July 26, 2008
Interception frenzy in PM
By PAUL SCHWARTZALBANY -- It was equal opportunity for the three Giants quarterbacks in training camp, as Eli Manning, Anthony Wright and rookie Andre' Woodson all threw at least one...
NAKED COWBOY ARRESTED IN SF
San Francisco is cool with everything from gay marriage to medical marijuana, but it can't handle New York's own Naked Cowboy - who got arrested while singing in his skivvies...
THE DARK RIGHT
Batman is not charming. He isn't popular, partly because he's a zealot and partly because he doesn't bother to explain himself to the press. He is independently wealthy, having spent...
LOHAN HIT BY BIKE
It could have been the worst clip of her career. In another chapter of her vehicular vicissitudes, Lindsay Lohan was hospitalized early this morning after a motorcyclist sideswiped her following...
COUGHLIN PRAISES KIWANUKA
ALBANY - A player cannot receive much more of a compliment than the one Tom Coughlin heaped on Mathias Kiwanuka today. "His attitude is this: If you tell him to...
MCCUTCHEN, KARSTENS PART OF NADY DEAL
The package the Yankees surrendered for Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte is not as originally reported. It is fronted by outfielder Jose Tabata and pitcher Ross Ohlendorf, but the other...
RED BULLS VS SAN JOSE
The Red Bulls fly cross-country to face San Jose in a tilt between MLS cellar-dwellers (3 p.m. MSG Plus). But buoyed by the addition of Jorge Rojas and just a...
Hixon getting noticed
By PAUL SCHWARTZEvery moment Plaxico Burress remains on the sidelines, whether it be because his ankle is indeed bothering him or he's staging a protest because he wants a new...
Yankees give up potential for Nady, Marte
The Yankees win their trade with the Pirates for Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte ... unless 19-year-old outfielder Jose Tabata, the centerpiece of the trade, comes close to early comparisons...
Cotto-Margarito Ready to Rumble
Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito meet tonight for the WBA welterweight championship at the MGM Grand. By George WillisLAS VEGAS—Bob Arum is like a father about to watch two sons...
DVD Extra: Tyrone Power vs. Robert Taylor
Tyrone Power and Robert Taylor were arguably the two most gorgeous male actors in Hollywood's Golden Era -- so good looking that both constantly had to cope with speculation about...
'Mad Men' takes on Peabody Awards
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MCCUTCHEN, KARSTENS PART OF NADY DEAL
By JOEL SHERMANThe package the Yankees surrendered for Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte is not as originally reported. It is fronted by outfielder Jose Tabata and pitcher Ross Ohlendorf, but...
MCCUTCHEN AND KARSTENS PART OF NADY TRADE
By JOEL SHERMANThe package the Yankees surrendered for Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte is not as originally reported. It is fronted by outfielder Jose Tabata and pitcher Ross Ohlendorf, but...
Mourinho: 'I'm Here to Learn'
Inter coach Jose Mourinho admitted that in preparation for his first Serie A season, he is in Italy "to learn."Having won the title in Portugal and England -- not to...
Box Office: Nolan Chases Burton's Record As Streep Clobbers 'X-Files'
"The Dark Knight'' will sell an incredible $77 million worth of tickets this weekend based on Friday numbers, says Steve Mason of Fantasy Moguls who is predicting the Caped Crusader...
TAXING OUR PATIENCE: SHARPTON AVOIDS JAIL
THE ISSUE: The lack of redevelopment at the WTC site as we near 9/11's seventh anniversary. Steve Cuozzo is right on the money in calling for real action and speedy...
GROUND 'ZERO PROGRESS'
THE ISSUE: The Department of Justice ends its criminal tax-fraud probe of Al Sharpton. Why doesn't The Post tell it like it is: The Rev. Al Sharpton will never be...
MITT MO MOUNTS OVER MICHIGAN
THE principal reason why former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has climbed to the top of Sen. John McCain's wish list for vice president is the possibil ity that he could...
AFGHAN HEROIN
FIRST things first: In Afghanistan, the Taliban and al Qaeda are our immediate enemies. But we'll eventually have to deal with poppy cultivation and the heroin trade. That may be...
'08: STILL A RACE
THE professional odds-makers favor Barack Obama two-to-one to win the election. It's no wonder. Americans overwhelmingly believe the country is on the wrong track. They can't stand President Bush. The...
300+ SURVIVE JET DIVE
A jumbo jet bound for Melbourne, Australia, was forced to make an emergency landing in the Philippines yesterday after a massive hole opened up in the side of the aircraft...
CANINE CAVALCADE
Call it puppy love - times 14. A 2 1/2-year-old British bull terrier named Patch popped out a whopping 14 pups this week - after spending 10 hours in labor....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 057; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 9531; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Fri: 442; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 8188;...
MAYOR'S 'LAST MEAL' IS A KILLER
MINNEAPOLIS - It's a meal that Elvis would have loved. The normally health-conscious Mayor Bloomberg yesterday revealed what he'd like for a last meal - and it had a close...
MCCAIN: HELLO, DALAI!
John McCain met with the Dalai Lama yesterday and demanded that China address the human-rights concerns of Tibetans. "I urge the Chinese leaders to engage in talks and make progress...
YES, WE KIN! MEET 'BRITISH' BRO OF O
As the international lovefest for Barack Obama proceeds to England, the candidate got a big thumbs-up yesterday from a rarely heard-from supporter - his half-brother. "I'm very proud of my...
DEAR GOD
A note of prayer that Barack Obama penned and slipped into the cracks of the Western Wall in Jerusalem was pilfered from the holy site and published in an Israeli...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn The three intruders slipped through a roof door of a building on Sheepshead Bay Road near Voorhies Avenue shortly after 4 p.m on July 17. They forced open an...
ELIOT MAY STILL FACE RAP ON DIRTY TRICKS
ALBANY - The head of the state Commission on Public Integrity, which has accused four top aides to disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer with breaking state law, said yesterday that...
RANGEL TO ETHICS PANEL: PROBE ME, PLEASE!
Rep. Charles Rangel asked the House Ethics Committee yesterday to investigate allegations that he improperly received sweetheart deals on four rent-stabilized apartments at Lenox Terrace in Harlem. While denying any...
BEACH TRAGEDIES - 2 DROWNED, 2 MISSING
Two people drowned and two were missing after being swept to sea by powerful ocean currents yesterday in three separate incidents at beaches in the city and Long Island, authorities...
A DELAY DOOMED BRAVEST
Rescuers struggling to save a Brooklyn firefighter's unconscious son had no idea the father was still in Lake Tahoe's churning waters, a teen who helped lifeguards drag him out said...
YOU BET YOUR KNIFE
A pair of machete-wielding Brooklyn bodega owners turned the tide on three thugs - sending them screaming from the store and later tracking down the trio for the cops. Laison...
FASTER ASTOR OVERHAUL
Construction on a long-promised pedestrian plaza at Astor Place and Cooper Square could begin by next summer after proceeding at a crawl for decades. The new open space - which...
MIKE: NIX $$ FOR PRIMARIES
MINNEAPOLIS - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday proposed that the government stop funding primaries. "Why are taxpayers forced to pay the costs of each party's nominating meetings, especially when the parties so...
FELINE'S FINE - NOT HIM
One Brooklyn man has given up everything - for a cat. After being locked in a loony bin for trying to save the feline when it got stuck in a...
DEATH-SQUAD BOSS GUILTY OF FRAUD
A former Haitian death-squad leader who murdered and tortured political enemies in the early 1990s was convicted in Brooklyn yesterday of far less sinister crimes - ripping off loan providers...
DENTIST 'DEATH THREAT' GAL FREE
The sister-in-law of slain dentist Daniel Malakov was acquitted yesterday of charges she threatened the dead man's brother to keep him quiet about the murder. A Queens jury deliberated a...
HIPPIE TOOK HER BEST $HOT: DA
Ex-hippie Rebekah Johnson wanted cash from the Staten Island commune Ganas - and when they wouldn't pay, she went for blood instead, prosecutors said yesterday in opening arguments at her...
GAS-BLAST INFERNO
A fiery explosion rocked a six-story Queens apartment building yesterday, shortly after gas was restored following a month and a half without service, authorities said yesterday. Seventeen people were injured...
HO-BROKEN! SHAMED NJ BIG 'FESSES TO KRISTEN TRYST
It's all his asphalt. New Jersey road-paving mogul Thomas "TJ" Earle yesterday admitted he lied to his beautiful wife - and that he actually had a steamy monthlong affair with...
DIVAS: WE WILL GET WRITE ON IT
Singers, divas and former jailbirds Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim are still hoping to add "author" to their résumés. Lawyers for the hip-hoppers said yesterday that both are still working...
$1M SCAM FUELED COKE & BET BINGE
A high-living accountant used his daughter's college fund in an elaborate scheme to steal more than $1 million from his Long Island firm to bankroll his cocaine and gambling addiction,...
'HOUSE ARREST' AT THE CONNERYS'
Sean Connery's family nemesis - his neighbor "Dr. No" - was at it again yesterday. Dr. Burton Sultan called the cops on construction workers doing more renovations on the East...
NY WOE ON MINORITY GRAD RATES
Both the city and state rank near the bottom nationally in their ability to graduate black male students from high school, according to a new report. Just 32 percent of...
ALISA & ASHLEY'S TANK WARFARE
They could be twins. Thomas "TJ" Earle's wife had the moxie to step out yesterday in practically the same outfit worn by Ashley Dupre on a date with her husband....
YOUTUBE LOON IS DIVORCING THE BIG APPLE
Toodle-oo, Tricia. YouTube yeller Tricia Walsh-Smith says she's moving back home to England. In her latest online rant, the ex-wife of Shubert Organization head Philip Smith said "I'm tired out....
LEHMAN WON'T SELL NEUBERGER
Don't bank on Lehman Brothers punting its asset-management arm Neuberger Berman. A sale of the investment bank's subsidiary isn't likely to happen, at least not any time soon, according to...
IT'S ALL OVER NOW
In another black eye for Guy Hands' EMI, The Rolling Stones are bolting their label of 20 years for Universal Music Group. The multi-year album deal with Universal's UK-based Polydor...
WINTOUR ENDS SOM'S SPAT WITH BILL BLASS
The tiff between the Bill Blass fashion label and its star designer Peter Som only came to an end after none other than Vogue Editor Anna Wintour stepped in, sources...
FARE-HIKE TWO-STEP
Here we go again: Seems like only yesterday (actually, it was March) that the MTA socked riders with a steep fare hike. Yet now it's expected to ask to do...
CUT SOME MORE, JOEL
How on earth will the schools survive the loss of family advocates for each district? Rather easily, we suspect. The heads of several advocates - on the payroll allegedly to...
A HIGH WAY TO HEAVEN
ON the ground, as the five of us jos tled for space inside the tiny wicker basket yesterday, it felt more like the B train than a balloon. But once...
JETS SHOW 4-SIGHT
ALBANY - It's this simple: Brett Favre gives the Jets the best chance to topple the Patriots and get to the Super Bowl. A better chance than Chad Pennington or...
DEAL NOT FAVRE-FETCHED
Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum has always lived by a particular mantra when it comes to improving the team. "Leave no stone unturned," Tannenbaum has often said. Well, it appears...
GHOLSTON CASHES IN AT CAMP
This was a day Vernon Gholston should have dominated the headlines from Jets training camp. After all, the sixth overall pick in the draft, after missing the first day of...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
Post handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and defending champion Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they battle...
COMMENTATOR STILL HAS A SAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Can lightning strike twice in the same place three years apart? In the 2005 Whitney Handicap, under a crafty ride by Gary Stevens, the New York-bred gelding...
BRYLIN CONFIRMS KHL DEAL
Sergei Brylin is less than thrilled at the way he's leaving the Devils. The 13-year Devil confirmed yesterday he's planning to sign a lucrative three-year deal with St. Petersburg of...
MARGARITO, COTTO READY TO RUMBLE
LAS VEGAS - Bob Arum is like a father about to watch two sons enter a boxing ring. "If somebody said you are banned from going to the fight, I...
SPARKS DON'T FLY IN LIB 'W'
There was no brawl, just ball. Good, hard, passionate basketball. Oh, bodies collided, players shot each other some looks that could kill, and there was some world-class trash talking -...
BONDS IN PINSTRIPES? NOT BARRY LIKELY!
BOSTON - The Yankees discussed Barry Bonds on Thursday in Tampa, but that's all they did. "There wasn't a lot of enthusiasm in the room for it," a Yankee source...
YOUKILIS NEARLY KNOCKED OUT OF SOX ONCE AGAIN
BOSTON - It's always "duck" season when Kevin Youkilis is standing at the plate to face Joba Chamberlain. In yet another late-inning confrontation with the Red Sox first baseman, the...
PIRATE BOOTY
BOSTON - Pittsburgh received four prospects, but the pirates were the Yankees. Their trade for Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte rose to the level of thievery. An official from an...
BOMBERS THROW A BOSTON GLEE PARTY
BOSTON - Maybe the Red Sox should start hoping Josh Beckett can become their Joba Chamberlain. This was pure mastery by the Yankees' 22-year-old rising star, exactly what team brass...
START TO FINISH, THIS WAS CLASSIC
BOSTON - There was only one way for this beauty of a baseball game to end, of course. The tying run had to be on base. There had to be...
YANKS ACQUIRE NADY, MARTE
BOSTON - Yankee ownership and GM Brian Cashman sent an ear-splitting message to the clubhouse last night, where it received wall-to-wall approval. In the fourth inning of a scintillating 1-0...
BURRESS HUNGERS FOR MORE MONEY
ALBANY - As Plaxico Burress filled his plate in the Giants' cafeteria yesterday, he looked as if he didn't have a care in the world. But at that very moment,...
ELI'S FIRST PASS RIGHT ON TARGET
ALBANY - The first pass in opening team drills for the Super Bowl champions yesterday was a 40-yard pass down the right sideline that Eli Manning dropped perfectly into the...
ELI LOOKS LIKE NEW MANN
ALBANY - He stepped onto the field as their Perfect 10, the Super Bowl champion MVP quarterback of the Giants, and it took Eli Manning one pass to announce himself...
SEVENTH HEAVEN
Mike Pelfrey kept up his sensational run last night - and so did the Mets. The 24-year-old righty, emerging as a bona-fide star, fired seven strong innings at Shea Stadium,...
METS CAN'T AFFORD TO FORCE OF TRADE
ON paper, of course the Mets need to acquire a corner outfielder prior to Thursday's trade deadline. On paper, the Fernando Tatis-Endy Chavez-Marlon Anderson permutation from which Jerry Manuel draws...
CHURCH STARTS CONDITIONING; RETURN DATE UNCERTAIN
Ryan Church was granted permission to begin light conditioning yesterday, but the right fielder still looks to be at least a week away from returning to the team after battling...
KNIGHT TIME HAS COME
Brandon Knight was sitting on his couch last May when opportunity knocked - or called, to be precise. Somerset (N.J.) Patriots pitching coach and ex-teammate Brett Jodie was offering Knight...
SPORTS SHORTS
TOUR de FRANCE: Sastre leads Spain's Carlos Sastre held the yellow jersey, but four other riders have shots at the Tour de France, which continues with today's 33-mile leg from...
ON HALL OF FAME WEEKEND, LOTS OF SMILES, A FEW TEARS
COOPERSTOWN - Walk into Cooley's Stone House Tavern, which is just off Main Street, a block from the Hall of Fame, sit down in a booth along the wall, look...
HONDO: CHSCH THE CHOICE
Who's your Padre? Hondo stayed red hot last night as San Diego hung on in Pittsburgh to increase the runaway earnings to a season-high 890 ortas. Today, he'll mess with...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
There are newspaper typos, and then there are out-and-out, red-faced, "D'oh!" misspellings. The Valley News in New Hampshire misspelled its own name on its front page - with its masthead...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY BIRTH OF THE PENGUINS: What could be cuter than penguins, nature's own tuxedoed brigade? Newly hatched penguin chicks, of course. See their fuzzy heads popping out of their nests...
SAND, MAN
IF it's the real deal you're looking for, check out these day-trip destinations.Jones Beach State Park Miles of sandy shore, two pools and a two-mile boardwalk where you can grab...
HEY BE-ACH!
ONE of the best things about summer in the city is all the people who aren't here. Why go away and miss all the empty fun? At these beachy eateries,...
SHARK WEAK
DISCOVERY seems to have developed an identity problem. "Shark Week," the network's most popular ongoing summer block, brings us - over the next two nights at any rate - programming...
'DIRTY SOCKS' IS GOOD CLEAN FUN
A kinder, gentler "Little Shop of Horrors." That's basically "The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks," Theatreworks USA's new musical. The plant (two of them, in fact) belongs to seventh-grader Michael...
THE EARLY SHOW
BEFORE "Jersey Boys" and "Avenue Q" - even before Rachel, Phoebe and Ross became "Friends" - actors and writers from all three shows honed their chops in children's theater. And...
Inter Still Keen on Lampard
Inter have not given up hope of signing Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard.Although Chelsea are reluctant to sell the 30-year-old and Lampard is seemingly yet to decide where his future lies,...
PIRATES IN PINSTRIPES
The Yankees addressed two of their three biggest needs Friday night when they obtained lefty specialist Damaso Marte and righty-hitting outfielder Xavier Nady from the Pirates for four prospects, including...
YANKS OBTAIN NADY AND MARTE
By JOEL SHERMANThe Yankees addressed two of their three biggest needs Friday night when they obtained lefty specialist Damaso Marte and righty-hitting outfielder Xavier Nady from the Pirates for four...
YANKS OBTAIN NADY AND MARTE
By JOEL SHERMANThe Yankees addressed two of their three biggest needs Friday night when they obtained lefty specialist Damaso Marte and righty-hitting outfielder Xavier Nady from the Pirates for four...