February 22, 2015
Have men's mags turned the other cheek?
When it comes to the lad mags, Maxim never failed to put maximum skin on its cover — until now. We have to wonder if its frat-boy rivals have also...
Athletes on a ‘Mission’ with cooling towels
https://instagram.com/p/yUZPj3i9gR/?modal=true No towel is wet or big enough to cool off this company’s growth. Mission Athletecare, whose high-tech cooling towels have become a staple for stars like Serena Williams, Carmelo...
Whom did Phil Jackson call out in bizarre tweets off Knicks-Cavs?
Sounds like Phil is phurious. With the bare-bones Knicks falling to 10-45 after getting blown out by the Cavaliers in a Sunday matinee, Knicks president Phil Jackson unleashed a bizarre...
Man's conviction tossed after evidence error in sex-torture case
A man who had been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually torturing his wife has been sprung from prison — and his conviction has...
Comcast buys pricey Oscars ad in effort to win over regulators
http://youtu.be/ZU7NU_fsaSU Comcast boss Brian Roberts is playing nice in Hollywood as he tries to win over skeptical regulators in Washington. His cable giant, which is fighting rising resistance to its...
Cuomo's former chief of staff still on payroll
Gov. Cuomo’s former chief of staff, Lawrence Schwartz — who is under scrutiny in Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara’s explosive public-corruption probe and supposedly off the state payroll — is,...
Joan Rivers left out of Oscars 'In Memoriam' segment
They're gone -- and forgotten. In what's become a recurring theme at the Oscars, major notable figures were left out of the "In Memoriam" segment. This year, neither Joan Rivers...
Schumer slams Obama’s proposed cuts to anti-drug program
President Obama’s proposed budget cuts to a federal anti-drug-trafficking program will have dire consequences, Sen. Charles Schumer warned Sunday. “China White,” a type of heroin laced with fentanyl, has hit...
Cops can't catch gang that's stolen 73 ATMs
A group of five increasingly brazen ATM bandits has dodged police for more than a year while pulling off 73 heists across the city and netting hundreds of thousands of...
When my friend John became Jennifer
I picked up the phone and heard a vaguely familiar voice on the line. “It’s Jennifer,” said the caller. “Jennifer who?” I asked. Pause. The high-pitched voice dropped several octaves....
Kevin Ware & Ryan Harrow: Loving shift from Goliath to David
Kevin Ware’s claim to fame was the gruesome broken right leg he suffered in the 2013 Elite Eight. Ryan Harrow was the guy who couldn’t hack it at N.C. State...
Behind Phil Greene’s emergence as 'forgotten hero’ for St. John’s
Phil Greene IV’s commitment to St. John’s four years ago came with little fanfare, paling in comparison to the splash that came with the signing of his highly ranked future...
'Stinking dynamite': One Matt Harvey pitch has Mets drooling
PORT ST. LUCIE — Matt Harvey added a curveball and slider to his workout Sunday in the slow climb toward game-readiness. In a 40-pitch bullpen session, the Mets right-hander had...
Yankees' season rides on health time bombs hitting magic number
TAMPA — The Yankees’ victory total has fallen from 97 to 95 to 85 to 84, with their .519 winning percentage in 2014 representing their worst since 1992. The expectation...
Rangers avert disaster, just hold on vs. Blue Jackets
No one in the Rangers’ dressing room was ready to give back Sunday night’s 4-3 shootout victory over the Blue Jackets. And they were pleased to creep a bit closer...
Iman Shumpert doesn't blame Fisher, Knicks for dealing him
Ex-Knick guard Iman Shumpert, during training camp at West Point, couldn’t have been more effusive about having Derek Fisher as his new coach after being in Mike Woodson’s doghouse. Though...
Smith, Shumpert forming special bond away from awful Knicks
J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert came out for their postgame press conference and stood side-by-side following the Cavaliers’ 101-83 blowout win over the Knicks on Sunday afternoon at the Garden....
Will Arnett storms the Oscars as Batman
"Birdman" might have been one of Oscar night's biggest nominees, but for a brief moment, the Sunday night show was all about Batman. During a performance of "Everything Is Awesome,"...
The 27-year-old catch to signing Cuban phenom Moncada
TAMPA — Yoan Moncada likely will sign with the team that offers the most money. However, there is a catch to landing the 19-year-old, switch-hitting Cuban second baseman: Carlos Mesa....
Hofstra coach still dreaming big after heartbreaking loss
The call didn’t go Hofstra’s way on one end. The whistle never blew on the other. And Hofstra’s struggles against the top of the Colonial Athletic Association continued Sunday night...
John Travolta plants a creepy kiss on Scarlett Johansson
And the Oscar for most uncomfortable red carpet moment of the night goes to ... John Travolta.
Isles fall to Canucks as 2 glaring issues rear head
The Islanders are letting this one roll off their backs, not raising any red flags or bringing any panic to the situation. And that’s probably the way it should be....
It's attack of the tuxedo clones at the Oscars
A trio of young actors decided to shake things up at tonight's Academy Awards and ditch the traditional black tux – but unfortunately they forgot to coordinate with each other...
How to stop the ISIS genocide campaign
As the world marked last month’s 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, I was in northern Iraq viewing the threat to that nation’s imperiled...
Jamming up LaGuardia: Andrew Cuomo's airport meddling
“If I blindfolded you and took you to LaGuardia,” Vice President Joe Biden told a Philadelphia crowd a year ago, “you must think, ‘I must be in some Third World...
Facing ISIS terror with ... tweets
The Obama administration’s semantic somersaults to avoid attaching the adjective “Islamic” to the noun “extremism” are as indicative as they are entertaining. Progressives who believe that dialogues, conversations, engagements and...
Rush to judgment -- slapping voters the Republicans need
This is not an attempt to pick a fight with Rush Limbaugh, OK? It’s never wise to take on someone you mostly agree with, a guy smarter and funnier than...
Chrissy Teigen's jaw-dropping thigh-high slit
The most anticipated moment of tonight's Academy Awards is how long until Chrissy Teigen has a wardrobe malfunction.
The wages of Walmart
If only the New York City Council hadn’t had its way in recent years, this city would today have a huge retailer offering a minimum wage higher than the state’s....
The South rises
When Americans hear “secession,” the image that comes to mind is a Confederate flag. But New York these days has its own southern rebellion. The Southern Tier, that is. The...
Shelly's doing his job
Of all the accusations leveled against Sheldon Silver, surely the weakest is that his criminal troubles will prevent him from representing his constituents in the state Assembly. Yes, Silver has...
This year's Oscars are a family affair
Forget about draping a hottie on your arm as your Oscar date — this year, the top names are coming with a more personal accessory: their families. Patricia Arquette was...
2015 Oscars red carpet arrivals
See the show-stopping celeb fashion from 2015 Oscars.
Once forgotten Joey Logano wins 1st career Daytona 500
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Joey Logano, the driver who seemed washed up at 22 years old, has won his first career Daytona 500. Logano took the lead in the white-knuckle...
Hard-throwing enigma is Yankees' most-watched arm after Tanaka
TAMPA -- The most important arm belonging to a Yankee was on display at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Sunday. There is interest in other pitchers, but when it comes...
Kevin Durant out indefinitely after another surgery
OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant had surgery Sunday to alleviate foot pain, and the Thunder expect him to return during the regular season. A screw was replaced from his October...
'Hangover' actor relentlessly flirts with Knicks reporter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89X2y9nGGzY#t It wasn't Namath and Kolber, but it sure was uncomfortable. Knicks reporter Jill Martin tried conducting an interview with actor Justin Bartha during the Knicks game against the Cavaliers on Sunday,...
'60 Minutes' pays homage to Bob Simon in moving tribute
“60 Minutes” pays homage to the “extraordinary career” of its late veteran correspondent, Bob Simon, in a touching tribute that was set to air Sunday night. Fellow "60 Minutes" correspondent...
Smith, Shumpert stick it to Knicks in return to Garden
J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert came back, saw and conquered. There had been an avalanche of highlight moments for LeBron James’ Cavaliers through three quarters at the Garden, but none...
Kayla Mueller's brother: Bergdahl swap dashed hopes of sister's survival
WASHINGTON — The family of Kayla Mueller had been in contact with her ISIS captors for months and praying she’d be freed, but the US decision to swap five Taliban prisoners...
David Wright making safety vows he probably won't keep
PORT ST. LUCIE -- David Wright is older, presumably wiser and vowing to changes his ways. At 32 years old and coming off two straight injury-marred seasons, the Mets captain...
Father to teen suspected of joining ISIS: 'Please think twice'
The father of one of three "straight A" British schoolgirls feared to have fled to Syria to join ISIS believes "what she's doing is completely nonsense" — and her decision to...
Formula 1 star airlifted to hospital after frightful crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR_lkJd2mlA MONTMELO, Spain -- Fernando Alonso crashed his McLaren and was taken to hospital during Formula One preseason testing on Sunday, before Romain Grosjean steered his Lotus to the fastest...
How Steve Gelbs will fill Mets' Kevin Burkhardt void
Meet the Mets’ new field reporter, Steve Gelbs, SNY’s bright-eyed replacement for Kevin Burkhardt, now a rising star at FOX Sports. “I would say this: I’m not trying to replace...
Scouts slam Jameis Winston’s makeup: Likely 'bust'
Perhaps more so than in any other sport, scouts for the NFL, cloaked in anonymity, love to stir things up with brutally honest, often vicious opinions on players. The hottest...
Kirk Cameron's religious comedy cleans up at Razzies
“Saving Christmas” took top honors at the Razzies. The religious comedy starring Kirk Cameron won nearly half of the trophies at the 35th annual Golden Raspberry Awards, an awards show...
ISIS prisoners caged like animals in chilling new video
Chilling new video released by ISIS shows 21 Kurdish hostages being paraded in cages through the crowded streets of Iraq as countless residents and masked jihadis greet them with cheers....
Jeffrey Maier's glove fetches $22K in auction
The glove Jeffrey Maier used to pull Derek Jeter's famous home run over the wall during the 1996 AL Championship Series against Baltimore has been sold at auction for $22,705....
Scorpions report to White Sox camp, terrify everybody
https://twitter.com/ESPNChiSox/status/569228929145245696 The White Sox were rocked like a hurricane Saturday when scorpions turned up at the team's training facility. The terrifying arthropods -- who weren't due to report to camp ever,...
Feds predict fiery derailments could kill hundreds
BILLINGS, Mont. — The federal government predicts that trains hauling crude oil or ethanol will derail an average of 10 times a year over the next two decades, causing more...
Terrorist threat calls for attacks on American shopping malls
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warned Sunday that Americans should be "particularly careful" shopping at malls this weekend following a specific terrorist threat. Terrorist group al-Shabaab released a video...
Giuliani boasts he 'hit a nerve' in Obama criticism
Rudy is doubling down. Former mayor Rudy Giuliani acknowledged his speech criticizing President Obama’s patriotism last week “hit a nerve” but went even further Sunday denouncing the president’s foreign policy...
Meet the New Jersey woman who could become a Martian
This New Jersey woman could get a one-way ticket to Mars. Cassandra Morphy, 32, is one of 100 finalists vying to become the first humans to colonize the Red Planet...
Man sues ex-friend for $15M for allegedly spreading lies about him
It’s the grown-man version of “Mean Girls.” Attorney Stephen Drummond claims in a $15 million lawsuit that his onetime bestie and former Marine buddy George Savage, a California obstetrician, has...
Fariña principal pal gets free pass after ripping off taxpayers
It pays to be the chancellor’s pet. Principal Linda Hill of IS 49 in Staten Island was caught red-handed ripping off taxpayers in 2013 — after years of double dipping into...
I was wrongly imprisoned by 'professional snitch': lawsuit
Brooklyn prosecutors used a “professional snitch” called “Skylark” who promised to help them “get anybody” — and ended up putting the wrong man in jail for a cold-case murder, a...
Ads highlight poor secular education at Orthodox Jewish schools
These Brooklyn kids aren’t learning their Oy-B-C’s. The battle over secular education for ultra-Orthodox Jews has flared in the Hasidic enclave of Williamsburg after a reform group unveiled a massive...
Woman loses half of her border-straddling home in tax snafu
A woman whose home sits on the border of New York and Connecticut was stunned to learn her neighbor owns half of her abode — because her bank failed to...
Supermarket mogul found dead outside home in freezing temps
A supermarket mogul who left a Staten Island country-club party to take a 10-minute walk home in bone-chilling temperatures was found dead the next morning just steps from his ritzy...
Woman stabs neighbor in the cheek with a pen
A Brooklyn woman threatened her Williamsburg neighbor with a jam spreader and then stabbed her in the cheek with a pen, police sources said. The fight started at about 5...
The surprising real story behind 'Everything is Awesome'
http://youtu.be/StTqXEQ2l-Y “Everything Is Awesome,” the theme song from the box-office smash “The Lego Movie,” has become a phenomenon among the school-bus set — the music video’s been viewed on YouTube...
Why are girls flocking to ISIS?
An alarming number of young Western women are defying their families — and all logic — to join the ISIS barbarians. As many as 550 of the estimated 3,000 Westerners...
Have New Yorkers evolved to settle for just a 'good enough' mate?
Mr. Right, or Mr. Good Enough? Evolutionary researchers out of Michigan State University found that most humans have evolved to accept the latter, rather than risk never mating at all....
The liberal media won't tell people that Joe Biden is a moron
It was just another Tuesday for the vice president of the United States, and another week in which the mainstream media turned their genteel eyes away from the highly questionable...
How the Beanie Baby craze was concocted -- then crashed
In the late 1990s, Ty Warner, creator of the wildly popular Beanie Babies series of plush toys, had a 370,000-square-foot warehouse filled with his beloved collectible animals for kids. All...
Spring's must-have accessory: bold, bushy brows
When Shallon Lester, 30, wanted to make her eyes look larger and her skin brighter, she didn’t opt for a new mascara or a facial. She got thicker eyebrows. “I...
How the AIDS epidemic really began
In Randy Shilts’ history of AIDS, “And the Band Played On,” he tells the story of an Air Canada steward named Gaëtan Dugas, who suffered from what Dugas called “gay...
Cops say training after Eric Garner’s death is a 'waste of time'
About 80 percent of cops retrained after Eric Garner’s death called the three-day Police Academy program a “waste of time,” and many fell asleep in their seats, says a high-ranking...
The unions' latest lie: Wall Street trying to 'take over' NYC schools
New York’s education cartel has been set back on its heels by a new breed of reformers, and the unions need someone to blame. The result? Anti-reformers have trotted out...
Jason Biggs talks Twitter woes and his 'Bachelor' obsession
We won’t have Larry Bloom to bitch about any more. “Orange Is the New Black” returns in June — or maybe July; the Netflix press rep hates to confirm anything!...
Drew Barrymore was drunk on set of Disney special, at age 9
When five-time Emmy nominee Kenny Solms produced the 1985 television special “Disneyland’s 30th Anniversary Celebration,” he had a few problems with co-host Drew Barrymore. For one thing, she was always...
Shrinks can't compete with your smartphone
The couches have gone cold on the Upper West Side. Lying down and talking to a psychoanalyst, a practice once as synonymous with New York City as the street-vendor hot...
Inside the closets of the Oscars' Best Actress nominees
When it comes to awards-season campaigning, this year’s Best Actress Oscar nominees play fashionable roles on the red carpet. The Oscars and fashion go hand in hand, but the bar...
Giuliani receiving death threats after Obama comments
Outspoken ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Saturday his office has received death threats in the wake of his “Obama doesn’t love America” comments last week. “The former mayor said that his...
Woman claims boss fired her after she gave birth
A Manhattan woman with a history of miscarriages says her boss kept asking when she would “pop” out a baby, then fired her when she did. Supriya Laknidhi says in...
The most popular books at some of New York's public libraries
New Yorkers’ reading habits are an open book. Suspense thriller “Gone Girl” was the most checked out book in the New York Public Library system with 698 last month —...
Kristen Stewart is America's first woman to win a French 'Oscar'
She’s the Jerry Lewis of her generation. Kristen Stewart, mocked here for her blank expressions in the “Twilight” movies, on Friday became the first American woman to win a César,...
Driver fatally beats man who confused his car for a cab
A suspect is in custody in the fatal beating of a father and husband in Queens, authorities said Saturday. Kaheem Addison, 29, surrendered Saturday at the 108th Precinct stationhouse in...
Exec who fired Steve Jobs praises him for 'connecting the dots'
What would Steve Jobs do if he were still alive and well at Apple? Aspiring tech tycoons might better ask: What would Steve Jobs do if he were still alive...
10 inventive ways workers quit their jobs
US workers are getting their mojo back — and finding new and creative ways of telling their boss to take that job and shove it. From the violent (tossing a...
At least 31 dead after ferry capsizes in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A river ferry carrying about 100 passengers capsized in central Bangladesh on Sunday after being hit by a cargo vessel, killing at least 31 people, officials said....
Brooklyn DA treats detectives like personal errand boys
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson orders detectives on his security detail to pick up his meals and dry cleaning and do other menial chores — and if they refuse, they’re...
Kate Spade to report fourth-quarter results
Shareholders in handbag designer Kate Spade & Co. are likely preparing for an active week as the company will report fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 results on Wednesday. When Kate Spade...
IEX hits growth goal in a ‘Flash’
IEX, the exchange helmed by “Flash Boys” hero Brad Katsuyama, has gotten ahead of itself. The trading platform is within spitting distance of averaging 1 percent of the monthly trading...
Seventy percent of the FDNY's females are retiring on disability
They broke the FDNY gender barrier — but, for many, firefighting broke them. A startling 70 percent of female Bravest have retired from the FDNY on three-quarters disability pensions claiming...
Retailer claims Big Tobacco is aiding smugglers, 'robbing' New York
Big Tobacco is complicit in the massive cigarette bootlegging business that robs New York state and the Big Apple of $2.5 billion a year in tax revenue, a state retail...
Dear John: Ways to dig a hole to China
Dear John: I’ve attentively read how you help others who contact you and am wondering if you can now help me. My company needed to get some items from various...
Your number's up: New Knick Shved takes Amar'e's No. 1
Amar’e Stoudemire hasn’t even made his debut with Dallas before the Knicks gave away his number. They handed his familiar No. 1 jersey to newly acquired Alexey Shved, the Russian...
Netflix forces Academy to talk about what a ‘film’ really is
And the Oscar goes to ... Netflix? One Academy voter tells On the Money there’s a new struggle in Tinseltown: What does it mean to be a film? Should the...
Apple's 'Project Titan’ could reshape the auto world
Detroit had a good year in 2014, selling 16.5 million autos — up 1 million from 2013. The stock of Ford and GM has revved on the good news, jumping...
Obama is on a rampage
He can’t bring himself to call Islamic terrorists what they are, but President Obama finally said something with which we can all agree. Speaking of his remaining time in office,...
Blood clots in lung knocks Heat's Chris Bosh out for season
MIAMI — Not even a week ago, Chris Bosh was talking about how eager he was to get home in an effort to turn the Heat’s season around. His focus...
Mariota, Jameis wow Jets, NFL with sterling combine
After weeks of talk, Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota finally were back on a football field Saturday. The consensus top two quarterbacks in the draft went through all the drills...
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Queens A man struck out in his bid to rob a bank in Kew Gardens Hills Thursday, authorities say. The would-be crook slipped a demand note to a teller at...