October 24, 2009
Red Bulls' season finale in rain delay
October 24, 2009 | 11:11pmTonight's Red Bull season-finale at Giants Stadium against Toronto has been delayed by inclement weather. Both teams have agreed to a 20-minute warmup, and the game is expected to commence...
Mom, boyfriend charged in tot's death
October 24, 2009 | 11:08pmThe mother of a 4-year-old Brooklyn boy beaten to death was charged with the murder this evening along with her boyfriend, sources said. The tot died after collapsing in his...
Wandering 'Jane Doe' missing Wash. girl
October 24, 2009 | 11:00pmThe mystery of the amnesia-stricken Jane Doe found wandering near Times Square two weeks ago has been solved. The young woman has been identified as an 18-year-old from Washington State...
Yankees, Angels wait another day
October 24, 2009 | 10:46pmThe one scenario that made sense to the Yankees was a break in the weather, Game 6 of the AL Championship Series, and a champagne celebration. Bad scenario for the...
Yankees-Angels postponed; Pettitte will start Sunday
October 24, 2009 | 10:14pmHeavy rains and a brutal forecast forced Major League Baseball to postpone ALCS Game 6 until Sunday night at Yankee Stadium. First pitch is slated for 8:20 Sunday. If a...
Game 6 Postponed
October 24, 2009 | 10:03pmGame 6 of th:e World Series was postponed because of rain. Game 6 will now be Sunday with an 8:20 p.m. start. If there is need for a Game 7...
Swisher was in game 6 lineup
October 24, 2009 | 9:57pmJoe Girardi stayed with switch-hitter Nick Swisher instead of righty Jerry Hairston against Angels lefty Joe Saunders in the Yankees' Game 6 lineup -- but rain got in the way....
Swisher stays in game 6 lineup
October 24, 2009 | 9:56pmJoe Girardi stayed with switch-hitter Nick Swisher instead of righty Jerry Hairston against Angels lefty Joe Saunders in the Yankees' Game 6 lineup.“If we were going to play somebody out...
Gates open, rain in the forecast
October 24, 2009 | 9:51pmThe gates at Yankee Stadium opened as scheduled at 5 p.m. with the intention of playing ALCS Game 6 tonight.However, the weather forecast continues to predict rain up to and...
Gates open, rain in forecast
October 24, 2009 | 9:44pmThe gates at Yankee Stadium opened as scheduled at 5 p.m. with the intention of playing ALCS Game 6 tonight. However, the weather forecast continues to predict rain up to...
Custodian stabbed priest 32 times: Cops
October 24, 2009 | 9:28pmThe longtime janitor of St. Patrick’s Church was arrested today and has confessed to viciously stabbing a beloved Catholic priest 32 times in the face, neck and back after an...
Beirut's 2-ton salvo in 'hummus war'
October 24, 2009 | 8:59pmBEIRUT — Lebanese chefs prepared a massive plate of hummus weighing over two tons Saturday that broke a world record organizers said was previously held by Israel — a bid...
Teen arrested in murder of girl, 9
October 24, 2009 | 8:21pmST. MARTINS, Mo. — Juvenile authorities said today that a 15-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of a 9-year-old central Missouri girl found in the woods...
Another O visit for Corzine
October 24, 2009 | 8:18pmPresident Barack Obama will soon return to New Jersey to help boost Gov. Jon Corzine’s re-election campaign. The Nov. 1 visit — two days before voters go to the polls...
Whitehouse.gov goes 'open'
October 24, 2009 | 7:58pmWASHINGTON — A programming overhaul of the White House’s Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it’s a snooze — you won’t notice a thing. The online-savvy...
Top Ten Giants Stadium Soccer Moments
October 24, 2009 | 7:02pmIf the Garden is the World's Most Famous Arena, and Yankee Stadium baseball's grandest cathedral, Giants Stadium has been the mecca for soccer in this country. It's hosted more big...
Hundreds mourn slain priest
October 24, 2009 | 6:05pmCHATHAM, N.J. — A crowd of about 300 parishioners gathered for morning Mass at St. Patrick’s Church today, a day after their pastor was found slain in his clerical robes...
60 lashes for Saudi woman over 'sex' talk
October 24, 2009 | 5:25pmRIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi court today sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes who had been charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man...
Study: Cell phone cancer link
October 24, 2009 | 4:54pmA groundbreaking, $30 million study into cell phones has found a link between long term use and brain tumors. The World Health Organization is about to reveal that its decade-long...
O declares H1N1 a 'national emergency'
October 24, 2009 | 4:30pmWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and...
Fire trucks crash, 13 Bravest hurt
October 24, 2009 | 2:30pmTwo firetrucks racing to a call of gas leak collided in Brooklyn this morning, causing one to flip over and the other to crash into a front yard, sending 12...
Pettitte can pitch Yanks to another World
October 24, 2009 | 8:57amSo now it falls on the left arm of Old Reliable. Andy Pettitte won the final game at the old Stadium last year, the AL East title clincher in The...
Joe must ponder sitting Nick’s slumbering bat
October 24, 2009 | 8:54amManagers constantly are walking the tightrope in the postseason between going with what worked during the 162-game schedule and having to react to how fast winter can come if you...
BCS Buster
October 24, 2009 | 8:50amThe best argument for a college football playoff is continued BCS failure. Here’s how to root for chaos this week: Because it seems more likely with each week that the...
Heisman watch
October 24, 2009 | 8:49amEach Saturday, Heisman Trophy voters Tim Sullivan and Lenn Robbins will break down three candidates, who may or may not have impressed the week before: TIM TEBOW, QB, FLORIDA TIM...
UConn will be playing to honor fallen mate
October 24, 2009 | 8:45amCONNECTICUT at WEST VIRGINIA Noon, ESPNU LINE: West Virginia -71⁄2 • O/U: 461⁄2 EYES ON: The entire Connecticut team; West Virginia RB Noel Devine ANGLE: The University of Connecticut, the...
NJ priest slain in church home
October 24, 2009 | 8:45amA Catholic priest who ministered to the poor from his wealthy New Jersey parish was found beaten to death in his church rectory yesterday — possibly by someone he was...
Dolphins could have Saints covered
October 24, 2009 | 8:35amThe hotline to Las Vegas takes you inside Week 7 of the NFL season, telling bettors what direction the lines are moving, and by how much. SAINTS-DOLPHINS Saints –61⁄2: “The...
UConn hopes to win one for slain teammate
October 24, 2009 | 8:31amThe University of Connecticut held a candlelight memorial service for Jasper Howard on Wednesday night. Teammates, strangers, professors, joined hands and shed tears as the hot wax dripped. Words were...
Time to kiss that asset goodbye
October 24, 2009 | 8:29amThere's nothing wrong with Steve Smith, despite what his fantasy numbers might lead you to believe. But the same can’t be said about his QB, Jake Delhomme, and the results...
Karate kid kicking challengers to curb
October 24, 2009 | 8:25amLyoto Machida is a mystery the rest of the UFC is trying to solve, without success thus far. Fifteen fighters have challenged Machida and his karate-based style of mixed martial...
Breeders' selection still up in air
October 24, 2009 | 8:23amThe deadline is fast approaching for the owners of Zenyatta to fish or cut bait on where they plan to run her in the Breeders’ Cup in two weeks. Zenyatta...
Girls soccer roundup: Spellman advances to semifinals
October 24, 2009 | 7:28amCardinal Spellman moved a step closer to a return trip to the division final. Shannon Molloy, Christina Quinones and Nasya Sandy each scored goals for Spellman in a 3-0 win...
Turnovers do in Hayes in lopsided loss to Stepinac
October 24, 2009 | 6:12amKwamayne Davis’ helmet was still on and his mouth piece still in as he tried to stay out of the rain outside the locker room at SUNY Maritime. It seemed...
Band-aid
October 24, 2009 | 5:49amIf your band is among the hundreds of acts that have been in town since Tuesday for the CMJ festival, you’re surely hoping all the big record execs will remember...
Gotham's ghoulish houses
October 24, 2009 | 5:47amGhosts have been spotted around Gotham since more than 400 years ago, when it was a tiny colony — and in recent years, it’s become quite clear that even the...
Marshmallow mash-up
October 24, 2009 | 5:47amPeeps lovers, rejoice: Your day for justice has come. Dedicated marshmallow warriors will march on the Brooklyn Banks skate park today in the city’s first-ever “Marshmallow Civil War,” organized by...
What's up?
October 24, 2009 | 5:28amTODAY JUST DUCKY: “Make Way for Ducklings” fans can practically see the characters in that classic picture book tapping their wee webbed feet to Daniel Pinkwater’s score in this Lolli-Pops...
A haunting we will go
October 24, 2009 | 5:22amWhether your taste runs to the tame or the terrifying, there’s a Halloween event out there for you. And you don’t have to wait ’til Oct. 31, either. Here are...
Scare tactics
October 24, 2009 | 5:06amNearly 150 years after her death, Eliza Jumel’s eyes gaze intently out of an old oil painting. They seem to follow people around as they walk through her Harlem Heights...
Grin & scare it
October 24, 2009 | 5:01amWe don’t need an excuse to dress crazy and stay out late on a Saturday night, but a week from tonight, it’ll also be OK to wear a mask and...
This is a hit
October 24, 2009 | 4:54am"The King of Pop is dead, long live the King of Pop” should be Michael Jackson’s epitaph. Since his death in June, Jackson has achieved one of the most remarkable...
Girls volleyball roundup: Browns lead Edison to Bryant upset
October 24, 2009 | 4:35amKelly Brown and Nicole Brown each had eight kills apiece to lead Edison to a 19-25, 25-17, 27-25 upset Friday of first-place and previously undefeated Bryant in PSAL Queens A8....
The ex-files
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amLast night, MTV aired "My Super Psycho Sweet 16," a spoof of slasher flicks. Tonight, MTV's corporate sibling, CBS, airs a "48 Hours Mystery" episode featuring another killer. But this...
Dancers soar like acrobats but also fall
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amIt's hard to dislike Deborah Colker's work, but it's harder to take it seriously. "4 x 4," Colker's razzmatazz work at City Center, is far more imaginative than a cruise...
'Treatment' returning
October 24, 2009 | 4:00am"In Tr eatment" is returning to HBO, the network says. The series, starring Gabriel Byrne as shrink Paul Weston, will begin filming its third season in New York early next...
95 kid-flu deaths
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amATLANTA -- The government's latest figures show swine flu is widespread across the country and increasing in almost every state. It's now caused at least 95 children's deaths since April....
'Kozy's kid wins post amid favoritism furor
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amPARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy's 23-year-old son was elected yesterday to the board of the organization that runs France's most important business district, after a dramatic withdrawal of his bid...
Training tragedy
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amNORFOLK, Va. -- An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into a Navy ship during a training exercise, killing one service member and sending eight to the hospital, the Navy said...
Slam at EPA stall
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -- A federal court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to finally do what it was supposed to have done seven years ago -- start slashing toxic emissions at...
Deadly crash in East Village
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amA Queens woman riding in a minivan was killed in a collision in the East Village yesterday in which both drivers claimed to have had the green light. Jacqueline Franklin,...
A CDC second-hand smokescreen
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amSix years ago, when I asked an epidemiologist about a report that a smoking ban in Helena, Mont., had cut heart attacks by 40 percent within six months, he thought...
Holy booty found
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amLONDON -- A mystery is gripping Britain's religious community: Just how did a treasure-trove of rare medallions and coins collected by a former archbishop of Canterbury end up at the...
$$ race war mars Kodak
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amROCHESTER, NY -- Some former Eastman Kodak workers objected yesterday to a proposed $21.4 million settlement of two suits that say the company paid its black employees less than their...
NYPD Daily Blotter
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amBrooklyn *Close call. A BB clipped a rookie cop's hat outside a Bedford-Stuyvesant housing project -- leading to the arrest of a sniper and several of his friends, police said....
Teen gang busted in celeb burglaries
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amA celebrity-obsessed group of rich reform-school girls allegedly waged a yearlong, A-list crime spree through the Hollywood Hills -- ripping off millions in cash and jewels from mansions of such...
Sour taste from a 'sweet' tax
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amTHE ISSUE: Gov. Paterson's hints about revisiting the idea of imposing a new tax on sugared soda. * People don't want government using the tax code to tell them what...
Facebook tweak of week
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amWorried about missing a birth announcement, or details on what your portly uncle had for lunch? Facebook is tweaking its home page yet again in hopes of making it easier...
'Smart' food labels nixed
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amThe Smart Choices nutrition labeling program, created voluntarily by nine large US manufacturers, is halting after federal regulators said such systems could mislead consumers, officials with the labeling group said...
Herculean tusk
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amALBANY -- Officials at the New York State Museum say a mastodon tusk found in the Hudson Valley may be the largest ever found in New York. The tusk, measuring...
Just plane ridiculous
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amTheir tale just doesn't fly. Experts aren't buying two pilots' claims that a "heated discussion over airline policy" made them block out 74 minutes of desperate radio messages, screeching alarms...
Raging singer faces music
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amAn opera singer took the stage with a new cast of characters yesterday -- heading to court alongside drug dealers, drunks and vagrants to face charges she exploded into a...
Private equity firms milk ailing buyout
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amHenry Kravis may be trying to save the largest buyout in history from imploding, but that hasn't stopped his firm from charging the failing company fees for the effort. According...
HS sleuth lays trap, nails rat
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amAn aspiring forensic scientist successfully busted a thieving hall monitor at her Long Island high school by setting up a surveillance camera and catching her in the act. Tiana Rapp,...
Blind eye to cheating: Phillips' lax judgment
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amTHE ISSUE: ESPN correspondent Steve Phillips' messy affair with a 22-year-old co-worker. * From the Kennedy brothers to Hugh Grant, Eliot Spitzer, Peter Cook and a whole lot of lesser-known...
Grim past of 'gran killer'
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amThe teen accused of firing the stray bullet that killed a 92-year-old former religion teacher was portrayed yesterday as a troubled kid whose problems began at the age of 2...
Royal orphans in gay art war
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amIt was a modern fairy tale: Two orphaned babies, born in grim London poverty, are adopted by one of Italy's richest families and grow up as prince and princess in...
The Dems' tsunami
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amOne of the most macabre images I've ever heard de scribed came in the after math of the Asian tsunami in 2004. Before the tidal wave crashed on shore, beachgoers...
Comic's O coke boast
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -- Comedian David Cross says he snorted cocaine while sitting just yards from President Obama at this year's White House Correspondents Dinner -- putting Obama in closer proximity to...
Young life of crime: Preteen mugger busted
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amA 12-year-old boy was under arrest and two barely older accomplices were being sought yesterday on suspicion of mugging two kids even younger than they are, police sources said. The...
A Tishman default in LA
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amA Tishman Speyer Properties LP office park in California where reclusive aviator Howard Hughes once worked is the subject of a foreclosure lawsuit saying the owners failed to repay $154...
ObamaCare's Medicaid explosion
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amNew research predicts that ObamaCare will swell the Medicaid pop ulation by nearly 16 million individuals. This proposed legislation would welcome nearly one in five Americans into government-run medical welfare....
Bam's brass
October 24, 2009 | 4:00am'His father was a great friend of my father." The refer ence to William Ayers' fa ther was how Mayor Richard M. Daley began his defense of Barack Obama for...
Goldman claim a shame
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amGoldman Sachs' motivation in filing a claim against fallen Lehman Brothers is coming under scrutiny. Despite telling Wall Street that its credit exposure to Lehman was, in the words of...
ME tech caught 'dead-handed'
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amWhat a ghoul! A Medical Examiner's employee was busted for allegedly ripping off cash from a death scene. Mortician technician Dena Edwards was caught in a sting operation allegedly stealing...
Palin touts NY 'right' candidate
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amALBANY -- Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has endorsed a third-party candidate over the GOP-backed contender in New York's congressional special election, saying her own party has abandoned its...
GOP rival rips Corzine donations to Dem crook
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amA day after a New Jersey political boss was convicted of corruption, Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie's campaign yesterday hammered Gov. Jon Corzine for donating more than $400,000 over the...
B'klyn pol accepted charity $$
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amA Brooklyn state assemblyman has improperly received wads of campaign cash from nonprofit groups to which he's doled out pork-barrel money, The Post has found. Brian Colton, a Democrat, got...
Tax credit drives home-sale spike
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amRacing to complete their purchases before a tax credit for first-time owners expires, homebuyers pushed sales up last month by the largest amount in more than 26 years. After jumping...
Drone rangers vs. pirates
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amNAIROBI, Kenya -- US military surveillance drones -- complete with missile-carrying capability -- have begun patrolling the waters off Somalia in the latest tactic against rising piracy. The recent end...
Dow closes below 10K on profit taking
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amWall Street's comeback buzz is turning flat. Despite a parade of earnings surprises and a promising stock rally all week, the three major stock indexes slid into negative territory for...
Dispute over CIT claims
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amCIT Group Inc. and investor Carl Icahn dueled over the best way to salvage the 101-year-old lender, with the company offering a debt exchange that the billionaire says "would put...
Business briefs
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amFruit falls Dole Food shares fell 22 cents, or 1.8 percent, to close at $12.28 in their debut on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday after its IPO priced below...
UConn-slay 'Net threats
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amSTORRS, Conn. -- Witnesses to the killing of University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard are being threatened with violence if they come forward with evidence, campus police say. Maj....
Shoot! Cop guns don't work
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amThe NYPD's entire fleet of Highway Patrol officers was pulled from their posts and rushed to a Bronx firing range yesterday because of a malfunction discovered with their shotguns, sources...
Soupy Sales, 1926-2009
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amLong before "Saturday Night Live," "The Daily Show" and David Letter man, there was Soupy Sales -- the hippest show on television. For those of the Baby Boomer generation, and...
Corzine, cash & corruption
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amNew Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine really has no shame. Just hours after Bergen County's longtime Democratic machine boss, Joseph Ferriero, was convicted Thursday on three federal felony corruption counts --...
Tale of two towns
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amBrooklyn Rep. Ed Towns must have gotten lost in Albany -- and stuck in the middle of the state Legislature. How else to explain why Towns locked GOP members of...
Thompson plastered with 125G sign fine
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amIt looks like Bill Thompson is going to easily win the write-in vote over Mayor Bloomberg -- unfortunately for him, the people doing the writing are city Sanitation agents. The...
Rachael now city's lunch lady
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amSo long, sloppy Joe. Hello, Rachael Ray. The city public schools' menu just got a healthy dose of star power -- a lunch recipe created by TV chef Rachael Ray....
Carter's chutzpah
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amAs another wave of job cuts hit Condé Nast yesterday -- this time at the Fairchild division -- Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter was being blasted by his colleagues for...
Icahn to Yahoo!: My job is done
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amBillionaire Carl Icahn, who joined Yahoo! Inc.'s board last year after threatening a proxy fight, stepped down from the position, saying the company no longer needed an activist director. Icahn...
106th US bank fails
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amUS regulators closed more than 100 banks in a single year for the first time since 1992, signaling the financial crisis hasn't abated for lenders struggling with mounting losses tied...
Phillips' mistress yanks restraining order in deal
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips played "Let's Make a Deal" with his young mistress and alleged stalker -- convincing her to drop a restraining order against him that wildly claimed...
'Killer' ma's 'guess' game
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amA Bronx mom accused of killing one kid and injuring another six in a drunken car crash on the Upper West Side repeatedly taunted the children in the minutes before...
No Kerik 'spring'
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amDisgraced former top cop Bernard Kerik will remain behind bars for now, an appeals judge ruled late yesterday. Federal Judge Reena Raggi denied an emergency motion to spring the ex-NYPD...
Bernie bargain Benz
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amBernard Madoff's Mercedes-Benz went for a steal. The Ponzi crook's wheels sold for a bargain price of $14,250 yesterday -- nearly $6,000 less than the Kelley Blue Book top estimate...
The beaming Bam bunch
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -- The White House yesterday released a stunning family portrait of the Obamas snapped by legendary and nearly bankrupt lenswoman Annie Leibovitz. Taken Sept. 1 in the Green Room...
Roman facing 2 years: Swiss
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amZURICH, Switzerland -- Jailed film director Roman Polanski could face two years in prison if extradited to the United States, the Justice Ministry said. The ministry said it would reach...
Balloon boy mom: 'A hoax'
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amBalloon boy's mom has admitted her family's story is full of hot air. Mayumi Heene, who with her husband sparked a national panic when they said their 6-year-old son, Falcon,...
'Abused' B'klyn boy, 4, dead
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amA 4-year-old boy died at his Brooklyn home yesterday, and signs point to child abuse, sources said. The mother of Jayden Lenescar told cops she found him unconscious in their...
'Newark' Nets get called for traveling
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amBrooklyn. East Rutherford. Newark. Nets players said they really don't care where they play their games. If you wanted to throw in Cabo San Lucas or the Greek islands, maybe...
Sunday's Best
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amThe experts make their picks: THE LINE GREG GALLO STEVE SERBY MARK CANNIZZARO PAUL SCHWARTZ TIM BONTEMPS RICO Jets 6 (34½) RAIDERS (Sunday, CBS, 4:05) Jets Raiders ★ Jets Jets...
The Post Line
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amNFLTomorrowFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogGIANTS 7 7 (46½)CardinalsJets 7 6 (34½)RAIDERSChargers 4½ 4½(44) CHIEFSColts13½13½(45) RAMSBENGALS 2½ 1 (42½)BearsPackers 8 9 (41) BROWNSSTEELERS 5 5½(45½)Vikingsx-Patriots14 14½(45) BuccaneersTEXANS 3 3 (44) 49ersPANTHERS 7 7...
Rangers' Higgins out to end 0-fer
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amIf, before the Rangers' season started, there had been a comparison between Chris Higgins and Enver Lisin that said 10 games into the year one would be scoreless and the...
Stopping Cardinals receivers is the Giants catch-phrase
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amCorey Webster said he thinks the only thing worse than having a defensive performance like the one the Giants did a week ago in New Orleans would be to let...
Hixon making impact
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amDomenik Hixon probably made more of an impact than he would have liked on kickoff returns last week, his first game back in that role after a knee injury had...
Phils set to travel 'World' for Yanks or Halos
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA -- Phillies players each had a sheet of paper in their lockers yesterday with the team's travel plans for Monday. "If Anaheim, 1:30 flight. If New York, 4:30 train,"...
Manuel: Pedro starting to look like option in Series
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA -- Pedro Martinez saw reporters heading his way yesterday and announced he wasn't doing interviews until the next time he pitches. Asked when that would be, he said: "I...
Hamstring injury will sideline Cotchery again
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amThe Jets had hoped to get Jerricho Cotchery back from his hamstring injury in time to play tomorrow in Oakland, but the starting wide receiver will miss his second straight...
Stadium shutters soccer
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amWhen the Red Bulls host Toronto tonight (7:30 p.m., MSG2, WADO 1280 AM), it will not only be their season finale, but the curtain call for soccer at Giants Stadium....
If we've learned anything, it's that players decide title
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amThere are lessons to be learned from all of the managerial maneuvering and counter-maneuvering and counter-counter-maneuvering in this AL Championship Series, a checkerboard of moves and counter-moves and counter-counter moves...
Knicks keep Gallinari, Chandler
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amThe Knicks exercised their options on forwards Danilo Gallinari and Wilson Chandler for the 2010-11 season, keeping two of the team's key building blocks under contract for what management hopes...
Jones chugging past the 30 barrier
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amConventional wisdom holds that NFL running backs start heading downhill after the age of 30. But Thomas Jones, 31, who rushed for a club-record 210 yards in Sunday' 16-13 overtime...
Hondo: No Bo dough
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amHondo missed the boat and the beat with Bo Diddley in the seventh at Belmont yesterday, causing a slight up-tick in the deficit to 1,825 durens. Tonight, he'll risk 10...
Eiland: Fixing Phil takes only minor adjustment
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amIt's hard to understand why Phil Hughes threw Vladimir Guerrero that 1-2 fastball after the Angels slugger had just swung and missed so miserably at the curve. Guerrero still didn't...
Scioscia: Lackey likely in a Game 7
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amThe chances for rain and thunder at game time tonight are 90 percent. Should Game 6 be postponed until Sunday night and the Angels then win it, the forecast for...
Angels plan Yankee upset
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amANAHEIM, Calif. -- Like any other tourists, the Angels will be in the city this weekend to see a show. It's called "Shock the World." "I promise you, that's the...
Jeter & Co. not worried with ALCS back in Bronx
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amWhat, the Yankees worry? The crushing Game 5 loss on Thursday? No big deal. Memories of the 2004 ALCS collapse to the Red Sox? That was a long time ago....
Sports shorts
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amNFL: Redskins endorse Zorn The Redskins front office capped a week of high drama with an unexpected vote of confidence in coach Jim Zorn. "Jim Zorn is the head coach...
Devils on road to record
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH -- The team record the Devils chase tonight would truly stamp them as a force, again, because they will have to beat the league's best team to achieve it....
Alex the Great has Isles wary
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amThe Islanders lost plenty of games last year, but Kyle Okposo said the defeats to Washington stood out so much that he still remembers them. More significantly, he recalls what...
Girardi stands by decision to sub A-Rod
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amImagine this: Extra innings of Game 5 in the ALCS, tie game, and Alex Rodriguez's spot in the lineup is due up. But instead of the slugging All-Star A-Rod stepping...
Weird but true
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amAn idiot with money walks into a bar . . . Massachusetts police are hunting for two men who robbed a woman after she walked into a Springfield pub and...
Old-school Rutgers drills Army
October 24, 2009 | 4:00amWEST POINT -- The Rutgers football program eschews the luxury of some fancy high-tech training machinery, such as a grip machine. This is an old-school program, and coach Greg Schiano...
Ford makes B/Q playoffs for first time in eight years
October 24, 2009 | 3:59amMarta Koziorzebska had a very logical question when she was approached by the Bishop Ford administration about taking over the school’s girls volleyball program. “How can I be a coach...
PSAL Class B boys soccer bracket breakdown
October 24, 2009 | 3:56amTeams (in seed order): Martin Van Buren, Thomas Edison, Manhattan Center, Bard, Thomas Jefferson, Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy, Beach Channel, Queens Vocational Tech, New Utrecht, Prospect Heights, George Washington, School of the...
'The Rock' is back on his feet
October 24, 2009 | 3:35amAs Rhakim Carmichael was taken by ambulance from the field at Grand Street Campus to Elmhurst Hospital on Sept. 14, one prevailing thought came to him. “That my season might...
Nets Win, Hell Freezes Over
October 24, 2009 | 2:35amCoach Lawrence Frank said there would be a lot of different looks. And there were. But none was stranger than the final scoreboard that showed the Nets as 110-88 dunk-a-thon,...
PSAL Class A boys soccer: Columbus bracket breakdown
October 24, 2009 | 12:29amNew York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at the teams in Columbus’ bracket and the Explorers’ chances of getting back to the PSAL Class A semifinals....