January 2, 2011
Lindsay to leave rehab
Call her Mahatma Lohan! "Mean Girls" actress and unapologetic party girl Lindsay Lohan is expected to walk out of the Betty Ford Center in California tomorrow, claiming to have a...
Giants' Seubert leaves with dislocated kneecap
LANDOVER, Md. -- Giants center Rich Seubert has been carted off the field in the first quarter against the Washington Redskins with a dislocated right kneecap. Seubert had moved from...
Chile shaken by 7.1-magnitude quake
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean officials and the U.S. Geological Survey say a magnitude-7.1 quake has shaken southern Chile, sending hundreds fleeing for higher ground for fear that it would generate...
Falcons rough up Panthers to clinch NFC's top seed
ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Falcons weren’t about to fool around with NFC home-field advantage at their fingertips. Matt Ryan and the Falcons put a decisive stamp on the NFC South...
Bucs keep playoff hopes alive with win in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS -- Josh Freeman is making a habit of good performances in the Louisiana Superdome. Freeman passed for two touchdowns and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the New Orleans...
Chiefs limp into playoffs with loss to Raiders
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Oakland Raiders have swallowed one bitter pill. Missing two of their best players, the Raiders beat playoff-bound Kansas City 31-10 Sunday, becoming the first team...
Patriots ready for playoffs after rout of Dolphins
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Tom Brady and the Patriots are rolling into the playoffs. Tony Sparano could be on his way out as coach of the Dolphins. Brady threw two touchdown...
Knicks top Pacers, but Gallinari leaves with injury
The Knicks survived the Pacers on Sunday but now they may have to survive time without Danilo Gallinari. With Amar'e Stoudemire's late surge, the Knicks beat the Pacers Sunday at...
Jets bury Bills; play Colts in wild-card round
Back in training camp, while they were starring in their own reality television show, the Jets announced themselves to the world as Super Bowl contenders, saying boldly that anything short...
Graham proposes permanent Afghanistan bases
WASHINGTON — A leading GOP lawmaker on U.S. military policy says he wants American officials to consider establishing permanent military bases in Afghanistan. Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina says...
LI gas-leak probe
SHIRLEY, N.Y. — Officials on Long Island say they'll be conducting an investigation into a propane gas leak that forced the evacuation of 900 homes. Joe Williams, commissioner of Suffolk...
Packers clinch playoff spot with win over Bears
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green Bay Packers are in the playoffs - but it certainly didn't come easy. Aaron Rodgers' 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Donald Lee gave...
Rutgers loses Big East opener to No. 8 Villanova
VILLANOVA, Pa. -- Corey Stokes scored 23 points, Corey Fisher had 19 and No. 8 Villanova won its seventh straight game, 81-65 over Rutgers on Sunday. Stokes rebounded from a...
CB Webster among Giants inactives
LANDOVER, Md. – For the first time this season, the Giants will play a game without Corey Webster, their top cornerback. Webster is one of the inactives for today’s regular-season...
Giants make Webster, O'Hara, Nicks inactive
Giants cornerback Corey Webster was inactive for Sunday's regular season finale against the Washington Redskins because of bruised ribs. Webster was hurt in last week's loss to Green Bay. Sunday's...
Ark. blackbird death mystery
BEEBE, Ark. — Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town. The Arkansas Game and...
Orioles reliever main suspect in killing
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Baltimore Orioles reliever Alfredo Simon is the main suspect in the New Year's Eve killing of a man in the Dominican Republic, police said Sunday....
Jets sit Sanchez after one series, no passes
Mark Sanchez's day was done after one series and no passes. The Jets quarterback, dealing with a sore right shoulder, started against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday but handed off...
Obama signs 9/11 health bill
President Barack Obama today signed into law an aid bill giving federal health benefits to first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “On Sunday, January 2, 2011, the President signed...
Favre retires again: 'It's time'
DETROIT -- Brett Favre says it's time for him to call it a career. Favre said he was finished after sitting out Minnesota's season-ending loss to Detroit with a concussion....
Garbage breaks suicide jumper's fall
The blizzard saved his life. A despondent West Side man took a leap out of his ninth-floor window this afternoon — but was saved when he landed onto a huge...
Follow Giants-Redskins with Post writers
The Post has today's Giants-Redskins game from Washington covered goal line to goal line with the best football writers in the business. The 9-6 Giants need a win over the...
Knicks' Stoudemire has technical rescinded by NBA
The NBA Sunday rescinded Amar'e Stoudemire's technical foul he received in Orlando Friday night for taunting Gilbert Arenas after swatting his driving shot. Stoudemire told reporters after the game he...
Jets make Tomlinson, Greene, Revis and Cromartie inactive
Buffalo Bills starting quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is inactive for the team's regular-season finale against the Jets after missing practice all week with a right knee injury. Brian Brohm is making...
GOP big: Support for health repeal
A top House Republican said today that he expects "significant" bipartisan support for a proposed repeal of the health care overhaul -- a vote he said would be held before...
Follow Jets-Bills with Post writers
The Post has today's Jets-Bills game from New Meadowlands Stadium covered goal line to goal line with the best football writers in the business. The Jets clinched a playoff spot last...
Gadgets galore
Not since Moses descended from Mt. Sinai have tablets been so obsessed over. The buzz surrounding this year’s Consumer Electronics Show — invading Las Vegas Thursday through Sunday — is...
This week's winners and losers
WINNERS ANDREW MASON Groupon founder and CEO nets over $500m in new funding. THE BOSS George Steinbrenner’s wish of staging college football game at the Stadium fulfilled. MIKE REPOLE Vitaminwater...
Classic Capitals cruise past Penguins in rain
PITTSBURGH — Eric Fehr upstaged stars Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin by scoring twice and the Capitals waded through rain drops to beat the Penguins 3-1 in a wet Winter...
How about Central Park for next Winter Classic?
As the Jan. 1 outdoor game continues to grow as the centerpiece of both the NHL season and its television rights package, there is this truth Sixth Avenue must confront:...
Ready & Abel
Abel Ferrara is an uneven but always interesting director whose films unfortunately don’t get the exposure they should. To the rescue comes Anthology Film Archives, which will devote a week...
Frankie Edgar retains title in UFC thriller
Frankie Edgar of Toms River, N.J., retained his UFC lightweight championship at UFC 125 Saturday night in Las Vegas after this five-round rematch with Gray Maynard ended in a draw....
Jets' Dixon hopes sack is 'first of many'
Jets defensive tackle Marcus Dixon, who recorded his first NFL sack last Sunday against the Bears, figures to get the most playing time of his career today with a number...
Craziest NFL season’s had a little — make that a lot — of everything
If labor strife means this is the last day of regular-season NFL football for a long, long time, then the league certainly went out with a bang. What has been...
The Rumble
Wilson hoping for 25th anniversary Mets revival Next season will mark the 25th anniversary of the Mets’ 1986 World Championship team, so it’s only fitting Mookie Wilson (below) has returned...
Slim pickin's
Late last year, five brave souls volunteered to test out 2011’s newest diet books — and in the midst of pie, stuffing and cocktail season, no less! To help them...
Jets' goals vs. Bills: Keep Sanchez sharp — and everyone healthy
Welcome to the Jets’ second third preseason game of 2010. This is how today’s Jets-Bills game at the Meadowlands is going to go: Most of the Jets starters will play,...
Bridge
Humorist Ogden Nash described middle age as the time when you've met so many people that every new person reminds you of somebody. When a bridge player enters the middle...
Tiebreaking news
Chess is unique among games and sports be cause the most likely result of a master game is a draw. This makes the breaking of ties so difficult that tournament...
A ‘Strong’ win?
On a 2005 episode of “Extras” — a show that regularly satirized actors — Kate Winslet, playing herself, laid out a key rule for winning an Academy Award. “If you...
Run this town!
“Increasingly, New York City is a healthy place in which to live.”— New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley at a press conference in March But are we healthier than...
Just chillin!
HARRY’S LAW * Monday, January 17th, 10 p.m., NBC If you’re wondering why “Harry’s Law” stars Kathy Bates (above), it’s because her role was originally written for a man. “It...
Don't miss
Far from 'pretty' Moments after Hanna is hit by a car, the world of the “Pretty Little Liars” is turned upside down. With Hanna in the hospital and armed with...
Dr. Oz saves New York
Unlike Los Angeles or Denver, you can get almost anywhere you want to go in New York by walking or taking the subway. That means New Yorkers also have special...
A mogul needs her OWN network
Millions of Oprah fans have a new channel to catch their BFF when the talk-show host launches OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which made its long-awaited appearance on New Year’s...
Reel good
MY FAVORITE YEAR (1982) Sunday, 4 p.m., TCM In the early days of TV, a budding comedy writer (Mark Linn-Baker) is assigned to keep an Errol Flynn-type actor (Peter O’Toole)...
These shows need some love in the new year
Mama is pouring that second-teenth cup of coffee as she recovers from the hectic holiday season, but there are plenty of shows that didn’t get kissed by their networks when...
Kombucha craze
At the end of an indulgent weekend last summer, our friends marched my husband and me into a health food store for an elixir they promised would counteract the previous...
Food truths be told!
* The Claim: Red wine is good for your heart. It is (the antioxidants and resveratrol in vin rouge prevent damage to blood vessels and lower cholesterol). And it’s beneficial...
Have pawsport, will travel
On Christmas Day, before the blizzard made travel a holiday nightmare, New Yorkers Jeanne-Louise Camus and Weenie flew out of JFK, bound for San Francisco. They treated themselves to a...
'Sling' shift
Broadway's Spider-Man should take notes. A team of high-flying rope virtuosos, recently tapped by the NYPD to dismantle a giant ice shard perilously hanging from the peak of The Pierre...
Mega fever for $290M
The Mega Millions lottery prize went unclaimed Friday, sending the pot skyrocketing to to a whopping $290 million and fueling lottery lunacy around the city. New Yorkers hoping to take...
In'credit'able Metro-North drops ball on tix
New Year's Eve revelers found their credit cards were useless aboard much of the Metro-North Railroad. Hundreds of ticket-vending machines broke down at all of the railroad's 121 local stations...
Bank's blogger booted
A banker by day and blogger by night claims she was fired by JPMorgan Chase for her online activities. Business analyst Marilyn Tagocon, 50, of Piscataway, NJ, was canned after...
'Einstein' rights all relative
Call it an uncertainty principle. A Queens costume company and Hebrew University of Jerusalem are colliding over the rights to Albert Einstein's face. That's because the Israeli university that inherited...
Schedules reveal tale of two mayors
If Mayor Bloomberg had taken a page from Rudy Giuliani's snowstorm playbook of 1996, he might not be getting pilloried for blowing the blizzard of 2010. A comparison of their...
Could stem cells help this boy to see?
An inherited degenerative disease robbed Ryan Rapoport, 10, of his vision in seven quick months. But the Seattle fifth-grader now sees hope on the horizon: After several years of scrutiny,...
Deadly heartland twisters
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Tornadoes roaring across the Midwest killed seven people in two states and injured dozens of others in the last hours of 2010. Six of the victims...
City slams brakes on pedi-menace
The city's worst pedicabby has taken his last licensed spin. The Department of Consumer Affairs suspended Seydou Kone's license after a Post investigation found the reckless cyclist racked up nearly...
Dr.'s script on Medicare billing rules
Dear John: I'm finding it impossible to understand the Medicare and Medicaid rules regarding a doctor not being allowed to accept payment from these two government groups and then bill...
More workers catch a 'cold'
It was a real snow job. Between 660 and 720 Sanitation workers called in sick for the cleanup of last week's blizzard -- more than double the usual rate, The...
Iraq slay count heads down
BAGHDAD -- The number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq fell last year and December was the least deadly month of 2010, official figures showed yesterday. Last year, 2,505...
Air scare over DC
WASHINGTON -- An airliner lost radio contact yesterday as it approached the nation's capital, prompting the dispatch of fighter jets and the evacuation of the Capitol and all congressional office...
No credit to AmEx gift card
What a rip-off, say gift-card critics. The nation's most requested gift this Christmas is not so popular with its users, who say the American Express gift card has more strings...
Smashing old wall of secrecy
ALBANY -- Take down this wall! Gov. Cuomo began his first full day as the state's top executive with a grand gesture -- ordering removed a wall of concrete barriers...
Russia jet deaths
MOSCOW -- Three people died yesterday when a plane carrying 124 burst into flames on a runway at a Russian airport, the ITAR-TASS news agency said. The Tupolev jet, headed...
Family barks at tree law
So much for peace and quiet in your own back yard. A Rockland County couple claims they're being prosecuted for cutting down dead trees on their own property to create...
Cuomo's speech has broad reach
ALBANY -- It's the most powerful speech by a New York governor since Hugh Carey faced the catastrophic state and city fiscal crises of 1975 and declared that the "Days...
Billing clients not a chore with app
Are you an attorney or consultant struggling to accurately keep track of the time you've spent on various projects for billing clients? On-Core's Time Master app uses timers to precisely...
Paterson parties at the end
ALBANY -- He's the "hangover-nor" now. Day One as a private citizen for former Gov. David Paterson began with some New Year's Eve partying in Manhattan followed by a police...
Saving placenta a key to research
What do you give the mother who has everything? How about a placenta. A Manhattan couple has joined the growing ranks of parents who want to extend the usefulness of...
Cuomo vows more open, leaner, cleaner state
ALBANY -- He wasted no time cutting through Albany's red tape. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo cut a crimson ribbon to reopen the once-forbidden Hall of Governors in the executive wing...
First 'bawl' drops
These New Year babies are aces. A Brooklyn beauty born at SUNY Downstate Hospital at midnight and an adorable cutie who debuted five seconds later at Coney Island Hospital were...
Sky-high savings
Big buildings are winning big tax breaks by simply appealing city property-tax assessments. Hearst's 2010 tax bill plummeted $7.7 million after the corporation requested a reassessment for the Hearst Tower,...
Fed (up) spending
No cash for you! After a year in which Fed chief Ben Bernanke spent $600 billion in the last 6 months in an attempt to "ease" out of the economic...
170-calorie piece a' pizza
When this pizza pie hits your thighs -- that's amore! New Yorkers who want to keep their New Year's resolution to cut the fat but can't kick their pizza addiction...
W. Side 'Smells' Kitchen
A tide of rankled residents on Manhattan's West Side can kiss their clean underwear goodbye. One of the last Laundromats in Hell's Kitchen shuttered last week, forcing residents between 51st...
A-list Vegas New Year
Kanye West did his best to steal the show from Jay-Z, who rocked Las Vegas at a celeb-packed New Year's Eve party. West turned up at the lavish opening of...
DA eyes platform mishaps
A criminal investigation into subway safety inspections has expanded to the devices that control platform extenders at the Union Square station, The Post has learned. As part of a larger...
Cuomo's girlfriend Sandra Lee sparkles at inauguration
She glittered like one of her famed "tablescapes." First girlfriend Sandra Lee, host of the Food Network's "Semi-Homemade," donned a sparkly, gold, full-length jacket with woven trim over a winter-white...
Sanit bigs boozed amid snow chaos: witnesses
Instead of plowing, they got plowed. A group of on-duty Sanitation supervisors is under investigation for allegedly buying booze and chilling in their cozy department car for hours Monday night...
Investors eye ETFs for 401(k)s
The exchange traded fund industry reached a major milestone last month when total assets exceeded $1 trillion for the first time, according to industry analysts. In 2010, more than $100...
Garage gunplay
An unhinged gunman opened fire on a 13-year-old boy and his mom during a fight over a parking spot at a garage in Harlem, leaving the boy with a graze...
Meet 'Jersey Shore's' newest guidette: Deena Cortese
She's unnaturally buxom, spray-tanned, just scraping 5 feet tall, and doesn't hit the clubs without her signature pouf. Meet "The Meatball" -- Snooki's doppelganger, Deena Nicole Cortese, 23, the latest...
Teen nabbed in church heist
A teen who tried to pilfer the collection boxes of a Brooklyn church hid for two hours in the building's basement yesterday before seven cops -- with automatic weapons drawn...
Rescue vehicle 'hit' hell
Emergency responders are causing some serious emergencies of their own. Police, fire and EMS vehicles hit nearly two people a day, wrecking cars and causing debilitating injuries to bystanders, according...
Snooki's 'plump' fiction
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, the "Jersey Shore" guidette who famously admitted she had only read two books -- "Twilight" and "Dear John" -- is now an author. Here are some choice...
Wyclef babe's bonu$
In the months leading up to the devastating Haiti earthquake, a sultry stunner who was Wyclef Jean's alleged mistress got a big bonus for her service at the musician's troubled...
Emperor Mike's snow blindness
It is said that once a man be comes a bishop, he never again hears the truth or eats a bad meal. Imagine, then, the pampered life of the Emperor...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Queens Two goons jumped a man on a Fresh Meadows street and stole his cellphone, authorities said. Khizar Habib, 18, and an accomplice pulled up in a Honda Civic next...
Quick start to NYC New Year's slay stats
A father of three and musician who tried to break up a fight outside a Queens banquet hall became the city's first 2011 murder victim after a gunman pumped up...
Stage fright for rocker Chuck
Rock and roll icon Chuck Berry collapsed last night during a concert in Chicago, according to a report. The 84-year-old guitar legend played about an hour at the Congress Theater...
It's the end of the world as we know it (here's how to feel fine)
For billions of years, Earth has been subjected to various forms of abuse. It has been beaten and bruised, stoned and scorched, disemboweled and dismembered — and yet, so far,...
Bloomy’s juvie grab
What Mayor Bloomberg proposes by transferring state control over juvenile criminals to localities is symptomatic of the misjudgment of liberal politicians (“Mike’s Latest Grab,” Editorial, Dec. 26). By putting the...
In my library: Patton Oswalt
“In middle school, I started reading,” writes Patton Oswalt in his darkly hilarious memoir, “Zombie Spaceship Wasteland” (Scribner). Thanks to the “benign neglect” of his overworked parents, he discovered writers...
Politics on the brain?
The data are in. The science has spoken. The proof is conclusive: Conservatives are cowards. No, really. We learned this fact from Prof. Geraint Rees of the University College London,...
Andrew Cuomo’s arrival
Oratory has returned to Albany. Andrew Cuomo took the oath of office as New York’s 56th governor yesterday — thereupon delivering as riveting, and as idealistic, a public address as...
Cuomo: Time to play Dr. No
Gov. Cuomo enters office this week with the state’s budget in shambles — thanks in large part to Medicaid. The economy, the feds and Cuomo’s predecessor have left him an...
Hope springs e-ternal
When, on a 2009 trip to China, Barack Obama proclaimed that “the more freely information flows, the stronger the society,” he was only echoing Ronald Reagan’s pronouncement (made in 1989)...
Yes, it was a joke
Was the photo attached to Barbara Ray’s “Home of the Save” (PostScript, Dec. 26) a joke? Sandwiched between two proud-looking parents is a slouching teenager, dressed in a sloppy shirt,...
The wholesome sex-bomb soap opera
It’s become increasingly hard to keep up with Kim Kardashian. Now a brand unto herself, Kardashian is a latter-day Paris Hilton, leveraging a “leaked” sex tape into a reality show...
Birds don't do it, bees don't do it -- why do we kiss?
The Science of Kissing What Our Lips are Telling Us By Sheril Kirshenbaum Grand Central Publishing There’s no such thing as a simple kiss. The strange ritual between two sets...
Required reading
American Uprising The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt By Daniel Rasmussen (Harper) Nat Turner, who led a Virginia slave rebellion in 1831, is well known. But Charles Deslondes,...
ROTC off campus
Kyle Smith’s thoughtful piece regarding ROTC at Ivy League schools is generally dead-on, but could benefit from at least two points (“Fight Fiercely, Harvard!” PostScript, Dec. 26). At least one...
Stop spending!
There are solutions to “How To Balance the Budget” (PostScript, Nick Gillespie and Veronique de Rugy, Dec. 26). Start with government destroying its own credit cards. Next, bring back limited...
Can you hack it? History of the New York City taxi driver
The drunk couples making out in the backseat. Potholes the size of canyons. Dangerous fares, bad traffic and poor tippers. Driving a yellow cab has never been a cakewalk, but...
Aqueduct Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 6 fur; $40,000; alw; 4upDIGGER KARAKORUM was hard used early and tired to second at this distance and level last out. READING GROUP drew the rail after getting bumped...
Chance for 10-and-sickening for Giants
LANDOVER, Md. -- Coach Tom Coughlin says, "Ten wins is nothing to look the other way at . . . it's an accomplishment in this league." Yet if the Giants...
Like their coach, some Giants don't know if they'll be back
LANDOVER, Md. -- There is more uncertainty than usual around the Giants as they head into today's regular-season finale, and it's not only focused on the fate of their head...
Wrong Mann for the job
* The Giants need to start thinking about their quarterback position. It is clear that Eli Manning is not very good. In fact, he is bad. It is time for...
Knicks' Felton rising to occasion
The Knicks yesterday talked about the New Year, the new attitude and the new toughness the team has displayed this season, but all you had to do was look at...
Today's Sports on Air
Basketball1 p.m.Pacers at KnicksMSG, ESPN (1050 AM)1 p.m.Gonzaga at Wake FoestMSG Plus1 p.m.Rutgers at VillanovaESPNU, WOR (710 AM)4 p.m.Penn State at MichiganBIG 105:30 p.m.LSU at VirginiaMSG Plus6 p.m.Wisconsin at IllinoisBIG...
Islanders trade Roloson to Lightning
In continuing the rebuilding process that is the Islanders' season, the team traded veteran goalie Dwayne Roloson to the Lightning last night for minor league defenseman Ty Wishart. Roloson had...
The Post Line
NFLFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogGiants 3½ 4 (44½)REDSKINSJETS 2 1½(39½)BillsCHIEFS 4 3½(43½)RaidersPATRIOTS 2 5 (43½)DolphinsCOLTS 8½ 9½(48) TitansTEXANS+2½ 3 (46) JaguarsSteelers 6 5 (37½)BROWNSRAVENS 9½ 9½(43) BengalsLIONS 3 3½(42) VikingsPACKERS10 9½(41½)BearsEAGLES 2½...
Rangers fall in overtime after late rally
TAMPA, Fla. -- A team that has its sights set on eighth place might be satisfied coming away with one point from a game it trailed 1-0 before sending the...
Big Blue's dim outlook will help Redskins cover
Today REDSKINS (+4) over Giants: Having made their own bed after staging a turnover festival in Green Bay, Big Blue must light candles for the Bears -- and win --...
Sports shorts
COLLEGE: Pitt fires new coach after arrest Pittsburgh fired football coach Mike Haywood, saying he could not continue in the job he held for just 2½ weeks because of his...
Nets' Lopez is failing boards
MINNEAPOLIS -- Brook Lopez knows what the numbers say. His rebounding is abysmal, compared with last season when he had 33 double doubles. This season: one. Bad. He knows that....
No defense for Nets no-show in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS -- If LeBron James was serious when he suggested Minnesota and New Jersey are two teams ripe for contraction, the Timberwolves have every right to feel insulted. After last...
Devils get pounded by Hurricanes
RALEIGH, N.C. -- For Carolina coach Paul Maurice, there is nothing more important in sports than confidence. His Hurricanes are starting to develop some, especially the team's 18-year-old scoring whiz....
Center earning Rangers' trust
TAMPA, Fla. -- In September, at the start of training camp, there was every likelihood Brian Boyle would be going to the AHL. Four months later, coming up to the...
Serby's Sunday Q&A with . . . Rich Seubert
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with offensive lineman Rich Seubert, the longest-serving current Giants player. Q: Would it be unfair if Tom Coughlin were not back next season? A: Very...
Zip on over to Hunter Mountain
You can get a bird's-eye view of the Catskill Mountains this winter with a fresh alternative to skiing or boarding thanks to New York's Zipline Adventures. Coming off a successful...
Many losses in 2010
It'd be shameful to begin my first column in 2011 without paying respect to Fuzzy Levane, Doris Hale, Bill Sharman, Bob Cousy, Teri McGuire, Bobby Wanzer, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor,...
Giants need win vs. Redskins, Bears victory to get into playoffs
LANDOVER, Md. — The next time the Giants assemble inside their locker room back home, it could be for the last time. “Try not to think about that, really, try...
Home Team Lineups
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Rex, Jets should keep priorities in order
This is the weekend for making New Year’s resolutions. While regular working stiffs focus on earning money and losing weight, it’s an appropriate time for the Jets to pause and...
Rookie Trufant, 28, finally has arrived with Jets
Today’s game will not be any more special for a player on either the Jets or Bills than it will for a 28-year-old rookie cornerback named Isaiah Trufant. Trufant is...
Giants need Mara-cle to make playoffs
If you worship the Giants, if you bleed Giants blue, then the three hours between 4:15 and 7:15 today will be tantamount to the flight of a Scott Norwood field...
10 sports wishes for ’11
It’s a new year, a new start, a new opportunity for sports to thrill us, to disappoint us, to elevate us, to enchant us. We both know that this space...
Weird but true
This robber should resolve to be less lazy in the New Year. A thief brandishing a gun has been rolling up to fast-food drive-thrus in Southern California. But employees at...
Ask Ashley: Benefits from a friend
I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I’ve never given oral sex. A female friend of mine has offered to let me “practice” on her, but I feel funny about it....
Meet market: Big man on campus hopes to find schoolyard crush
Jordan, 22, a research technician for a medical school, is looking for a lady to play doctor with — when he’s not in the lab Fang fan When Jordan turns...
Top 5 worst ways to hit on someone at the gym
According to cuties working out at Crunch Fitness “Say, ‘The only perfume I need is your sweat.’ Gross.” — Noeemi “Ask if they want a rubdown after their workout.” —...
This week's couple: Carnivorous couple
When Peter and Nicole each ordered a huge hamburger during their brunch date at TriBeCa’s Plein Sud, they knew they were a gastronomical match. As the pair tackled their juicy...
No Conn do: Sooners too tough for Huskies
Landry Jones threw for a school bowl-record 429 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 9 Oklahoma ended a five-game BCS bowl losing streak with a 48-20 win over Connecticut in...
Meyer tops JoePa in final outing (maybe) for both
TAMPA, Fla. -- Joe Paterno and Urban Meyer met at midfield for a postgame handshake and hug, the 84-year-old Penn State coach looking forward to next season, the 46-year-old Florida...
Late run propels 'Cuse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Kris Joseph had 18 points, Scoop Jardine had 15 points and nine assists, and No. 5 Syracuse beat No. 15 Notre Dame 70-58 yesterday. The Orange (15-0,...
Horne's three lifts St. John's to 2-0 Big East start
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Dwight Hardy scored 21 points and Justin Burrell added 16 as St. John's survived a late scare to pull out a 67-65 victory over Providence last night....
No Trap' game for hot BC
Joe Trapani had a season-high 23 points as Boston College won for the eighth time in nine games with an 85-70 victory at South Carolina yesterday in Columbia, S.C. Trapani...
TCU beats Wisconsin in Rose Bowl to stay unbeaten
PASADENA, Calif. -- When Tank Carder leaped with perfect timing and swatted Wisconsin's final pass to the turf, the TCU linebacker felt as if he got a boost from every...
City's best grab nation-leading times at Marine Corps Classic
Claudia Francis made quite a return to the Benjamin Cardozo track team. The senior, who returned to the Judges after leaving the squad after last cross country season, helped her...