July 10, 2016
Cheer for a wife beater? No way, José
Scram, loser! I can’t bear seeing former and current Met José Reyes defiling sacred ground at Citi Field. The bad-news baseball- and woman-basher was cynically scooped up for a song...
Mets' double-play combo of future shines in showcase
SAN DIEGO — The Mets’ double-play combination of the future — shortstop Amed Rosario and second baseman Dilson Herrera — played for the same team Sunday in the Futures Game....
Nets move on to free-agency Plan B with Greivis Vasquez deal
After losing out on restricted free agents Allen Crabbe and Tyler Johnson, the Nets moved on to Plan B. That included signing guard Greivis Vasquez and sounding out a move...
Is Barneys leaving Madison Avenue?
Hedge fund mogul Richard Perry will need to channel his inner Don Draper for this pitch. As Barneys majority owner courts investors to buy a minority stake in the luxury...
How Yankees' bullpen use shows everything wrong with MLB
This All-Star break couldn’t have come sooner. I’ve been an unconditional big league baseball fan since the first games I recall watching on TV. I became all-in at 7, with...
Of course Masahiro Tanaka 'felt off' -- the trend is obvious
CLEVELAND — Send it in on the Yankees and Masahiro Tanaka this coming Sunday. When the right-hander faces the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium, he will be working on six...
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson's shooting woes may be mental
LAS VEGAS — Like spring training or preseason football, it’s unwise to read too much into summer league. The eye test matters a lot more than the numbers. And the...
Didi Gregorius picked good time to get drilled in the back
CLEVELAND — Didi Gregorius said if the Yankees had a game Monday, he would tell Joe Girardi and the medical staff he could play. However, it is fortunate there is...
Yanks could have Beltran trade partner if Justin Morneau fails
CLEVELAND -- The White Sox will be in the market for a DH if Justin Morneau doesn’t produce when he joins the club sometime after the All-Star break. If that’s...
Hondo setting torrid pace
In the year 2525 you may again find a handicapper who has closed out the first half with robust earnings of 2,525 fillions — as Hondo did Sunday despite a...
Manhattan By Sail brings fine dining aboard vessels
A New York dinner cruise typically involves a compromise: great views, lousy food. Manhattan By Sail is hoping to chart new culinary territory by teaming with four restaurants — Dante,...
Yankees are still afloat -- but their litmus test is coming fast
CLEVELAND — Teetering. Wobbling. Still standing, though. The Yankees went their separate ways late Sunday afternoon having earned the right to play on. Their owners and executives need not make...
Retailers offer huge discounts to make up for slow spring
Shoppers hunting for bargains this month won’t need to look hard — or at all. Around the Fourth of July, many retailers start amping up their markdowns to clear out...
My secret weapon for getting into college
Amidst all the college-graduation success stories this time of year, it’s important to remember that a college degree still remains out of reach for far too many young people. Nationally,...
Fast Takes: Iran’s nuke-deal cheating, Dallas aftermath and more
Warning From Germany: Iran Is Cheating Team Obama claims Tehran has only violated “the spirit” of the agreement. But as Jonathan Tobin explains at Commentary’s Web site, a German government...
Ignore the feds: Here’s how kids can respond to bullies
With summer finally in full swing, parents are starting to relax as they unwind from all the responsibilities of the school year. No more pencils, no more books, no more...
Who says we can’t protect both cops and civilians
Philando Castile, Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael Smith, Alton Sterling, Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa. All seven men were men with families, friends, and futures. They all died violently last week...
Why builders may soon stop putting up low-cost housing in NYC
Fighting over a lapsed tax credit just cost the city 1,600 badly needed housing units — and an innovative $43 million co-generation project. The Durst Organization announced last week that...
Hillary Clinton’s sell-out to teachers: Kids will pay the price
Hillary Clinton says “educators will always have a partner in the White House” if she’s elected — and make no mistake about precisely whom she’s promising to protect. “Supporting educators...
It’s up to Cuomo to save Airbnb in New York
Gov. Cuomo is still pondering whether to sign a bill passed by the Legislature that would cripple Airbnb, the online rental service. He should veto this misguided piece of legislation....
Why trade market points to Beltran sticking with Yankees
SAN DIEGO — The Yankees were not inclined to sell at the deadline even before going into Cleveland and taking three of four from a first-place team. So you can...
Dallas mom: Hero cop died protecting me and my sons
The Dallas mom wounded protecting her four sons from cop-killer Micah Johnson’s bullets broke down in tears Sunday as she recalled how “hero” police officers were gunned down before her...
How to spend your money if you ever win the lottery
The winner of Friday night’s $540 million Mega Millions lottery no longer has to worry about money — but odds are you do. It’s nice to dream, but when comes...
Steven Matz's vulnerability is arising -- and it's not the elbow
Steven Matz has shown he can pitch effectively despite the bone spur in his left elbow. He just has to figure out how to stop giving up costly home runs....
Michael Conforto's bat is making push to oust Brandon Nimmo
Brandon Nimmo struck out as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning of the Mets' 3-2 loss to the National on Sunday at Citi Field, and the Mets figure to...
Jose Reyes is blasting pitches and says it'll only get better
The loss of Daniel Murphy looms larger and larger with each home run he hits at Citi Field, but bringing back Jose Reyes may have been the move the Mets...
Who'll be at NY's UFC 205? What to glean after UFC 200
LAS VEGAS — If UFC 200 served as any indication of what to expect when the UFC debuts at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 12, it’s to expect the unexpected....
Dallas police chief: All armed protesters were suspects
The chaos in the moments after a madman opened fire on cops in Dallas last week was made worse for police by the numerous innocent protesters in the crowd carrying...
Is Daniel Murphy a 'cyborg' built to destroy the Mets?
Logic is failing. Reason is ceding all credibility. Daniel Murphy is destroying the law of averages and destroying baseballs at an incomprehensible rate, doing things in Queens he did not...
Death and crime in Pokémon Go
Gamers trying to “catch ‘em all” in the hot new Pokémon smartphone app are catching hell instead, as players are being lead into ambushes by robbers and even to the...
The team these Mets buried is still around as dangerous crutch
It was the very first day the Mets had reconvened at Citi Field, back in April, when for the first time Terry Collins uttered with urgency the sentence that should...
Nets left scrambling after both guard plans get wrecked
LAS VEGAS — The Nets’ grand offseason plan didn’t come together. It came apart. After giving huge offer sheets to restricted free agents Allen Crabbe and Tyler Johnson, the Nets...
How Courtney Lee shook off Nets horror for Knicks hope
Courtney Lee got the call from team president Phil Jackson and heard the urging of Joakim Noah to make the Knicks his seventh NBA team in nine seasons. OK, maybe...
Yankees gifted ugly win to finish 1st half average as can be
CLEVELAND — There are no style points attached to victories. You win or lose and play the next game. A perfect game counts as much as the ugliness surrounding Sunday’s...
Obama acknowledges FBI's 'criminal' probe into Clinton's emails
President Obama for the first time on Sunday used the ‘C’ word -- “criminal” — when describing the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. “This has been a...
Can I get fired for taking a personal day to play golf?
I used a personal day to play golf and my boss found out — and got so angry he said that if I ever do that again, he’ll fire me!...
Here's what happens when you wear blue lipstick
Kylie Jenner's sold-out lip kit is the season's must-have beauty item — but is it really possible to pull off blue lippy? Three Post scribes road-test different shades to find...
Mets end 1st half with another Daniel Murphy gut-punch
Terry Collins had a goal heading into Sunday’s series-finale against the Nationals. “We came into this series trying to make up ground and we have a chance to make up...
Homeland security chief 'concerned' about race relations
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Sunday that he's "concerned" about race relations in America. But Johnson tried to broker a truce between police officers and those who want to...
Portugal survives unthinkable Ronaldo loss for Euro title
Portugal won the 2016 European Championship on Sunday, after substitute Eder scored in extra time to give his team a 1-0 win over France. Eder's long-range shot that beat the despairing...
Giuliani: Black people need to respect cops
Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that blacks should be more concerned about violence committed against them by other African-Americans than by police officers -- and need to learn to be "respectful''...
Dallas police chief's son died in shootout with cops in 2010
Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s week from hell, in which a sniper murdered five of his officers at a demonstration, should have broken him. It’s just the latest tragedy to...
Everything you need to know about that Taylor Swift one-piece
Over the Fourth of July weekend, Taylor Swift courted the paparazzi with a parade of patriotic swimsuits, including a red two-piece with the word “America” emblazoned across the chest. But...
De Blasio calls for unity in wake of shootings
Mayor de Blasio joined Cardinal Timothy Dolan Sunday in calling for national unity in light of the recent police slayings of black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana and...
Dirk Nowitzki is fed up and doesn't know who to blame
The Mavericks have been and are a team of one star, a star who's now venting his frustration at his lack of support. Yet again, free agency has hit the...
NBAer's comeback begins with overt Warriors, Cavs tweets
In an era of the NBA where it would appear that only two or three teams have a legitimate chance to win the NBA title, free agents chasing rings are...
These 4 items will get you beach-body ready
Everyone could use a beauty boost before hitting the beach. Luckily, these four new lifesavers will smooth, tan, tighten and brighten, just in time for summer.
Mexico's president: Still no way we'll build Trump's wall
Mexico's president insisted Sunday there's no way his country will pony up to build the border wall being touted by Donald Trump — but vowed to work with the tycoon...
Why we can always count on Florida to go bats--t crazy
The Orlando nightclub shooting struck Americans hard. How could such a horror occur in a town best known for fantasy, in a state widely regarded as a vacation paradise? The...
Inmates break out of jail cell to save guard
WEATHERFORD, Texas — Authorities say several inmates at a Texas jail broke out of a holding cell to help save an armed guard after they saw him lose consciousness.
I used a nanny cam to catch my co-worker stealing my lunch
None of her co-workers will fess up to the crime, but one of them stole Noelle Mulholland’s lunch. The burrito in question — a perfect mix of pulled pork, green...
This Brooklyn park wants your dog's poop
Who came up with this crappy idea? Officials are asking pet owners at Williamsburg’s East River State Park to fling their doggie doo into two new compost bins — so...
How a small-time crook became a ruthless killer -- with a passion for real estate
In late 2007, Michael Brown — who lived with his wife, Nan, and their 17-year-old son, Watson — entertained a guest named Bill, who was negotiating the purchase of their...
Russell Westbrook stunningly loses on the court, too
Russell Westbrook couldn't escape his summer of discontent at his own basketball camp. After Kevin Durant jilted his co-star and the Thunder with a stunning link-up with the superpower Warriors,...
Don't read this if you love eating fish
Sixty percent of all the known species on Earth are fish. That’s 33,249 species to be exact — more than all the birds, reptiles and mammals combined. Yet the simple...
We're winning the war on ISIS' Twitter traffic
WASHINGTON -- The Islamic State group's Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the Obama administration says, as the U.S. and its allies have countered messages...
Prominent Black Lives Matter activist arrested in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. — A prominent Black Lives Matter activist and 100 other people were taken into custody, authorities said Sunday, after protesters took to the streets to call for...
Andy Murray cries tears of joy with 2nd Wimbledon title
LONDON — After Britain famously endured a 77-year wait between Wimbledon men's champions, Andy Murray has given the host country a pair of titles in quick succession. Murray dulled booming...
Conor McGregor wins UFC 200 with one menacing stare
LAS VEGAS — They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but one particular image caught at UFC 200 tells an entire saga without uttering a single syllable. Jose...
Revenge killings, like Dallas, grow from social rifts and impunity
Let me say this right off the bat: I don’t at all condone any shooting of police officers or attacking them in any way. But let’s take a step back...
Possible Trump VP supports women's rights to abortion
One of Donald Trump’s top vice presidential prospects relished his prospective role Sunday, as he played attack dog on Hillary Clinton, but showed he’s no doctrinaire conservative when it comes...
Dallas sniper left message in his own blood on garage walls
Dallas cop-killer Micah Johnson left behind a message — scrawled in his own blood — on a parking-garage wall during his shooting rampage, authorities and sources said Sunday. The Army...
Man found bound with electrical cord inside Midtown nightclub
Bondage — not the sexual kind — was part of the scene early Saturday at a posh Midtown nightclub that caters to Japanese businessmen, authorities say. It was 3 a.m....
Man killed in beef over woman, cops say
An argument over a woman ended in the killing of a Bronx man, police said. The unidentified victim, 32, was found fatally shot around 2:15 a.m. Saturday behind 4000 Boston...
How protecting tribal sovereignty hurts victims on reservations
“Michael Bryant Jr. choked, bit, beat, kicked, pulled hair, threw women to the floor and hit them over the head with a bottle,” according to a report in the Billings...
NYC's party people are afraid to text their dealers
For local white-collar cocaine users, a recent high-profile bust is the ultimate buzzkill. Last week, several fast-track types — among them a millionaire executive from Chipotle, a Merrill Lynch associate and...
Shots reported outside San Antonio police headquarters
San Antonio police are investigating after gunshots were fired outside its headquarters on Saturday night. According to Fox San Antonio, the reports of shots fired came at about 10 p.m....
Kerry ditches 'most important political event of the year' to see 'Hamilton'
John Kerry ducked out of a NATO summit early to catch actor Lin-Manuel Miranda's final performance in the Broadway hit "Hamilton." The NATO summit, which took place Friday and Saturday...
Cops shoot man in Brooklyn
An armed man was shot by police in Brooklyn early Sunday — at the same corner where an NYPD officer was fatally gunned down nearly nine years ago to the...
US boots two Russian diplomats
Two Russian diplomats got booted from the United States on Saturday, around the same time that NATO flexed its muscles in Eastern Europe. The unidentified diplomats were sent packing in...
NYPD detective: We need more cops of color
Detective Yuseff Hamm, 49, is a 15-year veteran of the NYPD and president of the Guardians Association, the fraternal organization that represents African-American police officers in the city. Following the...
Stars turn out to see Lin-Manuel Miranda's final 'Hamilton' show
A celebrity-laden crowd packed the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Saturday night as Alexander Hamilton’s alter ego, Lin-Manuel Miranda, made his final appearance in “Hamilton,” Broadway’s biggest hit in years. People...
EC president got the interplanetary memo
European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker made an out-of-this-world comment to the European Union during its recent Brexit debate in Brussels. The European politician stated in French, which is not...
Osama bin Laden's son threatens revenge against US
Osama bin Laden’s son has vowed to seek revenge on America for killing his father — a threat that could be propaganda to boost al Qaeda’s sagging recruitment after the...
'Selfless' teacher sexually abused drunk student: probe
A Queens teacher once hailed as a selfless educator sexually abused a student after getting her drunk in his apartment, an investigation has found. Joshua Sipkin, 44, who taught English...
Millennials are ditching financial advisors for apps
It’s time for many technophobic 50-something financial pros to look for another job. That’s because millennials, many of whom are about to inherit considerable assets, are not looking for a...
Dear John: How G7 fixed post-Brexit markets
Dear John: With regard to your Brexit rebound column, how do they go about the manipulation of the stock market? Is it just the direct purchase of stocks through government...
Pepsi sticks with soda after passing on milk company
PepsiCo was interested in buying WhiteWave, the parent of organic milk seller Horizon, but passed because of the high cost before French dairy firm Danone last week inked a $12.5...
Trump Tower features cookie jar modeled after Donald's head
Some people might say that Donald Trump has a big head. In fact, most people would say that. So it would probably come as little surprise that there’s a ceramic...
Millennials turn to selling family heirlooms for rent money
Millennials are often maligned for their shopping habits, but not yet for selling Grandma’s wedding ring to pay the rent. Provident Loan Society of New York — a nonprofit that...
Japanese vinyl-on-demand firm looks to make a play in US
You’ve heard of digital music on demand. Now here comes vinyl-on-demand. Musicians who want to press their music into plastic might want to check out Qrates.com (pronounced Crates), a new...
Michael Kassan leads search for 4A's next leader
We hear that the omnipresent and omnipotent Michael Kassan is leading the search for a new leader of the 4A’s, the ad industry group association. Kassan, of course, is regularly...
Les Moonves bonds with Shari Redstone in Sun Valley
CBS boss Les Moonves is through playing nice with Viacom chief Philippe Dauman. That may have been the biggest news out of Allen & Co.’s media-and-tech mashup this year —...
'I disciplined one of my black students — and CUNY fired me'
A white professor claims a black student ended his CUNY career by falsely branding him a racist after he criticized a student’s homework. Political science instructor John Trujillo says he...
Bernie says he's getting 'closer and closer' to Hillary's camp
Bernie Sanders holds a hostage in the bruising fight over his favored planks in the Democratic Party platform: his endorsement of Hillary Clinton. “It is fair to say that the...
Republicans join Trump in denouncing 'sanctuary cities'
The Republican establishment may not be falling in love with Donald Trump — but they seem to be falling in line. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) denounced sanctuary cities that shield...
Everything we love to eat is a scam
Among the many things New Yorkers pride ourselves on is food: making it, selling it and consuming only the best, from single-slice pizza to four-star sushi. We have fish markets,...
Protesters arrested for disrupting traffic on FDR Drive
About a dozen Black Lives Matter protesters were taken into custody Saturday evening after they disrupted traffic on FDR Drive. They were the remnants of a gathering of about 1,000...
Hotel guest forced to walk in blizzard after breaking nose: suit
The historic blizzard that blanketed the city last winter left a California businesswoman’s beak badly broken — and forced her to endure a bitter, 50-block march back to her hotel...
'Healing' jeweler files $1M suit against rival for defamation
A woman who sells “healing” jewelry says a competitor is trying to ruin her good vibes. Corrine Concotilli peddles “energy products” — including jewelry, T-shirts and thin metal plates “inspired”...
Drug-related deaths rise in NYC
Drugs were the main or contributing factor in 999 deaths in New York City in 2015, a 7 percent increase from 2014, when substance abuse claimed 931 lives, according to...
Meet the experts who turn 'luxury trash' into paydays
At 9 p.m., long after the luxury boutiques have locked their doors to the well heeled, another kind of customer appears along the 57th Street designers’ row. Carrying oversize nylon...
People around the world donate to teen hurt in park explosion
Less than a week after Connor Golden lost his lower leg after stepping on an explosive in Central Park, people around the world are rallying around the teen. A Go...
Photo tries to prove El Chapo is still behind bars
It was no hat trick for El Chapo. Drug lord Joaquín Guzmán’s nickname trended globally — along with myriad memes — Friday when rumors surfaced he had bolted from prison...
Amanda Nunes shocks Miesha Tate in bloody beatdown
LAS VEGAS — Amanda Nunes of Brazil was supposed to be a speed bump on Miesha Tate’s journey to a rematch with either Ronda Rousey or Holly Holm. But someone...
Collins is just waiting for something to happen to Familia now
Terry Collins is about to manage his first All-Star Game on Tuesday, when he’s handed the reins of the National League squad. In different circumstances, he might already be looking...
The backstage drama that nearly brought down 'Seinfeld'
Ask any self-respecting “Seinfeld” fan who the worst dancer on the show — heck, in the world — is, and they’ll immediately think of Elaine Benes’ herky-jerk performance from Season...
Where would Mets be with Daniel Murphy?
After all that has happened to these Mets, too much of it bad, they are lucky to be five games behind the Nationals after that villain Daniel Murphy bludgeoned them...
Sad state of MLB All-Star Game, which stars used to care about
What money can do, it does. Years ago, TV created an annual unsanctioned PGA version of an All-Star Game, called, as per the title of a golf game generally played...
This businessman is spending millions to build a better golf club
When Zach Johnson put the finishing touches on his British Open victory a year ago at St. Andrews, he did so with the same equipment he used while winning the...
Jeurys Familia has seen pals fall, which makes his rise so special
So much about a baseball season is defined by the hurdles and the hidden valleys that lie in wait, threatening to sabotage at any moment, threatening to swallow the journey...
Logan Verrett may have signaled Mets a trade is needed
Logan Verrett doesn’t look like the answer to the Mets’ problem at the back end of their starting rotation. Not if they have serious aspirations of reaching October again. Verrett,...
The Didi Gregorius scouting report -- in 2007
CLEVELAND — Nine years ago, Wayne Krivsky got his first look at Didi Gregorius. Today, the former Reds general manager sees the same traits he did then. “It was in...
Hondo giving Indians
Sloppy Joe Smith chucked one away for the Angels on Saturday in Baltimore, which resulted in a second straight loss for Hondo and a reduction in his earnings to 2,642...
Jose Aldo destroys Edgar then taunts McGregor at UFC 200
LAS VEGAS — Frankie Edgar of Toms River, N.J., had hoped to avenge an earlier defeat to Jose Aldo and put himself in position for a possible fight with Conor...
Daily Blotter
The Bronx Police are looking for a suspect who allegedly snatched a woman’s purse on a West Concourse street. The victim was at Wythe Place and East 170th Street at...