June 20, 2015
Reeling Red Bulls fall to Vancouver Whitecaps
David Ousted saved two penalty kicks, and the Vancouver Whitecaps beat the 10-man Red Bulls, 2-1, on Saturday night in Harrison, N.J. It was the Red Bulls’ fourth MLS loss...
NYCFC, nearing huge Pirlo splash, ride Villa to win
New York City FC’s 2-0 win at Toronto, behind two David Villa goals, was only the second best news that they got Saturday, with the big-spending expansion team inching closer...
Hondo Bucs the odds
The Rays took care of business for Hondo on Saturday in Cleveland, knocking off the Tribe to slash the accounts payable to 1,440 mazeroskis. Sunday: Mr. Aitch will try to...
From friends to enemies and back again: Confidant's A-Rod friendship
For Alex Rodriguez, the road to 3,000 hits just might have featured the most passengers of any such journey. For among the many categories in which A-Rod ranks among the...
After vertigo scare, Jason Day battles into 1st-place tie at Open
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — He persevered. He played. He fought. And now Jason Day has a chance to win his first career major championship. Wouldn’t that be the greatest reward...
A-Rod, Yankees put on quite an encore performance with blowout
Alex Rodriguez’s presence at future Old-Timers’ Days is uncertain at best, given the acrimonious relationship he has had with the Yankees. But on Old-Timers’ Day, 2015, Rodriguez made his presence...
Donald Trump's resume backs his run for president
So Donald Trump — New York’s charismatic multibillionaire businessman — has thrown his hat into the 2016 presidential ring. While many question his presence in the race, 2016 may be...
Mets add 4th straight loss to run of d'Arnaud, Familia bad news
ATLANTA — The Mets are back in second place and resemble a team that might soon be heading further south. A blah week got even worse for the Mets on...
In My Library: Lucinda Williams
When your dad’s a professor and a poet, it’s hard to get away with much, lyric-wise. Or so Lucinda Williams found out when she ran some of her new songs...
Blackhawks' run is impressive, but can they really be called a dynasty?
It wasn't great hockey. But then, the grueling format of the Stanley Cup playoffs that has turned the tournament into every bit as much an endurance contest as a skills...
Amid near unanimous A-Rod support, Boggs adds veiled shot
From the manager who groomed Alex Rodriguez to the Yankees who played with him to the legends who wore the pinstripes ahead of him, the Bombers’ icons at Yankees’ Old-Timers’...
One remedy that would help Tiger Woods rediscover his game
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Tiger Woods is home in Florida now, attempting to heal the wounds from his latest public on-course meltdown — missing the U.S. Open cut by several...
Jim Leyritz authoring a redemption story that could rival A-Rod's
He never reached any 3,000-hit milestone, 3,000 hits to his reputation, perhaps. But Jim Leyritz, all the way back in the Yankees family at last, knows he has more in common...
Online streaming is the perfect wave for pro surfing
Surf’s up! As the world of streaming video grows, more live niche sports are looking to ride the over-the-top wave. Take the World Surf League. Three years ago, former NFL...
Simon Cowell's Beatles movie gets major music backer
Listen, do you want to know a secret? Simon Cowell’s “The Fifth Beatle” film project is picking up steam. The project’s executive producers, who include IM Global’s David Schulhof, just...
Stottlemyre shocked by plaque as Willie Randolph swipes at Mets
On Old-Timers’ Day, the Yankees recognized a pair of No. 30s with plaques in hallowed Monument Park. Willie Randolph was honored, calling it a dream he didn’t want to wake...
Relativity Media's debt drama has intriguing subplot
Relativity Media held a meeting Monday night to tell key executives the beleaguered studio is set to receive a $300 million-plus equity infusion that will save it from bankruptcy. But...
Next Russell Westbrook? Ex-Nets exec: Knicks can't pass on D'Angelo
Former Nets executive Bobby Marks can’t imagine the Lakers and Sixers letting Ohio State point guard D’Angelo Russell slip to fourth in Thursday’s NBA draft. But if they do, Phil...
Arianna Huffington inks contract to remain site's EIC
Arianna Huffington has yet to turn a profit at her Huffington Post, which is being sold along with its parent company, AOL, to Verizon, but now she has a new...
Nets head coach donates suits to Men's Wearhouse for charity
The National Suit Drive is launching Monday and it’s a cause tailor-made for Brooklyn Nets Head Coach Lionel Hollins, who knows the value of a good suit. Growing up, Hollins...
CFOs are working even when while on vacation: study
Turn off the phone, unplug the tablet and enjoy the summer. That’s what an increasing number of executives are not doing. Indeed, in the midst of a technological revolution, many...
Knicks' dream draft week is here: 4 trends to watch for
After months of waiting, NBA draft week finally has arrived. For Knicks fans, this is what they have been waiting for since about the start of December, when it was...
Hillary Clinton's shameful charge to a children's charity
Hillary Clinton says, “Success isn’t measured by how much the wealthiest Americans have, but by how many children climb out of poverty.” So why did she charge an exorbitant speaking...
Look who'd really gain from the drive to end bail
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito doesn’t want folks arrested for “low-level” crimes. But just in case, she’s got a Plan B: Have taxpayers post their bail. Yep: She wants the...
Father, grandpa Tom Coughlin opens up on family: 'Every day' is Mother's Day
Giants coach Tom Coughlin, father of four, grandfather of 11, took a timeout for some Father’s Day Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: What does Father’s Day mean to you?...
Tiger Woods sets humiliating new standard for sports declines
Here’s the thing about Tiger Woods: We reach for metaphors, strain for them, because that’s what we do, because we can’t believe our eyes and so we stretch to come...
On 1st Father's Day without Dad, Terry Collins remembers his advice
Sure, he was “a little guy,” in Terry Collins’ own words, but he could play some ball. Well enough that, as a Midland High School student, he committed to play...
Search intensifies after possible prison escapee sighting
The manhunt for two fugitive murderers heated up in southwest New York on Saturday — with searchers pouring into the area after two men fitting the fugitives’ descriptions were seen...
Wrestling with A-Rod opinion: Game killer or redemptive hero?
By the end, Alex Rodriguez had won Yankee Stadium back as the fans decided to celebrate one type of history and forget another. Imagine, however, if A-Rod were playing a...
How a lifetime of competitive fire molded Justise Winslow into Knicks option
Ask anyone who has followed the basketball career of Justise Winslow for the moment they thought he had the chance to be something special, and each points to the same...
Wylie Dufresne's dad is back on the sandwich scene
If Dewey Dufresne offers to make you a tuna-fish sandwich, don’t expect a jar of mayonnaise to be anywhere in sight. He unwraps a flavor bomb he calls the Tuna...
Devasted Charleston church to hold Sunday service
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The historic black church where nine people were killed will re-open for a Sunday service, and the FBI said it was reviewing a manifesto purportedly written by...
Handcuffed suspect who shot officer dead at large
NEW ORLEANS — A veteran New Orleans police officer was shot and killed early Saturday while transporting a suspect to the city jail, authorities said. The suspect escaped and was...
Jerry Stahl says fatherhood's as crazy as heroin addiction
With his first child, Jerry Stahl admits he wasn’t always dad of the year. “I was that celebrity junkie at birthday parties whom the other parents would back slowly away...
Christian Slater wants Caitlyn Jenner for his new show
Christian Slater goes underground — both literally and figuratively — in his new series “Mr. Robot.” He plays the mysterious leader of a clandestine group of computer hackers. Much of...
How a real-life prince charming is schooling men on chivalry
When Alexi Lubomirski was an 11-year-old growing up in Botswana, the UK native learned a family secret that could have been ripped from the Brothers Grimm. He was a genuine,...
Tony Bennett shows he -- not Gaga -- is the main attraction
Over the decades, Tony Bennett has probably cut a few young, whippersnapper singers down to size, but during his show with Lady Gaga on Friday night at Radio City, he...
Where women learn how to shake down their sugar daddies
In her Dsquared2 silk dress and sky-high gold heels, Sabine doesn’t look like a typical schoolgirl. Yet here she is, furiously taking notes during a PowerPoint presentation on the art...
Charleston shooter's racist 'manifesto' discovered
The accused South Carolina mass murderer spewed racist venom online in a rambling manifesto that compared black people to dogs and branded them as “lower beings.” “N- - - - rs are stupid and...
Is Rihanna the new queen of NYC?
For Rihanna, it’s never too late for fashion inspiration. Late one evening in New York last month, her longtime hairstylist, the mononymous Yusef, held out a coppery red extension, as...
Charleston shooter originally planned to attack a college
Friends of the white gunman who shot and killed nine black people inside an historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina said he first talked about attacking a college campus,...
Inside the Hamptons' steamy summer hookup scene
Four years ago, when Renee, a 36-year-old from the Upper East Side, wanted a summer rebound fling after getting out of a serious relationship, she didn’t sign up for OkCupid....
The Talking Heads frontman's next act is...
There isn’t too much that David Byrne hasn’t done. He fronted the group Talking Heads for more than a decade and has written books, directed films and scored Broadway shows....
Indiana Fever cruise past Liberty
Maggie Lucas hit five 3-pointers and scored a career-high 23 points, and the Indiana Fever cruised to an 80-63 victory over the New York Liberty on Friday night at Madison...
How a NJ dad is lending a helping hand to Ernie Els' autism charity
If Kevin Vedder is being honest, the proximity to Father’s Day is nice, but it’s more about daylight. So Monday, the day after the summer solstice and the day after...
Escaped killers might have been spotted a week ago
LINDLEY, N.Y. — New York State Police are investigating a possible sighting of the two convicted killers who escaped from an upstate New York prison two weeks ago. Two men...
'Veep' casts its vote for LA move
HBO’s “Veep” is heading West. The DC-set comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus is moving production from Baltimore to LA for its fifth season thanks to $6.5 million in tax credits it...
'Astronaut Wives Club' fires up ABC
"The Astronaut Wives Club” showed no failure to launch for ABC Thursday night. The Space Race-era miniseries about the wives of NASA’s Mercury 7 astronauts premiered to respectable ratings, averaging...
TV's major dads: The good, the bad and the Dunphy
In honor of Father’s Day, let’s hope your dad is better than most of the patriarchs seen on television. TV dads these days are given a bad rap, and usually...
The rockin' new joint where toddlers can move like Jagger
An expectant crowd waits in the lobby, ready to stream in and take their places before the rock concert starts. There are no seats at this gig — it’s standing/sitting-room...
Good luck reading these 21 Father's Day tributes without crying
Every year for Father’s Day, we ask children to tell us about the dads in their lives — and every year, the kids come through. Their writings remind us what...
Sister blasts duo involved in fatal rooftop robbery
The sister of a man pepper-sprayed and pickpocketed before fatally plunging off a Brooklyn rooftop spat a parting shot at his robbers just before they were hit with 15-year sentences...
Ex-Rikers inmate claims guards nearly beat him to death
An ex-Rikers Island inmate suffered a near-fatal beating at the hands of correction officers, a Manhattan federal lawsuit says. Michael Cruz, 21, claims he was taken by officers to a...
New bill would double free transfers on MetroCards
Straphangers who need three rides to reach their destination could get some relief. The state Legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that will allow riders two free transfers on a...
Guard put on leave in connection with escaped murderers
A corrections officer at the Clinton Correctional Facility has been put on administrative leave in connection with the escape of two murderers from the upstate prison, authorities said Friday. It’s...
Like it or not, A-Rod circus is best for baseball
Count it. Count all of ’em. Alex Rodriguez, no stranger to the club scene of any realm, added the 3,000-hit club membership to his dizzying list of accomplishments Friday night...
Preservation group sues city for automating landmark clock
Time is running out. A preservation group is suing the city for allowing a developer to automate one of the country’s last purely mechanical public tower clocks. The city in...
Feds’ panties in a bunch after Sandy aid goes to unharmed undie store
They were caught with their panties down. Federal auditors are accusing the city of misusing Hurricane Sandy relief funds by doling out $206,000 to a Brooklyn lingerie shop that shut...
Driver saved when off-target bullet hits his ambulette
As an ambulette driver for nearly 30 years, Johnalee Sanders strives to save lives, but not quite the way he may have on Friday morning, when his vehicle came between...
Stabbed cop who killed knife-wielding maniac leaves hospital
The Brooklyn cop who shot and killed a knife-swinging maniac in Coney Island — after nearly losing his own life in the confrontation — left the hospital Friday flashing a...
Yankees watch as their other Reds target dominates
The Yankees continue to track Reds pitcher Mike Leake. After having scout Jeff Datz watch Leake pitch last week the Yankees sent scout Brandon Duckworth into Cincinnati Friday night to...
11 indicted in 5-Hour Energy counterfeit scheme
As if the real stuff weren’t bad enough. Eleven people have been indicted on federal charges of selling counterfeit 5-Hour Energy drinks. The defendants, from California and Mexico, allegedly raked...
Verlander gives revealing A-Rod/Jeter non-answer after 3,000
Justin Verlander isn’t exactly like his teammate David Price, who has said repeatedly he doesn’t look back with regret on giving up a home run to Derek Jeter for his...
David's Bridal exec spent millions in phony expenses: suit
A David’s Bridal executive treated her corporate expense account like a personal piggy bank — dining at fancy steakhouses, vacationing in Puerto Rico and paying her husband’s company $3.25 million...
Mets closer Jeurys Familia hurts groin; could go on DL
ATLANTA — This could be the Mets’ biggest hurt of all. Jeurys Familia felt tightness in his left groin in Friday’s eighth inning, leaving the Mets to hold their collective...
World’s oldest woman is 115-year-old Brooklynite
The oldest person in the world lives in Brooklyn — and even she can’t believe it. Susannah Mushatt Jones, 116 next month, of East New York, has inherited the title...
What Syndergaard learned from Wright, Parnell lunch toss
ATLANTA — Noah Syndergaard doesn’t laugh about the incident, but four months after the fact, he considers his spring-training lunch miscue as something that helped him develop a major league...
Tiger Woods keeps on plunging in shocking downfall
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — What we’re seeing from Tiger Woods these days is hard to watch. Hard on the eyes, hard to comprehend, and hard to imagine he’ll ever come...
Daily Blotter
The Bronx Two of the three suspects wanted for beating a man to death on a Mount Eden street corner last month are in custody, officials announced. Luis Feliciano, 33,...
Majority of NYC parks forced to operate with part-time crews
More than three-quarters of all parks in the Big Apple are operating without permanent staffers — even during the busiest summer months, a top city official said Friday. Park Department...
'I have to clean up': 2 contending, frustrated stars at US Open
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Patrick Reed should have guessed his putt from 15 feet to save par on the 18th hole Friday was not going to go in. The way...
Notorious ball-hawking fan has own plan for A-Rod's 3,000th hit
Alex Rodriguez is doing a great job of reaching milestones this season, but he’s not having much luck collecting keepsakes. Zack Hample, who said he had caught over 8,000 balls...
Where it went wrong in Phil Mickelson's US Open
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Phil Mickelson began the week with his sights firmly set on winning his first career U.S. Open after having finished second in the tournament a record...