April 22, 2017
A Deshaun Watson breakdown from someone who knows him best
There were two minutes left and 68 yards between Deshaun Watson and a national championship comeback victory against mighty Alabama, and not a single soul on the Clemson sideline, or...
Engineers made a robotic arm for this girl to play the violin
A 10-year-old girl born with no left hand is playing the violin, thanks to a specially designed prosthetic built by undergraduates at George Mason University. Isabella Nicola tested out the...
Veterans score major victory in Los Angeles
Justice was again served last week against the Veterans Administration — specifically, its LA office, which once again got slapped down in its efforts to squelch a critic. Exactly why...
Mats Zuccarello's two goals lead Rangers to series clinch
It was a regular season that started with uncertainty and a postseason that started with the same. But this is proving to be a new version of an old story,...
What the Blackhawks shouldn't do after their shocking ouster
One goal in the playoffs for him last year. One goal in the playoffs for him this year. First-round loss for his team last year in six games. First-round loss...
Cuomo's war on pipelines is crushing New York's economy
When Team Cuomo blocked a gas pipeline this month, and another last year, we warned of the fallout. A new report out Monday puts a price tag on such bans...
Aaron Judge swung and dropped Dave Winfield's jaw
PITTSBURGH — Aaron Judge has been making impressions all over baseball. With his latest blast, he even caught the attention of Dave Winfield. After Judge’s ninth-inning homer Saturday, a 457-foot...
Bob Rosen, statistician and Knicks fan from the start, dead at 84
Bob Rosen, the longtime basketball/baseball statistician who witnessed the Knicks’ first game in 1946, passed away Friday. He was 84. Rosen, a Garden staple, worked for the Elias Sports Bureau...
New York City FC's promising rookie may finally get his shot
New York City FC winger Jonathan Lewis might be struggling for minutes, but a string of injuries has opened the door for the highly touted rookie. And even if he...
This singer's performance was a matter of life or death
Singer Zachary Zortman gave the performance of his life while a surgeon dissected his brain. During a six-hour operation to remove a tumor, Zortman, 29, lay on his side, awake...
Red Bulls pounce on star's injury to grab share of East lead
It barely had started before the Red Bulls grabbed all the momentum Saturday — the result of a gruesome injury to a Columbus Crew star — and took a share...
Jacob deGrom can't really explain his year's oddest start
With the way the Mets have hit — or not hit — their starting pitchers have had to be near-perfect. Jacob deGrom wasn’t even close in Saturday’s 3-1 loss to...
How 2 Yankees castoffs quietly became Yankees godsends
PITTSBURGH — Youth movement? Toolsy talent? Eh. The 2017 Yankees’ surprisingly strong start can be attributed to, as much as anything else, the Ro and Toe Show. Chris Carter delivered...
Marlins likely using Jeter to generate buying offers
The Miami Marlins are likely using former New York Yankees All-Star Derek Jeter to gin up interest in buying the baseball team, several sports business sources told On the Money....
Film buffs can't wait for Tribeca's 'Godfather' double feature
The 16th annual Tribeca Film Festival is barely under way, but movie buffs are already psyched about its closing on April 29 with back-to-back screenings of “The Godfather” and “The...
The inept Mets are back — and the timing makes it more painful
The Mets aren’t pretty right now. They’re banged up. The bullpen has been shaky. The lineup is punchless. When the starting pitching isn’t perfect, they’re an awfully hard team to...
The Fed needs to do something with its bond holdings
Dear John: I have read your Post articles regarding the Federal Reserve’s dilemma with its cash and bond holdings. Your view that the Fed might just hand over the cash...
Sears owner has milked iconic retailer dry, analysts say
Sears, the iconic American retailer, is now just a shell of its former self, and Wall Street retail analysts say responsibility for that can be laid at the feet of...
Could this CEO be a millennial Bernie Madoff?
Ever wonder what a modern-day millennial version of Bernie Madoff might look like? Could it turn out to be Elizabeth Holmes, the 33-year-old Silicon Valley sweetheart who is the chief...
Studying 5 years of NFL drafts to find best, worst teams at picking
Every NFL team talks about building through the draft, but very few actually do it. We looked at who is best and worst at drafting over the past five years...
This is how to deal with Facebook's pedophile problem
Dear John: I just read your recent article about Facebook’s pedophile problem. It is worse than ever! Many of us concerned Facebook users report the pedophile pages, profiles and groups...
Why the 'Passengers' Lives Matter' revolt is unfair to flight crew
Nathan L. Henderson, 34, of Brooklyn, has worked as a flight attendant for a major American airline for four years. Here he tells The Post’s Melkorka Licea that the recent...
The hyped QB project and wild cards for Giants to draft
Looking at quarterbacks and special-teamers for the Giants to target in the draft. It has reached the point that if the Giants do not take a quarterback in the first half of the...
Trump faces obstacles as he makes his 100-days push
President Trump’s “100-day dash” this week may have plenty of hurdles. Ahead of next Saturday’s first-100-days milestone, the president wants to ram through his second attempt at an Obamacare repeal,...
Chris Carter shows up and starts sudden Yankees onslaught
PITTSBURGH — It took Chris Carter until mid-February to find a job this year, and for the first few weeks of the season, it was easy to see why the...
Salvage company wants rights to shipwreck's treasure
A US marine salvage company that discovered a sunken World War I ship years ago wants to be named owner of the vessel — and the nearly 19 tons of...
This is the Jimmy Vesey other teams didn't know existed
It has been more than just the play-making ability from Jimmy Vesey that has been impressive in his first NHL postseason. It also has been how he hasn’t backed down...
Mets' bats and wild deGrom dig their Nationals hole deeper
They have prepared and given effort, taken extra swings. There is film work, studying the opposition. And after all of that, manager Terry Collins was able to pinpoint just what...
How Rangers-Canadiens became the series no one saw coming
The Rangers and Canadiens entered their playoff series known as “skill teams” — NHL code for soft. Five games have changed that. A series that has seen its share of...
The terror and glory of a Game 6, which has Rangers desperate
This was early in the 1994-95 season, when the Devils were in Buffalo for the first time since losing an unforgettable first-round 1-0 quadruple-overtime Game 6 to Dominik Hasek, before...
New Yorkers keep having fewer babies
Maybe we need to play more Marvin Gaye. New York’s birth rate is declining and is now the fourth lowest among the nation’s 10 largest metro areas, according to 2016...
On-air paternity leave fight gets vicious between sports radio voices
Boston radio host Michael Felger doesn't agree with paternity leave. He's gone after the Celtics' Al Horford and the Red Sox's Jackie Bradley Jr. and Eduardo Rodriguez in the past,...
The little that Collins knows of Cespedes' hamstring isn't good
The Mets’ wish list has a very big item on top for Sunday’s game against Max Scherzer and the Nationals. Yoenis Cespedes. But wishing and having are different things. “I...
In My Library: Boris Akunin
Best-selling Russian crime writer Boris Akunin never quite trusted Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”: “A ghost? Seriously? I thought that one day, when I become a writer, I’ll sort it out.” So he...
'Girlboss' is a feminist fraud
The new Netflix show “Girlboss” promised fun, fashion and feminism. The series, which premiered Friday, is loosely based on the “#Girlboss” book by Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso. The show...
Early AL Rookie of Year debate shows Yankees' plan at work
Since 1980, voters for the Rookie of the Year awards have been allowed to pick a first-through-third on their ballots rather than just a winner. In that time, the Yankees...
Keeping up your cellphone service has killed 35 people
Next time you text a friend to complain that your four-star dinner was only worthy of two stars, think of Joel Metz. Three years ago, while repairing a cellphone tower...
Cops can't find ex-football player charged with sex assault
OKEMOS, Mich. -- Police have asked for help from the public in locating former Michigan State defensive end Auston Robertson, who is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Prosecutors announced...
Doctor stiffed terminal cancer patient on $50K treatment: suit
A Manhattan oncologist who charged a dying patient $50,000 for an experimental cancer treatment he never performed hasn’t returned the dough, according to a lawsuit. Cheryl Stoebenau, 69, was being...
Decoding mysteries of Jets draft: What if they don't trade?
Todd McShay spends months trying to figure out what teams are going to do in the NFL draft. As one of the two draft gurus at ESPN, McShay studies film,...
Death of TV producer five days after childbirth still a mystery
On March 8, Sara Porter, a TV producer from Carroll Gardens, gave birth to her third son at Mount Sinai St Luke’s on the Upper West Side. Five days later,...
Jose Reyes' smile is gone, and Mets are trying something new
Whenever Terry Collins broached the subject of Jose Reyes, he always — always — mentioned Reyes’ smile. Hit a homer, go 0-for-4, there was the smile. Win, lose, day, night,...
Boxing star's sister once beat her up to discourage her from the sport
When Amanda Serrano graduated from Bushwick High School ten years ago, she wasn’t busy filling out college applications or chasing boys in her Brooklyn neighborhood. The Puerto Rican born Serrano...
Guidance counselor fired after giving gold ring to teen
A Manhattan high-school guidance counselor under investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with a student was fired after the girl was seen wearing a gold ring he had bought. Jeremiah...
This best-selling novel is pushing a dangerous message to teens
‘As we continue to fight the battle against police brutality and systemic racism in America, [this is] a much-needed literary ramrod.” That’s the first blurb on the back of Angie...
How Rangers defenseman kept his worst moment from spiraling
This was the type of play that can stay with a player for a long time and could begin to define his legacy — if he let it. But it...
Man gets life sentence for killing 3 people with machete
ADEL, Iowa— A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for hacking to death his girlfriend, her teenage daughter and their landlord with a machete in central Iowa....
Tennis great proud of his racist 'joke' about Serena Williams' kid
The International Tennis Federation has launched an investigation into Romanian Fed Cup captain Ilie Nastase after allegations the former world No. 1 had made a derogatory comment about Serena Williams' unborn...
Disgraced lawmaker hired Hooters girl, Playboy model as consultants
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A newspaper is reporting that a Florida state senator who resigned this week after using a racial slur hired a former Hooters "calendar girl" and a Playboy...
Chopped golf balls in hash browns prompts recall
MATTHEWS, N.C. — A food company is recalling frozen hash browns from stores in nine states because the potatoes may have pieces of golf balls in them. McCain Foods USA's...
The NBA is letting James Dolan screw over 'a—hole' fan
The NBA commissioner’s office on Friday informed Knicks season-ticket holder/heckler Mike Hamersky it can’t help him in his duel with owner James Dolan. More than a week after Hamersky was...
When New York City was the prostitution capital of the US
You thought the ’70s were bad? Tell that to a New Yorker from the 19th century, when prostitution, along with many other vices, was just a normal part of life...
How UFC's million-dollar ring girl turned her bod into a moneymaker
She’s a lean, mean, money making machine. When it was revealed in March that Arianny Celeste — the UFC’s most tenured ring girl, with 11 years under her belt —...
This fake rocker helped create MTV
Michael Nesmith is best known as one of the Monkees, a manufactured rock group that struggled to be accepted as a real band. “But his new memoir, “Infinite Tuesday: An...
Hernandez's body arrives in hometown ahead of private funeral
The family of Aaron Hernandez wants to bury the former New England Patriots star in private. “We wish to say goodbye to Aaron in a private ceremony and thank everyone...
Two bicyclists snatching cell phones near Times Square: cops
They’re taking cellphone owners for a ride. Two bike-riding bandits have been snatching smartphones from the hands of unsuspecting pedestrians in Midtown for the past month, cops said. The rolling...
American Airlines attendant suspended after tense boarding altercation
American Airlines has suspended an employee after a video showed an altercation on one of its planes involving crew, several passengers and a crying woman carrying a young child. An American...
How Trump voters feel about his first 100 days
Last fall, just weeks before Election Day, I traveled the old Lincoln Highway, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies, to learn the attitudes of voters who lived miles from...
Why can't the Clintons just go away?
Since losing the most winnable presidential election in modern American history, Hillary Clinton has, among other things: given a series of high-profile speeches, joined Gov. Cuomo at his public unveiling...
Police find 111 migrants hidden in truck leaving Romania
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian border police say they have stopped 111 asylum seekers hidden in the back of a large truck who trying to illegally leave Romania and head toward...
Man busted for attempted sex assault at Time Warner Center
Cops busted a Bronx man on charges of trying to rape a teenager at the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle on Friday morning. The 18-year-old was using the second...
Leader, member of ISIS 'sleeper cell' killed in police shootout
MOSCOW — Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee says the leader of an Islamic State "sleeper cell" and one of the cell's members have been killed in a shootout with police. The...
'Nuclear-free Korea peninsula' possible through peace: Pence
Denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula can still be achieved peacefully because of Washington's new engagement with China, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday, despite growing fears North Korea...
Italian cyclist dies in collision with van while training
ANCONA, Italy — Michele Scarponi, who won the Giro d'Italia in 2011, died after being hit by a van while training on Saturday. He was 37. Scarponi was training near...
Science supporters vow to 'never ever surrender' at worldwide rallies
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world saw brain power take a different form Saturday. From the Washington Monument to Germany's Brandenburg Gate and even to Greenland, scientists, students and research advocates...
Dozens of casualties in attack on Afghan army base
KABUL, Afghanistan — Authorities on Saturday raised the casualty toll to 100 in an attack on a military compound in northern Afghanistan a day earlier by gunmen and suicide bombers...
Berkeley is still appeasing the the anti-free-speech bullies
In the 1960s, students at Berkeley helped change the world by igniting the Free Speech Movement, a seminal moment in the history of 20th-century civil liberties. Fifty years later, Berkeley...
Why the Yankees have luxury of not panicking after one loss
PITTSBURGH — The old baseball adage goes that you can’t win a pennant in April, but you can lose one. The 2016 Yankees, 8-14 in April, exemplified the former component....
The answers to tricky Mets test may be tearing up Triple-A
Here we are 17 games into the season and already the 8-9 Mets are at a crossroads. A litany of injuries is testing their depth, the depth they were so...
You can buy this small town for the bargain price of $3.5M
TILLER, Ore. — In the tiny, dying timber town of Tiller, the old cliche is true. If you blink, you might actually miss it. But these days, this dot on...
Rangers get series-swinging spark from 'KZB' line
MONTREAL — First came an experiment to see if the chemistry was still there. But now, the Rangers’ “KZB” line is back, and it’s hard to see coach Alain Vigneault...
Pence says US will honor refugee deal with Australia
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the United States would honor a controversial refugee deal with Australia, under which the United States would resettle up to 1,250 asylum...
Rajon Rondo's excuse for almost tripping a Celtic from bench
Even though he wasn’t on the court on Friday night, Rajon Rondo was a major topic of conversation after the Celtics' 104-87 win over the Bulls in Game 3 of...
Matt Harvey battles, almost gives Mets everything they need
The Mets’ bullpen is so overworked it’s on the verge of violating federal labor laws. So length from the starters has been high atop the team’s wish list. That’s what...
Nobody does the 'cool grandma' look like Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin, fashionista? The 53-year-old former Alaska governor appeared at the White House on Wednesday looking oh-so-trendy in an off-the-shoulder white lace top. The 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee has a...
Rikers guards blame de Blasio and DOC for violence uptick
The city's correction officers who have been decrying what they call a dangerous uptick in jail violence filed a new lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Department of...
Didi Gregorius passes an important test in rehab stint
PITTSBURGH — While Yankees manager Joe Girardi’s focus was on the Yankees at PNC Park on Friday night, he knew there was another important game going on for Single-A Tampa...
Woman facing jail time after being convicted of slashing boyfriend's dead ex
TULSA, Okla. — An Oklahoma woman has been convicted of burglary and four other charges after she slashed the corpse of her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. A Tulsa County jury deliberated about...
Desperate Mets turning to T.J. Rivera for just about everything
T.J. Rivera may need his first baseman’s glove on Saturday. After getting recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas on Friday and receiving the start at third base against the Nationals, the...
Slow-riding Stitches
“Ladies and gentlemen, we are delayed because of train traffic ahead of us. We apologize for any inconvenience.” Sound familiar? Maybe you can use a bike to combat the failing...
American Airlines flight attendant accused of whacking mom with stroller
https://www.facebook.com/surain.adyanthaya/videos/10155979312129018/ A woman was thrown off a plane Friday night — after a flight attendant allegedly whacked her with her baby’s stroller. The American Airlines plane was at the gate...
The hot fantasy baseball start no owner should believe in
Hate to break it to you, fantasy owners, but you’re being catfished. As you went online (the waiver wires) searching for a spark, a player who could rescue your team...