No Magic remedy: Sore Kidd scratched

Coach Mike Woodson's fears of running Jason Kidd into the ground were well-founded. The venerable guard was scratched before the Knicks' 113-97 victory over the Magic Wednesday night because of a sore lower back, three days after being limited to just...

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Notes and quotes from Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans

KAP'S TAT SHOP GETS INK Tatted-up 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is a running, throwing — and free — advertisement for the artist who gave him the ink. "Business has really, really picked up, doubled," Nes Andrion, 35, owner of Endless Ink in Reno,...

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Doctors: PED use not reason for A-Rod hip injury

If the Yankees are going to get out of paying the rest of Alex Rodriguez's contract, it likely will not be for medical reasons. Regardless of whether the third baseman was caught taking performance-enhancing drugs again, two orthopedic surgeons said...

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Hafner on Yankees’ radar

When the Yankees were trying to dump A.J. Burnett a year ago, one of the players they were interested in was Cleveland's Travis Hafner. Despite their efforts, they weren't able to reach a deal with the Indians and Burnett ended up in Pittsburgh. Now,...

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Affrunti at Tampa Bay Downs Graded Entries

FIRST-7f; $9,000; mdn cl($8,000); 3YO; (f) 5-Bellamy's Gold 4-1 1-Fran's Image 5-2 3-PeacefulBondry 3-1 4-What Outa Who 7-2 2-Amy H 9-2 6-Florally 10-1 SECOND-6f; $9,000; cl($5,000); 4up 7-Burley's Gold 9-2 2-Evangelos 15-1 8-Billy's...

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Yonkers Results

FIRST: mile; pace; $10,000; cond 1 IdealDanny(EGoodell) 3.20 2.80 2.10 5 Deuce Seelster (B Sears) 7.60 4.40 2 Forever Good (M Kakaley) 3.80 * Exacta (1-5) $25.20 * Triple (1-5-2) $123.50 SECOND: mile; trot; $12,000; cond 1 Crypto Man...

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Home Team Lineups

TODAYJan. 30 THUJan. 31 FRIFeb. 1 SATFeb. 2 SUNFeb. 3 MONFeb. 4 TUEFeb. 5 Knicks Orlando7:30MSG NetworkESPN 98.7 FM NO GAME Mil.7:30MSGESPN Sac.7:30MSGESPN NOGAME Det.7:30MSGESPN NO GAME Nets Miami8:00YES Network/ESPNWFAN 660 AM/101.9...

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Ravens LB Ray Lewis: We’ll bring trophy back to Baltimore

NEW ORLEANS — Get ready for a lot of Ray Lewis. Super Bowl XLVII is between the Ravens and 49ers, but there is no question who the star getting the most attention this week will be. Lewis, the retiring Ravens linebacker who is as polarizing off the...

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Pressure the heart of matter for contending Compton

LA JOLLA, Calif. — This was a highly educational week for Erik Compton, the PGA Tour player playing with his third heart after two transplants. Compton, who before this week had never finished better than a tie for 13th, finished tied for 15th at the...

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Forgiving Lewis doesn’t give Hoot about Mrs. Welker diss

NEW ORLEANS — Ray Lewis sounds like a minister sometimes when he speaks, and when the topic of Anna Welker, the wife of Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker, came up last night, he sounded like Father Ray. Anna Welker, a former Miss Hooters International,,...

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Rex’s exes still in love with Jets coach

Steve Serby NEW ORLEANS — On one side of the room was Ray Lewis, ending his Hall of Fame career with a Super Bowl. On the other side, at separate podiums, sat Ed Reed and Terrell Suggs, grizzled Ravens champions getting their first shot at a ring....

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Tiger cruises at fave course, generating more ‘back’ talk

LA JOLLA, Calif. — Every time Tiger Woods tees it up at a tournament, we take his temperature. We analyze the state of his game and the state of his mind. We want to know if he's back. Ever since the fire hydrant and the subsequent public unraveling...

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Plan on immig reform

A bipartisan group of leading senators last night reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws. The deal, which was to be announced at a news conference this afternoon, covers border security,...

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JonBenet ‘indict’ shocker

The Colorado grand jury looking into the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey voted to indict the little beauty queen's parents 13 years ago — but prosecutors declined to press the case, a bombshell new report claims. The grand jury voted in 1999 to...

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WATCH: Jennifer Lawrence suffers wardrobe malfunction at SAG Awards

TBS video still Jennifer Lawrence suffered a wardrobe malfunction of sorts as she approached the stage to accept a Screen Actors Guild Award Sunday. That wasn't supposed to happen! Jennifer Lawrence suffered a wardrobe malfunction of sorts at Sunday's...

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Chris Brown, Frank Ocean fight outside of LA studio: report

AP Chris Brown (L) and Frank Ocean's feud turned violent Sunday, with the two engaging in a fight outside of a Los Angeles recording studio. Chris Brown is at it again ... The hotheaded musician was involved in a brawl with R&B singer Frank...

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WATCH: Adam Levine gets celebrity comedy advice on 'SNL'

NBC Adam Levine received hosting advice from Andy Samberg, Cameron Diaz and Jerry Seinfeld on this weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live." Of course Adam Levine took his shirt off during his "Saturday Night Live" monologue. He just needed some...

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Casey Anthony: I'm flat broke

TAMPA, Fla. — Casey Anthony filed for bankruptcy in Florida on Friday, claiming about $1,100 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities. Court records show that Anthony, who was acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2011, sought Chapter...

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Sports Shorts

NFL: Mangini, Crennel to Saints? While reinstated Saints coach Sean Payton said he's in no hurry to replace the fired Steve Spagnuolo at defensive coordinator, ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted two candidates the team will consider are ex-Jets' head coach...

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Bruins’ rally sinks Islanders in DiPietro’s return

BOSTON — Islanders' center Keith Aucoin had his first career two-goal game on Friday night, but he was the only member of his team to score as the Islanders fell to the Bruins, 4-2. Rick DiPietro, playing his first game since Dec. 3, 2011, after last...

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Belcher estate play

Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher's mom was named administrator of her son's estate yesterday. Cheryl Shepherd of West Babylon, LI won the appointment from a Jackson County, Mo. court. It'll be her job to distribute the estate's assets — believed to be...

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Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays

Affectionately Aqueduct, eighth race. Purse: $75,000. 1 1/16 miles, fillies and mares. Post: 3:48 p.m. LOWDOWN: Last out, in the Ladies Handicap, R Gypsy Gold fell short by a neck of running down heavy favorite Arena Elvira, who would be 2-5 in this...

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Nets' won't stir pot about All-Star snub

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — If Brook Lopez was upset about being left out of this year's All-Star Game, he did a good job of hiding it. The Nets center, considered by many to be the most deserving player not headed to Houston for next month's All-Star festivities,...

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Celtics coach knows what Shumpert went through to return to Knicks

BOSTON — Celtics coach Doc Rivers knows exactly what Knicks guard Iman Shumpert went through coming back from a torn ACL in his left knee. It's a been there, done that kind of thing. "If you're not a worker, you will not come back from that injury....

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Nets’ Watson warned for flopping

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Nets guard C.J. Watson was warned by the NBA for flopping Thursday for a play in the fourth quarter of Wednesday's win at Minnesota. The warning comes as no surprise after Watson all but admitted to flopping to draw an offensive foul...

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LIU topples St. Francis to win Brooklyn battle

Liu Brooklyn is back in the Northeast Conference title hunt. The two-time defending league champions, a long shot just two weeks ago after starting 0-3 in the NEC and losing reigning player of the year Julian Boyd to a torn ACL, won their fourth straight...

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Meadowlands Graded Entries

Post Time: 7:15 p.m. Best Bet: Wilcox (2nd) FIRST: mile trot; $9,500; cond 2 Take It To Nine (JCampbell) 9-2-3 7-2 8 GoodSoundAdvice (YGingrs) 9-4-2 3-1 9 SouthJerseyBugsy (EAbbtell) 5-4-6 8-1 1 Donatoprincess (TTetrick) 1-4-3...

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Tsonga: Women players ‘more unstable than us’

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has a theory as to why women's tennis top seeds seem to fall earlier in some draws than men do. "You know, the girls, they are more unstable than us," Tsonga told reporters yesterday after a 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3 loss to Roger Federer...

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NFL executives high on Jets’ new GM

MOBILE, Ala. — Rod Graves laughs about the meeting now. It was the early-1990s on a practice field at Duke University when he saw his old friend John Idzik. The two had been ballboys together with the Philadelphia Eagles, both the teenage sons of members...

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Reinstated Payton seeks ‘closure’ to Bountygate scandal

MOBILE, Ala. — Wednesday was the first day of the rest of Sean Payton's coaching career, and the Saints' newly reinstated sideline boss was only looking ahead. Fresh from the early lifting of his one-year Bountygate suspension, Payton faced the media...

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Stephens, Sharapova fall in semis

MELBOURNE, Australia—Victoria Azarenka overcame a sore left ankle, some anxietyand a slew of frustrating forehand errors before fending off American teenager Sloane Stephens to reach the Australian Open final against Li Na. For the second time in two...

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Unbelievable story is not to be believed

Steve Serby So let me get this straight: A coach would be willing to throw the Super Bowl so his buddy, coaching the other team, would win because he hated the organization he was able to get to the Super Bowl. I'd sooner believe Manti Te'o's girlfriend...

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Today's Sports on the Air

Basketball 6 p.m. Lehigh at Bucknell CBSSN 7 p.m. Penn State at Indiana BIG TEN 7 p.m. Duke at Miami ESPN 7 p.m. South Florida at Seton Hall ESPNU 7:30 p.m. TCU at West Virginia ESPN2 7:30 p.m. St. John's at...

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