February 21, 2016
Yankees doing more and more to price out the common fan
In this age of highly specialized baseball — pitchers assigned the seventh inning, and, even after three groundouts on three pitches, only the seventh — the Yankees’ executive branch now has...
Tony Brown making quite an impression with his Nets interim tag
Since the day Tony Brown stepped in as interim Nets coach for fired Lionel Hollins, he’s said every player is going through a lengthy audition. Now with the team hiring...
The newest obstacle for working-out Yankees: a huge hill
TAMPA — Mount Krause is the newest twist to the Yankees’ spring training program. Named after second-year director of strength and conditioning Matt Krause, the 10-foot incline built in left...
1993 World Trade Center bombing survivor finally gets her payout
Twenty-three years after the terrorist bombing in a World Trade Center garage, the Port Authority has lost its last-ditch legal bid to avoid paying more than $10 million to a woman...
Powerhouses suddenly lurking for wide-open NCAA Tourney
College basketball is so wide open, such a coin flip come March, there isn’t a team that can be considered a Final Four favorite. There are a lot of contenders,...
Fireballing wild card flattered Mets giving him a relief shot
PORT ST. LUCIE — Josh Smoker is hard to miss among the lineup of pitchers who have been throwing from the mounds at the Mets’ spring-training complex. “It looks like...
Hiding, renegade artists are replicating Joe Paterno statue
EPHRATA, Pa. -- Two artists involved in producing the statue of Joe Paterno removed from outside Beaver Stadium in 2012 say they are working on two new statues of the...
Rangers finally break through in OT to grab ugly win
There were smiles and jokes after this one, and how easily that could have been anger and fury. In the midst of another poorly officiated game, the Rangers managed to...
Yahoo lines up advisers to help fend off activist investor
Yahoo is quietly hiring advisers who specialize in defense against cage-rattling shareholders — even as it responds to investor demands that it put itself up for sale, The Post has...
Dan Warthen sees something extra 'special' in Matt Harvey
PORT ST. LUCIE — Dan Warthen thinks another year removed from Tommy John surgery will make a sizable difference for Matt Harvey. “To me, Harvey had the best year of...
Jimmer Fredette crumbles before his Knicks call-up
This isn’t the momentum surge Jimmer Fredette wanted on the verge of officially arriving on the Knicks’ roster to claim the team’s 15th spot. Carmelo Anthony called him by the...
Harlem Brewing Co. to get front row displays at Walmart
Walmart is taking a page from Whole Foods’ playbook — and small craft brewers are drinking it up. Starting next month, Harlem Brewing Co. will be stocking its Sugar Hill...
Ex-Red Sox player arrested for carrying bullet in luggage
TOKYO — Former Major League Baseball player Yamaico Navarro has been arrested in Japan for concealing a bullet in his luggage. Navarro was arrested in Okinawa on Sunday evening, national...
Samsung's 837 mixes technology and delicacies
South Korean electronics giant Samsung is opening what it describes as a “consumer technology playground” on Monday, the latest big brand to open an interactive flagship store in Manhattan. Samsung...
Excited Daniel Murphy: Nats will help me decode Mets aces
VIERA , Fla. — Daniel Murphy is all in — Nat-urally. “This red feels pretty good, I like that part of it,’’ Murphy said Sunday when asked what’s it like...
Kemba Walker kills Nets' buzz as grueling trip awaits
With the Nets coming off their most uplifting week in a while and headed out on a nine-game, three-week road trip, they knew how vital it was to keep building...
Let the style bibles decide what you should wear this spring
We’re taking our cue from the crocuses in the tree pits during this welcome February warming trend to herald the spring style bibles — second to only the fall for...
Obama is looting the Treasury to pay off insurers
The Obama administration will tell any lie and break any law to prevent the president’s signature health-care program from collapsing. Insurance companies such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna are losing billions...
It's looking like a Clinton-Trump race
It’s looking like the fall race will pit New Yorker versus New Yorker, as the weekend voting left Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on course to win the nominations. The...
Is Cuomo still the students’ lobbyist?
Two years ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo stood up for fairness for charter schools. Will he stick to that principle this year? Back in 2014, Cuomo stopped Mayor Bill de Blasio’s...
What it's like to 'de-clutter' with an immigrant mom
You may have heard by now about the book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing,” by Marie Kondo. Even if you haven’t read...
Slapping down the anti-Israel boycotters
The anti-Israel boycott movement just suffered serious setbacks in two key world capitals. British Prime Minister David Cameron’s government last week issued a policy notice that public authorities face “severe...
Whom Bernie would take down along with Wall Street
The kids want to elect Bernie Sanders president partly because they want Wall Street to Feel the Bern. But his centerpiece idea to punish Big Finance — a tax on...
Joe Torre monitoring Chapman ban from sensitive angle
TAMPA — As MLB awaits commissioner Rob Manfred’s disciplinary ruling on Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman's domestic violence allegations, few in the sport are as interested in the verdict as Joe...
Yoenis Cespedes right where he (and Matt Harvey) wants to be
PORT ST. LUCIE — Yoenis Cespedes has 27.5 million good reasons — attached to an escape hatch — to play for the Mets this season, but says there are other...
Michael Pineda's camp 180 can be first step to being ace
TAMPA — Who is the Yankees’ ace? Masahiro Tanaka has worn that title during his first two years in the big leagues but has been hurt in each season. Nathan...
NBA world, bow down to Anthony Davis
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Few players have ever had the feeling Anthony Davis did Sunday. The star center scored a franchise-record 59 points and pulled down 20 rebounds as the...
Syrup business can't stop gas pipeline from cutting trees down: courts
A federal judge ruled on Friday that a Pennsylvania family that runs a maple syrup business cannot stop most of their trees from being cut down to make way for...
St. John's-Seton Hall postgame fight could cost them
The Big East will look into the postgame incident Sunday between St. John’s and Seton Hall, a conference source said. Seton Hall’s Derrick Gordon had to be carried from the...
Diving into Carmelo Anthony's knee pain: Can he last the year?
Sunday was the fifth anniversary of Carmelo Anthony’s trade to the Knicks. The best way for Anthony to celebrate would be for his 31-year-old left knee to stay healthy and...
Why Mets hope Cespedes becomes their Roger Clemens
PORT ST. LUCIE — Right about a year ago, here at Tradition Field, I wrote about whether Matt Harvey could be the Mets’ version of Alex Rodriguez. The guy whose...
El Chapo's wife terrified for his safety behind bars
El Chapo’s wife is worried about how the Mexican drug lord is being treated in prison. “I fear for his life,” the killer's spouse, Coronel Aispuro, said in her first...
Denny Hamlin takes Daytona 500 in absurdly close finish
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Joe Gibbs wanted another ring and Denny Hamlin got it for him in the closest Daytona 500 finish in history. Hamlin raced to his first Daytona...
Astronauts heard 'weird music' on dark side of the moon
Real sounds from the dark side of the moon are way more haunting than anything ever recorded by Pink Floyd. Astronauts on 1969’s Apollo 10 mission heard strange “music” while...
Cop hurt in Brooklyn shootout 'proud' to get gun off streets
One of the Brooklyn cops wounded in a shootout with a Muslim extremist was hit by a bullet allegedly fired by the self-radicalized suspect, sources said Sunday. Ballistics tests show...
Trump comes for Rubio, questions presidential eligibility
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump on Sunday questioned the eligibility of a second rival to be president. The GOP frontrunner has gone after Sen. Ted Cruz's eligibility, and fired the first...
De Blasio: City is hindered by Albany's semi-colonial dynamic
Mayor de Blasio took aim at Gov. Cuomo on Sunday, saying the Big Apple is "hindered" by Albany's "arbitrary" approval process, which has soured the relationship between the city and...
Clinton not convinced she lost Hispanic vote in Nevada
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton isn’t buying entrance polls showing that she was a loser at the Nevada Democratic primary — at least among Latino voters. “That’s just not what our...
Don Mattingly ironically joins anti-facial hair cult
JUPITER, Fla. -- For the first time in his major league career, Don Mattingly's team has a policy of no facial hair. And as the Miami Marlins' new manager, he's...
Chasen Shreve's mystery collapse hangs over Yankees' hope
TAMPA – You would not be surprised if I told you that as of Sept. 5 last year, Dellin Betances had the second-best ERA (1.30) among the 148 relievers with...
St. John's sees Seton Hall exhale and waits for future to arrive
The pity was that the game ended as it did, a referee’s whistle 75 feet from the basket settling what had been a brutal and bitter turf war at Madison...
Multiple knife attacks reported in The Bronx, Brooklyn
A man was randomly slashed in the face while walking through The Bronx early Sunday, authorities said. Maynor Elvir, 32, suffered a deep gash on the left side of his...
FBI raids Texas REIT slammed by Kyle Bass as Ponzi scheme
Billionaire hedgie Kyle Bass — who profited immensely by correctly predicting the subprime mortgage crash — might have struck gold again. FBI agents raided a Texas real estate investment trust...
Joe Torre relives 1996, and the Jeter trade that could've ruined it all
They weren’t anyone’s Boys of Spring, much less Boys of Summer, and on the 20th anniversary of the birth of the last Yankees dynasty, Joe Torre remembers it all, remembers...
Seton Hall steals win in bizarre last seconds to escape St. John's
There were just 5.6 seconds left on the clock when the whistle blew, sending the St. John’s crowd into a frenzy. There was ringing booing and profanities being yelled from...
Michigan gunman is an Uber driver, picked up fares during attacks: report
An Uber driver went on a shooting spree that killed six people and wounded two more — but kept on picking up passengers in between bursts of gunfire, authorities and...
Ex-Cowboys RB piles up another scary arrest
Joseph Randle feared his NFL career was over two arrests ago. His concern should be about his life's stability, not his job's. The former Cowboys running back was arrested again...
NYPD anti-terror chief to Apple: Just open iPhone already
The city’s top anti-terror cop is taking the feds’ fight agianst Apple personally. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence John Miller noted Sunday that he will be one of the people...
Cops arrest man for illegal gun in Brooklyn subway
Cops questioning a man during a routine subway stop recovered an illegal gun in Brownsville on Saturday night, police said. Officers stopped Michael Latham, 32, around 9 p.m. after seeing...
Partying Rob Gronkowski to couple: $10K 'if you bang'
Thankfully, what happens on the Gronk Party Ship does not stay on the Gronk Party Ship. The Rob Gronkowski-hosted cruise set sail on Friday, and videos from the non-stop party...
Someone needs to help Delonte West
You rarely see the spiral. You see all-world athletes in their prime climb the ladder of the world, and then they disappear from the public eye with a long, long...
Phew! Missing radioactive material found in Iraq
Radioactive material that went missing in Iraq has been found dumped near a petrol station in the southern town of Zubair, officials said on Sunday, ending speculation it could be...
Mom shields baby as taxi slams into pole outside Met Museum
An Upper East Side woman was seriously injured protecting her 2-year-old son from a falling light post toppled by an out-of-control taxi outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday...
Man reportedly trying to build gun shoots himself with nail
An East Harlem man blasted himself in the chest with a nail while trying to build a "zip gun" in his bathroom on Saturday night, police sources said. The 46-year-old...
Inside New York's most unsellable homes
Ilon Specht, the advertising exec who dreamed up L’Oréal’s “Because you’re worth it” catchphrase, owns a four-bedroom co-op in Manhattan’s storied Dakota. On Halloween 2006, she put the 4,500-square-foot spread...
Newest toys do all the work for our kids, it's shameful
How lazy are kids today? The latest version of Monopoly, due out this fall, has a mini-ATM so budding real estate moguls won’t actually have to go to the trouble...
3 rescued after small plane crashes into Long Island Sound
Three people were rescued and one was missing after a small plane went down Saturday night in Long Island Sound. The four-seater Piper was on its way to MacArthur Airport...
Woman reportedly stabbed multiple times in Brooklyn apartment
A 59-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times early Sunday at a Brooklyn apartment building, police sources said. Police arrested a 57-year-old man after the 3 a.m. attack at 285 Hawthorne...
Ronda Rousey finally free to marry boyfriend Travis Browne
Ronda Rousey hit an unbelievable low after her loss to Holly Holm, recently revealing that at one point she felt she had no reason to live. What snapped her out...
Andrew Cuomo puts politics ahead of Mario's legacy
It’s a shame to see the governor turning his back on his father’s compassionate legacy just to score political points — but that’s exactly what’s going on with Andrew Cuomo’s...
Another sign of de Blasio's war on welfare reform
City welfare data offer fresh evidence that Mayor de Blasio is rapidly undoing one of the most important successes of the Rudy Giuliani-Mike Bloomberg years. The Manhattan Institute reports that...
Live here to send your kids to the best public school without going bankrupt
Can you feel it? The hallowed spring buying season is fast approaching — sooner rather than later, according to furry February forecaster Punxsutawney Phil. And just why do spring and...
Woman randomly stabbed and slashed in the Bronx
A woman was stabbed and slashed by two strangers on a Bronx street Saturday in what cops believe was a random, unprovoked attack. The men accosted the 26-year-old victim on...
21-year-old woman stabbed to death in Long Island home
A 21-year-old Long Island woman was fatally stabbed in her West Babylon home Saturday, authorities said. A man suffering apparently self-inflicted stab wounds was also found in the home. He...
Biased DA, city scapegoat the Asian-American community
The justice system has always failed Asian-Americans. We remember all too well the brutal 1982 slaying of Vincent Chin — a 27-year-old Chinese-American man killed near Detroit by two thugs...
Developer with ties to de Blasio scores job, despite being outbid
A developer with ties to Mayor de Blasio won the right to transform a Brooklyn library into a residential skyscraper despite being outbid by at least two other builders, multiple...
How social media is destroying the lives of teen girls
Slut pages. Sink shots. Yik Yak. Finstas. Kik. Snapchat. Revenge porn. Tinder food stamps. If that reads like a different language, chances are you’re not an American teenager on social...
Obama's Iranian 'moderates' are anything but
When it runs out of plausible excuses for its appeasement-plus policy on Iran, the Obama administration advances one argument as final line of defense: showing goodwill toward the Islamic Republic...
'Jennifer Aniston neuron' explains how we remember our friends
Tonight, the cast of “Friends” reunite, which begs the question: Why, after a decade, does anyone care? Blame your brain. It turns out that if you watched the popular sitcom,...
Bank CEO reveals how Obama administration shook him down
The former CEO of Ally Financial Inc. says the Obama administration abused its power by holding the bank’s business hostage in order to coerce a record settlement of “trumped-up” racism...
Lego's big risk on kids and conventional wisdom
It’s hard to imagine today, but as recently as 2003 the Lego company was in trouble, having seen sales drop 30% from the previous year. The digital world made the...
The dirt-cheap NYC apartment where Harper Lee would hide out
Harper Lee had something rarer than a best-seller — a dirt-cheap apartment in New York City. The reclusive author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” who died in her native Monroeville,...
Models reveal the dark side of the beautiful business
From the second they land in the Big Apple, doe-eyed, leggy models are dreaming of Vogue covers and Leonardo DiCaprio dates. But the truth is, for most, the years ahead...
World Trade Center's $4B transit hub is a lemon
After 10 years of baiting the “Calatrasaurus” — architect Santiago Calatrava’s years-behind-schedule, billions-of-dollars-over-budget World Trade Center Transportation Hub — I finally visited the belly of the beast. I strolled through...
'No pajamas, no party': Heartless principal bans kids from fun
The principal of a Brooklyn elementary school excluded students from a Valentine’s Day party because they didn’t wear pajamas, teachers and parents told The Post. Machael Spencer Edwards, principal of...
'Walking Dead' star: Michonne will do anything to save Carl
The Walking Dead Sunday, 9 p.m., AMC In last week’s episode of “The Walking Dead,” Michonne (Danai Gurira) saved Carl’s (Chandler Riggs) life, gutting Ron Anderson (Austin Abrams), the boy...
Carmelo Anthony didn't know Jimmer Fredette's first name
MINNEAPOLIS – Carmelo Anthony better learn the name of his imminent teammate. When asked by The Post Saturday night about the imminent signing of D-League sensation Jimmer Fredette to a...
Woman used dad's stroke to steal his rental building: lawsuit
A Manhattan man says his daughter waited until he had a stroke and then swiped the rental building he owns out from under him. Richard Tucker, 72, has lived in...
French bulldog crowned city's most popular dog — again
For the second year in a row, the French bulldog topped the list of the city’s most popular breeds in 2015, the American Kennel Club exclusively revealed to The Post....
Monster who raped and killed this grandmother will be set free
Brooks Prouty remembers clearly the last time he saw his grandmother. It was May 25, 1980, a few hours before dawn. He was 15 and she was waving goodbye to...
Online grocer finds New Year’s resolutions last about a month
New Year’s resolutions are so over — at least that’s what data from online grocer FreshDirect suggest. The retailer reports that customers’ liquor and wine consumption picked up by about...
This app lets you track your girlfriend's period ... but why??
This is one strange new app. Period. Named “Shvrk” and pronounced “Shark” — its designers say the “v” is “an inverted A for Vajayjay” — the app allows people to...
Designer debuts mask in the style of Hannibal Lecter
Fashion models are apparently going to amazing lengths to reduce overeating and stay thin. Either that or designer Gareth Pugh fitted his catwalkers with Hannibal Lecter-style masks straight out of...
Homeowner fights Queens historic district over fence
A Queens homeowner says that if the Landmarks Preservation Commission doesn’t like her fence, the entire historic district she lives in should be abolished. Yu Chan Li says her 83rd...
Popular bar busted for serving dozens of minors: officials
The state has yanked the liquor license of a popular East Village bar where cops found the exits locked and more than 40 well-heeled teens — one only 15 years...
New Yorkers fume at surgeon who allegedly injured cop
Cancer doctor Rachel Wellner should fight tumors instead of cops, outraged New Yorkers said on social media Saturday. “I’m sure you believe you are God, but you are not above...
Raccoons adapt to city as population skyrockets
Masked bandits on the loose! Raccoons have gone wild in New York, with 1,581 complaints to the city’s 311 hot line last year, up 69 percent from the year before....
Bernie Sanders fan tried to put Hillary's obituary in newspaper
One Bernie Sanders fan hoped for Hillary Clinton’s demise so strongly he filed an obituary for her in a Las Vegas newspaper on the day before the state’s crucial caucuses,...
Ricky Rubio showcases for Knicks -- but will T'wolves sell?
MINNEAPOLIS — The Knicks never felt the Timberwolves were serious about dealing flashy point guard Ricky Rubio, the former Spanish sensation who has been a mildly disappointing NBA player. After...
Suspect surrenders after deadly Michigan shooting spree
A 45-year-old man surrendered to Michigan police early Sunday after going on a “random” shooting spree that left at least six people dead and two wounded, officials said. Jason Dalton...
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The Bronx A dispute escalated into a deadly fight on a Wakefield street, police sources said Saturday. Edwardo Medina, 33, was arguing with Jamaal Williams, 33, on East 233rd Street...