One goal for surging St. John’s: End drought vs. Villanova

PHILADELPHIA — The thought of St. John's using Saturday's showdown at Villanova as a chance to rest ailing players ahead of the Big East Tournament was about as appealing to Sir'Dominic Pointer as another NIT berth.

Red-hot St. John's, firmly in the NCAA Tournament field, is in Philadelphia to win a basketball game, to beat the No. 4 team in the country. The Red Storm will have five days to rest up for the Big East Tournament.

"For us as seniors and the St. John's basketball program, we're trying to get a win we haven't gotten in our four years here," Pointer said, referring to the 0-6 record against the Wildcats for the senior class. "We did it with Syracuse."

Coach Steve Lavin plans to treat the Villanova game like any other on the schedule. Chris Obekpa (ankle) is expected to play and guard Jamal Branch (groin strain) will be a game-day decision after missing the Marquette game. D'Angelo Harrison (calf strains) will start.

There is a slim chance St. John's (21-9, 10-7) could finish third in the Big East. Georgetown would have to lose to Seton Hall and Providence must fall at Butler, in tandem with a Johnnies win over the Wildcats (28-2, 15-2).

Whatever happens elsewhere, a win in Philadelphia would be significant — a road victory over a top-five team in the country and the kind of statement-making triumph that certainly would elevate St. John's in the eyes of the seeding committee.

"We're trying to do something to add to our résumé and try to get a win, try to get as many wins as possible before the NCAA Tournament," said Pointer, the reigning Big East Player of the Week and a Player of the Year contender.

One major difference between Saturday's showdown and the first meeting, a 90-72 Villanova rout at the Garden on Jan. 6, should be Rysheed Jordan. The sophomore from Philadelphia scored just two points on 0-of-6 shooting in his first game back after taking a four-day leave of absence from the program.

Jordan has played the best basketball of his college career of late, averaging 16.5 points, 4.2 assists and just 1.5 turnovers in the Red Storm's current four-game win streak. He scored a team-high 23 points and made five 3-pointers in Wednesday's road win over Marquette.

"He's maturing and he's just playing great basketball," Pointer said. "He's confident right now. He's playing like the Rysheed Jordan we know he can play like."

St. John's has come a long way in five weeks, from being in danger of landing in the Big East cellar to an imminent NCAA Tournament berth, its second in five seasons after a nine-year drought. The Red Storm have won seven of eight games and eight of 10 — the only losses in that span coming at Butler and Georgetown — and look like a team capable of reaching the Sweet 16. The only Big East team hotter is Villanova, which carries an 11-game winning streak into Saturday's contest.

"We're just playing to our potential right now," Pointer said. "At the beginning of the year, we let a lot of games slip away, honestly. I think we should be better than we are right now. But we're rolling right now.

"I'm not surprised. We knew we would be this good."

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Why Yankees aren’t rushing Tanaka into spring training game

TAMPA — Masahiro Tanaka is scheduled to throw a simulated game Sunday, when the Yankees are in Kissimmee, Fla., playing the Astros.

While Tanaka is getting closer to pitching an exhibition game, pitching coach Larry Rothschild is a proponent of the simulated game to get pitchers the required work.

"Some of these guys are doing simulated games to start because it's a more controlled environment, and you can build them up,'' said manager Joe Girardi, who hasn't scheduled CC Sabathia or Michael Pineda for a game yet.

"Thursday was a [batting practice] for CC. I believe he has a [simulated game] planned, and you could very well see him the next time,'' Girardi said.

Just because a starter graduates from simulated games to exhibition games doesn't mean he has put the simulated games away.

"Sometimes Larry, when you are trying to get their pitch count up, he prefers to do it in a heavy sim day because you don't have 30 pitches in one inning and then you worry about them," Girardi said. "You can go 17 pitches an inning, four or five innings and it works better.''

A year ago, Tanaka was eager to face hitters in his first camp. Now, after suffering a small tear in the right ulnar collateral ligament in July and going the rehab route instead of having Tommy John surgery, the plan hasn't been as aggressive toward facing batters.

"He wanted to feel what it was going to be like. We will do what's best for him,'' Girardi said of the right-hander, whose health will determine a big part of what happens to the Yankees this season. "Last year we were trying to learn him, and he was trying to learn us. This year we feel it's important we do what's best for him.''

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The Phillies have an interest in Yankees catcher Austin Romine, who is out of options, to back up Carlos Ruiz.

Romine has to stick with the Yankees or any of three things can happen: The Yankees can outright him, release him or trade him. If he is outrighted, Romine has to go through waivers and likely would be claimed. If that's the case, Romine has to go on that club's 40-man roster.

The Yankees could opt to send Murphy to Triple-A to play regularly and keep Romine as McCann's backup. That scenario provides depth in case of an injury.

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Alex Rodriguez went 0-for-2 with a walk and a strikeout in his second game of the spring, a 3-1 loss to the Pirates on Friday night. Might Girardi play Rodriguez at third Sunday against the Nationals at George M. Steinbrenner Field?

"He will play Sunday, obviously,'' Girardi said. "Do I play him at third? It's possible.''

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Carlos Beltran played his first spring training game in right field, against the Pirates, and went 0-for-2 with a walk.

Carlos Beltran strikes out in the fourth inning Friday night.Photo: Charles Wenzelberg

"The good thing is that I am physically fine. Now is the time to get better and good at-bats,'' said Beltran, who added he doesn't feel any discomfort in his surgically repaired right elbow. "I am not concerned at all.''

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Chris Capuano, the leading candidate for the No. 5 spot in the rotation, worked two innings in which he gave up two runs and three hits and absorbed the loss to the Pirates.

"I was a little sloppy with fastball command,'' said Capuano, who gave up a two-run homer to Tony Sanchez in the second.

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Having managed a 4-1 win over the Phillies in Clearwater, Fla., during the afternoon and against Pirates at night, Girardi admitted the day was long.
"It was a lot of baseball, but it was a good day,'' Girardi said.

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Bryan Mitchell threw two scoreless innings against the Phillies in which he allowed one hit and fanned two.

Mitchell is in camp working as starter but is a long shot to crack the rotation unless an injury hits.

"We continue to see progress from him,'' Girardi said of the 23-year-old right-hander, who was taken in the 16th round of the 2009 draft.
Mitchell appeared in three big league games last year for the Yankees and made one start.

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Eric Jagielo, the Yankees' first-round pick in the 2013 draft, entered as a pinch-runner for Chase Headley in the fourth inning against the Phillies. He went 0-for-2. Michael O'Neill, a nephew of Paul O'Neill, was a replacement in left field and hitless in an at-bat.

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Boy, 10, dies after jumping out school’s window

A 10-year-old boy died Friday after jumping from the second-floor window of his New Jersey elementary school, reports said.

His death is being investigated as a possible suicide, said WNBC/Channel 4.

The fifth-grader had a dispute with a classmate over a game of chess, then passed that student a note before opening a window and jumping out, sources told the station.

The boy fell about 25 feet before landing on a concrete sidewalk.

He was rushed from the Dumont school to a hospital at about noon, but died at around 5 p.m., the Bergen Record reported.

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Giants and Jets team up with firefighter to preach fire safety

Last year both teams got smoked on the field, but now the Giants and Jets are teaming up with a Brooklyn smoke-eater to preach fire safety to young fans around New York.

Brian Mullen, an 11-year FDNY veteran and second-generation firefighter, enlisted the help of Big Blue and Gang Green to license smoke detectors with the clubs' logos in a push to make the life-saving devices more attractive to kids.

"We're just taking a boring, utilitarian product and making it cool, hip, and fun," said Mullen, 44. "We want kids to say, 'Hey mom, hey dad, I want a smoke detector in my room. I want a Jets one, I want a Giants one.'"

Mullen noted that blazes in homes with working smoke detectors are 50% less likely to be fatal.

Despite this, one-in-five residences has missing or obsolete detectors.

"The facts are staggering," Mullen said.

Portions of all sales go to various fire-related initiatives, including Vision 20/20 and the New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation.

The gridiron-themed detectors are available through Mullen's website thebuffproject.com, named for the buffalo-skin coats worn by early volunteer firefighters in New York.

"We want everyone to be a buff," he said, repeating the familiar advice that homeowners check or replace their smoke detectors when the clocks roll forward this Sunday.

"If you're not a Jets fan, if you're not a Giants fan, that's fine," Mullen said in a good-natured jab at New York's home teams for their 2014 on-the-field woes. "A lot of people hate them right now — just go out and buy another smoke detector."

Fans of more recently successful squads are also in luck: all 32 NFL clubs have signed on to offer licensed smoke detectors through The Buff Project.

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Queens man killed in his doorway

Darnell Green

Police say, Darnell Green, 18, is a suspect in the fatal shooting of another teen in Rockaway on Friday.

Isaiah Lee, also 18, was at his home in the Hammel Houses on Beach Channel Drive in Arverne when he heard somebody knocking on his door at about 12:45 p.m., law enforcement sources said.

When Lee cracked open the door, the gunman pumped bullets into his head and chest before running off.

Sources said the shooting may have stemmed from a fight over a woman.

Lee died at St. John's Episcopal Hospital.

Green had been busted for robbery last month.

Neighbors remembered Lee as a good kid who loved to shoot hoops on the complex's basketball courts.

"He never was a troublemaker," said friend Carleen Mitchell.

"It's just sad…[to lose] a young life, a good life."

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Maccagnan’s on the clock — but that doesn’t mean Revis is a must

He is Money Mike Maccagnan, holding Woody Johnson's $55 million in one hand, the hopes and dreams of long-suffering Jets fans in the other.

This is his personal Super Bowl, authorized by the owner to spend all the greenbacks John Idzik opted to keep under lock and key inside Fort Hard Knocks.

This is his dream job, after all the miles traveled scouting and evaluating prospects around the country, after all the bleary-eyed nights studying the tape, his chance to rebuild the Jets in his image and show the NFL he has the chops to be the miracle worker alongside fellow rookie Todd Bowles that Giants GM Jerry Reese was alongside Tom Coughlin immediately after taking over from Ernie Accorsi.

As free agency beckons, Money Mike will have his honeymoon, albeit a short one if, heaven help him, Jets fans suspect he is nothing close to the young Ron Wolf and a plane flying a "FIRE MACCAGNAN" banner becomes a Pavlovian response.

Idzik trumpeted the draft as the lifeblood of his ill-fated plan, and with 12 picks waiting for him, only stuck his toe in the free-agent waters last March with the likes of Eric Decker, Breno Giacomini, Chris Johnson and — gasp — Dimitri Patterson, compounding his penny-pinching with a two-bit draft.

Money Mike similarly believes in building through the draft, but all avenues will be in play, and when the clock strikes 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Money Mike must show up with an innate feel for the proper market value for the players he and Bowles covet, because he who hesitates is often lost.

"You have to strike when you can," Reese said two years ago, "but other times you have to sit back and wait and let the market settle down a little bit. … I think there are three levels of free agency. I think of the first level, you get the guys out there that are going to get the money right away. Then there's a second level, and then you can bottom feed on the guys left at the end."

Money Mike must be prepared to strike on every one of the aforementioned levels.

Because, you see, Money Mike's thankless mandate is to close the forever gap on Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, without a franchise quarterback or shutdown corner or free safety or No. 1 receiver. In other words, he cannot afford to make a mistake. In other words, he has no margin for error.

Money Mike has to put Johnson's money where Rex Ryan's mouth was. He isn't going to have $55 million in his pockets again, and his new fans have grown tired of waiting for Brady to grow old.

Darrelle RevisPhoto: Getty Images

Reese's free-agent prize as a rookie GM in 2007 was linebacker Kawika Mitchell, but a home-run draft and an emerging Eli Manning had him hoisting the Lombardi Trophy.

Giants fans railed that Reese was asleep at the switch while the Eagles were adding Nnamdi Asomugha to their 8-8 Dream Team, but then that season ended with Reese hoisting a second Lombardi Trophy.

Reese himself authored a cautionary tale on the merits of spending like a drunken sailor a year ago when a surprise $116 million plunge resulted in 6-10, even with first-round pick Odell Beckham Jr. becoming quite the catch.

And sometimes, you can think you're making a splash with a big name — think LaVar Arrington (Giants), Super Bowl quarterback Neil O'Donnell (Jets) — and end up all wet.

Three years before DT Albert Haynesworth became the worst free-agent signing in NFL history, the Redskins in 2006 trumpeted the signing of safety Adam Archuleta (six years, $30 million) while also introducing DE Andre Carter and WRs Antwaan Randle-El and Brandon Lloyd. "I think it's a big day for the Redskins," Joe Gibbs said at the time. That would be the 5-11 Redskins.

Johnson getting weepy over a reunion with Darrelle Revis must not deter Money Mike from cornering a more reasonable and younger option such as Byron Maxwell, and besides, the smart money has The Island standing Pat and pursuing back-to-back championships. And Belichick isn't the only bloodthirsty shark endangering Money Mike. Rex Ryan up in Buffalo has LeSean McCoy for his Ground and Pound and will soon be wooing David Harris.

And Mike Tannenbaum in Miami — Trader Mike — will be looking to beat Money Mike to one of the coveted cornerbacks.

Of course, should Money Mike decide to bring a free Revis home, even at any cost, he'll be hailed as an instant hero.

"To my mother, who used to type my reports when I first started scouting for the Washington Redskins — because I wasn't a very good typer at the time — she was my biggest fan," Money Mike said at his introductory press conference.

Money Mike has spent a football life in the shadows, and loving every second along the way. But now he stands front and center on Broadway, on the biggest and brightest stage there is. With as big a job as any. A daunting job that will demand he be Miracle Mike once he finishes being Money Mike.

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Knicks radio voice: Star prospect Mudiay impressive, but flawed

When he's not calling the Knicks as the team's radio voice, broadcaster Mike Crispino has gotten a chance to do what most NBA fans haven't done — watch top-5 draft prospect, point guard Emmanuel Mudiay and ex-Knick Stephon Marbury play in China.

Crispino has broadcast about 20 Chinese Basketball Association games this season for a fledgling cable station, One World Sports, from a studio. He called the Marbury-vs.-Mudiay matchup Monday — Game 4 of the CBA semifinals.

Marbury's Beijing squad ended Mudiay's season, 106-104, as Guangdong was ousted, 3-1.

Mudiay largely had been off the radar after suffering a high ankle sprain in late November. Monday's game was only his second game back. The former Dallas high-schooler who jumped to Asia instead of the NCAA notched 15 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, but Marbury outshone him with a 38-point night and key 3-pointer that sent the game to overtime.

In Game 3, his official return, Mudiay put up 28 points, eight assists and eight rebounds.

"I did a couple of his games early on and he looked like a high school player who didn't look physically up to being in a professional league — he looked like a teenager,'' Crispino told The Post at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis Wednesday before the Knicks were routed by the Pacers. "He showed flashes of being a good basketball player but nothing like he'd be a top-5 pick.''

Nevertheless, when Crispino caught Mudiay in Monday's contest after missing three months, his opinion changed. The Knicks can assure themselves of a top-4 pick if they remain as the league's worst team.

Certainly, they are in play for the 19-year-old.

"He looked totally different, he filled out, hit the weight room, he looked more like a grown man — if you can say that about a 19-year-old,'' Crispino said. "He was more confident. But he's still doing a lot of things that are just mistakes — that you wouldn't do if you had experience under your belt. He's still very inexperienced as a basketball player on the professional level.''

Crispino also does college games for ESPN and said the CBA is a higher level of basketball, perhaps better to prepare a prospect for the NBA.

"It's a little above the D-League,'' Crispino said. "It's got a 24-second clock. It's a 48-minute game.''

When it doesn't conflict with the Knicks upcoming West Coast trip, Crispino will broadcast the CBA Finals as Marbury goes for his third Chinese title.

"He looks the same as when he was here six years ago,'' Crispino said. "He's not scoring crazy points in China, but he runs the team.''

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The Knicks will complete their home-and-home set with Indiana on Saturday at the Garden, and center Roy Hibbert will play.

Without him, the Pacers beat the Knicks by 23 points Wednesday and are the hottest NBA team since the start of February at 9-2.

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In explaining how the Knicks can win two straight, then lose by a combined 61 points to the Kings and Pacers, coach Derek Fisher said: "We have nine guys [on the roster] who are pretty young who don't know how to do that just that [recover from a bad game].

"As the season wraps up, it's a great experience for these guys to learn what it takes to be good night in, night out. That doesn't necessarily mean we'll win every night. There's a standard we have to set.''

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Firefighter injured by manhole cover after Brooklyn blast

A firefighter was hit by a flying manhole cover in Brooklyn Thursday night.

He had been rushing to the scene of another manhole fire at 1291 Broadway at around 10 p.m. when a second fire blew a manhole open just feet away, at 1271 Broadway, officials said.

"There was an underground transformer fire here," said FDNY Chief Daniel Martinetion. "It blew and hit him in the leg. It's a compound break."

The firefighter, who sustained head injuries in addition to the broken leg, was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was in stable condition.

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Healthy, confident Beltran: I’ll bounce back, I’ve done it before

TAMPA — You could argue no active major league player carries as strong a bond to his native land as does Carlos Beltran to Puerto Rico. Yet this past winter, Beltran limited his time at home to the Christmas/New Year's school break.

The rest of the time, you could find the Yankees' outfielder in Manhattan, or The Bronx, or Yonkers. Embracing the city where he has played the most.

"When I had the surgery, I felt it was the best thing for me to do, be close to the trainers," Beltran said Thursday at Steinbrenner Field. "I wanted to be [in New York]. I want to make sure I'm healthy. Make sure I show up ready to go."

"The surgery" would be the procedure the 37-year-old underwent Sept. 30, to remove loose pieces and a bone spur from his right elbow. That would be the bone spur that, Beltran and the Yankees assert, sabotaged his first season with the team for which he had long desired to play.

So here Beltran is, set to make his 2015 Grapefruit League debut Friday night at home against the Phillies, aiming to repeat a past feat.

"I know last year was a tough year for me, but at the end of the day, this is something that I have done well in the past," Beltran said. "After a bad year, I always have found a way to bounce back to where I'm supposed to be. To where I think I'm supposed to be."

His 2014 wasn't just bad. By most measures, it marked the worst campaign of his superb career. He registered personal lows in batting average (.233), on-base percentage (.301), and wins above replacement (both Baseball-Reference.com and FanGraphs graded him below the value of a replacement-level player). In all, the kickoff to his three-year, $45 million contract couldn't have gone much worse.

The Yankees badly need Beltran to look closer to his 2013 form, when he bid farewell to the Cardinals with a .296/.339/.491 slash line and 24 homers in 554 at-bats, plus a strong postseason.

Carlos Beltran (right) talks with Alex Rodriguez during a spring training workout.Photo: Getty Images

"It would be a huge boost to our lineup," manager Joe Girardi said. "He can do a bunch of different things offensively. Do some different things in the lineup with him because he's a switch-hitter. We really missed him. We missed his production last year. It's important to get it back."

Beltran was so committed to wintering in New York he registered his older daughter, Ivana, in a Manhattan private school, even though his charity work in Puerto Rico is considerable enough that it won him the 2013 Roberto Clemente Award, named after his fellow Puerto Rican. As the timing worked out, he tried swinging a bat for the first time in Puerto Rico, over the holidays.

"I was expecting the next day to wake up a little sore, and I woke up feeling fine," he said. "So now it's in the past."

Upon returning to his Manhattan apartment for the rest of the offseason, he continued his rehabilitation at Yankee Stadium and also in a Yonkers batting cage, Beltran said.

He sustained the elbow injury May 12, while hitting in the Yankee Stadium indoor cage, and neither a stint on the disabled list nor multiple cortisone shots improved his performance.

"I'm a gamer," Beltran declared on Thursday, but at the general managers' meetings last November, Yankees GM Brian Cashman conceded that, given how poorly Beltran performed, both the team and the player would've been better off had Beltran immediately submitted to surgery.

Nevertheless, it's important to note Beltran already was off to a shaky start (.240/.292/.440) when he got hurt. At his advanced baseball age, he might not be capable of another self-rescue mission.

Now comes the opportunity for Beltran to back up the "gamer" talk, and to defy the odds once again. He put up lousy numbers (.266/.330/.414, 16 homers) in 2005, his first year as a Met, and he rebounded with three sublime seasons that too many Mets fans didn't appreciate. And after major right-knee surgery limited him to 64 games in 2010, he burst out of the gate with an outstanding 98 games with the 2011 Mets before getting dealt to San Francisco.

"I just want to be productive," he said. "I want to put myself in a position where I can impact the team in a positive way, offensively or defensively."

He put himself in the right position before reporting to camp. On Friday, we'll start to see how much that matters.

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Good riddance to celebrity ‘New Yorkers’ who bolt for Hollywood

Is New York City over? Hard-core New Yorker Lena Dunham appears to be the latest obnoxious celebrity to try her luck on the West Coast. The creator, writer and star of the HBO TV series "Girls'' is doing for four young, slutty, self-absorbed and white female characters who live in Brooklyn what the series "Sex and the City'' did for four middle-aged, slutty, self-absorbed and white middle-aged female characters who lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

But now, Dunham has done the unthinkable.

The pleasantly plump portrayer of aspiring writer Hannah Horvath, known for her habit of appearing naked on TV, has bought a sweet, swanky house in Los Angeles. Actress Michelle Williams has already replaced snowbanks with mudslides, leaving Brooklyn for LA with her daughter by her boyfriend, the late actor Heath Ledger. Brooklyn-bred rapper ­Jay Z and his songstress wife, Beyoncé, shockingly decamped from Manhattan with their daughter, choosing to spend their lives in the land of smog, face-lifts and hybrid SUVs.

But the latest possible defection is all the more surprising because the tattooed Dunham, 28, last year told Vogue magazine that Tinseltown is not her cup of kale.

"I like Los Angeles,'' she told the mag, "but more than two weeks and I start to get a very sad feeling. If I do start to feel at home here, someone should really worry about me." Maybe it's time to worry.

Or not.

Dunham, who spends several weeks in Los Angeles each year to work on her show, has bought a $2.7 million, 2,500-square-foot crib off LA's Sunset Strip that once sheltered the late producer, TV actor and "Breakfast at Tiffany's'' movie star George Peppard Jr.

It boasts three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a guest house, gardens, a saltwater swimming pool and the kind of hedge-guarded privacy that one can't find in Brooklyn Heights, where Dunham has lived since December in a more than $4.8 million four-bedroom condominium apartment with her rocker boyfriend, Jack Antonoff, 30. She also owns a $500,000, one-bedroom pad in the Heights.

Maybe Dunham wants to hide amid the tar pits. In her 2014 best-selling memoir, "Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's 'Learned,' '' Dunham wrote that when she was "a weird 7-year-old'' growing up on Long Island, she spread open the vagina of her then-1-year-old sister, Grace, with her fingers and masturbated while lying in bed with her sibling as a young teen. She also confessed to bribing the child to win a five-second kiss on the lips.

"Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying," she wrote.

After TruthRevolt.org posted a story accusing Dunham of being a sex abuser, her lawyers threatened the conservative Web site with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit if it didn't remove the piece from cyberspace and issue a public apology. It refused. Dunham has not sued.

She issued a statement to Time magazine in which she apologized if "situations described in my book have been painful or triggering to read.''

"I want to be very clear that I do not condone any kind of abuse under any circumstance,'' she wrote. "I am also aware that the comic use of the term 'sexual predator' was insensitive, and I'm sorry for that as well.''

In the memoir, for which Dunham was paid a cool $3.7 million advance by publisher Random House, she also claimed that she was sexually assaulted by a prominent Republican student named "Barry'' in 2005 when she was 19 years old and attending Oberlin College in Ohio. But after a prominent Republican former Oberlin College student named Barry raised money with the intention of suing, Random House issued a statement:

"The name 'Barry' referenced in the book is a pseudonym. Random House, on our own behalf and on behalf of our author, regrets the confusion.''

Dunham's rep told me in an e-mail, "Lena does go back and forth between NY and LA but considers NY her home.'' And, "Lena will be updating the book for the paperback this summer. We don't know the content of what those updates will be.''

Is New York over? Or are New Yorkers done with entitled, spoiled brats?

Enjoy LA, Lena Dunham. And please, stay there.

Bibi shows Bam how it's done

Bibi said what President Obama will not. "The greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons,'' Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, told a joint session of Congress on Tuesday in a masterful speech.

The president believes he can negotiate with Iran to halt its nuclear program, while refusing to even utter the words "Islam'' and "militant'' in the same sentence. With or without this country's help, Israel will fight to prevent itself from being wiped off the map.

Little miss camelout

"I am a Kennedy. Google me. If you don't let me in, the governor will be calling.''

These fighting words were allegedly uttered by Kyra Kennedy, 19, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the late Mary Richardson Kennedy and a grandniece of slain President John F. Kennedy,
Emily Smith of The Post's Page Six reported.

Witnesses said the underage debutante appeared drunk as she was refused entry by a security guard to an over-21 area of an upstate New York nightclub last week armed with her older half-sister's passport as identification while on a road trip with pals to a party at Syracuse University.

Does the world revolve around some members of the Kennedy clan?

They seem to think so.

Hoping Cindy is the real deal

A photograph recently emerged of supermodel Cindy Crawford, a 49-year-old married mother of two, wearing a bra and panties with her naked midsection seemingly marred by stretch marks and her thighs looking thicker than we've ever seen them. Women everywhere cheered.

But was the photo, tweeted out last month by a British journalist, then taken down, real?

Celebrity photographer John Russo, who shot Crawford for the December 2013 cover and a spread in Marie Claire Mexico magazine, gave a statement to ABC News saying that the image was stolen or unlawfully accessed, then altered and distributed to the media.

Crawford and the magazine did not comment on Photogate.

She looked like a real person.

Most likely to secede

More than a dozen towns in upstate New York are threatening to try to secede from the state and become part of Pennsylvania. This, after Gov. Cuomo yielded to wrongheaded environmentalists in December and banned hydraulic fracturing — "fracking'' — in New York, a method of removing natural gas from the ground which could bring jobs and money to impoverished communities.

Fracking is legal in the Keystone State.

In order to secede, the towns need approval from the New York and Pennsylvania legislatures, as well as from the federal government.

I hope they get it.

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