May 11, 2013
Pettitte’s arm, Wells’ bat lead Yankees over Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With Andy Pettitte dealing and backed up by David Robertson and Mariano Rivera, the Yankees didn’t need smoke and mirrors Saturday night against the Royals. After...
Sergio implicates Tiger for bad shot at Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Sergio Garcia lost his lead in two holes at The Players Championship, and he said it didn't help playing with Tiger Woods. The third round...
Rookie QB Smith looks even better in second Jets workout
Geno Smith looked sharp in his second day of rookie minicamp Saturday.The rookie quarterback showed he has a strong arm and was extremely accurate. He completed 7-of-8 passes during team...
Islanders' Neilsen questionable for Game 6 with lower body injury
The good news for the Islanders was that second-line center Frans Neilsen was feeling better. The bad news was that it was in the hands of the doctors to determine...
Still no Nunez in Yankees starting lineup
It’s been nearly a week and still no Eduardo Nunez in the Yankees starting lineup.The shortstop has been out since leaving Sunday’s loss to the A’s with a rib cage...
Scare as 8-year-old stops breathing after baseball strike in NJ
A young baseball player in New Jersey was struck in the chest with a ball today and had to be rushed by air to a local hospital, according to a...
New plan for Amar'e: Woodson says he'll max out at 12 minutes in Game 3
INDIANAPOLIS – The Amar’e Stoudemire return is right on track for tonight at Bankers Life Field House, though Knicks coach Mike Woodson slightly reduced his minutes plan. Woodson said Stoudemire...
Coughlin hopes new Giants LB can return to college form
Tom Coughlin does not have intimate knowledge of how Aaron Curry played during his time with the Seahawks and the Raiders but he does know one specific tidbit about the...
Niese struggles again as Mets get routed by Pirates on rainy day
There was a time, not that long ago, when people thought Jon Niese might be the ace of the Mets rotation this season. That was before Matt Harvey started drawing...
Smoke forces evacuation of West Wing
WASHINGTON — Reporters and photographers were evacuated briefly from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from an overheated transformer in a mechanical room. President...
Workers replace midtown crane knocked over by Sandy
Workers hoisted a new crane to the top of the swanky One57 project today, replacing the crane that toppled during Hurricane Sandy. Hardhats began the lift around 4 a.m., and...
Knicks' Smith to play in Game 3 despite high fever
INDIANAPOLIS -- J.R. Smith needed not only to find his jump shot Saturday night but a flu shot.Call it the Rihanna Flu.The soap opera surrounding the embattled Smith took another...
Two LI crash victims ID'd
Police have identified the two men killed in a violent head-on crash on Long Island yesterday, as well as the woman and child who were critically injured. Robert Fattibene, 53,...
City to start spending $1.8B in federal Superstorm Sandy aide
Almost $1.8 billion in federal money for repairing homes, helping businesses and covering the city's expenses after Superstorm Sandy is set to start flowing soon in New York City, officials...
Whiny child molester gets 25 years
A Staten Island judge sentenced a child molester to 25 years in jail yesterday-- after the creep whined that he was victimized on Riker's Island, law-enforcement sources said. Cirilio Alcantara,...
Spacewalk repair halts station leak — for now
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak. The...
Motorcyclist killed in East New York
A Virginian motorcyclist was killed in an accident in Brooklyn yesterday, police said. Robert Brown, 49, lost control of his 2000 Harley Davidson bike in East New York when he...
Gunman holding children hostage in Trenton standoff
TRENTON, NJ — Authorities continued to negotiate a surrender with a gunman holding three children hostage in a New Jersey home since Friday, after cops say he killed their mother...
Serby's Q&A with Knicks' Prigioni
The Post’s Steve Serby sat down with Pablo Prigioni, the soon-to-be 36-year-old rookie point guard from Argentina, who in his best broken English describes what it’s like to be part...
PHOTOS: Alec Baldwin's angry walk with wife
Hothead Alec Baldwin’s hair-trigger temper was on display again yesterday as he appeared to ruin a pleasant stroll with his wife and pet pooches by starting an angry, one-sided argument....
JPMorgan: Bloomberg reporters tapped into our terminal data, too
Wall Street bulls are raging mad at Bloomberg LP. A day after The Post broke the news of the company’s spying scandal, a second big bank raised concerns that Bloomberg...
Bank board beats drum for Dimon roles
JPMorgan’s board is pulling out all the stops for Jamie Dimon.The bank’s presiding director, Lee Raymond, wrote a letter to shareholders yesterday backing Dimon as he fights to remain chairman....
Business briefs
Bull weekStocks advanced yesterday as the Standard & Poor’s 500 index rallied for a third straight week on optimism that the U.S. economy is improving amid central-bank monetary stimulus.Hardware upRestoration...
2 yrs. to woo Waze
Mark Zuckerberg has come a long ways to get Waze. The Facebook CEO has had his eye on the social mapping service for nearly two years but is only just...
Escape from hell for True Religion
True Religion has finally found a savior. The upscale denim brand — which hired Guggenheim Partners in October to explore strategic alternatives — said yesterday it has agreed to a...
Neiman’s exotic shopping
Neiman Marcus may soon become an expensive plaything for a wealthy foreign regime. The private-equity owners behind the Dallas-based luxury department store chain — which also owns Bergdorf Goodman —...
No Mike in Dell: Icahn
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Michael Dell would lose his job as head of Dell if shareholders accept an offer for the computer maker outlined by Icahn. Dell needs “cultural...
C’wire-Sprint rings iffy
Proxy advisory firms yesterday issued conflicting opinions on Sprint Nextel’s proposed takeover of Clearwire, with ISS advising Clearwire shareholders to vote in favor of the deal and Glass Lewis urging...
Zucker plans CNN ‘Today’
Cnn boss Jeff Zucker wants a slice of the $1.2 billion that advertisers spend on morning shows. The cable network is launching a news-driven three-hour show, starting at 6 a.m.,...
Nbc news’ brit import
British news executive Deborah Turness is expected to be tapped as the new head of NBC’s news operations. Turness, 45, will be named president of NBC News in the coming...
Hess bails on chairman job
Hess Corp. agreed to split the chairman and CEO roles yesterday, caving to pressure from billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer. Yesterday, the Texas oil and gas giant said Chairman...
‘Yes, I’m Alive! save me’ says Bangladeshi woman rescued after 17 days in collapsed factory
A seamstress who struggled to survive for 17 days in the dark basement of a pancaked Bangladeshi factory building couldn’t imagine she would see daylight ever again — but yesterday,...
Figoski pal emotional on stand
The partner of slain NYPD cop Peter Figoski choked up in court yesterday as he testified in the trial of two Brooklyn men accused in the botched robbery that led...
Panel votes to demolish Sandy Hook Elementary School
A task force voted yesterday to demolish the Newtown, Conn., elementary school where a madman gunned down 20 kids and six staffers last year, and build a new school on...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** A woman and two men are wanted for questioning in connection with several Inwood homeinvasions, police said. At about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, the woman allegedly told a tenant...
Laughing all the way to prison
He may have lost his freedom, but a crooked ex-director of a Bronx nonprofit hasn’t lost his humor.After getting slapped with a five-month prison sentence yesterday, David Griffiths, 67, was...
5 bank hits in single day
A persistent bandit held up five Manhattan banks yesterday and made off with piles of cash from two, cops said. The biggest score — $12,900 — came at 2 p.m....
Now you ‘$eer,’ now you don’t!
A Manhattan fortune teller will be jailed for a year after taking more than $650,000 in cash from an Upper East Side woman by promising to “cleanse” the money. Swindling...
Brute busted as E. Harlem ‘pimp’
A Manhattan man was busted for allegedly pimping three women — including a 17-year-old Connecticut runaway — out of an East Harlem apartment, cops said yesterday.Taye Ellerby, 35, advertised the...
Inmate’s (back)side of story vs. Mike guard
A Rikers Island inmate who claims he was shot in the buttocks and back by a then-member of Mayor Bloomberg’s NYPD security detail because of his former girlfriend gave a...
Olympic skier Bode Miller wages bicoastal custody battle against ex-girlfriend
Five-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller is waging a bicoastal custody battle against an ex-girlfriend over a 3-month-old son he has never met and allegedly wanted to abort. “I’m Catholic,” his...
NY casino plan a $$ pain for AC
Gov. Cuomo’s push to open six casinos upstate could mean even more bad news for Atlantic City, where roulette wheels are spinning mostly red.Revel, AC’s newest casino, posted a 40...
20 years of safer streets
Now, here’s a rich statistic: Nearly every neighborhood in the city has fewer violent crimes today than the Upper East Side did 20 years ago. Mayor Bloomberg offered that startling...
Greens to GOP pol: Frack off
ALBANY — Pro-fracking Sen. Tom Libous is under fire from groups that insist he recuse himself from deliberations on the contentious practice. New York Water Rangers, the organization that includes...
Bitter pill for Bam
A New York judge yesterday rejected the government’s bid to delay selling the Plan B morning-after pill to young teens. In a sharply worded ruling that continued his hard line...
Teacher fined for ordering student to strike back at bully
A Brooklyn teacher got so fed up with a notorious 8-year-old class bully that she taught him a lesson in street justice — having him stand in front of the...
‘Degrees’ of motherhood
The percentage of new mothers with a college education is rising to record levels, while births among less-educated American women continue to drop, a study shows. Two of every three...
$2M suit in deadly catfight
The cruel acquaintance of an Upper East Side teacher trashed her family’s apartment and savagely murdered her beloved, 3-year-old Siamese cat last spring, according to a new, $2 million lawsuit....
Site drops its 3-D guns
The government shot down a Texas Web site’s publication of a computer program that builds a plastic handgun with a 3-D printer — but not before more than 100,000 copies...
Postal Service loss ‘only’ $1.9B
WASHINGTON — The US Postal Service says it lost $1.9 billion over the last three months, and warns that losses will continue to mount without help from Congress. The loss...
Tax-$$ relief on debt limit
WASHINGTON — President Obama and Republicans can take the summer off from their fight over raising the debt limit.Treasury Secretary Jack Lew yesterday said an unexpected boost in tax revenue...
Gambling ‘ringpin’ love child
It seems the professional poker player charged with running an international sports-betting operation out of his Trump Tower apartment doesn’t always know how to hold ’em: He fathered an out-of-wedlock...
Benghazi e-mail ‘coverup’
WASHINGTON — The White House scrambled yesterday to counter the damaging leak of internal government e-mails that showed the State Department deliberately excising mention of al Qaeda links to the...
Final spire piece in place at WTC
That’ll stick it to the terrorists! The spire was completed atop 1 World Trade Center yesterday, giving the tower a symbolic height of 1,776 feet and making it the tallest...
Bryant scores in court
NBA superstar Kobe Bryant has gotten a judge’s order that temporarily blocks a New Jersey auctioneer from selling memorabilia held by his mother. US District Judge Andrew Guilford on Wednesday...
LIRR train kills ‘distracted’ driver
An LIRR work train slammed into a Lexus that got stuck on the tracks at a crossing yesterday, killing the driver and splitting the car in half, witnesses said.“It sounded...
‘Thugs’ at IRS vs. Tea Party
WASHINGTON — The IRS yesterday shockingly admitted it had unjustly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny during the 2012 presidential campaign, and officials offered a...
Dirtbag lies here
Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was quietly buried in a Muslim cemetery in a small central Virginia community — stunning locals who had no idea the dead terrorist was there....
O.J. eyes new trial
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson will return next week to the Las Vegas courthouse where he was convicted of leading an armed sports-memorabilia heist to ask a judge for a...
Harry honors JFK
Britain’s Prince Harry saluted America’s war dead in a somber remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday, pausing, too, to place flowers on the tombstone of President John F. Kennedy. Harry,...
Cleveland kidnap-and-rape monster Ariel Castro terrorized relatives with mannequin
Long before the true extent of his crimes was known, Cleveland monster Ariel Castro terrorized his family by driving around with a freaky female mannequin in his car — dressing...
He can never be my ‘daddy’ again
“He is dead to me.” A daughter of Cleveland monster Ariel Castro disowned her dad yesterday for running a sick torture chamber in the house where she grew up, calling...
‘Bomb vest’ a movie prop
A suspicious vest that was detonated after a northern New Jersey thrift-store owner thought it resembled a bomb was actually a movie prop, police said.The explosion rocked a portion of...
Christie touts his GOP cred
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who infuriated conservatives by praising President Obama’s response to Hurricane Sandy, is defending his GOP chops. “I’m a damn good Republican and a good conservative...
Anti-gay hate in Herald Square
Two gay men were beaten early yesterday near Herald Square by a gang of thugs who shouted homophobic slurs as they pummeled the victims to the ground, police said. The...
Tragic day of death on metro-area roadways
Two men were killed and a woman and child critically injured yesterday in a violent crash on Long Island, cops said.It was one of several accidents that left three people...
Boy, 11, shoots pal in face
CAMDEN, NJ — An 11-year-old boy shot a 12-year-old in the face yesterday, police said.Authorities have not charged the boy, who fired the weapon in an apartment block. Camden County...
Schools test-biz failures
Oops, they did it again!The testing company responsible for identifying city students for gifted academic programs made its second sloppy screw-up in less than a month — leading top education...
Guitar teacher child-perv rap
A New Jersey guitar teacher was accused of spanking one of his young students for his own sexual gratification, authorities said yesterday.Monmouth County prosecutors say 60-year-old Frank Dilberto Jr., of...
Criminal probe of Tex. blast
WACO, Texas — After weeks of treating it as an industrial accident, law-enforcement officials yesterday launched a criminal investigation into the fertilizer-plant explosion that killed 14 people last month. Word...
Attack of the body-snatchers
As the world of Islam plunges deeper into sectarian conflict, the identity of a corpse stolen by terrorists in Syria is creating a new theme for schismatic clashes between Sunnis...
Stellar science schools
The best American K-12 schools, many of them in the New York City metro area, are fully competitive with their peers around the world, even in math and science —...
Closure in Cleveland: nightmare comes to an end
The Issue: The rescue of three long-missing women from a kidnapper’s depraved home dungeon. *** I would like to praise restaurant dishwasher Charles Ramsey, who rescued kidnapping victims Michelle Knight,...
Take a load off, Christie
The Issue: NJ Gov. Chris Christie’s lap-band surgery, which he says he did for the sake of his family. *** NJ Gov. Chris Christie had lap-band surgery (“Weight Is Over,”...
An unwanted ‘gift’ for the gifted
Amid the failures of New York City’s system of public education, its Gifted & Talented program has been a shining exception. But now it’s taken two hits — one from...
Publish or perish
This newspaper has always been skeptical about people saying the answer to New York’s corruption is some new watchdog. For a reason, just look at what’s happening in Albany now,...
The Benghazi Carney-val
Yesterday the worst job in Washington had to belong to Jay Carney. In a televised briefing, the White House press secretary found himself besieged by reporters asking about Benghazi. He...
Obama’s eyes are all on 2014
On Oct. 23, 2010, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama...
Young Post readers reveal why their moms are the best!
Cook, chauffeur, cheerleader, confidante and nurse — is there any role mothers won’t play for their kids? From what The Post’s young readers tell us, their moms do it all...
Barnyard babies
What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than a trip to see cute baby animals nuzzling with their mamas? Whether you want to pet lambs and bunnies or gaze upon...
Kid stuff
Today FASCINATING FINDS: Bring that cool rock or interesting bone you found in the backyard to the American Museum of Natural History’s Annual Identification Day, where scientists will tell you...
Let it rain!
Wouldn't you like to control the weather? A new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art magically allows just that. In the “Rain Room,” which opens tomorrow, visitors walk through...
Mayweather fight was ‘Money’ for Showtime
Showtime boxing boss Stephen Espinoza said Friday Floyd Mayweather’s fight with Robert Guerrero last Saturday at the MGM Grand attracted “over a million�� pay-per-view buys. “We’re not sure how much...
Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays
Peter Pan Belmont Park, 9th race. Grade 2. Purse: $200,000. 1¹/ miles, 3-year-olds. Post: 5:17 p.m. LOWDOWN: After an abbreviated but promising 2-year-old campaign that saw him rally for a...
Pacers’ Stephenson big fan of potential Nets target Shaw
CHICAGO — Part of what has turned Lance Stephenson into a useful piece for the Pacers this season after two years spent mostly watching from the bench has been a...
Nash, Richards flounder as Rangers pushed to the brink
WASHINGTON — So in order to avoid first-round elimination by the Capitals and win this series, the Rangers will have to make franchise history by winning a Game 7 on...
Rangers offense lets down Lundqvist again
Henrik Lundqvist was turned to the wall in the visitor’s locker room, his hands over his face, preparing to face a number of questions, while still clearly trying to answer...
Power plays
Game 5: Capitals 2, Rangers 1 (OT) Capitals lead series, 3-2 3 STARS 1. Mike Ribeiro The Capitals center gave the team its second overtime win of the series at...
Monmouth Park to open today
OCEANPORT, N.J. — Dusted off by the state two years ago as a lost cause, Monmouth Park will open its gates Saturday to launch its 68th racing season, poised for...
Sports Shorts
HOCKEY: Red Wings force Game 7 with OT win In Detroit, Henrik Zetterberg scored his second goal 1:04 into overtime, lifting the Red Wings to a 4-3 win over the...
Hollywood Results
FIRST-1 1/16m; $26,000; clm($16,000); 3up3Arcodoro (Pedroz)9.602.40out2Cook Inlet (Bejarano)2.10outScr: Corner Office.* $1 Exacta (3-2) $8.20 * Quinella (2-3) $4.80 * $1 Trifecta (3-2-4) $15.80SECOND-7 1/2 fur; $17,000; clm($8,000); 3up5Ross Resrv (Tlmo)3.602.802.203Plazarita...
Tomorrow’s Belmont Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-6 fur(T); $30,000; clm($20,000); 3up(f) PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds2 MongosExprssn(L),122J Chamafi5-4-5Barrera6-13 City Vice(L),122J Espinoza2-5-9DeMola10-14 Still Shea to Me(L),122I Ortiz, Jr5-2-1Barbara6-15 Lisalisalee(L),116A Lezcano8-2-5Araya15-16 Goonsquad(L),117GRodriguz7-7-9Badgett20-17 Red...
Belmont Charts
May 10th, 2013Clear and Good©2013 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur; $55,000; alw; 3up(f)Off: 1:05. Good. vie 2p, dug in lateTime: 22.52, 45.81, 57.95, 1:1.67.Trainer: Mitchell FriedmanWinner: B M, 6, by...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-mile trot; $24,258; Simpson5True Day Dream (YGingras)2.802.201Deja Vu Too (C Callahan)7.606Southwind Cocoa (T Tetrick)7.60* Exacta (5-1) $26.00 * Trifecta (5-1-6) $63.40Scr: Caneel Hall.Winner picked by Bill SmithSECOND-mile trot; $24,758; Simpson3Miss...
Bill Smith at Yonkers Graded Entries
Best Bet: Lucky Man (4th)FIRST: Mile pace; $24,000; cond1 Tough Love(PBerry)6-3-46-15 Rockin Robert(EGoodell)5-7-63-12 High Noon(DDube)5-8-34-13 Eagle Luck(MMacDonald)2-8-48-14 Little Prince(GBrennan)7-3-88-16 Ty's A Big Star(BHolland)1-4-25-17 IwannaraceHanover(JStrttn)3-7-76-18 Ittakestwobaby(BSears)5-5-515-1SECOND: Mile pace; $21,000; claiming2 TalktomecourageN(Strattn)1-8-83-11...
Meadowlands Graded Entries
Post Time: 7:15 p.m.Best Bet: Wishing Stone (2nd)FIRST: Mile pace; $10,000; cond1 Always There(CManzi)3-2-23-19 Leg Up(JMarshall)1-1-18-17 Ralbar(SAllard)3-3-14-12 Its Royalty(CRyder)7-4-720-13 Wandasbettorchce(YGngrs)4-6-712-14 Here Comes Swifty(RPierce)3-4-29-25 Big Art(JCampbell)9-5-320-16 Net Ten Eom(AMiller)6-3-710-18 Cool Like...
Monmouth Park Analysis
Post Time: 12:50 p.m.FIRST-1m&70yds; $16,000; clm($5,0); 3upRISKY RIVER drew off to break maiden as favorite at Penn. DR BALLENGER adds blinkers and drops in class. DELIRIOUS TIDE fourth this level...
Home Team Lineups
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Auto Racing8 a.m.Formula One Qualifying: Spanish Grand Prix NBCSN6 p.m.NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bojangles' Southern 500 FOX8 p.m.TORC: The Off Road Championship, Eldora SPEEDBaseball1 p.m.Pirates at Mets WPIX, WFAN 660 AM/101.9...
Hondo: Q rating high
The Yankees kept Hondo moving in the right direction last night, giving KC a Royal pounding that trimmed the deficit to a slim 35 arroyos. Today, Mr. Aitch will roll...
Preakness calls upcoming for Mylute and ‘Normandy’
Two of the best losing efforts in the Kentucky Derby were turned in by Normandy Invasion, who was fourth, beaten 3 1/2 lengths, and Mylute, a head behind Normandy Invasion...
LeBron, Miami stave off Chicago in physical Game 3
CHICAGO — The Heat and Bulls already have plenty of reasons to dislike each other. But if it was possible, the animosity between the teams reached another level when Nazr...
Suspensions, fines after umps’ gaffe
Major League Baseball suspended umpire Fieldin Culbreth for two games yesterday because he was in charge of the crew that allowed Astros manager Bo Porter to improperly switch relievers in...
Parker, Duncan propel Spurs past Warriors
OAKLAND, Calif. — Tony Parker scored 25 of his 32 points in a sizzling first half, Tim Duncan added 23 points and 10 rebounds and the Spurs quieted the hot-shooting...
Oft-injured Curry inks 1-year pact with Giants
No diabolical experiments are planned but the Giants are hoping Aaron Curry, in the words of general manager Jerry Reese, can “reinvent himself’’ now that he has officially signed on...
Giants rookie Nassib on high alert for Eli’s shenanigans
Eli Manning’s reputation as a prankster precedes him, which is why, even though Manning isn’t around, rookie quarterback Ryan Nassib admits he’s on alert as he participates in the Giants...
Tiger, Sergio on top at Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — If you measure Tiger Woods’ chances of winning a golf tournament by the level of his confidence and comfort, there is a good chance he...
First-round leader Castro falls apart
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — PGA Tour rookie Roberto Castro followed his dream day with a nightmare, shooting a 78 in yesterday’s Players Championship second round after tying the course...
Rex: Time for Coples to carry his weight for Jets
Jets coach Rex Ryan sent second-year linebacker Quinton Coples a message yesterday. Ryan, in what was clearly a calculated move, questioned Coples’ work ethic during his press conference. “If Quinton...
Cheap shots at Jets QB out of bounds
Geno Smith will need to grow some thick skin if he’s going to succeed in New York. He can ask Mark Sanchez about that. I’m guessing by the time Smith’s...
Jets new QB Smith keeps his cool despite criticism
Text it and tweet it: On his first day on the job, Geno Smith began answering his critics. The Jets rookie quarterback, who has faced a ton of criticism in...
Jets great Sauer dead at 69
George Sauer Jr., the iconoclastic wide receiver who was a key member of the Jets’ Super Bowl III championship team that upset the heavily favored Baltimore Colts, died Tuesday in...
Overbay, Ichiro lay lumber in Girardi’s 500th Yankees win
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Yankees’ “Smoke & Mirrors Tour” hit America’s heartland last night and morphed into “Ground & Pound.’’ After struggling with the bats recently, the plucky Yankees...
Finding starters not that ‘Harv’
Only one word comes to mind to describe Matt Harvey’s season to this point: Amazin’! On Tuesday, Harvey stymied the White Sox over nine innings, allowing one hit (an infield...
For Yankees prospect Betances, B’s for bullpen
The Killer B’s are dead. Not long ago, the Yankees were hoping Manuel Banuelos, Dellin Betances and Andrew Brackman would help uplift their rotation with low-cost, high-ceiling arms. Brackman washed...
Yankees' Rivera returns to ‘scene of crime’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Yankees added a bit of humor to Mariano Rivera’s return to Kauffman Stadium Friday night. When Rivera was shagging fly balls during batting practice, there...
Mets bats go quiet as Pirates power past
The Mets can’t hit lefties, can’t hit at home or in the clutch. Their slump is so bad that even one of the few big hits they got in a...
Marcum’s latest flop proves Amazin’s must promote Zack
Nights like last night at Citi Field make you want to fast forward to the future with the Mets. Zack Wheeler can’t get here fast enough. Wheeler, who pitches in...
Mets' Wright all right after taking foul shot to knee
David Wright fouled a ball off the inside of his left knee in the first inning of the Mets’ 7-3 loss to the Pirates last night, but stayed in the...
Nabokov in nets for Game 6
The Islanders will sink or swim with Evgeni Nabokov. Despite being pulled for the second time in the series during the third period of Game 5’s ugly 4-0 loss to...
Islanders' Tavares named finalist for MVP
It is a testament to John Tavares’ skill that he was nominated yesterday as one of the three finalists for the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s Most Valuable Player. Yet...
Vision issue for Rangers defenseman
WASHINGTON — Marc Staal doesn’t know if or when he’ll be able to play again this spring, but the alternate captain said he made the decision to pull himself from...
With three-day rest, Knicks' Felton bounces back from sprained ankle
In a sense, Raymond Felton will be making his return from injury tonight. Felton sprained his left ankle late in the third quarter of the Knicks’ Game 2 over the...
Pacers coach Vogel was once on Letterman
INDIANAPOLIS — Frank Vogel, NBA head coach, Indiana Pacers. Also available for barbecues and charity events — he’ll brush his teeth while spinning a basketball on the end of the...
Long layoff can pick up Pacers, too
INDIANAPOLIS — To fans in Indiana, it is no doubt an NBA conspiracy. Three full days off in between games only can benefit the ancient Knicks, many of whom were...
Knicks coach Mike Woodson knows all about how Indiana 'roots'
INDIANAPOLIS — You make a right, and then another right, and South West Street turns into Martin Luther King Jr. Street, and then you hop on I-65 for a mile...
Knicks try to bust move with Amar’e on floor
INDIANAPOLIS — The worrisome prospect of Amar’e Stoudemire being as rusty as a 1962 Indy race car is not the only issue the Knicks carry into Bankers Life Fieldhouse tonight....
Serby’s playoff Q&A with ... Pablo Prigioni
The Post’s Steve Serby sat down with Pablo Prigioni, the soon-to-be 36-year-old rookie point guard from Argentina, who in his best broken English describes what it’s like to be part...
Jack back? ‘24’ reboot possible
Jack Bauer and “24” could live to see another TV series. Howard Gordon, who executive-produced the iconic Fox show — starring Kiefer Sutherland as terrorist-fighting tough guy Jack Bauer —...
‘Flesh’ approach
Let’s face the truth, folks: Vampires are so 2009. Sure, those undead types are fashion-forward and centuries old, but you’d have to be dead yourself not to see that those...
Matt’s all, folks: NBC axes Perry sitcom
The curse of “Friends” continues. NBC has cancelled ex-“Friends” star Matthew Perry’s sitcom, “Go On,” after only one ratings-challenged season. Perry played a radio host interacting with a wacky group...
Weird but true
Officials at a Massachusetts cemetery have made a monumental decision — no profanity on headstones. The issue came up because the family of tragic rapper Sonny Santiago, 23, planned to...
Jordan’s degree flap another bungle for beleaguered Rutgers
With every passing fiasco the one thing we know Rutgers has gotten right is that the university’s primary color is scarlet. After Rutgers fired its last men’s basketball coach months...
Capitals top Rangers in OT to take series lead
WASHINGTON — Mike Ribeiro scored 9:24 into overtime, and the Washington Capitals beat the New York Rangers 2-1 Friday night to regain the momentum — and the lead — in...
JPMorgan: Bloomberg reporters tapped into our terminal data, too
Wall Street bulls are raging mad at Bloomberg LP. A day after The Post broke the news of the company’s spying scandal, a second big bank raised concerns that Bloomberg...
Police: Armed man barricaded in Trenton home
TRENTON, N.J. — Police say an armed man has barricaded himself inside a Trenton home. Trenton Police Lt. Mark Kieffer says police were called to the home in South Trenton...