October 6, 2012
Disputed call leads to renewed cries for replay in baseball
ATLANTA — The NFL replacement refs are not there to kick around anymore. Not to worry. A familiar target has emerged. Instead of guys wearing stripes, it's the men in...
Georgia Congressman calls evolution, Big Bang 'lies straight from the pit of hell'
ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia Rep. Paul Broun said in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" meant to convince...
Injuries ravaging Jets at skill positions
Jets fans may need a program to figure out who is playing the skill positions for the team on Monday night against the Texans.It appears the Jets will be without...
WATCH: Behind-the-scenes look at UFC Octagon girl Arianny's calendar shoot
For a company that showcases shirtless men, some in skin-tight shorts, grappling with each other, it’s not a bad idea to mix in some scantily clad women every once in...
USS Murphy, named after slain hero SEAL from Long Island, commissioned into active service
Anchors aweigh, son. The stoic Long Island mom of hero Navy SEAL Michael Murphy, the posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor, today stood on board a new Navy destroyer...
Knicks' Camby out for 7-10 days with calf strain
The Knicks’ age is already showing in training camp. Marcus Camby will miss to 7-to-10 days with a calf strain and Amar’e Stoudemire missed today’s practice with what the team...
Israeli military downs drone that entered airspace
JERUSALEM — Israeli jets scrambled to intercept a drone that crossed into Israeli airspace Saturday from the Mediterranean Sea, bringing it down without incident in the south of the country,...
Man uses fake gun, badge to demand free food at McDonald's, cops say
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Authorities in Florida say a man flashed a fake gun and badge and demanded free fast food at a McDonald's drive-thru. Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies say...
Sharpton vows to help mother of national guardsman shot by NYPD detective
The Rev. Al Sharpton is promising to support the mother of a national guardsman shot to death by a New York City police officer. Sharpton hugged Cecilia Reyes during an...
Dead kid's remains found in Long Island backyard
Cops have uncovered a child's remains buried in the backyard of a Farmingdale, LI home. The longtime boyfriend of the missing infant's mother is a "person of interest" in the...
UFC prez tried to pay 'astronomical amount' to bail fighter out of jail
Up until there were already fighters in the cage Friday night, UFC president Dana White was adamant that Jeremy Stephens, arrested just hours earlier, would compete at UFC on FX...
Romney leads Obama by two percent in national poll, two thirds of which was conducted after debate
There’s no debate about it — Mitt’s bouncing high. After what many saw as a landslide victory during the first presidential debate last Wednesday, Mitt Romney led President Obama by...
VIDEO: Vaccaro, Hale preview Yankees-Orioles ALDS
The Yankees know now that they will meet the Orioles in the American League Division Series, starting Sunday night. Baltmore defeated the Rangers, 5-1, in the AL Wild Card game...
Obama, Democrats raise $181 million combined in September
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's campaign and Democrats have raised $181 million combined in September, pulling in the most money in one month during his re-election bid. Obama's fundraising haul...
More than 20 hurt when tour bus flips on NJ highway
Twenty-three people were taken to the hospital today after a tour bus flipped over on Route 80 in Wayne, NJ, authorities said. The New York-bound bus was carrying about 57...
North Korean soldier defects to South Korea across border
SEOUL, South Korea — A North Korean soldier killed two of his superiors Saturday and defected to South Korea across the countries' heavily armed border in a rare crossing that...
Foxconn denies worker unrest slows iPhone assembly
BEIJING — Foxconn Technology Group denied on Saturday that production was affected at a Chinese factory that makes Apple's iPhones, although both state media and an overseas labor watch group...
Abu Hamza al-Masri without hook during Manhattan court appearance; four other 'jihadists' plead not guilty
Hand it over! Hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri was without his infamous hook during his first US court appearance in Manhattan today. That led his lawyer to gripe that prison...
Baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. ID'd as 'Carl' in TBS graphic
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Carl Ripken Jr. No, not Cal Ripken Jr., the Baltimore Orioles legend who set baseball's consecutive games played streak in 1995. Nope, his name...
Papal pardon expected for butler after conviction
VATICAN CITY — A painful and damaging chapter in Pope Benedict XVI's papacy closed Saturday with the conviction of his former butler on charges he stole the pontiff's private letters...
A-10 media day notebook: Former LIU coach Ferry embracing Duquesne challenge
Jim Ferry is starting over at Duquesne. If there was any doubt, Thursday's Atlantic 10 media day at the brand new Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn served as evidence.The former...
Yankees will play the Orioles in playoffs after Baltimore knocks out Texas
ARLINGTON, Texas — Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles will get another chance to overtake the New York Yankees. The surprising O's have already beaten some big odds, getting past...
October surprise
President Obama didn’t get what he needed in yesterday’s employment report. After what was widely perceived as a poor and listless performance in Thursday’s debate against Republican challenger Mitt Romney,...
Mixed report had bright spots, too
While the headline Labor Dept. numbers showed mixed results, a deeper dive into the jobs report showed reasons for optimism.As the charts (right) show, the average work week grew, to...
TV exec Bruce Rosenblum is Jeff Bewkes' pick to lead Warner Bros. Entertainment
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes is looking to shake up his $30 billion media empire — and the next move will be naming a new leader for Warner Bros. Entertainment,...
Apple: Jobs’ vision drives us
Much has changed since the death of Steve Jobs a year ago, but Apple wants the world to believe it’s still the same company at its core. Yesterday, the tech...
Business briefs
‘Bye, Zynga Zynga said Paul Bettner and David Bettner, developers of “Words With Friends,” a mobile game it acquired with its $53.3 million purchase of the Bettners’ Newtoy Inc. in...
Hedgie Paul Singer has been on a years-long, worldwide hunt for Argentine assets
Shiver me timbers, it’s a global treasure hunt, it is. Hedgie Paul Singer, head of Elliot Management, has been on a years-long, worldwide hunt for Argentine assets to satisfy his...
iPhone plant workers strike
Workers on Foxconn Technology Group’s iPhone 5 production lines at the company’s plant in Zhengzhou, China, went on strike yesterday, said advocacy group China Labor Watch. “Three to four thousand”...
Cantor, Moody’s dogfight
Cantor to Moody’s: You’re dead to me! Cantor Fitzgerald’s feud with ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service, which this week downgraded the prominent Wall Street firm, dates back to the dog...
FDR monument lays Fabergé egg
A New Deal is a New Deal, say big-bucks donors upset that their family won’t be honored at the new FDR memorial on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island.The Reed...
Stocks jock is charged
This triathlete stockbroker couldn’t outrun the feds. Amateur athlete Benjamin Chouchane was charged yesterday with scamming millions of dollars in bonuses by overcharging his clients for stock trades. Chouchane, 38,...
B’klyn driver hits the gas, backing over granny & tots
An elderly motorist hit the gas, accidentally backed his car over a grandmother and struck two tots in Brooklyn yesterday — pinning the woman and splitting a baby carriage in...
Beaten McDonald’s customer sues
A worker who was filmed beating two angry female customers with a metal rod at a Greenwich Village McDonald’s last year has been sued by one of the women, court...
‘Unnatural’ court fight
Two playwrights who authored dramas about Harvard’s anti-gay “secret court” are headed to an actual court. Tony Speciale, author of the play “Unnatural Acts,” filed suit yesterday against former collaborator...
New Tavern will still cost a lot of 'Green'
Shake Shack it ain’t. The grand vision of a new casual, affordable Tavern on the Green is about as realistic as a fat-free cheesecake. Judging from the prices on a...
Kerik ‘loan’ crony on stand
A real-estate pal of Bernard Kerik testified yesterday about loans he made to the former police commissioner to help buy a Bronx apartment at the center of a perjury trial....
Appeals court rules paralyzed Queens woman has right to die
She has the right to die. A paralyzed Queens woman won a legal battle against her loving parents yesterday when a court decided she should be allowed to remove the...
Tire-store slay bust
A Brooklyn man has been nabbed in the coldblooded killing of a tire-shop owner almost a year ago.Robert Reeves, 42, of Bushwick, confessed to robbing the tire shop and shooting...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** State police are looking for a BMW driver who abducted a woman in Inwood, authorities said. The 21-year-old woman was waiting to be picked up by a friend...
NYer shot dead after killing boss at Israel hotel: cops
A 23-year-old Poughkeepsie resident was killed in Israel by security forces yesterday after opening fire and killing his old boss in a hotel a day after being fired, officials said....
Chavez’s military wild card
CARACAS — The shadow of the military hangs over tomorrow’s Venezuelan presidential election — with many observers wondering how the armed forces will react if incumbent Hugo Chavez stumbles in...
LI maid’s abusive boss: suit
A former maid to a prominent real-estate developer and nationally known Republican fund-raiser has filed a lawsuit claiming she worked in an abusive environment and was underpaid in violation of...
Reclusive Manhattan heiress’s estate tops $300 million
A reclusive Fifth Avenue copper heiress was sitting on a $306.5 million fortune when she died, court documents show. Distant relatives of wildly wealthy Huguette Clark — a childless philanthropist...
Meningitis risk in NJ
TRENTON — New Jersey officials have identified the six health-care facilities that dispensed medication associated with a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis.Health Commissioner Mary O’Dowd said no cases have been...
Ball goes in the ruff
Tiger Woods isn’t the only sneaky dog playing golf. A stray mutt became the ruff-est hazard facing players at a tournament in Scotland yesterday when he snapped up a professional...
Sisters earning $151G fired from city for $445 'scam'
Two sisters with a combined 56 years working at the city’s Finance Department have been sacked after being found guilty of ripping off $8.40 a day, the price of a...
Photo IDs for SAT tests
Students who are taking this weekend’s SAT exams are facing new security rules, officials say. Kathleen Rice, the district attorney in Nassau County where a cheating scandal was uncovered last...
Quintet of gators
The count of local alligators found this week on Long Island and in New York City has reached five. The fourth of a quartet discovered on the Island has been...
Clooney can’t leave her behind
The George Clooney and Stacy Keibler show has not been canceled. Despite swirling breakup rumors, the hot Hollywood couple’s relationship appeared to be as strong as ever as they showed...
Albany ethics probe eyeing Vito Lopez’s spending of public funds
Vito Lopez has more than just sexual-harassment allegations to worry about. The state ethics committee investigating his alleged antics with young staffers is looking into potential misuse of taxpayer dollars...
Fired LaG whistle-blower slaps back at PA
A former Port Authority maintenance supervisor at La Guardia Airport says he was harassed and then canned after reporting thievery by his co-workers. James D’Amico claims he was fired from...
Manager fired for raising health, security concerns at 9/11 Memorial: lawsuit
A former manager at the 9/11 Memorial was fired for raising health and security concerns at the site, he said in a lawsuit filed yesterday. As facilities director, Thomas Cancelliere...
2% property tax hike in Nassau? Try 16%
Property owners in Nassau County are getting a tax-bill sucker punch. Despite a new state law capping school property taxes at 2 percent, bills with hikes as high as 6,...
American Airlines blames loose seats on spilled sodas and coffee
There’s a new way sugary drinks can kill you. American Airlines says soda and sugared coffee spilled by passengers are “gunking up” clamps that lock seat rows to the floors...
How 007 makes a killing
James Bond has a license to kill — and kill, and kill, and kill. The dashing British agent has more blood on his hands than any Bond villain, a British...
NUT JOB: 'Psycho’ boytoy put slain lover's testicles on his wrists: lawyer
That’s nuts! A Manhattan jury yesterday heard gruesome details about how a handsome young model allegedly killed and castrated his older lover, then slit his own wrists and applied the...
PBS & Obama flipping Mitt the Big Bird
WASHINGTON — You’ve got to spend taxpayer money to get taxpayer money. Federally funded PBS is buying ads on Twitter to exploit the flap over Mitt Romney’s threat to nix...
Hollywood helper
LOS ANGELES — A movie produced by one of President Obama’s top backers that dramatizes the killing of Osama bin Laden will debut on a cable-TV network two days before...
Race for Ohio is a tossup
WASHINGTON — President Obama and Mitt Romney are in a tossup in the battleground state of Ohio, revealed the first new poll taken since Romney scored big in the presidential...
Wing zing for prez
WASHINGTON — This guy’s definitely no chicken. President Obama, touring Cleveland’s historic West Side Market with his press and security entourage yesterday, stopped by a poultry stall to ask how...
Obama lauds new jobless numbers as Romney says growth is far too slow
WASHINGTON — Lucky timing! President Obama got a boost from new job statistics putting the unemployment rate below 8 percent just a month before the election, just days after a...
Dogged pup finds master
A Long Island husky named Zander must have missed his master — a lot.The pooch slipped out of his Bay Shore house at dawn last week. Zander, who loves to...
Weather Champ’s ‘I dew’
“Good Morning America” weather anchor Sam Champion is tying the knot. ABC News says Champion and his boyfriend, Rubem Robierb, are engaged to be married later this year. Champion tweeted...
David Blaine getting blasted by a million volts of electricity in latest stunt
This could be David Blaine’s most hair-raising stunt ever. The magician embarked on his latest endurance spectacular in Chelsea last night, donning a metal suit and standing between seven Frankenstein-style...
All terrorist fiends his buddies
His mind is as twisted as his body.Hook-handed Muslim hate-spewer Abu Hamza al-Masri counts some of the world’s most prolific terrorists as his buddies. He’s raised money for al Qaeda...
‘Dean of Mean’ told: Stay clean
No booze for you!A former St. John’s University dean facing criminal forced-labor charges must stay clean and sober under house arrest, a Brooklyn federal court judge said yesterday. Cecilia “Dean...
Jurors see bus-kill vid
Crime-scene video of the horrific bus crash that killed 15 people on their way home from a casino trip last year shows a sad mix of suffering and loss. Jurors...
Hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri, other 'jihadists' arrive in US
Now he’s all ours. Hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri arrived in New York early this morning after an eight-year legal battle ended with him getting the boot from Britain....
Perv denies ’87 slay
Relatives of a 19-year-old woman stabbed to death 25 years ago glared at her alleged killer at his Brooklyn Supreme Court arraignment yesterday.Registered sex offender Edwin Alcaide, 53, of the...
NYPD cop who shot unarmed GCP driver was 'fearing for his life,' sources say
The cop insists he was “fearing for his life.” Elite NYPD unit Detective Hassan Hamdy believed that Army National Guardsman Noel Polanco “was reaching for a weapon” right before Hamdy...
Behind Bam’s meltdown
It was the Puss in Boots eyes. If you’ve seen the “Shrek” movies or the spin-off cartoon starring the storybook cat voiced by Antonio Banderas, you know what I’m talking...
The real Obama, revealed: debate pulls back curtain
The Issue: The performance of the presidential candidates during their first debate on Wednesday. *** Mitt Romney knew exactly what he had to do in the debate, and he did...
Big Bird, 1-percenter
Kill Big Bird? Why the hell not? Team Obama, desperate to salvage something from Wednesday’s debate debacle, seized on Mitt Romney’s call to end PBS’ taxpayer subsidy. It was —...
Biden ‘fact-checks’ Obama
‘Honest” Joe Biden strikes again. On Thursday, Biden told an Iowa crowd: “On top of the trillions of dollars of spending that we have already cut, we’re gonna ask —...
Free-speech free-for-all
Now that’s how you counter something you consider to be hate speech. With more speech. Not spray paint — like self-promoting Muslim activist Mona Eltahawy. As The Post’s Jennifer Fermino...
Save our ships
In Wednesday’s debate, President Obama told the nation that he wants to stop sending jobs overseas. Funny: His administration has repeatedly circumvented a long-standing law that guarantees the employment of...
What’s on your New York bucket list?
It’s one of the greatest ironies of living in a city filled with a wealth of wonders just outside your overpriced apartment’s front door. Too often, we New Yorkers spend...
Kid stuff
Today PLAY DAY: Who knew? Today is Worldwide Day of Play, and there’s no better way to celebrate than by kicking off Symphony Space’s annual “Just Kidding” series with the...
Mendenhall upside on horizon
When this season began, the Tracker was emphatic about avoiding Adrian Peterson, because the superstar Vikings running back was coming off a devastating knee injury late in the season. So...
Nets’ youngster Brooks adjusts to smaller role
Last season, MarShon Brooks was an essential part of the Nets offense. Despite being a rookie, Brooks became the team’s second scoring option — behind only Deron Williams— when a...
Chipper throws one away in finale
ATLANTA — Only a Mets’ fan would be able to take solace in the end of Chipper Jones’ illustrious 19-year career coming as it did on a night where he...
Veteran Thome enjoying Orioles playoff ride
ARLINGTON, Texas — Jim Thome may have been the biggest kid in the Orioles celebration clubhouse. He was dousing champagne, being everywhere at once. “I can’t say enough about what...
Tomorrow’s Belmont Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1 1/16 miles(T); $75,000; alw; 3up(f) PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Falbala(L),116W Garcia2-3-3Orseno6-12 Lily the Pink(L),121J Alvarado1-2-2Mott5-13 DreamingofCar(L),118I Ortiz, Jr5-5-6Friedman6-14 Free as a Bird(L),118E Prado1-3-3Wilkes9-55...
Belmont Charts
October 5th, 2012 Clear and Fast Turf Soft©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 fur; $38,000; mdn clm($35,000); 2YO(f)Off: 12:50. Good. 3w, strong hand rideTime: 23.7, 47.35, 59.61, 1:12.09.Trainer: Enrique ArroyoWinner: B...
Red Bulls’ task: Clinch playoff spot
Thierry Henry has been saying his Red Bulls are going nowhere in the playoffs playing such awful defense. That’s not encouraging for coach Hans Backe. Observers claim Backe could be...
Pletcher’s trio looks strong for Champagne
For many years, the Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park was the year’s premier race for 2-year-olds, until it was superseded by the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in 1984. Now, today’s 141st...
Ex-Rangers GM: ’94-95 lockout hurt NHL
Lockouts do have consequences. Former Rangers’ general manager Neil Smith has told The Post Friday that Gary Bettman’s first lockout, the one that followed hard on the heels of the...
Sports Shorts
GOLF: Blixt, de Jonge tied for lead in Vegas Jonas Blixt shot his second straight 7-under 64 yesterday for a share of the second-round lead with Brendon de Jonge in...
Vic C.’s Monmouth Grade
FIRST-6 fur; $17,000; clm($10,000); 3up5-ThereGoesVnny8-54-Malibu Surfer 12-11-Minor Problem 4-16-Party Halo 9-22-Enoki Chief 6-17-HookedOnGlory8-13-Eye Witness 7-2SECOND-5 fur; $12,000; clm($10,000); 2YO1-Wild Passion 1-15-Sexy and Sassy4-12-My Amiga 15-16-Shesaprdeflne20-13-Rmilliondllrbby8-17-Mo WorkforTim9-24-Spice Trade 8-18-Sinatrasfantsy10-1THIRD-6 fur; $32,000;...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYOct. 6SUNOct. 7MONOct. 8TUEOct. 9WEDOct. 10THUOct. 11FRIOct. 12Yankees NO GAMEBal.6:15TBSWCBSBal.8:07TBSWCBSNO GAMEBal.TBATBSWCBS$Bal.TBATBSWCBS$Bal.TBATBSWCBSRed BullsChicago3:30TV — NBCWPAT 93.1 FMNO GAMENO GAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEKnicksNOGAMENOGAMENO GAMENOGAMENOGAME&Wash.7:00MSGNOGAMENetsNOGAMENOGAMENO GAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEHOMEAWAY
Orioles fly to Hondo’s rescue
Hondo started poorly yesterday when the Braves staged their usual early October exit, but he broke even with Orioles, who messed with Texas to leave the debt holding at 1,055...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto RacingNoonNASCAR: Sprint Cup, Qualifying SPEED4 p.m.NASCAR: Camping WTS, Coca-Cola 250 SPEEDBaseball6 p.m.ALDS: Athletics at Tigers, Game 1 TBS, ESPN (98.7 FM)9:30 p.m.NLDS: Reds at Giants, Game 1 TBS, ESPN...
The Post Line
NFLTomorrowFavoriteOpeningCurrent(O/U)UnderdogGIANTS10 1/29(44)BrownsFalcons33(51)REDSKINSSTEELERS43 1/2(43)EaglesPackers6 1/27(48)COLTSVIKINGS6 1/25 1/2(44)TitansBENGALS5 1/23(45)DolphinsRavens6 1/26(46 1/2)CHIEFSPANTHERS33(43 1/2)SeahawksBears44 1/2(41)JAGUARSPATRIOTS6 1/26 1/2(52)Broncos49ERS109 1/2(44 1/2)BillsSAINTS33 1/2(53)ChargersMondayTexans78 1/2(41 1/2)JETSHome team in CAPSNCAA FootballFavoriteCurrent (O/U)UnderdogAIR FORCE8 (54 1/2)NavyMichigan St.14 1/2 (47 1/2)INDIANAN....
Syracuse snaps Pitt-iful skid with narrow win
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Adonis Ameen-Moore scored on 1-yard run, Dyshawn Davis returned a fumble 52 yards for another score, and Syracuse broke out of a yearlong funk with a 14-13...
Notre Dame, Miami get reacquainted
The Catholics vs. Convicts T-shirts are likely faded now. No one expects a reprise of the so-called “tussle in the tunnel” this time around. And any sense of venomous back-and-forth...
Knicks’ Smith doesn’t want to come off the bench
J.R. Smith always had been content to be a backup — the mercurial sixth-man gunner. Not this October. The controversial Smith made it clear he prefers to start for the...
Andariese retires from Knicks booth
The Knicks are getting older on the court but younger in the broadcast booth. Knicks legendary broadcaster John Andariese, a team radio staple for 40 years known around the Garden...
Knicks' Chandler: ‘Inexperienced’ Lin ‘just wasn’t there’
Was that someone criticizing Jeremy Lin at Knicks camp? While Knicks coach Mike Woodson has run from the Lin issue, center Tyson Chandler was blunt, saying Lin was too “inexperienced’’...
Avery’s crew plays a simulated game
Avery Johnson took advantage of his chance to be commissioner for a day.No, Johnson didn’t take over for NBA commissioner David Stern. But on a day the Nets treated like...
Upstart A’s opening ALDS today
DETROIT — The Tigers have the reigning MVP and another player who just won the Triple Crown. The Athletics will try to counter all that by sending — who else?...
Grateful Baker back in S.F. with his Reds
SAN FRANCISCO — Minus his old signature toothpick, Reds manager Dusty Baker leaned against the batting cage intently watching his players just as he did for a decade while managing...
Source: Mets eye quickie deals for Wright & Dickey
Sandy Alderson’s definition of “quickly,” when it comes to David Wright’s and R.A Dickey’s future with the Mets, could mean before the first pitch of the World Series is even...
‘Ticked off’ Jets have focus back
LaRon Landry didn’t want to take his pads off. He didn’t want to leave the locker room. So he sat in front of his locker with his head in his...
Rams’ Amendola could miss 6 weeks
Rams coach Jeff Fisher had little to say about the condition of Danny Amendola, calling it a “competitive issue” after the receiver was injured during Thursday night’s 17-3 win over...
Young wideout eager to get opportunity with Jets
On paper, Monday night’s contest looks to be a mismatch — the hobbled and depleted Jets against the undefeated Texans, the team considered by many the NFL’s best a quarter...
Keller, Hill likely to sit Jets' game against Texans
For the fourth consecutive game, it looks as if Mark Sanchez will be without his favorite target and closest friend on the team, tight end Dustin Keller. Keller is still...
Giants' Umenyiora: Time to step up the pass rush
Osi Umenyiora is in his 10th season and has played alongside plenty of talent from future Hall of Famer Michael Strahan to the youthful Jason Pierre-Paul. He knows excellence and...
Giants need youngsters to make major contributions
The Giants have plenty of experience at plugging holes and replacing injured players. And with defensive tackle Rocky Bernard the latest to be ruled out for tomorrow’s game against Cleveland...
Injuries to test Giants' depth against Cleveland
The injury-riddled Giants’ vaunted depth will be tested, with wideout Ramses Barden (concussion), defensive tackle Rocky Bernard (quad), corner Jayron Hosley and safety Kenny Phillips (knee) all ruled out for...
‘Trashy’ infield-fly call hands Cardinals playoff win over Braves
ATLANTA — The image of left-field umpire Sam Holbrook and third-base umpire Jeff Kellogg raising their fists in the air to signify an out call on a pop to short...
Alex aims to be great again for Yankees in 2012 postseason
Alex Rodriguez is one of the few players who can relate to the recent hot streak Robinson Cano has been on. “It’s fun to watch,” the Yankees third baseman said...
Andy set for ALDS challenge with Yankees
Andy Pettitte’s wife knew — maybe even before he did — the left-hander needed to be back in a Yankees uniform. Before Game 2 of last year’s American League Division...
Ichiro in tune with Yankees’ culture of winning
Ichiro Suzuki was a major league rookie with the Mariners when the team won a record-setting 116 games in the regular season and lost to the Yankees in the American...
Girardi not releasing Yankees roster yet
Jayson Nix’s strained left hip flexor has progressed to the point that he is healthy enough to be part of the Yankees’ 25-man roster. Nix hasn’t played since Sept. 27....
Yankees travel to Baltimore for two games despite holding best record
After waiting since Wednesday evening, the Yankees finally learned who they will dance with in the American League Division Series late last night. And it’s not a blind date. Thanks...
Recent struggles won’t sink Captain Clutch
You can crow all you want about what he has achieved in his career, the names he has passed on the all-time charts, and that still won’t hide the fact...
Orioles’ mastermind has sights set on Yankees
ARLINGTON, Texas — The Yankees not only have to show they can beat the Orioles and their terrific bullpen in a short series, they are going to have to find...
Orioles rip Rangers, seek revenge on Yankees after losing AL East
ARLINGTON, Texas — The champagne spurted, squirted, shot out like line drives throughout the Orioles clubhouse as their improbable season continued with victory in the first-ever American League wild-card game....
Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays
CHAMPAGNE Belmont Park, eighth race. Grade 1. Purse: $400,000. One mile, 2-year-olds. Post: 4:34 p.m. LOWDOWN: Off a couple of blazing workouts from the gate, Archwarrior was the most highly...
‘Steve’ going global
Comedian Steve Harvey’s new talk show is ready to conquer African TV.Endemol USA, which produces “Steve Harvey,” has sold the show to Africa’s Mnet Channel, which will air its first...
Heart of ‘Steel’
Steel yourself. You’re about to laugh ’til you cry and cry ’til you laugh. OK, that was as corny a line as I’ve ever written, but that’s exactly what happened...
Hulk’s ex socked with DUI charge
Former reality star Linda Hogan was arrested Thursday on suspicion of drunk driving. Hogan, 53, who starred in “Hogan Knows Best” with her now-ex-husband, Hulk Hogan, was arrested 1:34 a.m....
Jeter’s ‘Partners’
Derek Jeter doesn’t physically appear in Monday night’s episode of “Partners” — but the Yankees captain is the focal point of a comic kerfuffle between main squeezes Ali (Sophia Bush)...
Weird but true
You’d think people would be ecstatic about a free or near-free lunch. Folks in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood are up in arms over the arrival of a “Panera Cares” restaurant, where...
UF safety opens up about day he lost his mother
Josh Evans had to get away from the pain, the haunting memories, the hurt that seemed to wrap itself around his heart and echo with every beat. He had to...
Fordham has ax to grind
The Rams have a new edge to them, in more ways than one. Fordham (3-2), under first-year head coach Joe Moorhead, already has eclipsed its win total from last year...
Rutgers vows no letdown vs. UConn
With as bitter a rivalry as Rutgers-Connecticut has become — judging from the bulletin-board rancor spewing from Storrs — the 21st-ranked Scarlet Knights (4-0, 1-0 Big East) insist today’s game...
GAMETRACKER: American League Wild Card game
Follow live as the Orioles and Rangers battle for the American League Wild Card -- and a date with the Yankees in the Division Series. Yu Darvish will be on...