January 21, 2013
Cop killer's lawyers angling for life in prison instead of lethal injection
He killed two NYPD cops in cold blood — but he’s a pussycat with the other convicts. Defense attorneys for Ronell Wilson say that when defendants are portrayed as dangerous...
Knicks fall to Nets as local rivals finish season 2-2 against each other
The Knicks should’ve stayed in London. The lucky No. 7 belonged to the Brooklyn side Monday at the Garden. Joe Johnson, who wears No. 7, outdid Carmelo Anthony in the...
Syracuse rallies past Cincinnati for two-point win
C.J. Fair tipped in the go-ahead basket with 19.4 seconds left and No. 3 Syracuse rallied past No. 21 Cincinnati 57-55 on Monday. Trailing by seven with just over 5...
Patriots' Belichick: 'You’ll have to deal with me again next year'
Jets coach Rex Ryan will still be seeing plenty of the hoodie next season. That's because Bill Belichick said Monday that he will be back in 2013 as coach of...
Ortiz Jr. continues hot streak with five wins at Aqueduct Monday
Hotter than asphalt in the summer sun, jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. booted home five winners at Aqueduct on Monday, following a four-win day on Sunday and three winners on Saturday....
The developers behind Temple Run 2
It was quite a rarity in the videogame world last week, when gamers had about 48 hours of notice that a sequel to a game that had been downloaded more...
Browns say they saw Chip as 'too big a gamble'
The Browns are claiming they passed on Chip Kelly, not the other way around. According to Sports Illustrated's Peter King, the Browns moved on from the Oregon coach since they...
Boston billboard has egg on its face (literally) after Patriots' loss
The Ravens were motivated to beat the Patriots because of bulletin board material, or rather, billboard material.That's because Clear Channel in Boston purchased billboards last week which displayed a countdown...
Red Bulls offer no coach, no timeline, no answers
When the Red Bulls let coach Hans Backe go on Nov. 9, much of the area was still blacked out from Hurricane Sandy and president Barack Obama had just won...
Islanders hold off Lightning after nearly blowing 4-0 lead
There will be indelible marks left from the strange and unpredictable start of this lockout-shortened season. And when the dust settles and things begin to regulate, the Islanders will be...
Sundance review: ‘Stoker’
PARK CITY -- Korea’s Park Chan-Wook makes a splash with his American debut, the eerie and chilling Nicole Kidman horror flick “Stoker."Kidman plays Evelyn, the wealthy wife of an architect...
Phelps: Ravens' Lewis 'one of the biggest reasons' I swam in 2012 Olympics
Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian ever last summer at the 2012 games in London, winning six medals to give him 22 for his career. But he never would...
Sundance review: 'Escape from Tomorrow'
PARK CITY -- One of those “experimental” films that is more fun to discuss than to sit through, the absurdist and student-y “Escape from Tomorrow” has a couple of amusingly...
DmC: Devil May Cry: demonic fun
Dante lives for pleasure. He drinks and he smokes; he watches angelic women dance devilishly in nightclubs. He takes girls – yes, multiple – back to his trailer and beds...
Sundance review: ‘Hell Baby’
PARK CITY -- Introducing his “Rosemary’s Baby” (and “The Omen” and “The Exorcist”) spoof “Hell Baby,” Thomas Lennon stood beside his writing partner and co-director Robert Ben Garant last night...
UK's Prince Harry returns from Afghanistan
LONDON — Capt. Wales is coming home to be Prince Harry once again. The Ministry of Defense revealed Monday that the 28-year-old prince is returning from a 20-week deployment in...
MONDAY MATCHMAKER: Belfort should welcome Strikeforce champ Rockhold to UFC
Every Monday after an MMA fight weekend, The Post’s Marc Raimondi will take a look at the next potential matchup for the fighters who competed. This week, he breaks down...
D'Antoni: Lakers 'have too many issues'
What's wrong with the Lakers? According to coach Mike D'Antoni, the answer is everything."We have too many issues," D'Antoni said following the Laker's latest loss, a 108-103 defeat to the...
Group holds gun control march and rally in NYC
A gun control group formed in the wake of last month's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall on Monday to call on...
WATCH: Snowball pranksters get taught a lesson in how water cannons work
Some teenagers on a bridge in England probably thought it'd be funny to throw snowballs at two unsuspecting city workers on a barge. Unfortunately for the teenagers, the Leeds city...
Mets bring back Feliciano after wasted years with Yankees
Pedro Feliciano may be in for more abuse.The lefty reliever signed a minor league deal with the Mets Monday after spending the last two seasons on the Yankees’ payroll dealing...
Former president Clinton photobombs Kelly Clarkson during inauguration
Oh Bill! Former President Bill Clinton may have been putting in a request to become the Internet's latest meme. Clinton, who was in attendance for the second inauguration of President...
WATCH: Massive brawl at AHL game
All eyes were on the NHL Saturday afternoon once the season started, but a few hours later, it was the AHL taking center stage (or ice).In a game between the...
NHL Power Rankings: Good to be old at start of season
The NHL season is finally back, and what better way to celebrate than with NYPost.com's debut of the NHL power rankings. After one weekend of action, a few things are...
NM teen accused of killing family had clean past
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico teenager accused of fatally shooting his parents and three younger siblings had never been in trouble with the law, according to state officials. The...
WATCH: UFC female fighter Rousey stars in 'Honey Boo Boo' parody
Ronda Rousey, reality TV star? Well, not quite.The UFC’s first female fighter appears in a funny commercial for the "Fighters Only 2012 World MMA Awards" parodying the popular, yet oft-criticized,...
Capuano returns to Islanders bench Monday
Jack Capuano was back behind the Islanders bench Monday afternoon against the Lightning.Capuano missed the season-opening 2-1 loss to the Devils on Saturday night when he was in Long Island...
Wife of Patriots' Welker goes on Facebook rant against Ravens' Lewis
Another playoff loss, another Patriots player's wife sounding off.No, it wasn't Tom Brady's supermodel wife who went on a postgame rant this time, but rather Wes Welker's wife, Anna Burns...
Ravens' Pollard accuses Patriots' Brady of dirty play
As a defensive back, Ravens' Bernard Pollard makes his living as a hard-hitting safety, occasionally injuring players. But Tom Brady doing the same thing? That's what Pollard thinks after an...
President Obama's inaugural address
Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the...
Obama says 'freedom must be secured' during 2nd swearing-in ceremony
President Obama began his second term with a hard-hitting speech that called for collective action on climate change, gay and voting rights, immigration reform, gun control, equal pay for women...
Knicks owner needs to decide whether or not to use on-court microphones in MLK matinee
The Knicks host another MLK Day matinee today at 3 p.m. vs. Brooklyn. Something always strange happens on MLK Day, so MSG chairman James Dolan has to decide whether it’s...
NY vets head to DC for inaugural parade
New York veterans, from every military campaign since Korea, boarded a bus for Washington this morning to march in President Obama’s Inauguration Day Parade. Jeff Swansen, production manager for the...
Woman injured after allegedly jumping in front of L train
A woman is in serious condition after jumping in front of a train in Williamsburg this morning, authorities said. The unidentified woman was at the Bedford Avenue station of the...
Rare posters seized by Nazis up for auction in NYC
A collection of rare posters seized from a Jewish collector by the Nazis is up for auction. Hans Sachs started collecting posters as a teen and became Germany's leading private...
Police find stolen Torah worth $30,000
These thieves will have to answer to a higher authority. A Brooklyn rabbi’s car was stolen over the weekend — with a torah worth an estimated $30,000 stashed in the...
Today's inauguration schedule of events
President Obama will take the oath at a ceremony today at the Capitol, where about 800,000 people are expected to descend on the National Mall for the event, fewer than...
US official: 2 more Americans die in Algeria; death toll climbs past 80
A US official says two more Americans were killed in the hostage standoff at a natural gas complex in Algeria, taking the final US death toll to three US citizens....
Three things to watch for in Nets-Knicks
The Nets and Knicks meet for the final time Monday afternoon in a Martin Luther King Day matinee at Madison Square Garden, as the Nets will hope to even the...
Dangers of rushing court missing even in wheelchair adventure
It’s growing impossible to figure out, to distinguish sense from pretense, right from wrong. Cautionary tales are confused with scenes from “Jackass” movies. Two Saturday’s ago, N.C. State, at home,...
Harbaugh brothers set for Super showdown
FOXBOROUGH — John Harbaugh could only imagine how proud his parents were last night. The Harbaugh Boys became the first brothers to qualify for a Super Bowl when John’s Ravens...
WATCH: Ravens' Suggs rips 'arrogant' Patriots for Spygate
FOXBOROUGH — After Terrell Suggs was done burying the Patriots, the Ravens’ linebacker turned his attention to what he called a favorable Super Bowl matchup with the 49ers. “Tell them...
Patriots' Brady far from Super
FOXBOROUGH — Now it’s official: The Ravens are Tom Brady’s kryptonite. The Patriots’ Superman, who was trying to become the first quarterback in NFL history to get to a sixth...
Lewis brings Flacco, Ravens on quite a farewell tour
FOXBOROUGH — Tom Brady had been intercepted in the end zone by Cary Williams and it was all over for the Patriots, so Ray Lewis began exulting. And now here...
Flacco, Ravens stun Brady, Patriots to reach Super Bowl
FOXBOROUGH — So many things hung in the balance for the Ravens last night — so much to gain with a victory, a staggering dose of heartbreak lurking with a...
AFC championship blitz
HERO Ravens QB Joe Flacco cemented himself as one of the NFL’s best big-game players, completing 21 of 36 passes for 240 yards with 3 TDs and no turnovers for...
Year after Giant heartbreak, Niners pull off Super rally
ATLANTA — Patrick Willis cannot forget the feeling he had one year ago as he sat in the locker room at Candlestick Park. “I was numb,’’ the 49ers linebacker recalled....
49ers QB Kaepernick doesn’t run from big-game pressure
ATLANTA — Think about what it had to have been like to be Colin Kaepernick all week. Think about the adulation he carried around on his shoulders and in his...
Falcons' Gonzalez consoled after probable career finale
ATLANTA — Tony Gonzalez was still in full uniform a half-hour after this was over, sitting in a chair and staring silently into his locker. All of the Falcons were...
NFC championship blitz
HERO Colin Kaepernick just keeps pulling tricks out of his bag. A week after running the Packers silly, San Francisco’s precocious quarterback crossed up the Falcons by carrying just twice...
Work it!
Dark corners, bathroom stalls, private showers. Those were Lauren Krueger’s only safe havens when she started exercising two years ago at the on-site gym at Verizon’s corporate offices in Basking...
Go to Greg
My boss is a gym rat and a health nut. The problem is that he’s critical of those whom he feels don’t eat healthfully or appear to get enough exercise,...
Chill factor
Most popular songs 1. I Knew You Were Trouble, Taylor Swift 2. Thrift Shop, Macklemore, Ryan Lewis 3. Scream and Shout, Will.I.Am 4. Gangnam Style, PSY 5. Locked Out of...
Business briefs
Tuesday startMarkets are closed today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Experts say trading tomorrow could get a boost from the prospect of stronger European manufacturing surveys and...
CBS head Les Moonves putting deals under construction
CBS head honcho Les Moonves is looking to ramp up dealmaking as part of an overhaul of his old-growth media company. His first step — a spinoff of the billboard...
Street sees seeds of more gloom for Apple
Wall Street is worried that Apple’s rotten quarter is about to get worse. With the stock down 30 percent in little more than three months, investors fret that the former...
High testosterzone
Remember what they used to say about the sexy magazines? Men actually bought them for the articles? In the case of the mags below, that may be true. May. Let’s...
‘Shake’r joins hot UWS list
Star restaurateur Danny Meyer has joined the top-flight tenant tasters at the now-shuttered Ollie’s space next door to the Apple store on the Upper West Side, Side Dish has learned....
Caterpillar digs into deeper trouble in China
An accounting scandal at a Caterpillar mining-equipment unit in China helped lead to the departure of a senior executive, a person familiar with the situation said.The world’s largest maker of...
Inauguration an Empire Statement
WASHINGTON — It may be a Washington inauguration, but it’s going to have a real New York flavor. Because Sen. Charles Schumer is chairman of the inauguration committee putting on...
Oops! Bumble Biden says he’s the prez
WASHINGTON — Will the real president please stand up? Vice President Joe Biden committed one of his trademark gaffes over the weekend when he said at the Iowa State Society...
Tough row for NYC canoeists
A breach of nautical protocol has rival Queens and Brooklyn paddlers battling in federal court. What originally seemed like a good idea — the union of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe...
Mike hails city’s Rapid Sandy aid
The city’s slow-to-start Rapid Repairs program completed work on more than 10,000 houses hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy, according to a report released yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg’s office. The initiative...
Sylvie Cachay sent scorching 'F--k you' e-mail to boyfriend hours before her death
Less than 24 hours before police say she was drowned and strangled in a Soho House tub, beautiful Sylvie Cachay fired off a scorching e-mail to the stoner beau who’d...
5 dead in NM shooting
A 15-year-old boy was arrested on murder charges, for the fatal shooting Saturday night of his parents and three siblings in their Albuquerque, N.M., home, officials said yesterday. Authorities identified...
Death and the made-up
Why am I not convinced? Ex-Notre Dame football linebacker Manti Te’o claims he’s a gigantic rube. He fell in love with a girl he met nearly four years ago on...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn***What a brew-haha!When a security guard confronted Rebecca Davidsson after she had walked out of a Bedford-Stuyvesant supermarket with an unpaid-for 12-pack of beer, she tried to douse him —...
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s master armorer prepares for arms and armor exhibit
He’s the kind of guy who actually appreciates chinks in the armor. New Yorker Hermes Knauer is the country’s only “master armorer,” and he plies his unique trade at the...
Cha$tain’s 1-2 punch
Jessica Chastain easily outmuscled Arnold Schwarzenegger over the weekend, topping the box office with her supernatural horror film, “Mama,” and the Oscar-nominated Osama bin Laden hunt thriller, “Zero Dark Thirty.”...
Man, 60, dies in B’klyn fire
A man died and three firefighters were injured yesterday in a Borough Park apartment blaze, officials and witnesses said.Rescuers tried to revive Wai-Hung Li, 60, at the scene on New...
Cabby killed when SUV crushes him in Midtown
A Bangladeshi immigrant who drove a taxi to put himself through college was killed when an SUV careened into his parked cab as he stood next to it in Manhattan’s...
Koch back in hospital
Former Mayor Ed Koch has been hospitalized for the third time in recent months.Spokesman George Arzt said Koch, 88, went to Columbia-Presbyterian Saturday at about 10 p.m. with swollen ankles.He...
Afghan inmate torture
KABUL — A year after Afghan authorities promised to stop torturing political prisoners, they continue to hang them by their wrists and beat them with cables or sticks, the UN...
Egypt cop-trial riot
CAIRO — Dozens of people are battling hundreds of riot police for a second day outside a courthouse in Egypt’s northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria, where policemen are being tried...
Bye-bye, B’klyn – ‘Miss’ ya!
There she goes, Miss America. Just a week after winning her crown, Brooklyn resident Mallory Hagan has revealed that she’s ditching the borough during her reign. The Alabama native had...
Cancer apps miss the mark
Of four smartphone apps that evaluate melanoma by analyzing images submitted by users, only one — which uses certified dermatologists to make diagnoses — is effective, University of Pittsburgh researchers...
Nets vs. Knicks a $corcher
Hoops fans are shelling out big bucks for today’s Nets-Knicks face-off at the Garden. The lowest asking price on the secondary market — a so-called cheap seat for this afternoon’s...
LIPA’s ‘sale’ cost a $hocker
Long Island’s bungling power authority may be too much of a mess to sell off. Privatizing the beleaguered LIPA utility could cost New York taxpayers billions of dollars, according to...
‘Safe’ drivers give kids crash course
They claim they’re fighting to keep children safe, but statistics show that city school-bus drivers — the vast majority members of the striking union — are really hell on wheels....
Suspected mastermind behind Te'o girlfriend hoax lived near a Kekua family
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the suspected mastermind behind the Manti Te’o girlfriend hoax, allegedly borrowed names and places from his own back yard to cook up the romantic scam that humiliated the...
Lance Armstrong books headed to fiction section of Australian library
He fooled anti-doping watchdogs for years, but now Lance Armstrong can’t even outwit the Dewey Decimal System. The Manly Library in Sydney, Australia, is moving all of its books about...
Sly’s newest $creen fight
This is what you get for poking the eye of the tiger. Sly Stallone is aiming to deliver a one-two punch to the writer who accused the “Rocky” star of...
Face ads help Queens immigrants pay for college
It’s a cheeky approach to advertising. Two Queens immigrants with big American dreams are using their good looks to help pay for grad school — charging $99 a day to...
Lawmakers scrambling to raise funds ahead of Cuomo’s promised campaign reform
State lawmakers are scrambling to rake in as much cash as possible before Gov. Cuomo’s overhaul of campaign laws is enacted. Cuomo’s proposal would target Albany’s “pay-to-play” culture by limiting...
Unfriendly skies at Newark
United Airlines had a rough day at Newark Airport yesterday, as a plane’s tires blew out, sending it veering off the runway, while an employee suffered serious injuries in an...
Help me, I’ve lost my bomb
One Egyptian man’s wisecrack sure bombed with security at JFK.Moatazbellah Mohamed Kamel Osman, 33, of Cairo, was busted on the lower level of Queens’ AirTrain station at 5:10 p.m., sources...
GOPers in firing line
Three Republican state senators from Long Island are in the cross hairs of the Conservative Party for supporting Gov. Cuomo’s gun-control package, sources said. Jack Martins and Kemp Hannon of...
Restriction on guns may not float with Democrats up for re-election, Republicans say
WASHINGTON — Democrats’ chances at serious gun-control legislation are shot, Republicans said yesterday. Key measures of President Obama’s plan to attack gun violence in America — such as an assault-weapons...
Hit us with your best shot, Andy!
Assault-rifle owners statewide are organizing a mass boycott of Gov. Cuomo’s new law mandating they register their weapons, daring officials to “come and take it away,” The Post has learned....
The practical terrorist
BAMAKO, Mali — Moktar Belmoktar is known abroad as the man who orchestrated the abduction of scores of foreigners last week at a BP-operated plant in the remote, eastern corner...
25 more bodies found
ALGIERS — A bomb squad found 25 more bodies at the gas plant commandeered by Islamist hostage takers, a security official said yesterday.It was not immediately clear whether the dead...
Eatery neighbors in smell hell
You’d think it would be heavenly living above a gourmet food shop — but neighbors of one Brooklyn cafe say it just stinks. The opening of the trendy Iris Café...
Walters sidelined after fall
Barbara Walters spent part of the weekend in a Washington hospital after falling down stairs and suffering a cut to her forehead, ABC officials said yesterday. The network scuttled plans...
Suit paints a painful ferry tale
A New Jersey man severely injured when a commuter ferry collided with a Wall Street pier earlier this month filed the first lawsuit against the boat’s operator yesterday — accusing...
Dog kicked in shocking surveillance video finds new home with Queens couple
The cops were hunting gangsters — but instead, they found Hazel, a frightened, battered pit bull. Now Hazel has a new home, far from the East Harlem’s Wagner Houses, where...
The perfect squirm
Going to Afghanistan after 9/11 was a necessity; staying there in force was a mistake — and dragging out our failure is a travesty. We invaded to smash al Qaeda...
Armstrong’s ‘confession’ and his cycle of deceit
The Issue: Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah, in which he admitted cheating during his cycling career. *** Here’s another celebrity who got caught and then does the trendy thing by...
Standing up to strikers
The Issue: How the bus strike led by Amalgamated Transit Union affects children in New York City. *** Thank you to The Post for publishing this column (“A Taste of...
Congratulations, Mr. President
Today is Inauguration Day. As Barack Obama begins his second term, this day reminds us that he is the president of every American — Democrat, Republican and Independent alike. President...
On, Wisconsin!
When in early 2011 a newly inaugurated Gov. Scott Walker put forward a plan to reform Wisconsin’s state-employee unions and bring their benefits more in line with the private sector,...
The bloody desert
In the aftermath of Algeria’s effort to retake a gas field from terrorists linked to al Qaeda, the temptation may be to blame Algeria for the deaths of so many...
The follies of the frackophobes
If frackophobes are to be believed, natural-gas fracking is the most frightful environmental nightmare since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant melted down after an earthquake and tsunami. In “Promised Land,”...
Will Mike strike out?
How long should New Yorkers put up with the school-bus strike? Last week, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181 was in charge of the schedule. Mayor Bloomberg should make clear...
Pretty pleases in Met debut
In a winter rich with splashy debuts, Friday’s performance of “Le Comte Ory” introduced a 27-year-old South African charmer who may well be the Met’s next big star. She’s Pretty...
A feast in all senses
By the time you take your seat, the cast of “Not by Bread Alone” is already onstage, kneading dough and splitting it into loaves at long tables. So begins a...
Aqueduct Analysis
Post Time: 12:30 p.m. All horses appear in post position order1. 6f; $52,000; alw opt clm; 4upWON GREAT CLASSIC drops slightly in class and switches to Irad after drawing off...
Fans pay tribute to Cardinals great Musial
ST. LOUIS — Stan the Man was the dominant topic at the Cardinals’ annual fan festival yesterday. Outside Busch Stadium, it was totally about paying tribute, too. All day, fans...
Tomorrow’s Parx Racing Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-6f; $17,000; mdn cl($10,000); 2YO PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Just for Me(L),122FPnnngtn5-x-xVega6-12 Here's Nino(M),122J Burke6-12-xNicholsn20-13 Safari Joe(L),117J Ortiz3-4-xOrseno8-54 SpanishWildcat(L),122K Pellot2-3-6Maymo3-15 Close to Dylan ,122V...
Gulfstream Results Graded Entries
Post Time: 12:25 p.m. FIRST-1 1/4m; $17,000; mdn cl($10,000); 4up6-Redhotlion 1-11-D T Rocket 12-14-Jonny Boy Conn8-13-Jack Pot P J 12-12-Doctor Luke 5-25-Kaz Fleet 5-1SECOND-5 1/2f; $21,000; cl($12,500); 4up3-Green Bananas 7-24-Jack...
Aqueduct Charts
January 20th, 2013 Clear And Fast.©2013 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur; $22,000; clm($12,500); 4upOff: 12:30. 3. duel ins, bumped 1/4Time: 22.72, 46., 58.56, 1:12.44.Trainer: Thomas AlbertraniWinner: B C, 4, by...
Islanders looking to avoid slow start
The Islanders spent much of the lockout-shortened training camp talking about wanting to get off to a fast start. Just one game — and loss — into the abbreviated season...
Santa Anita Park Graded Entries
Post Time: 3:30 p.m.FIRST-6f; $30,000; str alw; 3YO; (f)PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3Odds1 MissAmericnPL121MGarci1-x-x3-53 ExclusiveStoryL121EMldnd7-1-29-25 Boller Bomb(L),121RBejrn1-4-49-22 JessesGiacomoL118S Arias5-5-58-14 GloryandprayrL118T Baze2-5-66-16 EconomyofMtnL118MPedrz7-5-212-1SECOND-6f; $75,000; 3YOSan Pedro StakesPN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3Odds1 DistinctivPssnL117EMldnd1-1-44-53 ReallyMrGrelyL122JLeparx9-1-18-52...
Parx Results
FIRST-7 fur; $21,000; clm($7,500); 4up5Tylr's Ws Ln (Rvr)5.202.602.101Act of Valor (Bisono)2.402.104Awesome Kisses (McCarthy)2.40Scr: Cotton Hearted.* Exacta (5-1) $10.80 * Trifecta (5-1-4) $21.80SECOND-7 fur; $19,000; clm($7,500); 4up3Bll's Bg Boy (Cstll)16.006.007.205Crafty Star...
Gulfstream Park Analysis
Post Time: 12:45 p.m.FIRST-6f; $18,750; cl($8,000); 4upPEACE AT DAWN second this level going shorter and was claimed. WESLINN third going longer at Tampa Bay. SPECIAL SONG won allowance as favorite...
Affrunti at Parx Graded Entries
FIRST-1 1/4m; $17,000; mdn cl($10,000); 4up6-Redhotlion 1-11-D T Rocket 12-14-Jonny Boy Conn8-13-Jack Pot P J 12-12-Doctor Luke 5-25-Kaz Fleet 5-1SECOND-5 1/2f; $21,000; cl($12,500); 4up3-Green Bananas 7-24-Jack Sensical 6-11-Rhyad 5-26-True Heaven...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYJan. 21TUE.Jan. 22WEDJan. 23THUJan. 24FRIJan. 25SATJan. 26SUNJan. 27KnicksNets3:30MSG NetworkESPN 98.7 FMNO GAMENO GAMEBos.8:00TNTESPNNO GAMEPhi.7:00MSGESPNAtl.6:30MSGESPNNetsKnicks3:30YES NetworkWFAN 660 AM/101.9 FMNO GAMEMin.8:00YESWFANNO GAMEMem.8:00YESWFANHou.8:00YESWFANNOGAMENO GAMENO GAMERutgers7:30SNYWBBRNO GAMENO GAMENO GAMES.H.12:00MSGWBBRRangersNO GAMENO GAMEBos. 7:30 NBCSN ESPNPhi.7:00MSGWBBRNO...
Today's Sports on the Air
Basketball1 p.m.Pacers at Grizzlies ESPN3:30 p.m.Cincinnati at Syracuse ESPN3:30 p.m.Nets at Knicks MSG, YES, ESPN (98.7 FM), WFAN (660 AM & 101.9 FM)5:30 p.m.Oklahoma St. at Baylor ESPN7 p.m.Spurs at...
The Post Line
Super Bowl Feb. 3 At New Orleans Favorite Opening Current (O/U) Underdog 49ers 5 4 1/2 (49) RAVENS Home team in CAPS NCAA Basketball Favorite Line Underdog SYRACUSE 9 Cincinnati...
Jets owner Woody: Tebow ‘forced’ on me
Don’t pin this one on me. That’s what Woody Johnson has been telling people about the acquisition of Tim Tebow, according to a report by ESPN New York. Former Broncos...
Jets hire Lee as QB coach
The Jets quarterback rebuilding project took another step yesterday when the team hired a new quarterbacks coach. The team hired David Lee, according to a source, to help fix the...
Fan stabbed in neck outside Falcons stadium
ATLANTA — A Falcons fan was stabbed in the neck during an altercation outside the Georgia Dome following yesterday’s NFC Championship Game, an Atlanta TV station reported last night. The...
Pollard’s big hit dooms Patriots
FOXBOROUGH — The Patriots will be happy if they never see Ravens safety Bernard Pollard again. He has quite a hold on them. In 2008, when Pollard was with the...
Sports Shorts
GOLF: Gay wins playoff at Humana Challenge Brian Gay clinched his fourth PGA Tour title by beating Charles Howell III and Swede David Lingmerth in a sudden-death playoff to win...
Stephens wins 3-set thriller at Australian Open
MELBOURNE — American teenage tennis sensation Sloane Stephens battled into her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, beating Serb Bojana Jovanovski in three tough sets today at the Australian Open. Stephens, the...
P.J.: Nets set to bring it vs. Knicks
Knicks vs. Nets always was more one-sided series than rivalry, the old-guard Garden team getting all the back pages and the two never enjoying enough simultaneous success to foster a...
Knicks' Shumpert ready for more playing time
After sitting, working and rehabbing for nearly nine months, Iman Shumpert finally got back on the court for the Knicks in London, starting and playing nearly 15 minutes against the...
‘Sub-par’ Lakers fall again
A worn-down Kobe Bryant called it a “sub-par” performance. For the Lakers, it was the latest in a string of similar efforts by a struggling team. Landry Fields had a...
Mets star Wright gets engaged
Scratch David Wright’s name off the list of most eligible bachelors in New York. Wright is engaged to beautiful model Molly Beers, industry sources confirmed yesterday. No date for the...
Wrigley to be renovated
CHICAGO — The Cubs announced a five-year, $300 million plan to renovate Wrigley Field at the annual Cubs convention on Saturday. There are still several hurdles to clear, including funding...
Lundqvist pulled as Rangers routed by Penguins in home opener
With no context, last night’s game at the Garden was so sloppy it could have been confused as a preseason match between the Rangers and Penguins. When looking at the...
Asham drops gloves fast in Rangers debut
John Tortorella seems to have real expectations for Arron Asham, and that doesn’t include the winger changing who he is or how he plays. “I don’t expect him to be...
Nash scores, would rather have ‘W’ in Garden debut
On a night when little went right for the Rangers, at least their big offseason acquisition impressed. Rick Nash, who was acquired from the Blue Jackets, scored his first goal...
Henrik yanked as Rangers lose home-opener against Penguins
With no context, last night’s game at the Garden was so sloppy it could have been confused as a preseason match between the Rangers and Penguins. When looking at the...
Finally! Knicks and Nets battling for the Atlantic
Granted, this hasn’t received the universal attention as say, Earth’s end by Mayan calendar calculations, but there is a somewhat rare occurrence going on locally: The Knicks and the Nets...
Knicks-Nets for last regular season showdwon
I for one hope James Dolan and the Knicks continue to have microphones situated around the court today against the Nets at the Garden to pick up whatever trash-talk and...
Oh brother, 49ers' Harbaugh a tough quote
ATLANTA — Jim Harbaugh’s podium during a week of interviews in New Orleans figures to be an interesting place. The second-year coach has his 49ers in the Super Bowl, where...
Niners’ defense builds Matty vise
ATLANTA — It felt like two entirely different games in the same afternoon for both Matt Ryan and the 49ers’ defense.After torching San Francisco in the first half of the...
Man on the spoon
If you’re one of those people who thinks that “My Sweet Lord” sounds like “He’s So Fine,” you’re probably thinking that ABC’s new food competition show “The Taste” sounds an...
Grammy ends war with Clark
Dick Clark will be honored by one of his most bitter rivals — music’s Grammy Awards. Clark, who died of a heart attack in April 2012, will receive a special...
Hot & Cold Serial
‘The Following” is brought to you through the f-ing awesomness of Kevin Bacon. Ma-a-a-n. No, that’s not me sounding like an idiot, I am capable of doing that using my...
Talk show guests
MONDAYBARBARA CORCORAN - The Nate Berkus Show, 6 a.m., (OWN)DREW BARRYMORE, TAYE DIGGS - Good Morning America, 9 a.m., Ch. 7KRISTEN JOHNSTON - The Wendy Williams Show, 10 a.m., Ch....
Condoleezza Rice goes to work for CBS
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined CBS News as a contributor, the network says. The news was announced yesterday on “Face the Nation” where Rice made her first...
Pulse sales
CENTURY 21 Locations across the city; visit c21stores.com for stores and hours * Sale Jan. 21-31. Get up to 85 percent off retail at the winter clearance event. CYNTHIA ROWLEY...
All signs point to Blackout eats
When it comes to pre-theater specials, the one preceding “Not by Bread Alone” is hard to beat. It’s not so much what you eat — though the meal, catered by...
Weird but true
Drop and give me 20 mantras, you maggot. The Marines, famous for putting recruits through basic-training hell, are about to take another tack — with “mindfulness-based” training techniques similar to...
Big East saving best for last
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — If this is the last season of the Big East as we know it, at least it’s not going out with a whimper. Saturday night’s game...
Rider tops Iona for 5th straight
Tommy Pereira scored 14 points, and Jonathon Thompson and Daniel Stewart had 13 each as Rider won its fifth straight game, 67-62 yesterday over Iona in Lawrenceville, N.J. Thompson’s free...
Plane veers off the runway at Newark Airport
A plane veered off the runway at Newark Liberty International Airport Sunday, Port Authority officials told MyFoxNY.com. The incident happened at 8:25 p.m. and involved United Express Flight 4480 from...
Rangers pounded by Penguins in Garden opener
James Neal scored twice, Evgeni Malkin assisted on three Pittsburgh goals, and the Penguins chased reigning Vezina Trophy winner Henrik Lundqvist from the net in the second period of a...
Alleged Te'o hoaxster plans on telling his story
LANCASTER, Calif. — The person cast as the mastermind of the hoax involving Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o may tell his side of the story, a family member said Sunday. Peter...
Sundance review: ‘Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington’
PARK CITY -- When you hear “How Deep Is Your Love” playing on a radio in a car filled with war journalists in one of the earth’s danger zones (Baghdad?...
49ers fan stabs Falcons fan after NFC title game
ATLANTA — An Atlanta television station reports that a fan was stabbed in the neck outside the Georgia Dome after the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Atlanta Falcons for the...
Sundance review: ‘We Are What We Are’
PARK CITY -- A typically underwhelming moody-arty horror entry at Sundance, ‘We Are What We Are” mistakes withholding one sentence of information from the audience for suspense. As a general...