August 31, 2014
Hondo's working hard
Slumping Hondo threw a bad splitter Sunday, cashing with the Dodgers and paying with the Yankees to raise the dirty rotten digits to 1,565 gehringers. Monday: Mr. Aitch likes the...
Roger Federer storms into next round
Roger Federer didn’t so much weather the storm Sunday as get saved by it. The No. 2 seed was being outplayed by Marcel Gronollers before thunderstorms forced a delay at...
Elbow hinders Mets' Josh Edgin
Josh Edgin felt the pain in his left elbow. And the Mets reliever was dealt a double hit: he suffers from both a bone spur and tendinitis. “From what I’ve...
There's one more shot for fans to see CiCi Bellis
The 15-year-old San Francisco sensation CiCi Bellis is b-a-a-ck. If you were shut out of seating on Court 17 in her second-round loss, Bellis begins play in the U.S. Open...
Jets ‘cornering’ the market on mediocrity
The Jets addressed their depleted cornerback position Sunday, although it could hardly be considered an upgrade. Gang Green claimed former Browns corner Leon McFadden off waivers, making room for him...
Herrera shows Amazin' potential after first weekend with Mets
Dilson Herrera was standing off to the side in the Mets clubhouse on Sunday watching shortstop Wilmer Flores conduct a postgame interview. Herrera was unsure whether he should push past...
Babin digs the 'rush' he gets from Rex's defense
Jason Babin figures this is where he was supposed to end up. The Jets outside linebacker took a twisting path to get here, but Rex Ryan’s defense feels as if...
'Out-of-gas' Lucic-Baroni finally upended in 4th round
The dream run is over for Croatian qualifier Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, but it’s one she won’t soon forget. Fighting her way back on Sunday to a third set after dropping the...
Rex, Tom both beloved, but NY needs playoff football
The owner can love you, the general manager can respect you, and there will inevitably come a time when the winning has stopped for whatever reason and you will be...
Hobbled Ellsbury bloops pinch-hit double in loss
TORONTO — Jacoby Ellsbury couldn’t talk his way into Joe Girardi’s lineup after taking batting practice Sunday, but the Yankees’ best hitter looked good enough to pinch hit in the...
New corner helping Giants' D focus on 'ball or nothing'
Talk about your middle-school shenanigans. Notebooks, papers, pens, even drinks. If it was in your hands it was fair game as you walked through the halls. It all got slapped...
Another September slog for run-down Mets
Another September of meaningless baseball awaits the Mets. But this is what you had to expect after the team failed to build on the momentum it carried into the All-Star...
Jamie Oliver readies return to US market with buffed-up brand
Get ready for the second US invasion by British chef Jamie Oliver. The 39-year-old outspoken foodie and multimedia threat is hitting our shores this month in an attempt to drum...
5 killed in plane crash north of Denver
ERIE, Colo. — All five people aboard a small plane that crashed near an airport north of Denver have died, a spokesman for the National Transportation Board said. The Piper...
Storm brings lightning strikes, massive flooding to NYC
Two people were struck by lightning Sunday when a freak thunderstorm swept through the area -- causing massive flooding to area roadways, grounding several flights at local airports and cancelling...
Suspects in pellet-gun attacks took bets on hitting targets
A man busted in a slew of pellet-gun attacks on city joggers said he and a pal took bets on hitting targets, court documents show. “I bet him $20 he...
Yanks’ margin for error all but gone
TORONTO — If you’re an optimist, you saw Derek Jeter come up to the plate with Sunday’s game on the line and figure he’d slash Casey Janssen’s first pitch up...
Now can we credit coach for A&M's attack?
Johnny who? Nobody at Texas A&M was lamenting Johnny Manziel’s absence Thursday night when his replacement, Kenny Hill, was torching South Carolina in Columbia, SC, to the tune of 511...
Late summer slide: Yanks, Jeter scrambling after rough August
The trade deadline additions of Martin Prado and Stephen Drew were looked at as upgrades. Brandon McCarthy and Chris Capuano were already in the rotation and pitching well. So when...
Teen missing after running away from rehab center
The teenage son of a veteran New York journalist is missing after running away from a Long Island drug rehab center last week. Carol D’Auria, a reporter at 1010 WINS, tweeted Sunday that 16-year-old Joseph...
Are American distillers beating their Scottish counterparts?
When Daric Schlesselman had the idea to start a distillery several years ago, a related notion followed on its heels: He’d buck the trend by making a malt whiskey. He’d...
Could I get in trouble for calling in sick on Labor day?
On short notice my employer told us we have to work on Labor Day — which is ironic, considering it’s supposed to be a holiday celebrating workers. If I call...
Mets top Phillies, end August on winning note
Outfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis took a gander at the Mets’ lineup Sunday and a few aspects hit him immediately. There were guys, like himself, who normally don’t play. And overall, most...
Woz dispatches Sharapova to reach quarterfinals
Caroline Wozniacki already ran a version of the New York Marathon Sunday Labor-Day Weekend style at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The 10th-seeded Great Dane, showing the extraordinary fitness she hopes will...
Yankees lose crucial game to Blue Jays
TORONTO — Joe Girardi’s slumped posture and face that housed a blank stare did a better job of describing the Yankees’ fate Sunday than anything else could have. As the...
Cox, 5 other cut victims join Giants practice squad
The Giants had 10 spots available for their practice squad and Sunday filled seven of the spots with six players they waived a day earlier. Running back Michael Cox spent...
Bags of money spill on highway after armored truck flips
Money went flying on a Rhode Island highway Saturday after an armored truck flipped over and sent its valuable load spilling onto the road, authorities said. Cash stored in the...
Brooklyn a 'slight favorite' to land 2016 Democratic convention
Brooklyn - along with backing of deep-pocketed New Yorkers -- should be a “slight favorite” to land the 2016 Democratic National Convention, former party chief Ed Rendell said Sunday. The...
127-year-old said to be 'the oldest person to ever live'
When Leandra Becerra Lumbreras was born, the dust had still not settled on the Civil War, Teddy Roosevelt was a little-known cowboy in the Dakotas, and no one had ever...
Cops bust pack of motorcyclists riding wrong way on highway
Cops busted up a swarm of reckless motorcycle, dirt-bike and ATV riders headed the wrong way on the Van Wyck Expressway on Saturday. The crew was riding southbound in the...
US senator calls Russia's actions in Ukraine an 'invasion'
The leader of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Sunday called Russia's actions in Ukraine an "invasion" and called for the US and its allies to check President Vladimir Putin. “This...
Feinstein: Obama 'too cautious' on Islamic State militants
A top Democratic senator Sunday said President Obama is being "too cautious" with the Islamic State militants that beheaded journalist James Foley and said the commander-in-chief needs a strategy before...
Islamist militants party in pool at US Embassy compound in Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya — An Islamist-allied militia group "secured" a U.S. Embassy residential compound in Libya's capital, more than a month after American personnel evacuated from the country over ongoing fighting,...
Fighter jets scrambled as plane with unconscious pilot flies over DC
CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. — A pilot lost consciousness and the plane drifted into restricted airspace over the nation's capital, scrambling fighter jets that stayed with the small aircraft until it ran...
Local kicker lands with Bucs
Patrick Murray was a longshot to make the Buccaneers final 53-man roster. Just as he was a longshot to have a professional football career out of New Jersey prep powerhouse...
5 arrested after NYC block party turns violent
Five people have been arrested after five police officers were injured trying to break up an out of control block party in Upper Manhattan Saturday night. Residents lobbed bottles and...
Times Square bar Connolly's catches fire
It was a hell of a halftime show. Some two dozen fans of Notre Dame football were watching the Fighting Irish game on TV at Connolly’s in Times Square when...
Joe Jackson 'no longer a part of the family'
He’s the patriarch of the most famous family in music history — the architect of the Jackson Five, Janet Jackson and, of course, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. His...
Drugs, sex, and violence: My hell as a Rikers guard
Robin Kay Miller spent 20 years working as a city correction officer, locked away in a seedy world of rampant sex, drug abuse and back-stabbing. And that was just the...
How Dock Ellis dropped acid and threw a no-hitter
In 1970, Scipio Spinks and Dock Ellis were young Major League pitchers — Spinks for the Astros, Ellis for the Pirates — who had taken the era’s free-love-and-free-drugs ethos to...
Meet the chef couple behind NYC's hottest fried chicken
On a recent night, around 7 p.m., throngs of good-looking 30-somethings linger on an Alphabet City sidewalk, undeterred by the one-hour-plus wait times a hostess dishes out with Southern charm....
Argentina president uses ‘villian’ Paul Singer
Argentina, the drama queen of South American nations, led by President Cristina Kirchner, the drama queen of world leaders, has had a heck of a run the past few months,...
Hollywood buzzing over 'NikkiStink' creator
The NikkiStink.com site may be down, but the newest Tinseltown parlor game is to get the skinny on whoodunnit? The problem is there are too many suspects, as Tatiana Siegel...
Penguin Random House moves forward with promotions
Marcus Dohle, the CEO of the newly combined Penguin Random House operation, has awarded the top communications job to the Penguin side of the house. Claire von Schilling will be...
Why Mickelson, Icahn are still under investigation for insider trading
It’s a long, hot summer for billionaire investor Carl Icahn, golf legend Phil Mickelson and Las Vegas gambling hotshot William “Billy” Walters. The high-profile trio could face white-collar prison —...
September holds the cards to savings on gas
When you’re buying gas during the month of September, using the right credit card could be rewarding. That’s what credit-card industry observers say as they recommend a few cards that...
Ernie Hudson: My Ghostbuster New York
Ernie Hudson, the actor who played Winston in “Ghost-busters,” lives in Los Angeles but says that filming that 1984 classic solidified his love for Gotham. “It was otherworldly,” he tells...
My dad, the terrorist: 1993 WTC jihadist's son reveals painful past
It’s the middle of the night. Seven-year-old Zak Ebrahim sleeps soundly in his favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pajamas. “There’s been an accident,” his mother says, shaking him awake. He’s...
NYPD officer grazed by bullet in shooting
A police officer was one of ten people struck by gunfire in several different incidents spanning three boroughs Saturday night into Sunday morning, authorities said. Police officer John Hirschberger, 28,...
Murry Bergtraum HS principal leaves following Post report
Two years after The Post first exposed horrible conditions and mismanagement at Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers, its principal has left the building. Lottie Almonte, who has presided over...
Huge spike in tickets for recycling violations
Recycling violations skyrocketed to nearly 56,000 citywide in the first six months of Mayor de Blasio’s tenure, a 47 percent surge over the same period last year under Mayor Bloomberg...
Russia 'practically' at war with Europe: Lithuanian president
Russia is “practically” at war with Europe, the president of nearby Lithuania warned Saturday as she arrived at a European Union summit in Belgium. “Russia is at war against Ukraine...
Europe and US are ISIS' next targets: Saudi king
Europe and the United States are the next targets of ultra-violent ISIS jihadists rampaging through Syria and Iraq, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia warned in remarks published Saturday. “If we...
Hammerstein kin cheated producing partner out of profits: suit
The hills are alive with the sound of scandal. Oscar Hammerstein II is famed as the lyricist behind such wholesome Broadway classics as “The King and I” and “The Sound...
Woman says Macy’s lost her mink coat: suit
She put her mink in a safe, but it was anything but. Carla Hohenhouse claims Macy’s lost the $18,000 fur coat she put in their vault, then lied about it,...
Luxury building bans dogs from touching lobby floor
Get your filthy paws off the doggone floor, Fifi! Pooches are in the doghouse at a ritzy new Upper West Side rental tower — where management has decreed that resident...
Man tripped, fell over baby at the museum: suit
Baby steps can be hazardous to your health. A Manhattan man claims he was hurt at a Queens museum when he tripped and fell — over an infant who had...
No American men reach the fourth round — again
Last summer was no fluke. If the American men’s performance at last year’s US Open was disappointing, then the result this year is flat-out alarming. For the second straight year,...
Eugenie Bouchard fast becoming a crowd favorite at US Open
Canada is close enough. With Serena Williams the lone American left in either the men’s or women’s draw, Eugenie Bouchard has seen her popularity rise at the U.S. Open. Saturday...
Washington Heights has city's fattest schoolkids: DOE data
Washington Heights takes the cake for the city’s plumpest pupils. The latest data from the Department of Education’s Fitnessgram assessment program show the neighborhood has the heaviest kids, with 47...
Three men jump off-duty cop in Hell's Kitchen
Three goons surrounded and pummeled an off-duty cop on a Hell’s Kitchen street early Saturday, sources said. The 42-year-old man was walking on West 49th Street near Ninth Avenue at...
Bird-lovers rally to save endangered peregrine falcons facing eviction
New Yorkers are hatching a plan to stop a swanky Central Park West condo from evicting an endangered peregrine falcon family — presenting a petition with more than 4,200 signatures...
Mets rookie Dilson Herrera gets first major league hit
Dilson Herrera is now just 1,688 hits behind David Wright for the Mets’ all-time hits lead. Herrera, in his second MLB game, singled in the seventh inning for his first-ever...
Does the culture you live in shape how people go crazy?
Madness is universal. Globally, rates of schizophrenia, for example, have remained constant over the past 50 years, affecting on average one out of every 285 people. This might vary (urban...
Do Ivy educations lead to wealthy depressives?
Today’s top colleges are so selective that incoming students’ resumes burst with seven or eight AP courses and nine or 10 extracurriculars. Kids report cramming so hard that they’re only...
ME to determine day care baby's cause of death
The Nassau County Medical Examiner is expected to determine the cause of death for a Queens baby whose family insists was dead when they picked her up from day care,...
Teacher 'wrestled' out-of-control students: investigation report
A Brooklyn educator wrestled with students “on a daily basis” during the 2011-2012 school year, reports by the city’s Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon reveal. The findings emerged after...
Why Burger King's tax-dodging ways need to be stopped
The attempt by Burger King to escape billions in taxes by taking over Tim Horton’s donut chain and opening a Canadian head office should be stopped. These deals — tax...
Meet the new J-E-T-S chant leader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWhwkYwdrg4 Move over Fireman Ed — this new chant leader is smokin’! Online voters have chosen Jets superfan Derek Tabacco to orchestrate the J-E-T-S cheer when Gang Green tackles the...
Why the atheist call to abort the disabled is doomed
“Abort it and try again.” Those were the recent words of Richard Dawkins, responding to a tweet from a woman who said she would see it as “a real ethical...