May 19, 2012
Council speaker Christine Quinn weds same-sex partner Kim Catullo
For just one day, Christine Quinn wasn’t the speaker — she was the bride. Quinn tied the knot with her longtime partner Kim Catullo just after 7 p.m. tonight in...
Make it a double! I'll Have Another wins the Preakness Stakes
BALTIMORE — I'll Have Another waited a little longer to catch Bodemeister in the stretch this time, and now that he's done it twice in a row it's time for...
Rangers blank Devils, take 2-1 series lead
NEWARK — They give Oscars for magnificent performances from such a mundane script. Golden statues are wonderful, but Henrik Lundqvist’s repeat masterpieces have the Rangers halfway towards a Prince of...
Oklahoma investor group buys Dippin' Dots out of bankruptcy for $12.7M
OKLAHOMA CITY — A group of investors from Oklahoma City has completed a $12.7 million transaction to buy the Dippin' Dots LLC flash-frozen ice cream company out of bankruptcy. The...
Nine dead, 100 injured in suicide bombing in eastern Syria
DEIR AL ZOUR, Syria -- A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in eastern Syria Saturday killing nine people, as US President Barack Obama said the G-8 wanted a political...
Man killed in gang-related brawl in East New York
A man was slain this morning in a vicious gang-related squabble in East New York, law-enforcement sources said. The seeds of the deadly conflict were sown last week when the...
Blue Jays blank Mets on Morrow 3-hitter
TORONTO — Brandon Morrow pitched his second shutout in four starts, blanking the Mets on three hits and leading the Toronto Blue Jays over New York 2-0 on Saturday. Morrow...
Yankees rally falls short, fall to Reds
Reds manager Dusty Baker went deep into his dominant bullpen to find someone who could put away the New York Yankees. Jose Arredondo worked out of a ninth-inning jam for...
G-8 leaders hope Greece remains in eurozone
CAMP DAVID, Md. — The United States and other members of the Group of Eight industrial nations expressed hope Saturday that Greece will remain in the Eurozone, anxious to keep...
Giants' Umenyiora offers to buy back LT's Super Bowl ring
Osi Umenyiora promised Saturday to buy back Giants great Lawrence Taylor his Super Bowl XXV ring. The catch -- the Giants defensive end will only bid to win the auction...
Kennedy kin, celebs say farewell to Mary Richardson Kennedy
A celebrity-packed crowd said goodbye to Mary Richardson Kennedy this morning at a funeral that drew hundreds of mourners to St. Patrick’s Church in Bedford. Glenn Close, Chevy Chase, Dan...
20 dead in tunnel blast in China
ZHUZHOU, China -- Twenty people were killed in an explosion inside an under-construction expressway tunnel in central China's Hunan Province on Saturday, state media said. The blast happened in Zhuzhou...
Ex-Man United star Solskjaer out of race for Aston Villa job
BIRMINGHAM, England -- Former Manchester United star Ole Gunnar Solskjaer announced Saturday he will not be returning to the English Premier League to take charge of Aston Villa. Villa's American...
US women’s soccer league goes belly-up
A second attempt at a major women's soccer league in the US foundered Friday as Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) announced it would permanently suspend its operations. The league, which played...
Desperate fans paying thousands for tickets to Champions League final in Munich
MUNICH -- Tickets for Chelsea's Champions League final in Munich are changing hands for thousands of euros. Tens of thousands of English fans have arrived in Germany before the west...
Cuomo, Bloomberg announce 300 new jobs at Brooklyn Navy Yard
ALBANY — The industrial park at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard is getting nearly 300 new jobs. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have announced that two high-technology tenants...
Miami waiter bombarded with phone calls over mystery signs in New York
A Miami waiter is getting a lot of phone calls from strangers in New York. The calls are being prompted from signs that are popping up across the city that...
Three Chicago men charged with terror conspiracy ahead of NATO summit
CHICAGO — Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held Saturday on terrorism conspiracy charges, accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails ahead...
JPMorgan loss shows need for tougher Wall Street reforms, Obama says
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the big trading loss at JPMorgan Chase shows the need for Congress to put more teeth into Wall Street reforms intended to prevent the...
Female naked surfer makes waves Down Under
NOOSA, Australia -- A naked surfer has been creating more than a ripple of interest along Australia's east coast. Although scantily clad beachgoers are common in the tourist haven of...
WATCH: SpaceX aborts landmark launch to ISS after technical problems
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Californian company SpaceX aborted the landmark launch of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) at the last second early Saturday due to technical...
Teenage girl killed, 10 wounded in bomb blast outside Italian school
BRINDISI, Italy -- A bomb exploded Saturday outside a school in southern Italy named after a former mafia prosecutor's wife, leaving a teenage girl dead and ten others wounded, Italian...
CHSAA baseball roundup: Fordham, Spellman suspended in 14th inning
Fordham Prep and Cardinal Spellman played 13 innings Friday – and it still wasn’t enough to decide a winner. Neither team scored in the CHSAA Bronx/Westchester ‘AA’ baseball game at...
Now warming: Best save sources
Here’s a question you haven’t seen in this newspaper in nearly 15 years: Who will be the Yankees’ closer next month? Mariano Rivera’s season-ending torn ACL opened the bullpen door...
Ed Fountaine's Stakes Spot Plays
JAMES W. MURPHY Pimlico, ninth race. Purse: $100,000. One mile, turf, 3-year-olds. Post: 3:53 p.m. LOWDOWN: Gold Megillah, trained by Graham Motion, closed well in a pair of stakes on...
Fighting chance: Rodriguez savors his title shot
Two brutal battles with Pawel Wolak have proven worth the punishment for Delvin Rodriguez, a junior middleweight from Danbury, Conn. It has earned him the chance to win a world...
Australian parents charged with murder of baby found dead in washing machine
BRISBANE, Australia -- A man and a woman were charged Saturday with the murder of newborn baby girl, whose body was allegedly found in a washing machine in eastern Australia....
Venezuela's Chavez says he is 'no longer a hard-charging horse' after cancer treatment
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he was making a "progressive recovery" from a course of radiation therapy he underwent earlier this month in Cuba, but admitted...
Blind Chinese activist who fled house arrest arrives in NYC, urges crowd to fight injustice
A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the United State on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China...
PSAL Class B softball roundup: Grady heads to quarters after slugfest with Transit
Grady is headed to the quarterfinals for the first time in more than a decade. Julia Smith and Kristal Anthony each had three RBIs apiece for the 13th-seeded Falcons in...
PSAL Class A softball roundup: Zecena pitches Bryant into quarterfinals
Bryant is headed to its first quarterfinals in three seasons. Tiffany Zecena gave up one run on four hits with 10 strikeouts to lead the eighth-seeded Owls to a 4-1...
Stakes are raised in Game 3
Now the feeling out ends and the knocking out begins. Game 3 is historically pivotal, and this afternoon in Newark, it’s likely where the Battle of the Hudson between the...
INSIDE TRACK & FIELD: Medgar Evers' Baird breaks out at Loucks
Kadecia Baird got an early indication she was in for a big meet. The Medgar Evers girls track star often runs against the best members of the school’s boys team...
For Blueshirts fans, Devils on an Island
This was inside old Reunion Arena, inside the visitor’s dressing room on the night of June 10, 2000, an overheated room where 20 hockey players and various men in disheveled...
PSAL baseball roundup: Cardozo completes second straight perfect league season
Cardozo completed its second straight perfect league season on Friday by blanking rival Bayside, 9-0, behind five solid innings of work from Connor Doyle. Doyle struck out nine in five...
MSIT bests Bayside, meets rival Wagner in quarterfinals
Jessica Ragucci sensed a difference in Natalie Vantuyn. “I had a good feeling about Natalie today, just throughout the school day,” the McKee/Staten Island Tech coach said. “We were talking...
Fofana finishes what she starts, sending Clinton past Dozo to quarters
The ball seemed to hang in the air for hours. Cardozo leadoff hitter Gabriella Valdes socked a hard line drive up the middle. DeWitt Clinton pitcher Maguette Fofana didn’t knock...
The Great Googa Mooga by the numbers
Great GoogaMooga, a brand-new food-and-music extravaganza, invades Prospect Park’s Nethermead Meadow today and tomorrow. The Roots and Hall & Oates are among the headlining performers, but it’s the chow that’s...
Zuckerberg irked at both NYSE, Nasdaq
There’s only one other firm that had a more lackluster day on Wall Street than Facebook yesterday: Nasdaq. The exchange run by CEO Bob Greifeld drew the ire of bankers...
Business briefs
RundownFormer Red Sox hurler Curt Schilling must seek private financing to keep his video game company 38 Studios afloat. The studio earlier this month failed to make a $1.125 million...
Banks spend big to prop up Facebook shares on first day of trading
It was another Wall Street bailout — but this time the banks had to cough up the cash. Facebook’s underwriters propped up the social-network’s trading debut yesterday, as the shares...
Sour note for Dolan
For Cablevision boss Jim Dolan, life isn’t all hockey pucks and basketballs. As if the agita caused by the performance of the Dolan-owned New York Rangers and Knicks weren’t enough...
GM no longer feeling Super
General Motors stunned Madison Avenue for the second time in a week, saying yesterday it will not advertise during the telecast of the 2013 Super Bowl. Earlier this week, the...
Geithner a regulate guy
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has called assertions he is resistant to tough new financial rules “ridiculous.” The former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said there is...
MF $$ without a trace
MF Global Holdings still can’t trace where some of the money went when its brokerage collapsed, including $1 billion that “vanished” into the brokerage unit MF Global Inc., an attorney...
Ex-Paulson partner launching own hedge fund
John Paulson’s stubborn bullishness cost the hedge fund superstar billions of dollars last year. Now one of the partners overseeing the bank stocks that dragged the firm down is starting...
Burberry suit yields $180M
Burberry’s plaid is worth a lot of green.The luxury British clothing company — famed for its trench coats and trademark tartan — has been awarded $180 million in damages from...
Yahoo! in $7B Alibaba talks
Yahoo! is in talks to sell about 20 percent of Alibaba Group Holding. For about $7 billion, a deal that would cut by half its stake in China’s largest e-commerce...
Espada’s cash cow is DOA
Convicted felon Pedro Espada’s medical empire has virtually no doctors or patients — but everything is just fine! Alejandro Espada, Pedro’s son, claimed yesterday the Soundview Healthcare Network was still...
Whitney tribute
Chaka Khan will perform a tribute to her friend Whitney Houston at the Apollo Hall of Fame gala. The legendary theater on West 125th Street in Harlem confirmed yesterday that...
‘Miner’ correction
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Newly discovered documents seem to show that country music legend Loretta Lynn is 80, not 77, her official age. That means, according to birth and marriage records...
Rx fight for worker comp
ALBANY — Unions and the state’s drug stores are teaming up to scuttle a 2007 reform supporters say has saved tens of millions of dollars for New York’s workers’ compensation...
Brooklyn teen's hoops dreams killed after hole on court left him with serious knee injury
His hoop dreams turned into a nightmare. Towering teenager Dion Richardson described yesterday how a hole on the basketball court at a Park Slope middle school led to a serious...
OK, let’s be Franc
WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday met France’s new Socialist president for the first time and emerged calling for both budget cuts and a “strong growth agenda” to ease the Eurozone...
‘Prez Mitt’ agenda, for starters
WASHINGTON — In his first TV ad of the general election, Mitt Romney yesterday outlined his aggressive plan to start undoing President Obama’s agenda on his first day in the...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** A 76-year-old man who had recently had hip surgery was using a walker to cross a Kips Bay street early yesterday when he was fatally struck by a...
Subways on steep ‘clime’
Only in New York could unseasonably warm winter weather drive people underground. The city’s teeming subways averaged 5.5 million trips during weekdays in March, a 45-year high that the agency...
Pilot is busted with gun
BUFFALO — An airline pilot is accused of trying to board a Buffalo-to-New York City flight with a loaded revolver in his bag, and federal authorities believe he’d been flying...
Mike: Council’s bank bash is ‘idiocy’
A City Council bill that would monitor the practices of banks receiving billions in city deposits sets “a new low for idiocy,” Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.In one of his harshest...
Just stop! Frisking saves lives: Bloomy
There’s not going to be any retreat on the NYPD’s “stop-and-frisk” strategy because the program is saving lives, a defiant Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday. “We’re not going to walk away...
Get hep test, boomers
ATLANTA — US health officials want all baby boomers to get themselves tested for hepatitis C.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday released draft recommendations calling for everyone who...
Ringer son sells out LT
As it turns out, Lawrence Taylor is not selling his Super Bowl XXV ring. But his son is. The ring Taylor earned after the 1990 season is being auctioned off...
Bam’s cash & Carrie
WASHINGTON — For just a few bucks, Sarah Jessica Parker is raffling off chances to meet Mr. Big. The “Sex and the City” star will host President Obama in her...
Facebook IPO marred by computer breakdowns, price collapse that left small investors billions poorer
They were Mark Zuckerberg’s cash cows. Hordes of everyday New Yorkers played the fool yesterday to Wall Street fat cats and Facebook insiders, who used a bloated stock price to...
Hayden peaces it all out
“Racing Stripes” star Hayden Panettiere is way into leather — and peace, apparently —as she flashes a sign while leaving her SoHo hotel. Born in Rockland County, Panettiere shot to...
On Mark’s big day, hoodie suits him fine
When you’re worth $20 billion, you can wear whatever the hell you like. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a fashion statement that was as big as his financial statement yesterday...
Port Authority locks down files amid possible cheating scandal
Port Authority brass yesterday locked down files belonging to the agency’s police Internal Affairs Bureau amid suspicions its former commander helped officers cheat on a promotion exam, The Post has...
Edwards jury asks for it
Less than three hours after beginning deliberations on the fate of John Edwards, a jury yesterday asked to see eight exhibits and all the notes from heiress Rachel “Bunny” Mellon,...
Judge tosses Port Authority gender bias suit
A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by female attorneys against the Port Authority.The charge was initially filed in 2007. In 2010, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity...
LIRR cars dried out
No more late-night boozing on the LIRR.Starting at midnight this morning, the Long Island Rail Road started banning alcohol on overnight weekend trains leaving Penn Station.The ban is a pilot...
B’way scion takes a hit
Broadway bad boy Eric Nederlander lost a big battle yesterday in his custody war with wife Dr. Lindsey Kupferman over their four-year-old daughter, Mira. A Manhattan Civil Court judge ordered...
Council speaker Quinn, partner Kim Catullo to marry today
Christine Quinn will walk down the aisle and into history today — as she ties the knot with her long-time partner in the city’s highest profile gay wedding since same-sex...
Ma lose$ adoption flight
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An American woman who adopted a Russian boy and later sent him back to Moscow on a one-way flight has been ordered to pay a sum of...
Cops clean up ‘terrorist’ money launderer
This alleged terror “money launderer” sure got himself in some hot water.The feds got a windfall of financial evidence this week against an alleged Hezbollah money man they’d been tailing...
RFK Jr. wins rights to late wife's body, house they shared after her family launches court battle
A bitter family feud between Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his dead wife’s family exploded yesterday with Mary’s siblings going to court to block her estranged husband from claiming her...
Mourners gather at house of stunning death
A celebrity-packed crowd of mourners gathered last night to remember the life of Mary Richardson Kennedy at a wake inside the Westchester estate where she killed herself Wednesday. Though he...
Bipartisan disgrace
Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, is disastrously prevalent. Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a counterproductive federal intrusion in education; the McCain-Feingold...
Handcuffing the cops? reduce frisk, increase risk
The Issue: Criticism of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program in fighting crime in New York City. *** Thank you, Michael Goodwin, for revealing the true feelings of our elected officials regarding...
Cashing out a bad bet
Gov. Cuomo may soon be sending the New York Racing Association off to the glue factory — and not a moment too soon. Two top NYRA officials were fired this...
Walcott dangles a bribe
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott’s plans for dealing with ineffective teachers, announced Thursday, won’t change education here much — but they sure show the kind of hammerlock the teachers union has...
$100B time-waster
‘If time be of all things the most precious,” Benjamin Franklin said, “wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” But he had never heard of a status update. Facebook is...
Blind justice for Pedro
The conviction of disgraced former state Sen. Pedro Espada reminded me of the closing scene of “White Heat” — when James Cagney, standing atop a fiery tower, shouts, “Made it,...
Everyone is running a half-marathon, from teenage jocks to groovy grandmas
Some 15,000 scenesters will crowd into Prospect Park today for a sold-out event, but the hot ticket isn’t a Bon Iver concert at the bandshell or a “Twin Peaks” marathon...
Kid stuff
Today PAWS & CLAWS: Pets and people alike will have a blast at Carl Schurz Park’s Paw Day, hosted by NYC’s Animal Medical Center. Kids can make jewelry, learn about...
Meadowlands Graded Entries
Post Time: 7:00 p.m. Post iIme: 7:00 p.m.Best Bet: Alexie Mattosie (8th)FIRST: mile pace; $22,500; N.J.S.S.4 Pirouette Hanover(RPierce)3-1-48-51 Ideal In Vegas(DMiller)1-6-23-16 Air GuitarHanover(Gingras)5-10-24-12 Rock Concert(DDube)1-8-48-13 Thinkyoucandance(AMiller)4-1-18-15 Child's Play(MLachance)1-4-812-17 Rockin Belle(BSears)3-4-36-1SECOND:...
Alternation prevails at Pimlico Special
BALTIMORE -- Establishing himself as the leading older horse in the nation, Alternation swept past front-running Endorsement inside the final furlong, then held off the flying finish of Nehro to...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-mile; trot; $17,000; NJSS4Vic Smith (A Miller)8.403.003.005Gym Tan Laundry (B Sears)2.102.106New York Muscle (D Dube)8.40* Exacta (4-5) $15.20 * Trifecta (4-5-6) $128.00SECOND-mile; trot; $17,500; NJSS4Guccio (J Takter)2.602.202.105Kodak Lindy (M Teague)3.202.402Volare...
Tomorrow’s Belmont Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-6 fur; $28,000; clm($14,000); 3up(f) PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Iberian Gate(L),121I Ortiz, Jr8-4-1DeMola6-12 Sasta Go Lucky(L),121RNaprvnk6-6-1Signore4-13 Fiddlers Diva(L),116SCamchJr6-1-2J Imperio5-24 DecoratedCourt(L),114J Ortiz6-2-4Jones8-15 Chalk Player(L),121A Lezcano5-4-8Persaud15-16...
Belmont Charts
May 18th, 2012Clear and Fast Turf Firm©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6 1/2 fur; $45,000; clm($30,000); 3upOff: 12:52. Good. 3 wide, edged awayTime: 22.72, 45.89, 1:09.5, 1:15.92.Trainer: David JacobsonWinner: B G,...
Pimlico Results
FIRST-1 1/16m; $25,000; hdcp; 3up(f)6Unvrsl Lngg (Crmch)3.402.102.104Franstein (Russell)2.402.607Congaree Prncess (Karamnos)3.40Scr: Sneaky Lil.* Exacta (6-4) $10.80 * Trifecta (6-4-7) $33.40Winner picked by DaSilvaSECOND-1 1/16 miles(T); $45,000; alw; 3up7Slvr T Affr (Nprvnk)9.406.002.806Calvello...
Vic C.’s Monmouth Grade
FIRST-6 fur; $20,000; clm; 3up2-King Henry 2-14-Miami Music 15-11-Dwntwncndybr5-25-I'm Not Myself 7-23-Narbona Pass 6-16-LeBonTonRoule3-1SECOND-1 1/16m; $16,000; clm; 3up1-Full N Sassy 7-55-Thewfedesntkn6-12-Forensic Edge 10-16-Quincy Lee 5-13-D'lucci Girl 7-27-MstWntedAffr12-14-Secret Tracker 9-2THIRD-1 mile;...
Pimlico Analysis
Post Time: 10:30 a.m. All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-5 fur(T); $45,000; alw; 3upDISCO DANDY third this distance at Atlantic City. VARSITY comes in with a bullet work for...
The Post Line
NBA PlayoffsFavoriteLineUnderdogSpurs5CLIPPERSLAKERS1 1/2ThunderNHL PlayoffsFavoriteLineUnderdogDEVILS$110-130RangersUEFA Champions LeagueChampionshipFavoriteLineUnderdogBAYERN MUNICH$190-250ChelseaHome team in CAPS
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing7 p.m.NASCAR Sprint Cup, The Sprint All-Star Race SPEEDBaseball1 p.m.Mets at Blue Jays WPIX, WFAN (660 AM)1 p.m.Reds at Yankees YES, WCBS (880 AM)7 p.m.Orioes at Nationals FOX10 p.m.Cardinals...
Hondo horsing around at Pimlico
Well, it couldn’t last forever. Hondo, who swept a pair Thursday, saw his winning streak stopped at two yesterday when the Cubs and Mets conspired to raise his deficit to...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYMay 19SUNMay 20MONMay 21TUEMay 22WEDMay 23THUMay 24FRIMay 25YankeesCincinnati1:05YES NetworkWCBS 880 AMCin.1:05YESWCBSK.C7:05YESWCBSK.C7:05WWORWCBSK.C7:05YESWCBSNO GAMEOak.10:05YESWCBSMetsToronto7:07WPIXWFAN 660 AMTor.1:07WPIXWFANPitt.7:05SNYWFANPitt.7:05SNYWFANPitt.12:35SNYWFANS.D.7:10SNYWFANS.D.7:10WPIXWFANRangersDevils1:00NBCESPN 98.7 FMNOGAMEDevils8:00NBCSNESPNNOGAMEDevils8:00NBCSNESPNNOGAME&Devils8:00NBCSNESPNDevilsRangers1:00NBCWBBR 1130 AMNOGAMERangers8:00NBCSNWBBRNOGAMERangers8:00NBCSNWFANNOGAME&Rangers8:00NBCSNWBBRConnecticut4:00MSG PlusConn.5:00No TVNOGAMEMinn.7:00No TVNOGAMENOGAMEAtl.7:30No TVRed BullsMontreal7:30MSG NetworkWLIB 1190 AMNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMEChivas7:00MSG+WLIBNOGAMENOGAMEHOMEAWAY
Sports Shorts
nba: Laker Blake threatened on TwitterLakers guard Steve Blake and his wife received multiple online threats after he missed a big shot late in Game 2 of Los Angeles’ second-round...
Clemens’ lawyer: McNamee pitch doesn’t add up
WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens’ lawyer accused the baseball legend’s former strength coach of changing testimony “on the fly,” and the judge in the perjury trial imposed a time limit yesterday...
Prospects brighten for Mets’ Marte
Over the past few seasons, Jefry Marte slowly has slid down prospect lists. The third baseman was the sixth-best prospect in the Mets’ farm system in 2009, according to Baseball...
Kobe’s big 4th quarter leads L.A. by Thunder
Kobe Bryant didn’t miss on 18 free throws and scored 14 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter, and the Lakers, who went 41-for-42 from the line, rallied late...
Liberty look to hit the ground running
The Mike D’Antoni Show — fast-paced offense, defense is an afterthought — closed at the Garden in mid-March. But another coach liked what he saw of D’Antoni’s style and decided...
New Red Bull Pearce will play
The Red Bulls aren’t wasting any time throwing their newest acquisition right into action. After being traded for forward Juan Agudelo on Thursday, All-Star defender Heath Pearce caught a red-eye...
Chelsea needs win
MUNICH — Chelsea is playing for a place in European soccer history as well as next season’s competition when it meets Bayern Munich today in the Champions League final. After...
Strikes out batter, then retires
Kerry Wood, who electrified baseball with a 20-strikeout game as a rookie in 1998 before his career was slowed by injuries, is retiring — appropriately after one final strikeout. Wood...
Bombers clutching at straws
Reds manager Dusty Baker was talking about the Yankees’ sixth inning last night, when they loaded the bases with no outs, then brought nobody home. “That was big,” Baker said....
Congested Teixeira takes a breather
The Yankees still haven’t figured out how to get Mark Teixeira better. They’re hoping at least one game off will help clear up the severely inflamed bronchial airways that have...
Giants punter knocks Sanchez
It is rough when the punter — make that the former punter — is wondering about the development of the quarterback. Steve Weatherford, basking in the afterglow this week as...
Jets sign veteran safety
The Jets entered this offseason looking to improve at safety. They believe they took another step toward doing that yesterday. The team agreed to a one-year, $1.4 million deal with...
2-quick breakout may make his ‘Day’
BALTIMORE — Today’s 137th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico is going to be a barn-burner from the moment the gates spring open. So says Barry Irwin, president of the Team Valor...
Top jock out after drink test
BALTIMORE — Ramon Dominguez will replace Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux as the rider of longshot Tiger Walk in today’s Preakness after Desormeaux refused to take a Breathalyzer test...
Gutierrez-Smith showdown sure to grip Pimlico
BALTIMORE — Horse races seldom boil down to jockey races, but the Preakness at Pimlico this afternoon might be decided in an epic encounter between a superb, wily old veteran...
Despite goal slump, Callahan looks for other ways to help
It’s one of the strange hockey truths: Look away from the net in order to put the puck in. Ryan Callahan, the Rangers captain and the man who exemplifies the...
Rangers getting some results on power play
Some say good, some say bad, but there’s very little question that the Rangers power play has scored some big goals in recent games. As they head into Game 3...
Tortorella can be cranky as he wants as long as Blueshirts win the Cup
John Tortorella, on his way to a Stanley Cup championship eight springs ago with the Lightning, instructed Ken Hitchcock, the Flyers coach at the time, to “shut your yap.” Only...
Lefty lashed, Mets mauled
TORONTO — Except for the 500 meters worth of home runs he allowed last night, Jon Niese had a good game, eh? Translated from Canadian into American English: Niese surrendered...
Short starts taxing overworked bullpen
TORONTO —Jon Niese’s short outing hurt the Mets last night, and it could continue to affect the club for days to come. Niese allowed eight runs in last night’s 14-5...
Johnson bails out Mets in blowout
TORONTO —Rob Johnson to the rescue. On a night Jon Niese couldn’t go an inning without allowing at least one home run, the Mets’ catcher pitched a perfect eighth in...
Crafty lefty hardly over the hill
This was a time-machine performance last night for Andy Pettitte at Yankee Stadium, and if things continue to go right for the left-hander, he could be around in pinstripes in...
Pettitte helps Yankees snap 3-game skid
In just about every appearance Andy Pettitte made since deciding to come back, a circus-type atmosphere followed. There were big crowds and a bright spotlight on everything he did in...
Small wonder
When Disney Junior’s animated series “Doc McStuffins” premiered in March, it snared 800,000 adult viewers — setting a record for a preschool cable series launch. So how did a series...
Axed ‘Idol’ my fave: Nigel
‘American Idol” executive producer Nigel Lythgoe has admitted that the bounced Joshua Ledet was his pet this season.“I lost my favorite tonight,” Lythgoe told the Hollywood Reporter after Ledet, the...
Dead show’s chance of a Lifetime?
"Unforgettable” has been cancelled — but the cop series starring Poppy Montgomery could be getting a new lease on life. The procedural drama, axed by CBS this week despite averaging...
New York's summer food fests
Don't want to shell out the extra bucks for Extra Mooga? Check out these summer food fests to satisfy your every craving. *Pasta with Pizazz The fifth annual Taste of...
Weird but true
A Tennessee man who sired 21 kids by 11 women is asking for the government’s help in paying the child support after all his baby mommas hauled him into court...
NYSAISAA baseball tournament preview
NYPost.com private baseball beat writer Zach Braziller breaks down the upcoming NYSAISAA tournament, which kicked off with play-in games Friday, continued with the quarterfinals on Saturday, the semifinals on Sunday...
Back in action: Rehabilitating Piorkowski coaches Bayside playoff loss
Steve Piorkowski was mobbed by his Bayside players as he walked through the gates to the school’s softball field. “It’s an honor to have him back for our last game,”...
Without star first singles, Goldstein prevails in title thriller against Dozo
Shock and fear were the immediate emotions that Kim Salkin felt when told her Leon Goldstein teammate Becky Shtilkind would be unavailable to compete in Friday’s PSAL Class A tennis...
Tennessee father of 30 kids to 11 women pleads for state help with child support
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A Tennessee man's problems paying child support are perhaps not so surprising -- he has 30 children with 11 different women. Desmond Hatchett, 33, of Knoxville, is...