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  • Tortorella takes ‘some’ responsibility as Rangers’ season comes to an end

    BOSTON - Sitting on a chair on a black dais in an echoic black room with black cardboard walls, John Tortorella raised his right hand and motioned towards his chest.The season had just ended with Tortorella’s Rangers losing 3-1 to the Bruins in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in TD Garden, a moment when all the high expectations suddenly came crumbling down like a waterfall of ...

  • Sanchez not Geno should begin season as starting QB

    Blog: By George Mark Sanchez throws three interceptions during an offseason training activity, and some already have given up hope he can be a useful starting quarterback again. Such is the chatter on sport talk radio, Twitter, and among those who hide behind unnamed sources.Geno Smith, the 39th pick, is being treated like he was taken No. 1 and is here to save a franchise in free fall. ...

  • NFL union probes Geno Jay-Z connection

    The NFL players union is investigating the recruitment of Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith by Jay-Z’s new agency, according to a report by NFL.com.The NFL Players Association plans to send a letter of inquiry to Roc Nation Sports agent Kim Miale to find out more information about Jay-Z’s actual involvement in trying to get Smith on board. This week, the new Gang Green signal-caller ...

  • Serbys Subway Q A with... The voices of SNY Ron Darling Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez

    With the Subway Series vs. the Yankees coming up this week, Post columnist Steve Serby tracked down SNY Mets analysts Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling for some prime-time ...

  • Hamrlik weighs retirement after costly miscue

    BOSTON - How much could have been expected of Roman Hamrlik, the 39-year-old veteran defenseman who made the most galling mistake in the Rangers’ season-ending, 3-1 loss to the Bruins in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals last night at TD Garden.With 13 minutes gone by in the second period, the game was tied 1-1 and the puck came to the stick of Hamrlik.Hamrlik, who had not played ...


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Movie Review

Moulin Rouge

In Moulin Rouge, director Baz Luhrmann has finally found a form that is fitting to his uncompromisingly bombastic style. His previous two films, the independent Australian hit Strictly Ballroom (1992) and the hyperkinetic adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996), were leading up to this: a full-blown musical, the likes of which I don't think anyone has ever s ... ...

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  • Rye native has big leagues in bloodlines

    Colin Moran’s family tree is rooted firmly in professional baseball. So is his future. From a young age, the North Carolina star third baseman from Rye attended major league games with his famous uncle B.J. Surhoff on the field. Moran hobnobbed with big leaguers and received an inside look at the life of a professional athlete. "It’s inspirational when you have a family member ...

  • Overbay blast in 11th powers Yanks

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - By the weekend he could lose his starting job. Two or three days later his roster spot might vanish.Despite being one of the main cogs in the Yankees’ strong start who played a colossal role in yesterday’s 4-3 win over the Rays in 11 innings that was witnessed by a Tropicana Field crowd of 25,874, that’s where Lyle Overbay finds himself.As hard as it may ...

  • Holiday marks time to analyze season so far

    HARDBALL New York fans, meet the baseball season. Baseball season, meet the New York fans. We here at Hardball know you have been tied up with the Knicks and Rangers and life in general.But it is Memorial Day weekend - the traditional time when folks begin zeroing in on and sizing up what’s what in the majors.Sure, we know you have paid some attention. You know the Mets are good one day ...

  • Blueshirts took step backward

    Blog: Slap Shots BOSTON - The Rangers saved their best of the series for the last of the series, and that wasn’t enough, either.One year to the day after their 2012 elimination by the Devils in the conference finals, the Rangers were eliminated by the Bruins in the conference semifinals.Unhappy anniversary to them.The Rangers took a step backward this season, and they know it. They could ...

  • Competition brings fans back

    "I already know they lost," we would say. "I don’t need some dope with a typewriter reminding me that they lost."Well, I’m the dope with the typewriter now, and it always fascinates me how the most ardent among us return to full consciousness. I suspect it’s harder now to engineer a full-scale news blackout of an elimination, or even an especially difficult ...

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