February 24, 2007
A-Rod predicts big things from Igawa.
By GEORGE KINGIf Kei Igawa meets the prediction Alex Rodriguez made yesterday the Yankees will be very happy with their $46 million investment. After one batting practice session against him...
WORDSMITHS
The Mets are big time and you can tell by the media that is showing up here in Port St. Lucie these days.John Feinstein, who wrote the book about Bobby...
Live BP
By MARK HALEWith some live BP going on right now, David Wright just put down a bunt. Asked about it, Wright joked, "My new weapon." Tom Glavine, Jason Vargas and...
Razzies Update
This somehow escaped my notice until now, but the Golden Raspberry Awards, that annual Oscar spoof honoring dubious achievements in motion picture, will be carried live tonight on MSNBC's website....
Dearly 'Departed'
The inimitable Rita Delfiner, who I know since we were both copy kids, interviewed me for a piece running today on The Post's online Oscar poll. Our readers favor "The...
LIVEBLOG/BUDAPEST: Day 3 - One more time
Greetings from what we are now referring to as the Mexico City of Europe. Grimy, elegant, tattered, alluring, affordable - very diggable, Budapest. I think I spent about $200 in...
Day 15: Humberto Sanchez/Yankee Opportunities
Humberto Sanchez said something the other day that made me do a double take. He was talking to a group of reporters after the first session of pitchers throwing batting...
Lowe Expectations
With a day and a half to go, there are all sort of wild reports out there, including one that Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola are going to jointly present the...
ART CARNY
AS you read this, collectors from the world over are stepping their Guccis out of black limos outside the Armory Show at Pier 94 (just a few yards down from...
WHAT'S UP
TodayIN THE BAG: From a lion to dancing flowers, the Paper Bag Players can turn cardboard boxes and brown paper into just about anything. In the acrobatic musical "Dandelion," they...
READERS DELIGHTED BY 'DEPARTED'
As we head into what experts say could be one of the most suspenseful Oscar nights ever for best picture, Post readers say the gold statuette should go to "The...
MOTHER OF INVENTION
IN his acceptance speech after winning a Grammy for Best Rock Album a couple of Sundays back, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith urged: "A bunch of kids should...
SPOOKINESS PETERS OUT
Both are fantastical tales that deal with youthful innocence magically frozen in time, their central characters refusing to age despite the passage of many years. But unlike the sprightly Peter,...
OPRAH VISIT HELPS ELLEN
ELLEN DeGeneres won Thursday's "Oprah vs. Oprah" battle at 4 p.m. - sort of. Winfrey's visit to "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" at 4 p.m. on Ch. 4 pushed "Ellen" to...
DAWG TIRED
WHEN was the last time a morning ratings report was this shocking? Well, back on Jan. 17, the numbers that came out for the sixth-season premiere of "American Idol" the...
AND OUR OSCARS GO TO ...
As we head into what experts say could be one of the most suspenseful Oscar nights ever for best picture, Post readers say the gold statuette should go to "The...
PROPHYL-TACTICS: APPLE VS. BOSTON
The rivalry between New York and Boston has turned into a real rubber match - over condoms. The Bloomberg administration - which is distributing 26 million subway-themed condoms to promote...
BUS-ROUTE THAW AT QNS. SCHOOL
They froze, they waited, they won. Scores of Queens middle-schoolers forced to brave the bitter cold when one of their three yellow buses was eliminated last month will have guaranteed...
MILLIONAIRE HOSPITAL CEOS TAKE GOV $LAP
Gov. Spitzer yesterday teed off on millionaire hospital executives for whining about proposed modest Medicaid cuts to their budgets, and suggested that they surgically cut their hefty compensation packages. Spitzer...
FDNY TRACKING CHIP A BRAVEST NEW WORLD
If a new Fire Department plan works out, every firefighter will have a chip on his shoulder - or near some other body part - capable of transmitting data to...
FULL-CYCLE RETURN FOR STOLEN BIKE
A man who had his bike stolen six weeks ago thought he was seeing things when he spotted it yesterday attached to a pole around the corner from his Upper...
IDIOT & DUMMY
You could learn a lot from a dummy - including how to beat morning traffic. That was one crafty man's plan when he was busted yesterday cruising in the Long...
3-TIME LOSER NORMAN GUILTY
Brooklyn's Democratic ex-boss Clarence Norman was once again caught with his snout in the trough yesterday when a jury nailed him for shaking down a ju dicial candidate for more...
BUS HORROR IN MIDTOWN
A woman was struck and killed by a bus as she crossed a Midtown street yesterday, police said. The woman, whose name was not released pending family notification, was crossing...
STRIKING WHILE IRONY'S HOT
It's unlikely it was torched for the insurance money. An insurance sign told the ironic story as firefighters from five Nassau County fire departments battled a raging inferno that destroyed...
FLASHER BAGGERS
Pointing to the assault of a 13-year-old girl by a flasher, two Queens legislators yesterday called on Albany to add public lewdness to the list of crimes requiring registration with...
HELL-HOUSE SISTERS IN FOSTER CARE
Three girls who lived with their mother in a filth-ridden Long Island home strewn with trash and jugs of urine were placed into temporary foster care yesterday by a judge...
OFF-DUTY COP SHOOTS MAN
A Queens man was shot last night by an off-duty NYPD sergeant after the two got into a squabble, authorities said. Gunfire erupted at the corner of 116th Street and...
LAW NAILS 30 CASES OF BAD 'BOUNCE'
Since a club bouncer was accused in Imette St. Guil len's death, 30 bars, night clubs and restaurants in the five boroughs have been cited for hiring se curity workers...
'SLIMY TEACHER' WOE WORSENS
The number of teachers in New York facing "moral character" inquiries for having had sex with students or brushes with the law has nearly doubled in the last five years,...
TRAGIC PLUNGE INTO E.RIVER
A woman with a history of mental illness died yesterday after plunging into the frigid depths of the East River. The woman, whose name is being withheld pending family notification,...
MOB SON'S TEAM TRIPS KEY WITNESS
A woman testifying against mob boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano's son yesterday said the goon smashed her husband in the face with what appeared to be a brick - contradicting...
RATS ALL, FOLKS
Clearly, the cat wasn't doing his job, and apparently no one else at a KFC/Taco Bell franchise was either as an infestation of foot-long, mangy rats forced health inspectors to...
SPREE BLOCKED
Hot-tempered former Knick Latrell Sprewell glowered yesterday through a brief court appearance related to a bizarre December standoff during which he allegedly roughed up the mother of four of his...
AIDES LEARN HILL DRILL
A "talking points" memo distributed to Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters gives them the carefully crafted campaign line on how to deal with a host of nettlesome questions, including Bill Clinton...
FROM REFORMER TO SLEAZY BROOKLYN INSIDER
He didn't like to be called "boss," but the title certainly fit Clarence Norman, leader of the largest Democratic county in the United States and a man who once had...
FORGERY TWIST IN ANNA WAR
The wacky legal battle over Anna Nicole Smith's body got even weirder yesterday when somebody forged a court ruling purporting to overturn a Florida judge's decision that the Playmate be...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND Police are asking for the public's help in identifying and locating a man wanted for single-handedly raising the burglary rate in West Brighton and Westerleigh in the last...
SLAIN GAL'S ANGUISHED MA: 'TIME DOESN'T HEAL - IT JUST GETS WORSE'
BOSTON - Maureen St. Guillen will never over come the horrific way her daughter was taken from her - brutally murdered and dumped in a Brooklyn lot. "Losing her like...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 700; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 4058; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 291; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 6838;...
MIKE'S LAME EXCUSE
Mayor Bloomberg's take on the Inde pendent Budget Office report high lighting the city's superlatively oppressive tax burden ought to have incorporated red-faced contrition. Instead, Bloomberg pointed the finger at...
BUSTA CRIMES
Not Busta again. Barely two days after leaving a Manhattan courtroom with a judge's sweetheart plea deal ringing in his ears, recidivist rapper Busta Ryhmes was arrested again - for...
LYING FOR FIDEL
Fifty years ago today, The New York Times ran a front-page love letter to Fidel Castro at a crucial moment in the Stalinist thug's drive to take control of the...
A GIFT FOR PHILIP MORRIS
THE days of Congress doing the bidding of the tobacco industry are over," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., recently declared. "This long overdue legislation would give FDA broad powers to regulate...
BILL & HILL'S H'WOOD HELL
DEMOCRATIC sources believe that the harsh response by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign to crit icism by Hollywood producer David Geffen stems from an overreaction by Bill Clinton to...
SPITZER'S TRIBAL COUNCIL BETS ON THE CATSKILLS
I am in complete agreement with your editorial, "The Gov's Gambling Goof," (Feb. 21). We do not need that casino. New York taxpayers, especially, do not need to be in...
STANDING BY BILL
John Podhoretz's article about me and Richard M. Scaife implies that we are either mad or hypocritical by citing a New York Times story that quotes me as saying we...
HEY, NOT SO FAST
A surprise earnings report from Clear Channel Communications is likely to bolster arguments by angry shareholders who want to block the radio giant's $26 billion takeover by Thomas H. Lee...
MEA CULPAS DON'T CUT IT FOR FAULTY FIRMS
Memo to corporate America: Sorry won't cut it. That's the message some marketing experts said should be circulated after a spate of public relations fiascos involving fast-food purveyor Yum Brands,...
TAX HAUL HELPS CUT DEFICIT
Uncle Sam's overburdened books are getting a surprisingly good bill of health - as more cash is pouring in than going out. The Treasury Department says that tax revenues are...
INDIE LABEL JUMPS SHIP
The largest independent record label in Europe is defecting from trade group Impala over its perceived coziness with Warner Music Group, The Post has learned. Ministry of Sound, the world's...
SPORTS SHORTS
BLOTTER: 'Pacman's' Titans' future in doubt Adam "Pacman" Jones, entangled in a triple shooting at a Las Vegas strip club, might not be on the Titans' roster next season, according...
OCEAN FOREST NOW 2-FOR-18
THIRD RACE - Now you win it, now you don't! Specchio and Sail the Mystic hooked up in speed duel, tracked by Dodgem, with Ocean Forest tucked inside along rail....
HOLY CROSS CAPTURES CHSAA TITLE
Sylven Landesberg already has been named Player of the Year by the CHSAA. He is being courted by just about every major college program in the nation, but perhaps the...
RED BULLS TRADE BACK GOALIE
The Red Bulls traded goalkeeper Nick Rimando back to Real Salt Lake exactly two weeks after they got him, picking up an extra fourth-round pick for their trouble. They got...
HEARD IT BEFORE
SURPRISE, Ariz. - Sammy Sosa sat at a long table yesterday with a microphone in front of him and cameras fixed on his face. It was reminiscent of March 17,...
EVEN THE BEST CAN FALL SHORT . . . SOMETIMES
SOMETIMES, the lines move quickly at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Sometimes, there's no traffic at the Lincoln Tunnel entering Manhattan at 8 a.m. on a weekday. Sometimes, the pretty...
DEVILS' KOROLYUK TRADE FALLS THROUGH
Last week's trade of forward Alexander Korolyuk has officially been voided, meaning the Devils will have to return the third-round draft pick they received from San Jose in the deal....
TOM TELLS TIKI: JUST KEEP QUIET
More than a week after quietly stewing about Tiki Barber publicly pointing the finger at unforgiving practices as a reason he decided to retire while still in his prime, Tom...
MANGINI: CHAD IS JETS' STARTER
One day after the Jets' 2006 season ended with a wild-card playoff loss in New England, Eric Mangini was oddly noncommittal about whether the starting quarterback's job was Chad Pennington's...
DOLLAR BILL SOLD ON KNICKS' 'PROGRESS'
"Progress" has been a buzzword around the Garden. Jim Dolan demanded it from the Knicks, and Bill Bradley sees it. Bradley, one of the team's all-time champions, was seated courtside...
VINCE MAY STILL LAND IN BIG APPLE
In the summer of 2005, before the Raptors dealt Vince Carter to the Nets, Carter caused a commotion by telling his friends he would like to be traded to the...
RIGHT-PHILPLACE
PORT ST. LUCIE - While the Phillies are talking about catching the Mets this year, the Mets have much bigger plans. They believe they are on the threshold of a...
DUQUE FEELING BETTER
PORT ST. LUCIE - Orlando Hernandez said his arthritis had improved yesterday, and the Mets' No. 2 starter will throw after the weekend. "I'm scheduled to throw Monday again," El...
PEDRO PROGRESS
PORT ST. LUCIE - Pedro Martinez declared yesterday his health had advanced since talking to the media just 10 days earlier. The Mets right-hander said he has more strength. Martinez...
NO NEW JERSEY FOR KIDD
It was just one word. But it jumped out like a four-letter vulgarity in a church hymnal: "unfortunately." So when Nets guard Jason Kidd put it out there when asked...
KING-SIZE VICTORY
Yeah, so maybe that whole blow-it-up-and-restructure thing wasn't such a hot idea for the Nets after all. Especially not if last night presented a preview of what's ahead with Jason...
JAGR PASSES ON SHOOTOUT
Jaromir Jagr clearly understands that, as Rangers captain, it is his responsibility to do what is best for the team. When he chose not to participate in the shootout Thursday...
FIELDING FLIES NO FUN-GO FOR YANKS
TAMPA - Watching Yankees fielders rendered helpless trying to catch high pops looked comical until you realized Hideki Matsui came very close to getting hit in the head. Working with...
STRESS RELIEF
TAMPA - Scott Proctor's 83 appearances for the Yankees a year ago topped the American League. He took the ball even though his right arm sounded like a bag of...
HIGH FRYERS
Call it The Frye Foul. Or better yet, The Fraudulant Foul. If there's an NBA conspiracy to squeeze the Knicks into the playoffs, there was evidence last night in a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This judge sure runs a full-service courtroom. An Indiana jurist who had just sentenced a man to five years in prison agreed to perform the con's wedding ceremony immediately afterward...
What were the refs thinking?
By MARC BERMANSome bloggers on this site - and you know who you are - have accused me of hating Isiah Thomas, of hating the Knicks. Nothing is further from...