September 10, 2016
CM Punk 'destroyed' by NJ fighter in UFC debut
CLEVELAND — CM Punk𝐆 could have used a folding chair or a tag-team partner. Out of pro wrestling's scripted ring, his first trip into t✱he octagon didn't last long. Punk,...
NYCFC fall out of first place after getting w𓄧hipped by Revolution
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Diego Fagundez🌠 had a goal and an assist to help the New England Revolution beat New York City FC 3-1 on Saturday night. The Rev⛎olution (8-12-9) have...
Post-recession Americans don't need money to find happiness
𝓀 Brian Jones, 33, got a cushy offer from Standard & Poor’s right out of MIT Business School — $115,000 base salary with a $45,000 signing bonus. It was everythin🌄g an...
Novak Djokovic calls US Open final opponent 'very dangerous'
Defending champion Novak Djokovic can expect a long, straightforward, potential marathon match Sunday. There is nothing unpredictable or quirky about Switzerland’s second-best꧙ tennis player, Stan Wawrinka, whose elegant one-handed backhand...
The four-letter word thatꦚ has liberal celebrities ducking for cover
On Aug. 30, actor and liberal activist Mark Ruffalo was suddenly less “woke” than he’d been the day before. His crime? He’d signed on to executive𒀰 produce a film in...🐼
Women's tennis has a new No. 1 — and she showed exactly why
The beauty in what Angeliquꦆe Kerber accomplished in Saturday’s U.S. Open women’s final was as much in the process as the result. During her 2-hour, 7-minute journey in a taut 6-3,...
💫 𝕴 UFC bout canceled after fighter hurt riding hotel elevator
CLEVELAND — One of the preliminary bouts on the undercard for UFC 203 was ꦰcanceled when fighter C.B. Dollaway was injured riding in a hotel elevator. 🐻Dollaway was scheduled to...
Mets fall out of wild-card spot as win st𝄹reak comes to a halt
ATLANTA — Josh Smoker could only drop hi♐s head and wipe his brow as fireworks exploded above Turner Field on Saturday night, the official detonation of the Mets’ six🥂-game winning...
No Pat hand for Hondo
Hondo made it two in a row in Toronto where he rolled with the Jays on Sat🎀urday to elevate the earnings to 3,988 metcalfs. Sunday night: Horsehide Hondo gives way...
Masahiro Tanaka's dominating — thanks to this mechanical fix
After Masahiro Tanaka underwent offseason elbow s🃏urgery, many questioned if he ever would dominate again, or if the Yankees had a legitimate ace. The Japanese star has spent the past...
How⛎ a Mets SS became an unlikely Yankees rotation f🌸ixture
After losing three starters in a month, the Yankees turne⭕d to rookie Luis Cessa to plug their rotation. He takes the mound Sunday trying to go a perfect five-for-five, and...
Ben McAdoo 🌟unplugged: on disliking feelings, not sleeping and 9/11
First-year Giants head coach Ben McAdoo took a timeout before Sunday’s season opener against the Cowboys for some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: Does fear of⛄﷽ failure motivate...
👍 Joe Girardi: Why Yankees can still steal the division
The Yankees knew before they took the field Saturday that if they won — which they did — they would end the day no worse than one game behind the... 💙
How an ex-Met's home runs saved his teammate from 9/11 disaster
Fifteen years later Brad Thomas still cannot find the words. Words of thanks. Words of reflection. Words of a home-run life well lived. “It’s a miracle. So🐠mebody was watching out...
How Gary Sanchez flew out and dropped everyone's jaw
The legen🤡d of The Sanchez grows every day. For on this Saturday and in this 5-1 Yankees victory over the Rays, which propelled the runaway pinstriped train to with🐼in three...
Apple has fallen victim to its own suꦚccess
⛎ My take-away from last week’s Apple ♏iPhone announcement: I’ve seen this before, a couple of times. I thought, this doesn’t have to be how Apple works, but it’s become a...
Fantasy baseball: Consid♔er these players for🔥 playoff push
Though some of you have been concentrating on fantasy football since June, the rest of you still are focusing on baseball like Tim Tebow, even if you remain a long෴...
What's behind Jacoby Ellsbury owning Chris Archer?
Jacoby Ellsbury🍰 had hit Chris Archer better than he had any other pitcher. Archer had been strafed by El꧋lsbury worse than he had by any other hitter. The result was predictable. Ellsbury’s...
Rutgers, Seton Hall in pitched battle for top🌳 hoops recrui🐼t
The Seton Hall-Rutgers rivalry lost its heat once the Scarlet Knights left the Big Ea𓄧st for the Big Ten. The annual games h෴aven’t been competitive in recent years, the vastly...
Fearꩲ and greed haunt world of venture capital funds ꦦ
There’s big trouble in venture capital land, with allegations of wild spending, electronic snooping and unhinged management dragging a slew of funds through the mud. That coul𒉰d be a shocking...
🌺 How Michael Strahan, Kevin Mawae talked sense to NFL after 9👍/11
Sport made itself proud 15 years ago. Later on, of cou🐼rse, it would be the games themselves that would do much to offer salve for broken hearꦚts and shattered spirits:...
Why Jason Witten is nightmare Giants can't wake up from
ARLINGTON, Texas — The first q🎉uestion you will hear from anyone in the NFL about Jason Witten i🅘s, “How does he do it?” That question has meaning on multiple levels...
Your Week 1 DFS guide: How to win asꦐ much as I have
“I find I’m so excited that I can barely sit still or hꦰold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel. A... ꦗ
Outgoing Viacom CEO causes stir at high-profile meeting ൩
Viacom’s non-executive chairman, Philippe Dauman, may b♉e counting the days until he can exit 1515 Broadway and hop a plane to St. Barth’s, but sources tell On the Money that...
Why Ravens will knock off Rex Ryan's Bills in opener
RAVENS (-3) over Bills: Coach John Harbaugh finally had losing year by Inner Harbor, with 20 roster players missing appreciable time. Playi𒉰ng with a fresh deck, this is well-run outfitಌ....
Giants kicker not thinking he's a one-game Josh Brown fill-in
ARLINGTON, Texas — Talk about your one-and-done scenarios. Randy Bu♍llock was signed 20 days ago to fill in for suspended Josh Brown as kicker for the Giants in the season...
Omens can abound as Giants visit scene of last year's crime
ARLINGTON, Texas — So, which is it? “It’s the firsꦅt week, it’s Game 1, it sets the tone for the whole entire season,’’ running back Rashad Jennings said. And then,...
🔜 John Catsimatidis gꦦets his own stamp
John Catsimatidis flew to Greece on his private jet over Labor Day weekend to pick up a stash of stamps with his visage on them. The billion🅘aire businessman and onetime...
After 15 years, the woundsꦰ that healed and the threat that con🦹tinues
Fifteen years after the planes hit the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in P♍ennsylvania, many wounds have healed — though some never will, particularly for those whose loved...
Yankees roll to 7th s൩traight win🧸
Whether it turns out to be members of the kiddie corps, who seemingly will be getting th🦩eir drivers’ licenses any day, or some of the old 𒐪geezers, who seem to...
Gennady Golovk꧃in gets rare challenge -- and a big-time stop
LONDON — World middleweight cha꧙mpion Gennady Golovkin fought off the ambitious challenge to his supremacy from Kell Brook with a fifth-round stoppage on Saturday. Brook's corner threw in the towel...
Jets worry Ryan Fitzpatrick's habitual flaw will get him hurt
Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick did plenty of good things in 2015, but there is one thing coach Tod♔d Bowles wants to se൩e him do more often in 2016. “His number...
Jets begin with serious, critical test — and it’ll only get𝄹 harderꦜ
After months of talk and analysis, the Jets finally open the season Sunday with the Bengals. Ryan Fitzpatrick will be at quarterback ✨after a months-long standoff led to speculation and... 🌱
The 3𒁃 Cowboys veterans tasked with stopping 🃏Odell Beckham
ไ ARLINGTON, Texas — Odell Beckham Jr. cau✅ght 10 passes — including the now-famous one-handed grab that instantly turned him into a celebrity — in his breakout 2014 game against the...
Emotional Angelique Kerber wins US Open women's final
Angelique Kerber dropped to the court and on her back after w𝐆inning match point. Her eyes were wet as she sat on the sidelines after the post-match handshake. D🍌uring the...
How the future of MLB's next powerhouse darkened in a flash
On Oct. 6, ✨2015, at 1 East 161st Street in The Bronx, I could have sworn I saw baseball ships passing in the night. The Astros beat the Yankees, 3-0,...
Financial Times editor learns embarrassing lesson during panel 𝔉
When inviting business leaders who are also authors to join you on a panel discussion, it migh꧑t be a good idea to read their latest books first. Financial Times Editor...
Infant found d🌺ays after mom abandoned him at shelter: cops
This cold-blooded mom ditched her 5-month-old son at their Bronx shelter, where he spent three days alone under a bed until he was found Friday, officials said. Cops aไre now...
Kaepernick tellingly silent as Seahawks unveil anthem 'unity'
The 🎉Seahawks are sending a message as a team for the national anthem on Sunday, Sept. 11, in a message bent on unity instead of protest. Wide receiver Doug Baldwin posted a...
How refs' screwup enabled most insane college football finish
It was one of the most stu💟nning wins we've ever seen, or will see the entire college football season. It was Central Michigan's incredible, last second victory over Oklahoma State,...
Beach Boy Mike Love is out to 🍌fix his bad reputation ♚
No Kanye West rant ca🌜n compare with Mike Love at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. As Love recalls in his memoir “Good Vibrations: My Life as...
Chris Christie's emails could soon be exposed
TRENTON, N.J. — Republican Gov. Chris Christie's personal email must be searched — or he must prove that𝓡 it already has been — to comply with the state's public recordsꦦ...
Football team suspended to all hell had a miserable da🌞y
TALLAHASSEE💜, Fla. — Deondre Francois threw for three touchdowns and Dalvin Cook ran for two more as No. 3 Florida State cruised to a 52-8 victory over suspension-depleted Charleston Southern...
WR a star 🍌or mirage? Kickoff rule backfire? 5 NFLꦍ things to watch
With all the games, backstories, injuries and developments in a given week in the NFL, it is tough to know what to look for on Sunday. Here are fiv𒆙e things...
Is this th🐼e most insane college football finish ever?
//twitter.com/anthonyVslater𓄧/status/774694162788552705 STILLWATER, Okla. — Corey Willis grabbed a lateral from Jesse Kroll at the Oklahoma State 12, raced for the end zone and reached across the goal line for a...
Despite '28 pages' release, Saudi's 9/11 involvement still buried
The White H🦹ouse thinks releasing the “28 pages” summarizing Saudi involvement in 9/11 satisfied the public’s need to know. But don’t be fooled. The full story remains buried under mo💛re...
The Arm🔯y inspired me to become a fashion designer
⭕In 2006, after almost eight years traveling the world with the Army, Abdul Abasi decided it was time to pursue another career. He met with his commander, who asked him...
🍸 Woman in iconic WWII Times Square kꦑiss photo dies at 92
🌳She was half of one of the most iconic photos of the 20th Century. Greta Zimmer Friedman, the woman kissed by a sailor in Times Square on V-J Day in...
Clemson returner pulls a DeSean Ja𓆉ckson in humiliating moment
This isn't how Ray-Ray McCloud wanted to introduce himself to the world. During Saturday's Week 2 of college football, th🌳e Clemson speedster broke a 75-yard punt return in the closing moments...
🦂 The surprising reason war vets are drinking more wine
During Ben Lubin’s time in Afghanistan in 2005, the Marine Corps captain ran an operations center, coordinating responꦆses to ro💯cket attacks after the base was ambushed. “In the middle of...
How a coke addict-turned-ultܫramarathoner became a prison hero
Early one morning in 1991, Charlie Engle paired his two passions: cocaine and running. Hours before the sunrise start of⛦ the Big Sur Marathon, Engel, then 28, packed his nose...
Clinဣton regrets🌠 calling half of Trump supporters a ‘basket of deplorables’
🐭 She said she was "grossly generalistic" in her remarks at the LGBT fundraiser in New York Friday. ꦬ
Genius swimming in beer money after 'College GameDay' sign
The American entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well, my ﷺfriends. Western Civilization might be in a semi-controlled economic slide over the cliff of deep and irreversible financial ruin, but yo—your...
When Jimmy Garoppolo went nuts and showed he's ready for this
If you are looking for a clue to how Ji❀mmy Garoppolo will answer the bell on the biggest and brightest stage of his football life — with the ghost of...
Transit cop catches tee🐽ns with gun before shift 🙈
Even before he got to work Friday night, 🎀a Queens transit cop busted two ♉teens on gun charges in the Rockaways. Sgt. Jason Jansky was driving to his precinct about...
Why Broncos-Panthers mess will make Week 1 refs terrible ꦡ
As Sunday’s NFL Week 1 games unfold across the nation, every defensive player s🌳hould beware of the Great Overcorrect certain to take place. If you’re a defensive back, lineback𝔉er or...
Proಞof♔ your cat is trying to kill you
It’s the greatest human lie. Falser than faking that 🐎a newborn baby is cute, harder than slapping on a smile at a wedding shower. 🤪“This Hawaiian shirt is exactly what...
Ha♉s the party around Ground Zero gone too far? 🎀
Fifteen years after 9/11, dow𝄹ntown is eating the terrorists’ lunch. And drinking it, too: The mortally shattered neighborhood has rebounded with booze-fueled gusto. The area has improbably blossomed into a...
Vladimir Putin thinks 'House of Cards' is for real
When Sergey Shoygu became Russia’s minister of defense in🍎 2012, Russian leader Vladimir Putin gave him some interesting♛ advice: If you want to understand America, he said, watch “House of...
🍰 The fantasy football fallout from two QB disasters ౠ
By and large, when teams change quarꦿterbacks, the overall offensive performance suffers. Sure, on occasion, an inexperienced QB will stumble into a great game. But that happens far les🔴s often...
Why t🎐his New Yorker waited 30 years to lose her virginity
Lianne Stokes didn’t lose ♌her 𝕴virginity until she was 30 years old. A miraculous feat in New York City, where people have sex everywhere, including the subway. “Sex drives our...
The𝔍 persuasion tac👍tics Trump and Clinton are using to manipulate voters
𓃲 How did Donald Trump go from being a fringe player in politics to the p✱osition he is in now? Why did Hillary Clinton’s attacks on Trump finally seem to click...
John Hinckley Jr. leaves mental hosp🦩ital for⭕ good
After more than 35 years, the man who tried to shoot and kill President Ronald Reagan walked out of a Washington, DC, mental hospit🐼al Saturday for the last time. John...
South Korea says North's nuclear capability 'speeding up'
South Korea's foreign minister said on Saturday that North Korea's nuclear capability is expanding fast, echoing alarm around the world over the is🥃olated state's fifth nuclear test carried out in... 🍃
Anti-Semitic incidents at CUNY considered 'protected' speech
Jewish students have been harassed and threatened for t𝓰hꦉeir pro-Israel views at CUNY campuses, but the university isn’t a hotbed of anti-Semitism and can do little about “protected” free speech,...
Fake Uber driv💖ers are scamming tourists at US Open
Fake Uber drivers carrying signs with the letter U are running a lucrati✃ve tennis racket — pretending to drive for the company and charging tourists as much as $100 for...
Third-party candidates s𒉰et to s𒐪hake up presidential election
WASHINGTON — Third-party candidates are usually an afterthoug𝓡ht in presidential elections, but Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein could impact the outco🥂me of this year’s race,...
The iPhone 7 may turn out to be Apple's 'New Coke'
You’ve probably been thinking to yourself, “Gee, I wish I couldn’t charge my phone while also listening to music.” Or perh𒊎aps, “Gosh, if only my headphones were more expensive, easier...
Shaq can't resist hilarious Kobe shout-out during Hall of Fame speech
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — When Shaquille O'Neal was 10 years old, his father made a prediction. Friday night when his son became a Hall of🐼 Famer, it was realized. Shaq༒ and...
🤪 Birds are mysteriously falling from the sky i⭕n Boston
Boston city officials were grappling with a bizarre my𒊎stery Friday after a large flock of songbirds suddenly fell from the sky in one of the city’s neighborhoods. City officials told...
Don't think Masahiro Tanaka's an ace? Check out these numbers
The Baby Bombers have been getting all the love during the Yankees’ surge to within two games of the second AL wild card entering Friday, but Masahiro Tanaka’s🐷 dominance may...
Gary Sanchez busts out of first slump in styl𒁏e
Gary Sanchez picked a good time to break out of the first slump of his major league career. He 🧸entered Friday with just six hits in his previous 3🐓5 at-bats...
Mets too busy chasing playoffs to worry ab෴out Tim Tebow
ATLANTA — The Mets will not lose focus Teꦑbowing. That was the word from Terry Collins on Friday at Turner Field. The Mets backed up the manager’s comments with a𒀰...
This proves Ralph Steadman is more thaꦦn🐼 just a gonzo artist
Hunterꩲ S. Thompson looms large — in spirit and in bronze — in “A Retrospective: Ralph Steadman,” a terrific new show of art by Thompson’s “Fe꧙ar and Loathing” co-conspirator. Standing...
Chelsea Manning𓆉 starts hunger strike 🐼to protest treatment
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks websi𒅌te says she is on a hunger strike until her treatment improves. Chelsea Manning...
Mark Teixeira rediscovers star power foꦇr one special night
M꧅ark Teixeira knows how to hit a home run. That comes with skill and accumulated knowledge from years of sizing up pitchers and their patterns and their stuff. It’s just𓆏...
ไ Navy shows off its $4.4B warship of the future
﷽ ♛ NEWPORT, R.I. — The Navy gave a first look inside the stealthy and futuristic Zumwalt destroyer on Friday during the ship's first port stop at a Rhode Island naval station....
Girardi pulled unhappy Michael Pineda, and it go🅘t awkward 🍌
The Yankees spotted starter Michael Pineda a five-run cushion in their thrice rain-delayed 7-5 win over Tampa Bay at the Stadium, but didn’t give him a long enough rope to... 🦄
Liberty need just eight healt🌺hy player💟s to beat woeful Sun
Tina Charles had 23 points and 10ꦦ rebounds to help the Liberty beat the Connecticut Sun 89-82 on Friday night. The Liberty (21-10♋), who already have clinched the No. 3...
Mattress store closes shop af൲ter tasteless 9/11 ad♛
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmM-2gj5Gc SAN ANTONIO — 🌞The owner of a Texas mattress s♔tore has closed his store after apologizing for what he called a "tasteless" advertisement promoting a 9/11 anniversary sale. The...
Clinton: Half of Trump's supporters are a 'basket of deplorables'
Hillary Clinton said Friday night that half of the supporters for her rival Donald Trump are a “basket of deplorables.” Clinton 🌸made the remarks at an LGBT fundraiser in Manhattan...
Pig out at a pork fesཧt this weekend in NYC
New Yorkers who believe that the best meals are eaten in restaurants need to get out more. This weekend,ꦺ local foodies can pig out at a pork festival on Brooklyn’s...
3 men rushed shooter in bid to stop San Bernardino massacre 💜 ཧ
LO⛄S ANGELES — As their colleagues were cut down by gunfire, three men rushed a shooter in an attempt to thwart the San Bernardino terror attack, according to an in-depth...
Hondo's Jay talking
The Bosawx yukked it up in Toronto on Friday night, which sent Hondo laughing all the way to the bank as he made🐲 a deposit that grew his account to...
Giants must fix past offensive flaw or they're in trouble
Ben McAdoo summed up the Giants’ attitude Friday as they prepare to face the Cowboys in the season opener Sunday in Arlington, Texas. “Time’s up, we’re ready to g🍃o,” the...
Mark Teixeira slam lifts Y🍎ankees to wet, wild victory over the Rays
And then it was one. The Yankees overcame 𒅌three rain delays and got homers from the old — Mark Teixeira — and the new — Gary Sanchez — in a.ജ..
Here's who's favored to win 'Dancing With the Stars'
Olympic gold me👍dal gymnast Laurie Hernandez is the odds-on favorite to win the new season of “Dancing Wi👍th the Stars.” Vegas odds site Bovada puts Hernandez — the 16-year-old from...
Giants have a long history with these two Cowboys greats 🍬
Tony Romo will be out Sunday against the Gi𒁏ants, but his favorite targets could make rookie quarterback Dak Prescott look like a star in his first career start. Nearly 13...
Dez Bryant is Cowboys' grizzled, old veteran and he loves it
FRISCO, Texas — As hard as it is to believe, Dez Bry🧜ant now is one of the old men in the Cowboys’ offense. Thanks to Tony Romo’s back injury and...
Gael Monfils couldn't steal show from stellar Novak Djokovic
Somehow, the greatest player in the world was red🐻uced to being the party of the other part in this U.S. Open men’s semifinal Friday afternoon in the steam bath of...
Danny Jacobs defends title, wants Gennady Golovkin next 🐎
READING, Pa. — Brooklyn native Danny Jacobs wants to fight Gennady Golovk꧟in to decide who the true middleweight cham𓃲pion is. He might get his wish after scoring a seventh-round knockout...