May 10, 2014
Losing hope of snagging Kerr, Warriors will interview Hollins
Lionel Hollins is the latest candidate to enter Golden State’s radar, as he will interview with the Warriors at the Chicago predraft combine that starts Thursday, an NBA source confirmed....
Nets get back into series with Game 3 win over Heat
The Nets came into Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal with the Heat, already facing a 2-0 deficit, knowing their backs were firmly up against the wall. “I don’t...
Mets bullpen flops in another loss to Phillies
The Mets’ snoozing offense finally showed signs of life Saturday night, making way for the bullpen to take its turn as the team’s weakest link. The two are running stride for stride...
Godzilla is back and bigger than ever
When the star of Hollywood’s newest horror-action-thriller debuted in the film’s trailer a couple of weeks ago, Japanese fans wasted no time scrutinizing his appearance. Among the typical Internet troll...
Warriors plan meeting with Hollins
Lionel Hollins is the latest candidate to enter Golden State’s radar, as he will interview with the Warriors at the Chicago predraft combine that starts Thursday, an NBA source confirmed....
Falcons ink Cornell QB Jeff Mathews
Cornell quarterback Jeff Mathews, whose NFL Draft journey The Post chronicled, went undrafted, but signed as a free agent with the Falcons on Saturday night. Mathews had offers from a...
Sabathia shaky again as Yankees fall to Brewers
MILWAUKEE — If one believes statistics are like Legos, in that you can do anything you want with them, then CC Sabathia’s pitching line Saturday night doesn’t look so bad. Yet, if...
Hondo solid as a Rockie
The Dodgers were truly heroic for Hondo on Saturday, rallying past the Giants to slash the NRN (nasty red number) to 630 fosters. Sunday: Mr. Aitch hopes it’s time to...
Kreider gets high praise from teammates after strong Game 5
Chris Kreider caught a little bit of criticism from his coach after his first game back, and caught an equal amount of praise after his second. The 23-year-old winger had...
Rangers out to force Game 7 for mourning St. Louis
There was a swell of emotion and inspiration for one game, and it kept the Rangers’ season afloat. Now, the depth of that motivation will be tested. And what awaits...
Panic at NJ mall after exploding tires mistaken for shots
PARAMUS, N.J. — Authorities believe that a car fire may have led to reports of gunshots that forced them to evacuate a mall in Paramus. New Jersey State Police Capt....
Serby's Sunday Q&A with... Odell Beckham Jr.
Post columnist Steve Serby caught up with Giants first-round draft pick, receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Q: What drives you? A: I don’t want to be great, I want to be...
Jordan Spieth, 20, tied for lead in prestigious Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Jordan Spieth’s first three rounds at The Players Championship have served as a perfect metaphor for his brief, yet sky-rocketing career: It has been a...
Coughlin: HBO would fire us from 'Hard Knocks' in a minute
Let’s get this straight right away: Despite some offseason chatter, the Giants were never going to be the team this summer to appear on HBO’s “Hard Knocks.’’ No how, no...
Bearded drag queen wins world’s biggest song contest
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Austrian bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst won the 59th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest Saturday with a James Bond-inspired power ballad. The song, "Rise Like a...
Michael Sam becomes first openly gay man drafted into NFL
Michael Sam made NFL history Saturday, becoming the first openly gay player taken in the college draft when the Rams took the Missouri defensive end in the seventh round. Sam...
Jeter left out of Saturday night's lineup
MILWAUKEE — Joe Girardi put what he felt was best for the Yankees and Derek Jeter ahead of baseball fans desire to see Jeter play in his final season. So,...
How Mother's Day's founder went completely insane defending it
If you hate the commercialism of Mother’s Day, then you’re not alone — in fact, you have the ideal person in your corner. Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day,...
Jets catching on: Trio of WRs join Gang on final day of draft
The Jets waited until Day 3 of the NFL Draft to take a wide receiver, but they wasted no time grabbing two and added another later. The Jets selected wide...
No fun to watch ... not by a longshot
As they say in Cockney, “Shock-a me lyff!” Thursday night, the score tied, 3:41 left in the third quarter of Nets-Heat Game 2, a startling thing occurred: After LeBron James...
'The end days of the world': Meet Kim Jong-il's propaganda poet
Jang Jin-sung, a North Korean poet laureate and a employee of the country’s United Front Department, the government agency responsible for “inter-Korean espionage, policy making and diplomacy,” was walking through...
The one thing the Mets still have on the Yankees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfz7gW2Wf3I In a moment in their history when the Mets do everything — and make no mistake, we mean bold, all-caps, italics EVERYTHING — wrong, it is actually something of...
How restaurant culture changed the way we eat
New York City didn’t invent the restaurant. That honor goes to France, and even in the United States, the earliest-known restaurant was in Boston — Julien’s Restorator, which opened in...
Meet NYC football's new poster boy
Dominique Easley became a folk hero for all New York City football players Thursday night, as he was the first local product to go in the first round of the...
Stop making excuses for Islamist extremist monsters
When it comes to fanatical Islam, we’re entranced by the symptoms but refuse to name the disease. The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam...
Natalie Merchant's upstate New York
“I haven’t been outside in six months,” jokes Natalie Merchant of the brutal winter upstate. But the Jamestown-born singer, who lives in Ulster County with her 10-year-old daughter, is stirring...
Gaborik becoming a playoff King
This was last Sunday in Pittsburgh, the morning after Marian Gaborik had scored the tying goal at 19:53 of the third period before getting the winning goal at 12:07 of...
Hofstra adds another talented recruit to impressive class
If Joe Mihalich had his choice, the Hofstra coach would skip the rest of spring, speed past the summer and even forego the fall. Basketball season is still six months...
Elin swipes at Tiger in graduation speech
Tiger who? Elin Nordegren on Saturday graduated atop her class after a nine-year college career — and then educated her audience with some rare, albeit veiled, comments about her ex,...
Why this Dr. Seuss book should never again be a graduation gift
Congratulations, grads. You’ve spent four years pondering morality in the “Grand Inquisitor” episode of “The Brothers Karamazov.” You’ve attained an understanding of differential calculus, organic chemistry, cognitive science. You’ve written...
Giants pick running back Andre Williams in fourth round
A Heisman Trophy finalist still on the board after three rounds? The leading rusher in the nation hearing the names of 112 players before his own? It is rare when...
The biggest retirement risk no one talks about
You won’t see it in television ads about retirement. You won’t hear it at investment conferences. You probably won’t read much about it in newspapers or personal finance magazines or...
The sex-obsessed world of Brunei
Last week, celebrities including Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, Sharon Osbourne, Richard Branson and Clive Davis united for an unlikely cause: a boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel, because its owner,...
Good Samaritan chases down hit-and-run driver
A Good Samaritan chased down a hit-and-run driver who rammed into a mechanic working on a Brooklyn sidewalk Saturday morning, cops and witnesses said. “He sideswiped him and didn’t even...
13-year-old gets right to opt for abortion
A UK High Court judge has ruled that a 13-year-old girl has the right to decide if she wants to terminate her own pregnancy. The schoolgirl discovered she was pregnant...
Why dogs have to give up their instincts to survive in NYC
Last Friday, Rudy, a 3-year-old husky-shepherd mix, stood in the middle of Tompkins Square Park. Around him, skateboarders darted and swerved, tempting the dog with every smack of the pavement....
How LinkedIn is the new frontier in online dating
For years, James hated online dating. The 30-year-old explains that even though most of his peers do it, he was always opposed to hopping on a Web site to find...
An oral history of Blondie
Just like the city that spawned them, Blondie is still a band that’s constantly changing. Back in 1974, the New Yorkers started as a throwback act, incorporating a ’60s girl-group...
4 dead after car swerves into oncoming traffic
Four Long Island teens were killed early Saturday when their car veered into oncoming traffic and struck an SUV, cops said. Three other people were seriously hurt in the smashup...
Man in critical condition after East Village attack
An out of control hothead seriously assaulted a man in the East Village, cops said. The 69 year-old victim was walking on East Sixth Street near Avenue D when he...
Protests as 9/11 remains are returned to Ground Zero
Outraged families on Saturday blasted city officials for placing the unidentified remains of 9/11 victims in an underground repository at the National September 11 Memorial Museum. About a dozen protesters...
Flight MH370 search heads back to first 'ping' site
An Australian naval vessel carrying an underwater drone involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 left port on Saturday on its second mission to scan part of the...
Bugs found in Herbalife headquarters: report
Herbalife has found multiple hidden listening devices — bugs — in its Los Angeles headquarters, according to a report on Friday. The bugs, discovered over the last year, were “non-governmental,”...
Children safe after man is arrested for stabbing wife to death
LODI, NJ — A man was charged Saturday with stabbing his estranged wife to death, then fleeing with their two young sons to South Carolina, where he was captured and...
Michelle Obama: Girls' abduction was an 'unconscionable act'
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama on Saturday criticized the kidnapping of scores of Nigerian schoolgirls as an "unconscionable act" carried out by a terrorist group she said is determined to keep...
The hottest new shows to watch on ABC this fall
How to Get Away With Murder Shonda Rhimes’ empire at the network will grow to three series next season with this legal drama starring Viola Davis as a professor who...
A union boss confesses
Finally: The Post is no longer alone in claiming the teachers union acted in bad faith in talks with the city. The union’s boss says so himself. That’s right: United...
The Democrats have become Benghazi deniers
At last, we have a Benghazi scandal that Democrats are willing to acknowledge — House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to form a select committee to investigate the administration’s handling of...
Don’t cry for Lewinsky's sob story
Monica Lewinsky is back in the news, this time complaining of her treatment by the liberal media, feminists and the Clinton Machine. In a long essay in the latest edition...
Thin skinned people are the real problem with prayer
After the marshal on Monday spoke the traditional “God save the United States and this honorable court,” the Supreme Court ruled that the upstate New York town of Greece doesn’t...
White House solar panels finally installed
WASHINGTON — An array of solar panels blanketing the roof of the White House is getting its day in the sun. Technicians have finished installing the panels at the nation's...
JCPenney sheds its Soho space
Former JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson’s dream of throwing rooftop parties in Soho is up in smoke — and now the roof is up for rent. The top floor of 200...
Goldman the latest bank to feel heat of probe
Wall Street’s looking a lot like a crime scene, with a growing number of suspects lining the street. Goldman Sachs is the latest one to feel the heat, revealing on...
Ralph Lauren executive plans retirement from company
This must make Ralph Lauren feel old. The New York fashion tycoon’s most trusted exec is retiring — despite the fact that he’s 13 years younger than Lauren himself. Executive...
Apple-Beats deal all about red-hot music exec Iovine
Apple’s expected deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion is really about one man — Jimmy Iovine. The tech titan was so anxious to snag the 61-year-old music industry...
Geno at ease despite the Johnny Football talk
One year after he was stranded in the green room at Radio City for the entire first round, the ominous spectre of Johnny Manziel, aka Johnny Football, was hanging over...
Hondo Cain't pick Giants
Hondo started the weekend with a wipeout Friday night, falling with the miserable Mets and the Marlins to increase the load to 680 swobodas. Saturday: Mr. Aitch expects Greinke to...
Jay Bromley gets to play with the Giants, his hometown team
Jay Bromley’s never had a shopping experience quite like this. The Syracuse defensive tackle from Jamaica, Queens was with his girlfriend looking to rent a movie and pick up juice...
Riding the wave from grief to glory
PITTSBURGH — Martin St. Louis has been part of the Rangers family for just over two months. But when tragedy struck, St. Louis chose to stand with this family and...
Lack of offensive production an Amazin' problem
Somewhere, surely a university exists that would showcase the Mets’ mastery of a skill set you normally don’t find in the business world. Come on, what savvy corporation wouldn’t sign...
Daily Blotter
The Bronx ■ A man was shot dead on a Williamsbridge street, police said. A triggerman squeezed two bullets into the victim’s head and back on Magenta Street near the...
City to get nice and warm in time for Mother’s Day
It’s mother nature’s gift to mom — summer-like weather in the Big Apple just in time for Mother’s Day. After a warm but drizzly Saturday, Sunday is poised to be...
Heat, Wade know they will get the Nets' best shot
Now the fun starts for the Heat. They will be heading into a hostile arena, facing a wounded animal that is in such a wretched position, it will bite, kick,...
St. John's brings home 2 Big East titles ... in men's golf, men's tennis
St. John’s has gone three seasons without seeing its most storied program — men’s basketball — reach the NCAA Tournament, but the Red Storm are enjoying a sports renaissance this...
Rangers' McDonagh regains top form in Game 5 win
PITTSBURGH — Welcome back, Ryan McDonagh. The Rangers’ No. 1 defenseman finally played like it on Friday night, and it only took impending elimination to bring it out. Down 3-1...
Jeter plays it cool around crazed, hug-wanting fan
MILWAUKEE — Derek Jeter made light of what could have been a serious situation in the sixth inning of Friday night’s 5-3 win over the Brewers at Miller Park. A...
Port Authority head orders internal corruption probe after suit
The head of the Port Authority has ordered a top-to-bottom internal probe by the agency’s inspector general to investigate claims of corruption in a lawsuit filed by the former No....
Mets' Harvey increases throwing distance
Injured Mets ace Matt Harvey took a step forward in his recovery from Tommy John surgery, and has a clear schedule for the next step beyond that. He threw from...
Parents, staff & pols won’t support union head’s reform ‘war’
What a dunce! Outraged parents and students flunked teachers-union boss Mike Mulgrew for venting that “we are at war with the reformers” during a closed-door meeting with union activists Wednesday...
New FDNY boss Nigro is a 'true leader': de Blasio
This guy loves fire engine red! New FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro spent the morning zipping around in a hip red Fiat with a license plate that reads, “FD CIAO.” He...
Man falls onto subway tracks, dies
A man fell onto the subway tracks and was killed by a train at an Upper East Side station Friday afternoon, authorities said. He tumbled about 4:15 p.m. at the...
De Blasio boosts manpower to crack down on city corruption
The city’s anti-corruption agency has more manpower to bust crooked pols. Mayor de Blasio boosted the Department of Investigation’s budget by 20 percent — to $27.6 million from $21.9 million...
US advisers reach Nigeria to help look for kidnapped schoolgirls
A task force of US military advisers and hostage negotiators landed in Nigeria on Friday to help the government rescue the nearly 300 kidnapped schoolgirls and fight the menace of...
Romney supports raising minimum wage
WASHINGTON — Now that he’s not running for president, Mitt Romney is fighting for the “47 percent” — unexpectedly pitching a hike in the minimum wage. In doing so, Romney...
Labor leaders blast Obama's visit to Walmart
WASHINGTON — Labor leaders blasted President Obama on Friday for visiting a Walmart store in California and touting the non-union retail’s giant’s clean- energy program. “It’s a huge mistake for...
Mets bats go silent again in 11-inning loss to Phillies
The good news? The Mets anemic offense finally scored a run. Two, as a matter of fact. The bad news? Not shockingly, that wasn’t enough. The Mets called up rookie...
Civilians shot during attempted abduction at US Embassy in Yemen
WASHINGTON —Two officers at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen shot and killed a pair of armed Yemeni civilians during an attempted abduction of the Americans at a Sanaa business last...