October 11, 2013
Bronx motorcycle gang thug guilty in pee-shooting
A Bronx motorcycle-club boss was convicted of attempted murder on Friday for shooting a man who relieved himself near a buddy’s bike. Elvio Feola, 63, known as “Spike” in his...
Teacher files suit against DOE over ‘ethnic harassment’
Top brass at a Brooklyn high school discriminated against Arab-American students to the point that they left in droves, according to a federal lawsuit. Teacher Mosad Almontaser claims Principal Fred...
NJ’s highest court to rule on gay marriage
TRENTON, NJ — The state’s highest court on Friday agreed to hear a case on whether gay marriage should be legal and whether same-sex weddings can be performed while it...
Principals union wants steamy novel pulled from 8th-grade classes
This required reading is too steamy for students!The principals union is calling on the Department of Education to pull Virginia Euwer Wolff’s novel “Make Lemonade” from the Common Core curriculum...
State's 'sick' excuse for casino-ballot flub
The state Board of Elections on Friday blamed logistics and an employee who was out sick for failing to post the much-criticized rewording of New York's casino referendum online until...
Lightin' up! Park cig ban tossed
ALBANY — New York state parks officials must stop enforcing their recent ban on outdoor smoking, a state judge ordered, agreeing with a smokers’ rights group that the state exceeded...
Jersey Transit says it’s up to pre-Sandy levels
New Jersey Transit is resuming regular train service for the first time since Hurricane Sandy caused $450 million in damage to rail cars, tracks and stations. A new schedule will take...
Tom Coughlin deserves chance to go out a winner
With the mounting losses for the Giants comes the predictable speculation about change in the organization. It is a process that has been part of the conveyor belt in team...
Sterling pitching matchup in NLCS Game 2
ST. LOUIS — In the battle of Cy Young against Good and Young, the Cardinals aren’t conceding anything. All it takes is a look at 22-year-old Michael Wacha’s last two...
Shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to tour NY gun show
ALBANY — Former US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, is set to tour a New York gun show. Giffords and husband Mark Kelly, a former...
Bargnani endures boos in Toronto return
TORONTO — It could have been worse. A half-empty Air Canada Centre was the sight for Andrea Bargnani’s homecoming. The preseason crowd booed Bargnani whenever he had the ball, but...
Islanders fall to Blackhawks in first regulation loss
CHICAGO — The peaks are getting higher, and the dells are getting deeper, and that’s no way to go through the grind of a long season. Soon enough, if the...
Escape the city — get lost in a corn maze!
On the way to my first-ever corn maze, I envisioned hours of family bonding time in the great outdoors, running through the fields like the Ingalls sisters in “Little House...
Female Jersey teacher charged with sexually abusing boys
A high-school teacher in central New Jersey has been charged with sexually assaulting two 16-year-old boys who were her students. Prosecutors in Middlesex County said 25-year-old Jaclyn Melillo was arrested...
Pete Holmes ready for his TBS talk show
Starting Oct. 28, Pete Holmes will bring his brand of enthusiastic, nice-guy comedy to TBS with the premiere of “The Pete Holmes Show” which will follow “Conan” at midnight Monday...
Score tailgating tips from the pros
You may never be able to pass like Geno Smith, the New York Jets rookie quarterback (who just received AFC Player of the Week kudos), but there’s no reason you...
Mitt Romney gets approval to build larger mansion
SAN DIEGO — Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has passed another hurdle in his plans to tear down his beachfront home in San Diego’s affluent La Jolla neighborhood and build...
Taliban cheers Nobel snub of Malala Yousafzai
The only people cheering Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize snub of Taliban-trashing teen Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai were the ones who want her dead. “We are delighted that she didn’t get...
Pandora effect: Digital music sales tumble
Call it the Pandora effect. Music fans across the US are likely to buy fewer digital tracks this year than last year — the first time sales of singles will...
DC gridlock + weaker profits could spell trouble
The shutdown showdown in Washington is coming at a bad time for Wall Street. After consumers constrained their spending last month as fear of a budget battle loomed, corporate America...
Open-plan offices for closed minds
Trying to stave off the moment when I would have to do some actual work, I riffled through a stack of business magazines. It was sort of work — there...
Knicks GM Mills: Isiah has no 'role with the team'
TORONTO — Steve Mills, who once hired Isiah Thomas to run the Knicks, got his hackles up when asked if Thomas still had a behind-the-scenes role with the club. “He...
Obama should take the high road in government shutdown
How is it possible that the president of the United States has decided he does not have to negotiate with the speaker of the House of Representatives over government spending,...
Knicks GM says this team can be 'special'
TORONTO — After two weeks on the job, Knicks president and general manager Steve Mills said he’s very impressed with the chemistry of the players during training camp and predicted,...
The only way to end gridlock
I remember a testy 1982 meeting between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill over the budget. Republicans wanted to reduce the deficit projected for the coming fiscal year. Democrats, led by...
Rangers bench Lundqvist in favor of Biron
Saturday will in essence be a mental health day for Henrik Lundqvist, for with his team breaking down — and breaking bad — in front of him through the season’s...
Shaun Livingston thrilled to be with Nets
Paul Pierce grabbed a rebound less than three minutes into the Nets’ preseason game Tuesday in Washington, took a dribble and fired a pass up to Shaun Livingston at midcourt....
Red Sox must be wary when pitching to Cabrera
BOSTON — With the two best American League teams — who are evenly matched — playing for a World Series ticket, the difference in the ALCS could be the condition...
ObamaCare rollout as ugly as its passage
Nancy Pelosi infamously said that we had to pass ObamaCare to find out what’s in it. The then-House speaker erroneously assumed, evidently, that people would be able to get onto...
Steinbrenners to meet with Yankees staff to discuss 2014
BOSTON — Hal Steinbrenner, Hank Steinbrenner and Felix Lopez will be in New York for a couple of days the week of Oct. 21 to discuss the game plan for...
No Cinderella, but Red Sox-Tigers will ensure thrills
BOSTON — Picture scores of officials from Major League Baseball and Fox waking up Saturday morning in a cold sweat, stumbling to their hotel windows, identifying the Charles River and...
Wells mortgage biz hit by slowdown
Wells Fargo may have beat rival JPMorgan Chase in the banking arena, but its mortgage business is less than stellar. The nation’s biggest mortgage originator rang up record third-quarter profit...
Dimon fumbles analyst phone call
Maybe we’re overplaying this, but the usually calm and collected Jamie Dimon seemed to be a tad out of sorts on Friday. During the JPMorgan Chase conference call to discuss...
Leyland: Tigers were 'embarrassed' in 2012 World Series
BOSTON — A year ago, the Tigers made the Yankees look old and foolish when they swept the ALCS in four games. Not much later, the Tigers got swept in...
Coughlin to take 'hard look' at non-existent pass rush
Realizing they cannot stick to the same script, the Giants will take a look at themselves and attempt to change what they can in order to solve some of the...
NYC teacher despairs in ‘And Miles To Go’
Its title may be poetic — thank Robert Frost — but “And Miles To Go” begins with a profane tirade. From a NYC teacher, no less. After 40 years at...
Schools outlaw handshakes, dodge ball, and fun
First they came for our cigarettes. Then they wanted to stamp out our Big Gulps. Now they’re on the verge of banning . . . childhood. We’re not kidding: Schools across America are...
Captain Eli going down with Giants sinking ship
He has fallen from the ranks of the elite, dragged down in a way Mark Sanchez was dragged down by the deterioration of the team around him. Eli Manning will...
The prize ain't right: Nobel Committee misses
Once again, the Nobel Committee has bestowed its peace prize on a recipient who hasn’t really done anything to earn it. Four years ago, the Nobel Committee gave the prize...
Eli Manning hopes rest, time off will cure struggles
The suggestion: Maybe Eli Manning needs to take his family and go pumpkin picking. “Maybe, you never know,’’ Manning said on Friday, actually appearing as if he might consider an...
Let the market, not government, pick new taxi
Mayor Bloomberg’s taxi-fleet overhaul has been slapped down by the courts. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Shlomo Hagler declared this week that the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission exceeded its authority...
Bradley can prove mettle in bout vs. Marquez
Tim Bradley thought beating Manny Pacquiao would bring him fame, fortune and recognition as one of the best boxers on the planet. He got paid, but not much else. Maybe,...
Mihalich has changed perception at Hofstra quickly
When Joe Mihalich took the head-coaching job at Hofstra, he did so despite the advice of many of his coaching friends. “It’s a mess there,” everyone told him, citing last...
Fantasy Tracker: Sell high on TE Jordan Cameron
Like driving 80 mph on a freeway without police interference, like Peyton Manning’s pace of 64 touchdowns and five interceptions, like a run of good Adam Sandler movies — some...
Jets' Wilkerson might be best football player in New York
Muhammad Wilkerson walked to his locker inside the Jets training facility this week, put down his cell phone and turned around to see he was surrounded by a group of...
New and improved M60 bus will launch in April
Select bus service is back on track for 125th Street after it was nixed over the summer due to a lack of community support. The new M60 service will launch...
Greenwich Village psychic didn’t predict she'd go to jail
A pretty Greenwich Village psychic was thrown in jail Friday after a jury convicted her of stealing over $120,000 from two gullible victims. A stunned Sylvia Mitchell, 38, looked crestfallen after being...
Rabbis 'beat me, stun-gunned my genitals'
The rabbis accused of pocketing piles of cash to kidnap and torture Orthodox husbands on behalf of divorce-seeking wives targeted a Brooklyn man in 1996, he claimed in a lawsuit....
NYC's rental market slightly -- just slightly -- less brutal
New Yorkers should be shouting with glee: We’re number 15! At least we’re ranked 15th, according to Knight Frank’s latest report on rising global rents. According to the UK-based property...
MTA seeks new bids for Midtown headquarters site
The cash-strapped MTA has quietly reopened the bidding for its Madison Avenue headquarters site in hopes of raising more money from the sale. The agency is seeking fresh proposals from...
David Wilson has neck injury that could end his season
Giants running back David Wilson is trying to keep his spirits up as he battles a neck injury, which he said has been diagnosed by doctors as spinal stenosis. Although...
Five TV shows we'd like to see return
Now that NBC has announced plans to reboot the '80s romcom series "Remington Steele" -- better known as "that Pierce Brosnan show" -- we thought it would be fun to...
Mayor launching crusade against tanning salons
The city is launching a new offensive to monitor tanning salons and warn customers of the dangers of skin cancer from overexposure to UV radiation, The Post has learned. In...
The most cringe-worthy marriage proposal ever
The first problem with this guy's marriage proposal is that it takes 25 minutes. As far as this writer is concerned, that's about 23 minutes too long. It makes those...
Bucs-Eagles game could be postponed after 3rd MRSA diagnosis
The Buccaneers season keeps getting worse. There's been losing, quarterback controversies and now a MRSA breakout may force them to postpone Sunday's game against the Eagles. There is a chance...
Banksy's latest: Meat truck filled with stuffed animals
A slaughterhouse truck filled with adorable stuffed animals? Yep, sounds like the work of Banksy. The truck, which has the street artist's 800-number on it, was spotted in Brooklyn on...
Giants rewind: Finding ways to lose a winnable game
When was the last time an opposing kicker missed a field goal against the Giants this season? Answer: Never. Robbie Gould of the Bears nailed both of his kicks Thursday...
Kellen Winslow's PED suspension a 'huge surprise'
It only took four days for the Jets to go from ecstasy to adversity. Tight end Kellen Winslow, the Jets’ leading receiver this season, will be suspended four games without...
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck return to TV
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back in the TV business. The pair, who won an Oscar for "Good Will Hunting" in 1998, will executive-produce a CBS sitcom called "More...
Suspect in equestrian instructor’s murder held without bail
A tattooed former American Express executive wearing a Madonna T-shirt pleaded not guilty Friday to fatally shooting a prominent Long Island equestrian instructor through his window last month. Brett Knight,...
Hooper's shooting, Harrison's maturity are keys for St. John's
St. John’s media day was a whirlwind, full of big talk about the team's high expectations and prized freshman Rysheed Jordan’s potential. Overshadowed during the afternoon were a few notable...
Correction officer shoots self, colleague
A bumbling city correction officer in desperate need of target practice accidentally shot himself and a colleague on Friday while attempting to adjust his shoulder holster as the two were...
Statue of Liberty to reopen, but shutdown cloud over marathon
WASHINGTON — State and federal officials cut a deal Friday to reopen the Statue of Liberty despite the ongoing standoff between President Obama and House Republicans that has closed national...
Deion ousted from own charter school after dustup
DALLAS — NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders is no longer affiliated with the charter school he co-founded following a confrontation this week with a school administrator. Prime Prep Academy...
‘Whirlwind’ day for new dad Moulson
CHICAGO — This is part of what all professional athletes sign up for, so Matt Moulson had it planned out ahead of time. The Islanders forward was in Greenwich, Conn., at...
16 best moments from 'Walking Dead'
“The Walking Dead” is more than a suspenseful show about zombies. It has human drama that rivals the best on television. The battle against the “walkers” is just a backdrop...
Baby crushed while sleeping with older sister
A Bronx baby died tragically when her older sister rolled on top of her as the two slept in the same bed, authorities said. Little Jarilyse de la Cruz was...
NYU student attacked in SoHo
http://youtu.be/5DxP5W5m6-Q An NYU student was robbed and nearly raped in SoHo Tuesday. The 20-year-old student was walking home after a late-night study session on Thompson St. between Prince and Spring...
'Lord of the Rings' props up for auction
Props from Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy are be put up for bid at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Props from 'Lord of the Rings' to be auctioned off
Props from Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy are set to go up for auction in December. Fans of the Academy Award-winning adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien' beloved fantasy novels,...
Air Force ousting general in charge of nukes after misconduct
WASHINGTON — The Air Force is firing the two-star general in charge of all of its nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior, officials told The...
Teacher leaps to death off GWB amid sex probe
A teacher and coach at an elite New Jersey boarding school leaped to his death from the George Washington Bridge – on the same day investigators showed up at his...
Granderson has tough call with $14.1M qualifying offer
The qualifying offer teams have to extend to either keep their own free agents or gain a draft pick if the free agent departs will rise to $14.1 million this...
Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence wig out in 'American Hustle'
Hair it is! The new trailer for the upcoming drama "American Hustle" was just released, and it already has audiences wigging out. Out December 13, the film from director David...
Home invasion survivor may run for Congress
SIMSBURY, Conn. — The Connecticut doctor whose wife and two daughters were killed in a 2007 home invasion said Friday he is considering a run for Congress. Dr. William Petit...
How a Jets game saved my life
Tina is still unsure how long the quarter-sized tumor was hiding in the side of her right breast. Maybe a week, maybe a few months. She'll never know. The mother...
Millions tune in for 'Glee's tribute to Cory Monteith
"Glee's" tribute to fallen star Cory Monteith paid off handsomely in the ratings department. Thursday-night's hour-long episode of the Fox music/drama series -- devoted to marking the passing of Monteith's...
Singles mingle at New York Comic Con
Superman seeks his dirty Supergirl. The hottest hook-up scene this weekend isn’t at the city's bars or clubs; it’s at New York Comic Con. The gigantic pop-culture show at the...
GOP delivers plan to end shutdown, hike debt limit
WASHINGTON – House Republicans have delivered a proposal to President Obama that would set up a sequence for hiking the debt limit and reopening the government in the coming days...
Shutdown could affect NYC Marathon
The government shutdown could mean a change to the New York City Marathon's staging area. That's because the site is the federally operated Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. Organizers of...
Gal stuffs seafood in clothes during 'shoplift' try
An organic-food-loving thief allegedly stuffed $145 worth of seafood into her clothes and purse at Whole Foods in Union Square — but a security guard spotted the fishy business and...
Cromartie sits during Jets practice, day after knee injury
The Jets’ secondary could be their primary concern on Sunday. Top cornerback Antonio Cromartie, who hyperextended his knee as a result of a non-contact injury during Thursday’s practice, did not...
Bike-beat victim & cop hide in hoodies
One hid his bruises; the other hid his shame. Injured biker rampage victim Alexian Lien and his most notorious alleged attacker, NYPD undercover Detective Wojciech Braszczok, each wore hoodies in...
Novak disappointed Woodson benched him
TORONTO -- Former Knicks 3-point sniper Steve Novak admitted Friday he was very disappointed in Mike Woodson for not using him in the second round of the playoffs against the...
NY Comic Con blasted after hijacking Twitter accounts
Organizers of New York Comic Con acted like a bunch of storybook villains when they hijacked attendees Twitter account to post fake feedback about the event, comic book fans say....
Heroes and villains invade New York Comic Con
New York Comic Con kicked off at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan Thursday afternoon. The annual event is expected to attract 130,000 fans who will revel in their favorite...
Kanye song from 2005 finally cracks Billboard chart
An eight-year-old Kanye West track has vaulted onto the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart after being featured in a viral video last week. “Gone,” off of the rapper’s 2005 album,...
Nobel Prize snub stuns Malala supporters
A little-known chemical weapons watchdog group bested international teen activist Malala Yousafzai for the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons -- a United Nations-backed...
The man who allegedly beat Adrian Peterson's son to death
NFL superstar Adrian Peterson’s son has died at a South Dakota hospital after he was allegedly beaten by the boy's mother's boyfriend, according to multiple reports. The all-world running back...
Teen kills self after streaking backlash
A teenager has committed suicide after he faced being put on a sex offenders list for streaking at a high school football game. Christian Adamek, 15, from Hunstville, Alabama, hanged...
'GMA' anchor Dan Harris joins 'Nightline'
“Good Morning America” weekend co-anchor Dan Harris has joined ABC News’ late-night news magazine “Nightline” as a co-anchor alongside Cynthia McFadden and Dan Abrams. He replaces Bill Weir, who is...
Widow suing after pilot flew into ice storm
The widow of a Manhattan investment exec who died in a 2011 plane crash is suing his late business partner for piloting the single-engine turboprop Socata into an ice storm....
ABC Family, Fox take lead for LGBT characters
ABC Family and Fox are leading the pack when it comes to the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters on primetime TV, according to a new report from...
Revis left Jets' circus ... for a bigger one in Tampa
When Darrelle Revis was traded to the Buccaneers, it looked as if the All-Pro cornerback had escaped the circus just in time. After missing the playoffs the past two seasons,...
Krewella ‘stiffed team after rocketing to stardom’
A chart-topping electronic dance group dumped their veteran managers—who have worked with top stars from Madonna to Lady Gaga and Bob Marley — without paying them a penny as soon...
Nobel group uses Twitter to reach Peace prize winners
When the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the 2013 Nobel Peace prize Friday morning, leaders of the watchdog group were nowhere to be found. “@OPCW Please contact...
Vandals hit second Banksy artwork
Vandals defaced a new Banksy graffiti piece stenciled on a Brooklyn wall, scrawling “we don’t need more rats!’ in blood-red capital letters near the artwork. The head of the beaver...
Boxing's gay pioneer has earned title shot
The truth about boxing is it all comes out in the ring. Flaws, fears, weaknesses, strengths, guts and courage are all revealed at the sound of the bell. It’s why...
Dimon faces JPMorgan quarterly loss for first time
Jamie and Eli can drown their sorrows together. Two of New York’s most out-sized champions, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Giants QB Eli Manning, are finding they have a...
Vatican misspells Jesus in 6,000 medallions
An embarrassed Vatican has had to recall more than 6000 papal medallions because they misspelled Jesus. The medals, minted by the Italian State Mint to commemorate the election of Pope...
Facebook kills search privacy option
Facebook is getting rid of a privacy feature that let users limit who can find them on the social network. Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it is removing a setting...
Malala resented in Pakistan hometown
For many of her compatriots, Malala Yousafzai is a stooge of the United States and a CIA agent, a symbol of the West's evils and a global conspiracy to bring...
'Progress' in Kerry's Afghanistan visit
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. officials say some progress has been made in U.S. Secretary of State JohnKerry's talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a security deal to allow American...
BlackBerry founders consider buying back company
BlackBerry’s co-founders, who built the smartphone maker into the category leader about a decade ago, said Thursday they are considering buying back their old business. They’d better hurry. Mike Lazaridis...
Nobel goes to chemical-weapons watchdog
OSLO, Norway — The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working to eliminate the scourge that has haunted generations from World...
USPS junks stamps that set 'bad example' for kids
Hey, kids, don’t try this at home. An entire press run of a new stamp series will reportedly be destroyed by the cash-strapped US Postal Service because it shows potentially...
Norwegian investigated in Kenya mall attack
STOCKHOLM — Norwegian authorities say they are investigating a Norwegian citizen of Somali origin who is suspected of involvement in the terror attack on a mall in Kenya last month....
Avicii pumps up Roseland
Swedish EDM master Avicii, né the far-less-cool-sounding Tim Bergling, performed like his life depended on it Thursday night at Roseland Ballroom. The concert was free — kind of. You had...
'Runway' gal Irina slaps back at Fashion Week suit
The sixth-season “Project Runway” winner, sued for allegedly sabotaging her own Fashion Week show by arriving late, not cooperating with models and leaving early, countersued Thursday, blaming the production company...
'The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete' a heartwrenching tale
Despite its cutesy title, “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete” is a gritty, sometimes downright heartwrenching story of two young boys left to fend for themselves for weeks during...
'Broadway Idiot' not very insightful
If Broadway shows had DVD featurettes, the unexceptional documentary “Broadway Idiot” would be perfect for one. The 2010 Broadway show “American Idiot,” based on the 2004 lite-punk concept album by...
‘As I Lay Dying’ murdered by Franco
I don’t pretend to have a clue how to adapt William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” for the screen, but unlike James Franco, I, at least, didn’t try. Franco co-writes,...
Rogues go to Russia to celebrate Snowden
WASHINGTON — Benedict Arnold would have fit right in. A fan club of US traitors went all the way to Russia to give an award to their hero, terror-watch secrets-spiller...
9/11 families' furor over lab name
A group of outraged families of 9/11 victims say the city is about to name its DNA lab building after former Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch, who they claim botched...
Mom who lost daughter, husband gets 1st Sandy buyout
She lost her husband and her daughter to Hurricane Sandy, and on Thursday Patricia Dresch got a chance for a new start in life by selling what remains of her...
Ex-Detroit mayor gets 28 years
DETROIT — A former Detroit mayor was sent to federal prison for nearly three decades Thursday, after offering little remorse for the widespread corruption under his watch but acknowledging he...
Inmates get paid while guards work for free
WASHINGTON — The government shutdown has turned federal prisons upside down — the guards are required to work without pay while the inmates collect their checks. Justice Department policy stipulates...
Casino question is skewed up: group
ALBANY — A public advocacy group joined a legal fight Thursday against what it calls the one-sided wording of a referendum aimed at persuading voters to approve Gov. Andrew Cuomo's...
De Blasio played faves with constituents
It’s a tale of two kinds of constituents. Friends of Bill de Blasio received better service from his district office when he was a city councilman while a number of...
Jerks charge to see Banksy piece
A couple of savvy Brooklyn street entrepreneurs have started charging $20 a pop to take pictures of a new Banksy art piece of a stenciled beaver. The amateur curators used...
World's most pampered palms outgrow city lounge
These trees sure could use a hug. Late, eccentric restaurateur Steven Greenberg imported 60 tropical palms from Florida back in 2006, and they’ve been displayed at his rooftop bar every...
Tutor: ObamaCare cancels my cheaper plan
ObamaCare is an ObamaScam by the reckoning of a self-employed Brooklyn consultant who says her insurance bill soared by $250 a month when she was forced into the new national...
Giants' Thomas: Marshall got away with one
CHICAGO – No fair. That’s the way cornerback Terrell Thomas viewed the battle he and the other Giants defensive backs engaged in Thursday night. Brandon Marshall was a dominant force...
Starr Report: Billy Bush travels to Nepal, MacLeod book and more
"Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush stepped out of his show-biz comfort zone when he journeyed to Nepal for the National Geographic special, “Chasing Rhinos with Billy Bush,” premiering Sunday (9...
Eli Manning is the Giants' biggest problem
CHICAGO — Eli Manning, quarterback of the only 0-6 team in football, which means he is the quarterback of The Worst Team in Football until Peyton Manning names his score...
No. 8 Louisville survives Rutgers
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Rutgers trailed eighth-ranked Louisville 17-10 and coach Kyle Flood liked his team's chances with 10 minutes remaining. The Scarlet Knights (4-2, 1-1 American Athletic Conference) just couldn't...
Rangers ripped by Ducks
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Rangers had the best of intentions coming into Thursday night’s match against the Ducks following Tuesday’s 9-2 humiliation in San Jose, they really did. They spoke...
Jacobs offers solid ground game for Giants
CHICAGO — When you looked at the final book of statistics, the first reflex was to double-check the date: it insisted these numbers were from Oct. 10, 2013, but it...
Musicals' leads ill at ease
It's been a tough week to be a Broadway leading man Norbert Leo Butz, the star of “Big Fish,” left the show midway through Wednesday’s matinee. I like to think...
Nightmare year for Giants shows no sign of stopping
CHICAGO — When he finds himself in times of trouble, Tom Coughlin has always had one remedy for whatever ails him: he has Eli Manning on his side, and the...
Giants report card
OFFENSE Looked like Brandon Jacobs circa 2009 as the big guy carried the load (22 carries, 105 yards, 2 TDs) in a throwback performance. Best work yet for the line,...
'Janis Joplin' doesn't scream Broadway
Enough of these babyboomer-baiting tribute concerts trying to pass for Broadway musicals! Just months after the Beatles impersonators in “Let It Be” left town comes “A Night With Janis Joplin”...
Marvel(ous) news: full season for ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’
‘Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” has earned a full season — with ABC ordering an additional nine episodes of the new action drama. “S.H.I.E.L.D.” premiered to a strong 12.1 million viewers...
'Mandy Lane' is half-baked horror
A slightly artsy attempt to revive the teen slasher movie, “All the Boys Love Mandy Lane” drifts awkwardly between popcorn entertainment and angsty mood piece. High schooler Mandy (Amber Heard),...
Dirty dealing on casino referendum
It wasn’t enough for the Cuomo administration to stack the deck in favor of its ballot referendum on Las Vegas-style casinos by tacking on language suggesting all sorts of goodies...
Lorde shows you don't have to twerk to reach the top
Forget twerking. Or going out on stage in your underwear. There’s a new star in the universe, and her name is Lorde. That’s the stage name of 16-year-old Ella Yelich-O’Connor,...