February 22, 2015
Have men's mags turned the other cheek?
When it comes to the lad mags, Maxim never failed to put maximum skin on its cover — until now. We have to wonder ཧif its frat-boy rivals have also...
🐬 Athletes on a ‘Mission’ with cooling towels
🐭 //instagram.com/p/yUZPj3i9gR/?modal=true No t🐷owel is wet or big enough to cool off this company’s growth. Mission Athletecare, whose high-tech cooling towels have become a staple for stars like Serena Williams, Carmelo...
ꦫ Whom did Phil Jackson call out in bizarre tweets off Knicks-Cavs?
Sounds like Phil is phurious. With the bare-bones Knicks falling to 10-45 after getting blown out by the Cavaliers in a Sunday matinee, Knicks president Phil Ja🐽ckson unleashed a bizarre...
Man's conviction tossed after evidence error in sex-torture case
A man who had been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found g𝔉uilty of sexually torturing his wife has been sprung from prison — and his conviction has... 🌸
Comcast buys pricey Os🐼cars ad in൩ effort to win over regulators
//youtu.be/ZU7NU_fsaSU Comcast boss Brian Roberts is playing nice in Hollywood as he tries to win over skeptical regulators in Washington. His cable giant, which is fighting rising resistaꦺnce to its...
Cuomo's former chief of staff still on payroll
Gov. Cuomo’s former chief of staff, Lawrence Schwartz — who is under scrutiny in Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara’s explosive public-corruption probe and supposedly o♛ff the state p﷽ayroll — is,...
Joan Rivers left out of Oscars 'In Memoriam' segment
They're gone -- and forgotten. In what's become a recurring theme at the Oscars, major notable figures were left out of the "In Memoriam" 💫segment. This year,ꦯ neither Joan Rivers...
Schumer slams Obama’s proposed cuts to anti-drug 𒊎program 🔜
President O𒁃bama’s proposed budget cuts to a federal anti-drug-trafficking program will have dire consequences, Sen. Charles Schumer warned Sunday. “China White,” a type of heroin laced with fentanyl, has hit...
Cops can't catch gang that's stolen 73 ATMs
A group of five increasingly brazen ATM bandits has dodged police for more than a 🐼year while pulling off 73 heists across the city and netting hundreds of thousands of...
ౠ When my friend John became Jennifer
I picked up the phone and heard a vaguely familiar voice on the line. “It’s Jennifer,” said the caller. “Jennifer who?” I asked. Pause. The high-pitched voice dropped several octaves.... 🐟
ﷺ 🔯 Kevin Ware & Ryan Harrow: Loving shift from Goliath to David
Kevin Ware’s claim to fame was th😼e gruesome broken right leg ꦦhe suffered in the 2013 Elite Eight. Ryan Harrow was the guy who couldn’t hack it at N.C. State...
Behind Phil Greene’s emergence as 'forgotten hero’ for St. John’s
Phil Greene IV’s commitment to St. John’s four years ago came with little fanfare, paling in ๊comparison to the splash that came with the signing of his highly ranked future... 😼
'Stinking dynamite': One Matt Harvey pitch has Mets drooling
PORT ST. LUCIE — Matt Harvey added a curveball and slider to his workout Sunday in the slow climb toward game-readiness. In 𒊎a 40-pitch bullpen session, the Mets right-hander had...
Yankees' season rides on health time bombs hitting magic number
TAMPA — ⭕The Yankees’ victory total has fallen from 97 to 95 to 85 to 84, with their .519 winning percentage in 2014 repres🌼enting their worst since 1992. The expectation...
Rangers avert disast✅er, just hold on vs. Blue Jackets
No one in the Rangers’ dressing room was ready to give back Sunday night’s 4-3 shootout victory over the Blue Jackets. And they were pleased to creep a b😼it closer...
Iman Shumpert doesn't blame Fisher, Knicks for dealing him
𝔉 Ex-Knick guard Iman Shumpert, during training camp at West Point, couldn’t have been more effusive about having Derek Fisher as 🥀his new coach after being in Mike Woodson’s doghouse. Though...
Sm꧑ith, Shumpert forming special bond away from awful Knicks
J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert came out for their postgame press conference and stood side-by-side following the Cavaliers’ 101-83 blไowout win over the Knicks on Sunday afternoon at the Garden....
Will Arnett stor🍬𓃲ms the Oscars as Batman
"Birdman" might have been one of Oscar night's biggest nom🥃inees, but for a brief moment, the Sunday night show was all about Batman. During a performance of "Everything Is Awesome,"...
꧋ The 27-year-old catch to signing Cuban phenom Moncada
TAMPA — Yoan Moncada likely will sign with the team that of🦋fers the most money. However, there is a catch to landing the 19-year-old, switch-hitting Cuban second baseman: Carlos Mesa....
Hofstra coach still dreaming big afterও heartbreaking loss
The call didn’t go Hofstra’s way on on🅘e end. The whistle never blew on the other. And Hofstra’s struggles against the top of the Colonial Athletic Associatꦿion continued Sunday night...
John Travolta plants a creepy kiss o♏n Scarlett Johansson
And the Oscar for most unco🥀mfortable red carpet moment of the night goes to ... John Trav🌊olta.
Isles fall t♑o Canucks as 2 glaring issues rear head
▨ The Islanders are letting this one roll off their backs, not raising any red flags or bringing any panic to the situation. And that’s probably the way it should be....
It's attack of the tuxedo clones at the Oscars
A trio of young actors decided to shake things up at tonight's Academy Awards and ditch the traditional black tux – but unfortunately they forgot to coordi🦋nate with each other...
How to stop the ISIS genocide 🐻campaign
As the 💯world marked last month’s 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, I was in northern Iraq viewing the threat to that nation’s imperiled...
Jamming up LaGuardia: Andrew Cuomo's airport meddling
“If I blindfolded you and took you to LaGuardia,” Vice President Joe Biden told a Philadelphia crowd a year ago, “you must think, ‘I must be in some Thir🍷d World...
Facing ISIS terror with ... tweets 🎀
The Obama administration’s sem🧔antic somersaults to avoid attaching the adjective “Islamic” to the noun “extremism” are as indicative as they are entertaining. Progressives who believe that dialogues, conversations, engagements and...
Rush to judgment -- slapping voters the Repub♉licans need 🍬
This is not an attempt to pick a fight with Rush Limbaugh, OK? It’s never wise to take on someone you mostly agree with, a guy🍎 smarter and funnier than...
Chrissy Teigen's jaw-dropping thigh-high slit
The most anticipated mom☂ꩲent of tonight's Academy Awards is how long until Chrissy Teigen has a wardrobe malfunction.
The wages of Walmart
If only the New York City Council hadn’t had its way in recent years, this cౠity would today have a huge retailer offering a minimum wage higher than the state’s....
The South rises
When Americans hear “secession,” the image that comes to mind is a Confederate flag. But New ⭕Y♌ork these days has its own southern rebellion. The Southern Tier, that is. The...
Shelly's doing his job
Of all the accusations leveled against Sheldon Silver, surely the weakest is that his criminal trou꧟bles will prevent him from representing his constituents in the state Assembly. Yes, Silver has...
This year's Oscars are a family affair
Forget about draping a hottie on your arm as your Oscar date — this year, the top names are coming with a more personal accessory: their families. Patricia ꦍArqu🥃ette was...
2015 Oscars red carpet 𒆙arrivals ꩵ
See t𝐆he show-stopping celeb fashion from 2015 Oscars.
Once forgot♕ten Joey Logano wins 1st career Daytona 500
DAYTONA BEA🐠CH, Fla. — Joey Logano, the driver who seemed washed up at 22 ♛years old, has won his first career Daytona 500. Logano took the lead in the white-knuckle...
Hard-throwing enigma is Yankees' most-watched arm after Tanaka
TAMPA -- The most i♊mportant arm belonging to a Yankee was on display at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Sunday. There is interest in other pitchers, but when it comes...
ꦺ Kevin Durant out indefinitely after another surgery ൩
OKLAHOMA🎀 CITY — Kevin Durant had surgery Sunday to alleviate foot pain, and the Thunder expect him to return during the regular season. A screw was replaced from his October...
'Hangover' actor relentlessly flirts with Knicks reporter
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=89X2y9nGGzY#t It wasn't Namath and Kolber, but it sure was uncomfortable. Knicks reporter Jill Martin tried conducting an interview with actor Justin Bartha during the Knicks game🧜 against the Cavaliers on Sunday,...
'60 Minutes' pays homage to Bob Simon in moving tribute
“60 Minutes” pays homage to the “extraordinary career” of its late veteran correspondent, Bob Simon, in a touching tribute that was set to air Sunday night. Fellow "60 Minutes" corresponde💧nt...
Smဣith, Shumpert stick it to Knicks🎀 in return to Garden
J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert came back, saw and conquered. There had been an avalanche of highlight 🅷m𝕴oments for LeBron James’ Cavaliers through three quarters at the Garden, but none...
Kayla Mueller's brother: Bergdahl swap dashed hopes of sister's survival
WASHINGTON — The family of Kayla Mueller had been in contact 🐼with her ISIS captors for months and praying she’d be freed, but the US decision to swap five Taliban prisoners...
David Wright making safety vows he probably won't keep
PORT ST. LUCIE -- David Wright is older, presumab🧸ly wiser and vowing to changes his ways. At 32 years old and coming off two straight injury-marred seasonsꦅ, the Mets captain...
Father to teen suspected of joining ISIS: 'Please think twice'
The father of one of three "straight A" British schoolgirls feared to have fled to Syria to join ISIS believes "what she's doing is completely nonsense" — and her decisi🌺on to... 🌄
Formula 1 star airl෴ifted to hospita🍌l after frightful crash
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR_lkJd2mlA MONTMELO, Spain -- Fernando Alonso crashed his McLaren and ♑was taken to hospital during Formula One p♛reseason testing on Sunday, before Romain Grosjean steered his Lotus to the fastest...
How Steve Gelbs will fill Mets' Kevin Burkhardt void
Meet the Mets’ new field reporter, Steve Gelbs, SNY’s bright-eyed replacement for Kevin Burkhardt, now a rising star at FOX Sports. “I would say this: I’m 🦄not trying to replace...
Scouts slam Jameis Winston’s makeup: Likely 'bust'
Perh꧟aps more so than in any other sport, scouts for the NFL, cloaked in anonymity, love to stir things up with brutally honest, often vicious opinions on players. The hottest...
Kirk Cameron's religious comedy cleans up at Razzies
“Saving Christmas” took top honors at the Razzies. The religious c𝓀omedy starring Kirk Cameron won nearly half of the🐬 trophies at the 35th annual Golden Raspberry Awards, an awards show...
ISIS prisoners caged like animals in chilling new video 🐼
Chilling new video released by ISIS shows 21 Kurdish hostages being paraded in cages through the crowded streets of Iraq as countless residents and masked jihadis greet them with cheers🍬....
Jeffrey Maier's glove fetches $22K in auction
The glove Jeffrey Maier used to pull Derek Jeter's famous home run over the wall during the 1996 ALꦺ Championship Series against Baltimore has been sold at auction for $22,705.... 𒐪
ܫ Scorpions report to White Sox camp, terrify everybody
//twitter.com/ESPNChiSox/status/5692289291452꧃45696 The White Sox were rocked liꦉke a hurricane Saturday when scorpions turned up at the team's training facility. The terrifying arthropods -- who weren't due to report to camp ever,...
Feds predict fiery derailments could kill hund꧟reds
BILLINGS, Mont. — The federal government predicts that trains hauling crud🃏e oil or ethanol will derail an average of 10 times a year over the next two decades, causing more...
Terrorist threat calls for attacks on American shopping malls 🍌
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson war🎉ned Sunday that Americans should be "particularly careful" shopping at ma﷽lls this weekend following a specific terrorist threat. Terrorist group al-Shabaab released a video...
Giuliani boasts he 'hit a nerve' in Obama criticism
𝔍 Rudy is doubling down. Former mayor Rudy Giuliani acknowledged his speech criticizing President Obama’s patriotism last week “hit a nerve” but went even further Sunday denouncing the president’s foreign policy...
Meet the New Jersey wo🎃man who could become a Martian
This New Jerse🍒y woman could get a one-way ticket to Mars. Cassandra Morphy, 32, is one of 100 finalists vying to become🔯 the first humans to colonize the Red Planet...
Man sues ex-friend for $💛15M for alleg💞edly spreading lies about him
It’s the grown-man version of “Mean Girls.” Attorney Stephen Drummond cl𝓡aims in a $15 million lawsuit that his onetime bestie and former Marine buddy George Savage, a California obstetrician, has...
Fariña principal pal gets free pass after ripping off taxpayers 💯
It pays🎃 to be the chancellor’s pet. Principal L꧋inda Hill of IS 49 in Staten Island was caught red-handed ripping off taxpayers in 2013 — after years of double dipping into...
I was wrongly imprisoned by 'professional snitch': lawsuit
Brooklyn prosecutors used a “professional snitch” called “Skylark” who promised to help them “get anybody” — and ended up putting the wrong man in ja🌸il for a cold-case murder, a...
Ads highlight poor secular educati🔯on at Orthodo𝕴x Jewish schools
These Brooklyn kids aren’t learning their Oy-B-C’s. The battle over secular education for ultra-Orthodox Jews has flared in the Hasi🍒dic enclave of Williamsburg after a reform group unveiled a massive...
Woman loses half of her border-straddling home in tax🌜 snaf🦂u
A woman whose🅠 home sits on the border of New York and Connecticut was stunned to learn her neighbor owns half of her abode — because her bank failed to...
🌸 Supermarket mogul found dead outside home in freezing temps
A supermarket mogul who left a Staten Island country-club party to take a 10-minute walk home in bone-chill🍬ing temperatures was f𝓀ound dead the next morning just steps from his ritzy...
Woman stabs neiꦺghbor in the cheek with a pen 🔯
A Brooklyn woman threatened her Williamsburg neighbor with a jam 🃏spreader and then stabbed her in the cheek with a pen, police sources said. The fight started at about 5...
The surprising real story behind 'Everything is Awesome'
//youtu.be/StTqXEQ2l-Y “Everything Is Awesome,” the theme song from the box-office smash “The Lego Movie,” has beco✃me a phenomenon among the school-bus set — the music video’s been viewed on YouTube...
Why are girls flo♔cking to ISIS?
An alarming number of young Western woꦐmen are defying their families — and all logic — to join the ISIS barbarians. As many as 550 of the estimated 3,000 Westerners...
Have New Yorkers evolved to settle for just a 'good enough' mate?
Mr. Right, or Mr. Good Enou൲gh? Evolutionary researchers out of Michig✤an State University found that most humans have evolved to accept the latter, rather than risk never mating at all....
The liberal media won't tell people that Joe Biden is a moron
It was just another Tuesday for the vice pr𒈔esident of the United States, and another week in which the mainstream media turned their genteel eyes away from💮 the highly questionable...
How th𓃲e Beanie Baby craze was concocted -- then crashed ꦡ
In the late 1990s, Ty Warner, cr🙈eator of the wildly popular Beanie Babies series of plush toys, had a 370,000-square-foot warehouse filled with his beloved collectible animals for kids. All...
Spring's must-have accessory: bold, bushy brows
When Shallon Lester, 30, wanted to make her eyes look larger and her skin brighter, she didn’t opt for a new masc🦩ara or a facial. She got thicker eyebrows.🍬 “I...
How the AIDS epidemic really began 🌄
In Randy Shilts’ history of AIDS, “And the Band Played On,” he tells the story of an Air Canada steward named Gaëtan Dugas, 🎃who suffered from what Dugas ca♈lled “gay...
Cops say training after Eric Garner’s death is a 'waste of time'
About 80 percent of cops retrained after Eric Garner’s death called the three-day Police Academy program a “waste of time,” and many fell asleep in their seats, says a hig༒h-ranking...
The unions' latest lie: Wall Street trying to 'take over' NYC schools
New York’s education ca♏rtel has been set back on its heels by a new breed of reformers, and the unions need someone to blame.💫 The result? Anti-reformers have trotted out...
Jason Biggs talks Twitter woes and his 'Bachelor' obsession
ꦬWe won’t ha🐻ve Larry Bloom to bitch about any more. “Orange Is the New Black” returns in June — or maybe July; the Netflix press rep hates to confirm anything!...
♉ Drew Barrymore was drunk on set of Disney special, at age♛ 9
When five-time Emmy nominee Kenny Solms produced the 1985 television special “Disneyland’s 30th Anniversary Celebration,” h❀e had a few problems with co-host Drew Barrymore. For one thing, she ꦬwas always...
Shrinks can't compete with your smartphone
The couches have gone cold on the Upper West Side. Lying 🐷down and talking to a psych🦄oanalyst, a practice once as synonymous with New York City as the street-vendor hot...
Inside the closets of the Oscars' Best Actress nominees
When it comes to awards-season campaigning, this year’s Best Actress Oscar nomi♋nees play fashionable roles on the red carpet. The Oscars and fashion go hand in hand, but the bar...
🍰 Giuliani receiving death threats after Obama comments 🧔
Outspoken ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Saturday his office has received death threats in the wake of his “Obama doesn’t love Ameri🍨ca” comments last week. “The former mayor s♓aid that his...
Woman claims boss fired her after she gave birth💎
🏅 A Manhattan woman with a history of miscarriages says ꦬher boss kept asking when she would “pop” out a baby, then fired her when she did. Supriya Laknidhi says in...
The most popular books at some of New York's public libraries
🌳 New Yorkers’ reading habits are an open book. Suspense thriller “Gone Girl” was the most checked out book in the New York Public Library system with 698 last month —...
Kristen Stewart is America's first woman to win a French 'Oscar'
She’s the Jerry🌜 Lewis of her generation. Kristen Stewart, mocked here for her blank expressions in the “Twilight” movies, on Friday became the first American woman to win ﷽a César,...
Driver fatally beats man who confused hi𒅌s car for a cab
A suspect is in custody in the fatal beating of a father and husband in Queens, authorities said Satur🔜day. Kaheem Addison, 29, surrendered Saturday at the 108th Precincꦦt stationhouse in...
Exec who fired Steve Jobs praises him for 'connecting the dots'
What would Steve Jobs do 🔯if he were still alive and well ꧟at Apple? Aspiring tech tycoons might better ask: What would Steve Jobs do if he were still alive...
10 inventive ways workers quit their j✤obs
US workeไrs are getting their mojo back — and finding new and creative ways of tel𝔍ling their boss to take that job and shove it. From the violent (tossing a...
At least 31 dead after ferไry capsizes in Bangladesh 𓆏
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A river ferry carrying about 100 passengers capsized in central Bangladesh on Sunday after being hit by a cargo vessel, killing at least 🎀31 peopl🌳e, officials said....
𓂃 Brooklyn DA treats detectives like personal errand 🍨boys
🌜Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson orders detectives on his security detail to pick up his meals and dry cleaning and do other menial chores — and if they refuse, they’re...
ꦦ Kate Spade to report fourth-quarter results 🐓
Shareholders in handbag designer Kate Spade & Co. are likely preparing for an active week as the company will report fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 results on Wednes𒐪day. When Kate Spade...
IEX hits gr🉐owth goal in a 🔥‘Flash’
IEX, the exchange he🦂lmed by “Flash Boys” hero Brad Katsuyama, has go🐎tten ahead of itself. The trading platform is within spitting distance of averaging 1 percent of the monthly trading...
Seventy percent of the FDNY's females are retiring on disability
They broke the FDNY gender barrier — but, for many, firefighting broke them. A startling 70 percent of female Bravest have retired from t🌊he FDNY on three-quarters disability pensions claiming...
Retailer claims Big Tobacco is aiding smugglers, 'robbing' New York
Big Tobacco is complicit in the massive cigarette bootlegging business that robs New York state and the Big Apple of $2.5 billion a year iಌn tax revenue, a state retail...
🌳 Dear John: Ways to dig a hole to China
Dear John: I’ve attentively read how you help others who contact you and am wondering if you can now help me. My𝓰 company needed to get some items from various...
Your number's up: New Knick Shved takes Amar'e's No. 1
Amar’e Stoudemire hasn’t even made his debut with Dallas before the Knicks gave awဣay his number. They handed his familiar No. 1 jersey to newly acquired 🅘Alexey Shved, the Russian...
N🐻etflix forces Academy to talk 🍌about what a ‘film’ really is
And the Oscar goes to ... Netflix? One Academy voter tells On the Money there’s 🉐a new struggle in Tinseltown: What does it mean to be a film? Shoꦓuld the...
Apple's 'Project Titan’ could reshape the auto world
Detroit had a good year in 2014, selling 16.5 mil꧟lion autos — up 1 million from 2013. The stock of Ford and GM has revved on t⛄he good news, jumping...
Obama is on a rampage
He can’t bring himself to call Islamic terrorists what they are, but President Obama finally said something with which we can all agree. Speaking of his remaining time in ꦇof🌠fice,...
Blood clots in lung knocks Heat's Chris Bosh out for season
MIAMI — Not even a🏅 week ago, Chris Bosh wꦑas talking about how eager he was to get home in an effort to turn the Heat’s season around. His focus...
M𒁃ariota, Jameis wow Jets, NFL with sterling combine ꦺ
After weeks of talk, Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota finally were back on a football field Saturday. The consensus top two quarterbacks in the draf🍌t went through all the drills...
Daily Blotter
Queens A man s꧒truck out in his bid t🎀o rob a bank in Kew Gardens Hills Thursday, authorities say. The would-be crook slipped a demand note to a teller at...