June 3, 2018
Michael Fulmer is the dangerous choice for Yankees rotation help
DETROIT — Michael Fulmer’s days in Detroit seem numbered, and while the Yankees showed some interest in the right-hander during the offseason, the former Mets prospect hasn’t looked like much...
OK Stitches, Pull Over
Fire! Mets have been ice cold, but Citi Field was literally on fire last week. No one was hurt, there was minimal damage and the cause of the fire was...
Meet the Rob Gronkowski horse who's just like the real thing
He possesses imposing size. He sustains his speed over a stretch of ground. Although he might be unable to compete at key times, he is a winner. That scouting report...
Amazing MLB prospect literally can do everything on the field
His catching ability alone would be impressive. So would his switch-hitting skills. Or his pitching repertoire as a right-hander and a left-hander. And then there is his defensive versatility as...
Hawaii's erupting volcano could cause new explosions: experts
Changes to the surface of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano are a sign that the lava on the Big Island might stop flowing — or they could be a warning of a...
Stephen Curry dominates Game 2 of NBA Finals in Warriors win
OAKLAND, Calif. — The shot clock was winding down. Golden State’s Stephen Curry momentarily lost control of the ball. He retrieved, retreated and flung it over Kevin Love. Most humans...
Thousands gather for annual Celebrate Israel Parade
Thousands of people and a handful of New York elected officials waved blue-and-white flags and sang Hebrew songs as they gathered along a police-lined Fifth Avenue Sunday for the 54th...
Blue Lives Matter NYC donates OD antidotes to Maryland K9 unit
The nonprofit Blue Lives Matter NYC went to Maryland on Sunday to donate 20 Narcan kits to the Prince George’s County Police Department’s K9 Unit. The donation will outfit each...
Yankees are too good to learn what they'll need when it counts
BALTIMORE — Can you simultaneously revel in a phenomenon and fear it? Your test case: The 2018 Yankees roster. If you’re a Yankees fan, you look at this roster and...
HelloFresh to sell meal kits in select supermarkets
HelloFresh will start selling its meal kits in two supermarket chains on Wednesday. The meal kits will be sold in nearly 600 Giant Food and Stop & Shop stores, the...
De Blasio calls plan to scrap high school admission tests 'blessed'
Mayor Bill de Blasio implied Sunday that he’s on a mission from God with his controversial plan to scrap the admission test for the city’s top high schools — and...
Foodies flocking to Upper West Side chicken joint
Serb-born chef/owner Zivko Radojcic is building an Upper West Side empire, and folks are flocking to it. Radojcic and restaurateurs Marjanne Motamedi and Dragan Ristovski just opened Infamous Chicken, at...
Surf Lodge gets new culinary director for 11th year
Surf Lodge is launching its 11th year with a new culinary director, executive chef Ron Rosselli, a veteran of Locanda Verde and Café Boulud. The hotspot, which is also known...
Gurney’s sets sail with new menu for Montauk yacht club
Now that Gurney’s has bought the Montauk Yacht Club Resort & Marina — in a deal first reported in Side Dish — the team has partnered once again with LDV...
Jimmy Fallon surprises students at Stoneman Douglas graduation
Jimmy Fallon surprised the senior class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Sunday — providing some much-needed comic relief during their graduation ceremony as they honored those who died...
Mets' 2017 draft stud showing signs he could move fast
The Mets watched their present and their future face off — a big, burly left-hander against a smooth, compact, left-handed swing. Sure, Michael Conforto (10th-overall pick in 2014) launched one...
Belmont Park wants you to bet on more than just its biggest race
The $1.5 million Belmont Stakes provides the centerpiece, but it is not the only quality racing action available at Belmont Park this week. The New York Racing Association opens the...
Families mourn pilot, builder to the stars presumed dead in plane crash
The pilot of the private plane that crashed off the eastern tip of Long Island — presumably killing all four aboard, including a well-known builder who built and restored the...
The Mets can't afford this small Steven Matz slip
The mistake led directly to a run. For this team, that’s all it takes to be on the wrong side of a decision. And so Steven Matz became just the...
Tiger Woods on to real challenge after Memorial disappointment
DUBLIN, Ohio — Now, the focus of the golf world shifts to Shinnecock Hills and the U.S. Open. Yes, there’s one more PGA Tour event to be played before the...
Giuliani: Trump couldn't be indicted even if he shot Comey
WASHINGTON — Borrowing a line from his client, Rudy Giuliani argued Sunday that the president could not be indicted — not even if he fired a gun at his former...
Aaron Boone is going all-in on fight against MLB/ESPN
BALTIMORE — Since December, the Yankees knew the start time for their July 8 game against the Blue Jays in Toronto could be switched from day to night. However, the...
How 'Sex and the City' betrayed the sisterhood
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the iconic show “Sex and the City” — and the devastation it wrought in women’s lives. It was June 6, 1998, when four...
How to defeat ISIS's next play
The military campaign against the Islamic State has all but ended its control of territory in Syria and Iraq. Yet rather than disintegrate, ISIS will likely retreat into the dark...
These are the Mets mistakes Sandy Alderson enables
The kids ran the bases at Citi Field on Sunday after the Mets’ dreadful 2-0 loss to the Cubs. Even they could have scored on the Mets’ lack of anticipatory...
De Blasio's plan to destroy New York's top high schools
Facing a long-known and genuine problem — the tiny percentage of black and Hispanic city public-school students who can pass the race-blind exam for entry into one of the specialized...
How Giants' $15M afterthought is fitting into the O-line
Sometimes, nothing else needs to be conveyed. “Yeah, I mean, I feel like the expectations have been clear and they’ve been set,’’ Patrick Omameh said recently. As one of the...
Cynthia Nixon has nothing useful to say about the subway crisis
Cynthia Nixon is running hard on the subway crisis. Too bad she doesn’t have anything useful to add. Fair enough to go on “The Daily Show” to complain that Gov....
Obama never shed his arrogance and other comments
From the left: Obama Never Shed His Arrogance Obama adviser Ben Rhodes’ memoir, says The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, further proves that “Obama always found us wanting.” After President...
Top official in Long Island town gets 3 hefty paychecks
The top elected official of a Long Island town is drawing three hefty paychecks — as the full-time Babylon supervisor, chairman of the Suffolk County Democratic Party and from a...
Dog found dead in cargo during layover of Delta flight
ROMULUS, Mich. — Delta Air Lines is investigating the death of an 8-year-old pet dog during a layover at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, en route from Phoenix to Newark, New Jersey....
Woman says she killed husband for beating their pet cat: cops
DALLAS — Dallas police say a 47-year-old woman has told detectives she shot and killed her husband because he had been beating the family cat. Authorities say Mary Harrison has...
Rookie cop fired after hitting suspect with patrol car
A rookie Georgia police officer has been fired after striking a suspect fleeing on foot with his patrol car, officials said. Athens-Clarke County Police Department released bodycam footage of Officer...
Jay Bruce's year just went from ugly to embarrassing
Jay Bruce doesn’t need to hear boos to know how he has performed this season. “I haven’t been good this year,” he said. “That’s just the bottom line. There’s no...
Teen who accused ex-NYPD cops of rape says she's dealing with creepy stalker
The Brooklyn teen who accused two former NYPD detectives of raping her is dealing with another horror — an obsessed cab driver who has been stalking her for years, including...
Melania to skip summits with President Trump
WASHINGTON — Melania Trump won’t be accompanying President Trump on his two upcoming foreign trips, the first lady's spokeswoman told ABC News Sunday. The president heads to the G7 summit...
Yankees giving Clint Frazier another shot (for a day at least)
BALTIMORE -- Outfielder Clint Frazier will be the 26th man for Monday’s doubleheader against the Tigers in Detroit but isn’t likely to be the only roster move the Yankees make. It’s...
Experts split on whether Trump can pardon himself
WASHINGTON — Experts on presidential pardons are split on whether they believe Rudy Giuliani was correct in saying that President Trump “probably” could pardon himself. “I actually think he’s probably...
Bryson DeChambeau vents after Memorial win: Don't judge me
DUBLIN, Ohio — If you listen to Bryson DeChambeau speak for 30 seconds, you realize he’s not your cookie-cutter PGA Tour pro. DeChambeau — whose irons are all the same...
Cohen mulled running for New York mayor to create 'dynasty'
President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen told campaign supporters on election night that he got the "bug" and was planning to run for mayor of New York City, according to...
It can get so much worse for the Cavaliers
OAKLAND, Calif. -- You have to figure the Cavaliers already have enough on their plates early in the NBA Finals. They saw LeBron James manufacture his personal greatest playoff scoring...
Clinton: 'Impeachment hearings would have begun' for a Dem president
Former President Clinton said impeachment hearings would already be underway if a Democrat was in the White House and the special counsel's Russia investigation was as far along as it...
Bannon: Sanders should have gone after Clinton on the campaign trail
WASHINGTON — Former White House strategist Steve Bannon thinks that Sen. Bernie Sanders should have taken a cue from Donald Trump — and gone after Hillary Clinton more on the...
Mickey Callaway blames NY pressure for collapsing Mets
The losses keep piling up in Queens. The punch lines are growing even faster. With their latest abysmal offensive effort, the Mets collected just three hits, and sealed their four-game...
Many breast cancer patients can skip chemo, big study finds
CHICAGO — Most women with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of beating the disease, doctors are reporting from a...
Conflicts at work can be productive
When Jennifer Iannolo launched an all food podcast channel 12 years ago, things did not go smoothly. She traveled the world with her co-founder, telling stories of chefs, farmers and...
Chuck Schumer calls on EPA to lower gas prices
Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the Environmental Protection Agency on Sunday not to follow through with plans to rollback mile-per-gallon standards to lessen the pain at the pump for motorists...
German police shoot knife-wielding man in Berlin Cathedral
German police shot a man who was "rampaging" around Berlin Cathedral with a knife and had attacked at least one person, according to reports. Police said officers rushed to the...
Drunk hipster fired after spewing racial slurs outside bar
A hipster Brooklyn real estate agent was caught on video spewing racial vitriol at a black bouncer in front of a Bushwick bar early Friday morning. Video shows Chris Giardina,...
Knicks don't have to wait any longer for Trae Young workout
Oklahoma freshman point guard Trae Young is headed to New York and will stage a workout for the Knicks on Tuesday in Tarrytown, according to an NBA source. It is...
Woman in custody after gunfire was reported at San Diego marathon
A cop was shot and a woman was taken into custody after gunfire broke out near a California marathon Sunday, according to reports. The woman, who is in her 50s...
The Mets' right-handed bats are nearly here
The Mets won’t have any excuses for their major league-worst hitting against left-handed pitching much longer. Following a four-game home sweep at the hands of the Cubs, in which the...
Off-duty FBI agent accidentally shoots man while dancing at bar
He was trying to bust a move but ended up busting a cap. An off-duty FBI agent dropped his gun doing a backflip on the dance floor of a Denver...
Phil Mickelson is so pumped over course where he can make history
DUBLIN, Ohio -- Phil Mickelson, who has one more tournament to play before the U.S. Open next week, already is itching to get to Shinnecock Hills to try to complete...
Friends fall to their deaths while rock climbing at Yosemite
A pair of expert climbers fell 1,000 feet to their deaths from a granite rock wall in Northern California’s Yosemite National Park — the second fatal accident there in a...
Officer who helped deliver teen 18 years ago surprises him at graduation
Eighteen years after Thomas Robert Duboyce’s birth on the side of a highway in Maryland, the Montgomery County police officer who helped deliver him is still by his side. Robert...
The Serena and Venus team-up didn't go as planned
PARIS -- The Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, are out of the French Open doubles tournament. The third-seeded pairing of Andreja Klepac and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez beat the Americans...
World Trade Center climb leads to proposal
A pair of lovebirds flew -- well, climbed -- to the top of One World Trade on Sunday for an emotional proposal. Emergency room nurse and volunteer fire eater Jim...
Crews continue to search for bodies and wreckage in Hamptons plane crash
The search for the wreckage of the private plane crash presumed to have killed four people — including “Builder to the Stars” Ben Krupinski — continued Sunday morning along the...
UFC star defends husband's swastika tattoo after accidental tweet
The husband of UFC star Andrea Lee has come under fire after a photo of him emerged on social media exposing his swastika tattoo. Lee posted a snap of the...
Yankees rainouts and doubleheaders are really piling up
Add another doubleheader to the Yankees' list of them. Sunday's game in Baltimore has been rained out, and it will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on...
Mattis: It'll be a 'bumpy road' to summit with North Korea
Defense Secretary James Mattis warned it will be a "bumpy road" on the way to a summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this month...
Giuliani thinks Trump can 'probably' pardon himself
WASHINGTON -- Rudy Giuliani speculated Sunday that the president “probably” has the power to pardon himself. “He has no intention of pardoning himself, but he probably does [have the power...
Insiders are mocking Kim Kardashian's fashion award
The Council of Fashion Designers of America — among them, Carolina Herrera, Diane von Furstenberg, Ralph Lauren and Zac Posen — are trusted to be the arbiters of good taste....
Trudeau says tariffs on steel and aluminum are 'insulting'
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blasted the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on steel and aluminum as "insulting and unacceptable" and said he would retaliate by placing similar penalties...
The secrets of the NYPD's horse cops
A fresh group of boys and girls in blue is hot to trot. On June 7, the New York Police Department’s Remount School of Horsemanship will swear in a new...
Trump: I wouldn't have hired Manafort if I knew FBI was going after him
President Trump distanced himself from former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in a tweet on Sunday, claiming that if he knew the FBI was "doing a number on him" he wouldn't...
Creepy cyclist grabbed woman's butt, then pedaled away: cops
Police on Sunday released surveillance footage of a perv who pedaled up to a woman on a bike on a Brooklyn street and grabbed her butt, police said. The man...
Elderly man killed in house fire
An elderly man was killed and two FDNY firefighters were injured in a Bronx house fire Saturday night, police and fire officials said. The man was in the basement apartment...
Lawyers say Trump 'dictated' statement on Donald Jr.'s Russia meeting
President Trump's personal legal team acknowledged that the president "dictated" a statement about a meeting his son and several campaign associates took with a Kremlin-linked lawyer at Trump Tower in...
Man found shot to death in car
Police found a man shot to death in a parked car on a Queens street early Sunday morning, authorities said. Police responded to a report of shots fired on 230th...
Teen fatally shot after fight breaks out
A 17-year-old girl was shot and killed in the Bronx after a large fight on Saturday night, authorities said. The teenager, identified by police as Vlana Robert, was in front...
Hit-and-run crash kills 3-year-old boy in Rochester
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A 3-year-old boy has been killed in a hit-and-run crash in Rochester. Police tell the Democrat and Chronicle that the child was one of two pedestrians who were hit...
Yankees had a 'scary' Gleyber Torres moment
BALTIMORE — The Yankees got a scare when Gleyber Torres was drilled in the right wrist during an at-bat in the sixth inning. The second baseman, who was named AL...
Time off didn't do the trick for Gary Sanchez
BALTIMORE — Gary Sanchez was behind the plate Saturday for the first time since Tuesday. The time off didn’t appear to have helped. Sanchez, who was the DH Wednesday before...
Miguel Andujar making the talk of his competition go away
BALTIMORE — Brandon Drury went 1-for-4 with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Saturday and has been hitting well, especially over the last week or so. As opposed to earlier in the season,...
Mets are wasting Jacob deGrom and everyone knows it
Once again, Jacob deGrom was brilliant. On Saturday, he had to be near-perfect. Between the Mets’ bats turning invisible and the back end of the bullpen imploding, deGrom took a...
The Mets aren't dealing with their real problems
This was back in the 1993-94 NHL season when the L.A. Kings were having a dreadful time of it, a year after advancing to the Stanley Cup Final. Owner Bruce...
When failure from Mets bullpen is actually step in right direction
The Mets relievers followed up six scoreless frames Saturday by coughing up six runs and the game in the 14th inning. It’s an indictment of just how bad the bullpen...
Behind 'the next Stephen Curry,' who's somehow in Knicks crosshairs
If the basketball gods show New York hoops fans any justice, “The Next Stephen Curry’’ will fall — this time — to the Knicks at No. 9 in the June...
'Sore loser' eager to prove himself with Jets after Browns stint
When Isaiah Crowell signed a three-year deal with the Jets in March, he did it hoping he found a home where he could be a featured back. “I want to...
Former JPMorgan employee files racial discrimination suit against company
An attempted Harlem “shuffle” has backfired at JPMorgan, according to a lawsuit. An African-American former broker at the giant Wall Street asset manager is charging racial discrimination, claiming his career...
Old Yankees manager throws the new one a rare compliment
BALTIMORE — Buck Showalter compliments opposing managers about as often as his 2018 Orioles win games. Therefore, it’s possible that Aaron Boone just received the highest praise yet of his...
The Federal Reserve must persist despite the economy
Dear John: I believe the Fed should continue to raise rates even if — as you point out — “the economy isn’t really ready for it.” Two wrongs don’t make...
Stitches: Can you use it in a sentence
The on-again, off-again summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un is a go. The meeting of the minds will happen in Singapore on June 12. Items on the table for...
Matt Harvey never gave the Reds a chance
SAN DIEGO — The Matt Harvey the Mets decided to trade is back. Harvey allowed four runs in the second inning as the Reds fell 8-2 to the Padres on...
Mets waste latest deGrom gem, fall in 14 in game after meeting
Jacob deGrom wasn’t alone this time. In burning deGrom’s latest masterpiece to ashes, the Mets offense also shredded one of the bullpen’s strongest efforts of the season, as the struggling...