April 30, 2014
Cheesy 'Blood Glacier' lacks suspenseful scares
As if climate change weren’t worrying enough, studies show it’s leading to an uptick in the production of cheesy German-language monster flicks. Case in point: “Blood Glacier.” A sluggish reworking...
Google gambles in grassroots strategy
Leave it to tech giant Google to go against the Silicon Valley trend when it comes to video steaming. While Yahoo!, Hulu and other tech companies are flocking to star-studded...
Latest 'drunk' cop accused of shooting woman's car after date
Yet another NYPD cop has been busted for drunkenly firing their weapon — the third in less than a week. Sergeant Wanda Anthony of the 122nd Precinct was arrested in...
US plays delusional economic numbers game
This may be the quickest economic recovery on record. At 8:30 Wednesday morning the Commerce Department announced that the US economy barely grew in the first three months of 2014....
Nets' $190 million experiment near end after rally falls short
TORONTO — This isn’t what $190 million was supposed to buy. When the Nets overhauled their roster last summer, they were supposed to be going from a team that couldn’t...
Shaq apologizes for mocking disabled fan’s selfie
DETROIT — Ex-NBA star Shaquille O’Neal has apologized to a Detroit man with a rare disorder for making fun of his appearance in an online post. Best known as Shaq,...
How Airbnb saved my home
A lifelong New Yorker and resident of Fort Greene for 15 years, I care deeply about our city. About three years ago, I became an Airbnb host, renting our garden...
GOP foolish to think ObamaCare is fixable
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the No. 4 House Republican, is walking back comments attributed to her that ObamaCare can’t be repealed. But she’s not the only one suggesting Congress...
UK secession bids an opportunity for America
What is the American interest in the events that are taking place now in Britain? Start with the fact that a referendum on Scottish independence is set for September, and...
Moving beyond the doomed 'peace process'
President Obama’s deadline for Israelis and Palestinians to seal a peace deal has passed with the two sides as far as apart as ever. This is a chance to revisit...
Jersey's feeling gassy
Across the Hudson, about the only tax advantage New Jersey residents have over other states is low gas taxes (about half what New Yorkers pay). Now the pols may take...
Out of the mouths of babes
What’s the best way to teach young people how dumb government can be? The answer seems to be this: Forget readings from Milton Friedman. Give them a taste of so-called...
Dead on arrival
It’s official: The mayor’s office has confirmed the winning bid to buy bankrupt Long Island College Hospital is collapsing in a morass of dubious financing and lack of specific details....
Convicted art dealer blames Knicks for gambling addiction
He claims betting on the Knicks as a kid led to his gambling addiction — and now rooting the club on at one of its rare playoff games might have...
Hundreds rescued as flood submerges Florida, Alabama
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. — People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of rain fell on the Florida...
Lagares set to rejoin Mets
PHILADELPHIA — The Mets will likely have an added spark waiting for them when they arrive at Coors Field on Thursday. Juan Lagares, who has spent the last two weeks...
Louis C.K. back with hilariously grim fourth season
There are lots of reasons Louis C.K. has earned the moniker “king of comedy,” as GQ’s May cover puts it, but one of them is knowing when to make himself...
Manhattan, Hamptons retreats are classic -- with an edge
From iconic apartment buildings like 15 CPW to the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas, Robert A. M. Stern’s 40-plus-year career has made him one of the most...
Rangers beat Flyers in Game 7, Penguins up next
The poster is about 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide, and it has been hanging in the Rangers’ locker room now for over a week. A vacant cutout of...
'Red-Eye' chronicles Edgar Allan Poe's final journey
Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his gothic tales, but his own life was mysterious, too. Or rather his own death: In October 1849 he disappeared while on a trip...
Yanks had a decent April, but still troubled by injuries
One month out of six doesn’t define a baseball team. Yet, when the Yankees laid out $486 million to sign Jacoby Ellsbury, Masahiro Tanaka, Brian McCann, Carlos Beltran and bring...
Mike D'Antoni resigns as head coach of Lakers
LOS ANGELES — Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni has resigned after less than two seasons on the job. Lakers spokesman John Black confirmed D'Antoni's resignation Wednesday night. D'Antoni went 67-87 after...
Mets' strong April has them on pace for that hopeful 90 wins
The Mets won 15 games in April. If they can also win 15 in May, June, July, August and September, they will finish with exactly 90 victories and reach the...
Yankees, Mariners will make up rainout on June 2
While the Yankees had a reason to avoid playing two games Thursday after Wednesday night’s tilt against the Mariners at Yankee Stadium was rained out, the Mariners weren’t wild about...
For once, the 'other' LA team is in the spotlight
OAKLAND, Calif. — In New York City, the story has been around forever — or at least since the 1960s. The Knicks dwarf the Nets. The Yankees are larger than...
Kerr's college coach Lute Olson expects him to coach Knicks
Saying Phil Jackson is the “trump card,’’ legendary former Arizona coach Lute Olson said he believes Steve Kerr will “more than likely’’ accept the Knicks’ head coaching job. Olson, who...
Sterling expected to fight NBA ruling in 'last-ditch' effort
With the NBA’s owners’ 10-member advisory and finance committee scheduled to conduct a conference call Thursday to discuss the next steps in the ouster of Donald Sterling, a source close...
Mayweather wants to buy piece of Clippers, calls Sterling 'a great guy'
LAS VEGAS — Floyd Mayweather confirmed on Wednesday his interest in acquiring an ownership stake in the Clippers should the franchise come up for sale. But he called disgraced Clippers...
Rob Ford 'ready' for rehab after new tape surfaces
TORONTO — The lawyer for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says Ford will take a leave of absence to seek help for substance abuse. Dennis Morris, Ford's lawyer, said Wednesday night...
Whiny mobster sentenced after getting 'whacked' with concrete
A reputed mobster who whined about getting "whacked" - by falling concrete - to avoid jail time was sentenced Wednesday to four months behind bars for being part of a...
'Harvest Sky' overloaded with clichés
Teenagers in a dead-end town aren’t exactly a trailblazing topic. Here Casper (Emory Cohen) is the delinquent with lousy parents; Dominic (Callan McAuliffe) is the nice kid with a part-time...
Mets starting to get some pop from new outfielder Young
PHILADELPHIA — Imagine establishing yourself in Hawaii, then voluntarily transferring full-time to Alaska. A stretch? Of course. But tell that to Chris Young, who endured yet another night of miserable...
Are female breadwinners a recipe for disaster?
"I have a Chanel bag fetish,” admits Stella (not her real name), a married corporate attorney who works in Midtown. “I have five pretty expensive bags. People ask me, ‘What...
My wife couldn't survive without a stay-at-home husband
A female neighbor tiptoed over, all pitying smiles, to show me, the hapless man, how to use the laundry room dryer. I’d been living in the building for six years,...
Who will be Kim Kardashian's wedding gown designer?
Kim Kardashian is reportedly set to marry Kanye West in a Los Angeles civil ceremony this week, but the rumored wedding will simply be a warm-up to the real thing...
City and teachers come to a tentative contract agreement
The city and the teachers union late Wednesday nearly finalized a deal on a new contract, which sources said would extend past Mayor Bill de Blasio’s current term in office....
Upper East Side townhouse selling for $6.995M
Interior designer turned psychiatrist Ann Maloney and her husband, psychoanalyst John Munder Ross — author of “The Sadomasochism of Everyday Life" — are selling their 21.5-foot-wide townhouse at 443 E....
Sam Worthington checks out luxe SoHo pad
"Avatar" actor Sam Worthington may have been flirting with his co-star Jennifer Aniston on the set of indie flick “Cake” earlier this week, but Aniston’s fiancé Justin Theroux has no...
200 kidnapped girls being forced to marry their militant captors
LAGOS, Nigeria — Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported Wednesday. At...
Deadly superbug resistant to antibiotics is spreading globally
The spread of deadly superbugs that evade even the most powerful antibiotics is no longer a prediction but is happening right now across the world, United Nations officials said on...
MTA fires LIRR President Helena Williams
The president of the LIRR was fired on Wednesday to be replaced by someone with a stronger mechanical background in running trains, sources told the Post. Helena Williams, the railroad’s...
Thug sentenced in murder of HS basketball star
The Harlem brute convicted of murdering high school basketball star Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life as an emotional Manhattan judge blasted the killing as...
The Red Bulls are on pace for a dubious record
After tying the dubious MLS record for penalty kicks allowed last year, the Red Bulls likely consoled themselves with thinking the problem couldn’t possibly get any worse. They were wrong. It’s...
Town fears this beached whale may explode
Trout River, Newfoundland — The 60-ton carcass of a blue whale is rotting on the shore on Canada's east coast, stinking up a town and triggering fears that it could...
Draft? What draft? Jets GM Idzik comically tight-lipped on plans
About the only thing Jets general manager John Idzik is willing to admit about next week’s NFL Draft is that it is next week. The Jets held their annual predraft...
Kurt Cobain note slams 'whoring' Courtney Love
A note found in Kurt Cobain's wallet that mocks his marriage to Courtney Love has been released for the first time since his death in 1994. The brief, handwritten note...
Why Zack Martin might make sense as Giants' 1st-round pick
There’s little doubt Zack Martin fits the profile of a player the Giants would take in the first round of the NFL Draft. There’s also little doubt Martin plays a...
Courtship trumps slavery in all-too-tasteful ‘Belle’
If you were wondering what “12 Years a Slave" might have been like as a two-part episode of “Masterpiece Theatre," you might want to check out this unsatisfying but not...
Teen accepted into every Ivy unveils his choice
He’s taking his talents to New Haven. The Long Island whiz kid who got accepted into all eight Ivy League colleges plans to attend Yale, he announced at a LeBron...
Phil Jackson has two-hour dinner with Carmelo Anthony
Over Caesar salad and filet mignon, Knicks president Phil Jackson and Carmelo Anthony finally staged their meeting Tuesday night to discuss a potential future together. According to an eyewitness, Jackson...
The day in photos
Pope Francis can't hold onto his hat, bears get friendly in Brazil, tornadoes wreak havoc and more.
Hulu boosting its mobile offering, spending on original content
Hulu is finally rolling out a mobile app that will allow users to watch free TV episodes for the first time on smartphones and tablets. The streaming service currently limits...
5 tips for female breadwinners
Boerum Hill-based author Farnoosh Torabi — whose new book, “When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women,” is out Thursday — offers five tips for navigating the conflicts that...
Bob Hoskins' 10 best roles
Bob Hoskins, whose death at 71 was announced today, was one of the most talented character actors in movie and TV history. His prodigious output demonstrates a huge acting range,...
'Sharknado' isn't fin-ished yet
Sink your teeth into this, “Sharknado” fans! The makers of the campy-cool shark movie thriller plan to turn it into a trilogy, a Syfy channel rep told Adweek. Fans of...
Cop accused of lying under oath in drug trial
A 16-year NYPD veteran was in the hot seat Wednesday, accused of lying to a grand jury about a Manhattan drug bust in 2009, nixing the prosecution of the two...
Oh no... The Teva is making a bedazzled comeback
It’s no secret that “crunchy” footwear has steadily been making a soft-padded comeback: The Birkenstock was the sleeper hit sandal of summer 2013 (the Olsens wear theirs with socks), and...
Scruffy Jackie O purse sells for $31K
Got a spare $31,000 lying around? Neither do we! But if we did, we’re pretty sure we wouldn’t spend it on this raggedy old bag, once owned by Jackie Kennedy...
Lou Gehrig wrote heartbreaking letter believing he'd beat ALS
Yankees icon Lou Gehrig struggled to perform simple tasks — like buttoning his shirt — only months after retirement, but was still convinced he’d beat ALS, according to a heartbreaking letter penned by...
Jaromir Jagr signs on for another season with Devils
Jaromir Jagr didn’t lose a step at the age of 42, so the veteran forward is coming back for a 23rd NHL season, agreeing to a one-year with the Devils...
Clueless Mets loyalty letter is an affront to real fans
The Mets are playing better than everyone, even many of their most fervent supporters, expected them to play across the season’s first 26 games. They are pitching well, they are...
Sterling controversy helped heal feud from classic NBA brawl
Clippers coach Doc Rivers and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson had their differences while playing in the NBA, famously working each other over in a bench-clearing 1993 brawl. But now they’re...
Train carrying crude oil derails and forces mass evacuations
A CSX Corp. train carrying crude oil derailed and burst into flames in downtown Lynchburg, Va., on Wednesday, with several tank cars spilling oil into the nearby James River, city...
Macy's drops theft charges against 'racially profiled' woman
A shopper who said she was falsely accused of stealing jewelry at Macy's flagship store got the charges dismissed Wednesday, when prosecutors dropped a case that arose amid complaints that...
Best hockey night ever? Three thrilling Game 7s on tap
NHL fans have hit the jackpot. For the first time since April 22, 2003, there will be three Game 7s on the same night. It's win or go home. Here's...
Going ... going ... gone? These TV shows face the ax
With the news Tuesday night that Fox has canceled the robot cop drama “Almost Human” after one season, the bubble watch — that time of year when underperforming TV shows...
Rangers ready for Game 7: 'The greatest thing about what we do'
Brad Richards stood in the locker room by his lonesome, fiddling with the tape on his three game sticks. Martin St. Louis gave short and focused answers. Even the Rangers’...
Mom who killed uncle, jumped off bridge left suicide note behind
The woman who leaped from the George Washington Bridge hand-in-hand with her boyfriend after murdering her uncle Monday left a lengthy, apologetic note addressed to her children at the scene...
This is what's up with V. Stiviano's visor
At first, the controversy around Los Angeles Clippers owner Don Sterling was just another sad debacle exposing the ugly soul of humanity. Then his ex-girlfriend V. Stiviano stepped out in...
Blind-drunk cop shot stranger 6 times: police
A city cop started his day with a little target practice at the NYPD firing range — and ended it by getting blind drunk at a bar, pulling out his...
UFC: Web 'pirate' owes $32M for stealing live MMA events
This Staten Island tech geek had better bolt his parents’ front door. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is suing Steven Messina, 27, accusing him of being one of the Internet's most...
Which NBA Draft entrants made the best & worst decisions?
The NBA Draft -- at Barclays Center in Brooklyn -- doesn't take place for nearly two months, but the deadline for underclassmen to declare their eligibility came on Sunday. After...
Kristen Stewart goes cowgirl chic for Chanel
A behind-the-scenes video of Kristen Stewart starring in Chanel’s 2013/2014 Métiers d’Art show (the hoedown-themed spectacle Karl Lagerfeld presented in Texas last December) is making the rounds and we must...
NYPD, DA bust Georgia-to-NY weapons pipeline
A weapons pipeline from Georgia to New York was shut down by authorities who busted six gun traffickers trying to unload an arsenal of firearms on the streets of Brooklyn,...
7 stars set to break out on the big screen this summer
This summer’s big movies are as starry as ever, with marquee actors such as Angelina Jolie, Channing Tatum and Tom Cruise leading the pack. But these blockbusters also pave the...
Rihanna goes topless, Gisele belts out Blondie and more
Rihanna bares her lovely lady lumps, Rick Owens’ step dancers speak, and Dolce & Gabbana found guilty after legal hurdles. Happy Hump Day! • Talk about unapologetic: Rihanna goes topless —...
Filmmaker protests Kickstarter's 'censorship' of abortion film
Filmmaker Phelim McAleer is sending a big message to Kickstarter. In protest of the crowd-funding site’s “censorship” of his TV movie project about convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, McAleer commissioned...
Gap store calls cops on flash mob of 'live mannequins'
http://youtu.be/B3FCpirYMKQ It’s like a scene out of "The Twilight Zone" — mannequins living and breathing as shoppers walk around the store. A “mannequin mob” took over Gap’s flagship store in Midtown,...
It's the 10th birthday of 'Mean Girls': Here are the 12 best quotes
That’s so fetch! Wednesday fittingly marks the 10th anniversary of “Mean Girls,” the Tina Fey-scripted high school movie that has become one of the most iconic girl-clique flicks ever. It...
Bitter family feud pits dad against son-in-law: suit
A prominent Manhattan real estate family is playing out its own War of the Roses — with the father-in-law taking revenge against his son-in-law for leaving his daughter by cutting...
Vet kept dog alive for tests after telling family it was put down
A Texas veterinarian, being investigated for animal abuse, was using a beloved family pet for blood transfusions for nearly six months after telling its family the pooch was put down....
Taxi fares getting $.30 hike to fund city's handicap cab goal
All taxi passengers will begin paying a 30-cent surcharge next year to make half of the city's cabs wheelchair accessible by 2020, according to new rules approved by the Taxi...
Oprah may buy Clippers off Donald Sterling
Media empress Oprah Winfrey may get into yet another game: NBA ownership. According to ESPN, Winfrey is considering teaming with David Geffen and Larry Ellison for a bid to buy...
Mobster whines about 'ridiculous' 5-year jail sentence
He's a reputed enforcer for the Russian mob who feels like he just got shaken down by a federal judge. Irate lawyers for Anatoly Golubchik accused the feds on Tuesday...
NY rolls as Christie resists film tax credit hike
The Hollywood film business can’t grow in the Garden State. Industry insiders claim they would love to film their next project in New Jersey, but that Gov. Chris Christie’s resistance...
Jameis Winston busted for stealing crab legs
Heisman Trophy-winning football star Jameis Winston is in trouble with the law again — this time for stealing crab legs from a grocery store in Florida, cops said on Wednesday. The...
Loeb seeks to delay Sotheby’s meeting in fight with board
Dan Loeb wants a Delaware judge to postpone Sotheby’s May 6 board meeting, where he plans to launch a bitter proxy battle over three directors he is proposing to the...
Feds widen crackdown on New York political corruption
The federal prosecutor on a mission to crack down on corruption in New York politics has requested all complaints of wrongdoing filed against public officials with the state’s ethics panel,...
Penn State's new coach tangled up in Vanderbilt rape case
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Defense attorneys for a former Vanderbilt player charged with raping a woman in a campus dorm last June are accusing prosecutors of destroying or not preserving evidence....
Suspect confesses role in Brooklyn slumlord murder
Cops arrested a Crown Heights man on murder charges Wednesday night in the January death of Brooklyn slumlord Menachem Stark, police said. Kendel Felix, 26, told investigators that he and...
Developer ditches plan for 'Ground Zero mosque'
The controversial developer behind the “Ground Zero mosque” has a new plan for the Park Place site: a museum devoted to Islam. Developer Sharif El-Gamal announced his plan Tuesday to...
You won't believe how small the world's deadliest animal is
Lions and sharks might look terrifying, but the animals that kill the most humans seem, on the surface, far more innocuous. Dogs, flies, snails and mosquitoes are much more dangerous...
Three women arrested for twerking in public
http://youtu.be/HWdMYVzS3Lk Three women were arrested for lewd behavior, including twerking, after they went on a drug-fueled bender in Oregon. Police say it all started when Coura Valazquez went to Beaverton...
America's nuclear arsenal is operated with floppy disks
In an underground base in Wyoming, there lies one of 450 Minuteman-3 missiles, tucked away and ready to launch upon the president’s command. The missile lies on an unassuming fenced-off...
Deron Williams: Nets need Game 5 in 'worst way'
TORONTO — When the Nets put together this $190 million roster last summer, the goal was to compete for a championship. But now, after splitting the first four games of...
Thousands flee killer storms that hit southern US
Killer rainstorms and tornadoes wreaked havoc from Florida to the Heartland on Wednesday, sending thousands running for safety — many even ditching their cars on impassable roads to seek shelter on...
Gubernatorial candidate arrested for trying to bite judicial marshal
A Connecticut governor hopeful was arrested for trying to bite a judicial marshal at the Stamford Superior Court last Thursday, according to state police. Lisa Baker-Whitnum allegedly threw a tantrum...
Afghanistan's 'torturer and chief' lives in the LA suburbs
The man known as the "torturer in chief" for Afghanistan’s secret service, who disappeared in 2009, has turned up in the must unusual place: suburban Los Angeles. The Washington Post...
Bob Hoskins dead at 71
LONDON — British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from "Mona Lisa" to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," has died at 71. A family statement released Wednesday by agent Clair...
NYPD cop arrested for downloading child porn videos
An NYPD officer was arrested after investigators found several child-porn videos on his home computer, authorities said. Officer Yong-Fa Wu, 34, was busted at his Ozone Park home Monday after...
Give me a beak! Street squawks over Twitter user numbers
Twitter’s wings have been clipped. Investors sent shares of the micro-blogging company down more than 10 percent in after-hours trading after the San Francisco firm beat Wall Street forecasts for...
Hondo: Let’s play two!
The Brewers took care of business for Hondo Tuesday night, rallying past their Arch enemy in extra time to lower the accounts payable to 665 blairs. Wednesday: Mr. Aitch will...
Lineup change is latest one-win wonder
PHILADELPHIA — Here’s how it seems to work: Alain Vigneault makes a lineup change, and the Rangers win the first game then lose the second. That pattern has followed suit...
NFL rings, starlet kids: So what keeps Chris Mara up at night?
There’s a Super Bowl taking place for a member of the Mara family on Saturday and it has nothing to do with the Giants, Eli Manning or football. As the...
5 questions after Sterling's lifetime ban
Adam Silver’s announcement of a lifetime ban on Clippers owner Donald Sterling is hardly a conclusion to this ugly episode in NBA history. With that in mind, here are five...
Garnett was nearly on the Clippers
TORONTO — As the Celtics, Clippers and Doc Rivers engaged in discussions that wound up sending Rivers from Boston to Los Angeles to coach and run the front office of...
Soho gets a real gem: Yurman to add Prince Street store
David Yurman will soon cut a new facet downtown. The renowned jewelry designer has just leased his first Soho store. The new 4,200-square-foot space at 112 Prince St. had an...
‘Orange’ star will star in sex change documentary
In anticipation of the June 6 return of the Netflix prison drama “Orange Is the New Black,” MTV and Logo announced that they will partner with one of the show’s...
The secrets of the Tony nominations
The Tony nominators are forbidden to speak to me or anyone else in the press under pain of being forced to sit through Will Eno’s “The Realistic Joneses” again. But...
Unions offer pay cuts for jobs in affordable-housing plan
Construction unions are so eager to get in on Mayor de Blasio’s plan to build 200,000 units of affordable housing that they’ve offered to take a pay cut, sources told...
Doctors group rips New York version of ObamaCare
ALBANY — One of New York’s largest physicians’ groups says ObamaCare needs a checkup. The head of the Medical Society of New York ripped the Affordable Care Act for failing...
Saks shoe shopper finds plea from China factory 'slave'
A simple shoe purchase at Saks Fifth Avenue turned into a human-rights uproar after the buyer found an apparent desperate plea for help from a Chinese prison-factory worker in her...
Daily Blotter
Manhattan A chatty thief stole $16,500 worth of jewelry from a store at the South Street Seaport. He walked into Seaport Jewelers on Fulton Street at 1:30 p.m. Friday and...
NBA hears demands of fans to boot racist Clippers owner
Basketball fans cheered the NBA’s decision Tuesday to exile 80-year-old LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling over his recorded racism. “You don’t just say things like that in this day and...
A new charter school defender is born
This time of year, New York’s social calendar is filled with worthy, if predictable, events that celebrate nonprofit institutions and the donors who fund them. Monday’s dinner to support charter...
Republicans cut off campaign cash for indicted Grimm
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are cutting off Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm, denying cash infusions to the embattled lawmaker’s re-election campaign. Without the campaign dough from DC, Grimm is...
Astorino says he’s better for businesses, economy than Cuomo
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino dared city business leaders to “take a risk” and back him over Gov. Cuomo in the race for the state’s top job. “I am calling...
Flyers' Simmonds notches hat trick in win over Rangers
PHILADELPHIA — Hours after he ripped into Donald Sterling for the bombshell racial rants the Clippers owner made that got him banned from the NBA on Tuesday, Flyers forward Wayne...
Wrestling legend Iron Sheik as relevant and unhinged as ever
Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri is being pushed out of the W Hotel in Times Square in a wheelchair with his championship belt slung across his shoulder and signature checkered headdress....
Grateful Clippers move forward with victory
LOS ANGELES — Signs of support outweighed shows of protest from the fans and players went on with the game. Life was normal again for the Clippers and the Warriors...
Power play fizzles again for reeling Rangers
PHILADELPHIA — When this first-round playoff series between the Rangers and Flyers began, one of the key subplots was the Flyers’ concern about the potent Rangers power play. The Flyers...
Time for low-key Rangers to man up in Game 7
PHILADELPHIA — One night on Broadway. One game that will in large measure define the Rangers and the Rangers’ season. Game 7 against the Flyers at the Garden on Wednesday....
Reputed mobster 'cannoli king' sexually harassed waitress: suit
A Little Italy waitress is taking on a reputed soldier in the Gambino crime family, accusing him of trying to stuff more than cannolis at his famous eatery. Angela Henderson,...
'You sold out' hypocrites first to make noise at Yankee Stadium
There have been many times in the five-plus-year history of this version of Yankee Stadium when the stands have been full, the games have been important and the noise and...
Mets' Collins plans on rotating four outfielders
PHILADELPHIA — The Mets are preparing for a little four-play in the outfield. As Juan Lagares continues his rehab assignment at Triple-A Las Vegas and nears a return to the...
Knox, roommate argued over money: court
Amanda Knox and her tragic roommate bitterly argued over money before “Foxy Knoxy” finished her off with a kitchen knife, according to Italian court documents unsealed Tuesday. There was ample...
Mets hope young arms can help team stay in contention
PHILADELPHIA — When Matt Harvey joined the Mets in late July 2012, his arrival became an event greater than the team’s results. Largely because the team sported a 47-51 record...
Why did it take so long for world to turn on disgraceful Sterling?
For years, LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling has stunk up the locker room, the basketball arena and the buildings in which he’s refused to rent apartments to black people with...
After two good starts, Sabathia struggles in loss to Mariners
CC Sabathia wasn’t happy about the four runs he gave up in the fifth inning of the Yankees 6-3 loss to Seattle Tuesday night. He also seemed less than thrilled...
Sterling ban saves season as players planned drastic measures
LOS ANGELES — Sterling 0, Silver 1. And that score likely saved the NBA’s playoff season. If Donald Sterling had been allowed to remain an NBA owner, the players were...