Junkies won't be learning better ways to shoot up on the taxpayers' dime after all. A city-funded pamphlet instructing New Yorkers on ways to inject heroin will not be produced in the coming fiscal year, city Health Commissioner Thomas... Read Full Story
Check out the boys basketball playoff schedule. CHSAA CLASS AA Feb. 22 -- Brooklyn/Queens Diocesan quarterfinals @ St. Francis Prep (PREVIEW)...
Check out the girls basketball playoff schedule. CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens Division I Feb. 23 – Quarterfinals @ St. Francis Prep Archbishop...
The Post’s PSAL boys basketball beat writer Zach Braziller breaks down Saturday Class B championship game between No. 3 Queens HS of Teaching and No. 5 HS For Construction at St. Francis College in Brooklyn SCHEDULE 1 p.m. – No. 5 High School...
When Bryce Elie was asked his father, Clark Elie’s, whereabouts, he said he wasn’t around. Not gone, although Clark passed away Oct. 24 in a fatal car... 2:01 AM
The Post’s PSAL girls basketball beat writer Marc Raimondi breaks down the PSAL Class B championship game, scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at St....
If Benjamin Cardozo’s season is about comebacks, it certainly set that tone early. The Judges were just 3-11 last season after making two straight...
Sara Smith had the opposite feeling of almost every high school girls basketball player. A Division I scholarship wasn’t going to be her thing. The...
Boys & Girls already excelled under the bright lights of Madison Square Garden, winning its first city championship in 31 years March 6. Thursday night, the Kangaroos faced another kind of lights – national television beams. Appearing on NBC’s...
Matt Roventini vividly remembers the pain he felt when last season ended. He remembers the shock and disappointment etched across his players’ faces after falling to Berkeley Carroll, 4-1, in the NSYAISAA title game at Columbia University. There...
It’s the greatest day in all of sports and yet there’s no area team in the Big Dance yet again. Fear not, because the NCAA tournament is not devoid of local representation. As you enjoy your cold beverage and hot wings, look out for some of the best...
Joseph Madrazo took one quick look back as he raced up the near side with the clock winding down and a defender at his heels. What he saw was Midwood coach John Murphy waving him toward the net as he made up his mind to keep his feet moving. “My...
Nicole Cavigliano was feeling her age at Preston’s opening practice. “The first practice back, all of us said this feels so weird,” the senior shortstop said. “We feel so old teaching these younger girls.” The core group for consecutive CHSAA...
Cardozo got its feet wet last year. The Judges made their first appearance in the semifinals in coach Larry Alberts’ 24 years at the Bayside school. And, more importantly, they got the experience of going head to head with six-time PSAL city...
Bayside softball is known for its pitching. Year after year, coach Steve Piorkowski, a windmill teacher, has put a team out there with a strong hurler....
More than 50 former players showed up at Bryant HS on Saturday to celebrate the start of coach Wally Hausdorf’s 30th season on the softball diamond....
Dan Crane isn’t one to put expectations on his teams. Even a year ago, with a squad chock full of seniors, he was cautiously optimistic because of a...
The Boys & Girls basketball team is already well known in the local basketball community, but now the rest of the world will meet them. The PSAL Class AA city champion Kangaroos will appear as special guests on the Late Show with Jimmy Fallon...
Maurice Barrow is a man of few words. Christ the King coach Joe Arbitello has joked he could never tell how Barrow was feeling because the senior swingman never showed emotion. Barrow’s own mother has said that getting her son to talk sometimes is...
The Tottenville dynasty is on its last legs. The Pirates lost five superb starters from a team that won its sixth straight PSAL Class A title and the talent level has dropped dramatically in Huguenot. At least that’s what the perception is. Not...
Talk of a return trip to the CHSAA state playoffs and the thought of an elusive title aren’t shied away from at St. Joseph by the Sea. The Vikings lost in the final to St. John the Baptist and pitcher Olivia Galati, now starting at Hofstra, the...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- When Jimmer Fredette planted a seed with Florida's Chandler Parsons before their NCAA Tournament game, he couldn't have known it...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Murray State coach Billy Kennedy went with his gut and drew up a play his team had never run before, with Isacc Miles the go-to guy...
BUFFALO -- Syracuse is the No. 1 seed in the West, and it has the advantage of playing its first two games in nearby Buffalo. The Orange were peppered...
With a Big East job open in the state of New Jersey, it was only a matter of time before the name Hurley popped up. But with Seton Hall now in the...
Should St. John's spike Norm Roberts, it's unfathomable the university would contact or consider anyone without first feeling out Mark Jackson. Yet,...
Armon Bassett scored 32 points to help No. 14 seed Ohio beat Georgetown 97-83 and become the second team seeded in the teens to win in the NCAA...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The president called this one, all right. Murray State needed every last chance and every last second to get back in the NCAA tournament win column. This had been 24 years in the waiting for basketball fans back in Murray, Ky.,...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Scottie Reynolds and No. 2 seed Villanova nearly had their NCAA tournament run end in the biggest of upsets. Reynolds responded to his benching with a clutch performance at the foul line in the final minutes of regulation, and...
Jimmer Fredette and BYU survived a thrilling reminder that March Madness is back. Fredette scored 37 points, including two 3-pointers in double...
NEW ORLEANS -- Carleton Scott's 3-pointer rattled out in the closing seconds, and 11th-seeded Old Dominion delivered the first upset of the NCAA tournament when it stunned sixth-seeded Notre Dame 51-50 on Thursday in the South Regional. The...
A former Seton Hall basketball player has pleaded not guilty to charges of robbing eight people at gunpoint earlier this week. Robert Mitchell, a...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- No offense, John Wall. Florida coach Billy Donovan believes his Gators are about to open the NCAA Tournament against someone who's even more dangerous than Kentucky's player of the year candidate. High-scoring BYU guard Jimmer...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Before Murray State coach Billy Kennedy could really start talking basketball, he had an important injury update: Starting guard B...
Each day during the NCAA Tournament, the Post's Tim Sullivan offers his plays: THE tide started to turn four years ago, just as the new NBA Draft...
Former Seton Hall basketball player Robert “Stix” Mitchell was arrested Tuesday and charged with kidnapping (first degree); robbery (first degree); burglary (third degree) and weapons offenses (second and third degree). The 23-year-old Brooklynite...