January 2, 2016
Why the Patriots are a lock to blow out overmatched Dolphins
Patriots (-10) over DOLPHINS: To assure AFC home-field, the Patriots should lay over bumbling foe, with an eye toward freshening their walking wounded. Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill recently discovered blood...
Why Carmelo isn't feeling pressure without strong second option
When No. 3 is struggling even more than No. 2, then No. 1 in a team’s scoring pecking order has to pick up the slack. That’s what Carmelo Anthony said...
Now is time for these Jets and this coach to fulfill their destiny
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Jets aren’t ugly ducklings anymore, waddling aimlessly to nowhere, and Sunday at Ralph Wilson Stadium they believe they will complete the transformation into beautiful playoff...
President Obama's Bizarro-World victory tour
Having done a world tour on his way into the White House, President Obama’s now planning an even bigger global victory lap in his final year in office. Too bad...
Proxy fight keeps 'Taxi of Tomorrow' on ice --- even as Uber shows real future
The “Taxi of Tomorrow” is facing a new roadblock — even as the rideshare of today continues to make yellow cabs a sideshow. By law, yellow cars must be a...
Coughlin's likely final send-off shapes up as saddest showdown
He has called it “my situation’’ and “my circumstance," and you know this is exceedingly difficult for Tom Coughlin, admitting he is at the center of a brewing storm as...
7 reasons why national title game will be far more exciting than semis
Alabama and Clemson left no doubt on New Year’s Eve who are the best two teams in the country, winning by a combined 75-17, over Michigan State and Oklahoma, respectively....
Brees' goodbye? Patriots' ignored hero: 5 NFL things to watch
With all the games, backstories, injuries and developments in a given week in the NFL, it’s tough to know what to look for on Sunday. Here are five things to...
Dear John: The presents for your kids that will outlast toys
Dear John: Joel Waldfogel, the economist you wrote about who doesn’t like Christmas gifts, sounds like Dr. Sheldon Cooper on “The Big Bang Theory.” Sheldon believes “the entire institution of...
Women begin to take their place in elite billionaires' club
These women magnates rule the richest roosts — and their male rivals can kiss their caviar and cocktail dreams goodbye. Men are still a clear majority of the world’s billionaire...
An easy way to save $6,600 this year
For the average American, this year will be better than 2015 if he or she stops throwing away $6,600 a year in credit card interest payments. The new year, financial...
John Moore's OT goal propels surging Devils past Stars
It’s a new year, and the surprising Devils have put themselves in playoff position. John Moore scored a power-play goal 1:47 into overtime to give the Devils a 3-2 victory...
FANGs: The stocks that dominated 2015's market
You could call the 2015 equities markets a toothless wonder, unless you had FANGs. For 2015, the Dow was down 2.2 percent and the S&P by 0.7 percent, but the...
Addictions add up to big losses for businesses
It’s a billion-dollar habit that US businesses just can’t kick: addiction. The mathematics are indisputable. In almost any office in America, the chances are good that one or more of...
Sidney Crosby scores pair as Islanders fall to Penguins
PITTSBURGH — By the time the Islanders woke up, the game was over. After falling behind 5-0, a late comeback was far too little, far too late in a 5-2...
Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein is feeling well amid cancer fight
Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein may, in fact, be immortal. Blankfein hosted the annual Goldman alumni holiday celebration for those now running the universe from other quarters, mostly...
In My Library: William Goldman
“Life is pain.” Granted, William Goldman wrote that line for “The Princess Bride” — but it’s a fair summation of “Misery,” the Stephen King thriller Goldman adapted for screen and...
D'Brickashaw Ferguson on Rex, Buttfumble and fan's haunting warning
Jets left tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson blocked out some time to talk with The Post’s Steve Serby. Q: What unique characteristic do you like best about this team? A: I think...
App developed in New York featured at CES '16
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas draws bright sparks from across the nation this week, and organizers have picked five apps to be part of its innovators lab. Among...
Rangers' good vibes vanish in same-old-story shutout
SUNRISE, Fla. — The real dilemma the Rangers are facing is bigger than just a drop in their game. Really, the thing that might undercut their season of such promise...
Oscar pundits launch podcasts ahead of awards season
Oscar punditry is scaling new heights this awards season, with an increasing number of outlets pushing out an Oscar podcast ahead of the Academy Awards hosted by Chris Rock in...
Hedgies decide to lay low over the holidays
Our St. Barts spies this time of year noticed a distinct absence of hedge fund regulars, who we hear spent the holidays with their tails between their legs instead. Celebrities...
Nets shudder to think what guard play may be like without Jack
BOSTON — The Nets got a preview of what life could look like if Jarrett Jack misses extended time, and it wasn’t pretty. “I was about to take a dribble,...
Lundqvist has star power, but Schneider has All-Star numbers
Henrik Lundqvist is an All-Star. Of course he is. Just look at him. And just imagine where the Rangers would be without him this season. You either don’t want to...
Why Coughlin-Giants split would be pleasant for legend breakups
Here’s the thing: It almost never — ever — ends well. For any of them. That’s part of what makes the business of coaching so brutal. It doesn’t always end...
For Peyton, odds of finding a happy ending are getting worse and worse
Peyton Manning is the latest sports star struggling to produce a happy ending to his brilliant career. It’s possible the 39-year-old Broncos quarterback, who entered this season with a chance...
Derek Fisher blasts Knicks' other 'horrendous' weakness
The Knicks were one day and one practice removed from their worst scoring fourth quarter ever — and there were some gems last season. But as bad as the offense...
MVP? Worst exec? The best and Chip Kelly worst of NFL 2015
The 2015 NFL season Serby Says awards, hermetically sealed in a jar kept overnight at varying intervals at the homes of both Jim McNally and John Jastremski, are ready to...
Do-or-die finales bring out best and worst of NY sports
It was Bill Parcells, back when he had traded in his blue for green, who spoke about exactly the kind of opportunity the Jets have for themselves Sunday afternoon: Win...
St. John's can't contain star Kris Dunn in loss to Providence
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Providence coach Ed Cooley has absolutely no reservations on placing even more responsibilities on Kris Dunn. "Every game Kris plays, this whole city is getting on his...
Mexico mayor slain less than a day after taking office
MEXICO CITY — Officials say they have killed two people and arrested three others linked to the slaying of a Mexico mayor who had taken office only a day earlier....
Here we go: Rex Ryan, weather team up with Jets on brink
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — When the NFL released the schedule in April, Sunday’s Jets-Bills game jumped off the screen. If either team had playoff aspirations, it would have to beat...
Nets barely get by Celtics, but lose Jarrett Jack in the process
BOSTON — In the Nets’ previous trip to TD Garden, they lost a game and a little pride. This time, they won but lost their point guard. In a 100-97...
Marissa Mayer spends money like Marie Antoinette
Yahoo's $7 million end-of-the-year bash at San Francisco’s Pier 48 was one for the books. Aerialists swung among chandeliers, pouring Champagne, while a burlesque troupe tantalized the Silicon Valley crowd....
Gleaning Hall of Fame insight from voters' curious transparency
I don’t understand why so many are releasing their Hall of Fame ballots publicly. Don’t get me wrong. I believe in transparency and that the ballots should be made public...
'Zombie cat' now at the center of custody battle
Zombie cat returns! A year after miraculously rising from the grave, Bart the cat is happy, healthy and — as far as we know — not showing any flesh-eating tendencies....
The myth of the killer-cop 'epidemic'
To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent...
Sanders campaign says it's raised $33M since October
WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders raised more than $33 million during the past three months in his bid to win the Democratic nomination, his campaign said on Saturday, just...
This guy takes manscaping to another extreme
NAMPA, Idaho — One man's back hair is another man's canvas. At least that's how Mike Wolfe, 35, of Nampa, Idaho, has decided to approach manscaping. Wolfe tells KTVB-TV that...
For refugees, overcoming radical Islam may be the hardest journey
He found himself a refugee at 12 years old, somehow crammed onto a boat with no toilets, shoulder-to-shoulder with men who had soiled themselves. There was no room to sleep,...
Star Desi Rodriguez benched in 2nd half but Seton Hall still wins
One year later, the record is the same, but the vibe around Seton Hall isn’t. After Saturday’s 78-74 early afternoon victory over DePaul at Prudential Center in Newark, the Pirates...
Terrorists using Trump to recruit followers
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Al-Qaida's East African affiliate has released a recruitment video targeting American blacks and Muslims that includes a clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for Muslims to...
The Bill Clinton effect: Behind the left's sex-harassment problem
News of rampant sexual harassment at a leading progressive public relations firm seems to have surprised some on the Left: How can enlightened liberals, so staunchly committed to women’s equality...
Putin names US as threat to Russian security strategy
A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia's national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated...
Saudi execution of Shiite cleric ignites fury in Iran
Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed a prominent Shiite cleric, threatening to plunge the Middle East into a firestorm of new violence. Nimr al-Nimr, who advocated for peaceful protest against the...
How the 'How I Met Your Mother' mom spends weekends in NYC
Cristin Milioti is a familiar presence to New York theatergoers, who may have caught her Tony-nominated performance in “Once.” A couple of TV gigs have helped spread the love nationwide:...
If Don Draper dropped acid, he'd make this art
If Don Draper dropped acid at Sterling Cooper back in the ’50s, his ads might look like Nadine Boughton’s collages — a world where crabs scuttle across bathroom sinks, monkeys...
Is this restaurant really worth the wait?
It's a Tuesday night, but it feels more like a weekend at Alphabet City’s bustling Babu Ji restaurant. Around 8:30 p.m., a couple asks the host about the next available...
You can actually go skydiving indoors now
I wanted to end 2015 with a bang, by doing something fearless. But I wasn’t sure what. Then I heard about indoor sky diving at a new place less than...
Bills ask fans to shovel stadium ahead of Jets game, won't pay much
It's going to be cold in Buffalo this weekend. Very cold. Weather.com is calling for temperatures in the low 30s with snow on Saturday and Sunday. That's to be expected...
4 shot dead over washing machine dispute
ROWLAND HEIGHTS, Calif. — A man shot and killed his wife and two others in his home on New Year's Eve before his son wrestled the gun away and fatally...
Why it's not crazy to think of 'Star Wars' droids as slaves
If you’re opposed to slavery, is it OK to still like “Star Wars”? It’s a question I’ve been wrestling with ever since Jonathan Last, a friend and writer at the...
De Blasio loses Albany lobbyists amid ongoing rift with Cuomo
Mayor de Blasio’s Albany lobbying office has been hit with a flurry of departures just as City Hall faces a tense year of negotiations with Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers,...
Teen's death caps off city's murder-plagued 2015
The murder rate in the Big Apple increased by 4.5 percent in 2015 — with the last killing unfolding in Queens just before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve,...
Virtual reality, drones and wearables seek to dominate CES ’16
Too big, too crowded and too chaotic? Maybe, but these new gadgets will be too good to resist. That’s what tech geeks will be hoping as they head to Las...
Kid screws around on roof, gets stuck in chimney
PHOENIX — Phoenix firefighters rescued a 13-year-old boy who got stuck in a chimney while playing with his friends on a roof. The boy's friends called 911 and their parents...
Ex-con accused of tying up, raping woman at UWS hotel
An ex-con allegedly raped and sodomized a stranger at an Upper West Side hotel while holding a knife to her throat and sneering, “Today is the day you’re going to...
Masked men invade Bronx apartment, demand twins' debit cards
Two masked men burst into a Bronx apartment early New Year’s Day and demanded that the 65-year-old twin brothers living there hand over their debit cards — before using a...
NYPD keeps New Year's Eve revelers from pricey parties
New Year’s Eve revelers who shelled out big bucks to see the ball drop at popular Times Square venues were frozen out of the festivities because of NYPD security zones,...
Emails show Hillary aides constantly complimented her looks
WASHINGTON -- Busy as they were, Hillary Clinton's aides found time to constantly compliment their boss' appearance, according to the latest batch of e-mails released by the State Department. When...
This $126K co-op shows you can still get a steal in Manhattan
Behold, in a city of skyrocketing real-estate prices, there are still deals to be had. In Manhattan, where the average apartment sells for $1.9 million, Karen Cochraine scored a Washington...
Ray Kelly says he had nothing to do with emails being deleted
Former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on Friday responded to the recent disclosure that many of his e-mails were deleted from his desktop computer — despite a federal court order that...
Constantly being on your cell phone is going to get you killed
Stupid is as stupid does, the saying goes. Today, stupid increasingly finds itself in emergency rooms, thanks to “distracted walking.” Yep: More and more folks, preoccupied with phones, tablets and...
Daily Blotter
Brooklyn Police are searching for a burglar who walked right into the front door of a Sheepshead Bay house in broad daylight. The unidentified man entered the home on the...