July 9, 2013
Cop killer victim's family recalls tragedy
Cop killer Ronell Wilson turned Father's Day into a day of tragic remembrance, the sobbing widow of one of his victims told jurors today. Rose Nemorin, 41, said that her...
Flag burner busted, charged with hate crime
Cops arrested and charged an unpatriotic Canadian-born man with a hate crime after he was caught on video surveillance burning the American flag outside a Midtown bar. Jeff Schorsheide,26, was...
Fordham's Koonce named to the Walter Payton Award Watch List
Fordham running back Carlton Koonce, a redshirt senior from Lumberton, N.J., has been named to the Walter Payton Award Watch List.The award, presented by The Sports Network, is given to...
Mental health advocates voice concern over Obama's potential expansion of gun buyer database
WASHINGTON - Mental health advocates are worried that the privacy of people who have received treatment for their illnesses could be jeopardized by a White House push to expand a...
SMU transfer, Brooklyn native Bernardi commits to Hofstra
Brian Bernardi is headed back home, and the former Xaverian sharpshooter expects to be a part of a winner.The SMU transfer picked Hofstra over Fairfield Tuesday afternoon, joining Niagara transfers...
Yankees and their slumping bats go quietly against Royals
Two fastballs that missed their mark by a total of approximately six inches were enough to hang a loss around CC Sabathia’s thick and sweaty neck Tuesday night. That’s the...
Dad: World Peace 'prefers' Knicks, if cut by Lakers
Ron Artest Sr., Metta World Peace’s father, said his son’s preference is to remain with the Lakers, but if he is cut via the amnesty rule, he’d want to sign...
Hundreds of people desperately search for autistic 11-year old boy in scorching weather
MENIFEE, Calif. — Hundreds of people searched a sun-scorched area of Southern California on Tuesday for an autistic 11-year-old boy who was last seen at his home during the weekend....
Cool Event II: Bob Fingerman at MoCCA
Wednesday night’s a good one for NYC comics aficionados. Indie cartoonist extraordinaire Bob Fingerman and TV’s Frank (Conniff, from cult fave Mystery Science Theater 3000) will launch Fingerman’s solo exhibit...
Pitino: After gruesome injury, Louisville's Ware could be back on court in October
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Injured Louisville guard Kevin Ware could be back on the court by October. Cardinals coach Rick Pitino said Tuesday that he's encouraged by Ware's rehabilitation, which recently...
Warrants unsealed: Hernandez slammed door on investigators
A number of new details about the investigation of the murder case involving former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez were revealed on Tuesday afternoon when eight search warrants were unsealed...
VIDEO: Surveillance catches brutal beating of Bronx woman in robbery
Surveillance video captured the vicious beating of a 62-year-old woman who was robbed in the lobby of a Bronx apartment building, police said. The suspect (pictured here) grabbed the woman...
Man driving armor-plated military vehicle through Detroit suburb caused panic on 4th of July
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A man driving an armor-plated military-type vehicle and firing what appeared to be a machine gun mounted on top caused a ripple of panic in suburban...
Rangers' Shanahan, Devils' Niedermayer in 2013 Hall of Fame class
The Hockey Hall of Fame announced the 2013 inductees on Tuesday afternoon and they included two players New York hockey fans know very well.Former Devils’ captain Scott Niedermayer will be...
Fashion designer SoHo strangle trial won't have quick verdict
Just an hour into deliberations, jurors are signaling that there'll be no quick verdict in the sensational Soho House tub-strangle trial. Right out of the gate, the Manhattan Supreme Court...
PHOTOS: The Mets in extra innings this year
The Mets have played 11 extra-inning games this year. They have gone 5-6 in those games and you can re-live the best and worst of them here.
Guest Blog! Mike Zapcic of ‘Comic Book Men’ at Florida Supercon
I have to admit – I wasn’t looking forward to being in Miami over the 4th of July weekend for Florida Supercon; I’ve been to Florida in the summer and...
Cool Event: Drink & Draw
The kharupt Khary Randolph and his band of merry artistic revelers will be hosting their monthly Drink & Draw art jam tomorrow night. It's free, although they suggest a donation...
Mexico beats US to be world's fattest country - but we're still a close second
The United States no longer holds the title of the world’s most populous, obese nation; that designation has been passed on to Mexico. According to a new report from the...
'What are you going to do?' : 'Whitey' Bulger, former friend in profanity-laced fight in court
BOSTON — James "Whitey" Bulger and his once-loyal right-hand man have had an angry, profanity-laced exchange in court during Bulger's racketeering trial in Boston. Tensions exploded Tuesday after Kevin Weeks...
12-year-old Ohio State fan names cancerous tumor 'Michigan' and beats it
Rivalries are good for sports teams. Turns out, they can be good for people, too.A 12-year-old boy just proved that in his recent fight against cancer.According to NBC 4 in...
Hold your nose! Tourists line up to smell world's stinkiest plant
BRUSSELS — Tourists are lining up in Belgium for the chance to visit a huge, foul-smelling plant. The national botanical garden was staying open until dusk for a second day...
30,000 California inmates refuse meal in hunger strike protest over 4,500 held in solitary confinement
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Corrections officials say more than 30,000 of California's nearly 133,000 inmates have refused at least one meal as part of a protest over inmates held in solitary...
Man avoids homelessness by stealing $4000, then waiting for police outside bank
MOULTON, Ala. — Police in one Alabama city didn't have to go far to find a man suspected of robbing a bank: He was sitting on a bench in the...
Knicks told they are out of running for Brand: source
The Knicks have been informed by Elton Brand's representatives that they no longer are in the running for the Westchester power forward, according to an NBA source. According to the...
Dressed like a ninja, armed to the teeth, Anna Benson demanded $30K from ex-Mets ace Kris Benson: police report
Crazed “Baseball Wife” Anna Benson dressed like a ninja and armed herself with a gun, ammo and bullet-proof vvest to break into the home of estranged hubby and ex-Mets pitcher...
12-year-old Brooklyn boy vanishes after going to the store for milk on 4th of July
A smart, friendly Brooklyn boy has been missing from his East New York foster home since the 4th of July, when he went to the store and never came back...
Huge blow against Bonanno crime family as seven crew members indicted on enterprise corruption charges
Manhattan prosecutors today announced a big blow against the Bonanno crime family: the indictment on enterprise corruption charges of seven crew members, including jailed Donnie Brasco-era gangster and alleged underboss...
Trenton Thunder's bat dog Chase passes away days after retirement
Just three days after the Trenton Thunder honored its longtime bat dog, Chase, with a birthday and retirement party, the beloved animal died on Monday at the age of 13....
Former chief medical examiner in San Antonio claims gun powder on Trayvon Martin's body verifies he was on top of Zimmerman
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — An expert on gunshot wounds hired by the defense testified Tuesday that George Zimmerman's account of how he fatally shot Trayvon Martin is consistent with the...
Captain of wrecked cruise ship on trial in Italy over deadly shipwreck that claimed 32
GROSSETO, Italy — The crippled Costa Concordia lies on its side off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, a stubborn reminder of the 2012 shipwreck that claimed 32 lives. On...
'Pacific Rim' baddies are big, but the heroes are better
The extinction of mankind has loomed again and again over Hollywood blockbusters the past couple of years, though never anywhere near as entertainingly as in “Pacific Rim.’’ With Mexican genre...
JETS TOP 25: No. 12 Mark Sanchez
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...
Italian coach: Move to Knicks will take pressure off Bargnani
The Knicks have been unable to comment yet on the Andrea Bargnani trade with Toronto because it won’t become official until Wednesday due to Quentin Richardson’s sign-and-trade inclusion. But former...
Former stripper and mom to Doris Duke fortune heirs barricades herself in compound to avoid court papers
A former topless dancer and money hungry mom to twin heirs of the Doris Duke fortune has barricaded herself and her children inside a Utah compound and threatened to sic...
THEY CAN: Insurance fraud fugitive tweets 'catch me if you can' shortly before arrest
SAN DIEGO — "Catch me if you can." San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said Wanda Podgurski sent that taunting tweet after skipping trial in January while facing charges...
Brownsville teen on the run after wriggling free from cops
A teen wriggled free from cops and escaped while being placed under arrest in Brownsville yesterday, cops said. Justin Bumpers, 17, turned violent during a fight in his Chester Street...
World's largest building open for business in China — has a 6,000 person indoor beach resort with its own Sun
Visitors to China's fourth largest city can escape the crowded streets and dense pollution by stepping into the largest building in the world. The New Century Global Center in Chengdu...
Quebec 'runaway train' may have been tampered with; several victims believed 'vaporized'
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — The chairman of the company which owned the runaway train that derailed and exploded in a small Quebec town, killing at least 13, believes the train may...
'A lot of pain. A lot of pain': Eliot Spitzer chokes up over hooker scandal in TV interview
Eliot Spitzer choked up today when asked how he’s personally changed since getting caught in a hooker scandal that sunk his governorship five years ago. “A lot of pain. A...
IRS mistakenly posted 100,000 Social Security numbers to gov't website: group
The IRS mistakenly posted the Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of Americans on a government website, the agency confirmed Monday night. One estimate put the figure as high...
Yankees' A-Rod to meet with MLB on Friday about Biogenesis: source
Alex Rodriguez’s meeting with MLB investigators will be on Friday, The Post has confirmed. The league's investigators, led by vice president of investigations Dan Mullin, want to speak to Rodriguez...
A-Rod, Jeter, Harvey and Kershaw
Just some quick hits today: --George King and I report today that the time is nigh for Alex Rodriguez to meet with Major League Baseball investigators. A-Rod’s strategy, as he...
'Dead' patient opened eyes minutes before NY docs were due to harvest organs: report
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Doctors at a central New York hospital were minutes away from harvesting organs from a woman they believed was dead. Then she opened her eyes. Colleen Burns,...
WATCH: Smiling wife tries to hire hit man because killing him would be 'easier than divorcing him'
MUSKEGON, Mich. — An investigation into a 20-year-old West Michigan woman who later pleaded guilty to soliciting the murder of her 27-year-old husband included videotaped meetings with an undercover police...
Blister could nix Harvey's last Mets start before All-Star break
SAN FRANCISCO — Matt Harvey is battling a blister on his right index finger that could cost him his final start before the All-Star break, Mets manager Terry Collins revealed...
Mets' wild 6th (of 16) had a bit of everything
SAN FRANCISCO — The Mets played their umpteenth extra-inning game last night -- the third at least 13 innings in eight days -- and in a string of wild games,...
Mets clock Giants in 16; Harvey throws 121 pitches with blister
SAN FRANCISCO —— If the persistent blister on his right index finger allows, Matt Harvey probably should start the All-Star game next Tuesday for the simple reason it would ensure...
Home Run Derby contestants set for Citi Field
David Wright said it was pretty simple making his captain’s picks for Monday’s Home Run Derby at Citi Field. “All three guys that I had pegged for my 1-2-3 said...
Mets on deck at Giants
TONIGHT — 10:15 RHP Dillon Gee (6-7, 4.45) vs. LHP Barry Zito (4-6, 4.44) TOMORROW 3:45 p.m. RHP Zack Wheeler (2-1, 4.29) vs. RHP Matt Cain (5-5, 4.85) Both games...
Kershaw: Give Mets' Harvey All-Star start
Clayton Kershaw is headed to his third-straight All-Star Game and is a strong candidate to start on the mound for the National League. But even he thinks Mets ace Matt...
Niese gets good news, should be back this season for Mets
SAN FRANCISCO — Jon Niese’s season will resume. The Mets left-hander received “positive news” yesterday, according to assistant general manager John Ricco, when a follow up MRI exam in New...
Mets get sobering view of plane that crashed in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — The Mets were given a stark reminder Sunday evening how precious life is and baseball can be pretty insignificant. Flying into San Francisco International Airport for a...
Hot Picks: On sale this week
Top retailers give you their Hot Picks of the week: Ming Chen, AMC’s television show “Comic Book Men” and Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, Red Bank, N.J. Buffy The...
Gotham Post: Norm Breyfogle
Norm Breyfogle’s one of those artists whose work defined a certain Batman era, in this case the late ‘80s and ‘90s.While Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli and Brian Bolland were getting...
'Been through hell and back': Cleveland women held captive as sex slaves speak out, thank world for support
The three victims of the horrific Cleveland kidnapping have spoken publicly for the first time since their rescue last May — sending out a message of thanks to supporters in...
SodaStream’s sale hopes going pffffffft
SodaStream’s efforts to sell itself are fast losing their fizz, The Post has learned. While CEO Daniel Birnbaum has said he aims to shake up the multibillion-dollar market for carbonated...
Dell on the verge, but hurdles still ahead
Michael Dell might want to keep the champagne on ice for a few more days. Yesterday, influential proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis recommended that shareholders vote for...
Business briefs
Heavy metal Alcoa's second-quarter loss widened due to weak aluminum prices, although the results were slightly better than expected after excluding restructuring and legal costs. Alcoa’s loss was $119 million,...
Job report a hands-on proposition for Fed
You have to hand it to the Fed. On the one hand, the central bank would have liked last Friday’s job report to have been mediocre. That would have taken...
Ackman aims for new fund
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is raising $1 billion for a new, undisclosed activist position in a separate fund, according to a letter to investors. Pershing, which has been raising cash...
‘Short’ on cash: Hedgie seeks $$
Hedge-fund manager Steve Eisman is back in the hunt — for cash.Eisman, who shorted the housing market to fame and fortune during the subprime bubble era, is one of more...
Jones $eeks a fit
Jones Group — the owner of retail brands like Nine West, Anne Klein and Stuart Weitzman — has hired Citigroup to explore a possible sale of the company, The Post...
A merger urger
Liberty Media Chairman John Malone is attracting plenty of attention — and it’s not just his penchant for loud Hawaiian shirts. Even among the wheelers and dealers descending on Allen...
Suit gooses Fannie shares
Shareholders yesterday applauded hedge- funder Richard Perry’s bold move to sue Uncle Sam for hoarding all the profits of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Preferred shares of the...
Mr. Smith going to Hearst digital media
Forbes.com President Mike Smith has jumped to Hearst to lead the revenue platform and operations for the magazine group’s digital media division. Last year, the privately held Hearst magazines had...
Close the book on Barnes & Noble chief
The Nook got him the hook. Barnes & Noble said CEO William Lynch — who spent the past three years scrambling to create a Nook tablet device to compete with...
Voice taps new editor
The troubled Voice Media Group is importing an editor from its St. Louis weekly to head its flagship Village Voice in New York. Tom Finkel, who has edited the Riverfront...
3 WTC deal a vindication
The term sheet GroupM signed yesterday with Larry Silverstein at 3 World Trade Center vindicates the developer’s faith in a site many had once given up for dead — and...
May saw increase in credit
Americans increased their borrowing in May at the fastest pace in a year. Borrowing in the category that includes credit cards reached its highest point since the fall of 2010.Increased...
Parents: Poor kids get ‘F’d
A pro-Bloomberg administration parents group is planning to file a civil-rights complaint that calls for an investigation of what it says is the unfair concentration of ineffective teachers in the...
NY vets at war over memorial arrests
They wouldn’t stop reading the names of their fallen brethren “in a timely manner” — and for this, 11 Vietnam veterans and one Purple Heart-holding World War II veteran are...
‘Stalker’ prof an XXX-pat
The former NYU professor arrested for allegedly stalking the chief economist at Citigroup and sending him dirty pictures had an affair with a married politician while she worked as an...
‘Back from hell’
The three victims of the horrific Cleveland kidnapping have spoken publicly for the first time since their rescue last May — sending out a message of thanks to supporters in...
Bon Jovi boo$t for ’cane aid
Jon Bon Jovi went home yesterday to present a $1 million check from his band to a fund to help New Jersey recover from Hurricane Sandy. The rocker joined Gov....
Hooker’s ‘jail’ wail: She sobs as pimp & his pop get 9 years
She’s going to have to wait on that honeymoon. Desiree Ellis, the blond hooker who stood by her pimp-daddy, Vincent George Jr., and his partner-in-crime father, Vincent Sr., during their...
Like father, like son: LT Jr. sex rap
He’s a chip off the old blocking dummy — and not in a good way. Lawrence Julius Taylor Jr., son of Giants legend Lawrence Taylor, is being held without bail...
Twisted reality show
JOHANNESBURG — They have fought over bodies, burials, trust funds and wine labels. Now Nelson Mandela’s squabbling offspring are fighting over broadcasting rights to his funeral. Makaziwe Mandela, the former...
54 dead as Egyptian army opens fire
Egypt plunged deeper into chaos after a three-hour battle in Cairo left at least 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead and crushed efforts to form a...
Manhattan straphanger knifed on 6 train
A knife-wielding psycho savagely attacked a woman on a No. 6 train during yesterday’s morning rush hour in Midtown — simply because the victim had stared at her, cops said....
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan A city garbage-truck operator caught driving his own car the wrong way through Harlem yesterday became the latest in a rash of municipal employees arrested within the last week....
Yeshiva U. hit with $380M suit over sex ‘coverup’
Yeshiva University was slapped with a $380 million lawsuit yesterday by 19 ex-students of its prestigious all-boys high school, who allege that honchos there covered up decades of sexual and...
Quinn plan is grade news for restaurants
The city received an “F” on its restaurant-inspection system yesterday from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who announced plans to revamp it while dramatically cutting the dough it produces from...
Mayoral hopefuls roast council pork
Mayoral candidates yesterday laced into the City Council’s taxpayer-funded member-item system overseen by their rival Christine Quinn in light of a Post report that one member spent millions of dollars...
No bull: Jets coach Rex Ryan running in Pamplona
Jet coach Rex Ryan traded in his Gang Green sweater for a traditional white mozos uniform — as he ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. While Ryan spends football...
Finally, Silda takes a stand and sits this out
As Eliot Spitzer launched his daft and delusional drive to relieve his middle-aged boredom while reviving the city’s X-rated economy by running for comptroller, the little woman to whom he’s...
Spitzer drags up old shame in bid for comptroller's office
Just as his wife and daughters were enjoying their lives out of the public eye, disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer selfishly forced them back in by running for comptroller, sources...
Dem fields bulging
This town might not be big enough for two sex-scandal-scarred politicians, experts said yesterday. Eliot Spitzer’s political comeback in the comptroller’s race could hurt mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, according to...
Eliot puts Paterson in pickle
Stringer or Spitzer? For ex-Gov. David Paterson, it’s a political quandary. Paterson, who succeeded Eliot Spitzer as governor in 2008 after Spitzer resigned in the wake of a prostitution scandal,...
Model electrocuted after peeing on G train third rail
A quirky Brooklyn model died early yesterday after he drunkenly stumbled onto a subway track’s electric third rail while urinating in Williamsburg, law-enforcement sources said. Matthew Zeno, 30, of Bedford-Stuyvesant,...
American dreams crashed: Girls killed in Frisco plane accident were excited to visit US
They were top-tier high-school students from China eager for a taste of American culture and a chance to attend college in the United States. Close friends Ye Mengyuan and Wang...
Randy Travis hospitalized
Country-music star Randy Travis has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting a dangerous heart infection. The Grammy winner, 54 — who pleaded guilty earlier this year to DWI —...
O touts his tech genius
WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday boasted he’s made the federal government “smarter.” Obama said he’s taken the high-tech know-how that made his first presidential campaign “one of the most inclusive...
Kerry’s wife on the mend
WASHINGTON — Teresa Heinz Kerry’s condition was upgraded to fair from critical yesterday, a day after the wife of Secretary of State John Kerry was rushed to the hospital with...
Osama bin Laden disguised himself in cowboy hat while hiding out in Pakistan: report
WASHINGTON — Fugitive al-Qaeda warlord Osama bin Laden disguised himself in a cowboy hat while hiding out in Pakistan, it was revealed last night. Bin Laden donned the John Wayne-style...
One day after July 4, nut burns flag flown by proud new citizen
An unpatriotic firebug set an American flag ablaze outside a Midtown bar where the owner had hung it to celebrate becoming a US citizen just days earlier. John Doherty, 42,...
Girl leaps from SUV on SI
A 13-year-old autistic girl was fighting for her life last night after jumping from her family’s moving SUV on the Staten Island Expressway, cops said. The child was in the...
Pataki-suing pervs’ new upstate bust
This won’t help their case.Two of the convicted pervs suing former Gov. George Pataki in Manhattan federal court for locking them in the loony bin after they’d done their time...
Jacko's bum was scarred and abscessed with needle marks: doc
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson was such an opiate junkie in 1993 that his buttocks were scarred and abscessed from needle marks, according to video testimony yesterday from his one-time...
Mob rat: Uncage me
Lawyers for Bonanno-crime- boss-turned-FBI-informant Joseph Massino want the sickly turncoat sprung from jail as a reward for his testimony, papers filed yesterday in Brooklyn federal court show. “Seldom in the...
Killer cop ‘cell’ twist
Authorities are investigating whether an NYPD cop was on her cellphone when her marked police van fatally struck a pedestrian in Williamsburg over the weekend, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. The...
‘Bat’ $#!t crazy! Met wife ‘pulls gun’ on pitcher
Infamous “Baseball Wife” Anna Benson allegedly went batty yesterday when she pulled a gun on her estranged husband, former Mets pitcher Kris Benson, and demanded money, according to reports. The...
Strange new face of American racism
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different...
Spitzer’s chutzpah
Poor Scott Stringer. He thought he had a cakewalk to the city comptroller’s office, but he didn’t count on Eliot Spitzer’s ego. Spitzer, never lacking in the audacity department, declared...
Kerry’s Mideast strategy: One problem at a time
The Issue: Whether Kerry’s efforts to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians are poorly timed. *** Cynics like John Podhoretz contribute nothing to the situation in the Middle East...
Make book on this
Nicole Gelinas’ “Real Estate Fiction” was appropriately titled, as she has made a number of errors about The New York Public Library’s 42nd Street renovation plan (PostOpinion, July 8). She...
Life’s a beach
It isn’t often we can write a sentence such as this one: The Supreme Court of New Jersey has struck a blow for common sense. Yesterday, the court sided with...
Socks appeal
‘Why not me?” Surely this must have been Eliot Spitzer’s thinking before he announced for city comptroller. Looking out at the political landscape he would have seen, for example, South...
The silence of the Brotherhood
Champions of democracy don’t usually threaten to “blow up” their own country or set innocent neighbors “on fire.” But that’s just what backers of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi are...
Make them visit
Attention Jewish mothers: Has your son not been calling enough? Did your daughter forget to send you a birthday card? Have your grandchildren failed to write their thank-you notes for...
Fracking phobia fails yet again
The pro-fracking conspiracy in the United States is so vast that it evidently encompasses the Environmental Protection Agency, famously a tool of the oil and gas industry. The EPA just...
Skylar Grey's songs bring sunny hooks
Albums of the Week Skylar Grey “Don’t Look Down” ★★ 1/2 A backroom songwriter who co-wrote Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie” and recorded in the mid-2000s as...
Dull tracks lead to Jay-Z's ‘Holy Grail’
Jay-Z “Magna Carta . . . Holy Grail” ★★ SIX tracks into “Magna Carta . . . Holy Grail,” on “F.U.T.W.,” you hear Jay-Z plead, “Just let me be great”...
Comedian Jackie Hoffman cranks it
If Jackie Hoffman ever finds true happiness, she’ll be in trouble. Because then she won’t have an act. Until then, the consummate curmudgeon continues to vent her spleen, to the...
Debbie Little at Monticello Graded Entries
Best Bet: Haroun Hanover (1st) FIRST: mile; pace; $5400; cond; 5 Haroun Hanover (JMarohnJr) 1-1-1 5-2 2 Blade Seelster (CStratton) 2-2-2 7-2 1 Sams Fortune (MMerton) 6-4-3 5-1 3 L...
Debbie Little at Yonkers Graded Entries
Best Bet: Cool Like Fire (8th) FIRST: mile; pace; $13,000; cond; 6 Whiskey Pete (JStratton) 6-2-4 3-1 3 Overnight Delight (JBartlett) 8-4-3 4-1 1 Fire Escape (SSmith) 8-6-5 8-1 2...
Parx Racing Entries
FIRST-1m70yds; $17,000; md cl($10,000); 3, 4 & 5-YO; 2-Bob Greco 9-5 6-GottchaMyDear 6-1 3-Actors Inc. 5-2 7-Justingo Shiner 8-1 4-Royal Chamer 20-1 1-a-BraveDepty 15-1 5-Imgnryweeken 9-2 8-Printer's Alley 12-1 1-a-Trnthepgety...
Parx Racing Results
FIRST-5 1/2 fur; $14,000; cl($5,000); 3up2True Hevn (Chpp)2.602.402.107No Equipment (Castillo)9.804.404Zuerstgold (Vargas,Jr.)2.80Scr: Superfecta.* Exacta (2-7) $29.80 * Trifecta (2-7-4) $130.80SECOND-1 mile; $22,000; cl($12,500); 3up4I Love It (Remedo)5.602.80out5Valentinos Gold (Ramos)2.40outScr: Grandad Bud,...
Rasheed spurns Knicks, joins Pistons staff instead
ORLANDO — Rasheed Wallace could have joined Mike Woodson’s staff with the Knicks. Instead, he opted to take a job on Maurice Cheeks’ staff with the Pistons, a move that...
Home Team Lineups
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Today's Sports on the Air
Baseball11 a.m.Lowell at Cyclones WKRB (90.3 FM)7 p.m.Rangers at Orioles MLBN7 p.m.Royals at Yankees YES, WCBS (880 AM)10 p.m.Mets at Giants SNY, WFAN (660 AM/101.9 FM)NBA Summer League11 a.m.Pacers at...
Hondo tosses up a prayer
The Rangers showed great concern for Hondo’s financial well being last night in Baltimore, bringing down the Birds to lower his deficit to 610 oylers and raise his winning streak...
McDonagh inks $28.2M deal with Rangers
Ryan McDonagh could have plotted a path that would have taken him to unrestricted free agency in three years. Instead, the Blueshirts’ 24-year-old blue chip defenseman chose to commit to...
Sports Shorts
SOCCER: Police search for beheading suspects Police in the northern Brazilian state of Maranhao are searching for two men suspected of taking part in the slaying and beheading of an...
Yanks bring HOPE to storm-ravaged athletics program
Maryann Ferris asked one simple question: “Can Ivan Nova hit a Wiffle ball?” after the Yankees pitcher struck out several times in a row while hanging out with the Rockaway...
Jeter itching to return to Yankees
MOOSIC, Pa. — This is a nice place to visit — but Derek Jeter has lived here long enough: three Triple-A rehab games with the Yankees’ Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders affiliate are...
Anthony bolting Knicks for Lakers a real possibility
Can I see Carmelo Anthony in purple and gold for the 2014-15 season? You bet your box of Honey Nut Cheerios I can. Anthony in La-La land with La La...
Farmingdale's Matthews expects training camp invite from Knicks
A.J. Matthews believes once the Las Vegas summer league is done, the Knicks are not going to be done with him. Matthews, the 7-foot Cinderella story out of Division III...
He's seen better Ks: Yankees' Gardner closing in on career high in strikeouts
Brett Gardner is well aware that he is on pace to shatter his career high in strikeouts. “I have been chasing too many pitches being aggressive,’’ said the Yankees’ leadoff...
Pacers exec Bird a fine example for Kidd to follow
ORLANDO, Fla. — If you want to see the most optimistic way the Jason Kidd Era in Brooklyn can turn out, look no further than Larry Bird’s stint on the...
Spurs' Green: I didn’t party with Heat
Danny Green was six seconds away from potentially becoming the most unlikely NBA Finals MVP ever. But Ray Allen’s corner 3-pointer went in and the Heat soon retained their crown....
Patriots owner Kraft says team was ‘duped’ by murder suspect Hernandez
Robert Kraft hasn’t made many mistakes as owner of the Patriots. But he says drafting tight end and murder suspect Aaron Hernandez was one of them. “No one in our...
Only thing left to add to Cruz's Giants fairy tale is another Super Bowl ring
Young man is snubbed by the NFL. Young man opens eyes by catching three touchdown passes in a preseason game against the Jets. Young man makes the team. Not just...
Giants extend Cruz for 6 years, $46M
On the day his dreams came true, on the day he secured his place with his hometown Giants for years to come and banked riches that not long ago were...
Cruz wants to put ‘pressure’ on Nicks to re-up with Giants
By holding their ground, the Giants yesterday secured the services of the popular and productive Victor Cruz at a price they can live with, and one that does not preclude...
MLB, Yankees' A-Rod work on setting date for meeting
Major League Baseball’s team of investigators is closing in on a date to interview Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. According to a person with knowledge of the situation, Rodriguez and...
Stadium showers Yankees with boos in soggy loss to Royals
Perhaps the Yankee Stadium denizens were simply tuning their lungs in anticipation of Alex Rodriguez’s possible return. Maybe they didn’t care for manager Joe Girardi not starting Ichiro Suzuki —...
Unable to count on A-Rod, Yankees must acquire bat at third base
The No Names have done as well as No Names can possibly do, but the lineup the Yankees trotted out last night featured six hitters batting .233 or under, including...
Mets should consider trading Parnell
The Mets want Bobby Parnell to be the closer moving forward — and why not? He is a homegrown success story: the guy they saw talent in, stuck with and...
TLC’s ‘Honey Boo Boo’ comes to your senses
To paraphrase a line from the mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” you’re about to experience the sights, the sounds — the smells — of a hard-working reality show family. The...
Talk show guests
TUESDAYKATIE WAGNER - Dr. Phil, 7 a.m., (OWN)DAVID SPADE, BEAR GRYLLS - LIVE! with Kelly and Michael, 9 a.m., Ch. 7BETHENNY FRANKEL - The Wendy Williams Show, 10 a.m., Ch....
‘Ray Donovan’ sets Showtime record
Liev Schreiber’s new Showtime series, “Ray Donovan,” proved its ratings mettle in its second week. Sunday night’s episode averaged 1.6 million viewers — up 15 percent from the series premiere,...
New FX series 'Bridge' plays its cards right
Experienced detective wanted: Danish background necessary, Asperger’s, OCD, or highly functioning autism required. Tomorrow night, FX brings us “The Bridge” a detective procedural adapted from a hit Danish series about...
'Real 40 Year Old Virgins' set to air on Discovery
Discovery has bought the rights to a UK documentary called “Real 40 Year Old Virgins,” which is slated to air here on cable’s Discovery Fit & Health. It stars therapist...
Osgood's best lifts 'Sunday Morning'
Everything old is hot again. “CBS Sunday Morning,” the lite-FM of weekend news programs, has scored an 11 percent rise in viewers over the last year — its biggest second-quarter...
Broken ‘Bro’ code equals ‘Big’ trouble
Controversy and reality TV go hand-in-hand. But even for a reality show, CBS’ “Big Brother” is pushing the envelope — big time. A week after two of the show’s female...
Mets pitcher Matt Harvey reveals his field of dreams
Standing in front of the mirror in a W Hotel suite, Matt Harvey is wearing a nearly $6,000 Tom Ford robe that could have been plucked from Hugh Hefner’s personal...
Batter up!
Walking towards Brussels’ Grand-Place, a UNESCO World Heritage site, my senses were overwhelmed. It might have been the jet lag that first day, but the sounds of the bustling city...
American dreams
Shop, drop & roll Fort Lauderdale’s il Lugano, an all-suite hotel on the Intracoastal Waterway, has a “Shop ’Til You Drop” package “for ladies looking for surf, sand and a...
You rang? St. Lucia answers the call
It’s 3 a.m., you’re partying in your psychedelically lit en-suite infinity pool with friends you met 20 minutes ago, and your last bottle of bub just dripped its final drop....
Weird but true
Someone’s going to be grounded for a long time. Dozens of officers from 19 police departments descended on a home in Fox Chapel, Pa., to clear out what may have...
Bird's caution to new Nets coach Kidd: 'It’s not as easy as it looks'
ORLANDO – If you want to see the most optimistic way the Jason Kidd Era in Brooklyn can turn out, look no further than Larry Bird’s stint on the bench...
Rehabbing Jeter itching to return to majors
MOOSIC, Pa. — This is a nice place to visit — but Derek Jeter has lived here long enough: three Triple-A rehab games with the Yankees’ Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders affiliate are...
Autistic girl jumps from car on SI Expressway; in critical condition
A 13-year-old autistic girl is fighting for her life tonight after suddenly jumping out of her family's moving car on the Staten Island Expressway in Fort Wadsworth, law-enforcement sources said....