August 3, 2009
Rex Ryan transcript, Aug. 3
Here are Rex Ryan's remarks to the media from Aug. 3, courtesy of the New York Jets: Opening Statement...(We) had a little rock 'em sock 'em out there today. That...
Craig Ferguson: 'I am Just the Pretty One That Reads the Prompter'
"Late Late Show" host Craig Ferguson is rarely at a loss for words. Today was no exception. Yucking it up with TV writers at the Television Critics Association in Pasadena,...
'AS THE WORLD TURNS' MAY STOP SPINNING: CBS PRESIDENT
Another of TV's longest running programs could be on shaky ground. Now that CBS has swapped out veteran soap "Guiding Light" for a revival of the 1970s game show "Lets...
Clemens looks sharp (minus one throw)
By MARK CANNIZZAROCORTLAND _ Amidst the fireworks on the field during the spirited morning practice, the battle for the starting quarterback job continued with Kellen Clemens having his sharpest session...
Wayne Brady Says...
Wayne Brady on hosting "Let's Make A Deal":"I think I am one of the only guys on TV that could pull off this particular show because of the skill set...
FORMER METLIFE CEO TO LEAD AIG AS PRESIDENT, CEO
American International Group Inc. named former MetLife Inc. chairman and CEO Robert Benmosche Monday as its new president and chief executive. Benmosche, 65, will replace CEO Edward Liddy, former CEO...
PM practice highlights
By PAUL SCHWARTZALBANY - After the passing game got off to a sluggish start in the first practice of training camp things got cooking a little in the afternoon session,....
Pedro stays in minors, for now
Pedro Martinez will next pitch Wednesday for Double-A Reading, still not in the major leagues for the Phillies as he had hoped, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer."From there, we'll decide for...
POLICE EYE MOM'S ROUTE IN NY CRASH THAT KILLED 8
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- A woman who drove her minivan for nearly two miles the wrong way on a suburban parkway before crashing in a fiery wreck that killed eight...
Mark Sanchez transcript, Aug. 3
Here are Mark Sanchez's remarks to the media from Aug. 3, courtesy of the New York Jets: On today's practice...It was good. Tough run today. The defense looked good. Practice...
D'Antoni backs curePC
By MARC BERMANA new 30-second public service announcement featuring Mike D'Antoni has begun airing, as part of curePC, the public awareness campaign being conducted by Cablevision and The Lustgarten Foundation...
GIBBS: NO TAX HIKE FOR MIDDLE CLASS
WASHINGTON -- The White House spokesman says President Barack Obama is committed to not raising taxes on U.S. families earning less than $250,000. Robert Gibbs restated that assurance Monday after...
JETS SHOW SOME FIGHT AT CAMP
CORTLAND -- Punches were thrown while tempers flared at a rough and tumble practice at Jets training camp Monday. And coach Rex Ryan couldn't have been more pleased. "Hey, we...
Game 105: D-Backs at Mets
The Mets face a tall task tonight when they take on Diamondbacks ace Dan Haren tonight in the finale of a four-game series at Citi Field. Not only is Haren...
BOFA PAYS $33M SEC FINE OVER MERRILL BONUSES
WASHINGTON -- Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay a $33 million penalty to settle government charges that it misled investors about Merrill Lynch's plans to pay bonuses to...
MOTHER: I'M 'CONCERNED' FOR SON'S SAFETY IN IRAN
MINNEAPOLIS -- The mother of an American freelance journalist missing in Iran said Monday she is concerned for the safety and welfare of her son and two others. Shane Bauer's...
Giants management on Pierce
The Giants hierarchy expressed relief that Antonio Pierce will not be indicted.President John Mara: "We certainly agree with the grand jury's decision.We said last week we felt strongly that Antonio's...
Mets have one Top 50 prospect
MLB.com has revised its rankings of its Top 50 minor-league prospects, and the Mets managed to put one player on the list: RHP Jennry Mejia, who is at No. 46.The...
MEDICS MISTAKENLY DECLARE BURGLARY SUSPECT DEAD
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore police say a burglary suspect mistakenly declared dead by medics after he was shot by an officer laid on a convenience store floor for half an hour...
LIFEGUARD CAUGHT WEARING HEADPHONES SUSPENDED
The lifeguard who was totally tuned out while on duty at a Queens beach was suspended today by the city, officials said. The Parks Department said the lifeguard will be...
Pierce not indicted
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants breathed a huge sigh of relief this afternoon when word came down from the District Attorney's office that linebacker Antonio Pierce will not be indicted by...
PLAXICO BURRESS INDICTED ON GUN CHARGES
Former superstar Giant Plaxico Burress today was indicted on weapons charges that have already cost him his $35 million football contract -- and will now likely cost him his freedom....
VIDEO: A WHIRLWIND OF DIVINITY IN FLUSHING
On July 13, Bowne Street in Flushing played host to a once-in-a-lifetime explosion of Hindu ritual on the streets of New York as the Ganesh Temple was reconsecrated after 18...
Passing game off to slow start
BY PAUL SCHWARTZALBANY - The first play of the first practice of training camp was a simple Brandon Jacobs off-tackle run call. Not exactly dramatic but no one should forget...
BLOOMBERG: FREE CROSSTOWN BUS SERVICE FOR ALL
In a dramatic election year proposal, Mayor Bloomberg today suggested that the fare on some crosstown buses be lowered to a figure every rider could embrace -- zero! Bloomberg said...
GOV. PATERSON TO SILVERSTEIN: WE DON'T NEED YOU
New York Gov. David Paterson has given World Trade Center site developer Larry Silverstein an ultimatum in talks over his ground zero lease. He says the site could be redesigned...
REPORT: RUTH MADOFF CAN'T SPEND $100 WITHOUT TELLING TRUSTEE
The wife of Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff reportedly can't spend more than $100 on herself without telling the trustee liquidating her husband's investment business, a Manhattan bankruptcy judge ruled. Ruth...
Life's a Twitter
Here's nine short innings for today's early thoughtsRecently talked to a host of major leaguers and former major leaguers and they all agreed that if they were building the perfect...
Bigger is better
Yesterday I heard the best "West Side Story" medley ever. But it wasn't at the theater or at Carnegie Hall: It was at Giants Stadium and it was performed by...
Studs & Duds of the week
Help me reach my modest goal of 10010 100 followers on twitter.By JUSTIN TERRANOVAYankees stud -- Melky CabreraAfter yesterday's cycle Cabrera was the obvious choice, but the right one.Any concerns...
MICHAEL JACKSON'S MOTHER GETS CUSTODY OF HIS CHILDREN
LOS ANGELES -- A judge awarded guardianship of Michael Jackson's children to mom Katherine Jackson today -- but not before a surprise bid by MJ's dermatologist to inject himself into...
'All Quiet' Is Better As a Silent
A famous story surrounding the 1930 version of "All Quiet on the Western Front'' says that Zazu Pitts was replaced as Lew Ayres' mother in the version released in the...
The Daily Whacks, Monday Edition
You can count me among the tweetin' Twitterers (or is that the Twitterin' tweeters?) now: http://twitter.com/MikeVacc*******Couple of Monday quickies: * If Gary Sheffield hasn't come close to the boiling point...
PAPERS: JACKSON'S LIFE INSURANCE HAS PAID OUT
LOS ANGELES -- Court filings state the administrators of Michael Jackson's estate have received the King of Pop's life insurance proceeds. The records, filed Friday in Los Angeles, are redacted...
CONCACAF sets schedule for Champions Leagues group stage, RBNY hosts Pumas UNAM Sept. 16 _ if they advance
Follow the Post's soccer coverage on Twitter!All the paranoid Red Bull fans who believe in jinxes, stop reading now.CONCACAF has released the possible pairings for the next few games in...
VIETNAM-ISTAN
At The Washington Post, Karl Eikenberry reports on Afghanistan debate and voteAt Foreign Affairs, Steven Simon asks if the "right war" can be won
Early fireworks in Jets morning practice
By MARK CANNIZZAROCORTLAND -- Great early action in the Jets monring practice today on SUNY Cortland's football stadium field.There were some fireworks during the 9-on-9 running drill with RB Thomas...
TIME FOR A 'SUMMIT' -- ON SEXISM
Dissenting Justice says Milbank's Sexism is showingAdele Stan on the 'hate game' from AlterNet
GOOGLE CEO LEAVES APPLE BOARD AS COMPANIES COMPETE
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple's board of directors as the Internet search leader increasingly develops products that compete with Apple's core businesses, including the popular iPhone. Apple...
NYC SUSPECT IN HARVARD SHOOTING TO FACE JUDGE
MEDFORD, Mass. -- A New York City man charged in connection with a fatal shooting at a Harvard University dormitory is scheduled to face a judge in Massachusetts. Jason Aquino...
MICHAEL JACKSON 'KILLED' BY DOCTOR'S AIDE WITH DEMEROL: REPORT
Michael Jackson was reportedly killed by a shot of a powerful painkiller administered to him by an aide as his personal doctor slept in another room. Katherine Jackson Named Guardian...
NEVADA SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH OJ SIMPSON'S RELEASE
LAS VEGAS -- Lawyers for O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy hope to persuade a Nevada Supreme Court panel to spring the two men from prison while the justices...
BASHING THE GOLDEN GOOSE
The Faster Times on Wall Street's steroid ageCrain's New York Business says Cuomo pulls a Spitzer
Coverage in The Post
A homestand that started so promisingly for the Mets is quickly turning sour, with Sunday afternoon's 5-2 loss to the Diamondbacks and Jon Garland being especially hard to swallow. Garland...
Apatowwwww! Ephron's Chick Flick Poised to Kick Judd's Butt
Poor Judd Apatow. Not only did his navel-gazing "Funny People'' score the year's worst No. 1 opening -- even the feeble "17 Again,'' with Apatow's wife Leslie Mann lusting after...
4 SERIOUSLY INJURED ON BRAZIL-TO-TEXAS FLIGHT
MIAMI -- More than two dozen people were hurt when a Continental Airlines jet hit turbulence on a flight from Brazil to Texas, forcing the plane to make an emergency...
3 UP: PELFREY, RED SOX PITCHING, WHO TO ROOT FOR
Yes, I am on Twitter.1. My column in today's Post is about how important Mike Pelfrey is to the Mets' future. Right now you have to imagine the Mets' rotation...
DEADLY CRASH CLOSES WANTAGH PARKWAY
WANTAGH, L.I. - The Wantagh Parkway has reopened after a deadly crash early this morning. New York State Police say three people were killed on the southbound Wantagh near Merrick...
BROKEN FINGER ENDS MONTERO'S SEASON
After blistering through both the High-A Florida State League and the Double-A Eastern League all season long, catcher Jesus Montero's season has come to an end because of a broken...
GO TO GREG
Q I've noticed lots of job postings for telemarketers that promise high income. Are these jobs for real? I've got strong sales experience, but what else do these firms look...
THIERRY MURET
AT times, Thierry Muret must feel like Willy Wonka punching the clock at the Chocolate Factory. As the master chocolatier at Godiva, the 48-year-old Belgian spends his days dreaming up...
TALK THERAPY
WHEN I got fired and was coping with the pain and uncertainty of unemployment, my big mistake was going it alone. Sure, I talked to my mom and a few...
DOWN, NOT OUT
In 1993, I was a 22-year-old hotshot. Or so I thought. As a publicist for NBC News, I was living on the Upper West Side, enjoying a nice life. Not...
POWER POINTS
Pay daze Getting the ax is always a raw deal, but it's even worse here than in other countries, according to a worldwide study of severance pay. Of 28 countries...
HOT GAMS!
FOR those dudes who have been more than a little nonplussed by the maxi dress trend, fear not. Skin -- or, more precisely, leg -- is making a big comeback...
TOW NAILINGS UP
Here's the likely answer to the question "Dude, where's my car?" -- the city tow lot. The NYPD has rigged up and hauled away a steadily increasing number of vehicles...
LOST '91 PILOT ID'D
The remains of the first American lost in the 1991 Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said yesterday, a sorrowful resolution of a nearly 2-decade-old question about...
RYAN TRIED TO GET TATUM TO DATE 'IM
Ryan O'Neal wishes he'd never had children and is so estranged from his own kids that he didn't recognize his actress-daughter Tatum -- and shamelessly flirted with her -- at...
BLOODY START TO AUG. FOR AFGHAN GIS
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three US soldiers were ambushed and killed yesterday in eastern Afghanistan -- raising NATO's two-day August death toll to nine and continuing the 8-year-old war's deadliest period...
CONSTRUX SITES STILL SMOKIN'
New York construction sites are smokin' hot -- and that's bad. A nearly yearlong crackdown on smoking at construction sites around the city by the Buildings Department has resulted in...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Bronx A 62-year-old homeless man was found stabbed to death yesterday in the stairwell of a Mott Haven apartment building, sources said. The victim, whose name was withheld pending family...
CLOCK TICKING ON 'CLUNKERS'
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will suspend the "cash for clunkers" program unless the Senate provides $2 billion more for the popular car incentive plan, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said...
POST SCRIBE'S MOM DIES
Sarra Delfiner, the mother of New York Post reporter Rita Delfiner, died Saturday. She was 96. Sarra Delfiner was born in Russia and was an acclaimed concert pianist in Vienna...
CHARLIE: BAD 'DOGS'!
WASHINGTON -- Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel complained yesterday that a deal with the House's most conservative Democrats upped the price tag on President Obama's beleaguered health-care plan. "What the Blue...
HEARTLESS BANK FIRES HEIST HERO
File this under "No good deed goes unpunished." Key Bank fired Seattle teller Jim Nicholson because he had the audacity to chase and tackle a robber, holding him until cops...
$TIMULUS FOR SI FERRY
The city is floating its federal stimulus money to the ferry system. Staten Island Ferries will undergo maintenance repairs with $46.7 million the city received for transit projects through the...
O TEAM EYEING TAX HIKE
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's treasury secretary said yesterday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit -- and Obama's chief economic adviser would not dismiss...
CAR CRASHES INTO QUEENS FESTIVAL
A driver lost control of his car and plowed into a street festival in Queens yesterday -- sending more than a dozen people to the hospital, officials said. The terrifying...
POL HITS RX PAY PUZZLE
The price of a prescription drug in the Big Apple depends on where you buy it, according to a survey by City Councilman Eric Gioia. The Queens Democrat found wide...
SON, 5, DIES IN JET-SKI HORROR
The 5-year-old son of a Queens man killed in a horrific jet-ski crash Saturday has also died of his injuries. Roopnarine "Sully" Gopaul, 42, of South Jamaica, and his son,...
TOP FILM NOT $O 'FUNNY'
Adam Sandler suffered his worst opening weekend at the box office in more than four years, as his chart-topping comedy "Funny People" debuted at the lower end of expectations. According...
MISTER SOFTEE'S HARD 'DRUGS'
A Mister Softee vendor was scooped up for making deliveries of cocaine while blaring the trademark jingle up and down his Long Island route, cops said yesterday. Undercover cops conducting...
NEW HIV STRAIN FOUND IN AFRICA
WASHINGTON -- A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains...
SWISS HUNT FOR MISSING YANKS
BERN, Switzerland -- Swiss diplomats are trying to find out what happened to three Americans reportedly captured in Iran, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The Swiss Embassy in Tehran is...
ARREST IN E. SIDE SLAY
A Bronx woman is under arrest in the fatal beating of a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor in his Upper East Side apartment, and a manhunt is on for her male accomplice,...
STRAY BULLET KILLS B'KLYN WOMAN, 87
An 87-year-old woman was killed by a stray bullet at a Brooklyn housing project yesterday, cops said. Anna Surman was in the courtyard of the Surfside Houses on West 31st...
KIN RESCUE 'SMUGGLED' HUMANS
Two kidnappers suspected of "human smuggling" were attacked by bat-wielding relatives of their victims during a violent rescue at a Connecticut shopping center yesterday, police said. The bizarre incident began...
AIRPORT 'BOMBER' OUT OF HIS MIND
The homeless man charged with toting a fake bomb into La Guardia Airport, setting off mass chaos, had been hospitalized for paranoid delusions in June and has no idea "why...
STAR'S INSECURITY GUARDS
Manhattan has become a real-life "Twilight" zone for actor Robert Pattinson. An NYPD source told the Irish Central Web site that the heartthrob's incompetent security detail can't handle rabid female...
PLAYBOY SPREAD SELLS FOR 'CHEAP'
He's gonna be the lucky guy living next to "The Girls Next Door." Hugh Hefner and his Playmate wife just unloaded their massive Los Angeles guesthouse for a paltry $18...
TOTALLY TUNED OUT
Don't bother calling for help when this guy's on duty. The day after a teen drowned in the treacherous riptides off Rockaway Beach, this lifeguard appeared totally oblivious to the...
PROF & COP A 'HIT'
Black Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the white cop who arrested him at his Cambridge home are acting like best buds these days, yukking it up and making...
Woman whose husband disappeared on cruise to remarry
The woman whose new husband mysteriously disappeared into the Mediterranean Sea after a night of boozing during their honeymoon cruise is getting hitched again, The Post has learned. Jennifer Hagel's...
WOMAN 'STOLE' 300G FROM CANCER-STRICKEN BOSS
A bookkeeper allegedly embezzled more than $310,000 from her 80-year-old boss -- while the elderly woman was distracted by cancer treatments. Elenie Felan, 26, was working at the interior-design firm...
LUXE APTS. NOW $LASH PADS
The good news: You can pick up a magnificent Park Avenue penthouse at a $20 million discount. The bad news: It'll still set you back $31 million. Donald Trump, the...
GUMBALL STUMPER SOLVED AT NYU
A team of NYU scientists has solved a problem that's vexed math experts for centuries: How to calculate the number of differently sized gumballs in a candy jar. "It's a...
MEDICAID 'SCAMMERS': THEY FEE DEAD PEOPLE
As debate rages in Washington over ObamaCare, New York is providing "afterworld" care -- for hundreds of dead people. State probers are hunting down pharmacies and HMOs that illegally or...
SKY 'HIGH' COSTS
Operators of High Line Park are spending money like drunken sailors to maintain the brand-new hot spot -- even while trying to push a controversial new tax on neighborhood property...
BOOBS & BOLOGNA OUTRAGE
A notorious sleaze merchant could be on the hook for nearly $100,000 after opening an unauthorized Subway sandwich shop that doubled as an after-dark strip club. A federal magistrate has...
LIBERTY MEDAL KID A WALK STAR
If you could walk a day in Frankie Gaetani's shoes, you'd be beat! The 11-year-old Long Islander won a 2008 Young Heart Liberty Medal for putting together a team to...
PRINCIPAL DEMOTED
The principal of a Brooklyn high school once hailed as the model of urban turnaround has been yanked because of the school's sliding performance and escalating violence, The Post has...
LATEST FISCAL GLOOM COULD DOOM GOV
AWORSENING state budget outlook has put Gov. Pater son "between a rock and a hard place" in his bid to survive an all-but-certain challenge from Attorney General Andrew Cuomo next...
RESTAURANT OWNER A CON 'ARTISANAL': SUIT
A trendy TriBeCa restaurant is stiffing suppliers and hiding behind a corporate restructuring to ditch debt, a lawsuit alleges. Bar Artisanal sprung in April from the ashes of Trigo, which...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Bum a smoke, go to jail. A 49-year-old Michigan woman who habitually asked neighbors for cigarette money was arrested for disorderly conduct after a sheriff's deputy came to warn her...
FACE-TO-FACE WITH HISTORIC INTERVIEW
HAD Peter Morgan, the author of the play and film "Frost/Nixon," not turned his attention to hyping the 1977 Watergate conversations between David Frost and Richard Nixon, no major network...
WANTS DUBYA TO DO TALKER
PIERS Morgan, the former British newspaper ed itor and now judge on the TV show "America's Got Talent," says he'd really like to do a Frost/Nixon type TV interview with...
ALL POINTS WET IS A LOT MORE LIKE IT
HOW do you ruin the recipe for a three-day rock festival when you have first-class talent and ingredients? Just add water. At All Points West, the big star wasn't Coldplay,...
ELMO HAS A RIVAL
ELMO, long the trade mark character -- and cash cow -- of "Sesame Street," is getting competition. When the popular children's program returns for its 41st season in November, Elmo...
RHYTHM AND SHOES
IF you've never watched "Dancing With the Stars" and don't know what "SYTYCD" stands for, you have no business being at "Burn the Floor." (It's "So You Think You Can...
CARY IS NOT TO BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED
'EVERYBODY wants to be Cary Grant," the iconic actor is supposed to have once joked. "Even I want to be Cary Grant." The suave Grant (1904-1986), born Archibald Leach in...
FRANCOEUR ONE OF FEW BRIGHT SPOTS
There have been precious few bright spots for the Mets, very few moves this year for beleaguered GM Omar Minaya to point to in his defense. Jeff Francoeur has been...
RACHEL ALEXANDRA ROLLS IN HASKELL
OCEANPORT, N.J. -- Rachel Alexandra, the storybook filly of the ages, ran one of the great races in the storied history of Monmouth Park yesterday when she demolished a field...
HONDO'S A MET MAN
The Melk of human kindness was on display yes terday as Cabrera & Co. cycled past the Chisox to lower Hondo's debt to 420 falcones. Tonight, judging by the Pitching...
RANGERS NEAR 'Z' DAY
The Rangers submitted a number below Nikolai Zherdev's $3.25 qualifier in the salary arbitration hearing conducted on Friday, The Post has learned. So how complex a decision do you think...
BOSOX ARE BIG 'VICTORS'
Newcomer Victor Martinez had a career-high-tying five hits and four RBIs, Josh Reddick and Rocco Baldelli homered, and the Red Sox reached season highs in runs and hits yesterday in...
TIGER NOTCHES 69TH TOUR WIN
Tiger Woods won possibly the final Buick Open for his fourth victory of the year and 69th overall on the PGA Tour, closing with a 3-under 69 for a three-stroke...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Report: Bosox staffers axed for 'roid use The Red Sox fired two security staffers last summer after an investigation into steroid use, according to a Boston Globe report. Jared...
AFTER 15 YEARS, STILL A BAD X-AMPLE
ERIN Bates, ESPN on- scene reporter, reported Saturday that the contestant was through for the day -- he declined a second attempt because of "blurred vision." And that stood to...
KNICKS, SESSIONS NEAR PACT
The Knicks' tango with Ramon Sessions could wrap up tomorrow, according to his agent.KNICKS BLOGBACK PAGE: MARBURY'S INTERNET DISASTER Chubby Wells, agent for the young Bucks point guard, told The...
JACOBS: WE'LL GET JOB DONE
ALBANY -- The Giants arrived yesterday for training camp and while his teammates carted personal belongings into their dorm rooms at the University at Albany, running back Brandon Jacobs quite...
RUTGERS PRODUCT READY TO JOIN GANG
CORTLAND -- Rex Ryan yesterday gushed about Jamaal Westerman, the former Rutgers defensive lineman who's trying to make the Jets roster as a rookie free agent linebacker. JETS BLOG The...
REVIS AMONG NFL'S 'ELITE' DBS
CORTLAND -- Rex Ryan is openly daring opposing quarterbacks to throw the ball to Darrelle Revis' side of the field. JETS BLOG "If you throw the ball at him chances...
ANTONIO, GIANTS HAVE SWEAT ENOUGH
ALBANY -- The prosecution mostly wants Plaxico Burress, and Tom Coughlin assuredly wants to get on with two-a-days. So the Giants want to know what the grand jury desires with...
GIANTS CONTINUE TO STAND BY PIERCE
ALBANY -- I would have done the same thing. And you would have, too. That, in essence, is the strong declaration of star defensive end Osi Umenyiora as he offered...
'SEVENTH' HEAVEN
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- In a bravura performance, Godolphin Stable's Seventh Street was resurgent in the stretch under Rajiv Maragh to win yesterday's Grade 1, $300,000 Go For Wand Stakes by...
YANKEES AVERT SWEEP; MELKY MAKES HISTORY
CHICAGO -- They begged CC Sabathia to stop the river of blood racing through the Yankees' universe that threatened to flush them out of the AL East lead. Instead it...
IT AIN'T OVER TILL . . . NAH, IT'S OVER
WE could talk about the Mets and the wild card. We could also talk about the Tooth Fairy or Jose Reyes playing again this year. You know, things adults shouldn't...
MARIANO RIVERA'S EAGER TO SHOULDER LOAD
CHICAGO -- In April and May, Yankee manager Joe Girardi used Mariano Rivera for more than an inning twice. Now, with the closer's surgically repaired right shoulder strong and the...
RETURN IN SIGHT FOR PUTZ
Mets reliever J.J. Putz hopes to come off the disabled list in about three weeks after taking an encouraging step yesterday in his rehab from elbow surgery. BOX SCOREMETS BLOGHUBBUCH...
GARLAND DOMINATES AFTER DELAY
This is not what teams on the fringe of the wild-card race do if they want to stay on the fringe of said wild-card race. BOX SCOREMETS BLOGHUBBUCH ON TWITTERTONIGHT'S...
SMOKE & MIRRORS
'MAD Men" is a complex creature, effortlessly cool and relentlessly shocking. It thrives on the deep secrets of its characters. In an age where reality shows have made superstars out...
STARR REPORT
A Locke to host Former "American Idol" contestant Kimberley Locke has inked a deal with Media Meld Studios to host its planned reality show, "Mak ing the Curve" -- in...
TIME FOR A 'SUMMIT' -- ON SEXISM
NOW that we've had a beer summit on race, how about a wine sum mit on sexism? In the latest edition of an online feature called "Mouthpiece Theater," Washington Post...
THE HIGH-TAX TRAP
WELL, what do you know? After raising taxes on high-income households by up to 31 percent, New York state is collecting far less income tax than it had anticipated just...
STRINGER BEEPS OUT AIDE'S SPEECH RIGHTS
THE ISSUE: BP Stringer's firing of an aide following her comments on the Skip Gates incident. *** Although Lee Landor could have expressed her displeasure with Prof. Henry Louis Gates...
DESTROYING THE DOCTOR-PATIENT BOND
If the president has his way . . . the art of medicine will be lost. THE most frightening thing about Washington's idea of "health- care reform" is how it...
SEASIDE SESSION
It's August, which means you're going a little crazy while your shrink is on vacation. At least that's the long-running joke in this city full of neurotics -- and the...
A BID TO NOWHERE
Does New York City need yet another special taxing district? Yes, to pay for the upkeep of the 2-month-old High Line Park on the West Side -- or so says...
BASHING THE GOLDEN GOOSE
Nine banks that got taxpayer bailout bucks paid huge bonuses to employ ees last year, reports Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Outrageous? Maybe. But, for New York's sake, let's hope the...
VIACOM'S TIE-UP WITH VERIZION FIOS
Viacom's deal to distribute the Epix pay television service on Verizon FiOS shouldn't come as a surprise -- after all, the woman in charge of negotiating carriage deals for Viacom...
CARL ICHAN & FRIENDS AREN'T YELLING YAHOO!
If Carl Icahn, Bill Miller and Gordon Crawford were angry with Jerry Yang for not doing a deal with Microsoft last year, then they may be even more steamed now...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Job worries High unemployment is here to stay for another full year, Treasury Sec retary Tim Geithner told ABC's "This Week." He said the jobless rate, hov ering at just...
MARKETS GAZE WITH ENVY AT CHINA DYNAMO
Wall Street is settling into its summer doldrums with hopes of just holding onto slim gains, while trading action is soaring in China over its own $1 trillion stimulus for...
VIETNAM-ISTAN
OUR troops in Afghanistan are performing heroically, doing everything we ask of them. But we shouldn't ask them to die without a purpose. We're floundering in Afghanistan -- confusing techniques...
Time for a 'Summit' -- on Sexism
NOW that we've had a beer summit on race, how about a wine sum mit on sexism? In the latest edition of an online feature called "Mouthpiece Theater," Washington Post...
Broken finger ends Montero's season
You can now follow Beating the Bushes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYP_Bushes**********After blistering through both the High-A Florida State League and the Double-A Eastern League, catcher Jesus Montero's season has come to...
Jeff Agoos inducted into Hall of Fame
Follow the Post's soccer coverage on Twitter!Red Bulls sporting director Jeff Agoos was inducted in the National Soccer Hall of Fame, receiving his red jacket today in Oneonta, NY."I am...