June 20, 2009

CASHMAN DENIES ORDERING A-ROD BENCHING

MIAMI -- Brian Cashman questioned an Internet report today that he ordered Alex Rodriguez out of Friday night's lineup. "That's not true," the GM said before tonight's Yankees-Marlins game at...

PATERSON SELECTS 2 ALBANY MEDIATORS

ALBANY, N.Y.- Gov. David Paterson is appointing two statesmen to mediate the two-week-long power struggle that has gridlocked New York's Senate. Paterson also announced that the state's top judge may...

ISRAEL BETRAYED

When Barack Obama was running for president, he vigorously reassured voters of his firm commitment to America's special relationship with Israel. Indeed, he worked to beef up his pro-Israel bona...

Jim Brown Rips Tiger, Jordan

Footbal great Jim Brown says Tiger 'Disappoints'Former football great Jim Brown has taken some verbal jabs at Tiger Woods for what he says is the golfer's lack of interest in...

Red Bull's Osorio wants to add an academy player and more young Yanks

With Juan Carlos Osorio's acquisitions from Latin America all struggling to different degrees _ from the departed Gabriel Cichero to the disappointing Juan Pietravallo _ the beleaguered Red Bull coach...

ALL METS ARE OFF

For Mets fans who hoped to put last year's epic collapse behind them, to embrace the promise of a brand new season, the past few weeks have been a reminder...

SOURCES: YANKEES SIGN DOMINICAN CATCHER GARY SANCHEZ FOR $2.5M

MIAMI -- According to several connections in the Dominican Republic, the Yankees and catching prospect Gary Sanchez have agreed to a $2.5 million deal. Sanchez, 16, isn't eligible to sign...

A RECORD SCORE ON A PUSHOVER US OPEN COURSE

Your U.S. Open leader through two rounds is ranked 519th in the world and has been in golfing no-man's land for the last six years, floundering mostly in vain to...

Water on the Brain

By Jay GreenbergYankee fans who waited five-and-a-half hours for Thursday's game were happy to be invited to move down to the first two levels, and thought getting an additional freebie...

Water on the Brain

If Yankee fans who waited five-and-a-half hours for Thursday's game were happy to be invited to move down to the first two levels, and thought getting an additional freebie to...

REPORTS: APPLE CEO STEVE JOBS HAD LIVER TRANSPLANT

Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, whose recovery from pancreatic cancer appeared less certain when he had to take medical leave in January, received a liver transplant two months...

HARLEM DAD KILLED AFTER PARTY

A father of two was gunned down in Harlem early this morning after a night of partying, according to police and friends. Walter Taylor, 36, of Peekskill, NY, was fatally...

Another Brooklyn snag

Northjersey.com reports the Nets' proposed moved to Brooklyn could hit another setback this week.The Web site says, "On the eve of several critical votes next week on the Atlantic Yards...

Game 66: Rays at Mets

The Mets will be hoping for signs of a turnaround from Johan Santana this afternoon when their struggling ace takes the mound against the Rays in interleague action at Citi...

Ailing Angel can't carry Red Bull

The Red Bulls can bring in summer transfers, or switch formations and lineups, but no amount of tweaking or juggling can hide the elephant in the room. Until Juan Pablo...

NYT REPORTER ESCAPES FROM TALIBAN CAPTIVITY

A New York Times reporter known for making investigative trips deep inside dangerous conflict zones escaped from militant captors after more than seven months in captivity by climbing over a...

FIERCE CLASHES ON TEHRAN STREETS

Police beat protesters and fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands who rallied Saturday in open defiance of Iran's clerical government, sharply escalating the most serious internal conflict since...

Coverage in The Post

It was Fernando Nieve to the Mets' rescue once again Friday night as the unheralded right-hander was strong once again in a much-needed, 5-3 win over the Rays at Citi...

Continental divide

Mid-June: It's time for outdoors Shakespeare, Off and Off-Off explorations, and Ben Brantley's monthlong trip to London.The Times' chief drama critic has started his annual reports from the U.K., which...

Is the Paramount Shakeup a Prelude to a Merger With Universal?

Universal, meanwhile, has struggled in recent years to produce enough movies -- even with the efforts of Working Title and Imagine -- to justify its expensive distribution overhead. (They each...

Box Office: Sandy's Biggest Weekend

Disney's "The Proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds had a strong opening day and is on track to depose Warner's "The Hangover'' from the No. 1 spot, based on...

RED BULLS KICK OFF SECOND HALF

The Red Bulls kicked off their season by getting kicked around 3-0 in Seattle, and they'll start the second half tonight (7:30 p.m., MSG) versus the same expansion Sounders. In...

PHIL GIVES FANS WHAT THEY WANT

THE 17th hole is the Yankee Stadium of Bethpage Black, a 207-yard par-3 that is usually circled by humanity with amphitheater-like seating around the hourglass shaped green. It is the...

LATE GROUPS SURGE UP BETHPAGE LEADERBOARD

Luck of the draw. That's the lead story to this U.S. Open, through less than 11⁄2 rounds at Bethpage Black. Not Tiger Woods, who finished his first round at an...

CC'S H.S. HOOPS SQUAD LOADED WITH BIG SHOTS

CC Sabathia's high school basketball team included a center who went to Georgetown, a shooting guard who went to Pepperdine and was drafted by the Nets, a point guard who...

GOODEN HAS TIPS FOR SANTANA REBOUND

Dwight Gooden says that when you get rocked the way he got rocked in 1984, and the way Johan Santana got rocked this past Sunday, you treat your next start...

NOT ALL LONGBALL LEADERS WILL LAST OVER LONG HAUL

WHICH one of these things is not like the other? Among the league leaders in home runs, you have Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, switch-hitting Bomber Mark Teixeira, Philadelphia's Ryan...

YOUNG METS GET LESSONS FROM WORLD SERIES CHAMP

TIM TEUFEL knows there is only one way to play the game. He's trying to teach that to the youngest Mets.METS BLOGBOX SCORE "We teach a brand of baseball that...

ROYAL ASCOT BREAKTHROUGH BY WARD OF THE STATES

A FEW days before launching his successful raid on Royal Ascot this week, Wesley Ward, the former champion New York apprentice and now sharpshooting trainer, said, "I'm not a gambling...

ST. JOHN GOES FROM RING TO PLAYBOY COVER TO FOOD AUTHOR

IT SOUNDED like an oxymoron to me: "Reduced fat recipes for Mexican meals." Having grown up in southern New Mexico, I know Mexican cooking and I know much of it...

TOP OF THE TOPS

AS far as greeting cards go, Father's Day ranks somewhere down between "Happy graduation" and "Sorry your dog died." Luckily, our readers feel otherwise. Maybe it's the economy or simply...

WHAT'S UP?

TODAYTIP THE SCALES: If the Coney Island Mermaid Parade is a bit too much for your young 'uns, bring 'em to the New York Aquarium, where you'll see sea lions...

BARGAIN BALL

THE Yankees and Mets both opened this spring with new houses for their all-star lineups. Now it's time for us fans to help pay the mortgage with every exorbitantly priced...

SOUND OF MUSIC

THERE is a time and place to moodily strum your guitar alone -- perhaps at midnight, with a bottle of tequila at your side. Tomorrow is not that time and...

NEW LIVER FOR STEVE JOBS

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who has battled pancreatic cancer, recently underwent a liver transplant, according to a published report. The computer guru, who has been on medical leave since January...

ART STASH SET FOR AN HEIR RAID

PARIS -- The battle of the Wildensteins involves two very different protagonists. On the one hand is Guy Wildenstein, 68, a friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and patriarch of...

AIR FRANCE STARTS PAYING CRASH KIN

PARIS -- Air France yesterday offered the families of Flight 447 crash victims an advance on compensation, even as the investigation continued into what took the jet down on May...

FILM MAGIC GRANTS GIRL DYING WISH

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- Colby Curtin willed herself to live long enough to get her final wish. From the day in April when she first saw previews of the Disney-Pixar...

FBI WAS DEEP INTO 'THROAT'

MIAMI -- Newly released FBI files show agents across the country and at the highest level of the agency investigated "Deep Throat" -- the 1972 porn movie, not the shadowy...

'SONIC' BOOM

New Yorkers hungry for burgers and nostalgia need look no further than 12 miles across the Hudson River this weekend. Sonic Drive-in, the burger chain where roller-skating staff deliver piping-hot...

BEDDIE-BYE TIME

MIAMI -- The inventor of the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, a coin-operated fixture in American motel rooms in the 1960s and '70s, has died in Florida. John Joseph Houghtaling was...

JFK LOVE-CHILD CASE TOSSED

A federal judge yesterday shot down an inheritance lawsuit filed by the purported love child of the President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. The suit by John Fitzgerald Kennedy...

HIGHEST OF HIGH SCHOOLS

If high school's a popularity contest, here are the winners. New data shows that one of the city's largest high schools, Francis Lewis in Queens, is also its most desirable...

GOV VOWS TO FORCE SENATORS BACK TO WORK

ALBANY -- It is hereby decreed: Get back to work! That was the message yesterday from Gov. Paterson, who announced he would order lawmakers into a special session on Wednesday...

BO WOW FOR PIC OF LITTER

WASHINGTON -- First dog Bo got the presidential treatment yesterday with the unveiling of his very own official White House portrait. PHOTOS: PRESIDENTIAL PETS The shaggy-haired Portuguese water dog --...

BETSY-WETSY THROWS

Boo-hoo, Betsy. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum threw a temper tantrum yesterday and whined that she will no longer fulfill her legal role as presiding officer of City Council meetings. The...

QNS. COP ABUSED ME: GAL

A Queens woman is suing a veteran NYPD detective, claiming he sodomized her inside a police-station bathroom while another cop stood guard outside, The Post has learned. The 29-year-old Elmhurst...

BETHPAGE THINKS PINK

It was Bethpage Pink. Touched by his wife Amy's struggle against breast cancer, thousands of pink-clad supporters followed Phil Mickelson across the Bethpage Black golf course yesterday like fans of...

INJURED PEDI-PASSENGER PEDAL-PUSHES A LAWSUIT

A Brooklyn woman says she suffered a serious head injury riding a pedicab through Central Park. In a likely first-of-its-kind case, Ana Angeli Gutierrez Perez, of Cypress Hills, blames pedi-driver...

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

Call it a family affair. Cops arrested five members of a drug-dealing clan in two raids, authorities said yesterday. Acting on a tip, detectives raided the Heartland Village home of...

FDNY SLAPPED ON 'DEUTSCHE'

The city's top internal watchdog issued a scathing report yesterday squarely placing blame on FDNY and Department of Buildings personnel for doing little to prevent the condemned Deutsche Bank tower...

FEDS EYEING NHLERS' SUIT

A California lawsuit filed by 19 NHL players against a golf-course developer has drawn the attention of the Manhattan US Attorney's Office, sources said yesterday. Prosecutors want to talk to...

SOTO QUITS ALL-GALS CLUB

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned yesterday from an elite all-women's club after Republicans raised questions about her participation. Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove --...

OBAMA WARNS IRAN: WATCH YOUR STEP!

Ratcheting up his rhetoric, President Obama warned Iran's dictatorial mullahs yesterday that "the world is watching" what happens next in Iran's week-old election crisis as the White House condemned the...

CAW 911! HERO SAVES PET BIRD

Feathers flew in the East Village yesterday when a neighborhood drag-club owner's flightless bird plunged from her roof deck, sparking a frantic rescue effort. Lucky Cheng's owner Hayne Suthon said...

MAYOR TO POLS: PASS SCHOOL CONTROL NOW

Mayor Bloomberg yesterday called on do-nothing state senators to return to their desks to pass crucial legislation to preserve accountability in city schools and blasted calls for last-minute changes to...

SKATE OF THE UNION

WASHINGTON -- World-famous skateboarder Tony Hawk went to the White House yesterday to celebrate Father's Day, but it was his inner boy that made the biggest splash. After getting permission...

HILL ON MEND AT HOME AFTER 2-HOUR ELBOW OP

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton underwent two hours of surgery on her right elbow yesterday, two days after breaking it in a fall in the State Department...

8 YEARS FOR SHUL SCAM

A fraudster who preyed on members of his Upper West Side synagogue was sentenced to more than eight years behind bars yesterday by a judge who likened him to a...

HOLE-Y HELL FOR NJ GRADUATION

In recent years, the graduation ceremony at Mainland Regional HS in Linwood, NJ, has seen its awkward moments. In 2006 and 2008, for example, administrators cut off the mike after...

WIDOW SUES OVER SHEA FALL

A Brooklyn widow is suing the Mets and the city after her husband was killed in a freak escalator accident at Shea Stadium last year, court papers reveal. Antonio Narainasami,...

COP BUSTED AS 'SANDAL SWIPER'

An off-duty cop has been arrested for suspicion of shoplifting from a Queens athletics store, The Post has learned. Thirelle Taffe, 38, of East New York, Brooklyn, was charged with...

MAMA'S BOY TAKES BATES

He's crazy about "Psycho." Thomas Prusik-Parkin -- who allegedly dressed up in his dead mother's clothes to collect government benefits -- swears he's "not Norman Bates," even though he is...

US ANTI-MISSILE RADAR IN 'ORB'IT

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is deploying a high-tech missile-defense arsenal in the Pacific in an effort to thwart any attempt by North Korea to launch a long-range missile toward Hawaii...

HEARTY KOCH WELL

Former Mayor Ed Koch is recovering after surgery yesterday to replace a heart valve. A spokesman says Koch, 84, who was mayor from 1978 to 1989, is doing as well...

TROUBLED WATERS

A US Navy destroyer is gearing up for a possible showdown with a North Korean ship suspected of carrying banned nuclear-weapon material in violation of a recent UN Security Council...

DRIVERS GRIPE AS GAS TOPS $3

Motorists were full of fuel fury at some city gas stations yesterday -- as prices jumped over $3 for the first official weekend of summer. "They have us by the...

SICKOS SHOOT JACK RUSSELL TO MAKE BELT

A 23-year-old woman has been accused of being a real-life Cruella de Vil -- for allegedly killing a helpless puppy so she could skin it and make a belt for...

RAPS EYED AT 'IGNORE THE DYING' HOSPITAL

At least four Kings County Hospital employees could face criminal charges for covering up a shocking case of neglect -- a patient who fell off her chair in a psych-ward...

YANKS SOCK SOX BOOZER

A Boston Red Sox fan who suffered a beat-down at the old Yankee Stadium was part of a boozed-up bunch of prison guards on an outing to the House That...

GEESE DOWN: 800 GET GAS

Some 800 Canada geese were rounded up and shipped off to goose heaven this week by city and federal workers, officials said yesterday. From Monday to yesterday, the workers penned...

K-ROD FINE BECAUSE HE'S FORGETFUL

THE season is long, so memories have ample opportunity to become short . . . if you are the right guy. METS BLOGBOX SCORE "You've got to be realistic," said...

TIGER IN 'BAD PLACE' AFTER FIRST ROUND

THIS was how bad it got for Tiger Woods yesterday at Bethpage Black: greenside at No. 18, where the people were so grateful to see anything resembling a golf tournament...

NETS MAY TAKE WILLIAMS AT 11

It seems like a perfect match. The Nets like Terrence Williams. Terrence Williams likes the Nets. By gum, it's so crazy, it just might work on draft night. "I know...

TICKET REFUND ONE-SHOT DEAL

The USGA's sudden lapse into common decency, yesterday's reversal of its no-raincheck policy for Thursday's U.S. Open tickets, quickly became a one-shot penalty -- strictly optional and not to be...

KNICKS BOOK HOLIDAY

The Knicks love UCLA freshman Jrue Holiday, but they didn't like his pre-draft workout June 10, when he got outplayed by Stephen Curry. So team president Donnie Walsh has succeeded...

OPEN HONCHOS FORCED TO DO THE RIGHT THING

THE USGA did a splendid impersonation of Spider, the ill-fated waiter in "Goodfellas," all day long yesterday. It danced morning, afternoon and evening, shuffling its feet to avoid flying bullets...

WEAVER MOVES ON OPEN-LY

A wedge away, that's what Drew Weaver was when he heard the gunshots of the 32-death massacre at Virginia Tech two years ago. That horror makes trite the concept of...

HONDO'S DIATRIBE

Hondo was on the verge of victory yesterday in Wrigley until the terrible Tribe's wretched bullpen blew it up, causing the rapidly dwindling earnings to tumble to 270 rosens. Today,...

SOX CLOSER WOULD CONSIDER YANKS

MIAMI -- If the Red Sox don't want Jonathan Papelbon after the 2011 season, the laser-throwing closer wouldn't have a problem switching sides -- to the Yankees -- in the...

DUVAL BACK IN TOP FORM

The last time the U.S. Open was held at Bethpage Black, David Duval was ranked seventh in the world, was one year removed from winning his first major and was...

HANSON FINISHES ONE SWEDE ROUND

About a month ago Peter Hanson stood on the tee of the 206-yard 17th hole at the Old Course at Sunningdale in London and decided to hit a six iron...

ROCCO OPENS STRONG

It must be something about U.S. Opens and the big stage for Rocco Mediate, because he was at it again yesterday. One year removed from his epic 19-hole playoff battle...

SPORTS SHORTS

BASEBALL: Braves blast Dice-K, Red Sox In Boston, Nate McLouth homered on the game's first pitch and Kenshin Kawakami beat countryman Daisuke Matsuzaka as the Braves topped the Red Sox,...

CHURCH TAKES RAYS RELIEVER HOWELL TO SCHOOL

If familiarity breeds contempt, unfamiliarity may breed base hits. METS BLOGBOX SCORE Ryan Church, who never before had batted against Rays reliever J.P. Howell, made the most of his first...

LIBERTY ROLL AT GARDEN FOR FIRST WIN OF SEASON

There are victories that leave a team euphorically celebrating on the court and wins that are wonderfully satisfying. There are triumphs that are savored because they were unexpected or get...

AMAZIN'S MUST GET UPPER 'HAN

When Johan Santana was approached about how he felt and whether he was ready for today's start after being shelled in his last outing against the Yankees, the lefty wanted...

PETTITTE ARM, BAT POWER YANKEES

MIAMI -- Maybe the Yankees discovered the answer in the warm South Beach air where some of them headed after last night's victory over the Marlins. After all, the trendy...

CYCLONES RIDE CLUTCH HITTING

The Mets' desperation to beat the Yankees trickles down to the minor leagues, but apparently their inability to get the job done does not. The Brooklyn Cyclones, a Mets affiliate,...

FERNANDO STOPS ANOTHER METS SKID

No, it wasn't a flu-of-any-kind scare but Fernando Nieve was feeling, in his words, "queasy, upset, tired." It was something he ate that left him feeling like that. Insert joke...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Three Maine lobstermen caught bright-orange lobsters -- and they weren't even cooked! Experts say the odds of catching even one unusually colored live lobster, which is usually a greenish brown,...

GOSSIP GRUNGE

'GOSSIP Girl" has always rocked -- but now, apparently, it rocks 'n' rolls. While on hiatus, two of the show's leading ladies have become a bit more vocal (literally) than...

HUNT'S ON FOR 'NCIS'

OSCAR winner Linda Hunt has joined CBS' new drama series "NCIS: LA" as a regular. She will fill the void left by the departure of Louise Lombard, who co- starred...

KNIGHT OVER

TR Knight has confirmed that he's leaving "Grey's Anatomy." "Leaving 'Grey's Anatomy' was not an easy decision for me to make," Knight said in a statement. "I am extremely grateful...

BAD RECEPTION

There are also stories of people getting a digital signal -- but not all the local channels. TALK about getting your wires crossed. It's now been eight days since the...

DEEPENING DIVISIONS

BILLED as "unity prayers," yesterday's congregation at Tehran University's campus instead highlighted the deep divisions that are tearing apart the Khomeinist ruling elite. The gathering was supposed to reassert the...

TALE OF THE TURNOUT

MANY psephologists -- derived from the word for pebbles, which the an cient Greeks used as ballots -- study who wins and loses elections. Lately, I've been looking more closely...

AS ALBANY CLOWNS, ONLOOKERS FROWN

We have chaos in the New York Senate ("Democrats Working on New Power-Sharing Agreement," June 15). Just imagine what the lunacy looks like to out-of-towners and leaders around the globe....

2 MORE BOLT BOFA BOARD

Bank of America Corp., the lender that took $45 billion in US aid, said Admiral Joseph Prueher and General Tommy R. Franks resigned as directors June 17, pushing the total...

EX-CITI EXEC NAMED MASTERCARD PREZ

MasterCard Inc., the second-biggest credit-card network, hired Ajay Banga, the former chief executive officer of Citigroup Inc.'s Asia Pacific unit, as president and chief operating officer. Banga, 49, joins MasterCard...

NO CARL, YOU CAHN'T

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn yesterday lost his battle to stop hedge-fund manager Warren Lichtenstein from taking his troubled hedge fund public. Judge William Chandler III of the Court of...

TICKET BLITZKREIG

It's the boss vs. The Boss. Media mogul and Ticketmaster honcho Barry Diller yesterday took aim at Bruce Springsteen, blasting the rocker for playing a role in a concert-ticket flap...

CELLPHONE EXCLUSIVES UNDER FIRE

Regulators will investigate whether exclusive cellphone deals, such as the one that locks Apple's iPhone to AT&T, are good for consumers. The acting chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Citi strength In a sign of strength for the consumer loan- backed market, Citigroup sold a $1.25 billion credit- card loan-backed deal, a source said. The deal was increased from...

CHASTENED BAIR EYES FDIC SEAT AT 'BIG' TABLE

Two days after learning that she and her agency won't figure prominently in the Obama administration's reshaping of the US financial system, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair took...

KOREAN CARGO-SHIP CONUNDRUM

HARDLY a week seems to go by without North Korean leader Kim Jong Il deciding to once again chest-thump President Obama in an increasingly dangerous game of school-yard bullying. US...

OVERHAUL COULD RIP GE FROM ITS CAPITAL

President Barack Obama's overhaul of the financial industry could cost General Electric's global conglomerate the loss of its main cash cow and rattle its other businesses, ranging from jet engines...

STANFORD BRIBES CHARGED BY FEDS

The bizarre fraud case of wealthy Texan R. Allen Stanford took a turn yesterday after federal prosecutors pointed a finger at a high-ranking Antiguan financial regulator, who they say accepted...

GASSED GEESE & BAM'S NO-FLY ZONE

What a refreshing burst of hawkishness from two top US political leaders. At the risk of angering his base, President Obama on Tuesday abjured negotiations and boldly launched a preemptive...

THE MYSTERY OF THE IMMUNE IMAM

Just what does Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil have to do before Mayor Bloomberg will even criticize him -- let alone bounce him from the city payroll? On Thursday, the mayor actually...

CORZINE'S 'CHRISTMAS'

Well, surprise, surprise -- look what we found! New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and Democratic legislative leaders were crowing Thursday, announcing that a tax-amnesty program that ended this week had...

TOP OF THE POPS

AS far as greeting cards go, Father's Day ranks somewhere down between "Happy graduation" and "Sorry your dog died." Luckily, our readers feel otherwise. Maybe it's the economy or simply...

COUNCILWOMAN GIVES LOON $5,000 TO TEACH COURSES IN ETYMOLOGY

Here's your tax dollars hard at work. A city councilwoman set aside $5,000 in next year's budget for a wacky Brooklyn man with a rap sheet to teach courses in...

YANKEES GIVE A-ROD TWO-DAYS REST

MIAMI -- Body fatigued and with a swing infected by a severe case of the reaches, Alex Rodriguez was removed from the Yankees lineup Friday against the Marlins in his...

COLES HAPPY WITH BENGALS

CINCINNATI -- Former Jets receiver Laveranues Coles is making himself a secondary thought in Cincinnati. The Bengals signed Coles as a free agent in March, the day after top receiver...

SLUMPING SANTANA MUST RAYS HIS GAME

When Johan Santana was approached in front of his locker yesterday about how he felt and whether he was ready for today's start after being shelled in his last outing...

A Magic Style

By FRED KERBERSo Terrence Williams was asked whose game he most tried to copy as a kid. He picked a pretty good role model."Magic Johnson, most definitely," Williams said after...

RBNY trialists Obster, Coundoul in limbo

The Red Bulls' weeklong trials of Bouna Coundoul and Ernst Obster both ended today, but the club neither signed nor ruled out either player. Both are still in play, and...