October 19, 2014
'It's terrible': Larry Donnell knows his part in the loss
ARLINGTON, Texas — Larry Donnell was involved in the passing game far more actively Sunday against the Cowboys than he was the past few games. But that wasn’t all good...
Why Notre Dame is still a title contender
Notre Dame accomplished more in defeat Saturday night at Florida State than it did in its six victories. It proved worthy of being included in the playoff despite the heartbreaking...
Cowboys win is extra special for ex-Giants coach
ARLINGTON, Texas — The Cowboys didn’t carry Mike Pope off on their shoulders, but that was about the only tribute they left out for the former Giants assistant coach on...
Taxi shortage as Uber lures away yellow cabbies
Hailing a cab is now even more of a hassle — and Uber may be to blame. More than 10 percent of the 50,000 hacks who pilot 13,000 or so...
The diabolical plot behind companies' egg-freezing benefit
Working women from New York City to Silicon Valley popped Champagne corks in celebration when they heard the exciting news. Sperm-bearing men issued silent sighs of relief. Honchos at Apple...
DeMarco Murray casually runs into history in win over Giants
ARLINGTON, Texas — DeMarco Murray’s legs did a lot of damage Sunday. Not only did the Cowboys’ gifted back run the Giants into the ground and Dallas to its sixth...
Giants report card: Coughlin's not going to like this
Offense How is it Eli Manning tosses three TD passes, does not throw an interception, is not sacked, has a QB rating of 116.7 and yet it’s not nearly enough?...
Cuomo accused of ethics lapse for promoting new book
Gov. Cuomo may have violated state criminal and ethics laws by using his public position and employees to promote his newly published autobiography, “All Things Possible,’’ a sworn complaint charges....
Apple Pay business won’t be built in a day
While Apple Pay promises to revolutionize purchasing, it will take longer for consumer adoption to catch up to the hype. Given the relatively small user base with access to the...
Craft beer and bites coming to Midtown
Come for the food, stay for the brew — or is it the reverse? Atwood Kitchen & Bar Room, at 986 Second Ave. between 52nd and 53rd streets, will offer...
Hip tips from some ultra-cool mags
Once upon a time big names in fashion and entertainment didn’t begin their ascent until they made the cover of the best of the ultra-hip mags. With the advent of...
US airdrops arms to Kurdish opposition fighters in Syria
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Sunday it had airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobani against Islamic State militants. The airdrops...
In Henry's possible home finale, Red Bulls get bulldozed
If this were actually the last game Thierry Henry plays at Red Bull Arena, it sure didn’t go the way he had planned. The Red Bulls and their French captain...
Joely Richardson is surprisingly effective in ‘The Belle of Amherst’
Chances are, the prospect of a two-hour-long, one-woman show about Emily Dickinson won’t send your pulse racing. Nor, for that matter, would seeing “The Belle of Amherst” performed by “Nip/Tuck”...
Nets fall to Celtics in experimental 44-minute preseason game
The NBA made a small bit of history Sunday afternoon by having the Nets and Celtics play a 44-minute preseason game in Brooklyn, one the Celtics won 95-90 inside Barclays...
With Chili Davis off market, Yankees turn to Dave Magadan
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With the Red Sox hiring Chili Davis as their hitting coach Sunday, it could mean Dave Magadan will be Kevin Long’s replacement as the Yankees’ hitting...
The most important 9 seconds of the Giants' season -- wasted
ARLINGTON, Texas — The sequence took all of nine seconds, and at the time it looked as if it had a chance to be the most important nine seconds of...
The rise and sudden, abrupt fall of Larry Donnell
Hero Blessed with the best offensive line in football, DeMarco Murray continues to carry the Cowboys to the top of the NFC East. Murray became the first back in NFL...
Rangers score twice in 4 seconds, beat Sharks
Yeah, Mr. Vigneault! Yeah, chemistry! The Rangers’ sixth different lineup in as many games that featured four sensible line combinations centered by four natural centers — what a concept —...
Kiss the division goodbye: These Giants are just pretenders
ARLINGTON , Texas — It is a downright shame the Giants couldn’t honor the fallen Victor Cruz with a performance he — and they — could have been proud of,...
SEC sniffing out pot companies for fraud
A massive marijuana probe is in the works — and this time the smoke is coming from Wall Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating fresh allegations that a...
The fictitious 'war on women'
One of the wonders of this political moment is feminist contentment about the infantilization of women in the name of progressive politics. Government, encouraging academic administrations to micromanage campus sexual...
Free-falling Giants can't stop Romo, Murray in loss to Cowboys
ARLINGTON, Texas — Prince Amukamara is correct, of course, and even though his head might still have been spinning from watching Dez Bryant catch pass after pass on him, the...
'The Millers' gets a new BFF
“The Millers” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-emjNBygfMY On the sophomore season premiere of the Will Arnett comedy, Carol (Margo Martindale) plans to move out of her son Nathan’s (Arnett) apartment. While house-hunting, she meets...
HBO doc explores domestic abuse through survivors' eyes
"Why don’t women just leave an abusive relationship?” It’s the question people invariably ask, and an idea that was trotted out in the news lately with the case involving Ray...
9 Halloween costumes ripped straight from Post headlines
When it comes to Halloween costumes, there’s nothing like a culturally relevant getup to guarantee a conversation with good-looking strangers. Here at The Post, we perused our 2014 back issues...
Why the Knicks made Kurt Rambis a $1.4 million priority
As associate coach, Kurt Rambis has aided rookie Derek Fisher in writing up practice plans, selecting training-camp offensive and defensive drills and often giving a discourse in triangle amid their...
NY taxpayers' risky Wall Street bet: Why the comptroller race matters
Does it matter that New York has become a one-party state — with barely anyone noticing the election for governor in two weeks, let alone state comptroller and attorney general?...
Stop the Ebola bungling! To show seriousness, ban travel
The Ebola outbreak has provoked serious national and global fears, as the World Health Organization advises that West African nations may be battling 10,000 new cases each week by Dec....
Opera v. truth: The fetid fouls of 'Death of Klinghoffer'
I love opera. For almost three years, I regularly contributed to NPR’s “At the Opera.” I attend the Metropolitan Opera House as often as I can. But the decision to...
Boosting black achievement
First the good news: SAT scores for the city’s high school students went up this past year — by seven points. The not so good: The gains came from major...
Musical murder of a Jew
Tonight, the curtain will rise on the Metropolitan Opera’s production of John Adams’ “The Death of Klinghoffer.” It’s subject is the 1985 murder by Palestinian terrorists of a wheelchair-bound, elderly...
Build, baby, build
The clock starts today on the formal approval process for a new East Midtown skyscraper. Which means New Yorkers may soon see some real progress in Mayor de Blasio’s progressive...
Man arrested for vandalizing wall of Whitney Museum
[theplatform account="4uMbOC" media="eN7f4Y__h4tc" player="gm_EJGhnGLiu"] Peter Pan Posse The Whitney Museum’s American Art’s Jeff Koons exhibit has been vandalized for a second time. Christopher Johnson was busted early Sunday after allegedly...
Hero kid tried to save sis from 'killer' stepdad
A 5-year-old Brooklyn boy bravely tried to save his little sister before their stepfather allegedly beat her to death, police sources said Sunday. Little Andrew Torres withstood brutal punches from...
Schumer urges Obama to send Ebola experts to NYC
Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the Obama administration to immediately send a team of experts to the Big Apple to ensure the safety of New Yorkers should someone test...
Super-drunk woman arrested after mistaking jail for bar
PAW PAW, Mich. — One is a building with bars. The other is a building with a bar. A very drunk woman apparently had trouble telling them apart and ended...
Steaming Notre Dame coach: FSU 'rewarded' for blown coverage
Brian Kelly hasn’t come out and said outright the officials made the wrong call, but the Notre Dame coach has made his opinion known. Less than 24 hours after an...
Is Jason Smith the Knicks' starting forward right now?
With Andrea Bargnani out for Monday’s game against Jason Kidd’s Bucks, Derek Fisher has another decision to make on whom to audition as starting power forward. It’s all but certain...
Spanish nursing assistant infected with Ebola recovers
MADRID — Spain says a test has shown a nursing assistant who became infected with Ebola is now clear of all traces of the virus. A blood test has revealed...
Tristan Thompson kisses reporter to end interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlTByKgX6w "Awkward sideline interview" reads almost redundantly, but Tristan Thompson took the clumsy environs into even stranger territory. As the forward was being interviewed before his Cavaliers took on the...
Rams pull off crazy hidden-rabbit punt return TD
The Rams were 1-4 heading into Sunday and didn't have a ton to lose. They may as well empty their bag of tricks, and for one punt return, it's a...
Cowboys RB turns theft arrest into underwear deal
As if we needed another reason to question Joseph Randle's love of and desire for underwear. The Cowboys running back, who was arrested last week for stealing cologne and a...
Health worker on cruise tests negative for Ebola
The Dallas health care worker who sparked fears of Ebola on a cruise to Mexico tested negative for the disease Sunday as the ship finally returned to the United States....
As Jeter exits, the possible new face of baseball wears a mask
Perfect. Derek Jeter was retiring. He was not going to be in the playoffs. But Andrew McCutchen, Yasiel Puig, Clayton Kershaw and -- most importantly -- Mike Trout were. The...
I just 'tapped' her: Man who 'fatally beat' toddler
The brute who allegedly beat his wife’s 3-year-old daughter to death because she soiled her pants told a pathetic self-serving story to a relative — he just “tapped’’ her and...
Manny Pacquiao: Now a pro basketball player?
MANILA, Philippines — Manny Pacquiao made his professional basketball debut on Sunday, just a month before he is set to defend his WBO welterweight crown. Pacquiao started Sunday's game for...
Fed-up Seahawks would have cut Percy Harvin outright
How sick of Percy Harvin were the Seahawks? They were willing to cut Harvin outright if they could not find a trade partner, ESPN reported Sunday. The Jets saved the...
Bear bites off boy's arm after he tried to feed it
BEIJING — A bear in central China has bitten off the arm of a 9-year-old boy who tried to feed it through its cage, state media and a doctor said...
Riot breaks out at college pumpkin festival
New Hampshire cops donned riot gear, arrested 14 people and fired tear gas into crowds of bottle-throwing revelers at a pumpkin festival that degenerated into chaos, officials said Sunday. At...
Twins separated at birth reveal their incredible reunion story
Two years ago, on a chilly, gray, rainy Saturday afternoon in London, Anaïs Bordier received a screenshot, sent by a friend, of a young woman in America who looked exactly...
North and South Korea exchange gunfire along border
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean and South Korean troops exchanged fire Sunday along their heavily fortified border in the second such shooting in less than 10 days, South Korean...
15 stylish jackets and capes to spice up your wardrobe
It’s a wrap! Pair a sleek robe coat with a floppy hat for an updated take on swingin’ ’70s style. The ride stuff Keep engines roaring with a tough but-feminine...
Sharpton calls on feds to indict Ferguson cop for shooting death
A decision on whether a Missouri grand jury will criminally charge the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in Ferguson is a month away — but the...
Sayreville School District suspends football coaches: report
In the latest twist in the Sayreville High School football case, the football coaches who teach in the district have been suspended, according to NJ Advance Media. A source told...
Letterman's cue-card guy fired after argument, assault on writer
Now this was a stupid human trick! Tony Mendez had one of the best jobs in all of show business — cue-card guy for the “Late Show with David Letterman”...
Stepping on the gas stimulus
Put this in the category of “be careful what you wish for” — certainly on this, the 27th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. Oil, and with it, the...
Netflix stock goes on wild ride with buyout rumors
Red is the new black at Netflix, which went on a wild ride this week, losing around a quarter of its market cap and all of its 2014 gains on...
Jan & Jack in hunt an October in the red
Taking a bit of poetic license, I would like to recount a fictitious finance dinner I had with two native New Yorkers, Fed chief Janet Yellen and Treasury Secretary Jack...
Travel ban could stop Ebola virus from spreading: Obama critics
Banning travel from Ebola-stricken West African countries could keep the deadly virus from spreading in the United States, say critics of President Obama’s claim that such a ban would only...
Over 1,200 weapons taken from NYC students last schoolyear
It’s shocking — five Tasers were among the more than 1,200 firearms, knives, boxcutters, razors and other dangerous objects confiscated from city students in the 2013-14 school year, NYPD officials...
A toxic president
Chalk it up to karma, fate or bad luck. Whatever you call it, the Ebola scare is proof that Bad Things Happen to Bad Presidents. The morphing of what is...
Nurses getting wrist slaps for incompetence, drug use
They make Nurse Ratched look like Florence Nightingale. Kathy Dzus, a registered nurse who cared for patients while high on cocaine, is among 50 area nurses disciplined by the state...
Artist's family suing each other over artwork sales
The daughter of a famed Chinese artist and scholar claims her brother and nephew have “systematically” looted her father’s vast art collection — but the nephew says she’s the real...
The 'sex-crazed' teacher's lurid school dance outfits
He dressed like this — and no one said anything? Brooklyn Tech teacher and alleged sex predator Sean Shaynak attended the school’s senior Masquerade Ball in the fall of 2012...
NYPD to guard Metropolitan during ‘Klinghoffer’ debut
Cops will guard the opening of a controversial opera about terrorists following months of protests and even death threats. There will be a “heavy police presence” for “The Death of...
Iconic Rockefeller failed because he couldn't stop spending
Nelson Rockefeller, writes biographer Richard Norton Smith, was not a patient man. “For the most powerful member of the most powerful family in the most powerful nation on earth, time...
Don't blame Notre Dame's crushing loss on Everett Golson
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The final prayer floated and fluttered and never came close to finding the correct set of hands. A few moments earlier, the dueling sounds you had heard...
Florida State stays unbeaten, tops Irish with help from refs
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Twenty-one years ago, Notre Dame and Florida State played “The Game of the Century.” Saturday night’s showdown will forever be known as the “pass interference game,” one...
National Shrine to replace church destroyed on 9/11
A Greek Orthodox church crushed on 9/11 is finally being resurrected. Hundreds of people flocked to the future site of the St. Nicholas National Shrine for a “ground-blessing” ceremony Saturday...
HS football players kicked off team after hazing incident
A series of ugly hazing incidents at a Queens high school has led to several football players — including one of the city’s top student athletes — being kicked off...
Why the real battle for America is over culture, not elections
Though his new collection of essays, “The Undocumented Mark Steyn: Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned” (Regnery), recounts many of the biggest political events of recent history, bestselling author Steyn says...
The faux empowerment of 'All About That Bass'
http://youtu.be/7PCkvCPvDXk Meghan Trainor is trying to pull a fast one on impressionable adolescent girls, and feminists want her to know she’s not going to get away with it. Trainor, whose...
Daily Blotter
Brooklyn A gun toting thief and two accomplices robbed a teenager inside his Prospect Park South apartment, cops said Saturday. Police believe at least two of the men broke into...
Tantrum-throwing babies are in charge of New York
Watch out for the Day-Care Duo. In Albany, there is Andrew — engaging and gracious when he gets his way; surly, suspicious and menacing when he doesn’t. At City Hall,...