November 24, 2011
Healthy Acquah runs Mount past Hayes for Thanksgiving victory
November 24, 2011 | 10:41pmKenny Acquah described the final month of his high school football career as frustrating, an ankle injury limiting the standout fullback/middle linebacker. His final game, however, was exhilarating. The ankle...
Two female journalists say they were sexually assaulted covering Egyptian unrest
November 24, 2011 | 10:30pmCAIRO -- Two female foreign journalists Thursday described harrowing sexual assaults carried out by crowds or police as they tried to cover demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Egyptian-American journalist Mona...
Gelpi, defense earn Fordham Prep Turkey Bowl win over Xavier
November 24, 2011 | 10:26pmElias Gelpi went back and forth debating which play meant more to him before deciding. The Fordham Prep senior cornerback returned a fumble 25 yards for a touchdown to open...
Packers beat Lions 27-15 to improve to 11-0
November 24, 2011 | 9:50pmDETROIT — The Green Bay Packers are working on a perfect season. The Detroit Lions have plenty to work on following a slew of physical and mental mistakes. Aaron Rodgers...
Gabrielle Giffords helps serve Thanksgiving dinner at Tucson air force base
November 24, 2011 | 8:54pmTUCSON, Ariz. -- Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, grievously wounded in a shooting last January, tied on an apron and helped serve a traditional Thanksgiving dinner Thursday to airmen, military retirees and...
Cops shoot Staten Island pit bull that attacked teen
November 24, 2011 | 7:21pmPolice shot a pit bull in Staten Island today when the dog charged at them after attacking a teenager, The Post has learned. Cops responded to a 911 call for...
7 Giants sit out practice
November 24, 2011 | 7:20pmThe Giants after two days off practiced yesterday and seven players banged up with injuries did not participate. A newcomer to the injury report is right tackle Kareem McKenzie, who...
AT&T, Telekom to press ahead with T-Mobile deal
November 24, 2011 | 7:01pmBERLIN — Deutsche Telekom and AT&T vowed Thursday to press ahead with the planned sale of the German company's T-Mobile USA unit to the U.S. cell phone operator despite concerns...
Brooklyn fire injures 5, 1 jumps from window
November 24, 2011 | 6:29pmA fast-moving fire broke out in a three-story walk-up apartment building on a leafy block of Park Slope forcing a panicked resident to jump out of a window and critically...
Staten Island baby dies in Thanksgiving tragedy
November 24, 2011 | 2:46pmA Staten Island family was struggling to cope with a Thanksgiving Day tragedy today after their five-month-old baby died. The Albanian family lost one of three triplets early this morning,...
Festive Thanksgiving Day Parade heads through the city
November 24, 2011 | 2:22pmSpectators cheered and sang at annual Thanksgiving Day parades from New York to Philadelphia to Detroit and friends enjoyed feasts with strangers at Occupy protest gatherings, reminding each other there...
US students detained in Cairo released
November 24, 2011 | 1:44pmCAIRO -- Three American students being held in Cairo for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at Egyptian security forces were released after an investigation, according to reports. Bill Gates, the father...
Jets defensive coordinator explains Tebow TD
November 24, 2011 | 12:42pmTim Tebow's 20-yard, game-winning touchdown against the Jets last week has been diagrammed, dissected and discussed for a week. But Wednesday was the first chance to hear from Jets defensive...
Jets' McKnight wants return to better days
November 24, 2011 | 12:38pmJets kickoff returner Joe McKnight might make the Pro Bowl this year but he probably wants to forget the past two games.McKnight has fumbled in each of those games, once...
Jets' Dixon had doubts about revisiting past
November 24, 2011 | 12:34pmJets defensive lineman Marcus Dixon was going to skip the HBO "Real Sports" feature on him, but at the last minute he changed his mind."I wasn't planning on it but...
Bart's Week 12 picks
November 24, 2011 | 9:10amThe 49ers could clinch the NFC West as soon as this week with a win or tie coupled with a loss by the Seahawks, but San Francisco is by far...
German bond bust stokes big sell-off here
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amInvestors fled for the exits with their cash yesterday, rattled by surprise worries about the world’s standby powerhouses, Germany and China. The sell-off rout across all major US stock markets...
MF clients burned 2X
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amFolks who got stuck with bum checks from Jon Corzine’s defunct brokerage firm MF Global are getting bounced a second time. This time, it’s by the MF Global trustee’s claims...
Dances with debt: Sun casino forced to restructure $1.6B load
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe owners of Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun casino are hoping talks to restructure its heavy debt load don’t come up snake eyes. The country’s second-largest casino, facing a debt payment of...
Business briefs
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amYouTubeGoogle’s YouTube announced a deal with Disney to offer rentals of the studio’s movies, letting US and Canadian users watch such films as “Cars 2” and “Pirates of the Caribbean:...
Auto parts biz running on empty
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe decline in the global auto market is affecting auto parts companies looking to sell themselves.Private equity heavyweights Bain Capital and Carlyle Group in September bid roughly $1.5 billion for...
Groupon getting clipped
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amGroupon has a lot to be thankful for — namely that the stock market is closed today. The daily deals darling has shed some $6 billion in market value this...
Moment of Ruth
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThanksgiving at Ruth Reichl’s second home in upstate Columbia County is a big affair. “We always have a totally full house,” she says. “This year, we’ll have 28 people coming.”...
Miami madness
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amLike many in the New York real estate business, designers/developers Bob and Cortney Novogratz have long made a habit of heading down to Miami for Art Basel week. “I’ve been...
Just sold!
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amManhattan CHELSEA $640,000 85 Eighth Ave. One-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 775 square feet, with open windowed kitchen with granite counters, Jenn-Air oven and Bosch dishwasher, Italian-tiled bath with rainfall shower, walk-in...
Neighbors IHOPing mad
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amIt’s the pancake house from hell. Residents who live above a new IHOP on East 14th Street say their lives have been ruined by clouds of noxious fumes belched from...
'Damn' eviction looming
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe rent may not be Jimmy McMillan’s problem much longer. The Rent Is Too Damn High Party founder could find himself booted from his rent-stabilized apartment on St. Marks Place...
Theater icon is not to B.
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe pioneering Theater District restaurant B. Smith’s, the hot spot that helped revive the once-blighted neighborhood, is being forced out by its landlord — the very stagehands union that saw...
Pimp outsmarts ‘victim’
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThis pimp oughta take the bar exam! Admitted pimp Anthony McCord scored some legal points when he cross-examined the prostitute he is charged with raping and beating — catching her...
Nazi survivor hugs saviors
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amA Holocaust survivor from Massachusetts tearfully hugged two long-lost Lithuanian pals yesterday, more than six decades after they hid her from the Nazis. Mary Katz Erlich, 83, was a little...
Hairy Amish assault story is beard but true, say feds
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amMILLERSBURG, Ohio — The leader of a breakaway Amish group allowed the beatings of those who disobeyed him, made some members sleep in a chicken coop and had sexual relations...
Carnage acquittal
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amA New Jersey man was acquitted yesterday of locking five teens in an abandoned home in 1978 and burning them to death in retaliation for stealing marijuana, ending a case...
Cold War heats up
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe United States yesterday refused to back down from the threat of a new Cold War prompted by Russia’s demands that the Obama administration gut its scaled-down missile shield in...
Abductor folks free
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe Manhattan couple who abducted their eight children while visiting them at a Queens foster agency in September were released from prison yesterday after their sentence was reduced to time...
Merck in a lot of pain
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amDrugmaker Merck will pay $950 million — and a unit of the company will plead guilty to a criminal misdemeanor charge — to resolve a federal probe of its marketing...
Witness down & flirty
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amOrder in the court! A witness shamelessly flirted with one of City Councilman Larry Seabrook’s defense lawyers yesterday during a courtroom exchange that gave new meaning to the term “heated...
Sandusky kin one of ‘victims’
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amTwo more alleged victims say they were molested by accused Penn State pedophile Jerry Sandusky — and one of them is from the disgraced ex-coach’s own family. Sandusky, 67, a...
His just desserts
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amA conniving Queens private investigator obsessed with TV detective dramas was convicted yesterday of raping his ex-girlfriend then setting her up to be arrested to cover the brutal crime. A...
Guilty in shop-cart toss
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe second of the two preteen boys who dropped a shopping cart four stories onto a philanthropist in East Harlem has admitted his guilt.The boys will be sentenced next month...
‘Rape cop’ phone twist
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe drunken off-duty cop charged with raping a young schoolteacher at gunpoint on her way to work in Inwood this past summer is persisting in his “It was consensual” defense...
Pol ‘briber’ skates
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe feds have agreed to drop charges against a real-estate developer accused of funneling nearly $500,000 in bribes to Brooklyn state Sen. Carl Kruger.Aaron Malinsky will be off the hook...
NYPD Daily Blotter
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amBrooklyn *** Police yesterday released the name and photo (top image) of the suspect they say fatally beat a porn-store clerk in Sunset Park. Elias Flores Rivera, 31, is suspected...
Furious restaurant owners claim they're losing business to food trucks
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThis food fight could soon cost a longtime Manhattan deli owner his bread and butter. A fleet of city-licensed food trucks has descended on the Hudson Square neighborhood, leading deli...
‘Threat’ teach fired
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amA Staten Island teacher with a prior manslaughter conviction was booted by the Department of Education for allegedly menacing an ex-boyfriend.Elementary-school teacher Kim DePrima — whose manslaughter rap came after...
Natalie capt. passes lie test
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe captain of the yacht from which actress Natalie Wood plunged into the Pacific has passed a lie-detector test about allegations that the trafic star and her husband, Robert Wagner,...
DOT boss: I won’t ‘permit’ it
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amMaybe if they were resident-only bike racks it’d be a different story. Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan isn’t backing the latest plan to bring residential parking permits to the...
GPS spy on worker OK
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amALBANY — A court has upheld the state’s use of a tracking device on an employee’s private car to investigate whether he was skipping work and falsifying time sheets. In...
Liu refunds 20G
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amEmbattled city Comptroller John Liu’s mayoral campaign yesterday returned more than $20,000 in donations — a week after one of his top contributors was charged by the feds with funneling...
UFT in new bid to block ratings
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amAfter striking out with two lower courts, the teachers union is trying a last-ditch legal effort to keep the city from making its members’ performance ratings public.The United Federation of...
Fat’s in the flier
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amIt was a big, fat travel horror story. A Pennsylvania businessman had to stand for an exhausting seven-hour, cross-country flight because a morbidly obese passenger’s blubber was spilling halfway across...
OWS ‘bands’ together
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amWell, at least they won’t be playing in the park. Occupy Wall Street is planning a benefit album with Jackson Browne, Third Eye Blind, Crosby & Nash, Devo, Lucinda Williams...
Di Fara’s slice of life
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amForget turkey. Di Fara’s storied pizzeria reopened in Brooklyn yesterday — a week after the city Health Department had shut it for 67 sanitary-violation points, including mouse droppings.“Di Fara’s passed...
Besieged Yemen prez out
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amYemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh — whose brutal crackdown killed hundreds of anti-government demonstrators — agreed yesterday to step down in a deal brokered by US officials concerned about al...
Bahrain’s crackdown torture exposed
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amMANAMA, Bahrain — In a stinging blow to Bahrain’s leaders, a special commission that investigated the kingdom’s unrest charged yesterday that authorities used torture, excessive force and fast-track justice in...
Cairo quiet reverts to riot
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amEgypt’s turmoil grew more chaotic after a “human shield” of Muslim clerics and other peacemakers failed to end clashes in Cairo that cost at least three more lives yesterday. A...
Flimflam family guilty
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe family that steals together goes to jail together.A Queens father, mother and daughter were convicted yesterday of stealing nearly $2 million from their neighbors in an immigration and real-estate...
Teen-slay brawl dad indicted
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe hotheaded father who allegedly sparked the brawl that led to the stabbing death of his football-star son was indicted yesterday for assaulting a parking-lot attendant, setting the tragedy in...
Puzzle as NYPD tix-fix prober retires
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe internal-affairs honcho who headed the NYPD’s explosive ticket-fix investigation filed for retirement yesterday, The Post has learned.Internal Affairs Bureau Deputy Inspector John McDermott, 46 — in charge of a...
Bogus cabby is hail on wheels
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amBe thankful this guy isn’t driving you home for the holiday! A bogus cabby who uses his own private car racked up his 82nd collar at Kennedy Airport yesterday, one...
Famed fried-turkey fowl-up
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amWhat a bunch of Jive Turkeys! At least 500 hungry Thanksgiving revelers were left out in the cold yesterday when a popular Brooklyn restaurant that specializes in deep-fried turkey lost...
Gridlock expected as Obama fund-raiser coincides with tree lighting
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amPresident Obama has an unwelcome holiday gift for New Yorkers — he’ll be coming to Midtown the same day the streets will be impossibly clogged by the Rockefeller Plaza tree-lighting...
Mob wife runs family biz – feds
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amShe kept it all in the family. After Colombo crime-family soldier Dino “Little Dino” Saracino was busted by the FBI in 2008, his wife, April, took over his loan-sharking operation...
NYers fill up their thanks
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amIt’s Thanksgiving, and millions of New Yorkers are taking to the air, roads and rails to celebrate with family and gobble up turkey, shopping deals and football games. Though rain...
An ‘illegal’ hit on Newt
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amWASHINGTON — Mitt Romney yesterday ripped rival Newt Gingrich’s immigration proposals as amounting to “amnesty” after the former House Speaker defended his own “humane” plan to let illegals gain official...
Real name gave Mitt the Willies
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amWASHINGTON — He might sometimes come off as a bit slick, but please don’t call him “Willie.”In what may be the first known instance of Mitt Romney relenting to high-pressure...
Boy-sex rap on teach
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amA Brooklyn sixth-grade teacher and mother of three was busted for engaging in a two-year sexual relationship with one of her students, authorities said yesterday. Claudia Tillery, 42, a veteran...
Chopper down!
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amAUCKLAND, New Zealand — A helicopter crashed in central Auckland yesterday while helping to put up a seven-story Christmas tree, with the entire shocking event streamed live on Television New...
NBC apologizes to Michele Bachmann for Fallon song
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amST. PAUL, Minn. — GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann received an apology from an NBC executive after an off-color song was played during her appearance on Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night,"...
Raining supreme
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amVictoria’s Secret beauty Miranda Kerr brightens up a dank and dreary day yesterday as she carries bundled-up baby Flynn—her son with Orlando Bloom —around Rockefeller Center.
Wasting green on greenies: No more solar Bam scams
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe Issue: A $1.4 billion federal loan guarantee for a “green jobs” firm linked to Robert Kennedy Jr. *** If this isn’t cronyism at its worst, what is (“Greasing the...
Pressing a White House bias
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe Issue: Whether favorable media treatment will boost Pres. Obama’s chances of winning re-election. *** It is always interesting when Bill O’Reilly writes a column for the sake of our...
Andrew talks turkey
November 24, 2011 | 5:00am“You are kidding yourself if you think you can be one of the highest-taxed states in the nation, have a reputation for being anti-business — and have a rosy economic...
For this we give thanks
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe first Thanksgiving in the New World was celebrated in mid-October 1621, nearly a year after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Much later, George Washington...
Exit another tyrant
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amAfter almost a year of bloodshed caused by his refusal to leave power, Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to step down. He plans to live in exile in...
The gifts that gratitude brings
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amEventually social science works its way around to confirming eternal verities. So it is with gratitude. An article in a psychological journal a few years ago noted that “throughout history,...
Rangers' Deveaux could face suspension for hit
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. -- Rangers defenseman Marc Staal watched last night's 2-1 loss to the Panthers from the press box, as he continues to deal with post-concussion symptoms. That meant Staal...
The Post Line
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amNFLTodayFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogPackers 6? 6 (55?)LIONSCOWBOYS 7 7 (44) DolphinsRAVENS 3? 3?(38?)49ersSundayJETS 8? 9 (42) BillsRAMSOFFOFF(OFF)CardinalsBENGALS 7? 7 (37?)BrownsTexans 3? 3?(37?)JAGUARSPanthers 4 3?(45) COLTSTITANS 3? 3 (43) BuccaneersFALCONS 9 9?(44?)VikingsRAIDERS+1?...
Vic C.’s Churchill Grade
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amFIRST-1 1/16m; $21,000; clm; 3up 2-Eddie Set Go 7-2 5-Face the Fire 5-1 1-GurdedEntrnce 5-1 6-Z Appeal 5-2 3-Big Tall Paul 4-1 7-Cat Shaker 30-1 4-Olympist 9-2 SECOND-1 mile; $20,000;...
Reyes gets arbitration offer from Mets
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amJose Reyes’ future with the Mets is still anything but certain, but they went through the formality of offering him arbitration before last night’s deadline. The move assures the Mets...
Aqueduct Analysis
November 24, 2011 | 5:00am1. 6 1/2 fur; $23,000 clm($15,000); 3up SENSATIONAL SLAM stretches out and switches to Chavez after closing to finish third by a neck this level. TURNPIKE TOKEN closed to finish...
Tomorrow’s Aqueduct Entries
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amAll horses appear in post position orderFIRST-6 1/2 fur; $44,000; alw; 3up(f) PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Lady Vi(L),114R Curatolo3-7-2Serpe7-22 Lady Gracenote(L),122A Garcia4-6-1Contessa8-13 Yawkey Way(L),119A Lezcano2-8-2C Brown2-14 Laylaben(L),120CVelasquz6-5-7Schsberg6-15 Judge Margaret(L),120M Luzzi1-2-10Grusmrk5-16...
Aqueduct Charts
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amNovember 23rd, 2011 Raining and Sloppy?2011 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6f; $21,000; cl($15,000); 3upOff: 12:20. Good. btwn foes, drew awayTime: 23.09, 46.95, 59.39, 1:11.43.Trainer: John ParisellaWinner: CH R, 3, by More...
Sports Shorts
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amCollege: Meyer denies Ohio St. rumorUrban Meyer, despite numerous reports saying he’s all but set to become Ohio State’s next football coach, said yesterday he has not been offered the...
Yankees give Garcia arbitration offer
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe Yankees left the door open for Freddy Garcia’s return by offering the veteran right-handed starter salary arbitration last night. Garcia, 35, has until Dec. 7 to accept or decline...
Home Team Lineups
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amTODAYNov. 24FRINov. 25SATNov. 26SUNNov. 27MONNov. 28TUENov. 29WEDNov. 30RangersNO GAMEWash.4:00MSGESPNPhila.2:00MSG ESPNNOGAMENOGAMEPitt.7:30MSGESPNNOGAMEIslandersNO GAMEDevils3:00MSG+ WRHUDevils1:00MSG+ WRHUNOGAMENOGAMEBuff.7:00MSG+WRHUNOGAMEDevilsNO GAMEIsles3:00MSG+2WFANIsles1:00MSG+2WFANNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMECol.9:30MSG+WFANMonday, Nov. 28Sunday, Nov. 27GiantsSaints8:30TV - ESPN, WWORRadio - WFAN 660 AM JetsBills1:00TV - CBSRadio - ESPN...
Today's Sports on the Air
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amBasketballNoonOld Spice Classic: Texas Tech vs. Indiana St. ESPN22 p.m.Old Spice Classic: Minnesota vs. DePaul ESPN22 p.m.76 Classic: Boston College vs. St. Louis ESPNU2 p.m.Battle 4 Atlantis: Central Florida vs....
Rangers lose to Panthers
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. — The Rangers played last night like they had Thanksgiving dinner a day early. They were dominated in all phases of the game by the Panthers, losing 2-1...
Devils defeat Blue Jackets in shootout
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amVictory outshines flaws. Last night, the Devils’ shootout fireworks provided a spectacular smokescreen for what is becoming a chronic meltdown. Their 1-2-3 punch came through again in the shootout, Ilya...
Islanders lose to Flyers in OT
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe Islanders finally proved they can take a punch, but ultimately could not deliver the knockout blow. After surrendering a two-goal lead against the Flyers last night at Nassau Coliseum,...
Harbaugh boys make NFL coaching history tonight
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amBALTIMORE — The Ravens and 49ers have thrived this season because they are physical, relentless and combative. Just like their coaches. The no-holds barred sibling rivalry between John and Jim...
NBA talking to save Christmas games
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThere will be no NBA on Thanksgiving Day but one last push will be made by commissioner David Stern to have a season start on Christmas Day. Lawyers from the...
Always thankful to keep you covered
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amA few weeks ago, in the afterglow of Game 6 of the World Series, I found myself seized by the moment and took to Twitter to express in the most...
Orton lands back in AFC West with Chiefs
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amKyle Orton has a new home in the AFC West. Orton was claimed off waivers yesterday by the Kansas City Chiefs, who were searching for a veteran quarterback after losing...
Lions to face unbeaten Packers
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amDETROIT — For too long in Detroit, Thanksgiving has been a holiday devoid of its most important ingredient: a quality, competitive football team. For the last decade, watching the Lions...
Jacobs says booing makes it tough for Giants
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amThe way Brandon Jacobs figures it, Giants fans are being counter-productive when they boo the home team. “We try to work hard and overcome adversity and they make it even...
Giants lose Beatty with detached retina
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amA Giants offensive line that struggled so mightily last week that coach Tom Coughlin described the ineffective running game as “pathetic,’’ has lost its young cornerstone left tackle, Will Beatty,...
Cowboys, Fish look to extend streaks
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amARLINGTON — The Cowboys and Dolphins playing on Thanksgiving will forever conjure memories of the 1993 game. Dallas defensive lineman Leon Lett adding to his blunderful reputation by sliding across...
Bills will turn to Spiller with Jackson out for season
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amAfter steeling themselves for Fred Jackson’s power, the Jets now have to worry about C.J. Spiller’s speed instead. The Jets' defensive focus against the Bills this weekend took an abrupt...
Jets' Burress home for holiday, at last
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amPlaxico Burress lost millions upon millions of dollars. He lost his football career with the Giants. He lost a verdict in the court of public opinion. And most of all,...
Late-game letdowns plague Jets' defense
November 24, 2011 | 5:00am“You’re not going to be perfect, but will we end up being the best defense in football? I think so. So believe me, the least concern I have is about...
Jets coach can't see benching Sanchez
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amJets backup quarterback Mark Brunell took a few more first-team snaps in practice yesterday, but don’t count on seeing him in a game if Rex Ryan can help it. A...
Justin Bieber forgets words to Christmas song (VIDEO)
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amPop superstar Justin Bieber, who was accused of lip-syncing his hit “Baby” on the 2010 “Video Music Awards,” was definitely singing live on yesterday’s “Today” show — because he forgot...
Judgment day at ‘Last’
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amDon’t be fooled by the “Judge” in the title — this is one court show that’s all about recovery, and not squabbling exes. “Last Shot with Judge Gunn,” which premiered...
‘Pawn Stars’ looks for NBA strikers
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amAttention idle NBA stars: “Pawn Stars” chief Rick Harrison wants you to come work for him. With the NBA lockout threatening to wipe out the entire season, Harrison hopes to...
Weird but true
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amCops in Lancaster, SC, busted a woman who mailed a Bible to an incarcerated pal who apparently wanted to prey on fellow inmates or guards. The woman had hollowed out...
Stanford breezes into NIT final
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amKnicks guard Landry Fields is not permitted to play on the Garden floor, but his alma mater sure is -- and don't think Fields wasn't watching it from Los Angeles....
Duke captures fifth Maui crown
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amTyler Thornton hit an off-balance 3-pointer with 20 seconds left, his second in the closing minute, to lift No. 6 Duke to a thrilling 68-61 victory over No. 14 Kansas...
Syracuse beats Virginia Tech to advance in NIT Tip-Off
November 24, 2011 | 5:00amSyracuse came to its home away from dome two years with an unproven team and an unknown super star in the waiting. The Orange left the Big Apple as 2009...
Three adults, three children reportedly on plane that crashed into mountains east of Phoenix
November 24, 2011 | 3:39amAPACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. -- Three adults and three children were on board a plane that exploded when it crashed into the Superstition Mountains, just east of Phoenix, on Wednesday evening,...
Garrison, Versteeg send Panthers past Rangers, 2-1
November 24, 2011 | 3:14amSUNRISE, Fla. — Jason Garrison and Kris Versteeg scored and Jose Theodore stopped 19 shots to lead the Florida Panthers to their third straight win, a 2-1 victory over the...
The best Black Friday bargains
November 24, 2011 | 3:05amHome goods Crate & Barrel 650 Madison Ave., 212-308-0011; and 611 Broadway, 212-780-0004 Sale: Select items, including the Cuisinart Dual Zone Wine Cellar, discounted 15 to 30 percent through Sunday....
Winter, inexperienced SFP looking to get better as season wears on
November 24, 2011 | 2:58amIt’s going to be Winter time all season for St. Francis Prep. The Terriers boys basketball team’s lone returning starter is 6-foot-3 forward Andrew Winter, a tough-minded senior who will...
Holocaust survivor reunites with lost friends at JFK
November 24, 2011 | 2:29amA Holocaust survivor from Massachusetts tearfully hugged two long-lost Lithuanian pals at Kennedy Airport today, more than six decades they hid her from Nazi invaders. Mary Katz Erlich, of Newton...
Yankees sign Nix to minor league contract
November 24, 2011 | 2:24amThe Yankees have signed veteran utilityman Jayson Nix to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training, The Post has learned.Nix has played for a different team in...
Kicking Ash: Grubler leads 'Dozo to second straight PSAL city title
November 24, 2011 | 1:28amCardozo could've gone in two directions in the postseason. The Judges could have carried their midseason issues with them, their lack of confidence and negative thinking. They could have let...
Harbaugh brothers battle when Ravens face 49ers
November 24, 2011 | 1:11amBALTIMORE -- The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers have thrived this season because they are physical, relentless and combative. Just like their coaches. The no-holds barred sibling rivalry between...
Packers will be tested by Lions
November 24, 2011 | 1:09amDETROIT -- The last time Aaron Rodgers and the Packers came to Detroit, they looked like anything but Super Bowl contenders. Of course, the Green Bay quarterback has a perfectly...
Brown, TMA ready to get back to winning
November 24, 2011 | 12:58amEmmanuel Brown’s role has always been as the defensive stopper. It was his job his first three years at Thurgood Marshall Academy and for as long as he can remember...
CHSFL predictions, Thanksgiving edition
November 24, 2011 | 12:41amEach week in the fall, New York Post beat writers Marc Raimondi and Joseph Staszewski will attempt to prognosticate the coming CHSFL weekend. This week, it’s turkey time. RECORDS AFTER...