Maybe the Rangers are trying to convince themselves it is true, or maybe it is. But come Sunday night, it will be seen if the playoffs really are a new season or if the Blueshirts’ malaise at the Garden has carried over into the postseason. Because this Game 3 of their first-round series against the...
The Knicks’ new coaching lineup is this: Kurt Rambis is associate head coach, Jeff Hornacek is head coach, and Phil Jackson is now ready to become coach-at-large. It is unclear who will have the most influence. Across Friday’s 49-minute press conference, the Knicks president made three things clear for next season: He wants the triangle...
During 2011’s Occupy Wall Street movement, Lynn Nottage wanted to understand how economic stagnation was affecting this country. So the Brooklyn playwright headed to Reading, Pa., then the poorest city of its size in America, and asked questions. “Two years in, I finally found a story I felt I could spend years exploring, and that...
Apparently being the daughter of a multimillionaire media tycoon isn’t enough to save you from financial dire straights.
President Trump wants to ride in the Queen’s gold-plated royal carriage when he visits London in autumn — an insistence that has thrown British security forces into a tizzy. The carriage “would not be able to put up much resistance in the face of a rocket propelled grenade or high-powered ammunition,” one security source told...
Looking at linebackers, cornerbacks and safeties for the Jets to target in the draft. The secondary was a complete and total disaster last season. The Jets need help at cornerback and safety. They signed Morris Claiborne in free agency, but they still could use a long-term answer at the position. The Ohio State duo of...
As the US prepared to join France and England in World War I, recruitment songs like “Over There” called out to young men: “Make your Daddy glad/To have had such a lad/Tell your sweetheart not to pine/To be proud her boy’s in line.” But what about American women who wanted a piece of the action?...
Keith Hernandez always seems the last to know. Or he plays the last to know on TV. Thursday night’s Mets at Marlins on SNY was 8-8, bottom of eighth, one out, two on, Giancarlo Stanton at bat. No better time to take the time to make sure, so catcher Travis d’Arnaud called time and trotted...
As the end of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office approaches, now’s a good a time to cut through the fog of misinformation, disinformation, media propaganda, ideological bias and outright hostility that has greeted his arrival in Washington and take a clear-eyed look at how he’s really doing. Answer: much better than you think....
His life ended as the final credits rolled. A Yonkers man was fatally stabbed early Saturday in the lobby of the movie theater where he worked, police said. The 19-year-old victim, who had just started working at the Showcase Cinema De Lux multiplex in Ridge Hill, was arguing with another man at 12:44 am when...
The day we celebrate is April 15, and there is good reason for that, because it was on that date in 1947 when Jack Roosevelt Robinson made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. It was during that 5-3 victory for Dem Bums over the Boston Braves that Robinson went 0-for-3 with a...
“Charlie brought me with him to this very stage when I was only 19 . . . so this is going to be an emotional night for me.”
For the first time in decades, the powerhouse that is women’s soccer in the United States finds itself at a crossroads. On the one hand: three World Cup trophies and four Olympic gold medals, the most hardware for any women’s national team. On the other: a jarring trend of America’s most accomplished and marketable star...
Looking at linebackers, cornerbacks and safeties for the Giants to target in the draft. We all know it by heart by now: The Giants have not taken a linebacker in the first round of the draft since 1984 — when they struck gold with Carl Banks. Thirty-three years is long enough, don’t you think? This...
The symmetry is almost perfect. Isaac Kante remained in school an extra year to play at a high level, and his hometown school — St. John’s — that plays at that level is looking for someone who fits his physical skill set. A year after passing on mostly low-major Division I programs and going the...
There’s no tying. There’s no tying in baseball. The most famous tie in major league history — the 2002 All-Star Game — was so infuriating and embarrassing to then-commissioner Bud Selig that it led to the Mid-Summer Classic determining home-field advantage. We like resolution. We like tradition. I get it. Yet, I think the major...
A suspect was arrested in the slaying of a Google executive from New York – who played a key role in the capture of her own killer, Massachusetts officials said Saturday. Angelo Colon Ortiz, a 31-year-old Worcester resident, was arrested on Friday night after his DNA matched that found on victim Vanessa Marcotte’s hands, officials...
The NYPD has had a stellar track record of protecting the city from another 9/11, foiling more than 20 planned terrorist attacks since 2001. But some worry the department is losing its terror-fighting edge as it tries to please Muslim grievance groups. Last year, for instance, it censored an anti-terror handbook to appease offended Muslims,...
Surgeons at Lincoln Hospital saved the arm of a hero Bronx police officer injured Friday evening as he chased down a suspect, authorities said. The officer was working as part of an anti-crime task force near 137th Street and Willis Avenue at about 10:50 p.m. when he ran after the suspect. The officer, whose name...
They’re not April foolin’ — April the Giraffe is finally in labor. April’s handlers at Animal Adventure Park Zoo in upstate Harpursville put out an alert early Saturday that labor was finally underway, after two hooves were seen sticking out of the giraffe’s rear end. A live stream of the very pregnant giraffe has garnered...
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi military officer says Islamic State militants have launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated area in western Mosul. The officer with the anti-terrorism forces said Saturday that the attack occurred the night before in the al-Abar neighborhood, when IS fired a rocked loaded with chlorine. He said seven soldiers suffered breathing...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge has halted Arkansas’ already compromised plan to execute several inmates over an 11-day period starting next week. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker on Saturday granted a preliminary injunction requested by the inmates to block the executions. Arkansas was set to execute the first inmate by lethal injection on...
Something interesting is happening in China, and perhaps President Trump deserves some credit. For the first time, the Chinese government appears to have laid down a bottom line with North Korea and is threatening Pyongyang with a response of “unprecedented ferocity” if the government of Kim Jong-un goes ahead with a test of either an...
TUCSON, Ariz.— Sheriff’s deputies say two men are dead and a woman is wounded after a shooting inside a busy restaurant in an upscale Tucson shopping mall. Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Cody Gress said the three victims of the Friday night shooting knew each other but had no information on their relationships. Police said...
