developing a new long-range ballistic missile in a separate program from the one that led to a failed Friday rocket launch, a South Korean...
Lockerbie bomber critical in Libyan hospital: source
TRIPOLI, Libya -- The convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al Megrahi has been hospitalized in Tripoli, where he remained in critical condition Saturday, a source close to Megrahi's family said....
At least 5 dead after tornado touches down in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY — Tornadoes erupting across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma and damaged houses, a hospital, a jail, an Air...
Bee Gees star Robin Gibb in coma
LONDON -- Bee Gees pop legend Robin Gibb was in a coma Saturday amid fears he has only days to live, with the 62-year-old star's family keeping a bedside vigil....
TSA baggage inspector accused of stealing iPads from luggage in Dallas
DALLAS -- A Transportation Security Administration official has been charged after being accused of stealing eight iPads from luggage at Dallas/Fort Worth International airport, KXAS-TV reported. Clayton Keith Dovel, a...
Adidas investigating claim that Olympics uniforms being manufactured in 'sweatshops'
LONDON -- Allegations that Olympics uniforms are being manufactured in "sweatshop" conditions overseas are being investigated by Adidas, with London Games organizers saying they were taking the claims "extremely seriously."...
Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays
BLUE GRASS Keeneland, 11th race. Grade 1. Purse: $750,000. 1 ¹/₈ miles, Polytrack, 3-year-olds. Post: 6:18 p.m. LOWDOWN: Hansen may be a question mark at 1 ¼ miles, and they...
Grand repeat: Wolves rout Xaverian for second straight Monroe title
In the third inning, Grand Street Campus was told to put its large drum away, get rid of the horn and table the guira, a percussion instrument from the Dominican...
Texas sex offender asks jury for 99 years in jail, is sentenced to 50
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Fort Worth jury sentenced a convicted sex offender to 50 years in prison for failing to register -- but that was quite a bit better...
Fieldston comes back from three down to beat Ivy dynamo Poly in 10
Fieldston’s Matt Guzman thrives on being a leader for his team and the senior came through when the Eagles needed him most Friday. Guzman went 3-for-4 and helped lift Fieldston...
Softball roundup: Saputo, Poly Prep get by Fieldston in extras
Poly Prep gutted out a big win. Kerri Saputo scored the game-winning run with some heads-up baserunning and the Blue Devils sneaked past Fieldston, 10-9 in eight innings, in Ivy...
Boys lacrosse roundup: Riverdale rebounds, tops Horace Mann
Riverdale got the offensive output and bounce-back win it was looking for. Tyler Dean-Krantz scored four times and handed out three assists as the visiting Falcons pulled away for a...
Anna Faris didn't shave her armpits during 'Dictator' filming
Yuck … Anna Faris really grew into her role in “The Dictator.” The actress plays a nature-minded hipster in the movie, and in order to embody her character – and...
Morris, Fieldston pick up 'statement' win over Poly Prep
Fieldston believes it is again one of the teams to beat in the Ivy League. It’s been waiting for a chance to prove it after wins over lesser opponents Collegiate...
Monroe Tournament notebook: Grand Street's McDonald repeats as MVP
At this rate, Mike Turo may want to rename the Monroe Tournament MVP the Basael (Ralphy) McDonald Award. For the second straight season, the speedy center fielder took home the...
WATCH: Guy Pearce disses Australia city, then later apologizes
LOS ANGELES -- Aussie actor Guy Pearce has issued a contrite apology to his homeland's capital, Canberra, after mocking the city on US talk show "The Late Late Show with...
Back to normal, DiLeo pitches Xavier past previously undefeated Stepinac
Nick DiLeo was more like Nick DiLeo on Friday morning. In his first start of the season, the St. John’s-bound lefthander wasn’t quite himself, unable to locate his fastball. He...
Business briefs
Rough weekUS stocks fell yesterday, with the major indexes recording their worst week yet this year. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 136.99 points, or 1.1 percent, to close at...
Blankfein’s paycheck gets a 17% haircut
Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein took a 17 percent pay cut last year — even as the bank’s cost to ensure his safety more than doubled.Blankfein, 57, took home pay...
JPMorgan, Wells get boost from mortgage biz
Big banks are getting a boost as the housing market nears the bottom. JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, two of the nation’s biggest banks, reported first-quarter results yesterday that beat...
Megaupload has a downer day
A US judge yesterday came up short trying to find anyone to take possession of more than 1,100 computer servers that were used by Megaupload, the now-shuttered online service that...
Moonves got $70M from CBS
CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves received $69.9 million in 2011 total compensation, 21 percent more than a year earlier. Moonves’ package included a salary of $3.5 million, a bonus of...
Anna Nicole’s Madoff booby trap
In the sprawling litigation to recover money related to Bernard Madoff’s fraud, a federal judge said he would decide whether a 2011 US Supreme Court ruling prevents a bankruptcy court...
NJ Hostess workers forced to take severe pension cuts
The Hostess Brands reorganization has cooked up a batch of bad news. Workers in a New Jersey Teamsters local are being forced to accept severe cuts to their pensions because...
‘Best’ attys $$ can Buy
Best Buy’s board has hired some big legal guns as it probes allegations of an improper relationship between former CEO Brian Dunn and a 29-year-old female subordinate.The board of the...
New Facebook app coup
Facebook continues its social-networking dominance. The company is acquiring the team of developers behind customer-loyalty application Tagtile, adding to its expertise in mobile software, and yesterday won a court ruling...
‘Race slay’ duo could get death
TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma prosecutors filed murder and hate-crime charges yesterday against two men arrested in an Easter-weekend shooting spree that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa’s black community.Jake...
Bam slam at fizzling N. Korea
President Obama says North Korea’s failed rocket launch shows the country is wasting money on rockets that “don’t work” while its people starve. Obama told a television interviewer that the...
Subway worker: I nearly fried to death
A veteran subway operator miraculously survived after accidentally dropping a 200-pound piece of metal equipment onto an electrified third rail, sparking an explosion that set him ablaze, officials said. Michael...
As Titanic anniversary nears, musicians prepare to play over ship’s grave
DAY 4 — Eight New Yorkers are on board the Titanic anniversary cruise to perform the very last song the original ship’s band performed — believed to be “Nearer, My...
NYPD Daily Blotter
The Bronx *** Police need help finding an elderly woman who hasn’t been seen since she left her Mount Hope home two days ago. Christianne Pierre-Louis, 78, was last seen...
Gal pal of Gable’s son found dead
MALIBU, Calif. — Homicide detectives are investigating the death of the 41-year-old girlfriend of Clark Gable’s only son.John Clark Gable called 911 after allegedly finding Christiane Candice Lange’s body in...
Trayvon killer George Zimmerman will seek release without bail
Good luck with that. Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman will ask to be sprung from jail — without bail — at an upcoming court hearing, it was revealed yesterday. “We’re...
Jayson fast break after Rikers stint
Troubled ex-New Jersey Nets star Jayson Williams bounced out of Rikers Island yesterday after serving eight months for a Manhattan DWI. The Bible-thumping Williams, 44 — whose religious transformation behind...
Dismal science: Half of 8th-graders failing
Barely half of city eighth-graders passed statewide science exams last year — leaving scores relatively unchanged in the subject over nearly a decade. The results showed 53.2 percent of eighth-graders...
‘$eizing’ comptrol
The comptroller’s power to set wage rates for a small group of city employees hasn’t been challenged for more than 100 years because mayors were afraid of antagonizing a powerful...
Mike: I’ll sue council
The bruising battle over the “living wage” is headed to court.In a bombshell announcement yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg conceded that he’s not going to be able to stop the City Council...
Garbage in, garbage out
Two days after lauding a proposed waste-to-energy plant as a potential economic boost for Staten Island, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday caved in to pressure from local officials and yanked the plan....
IRS brick house falls on Lionel
LOS ANGELES — Lionel Richie owes more than $1 million in unpaid taxes, according to TMZ.com. The IRS hit the “Dancing on the Ceiling” singer and LA resident with a...
He’s a shower head case
JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — A naked burglar was arrested while taking a shower after police said he sipped champagne and ate a meal in a Southern California family’s home. San...
Weinsteins’ slap-happy ending on divorce
Movie mogul Bob Weinstein and his wife have officially agreed to a temporary truce in their bitter divorce. Weinstein and his wife, Annie, issued a joint statement through their lawyers...
Hizzoner hams it up with Muppets
It’s not easy being green — or running New York. Mayor Bloomberg took time out yesterday to make a rainbow connection with one of the world’s best-known movie stars —...
More ‘K’ kids have the ‘gift’
More than a third of students who took exams for entry into kindergarten gifted and talented programs this year managed to qualify — a significant bump from prior years, education...
Tix-fix lawyer bets trial against cops will go away
The tough-guy lawyer for 12 Bronx “ticket fix” cops yesterday predicted the case will never go to trial — and that he’ll get secret wiretaps used against them tossed. “There...
City appeals order to release critical 911 report
The city will appeal a Supreme Court ruling this week requiring City Hall to release a scathing analysis of the city’s trouble-plagued 911 system. Fire Department unions have subpoenaed the...
Pedro’s family took $15G trip to Puerto Rico using Bx. nonprofit's money: prosecutors
He was living the “suite” life. Pedro Espada Jr. used $15,000 of his Bronx nonprofit’s money so he and his family could live it up at a luxurious beachside Puerto...
Bx. pols in Charlie’s corner
Democratic leaders are giving Harlem Rep. Charlie Rangel a Bronx cheer — the good kind. Bronx Democratic Party chairman Carl Heastie said he’s backing Rangel’s re-election bid over his challenger,...
VIDEO: Command spat at dangling-scaffold rescue
Three workers were saved from a dangling scaffold on an Upper East Side high-rise yesterday — but the rescue operation became a battle of the badges when cops and firefighters...
Feds pay $1B to Indians
The federal government agreed to pay $1 billion to dozens of American Indian tribes to settle charges that it mishandled money and natural resources held or managed on their behalf....
Even Bidens’ 1040 is boring
WASHINGTON — For Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, this year’s tax return looks almost identical to last year’s.Returns released by the White House show the Bidens paid...
GSA ‘bonus’ outrage even worse
WASHINGTON — House committees investigating the scandal-plagued General Services Administration released an e-mail and letter yesterday showing that the organizer of a lavish Las Vegas conference escaped disciplinary action and...
O tax rate just 20%
WASHINGTON — President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama released their latest tax return yesterday, showing they made close to $800,000 last year and paid $162,075 in federal taxes —...
63rd seat for state Senate
ALBANY — State Senate Republicans won a political victory yesterday when a court ruled that the house can add a 63rd seat next year.State Supreme Court Judge Richard Braun called...
Secret Service agents get hook in sex scandal
A lurid scandal has struck the US Secret Service, after a dozen agents responsible for protecting President Obama were sent home from Colombia amid reports of misconduct with prostitutes. A...
Pharmacy slaying brings flashback to last year's LI massacre
As he was held at gunpoint and forced to lay face down on the floor of an East Harlem drugstore, grisly scenes from last year’s Long Island pharmacy massacre flashed...
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are officially engaged
Con-Bradulations! Hollywood megawatt couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are finally tying the knot, although no date is set. The pair have been together since 2005 and have six kids:...
Flightning strike
SAN FRANCISCO — Lightning hit a United flight, forcing the plane to return to the airport. Duty Manager John Ginty said the plane landed safely Thursday night and there were...
Romney campaign promotes Ann's motherhood in bid for women voters
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney milked the controversy over working moms yesterday, peddling pro-mom bumper stickers on his campaign Web site and bringing his wife, Ann, to a campaign speech where...
Newt pimping donors
WASHINGTON — It’s a bit like selling your own blood. Newt Gingrich is offering to rent his list of donors and supporters as a fund-raising tool that could add up...
Romney up in new poll
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney has a razor-thin, 46-44 percent lead on President Obama in a new Fox News poll, the latest survey to show a tight race as the general-election...
Wall falls on 2 boys
Two boys were injured last night when a cinderblock wall in their Brooklyn back yard collapsed on them, authorities and family members said. The boys, cousins William Arango, 11, and...
Girl stabbed in Bronx
A 5-year-old Bronx girl was in critical condition after she was stabbed in the chest in her home, police sources said. The girl was stabbed about 10:16 p.m. at her...
Lifesaver Cory Booker: Don’t call me ‘Super Mayor’
He’s “Super Mayor.” Newark leader Cory Booker was hailed as a hero yesterday for saving a neighbor from a blazing house fire — a dramatic rescue that he admitted was...
RAW VIDEO: Police pinch dapper ‘groper’
A dapper fiend was busted yesterday for allegedly molesting several women in Manhattan’s toniest neighborhoods, authorities said. Karl Vanderwoude, 26, who works for Madison Avenue private equity firm MVision, was...
The war on drugs: time to face facts
Amelioration of today’s drug problem requires Americans to understand the significance of the 80/20 ratio. Twenty percent of American drinkers consume 80 percent of the alcohol sold here. The same...
Obscene ‘observers’
Is the United Nations trying to transform the popular uprising in Syria into a game played by diplomats? As the big powers haggle in New York over the shape of...
Bam’s Buffett rule blather: a vote-seeking tax trick
The Issue: President Obama’s tax plan, which would require millionaires to pay a higher tax rate. *** From the administration that will have the dubious honor of being the first...
A royal decree
“King Andrew shouldn’t be out creating new bureaucracies on his own. If the people’s elected representatives say they don’t want to create a new government bureaucracy, then the government doesn’t...
Feeding mad dogs
North Korea had a case of projectile dysfunction this week, but its failed rocket launch on Friday the 13th is no cause for elation — in South Korea or the...
Nadler’s sticky fingers
New York University has agreed to scale back its ambitious expansion by just under 20 percent — for better or for worse, a sizable concession negotiated by Manhattan Borough President...
Gender hysteria
When Mitt Romney became the presumptive Republican nominee, he was also promoted to commanding general in the alleged “war on women.” Democrats are nattering on about this phony war in...
‘Godzilla’ government: the Prez finally gets it
President Obama is finally figuring out how to use government — namely, to hurt people we don’t like. In response to higher gas prices, for instance, Obama is pushing for...
Garden party
Perhaps one of the most challenging spaces where one would never imagine a city garden is already growing: on the 44th floor of the Hearst Tower (300 W. 57th St.,...
In the parks
Maybe you don’t even care about growing your own food — you just want to reclaim your primal urge to commune with nature. It’s easy to get involved because the...
Hey, NYC: Get growing!
Greenhouse developer BrightFarms just announced massive plans to build a 100,000-square-foot hydroponic garden — which would be the world’s largest rooftop garden — atop a warehouse in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park....
He’s Still got it
Don’t be fooled by the expensive schooling and the sartorial nattiness of writer-director Whit Stillman’s immaculately well-bred creations in his films “Metropolitan,” “Barcelona” and “The Last Days of Disco.” What...
Kids stuff
Today SHEAR GENIUS: Get the wool pulled over your eyes (in a good way) at Philipsburg Manor’s annual Sheep-to-Shawl event, where kids can see what sheep-shearing day was like on...
Sparring sibs run out of gas
There’s something primal about one-on-one confrontations, and David Harrower knows it. The Scottish playwright’s acclaimed drama “Blackbird” pitted a middle-aged man against a woman with whom he once had an...
Modern window boxes
Most city dwellers imagine a window box or an herb garden when it comes to growing plants in their apartments, but Britta Riley, a Williamsburg-based artist and entrepreneur went a...
Sports Shorts
Ncaa: Petrino’s ex-mistress fast-tracked for job The former mistress of Bobby Petrino was hired over 158 other applicants after a fast-tracked interview process that athletic director Jeff Long requested at...
Kentucky Derby preps continue today
The final two Grade 1 preps leading up to the Kentucky Derby will be run today (CNBC, 6-7 p.m. EDT), and the morning-line favorites in both races — Hansen in...
Aqueduct Analysis
Post Time: 12:50 p.m. All horses appear in post position order1. 1 mile(T); $56,000; alw; 3YOYARI working well after wiring field to break maiden this distance at Gulfstream. ENGLISH MAJOR...
Tomorrow’s Aqueduct Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1 1/16m(T); $37,000; clm($30,000); 3up(f) PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 SimpleExchang(L),122CVelasquz2-6-4P Kelly5-12 Katy'sOfficeGirl(L),122J Pezua3-5-5Odintz12-13 Some Legend(L),122R Curatolo4-5-6LO'Brien12-14 Bayshore Blaze(L),120SHusbnds2-2-1CJohnsn20-15 Wet One(L),122R Maragh10-4-1Pugh5-26 Star Vesta(L),116E Castro3-2-1Baker15-17...
Aqueduct Charts
April 13th, 2012Clear and Fast Turf Firm©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 1/2 fur; $37,000; clm($30,000); 3up(f)Off: 12:50. Good. pace ins, hand urgedTime: 23.66, 47.2, 1:12.14, 1:18.69.Trainer: Chris EnglehartWinner: B M,...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-1 mile; trot; $10,625; cond. 9 MonsgnorFln(AMller) 6.00 4.00 3.80 3 Action Sj (D Dube) 10.60 9.40 1 Ginger Tree Wanda (D Miller) 3.80 * Exacta (9-3) $73.40 * Trifecta...
Oaklawn Graded Entries
Post Time: 1:00 p.m. FIRST-1 mile; $25,000; alw; 3up4-Big Cal 4-18-Larry's Vision 10-12-Evade 15-11-a-Chef Eric 5-23-Numismatist 15-19-Kick On 10-15-Barraaq 4-11-a-Por Que 5-26-Biker Boy 8-110-Western Sun 15-17-Crook's Bodgit10-111-BuiltPrecisin12-1SECOND-6 fur; $26,700; clm;...
Meadowlands Graded Entries
Post Time: 7:00 p.m.Best Bet: Jin Dandy (12th)FIRST: mile pace; $10,625; cond2 Rock Three Times(DNoble)3-2-47-21 Majority Share(RSchnittker)1-2-65-19 Blues At Midnight(RPierce)1-8-52-13 Trip Hanover(TTetrick)3-2-69-24 Rock N Roll Legend(MLewis)3-9-620-15 PoweredByScoot(Bongiorn)7-2-220-16 My Sugar Daddy(CCallahan)7-4-720-17...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto racing7 p.m.NASCAR: Sprint Cup, Samsung Mobile 500 FOXBaseball1 p.m.Angels at Yankees FOX, WCBS (880 AM)4 p.m.Mets at Phillies SNY, WFAN (660 AM)7 p.m.Brewers at Braves MLBNNBA7:30 p.m.Celtics at Nets...
Hondo: Have a Niese day!
It was Double-Flusher Friday for Hondo yesterday as he swirled down the drain with the Rays and Twins, causing the losing streak to grow to five and the debt to...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYApr. 14SUNApr. 15MONApr. 16TUEApr. 17WEDApr. 18THUApr. 19FRIApr. 20YankeesAngels1:05YES NetworkWCBS 880 AML.A.A.8:05ESPNWCBSMinn.7:05YESWCBSMinn.7:05YESWCBSMinn.7:05YESWCBSMinn.7:05YESWCBSBos.3:05YESWCBSMetsPhiladelphia4:05SportsNet NYWFAN 660 AMPhi.1:35SNYWFANAtl.7:10SNYWFANAtl.7:10SNYWFANAtl.12:10SNYWFANNOGAMES.F.7:10SNYWFANKnicksNO GAMEMia.1:00ABCESPNNO GAMEBos.8:00TNTESPNNets 7:30 MSG ESPNNOGAMECle.7:30MSGESPNNetsBoston 7:00 YES NetworkWBBR 1130 AMNO GAMEMia. 7:30 YES2 WBBRNO GAMEKnicks 7:30...
The Post Line
NBA Favorite Line Underdog Celtics 6 1/2 NETS CLIPPERS 10 1/2 Warriors WIZARDS 3 1/2 Cavaliers GRIZZLIES 8 1/2 Jazz Thunder 10 T’WOLVES BUCKS 4 Pacers SPURS 8 1/2 Suns...
A bout time for Rios, Marquez
Former lightweight champion Brandon Rios originally was scheduled to step into the ring tonight against unbeaten featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa in a highly anticipated showdown. It would have been one...
Red Bulls ready for Earthquakes
Even striker Thierry Henry admits championships are won with defense, not offense. And though the Red Bulls’ attack is white-hot, they will be without injured defensive anchor Wilman Conde for...
Giants keep LB Blackburn
Management does not make moves simply to please the fans, but the move the Giants made yesterday will do just that. Chase Blackburn, the veteran linebacker who authored one of...
Nets defeat 76ers, help Knicks
PHILADELPHIA – During the fourth quarter last night, in a game that was very important to the 76ers’ playoff picture, the Nets rolled out a lineup of Kris Humphries, two...
Flyers rally past Penguins again
Sean Couturier and Claude Giroux each scored three goals and the Flyers rallied for a wild 8-5 victory over the Penguins in Pittsburgh last night in Game 2 of the...
Rangers look to play more in Senators end tonight
The diligence that marked the Rangers regular season, matched by the team’s ability to honestly self-evaluate, has carried into the opening round of the playoffs. Because in addition to the...
Rangers coach isn't worried about young players
For a team built around youth, the Stanley Cup Playoffs can be an overwhelming experience. “We will not have to worry about that with this team,” is how Rangers coach...
Rangers rookie Hagelin showing Kreider how it's done
Rangers forward Carl Hagelin may not have known it, but the performance he put on during Thursday’s 4-2 win over the Senators was a tailor-made teaching tool. In the first...
Devils defeat Panthers in playoff opener
SUNRISE, Fla. — Handling ominous adversity after manhandling the Panthers certified the Devils’ playoff opener as a double success. Boy, did the Devils bend. But they didn’t break, winning a...
Stoudemire to return to Knicks practice
Mike Woodson said Amar’e Stoudemire will return to Knicks practice today and scrimmage with the club. However, he will not play tomorrow against the Heat as he continues to eye...
Knicks guard Davis stars on 33rd birthday
When Baron Davis entered the home locker room following the Knicks’ 103-65 beatdown of the Wizards last night, he was serenaded by his teammates. First they sang “Happy Birthday” to...
Knicks defeat Wizards by 38, play Heat next
The Miami Dream Team couldn’t be playing Broadway at a better, more appropriate time. With the Knicks’ 103-65 humiliation of the Wizards last night, they host the Heat tomorrow for...
Knicks’ Chandler wants Defensive Player of Year
Tyson Chandler never toots his own horn about anything, which may be one reason he never has made an All-Star team. But when the subject of the Defensive Player of...
Mets' Thole laughs over bonehead play on bases
PHILADELPHIA -- Make room for Josh Thole on the Mets’ all-time blooper reel. The catcher snoozed for at least a few seconds during last night’s second inning at Citizens Bank...
Now or never for Bay with Mets
PHILADELPHIA — The Mets need to put David Wright on the disabled list to give his fractured right pinky time to heal. That means the fickle finger of fate is...
Wright heading to DL if he can't play for Mets today
PHILADELPHIA -- David Wright has got to get a grip. The Mets third baseman wants to believe his broken right pinkie won’t land him on the disabled list, but the...
Mets defeat Phillies; Bay gets big hit
PHILADELPHIA — Title this one: “Friday the 13th: Jason Lives.” Just when Jason Bay seemed deader than the freak in those cheesy horror movies, the Mets left fielder came wielding...
Bringing back Yankees legends good move for dollars, sense
Committing one year too long to a beloved player: $13 million. Sticking too long with that player, when the relationship turns bad: A few games in the standings. The gushy...
Posada throws out first pitch to father at Yankees opener
In the dugout, getting set to head to the mound to throw out yesterday’s first pitch, Jorge Posada was wearing a Yankees pullover jacket. For Derek Jeter, it was strange...
Yankees swap A-Rod, Cano in order
Yankees manager Joe Girardi insisted the lack of productivity from Robinson Cano in the third spot and Alex Rodriguez in the fourth hole didn’t play a role in flipping them...
Kuroda spectacular in Bronx debut vs. Angels
There were plenty of questions surrounding the Yankees’ newest free-agent toy, the right-hander switching leagues from National to American, and levels of expectations from modest to maniacal. It was the...
Kuroda throws 8 scoreless innings for Yankees
It didn’t take the Yankees long to figure out how to get Hiroki Kuroda to succeed in the American League: Just have him face the Angels. After tossing seven scoreless...
Angels reliever grateful to Mets for opportunity
Jason Isringhausen thought he would still be with the Mets this season. “I wanted to come back,” said Isringhausen, who had conversations with Mets officials during the offseason before eventually...
Swisher gets another big hit for Yankees
Nick Swisher started yesterday’s Yankees game the way he ended the previous one: With a huge hit. After Wednesday’s extra-inning, go-ahead home run in Baltimore, red-hot Swisher’s encore was a...
Yankees shut out Angels; A-Rod homers in home opener
How easy on the eyes was the Yankees’ home opener yesterday? Take it from a man who has seen so many yesterdays — it was something. “That was the finest...
A-Rod HRs help, hurt Yankees
For Alex Rodriguez, there are just moneyball milestones ahead now. Home runs larded with achievement — but also uncomfortable bonus checks and even more uncomfortable questions. Rodriguez hit homer No....
Kindergarten cops
Just because the 22nd precinct doesn’t exist in real life doesn’t mean that novelist Richard Price’s new TV series, “NYC 22,” is not based in real life. It is —...
Swamped Seth
Seth MacFarlane is too busy for “The Flintstones.” The “Family Guy,” “American Dad” and “The Cleveland Show” showrunner has put the live-action reboot on hold, even though Fox already announced...
Wiki talk show
WikiLeaks made a name for itself by spilling other people’s secrets, but now Julian Assange is getting people to do the dishing themselves. The controversial WikiLeaks founder has wrapped filming...
Weird but true
Call him the “Ty-D-Bol Bandit.” A robber was busted after he tried to hold up three banks armed only with a toilet-bowl plunger in upstate Utica. The crook quickly learned...
Calipari keeps Kentucky pipeline open
Say what you will about Kentucky coach John Calipari. Say he comes across as a used-car salesman. Say he considers the NCAA rulebook optional reading. Say he goes to Mass...
Painter Thomas Kinkade relapsed into alcoholism before his death: brother
MONTE SERENO, Calif. — Painter Thomas Kinkade battled alcoholism over the past several years and had a relapse just before his death this month at his home in Santa Clara...
CHSAA/Private baseball roundup: O'Reilly, Christ the King shock Molloy
Greg Modica got his career league victory as a head coach against his alma mater. On the back of Patrick O’Reilly’s gem, Christ the King blanked Archbishop Molloy, 4-0, in...
Knicks crush Wizards 103-65, tie for 7th
Baron Davis scored a season-high 18 points on his 33rd birthday, JR Smith had 23, and the Knicks surged into a tie for seventh place in the Eastern Conference by...
King: 'Close to' all 11 agents had women, presumed to be prostitutes, in rooms
CARTAGENA, Colombia — A U.S. lawmaker says a "significant number" of Secret Service agents involved in an alleged prostitution scandal at an international summit brought women back to their hotel...
R.A. Dickey, Jason Bay lead Mets over Phillies 5-2
PHILADELPHIA — R.A. Dickey threw seven sharp innings, Jason Bay hit a two-run homer and the New York Mets beat Cliff Lee and the Philadelphia Phillies 5-2 on Friday night....
Brodeur wins No. 100, Devils top Panthers 3-2
SUNRISE, Fla. — Martin Brodeur stopped 24 shots for his 100th postseason win, and a three-goal first period was enough to help the New Jersey Devils spoil the Florida Panthers'...
Giants, Chase Blackburn agree on one-year deal
Management does not make moves simply to please the fans but the move the Giants made on Friday will do just that. Chase Blackburn, the veteran linebacker who authored one...