February 20, 2010
Tiger Woods' caddie Steve Williams says he won't tolerate heckling
SYDNEY -- Tiger Woods’ caddie is talking more like his bodyguard. Steve Williams says he won't tolerate any heckling of his star player whenever the world's No. 1 golfer returns...
Spellman sees win streak snapped by Moore
The loss was as encouraging as it was disappointing for Cardinal Spellman. The Pilots had Moore Catholic, the defending Archdiocesan Class A champion, on the ropes, taking multiple small leads...
Barajas catches on with Mets
PORT ST. LUCIE — The Mets seemingly ended the debate on who will be their starting catcher today by signing Rod Barajas to a one-year contract, according to an industry...
NAACP elects its youngest chairman
The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman Saturday, continuing a youth movement for the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Roslyn M. Brock, 44, was chosen...
Vonn captures bronze in super-G
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Andrea Fischbacher won the women's super-G on Saturday to end Austria's anxious wait for its first Alpine gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics. The 24-year-old Fischbacher,...
Hip surgery derails Delgado for four months
TAMPA — Free agent Carlos Delgado underwent hip surgery on Wednesday and will miss at least four months, his agent, David Sloane, told The Post. Delgado, 37, had been working...
Serena pulls out of Garden showdown
The Garden’s March women’s tennis extravaganza in nine days underwent a crippling blow when Serena Williams pulled out today, claiming she has an undisclosed leg injury from her Australian Open...
NY man trapped in garbage compactor for 3 hours survives
FARMINGTON, N.Y. — Surgeons almost had to amputate the arm of New York man to free him from the grip of a garbage truck compactor. The 49-year-old Geneva man was...
Polanski wins best director at Berlin film fest
Veteran film-maker Roman Polanski won the Silver Bear for best director at the Berlin Film Festival Saturday for his new political thriller "The Ghost Writer," the jury announced. Polanski missed...
Philly woman killed by pitbulls
A 38-year-old Philadelphia woman was killed Saturday morning by her family’s pitbulls. The identity of the woman has not been released, but police have told Fox 29 that she was...
Serena won't play at Garden in March
Serena Williams has withdrawn for next month's tennis event at Madison Square Garden due to injury.Williams will not play in the BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean Cup on...
Report: Damon signs with Tigers, 1 year, $8M
Johnny Damon finally has a team: the Detroit Tigers.ESPN.com reports Damon and the Tigers have agreed on a one-year, $8 million contract, ending the former Yankees outfielder's long search for...
Newest Knick in lineup tonight
Tracy McGrady will be in the starting lineup in his Knicks debut tonight against Oklahoma City. Coach Mike D’Antoni said he doesn’t know what the complete lineup will be, but...
Jury awards millions to LI man hit by squad car
A federal jury in Brooklyn has awarded at least $16.6 million to a Long Island man who lost a leg when a police officer ran him over with his patrol...
NJ man fatally burned after dropping lit cigarette in vodka
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — A central New Jersey man who was severely burned when he accidentally ignited vodka he had spilled on himself has died from his injuries. Toms River...
Facebook yanks tribute page to Joe Stack
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Facebook has banned a New York radio host’s tribute page for Joe Stack, the pilot who rammed his small plane into a federal building in Austin, Texas...
Grand jury indicts suspect in NJ cop shootings
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — A man who allegedly opened fire on four police officers who were executing a no-knock search warrant at his home is facing a 34-count indictment. Jaime...
Whitney F-bomb
She was all smiles for the cameras, but pop diva Whitney Houston's mood quickly soured when her luxury hire car was not waiting when she arrived in Australia, The Sunday...
Passengers 'tossed from seats' during turbulent flight over Alaska; 16 hurt
Sixteen people aboard a U.S. passenger aircraft were injured Saturday morning after it ran into turbulence over Anchorage, Ala., while it was traveling from Washington D.C. to Narita, police and...
Ole Miss football player collapses, dies during first day of practice
University of Mississippi football player Bennie F. Abram died after collapsing during the first day of team workouts, according to reports Saturday. The team's trainers said Abram, 20, was having...
Fmr. Secretary of State Al Haig dead at 85
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, a four-star general who served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own, died Saturday of...
Gov launches election bid at Hofstra rally
David Paterson launched his campaign for a full four-year term as New York’s governor Saturday with a combative campaign speech that mocked recent reports about his job performance and personal...
Today in Vancouver
Don’t-miss event Apolo Ohno, Shani Davis and Lindsey Vonn all go for golds tonight (8-11:30, NBC), but it’s Ohno in the 1,000-meter short-track final who shouldn’t be missed. Already a...
Walsh: Challenge to add LeBron
One day after he opened the door wide for LeBron James by clearing enough cap space for James to bring along a star companion, Knicks team president Donnie Walsh said...
Reactions to Tiger's apology
'I agree with a lot of guys that were out here. Just more concerned about when he’s going to get back on the golf course, not necessarily everything in his...
Buddy Begay knows Tiger's pain
Notah Begay III, a PGA Tour player and college teammate of Tiger Woods at Stanford, was among the 40 or so people in the clubhouse at TPC Sawgrass yesterday when...
Tiger's statement leaves golf future in doubt
Let's be honest. If you’re a fan of golf or a fan of Tiger Woods the golfer, all you really wanted to know from his public statement yesterday was when...
Speed is new ‘pop’ for outfielders
In the first of a six-part series to get you prepared for your fantasy baseball draft, Roto Files analyzes outfielders. Next week: middle infielders. With sluggers at every position on...
Plenty of free agents on defensive line
The second in a three-part series on NFL free agents. Next week: linebackers and defensive backs. Because of a deep draft and the rule change requiring six years of service...
Checking in with Rangers and Devils in Vancouver
The Post’s Dan Martin tracks yesterday’s best Olympic performances by Rangers, Devils and Islanders: PATRIK ELIAS Czech Republic Helped seal the Czechs’ 5-2 win over Latvia last night with a...
Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays
HUTCHESON Gulfstream Park, eighth race. Grade 2. Purse: $150,000. Seven furlongs, 3-year-olds. Post: 4:37 p.m. LOWDOWN: A Little Warm has never raced beyond six furlongs, but unlike most of his...
St. John's looks to Storm out of basement
Ever since St. John’s was upset in its first home Big East game of the season by Providence, the Red Storm has been running up league debt the way a...
NEC looks to dodge the Big Dance’s opening act
Mike Deane doesn’t pull any punches or beat around the bush. And he’ll be the first one to tell you he’s not much of a tap dancer. So it should...
Finally, a good old-fashioned Cold War of words between U.S. and old rivals
VANCOUVER — Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes! This is exactly what we’ve been missing! This is exactly what we’ve been searching for since Ronald Reagan — clearly on a...
Resurgent Miller takes silver in super-G
VANCOUVER — It was a classic Bode Miller run — reckless, exhilarating and, above all else, fast. But Miller’s super-G run was not quite fast enough. The 32-year-old from New...
St. Ray's edges Jefferson in OT
St. Raymond’s closed out the regular season in fine fashion, rallying to defeat Thomas Jefferson, 78-74, in overtime Friday night in The Bronx. The Ravens led 37-27 at the half,...
CHSAA Class A intersectional first round preview
CHSAA boys basketball beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down the Class A intersectional first-round games being played at Bishop Ford and Mount St. Michael on Saturday. Here’s the schedule: At...
Is 3-D nail art going too far for fashion?
I’m a major clothes horse, but glitzy manicures have always seemed excessive and impractical. As a Post reporter at Police Plaza, I have to type on a keyboard with scum...
Flesh dance
Great dancers are great athletes. That’s why “Kings of the Dance,” running through tomorrow at City Center, is practically an Olympics in tights. Dancing separately and together, these great performers...
Farrell roars past Iona Prep, into CHSHL 'A' championship series
Inspiration was aplenty for the Monsignor Farrell hockey team Friday night at Abe Stark Rink on Coney Island. It could be found in a robust partisan crowd in the stands...
Get buff in man squeeze
Spanx, the company long famed for squeezing in girl parts with its control-top tights, is now expanding its line to include T-shirts that hide a man’s stomach. Spanx’s new “cotton...
New York moms fight over strollers vs. slings
Hey moms, are you still pushing your child away from you in a heartless stroller? Or are you carrying your Mini-Me in one of those over-the-shoulder sling devices — no...
Is there a solution to the PSAL's girls basketball seeding issues?
In the wake of the PSAL changing its Class AA girls basketball seeding Thursday, the entire process has come under scrutiny. League director Donald Douglas said he and his colleagues...
Lewis players react to rollercoaster week
It was a real wakeup call. Well, maybe more like a wakeup text. Early Monday morning, Ayana Duncanson looked down at her cell phone and saw a message from Sabrina...
William Shatner to star in Twitter-inspired pilot
Twitter sensation "S**t My Dad Says" is becoming a CBS pilot with William Shatner set to play the larger-than-life dad at the center of it all. The pilot will be...
Lifetime weep show
Ever notice how women in Lifetime and Hallmark movies are always forced to return to the small towns they escaped from -- only to learn that everything they needed in...
Instrumental in blues history
In the blues, a guitar can be as famous as the man who played it. B.B. King has Lucille, the curvy hollow-bodied Gibson electric he caresses in concert. Clapton calls...
Out of Robbins nest
New York City Ballet's "All Robbins" starts ballet and ends Broadway -- and it all goes down so easy. The ballet number's been a hit for four decades. "Dances at...
911 'wrong button' fatal
The NYPD operator who sent an ambulance to the wrong borough while a 6-year-old boy was dying of cardiac arrest mistakenly hit "the wrong button" on the dispatch computer, officials...
Nuclear countdown
The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency now not only admits that Iran's at work on nuclear warheads, but acknowledges that Tehran never stopped working on them -- despite no end...
Learning to love 'regime change'
With the International Atomic Energy Agency for the first time ever bluntly accusing the Islamic Republic of pursuing a military nuclear program, it's just as well that the Obama administration...
How 'eminent domain' makes blight
New York may be on the road to reining in its longtime abuse of emi nent domain. Could our politicians actually abandon their long-held belief that it's their responsibility to...
Slay prof: I did that?
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The Alabama university professor charged with fatally shooting three colleagues is remorseful but does not recall the shooting, her defense attorney said yesterday. Roy Miller said Amy...
Victims? We who listened to Tiger's speech
Remember when you were a kid and you were at a friend's and his parents started to scream at him and you didn't know what to do? Should you slip...
In rough waters, Bayh jumps ship
* Hats off to soon-to-be-ex-Sen. Evan Bayh (" 'The People's Business,' " Editorial, Feb. 18). His decision to walk away from the ugliness of what has become our government should...
Friends had 'no clue' IRS suicide pilot was bent on destruction
The crazed pilot who launched a kamikaze air attack on a Texas IRS office hid his anger so deeply, friends say they had no idea of his anti-establishment rage or...
Silvio's elex tooth pick
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has tapped a curvy dental hygienist whose only political experience is helping him smile again as a candidate for regional elections. Toothsome Nicole Minetti is...
Lautenberg, 86, in cancer fight
Frank Lautenberg -- at 86 the nation's second-oldest senator -- has curable stomach cancer, his office revealed yesterday. Doctors said the New Jersey Democrat would be treated for B-cell lymphoma...
CIA bombs Tali-big
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- CIA missiles struck the most feared Afghan Taliban faction, narrowly missing its commander and killing his brother in the latest blow to the insurgents, Pakistani intelligence officials...
Business briefs
Nevermind * GM yesterday hired former CEO Fritz Hen derson as a $59,090 a month adviser, while the man who replaced him, Chairman Ed Whitacre, urged em ployees to move...
'Kick-down' rap on Sean
LOS ANGELES -- Actor-director Sean Penn was charged yesterday with battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation with a photographer in the Brentwood section of LA last fall. Penn...
The excuse factory
Remember that great scene from the Oscar-robbed clas sic "The Blues Brothers"? Jake and Elwood are finally cornered by Jake's former fiancee. Jake left her at the altar with 300...
Tiger's mom lauds 'heart & soul' of wayward son
Tiger Woods' mom thinks her son will soon be able to put his life back together -- and he will do it the same way he grooves his swing for...
Judge mulls delay in Raj's SEC case
A federal judge yesterday reserved a decision on whether to delay a civil insider-trading case against Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam and others, so that criminal trials in the matter...
Paterson's park cuts will hit Long Island worst
ALBANY -- Long Island parks would be among the hardest hit by Gov. Paterson's latest effort to keep the state out the red -- with nearly a dozen in Suffolk...
Judge smacks Hiram's bid to nix Albany boot
Disgraced ex-state Sen. Hiram Monserrate got slapped down yesterday by a judge who refused to block his ouster from office for assaulting his girlfriend. The unprecedented ruling came as Monserrate...
Tiger as cagey as ever in 'act' of contrition
It was Reckoning Day for Tiger Woods. And the world's greatest golfer and husband-from- hell was painfully bloated. He looked glum, sour and fiercely defensive. He seemed angry just to...
Bloomy incensed by Ground Zero delays
Mayor Bloomberg vented over the stalemate at Ground Zero yesterday, saying he will not rest until development progresses. "I'm not going to leave this world with that hole in the...
Tiger a dharma bum
If Tiger Woods is looking for redemption, he chose the wrong religion. Many Buddhists "do not recognize a personal god, and there is not one to forgive you," said Angie...
Bam: You bet I love Sin City!
LAS VEGAS -- President Obama is setting the record straight -- he loves Las Vegas. Obama has irked Nevada officials with his references to Sin City while explaining how people...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Bronx * An identity thief used a stolen credit card to wire $1,800 in cash from a Morrisania Western Union to her own account, police said. Krystle Nelson, 24, used...
Penney's climbs on outlook
Shares of J.C. Penney surged nearly 7 percent after the retailer had a narrower-than-expected quarterly profit drop and predicted higher comparable sales this year. The Plano, Texas, department-store chain's business...
Tiger's mea culpa
Tiger Woods sure sounded sincere yes terday, fessing up in public to serial infidelities that have tattered his reputation -- and possibly his career. In fact, the world's greatest golfer...
Another WMD 'oops'
It was just about 10 days ago that Iran's bombastic president, Mahmoud Ahma dinejad, publicly boasted that Tehran had enriched uranium to nearly 20 percent purity -- a key development...
Do your duty, Shelly
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver ap pears poised to kill the scandal- scarred Aqueduct racino deal be cause of ongoing federal and state investigations. Silver seems to understand that handing the...
Feds assist Madoff aide
The numbers man who helped concoct Bernie Madoff's $60 billion swindle could get a big break in jail time for helping prosecutors unravel the tangled Ponzi puzzle. Federal prosecutors privately...
GOP report pans union ACORN link
WASHINGTON -- The Service Employees International Union works so closely with ACORN that it constitutes a "criminal conspiracy," claims a report prepared by congressional Republicans. The report calls the groups...
Apple: iPorn's in-app-ropriate
There's less iPorn on iPhone nowadays. Apple has pulled porn apps from its App Store, saying it no longer wants to offer "overtly sexual content." So say goodbye to "Wobble...
Fatal-joyride teen nabbed
The Bronx teen who killed a 12-year-old neighbor during a disastrous late-night joyride in his mother's SUV was arrested yesterday after a DNA match, sources said. Anthony Pontis, 15, left...
Jury nails firefighter in LI arson murders
A young volunteer firefighter who prosecutors say wanted to be a hero was convicted yesterday of murder for setting a fire that killed a mother and three of her children....
Foreclosure looms for One Madison Park
Glitzy residential development One Madison Park is being foreclosed on before it's even finished. A prominent commercial real-estate lender says the developers have defaulted on the mortgage and owe them...
Tiger's mistresses want him to apologize to them
Tiger Woods' speech made one of his mistresses want to bare her claws yesterday. Busty Playboy model Loredana Jolie Ferriolo -- who has been known as Woods' mistress No. 10...
Transit retirees' free pass costs $16M a year
What a waste! About 15,000 retired transit workers get a stunning free pass on the subways and buses for life, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday -- which at full value is...
Sorry Tiger's tail between his legs
The world came to a grinding halt yesterday to gape at Tiger Woods' extraordinary mea culpa -- as the golf superstar sheepishly apologized to his scorned wife, fans and sponsors...
Blazin'-mad firegals cryin' discrimination
A group of female New York firefighters is threatening to sue the FDNY, claiming the department doesn't just discriminate against minorities -- it continues to discriminate against women. The president...
Tiger's 'sorry' statement a real bogey: experts
When it comes to public apologies, Tiger Woods sliced this one right into the rough. From his wooden delivery to his sheepish schoolboy appearance, the world's greatest golfer was a...
Blackstone looks to sell ailing Gold Toe socks
Blackstone Group is hoping to drop its socks. Stephen Schwarzman's private-equity firm is testing the waters for selling its Gold Toe-Moretz business, despite the sock company's being in financial straits....
Court: Stanford stays in jail
Jailed Texas swindler suspect R. Allen Stanford unveiled his latest legal tactic to get free: Prosecutors failed to tell me what I've done wrong. So there. A year after charging...
New BofA CEO just escaped being axed
Bank of America's newly minted CEO Brian Moynihan was inches away from being booted by his predecessor Ken Lewis as the bank was gearing up to merge with Merrill Lynch,...
Tiger's marketing future in no man's brand
Tiger Woods shot a triple bogey yesterday when it came to enticing his corporate sponsors, sports marketing experts said yesterday. "It hurt him," said Kevin Adler, president of Engage Marketing,...
Back-door Dalai's not-so-grand exit
The Dalai Lama may have visited the White House, but he didn't go out the front door. The spiritual leader, who visited Washington this week, had a rather undignified departure...
Simon puts heat on General Growth
Simon Property Group yesterday stepped up its pursuit of bankrupt mall operator General Growth, suggesting the company's rejection was a tactic to stall a deal until after it emerged from...
Bloomberg pulls $5B from Quadrangle
Quandrangle Group yesterday suffered a humiliating blow when Mayor Bloomberg revealed he is pulling $5 billion of his money out of the firm's asset-management unit -- along with the people...
Slay confess but hung jury
Despite hearing three separate confessions, a White Plains jury deadlocked yesterday in the trial of a 68-year-old jeweler accused of killing his wife and burning her body in an oil...
Flock flogs Rev. Flake for rolling dice on Aqueduct slots
Some perplexed parishioners of the politically connected Rev. Floyd Flake -- who's leading the Aqueduct Entertainment Group's effort to install some 4,500 video slot machines at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens...
Fish out of water
Michael Phelps plans to go into early retirement. The 14-time gold medalist expects to make the 2012 Olympics in London his last and is looking to quit the sport completely...
Cops comb Park Slope for woman
Investigators climbed into Dumpsters and inched over rooftops yesterday as the search intensified for a Brooklyn woman who vanished two weeks ago after arguing with her boyfriend. Marion McCleneghan, 40,...
'Anthrax' doctor hated New York
He just wanted to tell New York to go stick it. The mad scientist believed to be behind the 2001 anthrax-letter attacks, which killed five people around the country and...
Aqueduct Analysis
Today's analysis. 1. 6 fur; $16,000; clm($12,500); 4up R LITTLE NUGGET drops in class after tiring this distance. KING BO BO drops in class after running evenly in allowance. MR....
The Post line
NCAA Basketball Favorite Line Underdog BOS. COLL. 3½ Unc Temple 8 ST. JOE'S MISSISSIPPI 6 Florida MINNESOTA 16½ Indiana PURDUE 12 Illinois WEST VA. 14 Seton Hall S. FLA. 5½...
Reyes willing to hit third in Mets' lineup
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Jose Reyes might want to adjust his goal of stealing 50 bases this season and start dreaming about RBIs. In hopes of lengthening the Mets' lineup,...
Either way, Knicks now worth watching
The Knicks finally have a sky full of cap space, glorious cap space. But is there enough room left over in the dream Tracy McGrady dreamed aloud yesterday for fans...
D'Antoni optimistic about Knicks' free-agent upgrade
Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni is plenty optimistic about what the summer will yield. Speaking for the first time since Thursday's deadline deals cleared even more salary cap room for the...
'Other guy' in Knicks trade could become starter
Sergio Rodriguez, the unexpected Spanish bonus in the three-team Tracy McGrady deal, may wind up as the point guard of the present -- and Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni is not...
Joba, Phil begin battle for final spot in Yankees rotation
TAMPA -- To say that Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes were measuring each other's pitches for velocity and location while throwing off side-by-side bullpen mounds yesterday would be wrong. Despite...
Ohno trying to reach 'seventh' heaven
VANCOUVER -- Funny, isn't it? It wasn't long ago that Apolo Anton Ohno was a curiosity, a fresh face in a fresh sport, a cutting-edge kid playing a game that,...
Manuel right to shake up Mets with order switch
PORT ST. LUCIE -- When you're talking about a club that hit only 95 home runs last year, size matters. Citi Field is too big to make into a home-run...
Shaun hopes to hit slopes
VANCOUVER -- One of the sports being considered as a new event for the 2014 Sochi Games is slopestyle. If it is added to the program, it might lure Shaun...
Pettitte glad he didn't retire
TAMPA -- Andy Pettitte doesn't know the circumstances surrounding Johnny Damon's failed contract talks with the Yankees, but Pettitte said he understands how close he came to not returning to...
Super-G medal in sight . . . if shin cooperates
VANCOUVER -- Lindsey Vonn went from the high of a gold medal to the low of a crash in her first two events of the Olympic Games. She returns to...
Olympic snowboarder sent home over risqué photo
VANCOUVER -- American halfpipe bronze medalist Scotty Lago is heading home from the Olympics after risqué pictures of him showed up on the Internet. Lago, who was awarded his bronze...
Yankees ecstatic Halladay jumped to NL
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Nei ther New York team participated in the offseason blockbuster that involved three teams and two Cy Young winners. Nevertheless the Yankees were big winners and the...
Sports shorts
GOLF: Casey cruising at Match Play In Marana, Ariz., Paul Casey won his third match in a row at the Match Play Championship 5 and 4 yesterday over Brian Gay....
Jagr leads Czechs past Latvia; Russia next
VANCOUVER -- Jaromir Jagr and his Czech Republic teammates set their sights squarely on Russia, without taking their eyes off pesky Latvia. Jagr and Tomas Plekanec both scored their second...
Sorry Nets embarrassed by Bosh-less Raptors
Tiger Woods spent 13 minutes saying "I'm sorry" yesterday. Big whoop. The Nets said "we're sorry" -- in the other sense of the word -- for most of 48 minutes...
PGA Tour still out in Woods as to star's comeback
The PGA Tour has been living in a state of flux since Tiger Woods crashed his Escalade into a fire hydrant late Thanksgiving night. And even after the apology by...
Curlers don't let U.S. down
Well, on behalf of a grateful nation I can say, without equivocation: It's about damned time, curlers. You may have heard: we got off the schneid yesterday. The American men's...
Cardinals LB Dansby a Giant option
With reports surfacing that the Cardinals will not place the franchise tag on linebacker Karlos Dansby for a third consecutive year, one of the NFL's best defensive players without a...
McGrady would be happy to play with two free-agent stars on Knicks
Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Chris Bosh -- not a bad starting Knicks trio next season. And yesterday, McGrady said the fantasy could happen. A bold, brassy McGrady said even if...
Plushenko rips Lysacek for playing it safe
VANCOUVER -- It's not quite Tonya and Nancy, but a figure skating feud has broken out at the Olympics. Men's silver medalist Evgeni Plushenko of Russia did not lose gracefully...
Haiti quake tragedy hits home for Berto
Andre Berto is a changed man. Changed for the better he says, changed after finding triumph in tragedy and valuing life after seeing death. The reigning WBC welterweight champion has...
U.S. ice dancers trail Russian duo
VANCOUVER -- World champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia won the compulsory portion of ice dance at the Vancouver Olympics. Their 9.0 interpretation mark helped give them 43.76...
Jagr hints at NHL return
VANCOUVER -- With a big grin and a quick start to his Olympics, 38-year-old Jaromir Jagr is flirting with a return to the NHL. The 18-year league veteran, who left...
Weird but true
It was Valentine's Day, but there was no love lost between these two. Georgia cops arrested a woman who went to a Waffle House in Pooler on Sunday and allegedly...
Nesterovic scores 16 in 106-89 Raptors' win
Rasho Nesterovic scored a season-high 16 points replacing a sidelined Chris Bosh and the Toronto Raptors showed off their depth without an injured All-Star in a 106-89 victory over the...
Girls basketball roundup: Dalton's Cecil nets 1,000th point
Senior Bonnie Cecil scored 22 points, including the 1,000th of her career, to lift Dalton to a 48-39 victory over visiting Riverdale in Ivy League girls basketball Friday night. Cecil...
Stuyvesant boys still reign over Manhattan
Stuyvesant doesn't have the ideal conditions to start a track and field dynasty. The school lacks its own track. During indoor season it works out twice a week at the...
'Terrific' Brodeur will start for Canada vs. USA
VANCOUVER -- Calm down, Canada. Take a day to collect your nerves. Stop analyzing and overanalyzing. It’s OK to debate line combinations — especially who should be playing right wing...
Original 'AA' girls hoops seeding done incorrectly
The PSAL girls basketball seeding committee didn’t use the correct criteria Saturday when it met to decide the Class AA playoff bracket, league director Donald Douglas said in a Thursday...
Matsui arrives at Angels camp
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Hideki Matsui is looking forward to a fresh start with the Angels. The 35-year-old joined the Angels after seven seasons with the Yankees by signing a one-year,...
Vipers girls continue to rise with Manhattan indoor win
Health Professions has been on the down side of the cycle it is now enjoying. It has finished second numerous times the last few years at the borough championships, but...