September 25, 2012
Logan can't hold Yankees lead in 5-4 loss to Twins
MINNEAPOLIS — Phil Hughes ran out of gas in the seventh inning and Boone Logan couldn't hold the lead for him as the New York Yankees missed a chance to...
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Woman defaces 'anti-jihad' ad in Times Square station
Cops busted a lone protester -- angry with subway ads equating enemies of Israel as “savages” -- as she spray-painted over one of the controversial signs today. A Post camera...
Columbia grad sues 'stalker' who called her 'whore' on YouTube
Gotcha! The cowardly creep who blasted a Columbia Business School grad as a "whore" on YouTube is the same person who's stalked her and stole her identity over the past...
Montefiore hospital reaches settlement with family of fatally botched kidney transplant mom
The family of a Bronx mom who tragically died on a Monterfiore Medical Center operating table while trying to donate a kidney to her beloved brother reached a unusually quick...
Fraud ring identity thief sentenced to 3-to-9 years
An ID-theft "shark" -- who admittedly helped a check-fraud ring steal at least $450,000 -- was sentenced to three-to-nine years prison in Manhattan today. Joel Luciano, 30, of the Bronx,...
VIDEO: Hubbuch previews Giants-Eagles
The Post's Bart Hubbuch and the Philadelphia Inquirer's Jeff McLane preview Sunday night's NFC East tilt between the Giants and Eagles.Both teams come into the game 2-1.csprtContainer();
OWS protester gets two years for gun that ' went with his look'
A multiply-tattooed and pierced Occupy Wall Street protester will go to prison for two years after pleading guilty in Manhattan today to attempted weapons possession -- for the .45-caliber handgun...
Alvarez homers, drives in 4 as Pirates beat Mets
Pedro Alvarez had lots of people at Citi Field rooting for him to go long. Alvarez hit his 30th homer, connecting for his first career shot in the city where...
Iverson's cousin chooses Memphis
Memphis' 2013 recruiting class went from good to great, and it has the best player in Connecticut to thank. Kuran Iverson, a versatile 6-foot-9 forward with guard abilities who attends...
Packers QB Rodgers blasts NFL, ‘feels bad for fans’
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers took aim at the NFL for the replacement referee debacle that ended Green Bay’s loss in Seattle. “Some stuff just needs to be said,” Rodgers said...
NHL, union set to resume labor talks Friday
TORONTO — The NHL and its players’ union are to resume bargaining Friday for the first time since the lockout began, although the talks will concentrate on secondary economic issues....
Day after, Seahawks still think it was the right call
SEATTLE — Pete Carroll said he doesn’t care about sentiments that the Seattle Seahawks’ win over the Green Bay Packers is a tainted victory because of a disputed call on...
Cosmos to play 2013 at Hofstra
So Thomas Wolfe was wrong; you can go home again. The New York Cosmos are doing just that in their re-introduction to American soccer, set to play their 2013 NASL...
Jets sign rookie RB Grimes off Texans practice squad
The Jets added some depth at running back on Tuesday with the signing of Justin Grimes off the Texans practice squad. Because he was signed off another team’s practice squad,...
Gambler robbed of winnings at gunpoint
A gambler’s winning streak came to an abrupt end last week when he was robbed of his winnings at gunpoint. Paul Cepeda, 19, managed to triple his $100 investment on...
Brandon Barklage back in the Red Bulls' lineup
Brandon Barklage is looking to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity and seize the Red Bulls’ right back spot – again – when he steps back into the starting lineup...
Interview with Borderlands 2 Creative Director Paul Hellquist
Friends with a gamer in life? Check their Twitter or Facebook pages in the last week or so and you’ll probably see them posting a LOT about a game called...
Cotto returns to Madison Square Garden to face Trout
Miguel Cotto is returning to his “second home.” The Puerto Rican former three-division champion will take on undefeated WBA light middleweight champion Austin Trout on Dec. 1 at Madison Square...
Met love potion, nein
Just as the love potion in “L’Elisir d’Amore” turns out to be cheap red wine, the Met’s new production of this Donizetti opera offers no magic, just a momentary buzz....
2013 bacon shortage 'unavoidable'
That's all folks! Bacon and other pork products will be in short supply next year according Britain's National Pig Association. The slim pickings of porky products "is now unavoidable," according...
OWS protester pleads guilty to gun rap, sentenced to 2 years
A tattooed and pierced Occupy Wall Street protester will go to prison for two years after pleading guilty in Manhattan today to attempted weapons possession -- for the .45-caliber handgun...
Red Bulls' Rafa Marquez expected to miss two weeks
Rafa Marquez is expected to miss about two weeks with a strained right hamstring, and Red Bulls coach Hans Backe said with the Mexican star’s litany of injury woes outweighing...
Potential jurors shocked at grisly details from 'killer' model's murder trial
Male prospective jurors are audibly gasping when a Manhattan judge tells them they may be picked to serve on a grotesque murder and mutilation trial -- in which a Portuguese...
'60 Minutes' legend Mike Wallace died with $21M fortune
Well, he had worked a lot of minutes. Legendary "60 Minutes" newsman Mike Wallace left behind an impressive $21 million fortune when he died, court papers show. Wallace, a fixture...
Former MMA star Carano tabbed to be in all-female 'Expendables'
Gina Carano is on the fast track from MMA fighter to a top female action-film headliner.The former Strikeforce star has become attached to an all-female offshoot of “The Expendables,” according...
Hockey Mom Madam Anna Gristina takes plea deal
The Hockey Mom Madam has copped a plea. Anna Gristina today pleaded guilty to a single count of promoting prostitution in exchange for six months in prison — which will...
Homeowner fights off gun-toting thugs
A fearless, unarmed homeowner went toe-to-toe with a pair of gun-toting thugs who busted in at 3 a.m. today — and when the dust settled, his family was safe and...
Giants' Bradshaw guarantees he'll play vs. Eagles
Ahmad Bradshaw on Monday revealed he has been cleared to return to practice after sitting out last week’s game in Carolina with a sprained neck. Bradshaw is not only thinking...
Nets questions, No. 4: Can Humphries do it again?
Now that we’re two weeks away from the opening of training camp, I’m going to count down what I think are the 10 biggest questions about the Nets entering training...
'Huge swing' of betting money with Packers loss
When the bettors feel they are getting hosed you know it’s a big deal.When the replacement officials ruled that the last-second Hail Mary pass was a touchdown Monday night in...
Police: Teen admits vandalizing Grimm's SI office
Police say a teenager has admitted vandalizing the campaign office of New York Congressman Michael Grimm. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne says the eighth grader told a school counselor that he...
Eagles' McCoy calls Osi 'a ballerina in a Giants uniform’
Maybe when they are retired, Osi Umenyiora and Eagles running back LeSean McCoy will take their show on the road. Until then, these two premier players continue to contribute to...
WATCH: Madonna calls Obama a 'Muslim,' begs audience to vote for him
Evidently, President Obama is a "black Muslim" so everyone should vote for him, according to the Queen of Pop. "Y’all better vote for f--king Obama, OK? For better or for...
Fighter jets scrambled after NJ plane violates UN airspace restrictions
Officials have scrambled fighter jets over central New Jersey after an aircraft violated airspace restrictions in place because of the UN General Assembly meeting. FAA spokesman Jim Peters says the...
Debacle won't change league's lockout stance with refs: report
It won’t be the straw that broke the camel’s back.An SI.com report says that the NFL will not change their view on the referees’ lockout because of the Monday night...
NFL using fired Lingerie Football League refs, NJ pol wants replacements banned
That’s it! The NFL replacement referee debacle, and that is the only word you can use to describe it, has finally reached the point of no return after a blown...
Obama's hypocrisy on display at UN
Among the platitudes spoken by President Obama at the UN today was this perfectly correct assertion: "Given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences...
MarShon excited over Nets talent upgrade
After spending his rookie season playing with an injury-depleted and talent deficient roster, MarShon Brooks is excited about the changes the Nets have undergone this summer.“It’s a great feeling,” Brooks...
Giants' Cruz said he wouldn't have taken credit for Seahawks catch
Victor Cruz says he would have just said no.If he were in the same position as Seahawks receiver Golden Tate, if he had been shown on national TV trying (and...
DVD Extra: Cagney and Hawks 'Roar' As Bogie seeks stardom
The Warner Archive Collection has been releasing rare films in such abundance -- everything from sword and sandals epics to the complete works of Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy -- that it...
New Jersey clamps down on 'Snooki' and friends with new law
A bill introduced on Monday would give New Jersey towns where reality TV shows are being filmed more control over The Situation. (Not to mention Snooki and JWoww, too.) State...
Obama: Time 'not unlimited' to resolve Iran nukes
With US campaign politics shadowing every word, President Obama warned world leaders Tuesday that time to peacefully curb the Iranian nuclear crisis is running out. He said there is "still...
SI pol calls Gaga 'slut'
A Staten Island politician says Lady Gaga is a "slut." Borough President James Molinaro made the remark Monday. At the time, he was pointing to photos of the pop superstar...
Packers, celebrities, LeBron air frustration over replacement refs on Twitter
The Twitter-verse was sent into an uproar over the replacement referees’ call in Seattle’s 14-12 win over Green Bay on Monday night.On the final play of the game, Seattle quarterback...
Bulger gal pal pays $150K fine
BOSTON — The woman who helped Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger evade authorities for 16 years has paid a $150,000 fine assessed when she pleaded guilty. Federal court records show...
Romney says Clinton can 'do a man a lot of good'
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney is unlikely to win Bill Clinton's vote, but that doesn't mean he can't soak up a bit of the popular former president's luster. The...
Suu Kyi urges end to US sanctions against Myanmar
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi reiterated a call Tuesday for the lifting of sanctions against her impoverished country, and vowed to use her new...
Cyclist killed in Qns. hit-and-run
A bicyclist was fatally struck this morning in a hit and run accident in Queens, authorities said. The 38-year-old victim was riding on Queens Boulevard near the intersection of Hoover...
Thug turns self in after alleged McD's anti-gay razor attack
The creep who went on an anti-gay tirade and slashed a man in a Greenwich Village McDonald’s turned himself in yesterday, authorities said. Keith Patron, 44, walked into the 42nd...
Iran test-fires missiles designed to hit warships
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has test-fired four missiles designed to hit warships during a drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian military commander said. The missiles were fired...
Obama to urge UN to confront roots of Muslim rage
Campaign politics shadowing every word, President Obama on Tuesday will challenge the world to confront the root causes of rage exploding across the Muslim world, calling it a defining choice...
No 'Brooklyn Water' and bagels for Brooklyn Nets arena
A deal that would've brought Brooklyn Water and bagels to the new Barclays Center – by way of Boca Raton, Fla. – is toast.Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company, a subsidiary...
Grimm holds 10-point lead: poll
ALBANY - Freshman Republican Michael Grimm holds a 10-point lead in his bid for re-election in a redrawn, blue-leaning Staten Island-based congressional district, according to a new poll. Though President...
Bad news for Obama, even if he wins
Can you run an administration on executive orders alone? That is the question facing President Obama should he manage to win reelection in November. The question is pertinent because according...
Forget hustle, Yankees need Cano's clutch hitting
MINNEAPOLIS – If those writing and/or posting to my e-mail and Twitter accounts are an accurate barometer – and from the insane nature of many of them, please, please let...
Shaq not sure Knicks improved in offseason
The Knicks won a playoff game last year for the first time in 11 years, and expectations are even higher this season after the team made a flurry of offseason...
Pettitte rolls, Yankees rock Twins as East lead grows
MINNEAPOLIS — The Yankees picked up a half-game on the Orioles last night, and while that’s not much with nine games remaining in the regular season, it keeps the AL...
Yankees' Pettitte doesn’t break under pressure
MINNEAPOLIS — What more could the Yankees have asked for than this: Andy Pettitte coming off the DL as Andy Pettitte. Even at his youthful best, Pettitte was never dominant....
Yankees on deck at Twins
INSIDE THE MATCHUPS YANKEES: Hughes may have righted his road struggles in his previous two starts away from The Bronx. In wins at Baltimore and Boston, he went a combined...
Yankees' Granderson making milestone run
MINNEAPOLIS — Curtis Granderson said he had only one goal coming into this season. “I want to get 100 runs scored,” Granderson said. “The only numbers that matter to me...
Yankees must finish off weak opponents
MINNEAPOLIS — The Yankees did what they had to do against pig-slop pitching last night at Target Field. If they can keep this up, they not only will win the...
Packers fiasco just latest example of NFL referee madness
The NFL’s calamitous officiating situation officially became a debacle last night. After a comedy of errors by the replacement referees on Sunday, the league’s lockout of its regular referees cost...
Hey, Roger, this ref mess must end ... now!
So how do you like your league now, Roger Goodell? How do you like this fraudulence that your stubbornness – and the greed of your henchmen owners – has brought,...
Mets on deck vs. Pirates
INSIDE THE MATCHUPS METS: McHugh, who has not started since Sept. 10, has allowed two runs in 3 2⁄3 innings in two relief stints since then. The rookie lasted three...
SEE THE PLAY: Awful call by replacement refs ruins MNF game
That was a catch?! The NFL's replacement referee debacle reached the forefront - again - in a bizarre ending to Monday's game between the Seahawks and Packers. Seattle was down...
A world of talent
MARK SANCHEZ The New York Jets’ quarterback, Mark Sanchez, is a third-generation Mexican–American. Sanchez, drafted in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft, started playing football in the eighth...
Cruz to the top
When Nilo Cruz and his family arrived in Miami from Cuba in 1970, they were penniless exiles of the Castro regime. Cruz, then age 10, knew no English. Fast-forward to...
Business briefs
Cole dealKenneth Cole shareholders approved a plan by the founder and namesake of the clothing brand to take it private for $15.25 a share with an enterprise value of about...
CNN crisis call: Time Warner eyes big guns to revive network
Time Warner execs have reached out to media heavyweights, including Sony Chairman Howard Stringer, as they cast about for a new chief to revive the moribund cable news network, The...
Net defends divulging diplomat diary
Cnn took to its own airwaves yesterday to defend its coverage of a diary kept by slain Libya ambassador Christopher Stevens over the reported objections of the family. Mark Whitaker,...
Oops Report spills the beans on jobs nos.
Thursday is Oops Report time. That’s when the Labor Department will tell us if it has been correctly tabulating the number of jobs in this country. Or, more precisely, it...
TiVo records a $250M victory
TiVo will receive at least $250.4 million from Verizon Communications as part of a patent litigation settlement, the video recorder pioneer said yesterday, sending its shares up 4 percent to...
Late shot for RIM
Research In Motion investors will get a glimpse of the delayed BlackBerry 10 operating system this week, but they’ll have to wait months for a sales rebound. Later this week...
Smith Barney, RIP
Hello, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. Morgan Stanley yesterday officially laid to rest Smith Barney, the 75-year-old iconic Wall Street brokerage brand. The investment bank run by CEO James Gorman owns...
Let’s make an art deal
He’s a canny bond guru and hopes to score a good deal with the devil. In this case, it’s the devil(s) who looted the posh estate of bond titan Jeffrey...
Supply slices Apple iPhone sales
Apple sold a record 5 million iPhone 5 phones in its debut weekend — but not enough to satisfy analysts who had baked in even loftier assumptions. CEO Tim Cook...
CIT soars on target talk
CIT Group, the commercial lender led by John Thain, jumped 5.9 percent after analysts wrote it could be a target for Wells Fargo, and Fox Business Network said the firm...
Govt. jobs back by ’17
US state and local government employment won’t return to its pre-recession peak until early 2017, following widespread public sector layoffs that have continued this year, global information company IHS Global...
Easier Eton exits
Hedge-fund wunderkind Eric Mindich has blinked. Faced with a growing investor revolt over lousy performance, Mindich’s $11 billion Eton Park Capital Management has rolled back its complicated lock-up period for...
Churches ask higher power
Three powerful religious institutions are raising holy hell over the city’s proposed East Midtown Rezoning, claiming the district’s lines unfairly cut them out of selling air rights that could pay...
Facebook grounded again
Facebook’s rally fizzled.The social network’s stock took a hit yesterday after a report this weekend revived talk that the company is overvalued.Shares in the Menlo Park, Calif., company should be...
$weet deal for Del Posto staff
Workers at celebrity chef Mario Batali’s Meatpacking District eatery, Del Posto, settled a lawsuit against the restaurant yesterday with an agreement that gives them $1.15 million along with paid vacation...
Star b’fast eggs-odus
The Loews Regency Hotel’s famous — and pricey — power-broker breakfast will soon relocate to the restaurant Park Avenue, The Post has learned.Loews Hotels Chairman Jonathan Tisch inked a deal...
Pepper-spray OWS gal’s spice of life
More than just pepper spray was in the air at Occupy Wall Street last fall. A woman who was pepper-sprayed in the face in a notorious incident involving NYPD Deputy...
Reputed Gambino captain indicted on $50G extortion charge
He’s the kicking capo. Manhattan prosecutors have charged a reputed Gambino crime-family captain with grand larceny for allegedly extorting $50,000 from a construction-company official — by threatening, punching, slapping and...
They’re mad as hail
They’re a couple of fare “beaters.” Two men dressed in suits got into brawl — with one putting the other in a headlock — as they fought over a taxi...
2 years in prison for rap exec
Heavyweight hip-hop producer Bryan Leach — credited with discovering Lil Jon and the Ying Yang Twins — pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to attempted gun possession in a deal that...
Kerik pals’ trial delayed
The Bronx perjury trial of two former pals of jailed ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik was put on hold yesterday after the judge decided to talk to jurors about media coverage...
Astor’s last ‘good buy’
He came up a little short. Among the bargain hunters hoping to scoop up a bit of Brooke Astor’s bounty yesterday at a Sotheby’s auction of her possessions was her...
Beau ’fess in beauty horror slay
She was a beautiful 23-year-old daughter of a millionaire from Greenwich, Connecticut. He was a suave fashion publicist, 10 years her senior. Yesterday, more than a year after she was...
New demand in 1989 rape
A judge yesterday ordered the city to “immediately” cough up investigative and disciplinary records for two ex-cops who helped wrongly convict five teens in the 1989 “Central Park Jogger” rape...
Anti-Muslim posters spark subway fears
The NYPD ramped up security at 10 subway stations yesterday after the MTA was forced to install a controversial ad campaign branding enemies of Israel “savages,” sources told The Post....
Judge foils frack attack
A Brooklyn federal judge yesterday tossed out a New York state lawsuit seeking to block hydrofracturing, saying it was too early to say whether the controversial drilling practice posed a...
Grimm’s HQ tale is fishy: cops
Police are “very suspicious” about a reported break-in at the campaign headquarters of Rep. Michael Grimm on Staten Island — where computer hard drives were allegedly erased by window-smashing vandals,...
Mitt Romney attacks Obama’s foreign policy during campaign rally
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney yesterday called out President Obama for soft-pedaling deadly chaos in the Middle East as merely “bumps in the road.” “Bumps in the road? We had an...
Romney leads with regular Joes, lags overall
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney has a 14-point lead over President Obama when it comes to middle- class families, according to an analysis of a new national poll released yesterday that...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan A pervert slashed open a sleeping woman’s pants on a subway train in the Financial District and groped her, authorities said. Robert Williams, 25, sat beside the woman at...
Council ‘nails’ Mike’s veto
The City Council yesterday overrode Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of a union-backed bill requiring non-union developers on affordable-housing projects to provide quarterly-wage and other data. The vote was unanimous — 46-0....
NYCHA’s big private bet
The city’s Housing Authority hopes to build 1,000 affordable apartments on vacant land in its complexes with private developers, its chairman revealed yesterday. Requests for proposals and a list of...
Vintage violence
A lawyer who believed another man at SoHo’s tony Thom Bar at the Thompson Hotel had laughed at him whacked him with a broken champagne flute, prosecutors told jurors yesterday...
Cop vs. cop at slay trial
A Bronx detective accused of manslaughter after allegedly drunkenly mowing down a Bronx grandmother was so hammered he thought he’d hit a man, a fellow cop testified yesterday. “I didn’t...
Bx. boy nearly died after pharmacy dispensed METHADONE instead of Ritalin: suit
He was supposed to get Ritalin. Instead, a Bronx pharmacy doled out a potentially lethal dose of synthetic heroin to a 7-year-old boy, a lawsuit claims. Little Adrien Hernandez went...
Fraud firm’s rail contract
A construction firm with a history of defrauding the federal government was awarded a $56 million contract by the MTA yesterday.Schiavone Construction Co. landed the contract along with partner John...
Hudson hero
Firefighter Randy Regan biked to work on March 20 and had to explain why he got there sopping wet — he “had to go for a swim” along the way...
Cops tell of cornering suspect in Hudson River Park rape
If it weren’t for these brave Parks officers, the serial sex offender accused of raping a woman in TriBeCa might still be on the loose — and ready to strike...
Morning-after backlash
They need a different Plan B. The city’s controversial bid to hand out “plan B” morning-after contraception to public high-school girls as young as 14 is sidelining parents in matters...
Church’s ‘home theft’ holy war
A retired MTA accountant is suing his former Brooklyn church and its leaders for excommunicating him after an elderly parishioner accused him of stealing her home.Patson Agard, 75, filed the...
New baby ed. is pre-pre-K
Call it “No 6-Week-Old Left Behind.” Infants will be admitted into the city’s first full-day, really early education program being launched next year in Brooklyn, officials announced yesterday. But the...
Cops winning underground war
An NYPD anti-crime initiative on trouble-prone Bronx and Queens subway lines resulted in a 20 percent reduction in major felonies — and now it will be expanded citywide. The program...
MTA tops – unless you’re down below
Mta passengers are a pretty happy bunch these days — except for subway riders, that is. Suburban commuters on Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road lavished the transit agency with...
Bite tiger is Bx. Zoo celeb
Hello, kitty! After days in hiding, Bachuta — the Siberian tiger who incredibly didn’t kill a man who had jumped into his Bronx Zoo enclosure — was out basking in...
Blame Apple for NYC's crime spike
Crime is up, but don’t blame the NYPD — blame Apple. The number of thefts of iPhones, iPods, iPads and other hot gadgets in the Big Apple has soared 40...
Mad A'jad flashes peace sign at UN but spews anti-Israel trash
We’ve got a finger for you, too, Mahmoud! Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spewed garbage in New York yesterday — scoffing that Israel will be “eliminated,’’ but oddly flashing the peace...
Obama finds time to gab with ‘View’ gals while blowing off world leaders
President Obama flew to New York yesterday as world leaders gathered for UN meetings during a tense time in the Mideast — but he saved his best diplomatic moves for...
Syringe nut stabs bus driver
A lunatic stabbed a Brooklyn bus driver in the shoulder with a syringe yesterday — and is still on the loose. Mark Salandy was driving the B68 on Prospect Park...
Speaker Silver's office punishes male staffer who defended boss in blogs under female guise
Kiss off, Sophia! Assemblyman Sheldon Silver’s office yesterday dressed down staff writer Bill Eggler, who used a female alter ego in media blog postings to defend the speaker from charges...
City sweet ban for campers
Summertime, and the livin’s — unsweetened.That’s the tune tens of thousands of city day-campers will be singing next summer when the Bloomberg administration enacts a strict new ban on sweetened...
Kruger’s briber is blabbing
A longtime lobbyist who pleaded guilty to bribing crooked ex-pol Carl Kruger has been spilling his guts about “numerous other persons” under investigation by the feds, court papers revealed yesterday.Richard...
Etan court date shifted
Prosecutors yesterday said the next court date for the man accused in the death of 6-year-old Etan Patz has been postponed so the investigation can continue.The lawyer for Pedro Hernandez...
City to add scan codes to restaurant grades
Want to know why your favorite restaurant or deli got a less-than-stellar grade on its health inspection? Soon the answer will be a smartphone click away. Under a bill passed...
Eva keeps Post-ed
Say this for Eva Longoria: She knows good football and quality reading! The “Desperate Housewives” stunner and gal pal of Jet quarterback Mark Sanchez apparently can’t go anywhere without her...
Brown flunks pot test
Chris Brown has tested positive for marijuana, leading an LA judge yesterday to set a November hearing to decide whether the singer violated his probation for his 2009 assault on...
Empty-chair diplomacy
World leaders in town this week for the annual United Nations gabfest are going to feel a lot like Clint Eastwood: When they look to talk to President Obama, they’re...
Obama before the UN
Will President Obama stand up for American values when he addresses the UN General Assembly today? Or will his remarks to assembled world leaders be just another pit stop on...
No permission needed, Chris
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn needs a quick catch-up course on the City Charter. Quinn called a Sunday press conference in the wake of a weekend rape in Hudson River...
The Dems’ base at-tax: Romney returns fire
The Issue: Mitt Romney’s tax returns, which show he paid almost $2 million to the IRS and $4 million to charity. *** Mitt Romney finally disclosed his tax returns, revealing...
Why Bam can’t gaffe
In 1988, Michael Kinsley issued a now-famous definition: “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.” Now, almost a quarter...
Where NYC schools lead the world
New York City’s public schools do a poor job educating kids. In fairness, though, that’s not their expertise. What they excel at is giving out contraceptives. If there were international...
Green Day’s ‘Uno’ needs a recount
Albums of the Week Green Day “¡Uno!” ★★ EVEN when newly rehab-bound Billie Joe Armstrong keeps politics to a minimum, he’s still stuck in high school lyrically — on “Loss...
‘Dog’gone shame
Off-broadway’s “Red Dog Howls” begins with the line: “There are sins from which we can never be absolved.” So, not a comedy then. And that’s an understatement: Alexander Dinelaris’ new...
For NHL & players, talk is cheap
The situation has so deteriorated that the first thing now is to get the NHL and the Players Association simply talking, at least, about the lockout. The sides’ deputies, Bill...
Terry racism hearing opens
WEMBLEY, England — Less than a day after quitting soccer, John Terry attended a racism hearing at the Football Association yesterday with the former England captain facing an eight-match ban...
Affrunti’s Finger Lakes Grade
FIRST-1m&70y; $9,000; mdn cl($4,500); 3up; (f&m)4-Ten Purposes 5-25-Royal Bridge 10-13-Lucky Cruise 6-16-Love to Win 3-11-Cat a Bit 4-17-QueenBeOntrck5-12-ProdShppnKer12-1SECOND-1m&70y; $14,000; mdn cl($15,000); 3up; (f&m)1-ShesTuffasNals3-14-She's All Charm4-16-B and B 5-25-LouderThnSnd12-13-Kellster 6-17-Miss Apollonia...
Delaware Results
FIRST-1m&70y; $12,500; cl($7,500); 3up 1 Nnj Wrror (Cntno) 4.60 2.10 2.10 4 Proud Daddy (Caraballo) 2.20 2.20 6 Cave Creek Road (Rosario) 3.00 * $1 Exacta (1-4) $4.40 * $1...
Sports Shorts
Baseball: Canada is moving onChris Robinson, Adam Loewen and Jimmy Van Ostrand smacked home runs to lead Canada over Germany 11-1 yesterday to win a four-nation qualifying tournament for next...
Fox, Del Rio fined
The NFL fined Broncos coach John Fox $30,000 and defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio $25,000 yesterday for arguing with replacement officials a week ago. Anderson also said he is reviewing...
Parx Racing Analysis
Post Time: 12:25 p.m. All horses appear in post position order 1. 6f; $22,000; mdn cl($15,000); 3up RULING POWER ran wide two back and came on for second before debuting...
Tomorrow’s Belmont Park Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1 1/16m(T); $31,000; mdn cl($25,000); 3up; (f&m) PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Neveranystrss(M),120RDomingzx-x-xR Dutrow8-12 Chat Me Up(L),120J Espinoza5-5-6Schettino5-13 Still Shea to Me(L),120M Luzzi6-6-8Barbara12-14 Blazing Arches(L),118OHernndz4-5-3Toscano30-15...
Parx Racing Charts
September 24th, 2012 Clear And Fast.©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-1m&70y; $17,000; mdn cl($10,000); 3up; (f&m)Off: 12:26. Good. rail trip, long driveTime: 23.58, 49.23, 1:16.08, 1:43.67, 1:48.18.Trainer: Harold WynerWinner: DK B/...
Hondo knows best ’bout Padres
Hondo, whose feeling a big chill these days, suffered another double-beating yesterday, losing with the Brewers and A’s to send the debt soaring to 1,695 whitsons. Tonight, he expects the...
Home Team Lineups
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White Sox keep lead at 1 game
Adam Dunn homered twice, including a clutch three-run shot in the eighth inning, and the White Sox beat the Indians 5-4 last night in Chicago to maintain their one-game lead...
Brook out to prove he's worth big Nets contract
There has been plenty of debate about whether Brook Lopez is worthy of the four-year maximum contract he signed with the Nets as a restricted free agent this summer following...
Hixon on way back to Giants
The Giants’ offense should get one more weapon back tomorrow, when wide receiver Domenik Hixon is expected to return to practice. He sat out Big Blue’s blowout win at Carolina...
Knicks want Wallace, but he's not sure if he wants to come out of retirement
It’s up to Rasheed. The Knicks are willing to take a gamble on 6-foot-11 power forward Rasheed Wallace, who retired two seasons ago after finishing a disappointing one-year stint as...
The Post Line
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Today's Sports on the Air
Baseball7 p.m.Pirates at Mets SNY, WFAN (660 AM)8 p.m.Yankees at Twins WWOR, WCBS (880 AM)8 p.m.Athletics at Rangers MLBNSoccer10 p.m.CONCACAF Champions League:Toronto FC at Aguila FSCHorse Racing12:25 p.m.Parx Ch. 717:10...
Orioles lose ground to Yankees after doubleheader split
BALTIMORE -- A police escort whisked the Orioles’ team bus from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Camden Yards Sunday night following the team’s return home from its nine-game road trip. There...
Teixeira still days away from returning to Yankees
MINNEAPOLIS -- Joe Girardi was encouraged by the report he received regarding Mark Teixeira’s activity yesterday in Tampa. However, the manager still doesn’t know if he will get the switch-hitting...
'Zero' chance Mets release Bay this offseason: source
As Jason Bay considers the various “scenarios” regarding his baseball future, he can eliminate the possibility the Mets will swallow the $19 million he is owed and release him this...
Ike happy to reach 30 homers in Mets win
Ike Davis now has 30 good reasons to consider 2012 a success. The Mets first baseman capped a solid second half of the season with two home runs last night...
Love, Olazabal out to shape legacies as Cup captains
MEDINAH, Ill. — What makes a good Ryder Cup captain? The answer is not short nor is it simple. Every two years, when the U.S. takes on Europe, the behavior...
Ryder Cup became must-see with tense 1991 duel
MEDINAH, Ill. — Golf Channel will premiere a 60-minute documentary titled “War By The Shore” tonight, chronicling the epic 1991 Ryder Cup showdown between the United States and Europe at...
Nicks nervous watching Giants win without him
He viewed the game, alone, accompanied only by the high-definition images bursting forth from his 90-inch TV. Hakeem Nicks, the coolest Giant of them all, owns a couch, but it...
Giants ready for anything vs. Eagles
All bets are off when the Giants face the Eagles. Two years ago, the Eagles’ comeback from a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit ruined the Giants’ season. Last year, in a Week...
Giants' Bradshaw given OK to practice
After being forced out of the Giants’ Week 2 win over the Buccaneers and missing their Week 3 triumph over the Panthers with a sprained neck, Ahmad Bradshaw was cleared...
WATCH THE PLAY: Seahawks stun Packers on blown TD call
SEATTLE — In a bizarre ending that capped a brutal weekend for replacement officials, the Seahawks somehow beat the Packers 14-12 last night in a game that’s certain to re-ignite...
ACL injury to sideline Jets’ Revis for season
If you walked into Jets headquarters yesterday, you would have found it hard to believe they just won a road game against a division opponent. Instead of jubilation, there was...
Up to Ryan to lead Jets through Revis crisis
Monday Mourning Cornerbacking was everywhere Rex Ryan turned yesterday. He wore what Bill Parcells used to call the brook trout look as he addressed the demise this season of his...
Pace says Jets weren't ‘trying’ to injure Bush
Jets linebacker Calvin Pace said his words about Dolphins running back Reggie Bush following Sunday’s 23-20 win were misunderstood. Pace said the Jets had to “put him on out” about...
Starr Report
I recently interviewed Phil McGraw for a feature on “Dr. Phil” which ran in The Post’s TV section. In our talk, McGraw talked about his interview with Lindsay Lohan’s mother,...
I’ll drink to that
In his new Discovery series,“How Booze Built America,” Mike Rowe takes a look at events you learned about in middle-school history through beer goggles. “There’s not one major event in...
Geist jump
'Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist’s rumored jump to the “Today” show is imminent. Sources say Geist, 37, will co-anchor the show’s 9 a.m. hour with Al Roker and Natalie Morales...
Logo pulls Paris Hilton special
Logo, the gay-oriented cable channel, yesterday yanked a Paris Hilton documentary — apparently in retaliation for Hilton’s gay-slurring comments recorded in the back of a New York City cab.“Paris Hilton...
Talk show guests
TUESDAYDR. JIM SEARS - Dr. Phil, 7 a.m., (OWN)JIMMY FALLON, NENE LEAKES - LIVE! with Kelly and Michael, 9 a.m., Ch. 7PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, MICHELLE OBAMA - The View, 11...
Lovable goof bro gets laughs
Ben is the big brother who never grew up and Kate is the younger sister who grew up too fast. That’s what we’re told, and that’s the hook upon which...
Love doctor
As highly anticipated as last year’s “Girls,” is the new, er, project, from Mindy Kaling of “The Office,” titled appropriately enough, “The Mindy Project.” The title, a takeoff on Hollywood’s...
JUST BACK: Hudson Valley
It is possible to spend your life around a place and never really know it; few will understand this better than a New Yorker. We live, after all — newsflash!...
Los Angeles is the future
It is difficult to pinpoint the precise moment when Los Angeles stopped giving a damn what you or we or anyone else had to say — it was a slow...
Weird but true
Forget pre-election polls and political pundits. If you want to know who’ll win the presidential election, just check out the partygoers on Halloween. So far, sales of Obama masks have...
Groom for improvement
On July 12, 2011, with a ring in my pocket, I got down on one knee and proposed marriage to my then-girlfriend, Jane Wexler. As my knee hit the pavement,...
New York's craziest prenups
New York celebrity-divorce lawyer Nancy Chemtob is used to getting eccentric requests from her well-heeled clientele. But even she was taken aback when a bride-to-be demanded compensation for sex in...
Crooked Kruger lobbyist names names for feds: Court docs
A longtime lobbyist who pleaded guilty to bribing crooked ex-pol Carl Kruger has been spilling his guts about “numerous other persons” under investigation by the feds, bombshell court papers revealed...
WATCH: Two men attack each other over cab in Manhattan
They’re a couple of fare “beaters’’ Two men dressed in suits got into brawl — with one putting the other in a headlock — as they fought over a taxi...
East Village students forced to evacuate school amid wall-collapse fears
Hundreds of students were forced to suddenly evacuate their East Village school building today after an external wall curved as if it might collapse. Some students at Girls Prep Charter...
Judge wants records of ex-cops who helped wrongly convict 'jogger' case teens
A judge today ordered the city to “immediately” cough up investigative and disciplinary records for two ex-cops who helped wrongly convict five teens in the “Central Park jogger” case. Manhattan...
'Drunk' detective who allegedly ran over Bx. grandmother thought he'd hit man: cops
A Bronx detective accused of manslaughter after drunkenly mowing down a Bronx grandmother was so hammered he thought he’d hit a man, fellow cops said today. “I didn’t see that...