March 28, 2010
Duke holds off Baylor; earns Final Four trip
HOUSTON – Well, the Duke conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one. Baylor had whipped Reliant Stadium into a frenzy, built themselves a two-point lead late in...
Christ the King is back -- if it ever really went anywhere
GLENS FALLS – To Jackie Michel, Christ the King isn’t just the high school she goes it, it’s family. Her uncle, Michael, is school president and her father, Dan, works...
Report: A’s reach deal with former Yankee Gaudin
The Athletics have signed Chad Gaudin, according to a FoxSports.com report. Gaudin was released by the Yankees on Thursday. The 27-year old righty was a part of the competition for...
Twenty-one years later, Christ the King is crowned
GLENS FALLS – Plenty of great players have walked through the doors of Christ the King in Middle Village, Queens over the last 21 years. From Lamar Odom to Speedy...
'Roos rue loss, still feel great about special season
GLENS FALLS – After storming back multiple times in the second half, Boys & Girls got all it could ask for – a chance to tie with a good look...
Doherty dominant in losing effort
GLENS FALLS – Kristen Doherty evaded questions about herself as easily as she danced past defenders. She turned “me” into “we” as many times as she tickled the twine. But...
Christ the King completes historic sweep
GLENS FALLS – Once Anthony Hemingway’s double-clutch, last-second 3-pointer popped inside of the rim and out, it set off a massive celebration at halfcourt. It wasn’t just any commemoration that...
Back on top: CK tops Sachem East for Federation 'AA' crown
GLENS FALLS – Bria Smith watched the seconds tick away on a moment she had waited three years to experience. The Christ the King junior won a New York State...
Edwards' fine fourth caps stellar season
GLENS FALLS – Ariel Edwards was asked a simple question heading into the fourth quarter by Christ the King coach Bob Mackey. Can you take her? “He said it in...
UConn women roll to 75th straight win, trip to Elite Eight
DAYTON, Ohio -- Maya Moore made a 3-pointer from the top of the key for Connecticut's first basket. Then she hit one from the left corner. Just like that, another...
Els' lead shrinks to two; Bay Hill final delayed until Monday
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Ernie Els wasn't making it easy for himself at Bay Hill on Sunday. Els had a five-shot lead with six holes to play and was cruising toward...
Mets' Pelfrey roughed up again
PORT ST. LUCIE --- Mike Pelfrey has thrown two kinds of pitches this spring: sinkers and stinkers. The Cardinals jumped on the latter this afternoon, hitting three home runs against...
Michigan State makes second straight Final Four with win over Tennessee
ST. LOUIS -- The razor-thin margin, the single-point difference came on a free throw set up by an exquisite pass by a fun-loving sophomore named Draymond Green, a play that...
St. John's to interview Lavin on Monday
St. John's athletic director Chris Monasch will interview former UCLA coach Steve Lavin Monday to discuss the Red Storm's vacant head coaching job, The Post has learned. Sources told The...
Yankees' Pettitte has another start spoiled by rain
TAMPA, Fla. — The Tigers and Yankees game Sunday was canceled because of rain in the bottom of the fourth inning. With rain increasing in intensity, it appeared that Detroit...
Ratner predicts UFC in NY in 2011
Marc Ratner, the vice-president of regulatory affairs for the UFC, predicted if all goes well the first regulated MMA show in New York could be held in the first quarter...
Father Michelle 'Bombshell' McGee says she was duped
The other woman was hit from "The Blind Side." Michelle "Bombshell" McGee flipped out after spotting her very married boyfriend, Jesse James, and his famous actress wife, Sandra Bullock, together...
Seton Hall chooses Willard to replace Gonzalez
Iona's Kevin Willard will be named the next Seton Hall coach, The Post has learned. Cornell's Steve Donahue interviewed Sunday morning but no offer was extended, said a source close...
Dolan defends pope in sex-abuse scandal
New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan came to the Vatican’s defense today saying embattled Pope Benedict XVI – recently under fire for a decades-old sex abuse scandal – is suffering the...
St. John’s, Seton Hall candidate McCaffery takes Iowa job
Cross another St. John’s coaching candidate off the list. Siena coach Fran McCaffery, who interviewed with St. John’s A.D. Chris Monasch yesterday, will be the next coach at Iowa. McCaffery...
Ex-Yankee Ian Kennedy earns spot in Diamondbacks' rotation
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Ian Kennedy has impressed his manager enough to earn a spot in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ rotation. Kennedy allowed two runs, including a solo homer to Grady Sizemore,...
Study: Yankees players highest-paid in all of sports
LONDON -- A British study says the New York Yankees are the world's highest-paid players in a team sport, beating out members of Spain's Real Madrid soccer team.The "Review of...
Rikers rumble: 13 guards hurt in prison melee
Rikers guards and inmates last night rumbled in a wild brawl triggered by some prisoners’ refusal to go back in their cells. Corrections Department spokesman Stephen Morello said two captains...
Box Office: 'Dragon' fails to soar amidst 3D glut
Is 3D fatigue starting to set in? DreamWorks' "How to Train Your Dragon'' topped weekend openers with $43.3 million, well behind the $59.3M that "Monsters vs. Aliens'' collected exactly a...
Report: Yankees pitching coach says Joba in bullpen long-term
Dave Eiland wants to finally put an end to the great Joba Chamberlain debate. The Yankees pitching coach said today that Chamberlain will remain in the bullpen this season and...
Obama rallies troops in surprise Afghanistan visit
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has told American forces during his surprise visit to Afghanistan today that U.S. lives would be at risk if the Taliban retake control of the...
License yanked over crane collapse
The operator of a crane that tilted and hit a 25-story building near Wall Street, sending debris plummeting to the ground and causing several evacuations, had his license suspended today...
Inner Circle roundup
The highlights:* Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, not exactly Mayor Bloomberg's favorite politician in recent months, got an apparent peace offering in the form of an invitation as a guest at one...
Ford reaches deal to sell Volvo to Geely Holding Group
STOCKHOLM — Zhejiang Geely Holding Group signed a binding deal Sunday to buy Ford Motor Co.’s Volvo Cars unit, allowing the independent Chinese automaker to strengthen its foothold in Europe....
2 dead, 1 injured in subway stabbing
Two men were killed and another injured after an early morning confrontation on a subway train. Police responding to a call shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday found the three men...
Hacker capital traced to China
A city in eastern China has been identified as the world capital of cyber-espionage by a US Internet security company. The firm traced 12 billion e-mails in a study that...
Playboy markets its 'hare' style
Here’s an outfit to hop up and down about. Officially sanctioned Playboy-bunny costumes are now available, complete with cottontails. Hugh Hefner has steadfastly declined to market the bunny outfits worn...
At least 123 trapped in coal mine flood in northern China
BEIJING — At least 123 people were trapped underground Sunday after water gushed into a coal mine in northern China, a government agency said. The Wangjialing coal mine in Shanxi...
Red Bulls notebook: Going for a ride
Mac Kandji attempted a bicycle kick in the second half of the Red Bulls MLS season opener last night. And when the game was over, the young striker was on...
Sky's the limit for GW's Mike Antonio
Mike Antonio wants the same thing that every New York City high school baseball player does. “I hope to first win a championship and get picked in the first round,”...
Shh! GoDaddy turns clients into bidders
GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 domain registry company, is getting rich in part by pitting its customers against each other in bidding wars for expiring Web addresses — instead of using...
Getting defensive: Poised Ream leads Red Bulls in clean sheet
Tim Ream wasn’t going to be unnerved – not by 24,500 fans at Red Bull Arena, not by the ESPN cameras and certainly not by Chicago Fire striker Brian McBride....
Mount unsure of footing in CHSAA arms race
As he huddles with his coaches after practices and preseason games, Mount St. Michael coach Wally Stampfel scratches his head when he thinks about his pitching staff and no doubt...
Red Bulls put out Fire in opener
From their ironclad defense to their dogged discipline, from their pragmatic organization to their yeoman workrate, the Red Bulls opened a promising 2010 season with all the things that had...
Butler knocks off Kansas State; headed to Final Four
SALT LAKE CITY — Exhilaration triumphed over exhaustion. Destiny trumped desire. For the second time in four years, a mid-major is going to the Final Four. Except this mid-major, Butler,...
Dream homecoming for Butler
SALT LAKE CITY — Butler coach Brad Stevens carries around an adage as cliché as one of those rubber wrist bands. “If you don’t believe it,” he says, “You can’t...
West Virginia keeps on Truck-in’ with Mazzulla
SYRACUSE — The big story leading into the Sweet 16 for West Virginia was the loss of its starting point guard, Darryl “Truck” Bryant, who broke a bone in his...
West Virginia terminates top-seeded Kentucky
SYRACUSE — The Mountaineers are marching toward the mountaintop. West Virginia’s stirring postseason ride, which includes its buzzer-beater title run in the Big East Tournament, glides on after last night’s...
Live blog recap: New York State Federation boys 'AA' final
It has all come down to this: Christ the King and Boys & Girls, the CHSAA and the PSAL, Mike Taylor vs. Omar Calhoun. What better way to end the...
Live blog recap: New York State Federation girls 'AA' final
GLENS FALLS – Two teams. One game.That’s all that is left of the girls basketball season in New York State. Christ the King and Sachem East (L.I.) are the lone...
Lindpere looks like lynchpin the Red Bulls desperately need
The Red Bulls have seemingly been in search of a classic No.10 for as long as they've been in search of an MLS Cup. The brittle bodies of returning New...
Source: St. John’s, Lavin are hot for each other
College basketball coaches and fans aren’t the only ones not getting much sleep during this NCAA Tournament. Neither is St. John’s athletic director Chris Monasch — and he might have...
Pujols, Halladay at top of Hardball heap
The balance of power has not shifted from the AL to the NL, but the plain old power might have. Though the AL might be thought of as the brute...
Yankees hitting coach: Brett’s not just a Gardner variety speedster
LAKELAND, Fla. — Brett Gardner adds something to the Yankees’ lineup no one else does: uncertainty. With a career total of 375 at-bats, Gardner admits he has to prove what...
Girardi: Joba could be used for multiple innings
LAKELAND, Fla. — Joe Girardi admitted yesterday that Joba Chamberlain’s experience as a starter might allow him to be more of a multiple-inning reliever at times. “I think it’s something...
Weather disrupts Pettitte’s spring
TAMPA — This was a conversation a few days ago with a veteran scout: Scout: Joel, can I ask a question? Joel: Sure. Scout: Does Andy Pettitte still play with...
Pecora’s modest career goes through the roof
It was the morning that Tom Pecora woke up in the back of a truck in Jackson, Miss., that he realized he wanted a little more out of his life...
Serby's Sunday Q & A with ... Jason Bay
The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the Mets’ 31-year-old left fielder who signed a four-year contract worth a guaranteed $66 million. Q: Is this Mets team a playoff team? A:...
The Rumble
She’s well-Verse-d Sterger gets chance to speak her mind Sassy, saucy, sexy, sarcastic Jenn Sterger bares it all — her no-holds-barred opinions on the world of sports and her multifaceted...
Reel good
MONKEY BUSINESS (1931) Monday, 8 p.m., TCM Four brothers (Harpo, Chico, Groucho and Zeppo) stow away on an oceanliner and are forced to become thugs in a war between the...
Saint ‘Nick’ flirts with the devil
As a kid-embracing TV network, Nickelodeon has moved in a very predictable direction: Low, lower and keep going. Last night’s annual “Kids’ Choice Awards” included some interesting choices, especially for...
Finally: a ‘Melrose’ reunion
As far as Mama is concerned, March is going out like a lion. Take a look at some of the must-watch stuff airing this week: * “Saving Grace” (Monday, 10...
Life without ‘Lost’
With “Lost” finally getting evicted from ABC’s programming island, where will TV’s sci-fi puzzle junkies go to get their fix? Here are some shows that just may produce the smoke...
Confident safety Berry may be Top 5 pick in Draft
This is the first of a three-part series previewing the April 22-24 NFL Draft: Eric Berry doesn’t just consider himself the best safety available in next month’s NFL Draft. The...
‘Grace’ notes
On the morning of October 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts inexplicably entered a quiet Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and shot 10 Amish girls execution-style, killing five of them....
Don't miss
Heroes' welcome After the horrors of Guadalcanal, the Marines get a break, with some R & R in Melbourne, Australia, where they are greeted adoring locals. Robert Leckie (James Badge...
Space face
Morena Baccarin had no problem landing the key role on “V,” the gorgeous, creepily charismatic High Commander of the Visitors on ABC’s remade sci-fi drama. When she auditioned, producers knew...
'Breaking' out
Last season on “Breaking Bad,” Walter White, the cancer victim turned meth kingpin, handed his henchman, Jesse Pinkman, a gun. White ordered him to use it to retrieve some stolen...
Ask Ashley: Scheduling sex? Snooze
My girlfriend gets home from work on the early side, but has to be up and out by 8:30 a.m., while I tend to work late in a studio and...
This week's couple: Good hair date
Everything about John and Shilpa’s date was new: It was the first blind date each of the college students had ever gone on, and they dined at the recently opened...
5 top worst ways to bring up birth control
According to sensual strollers at the Museum of Sex “Say, ‘I’m like dinner at Red Lobster — if you want to take me home, you have to wrap it up.’...
Meet market: Museum man wants a public display of affection
Cameron, a 27-year-old developer and programmer for a major NYC museum, is done with dioramas — he’s looking for a fully interactive experience with an equally creative chick. Rebekah, 23...
A couple of cool cats
In the hip language of jazz music, the coolest artists are called “cats.” Contemporary jazz guitar legend Mike Stern, a six-time Grammy nominee, and his wife, Leni, a singer-songwriter-guitarist, definitely...
A duck is dead — and a swan wounded — in latest park tragedy
Swan down! Swan down!The ongoing animal butchery and waterfowl fatalities that have mystified Prospect Park for two weeks nearly claimed a new victim on Friday, but animal rescuers saved one...
Confident Boys & Girls ready for Christ the King rematch
GLENS FALLS -- Ruth Lovelace isn’t sure how a 22-day layoff following the emotional city championship will affect Boys & Girls. It sure hasn’t changed The High’s bravado on the...
Top comics tell their favorite jokes for April Fool's Day
1. SARA BENINCASA “I feel so sorry for Naomi Campbell. She always hires the world’s whiniest slaves.” 2. MIKE BIRBIGLIA “Have you noticed a lot of guys think they’re George...
Agenda
1. She & Him Whether you like Zooey Deschanel for her skills as an indie actress or an indie songstress, make sure to catch her on stage with M. Ward...
Federation notebook: Canestro shoots Nichols past Jamesville-Dewitt for 'A' title
GLENS FALLS – Nichols spent a good portion of its playoff run knocking off teams that had already beaten them. Jamesville-Dewitt, its opponent in the New York State Federation final,...
Ranking the trailers for this summer's would-be blockbusters
The way Hollywood’s peculiar calendar figures it, summer is little more than a month away. Here’s a look at the latest trailers for eight of the season’s tentpole flicks, rated...
Green Day acts up
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong takes the stage at the St. James Theatre amid monster banks of TV monitors that glower and blink between stripped-down steel stairways. At Tuesday’s...
Liam Gallagher finally unplugs his spoiled-brat act and starts rocking a new clothing line
Liam Gallagher was in town last week, and the city is still standing. No hotel rooms got brutalized. No pub brawls got started. The Guinness taps have not run dry....
Obama vs. New York City
Here’s a headline that should never have appeared in any newspaper: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” Here’s one that should have: “Obama to City: Drop Dead.” The first headline, which...
Celebrities inspire and create new dishes at NYC eateries
Stop by the Carnegie Deli, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a sandwich without a famous actor’s name attached. But today’s New York chefs and mixologists are taking things one...
Why I'm ready for a life unplugged
I came to New York, like so many do, young and naive, with nothing, knowing no one. I had the same goals most of us have: establish a career, surround...
Collegiate triples its pleasure
GLENS FALLS -- With 56.0 seconds remaining and Collegiate’s third consecutive New York State Federation Class B crown sewn up, Ray Voelkel pulled his three seniors Will Bartlett, Will Pagano...
Netanyahu's gamble at home
For a brief moment, it appeared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu escaped from the recent mini-crisis with the United States while protecting two core interests. First, Netanyahu’s government coalition...
Man, made: getting face to face with Earth's "great apes"
It’s a family reunion — 7 million years in the making. Paleoanthropologists at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, used the most current knowledge about the lineage of...
Tax man at the gates
Just when it seemed as if Albany had run out of ways to suffocate New York’s economy, along comes word that tax authorities are taking a stopwatch to the state’s...
Senators' stonewall
New Yorkers can rest easy, knowing that the state Senate’s three top Democrats are hard at work defending the integrity of the state Constitution. That, at least, is the reason...
License to ill
“O’s Ego Booster Shot” (March 24) is another great column by Michael Goodwin. I have been feeling so low after this health-care debacle was signed, and the celebration of it...
It's not easy being blue
It’s no wonder that the performers in “Stuffed and Unstrung” act wild and crazy. You would, too — if you had someone’s hand stuck up your behind. Lest you think...
Pension sinkhole
I am sure Mayor Bloomberg has the ability to run this city like it was his own business (“New York’s $105B Pension Timebomb,” Susan Edelman, PostScript, March 21). If he...
School standards
George Will makes a critical observation that the best predictor of school performance is family performance (“More Gauzy Goals for US Schools,” PostOpinion, March 18). That criterion applies to performance...
Bar babes
It’s too bad that some parents feel the need to drag their children out with them when they can’t get a babysitter (“Hey Baby, Come Here Often?” March 24). Happy...
Required reading
Murder City Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden (Nation Books) News from the border city of Juarez is usually bad — three people with...
My New York: Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Moss, who plays Peggy Olson on “Mad Men,” lived in the East Village for eight years before shifting to the Upper West Side a year ago to move in...
31 Bond Street
One violently rainy evening in February 1857, Harvey Burdell, a wealthy dentist, was found slain — his head nearly disconnected from his neck — in his home office at 31...
Carol Burnett: "this time together"
What do you get for the comedian who has everything? “I had always wanted a chin,” admits Carol Burnett, in her latest almost-autobiography. Nothing is impossible, though, so she got...
Why I deserve a sugar daddy
Holly Hill’s heart pounded as she realized that what she was writing would change her life — and upend convention — with one push of the “Send” key. She re-read...
Embracing new direction
Will the next Steven Spielberg please stand up. Founded in 1972, the annual New Directors/ New Films festival -- programmed by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society...
Risk management
It's riskier to play the King's Indian Defense than to play the King's Gambit, said David Bronstein, who played both. What he meant is that making positional concessions in order...
$47B back-tax bid pulling in pennies
A let's-make-a-deal bid to collect some of $47.5 billion in back tax bills for the cash-starved state has brought in a paltry $50 million -- less than one tenth of...
O touts college lend 'mend'
President Obama said yesterday a student-loan overhaul passed as an amendment to the health-care plan should drive up college graduation rates. "This reform of the federal student-loan programs will save...
Saudis spread jihad to Balkans
Saudi Arabia is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Islamist groups in the Balkans to spread hatred of the West and recruit fighters for jihad in Afghanistan. Strict factions...
QE2 smuggled arms: IRA big
Sympathetic crewmen smuggled weapons from New York to Northern Ireland aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 in the early 1970s, an IRA commander said in interviews recorded before his death and...
The Broadway gem you will never see - unless you pray
In 1984, Michael Bennett, flush with cash from his hit shows "A Chorus Line" and "Dreamgirls," set his sights on a Times Square jewel, the Mark Hellinger Theatre. Bennett had...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn Two knife-wielding crooks were captured following a livery robbery in Flatbush. Jonathan Joseph, 18 and Duquan Johnson, 17, jumped into a livery cab at Flatbush and Church avenues at...
Girls flock to trampy prom dresses
Prom is going porn this year. The days of dressing like a lady are over -- with teens preferring to parade around at their first big dance looking more like...
Garbagemen taking bribes to fill their trucks
The garbage isn't the only thing stinking up some city sanitation routes. New Yorkers filed 27 bribery complaints against the city's Strongest last year, alleging That trash haulers demanded money...
NY's broke and broken
A decade ago, New York City faced a dramatic rise of children placed in fos ter care. Even more alarming was the kind of family breakdowns that got them there....
'Do-nothing' gov's budget defense
Gov. Paterson yesterday pushed back against reports that he's been taking a passive role in Albany's budget process, insisting that he has called meetings and urged legislators to get things...
Gun-stash bust near city school
Here are some family values that only the Hatfields and McCoys could support. Cops arrested a Brooklyn father, mother, son and family friend for keeping a huge arsenal of guns...
10 Mennonites die in crash
Two young brothers miraculously survived a horrific highway crash that killed their parents, a sibling and seven other Mennonite family members in Kentucky on their way to a wedding. The...
NJ eyes rest-stop name sale
Vince Lombardi stands to get sacked by corporate America and New Jersey's $11 billion budget deficit. The Garden State's new transportation commissioner wants to plug some of the budget hole...
Fire vet in Islam hate fit
A retired FDNY lieutenant was arrested for calling a Muslim Queens man a "terrorist" and spitting on him as they argued on an Astoria street last summer, said a spokeswoman...
SI granny dies after 911 error
A mistaken address that appeared in a 911 computer resulted in a four-minute delay in ambulance service for an elderly Staten Island woman who died before help arrived. City officials...
Obamacare has to focus on optimism
The health-care debate is over for now, and the economy shows a few nascent signs of a spring pick-up, but an uneasiness lingers over the land. Why so? I suspect...
Don't sweat munis
I was talking to a well-known billionaire magazine publisher about municipal bond defaults and I mentioned I wasn't sweating them. He asked me, jokingly, if I thought Washington was going...
I penned the suckiest movie ever - sorry!
Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see "Battlefield Earth." It wasn't as I intended -- promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually,...
School for scandal
Whether you left city government with good references or under investigation, chances are a cushy academic position awaits you at the City University of New York. Four former commissioners in...
Cop bigs powwow on crime
NYPD brass held an emergency meeting this past week with detective supervisors and other commanding officers from around the city whose precincts have seen a disturbing spike in murders and...
Book: Lehman No. 2 more guilty than Fuld
Move over, Dick Fuld. The most treacherous man on Wall Street is his Lehman Brothers second-in-command -- former President Joe Gregory. At least that's how Gregory is portrayed in an...
Katrina charity relief money sat in Queens bank account
Most of the cash collected through a fund for Hurricane Katrina victims -- $31,849 -- was sitting in a bank account at the end of 2008, more than three years...
Un-fashion-able trends
Stefano Tonchi has yet to begin his new gig as editor of W magazine, but already his job forecast is full of storm clouds. After all, since the heady days...
New 'Real Housewife of NYC,' Sonja Morgan, sued by film company
She's a Real Deadbeat of New York City. That's what a lawsuit asserts about Sonja Morgan, the latest socialite to join the catty cast of "The Real Housewives of New...
American Apparel struggles to stay afloat
Middle age isn't being kind to Dov Charney. The fast-talking CEO of American Apparel -- whose libertine lifestyle and racy marketing campaigns have kept the clothing chain controversial and on...
Pedestrians flee as crane smacks bldg.
The stock market isn't the only thing that tumbled on Wall Street. A listing crane careened into the side of a city-owned building in lower Manhattan last night -- sending...
Punk mugs B'klyn granny
A Brooklyn grandmother unloading groceries was viciously mugged by a young thug as her 4-year-old granddaughter watched in horror, cops said last night. The 68-year-old victim was approached from behind...
Bloomberg is 'mane' attraction at charity gala
Mayor Bloomberg let his hair down last night. Hizzoner hammed it up as "Berg," an aging hippie in "Mair" -- a musical spoof he performed for the annual Inner Circle...
Jobless rate is hard to digest
Dear John: How do Congress' unemployment benefit extensions affect the jobless rate? If Congress fails to extend benefits, does the unemployment rate go down? J.H.Dear J.H.: You are talking apples...
Maria is no longer sweet on 'Honey'
CNBC's star personality Maria Bartiromo is so over her "Money Honey" moniker. The 42-year-old host of the business cable station's "Closing Bell" show, who made off-the-air headlines three years ago...
$42M blitz lacks 'hire' purpose
The NYPD and Correction Department have paid an ad firm $12 million since 2008 to attract new applicants -- even though neither agency plans to hire any time soon. The...
Empty armory haunting ambitious Bronx beep
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is in a bind. Last year, he took on the Bloomberg administration and led the successful fight to block development of the long-vacant Kingsbridge...
Most employment firms run a con 'job'
More than half of the city's private employment agencies have ripped off jobless New Yorkers, officials say. As the Big Apple's unemployment rate hovers above 10 percent -- higher than...
Tenants $tung by SoHo nonprofit
As the city pushes to expand its stock of affordable housing, a sweetheart deal that will hand a prime SoHo building to a nonprofit for $1 is sour news for...
Plague on Passover
Jews might be dealing with an 11th plague this Passover -- the mumps. A special health advisory released this month cautions Hasidic Jews about spreading the disease over the holiday,...
Meeks' new Katrina slap
Rep. Gregory Meeks is adding insult to injury, lobbying Hurricane Katrina victims he stiffed in a "robo-call" aimed at a Louisiana Republican. The Democrat from Queens, who never delivered on...
Union needs to instill some Fehr in owners
TORONTO -- Donald Fehr is the right man at the right time for the NHLPA, a union splintered into disarray that requires a force at the top to educate and...
Gulfstream Analysis
Today's analysis.1. 6 fur; $17,000; clm($15,000); 3YOINTHETHICKOFIT had the lead and tired to second at this distance and level two back. KOKA KOLA OCEAN broke maiden in local debut. DONIPHON broke...
Red in the face
* You would think that St. John's athletic director Chris Monasch would have asked Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt if his family was comfortable moving away from Atlanta before offering...
Knicks' Rodriguez wants to return
PHOENIX -- Point guard Sergio Rodriguez's dream is to re-sign with the Knicks, but he also is keeping his options open about returning to Spain. After the Knicks' 109-104 win...
Back from China, Marbury rips Knicks
PHOENIX -- Stephon Marbury arrived back in the United States a few days ago after a stint playing basketball in China. Although Marbury has changed, his former team, the Knicks,...
Takahashi's first runs of spring come in bunches for Mets
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Hisanori Takahashi almost certainly will receive a spot on the Mets' roster, just not in the starting rotation. Nevertheless, the Japanese lefty is just one more...
Mets' Reyes set to begin swinging
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Jose Reyes wants the Mets to pitch him the damn ball. After four days of workouts since returning from an overactive thyroid, the Mets shortstop believes...
Wright feeling the power
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- David Wright came to this camp with the express purpose of getting back into the swing. He has done that by using his legs more...
The Post line
NBAFavoriteLineUnderdogCAVALIERS14 KingsBUCKS 3 GrizzliesHAWKS 9 PacersHEAT 6 RaptorsPISTONS 1 BullsMAGIC 5½NuggetsTHUNDER 5 Trail BlazersSuns 9½T'WOLVESCELTICS 4 SpursCLIPPERS 4½WarriorsNHLFavoriteLineUnderdogFLYERS-110-110DevilsCAPITALS$200-240FlamesPENGUINS$180-220Maple LeafsBLUES$180-220OilersBLACKHAWKS$240-300Blue JacketsSHARKS$180-220Avalanche
Only a halfwit could justify Arenas sentence
This is the last time I help out the authorities. After we were led to be lieve the District of Columbia has the strictest gun laws in the country --...
Els making it look Easy at Bay Hill
Winless for two years, Ernie Els put himself in position yesterday for his second straight victory. Els made sure the last two holes did not unravel a solid day of...
Islanders pull out OT win in Columbus
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It was a rare Islanders road win for two reasons. Josh Bailey scored 2:58 into overtime to send New York to a come-from-behind 4-3 win over the...
Nets' two-game win streak snapped against Bulls
CHICAGO -- Jannero Pargo scored a season-high 27 points, and Taj Gibson had a career-high 22 points and added 13 rebounds to help the Chicago Bulls beat the New Jersey...
A new lease on life for Red Bulls
For 14 seasons, New York's soccer team has been playing in perpetual added time, trying to produce something worth watching. All the writhing by fans fouled by ever-changing rosters and...
Rangers lose playoff ground after OT loss to Leafs
TORONTO -- The Rangers will take it, because they have no choice. They will take the point they got but did not earn here in last night's 3-2 overtime defeat...
Sports shorts
NBA: Grunfeld: Arenas a Wizard next season A day after Gilbert Arenas was sentenced to 30 days in a halfway house for bringing guns into the Wizards' locker room, team...
Avery injury another setback for Rangers
TORONTO — Sean Avery started again at the opening faceoff, this time by pestering Phil Kessel. He kept it up on nearly every one of his dozen shifts, making contact...
By Georges! Hardy never had a chance against St-Pierre
Dan Hardy of England thought he had a puncher's chance of beating Georges St-Pierre last night at the Prudential Center in Newark. But he never got the chance to land...
Look out fish, here we come!
After a winter that never wanted to end, we fi nally have arrived at the start of New York's annual freshwater fishing season. This Thursday, you will witness what is...
Devils earn playoff berth with win over Canadiens
MONTREAL -- Ilya Kovalchuk put his teammate's interests before his own. Kovalchuk gave way to Brian Rolston, who reached a milestone and put an exclamation mark on the New Jersey...
Bizman sues escort for conning him out of $100K he gave her to save her
TULSA, Okla. -- It was "Pretty Woman" without the Hollywood ending. A Manhattan real-estate developer tried to save a wayward escort -- à la Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in...
Weird but true
Southern charm only goes so far. A polite Florida thief apologetically carjacked a woman, calling her "ma'am" and saying he was sorry. He put a knife against the woman's side...
With Rhode Island in NIT, coach could be in St. John's future
Jim Baron's first experiences in Madison Square Garden came back in the 1960s and '70s, when the Brooklyn native would sneak into the building to watch the Knicks. "I used...
Time to be Devils advocate
Each day during the NCAA Tournament, The Post's Tim Sullivan offers his plays: CAN you believe how little publicity Duke has received this March? For the die-hard college basketball fans...
Kansas State's Kelly will rebound from 'Wild' loss
SALT LAKE CITY -- When the pain of losing the chance to get to the Final Four subsides, don't be surprised if former Rice star Curtis Kelly of The Bronx...
Pearl carries Tennessee to Elite status
ST. LOUIS -- In Bruce Pearl's second year at Tennessee, he brought his Volunteers into Manhattan for the early-season NIT and, as a Boston native, he possessed special feelings for...
Baylor shows how to resurrect program
HOUSTON -- It is a useful reference point, Dec. 19, 2003, the day St. John's decided to cleanse its soul, ridding itself of Mike Jarvis. There is no need to...
In my library: Twyla Tharp
Some people tiptoe through the work of great writers. Twyla Tharp barrels through like a tank. “I’ve read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy — the...
Red Bulls douse Fire in season opening win
From their ironclad defense to their dogged discipline, from their pragmatic organization to their yeoman workrate, the Red Bulls opened a promising 2010 season with all the things that had...
Van den Bergh: Red Bulls, call me. Dallas? Don't bother
Dave van den Bergh has heard all the rumors about what he’s doing right now. “I’m retired, but still practicing with the (Austin) Aztex, still doing my TV show and...
Canarsie Park baseball diamonds in need of polishing
The baseball fields in Canarsie Park are diamonds in the rough that local activists want to see shined up in short order.Specifically, the 69th Precinct Community Council wants the six...
Devils beat Canadiens, secure playoff berth
MONTREAL — Patrik Elias and Jamie Langenbrunner had power-play goals and Dainius Zubrus also scored for the New Jersey Devils, who clinched their 13th straight playoff berth with a 4-2...
Islanders top Blue Jackets, 4-2
COLUMBUS — It was a rare New York Islanders road win for two reasons. Josh Bailey scored 2:58 into overtime to send New York to a come-from-behind 4-3 win over...
Rangers lose to Leafs in OT
TORONTO -- Nikolai Kulemin scored 39 seconds into overtime and Jonas Gustavsson made 36 saves to outduel Swedish counterpart Henrik Lundqvist in the Toronto Maple Leafs' 3-2 comeback victory over...
Swastikas pop up in Midwood
There’s a swastika blitz going on in Midwood, not that anyone noticed.As Passover, one of the most cherished holidays on the Jewish calendar, loomed in the distance, two of the...
West Virginia beats Kentucky to reach Final Four
SYRACUSE -- Country road, take me home. Or better yet, Indianapolis. It's almost heaven, West Virginia. The Mountaineers are off to the Final Four for the first time since 1959....
Source: St. John’s hot for former UCLA coach Lavin
College basketball coaches and fans aren’t the only ones not getting much sleep during this NCAA Tournament. Neither is St. John’s athletic director Chris Monasch — and he might have...
Butler heading to Final Four
SALT LAKE CITY — The guards that carried Kansas State to a school-record 29 victories couldn't get the Wildcats a 30th win. Jacob Pullen and Denis Clemente — the backcourt...
QHST falls in Federation 'B' final
GLENS FALLS – It was almost as if all those victories, an undefeated regular season and that PSAL Class B title meant nothing to Queens HS of Teaching. The Tigers...
Final goal within reach for Christ the King
GLENS FALLS -- The trilogy is nearly complete. Christ the King won the Brooklyn/Queens Diocesan crown, the CHSAA Class intersectional title, and now is within one victory – in Sunday's...
Drunk as a skunk man tries to revive dead possum: cops
A heavily intoxicated Pennsylvania man tried to resuscitate at dead possum lying along a highway, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported yesterday. Donald Wolfe, 55, was spotted by a state trooper attempting...
US troops killed in Afghanistan double
KABUL — The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has...
'Listing' crane hits 25-story building
A fire official says a listing crane has struck the side of a 25-story building in lower Manhattan. The fire official said Saturday there were no injuries after the crane...