Baseball offseason nearly over, but questions remain
We won’t con you. The main events of this baseball offseason have concluded. Bud Selig removed Alex Rodriguez from the game for a full season. Robinson Cano, Jacoby Ellsbury and Shin-Soo Choo secured...
View ArticleUS looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying
WASHINGTON — The US government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans’ phone records. As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of...
View ArticleChristie: Super Bowl is in Jersey!
Yo, let’s be clear about one thing. The Super Bowl is in New Jersey. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made that point in a tongue-and-cheek manner Monday at an appearance at the Boys & Girls Club in...
View ArticleCalif. gallery duo cops to hawking fake Damien Hirst works
A pair of California art scammers pleaded guilty Monday to selling hundreds of thousands of dollars of counterfeit Damien Hirst artwork out of their Laguna Beach art gallery. Vincent Lopreto, 48, and...
View ArticleGiants, Jets owners eye ‘cold’ Bowl every 10 years
Super Bowl XLVIII hasn’t even been played yet, but owners of the Giants and Jets are so convinced it will be a success they hope to host one every 10 years. They also see the first open-air Super Bowl...
View ArticleThere’s dumb, and then there’s Super Bowl Media Day dumb
Think of Super Bowl Media Day as the first reality TV show. It’s “Jersey Shore” and “Real Housewives” with a dash of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.” It’s Twitter gone crazy. It’s the day the NFL jumps the...
View ArticleReeling Islanders fall to Bruins for third straight loss
So the line in the sand might instead be drawn in snow, as the Islanders have very quickly run out of excuses and are quickly running out of time as Wednesday night’s outdoor game at Yankee Stadium...
View ArticleGoofy ‘Stop Hitting Yourself’ falls short overall
One look at the decadent ’30s mansion where “Stop Hitting Yourself” is set, and it’s hard not to gasp. A giant dollar sign flashes in the background, melted cheese is pouring from a fountain and...
View ArticleThe ‘war on women’ sinks to a new low
Mike Huckabee just became a field general in the war on women. He inadvertently won his promotion with one sentence at the Republican National Committee winter meeting. To wit: “If the Democrats want...
View ArticleJohn Kerry’s make-believe foreign policy
Peddling his “new diplomacy” to business leaders from across the globe in Davos, Switzerland, the other day, Secretary of State John Kerry said there is no term to accurately describe it, although...
View ArticleNets lose heartbreaker to Raptors, 104-103
All the Nets needed to do was make an inbounds pass. Instead, they threw away the game. Deron Williams’ pass intended for Joe Johnson was picked off with 10.6 seconds by Patrick Patterson, who then...
View Article5 of the best celebrity-inspired hashtags
The latest trend in social media? Celebrity-inspired hashtags. Because you can’t really be a true A-lister until you’ve trended on Twitter, we rounded up some of the best hashtag memes brought to you...
View ArticleDemocrats stacked Bridgegate panel
Instead of getting to the truth of the Bridgegate affair, the new Legislative Select Committee on Investigation is looking more likely to obscure or distort the facts. I voted in favor of forming the...
View ArticleThe president’s ‘inequality’ absurdities
President Obama’s State of the Union Address is expected to focus heavily on income inequality. Swiping rather liberally from Mayor de Blasio’s playbook, the president will likely imply that the reason...
View ArticleSomething cheesy in Philly — and it isn’t steak
There was a distinct impression in the Philadelphia office of the Census Bureau that someone wanted the unemployment rate to drop in the months before the 2012 presidential election, according to a...
View ArticleBat Clemens threw at Piazza in World Series for sale
Fans of baseball history and woodworking will soon have quite an enviable piece of memorabilia to bid on. The remaining barrel of the bat Roger Clemens threw at Mike Piazza during the 2000 World Series...
View ArticleSherman ‘Nets’ courtside seats at Brooklyn game
Richard Sherman’s close-up in New York began with a front-row seat in Brooklyn. The Seahawks cornerback, who became a national talking point for his postgame rant in praise of himself and critical of...
View ArticleMom, grandma root for Broncos star Thomas from prison
It is a Southern drawl that wishes it could sing outside so the world could hear how proud she is of her son, Demaryius Thomas, five days away from playing in a Super Bowl. But this will have to do for...
View ArticleFireman’s new hot property
One of the city’s most successful restaurateurs has laid claim to a giant space that was long run by another titan of the eatery business. Shelly Fireman, creator of long-running, mid-priced Italian...
View ArticleSuper Bowl ticket prices plummet
So much for being the most expensive Super Bowl ever. With ticket prices in a freefall, seats for Sunday’s MetLife Stadium matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos could end up being the...
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