November 5, 2012
EXCLUSIVE: Rochdale rogue trader probe
The FBI has started a probe of a rogue Wall Street trader for alleged stock manipulation, The Post has learned. The trader, identified by people familiar with the probe as...
Marines on the shores of Midland Beach
Marines invaded Staten Island today, put down their guns and picked up shovels to help devastated residents dig out from Hurricane Sandy’s massive carnage. Hard-nosed Marines said they were stunned...
Agent: Reliever Soria would be ‘all ears’ if Yankees called
Joakim Soria wants to be a closer next season, unless he’s pitching for the Yankees. The agent of the former Royals closer told ESPN.com Monday that a chance to be...
New Yorkers allowed to vote in any polling place: Cuomo
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday New Yorkers affected by superstorm Sandy will be allowed to vote in Tuesday's U.S. election in any polling place by presenting an...
Islanders' DiPietro, playing in Germany, denies report of groin injury
Maybe it was the fact that it was so believable that gave a false rumor some legs.On Monday, Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro denied a report from a German newspaper that...
Cuomo 'angry' at pace of power recovery
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is railing against the utility companies tasked with bringing power back to communities hit hard by Superstorm Sandy. He says 480,000 throughout New York City...
Halo 4 Review
The Chief is back.That phrase alone should be enough to get your blood pumping if you are a fan of the Halo franchise, but we’ll take up the five minutes...
Top recruit McCullough snubs St. John's for Syracuse
St. John's was Chris McCullough's "dream school," but Syracuse is his future one. The uber-talented 6-foot-10 junior forward, one of the top prospects in the Class of 2014, from The...
Fire rips through historic Bronx movie theater
A large fire ripped through a landmark movie theater in The Bronx this afternoon, authorities said. The two-alarm blaze began shortly before 4 p.m. at the Loews Paradise Theater on...
Ortiz re-signs with Red Sox, calls Bobby V 'crazy'
It was made official on Monday that David Ortiz will wear a Red Sox jersey come next season, but what might still be up in the air is if he...
FIVE-STEP DROP: Notre Dame's luck, thoughts on LSU-Alabama
Every week during the season, New York Post online sports editors Justin Terranova and Marc Raimondi go toe-to-toe on the latest hot topics in college football.This week, they tackle the...
'We're not playing good football:' Eli says he and Giants have to improve
Is Eli Manning in a slump?“Whatever you want to call it, we’re not playing good football,’’ Manning said on Monday, the day after a 24-20 loss to the Steelers ended...
PATH train to resume limited service Tuesday
Some PATH trains will begin operating tomorrow for the first time since Hurricane Sandy. The Journal Square-33rd Street line will run from 5 am to 10 pm, bypassing Christopher and...
FOX's Bradshaw says 'bucket of chicken' joke was directed at Johnson
One man’s racial gaffe is another man’s inside joke.Terry Bradshaw, the former Steelers quarterback who is now an NFL studio analyst for FOX, laughed on Sunday’s halftime show as he...
Nor'easter threatens weather-weary NY, NJ
A week after Superstorm Sandy pummeled the East Coast, wiping out entire communities, residents were bracing for yet another potentially damaging storm. A nor'easter taking shape Monday in the Gulf...
Transit update for tonight's Nets game
As the city continues to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the city’s public transportation system is also continuing to get back on its feet.That has had a major...
POLL: Are you more likely to vote or buy Halo 4?
Forget Obama and Romney, the real winner on Tuesday may be Master Chief.According to a poll conducted by IGN.com, more than half of registered voters who participated in the survey...
Three things to watch for in Nets-Timberwolves
Now that the Nets have their first game – and first win – out of the way, it’s time to settle into the grind of the regular season schedule, which...
William Shatner - there's an app for him
Actor William Shatner is having a moment. A couple of years after CBS canceled his Twitter-inspired "$#*! My Dad Says" TV comedy, Shatner is at the top of the tech...
Red Bulls' Backe: Marquez mad at injury, not me
Red Bulls coach Hans Backe dismissed any notion that he’d had an argument with Rafa Marquez at halftime of Saturday’s playoff opener, but said the Mexican star may be a...
Red Bulls coach may bench top scorer Cooper again
It’s rare that the second-leading scorer in any league in any sport gets benched in the playoffs. But that’s exactly what happened to Red Bulls striker Kenny Cooper for Saturday’s...
Halo 4 Interview with Frank O’Connor
Halo 4 hits stores on Nov. 6 and will be one of the biggest games of the year. As you get ready to take Master Chief on another riveting journey...
TNT's Barkley thinks broadcasting career nearing end
According to Charles Barkley, his time on television might be coming to an premature end.The TNT NBA analyst has been giving viewers his candid and humorous takes for the past...
Power equipment continues to sit in Central Park days after marathon canceled
What a run-around! The city left more than a dozen generators and other pieces of heavy equipment -- desperately needed by cold and hungry New Yorkers who lost their homes...
Need For Speed: Most Wanted Review
Need For Speed Most Wanted isn’t a bad game; it’s just a bland one.As someone who has been a fan of the Need For Speed franchise for some time now,...
Huge fire burns in storm-ravaged Jersey City
A huge blaze can be seen from the sky as fire ripped through two apartment buildings in Jersey City today. The fire broke out at a building on Bramhall Avenue...
Some voting advocates object to NJ's email ballots
TRENTON — Some New Jersey election watchdog groups are worried about the security of letting displaced New Jersey residents vote by email. Rutgers-Newark Law School Professor Penny Venetis says that...
City's hardest hit criminal courthouses back in action
Grand jurors are back at work. Misdemeanants are lining up, grumbling, at the magnetometers. Most courtrooms are toasty -- though still without telephones. It was back to the usual organized...
WATCH: Warriors' Lee screams at Clippers' Griffin for flopping
Former Knicks forward David Lee had a message on Saturday night that would make NBA commissioner David Stern proud.In a 114-110 win for Lee’s Warriors over the Clippers, Lee got...
NYC kids head back to school, many of which remain without heat
City kids trudged back to school today, putting up with frigid temperatures in exchange for restoring some normalcy to their storm-ravaged lives. More than 85 percent of students -- enrolled...
Titans owner says jobs on the line after team embarrassed by Bears
Titans owner Bud Adams had already given opposing fans the middle finger, but now he’s verbally passing along that same sentiment toward his dismal team.After the Titans got blown out...
Wallace out for Nets vs. Timberwolves
The Nets will be without starting small forward Gerald Wallace Monday night when they play the Minnesota Timberwolves at Barclays Center. Wallace sprained his left ankle late in the fourth...
DVD Extra: Nancy Olson on 'Sunset Blvd'
No, Nancy Olson doesn't think Betty Schaeffer, her level-headed character in "Sunset Blvd,'' goes back to Artie -- the financee (Jack Webb) she dumped -- after her new lover Joe...
Angry Jerry Jones locked out of Cowboys' locker room
The Cowboys are far from where Jerry Jones wants them to be, and the owner dealt with even more frustraton following a 19-13 loss to the undefeated Falcons.After the defeat...
Romney begins final push in Orlando
SANFORD, Fla. – Mitt Romney today began his final campaign push with an urgent plea for supporters to turn out “every single vote” at the polls tomorrow so that he...
Tempers flaring as gas lines continue to frustrate drivers
As gas lines reportedly get shorter, so are the emotional fuses of storm-battered New Yorkers. Chaos nearly erupted this morning at a Hess station in Queens Village as motorists waited...
Scott, McKnight, Ellis sit out Jets practice
Jets coach Rex Ryan hoped his team would get healthy during the bye week. It has, but it's still not 100 percent.LB Bart Scott (toe), RB Joe McKnight (ankle) and...
Outtake: David Thomson on that 'Casablanca' sequel
One person I was especially eager to interview for my Sunday piece on Howard Koch's proposed "Casablanca'' sequel was the esteemed film historian David Thomson -- whose recently released, highly...
Ryan: Jets 'not even close,' but excited about turning season around
Rex Ryan and the Jets returned to work Monday committed to fixing the problems that ailed them in the first half of the season.Ryan and his coaching staff spent the...
Queens man charged in gas run from Conn.
ORANGE, Conn. — A Queens man frustrated by the city's gas shortage caused by Superstorm Sandy is accused of improperly transporting gasoline from Connecticut. Orange police say Yunus Latif, of...
MTV to air fund-raiser for devastated Jersey shore
MTV, home of the "Jersey Shore" reality show, plans to air a fund-raising special to help rebuild New Jersey's devastated shoreline. The one-hour program will air Nov. 15 from MTV's...
3 soldiers from upstate NY killed in Afghanistan
Military officials say three US Army Reserve soldiers from upstate New York have been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense on Monday identified the soldiers...
Wild dogs kill 2-year-old boy at Pa. zoo exhibit
PITTSBURGH — A mother's attempt to give her two-year-old son a better view of wild African dogs turned into a tragedy at the Pittsburgh Zoo after the boy fell into...
A look at my free-agent predictions, and why the NYC Marathon fiasco made me think of Tom Glavine
Here are my top 30 free agents, featuring predictions of where they’ll land and how much money they’ll get. I’ve been doing this list for a number of years, although...
Bloomberg joins NYers on today's manic morning commute
Mayor Bloomberg kept his word about taking mass transit to work today as thousands across the area returned and work and school for the first time since Sandy devastated the...
Poll site changes: Suffolk County
POST-SANDY SUFFOLK COUNTY POLL SITE CHANGES PDF OF LIST LIST OF STORM-RUINED AREAS WHERE MTA WILL SHUTTLE VOTERS BABYLON Oak Beach Community Ctr, 4226 Oak Beach Rd., Oak Beach has...
Post-Sandy poll site changes
POLL SITE CHANGES FOR NEW YORK CITY PDF OF LIST NYC Poll Site Locator LIST OF STORM-RUINED AREAS WHERE MTA WILL SHUTTLE VOTERS MANHATTAN THE BRONX BROOKLYN QUEENS STATEN ISLAND...
Poll site changes: The Bronx
PDF OF LIST LIST OF STORM-RUINED AREAS WHERE MTA WILL SHUTTLE VOTERS NYC Poll Site Locator THE BRONX * Locust Point Civic Hall, 4400 Locust Point Drive, Bronx, NY 10465...
Poll site changes: Brooklyn
PDF OF LIST LIST OF STORM-RUINED AREAS WHERE MTA WILL SHUTTLE VOTERS NYC Poll Site Locator BROOKLYN * PS 15 New, 71 Sullivan Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 has been moved...
Poll site changes: Manhattan
PDF OF LIST LIST OF STORM-RUINED AREAS WHERE MTA WILL SHUTTLE VOTERS NYC Poll Site Locator MANHATTAN * Bard H.S.E.C.- 97, 525 East Houston Street New York, NY 10002 has...
Poll site changes: Queens
PDF OF LIST LIST OF STORM-RUINED AREAS WHERE MTA WILL SHUTTLE VOTERS NYC Poll Site Locator QUEENS * Young Israel, 716 Beach 9 Street, Far Rockaway, NY 11691 has been...
Poll site changes: Staten Island
PDF OF LIST LIST OF STORM-RUINED AREAS WHERE MTA WILL SHUTTLE VOTERS NYC Poll Site Locator STATEN ISLAND * Staten Island Academy, 715 Todt Hill Road, Staten Island, NY 10304...
Schools that may not have heat Mon., Nov. 5
SCHOOLS THAT MAY NOT HAVE HEAT MONDAY, NOV. 5 (VIEW AS PDF) CHECK YOUR KIDS' SCHOOL STATUS ONLINE MANHATTAN M539 — New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math High School,...
POLL: Should Lindsey Vonn be able to ski against men?
Lindsey Vonn's request to compete in a men's World Cup downhill race has been rejected by the International Ski Federation. The FIS council met Saturday in Oberhofen, Switzerland, and "confirmed...
US soldier faces hearing in Afghanistan massacre
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — A preliminary hearing began Monday for the US soldier accused of carrying out one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Staff...
Show them the money
She’s going to quit her job. Not today, not tomorrow, but sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, she says. Right after her annual review, when her boss will tell her what...
Go to Greg
How do you handle employees who have been affected by the storm personally but seem to have forgotten they still have work responsibilities, too, without seeming callous?Events such as these...
Music therapist
Pushing a cart filled with drums and guitars through the halls of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Karen Popkin may not be a medical doctor — but she does play a...
Tips for talking (more) money
Is it possible to get more green without giving up or wrecking your relationship with an employer you love? Maybe, say the workplace experts we spoke to. Here are some...
Chill factor
Most popular songs 1. Gangnam Style, PSY 2. Locked Out of Heaven, Bruno Mars 3. Die Young, Kesha 4. One More Night, Maroon 5 5. We Are Never, Ever Getting,...
Business briefs
1.9 percenter Apple paid an income tax rate of only 1.9 percent on its earnings outside the US in its latest fiscal year, a securities filing shows. The tech giant...
Labor unrest baking
It’s shaping up as a big week for organized labor. In addition to the presidential election, some unionized workers at bankrupt Hostess Brands appear to be girding for a strike....
Jean-Georges spells out his plan for ABC
Award-winning chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is in talks to take over the former Conran Shop in ABC Carpet & Home’s flagship store in the Flatiron District, Side Dish has learned. The...
Sandyman special
As the saying goes, “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” At least with these magazines you can do something about what the weather did to...
Bharara insider streak on line
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara is looking to keep his winning streak alive. With a 6-0 record in trial convictions against defendants caught in his insider-trading probe, Wall Street’s top...
Post-storm GDP gains to double losses: expert
Hiring in the long-depressed US construction industry will get a boost from the rebuilding that will follow Superstorm Sandy — and lift economic growth in the first two quarters of...
Crane pain is finally over on 57th St.
Residents and hotel guests who were evacuated from several Midtown buildings after hurricane winds damaged a skyscraper crane last week were finally allowed back into the area last night. People...
Grocery’s jobs water-bogged
It’s code red in Red Hook. The flooded Brooklyn peninsula, already devastated by Hurricane Sandy, is now facing another disaster — mass unemployment. The monster storm has claimed a critical...
Power problems continue for 130,000 in city
More than 130,000 city electricity customers are still without power — and it’s anyone’s guess when their nightmare may be over. The current timetable for power restoration is sometime by...
City school openings are cold comfort
Nearly a million New York City schoolkids are expected to be back in class today — and they had better bundle up. At least three dozen schools likely won’t have...
Waiting in gas lines now a ‘fuel’-time job
Desperate drivers waited in hours-long lines for gasoline yesterday — as officials warned that it will still be several days before supplies get back to normal. About half of the...
Evacuee stats don’t abode well
About 40,000 city residents remain displaced because of Hurricane Sandy — and officials yesterday acknowledged they have no idea what they’re going to do with thousands of them in the...
Trains and buses will be packed during today's commute
Rush-hour riders can get to work today — but it’s a gale-force headache. Six more subway lines yesterday crossed under the East River for the first time since Sandy struck,...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn *** Two young men were repeatedly stabbed in the back and chest in a Brownsville subway station early yesterday, authorities said. The victims, ages 20 and 21, were waiting...
Sea? It’s all Mitt’s fault!
My, That was quick. Hurricane Sandy had barely ripped through the region when hysterical politicians and purveyors of junk science banded together and — aha! — located the reason for...
Murdered UWS children remembered in candlelight service
More than 300 mourners gathered in Manhattan’s Riverside Park last night to memorialize two “beautiful and sweet” Upper West Side children slain on Oct. 25, allegedly by their nanny. The...
Pols plan post-Sandy aid - for themselves
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo and legislators are still pushing for a pay raise for lawmakers — even in the midst of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation, The Post has learned. And the...
Enterprise’s final frontier
NORFOLK, Va. — The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is shutting down its reactors as its storied career comes to a close. The USS Enterprise finished its 25th and final...
PR’s future in voters’ hands
SAN JUAN — Puerto Rican voters tomorrow will again ponder a 114-year-old conundrum: What type of relationship do they really want with the United States? The choices, as ever, are:...
NYER is ‘super’ smart
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s . . . Superman’s home planet! Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has pinpointed a real location for the fictional...
‘Bunny’ beverage battle
Honchos at Playboy’s bunny-eared empire are asses, claims one energy-drink company. PlayBev — a beverage firm that manufactures and markets the “ultra-sexy” Playboy Energy Drink worldwide — is suing the...
Disney movie sets ‘Wreck-It’
The weekend box office was not only undeterred by the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, it was buoyed. Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph” opened strongly with $49.1 million, and Robert Zemeckis’ “Flight,” starring...
$truggle for state Senate
ALBANY — The GOP’s lone power base in state government is at stake in tomorrow’s races for the state Senate.GOP bosses have poured more than $5 million and Democratic leaders...
Hail Bam, go Rom: Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended his praise for President Obama after superstorm Sandy, but said he would stick with his fellow Republicans and vote for Mitt Romney in tomorrow's...
Shuttle service for storm-hit voters
Stranded voters in the Rockaways and the hard-hit beach areas of Staten Island and Brooklyn will be able to take free shuttle services to and from the polls on Election...
Surging Mitt says Obama ‘blue it’ in once-loyal Keystone State
Mitt Romney yesterday stormed into Pennsylvania in a bold move to try to snatch away one of President Obama’s strongholds, as new polls showed the race tightening in the Keystone...
A second ‘blow’ is coming
Con Ed yesterday warned that the lights that finally flickered back on for thousands of city customers over the weekend could be knocked out again by an expected nor’easter. “I’m...
Marines begin Hurricane Sandy relief work in Queens and Staten Island
They’re storming the beaches! A wave of Marines hit the most hurricane-battered sections of Queens and Staten Island yesterday to bring much-needed assistance and supplies to increasingly desperate residents. Armed...
Marathon canceled, but generators and supplies still sit unused in park
What a run-around! The city left more than a dozen generators desperately needed by cold and hungry New Yorkers who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy still stranded in Central...
Hurricane-relief Guardsmen tossed out of armory - for Victoria's Secret show
The Victoria’s Secret show must go on — even if it means kicking out hardworking men and women in uniform. Dozens of National Guardsmen, and Army and Air Force personnel...
Looters & the NYPD
The looting that besmirched New York’s otherwise admirable response to Hurricane Sandy carries a lesson for a trio of federal lawsuits now targeted at the NYPD. Let’s hope that the...
Obamanomics = never enough jobs
The core of President Obama’s re-election argument is this: The economy is on the right track; things are getting better — stay the course. Thus, White House economist Alan Krueger...
Forgotten, but not gone: Staten Island after Sandy
The Issue: The devastating after-effects of Hurricane Sandy on Staten Island, and the need for assistance. *** Once again, Mayor Bloomberg played Emperor Nero, fiddling while the city burns (“Deadly...
Everyone in the (car)pool! (not)
The Issue: Last week’s rule that passenger vehicles must contain at least three people to enter Manhattan. *** The mayor has made a bad situation worse by enacting a silly...
Covering for Corzine
It has been a year since trading firm MF Global — run by ex-Goldman Sachs CEO and Democratic New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine — collapsed, taking $1.6 billion in client...
Real hope and change
Americans tomorrow make a fateful choice: Will they continue down the path to terminal indebtedness and endless economic decay — or will they try something different, something more hopeful? Will...
Election day: Taking the pulse of America
What Samuel Johnson said of Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” can be said of this campaign: No one ever wished it longer. Voters, having heard enough, might agree that it is splendid...
Bam’s Benghazi lies
To get to the truth, connect the lies. Do what intel analysts and detectives do: Build a scenario from the facts and watch the lies blink red. And when anyone...
A marriage of bawdy unequals
The battle of the sexes ended in an upset the other night in “Le Nozze di Figaro.” No, nobody rewrote the libretto of Mozart’s 1786 opera, about a countess and...
Giants Blitz
HERO Pittsburgh’s defense contained Eli Manning, Hakeem Nicks and everyone else on the Giants’ offense yesterday, holding the unit to just 13 points (the Giants scored seven on a defensive...
Giants report card
OFFENSE: F Where the heck has Eli Manning’s mojo gone? About as bad a performance (10 for 24, 125 yards, 1 INT) as he’s had in years and his receivers...
Parx Racing Analysis
Post Time: 12:25 p.m. All horses appear in post position order1. 1m; $25,000; cl($12,500); 3up; (f&m)STARSHIP MADE IT steps up in class after winning last two starts and was claimed...
Tomorrow’s Parx Racing Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1m&70y; $28,000; mdn cl($25,000); 2YO PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Real Real Soon(L),120A Arroyo8-3-xAllard2 Brody Boy(L),120JHmpshrJr7-3-2Dandy3 Real Blessing ,120C Ormx-x-xAllen4 Three for Two(M),118FPnnngtn9-6-xRyan5 Front View(L),118S...
Aqueduct Charts
November 4th, 2012 Clear And Fast. Turf Firm.©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur; $56,000; alw; 3upOff: 12:21. Good. won drivingTime: 22.20, 45.07, 57.32, 1:09.73.Trainer: David JacobsonWinner: Ch g, 4, by...
Affrunti’s Turf Paradise Grade
FIRST-3f; $3,500; 2YO7-Secret Ocean 5-15-Lady Macarena8-13-Mr Conner Can 9-26-TchfRedVelvet12-11-PrtyLkeChrle7-28-Panfis Corona 6-12-OnSndyfternn15-19-Mr Corona Kat15-14-El Estero 3-11a-LstAmrcnCy7-2SECOND-6f; $9,000; cl($10,000); 3up1-NuanceofSunce8-53-Fierce Act 8-15-Pop the Cork 5-24-All Mighty Buck5-12-To Terataki 4-16-Cooper's Storm6-1THIRD-5 1/2f; $15,500;...
NHL talks resume tomorrow: report
The NHL and Players’ Association are tentatively scheduled to resume bargaining talks tomorrow in New York, ESPN reported last night. The NHLPA also has scheduled an internal conference call between...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYNov. 5TUENov. 6WEDNov. 7THUNov. 8FRINov. 9SATNov. 10SUNNov. 11KnicksPhiladelphia7:00TV - MSG NetworkESPN 98.7 FMNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEDal.7:30MSGESPNNOGAMENOGAMEMinnesota7:30TV - YES NetworkWFAN 660 AMNOGAMEMia.7:30YESWFANNOGAMEOrl.7:00YESWFANNOGAMEOrl.3:00YESWBBRRed BullsNOGAMENOGAMED.C.8:00NBCSNTBDTBDTBDTBDHOMEAWAY
Sports Shorts
GOLF: Fourteen-year-old earns spot in Masters Fourteen-year-old Guan Tianlang of China earned a trip to the Masters with a victory yesterday at the Asia-Pacific Championship in Bangkok. Guan will become...
Today's Sports on the Air
Basketball7:00 p.m.Knicks at 76ers MSG, ESPN (98.7 FM)7:30 p.m.Timberwolves at Nets YES, NBATV, WFAN (660 AM)Football8:30 p.m.Eagles at Saints ESPN, WFAN (660 AM) (joined in progress)Horse Racing12:30 p.m.Parx Ch. 717:00...
The Post Line
NFLTonightFavoriteOpeningCurrent(O/U)UnderdogSAINTS43(51 1/2)EaglesThursdayColts33(42 1/2)JAGUARSSundayGiants64(48 1/2)BENGALSSEAHAWKS66 1/2(38 1/2)JetsPATRIOTS1211(50 1/2)BillsBUCCANEERS2 1/22 1/2(48)ChargersBroncos5 1/24 1/2(48 1/2)PANTHERSDOLPHINS6 1/26(44)TitansRAVENS7 1/27 1/2(46)RaidersFalcons11 1/2(54)SAINTSVIKINGS31(47)LionsEAGLES11 1/2(46)Cowboys49ERS1212(38 1/2)RamsBEARS11(42 1/2)TexansMondaySTEELERS12 1/212(43)ChiefsHome team in CAPSNCAA FootballTomorrowFavoriteCurrent (O/U)UnderdogTOLEDO6Ball St.WednesdayOHIO3 1/2Bow. GreenThursdayFlorida St.13 1/2VA....
Breeders’ Cup battles settle yearly honors
ARCADIA, Calif. — With his score in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Mile capping a 5-for-6 campaign that included daylight wins on grass in the Woodbine Mile, Shadwell Turf Mile and Fourstardave,...
Baffert licks wounds after Breeders' Cup 0-fer at home track
ARCADIA, Calif. — Trainer Bob Baffert — after a disheartening two days of the 29th Breeders’ Cup World Championships over his home track at Santa Anita in which his horses...
Boras: Yankees a viable landing spot for Soriano
Closer Mariano Rivera’s return to the Yankees takes care of the ninth inning. Yet agent Scott Boras does not believe it definitely signals the end of Rafael Soriano’s Yankees career....
Nets begin grind after historic debut
The Nets spent the past several months waiting for this first season in Brooklyn to get under way. And now that it finally has, after the Nets picked up a...
Bears enjoy turnover feast
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Charles Tillman forced four fumbles. Brian Urlacher scored on a 46-yard interception return. Plus, the Bears turned a blocked punt into a touchdown. Even when they don’t...
Peyton rally not his 1st rodeo
CINCINNATI — Peyton Manning’s two interceptions had put the Broncos behind. The four-time MVP was going to need yet another fourth-quarter comeback to pull it out. No one’s better at...
Colts rookie (433 yards) stars in front of Pagano
INDIANAPOLIS — Chuck Pagano provided the inspiration, then Andrew Luck delivered a record-setting performance in yet another win for the surprising Colts. After a 23-20 victory over the Dolphins, the...
Pack smack Cards for 4th straight
Tom Crabtree had a 72-yard touchdown that was Green Bay’s longest of the season, Randall Cobb added two scoring catches and the Packers got a 31-17 victory yesterday at Lambeau...
After loss to Panthers, Shanahan says Redskins looking toward next season
LANDOVER, Md. — Uttering “disappointed” or “disappointing” no fewer than nine times during his postgame news conference, Redskins coach Mike Shanahan sounded very much like someone ready to write off...
Mayor, NYRR should have said: ‘We blew it’
To err is human, forgive divine. But for crying out loud, once in a while give the Big Guy a shot at the latter! The NYC Marathon fiasco was, well,...
Smith’s 20 off bench fuel Knicks
After watching J.R. Smith struggle with shooting in the season opener and then appear somewhat tentative early yesterday, Knicks coach Mike Woodson had a subtle message for his sixth-man shooting...
Knicks vet Wallace plays well in garbage time
Rasheed Wallace said after the opener he had embraced his “Brian Scalabrine role.’’ But in New York parlance, it is the Herb Williams role — until at least Wallace gets...
76ers await Bynum return
Andrew Bynum was the 76ers’ haul in the biggest move of the summer, the four-team mega-deal that landed Dwight Howard with the Lakers. But Bynum, who hasn’t played in Philadelphia’s...
Woodson's guards are making a ‘point’ for Knicks
The last time Kurt Thomas played with the Knicks might have been the last time the franchise had stability at point guard. At least it seems like it. Who knew...
Hustling Anthony sparks another impressive Knicks win
When Carmelo Anthony dove into the third row saving a loose ball in the first quarter after blocking Nick Young’s fastbreak drive, the Sixers should have known it was over....
Falcons struggle but nip Cowboys to remain unbeaten
ATLANTA — The Falcons might be the NFL’s lone remaining unbeaten team at 8-0, but they can still safely play the “no respect” card. That was clear last night as...
NFL voids Payton’s Saints contract extension
ATLANTA — If the reeling Jets find themselves in the market for a new coach in 2013, Sean Payton might be available.The status of the Saints’ suspended, Super Bowl-winning coach...
Coughlin rips Giants 'awful' special teams
The best thing the Giants did Sunday night on special teams was thwart a fake field goal try by the Steelers but that was about it, which is why coach...
Hearts in right place, but Giants just blue it
They wanted this. Badly. They wanted to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers for themselves, of course, because that would move them to 7-2, because it would have solidified their choke-hold on...
Giants blame poor tackling for Redman's big day
The Giants didn’t allow Isaac Redman to beat them with speed, quickness or unexpected execution. “Just poor tackling,” linebacker Michael Boley said. “That’s pretty much what it boils down to.”...
Steelers RB runs roughshod over Giants
When Giants defensive players peeled off their uniforms in the locker room after their 24-20 loss to the Steelers last night at MetLife Stadium, every one of them likely had...
Schwartz does it again
For the second time in three weeks, Post Giants beat writer Paul Schwartz nailed the winner and final score, as he predicted Big Blue would fall 24-20 to the Steelers...
Manning’s ‘off’ when Giants needed him to be electric
The power outage that drove Eli Manning from his flooded Hoboken digs to a Manhattan hotel followed him to MetLife Stadium yesterday. There aren’t many Giants fans who would trade...
Sacrifice pays off for ‘noble’ Steelers
The Steelers did their part for the New York metropolitan area in the wake of the devastation Hurricane Sandy had left behind, so maybe they had this coming to them....
Cruz, Nicks no factor in Giants loss
On a third-and-seven play yesterday during the Giants’ first drive of the second half, Eli Manning tried to hit Victor Cruz over the middle. But Manning led his receiver too...
Eli vanishes as Steelers end Giants’ four-game win streak
This has been a long time coming for the Giants, who have been leaving little hints and displaying various signs that all is not well, despite their winning ways. It...
Playing president
It’s hard to get to the Oval Office. Just ask Tony Goldwyn. Goldwyn, who plays President Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III, the commander-in-chief on ABC’s “Scandal,” began not in a log...
‘Mob Wives’ dig in
‘Mob Wives,” the snarling, mafia-women reality show shot in Staten Island, is going to make the hurricane and tragic aftermath a part of the upcoming season, according the show’s creator....
Talk show guests
MONDAYCAROLINE RHEA, PAUL DELVECCHIO - LIVE! with Kelly and Michael, 9 a.m., Ch. 7SHERYL CROW, RICK SPRINGFIELD, JOSH ELLIOTT - Rachael Ray, 10 a.m., Ch. 7PHAEDRA PARKS - The Wendy...
Lonely GIrl
Cheryl Burke is already planning ahead for life after “Dancing With the Stars.” The two-time champion — who is currently partnered with NFL hero Emmitt Smith — has begun shopping...
Eddie’s comic tribute
Comics ranging from Arsenio Hall and Tracy Morgan to Adam Sandler and Russell Brand came to tell stories about Eddie Murphy for a TV tribute to the Brooklyn-born comedian that...
No ‘Downton’ for Dame?
‘Downton Abbey” matriarch Dame Maggie Smith is looking increasingly unlikely to take on a fourth season of the highbrow soap after she suffered a heart scare late last week. Dame...
Bristol suit dropped
The man who made headlines for heckling Bristol Palin in a California bar — which then showed up as a scene in Palin’s reality show — has been thrown out...
Michelle & Ann’s campaign style
Talk of jobs and health care may have dominated election season, but Michelle Obama and Ann Romney’s fashion picks also created quite a buzz, with each bringing her own brand...
Weird but true
If an Irish bookie is correct, there’s no reason to vote tomorrow. Despite polls showing Mitt Romney and President Obama running neck and neck, Dublin bookmaker Paddy Power is so...
Alabama's Saban shows again why he's the class of college football
BATON ROUGE — Nick Saban is being paid about $5.997 million to coach the University of Alabama’s football team this season. He is underpaid. Check that, he is grossly underpaid....
Midtown buildings near dangling crane reopened
Midtown residents who were evacuated when a luxury high-rise crane was damaged during Superstorm Sandy are being allowed back in. Buildings Department spokesman Tony Sclafani said Sunday the operation to...
Wilson, Lynch lead Seahawks past Vikings
SEATTLE — Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch had all the answers for Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings. Lynch ran for 124 yards and a touchdown, Wilson threw three first-half...
Super rookie Martin, Buccaneers race past Raiders
OAKLAND, Calif. — Rookie Doug Martin rushed for a franchise-record 251 yards and four touchdowns and Ahmad Black intercepted a Carson Palmer pass after Oakland had cut an 18-point deficit...
Giants cough up 10-point fourth-quarter lead, snapping win streak
A four game-winning streak came to an end yesterday for the Giants and tucked into their 24-20 loss to the Steelers is the complete vanishing of Eli Manning’s once-vaunted passing...
WATCH: Former UFC star knocks out opponent after eye poke
They say you should never take your eyes off your opponent, but it worked out for Anthony Johnson.The former UFC welterweight contender knocked out DJ Linderman with one punch after...