May 9, 2010
Two teens killed at Bronx birthday party on Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day turned tragic for two teens’ families after they were brutally killed at a 1-year-old’s birthday celebration when a party-crasher suddenly opened fire in the hallway of a Bronx...
Rodriguez hater Braden pitches perfect game
OAKLAND, Calif. — The A's pitcher who challenged Alex Rodriguez to a fight after the Yankees superstar came too close to the mound might be having the last laugh, for...
Mets' home winning streak ends with Giants rally
After Brian Wilson watched Jason Bay's shallow fly take a wild ride in the wind and end up falling in for a leadoff double in the ninth, he changed his...
Phillies blast way past Braves
PHILADELPHIA -- Placido Polanco, Jayson Werth and Shane Victorino each went deep, Cole Hamels survived a shaky start and the Philadelphia Phillies’ bullpen hung on to beat the Atlanta Braves...
SNY’s Ojeda on Ollie: ‘Just awful’
Bob Ojeda doesn’t know what the Mets should do with Oliver Perez, but he knows things can't continue this way. Ojeda watched from the SNY studios as Perez pitched 3...
New volcano cloud nixes Europe flights
GENEVA — Airlines canceled hundreds of flights across Europe and added hours to trans-Atlantic journeys today as planes were diverted around a large plume of ash spewed by an Icelandic...
BP in oil spill scramble
BP Plc engineers today desperately explored options to control oil gushing from a ruptured Gulf of Mexico well after a setback with a huge containment dome fueled fears of a...
PSAL softball rankings
The regular season comes to a close this week, but there has been no shortage of activity in these rankings – especially in the lower half. Our top five remains...
CHSAA softball rankings
There has been a little bit of a shakeup in the rankings, including a new member in St. John Villa. St. Francis Prep is back at No. 4 after beating...
Red Sox hammer Burnett, Yankees in finale
BOSTON -- Jon Lester pitched seven strong innings and Jeremy Hermida homered and drove in three runs as the Boston Red Sox beat the Yankees 9-3 on Sunday night to...
Chelsea romps Wigan to win Premier League
LONDON -- Chelsea has regained the Premier League title from Manchester United with a 8-0 victory over Wigan. Even though United finished the campaign with a 4-0 victory over Stoke...
Is Hawks’ Johnson worth max contract for Knicks, Nets?
Joe Johnson’s stock is plummeting at the exact wrong time.The Hawks guard, months away from hitting the free-agent market, has averaged 11.3 points in the second round of the playoffs....
Picnicking boyfriend sparks museum bomb scare
A funky-looking BMW caused a bomb scare on the Upper West Side today after the driver covered the black-and-white vehicle with a tarp and left the engine running while he...
Stoudemire warming to Suns coach could keep him in Phoenix
Alvin Gentry doesn’t sound like the kind of coach Amar’e Stoudemire plans on leaving.Stoudemire talked glowingly of Gentry, who has the Suns up 3-0 on the Spurs and one win...
Bam tells grads gadgets are distraction
HAMPTON, Va. - President Barack Obama told college graduates today the era of the iPod and the Xbox has not always been good for the cause of a strong education....
Potential Knicks, Nets draft target Fredette going back to BYU
BYU star guard Jimmer Fredette worked out for the Knicks and Nets, but neither will get a chance to draft him. Fredette was seen as a potential second-round target for...
Astros: Berkman would be perfect fit for Red Sox
Is Lance Berkman the answer for the struggling Red Sox?The Astros slugger recently said he would be willing to waive his no-trade clause if the Houston wanted to deal him....
Gametracker: Giants at Mets
It won’t be easy for the Mets to complete a sweep of the Giants. They will put Oliver Perez on the mound against the two-time defending Cy Young winner Tim...
U.S. Missiles kill 10 in Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Suspected U.S. missiles killed 10 people in a militant-controlled region close to the Afghan border today, the first such strike since an alleged Pakistani-trained extremist...
Box Office: 'Iron Man' opens at huge but non-record $133.5M
In the end, "Iron Man 2'' didn't have the mettle to seriously challenge the opening-weekend record set by "The Dark Knight'' two years ago (in July, when school was out)....
Tiger withdraws from Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — In a dramatic case of premature withdrawal, Tiger Woods pulled out of the Players Championship in the middle of his final round today with a...
Holder may tweak Miranda law
In the wake of the Times Square bombing plot, the Obama administration said todayit wants to work with Congress on possible limitations of the constitutional rights afforded terrorism suspects —...
Pakistani Taliban 'intimately involved' in failed Times Square plot
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder today said evidence shows a Pakistan Taliban group closely allied with al Qaeda was behind the attempted bombing in Times Square. Holder, in an...
UK opposition parties seek deal to form government
LONDON - Britain’s two main opposition parties tried on Sunday to break the deadlock of last week’s inconclusive election before financial markets lose patience, with the mood at the negotiations...
Indonesia rattled by magnitude 7.4 earthquake
JAKARTA, Indonesia — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 rattled Indonesia’s North Sumatra province Sunday, prompting a brief local tsunami watch, knocking out power and damaging some homes,...
Man stabs 8 to death in latest China rampage
BEIJING — A Chinese man on a stabbing rampage killed eight people in the country’s southeast, including his mother, wife and daughter, police and new reports said Sunday. The motive...
Why Yankees-Red Sox games take so long
Delay ball! If you’re a Yankees fan, you’ve spent 18 hours of your life so far this season — and will spend maybe four hours more tonight — watching another...
Teixeira’s three homers lead Yankees past overmatched Red Sox
BOSTON — Maybe the Red Sox can schedule the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, because they clearly can’t handle the real Yankees right now. The Yankees stomped the Sox again yesterday, 14-3, for...
Streaking Yankees sluggers a cure for any pain
BOSTON — My goodness, Nick Johnson just might be contagious. The Yankees’ injury list seemingly is growing as fast as the national debt. The Yankees keep losing players and winning...
Blanco provides Mets' second straight walk-off win
Mets manager Jerry Manuel said that he considered sending Rod Barajas up as a pinch-hitter for Henry Blanco yesterday in the 11th inning. But instead of using Barajas, Friday night’s...
Mets' Santana: I was tipping my pitches
If it’s been a career of what you see is what you get from Johan Santana, then it has sure been an upper-echelon run. But lately what you see is...
Baseball play-by-play men forever the voices of summer
Here’s the thing: most of us never got to hear the best of Ernie Harwell. Oh, maybe we caught him doing national games of the week. Maybe we’ve seen re-broadcasts...
Success of kids creates great options for Yankees
Robinson Cano, Brett Gardner, Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes have a long way to go to ably succeed The Core Four as The Four More. But that quartet has been...
‘Mugged in Mayberry’ starring Ashley Dupre
Sign of the Times: Betty Lou Lynn, 83 — who played Thelma Lou on the old “Andy Griffith Show” — moved to Mount Airy, NC after the third time she...
Spitzer take
Chris Noth wasn’t exactly thinking of Eliot Spitzer as inspiration when he joined the cast of “The Good Wife” as adulterous politician Peter Florrick. In today’s world, he had his...
Questions for Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein epitomizes the term larger than life, from his Mermanesque acting style to his voice — a distinctive honk that could stop traffic. His fans may love him for...
Don't miss
DRAMA Day of death Founder’s Day arrives with the specter of death hanging over everyone. Stefan (Paul Wesley) is uncomfortable with his brother’s new attitude toward Elena (Nina Dobrev), but...
CBS’ golden crime blotter
Marg Helgenberger says at first she wasn’t thrilled when spin-off fever struck at CBS. “In four short seasons, we spawned two spin-offs, something that I wouldn’t have expected and certainly...
Crime queen
After a decade of dealing with gruesome murders, grisly accidents, creepy fetishes and the occasional wooden stake to the cranium, there’s only one crime scene that still creeps out “CSI”...
Reel good
ATONEMENT (2007)Sunday, 9 a.m., USA A breathlessly good movie from a novel by Ian McEwan about a 13-year-old fledgling writer who recklessly accuses her older sister’s secret beau of a...
The Post’s guide to golf courses in city
Stephen Kay came back to New York City in 1983 with no money in his pocket and a tentative job renovating golf courses that would end up paying him around...
The Rumble: Queen Latifah tries to push Wade to Knicks or Nets
Queen’s fingers crossed Latifah pressing Wade to sign here Jersey native/actress/rapper Queen Latifah gave it her best shot Tuesday at the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue to sway Miami superstar...
Don’t give up on ‘Lost’
Season finale time is upon us, which means stunt casting, cliffhanger and major character deaths. This week offers all three: *“Lost” (Tuesday, 9 p.m., ABC): The clock is ticking on...
Baseball roundup: Streaking Riverdale tops Fieldston, wins third straight
Riverdale personifies the unpredictable nature of the Ivy League. After starting out 1-5, The Bronx school has reeled off three consecutive wins, including an impressive 11-3 victory over Fieldston, which...
11 dead as blast hits Russia's largest coal mine
MOSCOW — Two explosions tore through Russia’s largest underground coal mine, killing 11 workers and injuring 41 others, an emergency services ministry official said Sunday. Another 84 people remained in...
Pop rocks
Forget smooth, shiny stones. These days, jewelry designers are giving natural rocks and minerals a royally-rough treatment by leaving the stone’s interior crystals exposed and untouched. Depending on the host...
Year without a budget
At 6 a.m. on Monday, a State Trooper will pick up Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch at his Fifth Avenue apartment for the 2 1/2 -hour drive to Albany. Over the...
Rise of the mini Qaedas
For all the confusion about who Faisal Shahzad is and how he got that way, there is one sure thing the failed Times Square bomber has shown us: The future...
This week’s couple: city clickers
When urban dwellers Aaron and Sarah, both 31, met up at Rosa Mexicano in Union Square, they could definitely agree on one thing: Neither is ready for a white picket...
Top 5 worst ways to tell mom you're getting married
According to mushy Mother’s Day card shoppers at Papyrus “Drunk-dial her from an all-night chapel in Vegas.” — Gina Post it on Twitter and @ your mom.” — Riley “Send...
What happened to New York's storied street games?
Where have all the street games gone? The strategic sliding of bottle caps across a city street known as Skelly, the heroic dodging and weaving of Ringoleavio, the fast-moving batting...
Not-so humble pies
Americans generally like their pies stuffed with fruit or sugary fillings, not chunks of braised meat. But that’s changing as meat-pie mania sweeps through Gotham. Quintessentially British meat-and-pastry combos —...
Meet market: Comedian looking for stand-up girl
Josh, 33, is a comic who can entertain a crowd with his sense of humor. But he’s ready to focus on making just one special girl smile. Sara, 29, copywriter...
Gov out of touch
Peggy Noonan is right on the mark with her assessment of America today (“Alien Nation,” PostScript, May 2). We are so caught up in our new-found poverty, losing our stuff...
Street fight
The city is undertaking costly street-redesign plans at 34th Street, Union Square and along Water Street with little regard for the costs of these projects, their ability to achieve stated...
Zap him!
I am tired of the liberals jumping all over law enforcement for doing their job (“Philly Fan Fried With Taser,” May 4). Mary Catherine Roper, an attorney for the American...
Tuned out
Charles Hurt’s claim that “all the televisions in the Justice Department briefing room” being tuned in to Fox News proves that “Justice finally takes the War on Terror seriously” is...
The pregnant widow
When the revolution comes to bury the old ways, it doesn’t leave behind an heir but a pregnant widow, says Martin Amis (alluding to Alexander Herzen) in a novel about...
Finding Mr. Adequate
“The Rules” have changed. Fifteen years after that bestselling book told women they had to play hard-to-get to find Mr. Right, four new “how to” books advise forgetting about him....
Required reading
The Last Hero A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant (Pantheon) The rivalry between two of the greatest home run kings has moved from the baseball field to the...
How Al Capone was untouchable
When Al Capone left Brooklyn, he was a 21-year-old nothing. When he turned 28, by then living in Chicago, he was one of the world’s most famous men, his face...
Agenda: Uke can't miss
1.The little strummer is NYC’s hot new guitar hero When software engineer Jason Tagg first started his monthly Ukulele Cabaret five years ago in the West Village, curating four hours...
In my library; Bryan Batt
Former “Mad Men” regular Bryan Batt knew that triumph, not tragedy, would be the focus of his memoir, “She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother,” which examines the influence of his...
‘Troll 2’: an appreciation
In 1989, when Michael Stephenson was 10, he was cast in a low-budget indie film called “Goblins.” He hoped it would become another “Gremlins,” but that hope didn’t last long....
A tale of two disasters
Remember when Democrats tried to bludgeon Team Bush as “incompetent” for its supposed bureaucratic foul-ups — its “missed” clues pre-9/11 and “bungled” response to Hurricane Katrina? Well, gee — aren’t...
Birdie bulge begone!
Polly wanna Big Mac? Apparently, yes. And a handful of Doritos, too. Many pet birds eat nothing but junk food, says Lorelei Tibbetts, a licensed veterinary technician and manager of...
It's called 'change'
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is showing no signs of let-up in his drive to fix his broken state. His latest move: announcing last week that he won’t reappoint Justice...
My Times Square: Duane Jackson
Duane Jackson, 57, was an anonymous Times Square street vendor until May 1, when a Nissan Pathfinder parked a few feet away from his table began smoking and crackling. Soon...
The making of the Rolling Stones' 'Exile on Main Street'
Sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll. The Rolling Stones didn’t invent the formula. But they lived it like no other band in history. And when the rapacious taxmen of England came...
Crowe has bow to pick
Russell Crowe as outlaw. Talk about your typecasting. Crowe plays the title character in Friday’s “Robin Hood,” and while it makes sense to cast the volatile actor as one of...
Amanda Seyfried: The next LiLo?
Which way will she go? It’s the question that unfortunately faces every hot, up-and-coming young female actor. Will she deal with the sudden fame, money and attention in a level-headed...
Mommies dearest
Mothers come in all different varieties, and so do movies about them. Here are six of the best, each worthy of popping into the VCR for Mom to watch with...
Ferocious fighting
Before the world championship began two weeks ago, the Bulgarian hosts proposed that since the games were being held in their capital, the players should abide by the "Sofia rules."...
Fertility clinic's embryo mix-up turned would-be mom into accidental surrogate
It should have been the happiest day of their lives. Carolyn and Sean Savage had spent what seemed like an eternity trying to add a fourth child to their family....
Charter school saved me from life of chaos
Jasmine Drake grew up in a South Bronx neighborhood filled with "drug addicts, gangs, fights, shootings and killings," she says. Her father was nowhere in sight. Her mom worked nights,...
LI teen planned '08 'Columbine' attack, too
One of the Long Island teens busted last week in a twisted Columbine-style plot to shoot up their high school was arrested in a similar scheme two years ago. Christopher...
Hollywood moms deserve a Mother's Day break
Jessica Alba, Rachel Weisz and Kate Hudson deserve some TLC for Mother's Day -- all three A-list moms have been doting on their adorable kids. Alba (pictured), 29, strolls with...
Staten Island Ferry's heroic hands on deck
The Staten Island Ferry crew's swift action to move passengers from the front of the ship as it steamed out of control into the dock likely saved lives and avoided...
MTA is eyeing layoff loophole
The MTA and its lawyers are planning an end run around a temporary restraining order that prevents the agency from laying off about 250 of 475 station agents this week,...
Ash rehash
BRUSSELS -- The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull is again spreading a cloud of ash, delaying or canceling flights between Europe and North America yesterday. The prospects for today's flights remained grim,...
NJ crash mayhem
Two men remained in critical condition yesterday after a drunken hit-and-run driver from The Bronx plowed into a group crossing a New Jersey highway following a soccer match at the...
'Numbnut'-cracker in mea culpa to Klein
Who's the numbnut now? Teachers-union boss Mike Mulgrew has apologized to schools Chancellor Joel Klein for calling him "Chancellor Numbnuts" at an address to union delegates earlier this month. Mulgrew...
'DWI hubby' headache
A West Babylon, LI, man suffered a fractured skull early yesterday when he tried to stop his wife from driving drunk by jumping on the hood of their pickup truck...
Oil cap misses mark
A long-shot plan to cap the gushing oil well spewing toxic goo into the Gulf of Mexico went awry yesterday after ice-like crystals formed on the specially designed contain- ment...
LT gal's text cry for help
The teenage hooker allegedly raped by Lawrence Taylor in a sleazy Rockland County hotel room told The Post yesterday about how her alleged pimp brutally forced her to have sex...
Chaos vs. canvas
On Tuesday evening, as the gavel went down on the record sale of a $106.5 million Picasso, "Nudes, Green Leaves and Bust," many in and outside the art world stared...
Dollar is no longer a doughnut
When Chinese central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan called for a new global reserve currency to replace the US dollar last spring, a chorus of foreign politicians and pundits chimed in...
Go short
New York metro area homeowners are catching up with the rest of the country and rushing to short-sales of their underwater mortgages in an effort to avoid foreclosure. In the...
How SpongeTech fans attempted to slime me
On Wednesday, the top two executives of SpongeTech Delivery Systems, a company that makes and sells soap-infused sponges, were arrested on criminal charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and obstruction...
New wreck for 'hexed' Staten Island Ferry
Mechanical failure sent a Staten Island Ferry hurtling at full speed into a dock yesterday, tossing dozens of morning passengers into the air aboard the same ship on which 11...
Qaeda guru set free at JFK in '02
The Times Square terrorist didn't escape from JFK Airport, but his mentor did years earlier -- with the help of the Justice Department. And now Congress is investigating. It turns...
Anne Hathaway's boyfriend acts like a 'thief'
Maybe they were bored. Anne Hathaway's boyfriend, Adam Shulman (pictured in the top photo, with the actress Thursday), and a pal were spotted yesterday walking off with a huge chunk...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan A 2-month-old boy was found dead yesterday in his mother's Flatiron hotel room, cops said. Christopher Barnett had a fever and was vomiting at around 1:40 p.m. yesterday on...
Albany pols get roasted
ALBANY -- The scandals of state government took a comic turn last night at the Legislative Correspondents Association dinner, where Albany's smorgasbord of law-flouting pols were roasted to perfection. One...
Illegal immigrant's 145G 'deport gift'
An illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet got a $145,000 parting gift from New York City taxpayers before he was deported, after city lawyers decided his civil rights had...
Feds probing JPMorgan trades in silver pit
Federal agents have launched parallel criminal and civil probes of JPMorgan Chase and its trading activity in the precious metals market, The Post has learned. The probes are centering on...
Moronic bankers drink to misery
Dear John: I recently was having lunch with a group of people at P.F. Chang's in Roseville, Calif., where some employees of a major bank were celebrating and talking about...
The prez who cried 'lone wolf'
ONE of the most troubling tics of Team Obama is the frantic rush to de clare that every terror attack on American soil is carried out by an isolated individual...
Harlem group's chaos endangers $76M gift
A $76 million windfall intended to help Harlem residents is in limbo -- and may never be paid -- because the politician-backed nonprofit in charge of distributing the money is...
Census' job total is absurd
The Obama Administration is fooling people when it says tens of thousands of jobs have been created by the Census Bureau -- jobs that are said to be a useful...
FDNY's deadly delay
A Queens man died from lack of oxygen as confused firefighters circled his house for 37 minutes because they couldn't find the address on their outdated map, The Post has...
Little 'it' girl is big
She's a million-dollar baby. Pretty and sophisticated self-made mini-mogul Fatima Ptacek isn't allowed to know how much money she banks -- even though she's built a hefty nest egg at...
Funny-money flood
Phony $100 and $50 bills are flooding the city -- and the feds want your help to stop the high-quality fakes. The funny money, on paper that seems genuine and...
'Trash and smash' trucks smack taxpayers for $17M
Call them New York's Scariest. Last year, the city was hit with more than 1,000 legal claims and hundreds of complaints from New Yorkers claiming 20-ton garbage trucks were careening...
Anguish at soldier dishonor
If she can't have justice for her slain soldier husband, she'd at least like a Purple Heart. New York widow Barbara Allen is battling the National Guard for withholding the...
Left all a loan
Jim Daigle would love to hire three more employees for his Fort Lee, NJ, sports industry computer programming company -- but he can't get a bank to lend money to...
NHL should make Stanley Cup a World Championship
The NHL should appoint VP Brendan Shanahan to chair another summit, this one to focus on how best to shorten the regular season in order that the playoffs can start...
Cervelli's bat starts catchin' on with Yankees
BOSTON -- The Yankees love the way Francisco Cervelli catches a game, and now he's handling the bat as well as he's handling the pitching staff. Cervelli picked up a...
LT sacks himself
* I couldn't believe my ears during Lawrence Taylor's court appearance on Thursday, when his attorney, Arthur Aidala, called his client an honorable family man. Is this man really a...
Goran rewards Suns' faith
Every so often in a game, but more likely in prac tice, the lefty-dealing Goran Dragic would do something freaky with the ball or reveal an unearthly move comparable to...
Baffert inches toward running Lookin At Lucky in Preakness
Trainer Bob Baffert said he will know by tomorrow if Lookin At Lucky, sixth as the 6-1 favorite in the Kentucky Derby after a trip out of "The Poseidon Adventure,"...
Aceves is latest injured Yankee
BOSTON -- Another day, another injury. The Yankees suffered another health setback when reliever Alfredo Aceves had to leave the game in the sixth inning with a stiff lower back....
Timid Tiger leaves self in rough spot
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Tiger Woods continued to tip-toe around the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass and, because of that strategy, has left himself out of realistic contention to...
Heel injury forces Mets' Castillo from game
An ailing Luis Castillo was in too much pain to play the eighth inning yesterday. Castillo left the Mets' 5-4, 11-inning victory over the Giants at Citi Field after seven...
Pagan changes his ways with Mets
This year Angel Pagan has altered a few things to try to stay on the field. "I'm doing a lot of stretching. My routine has been different. I'm paying more...
Braves snap Phillies' streak
In Seattle, Hideki Matsui became the ninth Japanese player to reach 1,500 career RBIs when he singled home Bobby Abreu in the top of the 10th inning, and Brian Fuentes...
Bay: Citi's garbage becoming Amazin' advantage
The Mets have found a home field advantage in their second year in their new park, but it's one that you would have expected to see more at Shea Stadium:...
Same tune: Lakers slip past Jazz late
Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher hit back-to-back 3-pointers during an 8-2 run in the final minute and the Lakers held on for a 111-110 victory over the Jazz last night...
Mickelson surges to 5 back of leader Westwood with 66
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- On moving day at The Players Championship, Phil Mickelson made a move. The only question is: Was it enough? Mickelson entered yesterday's third round at...
Penguins saved by Fleury
PITTSBURGH -- Marc-Andre Fleury made 32 saves, Kris Letang scored on a power play after accidentally setting up Montreal's decisive goal in the previous game and the Penguins moved within...
Hondo's up and down
Hondo threw the no-blood splitter split with the Ti gers and Blue Jays yesterday to leave the deficit hold ing at 145 burdettes. Tonight, he'll try the Pie Guy at...
Sabathia gets payback, but also no-decision against Red Sox
BOSTON -- CC Sabathia came up big in many ways for the Yankees yesterday. He took care of business: he just didn't have anything to show for it. Sabathia hit...
Sports shorts
HOOPS: Fredette to stay at BYU In Provo Utah, BYU guard Jimmer Fredette said he's coming back for his senior season. Fredette said yesterday that he's withdrawing his name from...
Hard work pays off for Yankees' Swisher
BOSTON -- Nick Swisher ended Josh Beckett's early stranglehold on the Yankees' lineup Friday night by launching a curveball to center for a three-run homer. He could not have done...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with ... Rod Barajas
The Post's Steve Serby sat down with the 34-year-old Mets catcher before Friday's game, which Barajas ended with his second homer of the night. Q: How do feel about being...
Serby's Q&A with ... Candace Parker
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the 24-year-old star of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks, who won two NCAA titles at Tennessee and an Olympic gold medal in 2008. Q:...
Red Bulls shaken by 'Quake
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Ryan Johnson scored his first goal of the season and added two assists to lead the San Jose Earthquakes to a 4-0 victory over the New...
The Post line
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Text support for threatened wildlife in Gulf
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mex ico could turn out to be the worst environmental disaster in our nation's history. It is a direct threat to more than...
Barkley gets second chances, others don't
If we're all playing the same game why do some guys get 20 strikes, yet, for others, it's one strike and they're out? It was difficult, this past week, not...
Weird but true
A Texas third-grader got lassoed into a week's detention -- for possessing Jolly Rancher candy. Leighann Adair, 10, was about to enjoy the small lunchtime treat when a teacher reported...
St. John's lands top recruit
One down, one to go. St. John's yesterday received a letter of intent from Los Angeles high school star Dwayne Polee Jr. and now the hope is that is his...
Ask Ashley: Secretary 'sexting' nay ok
I recently found evidence that my husband has been “sexting” with his secretary. He admitted to sexual overtones in the texts, but feels it wasn’t a “real affair” because it...
The Butler Did It
Although a novice, every time I watch or go to a horse race, I fashion myself as somewhat of an expert. Take last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. I read a few...
Frair, Rice earn revenge against St. John's Prep
Jordan Frair remembers the game vividly. He remembers standing in the dugout at Jack Kaiser Stadium, watching St. John’s Prep wildly celebrate a second consecutive CHSAA Class B intersectional title...
PSAL boys volleyball roundup: Cleveland advances without two best players
For Anna Dawidowska right now, it’s about who is on her team and not who isn’t. Without its two best players, No. 19 Grover Cleveland beat No. 14 Stuyvesant, 25-18,...
Bergtraum's Dixon commits to St. Bonaventure
The college recruiting process is an arduous one for even the best players. Luckily for CeCe Dixon, she had someone with plenty of knowledge she could get advice from: her...
Sea's Cautela earns stripes in win over Moore Catholic
Mike Ponsiglione wanted to give freshman Jackie Cautela an opportunity to prove herself in a big game. The St. Joseph by the Sea coach was certainly pleased with what he...
Teixeira hits 3 HRs in Boston beatdown
BOSTON — Mark Teixeira joined Lou Gehrig as the only Yankees to hit three home runs against the Boston Red Sox, and he and Francisco Cervelli drove in five runs...
Iron Man, capitalist hero
Little did Aaron Sorkin suspect, when he wrote the lefty drama "A Few Good Men," that the only thing anyone would ever remember about it was Jack Nicholson’s Col. Jessep...
Christ the King's Brown verbally commits to Hofstra
Saying he feels the “weight of the world off his shoulders,” Christ the King forward Roland Brown has verbally committed to play basketball at Hofstra University next year. But who...