February 16, 2007
Jeter Battles Cold, Hughs to Start in Triple-A
Informed that Mike Mussina was critical of Carl Pavano over at Legends Field, Jeter smiled and said, “I have to get over there, I am missing all the fun.’’Joe Torre...
Oh lord won't you buy me a Benz
my friends all have marc's I must make amends...One of the brighter spots from a dark fashion week had to be Chris Benz, who worked for two years at J...
WHERE DO ALL THOSE PICTURES WIND UP?
By KEVIN KERNANThe David Wright song suggestions have been fantastic, all winners so far in this version of Mets Idol. I'll make sure Wright takes them all under advisement. Keep...
Bullpen sessions
By MARK HALE Tom Glavine is warming up to throw a bullpen session and is wearing the new uniforms. They don't look great.The blue looks fine but the orange swatches...
By a Nose
Harvey Weinstein famously wrangled with Terry Gilliam over the director's desire to have Matt Damon wear a large false nose in "The Brothers Grimm.'' Harvey prevailed. Now Damon tells Australia's...
Baby, it's cold outside
By Mike VaccaroPORT ST. LUCIE -- It's the dateline that usually gets people. It's the dateline -- and the date, preferably falling sometime in February -- that makes them want...
LIVEBLOG/NEVIS: Beware of New York driver
Driving little Nevis should be cake -- there's really only one main road, and it runs in a circle around the entire island right up to every major attraction: hotels...
Oscar Update
With Oscar ballots due next Tuesday, the Best Picture race remains incredibly murky. There's absolutely no consensus. Here's my latest set of predictions in all categories at Movie City News,...
Back Where She Belongs
For those of us who still can't forget the first time they saw Sigourney Weaver wandering around a spaceship in her panties in "Alien,'' James Cameron (who directed her in...
Willie and Glav
By MARK HALEWillie Randolph had his opening meeting with the media today, and the Mets manager is wearing his 1977 World Series ring. He didn't wear any ring last year.A...
Day 7: Mussina's Reasoning
Mike Mussina raised an interesting issue anew when he publicly challenged Carl Pavano to win back respect within the Yankee clubhouse by getting on the mound consistently and displaying a...
Stop the Presses!
As noted here previously, Sony didn't show "Ghost Rider'' to most major critics until last night, in what was a fairly blatant effort to keep reviews out of the Friday...
UPTOWN COMES ALIVE
Today's Classroom Extra Page celebrates one of the most creative periods in American history. Music, art, literature and social thinking all came alive during the Harlem Renaissance. Soon after the...
UNTANGLING A WEB OF LIES
THIS past Halloween, 18-year-old Nikki Catsouras was killed in a car crash. A few days later, Catsouras' teenage cousin - answering a text message - flipped open her cellphone and...
BEN'S LARGER THAN LIFE, WOULD LOVE TO DANCE
YOU can feel Ben Vereen's frustra tion as he makes his New York nightclub debut. He's the sort of outsized performer born to play on a Broadway stage, and the...
RUSSIAN GIVES CITY ITS VISION
NEW York City Ballet is working hard to make its new programming - un changing groups of ballet, each with a fancy title - popular with its public. Among the...
SWEET JUDY TRUE PRIZE
'THE '60s are on their way back," singer Judy Collins declared as she opened her three-week run at the Café Carlyle. But the evening was a greater indication that the...
CHEESY RIDER
WHEN Kirk Douglas busts into a drowsy little newsroom in "Ace in the Hole," he declares, "Even for Albuquerque, this is pretty Albuquerque." And even for a comic-book movie, "Ghost...
CHENIER-EST & DEAREST
SOMETIMES there are do-overs in life, even for Cupid. C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band couldn't make it to New York for Valentine's Day, so Midtown Irish bar...
MOVING TALE, BUT NOT WHAT DOCTOR ORDERED
THERE'S no denying the fierce emotional conviction of "A Very Common Procedure," Courtney Baron's new play being presented by the MCC Theater. But this one-act about the burgeoning relationship between...
'BRIDE' NOT TO BE
IT'S splitsville for Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman and Tony-winning song writer Adam Guettel - and curtains for "The Princess Bride." The two had been collaborating on a much-anticipated stage version...
NEW YORK'S IN LOVE
BUSTY VH1 star New York loves somebody, she just can't say who just yet. Tiffany Pollard (aka New York), from "I Love New York" and "Flavor of Love," says she...
STARR REPORT
Why is she laughing? I'll tell you why - because Rachael Ray snared her all- time-best numbers Wednes day - a 3.3 overnight rating with guest Susan Lucci and the...
THE CHILD KILLER & THE LORD
WHAT sparks real evil? And conversely what sparks pure charity? In HBO's disturbing, sober and flawless original movie, "Longford," premiering tomorrow night, these questions are two sides of the same...
'LOST' WITHOUT A PADDLE
'LOST" needs someone to help it find a way back into people's homes. The drama has yet to recover from ABC yanking it from the schedule for several months after...
'FELICITY' TIES THE KNOT
KERI Russell, better known to TV fans as "Felicity," has tied the knot - shortly after announcing she was pregnant. Russell and Shane Deary were married Wednesday night, Valentine's Day...
THE SNITCH IS BACK
OSCAR winner Chris Cooper ("Adaptation") knocks it out of the park as real-life FBI turncoat Robert Hanssen in "Breach," which tightly focuses on the six months preceding the disgraced spy's...
ANTIBODIES
'WHAT did you expect - Hannibal Lecter?" says the jailed serial killer who messes with the mind of a rural cop come to interview him in "Antibodies," a German thriller...
BRIDGE TO THE '50S
THE pocket-size Narnia in Disney's kid movie "Bridge to Terabithia" isn't quite a feast for the senses. It's more like a peanut butter sandwich for the senses - but a...
SECRETS BURIED IN RUBBLE OF BATTLE
JASMILA Zbanic, a 32-year-old writer-director from Bosnia, makes an impres sive feature debut with "Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams." The tender story of a mother and daughter coming to...
CHIC FEMME, SLOW STREET
'AVENUE Montaigne" is a lightweight French comedy worth watching only for Cecile de France. The gamine actress - decked out in short reddish hair, black tights and a thigh-high mini...
LONG ON SHORT FILMS
THE Academy Awards short- film categories, which date to 1931, are a vestige of a time when studios turned out hundreds of live-action and animated shorts every year that were...
BROADWAY
"THE APPLE TREE":2 ½ STARS For superstar Kristin Chenoweth, an effective vehicle - but so's a crosstown bus. Three one-act musicals by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, they add up...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": 3 STARS John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue; (212) 239-6200. "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST": 2 ½ STARS Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W. 46th...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ABSOLUTE CLARITY": A young woman is obsessed with jazz. Players Theater, 115 MacDougal St., at Minetta Lane; (212) 352-3101. Closes Feb. 25. "ADRIFT IN MACAO": Musical film-noir parody by Christopher...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
PAUL VAN DYK: The trance deejay will perform tonight at 9 at Crobar, 530 E. 28th St., between 10th and 11th avenues; (212) 629-9000. RICK SPRINGFIELD: The singer-songwriter takes the...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Today and tomorrow: Hilary Kole. Sunday: Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band. 315 W. 44th St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Kurt Elling....
CLASSICAL
TODAY: Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, 8 p.m. Borromeo String Quartet at Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Violinist Mark Peskanov, cellist Marie Elisabeth Hecker and pianist Anna Naretto at...
DANCE
92nd STREET Y: Tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Israel's LeeSaar/The Company performs "Herd of Bulls," inspired by choreographer Saar Harari's years in the...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIEVES: Through Monday, "The Word and the Image: the Films of Peter Whitehead." Today at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 4:30 p.m., "The Beach Boys in London" (1967)...
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: Damon Wayans, DC Benny, Russ Meneve, Wil Sylvince, Rob Stapleton. 1626 Broadway, between 49th and 50th streets; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: 117 MacDougal St., between Bleecker and...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
LUNAR NEW YEAR FLOWER MARKET: The New York Lunar New Year Flower Market will take place today from noon to 10 p.m., and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m....
PREVIEWS
"THE COAST OF UTOPIA - PART THREE: SALVAGE": The final installment of Tom Stoppard's trilogy. Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, 50 W. 65th St., at Broadway; (212) 239-6200. Opens Sunday....
FILM PICK
South Korean director Park Chan-wook jolted critics and moviegoers with his take-no-prisoners trilogy dealing with vengeance. All three films unreel this weekend at midnight at the IFC Center in the...
MARY'S HOT PICK
IN 1960, Freddie Redd (pictured), a bebop pianist and actor, created the music for the "The Connection," a controversial play about junkies. The artist, who has played with legends such...
ARMANDO REVERON
Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53 St.; (212) 708-9400. Through April 16 SOME of the oddest ducks in the history of modern art were not really so odd, but...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY - THE GYPSY KINGS, perform tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Borgata's Event Center. Tickets: $55-$75. The eternally young RICK SPRINGFIELD takes the stage Sunday at 8 p.m....
VIVA PERU
Dancers Nélida Silva and Cynthia Panigua had three things in common -- both had Peruvian roots, both grew up in the United States and both wanted to learn more about...
NYC TRANSIT 'STAIRING' AT MORE SUITS
ALBANY - In a decision that could increase NYC Transit's liability in slip-and-fall cases, the state's top court yesterday found that the agency is responsible for maintaining exits and entrances...
QUINN'S REFORM-SCHOOL PUSH
Charging that "our middle schools are failing," City Council Speaker Christine Quinn pledged yesterday to appoint a task force to find ways to improve the middle grades and to help...
'CONDOM'NATION BY OUTRAGED CHURCH
Edward Cardinal Egan and Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio yesterday declared a holy war against the city's distribution of 26 million free, subway-themed condoms, calling it an immoral "anything goes" policy...
NYPD SHACKLED ON TAPING PROTESTS
A federal judge yesterday barred cops from routinely videotaping demonstrations and hit the NYPD for abusing its power. Manhattan federal Judge Charles Haight found that the police must show videotaping...
TIX BLIZZARD A TOTAL SNOW JOB
The city's billionaire mayor yesterday had little sympathy for average New Yorkers who had to dig their cars out of snow in subfreezing temperatures - or risk being slapped with...
BOGUS 'DEA COP' BUSTED IN QNS. ROBBERY
An ex-con who once tried to kill a cop has been busted for posing as a federal agent and robbing a victim using a fake search warrant, officials said yesterday....
YANK HEIR NABBED IN DWI BUST
Heir apparent to the Yankee throne, George Steinbrenner's son-in-law Steve Swindal was arrested for drunken driving in Florida early yesterday, authorities said. Swindal, 54, the was stopped at 2:12 a.m....
THE SAVAGE STRIPPER RIPPER IS GUILTY
He hated women as much he loved himself. A Manhattan jury convicted per sonal trainer Paul Cortez yesterday of the 2005 throat-slash murder of his dancer ex-girlfriend, Catherine Woods The...
SUIT OVER GAY-PORN 'FELLINI'
Porn star and director Michael Lucas has been slapped with a federal lawsuit after making waves with an XXX remake of the classic movie "La Dolce Vita" that features a...
BLOCK STARRETT SALE: SCHUMER
A real-estate mogul's $1.3 billion deal to buy Starrett City in Brooklyn was reached through a "fatally flawed" bidding process and therefore must be blocked, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday....
COPS BEAT ME: SUSPECT
A suspect in last year's attack on an off-duty cop at a Bronx White Castle charged yesterday that he was beaten by police from the officer's station house. Nelson Rodriguez,...
STOX SOAR EVEN AS FLIERS DON'T
As angry JetBlue passengers tried to recover yesterday from their wrecked Valentine's Day getaways, the head of the airline picked up a cool $6.7 million windfall. Airline founder and CEO...
AIR 'REFUGEES' IN NEW JFK AOS
The nightmare went on yesterday for hundreds of airline passengers, who said they were held hostage one day - only to be tortured the next. Dozens more flights were canceled...
DELTA, TOO, LANDS IN TROUBLE OVER DELAY
Flying to L.A. is bad enough, but when you're cooped up in a plane for five hours at the gate - only to get off before going anywhere - you...
BAHAMA MAMA BOUGHT 3 GRAVES
NASSAU, Bahamas - Anna Nicole Smith wanted to make this island paradise her family's permanent home - and final resting place, sources close to the late model said yesterday. After...
S.I. COP 'AIDED KILLER'
A Staten Island cop is accused of choosing family over her sworn duty by helping her thug brother go on the lam after he shot and killed a woman late...
NEW DOLLAR COINS AMUSE AND CONFUSE
The U.S. Mint released a new, shiny, gold-colored $1 coin into circulation yesterday - and it had cashiers, bank tellers and customers all doing double takes. "What did you give...
KIDS' ELEVATOR ANGUISH
Eleven passengers, including terrified children, were trapped inside an elevator for nearly four hours last night when a power failure stalled their car between the 15th and 16th floors of...
LAW WILL 'NET BAD BUILDERS
Shady architects and engineers who abuse their self-certification privileges will be exposed on the Web under legislation signed into law yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg. The mayor signed two bills that...
'UNCLE PECKY' GUILTY OF DUAL SLAY
A Queens man was convicted yesterday of killing his brother and father in front of his horrified 5-year-old nephew, who testified against his "Uncle Pecky." James Seecoomar Jr. faces life...
TENANTS ALL GET THE BOOT
A wealthy couple who want to turn their rent-stabilized East Village apartment building into their own personal playpen can go ahead with plans to kick all their tenants to the...
HURT SO GOOD
A woman who was supposedly tortured and forced into sex slavery for a twisted "master" actually had no problem standing up to him - and was a more-than-willing participant in...
QAEDA CLOBBERED
Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq was wounded and his top aide killed yesterday in a shootout with Iraqi police north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said. Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who...
RESCUE SHIPS AID BURNING WHALER
SYDNEY - A stricken Japanese whaling ship on fire off the Antarctic coast was lashed between two other ships early today to avoid drifting into ice as its crew worked...
EX-AIDE'S LAST CALL TO BRIT
An anguished former member of Britney Spears' posse says she and other pals of the pop tart fear disaster is almost certain as the singer's wild life spirals out of...
ED. DEPT. BIG PLAYED BOTH $IDES
One of the architects of the city's initiative giving schools more autonomy got the job after he secured nearly $10 million in Department of Education contracts for a private firm...
DOLLAR BILL BATS FOR HILL
Bill Clinton headlined his first fund-raiser for wife Hillary's presidential campaign last night, talking to a small group of business professionals at a Manhattan residence, sources said. The ex-president, who...
RUDY IN DISGUISE
Republican 2008 hopeful Rudy Giuliani - under fire from some conservatives for his liberal social views - will be a featured speaker at a school founded by the Rev. Pat...
JUDGE: TAKE OFF HER GENES
A Florida probate judge yesterday ordered another DNA sample from Anna Nicole Smith's body at the request of a former boyfriend trying to prove he fathered the Playmate's daughter. Judge...
KID-CAGERS GET CAGED
NORWALK, Ohio - A couple who forced some of their 11 adopted children to sleep in wire and wood cages were sentenced to two years behind bars yesterday, despite insisting...
NYPD BLOTTER
The BronxPolice are hunting three thugs who burglarized a Mott Haven meat warehouse and attacked a worker there. The trio cut a hole in the fence outside Cibao Meats on...
TRAGIC, TWISTED TALE OF RAGING ROMEO & JULIET
PAUL CORTEZ fancied himself a Romeo to Catherine Woods' Juliet. He was a starry-eyed Puerto Rican poseur who loved rainbows and ballet. But he denied his ethnic heritage, his poverty...
'MISS' MAY BE A HIT ON B'WAY
MISS USA may be hitting the Great White Way again - but this time, it'll be Broadway. Tara Conner, whose cocaine snorting and boozing nearly cost her the crown, has...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 812; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 3875; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 654; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 6890;...
A DISTRICT DRESSED FOR SUCCESS
In a bit of overdue, but welcome, news, the Bloomberg administration is taking a major step toward bringing the long-languishing Garment Center district into the 21st century. In 1987, in...
THE OLD HILLARY IS BACK
Hillary Rodham Clinton just picked up the influential endorsement of South Carolina State Sen. Derrell Jackson, who is also pastor of the state's largest African-American church. But, it seems, not...
BRINGING UP THE RIGHT
WHEN Bob Hunter, a Riverside, Calif., businessman, would hear of a conservative's campaign that needed volunteers, he would pile his family into the station wagon and drive off to ring...
LIBBY'S LIBERATOR?
TIM Russert, news superstar, finds himself at the center of the legal case against former White House official Scooter Libby. Why? Because he put himself there. And - irony of...
WHO'S THE BLUNDERER - OBAMA OR HOWARD?
THE ISSUE: Barack Obama's response to Australian Prime Minister John Howard's criticisms. Australian Prime Minister John Howard has zero credibility "Barack's Blunder," Editorial, Feb. 13). Sen. Barack Obama gave this...
THE RIGHT REFORM RX
The Post says that Gov. Spitzer and President Bush's double-barreled health-care cuts are "a healthy start." But we, and most New Yorkers, are sick of hearing about cuts disguised as...
BOY BLUNDER
The promoter behind the 1990s boy band explosion is facing a different kind of music for a series of business deals that one Florida state regulator described as a Ponzi...
ICAHN DEPOSITS $880M TW BOUNTY
Carl Icahn has learned yet again that a little saber rattling can offer very rich rewards. Though the billionaire activist investor was unsuccessful in his efforts to break up media...
EDITORS STILL SWEET ON MONEY HONEY MARIA
MAGAZINE editors are standing by their Maria. CNBC's Money Honey Maria Bartiromo has been under fire since her close friendship and globetrotting trip on the corporate jet with Citigroup's now...
DENNIS HAS PLAN TO SELL
Felix Dennis, the eccentric British magazine mogul formally acknowledged that he has retained investment banker Allen & Co. to "explore strategic options," which could include a sale of his lad...
BOARD SEATS PLEASE
Irate investors in the struggling television company formerly known as Paxson Communications are pushing to get four seats on the board to ensure they don't get shortchanged by a takeover...
VOLKSWAGEN KILLS AD WITH SUICIDE THEME
The already troubled auto industry has another reason to be depressed. Volkswagen bowed to pressure yesterday and yanked its "Jumper" ad, making it the second car company in a matter...
GOLDMAN'S ODD MOVES
Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs is raising eyebrows again after it disclosed earlier this week that it had amassed a 7 percent stake in Ion Media Networks. The bank also...
BEAR MAY BE FINED $125M
If a judge's order stands, Bear Stearns is going to be out $125 million for its role in providing trading support to the worst hedge fund fraud in history. Bankruptcy...
A BUSCH MERGER FIGHT IS BREWING
The King of Beers is desperately trying to retain its crown. Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch, faced with a stagnant domestic beer market, has been reaching out to international brewing companies to...
LVMH SUIT IS DROPPED
French luxury goods firm LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and investment bank Morgan Stanley said yesterday that they had agreed to end a five-year legal battle. LVMH sued Morgan Stanley...
'PARADISE' LOST?
And the winner for Best Dramatic Performance by a Spoiled Rich Guy goes to: Jeffrey Katzenberg. The Hollywood producer, whose net worth totaled just under $860 million at last count,...
WAL-MART TAKES AD AGE TO TASK OVER REPORT
Fed up with critics and a barrage of negative publicity, Wal-Mart took what experts said was the unusual step of lashing out publicly at the press. The retailing giant published...
BRIT CAN'T COMMIT
TMZ is reporting that Britney Spears, who checked into rehab two days ago according to the entertainment television show "Extra", has already checked out. The fallen pop tart purportedly refused...
HAVING A GYROBALL
FT. MYERS, Fla. - Matsuzaka Mania officially gripped Red Sox Nation yesterday. The truth is, with the arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka to City of Palms Park, it's much more than...
UNLIKE MLB, NYRA IS NOT HORSIN' AROUND
DOES NYRA have a greater regard for horses than MLB does for people? You tell me. Big stories occasionally come in little boxes. Wednesday's Post seemed to carry such a...
STORM WREAKS HAVOC ON PRE-FIGHT SKEDS
THE punch Mother Na ture packed this week staggered local boxers and promoters who feared they would spend more time this weekend in airports than in the ring. Gary Stark...
COMING ALONG FOR THE PRIDE
LOREN Stokes is a straight shooter. He doesn't beat around the bush. He tells it like it is. Fill in your own favorite sports cliché here. When he speaks, though,...
CARDOZO FALLS TO EDISON
Cardozo spent most of the regular season cruising in the PSAL Queens AA Division, but yesterday the top-seeded Judges lost, 70-59, to No. 5 Edison in the semifinals of the...
STORM ALMOST HOME
When the lights went out in Carnesecca Arena yesterday afternoon during St. John's' shoot-around, coach Norm Roberts didn't think of it as an omen. "I just said, most of you...
FORDHAM CAN'T TOPPLE UMASS
It's officially gut-check time for Fordham. The Rams, who were 13-7 and near the top in the Atlantic Ten just two weeks ago, have lost four straight decisions, the latest...
YORK AIMING AT CUNY TITLE
York College enters this year's CUNY basketball tournament with a bull's-eye squarely on its back. The top-seeded defending champions are led by CUNY player of the year Jeffrey Boone, who...
PANCHO'S 'REDEYE' FLIES HOME
How low can you go? Condition book for remainder of Big A inner dirt winter meet (through March 31) cards two races for $5,000 claimers. NYRA racing secretary P.J. Campo...
VIVA LAS VEGAS!
hat happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. So with this weekend's All-Star festivities taking place in Sin City, can we assume Las Vegas is a likely location for a future...
JD SINGIN' THE BLUES AS GARDEN RETURN NEARS
With all due respect to Joe Micheletti, Rangers broadcasts on MSG Network just aren't the same this season. For the first time since the mid-'80s, John Davidson is not doing...
5 QUESTIONS FOR TIKI BARBER
This week, NYP TV Sports' Pat Reichart spoke with recently retired Giant Tiki Barber, 31, who this week signed with NBC to do football analysis and be a contributor to...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Harrington shoots 63 In Los Angeles, Padraig Harrington zoomed past Phil Mickelson and everyone else at Riviera with an 8-under 63 yesterday in the opening round of the Nissan...
SID'S A ZERO IN SWAMP
The Devils have won five of their last six games and find themselves only six points behind Buffalo for the best record in the Eastern Conference. They will try to...
WIN KEEPS ISLANDERS IN PLAYOFF HUNT
For months, the Islanders had tried to slip into the final slot in the Eastern Conference playoffs, but despite playing better during the second half of the season had been...
ORDINARY PEOPLE
LAS VEGAS - It sure sounded as if Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas had an epiphany Wednesday night in Oakland when the Knicks followed up their gorgeous victory in L.A. with...
LEE HAS STARS IN HIS EYES
LAS VEGAS - David Lee will suit up tonight at the Thomas and Mack Center to participate in the Rookie Challenge during NBA All-Star Weekend, and it's not so farfetched...
METS HAVE AN '07 YEAR ITCH
PORT ST. LUCIE - In 2007, Billy Wagner wants to be what he referred to as "more of the old Billy." Yesterday at Tradition Field, the Mets' $43 million closer...
AMAZIN' JOURNEY BEGINS A NEW
PORT ST. LUCIE - Billy Wagner calls it "the grind," and he does it with the same tone all baseball veterans assume - a mixture of weariness and respect, dread...
SCHOENEWEIS CONQUERS CANCER, CHEMO
PORT ST. LUCIE - Scott Schoeneweis finished his freshman year at Duke in 1993. The next semester, he was forced to drop out of school. Schoeneweis had testicular cancer. The...
LO DUCA: 'I WOULD LOVE TO STAY HERE'
PORT ST. LUCIE - Paul Lo Duca said yesterday he would like to be a Met for 2008 and beyond. "I've been vocal that I want to stay here, and...
FREE TIME
With the schedule resuming against the Hornets Wednesday, one day before the trading deadline, the Nets own a lengthy to-do list. The team needs to rest and regroup. Jason Kidd...
BLUESHIRTS TURN ON THE POWER
RALEIGH - While Jaromir Jagr smiles, the whole Ranger world smiles with him. And last night, No. 68 was beaming after the Rangers registered their third straight victory, this a...
MOOSE NOT IN CARL'S CORNER
TAMPA - Carl Pavano says his cranky body is rehabilitated, but there is additional work required on the pitcher's head and mouth. Two days after Joe Torre said Pavano had...
SPRING IS SIMPLY NOT THE THING FOR PAVANO
TAMPA - Carl Pavano sure is right. He does not have to prove anything to his teammates. At least down here he doesn't. Who cares how Pavano pitches in spring?...
COME ON DOWN
TAMPA - Joe Torre and Bernie Williams talked via phone for 20 minutes Wednesday afternoon and the manager delivered a simple message to the Yankees icon: He can't make the...
'AGGRESSIVE' IGAWA OPENS A LITTLE WILD
TAMPA - Kei Igawa's first pitch in a Yankees uniform would have decapitated photographers had it not been for a fence between them and catcher Jorge Posada. "It went sailing...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Organizers in upstate Syracuse have called off an effort to break the Guinness record for the most snow angels in one area - because there was too much snow. They...
THE 6TH QUESTION W/ TIKI BARBER
By PAT REICHARTEvery Friday in NYP TV Sports, our sports television pullout that appears in the middle of the print edition and online, we present "Five Questions for …"This is...
More Fun Than Tracking Santa
Thom White of KQUAD-TV in Moline, Ill. weighs in on G.R.: "Not much more than a major disappointment. I mean, come on. Even the studio pulled it from mid-summer, blockbuster...