January 29, 2012
'Twisted': Jury finds Afghan family guilty in honor killings
KINGSTON, Ontario — A jury on today found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described...
Oops! 76 Vassar hopefuls wrongly told they were accepted
Dozens of applicants to Vassar College were mistakenly told they had gotten into the school when they checked a website that had been set up for students applying for early...
Chicago man expected hug, is stabbed instead
CHICAGO -- A Chicago man was hospitalized this morning after being stabbed by a man he thought was giving him a hug. Police said the 24-year-old victim, who was not...
Beijing boy killed in escalator horror
BEIJING -- A nine-year-old boy died instantly after he got stuck in an escalator at a Beijing department store as horrified shoppers looked on, Chinese state media said on Sunday....
Nets guard Brooks 'not worried' about time off from Achilles
Rookie guard MarShon Brooks, who has missed three games with a sore left Achilles tendon and is a game time decision for the Nets against the Raptors tonight, says he...
Djokovic wins Australian Open in longest final
MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic wore down Rafael Nadal in the longest Grand Slam singles final ever, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after 5 hours, 53 minutes to...
Colo. girl jumps out of car driven by her mom, is killed by oncoming traffic
DENVER — A 17-year-old Colorado girl died after jumping out of her mom's moving car straight into the path of oncoming traffic on a highway just outside Denver. Catrina Fox...
WATCH: Oakland cops use tear gas on Occupy mob, arrest 300
OAKLAND, Calif. — Dozens of police maintained a late-night guard around City Hall following daylong protests that resulted in 300 arrests. Occupy Oakland demonstrators broke into the historic building and...
Gingrich struggles to stop surging Romney in Florida
MIAMI — Republican Newt Gingrich struggled to halt surging rival Mitt Romney's momentum today, accusing him of launching false attacks as polls showed Romney widening his lead two days before...
Game 21: Raptors at Nets
Raptors (6-14) at Nets (7-13)Game Time: 6:00 p.m.Venue: Prudential Center, NewarkTelevision: YES NetworkNets expected starting lineup:PG Deron Williams: 19.4 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 8.6 apgSG Anthony Morrow: 12.9 ppg, 2.8 rpg,...
No Woods comeback as Rock wins Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Robert Rock held his nerve Sunday to hold off U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship for...
Fire that blinded drivers and led to 10 deaths on Fla. highway 'human-caused'
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The smoky brush fire that blinded drivers along a dark Florida highway and sparked a series of crashes that killed 10 people this morning was either started...
Oscar Watch: 'Artist' notches Directors Guild trophy
As if there were any doubt left that "The Artist'' will romp on what promises to be an extraordinarily dull Oscar night, Michael Haznavicius won the feature film directing award...
Sundance 2012: 'Beasts,' 'Surrogate' lead in prizes
My two favorite films I saw at this year's Sundance Film Festival fared extremely well at last night's awards ceremony in Park City. Benh Zeitland's 'Beasts of the Southern Wild''...
'The Artist' wins feature film prize at Directors Guild Awards
LOS ANGELES -- The almost silent, black and white French film "The Artist" continued its dazzling awards season success at Saturday night's Directors Guild of America Awards, with director Michel...
Big third quarter powers slow-starting Nazareth past Point Boro
Brianna Butler’s assessment of Nazareth’s opening two quarters was simple and to the point. “In the first half they were staying with us because we weren’t playing any defense,” the...
Kennedy Challenge notebook: South Shore falls to Neptune in OT
On two separate occasions South Shore had a chance to take total control of the game against Neptune. Each time the Vikings gave it back. “We keep teams in the...
Fordham Prep vaults over competition, wins boys Mayor's Cup title
It was an all-Fordham Prep final in pole vaulting and only a tremendous personal record was going to give Sean McEvoy a victory. “Thirteen feet, nine inches is the highest...
Dunn, Clinton girls take home NYC Mayor's Cup track title
In a meet that lasted nearly six hours and featured thousands of laps around The Armory’s track, it was a mere two points that separated a relieved winner and an...
Girls basketball roundup: Carey pours in career-high 43 to lead Hill past Tottenville
The final tally surprised everyone, even Kelsey Carey herself. “I usually score 20,” the St. Joseph Hill junior forward said. “I thought I was having another game like my average....
Lewis starts fast, seniors close out Curtis
The script was about to be the same as too many other games for Francis Lewis this season. The Patriots started fast, but saw a big lead dwindle to just...
Garden State of Mind: Former Rice star Johnson excelling for St. Ben's
A part of Melvin Johnson wanted to be in The Bronx on Saturday afternoon for the big Boys & Girls-Cardinal Hayes showdown for New York City bragging rights. It was...
Defense, Division I duo lead Moore in pounding of undermanned Molloy
Moore Catholic refused to be bogged down by a slow start Saturday. After struggling to break through offensively in the first quarter, the Mavericks sharp shooters turned it on and...
If Ben told the truth
If the Federal Reserve chief wanted to be more transparent on Wednesday, then this is what Ben Bernanke LLC (Limited Liability Chairman) should have said: The FOMC will keep Fed...
Bonus question: Can I pay for dry cleaning?
Scads of Wall Streeters are scrambling to brush up on their personal finance skills after finding out their bosses are capping their cash bonuses at a paltry $125,000 to $150,000.Instead...
Turning the white stuff into crisp green
Does the thought of shoveling ice and snow leave you cold and miserable? Dread not. There’s a nifty device that can save you the trouble.HeatTrak, a Paterson, NJ-based company, manufactures...
The week's winners and losers
WINNERS JAMES GORMAN Morgan Stanley CEO looks to be lead underwriter for white-hot Facebook IPO. DAVID ZASLAV Chief of Discovery Communications cashes in $24 million in options. REED HASTINGS Netflix...
Huffington Post cuffs Armstrong
Don’t expect Tim Armstrong to send Arianna Huffington flowers as an anniversary gift. One year after getting into bed with the media princess and plunking down $315 million to buy...
Guggenheim designs a new art of the deal
Guggenheim Partners, the closely held investment bank and asset manager that was founded by the family that built the museum, launched its first multistrategy hedge fund this month, The Post...
DC gridlock jams up tax reprieve
The taxman cometh in 2013. Political stalemate in Washington this year will likely mean higher taxes next year, including for middle-class people who could lose deductions and pay higher rates...
Buffett’s Gal Friday takes a hit
President Obama spent a large part of his 7,000-word State of the Union speech last week bemoaning the fact that, in his opinion, top earners aren’t paying their “fair share”...
Hedger pausing on print
Reclusive Randy Smith’s Alden Global has been building a national newspaper empire, but after suffering some losses he may be looking to recycle that idea. Smith last fall bought a...
Nothing scanty in Victoria's Secret's success
When it comes to earnings, Victoria’s Secret doesn’t need any support. The Limited Brands’ sexy and elegant fashion line has investors salivating as it looks to raise operating margins over...
Find your way on a roamin’ holiday
Are you preparing for a business trip in which you’re scheduled to have a brief layover in an unfamiliar city? While you might want to explore your surroundings, you don’t...
It’s a pension suspension
Dear John: I am writing on behalf of my fiancée. She worked more than 20 years for Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan, and she was in a union — Local...
Game plan for groupies
She knows how to sack a Super Bowl star. A groupie guru is coaching ring-chasing chicks on the art of playing the field at the Conrad Hotel & Resort in...
DA cuts rap on ‘knife’ rider
The Brooklyn DA’s Office has dismissed all charges against an award-winning ad exec who faced a year in prison for having a knife in his pocket on the subway. LaJuanzo...
Thief an ‘apped’ pupil
A young thief could not outsmart his tech-savvy teachers, who taught him a lesson in do-it-yourself detective work. While teacher Antonio Vastano led an after-school class at Berta Dreyfus IS...
Patriots' McCourty beat Giants' Cruz for Rutgers scholarship
When Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz takes the field on Super Bowl Sunday, he’ll have extra motivation to beat the man covering him. It’s the guy who took his scholarship....
True Blue buddy hands off coveted tickets to best pal
For some lucky Giants fans, Christmas came yesterday. Diehard Joe Cooper, 65, played Santa by giving up his two Super Bowl tickets to his best friend — just to put...
Capt.’s newest excuse
So that’s why he crashed! The captain of the overturned Costa Concordia said his bosses “busted my balls” to steer his ships close to shore, and says their insistence on...
Demi’s ‘spicy’ story
You’d think she would know enough to stay off the fake grass. Demi Moore may have been sent to the hospital after she smoked K2 Spice, a cheap herbal incense...
Cannes-Cannes girl
She’s got para-soul. Curvy Colombian pop star Shakira stays dry with the help of a personal umbrella holder outside the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, yesterday. The 34-year-old bombshell...
‘Tix’ed-off chef ‘signs’ up
WASHINGTON — A celebrity chef sick of getting red-light tickets is dishing out some payback.Geoff Tracy, owner of Chef Geoff’s and several other DC-area restaurants, says he got three tickets...
2 killed in NJ shooting
Two men were killed and two others were wounded when gunfire erupted in northern New Jersey yesterday.The motive for the shooting in Paterson was a mystery, and authorities said it...
Woman escapes from NYPD precinct in Brooklyn
Her jail-house Houdini act was short-lived. A 23-year-old woman busted for making harassing phone calls was slapped with a new felony, after she pulled a disappearing act and vanished from...
New ‘Tails’ of WWII heroes
It was World War II, and a German flying ace was about to match his wits against a raw, 23-year-old American fighter pilot who had nerves of steel and the...
Fears for Pak ‘treason’ doc
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is worried about the fate of a Pakistani doctor who was charged with treason for helping the US find al Qaeda leader Osama bin...
Pain on top of pain
On the day his murder trial was set to begin in 2009, Edward Taibi, a hunter from Queens, had every reason to hope. The jury in his case, which involved...
Carjacker takes off with kid
Police are searching for this man in a shocking carjacking yesterday that gave a Bronx mom the scare of her life -- who could only watch as the thief sped...
Exiting Occupy home
Don’t let the door hit you in the collective butt on the way out. Occupy Wall Street squatters have finally begun moving out of an East New York home after...
Temple’s $5 cut
It’s pay to pray at one Brooklyn synagogue. Down-on-their luck panhandlers at the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights have to follow the 11th Commandment: Fork over $5 for the...
Principal’s ‘gal crush’
A Bronx elementary-school principal allegedly developed such an infatuation with one of her female employees she kept a picture of the aide on her desk and retaliated when she found...
'The People's Court' rocked by possible murder mystery, episode controversy
Should you take ’em to court — “The People’s Court”? Not if you’re Claudia Evart, a 56-year-old Murray Hill woman who has sought to block her episode from ever airing....
Staff ax at WTC
And then there were two.Officials are cutting all Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center staffers, save two, as work at the World Trade Center site reaches its critical end stage.Five members...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** A Midtown madam was busted after she tried to offer the sexual services of two women to an undercover officer, authorities said. Fay Alfanso, 40, allegedly told the...
Yemeni big in NY
Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president of Yemen, arrived in New York yesterday to undergo treatment for wounds suffered during a bomb blast at protests calling for his ouster, Fox News...
Exploiting war hero Tillman
An Arizona man is hawking on eBay a pair of signed cleats worn by Pat Tillman — the NFL star-turned-Army Ranger killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 —...
'Dora' is a Queens kid
Dora the Explorer is now a born-and-bred New Yorker from Queens. One of the city’s highest-paid child models, Fatima Ptacek, 11, has been tapped to provide the new bubbly voice...
Wacky birds of a feather
Queen Elizabeth and Mike Tyson are birds of a feather.Her Royal Highness and ex-con and ex-heavyweight boxing champ Iron Mike share a passion for pigeon racing.They’ve both got birds in...
‘Great news’ safety stats flubbed
Mayor Bloomberg’s visit to an unfinished Long Island City high-rise last week capped a series of upbeat announcements about how safe the city has become.With crime and fire and motor-vehicle...
Pol push to ban eating in the subway
You dirty rats! A local lawmaker is pushing a bill to ban eating in the subway to help cut down on vermin — but the measure is already causing some...
Kelly and accuser exchanged messages before, after alleged rape
It was just a chance encounter on a downtown street — but she was instantly enamored. “I’ve seen you on TV. You’re so cute,” said the woman who would later...
DA taking his time
Greg Kelly won’t be off the hook any time soon. Although prosecutors so far believe the TV hunk had consensual sex with a woman accusing him of rape, Manhattan DA...
Lower E. Side riverfront of dreams
A beach could be coming to the Lower East Side soon. Work on the last link in a chain of parks around downtown Manhattan is set to begin in June,...
Condo board member refuses to accept responsibility for actor killing self after he 'betrayed' dog
A member of the condo board that soap actor Nick Santino said pressured him to euthanize his pit bull — a “betrayal” that drove him to suicide — refused to...
St. Louis honors Iraq vets
Six hundred veterans, many dressed in camouflage, walked through downtown St. Louis yesterday in the nation’s first big welcome-home for those who fought in the Iraq War.Organizers estimated that 100,000...
Pervy pedagogues living on $leazy street
City taxpayers fork over $647,159 a year in salaries for seven teachers who never teach. While legally cleared to return to class, the city Department of Education still deems the...
Disgraced teacher is worth $10M, makes $100,000 a year, does nothing, & refuses to leave
Hell no, he won’t go. In a defiant raspberry to the city Department of Education — and taxpayers — disgraced teacher Alan Rosenfeld, 66, won’t retire. Deemed a danger to...
CUNY ‘do-overs’
CUNY has become a boot camp for “high-school do-overs.” A stunning 82.7 percent of freshmen at CUNY community colleges needed remediation in reading, writing, math — or all three —...
Smaller portion of Tavern
It’s Tavern on the Green, Part 2.In the city’s second attempt to bring back the iconic Central Park eatery, the Public Design Commission is sharing details of the $10 million...
Mitt uses ‘Brokaw’ attack ad
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Mitt Romney whacked Newt Gingrich with a brutally efficient TV ad about Gingrich’s past ethics controversy — and let Tom Brokaw do the talking.The ad,...
HS whiz gets to go home
She “musseled” her family into a new home. Samantha Garvey, the homeless Long Island high-school biology whiz whose research into mollusks made the semifinals of the Intel Science Talent Search,...
Country ‘clubbed’
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Newt Gingrich took his battle against “elites” in both parties to a verdant South Florida golf course yesterday while accusing rival Mitt Romney of “desperation”...
B’klyn cop in BB-gun scare
A group of thugs with BB guns peppered a cop with pellets from a perch in a Brooklyn building yesterday, police said. Several BBs struck the officer in the chest...
The foursaken
There is a pitifully small group of hapless creatures who subsist obscurely in a wilderness where they suffer from a bitterly inhospitable climate. They cling to a steadily shrinking patch...
$189,000
Forget President Obama’s speech on Tuesday night, the current state of our union can be summed up in just two words: We’re broke. The president devoted just 189 words to...
Sloshed stars spew ‘exhaust’
Amy Winehouse suffered from it. So did Lindsay Lohan. In 2001, Mariah Carey suffered an “extreme” case of it, according to her spokeswoman. And last week, the dread epidemic fell...
How the $800B stimulus failed
Vice President Joe Biden was eager to get moving. In office for only a month, the Obama administration had already passed a monumental economic stimulus plan to address the biggest...
NYC’s latest whizzes
Now that’s a comeback! One year after New York City got shut out of the finals of the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search, three local brainiacs are among the 40...
O’s message to Andrew
In his State of the Union Address last week, President Obama sent a sharp memo to Gov. Cuomo: Quit the dithering and start moving ahead with natural-gas exploration. Here’s hoping...
Let religious groups rent NYC schools
Hundreds of New Yorkers will gather at the Brooklyn Bridge today to protest the Department of Education’s decision to implement a policy that will ban houses of worship from renting...
Bet on gambling
Many peer-reviewed studies have found no connection between casinos and the social problems Sam Skolnik attributes to the influence of gaming (“The House Loses,” PostScript, Jan. 22). For many years,...
Required reading
Nixon’s Darkest Secrets by Don Fulsom (Thomas Dunne)) As a White House correspondent, Fulsom covered presidents Johnson to Clinton. But it’s Richard Nixon who still holds his attention. “This was...
It’s all your fault!
Scapegoat A History of Blaming Other People by Charlie Campbell Duckworth Overlook In July 1840, the island of St. Kilda was hit with a torrential storm that killed many of...
In my library: Karen Russell
It was winter in Washington Heights, but Karen Russell channeled her “humid homeland” of Florida to write “Swamplandia,” a fantastical first novel about the alligator-wrestling Bigtree clan that was one...
In vain
The Future of Blasphemy Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights By Austin Dacey Continuum After decades of being regarded an obscure, if not discarded, concept, blasphemy...
Jungle love
First off, let’s set the rumors straight. Yes: Hollywood “It” boy Josh Hutcherson did date Hollywood “It” girl Vanessa Hudgens — but it only lasted for a minute. Well, maybe...
'The dead guy wins'
Here’s how messed up former Soul Coughing singer Mike Doughty was in his early days trying to make it as a musician in New York. When he heard that his...
My New York: Nick Jonas
If you want to actually hear the songs in Broadway’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” you may have a problem. When teen heartthrob Nick Jonas took over...
The thinking man's action star
Smithers, British Columbia, is a long way from a movie star’s normal habitat in LA. nstead of a balmy 72 degrees, it’s often 40 below, with driving snow and thrashing...
Amber Rose – a star is ‘shorn’
When Amber Rose was 19, she looked in the mirror and did what most women her age have nightmares about: She took a razor to her scalp and shaved her...
Trip out on the moon
When the French duo Air was asked to create, in only three weeks, a modern score for the 1902 silent classic “Le Voyage Dans La Lune [A Trip to the...
Meet Market: Dating guru hopes to test his personal romance skills
It girl According to Justin, “Natalie Portman has the full package.” Ticket master “I’ve been to over 300 concerts in my life,” boasts Justin. “I’ve saved the ticket stubs from...
Top 5 ways to trap love at trapeze school
“Say, ‘Consider me your human net — I’ll always be here to catch you.’ ” Jason “Say, ‘It’s easy — just grab onto my bar and hold on tight.’ ”...
Ask Ashley: Gentleman and a caller
I recently began seeing a guy I really like. While staying over at his house, I got a late-night text from a booty call I’d been playing around with. He...
Dying for a win
Refusing to acknowledge that a game is drawish can be fatal, as annotators like to say. For Vitaly Tseshkovsky that was literally true.The 67-year-old Russian GM was playing in the...
Bridge
The United States had two teams in the 2011 Bermuda Bowl. When they clashed in the semifinals, “USA 2” — the youngest US team ever — won out.Today’s deal was...
Adopt Me!
Jamie is a 4-month-old, adorable tabby who’s sweet and sensitive! Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society, 306 E. 59th St.; humanesocietyny.org.
Clean slate
Jocelyn Brandeis, who lives on the Upper East Side, used to take her 5-year-old toy poodle Madison to Petco to be groomed. “She’d ‘scream’ at the top of her lungs,...
Hostess with the mostess
Kelly Ripa is looking for a new “husband.” “It’s like a group date,” says the petite, 5-foot-4 former cheerleader from Jersey while relaxing in the green room of “Live! With...
Giants have serious ‘ring’ tone
You can’t wear the Lombardi Trophy on your finger. It is why the ring is the thing, and has been from the time little boys began playing Pee Wee football,...
Giants defensive line in rush for most sacks
Justin Tuck said the competition for sacks among the Giants defensive linemen is so high, “We all let each other know when we might have a better game than another...
Giants Super Bowl winners past and present give unique look inside team
Today's Part 1 of an unprecedented New York Post-New York Super Bowl Giants Round Table Q&A brings together champions from each of the franchise’s three Super Bowl winners. Hall of...
Trading Montero for Pineda could prove costly for Yankees
We should start with this proviso: Just about every personnel expert I respect thinks the Yankees did very well in shipping Jesus Montero and Hector Noesi to the Mariners for...
Ross, Webster lead confident Giants secondary
When Terrell Thomas went down and out in the preseason, there was an overwhelming feeling that in addition to shredding his knee, any possibility for the Giants defensive backfield to...
My Giants: David Wright
Boldface names tell The Post why they’re True Blue. Today, Mets third baseman David Wright: “Growing up, who didn’t love LT, Phil Simms and those guys? And then I got...
NFL basks in fans' stupor
How many years has it been since the NFL, its contracted commercial sponsors and TV networks began to promote, present and provoke as its most preferred fans the very folks...
Hit by Jets LB Lewis hit started Brady Era, saved Belichick’s job
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Blame it on Mo. Mo Lewis did it. He started all this. Where would the Patriots be if not for that Mo Lewis hit on Drew Bledsoe...
Aqueduct Analysis
Post Time: 12:20 p.m. All horses appear in post position order1. 6f; $25,000; cl($7,500); 4up; (F&m)TWILLERBEE came off the pace to break maiden at this distance last out. SOLDIERETTE stalked...
Tomorrow’s Parx Racing Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-11/16m; $22,000; mdn cl($15,000); 3YO PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 GorgeousWethr(L),121C Orm8-4-xGaletto15-12 ThMghtySprrw(L),121S Elliott7-2-3Fairlie5-23 Dr. Hollister(L),117E Rivera9-8-6Lynch10-14 Cash Sale(L),121FPnnngtn3-x-xA Dutrow8-55 Jelly Donut(L),121KMcMngll3-2-7Simon4-16 Maritime Magic(L),121KCarmoch4-5-8Dunn8-17 BrooklawnDobl(L),121ARodriguzx-x-xSaville10-1SECOND-5...
Parx Racing Results
FIRST-5 fur; $23,000; clm; 4up5Frst Lv (HrnndzOrtg)18.606.005.603Tahiti Shack (Rivera)3.803.006Terriniqua (Cruz)5.80* Exacta (5-3) $64.00 * Trifecta (5-3-6) $455.80SECOND-1m&70yds; $17,000; clm; 4&5YO4Spnsh Kttn (Bwmn)17.206.605.0011Rock Ptrmgn (Bermudz)5.404.008Special Energy (Flores)2.80Scr: Gallant Guy.* Daily Double...
Aqueduct Charts
January 28th, 2012 Clear And Fast.©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur; $25,000; clm($7,500); 4upOff: 12:21. Good. 3w 1/4, alter courseTime: 23.31, 47.32, 1:.2, 1:13.56.Trainer: Rene ArayaWinner: B G, 4, by...
Affrunti’s Tampa Bay Grade
FIRST-1m&40y; $17,000; cl($12,500); 4up3-Stop Hunting 6-14-Bear Always 5-11-StumblingBlock2-15-Romeo Again 7-26-Kabob 8-17-High Spirit 3-12-Cool Diablo 15-1SECOND-5 1/2f; $16,500; mdn cl($50,000); 3YO7-Carolyn M. 2-12-Petrohunter 15-14-Evolution Rocks5-15-Kims Reward 15-13-W. B. Smudge 3-16-Mighty Gideon...
Gulfstream Park Analysis
Post Time: 12:35 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderPost Time: 12:35 p.m.FIRST-1m; $35,000; str alw; 3YOA CAT THAT FLIES second as favorite this distance and level. DEVOTED WILDCAT...
Santa Anita Park Graded Entries
Post Time: 3:30 p.m.FIRST-1m; $19,000; mdn cl($20,000); 3up; (f&m)PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3Odds4 Golden Nip(L),122RBejrn7-3-63-13 WrrnsMtchmkrL122KKriggr9-5-88-15 Tusun(L),122K Stra10-12-920-11 Shanley(L),122JOliver13-7-x30-12 FlawlessJewel(L122JRosari3-3-74-56 SmilnFromAbvL115EFlores2-2-22-1SECOND-5 1/2f; $17,000; cl($8,000); 4up; (f&m)PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3Odds6 WarrnsMystryL118JSteinr7-6-920-11 Folk...
Gulfstream Results
FIRST-1 1/16m(T); $32,000; clm($50,000); 4up 8 Wd Rcvr (Dmngz) 12.80 5.20 4.20 6 Best Act (Castellano) 3.00 2.40 7 Exeter Road (Contreras) 3.80 * Exacta (8-6) $35.20 * $1 Superfecta...
Knocking the Knicks
* I’ve had it. I’ve been a Knicks fan for 15 years. From 2001-10, I suffered through terrible teams, awful coaches and gross mismanagement. Finally, I had a reason to...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYJan. 29MONJan. 30TUEJan. 31WEDFeb. 1THUFeb. 2FRIFeb. 3SATFeb. 4KnicksNOGAME NOGAME Det.7:30MSGESPNNOGAME Chi.8:00TNTESPNBos.8:00MSGESPNNets7:30MSGESPNNetsToronto6:00YES NetworkWFAN 660 AMNOGAMEInd.7:00YESWBBRDet.7:30YESWFANNOGAMEMinn.7:30YESWFANN.Y.K.7:30YESWFANRangersAll-Star Game4:00NBCSNNOGAMEDevils7:00MSG2WNYMBuf.7:30NBCSNESPNNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEIslandersAll-Star Game4:00NBCSNNOGAMECar.7:00MSG+2WRHUNOGAME NOGAME Ott.7:30MSG+WRHUBuf.7:00MSG+WRHUDevilsAll-Star Game4:00NBCSNNOGAMEN.Y.R.7:00MSG+WFANNOGAMEMont.7:00MSG+WFANNOGAMEPhil.1:00MSG+WFANSunday, Feb. 5 At IndianapolisGiantsPatriots6:20TV - NBCRadio - WFAN 660 AMHOMEAWAY
The Post Line
NFLPro Bowl - At Honolulu FavoriteOpeningCurrent(O/U)UnderdogNfc3 1/24(74)AfcSunday, Feb. 5Super Bowl - At Indianapolis Patriots3 1/23(55)GiantsNCAA BasketballFavoriteLineUnderdogUCONN9Notre DameMiami8BOSTON COL.OHIO ST.14 1/2MichiganS. FLORIDA7 1/2ProvidenceINDIANA10 1/2IowaUNC22Georgia TechS. ALABAMA5 1/2TroyOREGON1 1/2Oregon St.EVANSVILLE5 1/2Indiana St.CALIFORNIA8...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing9 a.m.Rolex Sports Car Series: 24 Hours at Daytona, Part 2 SPEEDBasketballNoonNotre Dame at Connecticut SNYNoonWomen: Marshall at Tulane MSG PlusNoonNew Hampshire at Vermont CBSSN1 p.m.Michigan at Ohio State...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-1-mile pace; $8,500; cond 7Takemewithyou(Gnrs)7.004.603.002Alex Bullvile (AMiller)4.803.605Dragon King (BSimpson)4.60* Exacta (7-2) $30.80 * Trifecta (7-2-5) $148.60SECOND-1-mile pace; $14,000; cond 1Crznwthdbgg(YGngrs)4.603.202.603A Major Haze (R Pierce)5.803.402Jimmy Whizbang (D Miller)3.00* Exacta (1-3) $26.20...
Cash isn’t only reason coaches go pro
This was late at night a few years ago, sitting around a saloon at the Final Four, and at the table were four basketball coaches, all of whom had achieved...
Hard cap hasn’t lifted NHL's also-rans
The Vow that imposing a hard salary cap on the NHL would keep ticket prices in line has proved as accurate as the promise that the cap would become the...
Rangers rookie outraces All-Stars
OTTAWA — The NHL’s freshly crowned All-Star speed champ says he isn’t even the fastest Rangers skater at the annual showcase. “Not too seriously,” Carl Hagelin said is how he...
NHL helping debt-ridden Devils
OTTAWA — The NHL is giving the Devils advances on some of their future income to help the team through its ownership battle, deputy commissioner Bill Daly said on the...
Tiger tied for lead in Abu Dhabi
Tiger Woods put himself in position to win his second straight tournament yesterday, and this one would leave little doubt about which direction his game is going. He finally won...
Sports Shorts
Aussie Open: Azarenka tops Sharapova for titleVictoria Azarenka routed three-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 in 1 hour, 22 minutes yesterday, producing one of the most lopsided Australian...
Shelden gets call when going’s tough for Nets
If you want someone to give you 30 points, complete with off-the-dribble jumpers, look elsewhere. But, as Nets coach Avery Johnson said, if you’re headed for a bar fight —...
Deron’s play leading to Nets’ gain
For three games, Deron Williams was an assist machine: First 10, then 14, then 13, or 12.3 per. And he also averaged 13.7 points in those games earlier this month....
Hurting Anthony just needs to heal
If players only love you when they’re playing, imagine how tough they are on themselves for deciding against suiting up. The pressure from within to play, no matter how hurt,...
Knicks lose to Rockets; Amar’e says team unprepared
HOUSTON — The Rockets own the Knicks’ first-round pick this June from the Tracy McGrady trade. It seemed unfathomable entering the season the issue of the picks' protection rights ever...
Knicks move Shumpert off point
HOUSTON -- The Iman Shumpert starting point guard experiment ended last night for the Knicks. Toney Douglas was promoted to starting point guard last night for rookie Shumpert, but then...
Twist possible in Giants' Super Bowl sequel to 2007 flight attire
When the Giants stepped off their plane in Phoenix four years ago, they were the G-Men in Black. One by one, from kicker Lawrence Tynes to coach Tom Coughlin, they...
Canty anchors Giants defense
The stars are on the outside, but in the middle of the Giants defensive line is a behemoth whose grit and hard-nosed mentality enables those stars to run wild. Chris...
Giants look to tight-en up on Patriots
The last time the Giants tangled with the Patriots, Tom Brady tossed two touchdown passes. Both went to tight ends, which is no great surprise. Rob Gronkowski caught eight passes...
Giants know Raiders slowed down Patriots TE Gronkowski
“The Gronk” sounds like some sort of monster out of Greek mythology. Just the name conjures thoughts of a hulking, unstoppable beast. Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski might as well...
Other Patriots TE has big numbers, too
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — He is the other half of the Patriots’ two-headed tight-end monster, the one with the sketchy past and without the amusing nickname. Aaron Hernandez does not have...
Boeheim recalls Syracuse days with Giants coach Coughlin
INDIANAPOLIS — Tom Coughlin would spend his nights quietly in his dorm room on the third floor at Sadler Hall, which still was a relatively new residence hall on the...
Add another Manning Super Bowl to Archie’s menu
NEW ORLEANS — From Archie Manning’s reserved, high-top corner table 40 feet from the front entrance at Manning’s — the new downtown sports bistro he opened Jan. 19 to give...
The Rumble
Laura Posada, wife of retired Yankees catcher Jorge Posada, has written a touching column for Athletes Quarterly, a copy of which has been obtained by the Rumble: My husband Jorge...
The ‘Essential’ Barrymore and Osborne
In March, Drew Barrymore will join Osborne as an “Essentials” co-host, a choice that may seem surprising to some viewers, but Tabesh says, “She’s exactly the kind of person we...
Brace yourself for the Oscars
Award season is here, and I’ll admit it: I watched the Golden Globes —so there’s two hours of my life I’m not getting back. And with the bloated, boring Grammys...
Breaking news: Sun sets in the west
This just in . . . A large sinkhole formed today on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Police are looking into it. The shameless and desperate state of TV news now...
Don't miss
'Good' Will Hunting Because of many February preemptions, this is the last new “Good Wife” for awhile. So remember this: Special prosecutor Wendy Scott Carr has completed her investigation against...
A night at the movies
The best place to look for Oscar glory this year may be Turner Classic Movies. This week, the venerable movie channel launches its annual “31 Days of Oscar” festival. While...
Pony Express
If anyone was born to create a series about the world of horse racing, it’s “NYPD Blue” creator David Milch. Not only has Milch owned more than 100 horses, winning...
Reel good
JANE EYRE, 1944 Monday, 8 p.m., TCM * Joan Fontaine is Jane Eyre, who in 1800s England, goes straight from an abusive, orphans' charity school to a position as a...
Look who's talking
KELLY RIPA * 9 a.m., Ch. 7 Monday: Channing Tatum. Tuesday: Rachel McAdams Wednesday: Jennifer Lopez. Thursday: Snooki; JWoww. THE VIEW * 11 a.m., Ch. 7 Monday: Stone Phillips; Gavin...
Broadway's poster boy
The No. 1 dish at Joe Allen is the sauteed calf’s liver — yes, liver! — but no one goes to Joe Allen for the food. The eatery on West...
This week's couple: College reunion
When we sent Liz, a 23-year-old marketing coordinator, and Ian, a 27-year-old strategy analyst, to East Village pub the Penny Farthing, we didn’t know they share an alma mater. The...
Weird but true
This attraction has had a difficult time cutting the mustard.A museum devoted to the spicy condiment was facing closure after it couldn’t “ketch-up” on payments for a $200,000 loan.The National...
Iowa St. stuns KU
Royce White had 18 points and nine rebounds and hit a big pair of free throws in the final minutes despite shooting 39 percent from the line in Big 12...
Coach Hurley, brother, have Wagner on fast track
It’s a quiet Tuesday morning at Wagner College. Inside the Spiro Sports Center at the small Staten Island school, the emerging basketball team has just begun its first drill of...
Fordham defeats George Washington
Fordham began yesterday’s game against George Washington with star forward Chris Gaston on the bench, but that didn’t stop the Rams from ending a two-game losing streak. The Rams, coming...
Seton Hall loses to Louisville, now 0-4 since being ranked
Seton Hall’s national ranking of three weeks ago might as well be three years ago. That four-game winning streak has flipped into a four-game skid. The Pirates’ resurgence has regressed,...
Rutgers defeats Cincinnati; Rice gets 100th win
PISCATAWAY — Eli Carter scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half and Rutgers defeated Cincinnati 61-54 last night to give coach Mike Rice his 100th win. Dane...
St. John's Harkless has NBA in sights
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke guard Austin Rivers, last year’s top-rated prep player, might one day tell his children he was at Cameron Indoor Stadium the day St. John’s freshman Maurice...
St. John’s loses to Duke
DURHAM, N.C. -- After Duke improved to 18-3 on the season with an 83-76 win over a game St. John’s team, Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski wasted no time reminding...
Out of their league: Boys calls Hayes win statement of PSAL superiority
It was a victory that didn’t just prove something for Boys & Girls, coach Ruth Lovelace said, but for the public school league as a whole. Boys High held off...
Knicks fall to Rockets, 97-84
HOUSTON — Chase Budinger scored 19 points, Samuel Dalembert grabbed 14 rebounds and the Houston Rockets beat the New York Knicks 97-84 on Saturday night for their ninth win in...
Boys basketball roundup: Spellman stuns All Hallows in closing seconds
Fred Opper didn’t really know what to expect out of his team. Cardinal Spellman had more than two weeks off and practiced sparingly due to mid-terms, Regents and a snow-out...
Herman Cain endorses Newt Gingrich
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain endorsed Newt Gingrich for the GOP nomination at a dinner in Florida on Saturday night. "I hereby officially and...
Cops use tear gas to break up Occupy Oakland mob
OAKLAND, Calif. — Police used tear gas and "flash" grenades Saturday to break up hundreds of Occupy protesters after some demonstrators started throwing rocks and flares at officers and tearing...
'Tiny' takes Lincoln to task after disappointing loss in Garden State
Dwayne (Tiny) Morton has never fit the mold of a traditional high school boys basketball coach. But even for the wildly successful Lincoln head man, this was out of the...