September 27, 2009
Mickelson wins Tour Championship; Tiger takes Fed Ex Cup
Phil Mickelson capped off a tumultuous summer at home with a spectacular rally Sunday to win the Tour Championship. Tiger Woods finished another big year by winning the FedEx Cup...
Cops think corpse is Anne Morell Petrino
TARRYTOWN -- Police say they believe they have recovered the body of a woman whose suicidal jump from the Tappan Zee Bridge in suburban New York echoed her stepfather's plunge...
You can't lose them all: Lions beat Redskins
Finally, the Detroit Lions are winners. With rookie Matthew Stafford leading the way, Detroit ended a 19-game losing streak with a 19-14 victory over the Washington Redskins on Sunday. The...
Pitching set for Nationals series
MIAMI -- The pitching matchups are now set for the Mets' final road series of the season, a three-game set with the last-place Nationals that starts Monday night in Washington.Here...
Yankees top Red Sox, 4-2; clinch AL East
Eleven. In order for the Yankees’ season to be painted as a success that’s how many postseason games they must win. Today the Yankees took the second step toward winning...
Girls soccer roundup: Bruno leads MSIT past Petrides
Jackie Bruno had three goals and an assist to lead McKee/Staten Island Tech to a 5-3 win against Petrides on Saturday at the College of Staten Island in PSAL Staten...
Gang Green's defense comes through late in 24-17 win
Letdown? What letdown? So much of the talk about the Jets during the week following their stirring win over the rival Patriots last Sunday was about whether they’d suffer a...
Vick does little as Eagles rout Chiefs
The Philadelphia Eagles didn't need much from Michael Vick to beat the Kansas City Chiefs. They didn't need anything from Donovan McNabb or Brian Westbrook. Getting significant contributions from their...
Big Blue runs over Tampa Bay, 24-0
TAMPA—It was hard to distinguish just what was more evident at Raymond James Stadium this afternoon. Are the Giants that good? Or are the Bucs that bad? Ultimately, both statements...
Misch goes distance in Mets win
Pat Misch pitched an eight-hitter for the first complete game of his career, and the Mets spoiled the Florida Marlins' home finale by winning 4-0 today. Jeff Francoeur hit his...
Rangers rally, but fall short against Capitals
The Washington Capitals scored four unanswered goals on Sunday and then held off a third-period comeback by the Rangers for a 4-3 win in the final preseason game for both...
William Safire, 'On language' columnist, dies
Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died today, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died a...
Kansas bigotry falls flat at Brooklyn synagogues
A handful of hateful Midwesterner’s brought their anti-Semitic and anti-gay message to two Brownstone Brooklyn synagogues on Saturday — where they were met with anger, condemnation, and some old-fashioned chutzpah.Though...
Manuel: Meeting on coaches' fate
MIAMI -- Jerry Manuel is the only Mets coach with a contract for next season, and he didn’t exactly offer a rousing endorsement of his coaches' job security today. Asked if...
We win — again! More awards for your Brooklyn Paper!
The Brooklyn Paper has done it again — winning a trifecta of top awards at this weekend’s Independent Free Papers of America annual conference just outside of Chicago.In a clean...
Box Office: 'Fame' Tanks
MGM, which is reported to be pleading with its creditors not to force it into bankruptcy -- thus terminating or at least compromising its rights to the James Bond series...
Yankees Division Series schedule
Once they sew up the best record in the AL, the Yankees can wait until their opponent for the Division Series is determined before they pick whether they want the...
Gametracker: Mets at Marlins
Pat Misch and the Amazin's look to put a dent in the Marlins' slim playoff hopes.
Gang Green looks to take down Tennessee
Leon Washington and the Jets take on the Titans at the rainy Meadowlands.
Big Blue looks to topple Bucs
Mario Manningham and the Giants will try not to letdown against the winless Bucs when the teams meet in Tampa Bay.
Bombers look to clinch AL East
The Yankees have a chance to clinch the AL East and homefield advantage throughout the playoffs with a win over the Red Sox this afternoon in the rivals' final regular-season...
Warriors will look to deal Jackson, who wants to play with Knicks
Former Knicks and current Warriors head coach, Don Nelson, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he will try to trade Stephen Jackson, who asked to be dealt earlier this year....
Game 156: Mets at Marlins
MIAMI -- The Mets will try to win just their second series since the end of July here today when Pat Misch takes the mound against the Marlins at Land...
Paterson: NYers can pick own guv
A beleaguered Gov. Paterson defied President Obama on a national stage this morning, insisting that New Yorkers "are the ones who should choose their governor" during an appearance on NBC’s...
Wells: New stadium hurts homefield advantage
Ex-Yankees pitcher David Wells is no fan of the Bombers new stadium. Wells told the Post that the ease in which home runs are hit could hurt the Yankees in...
'Drunk' cop kills pastor's daughter
A drunk NYPD officer struck and killed a Brooklyn woman early this morning - and his three passengers, including at least one other cop, fled the deadly scene and left...
Search surprise
It's not quite what the doctor ordered. Police say Cushner Buss, 30, was behind the wheel of a car at Hylan Boulevard in Dongan Hills at 6:40 p.m. Thursday when...
Fatal shot following bodega fight
A bodega argument led to a man being shot dead in Melrose. Benigno Martir, 36, was arguing with two men inside the store on East 158th Street near Park Avenue...
Tapes of Oklahoma bombing aftermath released
OKLAHOMA CITY — The FBI has released long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. The soundless recordings show people rushing...
Polanski nabbed, 31 years late
ZURICH — Director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police as he flew in for the Zurich Film Festival and faces possible extradition to the United States for having sex...
Say what you mean, Ernie
There it was, again, the new-age, non-apology apology, the kind that makes it seem as if you, not the one doing the apologizing, has the problem. On Sept. 16, Ch....
Reel good
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA (2007) Sunday, 1 p.m., ABC Family This is a magnificent movie that kids and adults will savor. Poor farm kid, Jess (Josh Hutcherson), who is teased relentlessly...
'Parks' & preservation
Ken Burns will never join the YouTube generation. The prolific filmmaker, whose documentaries on baseball, jazz, The Civil War and other quintessential American subjects have been watched by over 150...
Don't miss
Homeward bound Seth McFarlane’s Cleveland Brown of “Family Guy” fame decides it’s time for him and Cleveland Jr. to leave Quahog and go west. On their way to California, they...
Morley Safer
In September Morley Safer begins his 40th season as a correspondent for 60 Minutes. Safer is 77 and works part-time, but if you think he is in any way ready...
Hour gang
The clock is still ticking at “60 Minutes.” Parts of the show’s vintage stopwatch have been replaced by watchmaker Jeff Fager. Fager, a 32-year CBS news veteran, took over as...
Gloomy ‘Mad Men’ at the halfway mark
Does the inundation of new and returning premieres render you confused? Fear not. Drama Mama is here with her recommendations of what coming up: * “Mad Men” (Sunday, 10 p.m.,...
'Housewife' sings 'soprano'
Drea de Matteo is the last person you’d expect to see on “Desperate Housewives.” In her attitude and her tough-girl appearance (“I have mean eyebrows,” she quips), the 37-year-old actress...
PSAL boys soccer roundup: Mignon powers Lewis to third straight win
Sam Mignon had a pair of goals and Fadil Paljevic, Ricky Rada and Sebastian Guenzatti also struck once as Francis Lewis blanked Forest Hills, 5-0, in Queens A East boys...
All of Cano’s gifts on display
There is a flip side to carrying so much talent in your veins, a price to be paid for the blessing of making a hard game look easy. What was...
Magic no. at 1, bubbly at the ready
The Yankees today will receive their first chance to pop champagne corks as the 2009 AL East champions. “Let’s hope it happens,” Johnny Damon said after the Yankees beat the...
Yankees’ clinch could come today
One skinny game is all that stands between the Yankees and wearing the AL East crown for the first time since 2006. It could happen today if the Yankees complete...
Gang Green slug it out with Tenn.
The 2-0 Jets know exactly what they’re up against when the 0-2 Titans play them at Giants Stadium: A street fight. “They’re going to be using everything imaginable for this...
Fisher’s got Buddy Ryan in his blood, too
Today’s Jets-Titans matchup will be somewhat of a family-friend affair with Tennessee head coach Jeff Fisher having played and coached for Rex Ryan’s father, Buddy. “I was very fortunate to...
Gang Green’s mantra: No letdown
Over the years, the motto Play like a Jet has meant plenty of things, and not all of them good. At his first team meeting, coach Rex Ryan stood front...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Darrelle Revis
The Post’s Steve Serby sat down with the Jets’ 24-year-old “shutdown corner.” Q: Compare Dave Wannstedt, your coach at Pitt, with Rex Ryan. A: I think you can be a...
Battered Big Blue face 0-2 Tampa Bay
The formula thus far: Victory on the field, losses on the roster. Not a plan for long-term success. The Giants (2-0) are off to the fast start they desire but...
Technology has armed us for today's sports barrage
In the beginning, there was Television. And it was good. Then, there was Digital Television. And while to the average set of eyes there was no way to tell the...
Giants must get back to rushing roots
TAMPA, Fla. — The Giants passing game has been a pleasant surprise the opening two weeks of the NFL season. Concerns about the departure of Amani Toomer and the incarceration...
Holiday's hits
Toys that get kids active and curious — while not taking too large a bite out of their parents’ budgets — are among the goodies expected to be the bigger...
Realistic way to re-tool Mets
I think the Mets have a Polyanna problem. They are overly susceptible to seeing the glass as half full. That is how you could spend an offseason with a rotation...
Rush hour: Viegas leads Farrell in Xaverian blitzing
Joe Colucci loved watching Michael Viegas run on the Monsignor Farrell junior varsity football team last year. Now that they’re varsity teammates, Colucci is having even more fun checking out...
The week's winners and losers
Winners JARED Pitchman for the Subway chain helps company grow and close in on McDonald’s store count. SUSAN DAVIDSON Fashion veteran tapped as new boss of Scoop boutique. BRUCE RATNER...
RBNY pulls out 1-1 tie at Chivas USA
The Red Bulls stole a road point with a 1-1 tie at Chivas USA that featured grit, luck and even a little history. After they’d fallen behind on a blistering...
The Rumble
Damons’ open house Welcome Robertsons to their Jersey home Johnny Damon got wind of the Yankees making a move with the pitching staff in late May and knew that David...
Top 5 oddest ‘anniversaries’ to celebrate
“Your first Cinco de Mayo together.” — Sam “The first time you didn’t have to fake an orgasm.” — Ashleigh “The first day you met her . . . and...
Aisle be seeing you
Fresh off of an early morning flight from New York to LA, hair a mess, smelling distinctly like plane, I stopped off at Rite Aid to pick up a few...
This week's couple: Phisic(al) education
Considering their lengthy discussion of physics, you’d think Shawn and Kate would be the perfect lab partners turned couple. Over dinner at Parlor Steakhouse on the Upper East Side, Shawn,...
Toys & toxicity
SPOILING a dog or cat with fun toys is one of the joys of pet parenthood. But according to information released by Healthy Stuff, a nonprofit environmental research organization, many...
Meet Market: Guy sks wild child for weekend trip
Pack your bags, ladies. Logan, a 26-year-old account executive, wants a globetrotting girl with a winning smile, who thinks a weekend jaunt is just as much fun as an international...
Communi - cats
IN my previous column, I asked you how your cats communicate with you. The responses were so varied! Suzanne in Manhattan writes, “Every time I go to the supermarket, I...
The Great and Powerful 'Oz'
MORE people have watched “The Wizard of Oz” than any other movie — and a handful of them weren’t even listening to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” while...
Sin 'City'
THE FASHION and celebrity worlds can be a lot like high school, only way better dressed and accessorized. MTV’s “The City” is no exception. It allows us to relive the...
Love, love me Drew
MOST celebrities appear unapproachable, almost mythical creatures that seem to have sort of steady, bubble-like glow around them. They’ve got stylists for the Oscars, drivers for grocery shopping and personal...
Blaxploitation, nightclub style
SIX nights a week, SoHo’s decadent GoldBar serves as a debauched hideaway where one might expect to find dodo eggs on the menu and hundred dollar bills in the seat...
Prime Madonna
IN the 26 years’ worth of videos on “Madonna Celebration: The Video Collection,” the global pop icon inhabits more memorable personalities than Sybil. The two-disc set of 47 videos (the...
My New York: Cindy Adams
Only in Cindy Adams’ New York do Yorkies get bespoke sable coats, ink-stained writers get the best table at Le Cirque and Frank Sinatra hangs out with your husband at...
Chariots of fire
Clouds of sand rise from the track as the five steel chariots thunder past, each rider whipping his four horses on as they vie for advantage. Thousands of spectators roar,...
Andrew Cuomo's makeunder
When you start making calls about Andrew Cuomo, attorney general of New York State and unannounced gubernatorial hopeful, you have two conversations with nearly everyone: The first is full of...
America's lost jewel
It is a lost city of the plains, a pyramid-studded metropolis on the Mississippi that stood for more than a century, a place of culture, sport and worship. Yet many...
PSAL football roundup: Surprising Sharks put chomp on Falcons
Sheepshead Bay lost so much to graduation and was going to be so young, Fred Snyder was apoplectic in the preseason. After a scrimmage against Curtis in which in his...
Obama's plan? what plan?
Throughout last year’s presidential campaign, Barack Obama lambasted the Bush administration for fighting “the wrong war” in Iraq and ignoring the right one in Afghanistan. Iraq was a “war of...
UN's debt to New York
New Yorkers knew what to expect when the UN General Assembly rolled into town this week: frozen traffic, closed streets, aggressive police presence and interminable speeches by international despots. It’s...
Less is Moore
Who denies that Michael Moore is a communist? Not Michael Moore. I gave him the opportunity to stake out a position for himself as a non-extremist at Alice Tully Hall...
Steep price for lousy advice
Did Gov. Paterson dole out a six-figure, do-nothing job as a golden parachute for a politically connected bureaucrat — just as the state faced its worst fiscal crisis in a...
Deadly dithering
President Obama is said to be reviewing the situation in Afghanistan to help him settle on a US strategy there. Better late than never, we guess. Still, after two years...
A plan, a canal
Your editorial, “ ‘Help’ the Gowanus Doesn’t Need” (Sept. 21) has several inaccuracies, the most troubling being the assertion that the Superfund relies solely on litigation to get a cleanup...
For the people
Peter Suderman writes a thorough column outlining each Democratic senator’s particular objection to the Baucus bill. However, his most prescient sentence is in the last paragraph (“The Body Politics,” PostScript,...
Medicare works
Sally Pipes quotes me accurately, but completely out of context, in “Health-Reform Follies: Who’s More Efficient?” (PostScript, Sept. 20). While it’s true that, as a public entity, Medicare is limited...
Lincoln legends
The scandal and spin surrounding Abraham Lincoln is staggering. Once he was nominated for president, he was accused of being “low flung,” a 19th-century euphemism for illegitimate. But it hit...
Juliet, naked
Music has the power to bring people together. Witness the number of cheesy first wedding dances that get inflicted on the world each weekend. But music also has the power...
American on purpose
While waiting to perform at the 2008 White House Correspondents Dinner, “Late Late Show” host Craig Ferguson checked to see if he was wearing pants — since, he writes in...
In my library: Isabella Rossellini
Ah, the many faces of Isabella Rossellini: model, actress, philanthropist, conservationist . . . porn star. In “Green Porno,” a series of short films about the sex lives of animals,...
Her fearful symmetry
Most successfully told ghost stories share a common quality: They are scary. This is not so much the case with the new novel by Niffenegger, best-selling author of “The Time...
Kids' sex tragedy
THE Woodstock Film Festival is ready to celebrate its 10th an niversary Wednes day through Sunday. There will be concerts, panel discussions, celebrities (Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, etc.)...
K vs. K plus 25
HOW do chess players age? The Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov exhibition games give a picture --and it isn't pretty. Karpov was once the best speed chess player in the...
Testing the West
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard will hold missile-defense exercises today and the next several days on the heels of revelations it has built a clandestine underground uranium-enrichment facility. The announcement comes...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn * Four men were wounded early yesterday in an apparently gang-related shooting at a soccer game in a Bensonhurst park. The players were in Cropsey Park at 1 a.m....
It's a natal attraction!
Michael Douglas and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, who share the same birthday of Sept. 25, both celebrated major milestones on Friday: He turned 65, while she hit the big 4-0. Age...
Suicide heiress' torment
The daughter of a slain newspaper heiress was struggling financially, hitting the bottle hard and flirting with death in the years before her suicide plunge off the Tappan Zee Bridge,...
Yale mom: 'Farewell, my child'
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. -- Shared grief has made them like family, but not the way they had ever wanted, the mother of a slain Yale grad student told her...
The oil industry isn't screwing us
Dear John: I read your article in reference to oil-price increases. In the last few months, when prices were consistently rising, the media was always pointing out that they are...
Mailman's ZZZZZIP code
So that's why they call it snail mail. US Postal Service carrier Keith Goode enraged Upper East Side residents recently after he plopped down on a stoop in the middle...
Eater of the free world
The knives are out at two Manhattan power restaurants trying to lure President Obama to their tables. For decades, sitting US presidents have dined at both the Four Seasons and...
Peak tragedy for Maloney
Manhattan Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's husband, Clifton, died on a 27,000-foot mountain he had just summited on the Tibet-Nepal border. "I'm the happiest man in the world. I've just summited a...
Palin: Regulation is the cause, not way out, of woes
YOU gotta hand it to Sarah Palin -- the former half-term governor of the forty-ninth state knows how to make hay in a bad economy. Just over two months since...
'Beer City' plan all the buzz in B'klyn
A mini-city is brewing at an old beer factory in Bushwick. Developer Read Property Group is asking the city to approve the building of 947 apartments and townhouses where the...
Vend duo's sweet taste of victory
How sweet it is! A Brooklyn couple was crowned the king and queen of Big Apple food carts last night, nabbing top honors at the Vendy Awards for their mouth-watering...
Fidel has led sire-ious life
Ay Papi! Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was a major hit with the ladies, fathering at least 10 love children with six women, according to a published report. El Commandante allegedly...
Spa rubbed 'em wrong
A top Fifth Avenue beauty salon is being accused of some pretty ugly practices. About 60 former staffers filed a class-action suit against the owners of the now-defunct Cornelia Day...
Only Fitty does rapping
50 Cent was in da playground. The rapper returned to his old stomping grounds in Jamaica yesterday, performing a brief surprise concert that came off without a hitch after weeks...
Top exec in affair 'smear'
Hell hath no fury like an accountant scorned. The former chief financial officer of insurance titan Marsh & McLennan went on a bizarre letter-writing campaign to out an unmarried co-worker...
Activists, pols 'Square' off over café in park
Bidding on the right to run a controversial new restaurant in Union Square Park is set to begin in the next two months. The city plans to issue a request...
Hot times for lower-priced NYC home sales
Sales of New York City homes rose this summer -- but the increase was driven by Main Street, not Wall Street. Most of the sales were for homes valued under...
Brooklyn hit-run tragedy
A 12-year-old Brooklyn girl who loves to sing and dance was fighting for her life last night after she was mowed down by a hit-and-run driver as she walked to...
Boss Bertha: we got $meared
A right-wing conspiracy caused Congress to drop federal funding for the embattled community group ACORN, chief organizer Bertha Lewis told supporters last week. In an e-mail obtained by The Post,...
Tribute in Light due to dim out
The World Trade Center's annual Tribute in Light could go dark next September. There is no funding in place for the 9/11 memorial, which sends two beams of light into...
Cop car hit in Qns. shootout
Thugs unleashed a hail of bullets in Queens last night, knocking out the window of a passing NYPD patrol car, officials said. Neither of the officers in the car, on...
Cops stalling Ground Zero rebuild
A nitpicking cop crackdown on concrete at Ground Zero is costing taxpayers millions and snarling construction at the already behind-schedule Freedom Tower and other structures at the site, cement suppliers...
Victoria Gotti: Mom stabbed my dad
John Joseph Gotti was raised by an abusive, absent father in a household of 11 children. He once said of his old man, "He never did nothin'. He never earned...
Paterson MIA from O's speech
WASHINGTON -- Gov. Paterson was noticeably absent from a high-profile meeting of powerhouse black political leaders last night, featuring President Obama as the keynote speaker. Instead, the governor, who is...
Fatal DWI in Wash. Heights
A woman was killed by a 20-year-old drunk driver late last night in Upper Manhattan, cops said. Ellen Elerid, of Hackensack, NJ, was driving her vehicle when she allegedly struck...
The dead end kids
The number of young Americans without a job has exploded to 53.4 percent — a post-World War II high, according to the Labor Dept. — meaning millions of Americans are...
Dutchess Sarah shuts firm
The Duchess is down and out. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is being hit with money troubles from all sides and now her fledgling New York business empire is...
Rising rate$
The ability of our federal government to fund our tremendous deficits -- as well as Washington's ability to keep interest rates low -- has, in recent years, become a referendum...
Era of Dis(ney)content
The Magic Kingdom is starting to show some cracks. The cumulative effects of a sour economy, poor consumer confidence, creative malaise and a shift in viewing habits is pressuring Disney's...
O's worldview sees no evil
FORGET the blather, there were only two im portant speeches at the United Na tions last week. One was a stirring wake-up call about the evil brewing in Iran. Barack...
Gov is right: Let voters decide
Gov. Paterson is moving lickety-split through the stages of grief, so the drama over his future might soon come to a head. Here's the best way out for him and...
Nanny-state update: Fresh food for thought
City Hall, determined to make New Yorkers eat fruits and veggies, wants to use zoning laws and tax incentives to encourage more supermarkets. The proposal comes with the micromanaging that...
Council sharks circling Quinn
THE long knives are out for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Emboldened by the results of this month's Democratic primaries, in which five council incumbents were defeated and a sixth...
School's in for double-dipper
A double-dipping assistant principal who turned a Brooklyn rubber room into her own personal office is being kicked out and forced to work, after she was exposed by The Post...
'Miscarry' conductor sues
A former Metro-North Railroad conductor claims she lost her baby after she was forced to wear an electronic ticket machine, according to a lawsuit. Gina Defrancesco, 35, says the commuter...
Middle class bearing the brunt of joblessness
The Great Recession continues to take its toll on America's middle class. Corporate America, in its struggle to stay afloat during this historic downturn, is decimating its middle manager ranks...
Game, set, snatch!
What a racket! A former director of the Guggenheim, now a Sotheby's executive, and her husband looted a hoity-toity tennis club of millions of dollars, according to a lawsuit filed...
Hey, big spender!
Former ACORN bigwig Dale Rathke racked up a $157,000 American Express bill that he couldn't repay around the time he was caught embezzling from the group founded by his brother...
Sour taste over 'slur'
A meatball MTA executive is squeezing an Italian-American sandwich maker out of Grand Central Terminal after once calling him a "guinea bastard" to his face, the businessman claims. Alfred Catalanotto...
iPhoning Jews heed God's call
Atone with the iPhone. A new iPhone application pictured allows users to type personal prayers into their phones, which are printed out by a rabbi in Jerusalem and placed in...
My fission trip inside Iran
Two years ago, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, issued a strange invitation: Come to Tehran! See the sights! Tour our nuclear facilities! In February of 2007, I was part of this...
We still need intel inside
THIS week's revela tions about Iran's secret uranium en richment facility at Qom came after three years of intensive investigation and surveillance by the most trusted of America's intelligence allies:...
Gretzky not Great coach, but deserved better
We all can agree that Wayne Gretzky fell short as both an executive and a head coach in Phoenix. Gretzky himself surely recognizes as much. Nevertheless, Gretzky must be shocked...
Hamilton wins pole in Singapore
Lewis Hamilton of McLaren took the pole position yesterday for the Singapore Grand Prix (7:30 a.m., SPEED), while Formula One championship leader Jenson Button had a "disastrous" qualifying session. Button...
Perry storms past Tiger
ATLANTA -- Kenny Perry already has had a week to remember at the Tour Championship. He was honored with the Payne Stewart Award, which he called the greatest accomplishment of...
Beantown blowhards
* Wow, if the Red Sox didn't look Friday night like a drunk waking up the morning after a binge, they sure did a good imitation. How far the mighty...
Montero clearly Bombers' best prospect
Jesus Montero missed the final month of the 2009 season with a broken finger. But the 19-year-old Venezuelan catcher was so dominant over the course of the season that there...
Four more batters plunked in Yankees-Red Sox rivalry
Yankees 2, Red Sox 2. No, yesterday's game at the Stadium didn't end in a tie -- that was just the final tally of hit batters in what has become...
Lester expects to make next start
Jon Lester's knee is bruised, but it appears the Red Sox pitcher should be fine. One day after getting drilled by a Melky Cabrera liner, Lester was on the mend...
CC reason Yanks can even season series
The Yankees can clinch the AL East today, and that feels like the second great est achievement available to them. Because they can clinch a tie in the season series...
Pettitte perfect for possible pennant
The Yankees can clinch the AL East in today's series finale with Boston. Naturally, it will be Andy Pettitte taking the mound trying to secure another divisional pennant. The Bombers...
Rough outing for ex-Met Wagner
Wearing Red Sox gray in his Yankees-Red Sox debut, Billy Wagner didn't make a terrific first impression. The former Mets closer and current Red Sox setup man started the bottom...
Despite win, Bombers struggle in clutch
For the Yankees, there was little to quibble with after their 3-0 win over Boston yesterday at the Stadium left them in position to clinch the AL East today vs....
Binghamton goes, falls, big time
If college sports were ever subjected to racketeering laws, college presidents would have to get in line to take the fifth. The latest sow, reap SUNY Binghamton basketball scandal --...
Girardi: Cano might snag gold glove
Joe Girardi is thinking Gold Glove after watching Robinson Cano excel for almost six months. "I look at Robbie and he has had a great year offensively," Girardi said of...
Devils' Clarkson seeing the light
Devils brass could well wish their rookies had as strong a training camp as David Clarkson did. Veterans, too, for that matter. The 25-year-old appears ready to make last season's...
Big targets key to Giants' red-zone fix
Considering the obvious problems the Giants are having in the red zone, is it possible the remedy is to simply put their two tallest targets in the end zone and...
Beltran looking to end career with Mets
MIAMI -- Carlos Beltran's current is contract is up after the 2011 season, but the All-Star center fielder wants to finish his career with the Mets and thinks he can...
Hondo picks three
Hondo made a modest gain on the deficit last night, hitting with Rutgers and Purdue to overwhelm his set back with the Phillies and cut his losses to 1,375 many...
Cards take NL Central; Dodgers in playoffs, too
Jason LaRue, subbing at catcher for Yadier Molina, homered off Ubaldo Jimenez to break a seventh-inning tie and the Cardinals clinched the NL Central crown when they beat the Rockies...
Sports shorts
NFL: More injuries for Panthers The Panthers likely will have a makeshift lineup against Dallas as they try to avoid an 0-3 start. Linebacker Na'il Diggs was declared out of...
Anglers would benefit from proposed regulation changes
There were some changes being proposed in New York's freshwater fishing regulations that will benefit anglers on Long Island. The changes being considered are for the purposes of removing special...
Klitschko retains title
LOS ANGELES -- Cris Arreola showed he had plenty of heart. Vitali Klitschko showed he had even more skill. Klitschko retained his piece of the heavyweight title last night, dominating...
Counterfeit Bucs aren't worth much
Giants (-6½) over BUCS: Big Blue is up against hand-wringing level of road favoritism, but the kid wideouts are OK and the broad professionalism of this outfit on the road...
Steelers, Bengals: underful
Winner of multiple major handicapping championships against top competition, The Wildcat returns. Includ ing the 1997-2008 sea sons in The Post, Cat's record in print stands at 375-320 (54 percent)...
Vick ready to run 'Wild' in NFL return
PHILADELPHIA -- Michael Vick will say on CBS' pre-game show today that not only is he capable of jumping out of prison to a starting quarterback job but is surprised...
Weird but true
If this dorm's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'. Tufts University has a new rule that bars dorm-room sex when the other roommate is there. "We do not want to hinder ....
No. 1 Florida roll, but Tebow hurt
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- With one scary hit on Tim Tebow, the fate of No. 1 Florida -- and the entire complexion of the college football season -- could have changed....
South Florida shocks No. 18 Seminoles
Redshirt freshman B.J. Daniels ran for 126 yards and threw two touchdown passes in his first start to lead South Florida (4-0) to a 17-7 win at No. 18 Florida...
Rutgers tops sloppy Maryland
George Johnson recovered a Maryland fumble in the end zone to give Rutgers the lead and the Scarlet Knights (3-1) also scored on an interception return yesterday in College Park,...
Ex-JFK star won't fumble 2nd chance
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Sheila Green was in the arrivals area at LaGuardia Airport when her son, Stephfon, seated in a wheelchair, came rolling toward her. She knew her son...
Iowa hands Paterno 130th loss
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- This is what happens when you haven't been tested. This is what happens when your first three opponents might as well have been named Moe, Larry...
Lewis struts stuff at top-tier girls volleyball tournament
The Francis Lewis girls volleyball team’s ability is well documented in New York City. The Patriots have won the last two PSAL Class A city championships and last season they...
Mets' rally falls short in 6-9 loss
MIAMI -- Injury replacement Cameron Maybin hit a three-run homer in Florida's seven-run fifth and the Marlins rallied to beat the New York Mets 9-6 on Saturday night. Maybin ran...
Clinton rides 'Bus,' momentum to win against New Dorp
Howard Langley knew there was one major key to his DeWitt Clinton football team’s success this year: the play of fullback/linebacker Onell Dishmey. But the bruising senior, nicknamed “Bus,” had...
Test results incomplete for New Dorp in Clinton loss
Chris App doesn’t pay attention to all the hype. The New Dorp coach lets his team’s performance dictate his opinion. “I never thought we were as good as what they...
Obama to NYPD: Great job!
President Barack Obama is praising the New York Police Department for its work in disrupting an alleged terrorist plot to bomb commuter trains. Obama dialed into a briefing on tonight...
Spider crawls on pontiff and won't leave
PRAGUE — President Barack Obama had his fly. Now Pope Benedict XVI has his spider. A large arachnid appeared on the pope's white robes as he addressed politicians and diplomats...
Paul leads New Utrecht to upset of Tottenville
When Alan Balkan spoke glowingly about Jordan Paul in the preseason, the New Utrecht football coach knew what he was talking about. At the time, Paul had yet to win...