June 28, 2013
ESPN's Van Gundy: Nets have best starting lineup in NBA
Count Jeff Van Gundy among those who believe in the new-look Brooklyn Nets.Speaking in an interview on ESPN 98.7 FM Friday afternoon – a day after the Nets stole the...
Mets bullpen spoils Harvey gem in loss to Nats
The positive vibes from a great road trip. Another dominant outing from Matt Harvey. A three-run lead with two outs in the eighth inning. The Mets bullpen took all that...
CC, Yankees blow three-run lead in loss to Orioles
BALTIMORE — As the ball climbed into the oppressive heat and humidity that smothered Camden Yards Friday night, CC Sabathia followed the arc from home plate toward the right-field seats....
Nets not interested in Collins, first openly gay NBA player: source
A source said the Nets are not interested in signing free agent center Jason Collins, the first openly gay active athlete in the four major professional sports in this country.Collins...
Van Gundy calls 'stupid decision' to resign from Knicks 'something I regret to this day'
Jeff Van Gundy resigned from the Knicks nearly 12 years ago and he hasn’t gotten over what he calls a “stupid decision.”Van Gundy defended Clippers coach Doc Rivers, who ESPN...
Toddler separated from day camp group saved by Good Samaritans
A toddler was left behind today at an Upper East Side park after she was separated from her day camp group, police said. Good Samaritans saw the 3-year-old wandering alone...
Caught! Arrest in violent NJ home invasion; sick attack on mother was captured on nanny cam
NEWARK — Authorities have arrested a man wanted in a New Jersey home invasion that left a mother beaten, an attack that was captured by a nanny camera.The Essex County...
MMA star: If UFC prez White were gay, he'd make fighters sex slaves
A mixed martial arts fighter who has legally changed his name to War Machine took aim at the UFC and president Dana White in a most creative – and offensive...
Henry, Cahill, Petke quotes in advance of Red Bulls game vs. Houston
After reeling off an eight-game unbeaten streak, the Red Bulls have lost three straight heading into Sunday’s tilt vs. visiting Houston. Head coach Mike Petke and Designated Players Thierry Henry...
Did Smith tease possible Knicks departure on Twitter?
What a tease.J.R. Smith, with his Knicks status blowing in the wind, caused a commotion among fans Friday when he tweeted: “It was fun while it lasted...”Did the sharpshooting free...
Rangers say they won't buyout Richards' contract
Brad Richards isn’t going anywhere.The Rangers announced Friday that they would not be buying out the underperforming center, meaning he’ll be with the team for the 2013-14 season.There was speculation...
Talking trade: Patriots will let fans exchange Aaron Hernandez jerseys
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots are offering a new jersey to all fans who want to get rid of the one they bought with Aaron Hernandez's name on...
'Sparklers deserve a seat at freedom's table': Steven Colbert blasts Bloomberg's hatred of fireworks
Comedian Steven Colbert poked fun at Mayor Bloomberg for fighting legislation to legalize the sale of sparklers – claiming terrorists could use the beloved kiddie fireworks to bomb the city,...
The 'dam' beaver! Hungry animal to blame for NM cell, Internet outage
TAOS, N.M. — Officials have finally identified the culprit behind a 20-hour Internet and cellphone outage last week in northern New Mexico —an eager beaver. CenturyLink spokesman David Gonzales told...
The new Star Wars is looking pretty bad: Left 4 Dead 2 with mods (VIDEO)
The headline is a joke. Everyone stay cool.Are we Jedi? Sith? What the heck is going on? Nobody really knows, but hitting Stormtroopers with foam baseball bats sure is fun.Getting...
Get ready for … Batman ’66 Week!
We started this blog with Zero Week, which led up to the latest and greatest Batman project, “Zero Year” from DC Comics.Now, as we hurtle toward our ONE MONTH ANNNIVERSARY,...
Sabathia starts tonight for Yankees in surprise switch
BALTIMORE -- In a surprising development, the Yankees will start CC Sabathia tonight against the Orioles at Camden Yards.A Yankees spokesman explained that due to a miscommunication between pitching coach...
Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Ruby Tuesday and more restaurant chains illegally adding automatic tips to customers' bills: suit
An A-List tennis pro is suing a half dozen restaurant chains on behalf of consumers in the five boroughs for illegally adding automatic tips to smaller groups of diners. Ted...
Yankees' Cervelli: A-Rod 'wants to play more than everybody'
TAMPA -- Francisco Cervelli was behind the plate for simulated at-bats by Alex Rodriguez on Friday, so he had a good vantage point to judge the third baseman.“He looked the...
Police hunting four temptresses who stole $500K in cash, jewelry after drugging clueless men
Police are hunting four temptresses who drugged and flirted their way to $500,000 in cash, guns and jewelry they pinched from unwitting men looking for a good time. Police in...
'Rampage' says he didn't leave the UFC because of poor pay -- 'They wanted to kill my brand'
Contrary to popular belief, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s departure from the UFC had nothing to do with money, Jackson told The Post this week. Jackson complained initially about poor pay, but...
Heartless 'fans' sell Gandolfini funeral programs on eBay — one asks for $1,000!
Less than twenty-four hours after fans, friends and family paid their respects to the late James Gandolfini, morbid profiteers are trying to turn a quick buck by selling programs to...
Puppy thief collared after cops ID thug by name tattooed on arm
He should’ve at least covered up his name. A dimwitted thief, with a visible tattoo of his name on his arm, was collared yesterday for snatching an adorable puppy from...
Couple having sex against window fall to their deaths after glass breaks: report
A couple are believed to have fallen to their deaths when a window they were having sex against gave way, say reports. The horrific accident allegedly happened in China when...
Former Heat star Hardaway Sr. says he can root for Knicks, now his son's team, despite past rivalry
Tim Hardaway Sr. said it was “ironic’’ his son was selected by the Knicks last night but believes the 6-6 shooting guard will be an important piece to the puzzle....
Nets announce coaching staff, including Frank
A day after landing Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry from the Celtics, the Nets announced Jason Kidd's new coaching staff.Lawrence Frank, Roy Rogers and Eric Hughes all have...
Former Jets QB Ainge on Sanchez butt video: He's done 'dumb' stuff like this before
If not for Erik Ainge, we would have seen Mark Sanchez’s butt on the internet a lot sooner. The former Jets backup quarterback recalled a story to Metro New York...
Bloomberg: 'We disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little' in stop-frisk checks
Mayor Bloomberg claimed that people of color should be stopped and frisked more -- not less -- while whites are stopped too frequently. "I think we disproportionately stop whites too...
Obama uncertain about visit with Nelson Mandela
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Obama, in the midst of a historic tour of Africa, says he isn't certain about whether he'll be able to visit gravely ill Nelson...
Westchester 'Weeds' mom pleads not guilty to massive $3M Queens-based pot ring
Looking gaunt and glum, suburban pot princess Andrea Sanderlin pleaded not guilty to orchestrating a massive pot selling enterprise out of a non-descript Queens warehouse in Brooklyn federal court today...
Undrafted Brooklyn product Matthews will play with Knicks in Summer League
A.J. Matthews wasn’t disappointed when his name wasn’t called in Thursday night’s NBA Draft. The Brooklyn product just took it as another step in his long-winding career in which he...
Voicemail records last moments of victim during alleged slay by Ivy League boyfriend
A Queens woman can be heard on a cell phone voicemail begging for her life moments before her Ivy League boyfriend strangled her to death -- and it will be...
Nets odds to win NBA title take huge jump after blockbuster trade
Las Vegas believes in the Nets.After listing the Nets with 40-1 odds to win the 2014 NBA Championship before Thursday's draft night blockbuster that saw the Nets ship a package...
'I couldn't see that': Witness with best view never saw Trayvon Martin banging Zimmerman's head into sidewalk
SANFORD, Fla. — A neighbor of George Zimmerman who had perhaps the best view of the struggle between the neighborhood watch volunteer and Trayvon Martin testified at Zimmerman's murder trial...
Actress accused of sending ricin letters to Obama, Bloomberg faces 15 years in prison
The feds have indicted the vampy actress from Texas accused of mailing ricin-laced letters to Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama, adding extra charges that could send her to the slammer...
Bicyclist killed in Sunset Park
A bicyclist was killed this morning in a hit and run accident in Brooklyn, authorities said. A flatbed truck ran into the cyclist at 9:40 a.m. at the intersection of...
Boy, 13, beat 5-year-old neighbor to death: cops
FORT WORTH, Texas — A 13-year-old North Texas boy faces a capital murder charge in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was hit in the head multiple times, authorities...
JETS TOP 25: No. 18 Kellen Winslow
As the Jets get close to training camp, I am going to examine the roster and give you my top 25 players on the Jets roster. Each weekday we will...
Cool Comics Events: Wizard World is tonight
The biggest comics event of the New York summer starts tonight at Basketball City on the East Side: The Wizard World Comic Con NYC Experience.(Need a better name next year,...
Snowden's dad says son didn't commit treason, is being manipulated by Wikileaks
WASHINGTON — The father of NSA leaker Edward Snowden acknowledges his son broke the law but doesn't think he committed treason. The NBC "Today" show reported Friday that Lonnie Snowden...
Bert and Ernie come out in support of gay marriage on The New Yorker cover
"Sesame Street's" Bert and Ernie have always been the best of friends, but an upcoming cover of The New Yorker magazine suggests that the Muppets might be in a different...
FRIDAY FIVE: All-time underachievers
The shinier, happier (yet still not very good) Mets play host to the Nationals this weekend, and as we approach the season’s halfway point, Washington – at 39-39 – has...
Oscar Pistorius' family releases new training video
South African Paralympic and Olympic athletics star Oscar Pistorius has returned to the track for "low-key" training, just weeks before he is due to appear in court for the latest...
Babies with DNA from three people: UK may allow controversial technique
LONDON — Britain may allow a controversial technique to create babies using DNA from three people, a move that would help couples avoid passing on rare genetic diseases, the country's...
Hernandez poses with fan wearing 'cold blooded' T-shirt hours before pal's 'execution'-style murder after club brawl
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was seen posing with a fan, just hours before the body of his pal was found murdered near his Massachusetts home. Hernandez...
Vatican priest arrested for plot to smuggle $26 million from Switzerland
VATICAN CITY — A Vatican cleric and two other people were arrested Friday by Italian police for allegedly trying to smuggle 20 million euros ($26 million) in cash into the...
WATCH: ESPN’s Simmons says Rivers quit on Celtics; Doc ‘would like to call him an idiot’
The NBA Draft may have lacked firepower, but nor fireworks.After ESPN analyst – and unapologetic Cetlics fan – Bill Simmons called out Doc Rivers for “quitting” on Boston, the now...
Cubs' Wrigley Field gets $500M renovation approved - vote on jumbotron to come July 11
CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs have been cleared to move forward with their $500 million renovation of Wrigley Field — except for the large video screen that the team's chairman...
Yea or nay: China has candid national discussion on 'happy ending' services
BEIJING -- China's law enforcers are having an unusually public debate about a delicate topic: Do paid sexual services known as "happy endings" at massage parlors count as crimes if...
Lance Armstrong: It's impossible to win without doping
PORTO VECCHIO, Corsica — The dirty past of the Tour de France came back on Friday to haunt the 100th edition of cycling's showcase race, with Lance Armstrong telling a...
Awesome Stuff: EXCLUSIVE Batgirl Bombshell revealed!
We love all things Bat and all things Bombshell here at the Awesome Stuff column, so what better way to combine the two than with this exclusive reveal from our...
Colorado theater 'shooter' James Holmes to be tied down during court appearances
Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes will be restrained during his trial by wearing a harness under his clothes that will be anchored to the floor, the judge said Thursday....
Retired General under investigation for leaking 'Stuxnet' cyber attack details
WASHINGTON — A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information about a covert cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to...
Picking apart the 1st round
MOST SHOCKING PICK Anthony Bennett, Cavaliers (No. 1)A draft lacking a clear No. 1 pick got off to a shocking start when the Cavaliers, yet to recover from LeBron James...
Hughes bounces back, but Yankees bats remain stuck in funk
If Phil Hughes really was pitching for his job yesterday, he picked a great time to snap out of his malaise. Too bad the Yankees’ languishing lineup didn’t do the...
Cano can’t come up small if he wants A-Rod-like megadeal from Yankees
If Robinson Cano wants the Yankees to bestow him an Alex Rodriguez-like contract — a concept made all the tougher with this version of A-Rod currently bedeviling the franchise —...
Slumping Wells fans 3 more times for Yankees
Vernon Wells’ three-run, game-winning double on Saturday didn’t seem like a slump-buster yesterday. Instead, it was just a momentary reprieve from the veteran outfielder’s ongoing funk that has reached epic...
Rangers rookie Beltre at home in Bronx
Engel Beltre lifted his right arm in the air in triumph and bounced up and down as he waited for Jayson Nix’s drive to land in his glove. It’s only...
Yankees’ offense downright offensive
After being shut out just six times all of last season, getting blanked for the seventh time already this year underscores just how bad the Yankees offense has become. They...
Corzine charged
It’s payback time for thousands of burned customers of failed commodity brokerage MF Global. Jon Corzine, the broker’s former CEO, who customers blame for its destruction in 2011, was charged...
Business briefs
Reuters probeThe Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into manufacturing data supplied by the Institute for Supply Management and published by Thomson Reuters, CNBC reported yesterday. Hangin’ tough Bank of...
2 more offers for Empire $tate Building
Like with many sales of prized Manhattan real estate, there’s a line forming line forming for the Empire State Building.Two new suitors may be entering a growing bidding war for...
Benghazi security team nails $3M book deal
The tragic events in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, are still of great interest to Americans — and book publishers are willing to pay up to tell the story....
Hulu’s on pause
Hulu’s owners have extended the deadline for second-round bids until next week to allow DirecTV more time to line up financing, The Post has learned. The satellite-TV provider is expected...
Apple’s new TV ads bite: survey
Apple’s newest TV commercials, showing consumers enjoying its products while an actor reads the company’s corporate philosophy, are a flop compared with earlier ads from the maker of iPhones and...
Malone eyes TWC
John Malone’s Liberty Media is exploring scenarios for how Charter Communications (27 percent owned by Liberty) could acquire Time Warner Cable, even after his initial overtures were rebuffed, according to...
'Four' his eyes only: New Yorker spends the day test-driving Google Glass
A guy walks into a bar wearing Google Glass. The bartender says, “Are you videotaping?” and calls the manager. It sounds like a beer joke, but it really happened to...
Einhorn a high roller
Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn is 42nd of 108 remaining players in the “One Drop High Roller,” a charity no-limit Texas hold ´em tournament in Las Vegas. The Greenlight Capital founder,...
Icahn’s close to Dell $$
Carl Icahn expects to wrap up formal commitments today for the $5.2 billion six-year financing package he is raising for Dell, The Post has learned.“Everything we heard is the book...
Verizon: Fiber up or die!
Some Verizon customers in the New York metro area who refuse to switch from copper wiring to fiber are being told their service will be cut off. The phone company,...
30-year fixed up to 4.46%
Mortgage rates have suddenly jumped from near-record lows and are adding thousands of dollars to the cost of buying a home.The average rate on the 30-year fixed loan soared this...
$O$: Abandon dip!
Paula Deen got dumped by Walmart, but she’s at the top of the heap on Amazon. An upcoming book by the embattled cooking queen, “Paula Deen’s New Testament,” soared to...
Tough times for new grads
Recent college grads are dealing with an unwanted post-graduate double major: high debt and a weak job market. Student debt almost tripled between 2004 and 2012, according to the Federal...
School snack attack
WASHINGTON — Junk food and sugary drinks will be pulled from schools next year as part of a nutritional overhaul. The “Smart Snacks in School” standards released yesterday by the...
Indictment confirms Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote anti-US messages in boat where he hid: 'We Muslims are one body. You hurt one, you hurt us all'
BOSTON — Marathon-blast suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al Qaeda magazine, gathered online material on Islamic jihad and martyrdom and later scribbled anti-American messages inside the boat...
Fired organ donor sues
A Long Island woman who was fired after donating a kidney to help save her boss’ life is suing the supervisor and her former company, according to a Brooklyn federal...
‘Rip-off’ rabbi gambled Israel charity bucks: suit
A Brooklyn rabbi and a crew of accomplices set up a Midwood call center to fleece millions of dollars from charitable donors who thought they were helping terror victims and...
Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend admits she can’t read the letter she supposedly wrote to his mother about his death
A witness in the George Zimmerman murder trial was forced to admit yesterday that she couldn’t read a letter she supposedly wrote to Trayvon Martin’s mom about his death. Rachel...
President Obama laughs off the idea of sending military to grab Edward Snowden
WASHINGTON — What, me worry? President Obama tried yesterday to downplay his administration’s humiliating inability to grab NSA leaker Edward Snowden by dismissing the world’s most famous fugitive as a...
Senate OK on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly passed landmark legislation that would reform immigration laws, providing a bold, bipartisan stamp of approval even as it heads over to a murky fate...
‘Fraud’ PA cop faces music
Now he’s playing the blues.A Port Authority cop who raked in disability pay while managing to thrash around on stage as part of a Brooklyn hard-rock band pleaded not guilty...
Missoni plane wreck found
An airplane that vanished while carrying an Italian fashion mogul was discovered off the coast of Venezuela after a six-month search, officials and family members said yesterday. Search crews found...
Teen who mowed down Upper West Side girl gets show of support at bail hearing
All in favor of springing the teenager who killed a 4-year-old girl while speeding away from a minor traffic stop, say “Aye.” Friends and relatives of the 17-year-old boy who...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** A newly installed surveillance camera caught a member of a cleaning crew breaking into a UN storage locker with a crowbar and stealing nearly 150 toner cartridges worth...
SUV crash leaves driver, dog covered in paint
As car crashes go, this was something to look at. A Washington state driver’s SUV got an unexpected splash of color when he crashed on a narrow highway — sending...
Beauties in beastly brawl
It’s gotten ugly between these two beauties.Prosecutors are mulling a felony charge against a male Wilhelmina model for allegedly choking, biting and imprisoning his Guess Jeans-model fiancée in their West...
Mike: Diapers over bibs
When it comes to his role as a grandfather, Mayor Bloomberg has it all figured out — changing diapers has it all over feeding duties.“I can tell you when I...
Christie rips Supreme Court same-sex nups ruling: 'Just another example of judicial supremacy rather than having a government run by the people we actually vote for'
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended his opposition to gay marriage yesterday while blasting the Supreme Court ruling boosting it as an example of judicial overreach. Christie, considered a shoo-in...
Anthony Weiner in bid for gay vote as Christine Quinn wins major endorsement
Christine Quinn yesterday won the endorsement of the most famous gay woman in America — but within hours, mayoral rival Anthony Weiner was making his own pitch for gay voters...
HS kids are no smarter
WASHINGTON — Students preparing to leave high school are faring no better in reading or math than students did four decades ago.That’s according to a government report — popularly called...
‘Lemon’ aid for new pets
ALBANY — New York is trying to make it tougher to pawn off a bum pet.The state Legislature has voted to strengthen the “pet-lemon law,” a consumer-protection measure for animal...
Taking lunch to new heights! La Guardia Airport worker drives stair car to pizza joint
This would make the Bluth family proud. A grinning La Guardia Airport worker took a lunchtime joyride in an “Arrested Development”-style stair car — even though the wacky contraption isn’t...
Friends, fans and ‘Sopranos’ co-stars flock to NYC funeral service of James Gandolfini
Friends and fans filled a Manhattan cathedral yesterday to remember James Gandolfini, a “big teddy bear,” whose larger-than-life role as mob boss Tony Soprano often left him consumed by darkness....
B’klyn cook clinging to life after robber shoots him
A hardworking cook was fighting for his life after being gunned down in a botched robbery early yesterday in Brooklyn, police sources said.Guang Yang Chen, 62, was walking to a...
Obama visits Senegal’s Door of No Return, historic exit point for America-bound slaves
In a powerful, symbolic moment, President Obama stepped into the frame of Senegal’s infamous Door of No Return, through which shackled slaves passed as they left Africa for North America...
Straphanger ‘R’mageddon
Hot, crowded rush-hour subways are in the future for thousands of Brooklyn riders — unless the MTA alters its Sandy repair plans, officials said yesterday. In August the agency is...
Holocaust-survivor granny sues granddaughter, claims she’s homeless after being tricked into selling her property
A big-spending real-estate agent sold a Times Square building out from under her own Holocaust-survivor grandmother, leaving the elderly widow homeless and penniless, a $16 million Manhattan Supreme Court suit...
Wayne Gretzky’s foxy daughter Paulina poses with a monkey on a Barbados beach
Hockey great Wayne Gretzky’s daughter, Paulina, and her pro-golfer beau, Dustin Johnson, were up to some monkey business while vacationing in Barbados. Wearing a tiny red bikini with her blond...
Jacko nephew’s anguish at trial
LOS ANGELES — The guardian of Michael Jackson’s three kids broke down in tears yesterday as he testified about his lingering grief over the star’s death.T.J. Jackson, the Gloved One’s...
Jay-Z’s traffic ‘jam’ OK’d
The show will go on for Jay-Z. The rap impresario has won permission from the city to perform atop the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee on the “Late Show with David...
Bikes’ ‘slim’ chance
There’s at least one advantage to Citi Bike — it’s helping New Yorkers slim down. Since the bike-share program launched over the Memorial Day weekend, cyclists have burned off around...
NYer envoy to S. Africa
President Obama yesterday nominated New Yorker Patrick Gaspard, one of his closest political advisers, as the next ambassador to South Africa.Born in the Congo to Haitian parents, Gaspard was raised...
‘Hernandez-ing’ now a twisted take on Tebow
It’s the opposite of Tebowing. In a bit of gallows humor, Aaron Hernandez’s murder arrest has sparked an online wave of “Hernandez-ing” — with people posting photos with their arms...
Cops vow to defeat ‘profile’ pols
A police union has declared war against the City Council members who voted for an anti-“racial profiling” bill — vowing to support their opponents in a campaign to have them...
Bronx golf stab-slay
A man was found stabbed to death last night at the Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course in The Bronx, according to police.Cops said the man, believed to be in his...
NFL star Aaron Hernandez now eyed in July 2012 driveby that killed two men
He could be the NFL’s first serial killer. Murder suspect Aaron Hernandez is now being investigated for the unsolved drive-by slayings of two men in Boston last year, it was...
Tricking the public to ‘promote’ health
New York City Health Department lawyers were in appeals court this month trying to persuade judges to resurrect Mayor Bloomberg’s big-soda ban, which a lower court nixed. But the department...
NYC’s parenting secret
‘What are we doing this weekend?” It’s a question I dread almost as much as “What’s for dinner?” It’s not that I don’t love outings with the kids, but finding...
Paying the PC price: Bloomberg’s culture war
The Issue: Brooklyn’s Longbow Pub, a Welsh bar, which was fined by the city for seeking British workers. *** The Longbow Pub was fined because the city’s logical and moral...
Voting rights: It’s about control
The Issue: The Supreme Court’s decision this week to overturn a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. *** Blaming Congress for not adjusting the Voting Rights Act is...
Anthony & the undecided
Anthony Weiner upended New York’s political establishment this week when two major polls showed the former congressman holding a narrow lead or in a statistical tie for first in the...
The ‘progressive’ IRS
When Michigan Rep. Sander Levin released information this week showing the IRS had included groups with the word “progressive” in their “be on the lookout lists,” Democrats chortled. It proved,...
Chicago, our kind of town
“[T]he ultimate goal of this bill . . . is to put judges in charge of the NYPD. Every police policy is in jeopardy here, not just stop and frisk....
A final farewell
Nothing is quite so unsettling as an untimely death. It throws us off, makes us unsure of where we stand, suggests a disordered malignity in the universe. That helps explain...
Shelly Silver’s real war on women
Vito Lopez may be gone, but the problems in New York’s state Assembly remain. And now the same leadership that failed women by covering up his sexual harassment has failed...
‘Some Girl(s)’ replays a tale of self-absorption
"All the stuff you do makes you a not very nice person,” Kristen Bell understates to Adam Brody in this adaptation of a minor Neil LaBute play. The same could,...
'Redemption' needs a savior
Jason Statham tries to have his cake and eat it, too, in Steven Knight’s action drama with art-house pretensions that still allows the bullet-headed star to play the violent avenger...
David Morse makes Steven Levenson's new play more interesting than it actually is
David Morse may not be a household name, but he’s always a pleasure to watch. With his deceptively kind face and low-boil intensity, the silver-haired character actor has enlivened a...
Tommy Tune turns his talents to Studio 54-inspired musical
It was my good fortune to see all of Tommy Tune’s musicals while the Broadway legend was at the height of his powers. The elegant, sensual “Nine,” starring Raul Julia...
Aerial-disaster spoof 'I'm So Excited!' never leaves the ground
A rare dud from great Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, “I’m So Excited!’’ is a campy, sex-obsessed spoof of airborne-disaster movies that never really gets off the ground. In what turns...
'Selling Drugs' takes a comedic look at the multibillion-dollar industry
The colossal failure of the War on Drugs was also the topic of last year’s “The House I Live In,” and this documentary by Matthew Cooke even uses some of...
Dull vamps tramp it up in meandering ‘Byzantium’
Neil Jordan’s “Byzantium” dares to rework “Twilight” with twice the teen moping and Robert Pattinson replaced by a guy with the sexual magnetism of a sickly Ron Weasley. Saoirse Ronan...
'Songs That Say I Love You' pays tribute to Kate McGarrigle
When family friend Jimmy Fallon shows up to sing Kate McGarrigle’s “The Swimming Song,” he brings up what any viewer of this documentary has been thinking since the first minutes:...
‘Museum Hours’ reveals security guard's inner monologue
Jem Cohen’s first narrative feature centers on a museum guard, Johann (played with great warmth by Robert Sommer, a nonprofessional). He spends his days focusing on the stately paintings and...
'Laurence Anyways' reveals transgender relationship troubles
Twenty-four-year-old Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan has hit on an ingenious and timely obstacle for his latest film’s central couple. Poet and teacher Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) loves Frederique, called Fred (Suzanne...
Even glitter can't save the 'Disco Revolution'
Its priceless clips from the disco era aside, “The Secret Disco Revolution” laughably fails to turn Barry White and Donna Summer into the Che Guevara and Emma Goldman of the...
Let there be light!
The designer Louis Comfort Tiffany died in relative obscurity in 1933, a year after his famed Tiffany Studios declared bankruptcy. By then, the sensual Art Nouveau style he’d epitomized was...
Wimbledon upsets open door for Serena, Murray
When it was over ESPN had eight of its analysts and announcers all on the screen at once trying to explain what they had just witnessed. It was a Wednesday...
5 Questions for Cliff Floyd
Mlb Network analyst and former Mets outfielder Cliff Floyd talks Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler, David Wright as a rookie and Alex Rodriguez with The Post’s Justin Terranova. Q: Is it...
Yonkers grade
Post Time: 7:10 p.m. Best Bet: Romantic Moment (13th) FIRST: Mile pace; $20,000; Jackpot 5 MarieTheArtist (MacDonld) 4-1-2 5-1 2 Flying Mocha (BSears) 1-9-2 3-1 1 AGiveittoemstght (GBrennn) 4-9-2 4-1...
Meadowlands grade
Post Time: 7:15 p.m. Best Bet: Pegasus Blue Chip (10th) FIRST: Mile trot; $12,500; cond 3 Your So Vain (AMiller) 1-9-3 3-1 7 Super Classic (DAckerman) 3-5-4 15-1 8 Vintage...
Home Team Lineups
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Sports Shorts
NFL: Brent fails another drug test Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent has been jailed in North Texas after failing a second drug test. Court records in Dallas County show Brent...
American men fail to reach third round
LONDON — What a stark statistic for the nation of Bill Tilden and Don Budge, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi: It’s been 101 years since...
Hondo makes regal choice
The best thing about picking just one game is that it limits the losses. Hondo, who suffered a triple trouncing Wednesday, lost only with the feeble Nats yesterday, causing the...
Richards: ‘No clue’ if Rangers will amnesty him
The window has opened on amnesty buyouts, but no light has been shed on whether Brad Richards will be invited back to New York for the third year of his...
One-time teen sensation Wie continues to struggle
SOUTHAMPTON — The mere mention of her name to fellow players elicits the same look — forlorn — and the same reaction — a sigh. What in the world happened...
Park in early position for a third major achievement
SOUTHAMPTON — Quietly, history might be in the making at this week’s U.S. Women’s Open at Sebonack. If Inbee Park is able to convert her U.S. Open first-round start of...
UNLV's Bennett unexpected top selection in NBA Draft
The question so many turned over and over before last night’s NBA Draft was whom Cleveland would take with the No. 1 overall pick, Kentucky center Nerlens Noel, he of...
After forming bond, McCollum, Carter-Williams go back-to-back in draft
Two of the most intriguing players in last night’s NBA Draft went back-to-back, but for the last two months, they have had each other’s back. C.J. McCollum, who took the...
ESPN ignoring Lewis-Hernandez similarities because former Ravens linebacker now works for them
It doesn’t matter if it’s a matter of minimalist superstar Robinson Cano jogging toward the next base, or ESPN’s coverage of arrested-for-murder NFL star Aaron Hernandez. We’re supposed to be...
Messier leaves Rangers, says Sather approached him about coaching
Well here is an interesting twist to the Rangers’ coaching search that culminated with the hiring of Alain Vigneault rather than Mark Messier to replace John Tortorella. That is, as...
Nets snag Duke star at No. 22
Mason Plumlee picked a good time to make his first trip to Brooklyn. Plumlee was in the stands inside Barclays Center when NBA Commissioner David Stern announced the Nets took...
Frank to join Kidd’s Nets staff
Jason Kidd got his man. Two weeks after Kidd was introduced as the next coach of the Brooklyn Nets, he landed his former coach with the Nets, Lawrence Frank, to...
Knicks' Anthony says shoulder 'much better,' will avoid surgery
Carmelo Anthony felt great about a lot of things yesterday — his “dream’’ of restoring basketball courts at Brooklyn’s Red Hook Apartments where he grew up being just one of...
Knicks select Hardaway Jr. in first round of NBA Draft
The Knicks are hoping the phrase “like father, like son’’ will bear fruit at the Garden. The Knicks selected Tim Hardaway Jr. last night with the 24th pick in the...
Blockbuster Brooklyn trade involving Kevin Garnett spices up Knicks-Nets rivalry
Open up the Honey Nut cheerios boxes and sprinkle a trail from Flatbush Avenue to the corner of 34th and Seventh, because now we get to find out whether the...
Nets get Garnett, Pierce and Terry in Celtics trade for Humphries, Wallace, three first-rounders
When the Nets named Jason Kidd as their new head coach, general manager Billy King said Kidd embodied the “tough, smart and team-first mentality that we are trying to establish...
Tejada no lock to start for Mets upon return
DENVER — Ruben Tejada may have to show more than sound health to reclaim his starting job with the Mets. Manager Terry Collins yesterday said the shortstop, who is expected...
Marvelous Marlon helps Mets soar past Rockies
DENVER — Angry Byrd, anyone? Marlon Byrd sure fit that description in the eighth inning yesterday as he was lurching toward a Matt Belisle fastball that he sent to disappear...
Jeter doesn’t believe A-Rod is finished
Derek Jeter arrived at the Yankees’ minor league complex in Tampa after a workout at Steinbrenner Field yesterday with a familiar face in the passenger seat: Alex Rodriguez. While the...
Jeter clears another hurdle in way of Yankees return
TAMPA — Derek Jeter ran outside yesterday for the first time since April when a second fracture was discovered in his surgically repaired left ankle, something even the ever-cautious shortstop...
'Ray Donovan' the go-to man for Hollywood sleaze bags
Do you remember the first time you saw “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bad” or “Six Feet Under” and you knew you were watching something you’d never seen before? Get ready for...
Paula Deen's appearance helps ‘Today’ beat ‘GMA’
A tearful plea on Wednesday to Matt Lauer for mercy by hot potato chef Paula Deen helped the beleaguered “Today” show beat “Good Morning America” for the first time since...
‘Rizzoli & Isles’ hits the top of the charts
The fourth season of “Rizzoli & Isles” started with a bang. The TNT crime drama, which teams Angie Harmon as raspy-voiced detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as medical examiner...
‘Devious Maids' star proud of her grandmother's domestic past
There’s nothing wrong with a little controversy. Just ask actress Ana Ortiz, one of the groundbreaking cast of five Latinas starring on Lifetime’s “Devious Maids.” “Any conversation about getting more...
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Weird but true
This guy’s career is not off to a great start. A city bus driver in Worcester, Mass., lost control of his vehicle and smashed into a house along his route...
Wilhelmina model could face felony charges for 'choking, biting and imprisoning' his Guess Jeans-modeling fiancée: authorities
It’s gotten ugly between these two beauties. Prosecutors are mulling a felony strangulation rap against hot Wilhelmina model Romulo Pires da Silva for allegedly choking, biting and imprisoning his gorgeous,...
Nets work out deal for Celtics’ Garnett, Pierce
When the Nets named Jason Kidd as their new head coach, general manager Billy King said Kidd embodied the “tough, smart and team-first mentality that we are trying to establish...
Knicks tap Hardaway Jr. from national runner-up Michigan with 24th pick
The Knicks selected Tim Hardaway Jr. tonight with their 24th pick – the Michigan shooting guard who had a great workout with them earlier this month and helped lead the...
Nets select Duke's Plumlee with No. 22 pick in draft
With the 22nd pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, the Brooklyn Nets selected Duke center Mason Plumlee. Plumlee, whose brother, Miles, was a first-round selection by the Indiana Pacers a...