October 30, 2010
Bulldogs respond to coach's punishment with plenty of bite
October 30, 2010 | 11:31pmEric Barnett likes to think of his Campus Magnet football team as a family. The Bulldogs coach had his entire team go to a vigil together for former student Kevin...
Blackout ends: Fox, Cablevision reach deal
October 30, 2010 | 11:24pmFox and Cablevision reached an agreement today that will restore programming to more than 3 million New York-area subscribers who have been without some of their favorite shows and baseball...
Turnovers, big plays doom Christ the King
October 30, 2010 | 11:11pmChris Higgins was telling his defense not to expect a pass from Xavier on a key third-down play in the fourth quarter. The Knights had passed just once prior in...
A junior achievement: St. Anthony's beats Iona Prep for CHSFL 'AAA' top seed
October 30, 2010 | 11:05pmSt. Anthony’s coach Rich Reichert had more questions about his team this year than any in recent memory. A year ago, a senior-dominated team won the CHSFL Class AAA title...
Gamble pays off for Xavier against Christ the King
October 30, 2010 | 10:56pmChris Stevens chose to go for what he called “a big banana” instead of going with what was safe and working so well. His Knights were holding onto an eight-point...
Obama tells AIDS hecklers: Go bother the Republicans!
October 30, 2010 | 10:48pmPresident Barack Obama today launched a weekend blitz of last-minute campaigning before Tuesday’s elections, with stops in Philadelphia and Bridgeport, Conn., where he slammed Republicans, implored supporters to get out...
PSAL football City Championship division roundup: Dixon's big play carries Jefferson past FDR
October 30, 2010 | 9:59pmBefore Dajon Dixon returned to the huddle, Thomas Jefferson coach Gus Cyrus told the talented junior to make sure he picked up the first down and got out of bounds....
Brooklyn Tech falters, winning streak comes to an end
October 30, 2010 | 9:38pmIn Brooklyn Tech’s previous four games, three of them wins, the Engineers scored 136 points while allowing only 74. They ran for over 200 yards four times and held the...
Man looking for train leans too far, struck
October 30, 2010 | 9:28pmA man who leaned forward on a Greenwich Village subway platform to check if the train was coming was struck in the head by the approaching locomotive and knocked unconscious,...
Channel 'own worst enemy' in win over Jamaica
October 30, 2010 | 9:10pmBeach Channel is undefeated, hasn’t allowed more than one touchdown in a single game this season and is clearly the odds-on favorite to win the PSAL Bowl division championship. But...
Nets’ Farmar: Bring on LeBron
October 30, 2010 | 8:37pmJordan Farmar, a hero in the Nets’ two comeback wins, sprained his right ankle late yesterday. While coach Avery Johnson said the guard is a game-time decision tomorrow against Miami,...
HS football scores, Week 8
October 30, 2010 | 8:11pmHere is a list of scores for New York City high-school football games, updated throughout the weekend: Sunday CHSFL Fordham Prep 28, Chaminade 6 Saturday PSAL City Championship division Curtis...
Thousands attend Stewart, Colbert rally
October 30, 2010 | 6:47pmIn the shadow of the Capitol and close to the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng rallying on today for "sanity," poking fun at the...
Dempsey's brace lifts Fulham, (video); Chelsea and Arsenal drama, City slips up
October 30, 2010 | 6:39pmChelsea had to come from behind in the English Premier League today to defeat Blackburn, while Arsenal left it late to beat West Ham and Manchester City lost to Wolves. Fulham...
Manchester City manager Mancini slams British soccer's booze culture
October 30, 2010 | 6:24pmManchester City manager Roberto Mancini yeterday hit out at the booze culture among British soccer players after he publicly reprimanded four of his players for a drunken night out in Scotland...
Yemeni woman arrested in bomb plot
October 30, 2010 | 5:17pmYemeni police arrested a woman on suspicion of mailing a pair of bombs powerful enough to take down airplanes, officials said today as details emerged about a terrorist plot aimed...
NATO troops kill 50 militants repelling Afghan raid
October 30, 2010 | 5:02pmU.S. and other NATO troops killed about 50 insurgents during attacks in Afghanistan on today, calling in air strikes to repel an assault on an outpost in the volatile southeast....
Hurricane Tomas slams Barbados, heads toward Caribbean
October 30, 2010 | 4:57pmCASTRIES, St. Lucia — Newly born Hurricane Tomas barreled toward a cluster of eastern Caribbean islands today after it downed power lines and damaged homes in Barbados as a tropical...
NJ tunnel closure cost: 44,000 jobs
October 30, 2010 | 4:50pmWhen he killed the construction of a new rail line to New York under the Hudson River, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie saved his state's taxpayers at least $3 billion....
CHSAA boys soccer Class A intersectional quarterfinals preview
October 30, 2010 | 4:20pmNew York Post CHSAA boys soccer beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down Sunday’s CHSAA Class A intersectional quarterfinals at Maritime College in The Bronx. Here’s the schedule: 1 p.m. –...
Dems divided over '12 Bam challenge
October 30, 2010 | 4:01pmDemocratic voters are closely divided over whether President Barack Obama should be challenged within the party for a second term in 2012, an Associated Press-Knowledge Networks Poll finds. That glum...
Halloween party horror: Woman in costume shot dead in B'klyn
October 30, 2010 | 3:23pmA woman dressed as a devil was gunned down and her boyfriend critically wounded after returning from a Halloween bash early this morning in Brooklyn. Police found the scary scene...
US-bound bomb could have brought down plane
October 30, 2010 | 1:52pmA bomb found on a U.S.-bound cargo plane was powerful enough to bring down an aircraft, British authorities said today, as forces in Yemen searched for suspected al Qaeda militants...
4 dead after fiery car crash in Rochester
October 30, 2010 | 11:46amROCHESTER, N.Y. — Police in Rochester, N.Y., say an out-of-control car hit a median and struck a railroad bridge abutment before bursting into flames, killing four people in the vehicle....
Hotel where Katy Perry and Russell Brand married charged with violating noise laws
October 30, 2010 | 10:34amJAIPUR, India — Officials say managers at the luxury resort where Katy Perry and Russell Brand married are being charged with violating noise laws during last week’s wedding near an...
PSAL Class A girls soccer playoff preview: Francis Lewis bracket breakdown
October 30, 2010 | 7:53amNew York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski breaks downs Francis Lewis’ journey to its second semifinal in three seasons. Teams: No. 4 Francis Lewis, No. 5 Petrides, No....
PSAL Class A girls soccer playoff preview: Bronx Science bracket breakdown
October 30, 2010 | 7:11amNew York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski looks at Bronx Science's path to defending its PSAL Class A crown. Teams: No. 2 Bronx Science, No. 7 McKee/Staten Island...
CHSAA boys soccer Class A intersectional quarterfinals live blog recap
October 30, 2010 | 6:45amThe CHSAA Class A boys soccer intersectional playoffs are down to the final eight teams and the four quarterfinal matches will be played Sunday at Maritime College in The Bronx....
Countdown to the Cup
October 30, 2010 | 6:42amThe Post will profile each of the eight Breeders’ Cup races to be run next Saturday at Churchill Downs. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights potential nice-price winners as handicapped...
Rare October victory for Wilpon's Mets
October 30, 2010 | 6:30amThe Mets won yesterday. It is not something that has happened a lot for them in recent late Octobers. This, of course, was not the kind of late-October victory that...
PSAL Class A girls soccer playoff preview: Beacon bracket breakdown
October 30, 2010 | 6:20amNew York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski breaks down what stands in the Blue Demons way as they try to make a fourth straight trip to the final...
PSAL Class A girls soccer playoff preview: Tottenville bracket breakdown
October 30, 2010 | 6:15amNew York Post girls soccer beat writer Joseph Staszewski gives an inside look at Tottenville's round back to the semifinals and a shot at its first city title since 2006....
PSAL Class A boys soccer playoff preview: Beacon bracket breakdown
October 30, 2010 | 6:13amNew York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at Beacon’s road to the semifinals. Teams (in seed order): No. 4 Beacon, No. 5 John Adams, No. 12...
Trinity trounces Xaverian in regular-season finale
October 30, 2010 | 6:11amLouie Cotrone doesn’t know who was on the field last week in a blowout loss to rival St. Anthony’s, but the Holy Trinity two-way standout wanted to make sure the...
Girls volleyball roundup: Horace Mann earns top seed in NYSAIS tournament
October 30, 2010 | 6:09amHorace Mann’s goal this season was to win its first-ever NYSAISAA championship. Well, now the Lions are the favorites with the tournament starting next week. On Friday, Horace Mann was...
St. Catharine wins third straight Bronx/Westchester title
October 30, 2010 | 5:18amSt. Catharine Academy needed a tiebreaker match and a trip to Westchester to do it, but Friday night the Crusaders left Sacred Heart with a third straight CHSAA Bronx/Westchester girls...
Oh Mercy: Stanners can't complete three-peat
October 30, 2010 | 5:09amKyra Meli wasn’t going to watch her Archbishop Molloy career end without a fight. “I was trying to make something out of nothing,” the star senior midfielder said. “I didn’t...
Farrell guts out win over SFP, keeps 'AAA' hopes alive
October 30, 2010 | 5:08amMonsignor Farrell did its part, now all it can do is sit and watch. The Lions gutted out a 13-6 victory against winless St. Francis Prep at Mitchel Athletic Complex...
It's academic: Xaverian loses three key starters to grades
October 30, 2010 | 5:04amThe losses are piling up for Xaverian, on and off the football field. The Clippers wrapped up the regular season with a 29-0 loss to Holy Trinity Friday night at...
Girls soccer roundup: Falcons top Fieldston to make history
October 30, 2010 | 5:01amSince the preseason Orlando Osorio had been saying that this year’s Riverdale team was the finest ever at the Bronx private school, but even he couldn’t have predicted what it...
PSAL Class A boys playoff preview: Tottenville bracket breakdown
October 30, 2010 | 4:46amNew York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at Tottenville’s road back to the semifinals. Teams (in seed order) : No. 3 Tottenville, No. 6 Bronx Science,...
PSAL Class A boys soccer playoff preview: Francis Lewis bracket breakdown
October 30, 2010 | 4:37amNew York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at Francis Lewis’ run to hopefully winning its first city title. Teams (in seed order): No. 2 Francis Lewis,...
PSAL Class A boys soccer playoff preview: Martin Luther King Jr. bracket breakdown
October 30, 2010 | 4:29amNew York Post PSAL boys soccer beat writer Zach Braziller looks at Martin Luther King Jr.’s path in its quest to win a fifth straight city title. Teams (in seed...
Lions roar: Lehman wins Bronx River Rivalry for suspended coach
October 30, 2010 | 4:25amThere were so many reasons why Lehman wanted – no, needed – to win Friday night. The Lions were fighting for their playoff lives and a loss could have ended...
Tough Knight: Kennedy falls in heartbreaker to Lehman
October 30, 2010 | 4:16amThis season has been hard enough for Andy Lancberg. It was just two years ago that the first-year John F. Kennedy coach was celebrating a PSAL city title as an...
Keith’s a real library card
October 30, 2010 | 4:09amGetting satisfaction at the New York Public Library was a whole lot easier last night when legendary rock god Keith Richards dropped into the main branch on Fifth Avenue to...
Peruvians steamed over 'Modern Family' dis
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amPeruvians are miffed over a "Modern Family" episode in which a character suggests that the country is full of backward, violent people. The offending dialogue comes during an argument between...
Class is dismissed
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe nicest thing I can say about "My Big Friggin' Wedding" is that anyone with low self-esteem will feel much better about themselves after watching this abrasive, obnoxious trainwreck. This...
Goin' Gaga
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amHere's Meredith Vieira as you've never seen her be fore -- channeling her inner Lady Gaga! During yesterday's annual "Today" show Halloween costume episode, the morning show's co-anchor covered her...
More TLC for 'Sister Wives'
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTLC is bringing its "Sister Wives" back for a sec ond season. Ten new episodes of the controversial series will air beginning next March, the network announced yesterday. The show...
Kid stuff
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTODAY SPOOKY SWAP: Both eerie and eco-friendly, the World Financial Center’s “Screamin’ Green Halloween” will repurpose found materials for games and crafts. In keeping with the recycling theme, bring last...
Mr. Saturday night
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amHe books tables for Prince. He sets up private shows for Kanye and finds after-parties for Shakira. His phone number is passed around the country like the password to a...
Sunset on Yiddish empire
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amFyvush Finkel sees dead theaters — and not just theaters, but an entire ghostly Great White Way: the Yiddish Rialto, which stretched for blocks along Second Avenue on the Lower...
Stifled by feminism
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amRepublican Sharron Angle famously told Sen. Harry Reid to "man up" during a Nevada debate this month -- the implication being that Reid is a wuss, or not man enough...
'M.A.D.' mullahs with nukes
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTHE ISSUE: Iran’s apparent development of nuclear weapons and how the US has reacted. * The editorial "Fiddling as Iran Goes Nuclear" (Oct. 27) has a bone-chilling effect. Besides the...
Jersey GI slain in Afghanistan
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTRENTON -- An Army soldier from New Jersey who was stationed at Fort Drum was killed in Afghanistan. The Defense Department said Sgt. Michael Kirspel Jr., 23, died Wednesday from...
Dope big flames out
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to federal drug charges that were filed after faulty wiring caused a fire at one of his marijuana-growing operations. Authorities said that...
Heads! It's Lennon
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amLONDON -- Most British coins bear the likeness of Queen Elizabeth II -- but now she's been joined by John Lennon, who was honored yesterday with a commemorative coin struck...
Pace cop 'in no danger'
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe cop who fired the first shot at Pace University football player Danroy "D.J." Henry wasn't in danger, a lawyer for Henry's family said yesterday. Henry was shot in his...
DC gunman's Marine grudge
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -- A gunman who fired shots at a Washington-area Marine Corps museum and is believed to be responsible for three similar incidents may have a grievance against the Marine...
Principal plays games with high school sports
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTHE ISSUE: A Queens principal’s decision to eliminate home games to boost grades. * Obviously, Martin Van Buren HS Principal Marilyn Shevell has lost touch with reality ("Game's Over," Oct....
Oil workers in French retreat
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amPARIS -- Workers at France's biggest oil port broke a monthlong strike yesterday and refinery workers also called off walkouts, ending a bitter showdown with President Sarkozy over his pension...
New schools' 'fail' peril
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amFor the second time in two years, the city is considering closing failing schools -- two which opened just three years ago. Kappa VII in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and the...
Al Qaeda sends bomb packages to Jews in US
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTwo explosive devices sent on cargo carriers from terrorist-friendly Yemen to Jewish institutions in Chicago yesterday touched off a scare on three continents. President Obama said "explosive material" was discovered...
Dropout 'bullies'
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTwo Rutgers University students who broadcast online a fellow freshman's gay tryst -- sparking his death leap from the George Washington Bridge -- have dropped out of school because of...
Lotto winners' $cary good time
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amHarlem handyman Tyrone Seward, 54, donned a mortarboard yesterday and "graduated" -- to life as a multimillionaire. State Lottery officials yesterday trotted out Seward, who won $5 million, and six...
A $413M Ponzi guy is guilty
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amA Long Island businessman pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he orchestrated a $413 million Ponzi scheme that victimized thousands of clients. Nicholas Cosmo faces up to 40 years in prison...
NYPD Daily Blotter
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amBronx Cops are seeking this knife-wielding bandit (top photo) for holding up a Melrose Laundromat and attacking an attendant. He burst into the Giant Family Laundromat, on Third Avenue near...
Feds demand cyberbully education
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amSchools receiving subsidies for Internet service will have to teach students about cyberbullying and the responsible use of social-networking sites, the Federal Communications Commission said yesterday. Cyberbullying is increasingly being...
Why we haven't offed Mr. WikiLeaks
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amI'd like to ask a simple question: Why isn't Ju lian Assange dead? In case you didn't know, Assange is the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massive -- and...
Nancy's suicide squad
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amAfter ordering Pickett's charge, Robert E. Lee re putedly mingled on the Gettysburg battlefield with his soldiers fortunate enough to have survived the debacle. "It's all my fault," he said....
The assault on the ladies of the right
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amMy military friends have a favorite saying: "If you're not catching flak, you're not over the target." This campaign season, conservative women in politics have caught more flak than WWII...
DWI-slay mom sentenced to four to 12 years
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amAn anguished dad dramatically pulled a picture of his slain "Princess" from a folder and held it over his head yesterday at an emotional sentencing for the Cognac-soused mom who...
Telephoning from the top: Everest now 'in network'
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amCell phone service has come to the top of the world. Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera yesterday started offering 3G cell and Internet service covering the 29,029-foot peak of Mount Everest...
Staten Island Democrat veers left toward Obama
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTalk about mixed messages! Rep. Michael McMahon, a Staten Island/Brooklyn Democrat who has run his re-election campaign emphasizing his centrist, independent values, planned to advertise his ties to the Obama...
Giant step for baseball fans on Fox
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amNews Corp. and Dish Network Corp. resolved a fee dispute over Fox channels that threatened to black out World Series games and shows such as "Glee" for more than 3...
Coinstar shares hit jackpot
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amCoinstar, owner of the Redbox movie-rental kiosks, jumped the most in five years after its third-quarter profit and 2011 forecast exceeded analysts' estimates. Based in Bellevue, Wash., Coinstar rose $11.32,...
Dead tot was drugged, beaten, starved and dehydrated
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amA severely malnourished and abused 4-year-old girl whose body was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment last month -- weighing just 18 pounds -- died of drug poisoning, blunt-impact injuries,...
Business briefs
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amGreen shoots US gross domestic product expanded at a 2.0 percent annual rate, the Commerce Dept. re ported. Separately, The Institute for Supply Man agement-Chicago said business activity in the...
Coke and no smile for naked Sheen: witness
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amCelebrity train-wreck Charlie Sheen was found naked in a Manhattan restaurant bathroom with "cocaine all over his face" as he tried to have sex with porn star Capri Anderson, a...
NY's creepiest addresses
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe only thing scarier than the economy are these Big Apple boneyard haunted houses. These spine-tingling specters, selected from among a slew of submissions from Post readers, are expected to...
GOP in late poll roll
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -- A wave of polls out yesterday showed voters across the country breaking in favor of Republicans. Surveys in New Hampshire, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Kentucky and Nevada show Republican...
Defense blunder sparks mistrial for LI 'hit mom'
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe trial of a Long Island woman who allegedly plotted to kill her estranged husband is now sleeping with the fishes. A judge yesterday declared a mistrial in the case...
Elie Wiesel opposes death penalty in Connecticut home-invasion murders
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTwo men accused of killing a woman and her daughters in a horrifying home invasion should be spared the death penalty, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said in a speech at...
Vornado gets a jewel box
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amVornado Realty Trust has closed on its purchase of the glass jewel box at 510 Fifth Ave. for $58 million and, while three tenants have been vying for the only...
NBA's $450M score
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amMike Ilitch, owner of the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings, is the last remaining bidder for the NBA's Detroit Pistons -- and has emerged as the likely buyer of the...
'Candy bar' slay at Bronx gas station
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amPolice were hunting last night for a man who shot dead a Bronx gas-station attendant in a botched robbery -- after the thug first grabbed a Snickers bar from the...
Dispatches from the campaign trail
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amRepublican congressional candidate Michael Grimm wasn't that surprised to see his ex-wife turn up to watch him debate Staten Island incumbent Michael McMahon. A McMahon tipster called the Grimm team...
Bill Clinton denies Florida-race meddle
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amBill Clinton insisted yesterday he didn't meddle in the messy three-way Florida Senate race to convince Democratic US Rep. Kendrick Meek to drop out -- despite the fact that his...
Mike '$cammer' powwow
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg met with a trusted campaign aide before turning over $1.1 million that the man then allegedly swiped in a phony poll-watching operation last year, according to documents released...
New York airports, synagogues on alert after mail terror plot exposed
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amNew York airports and synagogues are on high alert after officials on three continents unearthed a mail-order terror plot yesterday. Police will be stationed at major synagogues around the city...
Paterson accuses Shel Silver of 'collusion'
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amGov. Paterson secretly accused Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of "collusion" after complaints of corruption surfaced over the selection of a politically connected firm to operate an Aqueduct casino, The Post...
Theater Institute of the absurd
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amLooks like the curtain is coming down for good on the New York State Theatre Institute. It's about time. Even though it's been around since 1974, you probably had never...
She is Chuckie's little girl
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amJust because Carl Paladino can't con trol his flapping jaw doesn't mean that everything he says is wrong. Thursday, the GOP gubernatorial candidate dismissed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as "[Chuck] Schumer's...
Farley's big fat lie
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe city Department of Health shot a gross-out viral video last year show ing a man drinking a glass of fat. The video's shock claim: Slurping a can of soda...
Black may go back to slammer
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amDespite his victory laps after his recent release from prison following the Supreme Court ruling tossing the law underpinning some of his crimes, ex-media mogul Conrad Black could wind up...
Wylys look to throw out SEC suit
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amBillionaire brothers Samuel and Charles Wyly asked a federal judge yesterday to dismiss a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing them of orchestrating a $550 million securities fraud. In a...
$140M con gets 40 yrs.
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amA convicted hedge-fund fraudster who ripped of $140 million from 250 victims -- including his own parents, family members and friends -- will spend the next 40 years in the...
Down and dirty
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTerra Firma boss Guy Hands and lender Citigroup are finding that when they fling enough mud, everyone gets dirty. Their nasty legal dustup -- which has pitted Hands against his...
'Life' of a super mob rat
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amFormer Bonanno crime-family underboss Salvatore Vitale, who switched sides to become one of the most helpful government informers in US Mafia history, was sentenced yesterday to time already served and...
MGM votes Icahn loser
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amCarl Icahn has been tamed. MGM received approval from lenders yesterday to file for bankruptcy in a plan that would turn over management to production company Spyglass Entertainment, thus thwarting...
Jenn Sterger's TV show canceled
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe TV show hosted by the woman who caught an out-of-bounds Brett Favre pass has been sacked. The Versus network pulled the plug on Jenn Sterger's "The Daily Line," benching...
$3M thief att'y jailed
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amA crooked Manhattan personal-injury lawyer was sentenced to 2½ to 7 years in prison yesterday for stealing more than $3 million of his injured clients' court winnings. Marc Bernstein's victims...
Carl's 'little girl' slap
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amLong-shot Republican gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino angrily cut short an upstate television interview yesterday when the anchor asked him about comments he made labeling Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a "little girl."...
Obama: I got your back
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Fighting to the end, President Obama yesterday devoted shrinking campaign time for one endangered Virginia Democrat, calling his bid a national test case of whether a person...
'Jersey Shore's' Angelina Pivarnick attacked at Staten Island mall
October 30, 2010 | 4:00am"Jersey Shore" cast member Angelina Pivarnick and a friend wound up in scene that could have been pulled from her raucous MTV show when they were attacked at the Staten...
Halloween fight turns fatal
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amA Long Island nightclub turned into a house of horrors yesterday when two men were shot -- one fatally -- in a massive fight over who should have won a...
Blazers guard Fernandez loves NYC
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amBOSTON -- Rudy Fernandez enjoyed Manhattan last night, having a business dinner with his agent Andy Miller. The Knicks play their home opener tonight against Portland and the Blazers' Spanish-born...
Amar'e, Knicks fall short vs. Celtics
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amBOSTON -- Hopefully the Denver Nuggets brass didn't watch this one. Despite another Danilo Gallinari no-show that led to a second-half benching, Amar'e Stoudemire willed the Knicks into contention last...
Rangers' Stepan shows more grit after criticism from coach
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amDerek Stepan watched the final 13:27 of Wednesday's 6-4 loss to the Thrashers from the Rangers' bench. Prior to last night's Garden match against Carolina, head coach John Tortorella left...
Hustling Rangers fall at home again
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe work ethic returned and the battle level was exemplary, but that does not alter the reality that the Rangers were not good enough in their own end or on...
Vlad's DH experience big advantage for AL champs
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amARLINGTON, Texas -- With the designated hitter in play for Games 3, 4 and 5 of the World Series, the Rangers believe they get the advantage over the Giants because...
Red Bulls won't play it safe in road playoff game
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amWith the Red Bulls opening their home-and-away Eastern Conference semis in San Jose tonight (10, MSG Plus2, joined in progress on MSG at 10:30) with the return leg Thursday in...
GM wants Mets to take new direction
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe Mets have gone four years without a postseason appearance and Mets owner Fred Wilpon said the past two seasons, when the team finished a combined 41 games back in...
Sandy's reign with Mets could mean end of awful deals
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amWhat is Sandy Alderson going to be able to do as the new general manager of the Mets? How much money will he have at his disposal and how much...
Mets GM in it for long haul
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amLinda Alderson, the wife of 62-year-old Sandy Alderson, said yesterday that despite her husband's age, the Mets' new general manager is looking at his gig as one he will have...
Alderson 'suspected' Canseco used steroids
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amOne thing the A's teams of the late 1980s and early '90s always have been associated with is success. Another, more recent addition to how those teams are viewed, is...
High-level meeting starts Yankees offseason
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amConsider Monday to be Opening Day of the Yankees offseason. That's when general manager Brian Cashman will sit down with owners Hal and Hank Steinbrenner in Tampa, Fla., to start...
Knicks' Stoudemire does Letterman Top 10
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amAmar'e Stoudemire made his "Late Show with David Letterman" debut last night, reading off his Top 10 reasons he is excited about playing in New York. But Stoudemire told The...
Bucs back could provide second-half boost
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amKenny Britt's monster outing in Week 7 had fantasy owners in many leagues falling over each other to grab the Titans wide receiver off the waiver wires. Bills QB Ryan...
Judah gets back on path to relevance
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amZab Judah is saying and doing all the right things lately. Question is how long can we trust him? How long can he trust himself? By now the Brooklyn-born Judah...
Islanders can't solve Canadiens
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amAlex Auld had gone nine months since his last NHL victory. It's not as bad as it might appear because the veteran goalie only played four games in that long...
Sports shorts
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amRED BULLS: Playoffs start With the Red Bulls opening their home-and-away Eastern Conference semis in San Jose tonight, conventional wisdom would be bunker in for a tie on the road...
Time for Jets to wing it to Holmes
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe complexion of the Jets offense has a chance to change dramatically tomorrow against the Packers when the Jets unleash Santonio Holmes. The Steelers discarded Holmes last spring because of...
Zenyatta aiming for perfect 20 at Breeders' Cup
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amZenyatta, the star attraction of this year's Breeders' Cup, will attempt to finish her career 20-for-20 with a repeat victory in the $5 million Classic next Saturday at Churchill Downs....
Girardi to face Yankees' age-old issues in 2nd term
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amJoe Girardi and the Yankees made it official yesterday, announcing a new three-year deal to keep him as manager. There never seemed to be a question of whether Girardi would...
Jets' Pace set to crack on Packers
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amCalvin Pace let the truth out yesterday, admitting he overdid it in his comeback from foot surgery. The Jets' veteran outside linebacker and 2009 sack leader was in a confessional...
Folk kick-or-treating for Jets
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amIt might have been hyperbole when Jets special teams coach Mike Westhoff boasted Thursday of inventing the onside kick. But he did help kicker Nick Folk reinvent himself. Folk has...
Ryan to Jets fans: Grill 'cheeseheads'
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amHey, Packers fans: Watch your backs! Rex Ryan said it with a smile on his face, but the Jets coach delivered that message to any cheesehead-wearing Green Bay follower thinking...
NFL Roundup: Favre's status game-time call for Vikings
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe latest will-he-or-won't-he drama in Brett Favre's 20-year career continued yesterday when the Vikings listed him as questionable for tomorrow's game at New England. The Vikings will wait until the...
Giants' Sanchez looks to regain control
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amARLINGTON, Texas -- Jonathan Sanchez brought serious heat for the Giants in his last start, but only if you count an angry exchange with Chase Utley. After producing two solid...
Hondo alive with five
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amHail to the C -- Vic C., that is -- who came through for Hondo yesterday at Belmont when his Best Bet, Flask, poured it on in the sixth for...
Former Yankees to Rangers: Giants' 2-0 Series lead can be topped
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amARLINGTON, Texas -- Having lived through it, former Yankees Paul O'Neill and Jim Leyritz understand the degree of difficulty facing the Rangers in Game 3 of the World Series tonight...
No weeping for this state of despair
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amARLINGTON, Texas -- Once upon a time, there a back-page headline in this newspaper that was, shall we say, less than charitable to the great state of Texas. "THIS PLACE...
Giants' Bradshaw unlikely league leader
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amAhmad Bradshaw can be found tomorrow on the sidelines in Huntington, W.Va., returning to his college for homecoming weekend as Marshall faces Texas-El Paso. He's done this before, but never...
Today's Sports on Air
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amAuto RacingNoonNACAR: Sprint Cup, qualifyingSPEED4 p.m.NACAR: Camping World Truck Series: Mountain Dew 250SPEEDBaseball6:30 p.m.World Series: Giants at Rangers, Game 3FOX, ESPN (1050 AM)Basketball7:30 p.m.Blazers at KnicksMSG, WNYM (970 AM)FootballNoonMiami at...
The Post Line
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amNFLTomorrowFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogJETS 4½ 6 (42½)Packers49ers-xPick 2 (41½)BroncosCOWBOYS 7 6½(42½)JaguarsLIONS 1 2½(44½)RedskinsRAMS 3 3 (37) PanthersBENGALS 1 1½(43½)DolphinsCHIEFS 9 7½(46) BillsCHARGERS 3½ 3½(44½)TitansCARDINALS 3½ 3 (39½)BuccaneersRAIDERS 1½ 2½(42) SeahawksPATRIOTS 4...
Harris leads Nets to comeback win
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amFor a second straight game, the Nets staged a furious late comeback to steal a victory. Now the fact they needed a comeback, had the coaching staff reaching for the...
Former teammate Petro: Nets can wait for 'Melo
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe Carmelo Watch continues. Sort of. The Nets, who defeated the Kings last night 106-100 at the Prudential Center in Newark, remain convinced nothing will happen until mid-December with Carmelo...
Heat romp over Magic
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amMIAMI -- LeBron James stayed fairly quiet when the Magic questioned his competitiveness this summer. James and his new team presented an emphatic response last night. Dwyane Wade scored 26...
Elias' goal sparks Devils
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amANAHEIM, Calif. -- When Alexander Vasyunov found himself on a line with Ilya Kovalchuk and Patrik Elias in just his second NHL game, the young Russian simply hoped he wouldn't...
Home Team Lineups
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amTODAYOct. 30SUNOct. 31MONNov. 1TUENov. 2WEDNov. 3THUNov. 4FRINov. 5KnicksPortland7:30TV -- MSG NetworkRadio--WNYM 970 AMNOGAMENOGAMEOrl.7:30MSGESPNNOGAMEChi.8:00TNTESPNWash.7:30MSGESPNNetsNOGAMEMia.1:00YESWFANNOGAMENOGAMEChar.7:00YESWBBRNOGAMENOGAMERangersToronto7:00TV -- MSG Plus NetworkRadio--WWRL 1600 AMNOGAMEChi.7:00MSGWNYMNOGAMENOGAMEPhil.7:00MSGWNYMDevs7:00MSG2ESPNIslandersPhiladelphia7:00TV -- MSGPlus2 NetworkRadio--WRHU 88.7 FMNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMECar.7:00MSG+WRHUOtt.7:30MSG+WRHUNOGAMEDevilsLos Angeles10:30TV -- MSGPlus NetworkRadio--WFAN 660 AMNOGAMEVanc.10:00MSG+WFANNOGAMEChi.8:30MSGWFANNOGAMEN.Y.R.7:00MSG+WFANRed...
Weird but true
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amNo harm, no foul. A deer in Appelton, Wis., collided with a high-school cross-country runner. The young woodland animal ran into 15-year-old Sarah Glidden as she neared the finish line....
'War' path toward Tide showdown
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amIf New York is not a college football town, explain this: While strolling through Union Square on Thursday morning wearing an Alabama T-shirt, an attractive woman passed and declared, "War...
BCS buster
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amThe Buster would like to see Oregon, currently No. 2 in the BCS rankings, finish the season No. 1 and face a one-loss Alabama team in the title game, leaving...
Kelly's winding road leads Ducks to top
October 30, 2010 | 4:00amWhat grandiose career ambitions did Oregon coach Chip Kelly harbor 20 years ago when his first college coaching job meant squeezing into a one-bedroom apartment on Morningside Drive and 120th...
Still the life of the party
October 30, 2010 | 3:45amLet’s face it, Tuesday is going to be a bloodbath for Democrats around the country — so praise Steve Cohn and pass the cheesecake!Yes, the legendary Downtown Democratic Party insider...
Nets rally to top Kings
October 30, 2010 | 2:21amNEWARK — Devin Harris had 21 points and 10 assists, helping the New Jersey Nets stage another late rally in a 106-100 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night....
Knicks fall to Celtics 105-101
October 30, 2010 | 2:19amBOSTON — Rajon Rondo had a triple-double with a career-high 24 assists, and Paul Pierce scored 25 points with 14 rebounds on Friday night to lead the Boston Celtics to...