September 15, 2009
Jets beat Patriots?
What do you think about the Jets' chances of beating the Patriots now, after watching New England have its season-opening win handed to it thanks to some Bills' ineptitude Monday...
2008 Can Motivate Jets
The Jets 2008 season was a disappointment. No doubt about that. But new coach Rex Ryan doesn't want all to be forgotten. He wants his players to remember how they...
Giants add RB Gartrell Johnson
No, the Giants did not do the expected and sign Allen Patrick from their practice squad to add to the roster after Danny Ware suffered a dislocated elbow in the...
Spotted: Estelle
Spoke with Estelle, who was fanning herself down at the Malandrino presentation.Girlfriend was lookin' hot in her item-of-the season YSL black suede over-the-knee boots. The singer said she was there...
Get Kim Kardashian's Look
Kim Kardashian is EVERYWHERE this week. Today she popped up at the Malandrino presentation and we struck up conversation about shoes. Specifically, mine. She thought they were Margiela and her...
Malandrino
Props to Catherine Malandrino for taking us around the world in record time – no passport necessary. This season, the Malandrino collection was divvied up into four categories: Sudanese clans,...
Katy Perry + Lia Sophia at Alice + Olivia
Katy Perry loves Lia Sophia so much she left with almost $7000 worth of the baubles at the brand's gifting suite at the Alice & Olivia store at Bryant Park.
50 STATES: Arkansas
CAN an entire town moonlight? Carved into the Ozark hills in Northwestern Arkansas, the citizens of Eureka Springs double up on a lot of their gigs. The mayor runs Eureka's...
Brian Reyes
The Brian Reyes girl is much like the designer’s front-row fangirl Rachel Bilson: a bit under-the-radar, but fully stocked with that very hard to achieve cool factor. The pieces are...
Spotted: Rachel Bilson
Fact: Rachel Bilson is as awesome as she looks. She’s perky, she’s petite, she’s totally cool. While taking interviews at Brian Reyes this morning, she refused to discuss her engagement...
Toronto: 'Up in the Air' On the Move Again?
Paramount just moved "Up in the Air'' from December to November to capitalize on its ecstatic reception at Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals and Oscar buzz. But today a well-placed distribution...
Oscar Watch: Firth for Best Actor As TWC Shuffles the Deck Chairs
The Best Actor race got a likely new entrant today with news that the Weinstein Co. has bought U.S. and German rights to "A Single Man'' for what Variety reports is...
Cowboys' Crayton plays the hate game
Is this bulletin-board material?During Giants-Cowboys week almost anything goes when it comes to taking something someone said and turning it into something you want to hear. Cowboys receiver Patrick Crayton...
Halston
A rebirth full of fits and starts, this version of Halston is still not quite there. Called the "Pure Metallic" collection and designed by the "Halston Design Studio," this group...
Game 145: Mets at Braves
ATLANTA -- Losers of six of their past seven and newly eliminated from playoff contention, the Mets will try to get back on track here tonight when they open a...
Taylor Swift visits 'The View,' accepts Kanye apology
Taylor Swift talked Kanye West-VMA brouhaha on "The View" this morning.The country crooner got a big "aw" from Barbara Walters when she told the ladies that Kanye has yet to...
Spotted: Olivia Palermo
Olivia Palermo shops at Zara! The girl who thinks she's 'bove it all shops with the masses, as evidenced by the yellow, strappy, sky-high heels she's been teetering around in...
Badgley Mischka
In life, there are times when it all comes together and it just works perfectly. For Mark Badgley and James Mischka, spring 2010 is their season. Their collection, which can...
Yankees open, close next season in Boston
The Yankees will open and close the 2010 season against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. It is the fifth time in 50 years the rivals start and finish against...
UPDATE: Jamaica
Whoa, hey, dig the drama at the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall in Jamaica this week. Travel Weekly reports that the Atlanta-based owners of the resort, which has been flying the Ritz...
Jay's big night
Jay Leno premiered to big numbers last night in his new 10 p.m. timeslot."The Jay Leno Show" averaged nearly 18 million viewers on NBC, easily winning the hour in total...
Mets open 2010 at Citi vs. Marlins
The Mets announced their preliminary schedule for the 2010 season today which calls for them to open at Citi Field on Monday, April 5, against the Florida Marlins at 1:10...
UPDATE: Orlando
For members of the press who are also Harry Potter fans, this morning was super exciting -- Universal Orlando held a press conference to reveal secrets and details re: the...
Back in black
Live: Outside the Rodarte show, the models who've come outside to smoke are all draped head-to-toe in sheets of black fabric to prevent people from getting a sneak peek at...
The Daily Whacks, Tuesday edition
He seems to favor the gimpy knee now. His supporting characters on offense don't seem to have quite the rockets in their engines that they did the last time they...
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs is getting his freak on again. This time the inspiration seems to be the kind of strange tschotschkes you might pick up at an airport in the East...
New Mikvah on Amherst Street
A proposal to establish a new mikvah on Amherst Street in Manhattan Beach will go before Community Board 15 later this month.Torath Israel Sephardic Congregation, located at 710 Shore Boulevard,...
Man killed on Gerritsen Avenue
A 66-year-old father of five was killed Saturday as he walked his dog down Gerritsen Avenue.Officials said that Fred Wilson was struck down just paces away from where he raised...
Changes in School District 22
Power has been restored to School’s District 22’s community superintendent — and parents couldn’t be happier.Under the previous system, superintendent Marianne Ferrara was responsible for grading schools in District 22...
Coney pizza icon may reopen soon
Famed Coney Island pizzeria Totonno’s could be open in a matter of weeks, giving discriminating eaters across the borough reason to rejoice. According to the pizza-centric blog Slice, the shop...
A pain in the B---- riders denounce loss of express subway service
More subway riders dependent on the B express to get them to their destinations on time are reacting angrily this week to the MTA’s plans to suspend service along the...
Vera Wang
Vera Wang is an alchemist. This designer is able to take simple bits of tulle, chiffon, silk and gauze and create liquid and magical looks that take your breath away....
From Week 1 of the NFL season
This will be the first of at least 17 segments of reviewing each week of the NFL. If the Giants and/or Jets make the playoffs there will be more. Despite...
Unfair in love and war
It's pretty clear from my review in today's paper that I didn't care much for Daniel Goldfarb's "The Retributionists," which opened at Playwrights Horizons last night. Casting is a central...
Flawed Fixes
Amity Shlaes says Obama invites same meltdown (Bloomberg)Charles Gasparino says Obama wimped out (Forbes)
The Daily Whacks, Tuesday Edition
He seems to favor the gimpy knee now. His supporting characters on offense don't seem to have quite the rockets in their engines that they did the last time they...
Sorry Charlie
Richard Cohen says Rangel suffers from entitlement (Washington Post)Douglas Turner says Dems need Rangel's contributions (Buffalo News)
3UP: Yankees strategy, postseason roster, Joba
1. We saw a playoff preview last night, and not only in the potential ALCS matchup between the Angels and Yankees. We saw how the Yankees might try to shape...
Outing ACORN
Yael Abouhalkah says ACORN has fallen (Kansas City Star)Now will Congress investigate? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Immigration Antagonists
Clash comes over health care reform (Washington Post)
Toronto: Moore is Less, Again
Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story'' is better than "Sicko,'' but still plays fast and loose with the facts in this documentary that claims the recession-scarred U.S. masses are increasingly ready...
Reality TV Tryouts: Eco-blended families
We've run out of one-theme reality shows. It's no longer just a survivor competition or a sing-off, now we have to combine the themes. So here we go: If you're...
CHSFL Rankings
1. St. Joseph by the Sea (2-0) 2. Holy Cross (2-1) 3. Monsignor Farrell (2-1) 4. Xaverian (2-1) 5. Fordham Prep (1-2) 6. Mount St. Michael (0-2) 7. St. Francis...
PSAL boys soccer roundup: Columbus gets back on track
Columbus bounced back from its first division loss since October 2007 with a comfortable, 4-0 win over Bronx Science Monday afternoon in Bronx A boys soccer. Michael Asante scored a...
What celebs did last summer
IT’S nearly official. Summer’s over. The kids are back to school, we’re pretending to get excited about renewing our commitment to, um, working. We asked some of the most famous...
50 STATES: Montana
JACK Kerouac knew as much about drinking as Jack Nicholson knows about beautiful women. And when a career boozer like the beatnik legend dubs a dive joint in the middle...
Mason, Tigers ready to repeat
Emily Mason can make scoring a goal look effortless and easy at times. The Bishop Kearney junior was a dynamic goal scorer for the Bensonhurst school last season, helping to...
Zilch in store in tale of love & war
THE hideous Playbill cover is a warning sign: A pair of lips pucker up for a kiss against a Star of David and gloomy, skeletal trees. That image is as...
Emotions on the line
IN Jean Cocteau's play "La Voix Humaine" (the human voice), a lone actress talks on the phone to a lover with whom she's just broken up. She keeps getting interrupted...
H'wives star's cancer
"DESPERATE Housewives" actress Kathryn Joosten has been diagnosed with lung cancer, her publicist reported yesterday. According to Thomas DeLorenzo, a CAT-scan revealed that Joosten, 69, who plays Karen McCluskey on...
2012 Olympics to go 3D
GET ready for a whole new way to experience the Olympics -- in 3D. To make the 2012 London Olympics larger than life, the BBC is thinking about broadcasting portions...
O say can you see
OPRAH is rolling into Central Park on Friday -- where the weather report calling for rain is not the only dark cloud on the horizon. The live show -- featuring...
The Grin reaper
IT has been a week since Ellen DeGeneres signed on to be the fourth "American Idol" judge, and Simon Cowell has yet to utter a peep about it. While all...
Happiest man on tv
WHY is Simon Cowell smiling? Because it's the moment when he discovered Susan Boyle, who makes her American performance debut during tomorrow night's finale of "America's Got Talent." Piers Morgan...
'VMA' bump
MTV's 2009 "Video Music Awards" were watched by 11 million people, making it the most-watched "VMAs" in seven years -- an increase of 21 percent over the viewers who tuned...
Pounds & lovers
OK, so you've lost a cou ple inches off your waistline, conquered daily crunches and can run as fast as Jason Bourne . . . for at least three miles...
Say hooray for Jay!
NBC attempted to redeem itself last night by bringing back ratings winner Jay Leno after giving him the boot in favor of the world's oldest frat boy, Conan O'Brien, in...
Real godsend
It was 1957 when a distraught mother turned to a young priest, the Rev. William O'Brien at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and asked him to help her troubled son, who had...
Betraying 9/11 Victims: Will the Terrorists Win?
Ralph Peters' column really says it all, ("Betraying Our Dead," PostOpinion, Sept. 11). The reason that this country is in trouble is summed up by the fact that Peters' remarks...
City denizens don't see pits
SO, you're depressed by all those ugly pits around town where commercial and residential projects are either barely inching ahead or are completely stalled? You hate having the plywood fences...
Nightmare gang rape at Hofstra
An 18-year-old Hofstra University co-ed was gang-raped by five men on campus, cops said last night. The shocking attack took place Sunday at around 3 a.m. Cops would not say...
Cancer takes Swayze at 57
EVERYBODY put Patrick Swayze in the corner, at the intersection of bruiser and ballet dancer. Swayze, who died yesterday at 57 after a gruesome, 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer played...
Soda jerks caged until they're old men
LONDON -- In a case that altered airport security worldwide, three British Muslims were imprisoned yesterday for at least 32 years each for a plot to kill thousands by blowing...
Philharmonic's $weet music
The New York Philharmonic has announced it will receive a $10 million gift from philanthropist Henry R. Kravis to endow its composer-in-residence program and fund the creation of an award...
How we can put Khadafy on trial
IT'S past time to make Moammar Kha dafy start paying for his crimes against humanity. In the wake of the shameful al-Megrahi pardon, it's up to international courts and/or private...
Graffiti Does Good
Our program to mitigate the chaos around Downtown construction sites is not "wasteful," as you claim in your editorial, "Begging for Urban Decay" (Sept. 4). Instead, it offers neighborhood businesses...
Lothario juror fined
LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles juror has been fined for trying to start a romance with the sister of fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander during his rape trial. Superior...
Osama bin Has-Been
OSAMA bin Laden? Oh, yeah. Him. The 9/11 guy. Used to be a terrorist star. Now he's just a has-been hiding in a remote cave or compound, too afraid to...
Crash driver 'off meds'
An epileptic driver had stopped taking his medication two weeks before he suffered a seizure and lost control of his garbage truck, killing two tourists, a prosecutor said yesterday. Auvryn...
Jody Powell dies
WASHINGTON -- Jody Powell, who was White House press secretary and among the most trusted advisers to President Jimmy Carter, died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 65. Powell,...
Investors: Keep an eye on the market bubble
NEWSPAPERS are busy this week commemorating the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers as if that was the World Series and we are all sports reporters going over...
Housing hustlers
THE radical activist group ACORN is the E.F. Hutton of prostitution. It stands ready to provide discreet advice on setting up a brothel and engaging in other associated acts of...
NFL brains for science
BOSTON -- Three NFL players announced yesterday they will donate their brains and spinal cord tissue to a Boston University Medical School program that studies sports brain injuries. Even though...
The flaw in O's Wall Street fixes
YESTERDAY, President Obama came to New York's Federal Hall to tell Wall Street and the nation how he'd fix the financial markets. The goals he outlined were unassailable -- but...
Qns. Dem voters are real fishy
Her husband died 10 years ago, so a Queens woman was startled to get a letter from the Board of Elections notifying her that he had changed his voter-registration form...
Business briefs
Sprint sale? Sprint Nextel jumped as much as 14 percent in New York trading on reports that Deutsche Telekom AG is consid ering buying the com pany. Sprint rose 38...
Tax cheats face IRS deadline
Rich Americans who have evaded taxes by hiding foreign holdings have about a week to turn themselves in to an Internal Revenue Service amnesty program or gamble they will not...
Istithmar may fold
Dubai investment firm Istithmar World may be the first sovereign wealth fund to liquidate after a $27 billion spending spree financed largely with borrowed money, people briefed on the matter...
Tinkle to twinkle
That twinkle in the sky started as a tinkle in space. Thousands of stargazers who were thrilled last Wednesday by a spectacular light show may be surprised at how it...
Seatless train on slow track
Will straphangers stand for this? The MTA has pushed back a plan to test four "seatless" subway cars to the last three months of this year, officials said yesterday. Originally...
Veoh wins ruling over UMG
Veoh, an online video site backed by Michael Eisner, Tom Freston and others, yesterday scored another legal victory against Universal Music Group when a federal judge tossed out UMG's copyright-infringement...
Bill & Bam ciao down in Village
President Obama and former President Bill Clinton took over a pricey pasta palace in Greenwich Village for a private lunch yesterday as the Secret Service guarded the doors, and traffic...
Judge nixes BofA deal
A federal judge yesterday tossed out Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission's plan to settle charges that BofA lied to shareholders about its merger with Merrill Lynch,...
Tree chop of horrors
A vandal committed high tree-son in Queens early Sunday, chopping down a row of newly planted oaks and cherries. It was the fourth act of arborcide at Juniper Valley Park...
Astor son hits back
Anthony Marshall, the accused swindling son of philanthropist Brooke Astor, came out swinging in closing arguments yesterday, relying on the same one-two punch he used in opening statements way back...
He means business
President Barack Obama went deep into the heart of Wall Street yesterday and rapped its knuckles for continuing its "reckless ways" of bloated bonuses and "quick kills" that helped wreck...
Manhattan DA rivals take heat on crime
The three candidates vying for Manhattan district attorney are pushing platforms that are too soft for one of the nation's premier crime-fighting offices, critics charged yesterday as voters head to...
Lazio will run for gov
Rick Lazio, the former Long Island congressman who ran against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the US Senate in 2000, will formally declare he's a candidate for governor -- potentially putting...
NYCLU's lesson on school cops
A coalition of groups led by the New York Civil Liberties Union is working to inform city kids at the most violent public high schools about their rights when dealing...
Weinstein Co. loses its Genius
A Genius investment that Harvey Weinstein publicly once valued at more than $400 million is now worth zip. The Weinstein Co., the film studio founded by Weinstein and his brother...
Hiram will tell it to the judge
State Sen. Hiram Monserrate decided yesterday not to face a jury of his peers, opting instead for a bench trial on charges he attacked his girlfriend. The renegade Jackson Heights...
'Nonpartisan' B'klyn group caught playing poli-tricks
On the same hidden-camera video in which loan counselors at ACORN's Brooklyn office helped a hooker skirt the law, a list of the supposedly nonpartisan group's primary-election endorsements can be...
Leave the latte, take the chocolate
Kraft may be ready to give up coffee and hot dogs in exchange for chocolate. According to several sources familiar with the matter, the food giant might sell assets like...
Cop slay shot 'point-blank'
The transit cop charged with murdering the woman who spurned him, shot her point blank in the back of the head -- not in a vain attempt to protect her...
Lehman hangover
A year after its historic collapse, Lehman Brothers is causing huge headaches for some of its biggest creditors -- namely hedge-fund titan John Paulson. Paulson, part of an ad-hoc group...
Sorry, Charlie
Rep. Charlie Rangel is upset at The Post's reports of his various trans gressions. So here's a word of advice: Stop committing them, Congressman. Rangel lashed out at The Post...
Outing ACORN
ACORN has always had, uh, compli cated relations with the law. But helping pimps and prostitutes com mit housing fraud? That's a new one. Affiliates of the political shakedown group...
NYPD daily blotter
Manhattan Cops are looking for this suspected gunman, who allegedly knocked off an Upper West Side bank to the tune of $23,000. The man, wearing blue-green hospital scrubs along with...
Probe launched as Senate nixes funds
The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office yesterday launched a criminal probe into ACORN, while the Senate overwhelmingly voted to ban federal funding for the nonprofit group after two New York workers...
Obama's Job-Growth Dodge
Give President Obama half a cheer for backing free markets and personal re sponsibility in his Wall Street speech yesterday. Meaningful action, though, might have led to better results. Surely,...
A Carlyle lover dies at its door
An 86-year-old art enthusiast who was considered "a fixture" at The Carlyle was crushed to death just outside the famed Upper East Side hotel yesterday when a construction vehicle accidentally...
'Rudy' quiz for Kerik jurors
Rudy haters need not apply. The feds want to know if potential jurors for disgraced former top cop Bernard Kerik's upcoming corruption trial will be biased by their feelings regarding...
City fights cop-sodomy suit
The city claims it's not responsible for the actions of rogue cops accused of beating and sodomizing a man last year and is asking a judge to remove the NYPD...
HS pals mourn 'a wonderful person'
PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- When those who knew her talk about Annie Le, they do so in superlatives -- best student they ever had, most dedicated volunteer, smartest teenager they've ever...
Scratches on lovelorn suspect in Yale student's murder
A Yale lab technician with an unrequited love for grad student Annie Le emerged as the prime suspect in her coldblooded murder after he failed a lie-detector test and couldn't...
Serena is suddenly court-ly
Serena Williams served herself a slice of humble pie yesterday and finally apologized for her profanity-laced, match-losing tirade against a lineswoman at the US Open. After nearly two days of...
Exercise a lifesaver even in your 80s
CHICAGO -- A little physical activity goes a long way toward extending life by at least a few years for people in their mid- to late 80s, researchers have found....
Gotti's juror greeting not a hit
Jury selection for John "Junior" Gotti's fourth trial since 2005 kicked off yesterday with the mob scion telling potential panelists, : "Good morning, I am John Gotti. Here I am...
'Too old' Elton can't adopt tot
KIEV, Ukraine -- Elton John won't be able to adopt a 14-month-old HIV-positive child from Ukraine because the pop star is too old and isn't married, the Ukrainian government said...
Smoke 'em out of parks
New York City to smokers: Butt out of our parks. Health Commissioner Thomas Farley announced yesterday he wants to ban smoking in public parks and city beaches as part of...
About time we put last nail in the coughin'!
FOR the second time this decade, the city's health Gestapo has come up with a mighty fine idea. Ban the lit cigarettes from public parks! Turn the nozzle on the...
Bass swim both ways
Government scientists figure that one out of three male smallmouth bass in US river basins have features of both sexes. Among largemouth bass, about one in five male fish have...
Parole probes
State parole officials and the Bronx DA's Office yesterday launched probes into the shocking foul-up that allowed the killer of prosecutor Sean Healy to be paroled without authorities or his...
Feds probe $UNY
ALBANY -- Tens of millions of dollars in research grants to state universities in the New York City area could be swept into a broad probe on whether the SUNY...
Overhead smash by Open wife
A female tourist has one-upped tennis ace Serena Williams -- smashing her husband with a lamp and biting him during an argument over the US Open in their chic Midtown...
Bomb raid at home visited by 'associate'
Armed anti-terror agents yesterday stormed three Queens homes hunting for bomb-making materials allegedly sought by a suspected "al Qaeda associate" -- a dragnet sparked by President Obama's visit, law-enforcement sources...
Obama: Kanye's a 'jackass'
Shhh! Don't tell anyone, but President Obama apparently thinks Kanye West is a "jackass." He delivered his take on West's mike-grabbing diss of Taylor Swift at Sunday's MTV Video Music...
Yankees beat Angels at own speed game
There is something to be said for shoving a spoonful of Castor Oil down a troublesome opponent's throat, letting it taste its own medicine. Nevertheless, it was the Yankees who...
Teixeira rips into Angels -- finally
Mark Teixeira had been awful this season against the Angels, so it's a good thing his former team and Yankees had a makeup game last night. Teixeira was a monster...
Yankees' Guzman fills need for speed
Even with Brett Gardner back in the fold, a little extra speed certainly couldn't hurt the Yankees. With that in mind, and a possible eye toward the postseason roster, the...
Philadelphia Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 7f; $23,000; cl($10,000); 3up; (f&m)FAR OUT CHICK has closed to finish third in her last two starts at this level. DOMESTICALISTA cuts back to sprint while making first start...
Giants line's drive is greatness
ANTONIO Pierce is the brains of Big Blue's operation, and today, because Defense Wins Championships will forever be the mantra of the New York Football Giants, he lets us into...
Giants report card, Week 1
Grading the Giants' first game: QUARTERBACKS B Better accuracy on the move from Eli Manning (20 of 29, 256, 1 TD, 1 INT) and steady all the way through, but...
Jets report card, Week 1
Grading the Jets' first game: QUARTERBACKS B+ Mark Sanchez (18-31, 272 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT, 84.3 rating) was better than advertised considering this was his first NFL start. RUNNING...
Williamses double up for title
As good as Venus and Serena Williams are individually, they may be even better together. The sisters claimed their 10th Grand Slam doubles title yesterday with a dominating 6-2, 6-2...
Retool the Mets? That's ridiculous!
ATLANTA -- The call keeps coming from angry e-mailers, even angrier talk-radio hosts and callers and, in one mystifying case, an otherwise respected national baseball writer. The general line of...
Jets treating game like 'Super Bowl'
Think the Jets, fresh off of their 24-7 rout of the Texans, are amped up about making their next bold statement -- Sunday at 1 p.m. against the Patriots in...
Giants get Boley back this week
While his new team was busy preparing for the season opener, Michael Boley was in Arizona, working out, staying in shape. When his new team was busy disposing of the...
Rex providing reasons to believe
THE Jets knew what they wanted when they hired Rex Ryan. They'd seen his defense in Baltimore, had been flattened by it more than once, knew the Ravens' black, blue...
Nicked-up Nicks will miss 2 weeks
It could have been worse. That's the thought-process of the Giants after seeing rookie receiver Hakeem Nicks carted off to the locker room during Sunday's 23-17 victory over the Redskins....
Dubinsky must wait to hit Rangers paydirt
By the winter of 1998, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera had established themselves as integral parts of what was then the Yankees' embryonic dynasty. Jeter had won Rookie of the...
Upstart del Potro denies Federer his 6th crown
Juan Martin del Potro didn't sound like someone who was about to pull off a stunning upset just before he walked onto the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium yesterday for...
Bears lose Urlacher for season
LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Bears star linebacker Brian Urlacher went on injured reserve after having surgery yesterday to repair a dislocated right wrist and will not be back this season,...
Federer has nothing to be sorry about
AFTER five years, it ended in no blink of an eyelash, but in the stages of denial that Roger Federer again would find a way. The match turned when, after...
Joba Rules not for you
YOU hate the restraints on Joba Chamberlain. You flip on the Yankees game and are aggravated that Alfredo Aceves is out there in the middle innings, which means Joba again...
Warren stars for SI Yankees in Game 1
Behind yet another outstanding pitching performance from Adam Warren, the Staten Island Yankees are one win away from a New York-Penn League title. Warren pitched six shutout innings for the...
Gholston's 'up and down' opener fails to impress Rex
For the first time since he has been the Jets' head coach, Rex Ryan yesterday sounded lukewarm about Vernon Gholston, the team's 2008 first-round draft pick. Ryan, who has been...
Hondo's big play
Hondo hit with the Rays as both ended their losing streaks last night, but, sadly, Mr. Aitch started a new one, losing with the Angels, Pats and Chargers to fall...
Sports shorts
NFL: Eagles add Garcia behind iffy McNabb With Donovan McNabb's status uncertain for the Eagles' game against the Saints on Sunday because of a cracked rib, the team signed veteran...
Fumble saves Brady's return
Back on center stage, Tom Brady acted like, well, the NFL's biggest star. It seemed to take forever, though. A year after being sidelined with torn knee ligaments, Brady resembled...
Weird but true
Some stores have blue-light specials -- this one had a blue-movie special. Two men were busted in Arkansas for playing a porn DVD on televisions displayed at the Fort Smith...
Bayside takes delight from draw
Monday afternoon’s 2-2 draw with Francis Lewis didn’t tell Joe Corrado anything he didn’t know about his team. The Bayside boys soccer coach likes his club’s skill level, its fight,...
New York City HS football rankings
There is very little turnover in our rankings this week, the result of favorites prevailing and the CHSFL regular season having yet to begin. The one change involves the PSAL,...
CHSFL rankings: Week 1
Most of the Catholic High School Football League teams played non-league games over the weekend in preparation for the beginning of the league season this week. The games might not...
PSAL Queens girls volleyball preview
There’s a bulletin board for volleyball at Cardozo HS. On the right side is mementos from the boys team and the left has pin-ups for the girls. There’s a bit...
JUST BACK: New York
I dislike a lot of things, few of them more than the trend in the travel industry to make up cute names for different types of trips. A guy can't...
Hilltoppers' Ray ready for challenge
Deirdre Ray is flattered by the praise and expectations Nicole Madtes heap upon her. The first-year girls varsity soccer coach at The Mary Louis Academy believes Ray was talented enough...
Patriots playing for unprecedented third straight PSAL title
Francis Lewis is trying to make history this season by becoming the first PSAL girls volleyball team to ever win three straight Class A titles. Trying, though, probably isn’t the...