July 16, 2012

Rafa Marquez out Wednesday, but Teemu Tainio returns to practice

Add Rafa Marquez back – again – to the Red Bulls’ always-full list of walking wounded. The Mexican midfielder has been ruled out for Wednesday’s matinee against Chicago; now the...

Felton to Knicks official; Lin decision on deck

The first step in Jeremy Lin's expected exit from New York is now official.The Knicks announced tonight that the team has re-acquired guard Raymond Felton, via sign-and trade, and forward/center...

Bay Ridge building collapse displaces families

A group of Brooklyn residents had long feared that a decrepit vacant building on their block would collapse someday — and early today, it did, displacing several families. The top...

Ibanez hits slam in 8th, Yanks beat Blue Jays 6-3

Raul Ibanez hit a tiebreaking grand slam with two outs in the eighth inning and the Yankees beat Toronto 6-3 on Monday after Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista left the...

Ortiz released from hospital; Salsa Mambo euthanized

Apprentice rider Jose Ortiz was scheduled to be released from North Shore University Hospital on Monday afternoon after an overnight stay following a spill in Sunday's eighth race at Belmont...

Bodemeister out of Haskell after spiking temperature

Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner-up Bodemeister will miss the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth on July 29 after spiking a temperature, according to his trainer Bob Baffert. The colt...

Yankees concerned after another Gardner setback

Brett Gardner’s return to the Yankees outfield suffered another setback on Monday when he was “sore” after playing three innings of a simulated game on Sunday. An elbow strain has...

Yankees’ Rivera says 'goal' is to return this season

Mariano Rivera does not want to think about pitching this season, but that does not mean he has ruled out the possibility. The Yankees closer was optimistic in an interview...

Bowery Residents Committee shelter has Chelsea neighbors outraged

Like many of his Chelsea neighbors on West 25th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, Jacques Lilly is plenty PO’d about problems with residents of the shelter for homeless drug...

Motorcyclist critical after B'klyn crash

A motorcyclist is fighting for his life after crashing into a car in Brooklyn today, authorities said. The biker was headed down Avenue P in Midwood at 11:12 a.m. when...

Yankees ending Reggie ban; slugger 'not expected' at Hall of Fame induction

It will be one apology at a time for Reggie Jackson. An industry source told The Post that Jackson is welcomed to rejoin the Yankees for their series in Oakland,...

Discount clothing retailer Daffy's to liquidate

Daffy's Inc., which sells national fashion brands at up to 80 percent off, is going out of business, a victim of a fiercely competitive landscape that already claimed rivals Syms...

'Encyclopedia Brown' author Sobol dies at 87

MIAMI - Donald J. Sobol, author of the popular "Encyclopedia Brown" series of children's mysteries, has died. He was 87. Sobol died in Miami from natural causes July 11, with...

Stringer has raised $3.67 million NYC mayoral run

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer says he has raised a total of $3.67 million for his race for mayor of New York City. Stringer's finance director says he raised $430,000...

Jury selection begins for four men accused of stealing $5.7M from Columbia University

Jury selection began today for four men accused of stealing a jaw-dropping $5.7 million from Columbia University -- simply by altering an accounts payable routing code. Prosecutors say the massive...

NY law aimed at painkiller addiction called model

A new state law designed to curb the prescription drug addiction that kills one American every 19 minutes is a pioneering model for the whole country, New York officials said...

Weatherford: Coughlin perfect coach to lead Giants to repeat

The very first question asked by a young camper to Steve Weatherford on a hot Monday at Coleman Country Day Camp in Merrick, L.I. was hardly a fluttering knuckleball. No,...

One more wrinkle in the Hamels decision

In today’s Post, I wrote that the Yankees will stay in the loop regarding Cole Hamels, but that a trade seems unlikely to work out.Much has been written about how...

Even White House, Geithner reject eminent domain for mortgages nonsense

Opposition to the eminent-domain-seizure-of-underwater-mortgages gambit is growing. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration is skeptical of the idea. And the same piece reminds readers that Treasury Secretary...

Obamacare, single-payer and 12,000 dead Britons

A recent column by Peter Morici suggests that the Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare's individual mandate may hasten the adoption of a nationalized health care system akin to the British...

US Navy ship kills 1 after firing at boat off Dubai

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A US Navy ship opened fire on a small boat racing toward it Monday near the Gulf city of Dubai, killing one person, according to...

JFK mechanic severs finger on baggage belt

A mechanic at JFK airport severed his finger today when he fell into a baggage belt, authorities said. Berto Duran, 56, was about to service a baggage belt in a...

Knicks' Kidd was so drunk, he didn't know how he crashed his car: cops

New Knicks guard Jason Kidd was so hammered while driving down a Suffolk County lane that he didn’t know how his car got wrapped around a power pole, police said...

Fan starts online petition to keep Lin with Knicks

Let Jeremy go to Houston? Fans think that’s just Linsane.A Knicks fan has started an online petition to keep Jeremy Lin in New York, asking for the team’s management to...

BACK PAGE: Without Lin, it's Big 3 or bust for Knicks

Chances are the point guard combination of Jeremy Lin and Jason Kidd would only be marginally better than a Raymond Felton-Kidd combo would.Jeremy Lin, Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire showed...

No charges in ATF agent's friendly-fire death after LI pharmacy shooting

No criminal charges will be filed in a friendly-fire shootout that left an ATF agent dead after he tried to intervene in a New Year's Eve pharmacy shooting, a prosecutor...

NJ Transit unveils new, more secure tickets

New Jersey Transit on Monday revealed a newly designed ticket, part of an effort to combat counterfeiting that officials say is costing the agency as much as $3 million a...

Ex-NYPD officer gets additional 10 year-concurrent sentence after admitting rape

He's "a broken man," but he's hoping for a break. Rapist cop Michael Pena is finally heading to prison for his monstrous gunpoint sex attack on a young schoolteacher following...

Tiger paired with Garcia, Rose at British Open

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England -- Tiger Woods gets a familiar face for the first two rounds of the British Open. Woods is in the same group with Justin Rose and...

Viewers turning to YouTube for news: study

A new study has found that YouTube has become a major platform for news, one where viewers are turning for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters....

Syracuse reaches agreement to leave Big East next July

The Big East has reached an agreement with Syracuse University, allowing the Orange to leave the league a year early for the Atlantic Coast Conference. Syracuse announced last year its...

Vacant building partially collapses in Brooklyn

A vacant building in Brooklyn partially collapsed Monday and there remains the possibility the entire building could come crashing down. The owners of the dilapidated structure had been issued an...

Probe finds Treasury officials solicited hookers, took gifts: report

WASHINGTON — It may as well be the GSA or the Secret Service. This time officials at the Treasury Department officials have been cited for soliciting prostitutes, breaking conflict-of-interest rules...

Study: Parents pulling back on college spending

CHICAGO - Families have implemented more cost-saving strategies to cut college spending in the past academic year, choosing less expensive schools and finding more economical ways for students to attend....

Nolan delayed 'Dark Knight Rises' for Cotillard

It's possible French actress Marion Cotillard could have been replaced as a love interest for Christian Bale's Batman in the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" That's because she was due...

NY, Conn. probing banks over Libor manipulation

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched a probe into possible manipulation of the Libor benchmark international lending rates by global banks, his spokesman said on Sunday. Schneiderman, along...

Ferry riders across NYC's East River top 1 million

More than 1 million passengers have ridden ferries across the East River since the service was launched just over one year ago, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. That's more than...

DVD Extra: First look at Olive's Republics with Crawford, Garfield, Wayne, Cooper; Dionne Quints in Fox Cinema Archives' second wave

Back in 2009, I was doing a phone interview John Ford's son Dan in conjunction with Paramount's release of a beautifully remastered "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' as part...

JETS TOP 25: No. 8 Antonio Cromartie

As the Jets get close to training camp, I am going to examine the roster and give you my top 25 players on the Jets roster. Each weekday we will...

Activists report clashes in Syrian capital

BEIRUT — Syrian troops and rebels clashed inside Damascus for a second day on Monday, causing plumes of black smoke to drift over the city's skyline in some of the...

Paterno family denies Freeh report findings

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Joe Paterno's family on Monday vowed their own investigation of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, rejecting the findings of a special investigator who concluded the late football...

Special investigator dies while in Palestinian custody

RAMALLAH, West Bank - A senior Palestinian official suspected of embezzling public funds fell to his death from the third-floor kitchen window of a West Bank security compound where he...

Chelsea Handler overpaid, Ashton Kutcher underpaid: report

Chelsea Handler is one of the most overpaid stars on TV and Ashton Kutcher is one of the most underpaid, according to a new report. The Los Angeles Times calculated...

Police seek Long Island suspect who fired at car

Police are looking for a Long Island man who fired shots at his girlfriend's car. Suffolk County police say they responded after getting a call about shots fired on Maple...

No delays on GWB as commuters faced first weekday of construction project on Hamilton Bridge

New Jersey commuters heading into New York over the George Washington Bridge are counting their blessings. Major delays didn't materialize on Monday. Officials had predicted major traffic backups in New...

Gov. Christie starts new round of public forums

Gov. Chris Christie is going to the shore Monday to talk tax cuts. The Republican governor's office says he'll spend much of the summer holding public forums along the coast...

Heat advisory issued for the city, temperatures reach into the 90s

Keep those air conditioners on! Another heat wave — the fourth this summer — has struck the city as temperatures are expected to sizzle for the next three days, officials...

Romney tells Obama to stop sharp political attacks

WOLFEBORO, NH — Republican Mitt Romney demanded Monday that President Obama back away from his persistent attacks on Romney's record at Bain Capital, advising that it would be better "if...

Obama's AIDS failure

In two weeks, 20,000 AIDS activists are meeting in Washington to discuss the disease's global reach and activists in the US are telling President Obama to stuff it. During a...

In Israel, Hillary has lots of explaining to do

Our wind-blown looking Secretary of State landed in Israel today to "brief" Israeli leaders about more than a year's worth of "upheaval" among Israel's neighbors which is euphemistically called the...

2 NATO troops, 3 civilians killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two troops with the U.S.-led international military coalition and three Afghan men died Monday in violence in southern Afghanistan, local and NATO officials said. The Afghan men...

Man recovers car 42 years after theft

LOS ANGELES — A Texas man whose prized sports car was stolen 42 years ago recovered the vehicle in California after spotting it on eBay, authorities said Sunday. Robert Russell...

Red Bull GM Soler: Richards' agent told us he was leaving 

GM Erik Soler said the Red Bulls loved Dane Richards, and hated to trade him. But he claims the Jamaican winger’s agent told the club he was planning to leave...

Sebastien Le Toux, and how he fits the Red Bulls

Sebastien Le Toux has had a dizzying enough season, playing for his third team just midway through the campaign. But this week has been a blur, traded by Vancouver Friday,...

Keeper Bill Gaudette stands in for Meara, earns tie in his Red Bull debut

Almost a decade after starring for St. John’s, and two years after coming to training camp with the Red Bulls, Bill Gaudette finally joined – and started for – New...

Yankees' rally falls short against Angels

It’s hard to beat the Yankees in a slugfest. And having already hit four homers on the day — including one from Alex Rodriguez — and scored three times in...

New ‘Cash’ crunch could keep Yankees from going hard after Hamels

The 2010 Yankees enjoyed a prosperous first half thanks significantly to strong starting pitching. Yet when the Mariners made Cliff Lee available, Brian Cashman worked aggressively to acquire the crafty...

Knicks soap opera continues with Lin contract talks, Kidd's DWI arrest

LAS VEGAS — Is Jeremy Lin worth $58.3 million in 2014-15? If the Knicks were to match the Rockets’ poison-pill offer sheet, under the new CBA’s vicious luxury-tax penalties, owner...

Confidant says Lin still wants to be back with Knicks

LAS VEGAS — Though he sure didn’t act like it, Jeremy Lin still wants to be a Knick. A Lin confidant, contacted yesterday, was asked whether Lin wanted the Knicks...

Carmelo calls Rockets’ rich offer for Lin ‘ridiculous’

WASHINGTON — Not long ago, it was ridiculous to think Jeremy Lin would not be back in a Knicks uniform next season. Now, Lin could be on his way out...

Smith says Lin pact would cause jealousy among Knicks

LAS VEGAS — J.R. Smith believes the Knicks have moved on without Jeremy Lin and said he thinks there could have been jealousies regarding the young point guard’s new contract...

Yanks defeated

Talented Prochet a point of emphasis for Boys & Girls

READING, Pa. – Marvin Prochet did a double take when he heard what his Boys & Girls coaches had planned for him. “He thought I was nuts when I told...

Minding the messages

There once was a time when employers’ biggest concern about social media was keeping employees off the grid during work hours. How MySpace that seems in retrospect. With participation in...

Go to Greg

My employer offers a reverse-mentoring program where newbies in their 20s like me get paired up with the older folks (my partner is 45), and teach them a few things...

Earning his wings

Robert Reid is really going places. Frequently. As a writer and editor of Lonely Planet travel guides since 1998, the 44-year-old Jackson Heights resident has seen it all — or...

Stamp acts

The Facebook-ization of the known universe has its downsides, but one element of the inescapable social-media site that’s hard to quibble with is the ubiquitous “Like” button. Spy a clever...

60 Seconds with Joe Robinson

As founder of the Work to Live campaign, you’ve long argued that we don’t take enough vacation. Why is vacation so important? What we don’t realize in this country is...

Chill factor

Most popular songs 1. Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen 2. Wide Awake, Katy Perry 3. Whistle, Flo Rida 4. Payphone, Maroon 5 5. Titanium, David Guetta 6. Good Time,...

Devils on the (B)rink

New Jersey Devils owner Jeff Vanderbeek is talking to private-equity firms and hedge funds about buying into his financially strapped team, sources close to the situation tell The Post. Vanderbeek...

Business briefs

Spanish debtThe ECB has advocated imposing losses on holders of senior bonds issued by the most severely damaged Spanish savings banks, though finance ministers have for now rejected the approach,...

Proudly made in the USA . . . for Russia?

Talk about the agony of defeat! Ralph Lauren — which got tripped up last week on reports that it was making uniforms for this year’s US Olympic team in China...

Coasting to the cool

Sure, sure . . . Staycations are the hot trend when the economy is this cold. We know all that. But . . . have you been outside in, oh,...

French is coming to Lafayette

One of New York’s hottest chefs has just signed a lease in NoHo to launch a new French-concept restaurant, Side Dish has learned. Last month, reports surfaced that chef Andrew...

P&G board getting sour on CEO McDonald

Procter & Gamble board members are dissatisfied with Chief Executive Officer Robert McDonald’s performance and are discussing a possible leadership change, according to people familiar with the situation. Some P&G...

Cuomo’s whip coming down

Gov. Cuomo will put the New York Racing Association out of its scandal-scarred misery “promptly” after the historic Saratoga Race Track meet that begins this Friday, The Post has learned....

Colorful B’klyn judge mourned

Scores of mourners packed a Brooklyn synagogue yesterday to pay final respects to a state Supreme Court justice known for handing out condoms to hookers and admitting that he smoked...

‘Space’-cadet Mike

Mayor Bloomberg has to be messing with our heads. Our Nanny in Chief is telling us not just to reduce what we eat and drink, but also how big we...

NYPD Daily Blotter

Manhattan *** A brute assaulted a woman in a Washington Heights subway station while stealing her iPhone, police said. The 37-year-old victim was on the southbound 1-train platform at the...

‘Not safe enough’

Mayor Bloomberg finally called the city’s rash of recent violence “unconscionable” as an aide said the NYPD is flooding crime-plagued neighborhoods with cops. “As safe as our city is today,...

Fraudster Joshua Kestenbaum accused of hiding profits from cake business

This time, prosecutors want him to get his just “desserts.” Accused fraudster Joshua Kestenbaum — who accepted a sweetheart plea deal in 2008 for participating in a $32 million scam...

8 more shot in under-gun city

At least two more people were killed and six others wounded by gunfire in the city yesterday, authorities said.Kenneth Archbolb, 19, was shot dead in Harlem at about 2 a.m....

Spike: Do the right swing

Spike Lee celebrates with son Jackson at Yankee Stadium yesterday while showing off a new souvenir — a wayward bat that had just nearly whacked them. Yank Mark Teixeira had...

Rehab of killer-crane bldg. makes neighbors tremble

Developers are preparing to resume construction on the East 51st Street apartment tower where a crane collapse killed seven people in 2008 — and the project’s neighbors are plenty jittery.HFZ...

Clothing supplier accuses 'Jersey Shore' Ronnie & fam of cheating her on bill

“Jersey Shore” star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and his family are dodging a supplier who claims he owes her company $30,000 for stocking his Bronx clothing shop before its opening. Maria Emma,...

Give S&M spot the boot: moms

An S&M dungeon that shares a building with a dance academy for young girls in Queens has some parents begging the kinky group to find a new place to get...

Qns. state Assembly candidate profits from prostitution ads in his newspaper

A Queens state Assembly candidate who publishes a Korean-language newspaper is profiting from ads for a prostitution ring on the paper’s back pages, The Post has learned. Myungsuk Lee, 49,...

Bridge fix pitches bizmen a screwball

Business owners near Yankee Stadium say the massive construction project on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge — expected to back up George Washington Bridge traffic for five miles into New Jersey...

New ‘avenue’ a stopping mall

New York’s newest thoroughfare is open for business. 6 1/2 Avenue, a midblock pedestrian path between West 51st and West 57th streets, has been christened with new street signs, bright...

Media storm over UK rain

LONDON — Just. Stop. Raining. That was the unusual plea published in a weekend editorial in The Times of London, in a measure of Britons’ growing frustration with months of...

UK ‘Pauls’ the plug on Boss

Only mad dogs and “excessively efficacious” Englishmen would do the unthinkable — pull the plug on Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney performing a Beatles classic. London authorities pointed fingers up...

Sweat-er weather returns

Break out the seersucker suits and sun dresses again, it’ll be a hot time in the city! The Big Apple will bake today, tomorrow and Wednesday, with forecast high temperatures...

Michelle Obama and daughters see 'Spider-Man' on Broadway after theater bomb scare

This joke bombed on Broadway. Michelle Obama and her daughters were on their way to see “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” yesterday when a dope said he would bomb the...

Holm’s final bow

Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in “Oklahoma!” and won an Oscar in “Gentleman’s Agreement” and was known for her untiring charity work, died yesterday...

Suspect in Bx. hit-run death tells cops, ‘It was probably me’

The suspect in a drunken hit-and-run death in The Bronx told cops after his arrest, “If you’re looking for someone who hit someone it was probably me,” prosecutors said yesterday....

MSNBC.com loses its ‘MS’

Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world’s largest software maker to build its own online news service. The breakup, which was announced late...

City gas lines at risk: union

Con Ed has suspended safety inspections of natural-gas lines while the 8,500 members of its biggest union are locked out, leaving residential areas in grave danger, the union says.Every year,...

Anthony Weiner’s wife urges him to give tell-all interview

Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s wife is trying to get him to pull a Bill Clinton . . . by giving a tell-all interview, that is. Sources close to Huma...

Chef hits Ramsay ‘race rip’

Harlem celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson claims fellow TV food master Gordon Ramsay hurled a racial slur at him during an odd, ego-fueled tirade. Samuelsson, born in Ethiopia and raised in...

Everything Rocketing out of control with Lin likely gone, Kidd's shameful arrest

Jason Kidd was brought in with great fanfare last week as the point guard with all this NBA wisdom, all this championship pedigree, the perfect mentor for Jeremy Lin before...

Recent Knicks addition Jason Kidd charged with DWI after crashing SUV into tree in the Hamptons

This isn’t the kind of driving the Knicks had in mind. After partying with celebrities in the Hamptons, allegedly getting “lit up [like] July 4” at a rowdy bar and...

Obama wedding registry fund-raising strategy not a hit with brides

President Obama’s bizarre marriage-theme fund-raising scheme — where he asks couples to request campaign donations from their guests in lieu of wedding gifts — has been a total flop. The...

Assad’s New York coddlers

Months after a high-powered New York publicist insisted he cut ties with Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad, he attended an opera with the dictator’s glamorous wife — with the help of...

She got a ticket to slide – despite Bloombungle

You can fight City Hall, after all! A Bronx business owner forced to pay a $115 ticket for parking in a bike lane that doesn’t exist — after losing two...

2 LI cops injured in DWI wrong-way crash

A drunken driver going the wrong way late at night on a Long Island road crashed head on into a police car, injuring two Suffolk County officers, authorities said yesterday....

Kin: Justice on a detour

The relatives of a teenager killed in a boozy car wreck will grudgingly see the driver sent off to prison this week with a sentence they say isn’t nearly enough....

Egyptians taunt Hillary Clinton by chanting 'Monica, Monica'

Now that’s a low blow! A crowd of tomato-tossing Egyptians taunted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday with chants of “Monica, Monica.” The jeers — a reference to the...

Pension tension & the crime spike

Crime is up — and cops are down. City taxpayers are paying so much for yesterday’s crime-fighting that they can barely afford today’s. A bloody start to July reminded New...

Empowering thugs

Bullets are flying over Broadway and many other New York streets as a gathering storm of pre-Giuliani violence swirls over the city. Seventy-seven people shot in a week, 21 killed....

America’s Olympic attire: A gold-medal faux pas

The Issue: Objections to the US Olympic uniforms, which are internationally styled and made in China. *** French berets and uniforms made overseas — welcome to the United States Olympic...

Our mistaken president

The Issue: President Obama’s claim that he failed to “tell a story to the American people.” *** President Obama says that his biggest mistake so far was in not telling...

Thanks for the warning

Who says the city’s Board of Elections is unprepared? Heck, more than a year out, it’s already planning to screw up the 2013 mayoral voting. It’s even publicizing its incompetence...

Harry Reid and friends

Give Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid some credit for “consistency” — of a sort. After failing to pass a budget for three years, he announced last week that he won’t...

Mitt’s tax opportunity

Our tax code, a Frankenstein monster of unimaginable complexity and perverse incentives, is a huge part of what’s wrong with the US economy. From his years at Bain Capitol, Mitt...

Geithner yawned at epic fraud

Tim Geithner had evidence of a financial crime of epic proportion — so he wrote a memo. That’s about the only way you can sum up the then-New York Fed...

Naughty your average Cole Porter revival

Besides an ode to bodacious bosoms, Cole Porter’s “Nymph Errant” features white slavery, lesbianism and a heroine who desperately — and unsuccessfully — tries to get laid. Yet despite all...

Maid to order Molière

Wearing a dress and bonnet while flouncing around and speaking in a high-pitched whine, Peter Dinklage makes a far different impression in the new production of Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid”...

Mets not so brave

Affrunti’s Delaware Grade

FIRST-1m; $12,500; cl($7,500); 3up; (f&m)2-RunMommyRun5-23-OurSilverCrown8-15-EconomicStmls9-54-LuckyandSweet6-11-Sylvia'sBttercp7-26-Misty's Song 8-1SECOND-1m; $12,000; mdn cl($7,500); 3up; 2-Privtemrketvle7-54-Palaciega 4-17-La Gazelle 12-15-UperWestSde12-13-Prima Dea 7-26-MdnghtExche10-11-Laurie's Choice 6-1THIRD-1m&70y; $13,000; cl($10,000); 3up3-FoolishCmment3-14-Trappist Monk10-15-Mr. Conductor 2-16-Ferber 6-11-Crimson Pride 4-17-Roman Frolic 8-12-HereCmesMkey8-1FOURTH-1m(T);...

Monmouth Results

FIRST-1 mile; $20,000; clm($25,000); 3up1Tle of Pece (DCrlo)10.404.602.405Tahima (Lopez)3.002.104Baltimore Banca (Carmouche)2.20* Exacta (1-5) $27.40 * $1 Superfecta (1-5-4-3) $59.00 * $1 Trifecta (1-5-4) $23.90SECOND-1m(T); $22,000; clm($20,000); 3up1Gldn Archwy (Trjll)4.003.002.605Scudero (Lopez)9.606.206Verveitup...

Hollywood Results

FIRST-6 fur(T); $50,000; mdn; 3up(f)5Crdtcrdrltt (Smth)4.002.602.104Urania (Gomez)7.203.403Chloe W (Bejarano)2.60* $1 Ex (5-4) $13.90 * Quin (4-5) $18.40 * $1 Sup (5-4-3-7) $76.60 * $1 Tri (5-4-3) $32.10; Winner by Vic...

Parx Racing Analysis

Post Time: 12:25 p.m. All horses appear in post position order1. 5 1/2f; $20,000; cl($5,000); 3up; (f&m)ATHENE cuts back in distance after being hard used throughout and finishing second last...

Tomorrow’s Parx Racing Entries

All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-5 1/2f; $25,000; cl($12,500); 3up PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Mutiny(L),114A Arroyo5-3-8Catalan15-12 Macho Mo Mon(L),118J Bisono5-4-4Miller8-13 Belle's Notion(L),118S Elliott4-2-1A Dutrow2-14 Jambonied(L),120J Acosta1-4-7Guerrero7-25 Dance With Bull(L),120RMontanz1-2-4Zulueta5-26...

Belmont Park Charts

July 15th, 2012 Clear And Fast. Turf Firm.©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-1 mile(T); $79,000; alw; 3up(f)Off: 12:51. Good. 3w pursuit, inched offTime: 23.76, 47.82, 1:11.43, 1:34.65. Trainer: Todd PletcherWinner: GR/RO...

Hondo plays a Card game

Free-falling Hondo yesterday went draino with the Rays, whose inability to solve Slosh Beckett caused the accounts payable to balloon to 1,550 shannons. Tonight, Mr. Aitch expects some Lynn-sanity in...

Home Team Lineups

TODAYJuly 16TUEJuly 17WEDJuly 18THUJuly 19FRIJuly 20SATJuly 21SUNJuly 22YankeesToronto7:05YES NetworkWCBS 880 AMTor.7:05WWORWCBSTor.1:05YESWCBSOak.10:05YESWCBSOak.10:05YESWCBSOak.9:05YESWCBSOak.4:05YESWCBSMetsNO GAMEWash.7:05SNYWFANWash.7:05SNYWFANWash.12:35SNYWFANL.A.D.7:10SNYWFANL.A.D.1:10WPIXWFANL.A.D.1:10WPIXWFANLibertyOlympic BreakNext Game:Aug. 16NO GAMENO GAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMERed BullsNO GAMENO GAMEChi.1:00MSG+WLIBNO GAMENO GAMEPhil.2:30ESPNNO GAMES.I. YankeesLowell7:05No TVAber.7:00No TVAber.11amNo TVBklyn.7:00No TVBklyn.7:00No TVBklyn.7:00No TVBklyn.5:00N0...

Knicks' Greek pick part of Felton swap

LAS VEGAS — So much for the Knicks’ 2012 draft. The Knicks will give up second-round pick Kostas Papanikolaou in the proposed Raymond Felton sign-and-trade with Portland, The Post has...

Today's Sports on the Air

Baseball7 p.m.Blue Jays at Yankees YES, WCBS (880 AM)7 p.m.Angels at Tigers ESPNCycling8 a.m.Tour de France: Stage 15 NBCSNHorse Racing12:25 p.m.Parx Ch. 717:10 p.m.Yonkers Ch. 71

Humphries, backups still on tap for Nets

WASHINGTON — After entering free agency with a roster full of uncertainty, the Nets have engineered a nearly complete overhaul of their team after the first two weeks of free...

New addition helps Red Bulls draw Sounders

The Red Bulls dealt for Sebastien Le Toux Friday largely to shake up their lineup and style, and he scored in his debut. But any hope of quick chemistry melted...

Sports Shorts

MLB: Knee injury sidelines Orioles’ Hammel Orioles pitcher Jason Hammel will have arthroscopic surgery on his right knee today and is expected to be out for at least a month....

New Jersey hurdler makes Olympics with dramatic lunge

New Jersey’s Jeff Porter is a hurdler, but it was an unforgettable dive that made his Olympic dream come true. No, make that the dream shared by he and his...

Johnson wins John Deere in playoff

Zach Johnson won the John Deere Classic on the second playoff hole yesterday, hitting his second shot to a foot for a birdie to beat Troy Matteson in Silvis, Ill....

Experts continue crazy talk

What’s that word people use to express total exasperation, you know, when they can’t take it anymore? Oh, yeah: Aaarghhh!!! Crazy talk, spoken by professionals — experts — continues to...

Valentine puts blame on Youk for bad blood

There could be fireworks in Boston tonight, as Kevin Youkilis makes his return to the city where he spent the first eight-plus seasons of his career. That’s because first-year Red...

Beckett struggles, but Sox top Rays

Josh Beckett overcame early struggles to pitch six effective innings, Will Middlebrooks drove in a pair of runs during a tiebreaking three-run fifth, and the Red Sox beat the Rays...

Gallardo, Brewers top Bucs

Yovani Gallardo struck out a career-high 14 in seven innings and the Brewers used a four-run sixth to beat the Pirates 4-1 yesterday in Milwaukee. Gallardo (8-6) gave up four...

A-Rod has been better when DHing for Yankees

Alex Rodriguez may not like to be the Yankees’ designated hitter, but that may not matter. The third baseman — at least for now — has been strikingly better at...

Yankees' Granderson goes all out on pair of prize catches

Curtis Granderson already had made an indelible imprint on the game, if not the outfield wall. The Yankees center fielder had slugged his 25th homer and run down a hellacious...

GM: Yankees could start Cano, Granderson talks early

Curtis Granderson and Robinson Cano aren’t going to be free agents until after next season, but Yankees general manager Brian Cashman isn’t ruling out the possibility of opening negotiations prior...

Mets' second half start far from Amazin'

ATLANTA — The beginning of the end looks like this: * You fight the umps with as much fervor as the opponents. * You get shut down by a reclamation...

Santana roughed up again; Mets swept by Braves

ATLANTA — When does the All-Star break finish for the Mets? Ben Sheets, change the sheets, the sheet is about to hit the fan. However you want to view it,...

Mets' Duda to get ailing hamstring checked

ATLANTA — Lucas Duda’s barking left hamstring is of enough concern that he will leave the Mets to be examined today in New York. The Mets right fielder yesterday missed...

Rebuilding Holmes

One of the oldest characters in English literature is about to become one of the hottest stars of the fall season — Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary Victorian detective...

Aretha eyes ‘Idol’

"Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin said on Saturday that she is interested in joining “American Idol” as a judge, just days after Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler declared they have...

Female ‘Sharks’

Barbara Corcoran wants equality in the “Shark Tank.” For three seasons, the millionaire real-estate mogul been the only woman on a panel of five venture capitalists fielding pitches from entrepreneurs...

Talk show guests

MONDAYROBIN MCGRAW - Dr. Phil, 6 a.m., (OWN)CHRISTIAN BALE - Today, 7 a.m., Ch. 4KRISTIN DAVIS - LIVE! with Kelly, 9 a.m., Ch. 7SUNNY ANDERSON - Rachael Ray, 10 a.m.,...

‘Thrones’ in March

Mark your calendars: “Game of Thrones” returns March 31, 2013. The much-anticipated Season 3 premiere date of HBO’s epic fantasy series was revealed over the weekend at San Diego’s Comic-Con,...

‘Fringe’ movie?

The cast of “Fringe” has their fingers crossed for a movie. “The film is very possible down the line,” John Noble said at Comic-Con in San Diego over the weekend....

Pulse sales

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Weird but true

The mayor can’t see you right now — he has urgent business in his litter box. A cat named Stubs is celebrating his 15th year as mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska....

Fordham's next AD must put university's values first

Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Over and over again we have seen college athletic...

Neophyte program The City makes mark, wins 15U AAU Nationals

Four years into the program’s existence, The City enjoyed a watershed moment on Sunday. The Manhattan-based AAU team and its eclectic mix of players won the 15U AAU championships in...

Jefferson's 'Son Son' says yes to FIU, picks future C-USA school

From the day he was shot, one day after his 15th birthday, Jaquan (Son Son) Lynch has known what he wanted: to play Division I college basketball. That unfortunate event...

Neon daze

Red Bulls draw Seattle 2-2; Le Toux scores in debut

The Red Bulls dealt Sebastien Le Toux Friday largely to shake up their lineup and style, and he scored in his debut. But any hope of quick chemistry melted away...