July 22, 2012
Prospect Harvey to make first Mets start Thursday
Getting shelled at Triple-A Buffalo Saturday did nothing to hurt righthander Matt Harvey’s chance to join the majors. The Mets announced the prized prospect will make his Major League debut...
Joba could be two rehab starts away from joining Yankees
Joba Chamberlain threw a bullpen Sunday in Tampa and will pitch in a fifth minor league rehab game tomorrow night for Tampa (Single-A) if there isn't a physical problem.If Chamberlain...
Summer Jam Fest notebook: 'Consistency' the key for Mount Vernon's Marshall
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. - Jarrel Marshall’s hesitancy has led to this point, hoping to gain a Division I scholarship late in the process. The qualified former Mount Vernon standout...
Larkin, Santo inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Barry Larkin lost it before he even started. Vicki Santo never wavered as she honored her late husband, Ron. Baseball’s highest honor always seems to leave a...
Obama highlights survivor's heroism, offers comfort in Colorado visit
AURORA, Colo. — Despair all around him, President Barack Obama on Sunday offered hugs, tears and the nation's sympathy to survivors of the Colorado shooting rampage and to families whose...
Durant drops 27 as Team USA holds off Argentina
BARCELONA, Spain — Dressed like the Dream Team, tested like its predecessor never was. The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team held on for an 86-80 exhibition victory over Argentina on...
UFC 149 Analysis: Faber nearing end, Barao just getting started
Urijah Faber simply wasn’t good enough.His striking wasn’t good enough to threaten Renan Barao standing up. His wrestling wasn’t good enough to get Barao to the ground.The 33-year-old MMA legend...
WATCH: Female MMA champ blasts Michael Phelps for snobby behavior in Beijing
Ronda Rousey doesn’t just save her jabs for the cage.The female MMA champion took some serious swings at swimming superstar Michael Phelps for his snobby behavior at the 2008 Beijing...
Soriano blows save, Yankees swept by A's after 12th-inning walk-off single
OAKLAND, Calif. — Several players gathered around a high-definition TV on one end of the Oakland Athletics clubhouse, shouting and screaming at the highlights they just made happen with another...
Gun range turned down massacre suspect over 'freakish' voice mail
AURORA, Colo. — Shooting suspect James Holmes applied to join a Colorado gun range last month but never became a member because of his behavior and a "bizarre" message on...
WATCH: Warren Buffett fails a Cherry Coke taste test
Warren Buffett's love of Cherry Coke is well-documented.So, you would think that the Oracle of Omaha would be able to correctly identify his beverage of choice in a blind taste...
Els wins second British Open after epic Scott collapse
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Ernie Els felt something special could happen at the British Open, and it did. All because of a collapse by Adam Scott that no one...
Knicks GM Grunwald wouldn't answer hotel room door to accept Lin offer sheet: report
Glen Grunwald pulled a Las Vegas disappearing act of David Copperfield proportions last week.The Knicks general manager refused to open the door of his hotel room and avoided a Knicks...
'The Dark Knight Rises' estimated to earn $160M for weekend: reports
LOS ANGELES — "The Dark Knight Rises" was on track to earn $160 million, which would be a record for 2-D films, over the weekend following a mass shooting at...
Broner stays undefeated with TKO of Escobedo
CINCINNATI — Adrien Broner was stripped of his WBO junior lightweight title on Friday when he weighed in more than 3 pounds overweight. But following his fifth-round technical knockout of...
Barao beats Faber for UFC interim bantamweight title
CALGARY, Alberta — Renan Barao won a unanimous decision against Urijah Faber at UFC 149 Saturday night for his 19th straight victory. The Brazilian, who outlasted his opponent in the...
At Penn State, darker days ahead
On Sunday, the most symbolic act of the post-Joe Paterno era at Penn State took place when the statue of Paterno outside Beaver Stadium was taken down by workers and...
Mets bullpen implodes again in five-run 12th as Dodgers sweep
As the days wore on, Josh Wall started hoping that he’d at least get one opportunity to pitch before he was sent back to the minors. Well, he got the...
Mets designate Batista for assignment after disastrous outing
Right-hander Miguel Batista has been designated for assignment by the New York Mets, possibly clearing a path for top prospect Matt Harvey to make his major league debut Thursday in...
Long Island driver in fatal hit-and-run surrenders to police
A Long Island driver is in police custody a day after a hit-and-run accident that took the life of a pedestrian and injured his brother. Nassau County police say the...
Al Qaeda returning to old Iraq strongholds, claims leader of affiliate in region
CAIRO — The first online statement from the new leader of al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq claims that the militant network is returning to strongholds from which it was driven by...
Norway remembers victims of bomb and gun massacre on one-year anniversary of tragedy
OSLO, Norway — Norway on Sunday paused to commemorate the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago, a tragedy that the...
Japan probes alleged cover-up at nuclear plant
TOKYO — Japanese authorities are investigating subcontractors on suspicion that they forced workers at the tsunami-hit nuclear plant to underreport the amount of radiation they were exposed to so they...
Names of five people killed in Newark fire released
NEWARK — Prosecutors in New Jersey have released the names of three children and a teenager killed along with an adult in a fast-moving apartment fire in Newark. But the...
Showdown at Saratoga
In this summer’s Saratoga Showdown, The Post’s pony pickers, John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine, Vic Cangialosi and Anthony Affrunti, square off every day of the meet. Each starts with a bankroll...
Critically injured Colorado shooting victims might not live: Aurora mayor
DENVER — The mayor of a Denver suburb that was the site of one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history says some victims are still terribly injured and...
Michael and Janet Jackson's mom Katherine resting with one of her daughters: source
LOS ANGELES — A person familiar with Katherine Jackson's whereabouts says she is resting with one of her daughters on doctor's orders. The person, who was not authorized to speak...
Joe Paterno's statue taken down from outside Penn State football stadium; NCAA set to levy sanctions against school
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The NCAA announced Sunday that it will issue sanctions against Penn State in the wake of a scathing report that found that top university officials buried...
Five dead, three injured after SUV flipped over and burst into flames in Queens
An SUV smashed into a concrete pillar and flipped over before bursting into flames early Sunday, killing three women and two children. The driver, along with another adult and a...
Michigan’s Carr pained by Paterno fallout
SOUTH BEND, Ind.-- Former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, one of Joe Paterno’s most ardent admirers, publicly expressed the conflicting thoughts he has for the Penn State coach in light of...
Cooper scores twice to lead Red Bulls
Playing with a heavy heart, Kenny Cooper wanted to do something special Saturday. Cooper hoped to honor the memory of former Red Bulls captain Claudio Reyna’s 13-year-old son, Jack, who...
Scott positioned for breakthrough at British Open, but Tiger lurks
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Is Adam Scott ready? Will he finally do what virtually everyone in golf believes he should have done years ago — win a major championship?...
Woods doesn’t hold up his end for tasty pairing
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — The words came from someone very much in the know during a conversation on the Royal Lytham driving range yesterday morning. “Whoever’s going to win...
Giants set to embark on another Super season
For the second time in four years, the Giants head north to the University at Albany as the reigning kings of the NFL, having secured a Super Bowl victory and...
All signs point to Revis not holding out
It appears the Jets can breathe a sigh of relief. Star cornerback Darrelle Revis has opted against holding out in hopes of landing a new contract and will report to...
Questions abound as Jets head to Cortland
It’s finally here. For nearly seven months, the Jets have been trying to live down their 2011 season and the way it ended with the Miami meltdown. On Thursday, they...
Nets miss out on Mohammed
The Nets suffered a rare setback during free agency this summer, as veteran big man Nazr Mohammed has agreed to sign with the Bulls, according to The Post's Peter Vescey.Mohammed...
Tyson: Third marriage helped him turn life around
Mike Tyson is walking around his hotel room in lower Manhattan wearing a white T-shirt with black lettering that reads: “From Brownsville to Broadway.” It serves as an advertisement for...
Regulators knew Libor was rigged
The Libor scandal hit US shores this week, but bank regulators just shrugged their shoulders. It appears from their reactions that problems with the London Interbank Offered Rate — which...
7,300 New Yorkers claim disability
New York’s jobless crisis is dire, despite the upbeat headlines coming from Albany’s data release this week. The telltale signs, buried deep below the tower of official statistics, show New...
Top skills are still needed
It’s not that there are no job openings in New York, it’s just that they are all fighting for the best and brightest. Whether it’s Wall Street or Silicon Alley,...
Tech the A train to Google’s Web complex
Google is more than a tech titan, it’s also a New York landlord. Livestream and Spotify rent vaulted chunks of space in Google’s building at 111 Eighth Ave. and even...
Fleming feathers nest
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman may have found his No.2: Greg Fleming. That’s after Fleming, the president of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Morgan’s wealth management unit, proved to be...
Murdoch steps down from subsidiary boards
LONDON — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned from a number of News Corp. subsidiary boards in Britain and the United States, a spokeswoman confirmed yesterday.Murdoch, 81, stepped down as...
Cap and groan for graduates
A college degree once represented entree to a middle-class lifestyle, but today it can be a debt sentence for years of crushing money woes, financial professionals warn. That’s because most...
We’re missing $50,000
The Federal Reserve released some old news to the American people recently. You are $50,000 poorer than you were before the “Great Recession” began. That’s the conclusion of a study...
Food cost spike coming
October is 70 days away, but this week Wall Street and the world got a preview of what could likely be this year’s October Surprise: soaring food prices that sap...
Working hard, hardly working
Dear John: I have one son in college and one daughter out in a couple of years. Both of them had the same problems with employment while in school. They...
Customize those biz forms easily
Tired of painstakingly creating and filling out slight variations on commonly used business forms? With FormMobi, you can easily create customized forms from scratch or modify templates from an extensive...
‘Bain’ there, too: Obama supporters also led bad private-equity deals
Private equity has been the focal point of this year’s presidential campaign. Democrats and the White House have used Republican Mitt Romney’s past private-equity deals to paint the image that...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS MARK ZUCKERBERG Facebook’s $14B man scores a 1% adjustablerate refi on his house. Hey, save a point here, a point there . . . pretty soon he’ll be financially...
Clean up $tinky ‘socks-and-sausage’ street fairs: pols
New York City politicians are calling for a crackdown on “soulless” street fairs, after a Post exposé. “The system needs an overhaul, especially since too many of these street fairs...
‘Testy’ judge sacked after beer blunder
Judge Noach Dear has been booted from Brooklyn Criminal Court a month after his bizarre ruling barred police from ticketing public drinkers unless cops lab-tested their booze. The ouster comes...
FDNY sued over fatal heart case
A beloved Chicago religion professor on a trip to New York died after being misdiagnosed by emergency responders in his Manhattan hotel room, a lawsuit alleges. Ronald Miller, 73, was...
Fury at Hasidic biz dress codes
Brooklyn has lost its right to bare arms. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish business owners are lashing out at customers at dozens of stores in Williamsburg, trying to ban sleeveless tops and plunging...
Software engineer claims generic version of Propecia turned him into a woman
This baldness cure was a bust. For nine months, William McKee took the generic version of Propecia, the pills that promise to halt hair loss. But the drug had radical...
Stylist-vs.-dreadlock ‘head case’
A Lower East Side hairdresser has a message for a pushy client: Don’t dread on me.Manhattan salon owner Randi Sabel says she did her best to help Lila Shirine —...
Divorce an e-said, she said
A Westchester woman claims her estranged husband had an unfair advantage in their divorce battle after he broke into her e-mail account and used information to portray her as a...
Pool water at swanky Manhattan hotel made us sick: couple
This was one dirty martini. A vacationing couple from California claims they got violently ill after inadvertently drinking pool water that splashed into a cocktail they were sharing at the...
French mock little lover Sarkozy
Another Sarkozy is causing a petite embarrassment in France. New York transplant Olivier Sarkozy, 43-year-old half-brother of the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, has been dubbed “le nouveau French lover”...
Slashing in wild E. Side melee
A man was slashed with a bread knife during an early- morning brawl in Midtown yesterday, police said.Two groups of men began fighting on Second Avenue near East 54th Street...
Shelter Island native goes for Olympic gold in London
Amanda Clark puts in 16 hours a day, every day, getting ready for the London Olympics. For her, it’s a piece of cake. From the time the world-class sailor was...
Celebs fired up for Games
The Olympic torch arrived in London yesterday — and so did the A-listers. As ex-Olympians, like gymnast Nadia Comaneci and hoopster John Amaechi (right), kicked off the flame’s tour of...
School snubs Arabs: staff
The School for International Studies isn’t so international after all. Fred Walsh, principal of the Brooklyn school, is letting Middle Eastern students fall through the cracks and denying them admission...
Self ‘Help!’ Tony’s fans burned
Some help! Fire officials said 21 people at an event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins suffered burns while walking across hot coals, and three of the injured were treated...
PBS shines light on Willard yanking
The president of PBS said yesterday that the decision to yank Fred Willard as narrator of a new public-TV series had to be made quickly. Paula Kerger said the network...
Sex workers lend a hand for AIDS
Sex workers unite! Hundreds of sex workers from around the world who said they were denied visas to attend a global AIDS conference in the United States began their own...
Manhattan heart-transplant patient dies after 'restricted' doc's botched liposuction
He promised to zap her fat. But it was a death trap. Dr. Oleg Davie had such a history of misconduct that the state Health Department last July slashed his...
Sex-crime victim could be jailed for tweeting her attackers' names
A Kentucky girl who was sexually assaulted now faces jail time for talking about it publicly. Savannah Dietrich, 17, could be locked up on contempt-of-court charges for tweeting the names...
Weiner wife under guard
Police and federal officials have placed security around ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, after a New Jersey man threatened her, law-enforcement sources said. An individual, described as a Muslim...
21 die in Pakistan
Taliban infighting broke out in Pakistan yesterday, as three heartless attacks left at least 21 dead, including five children. A car bomb targeting a militant who had recently split from...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** An armed thug (sketch above) robbed two men in Greenwich Village, police said. The bandit first struck on West Fourth Street, near Grove Street, at 6:10 a.m. June...
HIV-hotel stab slay
A deranged man was charged yesterday with stabbing an Upper West Side shelter manager to death, cops said.Bernardo Paulino, 34, allegedly slashed John Baisley, 56, about 12:30 p.m. Friday at...
$18 carrot gold
Even Bugs Bunny would balk. This is what New York dining has come to — $18 for an entree of three roasted carrots. At the Northern Spy Food Co. in...
Seconds for legend Sylvia
Sylvia Woods, queen of Harlem’s soul-food scene, will get send-offs from two of the city’s best-known preachers next week. The Rev. Calvin Butts will deliver a eulogy Tuesday in a...
Joe DiMaggio stamp a big hit
Snail mail is about to get a jolt from the past. The US Post Office got a positive Bronx cheer yesterday, as it issued the Joe DiMaggio “All Stars Forever”...
‘Plastic explosives’ at Newark actually just plastic
A careless robotics expert caused a panic at Newark Airport yesterday when he left what looked like C-4 explosive in the trunk of his rental car, authorities said.“It was a...
Accused theater gunman Holmes will plead insanity - and fail: law experts
The maniac accused of slaughtering 12 moviegoers will likely try to dodge the death penalty with a desperation insanity defense — but legal experts say he has little chance of...
Holmes’ evil ‘cache’ pad packed with bombs wired to blow
Accused mass-murderer James Holmes spent three weeks rigging his modest apartment as an explosives-laden death trap meant to massacre responding law- enforcement officers, sources said yesterday. “Make no mistake, this...
Wacko once won fed genius grant
Before the world learned that alleged “Dark Knight” killer James Holmes was evil, the government showered him with cash for being a genius. The twisted gunman behind the nation’s worst...
Thrill seekers flock to flick
Somber Manhattan moviegoers admitted yesterday that it was something of a rush to watch “The Dark Knight Rises” so soon after the midnight massacre at a Colorado cinema. “It gives...
Couple gets engaged after surviving Colorado massacre
For 10 excruciating minutes, Jamie Rohrs did not know if his girlfriend and their two children were alive or dead. When they were finally reunited, his next move was crystal...
Stunned star mourns fallen
Christian Bale, the star of “The Dark Knight Rises,” said he mourns for the victims of the Colorado shooting. “Words cannot express the horror that I feel,” said Bale, who...
The problems are huge
It was inevitable that a left-leaning news organization would be the first to inject politics into the Colorado massacre story. ABC News performed down to type by reporting shortly after...
Confessions of a Forger
Caveat Emptor The Secret Life of an American Art Forger by Ken Perenyi Pegasus Books In 1993, a New York real estate developer bought a small painting of two hummingbirds for...
You can't stop a madman
Here we go again. In our outrage over the Aurora massacre, we slip back into our habit of trying to make sense of the senseless, to trace a chain of...
Pay per pupil
New York taxpayers will spend $3.6 billion this year educating public-school students with learning disabilities. But that’s not all we shell out. Thanks to a Supreme Court decision called the...
After Assad
The Syrian uprising started more than 16 months ago as a spontaneous peaceful protest by around 200 people in Dera’a, a medium-sized city on the Jordanian border. Within weeks, the...
Obama’s house of cards
With studies showing home foreclosures hitting blacks and Latinos hardest, the Obama administration’s answer is baffling as well as destructive — to lend them more money, repeating the cycle of...
Ft. Hood Whitewash
After a more-than-two-year review, a report released last week accuses the FBI of having dropped the ball when it investigated the Fort Hood jihadist before the 2009 massacre. So —...
Coming for the horse’s head
After some 55 years, it looks like the long-disgraced New York Racing Association is about to be put out of business — for good. It’s about time. As Post State...
What Nevada tells us
Nevada should be a state Barack Obama has no chance of winning. The unemployment rate is 11.6%, the highest in the nation. Sixty-one percent of the homes are worth less...
Social insecurity
A sovereign currency issuer, by definition, never bounces a check — nor will the United States do so unless a loopy Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling (“$20 Trillion...
Required reading
Tinderbox The Past and Future of Pakistan by M.J. Akbar (Harper Perennial) Offering valuable insight into the war on terrorism’s nexus, Indian journalist Akbar has written a detailed but accessible...
In my library Meghan McCain
As titles go, “America, You Sexy Bitch” caused a ripple in at least one American household: “My dad hated it!” says Meghan McCain of Sen. John McCain’s reaction to her...
The Twain shall meet
Mark Twain and the Colonel Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century by Philip McFarland Rowman & Littlefield One was a colonel. The other dressed...
Go public!
Neither rain nor raccoons, bugs or helicopters have deterred our best actors from the Delacorte. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Denzel Washington — pretty much the...
Last dance for LCD
Over the course of 10 years and three superb albums, LCD Soundsystem were unquestionably the sound of post-9/11 New York. The group’s clash of musical styles made it possible for...
He can't be serious!
Matthew McConaughey seems to have gotten as tired of seeing himself in risible rom-coms like “Fool’s Gold” as you have. In Friday’s dark thriller “Killer Joe,” the Texas actor plays...
My Coney Island
Dick Zigun, creator of the Mermaid Parade and founder of the nonprofit arts organization Coney Island USA, Dick Zigun grew up in Bridgeport, Conn., the hometown of circus impresario P.T....
No bones about it
This coming Saturday, some foodie and DIY types will gather at the Brooklyn Kitchen in Williamsburg for a demonstration by a noted cookbook author from Portland, Ore. — that food-city...
It’s out of order
Young players, even strong masters, are vulnerable to surprises as early as . . . move two.That’s due to the deceptive devices called transpositions, the tricks in move order that...
Bridge
A Team led by Leslie Amoils (Gavin Wolpert, Curtis Cheek-Joe Grue, Ishmael Del’Monte-Thomas Bessis) won the Vanderbilt Teams, the major event at the Spring Championships. In the final, AMOILS beat...
My babysitter, the sex bomb
Sliding down the banister, bouncing off the wall and springing into the guest bedroom, little Joshua Greene would leap over the footboard and, as he fondly recalls as an adult,...
'Silent' treatment
While most New Yorkers spent the duration of last summer’s Hurricane Irene hunkered down at home, gorging on bottles of panic-bought water and finally putting their Netflix accounts to good...
Best for Yanks to target D’backs star in offseason, rather than on deadline
The Yankees are intrigued by the possibility of obtaining Arizona’s Justin Upton. And they should be. Three of their best trades of the past two decades involved landing twentysomething outfielders...
NFL offseason grades heading into training days
They are called the Saints, but they ended up being the centerpiece of The Offseason From Hell in the NFL. No wonder the start of training camps this week seems...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with... coach
Steve Serby chatted with Team USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Q: What does it mean to you to be head coach of the United States Olympic team? A: It’s the...
Three straight bogeys don’t sink 2nd-round leader
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — It was looking too easy for Brant Snedeker through the first two rounds of the Open Championship. His British Open-record 36-hole score of 130 (10-under)...
Wind could throw rounds up in the air
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Everyone in the British Open field is rooting for the local weather reports to be correct for the first time all week — except Adam...
Dickey offers no relief for Mets
That’s not the kind of relief the Mets were looking for. Trailing the Dodgers 6-5 heading into the ninth inning Saturday, Mets manager Terry Collins made an unusual call to...
Batista buries Mets in dismal outing against Dodgers
The Mets hoped to get 80 pitches out of spot starter Miguel Batista. They got 81, but he lasted just three innings in getting shelled quickly by the Dodgers. “We...
Yankees' Swisher hopes to be hip and avoid disabled list
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Nick Swisher said he doesn’t think he is headed for the disabled list, but his hip flexor problem suffered Friday night was serious enough for the Yankees...
Yankees drop 3rd straight despite strong outing by Hughes
OAKLAND, Calif. — With CC Sabathia starting today for the Yankees you would figure they are locks to halt a three-game losing streak because the A’s are easily the worst...
Glimpse of worst-case playoff scenario in Oakland
OAKLAND, Calif. — Welcome to the Short-Series Nightmare for the Yankees. The Yankees are learning some valuables lesson on this swing out west. First and foremost is they are not...
Mets put Santana on the DL, lose to Dodgers
How do you lose twice in the same day without playing a doubleheader? Just ask the Mets. A day after Johan Santana got roughed up by the Dodgers for six...
Ace plant may lead to free fall
R.a. Dickey came in to pitch the ninth inning for the Mets yesterday, and for a moment it looked as if the home team were poised to pull out the...
Chelsea meets Paris Saint-Germain at Yankee Stadium
The manager of free-spending English soccer team Chelsea says Major League Soccer’s self-imposed salary cap prevents the North American league from joining the ranks of the world’s best. Playing in...
Sports Shorts
MLB: Nats’ Harper nursing bruised left ankle Bryce Harper left the Nationals’ afternoon loss to the Braves because of a bruised left ankle. X-rays were negative, according to manager Davey...
Yankees' Rivera not rushing rehab process
The greatest closer in baseball history says he wants to pitch again this season, but that he’s not pushing to make it happen. “I’d love to,” Mariano Rivera said Saturday....
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-1-mile pace; purse $12,500; cond. 6 GreatVntage(JTakter) 3.40 2.40 2.10 8 Art For Arts Sake (A Miller) 3.40 3.00 4 Eagle Jolt (C Callahan) 2.60 * Exacta (6-8) $14.00 *...
Del Mar Graded Entries
Post Time: 5:00 p.m.FIRST-5 1/2 fur; $25,000; clm($20,000); 3upPN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3Odds7 IdontrllnshbbsL120JTalam2-7-x5-23 Valen(L),122MPedrz5-4-53-11 Spring Rocks(L),120DFlores8-x-x10-12 Hey Paulie(L),120JVldvJr8-3-35-14 Whats a Rebah ,108VBednr7-7-310-15 Buds Pal(L),113EFlores11-7-x12-16 Goyathla(L),120YFukngx-x-x5-18 ArizonaWildctL120IPuglisix-x-x4-1SECOND-6 fur; $40,000; alw; 3up(f)PN...
Monmouth Analysis
Post Time: 12:45 p.m.FIRST-6 fur; $18,000; clm($5,000); 3upECSTATIC CAT won as favorite this price. BOJAN tired to fourth and was claimed. MIPANDO drops in class after finishing fourth.PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast...
Monmouth Park Results
FIRST-1 mile; $13,000; clm($10,000); 3up4Gn Slngn' Blly (Ortz)6.203.402.201Exhibit A (Ayuso)3.602.405Royal Credit (Maysonett)2.20Scr: Nyconn Cat, Uptown Ball.* Exacta (4-1) $25.80 * $1 Superfecta (4-1-5-3) $56.30 * $1 Trifecta (4-1-5) $23.10SECOND-1 mile;...
Del Mar Results
FIRST-1 mile; $73,000; alw; 3up5Akkadian (Garcia)5.803.402.404Hooryforhollywod (Bjrn)3.402.201Massone (Gomez)2.40* $1 Exacta (5-4) $6.60 * Quinella (4-5) $7.00 * $1 Superfecta (5-4-1-2) $37.00 * $1 Trifecta (5-4-1) $15.10SECOND-7 fur; $25,000; clm($20,000); 3up7Pumpkn...
Vic Cangialosi’s Calder Grade
FIRST-1m(T); $16,500; clm($25,000); 3up2-Starship Storm 4-11-a-Jupiter 3-13-Karmanos 12-16-Baltimore Saint4-14-SilverDistinctin6-17-CommanderTte4-11-a-FederlExchne3-18-Viva Mongolia 8-55-Rio Grey 6-1SECOND-1m&70yds; $10,500; cl($5,0); 3up4-The Braveheart4-15-WhazamdderU8-11-GreenLiteSpecil6-16-WellExcuuzeMe5-12-Winaway 3-17-UntuttableAffr15-13-Mize the BigCat2-1THIRD-1 1/16m(T); $28,000; mdn; 3,4&5YO5-Crime Family 20-14-Banzai Charge 8-11-Class Warfare 8-16-Mr.Knckerbcke6-12-LudicrosSpeed15-17-Harrison...
Saratoga Charts
July 21st, 2012Clear and Fast Turf Firm©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-5 1/2 fur(T); $100,000; 3upOff: 1:01. Good. off duel,lite hand urgTime: 21.96, 44.05, 54.86, 1:.63.Trainer: George WeaverWinner: CH G, 6,...
Hondo: Let’s play two!
The Giants rallied heroically for Hondo yesterday, taking care of business in Philly to trim the dirty digits to 1,365 keys.Today, Mr. Aitch expects the Jays to have their way...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYJuly 22MONJuly 23TUEJuly 24WEDJuly 25THUJuly 26FRIJuly 27SATJuly 28YankeesOakland4:05YES NetworkWCBS 880 AMSea.10:10YESWCBSSea.10:10YESWCBSSea.3:40YESWCBSNO GAMEBos. 7:05 YES WCBSBos. 4:05 FOX WCBSMetsL.A. Dodgers1:10WPIX NetworkWFAN 660 AMWash.7:10SNYWFANWash.7:10SNYWFANWash.12:10SNYWFANAri.9:40SNYWFANAri. 9:40 SNY WFANAri.8:10WPIXWFANLibertyOlympic BreakNext Game:Aug. 16NO GAMENO GAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMERed...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing11:30 a.m.NASCAR: Nationwide Qualifying ESPN212:30 p.m.Indy Lights Edmonton NBCSN1 p.m.American LeMans Series: Grand Prix of Mosport ESPN22 p.m.IndyCar: Edmonton Indy NBCSN3 p.m.NASCAR: Nationwide STP 300 ESPNBaseball1 p.m.Dodgers at Mets...
Linsanity: pro & con
* After a lifelong love affair with the Knicks, I stopped rooting for the team in 1998 after they traded my favorite, John Starks, for a thug named Latrell Sprewell....
Nets eye deal with Kirilenko
After all of the moves the Nets have made since free agency began July 1, they have two roster spots left open. Nets general manager Billy King would like to...
Rejuvenated Questing feels her Oaks
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Just 10 weeks ago, the 3-year-old filly Questing couldn’t even hit the board in an allowance race. Then trainer Kiaran McLaughlin switched her from turf to...
Hall of a show as MLB’s best gather
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — The early morning haze finally lifted, revealing yesterday to be a beautiful day on the shores of Otsego Lake. At the Leatherstockings Golf Course adjacent to the...
Larkin: I'm 'happy I didn't go to the Mets'
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Barry Larkin never would have gone into the Hall of Fame today as a Met, even if he had approved a trade to Flushing during the 2000...
Blyleven responds to Reggie's comments
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — The first thing Bert Blyleven did when he pulled into town was to hurry over to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and check on his plaque....
Snider just Phil of it
The Flyers acted as they should have in going for the jugular in their attempt to bring franchise defenseman Shea Weber to Philadelphia through the use of a Group II...
ESPN robs viewers of live coverage for silly features
How many screwballs does it take to bulb up a light? American sports TV is in the throes of a mindless epidemic: The bigger the event, the less we’re shown....
Glad Games in London, not NYC
I Suspect for most of you, the next three weeks will be a familiar ride along the crests and rabbit holes that define our relationships with the Olympics. There are...
The Rumble
Donnie Nicholson thought there was no way out. He was alone, stranded at the intersection of Homelessness and Hopelessness, held hostage by a cocaine addiction that stripped him of his...
Stars, upstarts and events you don’t want to miss at London Games
The London Olympics are sure to provide a little something for everyone, no matter what your sport or tastes. But some events — and athletes — are must-see TV, from...
Ultimate guide to the 2012 London Olympics
The Olympics have come to London before — twice in fact, in 1908 and 1948. The 2012 Olympics will welcome more than 10,000 athletes from over 200 countries. They will...
Drama mama
The Olympics arrive next weekend, which means it’s the last gasp for nerds everywhere before the jocks invade the airwaves. Here’s a few sci-fi-inspired offerings to keep your glasses fogged...
Reel good
Bridesmaids, 2011 Sunday, 9:10 a.m., Cinemax An unattached bakery owner, Annie (Kristen Wiig), is losing her BFF, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), who is getting married and quickly turning into the quintessentially...
Look Who’s Talking
KELLY RIPA 9 a.m., Ch. 7 Monday: Mark Consuelos; Vince Vaughn; Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino. Tuesday: Will Ferrell; Emily Maynard. Wednesday: Joel McHale; John Rich; Zach Galifianakis. Thursday: Joel McHale;...
Green gobbling
Amidst all the over-the-top food trends being served up at restaurants these days — bone marrow, pig butt, beef jerky — there is one that goes back to the roots,...
Meet Market: Songstress sks someone to get in tune with
It’s showtime Chloe made her Broadway debut at age 9 and toured with Met Opera singers in college. All aboard A frequent traveler, Chloe says the places where she’s happiest...
Top 5: Ways to Catch a Lift to Love on the Bolt Bus
“Tell him, ‘You have a really nice seat. Is it taken?’ ”Tarik “Offer to share your power outlet with them.”Alicia “Sing, ‘The wheels on the bus go round and round...
This week's couple: Sake, but no punch
OVER SUSHI and sake, Malcolm, 23, a personal trainer from Queens, and Claire, 24, an assistant at a nonprofit, met for their blind date at Haru. There, the conversation ranged...
Foreign Tongues
Olympic fever is about to hit the Big Apple big time. For amorous New Yorkers looking to land an exotic stranger faster than Michael Phelps can finish the 50-meter freestyle,...
Weird but true
The temper of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford could be a boon for one entrepreneur. Ford allegedly flipped the bird at a female driver after she chided him for gabbing on...
THE VICTIMS: Real movie heroes saved their sweethearts during Colo. ambush
They took bullets for their beloveds. Three young men are being hailed as heroes for their old-fashioned chivalry and courage under fire in saving the lives of their girlfriends. While...