August 10, 2014
Throwing still an issue for Flores
PHILADELPHIA — The knock on Wilmer Flores as a shortstop in the minor leagues was his throwing. On Sunday, the Mets got their first indication it could still be a...
McCann doesn't have to go far for concussion advice
The Yankees only have to look as far as Brian McCann’s roster replacement for a reason to be uncertain about when the catcher might return from the concussion he suffered...
After the laundry list of injuries, Teixeira feels... 'not bad'
It wasn’t perfect, but it was good enough. So Mark Teixeira, who cut up his left pinky on a play at home that forced him out of three games, returned...
Kuroda not worried about another second-half swoon
When July 2013 ended, Hiroki Kuroda was a shining light in the Yankees rotation with a 10-6 record and a 2.38 ERA. Then came August and September. The light dimmed...
Vick wary of wildcat despite Geno's and Rex's excitement
CORTLAND — On Saturday, Jets coach Rex Ryan said his team had dedicated a session to the wildcat, and as of Sunday he still hadn’t completely thrown cold water on...
McIlroy holds on, hoists PGA trophy as night falls on Valhalla
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It was everything you hoped it could and would be. The star-studded leaderboard at the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla begged for this kind of golf, this...
The simple truth that's haunted the Yankees all season
This is beyond looking at the schedule anymore, circling in red ink “important” games and “statement” series. The Yankees travel to Baltimore on Monday to face the first-place Orioles and,...
Big Blue DBs have to feel out right amount of contact
The Seahawks named their cloying defensive backfield the Legion of Boom, and that gifted unit led the way to a Super Bowl triumph despite seeing Seattle atop the NFL board...
Here's Wheeler's chance to get used to being the Mets' ace
PHILADELPHIA — It was a brutal beginning to the Mets’ Sunday at Citizens Bank Park, as rookie dynamo Jacob deGrom left town to see team doctors in New York about...
Nothing explosive about TNT's 'Legends'
Sean Bean, the scruffy British actor who was one of the biggest stars in Season One of “Game of Thrones” — until his character, Ned Stark, met his grisly end...
Coughlin assures: Deep passing attack is ‘coming’
On the next episode of How the New Giants Offense Turns: The deep passing game. “I think some of the vertical is in … you haven’t seen the ball down...
Where to find the most eligible bachelors in NYC
As any old lady on the Upper West Side will tell you, “There’s a lid for every pot.” But get together with any group of single New York women, and...
4 reasons why getting fired rocks
In a July interview with Cosmopolitan, ousted New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson said she “wasn’t ashamed” she’d been fired. She’s not alone: According to others who’ve survived the...
Should I complain about my crushing workload?
My department is going through enormous changes in structure and people. I like where we are headed and I’ve been told I am part of the future, but the workload...
Celebs rock the royal blue carpet at the Teen Choice Awards
Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian are among the stylish stars working the blue carpet at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles.
How the de Blasios' furniture imports boost New York
First Lady Chirlane McCray chose West Elm to donate $65,000 worth of furniture to Gracie Mansion because West Elm is based in Dumbo. “We brought some Brooklyn flavor with us,”...
How the EPA ignores the public and science
The Environmental Protection Agency ignored both public opinion and science in writing its new economy-slamming regulations restricting carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants. Although EPA head Gina McCarthy testified otherwise before...
From HIV to cancer to Crohn's, ObamaCare fails the sick
It turns out ObamaCare didn’t solve the problem of “pre-existing conditions” after all. It made premiums more affordable for people with chronic health conditions that are expensive to treat —...
Schumer: Fitness apps are a threat to your privacy
Fitness bracelets that track a lot more than just their users' daily steps could lead to a “privacy nightmare,” Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday. Popular fitness tracker FitBit, and other...
Amukamara's big Super Bowl memory: Katy Perry
Prince Amukamara took to Reddit on Sunday afternoon to answer some fans' questions, as bored athletes are wont to do, and he didn't disappoint. The Giants cornerback touched on all...
Sharpton off to Missouri to wave his finger at more cops
The Rev. Al Sharpton is heading to the scene of another controversial death involving cops — this time in Missouri, where an unarmed teen was shot to death by a...
Ryan Howard heroics sink Mejia and the Mets
PHILADELPHIA — Jenrry Mejia had danced around trouble in recent appearances, but Sunday there was no soft landing place. The Mets closer could only walk from the mound dejectedly after...
Terrorist posts photo of son holding severed head
One of Australia's most wanted terrorists is believed to have tweeted a picture of his young son holding the decapitated head of a Syrian soldier. "Thats my boy!" Australian jihadist...
Yankees lay huge egg before showdown with Orioles
So much for the showdown in Baltimore. The Yankees staggered through a second straight game against the Indians, losing 4-1 on Sunday in The Bronx and didn’t show any reason...
Idzik should pay if Jets' obvious flaw ends up haunting them
Early on in Jets practice Sunday, the rookies did a dizzy bat relay race. After practice, coach Rex Ryan was the only one who looked dizzy. The Jets coach appeared...
Turkey PM Erdogan wins presidential election
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the country's first direct presidential election in the first round Sunday, an unofficial vote count showed, ensuring he remains at...
Family of rabbi shot in Miami say it's a hate crime
Grieving loved ones of a Brooklyn rabbi, who was shot in cold blood Saturday morning while heading to temple in Miami, say his murder is a hate crime — while...
How to lighten mood at Jets camp? Dizzy bat race
CORTLAND – Jets coach Rex Ryan decided to liven things up in Sunday’s practice with a dizzy bat relay race among the rookies. The rookies (plus giant defensive lineman T.J....
Dustin Pedroia shows best way to beat shift: Steal 2 bases
As Colby Lewis and the unwritten-rules aficionados wrangle about the moral and ethical implications of each use of the shift, Dustin Pedroia gave the baseball world a primer on beating...
Blanchett and Huppert are deliciously devious 'Maids'
By every measure — star power, buzz, lofty ticket prices — “The Maids” is the most hyped event of this year’s Lincoln Center Festival, if not the entire summer. And...
Derek Jeter rightly gifts ball to baby in stands
While Alex Rodriguez had his way of giving baseballs to babes in the stands, Derek Jeter's methods, and targets, are decidedly more adorable. During Saturday's game, a 3-0 loss to the...
Double-decker buses don't have to report accidents
Companies that run New York City's growing armada of double-decker sightseeing buses, like the ones involved in last week's Times Square crash, have no legal obligation to report accidents to...
Legendary boxing promoter: I'm undergoing a sex change
LONDON (AP) — Former boxing promoter Frank Maloney announced in a newspaper interview Sunday that he is undergoing a sex change. The 61-year-old Maloney, who guided Lennox Lewis to the...
Hillary slams Obama for 'stupid' foreign policies
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton blasts President Obama’s foreign policy in an interview published Sunday, saying her former boss’ failure to have a clear strategy for the Middle East has spawned...
The Giants' potential savior still sits on the sidelines
Paging Odell Beckham Jr. Paging Odell Beckham Jr. Please exit the trainer’s room and report immediately to the practice field at your earliest possible convenience, sooner rather than later, even...
Jets CB McDougle done for year with torn ACL; Milliner hurt, too
CORTLAND — The Jets’ cornerback situation took just a half-hour to escalate from a concern to an epidemic, when promising rookie Dexter McDougle suffered a season-ending torn ACL in his...
Mets' deGrom headed to NY to have shoulder examined
PHILADELPHIA — Jacob deGrom’s right shoulder has suddenly become the biggest health concern in the Mets universe. The rookie right-hander has been scratched from his Tuesday start against the Nationals...
Palestinians accept new 72-hour truce with Israel
CAIRO — Palestinian negotiators on Sunday said they had accepted an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour truce with Israel, clearing the way for a possible resumption of talks on...
Crowd shouts 'kill the police' after cop fatally shoots teen
FERGUSON, Mo. — The fatal shooting of a black teenager by police sent hundreds of angry residents out of their apartments Saturday in a St. Louis suburb, igniting shouts of...
Gregory Skomal: My shark New York
Gregory Skomal is used to studying sharks as Massachusetts’ senior marine fisheries biologist, and he hunted the cold-blooded creatures on the first season of NBC Sports Network’s “Shark Hunters.” But...
Baby boy falls to his death from apartment window
A mischievous toddler clutching his favorite leopard-print blankie fell to his death from a seventh-floor window in The Bronx early Sunday, police said. “My son! My son!” cried Eduardo Santos,...
Obama balances world crises with golf, time off
President Barack Obama gave Americans an update on U.S. military strikes in Iraq on Saturday from a podium on the White House lawn with Marine One, the presidential helicopter, parked...
Are in-home beauty treatments worth it?
My astrological sign is Cancer, which dictates that despite an active social life filled with family and friends, I am actually a raging homebody. July — my birthday month —...
Five fantastic buddy-cop films
The buddy-cop movie is one of the sturdiest genres in Hollywood, in part because it provides a reliable template on which it’s fairly easy to put a slightly different spin,...
Real-life friends bring the biting banter in in 'Let's Be Cops'
Call it “Law and Disorder.” In “Let’s Be Cops,” opening Wednesday, Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson play two 30-year-old losers who don police uniforms for a costume party and...
Woman fights back during stairwell attack in Brooklyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNJH5lhCSkQ A brave Brooklyn woman fought off a would be rapist after he cornered her in the hallway of her apartment building Saturday, cops said. The 30-year-old victim was walking...
Stewart will not race Sunday after striking, killing fellow driver
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Tony Stewart will not race Sunday following the death of a sprint car driver who was struck and killed by Stewart at an upstate New York...
Maids reveal Michael Jackson's filth and perversion
He was the King of Poop. Neverland’s manicured lawns and fairy-tale facade masked a house of horrors and madness, five of Michael Jackson’s maids revealed to The Post. “Michael sometimes...
'The Strain' actor's 'bad wig' will be gone
The TV series “The Strain” has viewers squirming as a vampire virus claims victims each week. Even scarier? Actor Corey Stoll’s Eddie Munster wig. But some good news: Executive producer...
Researchers had to battle government after finding record T. Rex
In 1996, Peter Larson reported to a federal prison in Colorado — the same mean lockup where Timothy McVeigh and John Gotti were being held — to begin serving a...
Tori Amos’ daughter inspired her to rock again
In August of 2013, Tori Amos turned 50 years old. It’s a milestone that most people are naturally apprehensive about, but for a woman working in the music world, it...
Crown Heights rabbi gunned down in Miami
A Crown Heights rabbi was gunned down in North Miami Beach on Saturday morning — shot in cold blood by two young men, one of whom ran away and another...
NYPD warns Times Square characters not to demand money
Elmo, Spider-Man, Cookie Monster and their costumed cohorts got a stern talking to from the city’s superheroes in blue Saturday, when the NYPD went to Times Square to warn them...
Comedian Hannah Hart turns boozy night into cooking show
Hannah Hart is probably not the best person to teach you to make ice cream. In one of the episodes of her YouTube cooking show, the 27-year-old tries to whip...
'Veep' star taking a break from TV — to pen a children's book
Some kids’ book authors are inspired by the cuteness of puppies. Tony Hale found inspiration in his own nervous anxiety. The 43-year-old actor — known for playing Buster on “Arrested...
The dreamy Kellan Lutz has brains to match his brawn
When Kellan Lutz joined “The Expendables 3,” Sylvester Stallone made sure he wasn’t going to be outshone. “I was bigger because of ‘Hercules’ and now that I was actually wearing...
Putin's imported food ban mostly hits home
Here’s a snapshot of the state of the world in mid-August 2014: Last week, Russia imposed a ban on US and EU food imports, hurting its own people, while hours...
Jefferies CEO issues 'summer reading list' for bankers
Jefferies CEO Dick Handler has issued a fictitious summer reading list to his bankers comprising titles that are gleaned from life lessons. The exercise was sent to give the traders...
US needs foreigners to buy into bonds
The US government could soon be brought to you by French health care or Asian pension funds. Janet Yellen’s Federal Reserve is about two months away from ending its unprecedented...
Hamptonites now have food & wine delivered to homes
What do Hamptonites need when they arrive at their mansions after battling traffic for hours? Food and chilled wine — without having to shop for it. Lexi Stolz, 32, a...
Time Warner's stock hurts after rejecting Fox offer
Time Warner’s decision not to accept Fox’s cash and stock offer of $80 billion — or $85 per share — has so far put a lot of hurt on its...
Wall Street's reputation continues to tank
Wall Street’s reputation, despite a 5-year bull market, still stinks. Indeed, the bankers’ “chronic risk image” remains a huge problem, say many of the mid-level pros who work for its...
127 students must retake Regents after city loses their exams
The city Department of Education lost US history Regents exams taken by 127 students — preventing at least eight seniors from graduating on time. All of the 127 students are...
Brooklyn DA exposes hidden Orthodox sex cases
David Seff, a math professor at Brooklyn College, asked a female student to meet him in a classroom one late afternoon in August 2011 to help with a “listening experiment.”...
PA threatens retailer over skyline dishes sold at 9/11 Museum
For the Port Authority, it’s do as they say — not as they do. The agency sent a stern cease-and-desist letter to Fishs Eddy demanding that the Manhattan housewares store...
De Blasio outsources city leadership to Sharpton, Dolan
Al Sharpton has competition for being the boss of New York. Timothy Cardinal Dolan has now been drafted for the contest. Again outsourcing city leadership, Mayor de Blasio recruited Dolan...
Rabbi presses politicians to allow guns in synagogues
A Queens rabbi wants guns in shul. Gary Moskowitz, a former NYPD cop who leads the Wellness Synagogue out of his Kew Gardens home, is trying to persuade politicians to...
Fans forced to pay twice at Yankee Stadium parking garage
Yankees fans who drive to the stadium on game days are furious over being double-charged to park — $70 for three hours — in the taxpayer-subsidized garages around it. Fans...
Rockland exec sold equipment to board he previously sat on
Rockland County Executive Ed Day sold security equipment to a county trash agency on whose board he served — a potential conflict of interest that may have violated state law....
Trinity Church rector gets pay cut to $339K a year
The embattled rector of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan saw his pay cut — barely — as controversy swirled over his leadership. The Rev. James Cooper’s salary dropped to $339,469...
48 dead in Iranian passenger jet crash
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian regional passenger plane crashed Sunday while taking off from the capital, Tehran, killing 48 people onboard, state media reported. The aircraft, an Iran-140 typically used...
Homeless man racks up 178th ‘squeegee’ bust
A day after being plastered on the front page of The Post, a homeless squeegee man was arrested Saturday for allegedly plying his trade — his 178th arrest for washing...
Elizabeth Arden photoshoot turned into national campaign: suit
She looks warm in this bathrobe, but a model says Bed Bath & Beyond and Elizabeth Arden left her out in the cold financially. Kata Greaney alleges in a $1.1...
Does this 'walk-of-shame' bag empower women?
When is there no shame in a walk of shame? When you’ve prepared for it with the right handbag. Nine West is launching a new campaign this fall featuring a...
Upper East Side co-op sues to save trees from gas line work
The power saws stopped just in time outside of an Upper East Side co-op that is suing to keep Con Edison from doing work the residents claim could kill four...
Boy loses fingertip in class, school never called ambulance: suit
A Bronx boy whose fingertip was cut off during a classroom scuffle says school staffers wasted precious time interrogating him instead of putting his severed digit on ice or calling...
City's waters full of whales and sharks
There’s nothing fishy about it. This summer, one fisherman waded with a humpback whale off Staten Island and another reeled in a great white shark in the Rockaways — as...
Mets can't use youth push as excuse to be cheap in offseason
PHILADELPHIA — If you’re a Mets fan, you want Matt den Dekker to join Wilmer Flores and Kirk Nieuwenhuis in serving as symbols of hope for a better future. What...
NASCAR's Tony Stewart struck and killed driver mid-race: Sheriff
Tony Stewart struck and killed a fellow driver with his sprint car late Saturday during a dirt-track race at Canandaigua (N.Y.) Motorsports Park, the Ontario County Sheriff's Department announced early...
MetLife Stadium among worst in the NFL: Author
Sean MacDonald, a member of the Club 122, an exclusive group of sports fans who have attended a game in all 122 professional “Big Four” (MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL)...
Upper West Side condo board wants to evict falcons
What a bunch of birdbrains. The board of a swanky condo at 25 Central Park West wants to evict a family of endangered peregrine falcons — including two hatchlings just...
Prince Harry launching paralympic games for wounded vets
Prince Harry recounted the horrors of war as he explained why he was launching a paralympic games for wounded service people. “Loss of life is as tragic and devastating as...
Rehab boss used patients for 'slave labor': staffers
They checked in for drug treatment and allegedly got sent out for what amounted to slave labor instead. Residents of the taxpayer-funded J-CAP program in Queens were dispatched to the...
A second Met shows he can do the closing job, too
PHILADELPHIA — Jeurys Familia can pitch the final inning, too. The right-hander was entrusted with the closer’s role Saturday night and finished the job, with a scoreless 11th inning to...
Johnny Football's debut: the good, the bad and the ouch
DETROIT — Johnny Manziel’s biggest achievement Saturday night was making a Browns-Lions preseason game interesting. Manziel didn’t exactly light up the scoreboard, or even clarify Cleveland’s quarterback situation, but his...
Back to the drawing board for Eli Manning and Ben McAdoo
No one expected the Eli Manning-Ben McAdoo-Tom Coughlin operation to remind anyone of the Joe Montana-Mike Holmgren-Bill Walsh West Coast offense, not in preseason, undoubtedly never. What we have here...
Man stabs wife to death in front of 30 people
A man stabbed his wife to death in a jealous rage Saturday outside a relative’s Bronx home, where the couple had tried to smooth over their rocky marriage, witnesses and...
With one rush, Jennings shows Giants they can dream big
It was a “wow” moment on an otherwise dull night. Rashad Jennings took a handoff from Eli Manning and jolted the sleepy MetLife Stadium crowd awake. Big Blue’s new running...
Curtis Painter perfect on only drive, leads Giants to win
Curtis Painter needed something to shake up the competition for the backup quarterback job and what he did Saturday night was beyond what anyone would have realistically expected or anticipated....
Manhattan stinks! Borough is city's worst smelling
It’s Manhattan — by a nose! The borough’s residents have the most sensitive schnozes, per capita, in the Big Apple. They filed 13,054 odor complaints over the past four years,...
Daily Blotter
Brooklyn Police are searching for a man who exposed himself to a female custodian at Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill Friday morning, authorities said. The suspect entered the university chemistry...
Even at 47, Steve Stricker should play on Ryder Cup team
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Tom Watson began the week by naming Steve Stricker as his third vice captain for the U.S. Ryder Cup team. Now he should end the week by...
Meet the only horse to become a Marine sergeant
Sixty years ago, a barrier was broken for the US military — the first animal ever was promoted to sergeant. But Reckless the horse was no ordinary beast. Serving with...
Forensic experts ID 65 Flight MH17 victims
Forensic experts sifting through the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 have now identified 65 of the 298 victims who died after the plane was shot down over war-torn eastern...