May 12, 2006
SCHIFTER HOLDING THE BAG
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA lawsuit filed against Tim Schifter, a former owner of LeSportsac, was put on hold until Aug. 9, when Schifter's non-solicitation agreement expires, lawyers for both sides said. In the...
IDT SHAREHOLDERS FOOT BILL FOR FOREIGN SUIT
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amFor the past two years, the shareholders of Newark's IDT Corp. have been footing the mounting legal bills for a tiny anti-counterfeiting company to wage a long-shot legal campaign against...
ICAHN HIT BY $66M LOSS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amNew York City's richest man - Carl Icahn - lost $66 million in a wrong-way bet on a plasterboard company while rival Warren Buffett, the nation's richest investor, held pat...
ALMIGHTY GOOGLE - SEARCH GOD CREATES ADDICTIVE TRENDS TRACKER
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amDenise Richards is hotter than Heather Locklear, good beats evil, The Post tops the Daily News and Google is bigger than God. Those are just a few of the conclusions...
PAYOLA PENALTY - UNIVERSAL PAYS PIPER $12M
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amUniversal Music, the world's largest record company, will shell out $12 million to settle charges that the company illegally paid off radio stations to air certain music. New York Attorney...
FAIRFAX RESCUES OVERSTOCK
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe white knight who came to the aid of embattled Internet firm Overstock.com last week was Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings, which disclosed in an SEC filing that it bought 1...
WALL ST. BIGS DONATE $45M
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThree big time Wall Street luminaries including buyout king Henry Kravis gave $45 million for Columbia Business School - the institution that got them started. Arthur Samberg, founder of hedge...
DON'T NEEDHAM - STRAPPED DENNIS AXES MAXIM EDITOR
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amMAXIM Editor-in-Chief Ed Needham is about to be forced out of the beer and babes magazine in the latest round of cost-crunching in the Felix Dennis empire. The move comes...
MORGANS SNAPS UP HARD ROCK OPERATIONS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amPeter Morton, founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, is set to pocket almost $770 million after selling the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and partial naming...
ICAHN HIT BY $66M SETBACK
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amNew York City's richest man - Carl Icahn - lost $66 million in a wrong-way bet on a plasterboard company while rival Warren Buffett, the nation's richest investor, held pat...
LESPORTSAC SUIT ON HOLD
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA lawsuit filed against Tim Schifter, a former owner of LeSportsac, was put on hold until Aug. 9, when Schifter's non-solicitation agreement expires, lawyers for both sides said. In the...
LOHAN & FLICK OUT OF LUCK
May 12, 2006 | 4:00am'I can't even imagine what they're going to say about me in The Post," remarks one of the many unappealing characters in "Just My Luck," an appallingly unfunny and unromantic...
BRITS IN SNITS LOSE WITS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amLONGTIME British actor Richard E. Grant makes his directing-writing debut with "Wah-Wah," the semi-autobiographical story of a teenage boy, Ralph Compton, in Swaziland, southern Africa. It's 1969, the year after...
HAVIN' A BALL
May 12, 2006 | 4:00am'GOAL! The Dream Begins" has an awful title, a bland hero and a predictable story - but it also has a nice blast of English atmosphere. You can almost smell...
FILM AIMS & MISSES RUDY ENTIRELY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHE documentary "Giuliani Time," which seeks to knock our former mayor off his pedestal, hits him with all the force of a wadded-up Kleenex. Those who hope Rudy Giuliani never...
SKETCHY TRIBUTE TO GENIUS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHE SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY [**] (Two stars) LESS a documentary than a self-important tribute to a longtime friend, Sydney Pollack's "The Sketches of Frank Gehry" provides extensive footage of...
MAZEL TOV TO SITCOM
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amYOU don't have to be Jewish to like "Keeping Up With the Steins," one of the bigger crowd-pleasers at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding,"...
WATER TORTURE - IT'S A DISASTER - AND WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE GENRE; GLUB, GLUB, GLUB, GLUB
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN the ship they're on is capsized and corpses are strewn everywhere, one passenger turns to another and inquires, "How bad is it?" "Very bad," is the reply. That exchange...
AN 'EVENFALL' FOR EVERMORE
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amNEW York City Ballet found itself with a major repertory piece on its hands after Tuesday's spring gala at the New York State Theater. It's called "Evenfall," and - set...
'IDOL' OUSTER FUELS OFFER
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amCHRIS Daughtry has been asked to join the multi-platinum rock band, Fuel. The band made the official offer to the booted "American Idol" contestant on last night's edition of "Extra."...
MEANING OF LIFE - HARSH LOOK AT SAVING A 1-LB. BABY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amIT used to be easy with babies. Nature vs. nurture, with nature often winning out. Now with extraordinary medical means, children born with severe deformitities or the inability to survive...
OUR IDOLS ARE ALL SHOOK UP
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amWITH only four finalists, it's no real shock that "American Idol" eliminated a favorite. They're all favorites at this point. So-called rocker Chris Daughtry took his final growl, but strictly...
ONSTAGE JITTERS - TONY NODS COMING - B'WAY IS QUIVERING
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S almost time for the Tony Award nominations, and Broadway's a nervous wreck. Jumpy producers and press agents with critically battered shows and stars are checking out the terrain, hoping...
SHOCKING LOSS ROCKS 'IDOL' CHRIS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amCHRIS Daughtry, who was shockingly booted off "American Idol" Wednesday night, says he thought show host Ryan Seacrest was joking when he abruptly told him to go home. "It was...
STARR REPORT
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amSpotlight on Rene "Early Show" co-host Rene Syler has inked a book deal with Simon Spotlight Entertainment, a division of Simon & Schuster. Syler's book, "The Good-Enough Mother," will take...
MARY'S HOT PICK
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amDURING May and June, BAMcafe Live features the annual Sista Factory residency, which showcases newer acts. Tonight, Las Rubias del Norte, "the Blondes of the North," hit the stage with...
FILM PICK
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amIn 2002, Brendt Barbur was hit by a bus while riding his bike in Manhattan. The experience inspired him to start the Bicycle Film Festival, the sixth edition of which...
STALKER RAP VS. BUBBA PROBER
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe former prosecutor who negotiated the deal that kept President Bill Clinton from being indicted in the probe of his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky has been...
RID APPLE OF LOONY LAWS: POL
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amFile these laws under L - for "ludicrous." So says a councilman of silly city laws he wants to go. Take the one that says you can't wash the sidewalk...
HILL SCOLDS LAZY GEN. Y - 'THEY HAVE TO DO THEIR PART'
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at the instant-gratification generation yesterday, saying young adults "think work is a four-letter word." "Kids, for whatever reason, think they're entitled to...
'SCREEN TEST' TODDLER - KID & FOLKS RATE BABY TV
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amCall me a bad parent if you will. I did something yesterday that goes completely against the advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics - I watched TV with my...
A FATHER FIRST - POL QUITS TO GIVE KIDNEY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amAssemblyman Richard Brodsky was on the floor of the Legislature three days ago when he got a call telling him his teenage daughter would need a kidney urgently. Yesterday, the...
DJ MA FUELS 'HOST'ILITIES
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe feud between two rival hip-hop DJs escalated yesterday as the wife of one of the radio hosts demanded the other be locked up for threatening to molest her 4-year-old...
FLT. 587 'TAIL FLAW' NIXED
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amFederal air safety probers are sticking by their finding that pilot error is the leading cause of the November 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in the Rockaways. Recent...
LOSERS RIP BUS-SHELTER DEAL
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amTwo major bidders yesterday raised fierce objection to the city's plan to award a $1 billion, 20-year "street furniture" contract to an upstart competitor. Spanish-based Cemusa, Inc. beat out better-known...
ROCK-A-TOLLAH - IRAN NUT'S HATE TALK WOWS 'EM IN INDONESIA
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amIran's fanatical president was treated like a rock star by hundreds of cheering students in Indonesia yesterday, as he took his hate-America and hate-Israel tour on the road. President Mahmoud...
RAP INSULT SPARKED GIRL'S SLAY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA 14-year-old girl who was shot while dancing at her pal's birthday party was killed because the gunman thought a homemade rap song had slurred his mom, cops said yesterday....
BID FOR GREEN YELLOW CABS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's 13,000 yellow cabs should be replaced with hybrids or wheel- chair-accessible vehicles within the decade, city officials said yesterday. Taking a first step toward this goal, several City...
HAUNTING S.I. MOB MURDER
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA purported haunted mansion on Staten Island became a house of horrors for a mob associate who was whacked, then hacked to pieces and burned in the furnace, authorities said....
PACKS & SPEND POLICY - CIG TAX-HIKE BID
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - New legislation to hike the city's cigarette tax by 50 cents has been quietly introduced on behalf of Mayor Bloomberg in a bid to discourage more people from...
CITY SLAMMED IN PEDI SQUABBLE
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amPlans by the Bloomberg administration to impose the first regulations on pedicabs got a thumbs-down yesterday from the pedalers. "The administration's proposal is a ban bill disguised as a regulation...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX (lcf) * A shooting suspect escaped from custody outside of Bronx Criminal Court last night, cops said. The 32-year-old man, whose name wasn't immediately released, slipped out of...
POL THROWS BOOK AT LOONY LAWS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amFile such legislation under L - for "ludicrous." So says a councilman of a slew of laws that are on the books and that, in his view, need to go....
SUSPICION SMOLDERING
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn community group wants a mayoral task force to investigate the giant industrial fire that devastated several blocks of the Greenpoint waterfront last week. Members of the North Brooklyn...
BROOKLYN EX-HS PRINCIPAL BUSTED IN 10G RIP-OFF
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe former principal of a Brooklyn high school is under arrest for allegedly stealing over $10,000 in education funds, officials revealed yesterday. Joanne Pierre, who led Coney Island's Rachel Carson...
BABY-SIT 'FIEND' IN JAIL AFTER SHAKING
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens baby sitter who allegedly shook a tiny toddler so hard that her brain began to bleed was held without bail yesterday. Little Andrea Lopez Palacios, just 13 months...
TRAGIC END TO B'DAY - MURDER AFTER PARTY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was shot and killed in the Meatpacking District yesterday after celebrating his birthday at a hip Chelsea nightclub, police sources said. Jahmein Williford had his 30th-birthday party...
EX-FIREMAN SLAIN BY SON: COPS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA retired New York City firefighter was murdered when his son smashed him in the head with a hammer after the son was ordered to move out of the house,...
SNOW'S STORM OF 'E-BUTTALS'
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New White House press secretary Tony Snow is taking a more aggressive approach to news reports he sees as unfair - issuing point-by-point rebuttals. He has already sent...
PATAKI STILL IDLING ON GASOLINE BREAK
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amFor the second consecutive day, Gov. Pataki refused to endorse the Legislature's newly announced plan to slash the state sales tax on gasoline, insisting only, "We're going to take a...
CLASS 'PERV' SHOCK - OK'D DESPITE PAST
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amAn accused pedophile slept with at least three elementary-school boys after their principal assigned him as a school volunteer - despite knowing about his criminal history with another child, the...
BUSH BIDS TO CLEAR 'SPYING' STATIC - DENIES 'TROLLING' IN PHONE-INFO GRAB
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday denied that government spooks are "mining or trolling through the personal lives" of Americans, amid an uproar over revelations that the National Security Agency maintains...
MAURY 'MISTRESS' MADNESS - BOTH POP UP AT TV GALA
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA $100 million sexual-harassment suit seemed like a forgotten topic yesterday, as trash-TV titan Maury Povich visited a SoHo restaurant for a season-ending wrap party with his staff - including...
MORGY-SILVER FEUD HEATS UP
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Finger-pointing between Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver continued yesterday, as each blamed the other for a news release that claimed Morgenthau backed a...
LMDC POWER STRUGGLE - MIKE VS. PATAKI AFTER WHITEHEAD QUITS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amState and city officials are at loggerheads over the successor to John Whitehead, who announced his resignation yesterday as chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., sources said. Insiders familiar...
MOB LAWYER SAYS CLIENT A 'HAS-BEEN'
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amGreg DePalma is a motor-mouthed has-been who was lured into crime by an undercover FBI agent, and is not the powerful Mafioso the feds claim, a defense lawyer said yesterday....
'HANG UP' PHONE BAN
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amDozens of parents and students descended upon City Hall yesterday to demand that Mayor Bloomberg lift his ban on cellphones in city schools. Armed with their cellphones and signs that...
FIRE-FAKE PERV'S RE-PETE OFFENSE - SEEKS X-RATED PIX OF EARLIER VICTIM
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amHe once promised a reign of terror against all the beautiful women who'd ever snubbed him. Now, even from jail - where he awaits trial on charges of kidnapping a...
KISSEL STOLE MY WIFE - EX-HUSBAND OF 'MISTRESS' BARES RAGE AT SLAIN CROOK
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe ex-husband of Andrew Kissel's alleged mistress yesterday said the slain swindler wrecked his marriage. Craig Statler said his wife, Alison - an attractive brunette mother of three - filed...
$4 MIL 'STAR' SCAM - BIG-NAME CLAIMS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amBetween his cashmere coats, his perfect French accent and his claims of big-buck dealings with John Travolta and Jodie Foster, Alexis Quinlin was quite the convincing businessman - talking some...
DJ'S WIFE: PUT 'MOLEST' RIVAL IN JAIL
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe feud between two rival hip-hop DJs escalated yesterday, as the wife of one of the radio hosts demanded the other be locked up for threatening to molest her 4-year-old...
COLUMBIA STUDENT GOES MISSING
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe family of a missing computer-engineering student due to graduate from Columbia next week is frantically searching for him. Richard Ng, 22, of Syosset, L.I., was last seen at his...
IMETTE'S FAMILY TO SUE BOUNCER'S BAR - GRIEVING MOM'S JUSTICE CRUSADE
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe family of slain criminal-justice student Imette St. Guillen - vowing a relentless crusade for justice - plans to sue the bar owners who hired the ex-con bouncer accused of...
FALLEN LEIF TAKES JAIL OVER REHAB
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A judge sentenced former teen idol Leif Garrett yesterday to 90 days in jail after the down-and-out heartthrob rejected a chance to enter rehab. The 44-year-old fallen...
RAP 'INSULT' SPARKED SLAY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA 14-year-old girl shot while dancing at her pal's birthday party was killed because the gunman thought a homemade rap song had slurred his mom, police said yesterday. Suffolk County...
'ID THEFT' ALIEN IS A DEAD MAN WALKING
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA crafty illegal alien lived in the United States for nearly 20 years by stealing a Bronx murder victim's identity and using it get a driver's license, a passport and...
'IDOL' SPECULATION - CHRIS DAUGHTRY'S LOSS HOLDS A LESSON IN AMERICAN POLITICS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amAS a seasoned political observer with more than two decades of experience analyzing voting patterns and the like, I would now like to explain to you one of the greatest...
B'KLYN HEIGHT FOR NETS - REVAMPED ARENA PLAN UNVEILED
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amDesigners unveiled a bold new look for the $3.5 billion, Bruce Ratner-commissioned Brooklyn "skyline" yesterday - showing more detail of the 16 monolithic brick, glass and steel highrises that would...
MAURY MADNESS - 'MISTRESS' SHOWS UP AT TV STAFF GALA
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA $100 million sexual-harassment suit seemed like a forgotten topic yesterday, as trash-TV titan Maury Povich visited a SoHo restaurant for a season-ending wrap party with his staff - including...
BUTCHERED AND BAKED IN HAUNTING MOB SLAY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amA purported haunted mansion on Staten Island became a house of horrors for a mob associate who was whacked then hacked to pieces and burned in the furnace, authorities said....
A NICE $LICE FOR N.Y. - FED TAX-CUT BONUS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Taxpayers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut stand to reap some of the biggest gains from the $70 billion tax cut just passed by Congress, IRS records...
FORGETTABLE NIGHT FOR CHACON
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Shawn Chacon, who started last night for the Yankees, was awful and awful lucky. In 4 2/3 innings, Chacon only gave up one run, even though he allowed...
BATTERED DAMON WON'T SIT
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amAdd Johnny Damon's name to the list of the Most Injured Outfield in baseball. With Yankees right fielder Gary Sheffield on the disabled list and left fielder Hideki Matsui possibly...
SECOND'S NO BETTER FOR SLUMPING FLOYD
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Cliff Floyd was the Mets' new No. 2 hitter last night against the Phillies. Floyd, who hit a team-best 34 homers last year, is a surprising...
PAPELBON CONTINUES TO SHINE
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amJonathan Papelbon had proven quite a few things in his young major league career before last night, but in picking up a four-out save against the Yankees in Boston's 5-3...
IT WAS PAINFUL FOR ALL
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - It was good weather - for fishing - and the Phillies, those poachers, refused to throw Aaron Rowand's big catch back. Why would they? On the surface, wins...
BROKEN IN THE BRONX - CALLING MAYDAY IN MAY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amWE HAVE grown so accustomed to their adaptability through the years, it is shocking to see what happens when the Yankees slowly start to burst their inseams. Players have been...
JOHN WASN'T SO STERLING
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amAFTER all these years, I should have known better. Tuesday, I was in a tough spot. Returning home by car, I had no choice but to allow John Sterling, "Voice...
DEREK GETS READY TO THINK PINK
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The team known for pinstripes will be renowned for the color pink on Sunday. As part of Major League Baseball's celebration of Mother's Day and to raise breast...
GET OUT THERE, WEEKEND LOOKS LIKE A WINNER
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE will be plenty of everything this weekend, including rain. The fluke season got off to a flying start last week off Montauk. It looked like the entire armada was...
ARR FRESHENER - LAVAR: JINTS STILL STRAHAN'S TEAM
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amRelaxed and smiling freely, LaVar Arrington was holding court this week when Michael Strahan rushed into the Giants locker room, searching for an iPod to take with him to a...
'THE RAT'S' RETURN - RILEY STORMS BACK TO AREA WITH HEAT
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amMIAMI - Before flying to New York, Heat coach Pat Riley talked about despising the New York media, talked about Bruce Springsteen no longer being the only big thing at...
VERDICT FINALLY IS IN: LAWYER RON WON'T GO
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amAfter several days of wavering, Lawyer Ron is officially out of the Preakness. The Langfuhr colt, who was the co-second choice with Barbaro at 4-1 on the morning line for...
'BAD TRIPLE' REALLY WORTH 22G
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amIf you're one of few people to hit ninth-race trifecta Wed., won by 5-1 Here's Ya Souvenir with 71-1 Egyptian King second and 67-1 I Won't Dance third, and you...
DEVIL OF A TIME - ON VERGE OF GETTING SWEPT
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amInstead of skating and practicing yesterday, the Devils, facing elimination from the playoffs and down 3-0 in their second-round NHL playoff series with Carolina, simply gathered and talked. Holding a...
ALL ABOUT MOMENTUM - NETS WANT IT BACK AFTER GAME 2 LOSS TO DESPERATE HEAT
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThe Nets routed the Heat on the road in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals and were hailed as greater than ketchup in little plastic packages. Then Miami dissected...
FOULKE: I WON'T ROCK BOAT
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amKeith Foulke has been supplanted by Jonathan Papelbon as the closer in the Red Sox bullpen, but that doesn't mean Terry Francona has forgotten about the right-hander. "I have so...
WELLS: A-ROD NEEDS TO 'FIGHT BACK' VS. BOSS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amDavid Wells has a piece of advice for Alex Rodriguez: When the Boss goes after you, go after him. "In order to get the respect of George [Steinbrenner], you have...
COACHES HONOR KIDD'S D
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amNET NOTES In 2001, during Jason Kidd's first regular-season game in a New Jersey uniform, the Nets were being gutted by Indiana's Jalen Rose, who had 43 points with about...
NO MORE BANS FOR ST. JOHN'S
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amFrom now on, the playing field, or more accurately the recruiting field, is equal for St. John's and men's basketball coach Norm Roberts because he doesn't have to face the...
SLUMPING FLOYD GETS 2ND CHANCE
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Cliff Floyd was the Mets' new No. 2 hitter last night against the Phillies. Floyd, who hit a team-best 34 homers last year, is a surprising...
NBA NEEDS LESSON ON SPORTSMANSHIP
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amAS I might have previously mentioned in this space, the referees were manifestly derelict in their duty for looking the other way and failing to dispense punishment to fit the...
CHAD: BET ON ME
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amFor those who doubt Chad Pennington will return as the Jets' starting quarterback this season after a second rotator-cuff surgery on his throwing arm, he delivered this bold message last...
ANOTHER WAKE-ING MOMENT
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amDoug Mirabelli knows Tim Wakefield's knuckleball about as well as anyone, and even he can't really describe it. "It's just a non-traditional pitch," Mirabelli said. "You can't prepare for it,...
SHORT CIRCUIT - YOUNG PHILLIES PITCHER BOGS DOWN METS BATS IN RAIN
May 12, 2006 | 4:00am4 ½ INNINGS: Phillies 2 - Mets 0 PHILADELPHIA - The rain poured. The runs did not. The Mets only played 4 ½ innings last night at Citizens Bank Park,...
SOUNDING MAYDAY IN MAY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amJOE Torre isn't one to minimize what the Yankees and the Red Sox mean to each other, and to the sport at large. He's a product of the great Giants-Dodgers...
YANK 'D' TAKETH & GIVETH
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amHaving committed six errors in the previous three games the Yankees were killing their pitchers. Last night they offered a mixed bag of defense - some stunning and some not...
STOPPED STREAK IS BIG NEWS IN JAPAN
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amNews that Hideki Matsui's consecutive-game streak was broken and the strong possibility that Matsui was severely injured during last night's Red Sox-Yankees game had the large contingent of Japanese media...
JETER, THE NEW FACE OF THE RIVALRY, UNFAZED, EVEN AT FENWAY
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amDEREK Jeter isn't bothered by the abuse he hears in Boston. He isn't bothered by the abuse. He isn't bothered by the T-shirts, some of which would make Opie &...
WRIST OF FATE FOR MATSUI - BAD BREAK FOR YANKS VS. RED SOX
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amRed Sox 5 - Yankees 3 The ugly fracture of Hideki Matsui's left wrist really started hurting the Yankees in the seventh last night, and the pain could last the...
GLAD PROCTOR'S IN THE HOUSE
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amBRIAN Cashman stayed up until 3 a.m. as July 30 turned to July 31 in 2003, working a cross-country phone line with his Dodger GM counterpart, Dan Evans. Cashman already...
LIGHTNING ROD CATCHES HEAT - ALEX LEANS ON REGGIE IN TIMES OF TROUBLE
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amAlex Rodriguez knows his legacy rests in October, which is why it makes sense that since he has put on the pinstripes he has turned to the man who is...
INVISIBLE SLUMP - OTHER METS BATS MASK FLOYD'S STRUGGLES
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - You would never know it from the 12 smashes Cliff Floyd says he has hit directly at the shortstop, but he's hitting .191. Of course, when one is...
CLIFF'S IN FREE FALL
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - You would never know it from the 12 smashes Cliff Floyd says he has hit directly at the shortstop, but he's hitting .191. Of course, at that number,...
SHORT CIRCUIT - ROWAND CATCH, YOUNG PITCHER BOG DOWN METS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00am4 ½ INNINGS: Phillies 2 - Mets 0 PHILADELPHIA - The rain poured. The runs did not. The Mets only played 4 ½ innings last night at Citizens Bank Park,...
BLOND AMBITION - LIMA HOPES START TONIGHT ISN'T LAST WITH AMAZIN'S
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Jose Lima didn't sound as if there was much he picked up from his last start that could help him tonight. Instead, when Lima was asked about that,...
STUCK ON 713 - BONDS FLOPS AT BAT AND IN LEFT FIELD
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Designated hitter must be looking better and better to Barry Bonds every day. The Giants left fielder has talked about possibly signing with an American League team...
ALL EYES ON CASHMAN NOW
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amGENTLEMEN, start your Alfonso Soriano rumors. There is no particularly good time to lose the hitter who has driven in the 10th most runs in the majors the past three...
HEAT'S ON VINCE - CARTER'S GOTTA MAKE HIS MARK IN PLAYOFFS
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amFor the Nets, this series is now about Vince Carter. Jason Kidd already has his legacy. With two NBA Finals appearances, his resume is well-stocked enough for him to end...
5QUESTIONS FOR MICHAEL WILBON
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with ESPN/ABC Sports commentator and Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon. Wilbon, 47, is the co-host of Pardon The Interruption and a contributor...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amTo: Curt Schilling From: Andrew Marchand Re: Joining the media CC: Sterling Sharpe Dear Curt: Don't ever join the media. This week, you took aim at the New York press,...
SCOTTIE SENT TO BENCH - ABC YANKS PIPPEN FROM PREGAME
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amScottie Pippen has been cut from ABC's NBA postseason roster, a network spokesman confirmed this week. The move by ABC Sports executives continues the biggest game of musical chairs currently...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 12, 2006 | 4:00amOtis Wilkins of Durham, N.C., pleaded guilty to tossing a homemade bomb at his ex-girlfriend - despite claiming he was really aiming at a beaver dam that was obstructing a...