ALBANY -- A red-faced state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli -- who has been warning against rising pension costs -- yesterday removed from his Web site information about how state workers can game the pension system. Until yesterday, a... Read Full Story
Here’s a list of the high-school football previews done to date, listed by league: CHSFL Holy Cross Mount St. Michael St. Joseph by the Sea... 7:45 AM
Alan Balkan can imagine the possibilities. He can see his quarterback Jordan Paul enjoying a memorable senior season, shredding defenses apart. He can picture his top wideout, 6-foot-4 Terrence Chillious, bettering the eight touchdown passes he... 7:45 AM
St. Peter’s coach Mike Cosentino took joy in pointing out each one of his offensive lineman, one bigger than the next. The defending CHSFL Class A champions lost skill players at quarterback, receiver, running back and tight end, but feel the pieces...
Rich Tighe stopped short of making any predictions, but the Sheepshead Bay boys soccer coach fully expects this year to be different. Last season’s...
As the rest of The Bronx has struggled, DeWitt Clinton has emerged. John F. Kennedy and Lehman are rebuilding under new coaches – for Lehman, Michael Saunds is its third coach in four years – and Columbus has moved down to the Bowl Division....
There is a buzz about Boys & Girls this preseason. The Kangaroos are expected to be greatly improved, returning the core of a team that went just 2-7 last season. But coach Barry O’Connor is more cautious. “People have said good things before and...
There are no radical changes at Xavier, no need for a complete overhaul of the offensive scheme. Chris Stevens is a disciple of the single-wing and the Knights are going to run it until he decides to leave the school. So there’s no surprise that...
Everywhere he looks, Rashid Armand sees new faces – on offense, defense and special teams. Before training camp, he needed a media guide to get to know his new teammates. But Armand doesn’t want any sympathy, even if he is the lone returning...
Jose Cosme looked at his roster, all the graduating seniors, and started an internal debate. Was moving up to the Bowl division a wise decision, he pondered, after winning the Cup crown last November? Then he thought back to a conversation he had...
Some teams set a goal of winning a championship, others aim to get to Belson Stadium, the site of the CHSAA Class A intersectional semifinals. Christ the King’s goals are a bit different. “Our only pressure is to prove we can compete,” Royals...
Paul Klyap didn’t want to move Franklin D. Roosevelt up to the City Championship division because of what the Cougars did last year, their first in the...
School has come early in a sense for Peter Schmidt-Nowara and his Brooklyn Tech girls soccer team. It is the former Manhattan Center boys coach's first season at the helm, taking over for Thomas Nguyen. There has been a learning curve for both...
There are few holdovers from a Long Island City team that went unbeaten during the regular season and claimed its first Queens A-V division title. Even after losing eight seniors, the goals haven't changed. “I always have high expectations for... 12:57 AM
Susan Wagner, one of the most storied programs in PSAL history, had some of its lowest numbers last season. It got so difficult that legendary coach Al Paturzo had to use a quarterback, in this case Jordan Rodriguez, on defense for the first time in...
It was risky, but Michael Saunds thought it had to be done. One of the new coach’s first orders of duty at Lehman was to oust the returning seniors who weren’t committed to the team philosophy. The Lions didn’t have huge numbers in the first place...
Brendan Stackpole split time at quarterback last year, but he was under center when St. Francis Prep turned its season around a year ago, when the Terriers shook off a miserable start to advance to the CHSFL Class AA semifinals before losing a...
The annual three-team race in the New York Archdiocesan now has a fourth contender. Fordham Prep, Regis and Iona Prep all regularly compete for the CHSAA Class A division title, but with Joe Balsamo moving up to coach the varsity team after back...
Gena Koutsounadis waited nearly seven months for the last two weeks. The Francis Lewis star midfielder tore her left ACL in January playing for her FCNY United club soccer team and had surgery to repair it in February. She was able to get back on...
Is it or isn’t it? We will find out soon enough. Bayside girls soccer coach Magdalini Kassimis has called this season a rebuilding one. The Commodores lost nearly their entire starting lineup. She will have a roster filled with sophomores, juniors...
St. John’s is back in the city’s tangled recruiting game, and the Red Storm are there with a cool and confident kid who lives just minutes from the school’s Queens campus. Maurice Harkless, a 6-foot-8 wing who starred at Forest Hills High School...
AKRON, Ohio -- When Ryan Nassib was penciled in last year as the starter at quarterback for Syracuse after spring ball, he was pleased. All the hard...
One week into the college football season, we may have one half of the national championship game already decided. Boise State opens the season ranked No. 3 in the nation and if the Broncos can beat No. 10 Virginia Tech on Monday night, they will...
PISCATAWAY -- Rutgers believes it has reached the level where it can buy wins against inferior opponents. Think again. The final score of 31-0 over Norfolk State was hardly indicative of how inept Rutgers was for most of last night's season opener...
On the last page of his book, "Called to Coach," which was written this summer after the last of his 34 seasons at Florida State, Bobby Bowden recounts...
Utah freshman Brian Blechen intercepted a pass on the first play of overtime, setting up Joe Phillips for a 21-yard field goal that gave the Utes a 27...
Greg Schiano has heard the chatter. How could he not? He never should have left Miami. He should have taken the Michigan job. What the heck was he thinking announcing the day he got hired at Rutgers nine years ago that the goal was to win a...
This game should have come with a warning: Do not pick if under the influence of preseason hype. Yes, Pitt has had some strong recruiting classes under coach Dave Wannstedt and the Panthers have as many as six guys who could be playing on Sundays...
St. John's is back in the city's tangled recruiting game, and the Red Storm is there with a cool and confident player who lives minutes from the school's Queens campus. Maurice Harkless, a 6-foot-8 wing who starred at Forest Hills HS and will...
St. John’s is back in the city’s tangled recruiting game, and the Red Storm are there with a cool and confident kid who lives just minutes from the school’s Queens campus. Maurice Harkless, a 6-foot-8 wing who starred at Forest Hills High School...
In the days after taking the job as the athletic director at Southern Cal, a posting that Gen. David Petraeus might have turned down, Pat Haden received a lot of support in the form of e-mails, texts and phone calls. One voice buoyed Haden,...
Long before there was "Desperate Housewives" or "The Jersey Shore," which gave us real life accounts of seemingly average, red-blooded Americans going berserk and ripping out their friend's hair or getting sucker punched in bars, there was...
Forget the Heisman. The honor of all honors is The Post’s 8th Annual All-Underpublicized Team. Frankly, we have no idea how long we’ve been choosing...
It’s only fitting the best-kept secret in college football began with a best-kept secret. Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier was heading home from the 1985 NCAA convention, his thoughts consumed by a huge, looming expenditure. Bleymaier...
The Big Ten, what with four bowl victories last season, finally started to turn the corner, didn’t it? All of a sudden, gone were the days of being...
1. BOISE STATE 14-0, beat TCU 17-10 in Fiesta Bowl Coach: Chris Petersen, 49-4 in four seasons Stud: DT Billy Winn Showdown: Sept. 6 vs. Virginia...
Electric Zoo will transform Randalls Island Park this weeken...
Check out unicyclists showing off their movies, watch people...
The annual festival features modern classical and electronic...
The band, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, plays t...
The weekly outdoor party, the last of the season, will featu...
The acoustic/folk rock/powerpop musican will play Astoria ba...
The band plays at the Bayhouse. Call 718-318-9660 or visit t...
During this project -- Water Lily Wonders -- you'll sketch a...
The annual festival on Staten Island kicks off and will last...
The band plays the Dugout Pub. For more information, call 71...
The Staten Island-based rock/powerpop band plays Killmeyer's...
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