How the Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick feud began
The decades-long rivalry flared up once again recently.
The decades-long rivalry flared up once again recently.
When defender Ben Sweat joined New York City FC on a trial in the preseason, his play was inconsistent, a product of a new club, a return to MLS. “I was nervous,” Sweat told The Post about his rocky preseason. “But I was more anxious because I knew I could play and perform. It was...
Two months ago, principal Donna Geller was faced with a dilemma. She had set a date of June 6 for her elementary school’s annual Field Day — and the parents of her Muslim students were outraged. Geller’s chosen date fell during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, the 30 days when observers are expected to refrain...
The prodigious, eye-popping power. The easy smile. The egoless, team-first attitude. Everything the baseball world has seen from Aaron Judge over a remarkable first month is nothing new to the people of Linden, Calif. They saw it up close, and believed Judge was destined for stardom one day. But even this tiny farming town 50...
Yoenis Cespedes is coming back to New York — for more tests. Though Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said the superstar outfielder is “making good progress” with his strained left hamstring, the team is bringing Cespedes back from Port St. Lucie on Monday to undergo further evaluation, in the hope of understanding why the 31-year-old...
CHICAGO — Jacoby Ellsbury, who hasn’t started since Monday because of a nerve problem in his left elbow, was not in the Yankees’ lineup Saturday night against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Ellsbury suffered the injury running into the Yankee Stadium wall. His only game action since then was as a pinch-hitter in the ninth...
Debates! We love debates! In honor of Derek Jeter’s No. 2 being retired next week, here is a look at the retired numbers for our baseball, football and basketball teams, and one man’s look at who belongs, who doesn’t and who’s missing. Feedback! We love feedback! Let’s hear your take also. Yankees No-brainers: 3, 4,...
The fugitive suspected of killing his MTA conductor girlfriend was discovered covered in vomit inside a friend’s bedroom closet — after possibly overdosing on drugs as cops closed in, according to a report on Saturday. Police responded to the home on First Street near Stanley Place in Hackensack around 1:20 p.m. Friday, in search of...
OTTAWA — None of this has been easy for the Rangers, so why would it start now. The Blueshirts had to scratch and claw, but they couldn’t find a way and lost to the Senators, 5-4 in overtime, in Game 5 of this second-round series on Saturday afternoon at Canadian Tire Centre. The game-winner from...
Steven Holcomb, the longtime U.S. bobsledding star who drove to three Olympic medals after beating a disease that nearly robbed him of his eyesight, was found dead in Lake Placid, New York, on Saturday. He was 37. The U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Bobsled and Skeleton announced his death, the cause of which remains unclear....
Police are closing in on the violent predator who punched and sexually groped a German tourist in Harlem, sources said Saturday. The tubby creep was being staked out at multiple locations, three days after he pounced on the woman, socking her in the face with his fist so hard that she crumpled to the ground...
The bratty New Jersey princess who once sued her parents for private-school tuition is under fire for a tasteless social media post thanking President Trump for not building a wall “just yet” — so she could party hearty on Cinco de Mayo. “Dear Mr. Trump. glad you didn’t build that wall JUST YET. Happy Mexican...
‘Saturday mornings were my twisted version of heaven,” Rafe Bartholomew recalls in his new memoir. “I was 5, 6, 7 years old, and every weekend I got to spend a few hours hanging out with grown men . . . Working men, old men, homeless men, policemen and firemen. Men who cursed and spat and groaned, who...
Kevin Plawecki couldn’t help but smile as soon as he saw reporters walking in his direction. He was at the wrong end of a clubhouse joke, but the young catcher handled the prank with class, answering questions about how a sex toy, which was accidentally included in a tweet by the Mets account late Friday...
This man punched a 30-year-old woman in a random attack in a Midtown train station earlier this week, police said on Saturday. The victim was walking on the southbound F train platform at the 34th Street-Herald Square station around 7:30 a.m. on Thursday when her attacker suddenly socked her on the side of the head,...
On the Venn diagram of strange animal mating behaviors — from lobster golden showers to garter-snake orgies — duck sex is on the border between cartoonish and sadistic. That’s right, our beloved mallards engage in some seriously disturbing mating behavior. The “dark side” of duck mating has its own chapter in the new book “The...