July 26, 2015
Rangers, Derek Stepan have a $2.05M gap to settle
So it’s going to come down to the wire with Derek Stepan and the Rangers, as the first-line center had not yet reached a contract agreement as of Sunday evening...
A kinder, gentler Randy Johnson is honored to join Hall of Fame
COOPERSTOWN — Randy Johnson’s shield was always up — remember when he shoved a cameraman when he came to the Yankees in 2005? This was a much different Big Unit...
Colin Cowherd's Dominican rant masks an ugly ESPN truth
First things first. What Colin Cowherd said on ESPN Radio Thursday was shocking; horrible and hurtful, dead wrong, inexcusable and indefensible. The mere notion that Dominicans — any strain of...
Yankees aren't Pedro's daddy anymore: How the star is unifying
COOPERSTOWN — This was a Pedro Party in every way. The Hall of Fame is about baseball’s past, but this was a day Pedro Martinez wanted to look forward and...
Hondo’s star search
Dallas turned into Fort Worthless on Sunday when Kansas City pounded the AL’s star starter and caused Hondo’s deficit to expand to 1,910 kubeks. Monday night: It’s Nova time again...
Raccoon chaos in Mets' weight room: 'It was a little baby'
Had it been a cardinal the Mets uncovered in their weight room Sunday morning, maybe there would be computer hacking concerns. But the wildlife roaming free was a raccoon. “It...
Luxe living planned for seniors on the Upper East Side
Merchants Hospitality has bought five buildings on the Upper East Side that it plans to co-develop into a luxurious Maplewood Senior Living facility, The Post has learned. The 213,000-square-foot tower...
How fluky Mets denied Zack Greinke his bid for history
A hit by pitch, a soft single and a weak grounder was all it took to end Zack Greinke’s scoreless streak. After 45 ²/₃ innings pitched without being scored upon,...
Find your next vacation with these travel magazines
August means travel for many of us, and the newsstand has almost as many magazines telling us where to go as there are destinations. Conde Nast Traveler We begin with...
Radio giant Cumulus goes hog wild with country music
Cumulus Media head honcho Lew Dickey wants to be the king of country music. Beyond growing a stable of NASH-branded stations, he’s looking to raise a fresh crop of country...
Yankees wait on David Price after Nova-for-Cueto fizzles
MINNEAPOLIS — The Yankees’ professional scouts are meeting in New York this week as Friday’s trading deadline approaches and the baseball world waits to see if the Tigers dangle stud...
American Apparel on the brink of bankruptcy
American Apparel’s financial situation is threadbare. Bankruptcy is looming for the hipster retailer, which is short on cash and faces a hefty bond payment in less than three months —...
Time to finally remove the stigma from the intellectually disabled
Good news. The R word — “retarded” — is being relegated to the trash can, just like the N word. A new national poll, commissioned by the Shriver Report, shows...
Will Andrew Cuomo kill another way to drill for gas in New York?
There’s more than one way to frack a shale formation, and that could be very good news for New York’s economically stagnant Southern Tier — if, this time, Gov. Cuomo...
Occupy Albany: New York's far-left attorney general
Eric Schneiderman had no prosecutorial experience when he became New York attorney general in 2011. But he did have the unwavering support of progressives. As Ben Smith noted in a...
No words can describe the folly in these federally funded projects
Recent reports about two federally funded projects may leave you speechless. Literally. The first: a $125,000 study funded by the National Science Foundation to determine if various adjectives are sexist...
Obama's pathetic attempt to spin the IRS scandal
No sooner did President Obama claim last week the IRS scandal was just a mirage than new evidence emerged to show it was anything but. The conservative group Judicial Watch...
A ready-made fix for New York's failed schools
The State Education Department has given the city two years to turn around its worst-performing schools. Here we go again. How many deadlines has the city seen come and go,...
Give parents back their rights to let their kids walk free
I’m so old that when I was growing up, my stay-at-home mom stayed at home. She didn’t take me to school. She just waved goodbye and off I walked, starting...
The Mets' MVP is suddenly a concern
The Mets MVP has hit a rough patch. It’s just two outings, but lockdown closer Jeurys Familia has entered a mini-slump. Familia blew his second straight save since the All-Star...
'Snowdays' frozen treat shop heads to West Village
Along with the heat and humidity, summertime in the city usually brings a new fad in frozen dessert — Tasti D-Lite, Pinkberry, 16 Handles and Yogurtland, among others. Now a...
Alderson's Mets moves already paying off big time
A partial score: Sandy Alderson 1, Residents of Panic City 0. Two days after the general manager went about modestly reshaping the Mets by promoting Michael Conforto and obtaining Juan...
Yankees salute baseball genius A-Rod as he turns 40
MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Rodriguez hit three home runs for the first time in nearly five years on Saturday night and was given the day off Sunday, a 7-2 Yankees’ win...
Ellsbury's 'jammed' shoulder a worry after crashing into wall
MINNEAPOLIS — The Yankees’ 7-2 win over the Twins didn’t come without a cost. Jacoby Ellsbury slammed into the wall in right-center at Target Field after making a terrific running...
Vaunted Pirlo makes debut as NYCFC roll past Orlando City
It was a Pirlo Party in The Bronx. It was a debut soiree for newly signed Italian midfield maestro Andrea Pirlo, the star attraction of New York City FC’s classy...
Perfecting one pitch has taken Nathan Eovaldi to 'another level'
MINNEAPOLIS — If Chuck Hernandez knew what the split-fingered fastball he started working on with Nathan Eovaldi late last season would evolve into, the Marlins’ pitching coach probably would have...
Uribe the walk-off hero after Mets nearly waste deGrom gem
All the talk, all the hype was about the pitching matchup. Rightfully so. The Dodgers sent Zack Greinke with the fourth-longest scoreless innings streak in modern history against the Mets...
Brittney Griner's sad tale: Estranged wife cheated with man
The twists of the WNBA's most talked about marriage took an irreconcilable turn for Brittney Griner. The Phoenix Mercury star alleges in court documents that her pregnant wife, Glory Johnson, with...
Red Bulls sign Shaun Wright-Phillips, form lethal brother combo
After a lengthy pursuit, the Red Bulls finally have signed Shaun Wright-Phillips, The Post has learned. Neither the club nor MLS commented on or confirmed the signing. But sources told...
In My Library: Carmen de Lavallade
Long before Misty Copeland pirouetted into the record books, Carmen de Lavallade, a child of Creole parents, was a ballerina — and, soon after, actress and choreographer. She made her...
How Angels' pitching excess could spark Dodgers deal
The Angels have what few teams can boast -- starting pitching depth -- and major league sources say they are talking to teams about using it as a way to...
Woman jumps from Staten Island Ferry
A woman threw herself overboard from a Staten Island Ferry boat into New York Harbor as the craft was docking in Manhattan on Sunday, officials said. The 48-year-old woman was...
English baron quits post after cocaine and prostitute scandal
LONDON — The deputy speaker of the House of Lords has resigned his position after publication of photos and a video allegedly showing him using cocaine with prostitutes.
10-foot alligator invades minor league dugout
https://twitter.com/kmckenzie13/status/624643749021396993 Minor leaguers have it hard: grueling games daily in front of sparse crowds, long bus rides across the country, contracts that underscore just how far away they are from the...
Woman sues after being 'mothered by boss'
It’s ageism — against the young. A 21-year-old Queens woman says she was fired from her receptionist job at a Manhattan temp agency after demanding that co-workers stop ridiculing her...
Kurdish militants kill two Turkish soldiers in bomb attack: army
Kurdish militants killed two Turkish soldiers in a roadside bombing on Sunday, the military said, apparently retaliating for Ankara's crackdown on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) launched in tandem with...
Trump still topping polls despite McCain 'not a war hero' flap
Donald Trump leads the pack in a crowded field of 2016 Republican hopefuls — and is now atop a poll in the key primary state of New Hampshire and a...
Why Mets are shifting focus from star bats to relief help
The Mets are more focused now on adding a late-inning bullpen arm than another bat, major league sources told The Post. While the Mets are not completely out of the...
Syria's president admits manpower shortage against ISIS
BEIRUT — In his first public address in a year, embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed Sunday to win his country's long-running civil war while acknowledging his troops had lost...
Joe Namath offers $100K reward for teens lost at sea
The Coast Guard has found the boat of a 14-year-old boy two days after he and his friend went missing while on a fishing trip alone from Florida to the...
Obama offers hope, a challenge to Kenyans
President Obama got a rock-star reception from thousands of cheering Kenyans on Sunday during his landmark visit to his father’s homeland. “When it comes to the people of Kenya, particularly...
Milwaukee police closing in on 'lion-like animal'
Police closed off streets near a park in north Milwaukee on Saturday night after reports of a "lion-like animal," which came days after people said they had a seen a...
Royals go all-in, land stud Cueto for championship run
The 2015 Royals have been a better version of the team that won the AL championship last year. The two strengths of the 2014 team -- a deep, indomitable bullpen...
Neighbor's gruesome find: Woman, dogs decapitated; man 'cut off own arm'
Arizona police discovered a woman’s decapitated body Saturday in a Phoenix home, where they say the suspect also cut off his own arm and was found missing an eye, Fox...
Woman watched as shark mauled her father to death
HOBART, Australia — A woman watched her father being mauled to death by a large shark on Saturday while the pair were diving off the Australian island state of Tasmania,...
Iraqi forces retake Anbar University from Islamic State
BAGHDAD — Officials in Iraq's western Anbar province say government forces have retaken Anbar University from the Islamic State militant group after hours of fierce clashes. Athal al-Fahdawi, a provincial...
Police open fire after car crashes through barricades at Tour de France
PARIS -- Paris police were searching for a car that struck a taxi and crashed through barricades set up near the Tour de France finish line on Sunday morning, drawing...
UFC's thunderous, spinning low blow redefines pain
UFC lightweight Paul Felder not only lost his three-round war against Edson Barboza, but he also absorbed a low blow from one of the deadliest strikers in the UFC. Midway...
NFLer shot in the face by masked men
https://twitter.com/HawkeyeBRay/status/381499197570027520 TOLEDO, Ohio — Arizona Cardinals rookie receiver Damond Powell Jr. was wounded by gunfire outside his Ohio home and remained hospitalized, team officials said Saturday. Powell, 22, reportedly was...
Spy's ex-wife asks Israel to help free him from US prison
The ex-wife of spy Jonathan Pollard on Saturday called on the Israeli government to pay for an attorney to facilitate his release amid reports that he can be freed soon....
'Walking drug emporium’ suspect slips out of police station
A man accused of being a walking drug emporium — allegedly carrying cocaine, crack, heroin and pot — was still on the lam Saturday, a day after he walked barefoot...
How the famous poster from ‘Jaws’ was created — and lost
It’s one of the most iconic images in film history — and no one knows where it is. The original artwork for “Jaws,” used for both the cover of the...
Meet Donald Trump -- no, the other one
Two Donald Trumps are better than one. Oncologist Dr. Donald L. Trump knows and likes his more famous namesake, despite the grief he catches because of the shared moniker. “The...
Over 2,000 bags of synthetic pot seized in Harlem deli raid
A multi-agency raid of five East Harlem delis turned up over 2,000 bags of synthetic marijuana on Thursday, police sources said. The biggest haul came at the LX Deli on...
Slain cop to be honored with street naming
A Queens hero cop who was gunned down in the line of duty will be getting a street named after him.
Cop who watched child die denied pension for PTSD
A Brooklyn girl’s tragic homicide left another victim in its wake — the city cop who witnessed the 4-year-old’s final, brutal moments. Officer Jeanette Hernandez says watching Halii McCord’s life...
Road-raging, sword-wielding man busted outside Holland Tunnel
A Central Jersey motorist took road rage to extremes Saturday, brandishing a samurai sword at another driver on the Manhattan approach to the Holland Tunnel, police said. Richard Rosius, of...
7 train narrowly avoids disaster after crane failure sparks track fire
A Flushing-bound No. 7 train carrying 1,000 straphangers came within a split second of disaster Saturday when a construction crane alongside the elevated line failed, dropping pieces of metal onto...
Teen with fear of large crowds asking for school reassignment
A Brooklyn girl with a debilitating fear of large crowds is asking a judge to let her enroll in a small Upper West Side high school. The student, a 14-year-old...
1 dead, another wounded in early morning Bronx shooting
One man was fatally shot and another wounded in in the Bronx Sunday, cops said. Jordan Jackwett, 23 and his 18-year-old friend were sitting inside a car at the corner...
5 arrested for killing boy in apparent human sacrifice
KATHMANDU -- Five people have been arrested and face charges of murdering a 10-year-old boy in southwest Nepal, police said on Sunday, in an incident media reports said was a...
Child sexually assaulted while shopping for toys in Walmart: suit
A Westchester mom whose young daughter was snatched away and molested while they shopped for toys in a White Plains Walmart is suing the retail giant. The mom says the...
Gregory Meeks wants to delay his financial-disclosure report again
Congressman Gregory Meeks has asked for yet another extension to submit his annual financial-disclosure report. The report — which details the debts, assets, outside income and travel of lawmakers —...
Real-estate mogul's Hamptons mansion goes up in flames
An opulent $9.2 million Southampton mansion owned by a real-estate mogul went up in flames Saturday. Firefighters from ten departments across the Hamptons area battled for hours to control the...
FDNY recruit failed her way into $81,000 desk job
An FDNY recruit is getting a third chance to pass the training academy after collecting top firefighter pay for a year in desk jobs, sources told The Post. Choeurlyne Doirin-Holder,...
Michael Kors goes after ‘safe haven’ knockoff shops
Fake watches on the sidewalk, knockoff handbags in a back room — for years, New York’s fashion industry has been vexed by the infamous counterfeit sellers near Canal Street. Now...
Obama has dinner in Kenya with relatives he never met before
Kenya’s prodigal son was singing, “We are family!” — but, wait, are we? Three dozen family members showed up to dine with President Obama on his first night in the...
Iran's leader says 'criminal' US will lose if countries go to war
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted a graphic Saturday showing a man, presumably President Obama, wearing an Americfan flag pin and holding a gun to his own head, USA...
Louisiana gunman booby-trapped his house so no one would move in
The gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a Louisiana movie theater set out to make sure no one would ever live in a house he was evicted from...
How Joan of Arc saved France and became a legend
Joan of Arc may have died half a millennium ago — but the 19-year-old French maid-turned-military leader has remained an obsession. She’s become anything her fans want her to be:...
Priest shocks flock by leaving wife for younger man
An Episcopal priest shocked his Queens congregation recently when he left his wife and married someone else — a much younger man. The Rev. Juan Andres Quevedo-Bosch, 59, the archdeacon...
Has New York forgiven A-Rod?
Cheating is A-OK — so long as you’re hitting home runs. With Alex Rodriguez’s infamous 162-game suspension from Major League Baseball in the rearview mirror, and with his bat doing...
Ex-Hasid's death bares anguish of leaving ultra-Orthodox sect
On July 12, Faigy Mayer, a 30-year-old New Yorker who left Hasidic Judaism five years ago, sent one of her last messages to a close friend. She tried to explain...
Words we'd never thought we'd say: Talk to us, Chuck Schumer!
Chuck Schumer is the man with more answers than Wikipedia, the man who’s sent out more urgent appeals than UNICEF. As Bob Dole said of the then-ambitious congressman in 1995,...
Meet the world's richest man who changed Christianity
In 1514, there was an opening for the archbishop of Mainz, the most powerful position in Germany save for the emperor. Such posts required payoffs, and only one man had...
Authorities ignore US mosques at center of Islamic terror attacks
Property records show the mosque attended by the terrorist who killed US soldiers at a base in Chattanooga, Tenn., is affiliated with the same Islamic group as the mosques patronized...
Frida Kahlo, style muse?
Let the late Mexican artist — now the subject of a massive exhibition at the NY Botanical Garden — be your muse for bold, colorful style. Get a bloom Embroidered...
Principal commits suicide amid Common Core test scandal
The principal of an innovative West Harlem public school killed herself the day after her students took the state Common Core exams — which were later tossed out because she...
LIRR station announcers are making $200K a year
Now arriving — gigantic paydays for LIRR train-station announcers. Four Long Island Rail Road “ushers” each collected more than $200,000 last year in taxpayer-subsidized salaries, state payroll records show. The...
Relativity investor could help its future
Kevin Ulrich’s Anchorage Capital is believed to have sunk north of $100 million into Relativity, sources say, but the hedge fund may end up having the last laugh. The company...
Speculation begins over Twitter's next CEO
Now that Twitter’s current interim CEO, Square co-founder Jack Dorsey, has all but taken himself out of continuing in the top slot over his confidential filing for a Square public...
Crisis PR guru suffers collapsed lung
Crisis PR expert Mike Sitrick had a crisis of his own this month. While shuttling between clients in San Francisco he got a sharp pain. It wasn’t a heart attack,...
Condé Nast CEO survives poisoning scare
As if things were not chaotic enough in the publishing world of late, Condé Nast CEO Charles Townsend has survived a bout of arsenic poisoning, our Keith J. Kelly reports....
Ellsbury: Fellow Oregon Stater Conforto can excel in big leagues
MINNEAPOLIS — Jacoby Ellsbury keeps track of any fellow former Oregon State player who makes the majors — including one recent call-up of the Mets. Michael Conforto made his Mets...
Hillary faces dangerous enemy in the Obama administration
If Hillary Clinton were a cartoon character, she’d be Snidely Whiplash, forever muttering to herself, “Curses, foiled again.” And she’d be right. The lady in waiting will have to keep...
The crucial pitch Matt Harvey finally rediscovered
Matt Harvey was on regular rest, his slider was back, and so was the pitcher the Mets hope to see the rest of the year. With just four days off...
Alderson: Busy Mets exploring 'big moves,' trade 'possibilities'
The acquisition of Kelly Johnson and Juan Uribe from the Braves does not mean the Mets are done dealing before Friday’s trade deadline. They very well may be done, but...
'Really special': Conforto makes his case to stick with Mets
Michael Conforto doesn’t look like he plans on going anywhere anytime soon. The Mets rookie — called up from Double-A Binghamton on Friday to replace injured outfielder Michael Cuddyer (left...
How Yanks are planning to lighten Masahiro Tanaka's load
MINNEAPOLIS — In an attempt to keep from overloading Masahiro Tanaka, Michael Pineda and CC Sabathia, Yankees manager Joe Girardi will insert a starter Tuesday against the Rangers in Texas....
Yankees learn sad truth: They can't protect Sabathia forever
MINNEAPOLIS — The Yankees staggered CC Sabathia’s previous two starts, and as a result he faced a weak A’s lineup and a Seattle team heavy with lefty-swinging starters. But the...
GM's help means Terry Collins must win -- or he's gone
All of a sudden, there is no more Fiddling while Flushing Burns. All of a sudden, the Mets are giving their howling, skeptical faithful the perception they care about winning...
Caitlyn Jenner makes highly-anticipated TV debut, and more to watch this week
"I Am Cait" Sunday, 8 p.m., E! Caitlyn Jenner, the poster child for America’s transgender movement, finally launches her own reality show, “I Am Cait.” Expectations are high — just...
Daily Blotter
The Bronx The suspect pictured above assaulted and robbed a man in Mullaly Park, two blocks from Yankee Stadium, police said. The thug jumped the 49-year-old victim at East 165th...