May 3, 2009
NY FLU TESTS CONTINUE AS LI SCHOOL DISTRICT SHUTS
The high school with the largest cluster of swine flu cases in the United States prepared to reopen Monday week while scattered cases of the flu continued to emerge around...
REPORT: HASSELHOFF ALMOST DIES FROM ALCOHOL POISONING
In the latest chapter in the agonizing chronicle of David Hasselhoff's multiple falls off the wagon, a new report surfaced today that the former Baywatch hunk was hauled off to...
Notes From Pacquiao-Hatton
Notes From Pacquiao-Hatton at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. By GEORGE WILLISPACQUIAO, ROACH HEADED FOR THE APPLELAS VEGAS--Manny Pacquiao and Freddie Roach "I was always knocking everybody out in...
Box Office: How Much Did Pirates Cost 'Wolverine'?
Variety quotes "insiders'' as saying Fox might have lost $20 million in business for "X-Files Origins: Wolverine'' from a high-quality version that was downloaded en masse over the past month....
MAN ACCIDENTLY STABS HIS TODDLER IN HEAD
A Brooklyn man who stabbed his toddler in the head with a butter knife yesterday apparently impaled the tot by accident -- as he was lunging for the boy's mother....
ITALIAN PREMIER BERLUSCONI'S WIFE SEEKING DIVORCE
Premier Silvio Berlusconi's second wife has for years lived a very separate life from her billionaire husband, rarely participating in his official events or travels. On Sunday, she confirmed she...
PROBE OVER EDWARDS CAMPAIGN FUNDS PAID TO MISTRESS
Failed presidential candidate John Edwards, whose political action committee paid more than $100,000 to his mistress' company, acknowledged Sunday that federal investigators were looking into how he handled his campaign...
Perez changes mind on minors
PHILADELPHIA -- Oliver Perez's status is up in the air now that the struggling left-hander is apparently balking at a trip to the minor leagues. The Mets are set to...
GIRARDI LASHES OUT AT A-ROD BOOK
Yankees manager Joe Girardi lashed out Sunday at a potentially damaging biography of Alex Rodriguez, questioning why the book was written and its accelerated release date. Sports Illustrated writer Selena...
Rain postpones series finale
PHILADELPHIA -- Today's game has been postponed due to rain, according to an announcement by the Phillies at 10:50 a.m. Showers were forecast for the entire afternoon, which prompted the...
Game 24: Mets at Phillies
PHILADELPHIA -- Carlos Delgado is back in the lineup today for the first time in a week as the Mets face the Phillies here this afternoon in the rubber match...
Coverage in The Post
PHILADELPHIA -- Overshadowed by the Oliver Perez saga on Saturday was a plethora of Met mistakes on the basepaths, in the manager's seat and on the mound in a 6-5...
Damon: 'slim' chance of being Yank next year
By JUSTIN TERRANOVAJohnny Damon thinks his days in The Bronx are numbered after this season, according to an ESPN 1050 report.Damon said he believes the young outfielders in the Yankees...
NO-NAME GELDING COMES OUT OF NOWHERE
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- I've seen a few shockers in my day around the racetrack, but I can't remember one quite the equal to the absolutely stunning, incomprehensible, unfathomable blowout of...
LONGSHOT PULLS OFF UPSET IN RUN FOR ROSES
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- He wasn't even on the TV screen early, and he ran off the TV screen late. When the outsider Mine That Bird, a little over a 50-1...
TEIXIERA: EARLY SWOON 'EMBARRASSING'
Twenty-four games into the season, Mark Teixeira is "embarrassed" by his batting average. That's his word.COMPLETE YANKEES COVERAGEYANKEES BLOG The Yankees' struggling first baseman went 0-for-3 with a walk in...
HEFTY LEFTY HASN'T PITCHED LIKE ACE
IT CAN'T be the pitching background at Yankee Stadium. There's practically nothing but dark blue behind home plate. It can't be entirely the defense, either. Before Derek Jeter sailed his...
30-YEAR-OLD ROOKIE OUTDUELS SABATHIA
CC Sabathia is one horse that hasn't done much winning, placing or showing this season. The best thing you could say about the $161 million lefty yesterday was the Yankees...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH... K-ROD
Steve Serby chatted with Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez about his rough childhood in Venezuela, some special people in his life, and a few of his favorite things.COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOG...
BOOK: A-ROD DRIVEN BY NEED TO OUTDO JETER
The comparison, and perhaps the competition, between Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez began long before they made the majors.COMPLETE YANKEES COVERAGEYANKEES BLOG When the Mariners were analyzing Rodriguez, before selecting...
ESPN'S CUTE AD RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS
ESPN always wants it both ways, which is why it often goes oh-for-two. On one hand, ESPN wants you to know it as a journalistic powerhouse, all its parts combining...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
Winners DAVID ZASLAV Discovery Comm. chief teams with Hasbro to remake its kids channel. JOSEF ACKERMANN Deutsche Bank boss gets contract extension through 2012. JEFF KATZENBERG Kudos to DreamWorks Animation...
IDEA TO AMP UP BASEBALL THAT MLB EXECS FIND TOO SPOOKY TO CONSIDER
LET'S applaud the NFL. It knows how to make a large board meeting known as the draft intriguing. The event has become so huge that reporters -- who don't know...
WINTOUR'S WONDERLAND
It was 2000, and a grande dame attending the Costume Institute Ball -- the Metropolitan Museum's annual red-carpet fund-raiser -- was aghast at the gum-chewing woman sitting across from her....
WOWS & SHAMS
They're "As Seen on TV" -- but they don't work so well at home. From the super-absorbent ShamWow! to the personal eavesdropping device Loud 'N Clear, you've probably caught countless...
BEST PERSON I KNOW STILL CAN'T GRASP THIS WHOLE SPORTS THING
I SHOULD say at the top: My wife is the best person I know. She is kind. She is funny. She is generous. She is a good friend, a good...
POUNDING PARK PEDI-CRIMINALS
Police hope to put the brakes on illegal bike renting and reckless pedicabs around Central Park in the next two weeks. Officers in Central Park and surrounding precincts have planned...
YANKEES' HOLE OF FAME
Hex still marks the spot at the new Yankee Stadium. It has been more than a year since the team extricated a Red Sox jersey maliciously entombed in the new...
THE RUMBLE
Laughs, animosity in store SNY ads capture New York sports scene SNY unleashes a new pitch with a series of four spots beginning tomorrow on late-night news and entertainment programming,...
HORNY A-ROD A LAP DUNCE
A-Rod can't even go to a sex club without making a fool of himself. The major-league slugger looked like a rank amateur when he made a supposedly clandestine visit to...
BUDGET CUTTERS $NIP TREE-PRUNING
The city's hedge fund has been clipped. The doomsday budget Mayor Bloomberg unveiled Friday calls for pruning trees less frequently -- one of many belt-tightening measures planned for the 2010...
ANOTHER PERP FLEES HOSPITAL
Red-faced cops have now been given the slip twice in a week by hospitalized inmates they uncuffed for treatment. The strikingly similar jailbreaks happened within two days of each other....
'ROOM' EMERGENCY AT BURSTING QNS. HOSPS
If you're going to get sick in Queens, take a number and wait. The borough's already crowded hospitals have been jammed with patients since Mary Immaculate and St. John's Queens...
KEMP PASSES ON
WASHINGTON -- Jack Kemp, the former star Buffalo Bills quarterback, ex-New York congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative" died surrounded by family yesterday at the age of 73....
BERNIE SON IN A 'SOCK' EXCHANGE
A fuming former employee of Bernard Madoff recently turned into Wall Street's version of a raging bull when he tried to mete out street justice on the Ponzi king's son,...
FLU TWIST FOR NYC
The swine flu, responsible for more than 100 deaths in Mexico, is spreading around the Big Apple in a new way. Officials confirmed yesterday that there was at least one...
DAD STABS TOT IN HEAD
A Brooklyn toddler was stabbed in the head last night by his crazed butter-knife-wielding father as the baby's grandmother held the child, officials and relatives said. Jaden Brown, 2, was...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island * A gunman killed a man in a parked car in New Brighton, police said. Boyce Kelly, 33, was in a 1995 Infiniti on York Street near Carlyle...
BUFFETT: MY SUCCESSOR ALREADY 'INSIDE' BERKSHIRE
Warren Buffett is slowly but surely narrowing the list of names as who will succeed him as the next "Oracle of Omaha." The 78-year old billionaire, the world's second wealthiest...
VICTIMS: INCREASE SIPC $$
A New York lawyer, who lost her entire life savings to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, is calling for the Securities Investor Protection Corp. to raise the maximum account balance covered...
TIMES EXTENDS GLOBE DEADLINE UNTIL MIDNIGHT
The New York Times Co. is expected to decide by midnight tonight to accept or reject the salary and benefit cuts proposed by the union representing reporters at its Boston...
MAN'S INFERNAL COMBUSTION
This nightspot got a little too hot for a Manhattan man who claims he was badly hurt when a candle set his shirt on fire, according to a lawsuit. Sam...
DEP'S HONCHOS MAKE INTERN$HIPS A FAMILY AFFAIR
AT the same time Mayor Bloomberg is making plans to ax 3,759 city workers, his aides have approved the hiring of 124 summer interns at the city Department of Environmental...
BUILDINGS 'STOLEN'
A former exotic dancer with a body for sin and maybe a brain for it, too, stole three Upper East Side apartment buildings from her late ex-boyfriend and brazenly started...
3-WAY MEGA SPLIT OF $225M
Three ticket buyers matched Friday night's six winning numbers and will split the $225 million Mega Millions jackpot. The tickets were sold in California, Ohio and Virginia. In New York...
FUNDS HOODWINKED
THE Obama administration singled out hedge funds as the bad guys this week in its attempt to reorganize Chrysler. The accusation falls comfortably into the administration's view that unfettered capitalists...
CHRYSLER BAFFLES CONSUMERS AGAIN
Dear John: My wife and I recently purchased a 2009 Signature Series Chrysler Town and Country from a dealer on Long Island. I asked them whether I could pay the...
GAY-WED OPPONENT RUDY SKIPS PALS' NUPS
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was a last-minute no-show at the wedding of his former roommates -- a gay couple -- yesterday. It was a disappointment for Queens car dealer Howard...
FEW DWI DRIVERS GET JAIL
The numbers are enough to drive someone to drink. Nearly 10,000 drunken-driving arrests were made in the city last year, yet of the more than 6,000 cases that have gone...
GOLD GAL'S 'HAUL' IN THE FAMILY
The Scarsdale woman charged with smuggling some $12 million in gold from her boss, a Queens jeweler, knows a thing or two about moving large quantities of valuables -- her...
IRAQ PREACHER KILLS TWO GIS
Two gunmen -- one of them an Iraqi soldier who had served as a Sunni preacher for his unit -- opened fire on US troops yesterday, killing two and wounding...
ARE YOU SERIOUS, PANDIT?
IF it weren't true, it would be downright laughable. Just in time to coincide with a stress test it certainly didn't ace, we hear that Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit has...
SEXY SPIDERWOMAN KATE WINSLET SCALES NYC
Most working moms have trouble balancing their lives, but not smoldering Kate Winslet. PHOTOS: Kate Winslet: Sexy Spiderwoman The reigning Oscar Best Actress looked positively acrobatic as she teetered high...
INVESTORS MAY BE HEDGIES WORST ENEMY
The beaten down $1.4 trillion hedge fund industry, worried over the past two years that its worst nightmare was a tax increase coming out of Washington, is now awaking to...
CLAW & DISORDER
Hundreds of victims of Ponzi scamster Bernie Madoff are spitting mad at Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee of Madoff's estate, over what they claim is the capricious way he is...
THEY'RE DEAD MEAT
Where's the beef? Not in the Meatpacking District. One of Manhattan's last bona fide butchers, celebrated steak purveyor to the stars Pat La Frieda, said he's moving to New Jersey...
COPS IN '911 RAPE RUSE'
The two NYPD patrolmen accused of raping a drunken woman made a bogus 911 call so they could be sent back to the victim's East Village apartment, a senior prosecutor...
'QUEEN' DRAWS BLOOD
THERE is still more turmoil in the media company of the globetrotting philanthropist Louise T. Blouin MacBain, publisher of Art + Auction magazine. Last month, MacBain, known as "The Red...
ARM TWISTERS GRAB $$ FROM CITY'S COFFERS
Misery is a gold mine for the city's growing vulture squad. A lucky group of city marshals earned a record $43 million last year by swooping in to collect debts...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This cowboy was out for a drunken joyride of the four-legged kind. The Arvada, Colo., man was slapped with a $25 traffic violation for riding an animal under the influence...
RAYS GET 'WAKE' UP CALL FROM RED SOX
Mike Lowell homered and Kevin Youkilis and Nick Green each drove in three runs to back Tim Wakefield's pitching and help the Red Sox beat the Rays 10-6 last night...
12 INJURED AS STORM DEMOLISHES COWBOYS' CORRAL
IRVING, Texas -- Whenever a storm hits while the Cowboys are inside their practice facility, the sound of rain pelting the tent-like structure can drown out conversation. No matter the...
NEW GIANTS COORDINATOR RUNS SIMILAR DEFENSE
It is altogether telling and in some ways fascinating that when it came time for Bill Sheridan to sell himself for the job of defensive coordinator, he stressed one specific...
ALEX THE GRATE
* Kudos to Selena Roberts for her book on Alex Rodriguez. Only the most gullible would be surprised to read the strong allegations about A-Rod: Bulking up on steroids in...
EINSTEIN RACES TO SMART REPEAT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Julien Leparaoux, the French-born jockey who has stormed his way into the top ranks since arriving on the scene four years ago, capped a memorable day by...
DIRTY 'BIRD': WINNER OWNED BY SON OF CORRUPTION FIGURE
The winner of the Kentucky Derby is owned by the son of a key figure in the corruption trial of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska. The Anchorage Daily...
HONDO ORDERS FISH
Hondo, burned in the Derby with Friesen Fire, cashed his seventh straight baseball investment last night when the Royals went the extra mile in Minnesota to fatten the bankroll to...
RED BULLS FALL IN L.A.
CARSON, Calif. -- Landon Donovan converted a penalty in the 39th minute and goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts prevented an own goal to help the Galaxy beat the Red Bulls 1-0 last...
BULLS FIGHT, BUT NO OT NEEDED CELTICS 109 BULLS 99
BOSTON -- After a record-setting seven overtimes in the first six games, the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics made an early night of it with a dominating stretch in the...
REPORT: WANG REGRETS BUYING ISLANDERS
Islanders owner Charles Wang says he regrets buying the money-losing NHL team nine years ago. "If I had the chance I wouldn't do it again," Wang said, according to a...
MEET MARKET
James doesn't mind if you fake it -- on the stage, that is. This 26-year-old restaurant server is looking for a funny girl with a pretty face who's down for...
PROS AND CONS
'MADE it, Ma! Top of the world!" With these words, mama's boy Arthur Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) is blown to smithereens in Raoul Walsh's blistering "White Heat" (1949). The film...
CHASING BOBBY
THE invitees to the 53rd US Championship tour nament, which opens in St. Louis on Thursday, have a shot at a unique prize in honor of Bobby Fischer as well...
BRIDGE
I FOUND Cy the Cynic, a shameless chauvinist, and Wendy, my club's feminist, sparring in the lounge. The two are fierce adversaries, at and away from the table. "What's the...
THEATER FREAKS
This week, you can see a musical about a young girl who's portrayed by a 55-year-old woman, featuring music played on a piano with screws, pencil erasers, paper clips, playing...
TEARS OF THE CLOWNS
ACT I Scene: A lobby. Two couches. Early afternoon. NATHAN LANE and BILL IRWIN sit wearily (and warily), a WOMAN with a tape recorder between them. In the Roundabout Theatre...
STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION
In this life, there are things that are mutually exclusive. You can't be both a Yankees and a Mets fan, for example. Can't be both Sunni and Shiite. And when...
RAWHIDE
PART fetish, part fashion -- all fun. There are few things sexier than a girl in soft, fitted leather. From rainbow-colored miniskirts to electric-hued shorts and jackets -- and even...
MOCKTAIL MANIA
When I first found out I was pregnant, I was holding a glass of wine in one hand and the positive pregnancy test in the other. While I was thrilled...
LADY KILLER
Puny in stature but huge on attitude, 23-year-old English grime-scene rapper Louise "Lady Sovereign" Harman has been causing a ruckus since Def Jam released her debut album, "Public Warning," in...
GREEN MACHINE
When the folks at Tesla Motors invited me to take their all-electric Roadster sports car out for a Manhattan spin, I knew its ability to hit 60 mph in less...
FRIENDLY FOODIES
When Katrina, 27, a television producer, met up with Geovanni, 29, a technology-integration consultant, it was love at first sight. That is, when it came to the food at Turkish...
FLOWERS FOR FIDO
Now that April showers have yielded May flowers, the temptation to make bouquets is in full bloom. But since pets often enjoy leaf-ing their mark on flowerpots filled with soil,...
CLOTHES MAKE THE BAND
Franz Ferdinand is indisputably one of the most electrifying live bands around, but there's one thing lead singer Alex Kapranos will never do onstage: Take off his shirt. Although prodded...
CAT-SIT QUANDARY
DEAR DR. FOX: We've planned a two-week vacation and are worried about what to do with our cat. Would it be best to leave him in his own environment with...
AGENDA
* APPLAUD THIS: Stars are born and legends are made at Harlem's Apollo Theater, and Tuesday's 7 p.m. "Ailey at the Apollo! Gala" will be no exception. Performances will feature...
ADOPT ME
Cinnamon is a 3½-year-old spayed, housebroken, super-friendly collie/labrador mix. She and her sister Amber would love to stay together. Meet them from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane...
THE AUDACITY OF SOAPS
It was a dark and windy night. The leaves trembled on the trees, the front door mysteriously opened, spooky music filled the room, and a body lay face down in...
O: GIVE US A PRIUS!
The Energy Department could spend its billions the old-school way. Or it could try the direct approach: 2 million new hybrid drivers per year. A calculator can be the plaything...
100 DAZE
Did President Obama only make 100 mistakes in his first 100 days ("Obama: 100 Days, 100 Mistakes," PostScript, April 26)? With some of the mistakes, I can actually say he...
YOU BREAK IT, YOU BUY IT
Now that it's getting majority control of Chrysler, will the United Auto Workers union be willing to enact the kind of genuine workplace reforms that will allow the giant automaker...
CUOMO'S CRUSADE
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's war against Medicaid fraud" which he's been waging with considerable zeal since taking office" continues to pay genuine dividends. The AG last week reported that...
IN MY LIBRARY: ROBERT B. PARKER
More than 50 books on, Robert B. Parker - the man behind the Spenser, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall thrillers - is his own cottage industry. The latest of his...
REQUIRED READING
Of Sugar and Snow A History of Ice Cream Making by Jeri Quinzio (University of California Press) The beginnings of ice cream, Quinzio writes, are rooted in 16th-century Italy, where...
LOSING MUM AND PUP
If there's such a thing as jaunty grief, Christopher Buckley is its master. After his mother, socialite Pat, died in April 2007, his father, National Review founder William F. followed...
BROOKLYN
"Oh, there's no pleasure. I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult and this means, I think, that pleasure is out...
WAR OF NECESSITY, WAR OF CHOICE
My late boss, Jesse Helms, used to say that there were only two things in the middle of the road: yellow lines and dead critters. I'd add another: Richard Haass....
EIFFEL'S TOWER
If you think the Freedom Tower is the world's most controversial building in history, think again. It is hard to imagine a single monument today stirring as much compulsion, debate,...
PYGMY
Palahniuk's 10th novel comes in an ominous little package. The back of the jacket is lavishly illustrated with death maneuvers practiced by the protragonist Pygmy, a brainwashed third-world refugee who's...
SAG HARBOR
The year is 1985 -- the age of New Coke and leather ties, of Prince and roller-discos -- and Benji Cooper, the 15-year old protagonist of Colson Whitehead's latest novel...
THE TOWERING WORLD OF JIMMY CHOO
Like all good fairy tales the story of the phenomenal success of Jimmy Choo shoes should, by rights, begin with the poor, but honest cobbler toiling tirelessly in his decrepit...
THEY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING
If Adam Wilson had had a sense of making history he might have chosen his words more carefully. "Go Badgers," he wrote, in a message posted on the Twitter website...
A B-DAY WIN FOR BUSCH
RICHMOND, Va. -- Kyle Busch celebrated his 24th birthday with a trip to Victory Lane, winning last night at Richmond International Raceway. The win snapped a monthlong losing streak --...
ANGLERS CAN HELP PREVENT FISH DISEASES
YESTERDAY marked the opening of the season in New York for a number of sweetwater gamefish, and with it comes some warnings. Anglers can now get into some exciting action...
METS' TOP PICK STARTING TO HEAT UP
IT TOOK him 282 at- bats, but Ike Davis fi nally has his first pro fessional home run. Davis, the Mets top draft pick in last year's First-Year Player Draft,...
IF OVECHKIN & CROSBY FACED OFF IN THE FOREST . . .?
THIS is where Gary Bettman's national-television strategy is exposed as the laughing stock that it is. This is where the NHL's greatest showcase playoff series of all-time -- yes, of...
CELTS-BULLS GAME 6 ONE FOR THE AGES
A COUPLE of grudging compo nents prevents me from pro nouncing the Bulls' 3 hour and 56 minute, one-point wheezing win over the Celtics in triple overtime Thursday night in...
FREE-AGENT TIGHT END READY TO HOOP IT UP FOR JETS
J'Nathan Bullock spent the last two days readjusting to life in a football helmet. The 6-foot-5, 240-pound tight end joined the Jets as an undrafted free agent last week, a...
RANGERS' NASLUND TO SKATE INTO SUNSET
Proud and classy to the apparent end, Markus Naslund has told his Rangers teammates he is retiring despite having one season at $3 million remaining on the two-year, $8 million...
ROOKIE OR NOT, SANCHEZ LOOKS LIKE JETS' MAN
After yesterday's minicamp practice, Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez sat in a tub of ice water to help his sore muscles recover. You read right: He sat in the water. Contrary...
MAYWEATHER RETURNS TO RING TO FACE MARQUEZ IN JULY
LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather arrived at his press conference at the MGM Grand yesterday to announce his return to boxing wearing a black knit cap, a black tank top,...
SWISHER ON ICE AFTER PLUNKING
Nick Swisher spent yesterday's game icing his bruised right elbow, but remained unavailable a day after Angels pitcher Jered Weaver drilled him with a fastball. COMPLETE YANKEES COVERAGEYANKEES BLOG Manager...
PACQUIAO KOS HATTON IN SECOND ROUND
LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. might want to rethink his plans to come out of retirement, especially if those plans include a future bout with Manny Pacquiao. As if...
FLASHING TAKES NASSAU COUNTY
After losing the lead on the far turn, Flashing came on again in deep stretch to rundown favored Saarlight to win the Grade 3, $196,000 Nassau County Stakes for three-year-old...
JOHNSON EMERGES WITH 2-STROKE LEAD
CHARLOTTE -- Zach Johnson had the slightest feeling of panic yesterday when he saw his 7-iron hug the left side of the 17th green, wondering for a moment if he...
SPORTS SHORTS
SPORTS SHORTSNHL: Red Wings' Rafalski to miss Game 2 Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said Brian Rafalski will not play in Game 2 today against the Ducks. Babcock ruled Rafalski...
A HIP-LESS FEELING FOR DELGADO
PHILADELPHIA -- The Mets came to the cold realization yesterday that what is likely to be Carlos Delgado's last season in their uniform will be played on a chronically ailing...
HOW LOSING JOCKS SAW IT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Here's what some of the losing jockeys had to say about yesterday's Kentucky Derby: Garrett Gomez (2nd, Pioneerof the Nile): "He ran really good. I was in...
PITCH-POOR PEREZ SHOULD GO TO MINORS
PHILADELPHIA -- If Oliver Perez pitched on a high school team he'd be sent home. If he pitched in the minors he'd be released. If he pitched on a beer...
IN 'GENERAL,' A GREAT RUN
Trainer Tom McCarthy, 75, a former biology teacher and high school principal in Louisville, had his first Derby starter yesterday, Blue Grass winner General Quarters who finished 10th. This week,...
GREEN'S CONTROL WOES FINISH OFF METS
PHILADELPHIA -- Oliver Perez has all but punched his ticket out of the Mets' rotation. COMPLETE METS COVERAGEMETS BLOG The mercurial left-hander's next stop is likely to be the bullpen,...
CAPS GET JUMP
Alex Ovechkin contributed a power-play goal, yet it was a few of his unheralded teammates on the Capitals who made the difference in Game 1 of their showdown against Penguins...
METS TO CELEBRATE HODGES' HEROES
This week the Mets announced the club will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Miracle Mets before the team's Aug. 22 game with the Phillies at Citi Field. One...
ISIAH MAKING ENEMIES IN NEW FIU JOB
Isiah Thomas already has angered a handful of Florida high school coaches in his two weeks at the job at Florida International University. The former Knicks president/coach is being accused...
REEL GOOD
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988), Sunday, 12 noon, Showtime Very risky for its time - at least creatively. Humans interact - and act - with cartoon characters in this thoroughly...
PRIMETIME
Last June, Jack Lucas, 80, died in Hattiesburg, Miss. That, I figured, was worth at least 30 seconds on all the national newscasts, TV and radio. After all, in 1945...
DON'T MISS LIST
DRAMA GREEK, Monday, 8 p.m., ABC Family Wedding belles - Wedding season starts a month early on TV. On "Greek," Casey's (Spencer Grammer) grand-big sister, Kiki (Collette Wolfe), returns to...
ALIVE AND KICKING
As Agent Renee Walker on the FOX action hit "24," Annie Wersching has tortured terrorists, battled bad guys in hand-to-hand combat, and even been buried alive. And what was the...
THEY GOT GAME
For 30 years John Madden was the most recognizable broadcaster in sports, giving every NFL fan insights into football's biggest games. Madden retired on April 16, two months after calling...
JACK KEMP DIES
Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative," died Saturday. He was 73. Kemp died after a lengthy illness, according to spokeswoman Bona Park and Edwin...
JACK KEMP DIES
Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative," died Saturday. He was 73. Kemp died after a lengthy illness, according to spokeswoman Bona Park and Edwin...
RBNY Open Cup date at DC set on May 20
The date for the Red Bulls' U.S. Open Cup play-in tilt at D.C. United has been set, and as expected they'll play at on Wednesday, May 20. The game will...
Tribeca: 'City Island' Takes Audience Award
Congratulations to Raymond DeFelitta, whose "City Island'' won the $25,000 audience prize at tonight's Tribeca Film Festival. This small $6 million film, starring Andy Garcia as a corrections officer who...
Liga: Barcelona Complete 'Real' Rout
Two goals each by Thierry Henry and Lionel Messi powered a rampant Barcelona to a 6-2 thrashing of champions Real Madrid on Saturday in a spectacular Primera Liga clash at...
Perez move seen as imminent
PHILADELPHIA -- Jerry Manuel and GM Omar Minaya planned to meet today to make a formal decision, but it appears all but certain Oliver Perez won't be starting again anytime...
EX-DANCER 'STOLE' BUILDINGS
A former exotic dancer with a body for sin and maybe a brain for it, too, stole three Upper East Side apartment buildings from her late ex-boyfriend and brazenly started...
PHILLIES BEAT METS ON BASES-LOADED WALK IN 10TH
Shane Victorino isn't known for his plate discipline. Even he couldn't swing when Sean Green lost his control. Victorino's bases-loaded walk off Green with two outs in the 10th inning...