November 9, 2011
US Department of Education to investigate Penn State sex abuse scandal
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The US Department of Education announced Wednesday it would launch an investigation to determine whether Penn State officials violated a federal law requiring universities to disclose...
Joe Namath takes on LIRR, Metro North smoking
Joe Namath wants to snuff out smoking on the Long Island Railroad and Metro-North. The legendary Jet and a host of other New York notables — like former Yankee Tommy...
Longtime Andy Rooney friend goes into cardiac arrest at his memorial
Andy Rooney's college roommate went into cardiac arrest Wednesday at a memorial for the legendary CBS essayist and despite an initial report that he had died, was revived and rushed...
New Jersey will start sports betting push Monday
ATLANTIC CITY -- Hoping to avoid a long, costly legal battle over whether New Jerseyans should be able to bet on sports, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. said he will...
This week's calendar, Nov. 10 to 16
Thursday, Nov. 10 Real Estate Tax Seminar Friedman LLP will host "Tax Tips and Incentives in New York’s Real Estate Market" which approved for two CPE credits in the area...
Rachel Griffiths vs Elizabeth Marvel in 'Other Desert Cities'
If you've been lucky enough to see "Other Desert Cities" in its two incarnations -- at Lincoln Center a few months ago and now on Broadway -- you've played the...
Reyes takes tour of new Marlins stadium
MIAMI -- The Marlins gave free agent shortstop Jose Reyes a tour of their new ballpark Wednesday, team president David Samson confirmed on a Miami radio program. “To be [interested],...
Ohio poll worker accused of trying to bite a voter turns himself in
CLEVELAND -- A poll worker accused of trying to bite the nose off a voter at a Cleveland polling station has turned himself into authorities, WEWS-TV reported Wednesday. James Williams,...
McKenzie reacts to Penn State scandal
Kareem McKenzie, the only Penn State alum on the Giants roster, on Wednesday called the mess that’s unfolded at his alma mater “a sad situation for all involved.’’ “There are...
Giants' McKenzie reacts to 'sad situation' at Penn State
Kareem McKenzie, the only Penn State alum on the Giants roster, on Wednesday called the mess that’s unfolded at his alma mater “a sad situation for all involved.’’ “There are...
PBA delegates storm out of meeting after requesting their boss step down over tix-fix scandal
Angry Bronx police union delegates stormed out of a meeting today after demanding the ouster of their leader over his handling of the NYPD ticket-fixing scandal, sources told The Post....
Dow tumbles nearly 400 points on Italy worries
Stocks suffered their biggest one-day decline since mid-September as a surge in Italian bond yields and concerns about the eurozone pummeled bank stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 389.24...
Federal judge appoints former prosecutor to ensure fair minority treatment in FDNY
A federal judge today appointed a former federal prosecutor to serve as a special bias monitor for the FDNY to help ensure minorities in its ranks are treated fairly. Mark...
DUMBO's ClockTower Building gets Esquire 'bachelor' treatment
Move over hipsters, there’s a new type of guy coming to Brooklyn. Billed as the “Ultimate Bachelor Pad,” the penthouse of the ClockTower Building in DUMBO has been decked out...
Kovalchuk skips Devils' optional practice: report
Ilya Kovalchuk, who is recovering from a lower body injury, did not participate in the Devils' optional practice Wednesday. NorthJersey.com reports.Kovalchuk has missed the prior two games and is trying...
Rangers' Rupp out 4-6 weeks after surgery; Stralman cleared: report
Rangers forward Mike Rupp will be out 4-6 weeks after successful arthroscopic surgery on his knee Wednesday, NorthJersey.com reports.Rupp has missed the prior six games with what was a meniscus...
Fire in NYC hospital basement under control
A blaze in the basement of Montefiore hospital in the Bronx has been brought under control by firefighters. The Fire Department of New York says all visible flames have been...
Big East costs St. John's top recruit Gathers: report
Changes in the Big East have played a part in St. John's losing one of its top incoming basketball recruits.ESPN.com reports forward Ricardo Gathers of Louisiana has rescinded his commitment...
Seton Hall signs 4 to women's team
Seton Hall women’s basketball program has gotten national letters of intent from four players. Coach Anne Donovan announced Wednesday the Pirates signed forward Sidney Cook of Parkton, N.C., wing player...
Coroner says no 'hard evidence' Gatti was murdered
MONTREAL -- A Quebec coroner says there is no “hard evidence” that boxer Arturo Gatti was murdered, but criticized the way Brazilian authorities handled evidence in the case. Jean Brochu...
Keys to a Giants win at San Francisco
With the buzz surrounding the Giants’ 24-20 win over the Patriots dying down, it is time for Tom Coughlin’s team to turn its focus to the 49ers.Any time you beat...
USS Cole bombing suspect arraigned in Guantanamo Bay military court
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The alleged mastermind of the suicide bombing of the USS Cole was arraigned Wednesday at a US military court in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, the highest-profile military...
Burress, McKnight sit out Jets practice; DeVito back
Jets wide receiver Plaxico Burress and running back Joe McKnight did not practice Wednesday during the portion of practice open to the media.Burress fought through a back injury last week...
Jury pens deadlock note in parking-punch trial; judge orders them back on Monday
The parking-punch jury is stuck -- but it's not over yet. A Manhattan jury says it can't agree on a felony assault verdict for Oscar Fuller, a muscle-bound electrician who...
Cashman repeats, Yankees want starting pitching
Yankees GM Brian Cashman hasn’t talked deal yet with the agents for C.J. Wilson, Mark Buehrle or any of the other premier free-agent pitchers available, but he doesn’t like the...
Penn State president Spanier on way out: report
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State University president Graham Spanier is expected to resign or be voted out by the university's board of trustees at some point Wednesday. According to...
NY misses budget deadline, cites economic turmoil
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has missed the first deadline aimed at creating a transparent and on-time budget, with no new date scheduled. It’s the first miss for the...
Trucker didn’t brake in NY bus crash
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A tractor-trailer driver had ample time to avoid rear-ending a slow-moving tour bus on an upstate New York highway but failed to brake and died in a...
Feds charge 7 in Internet ad-fraud case
Seven people, including six in Estonia, have been indicted in a massive online-advertising fraud scheme that allegedly used infected computers to drive traffic to advertising websites in order to enrich...
Opening statements in corruption trial for Councilman Larry Seabrook underway
Prosecutors say a veteran New York City Councilman funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for charity to benefit himself, his girlfriend and family. His lawyer says the government has...
Michael Jackson's deathbed up for auction
LOS ANGELES -- Michael Jackson's deathbed will be put up for auction along with paintings and furniture from the rented mansion where the late King of Pop spent his final...
First-ever test of nationwide emergency system completed with confusion
The US was analyzing the results of its first-ever test of a nationwide emergency alert system Wednesday, after some confusion when the message apparently failed to broadcast over some television...
Obama administration delays imposing Christmas tree tax
WASHINGTON -- Fir-get it. The Obama administration has reversed itself, saying it is no longer interested in imposing a 15-cent tax on pine trees in order to pay for a...
Obama hasn't said he'd bomb Iran for a reason
Bloomberg's Jeffrey Goldberg has an interesting analysis of why Israel shouldn't strike Iran and why the US maybe should. His concluding point is this: Israel won't strike if they think...
Greek PM steps down, pledges support for unnamed replacement
ATHENS -- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou formally stepped down as leader of his debt-wracked country Wednesday and pledged support to his unnamed successor in a televised farewell address. Papandreou's...
Nicks runs on side at Giants practice; Bradshaw sits out
Tom Coughlin in the morning said he thought receiver Hakeem Nicks would participate in Giants practice at least in a limited capacity, but Nicks on Wednesday did not. That is...
Red Bulls announce team awards
The Red Bulls announced the winners of their team awards today. Captain and forward Thierry Henry was voted the team’s Most Valuable Player, forward Luke Rodgers was named Newcomer of the Year,...
Cain accusers plan press conference to detail accusations
WASHINGTON -- Karen Kraushaar, a former National Restaurant Association (NRA) employee who complained of sexual harassment by Herman Cain when he was head of the trade association, wants to hold...
Torre says no one has asked him to manage: report
Though there are several high-profile managing jobs available, don't expect Joe Torre to get one.Torre told ESPN.com Tuesday he has not been approached by the Red Sox, Cardinals or Cubs,...
NBA owners, players meeting again
Facing an afternoon deadline to make a deal or face a worse one, NBA players are meeting with the league in an attempt to end the lockout. Day 132 of...
Cain accuser filed complaint in next job
WASHINGTON — A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment, saying...
Bloomberg defends 'law-abiding' Wall St. protesters
A week after denouncing Wall Street protestors for making life hell for residents and businesses in Lower Manhattan, Mayor Bloomberg this morning vigorously defended the protestors as "generally" law-abiding citizens...
Red Bulls: We need to get more physical
Coach Hans Backe and GM Erik Soler have wanted their Red Bulls to play attractive possession soccer, but learned the hard way in MLS grit trumps glitz and toughness trumps...
FCC providing "free" Internet but only if you're poor
The FCC is announcing a terrific new program but only if you're poor. According to the Washington Post, the Federal Communications Commission is "vexed" that all the citizens who can...
Penn State coach Paterno to retire at end of season
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has decided to retire at the end of the season. Paterno has been besieged by criticism since former defensive coordinator...
Town clerk in upstate same-sex marriage flap re-elected
LEDYARD — A town clerk from the Finger Lakes region who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because of her religious beliefs has won her re-election race. Longtime...
Toyota recalls 550,000 vehicles, mostly in the US, over crankshaft problem
TORRANCE, Calif. -- Toyota's American branch announced Wednesday that it is recalling approximately 283,200 Toyota and 137,000 Lexus vehicles to replace a possible faulty crankshaft pulley on the V6 engine....
Adobe halting Flash for mobile devices, a final vindication for Steve Jobs
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In a stunning move, software developer Adobe is reported to be throwing in the towel when it comes to getting multimedia platform Flash to run on...
Arrest of Khadafy's son Saif only a matter of time, ICC chief says
THE HAGUE -- The arrest of Moamar Khadafy's son Saif al Islam is just a matter of time, the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday. "The question...
Italy's departing Berlusconi feels 'liberated,' compares himself to Mussolini
ROME -- Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said he was feeling "liberated" after pledging to stand down following the loss of his parliamentary majority and compared his situation to that...
Unhappy Carlos Tevez goes AWOL from Manchester City
MANCHESTER, England -- Carlos Tevez risked further punishment from Manchester City on Wednesday after returning to Argentina without permission. The wantaway striker flew to his homeland Tuesday after choosing not...
Yelling, cajoling during Conrad Murray jury deliberations
LOS ANGELES — There were contentious moments -- including yelling and cajoling -- during two days of deliberations before reaching the guilty verdict in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor,...
Former Juventus director Moggi sentenced to five years in prison for match-fixing
NAPLES, Italy -- A Naples court Tuesday sentenced former Juventus director Luciano Moggi to five years and four months in prison for his part in a match-fixing scandal that rocked...
Yemeni al Qaeda group to release Awlaki message to Americans
ADEN, Yemen -- An extremist group in Yemen announced Wednesday that a film will be produced documenting the life of the slain US-born cleric Anwar al Awlaki, and it will...
Newark-bound flight from Tel Aviv makes emergency landing in Israel
TEL AVIV -- A Continental Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Newark was forced to make an emergency landing at Ben Gurion airport Wednesday after the pilot saw smoke coming...
Hit the road! Occupy guys on march to DC
About two dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters have started a two-week walk from New York to Washington. The activists left 's Zuccotti Park on Wednesday. Police on scooters flanked them...
Family-oriented Mohamed finds home at George Mason
Whatever Reana Mohamed does is about family. The Mary Louis senior saw her college scholarship search as not just quest to fulfill a dream of her own and validation of...
CHSAA Class A boys soccer semifinals preview
CHSAA boys soccer beat writer Marc Raimondi takes a look at the Class A semifinals, set for Wednesday and Thursday at home sites. SCHEDULE Wednesday 3 p.m. – LaSalle @...
X-FACTOR: Xaverian, Binckes two wins away from elusive CHSFL 'AAA' tile
Senior wide receiver Sean Binckes will bring you into the world of the Xaverian Clippers football team, one of the best in the city. The highly recruited Binckes and the...
INSIDE THE CHSFL: Only 'AAA' teams remain in 'AA' playoffs
The CHSFL Class AA playoffs are looking a little more like the ‘AAA’ consolation prize tournament this week. All four teams who play their regular-season games in the ‘AAA’ defeated...
Bishop Loughlin loses two more star players to public schools
Add Bishop Loughlin to the list of CHSAA boys basketball teams ravaged by transfers to public schools over the last four years. Loughlin seniors Travis Charles and Joel Angus have...
St. Edmund basketball player dies after collapsing during tryouts
A St. Edmund Prep student collapsed and died Saturday during tryouts for the school’s junior varsity boys basketball team, The Post has learned. Jose Rodriguez, 15, went to take a...
Bart's Tuesday Trenchwork: NFL wrapup and a look ahead
4-DOWN TERRITORY 1. The Patriots insist they don’t plan to just up and release Chad Ochocinco the way they did Albert Haynesworth this week, but both sides are running out...
D.J. spins yet another comeback, leading Bayside into semis
The stage was set once again for D.J. Glazer to shine. “Ironic, isn’t it?” said Glazer. “For this to happen three times is really weird.” In the 77th minute of...
Sal-vation: Pipia returns to score golden goal for McClancy in quarters
Sal Pipia probably couldn't have scripted it any better. The Monsignor McClancy senior captain thought that his season – his career – was over last month when he dislocated his...
PSAL Class A girls soccer playoff roundup: Science rallies past LIC in overtime, Beacon tops Tots
Bronx Science never felt like it was going to lose, but that belief was hard to hold onto down a goal and the time ticking away. “We had a bunch...
Color Nicky dazzling
Hue ain’t seen nothing yet! Singer Nicki Minaj could make a peacock jealous last night as she dons a rainbow at the Versace for H&M Fashion Show at Pier 57...
Koutsounadis' PK sends Francis Lewis by MSIT, into semifinals
Jeovani Paredes' second-half gameplan was simple. The Francis Lewis coach told his team to get the ball to star senior midfielder Gena Koutsounadis and she was going to find a...
Business briefs
Help wantedNearly 3.4 million jobs were posted in September, the Labor Department said yesterday. That’s the most since August 2008.Priceline popAfter third-quarter profit and sales topped estimates, shares of Priceline.com...
Some of his best friends are shopkeepers
Now you can add bigoted comments to the list of challenges facing Carsten Kengeter, the head of UBS’s investment banking operation.The high-powered, German-born Swiss banking head apologized in recent days...
The Italian job
It’s not just the women of Italy who are cheering the downfall of Italy’s creepy prime minister and notorious sex scoundrel Silvio Berlusconi; global markets gave a shout of abbondanza!...
Hearst supersizes HGTV Magazine rollout
HGTV Magazine, the first new magazine introduced by Hearst Magazines since David Carey took the reins as president in mid-2010, looks like it is a runaway hit right out of...
Upbeat Universal
Universal Music Group is continuing talks with Citigroup today in hopes of settling a host of issues that have hindered a deal for EMI’s recorded-music business. Vivendi Group’s Universal, which...
Pack sells first stock since ’97
The Green Bay Packers, the only publicly owned franchise in US sports, are preparing to launch their fifth stock sale next week, according to a document published by the State...
TWC eyes Dodgers TV
Time Warner Cable is considering bidding for the rights to broadcast Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games, according to a person familiar with the situation.The Dodgers’ TV rights through 2013 are...
Building owners talking trash
Building owners are quietly gearing up for contract talks and a possible strike by the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, whose city commercial contract ends at midnight on Dec....
Dumb CEO tricks: Rival bought MF Global shares
Jon Corzine’s got some competition for the role of shady Wall Street chieftain. Interactive Brokers Group boss Thomas Peterffy may have landed himself in his own vat of hot water...
Q3 a loser for Morgan
Morgan Stanley posted trading losses on 31 days in the third quarter, the most since 2008 as markets fell amid concern that Europe’s debt crisis may spread.Traders generated at least...
Cough up $92M, judge orders Raj
A judge cited the “huge and brazen” nature of the crime yesterday as he imposed a record $92 million civil penalty on a billionaire hedge fund boss snared in the...
Geeks rule!
Geeks emerged from their basements yesterday to do one thing -- shop. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” -- a blockbuster video game that depicts US soldiers reclaiming New York...
Wells Fargo $37M fine
Wells Fargo has agreed to pay at least $37 million in a lawsuit that alleges several banks rigged bidding competitions to win business from state and local governments.Banks help municipalities...
Bibi-bashing as Iran plots
‘I cannot bear Netanyahu. He’s a liar,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy told President Obama last week. Obama seemed to agree, saying,“You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal...
Time to pay the ‘pipe’r
A visit to the “The People’s Court” helped flush a top city plumber’s career down the toilet. Elaine Ward -- who was one of only three women in New York...
Good drill hunting
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration cautiously offered up more areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska’s coast to oil and gas drilling yesterday. But the proposal didn’t go...
Stealth strip club bared
Red Hook neighbors say they were promised a nightclub -- but wound up with the “Bada-Bing.” The operator of the Paris Cabaret Club on Commerce Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood...
Rap great Heavy D dies at 44
Heavy D, a New York-raised rapper who soared to fame as one of hip-hop’s early stars, collapsed and died at his Beverly Hills condo yesterday. He was 44. The artist,...
Boy, 4, fights for life after getting shot in Bronx
A 4-year-old boy was fighting for his life last night after being shot in the chest during an apparent robbery in The Bronx, law-enforcement sources said. The boy, identified by...
Landlord bloodbath
A Queens landlord slaughtered his mother-of-four tenant with a machete and then used it to kill himself yesterday after the two couldn’t resolve a rent dispute, authorities said. “I think...
Cuomo taps narc prober
Albany The Big Apple’s special narcotics prosecutor is losing a legal eagle to the Cuomo administration. Gov. Cuomo yesterday tapped Terence J. O’Leary to head the state Health Department’s Bureau...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** A man with a lengthy rap sheet was stabbed to death in a Harlem apartment building, police said yesterday. Christopher James, 37, was found at 9:35 p.m. Monday...
Qns. HS ‘bully’ lawsuit
A Queens woman whose daughter attempted suicide after she was mercilessly bullied at school is suing the city.The 16-year-old, a student at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Secondary School for Arts...
It’s bye buy in Conn.
The next renters’ market can be found along the leafy cul-de-sacs of Greenwich, Conn. With the finance industry still in turmoil, sales of multimillion-dollar homes in the bucolic hedge-fund capital...
I woke from a stroke -- gay!
A hulking, beer-guzzling rugby jock suffered a stroke in a freak training accident -- and woke up gay. Chris Birch was a straight, 266-pound Welsh bank worker who liked sports,...
DA: No spit, Sherlock!
Angry scofflaws had better think before they spit. Law enforcement is mulling a plan to use DNA samples to prosecute expec-torating hotheads who hock loogies on transit workers. Brooklyn District...
‘Wake’ kin raise stink
A Bronx funeral home turned a grandfather’s wake into a horror show by not properly embalming or handling his body, his distraught family claimed yesterday.In papers filed in Bronx Supreme...
MTA finally gets it: ‘Patience’ wears thin
The MTA will no longer lecture straphangers about patience every time there’s a train delay. After a decade of complaints from the public, the transit agency finally realized its infuriating...
Mike to DC: You just don’t ‘debt’ it
WASHINGTON -- Mayor Bloomberg rode into Washington yesterday and delivered his solution to the nation’s crippling debt crisis -- or, at least, he told Congress and the White House how...
Correction
The Post erroneously reported yesterday the total amount of money that customers bet at the Aqueduct racino during its first nine days of operation. The Post incorrectly reported that bettors...
Pension fraud is dead: Liu
The dead are no longer cashing their city pension checks. Comptroller John Liu is reporting that his auditors didn’t find a single case last year where a retirement check was...
Shoot! ‘Mob house’ thief flees
He almost got rubbed out. A burglar yesterday broke into the Staten Island mansion that once housed whacked mob boss Paul “Big Paul” Castellano -- and narrowly avoided being shot...
AG’s ‘Furious’ regret
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder expressed regret yesterday to the family of a slain federal border agent as he underwent pointed questioning by Senate Republicans about the flawed Operation...
Worker killed in B'klyn building collapse horror
Two floors of a Brooklyn condo development collapsed as workers were pouring concrete yesterday, trapping five hardhats under tons of rubble, killing one of them, authorities said. The deadly Brighton...
Thief nailed at Zuccotti
Just another day at Zuccotti Park. A raging lunatic was body-slammed yesterday when he tried to swipe medication and a jar full of cash from a plumber who was taking...
A win for BamCare
An appeals court yesterday refused to pull the plug on a major part of ObamaCare.The conservative-leaning US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a lower-court ruling that...
Spelling has slots of luck
Like she really needs the money! Filthy-rich TV widow Candy Spelling reportedly won $90,000 in one pull of a Las Vegas slot machine, adding some Sin City chump change to...
$1M suit tangles the web
It may never be greater “just to be nominated” for an award. While actors and directors usually trot out that old chestnut to hedge their bets against an awards-night loss,...
Bubba longs for the NBA
Former President Bill Clinton, an Arkansas acquaintance of NBA Players Association President Derek Fisher, accidentally stumbled upon yesterday’s key union meeting at a Midtown hotel. Clinton, hawking his new book,...
Color Nicki dazzling
Hue ain’t seen nothing yet! Singer Nicki Minaj could make a peacock jealous last night as she dons a rainbow at the Versace for H&M Fashion Show at Pier 57...
Cain accuser ‘went up & hugged him’
If Sharon Bialek was at all intimidated or afraid of presidential wannabe and alleged groper Herman Cain at a Tea Party gig last month, she sure didn’t show it, one...
Cain says no way he harassed No. 4
He did not have sexual contact with that woman -- much less remember her name or even her face. In a remarkable press conference yesterday, Republican presidential contender Herman Cain...
UN proof of Iran on nuke warpath
The UN’s nuclear watchdog said for the first time yesterday that Iran is conducting secret experiments to build a nuclear weapon. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had uncovered...
Jersey’s winning bet
Bet on it: Garden State residents want some sports-gambling action! New Jersey voters last night passed a referendum calling for legalization of sports betting at state horse tracks and Atlantic...
Ohio union victory
Voters in Ohio last night overwhelmingly rejected a new state law that had restricted collective-bargaining rights for cops, firefighters, teachers and other public employees.The legislation, which would have allowed the...
Dem takes Suffolk race
Democrat Steve Bellone was elected the new Suffolk County executive last night as voters overwhelmingly chose the Babylon town supervisor over Republican Angie Carpenter. Bellone had 57 percent to 43...
Penn State set to remove Paterno due to child sex scandal
Joe Paterno is history. The winningest coach in college football will be sacked by a child-sex scandal involving a former Penn State assistant that has rocked one of the nation’s...
Sad flicker from beacon of integrity
You always knew it was going to end badly for Woody Hayes, long before the fabled Ohio State football coach took a slug at a Clemson nose guard named Charlie...
The Euro’s death will send gold soaring
Europe is approaching the end game. Credit markets and other governments know what the continent’s leaders won’t admit: The euro is failing. Gold, more than the dollar, is set to...
Copping to a graffiti tag
The Issue: Former NYPD cop Steven Weinberg’s double life as a graffiti artist. *** While “Paint It Blue” (Nov. 6) got it right, the sub-headline unfortunately refers to this miscreant...
Free speech without limits -- even if we all suffer?
The Issue: Mayor Bloomberg’s concerns about the First Amendment rights of the OWS movement. *** See what happens when you let things fester (“Mayor’s Free ‘Dumb’ of Speech,” Michael Goodwin,...
The ASPCA’s dead horse
Everyone knows there’s no sense in beating a dead horse -- but the ASPCA just found a way to ride one. When a carriage horse named Charlie keeled over dead...
Read Andrew’s lips
“You are kidding yourself if you think you can be one of the highest-taxed states in the nation, have a reputation for being anti-business -- and have a rosy economic...
Joe Frazier, 1944-2011
It was both Joe Frazier’s good luck and misfortune to live contemporaneously with Muhammad Ali. Good luck, because the three epic heavyweight battles between them were among the most memorable...
NY’s grim gantlet of graft
The federal corruption trial of ex-City Councilman Larry Seabrook got under way this week as the case of Assemblyman William Boyland went to the jury in the same Manhattan courthouse...
A pack of scandal addicts
Iran is going nuclear. Europe is melting down financially and politically, with the prime ministers of Greece and Italy resigning within days of each other. The White House chief of...
‘Venus,’ if you will, ‘fur’ a dominant force
There’s a divan in “Venus in Fur,” and it’s pretty versatile. At first it’s a potential casting couch -- after all, the play takes place during an audition in which...
Merman’s marital memories
Ever since Kim Kardashian dumped Kris Humphries after 72 days of marriage, Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine has been talking about his own short-lived nuptials to the great Ethel Merman. Borgnine...
Lukewarm ‘Lear’
Having your eyeballs pulled out -- an act infamously featured in “King Lear” -- is horrific. Yet in the Public Theater production that opened last night, the scene barely registers....
Shock & Law
It's lust at first sight when young FBI director John Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio, in a daring and astonishing performance) gets hot and bothered while interviewing hunky recent college graduate...
Devils defeat Hurricanes on another Henrique game-winner
That's Henrique. As in Magique. Too slow two months ago, rookie Adam Henrique is giving the Devils that little something that makes all the difference -- goals, four in three...
Rangers trade for Capitals prospect Bouchard
If a team is going to take a flyer on a young player who has yet to make it, best that it be on a player with skill. This is...
Fishermen to lawmakers: Population data's a 'fluke'
If you were under the impression that regulations for summer flounder will be more relaxed for next season, you would be wrong. Because of obsolete NOAA harvest statistics and questionable...
St. Edmund player dies
A St. Edmund Prep student collapsed and died Saturday during tryouts for the school’s junior varsity boys basketball team. Jose Rodriguez, 15, went to take a water break with fellow...
Red Bulls admit problems with chemistry
After an underachieving season, the $13 million Red Bulls talked about tactics and trades and technique. But the fact is they struggled not because of ability but attitude, with a...
Sports Shorts
Nfl: Patriots release HaynesworthThe Patriots took just half a season to decide they didn’t need Albert Haynesworth.Two days after he sat out most of the second half against the Giants,...
Aqueduct Analysis
1. 6f; $28,000; cl($14,000); 3up HAVE YOU EVER speedster cuts back in distance and drops to lowest claiming level of career.. SPEIGHT OF HAND drops after winning as the favorite...
Tomorrow’s Aqueduct Entries
All horses appear in post position order FIRST-1m; $42,000; cl($35,000); 3up PN Horse, Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Rigby(L),120 J Alvarado 1-1-3 Odintz 6-1 2 Red Leader(L),120 J...
Parx Racing Charts
November 8th, 2011 Clear And Fast.©2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-5f; $23,000; clm; 3up; (f&m)Off: 12:26. Good. bid 1/8, drove clearTime: 22.39, 46.62, 59.56.Trainer: Ramon PreciadoWinner: CH F, 4, by Forest...
Affrunti's Parx Racing Grade
FIRST-1m; $24,000; cl($10,000); 3up; (f&m) 4-Storm Rubi 3-1 1-Got It Covered 4-1 3-TmpestaTempo 5-2 2-Dan's Lst Stand 7-2 6-Stunningly 8-1 5-Exotic Tap 10-1 SECOND-7f; $22,000; cl($7,500); 3up; (f&m) 1-No Angel...
NBC will show Kentucky Derby preps
NBC will provide live coverage of six major prep races for the Kentucky Derby over four consecutive weekends starting next March. The series will be highlighted by a broadcast featuring...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYNov. 9THUNov. 10FRINov. 11SATNov. 12SUNNov. 13MONNov. 14TUENov. 15RangersOttawa7:30TV- MSG NetworkESPN 1050 AMNO GAME Car.7:00MSGESPNNO GAME NO GAMENO GAMEN.Y.I.7:00MSGESPNIslandersNO GAMEColo.9:00MSG+WRHUNO GAMENO GAMEVan.9:00MSG+WRHUNO GAMEN.Y.R.7:00MSG+ WRHUDevilsNO GAMENO GAMEWash.7:00MSG+WFANWash.7:00MSG+WFANNO GAMENO GAMEBost.7:00MSG+2 WFANSunday, Nov. 13Sunday,...
The Post Line
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Today's Sports on the Air
Basketball7 p.m.2K Sports Classic: Lehigh at St. John's ESPN2, WBBR (1130 AM)9 p.m.2K Sports Classic: Duquesne at Arizona ESPN2Football8 p.m.Miami (Ohio) at Temple ESPNGolf8 p.m.Emirates Austrlian Open, first round GOLFHockey7:30...
Penalty-conscious Rangers play Senators tonight
It cannot be a coincidence the Rangers began to win in conjunction with reducing the number of penalties they were taking. The question, though, as the club seeks to extend...
Boxing remembers Frazier as more than Ali trilogy
LAS VEGAS -- Finally, it’s not Ali-Frazier: just Joe Frazier, starring in his own main event and taking the bows all by himself. It’s a pity it has taken death...
Frazier lived & fought with pride
As told to George Willis When I found out last week that Joe Frazier was sick, I wanted to go see him, but I was told that wasn’t necessary. And...
Giants' Tuck 'expected a little bit more' from Eagles
Giants defensive end Justin Tuck believes the rival Eagles are failing their chemistry class. “I think everybody expected a little bit more,’’ Tuck said yesterday on The Jim Rome Show....
Yankees won’t pay arm & leg for pitching
The Yankees concluded their scouting meetings last month with a clear itemization for the offseason, which was -- way above all else -- to retain CC Sabathia before he hit...
Yankees looking at Cuban outfielder
Yankees pitching guru Rick Williams’ arrival in Santo Domingo yesterday created a buzz throughout the scouting fraternity in the Dominican Republic that has been following the workouts of Cuban refugees....
Rap song reveals Reyes' free-agent feelings
So, what’s in a rap song? Perhaps, the key to Jose Reyes’ free agent future. While on hold waiting to speak with someone from Peter Greenberg and Associates, the agency...
If Reyes leaves Mets, Wright knows he could, too
David Wright has spent most of the offseason in Virginia, sheltering himself from the uncertainty surrounding the Mets’ future -- including his own, and Jose Reyes’. “You realize if Jose...
Giants at best in fourth quarter
What has been used as an indictment that the Giants aren’t good enough just might be the evidence needed to prove the Giants this time around will have the staying...
Jets fans need to pump life into MetLife this week
The Jets have called MetLife Stadium home for 15 months. But Sunday feels like opening night for their $1.6 billion digs in East Rutherford. When the Patriots take the field...
NBA players stand up to ultimatum
Your move, David. NBA players and their union exhibited a show of force yesterday in Manhattan and did not cave to David Stern’s ultimatum in rejecting the owners’ latest offer...
Egos getting in way of NBA labor deal
They were all there -- except for Carmelo Anthony who left early, possibly because he wanted a deal two weeks ago. Forty-two players strong surrounded union director Billy Hunter and...
Starr report
It's an O'Downer . . . Ratings for Rosie O'Donnell's "The Rosie Show" continue to plummet on Oprah Winfrey's struggling OWN cable network. For the week of Oct. 31, "The...
Less ‘Dancing’!
'Dancing With the Stars” host Tom Bergeron believes the dance show ought to pare back its schedule to one season per year from two. Ratings are down nearly 14 percent...
Sister act part 2
Three years ago, I went to Las Vegas and was surprised to see countless billboards promoting the sold-out shows of Toni Braxton, the hit-maker from the 1990s. Turns out that...
Jamie Lynn goes country
Jamie Lynn Spears has finally resurfaced. The former star of “Zoey 101” -- which ended after Spears got pregnant at all of 16 -- has popped up on a Nashville...
Talk show guests
WEDNESDAYTAYLOR LAUTNER, DAUGHTRY, MARTHA STEWART - Today, 7 a.m., Ch. 4TAYLOR LAUTNER - Live with Regis & Kelly, 9 a.m., Ch. 7BUDDY VALASTRO - Rachael Ray, 10 a.m., Ch. 7KEVIN...
Dad on arrival
Brooklyn rapper Brian “Astro” Bradley is determined to win “The X Factor” to prove his critics -- and especially his estranged father -- wrong. “My real dad wasn’t supportive,” Astro,...
Duggars plus 20
Now they need to rename the show ... again. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the stars of TLC’s popular “19 Kids and Counting,” are expecting one more bundle of joy....
Murray doc rushed to Friday
Michael Jackson’s final words were begging his doctor for a powerful sleep medication, Dr. Conrad Murray says in a documentary filmed during the manslaughter trial that ended Monday in his...
Getting hot in Chinatown
Anthony Martignetti is standing inside a cavernous subterranean space that was once the target of a major 2008 police raid. “We’re standing under Canal Street right now,” he notes, pointing...
Down on the corner
Rubber octopus with melon. Water bubbled in-house “the way they do at Per Se.” Headlights in our faces from the garage across the street. That was on a lonely August...
Weird but true
An upstate New York man accepted his wife’s weighty challenge -- and lost 198 pounds in less than a year. Jay Wornick’s wife proposed that they both slim down as...
Lavin back at St. John's practice, could coach game tonight
St. John’s coach Steve Lavin, who underwent successful cancer prostate surgery on Oct. 6, returned to practice yesterday. But his status for tonight’s game against Lehigh in Carnesecca Arena in...
St. Ray's Dingle finds right fit in Temple
Daniel Dingle spent the July live recruiting period playing at big events in front of hundreds of college coaches. He got to know a few of the faces well. The...
Devils edge Hurricanes 3-2
NEWARK, N.J. — Rookie center Adam Henrique scored at 16:41 of the third period to lift the New Jersey Devils to a 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday...
Sharpshooter Richards picks Manhattan
Just when Shane Richards figured his productive summer wasn’t going to net any results, Manhattan College came into the picture. And a month later, the Upper East Side native had...
Ohio voters reject Republican-backed union limits
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state's new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment. In a...
'COD: Modern Warfare 3,' vet vs. n00b trailer
Yes, folks, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" is officially in stores today. In case you're inexplicably on the fence about buying it, this extended version of the "The Vet...