March 24, 2013
Kansas gets the best of ex-coach Williams, North Carolina again
KANSAS CITY — The hard feelings haven’t faded. It’s been 10 years since Roy Williams left Kansas for North Carolina, but Jayhawks fans still treat the former coach like Walter...
Islanders blank Panthers, 3-0
The Islanders felt they had been the victims of bad luck of late. The schedule makers, however, gave them a gift yesterday: the punchless Panthers. Starting fast but tailing off,...
St. John's falls in two OTs to Dayton in NCAA first round
Jim Jabir took a deep breath as he sat in the news conference. His young Dayton Flyers had just pulled off one of the biggest wins in school history. It's...
GOP support for gay marriage in 2016? Rove sees possibility
WASHINGTON — GOP strategist Karl Rove says he can imagine a Republican candidate in the next presidential campaign supporting gay marriage. The statement from the former adviser to President George...
Thunderstorms stop Tiger's march at Bay Hill
ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods is going to have to wait one more day to try to reclaim No. 1 in the world. Moments after Woods made a 10-foot birdie...
Ravens sign former Broncos star DE Dumervil
DENVER — The Denver Broncos are in need of a pass-rushing partner for Von Miller amid reports Elvis Dumervil has decided to play for the Baltimore Ravens.Broncos football operations chief...
Oladipo, Indiana come back to beat game Temple
DAYTON, Ohio — Victor Oladipo jumped into the air in celebration with Cody Zeller, pounded his chest and yelled out, “Let’s go!” He certainly did. Oladipo put Indiana in the...
Syrian opposition leader quits, resistance government plunges into disarray
BEIRUT — Syria's opposition plunged into disarray Sunday as its president quit and its military chief refused to recognize the newly elected prime minister of an interim government for rebel-held...
Yankees in 'serious' discussions with Angels about acquiring OF Wells
The Yankees are closing in on a trade for Angels outfielder Vernon Wells, sources from both sides of the discussion confirmed with The Post.One source described the talks as “serious...
Ellis Island museum 'not likely' to re-open in 2013
The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, which sustained severe damage to its infrastructure from the surging waters of Superstorm Sandy, is not expected to re-open to the public this year, the...
Craft's last-second 3-pointer lifts Ohio State to Sweet 16 (video)
DAYTON, Ohio — The place roared when Aaron Craft delivered. The hometown kid. The hometown team. Ohio State’s stupendous junior point guard swished the NCAA Tournament’s most memorable shot thus...
WATCH: Former NFL cheerleader in bloody MMA fight
There were no pom-poms available for Rachey Wray on Friday night. Just gloved fists.The former NFL cheerleader, who is making a transition to MMA, found herself in a wild, bloody...
Nets can still have successful trip despite loss to Clippers
PHOENIX -- Ahead of Sunday night's game in Phoenix - the fourth stop on the eight-game, 17-day odyssey - here are some thoughts on both Saturday night's loss in Phoenix...
Syracuse star's home catches fire during NCAA tournament game
The home of Syracuse star player Michael Carter-Williams caught on fire Saturday night while the Orange were playing against California in the NCAA tournament. Flames started shooting from the roof...
Devils to be without injured Kovalchuk for 2-4 weeks
Add Ilya Kovalchuk to the laundry list of injuries that the Devils are dealing with. The winger injured his right shoulder in the third period of Saturday night's 2-1 win...
St. John's season ends in second round of NIT
St. John’s stay in the NIT summed up its inconsistent roller-coaster of a season. It began with a dramatic victory at the buzzer and ended with a disappointing road loss....
LI driver charged with DWI after 'killing' pedestrian
Authorities have arrested a Long Island driver in connection with the early morning death of a pedestrian. Suffolk County police say the 59-year-old Lake Grove man was driving the SUV...
Coney Island rides blessed for post-Sandy opening
While some New Yorkers prayed in churches, the folks on Coney Island had their amusement rides blessed for the season opening five months after Superstorm Sandy. The October storm destroyed...
'The Croods' tops weekend box office with estimated $44.7M
LOS ANGELES — The caveman comedy "The Croods" left an indelible mark on the wall, opening at No. 1 with $44.7 million, according to Sunday studio estimates. The 3-D adventure...
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre bashes Bloomberg's anti-gun ad plan, saying he 'can't buy America'
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre on Sunday challenged New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to spend $12 million on ads meant to pressure senators into backing strict new gun control...
Yankees GM Cashman: Jeter likely to start season on DL
TAMPA -- Derek Jeter is going to start the season on the DL.One day after getting four at-bats in a minor league game in which he was the DH, Jeter...
Kerry travels to Baghdad, insists Iraq shouldn't allow Iran to use airspace to aid Syria
BAGHDAD — Just days after the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry confronted Baghdad for continuing to grant Iran access to its...
Cyprus turns to EU for bailout help
BRUSSELS — Cypriot politicians turned to the European Union on Sunday in a last-ditch effort to help their island nation forge a viable plan to secure an international bailout after...
Bulldogs Gone-zaga as Shockers advance
SALT LAKE CITY — As the buzzer sounded on one of the biggest upsets of this year’s NCAA Tournament, as the final seconds ticked off Wichita State’s 76-70 win over...
Orange holds on to keep last ‘Big’ dance going
SAN JOSE, Calif. — It’s Syracuse’s last chance to add to its Big East legacy and the Orange seem determined to make the most of it. Their journey toward the...
Florida Gulf Coast follows wild path to crash NCAA party
PHILADELPHIA — They won’t be tight. These are uncharted waters for Florida Gulf Coast and not only because almost no one outside Fort Myers, Fla., had ever heard of the...
Harvard magic runs out in blowout loss
SALT LAKE CITY — Sweat, blood, tears and even teeth. Harvard left them all on the Energy Solutions Arena floor yesterday, but it wasn’t enough. Not against an Arizona team...
Blue comes up Golden once again for Marquette
LEXINGTON, Ky. — This time there was no last-second shot, no dagger in the heart that kept getting ripped open every time the Marquette Golden Eagles saw that ESPN commercial...
Winning ticket for $338M Powerball jackpot sold in NJ
DES MOINES, Iowa — A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. It was...
Mets slugger embraces his Jewish roots
PORT ST. LUCIE — Ike Davis’ favorite greeting to those who enter and leave the Mets clubhouse is “shalom” — a Hebrew expression for both hello and goodbye. It is...
Options could open up later for Mets, Yanks
The Mets and Yankees share more than a city this year. Their signature players (David Wright, Derek Jeter) are trying to beat the clock to be ready physically for Opening...
Three injured after driver loses control on car in B'klyn
Three young women were injured last night when a driver lost control of his car and jumped a curb in Brooklyn, authorities said. The driver was traveling north on Ocean...
Three must-see games on Day 6 of the NCAA tournament
The Post highlights three games that are must-see as the NCAA tournament continues with eight games on Sunday. (1) Kansas vs. (8) North Carolina – South Region, 5:15 p.m., CBS...
NCAA tournament third-round picks (Sunday's afternoon session)
Each game day during the NCAA tournament, the Post's Marc Raimondi, Anthony Sulla-Heffinger and Justin Terranova will be providing you with their input for that day's games. For the afternoon...
Syracuse Orange squeeze by to keep final 'Big' dance alive
SAN JOSE, Calif.— It’s their last chance to add to their Big East legacy and the Syracuse Orange seem determined to make the most of it. Their journey toward the...
Think it can’t happen here? It already has
Much was made of the tiny European Union member Cyprus last week as regulators attempt to get their pound of flesh from the savings accounts of its banks, with a...
Cypru$ under a tax
It’s haircut time for Cyprus’ largest bank depositors, as the island’s banking regulators hammered out an 11th-hour bailout deal to avert financial collapse last night. The country agreed to a...
Yo, this is your captain, and I am in the house
With prime travel season preparing for takeoff, the discounter website CouponCodes4u.com came up with one quirky query: What regional accent do passengers like to hear over the DC-10 intercom? So...
New Montauk project
Buyers are circling Montauk’s Panoramic View Resort, a swank beachfront property next to Gurney’s Inn that has Robert De Niro as a neighbor, according to a source in the bidding...
Blackstone, Icahn: ‘Let’s make a Dell!’
There could be a bidding war for Dell, sources close to the deal said. Both Blackstone Group and investor Carl Icahn reportedly each submitted rival bids late Friday night countering...
Coin of the Net realm
It’s a currency without a country. Bitcoins, a novel form of Internet cash, have shot up in value over the last six months and are spawning a host of startups...
IPOs a key to jobs
IPOs, PDQ! Americans who are frustrated by the seemingly glacial pace of jobs creation since the Great Recession might consider taking up that chant. At least that’s the consensus of...
Ackman roasted on St. Barts
There was a lot to talk about on the beaches that dot the eastern Caribbean last week — from the chaos in Cyprus to new highs for the Dow —...
NY firings down: survey
Gradually, maybe even agonizingly, job prospects are brightening in the New York metro area, according to a survey conducted by employment-services company Manpower. The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey found that...
Citi, no pity, not pretty
Dear John: Thanks for all your good work with The Post. It is one of my morning highlights. I will be brief. This past summer I fell behind in my...
Keeping track of billable hours
If you often use lawyers or other service providers that bill you by the hour, you may often find yourself shocked by a large amount or unexpected problem on the...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS PHIL KNIGHT Nike chairman just did it, beating expectations and sending shares skyhooking. DICK COSTOLO In 88 characters: Twitter CEO celebrates company’s seventh anniversary of tweet uccess. PETER KING...
New Yorkers map their own private Manhattans
Ask a New Yorker to fill in a blank map of Manhattan and you could get anything from a play-by-play of a person’s sexual conquests to a heartbreaking journey through...
Obama administration talking about arming Syrian rebels
TEL AVIV, Israel — The administration has been engaged for weeks in detailed and substantive conversations about new legislation to arm the Syrian rebels — though it hasn’t taken a...
Final ‘punk ass’ words
The knife-wielding maniac killed by cops in Brooklyn yelled “You punk-ass motherf--kers!” to officers just before they gunned him down, his roommate said yesterday. Cops fired nine times at Jackson...
UES dad busted for groping sleeping woman on JetBlue flight
An Upper East Side father groped a woman sleeping on a New York-bound JetBlue flight — then defended the creepy move by claiming, “it’s not like I molested you,” according...
Politics of duck & cover
Dark clouds are forming. With apologies to Billy Joel, to be in a New York State of Mind is to have a sense of dread. That’s because the Democratic candidates...
One helix of a letter
Sixty years ago, scientist Francis Crick wrote his 12-year-old son, Michael, a letter in which he said he and colleague James Watson had discovered something “very beautiful” — the structure...
A sleeper hit! Tilda at MoMA
Tilda Swinton’s latest performance is a real snooze. The Scottish actress is the newest exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art — in a performance piece for which she sleeps...
Paris rings in the new
PARIS — Thousands of onlookers yesterday gathered outside Notre Dame to hear the inaugural ringing of nine gargantuan new bells at the landmark cathedral. The bells — the biggest weighs...
$3.4M is Liu’s to lose
Operating largely under the radar, Comptroller John Liu has pulled off an amazing feat in the race for mayor by filing claims that would entitle him to $3.4 million in...
Arrest in Coney slaying
Cops collared a thug who killed one man and shot three other people in Brooklyn, authorities said. Joseph Brown, 29, shot Matt Natal and Angel Rivera in a Coney Island...
Scaffolds and sidewalk sheds on the rise in New York
Scaffolds and sidewalk sheds seem to be everywhere these days — because they are. The number of the ugly overhead structures has steadily climbed each year since 2009 — to...
Turning the grandeur of NYC into a rat maze
New York’s pedestrians suffer all sorts of insults, but scaffolding is particularly undignified — you can’t feel like you are striving through the world’s greatest city, with its striking juxtapositions...
Warhol's poet pal battling landlord on LES
He’s been defying the man for half a century. Now a beloved 88-year-old poet and pal of Andy Warhol is battling his millionaire landlord on the Lower East Side. Taylor...
Mary J. Blige new spokesperson for American Cancer Society, even though her own charity melted down
Her own charity melted down, but that didn’t stop the American Cancer Society from picking Mary J. Blige to back its efforts. The R&B singer is one of the new...
IRS sets its pha$ers on ‘dumb’
There seems to be no sign of intelligent life at the IRS. The agency has apologized for the six-minute parody of “Star Trek” it made at a cost of nearly...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Queens *** The man pictured above is suspected of being the unholy thief who swiped the pocketbook of a 65-year-old woman praying at a Woodside mosque, police said. The suspect...
MTA clerks forced to pay for accepting counterfeit bills
Crooks and unsuspecting straphangers forked over 917 counterfeit bills — with a face value of $19,060 — to pay for MetroCards last year, according to the MTA. In 2011, the...
Anne Frank ‘tree’ will grow in NY
INDIANAPOLIS — Saplings from the chestnut tree that stood as a symbol of hope for Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis for two years in Amsterdam are being...
Mike’s $12M anti-gun ad ‘air’strike
Mayor Bloomberg is planning to spend $12 million for an ad campaign meant to pressure senators on gun control, administration sources said. The national campaign kicks off tomorrow and targets...
‘NCIS’ star accused of waging vindictive campaign against ex-husband
She plays a Goth forensic scientist on TV’s most popular show — and actress Pauley Perrette allegedly follows a dark script in real life, too. Her ex-husband says he broke...
Winning Powerball ticket sold in Jersey
A lucky lottery player who bought their ticket in New Jersey is the sole winner of last night’s $338.3 million Powerball drawing — bagging one of the largest jackpots in...
Ex-Giant’s son in DUI bust
New York Giant football legend and loudmouth Hyundai dealer Brad Benson probably won’t be casting his son in his over-the-top car ads anytime soon. Clint Benson, 21, allegedly ran down...
FDNY EMS Lt. spews racist, anti-Semitic tweets – but cried when confronted
He’s a bigot — and a blubbering crybaby. EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos, 34, uses an image of Hitler for his profile photo and “Bad Lieutenant” as his online name as...
China heat on N. Korea
China is cracking down on key imports to its ally North Korea amid nuclear tests and threats by the Stalinist dictatorship. Inspectors at the China-North Korea border are conducting more...
Wegmans allegedly loaned David Bouley $7M to keep restaurant empire afloat
A national supermarket chain allegedly loaned celebrity chef David Bouley a lot of lettuce to keep his restaurant empire afloat. Bouley was so hard up for cash at one point...
Dem budget targets rich
It’s the tale of two budgets. The Senate passed a draft spending plan yesterday that would slightly reduce the US debt load by taxing the wealthy — a plan that...
Are we ‘See’ing double?
Did you hear the one about the two popes? Pope Francis and his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict, knelt side by side in prayer at Castel Gandolfo south of Rome yesterday...
Witness who helped put David Ranta in prison for murder of B'klyn rabbi reveals why he recanted testimony
He helped send a wrongly accused man to prison because of what cops told him to say — and he helped get him out because of what the Torah commanded...
Out 1 day, now a heart attack
The man locked up for nearly 23 years after being wrongfully convicted of murder suffered a serious heart attack a day after being released from prison, his lawyer said. David...
Gang pallbearers cover their faces at Brooklyn funeral
Friends of the gangbanger teen killed when he allegedly pulled a gun on Brooklyn cops used bandanas and hoodies to hide their faces while serving as pallbearers at his funeral...
Credit ‘skim’ arrests
The NYPD foiled a sophisticated, multistate credit-card-skimming ring when the alleged thieves tried to go on a shopping spree.Garegin Spartalyn, 39, and Aram Martirosian, 34, both from Las Vegas, along...
Billionaire Putin foe dead in Britain
Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian oligarch and longtime opponent of the Kremlin, was round dead at his home in Britain yesterday in “unexplained” circumstances, his spokesman and police said. Police...
Free Chase Plaza!
JPMorgan Chase has done to Downtown what Occupy Wall Street couldn’t: It booted the public from a public park. Bank chairman Jamie Dimon doesn’t see it that way. His lawyers...
Trade of the trick
In 2003, two finance researchers noticed a strange pattern in the world’s stock-market prices. Between 1982 and 1997, prices across 26 of the world’s markets rose more on sunny days...
Everything gives you cancer
Put that muffin down! And that cup of coffee! Are you joking with all that . . . that . . . food? Are you trying to kill yourself? Anybody...
City Hall smoke signals
If New Yorkers had any thoughts that Mayor Bloomberg was going to let Judge Milton Tingling’s slap down of the soda ban get in the way of imposing his personal...
Greens for Keystone
Opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline warn of its potentially catastrophic consequences. Building it, climate scientist James Hansen says, would mean “game over” for the climate. Are they all...
A pregnant pause
Forty-eight percent of first births in America are to unmarried women. We did a double-take when we first saw the figure. Turns out that it’s just one of the startling...
Changing times
Thomas Sowell should remember the context of the times (“Notes on Escaping the Ghetto,” PostOpinion, March 20). We had families with one-income earners for most of the years during which...
Required reading
The Thief of Words by Starling Lawrence (The Quantuck Lane Press) In the latest novel from Lawrence (“The Lightning Keeper”), heroine Nora Fenton is something of an idealist. So she...
Meet the mutt
Nailed! The Improbable Rise and Spectacular Fall of Lenny Dykstra by Christopher Frankie Running Press In 1993, toward the end of his baseball career, former New York Met Lenny Dykstra...
In my library Bill Powers
Art is everything to Bill Powers, the writer and gallery owner who, with his wife, designer Cynthia Rowley, champions the nonprofit RxArt, which brings fine art to hospitals. “We have...
Herding cats
The Cat Whisperer Why Cats Do What They Do — and How to Get Them to Do What You Want by Mieshelle Nagelschneider Bantam Dogs sit, stay, roll over. Cats...
Who's your hunk?
Friday’s “The Place Beyond the Pines” is the first film to star both Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, whose combined hotness is so incendiary that they could only appear on-screen...
Fur fake-outs!
Spring is here at long last (at least according to the calendar), and the city’s pets are ditching their shaggy winter coats for fresh “lamb” and “lion” cuts that are...
I'll ink to that
Here’s an easy way to aggravate someone with tattoos: Ask them to explain, in detail, what each piece of body art means, like they’re a breathing MoMA exhibit. “There is...
Lucky girl
Memories are one thing, theater’s another. For two hours a night, Alice McAlary can relive the 20 or so years she spent with the hard-driving newsman who was the love...
Charlie Todd: My improv New York
In 2001, Charlie Todd founded Improv Everywhere, a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes and pulls jokes in public places. It spawned Frozen Grand Central, which involved 200...
Cyber-spectators
Being a spectator at a chess tournament used to be simple — and baffling.You would sit in an auditorium, look up at the players on a stage and the wall...
Bridge
Unlucky Louie, whose family numbers 10, says you can learn a lot by raising kids: A VCR won’t eject a peanut butter sandwich, garbage bags don’t make good parachutes, and...
LSU’s Mathieu an intriguing draft choice
Wild cards don’t get much wilder than Tyrann Mathieu in this year’s NFL Draft. Had the famed “Honey Badger” kept his nose clean and managed to stay in school and...
Jeter shaky on basepaths, opener more in doubt
TAMPA — Only fools bet against Derek Jeter. However, the Yankees captain has to move a lot better than he did yesterday in order to be in the Opening Day...
Sports Shorts
HOOPS: Noah-less Bulls top Pacers Luol Deng scored 20 points, Carlos Boozer had 18 and the Bulls overcame the absence of starting center Joakim Noah to earn an 87-84 victory...
Gulfstream Analysis
Post Time: 1:00 p.m. All horses appear in post position order1. 6 1/2 fur; $20,250; clm($16,000); 3upFIRSTTOTHELINE from excellent first out barn and races with Lasix while getting Castellano to...
Tomorrow’s Parx Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1 mile; $20,000; clm($7,500); 4up PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Gentle Edwin(L),108A Spadoni5-5-2Rodrigez5-12 Zosogood(L),122J Ferrer1-4-4Aro4-13 Dusterino(L),120MRemedi5-1-5Dotolo8-14 FearlessCowby(L),120A Castillo1-1-5Aristone5-25 KafwainWdghrt(L),118N Petro2-7-5Petro6-16 Sure Start(L),122J Flores1-3-3Demasi7-27 Charles Russell(L),118RAlvardJr9-6-1Kazamis10-1SECOND-1...
Aqueduct Charts
March 23rd, 2013Clear and Fast©2013 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-1 mile; $23,000; clm($12,500); 3upOff: 12:51. Good. 3w 5/16,wore down foeTime: 23.05, 46.77, 1:13.8, 1:41.82.Trainer: Patrick ReynoldsWinner: B G, 5, by Catienus-With...
Gulfstream Results
FIRST-1 mile; $25,650; clm($25,000); 3YO1Rl Good Tm (Prdo)3.802.602.403Ths Is Smuch Fun (Gnzls)4.603.204Invasora (Zayas)8.80Scr: Without Guilt.* Exacta (1-3) $17.60 * $1 Superfecta (1-3-4-6) $352.40 * $1 Trifecta (1-3-4) $89.70SECOND-1 1/16 milesT;...
Hooping it up with the ’dogs
* The reason the NCAA Tournament continues to be our most popular sporting event is because every March the underdog gets an opportunity to shine on the big stage. Harvard...
Parx Results
FIRST-1 mile; $21,000; clm($7,500); 4up 7 Noctvagnt (Bsono) 18.00 6.60 3.80 4 Lasamanamama (Chppe) 2.80 2.20 3 Sweets Galore (Carmouche) 3.20 * Exacta (7-4) $45.80 * Trifecta (7-4-3) $108.80 SECOND-1m&70yds;...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST: mile pace; $12,500; condTRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 7:20 TIME-26.3; 56.2; 1:25.3; 1:53.0 3StlloneBluChp(SAllrd)10.205.003.207LongFghtHnovr(MMcDnld)4.603.005Lets Rock Together (J Campbell)4.20* Exacta (3-7) $43.40 * Trifecta (3-7-5) $194.40SECOND: mile pace; $9,000; condTRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF:...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYMar. 24MONMar. 25TUEMar. 26WEDMar. 27THUMar. 28FRIMar. 29SATMar. 30KnicksNOGAMENOGAMEBos.7:00TNTESPNMem.7:30MSGESPNNO GAMECha.7:30MSGESPNNO GAMENetsPhoenix9:00YES NetworkWFAN 660 AM/101.9 FMNOGAMENOGAMEPor.10:30YESWFANNO GAMEDen.9:00YESWBBRUtah9:00YESWFANSt. John's+ Virginia11 a.m.ESPNWBBR 1130 AM+ TBD+ TBD+ TBDNO GAMENO GAMENO GAMERangersWashington7:00MSG NetworkESPN 98.7 FMNOGAMEPhi.7:30MSGWBBRNOGAMEOtt.7:30MSGESPNNO GAMEMon.7:00MSGESPNIslandersFlorida5:00MSG...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto RacingNoonIndyCar: Streets of St. Petersburg NBCSN2:30 p.m.NASCAR Sprint Cup: Auto Club 400 FOXSpring Training1 p.m.Tigers at Mets WPIX, WFAN (660 AM, 101.9 FM)1 p.m.Rays at Yankees YES, WCBS (880...
Red Bulls blanked
MONTREAL — Marco Di Vaio scored in the 14th minute and the Impact beat the Red Bulls 1-0 yesterday to improve to 4-0. The Red Bulls (0-2-2) finished the match...
The Post Line
NCAA Basketball TournamentThird RoundAt PhiladelphiaFavoriteLineUnderdogDuke5CreightonSn Diego St.7 1/2Fla. Gulf CstAt Dayton, OhioIndiana11 1/2TempleOhio St.7Iowa St.At Kansas City, Mo.Mississippi3La SalleKansas6No. CarolinaAt Austin, TexasMiami7IllinoisFlorida8 1/2MinnesotaNITSecond RoundVIRGINIA10 1/2St. John'sCollege Insider TournamentSecond RoundLYLA (MD.)4Kent...
Rangers may be low on bodies against Capitals
The Rangers are attempting to create maneuverability within the organization and under the cap as the April 3 trade deadline approaches, but the ninth-place Blueshirts may have to maneuver with...
Kovalchuk injured in Devils win
In the two games since Martin Brodeur has returned from a back injury, the Devils have two victories, the latest last night’s 2-1 triumph over the Panthers in Newark. So...
Culture schlock in NHL
The NHL’s decision not to so much as hold a hearing to review Rick Nash’s leaping high elbow on the Panthers’ Tomas Kopecky on Thursday night at the Garden created...
Giants free agent Osi set to fly off to Falcons: report
Osi Umenyiora reportedly won’t have the Giants to complain about anymore. The veteran defensive end, who became known as much for contract squabbles as production on the field in recent...
Lakers great tips cap to Heat
It should surprise exactly no one that Jerry West gets it better than anyone. For years, we’ve had to endure the tired act of graying Miami Dolphins players popping champagne...
Blowout playing time scarce for Orange reserves
Some folks, their vision not blurred, tinted nor otherwise compromised by rooting interests, are sick and tired of the garbage. For example, TV guys telling us that all longtime college...
Bradley borrows swag from MJ
ORLANDO, Fla. — Keegan Bradley has perhaps the highest-profile and wealthiest mental coach on the PGA Tour. Bradley, who made a charge up the leaderboard in yesterday’s third round of...
Strong finish gives Woods 2-shot lead
ORLANDO, Fla. — The exclamation point yesterday came in the exact place where the low point took place a day earlier. The 16th hole at Bay Hill is a 511-yard...
No return target for Mets’ lefty
PORT ST. LUCIE — Johan Santana may have to get used to being in Florida. The lefty is still unsure about when he’s going to be able to get back...
Mets face decision on Feliciano
PORT ST. LUCIE — Pedro Feliciano has Tuesday marked on his calendar. “I’m praying,” the Mets reliever said yesterday. “[Two] more days and we’ll see what happens.” As stipulated by...
Mets' Wright getting closer
PORT ST. LUCIE — One more step forward for David Wright. With the push for Opening Day in full motion, the Mets third baseman yesterday hit in the batting cage,...
Yankees bring back Wang
If Chien-Ming Wang pitches for the Yankees this season, it means a starter got hurt or pitched ineffectively. The right-hander who will be 33 a week from today, signed a...
Pettitte: Bombers can be a force in postseason
LAKELAND, Fla. — A defiant Andy Pettitte stood in front of his locker yesterday in the visiting clubhouse at Joker Marchant Stadium and said those counting the injury-riddled Yankees out...
Knicks PG not a Kidd anymore
Knicks fans should cherish Jason Kidd’s role on the team. They may not see him when this season ends. Kidd, who turned 40 yesterday, said Friday night he may not...
Deron, Nets fall short vs. Paul, Clippers
LOS ANGELES — The Nets were 12 minutes away from starting the Circus Trip off with a perfect 3-0 record. Then Chris Paul decided to take over. The Clippers star,...
Martin, Knicks nab fourth straight win
Tyson Chandler better hurry back before he loses his starting job to Kenyon Martin. The Knicks’ new 6-foot-9 starting center, on the NBA scrapheap one month ago, tore up the...
Knicks' Smith hoping pal Cruz gets Giant payday
Though J.R. Smith is a Cowboys fan, he hopes the Giants sign his buddy, free agent receiver Victor Cruz, who is a courtside fixture at Knicks games. “I hope he...
Knicks' Melo, Raptors' Fields get into it
Carmelo Anthony and Landry Fields insist they have no ill will toward one another. Their actions early in the third quarter of last night’s 110-84 Knicks rout spoke otherwise. Looking...
Docs fear Yankees' Rivera has migraines
TAMPA — The first headache surfaced two weeks ago and Mariano Rivera described it as more than the garden variety discomfort that two aspirin could make disappear. “It was severe,’’...
The Rumble
The ‘So Right’ stuff Tune by Brooklyn trio an ode to J.R. J.R. Smith elicits strange responses out of Knicks fans. He makes Ford Harris, who sings under the name...
Don't miss
New ‘Voices’ After a short break, “The Voice” returns with two new judges: sexy Shakira and heartbreaker Usher. They replace Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green. Adam Levine and Blake...
Video games a real dead end
Roughly 15 years ago, I wrote a sports column about a neighborhood recreation complex, one replete with five baseball diamonds that, during daylight, non-school hours went unused — save for...
Reel good
Frozen River, 2008 Tuesday, 1 a.m., Ch. 13 Two single mothers — a white convenience store worker (Melissa Leo) and a Mohawk woman (Misty Upham) living on the reservation —...
Look Who’s Talking
Kelly & MIchael 9 a.m., Ch. 7 Monday: Kristin Chenoweth; Usher Raymond. Tuesday: Kristin Chenoweth; Kim Kardashian. Wednesday: Vanessa Williams; Dwayne Johnson. Thursday: Carrie Ann Inana; Jeremy Piven. Friday: Carrie...
Children of 'Revolution'
Every year, hits get a little harder to come by for the broadcast networks. Competition from cable, the Internet and even PBS is intensifying, with some of TV’s most popular...
Screaming success
On CBS’s top-rated comedy “The Big Bang Theory,” Melissa Rauch plays biologist Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, wife of Simon Helberg’s Howard Wolowitz, and beleaguered daughter-in-law of Howard’s grating, never-seen mother. As such,...
Wigging out
When Phil Spector enters a Los Angeles courtroom, where he is on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson, wearing a gigantic Afro wig, the judge does a double-take. His...
Prince of pop
From the shtetl-icious beverage staple of the old country, to ’60s dime-store pharmacy mainstay, seltzer has been part of the American carbonated beverage landscape for centuries. And it mounted a...
Meet Market: Multitalented SoHo gal wants a guy with skills of his own
Artsy type Though she’s no painter, Sonia is in charge of Paint Nite NYC, a weekly gathering for people to share drinks while getting in touch with their inner Picassos....
Sex gypsies only want you for your sheets
Forget bed bugs. There’s a new parasite moving into apartments. This one has two feet, a sex drive, and travels with a duffel bag. The now defunct williamsboard .com called...
Top 5: Ways to hit on a construction worker
“Shout, ‘Watch out! You’re about to fall — in love with me.’ ” – C.J. “Ask, ‘If you’re so good at welding, why don’t you weld us some wedding rings?’...
This week's couple: Tough call
WHETHER or not we care to admit it, libations are one of the best social lubricants available, especially on a blind date. But what happens when one person chooses to...
Weird but true
It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s a Toyota? A Maryland man and pals took a 1956 Cessna 310 and welded it onto a 1987 Toyota van. Jeff Bloch...
NCAA tournament third-round picks (Sunday's evening session)
Each game day during the NCAA tournament, the Post's Marc Raimondi, Anthony Sulla-Heffinger and Justin Terranova will be providing you with their input for that day's games. For the evening...
Creighton, McDermott set for Duke
PHILADELPHIA — Never. That’s how long it has been since Creighton won back-to-back games in the NCAA Tournament. The Bluejays thought they were on the precipice of school history a...
Hoosiers on guard vs. Owls
DAYTON, Ohio — The starting backcourt for Indiana sees a resemblance between one of the Hoosiers’ top rivals and the opponent they will face today in the third round of...
There’s a new Marshall in town as Ole Miss meets La Salle
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Marshall Henderson spent Friday receiving tweets from LeBron James. Yesterday, he spoke with Charles Barkley.Ole Miss’ polarizing player has stolen college basketball’s spotlight, intriguing and irritating...
Williams’ Tar Heels look to shock No. 1 seed Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — North Carolina coach Roy Williams needed mere milliseconds to recall his first career victory, over almighty Alaska-Anchorage more than 24 years ago, following his 700th win...
Michigan rolls over VCU’s ‘D’
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Michigan made “Havoc” look helpless. Now Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway Jr. and the rest of the cool-headed Wolverines are part of the school’s longest NCAA Tournament...
Sparty feeling ‘Sweet’ again under Izzo
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Here we go again for Michigan State. Make it to the NCAA Tournament, prepare for any possibility in the first two games, then focus on the...
Johnnies have eyes on prize
St. John’s began the NIT talking about the benefit the postseason tournament could have for next year.Now, after Tuesday’s thrilling win in Philadelphia over St. Joseph’s at the buzzer, the...
Flyin’ high with the FGCU Eagles
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The following picks are from someone who used to be much better at this. Florida Gulf Coast (+7 1/2) San Diego State: Who would have thought...
Conference’s dominance felt at NCAA tourney
DAYTON, Ohio — It is as if the Big Ten has heard all the talk that it hasn’t produced a national champion since 2000, and is playing March Mad. So...
Serby's Sunday Q&A with... Tom Crean
With March Madness in full swing, Indian Hoosiers coach Tom Crean took a timeout for some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: How would you describe your sideline temperament?...
Sam’s the man: Buckeyes get most out of Thompson
DAYTON, Ohio — When Ohio State sophomore Sam Thompson jumps, there are times assistant coach Chris Jent thinks landing is a choice. “Sam’s a two-footed leaper,” Jent said yesterday as...
Louisville takes over Kentucky’s home to storm into Sweet 16
LEXINGTON, Ky. — If there was any doubt about what team owned Rupp Arena this week for the NCAA Tournament second- and third- round games in the Midwest Region, it...
Ducks, yeah! Oregon rolls again
SAN JOSE, Calif. — It’s time to apologize to the Oregon Ducks. Time for those who made the seedings for the NCAA Tournament to admit they made a mistake by...
Top-seed Gonzaga sent home early again, this time by Wichita State
SALT LAKE CITY -- As the buzzer sounded on one of the biggest upsets of this year’s NCAA Tournament, as the final seconds ticked off Wichita State’s 76-70 win over...
Ducks, yeah! Oregon rolls again
SAN JOSE, Calif.— It’s time to apologize to the Oregon Ducks. Time for those who made the seedings for the NCAA Tournament to admit they made a mistake by giving...
Kovalchuk injured in Devils win over Panthers
Two games after Martin Brodeur returned from a back injury, the Devils have two wins after last night’s 2-1 victory over the Panthers in Newark. However, their playoff chances could...
Marquette outlasts Butler in future Big East battle
LEXINGTON, Ky. — This time there was no last-second shot, no dagger in the heart that kept getting ripped open every time the Marquette Golden Eagles saw that ESPN commercial...
Filling in for Chandler, Martin stars for Knicks in fourth straight win
Tyson Chandler better hurry back before he loses his starting job to Kenyon Martin. The Knicks new 6-9 starting center is tearing it up - shining brightest in this home-and-home...
Reaction to the winless Red Bulls' loss in Montreal
The Red Bulls lost 1-0 at Montreal today, now suffering through one of the worst starts in recent club history. They're now winless through their first four games. Here is...
Harvard magic runs out in blowout loss to Arizona
SALT LAKE CITY – Sweat, blood, tears and even teeth. Harvard left them all on the Energy Solutions Arena floor yesterday, but it wasn’t enough. Not against an Arizona team...