July 4, 2007
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A-ROD, UTLEY ARE MIDWAY MVPs
Week 13 of Awards Wednesday will be briefer than usual because a) today is a holiday and b) in Sunday’s edition of Hardball in The Post we will be doing...
Making a run at Ron
By MARC BERMANWith Rashard Lewis out of the picture, the Knicks are focusing on Ron Artest. The Knicks are weighing what is too much to give up for the former...
BELLY FLAP
EATING like a pig might be hazardous to your health. In a nutshell, that's the conclusion reached by researchers in "Science of Speed Eating," a new special on National Geographic...
EMMY NOMS LEAKED
TV Academy officials are "furious," sources say, after a list of prospective Emmy nominees was leaked online. The brouhaha erupted on Monday after awards site theenvelope.com posted the top 10...
'GMA' SIEGEL HOUR
'GOOD Morning America" is devoting its entire second hour next Monday to the life and career of its former movie critic Joel Siegel, who died last week, June 29, after...
KYLIE DOES 'DR. WHO'
AUSTRALIAN pop- singing royalty Kylie Minogue will star in an upcoming edition of "Dr. Who" that takes place on the Titanic. This will be the singer's first public project since...
FLIERS WORK
IN "The Great Escape," Steve McQueen proved that the Germans could take away our freedom but never our baseball gloves. In "Cool Hand Luke," Paul Newman taught us that sometimes...
AN INDECENT PROPOSAL
CAN you handle the commitment of "Li cense to Wed"? Do you solemnly swear to forsake all laugh ter for as long as this film shall last? Do you vow...
MATERNAL FLAME HOTTER THAN THE SON
DO you have Overprotective Mom Syndrome? Victims of OMS suffer irritability, shyness, inability to breathe and a sealed state of youthful freshness. In the heartfelt Australian coming-of-age story "Introducing the...
9/11 SEARCH
City officials will comb through two new areas in the search for human remains from the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The new areas where debris will be sifted are in front...
SALES TAX GETTING AX
ALBANY - The city's sales tax on clothing and shoes costing more than $110 is about to disappear under a bill signed into law by Gov. Spitzer. Mayor Bloomberg pushed...
CITY TRIMS PEDICABS
The number of pedicabs on city streets will be whittled down from 500 to 325 this fall, officials said yesterday. Pedicab licenses will be divided through a round-robin process among...
'LETTER' OF THE LAW BOOSTS BARRON BOOR
A federal judge yesterday balked at the city's attempt to play Emily Post by forcing an embattled staffer for City Councilman Charles Barron to sign a letter agreeing to be...
RACE-HATE BEATING IN CHINATOWN
Police were hunting yesterday for a pack of racial-epithet-spewing thugs who hopped out of a car and beat up a group of men on a busy Chinatown street for no...
FOUL SHOT VS. KNICKS
Knicks coach and general manager Isiah Thomas will have to defend himself in federal court against charges that he sexually harassed a female former team executive - allowing a jury,...
'HOME FLIP' MOM BUSTED
A seven-months-pregnant mother of two from California was arrested at La Guardia Airport early yesterday and hauled into a Manhattan court as the alleged mastermind of a multimillion-dollar "flip this...
DOG-EAT-DOG DRAMA LOOMS
It's a frank-tastic Coney Island culinary cliffhanger! Hot-dog champ Takeru Kobayashi will make a last-minute decision today about whether to brave an injured jaw and take on rival Joey Chestnut...
SO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN
Zaida Maria Diaz, a native of the Dominican Republic, came to the United States in 1995 to pursue the American dream. Now, she helps other immigrants realize that very same...
'RUSSIAN MOB' PAIR GO ON TRIAL IN '92 SLAYS
A pair of Brooklyn thugs, responsible for two vicious Russian-mob murders 15 years ago, finally went on trial yesterday after a triggerman turncoat flipped on his old partners in crime,...
HACK TO THE FUTURE
A century after metered taxis first hit Big Apple streets, city officials say it's time to reinvent the wheel. With Mayor Bloomberg's stringent new emissions guidelines set to convert the...
BELI'S CHICK TACKLED
The reputed Jersey girlfriend of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick not only lost her bid to move her kids into his tony Brooklyn townhouse - she now has to...
GAL-PAL KILLER IS CONVICTED
A Queens man who shot his girlfriend in the head and then fled to the Dominican Republic still wearing a shirt splattered with her blood was convicted of manslaughter yesterday....
SEX-KIDNAP ORDEAL FOR SUBWAY GAL
A drifter was busted after sweeping a 21-year-old woman who had passed out drunk off the subway and carrying her to a SoHo vestibule where he sexually assaulted her, police...
MOB NAME GAME
Former Bonanno acting boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano didn't always have such a stylish nickname - at one time, he was known as "Vinny Pills," a witness at his murder...
L.I. TOT DIED IN CANDLE FIRE
The fire that killed a 3-year-old Long Island girl was started by a candle, cops said yesterday. Annette Weiss, 43, had read her daughter, Ariella, a bedtime story in a...
$40 TO PARTY WITH 'DIDDY'
Forget his fabled White Party - this year, Sean "Diddy" Combs is asking for green. The rap mogul, famed for his exclusive, celeb-stuffed summer soiree in the Hamptons, planned a...
FIENDS' POLICY OF EVIL
Two men who took out insurance policies on their own relatives and then killed them to collect more than $1 million were convicted yesterday in Brooklyn federal court. Richard James,...
B'KLYN BABY IN TUB TRAGEDY
A 1-year-old Brooklyn girl was clinging to life last night after her teenage mom - who had left her alone with another young child - found her submerged in a...
REALLY STRUNG OUT
An $80,000 violin owned by a renowned concert violinist vanished from a Brooklyn subway station after he dozed off, police said. Tom Chiu, 36, the founding member of the Flux...
$EñOR TOPPLES GATES
Microsoft boss Bill Gates has lost his title as the world's richest man to a telecommunications magnate from Mexico, according to a new report. The fortune of Carlos Slim Helu...
TIGER'S AGONY
BETHESDA, Md. - Tiger Woods blew his final shot at the 18th hole of the U.S. Open - but that wasn't what made the typically stoic superstar appear to nearly...
BABY BOOMER: PROUD PAPA IN BRIT BOMB CELL WAS AN AGENT OF IRAQI QAEDA
He looks like the perfect husband and doting father - but Dr. Mohammed Asha was on a secret al Qaeda terror mission in Britain that was carefully plotted years ago...
RUDY, MITT LEAD DASH FOR CASH
Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney are leading the GOP presidential cash contest, with both campaigns reporting yesterday they'd pulled in more than $15 million in the last fund-raising period for...
HILL SLAMS DUBYA OVER LIBBY PASS
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton defended her husband's controversial presidential pardons and commutations yesterday, even as she blasted the prison pass President Bush granted former White House aide...
MIA WIFE SITS BY PHONE & AWAITS FREEDOM 'RING'
Today will be a day of roller coaster emotions for Yaderlin Jiminez. The former illegal immigrant will celebrate being allowed to stay in the United States. But she also will...
IT'S SPLITSVILLE FOR 'JACKASS'
"Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville's marriage has crashed and burned. The daredevil actor, who also appeared in the film version of "The Dukes of Hazzard," has filed papers in Los Angeles...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan* This 66-year-old man (pictured) is wanted for five office robberies around Manhattan, police said. William Walsh allegedly stole computer and electronic equipment from businesses in Greenwich Village, SoHo and...
BETRAYAL OF OUR FAITH & PROFESSION
AS THE investigation of the terror plots in London and Glasgow unfolds, I am experiencing the emotions I often do in hearing that people associated with my faith are involved...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 489; Lucky Sum: 21 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 6778; Lucky Sum: 28 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 889; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 2493;...
SALUTE TO OLD GLORY
There was a time, not all that long ago, when a few foolish folk thought they would best demonstrate the freedom the American flag symbolizes simply by burning the flag...
A NATION OF LAWS
AMNESTY is dead. Now, let's talk about the other "A" word. It's the word and the concept completely abandoned during the immigration debate: assimilation. Over the last year, hundreds of...
LIVING UP TO OUR CREED
ONE of the great Independence Day speeches of American history was an attack on Independence Day. On July 4, 1829, William Lloyd Garrison - who looked like a shop clerk...
TERROR'S NEWEST TARGET
THE ISSUE: Last week's U.K. terror threats and attacks in London and Glasgow. Evildoers struck again last weekend, and all for the sake of religious fanaticism ("Terror, July 1). As...
KEEP THE ENEMY CLOSE. . . AND COULTER CLOSER
THE ISSUE: Who is surprised that Ann Coulter calls for John Edwards' death by terrorism ("Edwards Hits Ann's 'Hate,' June 28)? This is what Republicans say, what they do, how...
MIAMI VISE GRIP
A series of disastrous bets on a key subprime asset-backed index and subprime mortgage bonds has put a high-profile Miami hedge fund in dire straits. United Capital Asset Management's Horizon...
KKR PLANS $1.25B STOCK OFFERING
Buyout king Henry Kravis is preparing to raise nearly $1.25 billion in an initial public offering, following closely behind rival Stephen Schwarzman's Blackstone Group. The move, which was expected by...
WENDY'S TELLS PELTZ: BITE ME
Nelson Peltz claims he's being stonewalled in the auction for fast-food chain Wendy's even though the billionaire inancier says his Arby's roast beef sandwich joint is a natural buyer. Peltz's...
BLACKSTONE BUYS HILTON FOR $20B
Steve Schwarzman's Blackstone Group LP is buying Hilton Hotels Corp. for $20 billion in cash. The deal will give the Hilton family trust - headed by Paris Hilton's 79-year-old grandfather...
BABY YANKS CAN COUNT ON SUBLETT
Second baseman Damon Sublett has fond memories of his days as a closer at collegiate powerhouse Wichita State. He smiled as he discussed his mound exploits prior to Staten Island's...
NEW CHALLENGE FOR CUP
Breeders' Cup Limited will launch a new 24-race schedule called the "Breeders' Cup Challenge" which will qualify the winners of each race automatic entry to eight corresponding races in the...
HOOP GREAT WALKER DEAD AT 63
Former Providence All-American Jimmy Walker, a first-round NBA draft pick by the Detroit Pistons in 1967, died of lung cancer Monday in Kansas City. He was 63. Walker, who was...
WRIST MAY KEEP PHIL SIDELINED
BETHESDA, Md. - Phil Mickelson is due on the first tee at 7 a.m. today at Congressional Country Club for his round in the Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am, named for...
'BIZ' HAS BELMONT BUZZING
One of the big mysteries in thoroughbred racing this year is, what happened to Nobiz Like Shobiz in the Kentucky Derby? Runaway winner of the Remsen Stakes as a 2-year-old,...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Dent axed by Reds The Cincinnati Reds replaced bench coach Bucky Dent with minor league manager Pat Kelly. Dent, who had been with the Reds since 2005, was removed...
HONDO: WHADDUP, 'DOGS?
The Native Americans showed Hondo some love last night, going the extra mile to motor past Detroit and slash the debt to 190 mendozas. Today, on our nation's 231st birthday,...
DEVILS SIGN ZUBRUS
That money he's saving on Scott Gomez and Brian Rafalski? Lou Lamoriello threw plenty of it at two-time 20-goal scorer Dainius Zubrus yesterday. The Devils GM signed the well-traveled forward...
ARTEST-ING THE MARKET
Rashard Lewis is off the table, Ron Artest is on the block, and Isiah Thomas must decide if it's worth trading David Lee to the Kings to put his former...
NICHOLS TAKING HIS BEST SHOT
It's been said Demetris Nichols never had a bad game at the Garden in his four seasons at Syracuse. But if the Knicks can't make another trade to reduce their...
ROCKED AGAIN
DENVER - In assessing the damage afterward, it wasn't one particular Rockie who hurt Jason Vargas. It was essentially a group tackle. Most of the Rockies enjoyed beating up on...
PEDRO PICKS UP HIS PACE
DENVER - Pedro Martinez not only leaped forward in his rehab yesterday, but he's getting close to taking his most significant leap yet. Martinez tossed a three-inning simulated game, throwing...
NETS PAIR HITS SUMMER SCHOOL
Beginning tomorrow, the Nets hope to start seeing the type of pain their new S&M connection can inflict on future opponents. Sean Williams (S) and Marcus Williams (M), their top...
RANGER RISK WITH HENRIK
With negotiations on a long-term contract for Henrik Lundqvist hitting a speed bump, the Rangers may elect to take the Group II free-agent goaltender to salary arbitration in order to...
NOTHING WANG WITH 2 IN ROW
Like the wayward pitcher who receives a sarcastic cheer for finally throwing a strike, the Yankees are due a standing ovation. Yep, they've actually won two straight games. Now if...
REFOCUSED A-ROD FEELING NO STRAIN
JUST when the Yankees gave him the chance to opt out, Alex Rodriguez opted in. Into the lineup, that is, and at third base, no less, for what became an...
THE SAY-K KID!
Yesterday afternoon, Edwar Ramirez got his headshot photo taken in the Yankees dugout, and then dressed in front of a locker without a nameplate. By the end of last night's...
'SOPRANOS' CATCHING CALL
Jorge Posada was called on yesterday to give out some catching tips, but it was not to benefit the newest Yankees catching prospect. The tips were for actor Michael Imperioli,...
YANK SLUMPS LOOK GONE WITH THE WIN
First it was Bobby Abreu sending a signal to shore that he's alive and kicking. Last night, Hideki Matsui and Robinson Cano followed suit. It's just possible the Yankees have...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Two Kentucky teenagers are facing the cage after being busted for stealing two infant monkeys, cops said. The 18-year-old woman and 19-year-old man were found with the simian tots -...
AFC South breakdown
Peyton Manning is the star, Vince Young is the next great thing, Matt Schaub was the big offseason acquisition and Jacksonville is a ghost town of fantasy prospects.But there is...
Times Watch: Double Standard on Early Reviews
"We're not doing this just to be first,'' Post features editor Stephen Lynch says today in The New York Times, which copes with a slow news day by exploring the...
AFC North breakdown
Maybe the Bengals are the only AFC North team that can make the scoreboard blink like a Christmas tree, but that doesn’t mean the division’s only viable fantasy options are...