August 18, 2012
'Tonight Show' lays off two dozen staffers; Leno takes pay cut to avoid more layoffs
SAN FRANCISCO — “The Tonight Show” has laid off about two dozen workers, prompting host Jay Leno to accept a pay cut to spare other staffers as NBC clamps down...
Mets blank Nationals 2-0
WASHINGTON - Jonathon Niese pitched into the eighth inning and Ike Davis hit a two-run homer in the seventh to lead the New York Mets over the Washington Nationals 2-0...
Red Sox prospect hit in the face with line drive at Fenway
Red Sox pitching prospect Brian Johnson was hit in the face with a line drive in a Future Games at Boston’s Fenway Park. Johnson sustained multiple orbital bone fractures on...
Queens buyback gets 509 guns off streets - including an AK 47 and tec-9
Queens is getting the lead out. A gun buyback program yesterday at New Jerusalem Church in Jamaica blasted 509 guns off the street, organizers said. “I had to get rid...
Red Sox manager Valentine: 'I'm not doing a good job'
With the Red Sox far from first place and their chances of reaching the playoffs slim, Bobby Valentine says he is disappointed with his performance. Hired as manager last fall...
Yankees offense stifled in 4-1 loss to Red Sox
Jon Lester shut down the Yankees' offense for seven innings, Adrian Gonzalez provided an early lead with a two-run homer and the Boston Red Sox beat New York 4-1 Saturday...
Dodgers' Mattingly suspended two games for arguing
Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has been suspended for two games, beginning with Saturday night’s game against the Braves. Mattingly was also given an undisclosed fine “for excessive arguing”...
Female MMA star Rousey vows to choke challenger 'until she's actually dead'
Ronda Rousey might have ventured into dangerous territory hyping her fight Saturday night.The most recognizable female MMA fighter in the world said she’s going to choke opponent Sarah Kaufman “until...
Protesters demand ban on horse-drawn carriages
Hold your horses! Some 25 protesters gathered at Central Park South across from the Plaza Hotel this afternoon to demand a ban on horse-drawn carriages. Animal rights activists were spurred...
Seton Hall recruit Carr arrested for alleged assault: report
The Crimestopper couldn’t stop himself. Seton Hall recruit Aquille Carr of Baltimore was arrested on an assault charge Friday morning, the Baltimore Sun is reporting. One of the nation’s most...
After Olympics success, NBC executive producer Jim Bell may be poised for a promotion
Jim Bell, the executive producer who spearheaded NBC's London Olympics coverage and shouldered most of the criticism directed at the network, is poised for a promotion to a larger role...
Amelia Earhart expedition team says video possibly shows plane debris
A team of researchers trying to solve the mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance said on Friday that underwater video from a Pacific island has revealed a field of...
UFC's Jones: 'I don't want to fight' top contender Machida
Maybe this explains the Chael Sonnen back and forth on Twitter.UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones told ESPN.com on Friday that he has little interest in a rematch with No....
Teixeira out of Yankees lineup for second straight day
Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira was out of the starting lineup against the Boston Red Sox for the second straight day because of a sore left wrist and may need...
Obama renews call for aid to halt teacher layoffs
WASHINGTON — Tight school budgets have meant fewer teachers, larger classes and shorter school years, according to a White House report that President Barack Obama says shows the need for...
Michelle Obama to meet with family members of Sikh shooting victims
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama plans to go to Milwaukee to meet with family members of those killed and injured in a Sikh temple shooting this month. The White House says...
Syracuse hoops lands stud St. Benedict's point guard
There were very few high-major coaches who attended the entire Live in AC AAU event in late July. Some were there for the start, others for the end, but Syracuse...
Sea alum McCombs to lead UConn in sophomore season
Connecticut hopes to bounce back from last year’s disappointing 5-7 season. St. Joseph by the Sea product Lyle McCombs figures to play a major role for the Huskies in doing...
Mets get Murphy's name wrong, register Collins' car under 'Jerry Manuel'
Evidently, Citi Field isn’t the place you go where everybody knows your name.On Friday night, the Mets official Twitter page tweeted a video of Daniel Murphy’s first-inning RBI single. The...
Militants attack Yemen intelligence headquarters, killing 14
SANAA, Yemen — Suspected al-Qaida militants attacked a Yemeni intelligence headquarters on Saturday, killing 14 people in a bold attack in the country's main southern city of Aden, officials said....
VIDEO: Hale, Serby preview Giants-Jets preseason game
The Giants and Jets will tangle for the first time since Christmas Eve in a preseason game Saturday night. All the talk over recent months has been about Jets quarterbacks...
Russian Orthodox church forgives Pussy Riot
MOSCOW — Two top clerics in the Russian Orthodox Church said Saturday that it has forgiven the members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot who were convicted of hooliganism and...
Restaurant manager shot dead in front of workplace in Queens
A restaurant manager was shot dead in front of his workplace in Queens last night, law-enforcement sources said. Nevill Brown, 56, was chatting with a gal pal while seated in...
Livery cab passenger shot in head during attempted robbery
A 23-year-old livery passenger was shot in the head when a thug tried to rob the driver at 2:30 a.m. this morning, police said. When the car stopped at a...
British lawmakers say ex-Barclays CEO offered a 'highly selective' account on LIBOR scandal
LONDON — Former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond offered a "highly selective" account to a parliamentary hearing on the banking rate-fixing scandal, British lawmakers said Saturday in a highly critical report....
Paul Ryan defends Medicare proposal with his mother, who's on program
THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Speaking to seniors in Florida, GOP vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan accused Obama of using Medicare as a "piggybank" for the president's health care law. A...
Taylor Swift spotted hand-in-hand at the beach with Conor Kennedy
Sexy songbird Taylor Swift was spotted yesterday strolling hand-in-hand along a rocky beach near her new $5 million Hyannis Port, Mass., home with Kennedy-clan member Conor. The “You Belong With...
With family in mind, former Naz and Kentucky wing Ali transfers to Seton Hall
Bra'Shey Ali is happy to be coming home to Seton Hall. "My family can watch me play," the New Jersey product and former Nazareth and St. Michael Academy star said....
Streetball roundup: Former Tennessee star Williams wins two titles in one day
Brian (Big Baby) Williams was prepared for an early exit and a ride in heavy traffic. Instead, he got a quick change and a chance to win two titles in...
Foursquare’s big overhaul falls flat with users
There’s no “check out” feature for Foursquare, but maybe it’s time. Interest in the pioneering mobile “check in” app appears to be cooling despite a much-hyped overhaul earlier this summer....
Ex-CEO gives (harsh) Penney for his thoughts
Talk about a painful markdown! The legendary retail whiz who turned around JCPenney in the early 2000s gave a scathing critique of current CEO Ron Johnson, saying he was “shocked”...
Business briefs
Goldman suitAmerigroup shareholders sued the insurer’s board and Goldman Sachs, which advised on its nearly $4.5 billion pending sale to WellPoint, saying Goldman had an incentive, through a complex derivative...
Sudden amnesia: Peregrine's alleged embezzler pleads not guilty
That was just crazy talk. Perhaps that will be Russell Wasendorf Sr.’s defense after the former CEO of failed Peregrine Financial Group pleaded not guilty yesterday to lying to regulators...
Baseball great Eddie Murray will settle SEC claims
Baseball Hall of Famer Eddie Murray has agreed to pay $358,151 to resolve US regulatory claims that he reaped illegal profits from an insider-trading scheme involving his former Baltimore Orioles...
Fannie, Freddie shrink job
The US Treasury yesterday revamped the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to curb chances the giant mortgage finance firms could emerge from government control as the powerful, profit-driven...
Fee dispute cans WPIX
Cablevision customers will likely miss out on Mets games this weekend. WPIX-TV New York and several other Tribune-owned stations went dark on Cablevision yesterday amid a battle over new fees....
McDonald’s tasting PayPal
PayPal is in the early stages of what may be a blockbuster mobile payments deal with McDonald’s. McDonald’s is testing a mobile payments service featuring PayPal at 30 of its...
New Times CEO: $10M man
Mark Thompson, hired as the New York Times Co.’s chief executive officer this week, will receive a pay package totaling as much as $10.5 million, including an annual salary of...
Israel ‘an insult to all humanity’: A’jad
TEHRAN, Iran — Israel’s existence is an “insult to all humanity,” Iran’s president said yesterday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates...
‘Gift gun’ GI slayings
KABUL, Afghanistan — A newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies yesterday, killing two US soldiers minutes after they gave him a new weapon as a...
Iraq toll at 93
BAGHDAD — Thursday’s attacks throughout much of Iraq killed at least 93 people — making it the second-deadliest day since US troops left in December, officials said yesterday. The aim...
New UN envoy for Syria strife
Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister and longtime UN diplomat known as a strong-willed, independent broker, has agreed to replace former Secretary-General Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria,...
Terror theme park
Hezbollah terrorists have built a vast, multimillion-dollar “holy war” theme park to teach children the glory of losing their lives fighting against Israel. The Museum for Resistance Tourism, constructed on...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** A woman barely managed to fend off a rape attempt by two teenagers who had followed her into her Harlem apartment building, authorities said. José Maldonado and Freddy...
Brooklyn couple finally has their stillborn baby after they buried wrong dead child
“Angel” is flying home. A Brooklyn couple has received the body of their stillborn baby — two months after a mix-up at the city Medical Examiner’s Office resulted in them...
SI pol’s ex-money man in immig bust
A former fund-raiser for Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm has been busted by the FBI on charges of lying on immigration documents, according to an FBI spokesperson. A criminal complaint...
Mobster fish wish
Fuhgeddabout Brooklyn! An aging Luchese mobster doing time for extortion says he’s sick of the city after his lucrative life of crime — and looking forward to a new life...
Grim Qns. motorcycle crash
Two motorcyclists were fighting for their lives after crashing into an SUV with a drunk driver at the wheel in Queens early yesterday, authorities said. Naquawn Macintosh, 25, and Corney...
Judge puts the brakes on Bloomberg's street-hail livery cab plan
Go to hail! A Manhattan judge yesterday put the brakes on Mayor Bloomberg’s plan for street-hail livery cabs in the outer boroughs, ruling that City Hall’s attempt to bypass the...
UPS pot plot foiled
Three men were busted in Brooklyn yesterday with 30 pounds of marijuana stuffed into three 5-gallon Home Depot buckets, law-enforcement sources said. Ruben Jordan, 44, placed the package inside a...
Wife-slay horror
A Queens man fatally stabbed his wife and stuffed her in a plastic bag under a bed in the family home, after hearing she had cheated on him with her...
Rooftop potheads
What were these guys smoking?A Brooklyn couple who claimed pigeons and yuppies were responsible for planting a garden of marijuana plants on their Red Hook roof were found guilty on...
Former Texas HS teacher convicted of having group sex with five students
A Texas jury took less than an hour to find a former high-school English teacher guilty yesterday of having group sex with five 18-year-old students at her home. Brittni Nicole...
Patrol cops in deadly bike crash taken off duty
The two unidentified officers involved in a fatal motorcycle crash in The Bronx last week that left one man dead and another injured have been taken off active patrol duty...
Chattanooga’s program hits rollout rut
CHATTANOOGA — This sleepy Tennessee city just launched the same bike-share program that the Big Apple wants to employ — and had a bumpy rollout that’s still riddled with technical...
Casinos ‘in every borough’
Mayor Bloomberg wants to put Vegas-style casinos all over the city — even in suburban Staten Island — if the state decides to authorize them.“If you’re going to have it,...
‘Spoke’ too soon – NY bike-share delay
Red-faced city officials finally admitted yesterday that the ambitious bike-share program won’t begin until next spring — an about-face from earlier denials that the program was just behind schedule. Mayor...
Lottery win a $1M ‘mistake’
BRAINTREE, Mass. — When a store clerk gave a him a different kind of scratch-off lottery ticket than he asked for, Richard Brown didn’t make a big deal about it...
Clown got Jobs’ iPad
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Imagine the treasures in the stolen iPad of Steve Jobs: secret corporate files, personal correspondence and maybe even game prototypes. But entertainer Kenny the Clown says...
Dall-ass Cowboy suit
DALLAS — A Texas woman is suing the Dallas Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones, saying her buttocks were severely burned when she sat on a bench outside Cowboys Stadium.In a...
Ouch, that sucks!
These pics will sting two big-screen vampires like a splash of holy water to the face. Producers of the new “Twilight” sequel, “Breaking Dawn — Part 2,” yesterday released a...
‘Special ed’ firm ripped off city: feds
The city Department of Education was fooled into paying out at least $1.5 million over two years to companies that lied about providing bilingual or special-education services to students, authorities...
Long Island man charged with faking own drowning has filed for divorce to keep wife from collecting severance checks
The Long Island man charged with faking his own drowning so he could cash in on his life insurance has filed for divorce — to keep his wife from collecting...
Winning Tavern on the Green bidders have family connections to one of Bloomberg's top confidants
The winning out-of-town bidders who nabbed the right to run Tavern on the Green have never operated in New York — but they have family ties to one of Mayor...
B’klyn cop in biker shootout
A Brooklyn cop fired his gun at a hot-headed biker who had shot another motorcyclist in Bed-Stuy, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Hector Parbolus, 48, was hanging out with his motorcycle...
Gal dies after 21-yr. coma
NIAGARA FALLS, NY — The stepfather of a woman who spent 21 years in a coma after being beaten by her husband said he knows she would have died years...
Prince to the rescue
Britain’s damsels in distress have no reason to fear — Prince Charming is on patrol! A 16-year-old girl was saved from certain death in the choppy waters off the United...
Bass butler gets 20 years in ‘virus’ extortion
The butler did it — and now he’s going to do some hard time. The former butler of millionaire society philanthropist Anne Bass was sentenced to 20 years in prison...
Softer line on teacher tenure
Despite several years of tough talk out of City Hall, teacher-tenure denials declined slightly this year compared to 2011 for teachers who were eligible for the coveted job protections for...
Putin’s punishment of Pussy Riot a self-inflicted defeat
Just months ago, few people in or outside Russia had heard of Pussy Riot, a marginal group of feminist performance artists. The country’s opposition movement was a disorganized and apparently...
Cop-brass crash tragedy
A high-ranking Bronx cop suffered a broken neck and lost his wife in a four-car, chain-reaction accident on a Pennsylvania highway that also injured his daughter and son and five...
Russian punk trio Pussy Riot gets two years in prison, igniting protests worldwide
A Moscow court sentenced three female members of a punk band to prison yesterday for demonstrating against Vladimir Putin — triggering anti-Kremlin protests that swept the world. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22,...
Give leaker his due
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s president says the fact that he granted asylum to Julian Assange doesn’t mean he agrees with everything the WikiLeaks founder says or does.Rafael Correa said in...
Campaign gets flyin’ with Ryan
Mitt Romney got exactly what he wanted from picking Paul Ryan as his running mate — a campaign kicked into overdrive. In the week since the Wisconsin congressman joined the...
Feds move to strike lewd details from Homeland Security sexual-discrimination lawsuit
WASHINGTON — The feds have asked a judge to strike from the public record the most “scandalous” details of a bombshell sexual-discrimination lawsuit against Janet Napolitano and the Department of...
Times Square subway brawl
A Times Square revolving subway-station gate was left soaked in blood yesterday after an early-morning brawl between two groups of men. Five men got into the skirmish with two others...
Where Bam is right
Many conservatives reject President Obama’s recent policy to defer action against illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children. But as a conservative who supports the president’s decision,...
Just ‘Biden’ our time ’til the November election
The Issue: VP Biden’s comment to a racially mixed crowd that the GOP wants to “put y’all back in chains.” *** There is one good reason to vote for Mitt...
A State-of-the-art waste
The Issue: Whether the security perimeter around JFK airport is worth its cost, given a recent breach. *** The worthless Perimeter Intrusion Detection System around JFK airport is similar to...
Mike’s flat tires
New York pedestrians just won a six-month reprieve from City Hall’s latest bicycle boondoggle. After weeks of secrecy — and a flatly disingenuous denial of a Post story reporting ongoing...
Vladimir’s revenge
Three members of the all-girl Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to prison yesterday for “hooliganism” — a heavily politicized charge with a decidedly Soviet ring to it. Which...
Welcome, technion
Exciting things are afoot on Roosevelt Island, where the brains behind the city’s a-building new tech campus are working to assemble a team of professors and entrepreneurs who will fundamentally...
Give ’em hell, Mitt: fight Obama’s smears
On Medicare, the Romney campaign is borrowing the strategic logic of a long-ago military legend. Taking command of the French Ninth Army in 1914 as it retreated before the Germans,...
Kid Stuff
Today STREET SMARTS: Time flies! This is the last weekend of Summer Streets 2012, when sections of Park Avenue and Lafayette Street between Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge are...
Skill of victory
If you think (well, hope) the end of summer means the end of exercise, you’re fresh out of luck. The recent, inescapable parade of uber-athletes on TV has created a...
Tubular!
It’s 10 a.m. on a sunny Saturday, and dozens of perky patrons are chattering in lines. Decked out in shorts and T-shirts, they’re waiting for the go-ahead to claim a...
Yankees farmhand Romine working his way back at Triple-A
After dealing with a lower back strain for much of 2012, Austin Romine is finally back on the field. The 22-year-old catching prospect spent the first half of the season...
Giants backups can make name tonight against Jets' Tebow
Sometime soon after the young man wearing green-and-white No. 15 trots out to the Jets huddle tonight, and electricity crackles inside Tebow Life Stadium on the night the Ringless Bros....
Jeter hits 250th, Yankees 'rain' down five homers
The Yankees used the latest Derek Jeter milestone to push the Red Sox closer to a second straight dark October. Jeter hit one of five Yankees homers to help the...
Last year’s meeting has Jets thinking of own Super ending
When the Jets and Giants played last Christmas Eve, Giants coach Tom Coughlin walked away from the game with a limp, but it was Jets coach Rex Ryan who was...
NFLPA refutes Goodell
The NFL Players Association has filed documents in federal court disputing Commissioner Roger Goodell’s sworn statement that he was prepared to discipline players for their involvement in the Saints bounty...
Vic Cangialosi’s Calder Grade
FIRST-6 fur; $11,000; clm($10,000); 3up6-Red Zone Flyer 2-14-Whatsupntmch6-11-Franks Reward 4-15-StarshipCaptan3-12-WhiteThunder15-17-Hey Brayden 4-13-Rojothemgnfc12-1SECOND-5 fur(T); $16,500; clm($25,0); 3up1-a-BlesndSlvers3-17-Street Fleet 8-12-Trick the Queen8-18-Invisible Vision 4-13-Mass Invasion15-19-SweetDreamin15-14-Beleventheme6-110-Why Should I 10-15-TemptationBnd6-111-Wildcat Sierra 6-16-Cosmic Crown 8-11-a-CmenceFrng3-1THIRD-1...
Saratoga Charts
August 17th, 2012Clear and Fast Turf Firm©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-5 1/2 fur; $80,000; mdn; 2YO(f)Off: 1:01. Good. bmpd 1/4,hand rideTime: 22.06, 45.56, 57.77, 1:04.08.Trainer: Todd PletcherWinner: B F, 2,...
Del Mar Graded Entries
Post Time: 5:00 p.m.FIRST-6 1/2 fur; $25,000; clm($20,000); 3upPN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3Odds6 Naughtical(L),111VBednr7-5-45-21 SpeedyVixen(L),124JVldvJr6-6-43-12 TarheelBabe(L),118IPuglisi7-x-x6-13 MileHighBunk(L120MPedrz9-x-x4-14 BooWhoWho(L),120S Arias8-8-720-15 Paris Grapes(L),124ADlgdll8-x-x5-17 TotallyBlonde(L120JHrnnd6-7-74-1SECOND-6 1/2 fur; $40,000; clm($25,0); 3upPN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3Odds6 Gnarly...
Monmouth Analysis
Post Time: 12:45 p.m.FIRST-6 fur; $16,000; clm($10,000); 3upMEATBEAU closed to finish second in last two starts. DERG MASTER drew rail after finishing third. DIXIE SUN was placed second while going...
Monmoth Park Results
Clear and Fast Turf Firm FIRST-6 fur; $16,000; clm($5,000); 3up 4 Or Blln Bkn (Cmch) 5.00 2.40 2.10 5 Bearly Enough (Trujillo) 2.20 2.20 6 Curious Luck (Rivera) 4.40 Scr:...
Grace Hall may amaze in Alabama
SARATOGA SPRINGS — If a trainer’s confidence counts for anything before a big race, then Grace Hall looks like money in the bank in today’s 132nd running of the Grade...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-mile; trot; $150,000; NJSS 4 Corky (D Miller) 2.40 2.20 2.10 3 King Muscles (R Pierce) 5.60 3.80 5 Amalfi Coast (B Sears) 5.00 * Exacta (4-3) $10.40 * Trifecta...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing8:30 a.m..NASCAR Sprint Cup Practice: Pure Michigan 400 SPEED9:30 a.m..NASCAR Camping WTS Qualifying: VFW 200 SPEED11 a.m.NASCAR Sprint Cup Practice: Pure Michigan 400 Final Practice SPEED12:30 p.m.NASCAR Camping WTS:...
The Post Line
Preseason NFLTonightFavoriteOpeningCurrent(O/U)UnderdogJETS+21(36 1/2)GiantsChiefsPk1(36 1/2)RAMSBEARS2 1/21 1/2(37)RedskinsTEXANS33(37)49ErsBRONCOS3Pick(37 1/2)SeahawksCHARGERS33(37)CowboysTomorrowSTEELERS4 1/23 1/2(38)ColtsMondayPATRIOTS3 1/21(40 1/2)EaglesHome team in CAPS
Hondo passes on Lager
Hondo connected for a Senior Circuit double last night, scoring with the Pirates and Nationals to lower the dirty digits to 2,055 sieberns.Today, Mr. Aitch can’t pass up a chance...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYAug. 18SUNAug. 19MONAug. 20TUEAug. 21WEDAug. 22THUAug. 23FRIAug.24YankeesBoston4:05 FOXWCBS 880 AMBos.8:00ESPNWCBSChi. 8:10YESWCBS Chi. 8:10 WWORWCBSChi. 8:10 YESWCBSNO GAMECle.7:05WWORWCBSMetsWashington7:05WPIXWFAN 660 AMWash.1:35WPIXWFANCol.7:10SNYWFANCol. 7:10 SNY WFANCol.7:10SNYWFANCol.1:10SNY WFANHou.7:10SNYWFANLibertyConnecticut7:00No TVNO GAMENO GAMEChi.8:00No TVNO GAMEPho.10:00No TVNO GAMERed...
Sports Shorts
Former LSU football star Tyrann Mathieu has entered a drug rehabilitation program in Houston since being dismissed last week from the team, according to his adoptive father. Tyrone Mathieu said...
Jersey boys fall, vow to bring ‘A’ game tonight
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The Par-Troy East Little League all-stars had put themselves in a bind, largely of their own doing. Nevertheless, they had a chance for redemption in the...
Big cheers, then defeat, for Uganda at LLWS
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. By the end of the game, the vast majority among the 7.280 fans at Volunteer Stadium were squarely behind the ultimate underdog, Uganda, the first team from...
Mets' Francisco a failure in Amazin’ly bad season
Frank Francisco isn’t running from the truism that his first season with the Mets has been brutal. “My season?” Francisco said, responding to a question about his overall performance. “Bad...
Yankee Stadium, Citi Field to test MLB replay: report
New York will be the proving ground for replay in baseball. Major League Baseball owners have agreed to test two separate replay systems during games in the coming weeks at...
Yankees' Sabathia: I will 'pitch Friday'
CC Sabathia will throw his first bullpen session since going on the disabled list today and said he believes he will return Friday in Cleveland. While manager Joe Girardi would...
Johan mauled by Nationals in Mets loss
WASHINGTON — Think Muhammad Ali near the end of his legendary career getting pummeled by Larry Holmes, and there you have the sad spectacle Johan Santana has become. For the...
Battle for No. 3 Giants receiver wide open
The sight of Hakeem Nicks gently running routes with his teammates early in Thursday’s practice allowed the Giants to move closer to becoming whole on offense. Nicks is a huge...
Injuries decimating Jets wideouts
Sanjay Lal is in his first year as the Jets wide receivers coach. Things have not been easy for him during training camp. Lal has watched receiver after receiver drop...
Coughlin: Giants must improve run defense
Giants coach Tom Coughlin said he presented to his players 10 areas of improvement he wanted to see coming out of the 32-31 preseason loss to the Jaguars but added...
Jets happy with cornerback Wilson’s play
When you’re the third cornerback behind Darrelle Revis and Antonio Cromartie, there’s not a lot of spotlight to be had. But Kyle Wilson has impressed in his third training camp,...
Ortiz: Red Sox collapse not Valentine’s fault
Negativity surrounding the Red Sox is nothing new. But before last night’s 6-4 loss to the Yankees in The Bronx, David Ortiz said the bad atmosphere around the team has...
Yankees' Teixeira sits to rest sore wrist
Mark Teixeira never thought his sore left wrist would be a serious problem. When he missed just two games after aggravating the injury at the end of July, it seemed...
Hughes’ changeup keeps Yankees in control
This time, one bad inning didn’t kill Phil Hughes and the Yankees. After failing to get out of the fifth inning in either of his previous two starts, the right-hander...
Red Sox are the drama-filled team -- not the Yankees
The Zoo has moved north approximately 200 miles. No longer are the Yankees beset by dysfunction as they were back in the day when the back page represented a 365-day-a-year...
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...
Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays
SECRETARIAT Arlington Park, 8th race. Grade 1. Purse: $500,000. 1 1/4 miles, turf, 3-year-olds. Post: 3:48 p.m. LOWDOWN: The Euro invader Bayrir, 3-for-4 in his native France, is coming off...
Sprinter Demps chooses Patriots over Jets
Jeff Demps sprinted right past the Jets and into the arms of the rival Patriots yesterday. Despite interest from the speedstarved Jets and at least seven other NFL teams, the...
Second term?
If ever there was a show I was meant to love, it was “Political Animals,” which got more hype than a presidential campaign. But, as in presidential campaigns, some come...
‘Empire’ a blast in B’klyn
Fans of “Boardwalk Empire” are in for a blast this season. A gaggle of gawkers in Greenpoint got a sneak peek at the third season of “Empire” Thursday night with...
‘Grimm’ star Bitsie eyes big success
Bitsie Tulloch had a five-week hiatus between the first and second seasons of filming “Grimm,” where she plays Juliette Silverton, the fiancee of Det. Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli). The NBC...
Weird but true
Now it’ll pay to have some table manners. A restaurant in Los Angeles is giving customers a 5 percent discount if they agree to hand over their cellphones to the...
Keady elevation not done deal for Johnnies
The promotion of former Purdue coach Gene Keady from special advisor to St. John’s assistant coach isn’t the foregone conclusion many have reported it to be, sources have told The...
Calif. man, 83, convicted of killing roommate, 94, over singing
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. — An 83-year-old man has been convicted in the beating death of his 94-year-old roommate at a California health care facility, an attack prosecutors say was triggered...
Ortiz: Red Sox collapse not Valentine’s fault
Negativity surrounding the Red Sox is nothing new. But before last night’s series opener against the Yankees at the Stadium, Boston’s David Ortiz said a report this week about dissension...