February 25, 2007
Calvin Klein's new poster-man
Come fall, there'll be no more sweaty locker-room model boys in their skivvies haunting billboards around town and filthying up your already-dirty mind. Instead, start your salivary glands early --...
NFL CITY
So, what do players watch when they come off the field after a hard day of work in spring training? Other than Fox News? Yesterday, a group of Mets that...
If Pavano is hurt will the Yankees turn to Hughes?
By GEORGE KINGThe Yankees have said seemingly forever they are going to send stud pitching prospect Phil Hughes to Triple-A. They admit he could surface in The Bronx in June...
Deadhead
"Ghost Rider'' held onto the No. 1 spot with $19 million during a typically dull Oscar weekend at the box-office. But the real news is that it not surprisingly dropped...
Day 16: Pavano and a Mailbag
So far in camp, Carl Pavano has had to sit out a fielding drill with âheavy legsâ and was smoked on the foot by a line drive during a batting...
An audition for Vince?
By MARC BERMAN I don't have a good feeling about the Knicks' chances going into tonight's game at The Meadowlands. With David Lee expected to miss the contest with an...
Pre-Oscar Roundup
Two days after the 62nd anniversary of the iconic flag raising on Iwo Jima, George Will and The Post's editorial page editor, Bob McManus, debate whether the Oscars should honor...
Barack Obama Disapproves Of You Kids And Your GameBoys
Every time a politician opens his or her mouth to expresses an opinion about video games, I get nervous. When they proceed to embarrass themselves because of their lack of...
WISE UP, GROWNUPS
Much to my dismay, I can't remember the names of all five Great Lakes or where Mount Rushmore is. I feel as stupid as the "Jaywalkers" you see on "The...
REEL GOOD
MY FAIR LADY (1964) Sunday, 11 a.m., TCM Audrey Hepburn is, as always, astoundingly gorgeous as Eliza Doolttle, the guttersnipe made into a "lady" by a misogynistic crank, "Professor 'enry...
CHANNEL SURFING KING PASSES ON
It's shameful. At a time when Anna Nicole Smith's death has received more media attention than the first lunar landing, the passing of the greatest inventor of the 20th Century...
'CAT' FLU
When is it time to pull the plug on a reality television production? Maybe when roughly half of the 18 contestants are vomiting and so sick they can't stand up....
THE DON'T MISS LIST
AWARDS Lights! Camera! Oscar! INSIDERS say that the Best Picture race is wide open this year. Which will make waiting until midnight more tolerable. It's unlikely that anything as shocking...
FIGHTING IRISH
NBC's newest drama, "The Black Donnellys," takes the standard mobster story and puts a fresh and hunky spin on it. While Tony Soprano gets fatter and more obnoxious by the...
I LOST THE BATTLE AGAINST TV VIOLENCE
Who listens to a TV columnist? In the TV industry, the answer is: Nobody. After careful study, I have concluded that the ravings of a TV columnist are not enough...
BEACH BLANKET BINGO
"Lost'"s Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, played by Jorge Garcia, is a lovable loser who no one suspects is also a miserable multi-millionaire. He wonders if the numbers that won him $156...
THE WORLD'S NEXT GREAT BLACK HOPE
Chess AFTER Maurice Ashley of New York became the world's first black grandmaster in 1999, there was considerable speculation about when someone would follow in his footsteps. The leading candidates...
CASTING CANINES
IF they gave an Oscar for creative canine casting, "Marie Antoinette" would win at tonight's awards - and not just because Bow Wow Wow's on the soundtrack. Director Sofia Coppola...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
DEAR DR. FOX: I have two 4-year-old Yorkies that have had severe gastrointestinal problems, so I began to make their food myself by sautéing chicken breasts in olive oil and...
ADOPT ME
Lancelot and his fellow Knights of the Round Table - Percival and Galahad, his nearly identical siblings - are quite the defenders of all things good and cuddly. Meet them...
HOT SEAT
Gene Wilder's novella "My French Whore," which arrives next week from St. Martins Press, takes readers far from the comedic roles the "Blazing Saddles" and "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate...
HOT LIST
1 Gold statues We mostly watch the Oscars for a look at the pretty dresses and fantastic fashion catastrophes. But this year we've got our eye on Ellen; the dancing...
HAUNTING A COOL BARD
'SLINGS and Arrows" is a hilarious, moving and delicate Canadian drama about a Shakespearean theater company. It's surprising, then, to find that this award-winning hit from our northernly neighbors was...
'ALEXANDER' STILL NOT GREAT
Oliver Stone is absolutely sure there's a great movie somewhere in the miles of film he shot for 2004's "Alexander." I wish I could share his conviction. After the theatrical...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (New Line, $27.98) Mock rockers confront the devil in metal-head satire. Tideland (Velocity/Think, $27.98) Director Terry Gilliam's fantastical imagining of a little girl's...
FROM OPRAH TO THE OSCARS
STARRING in a hit film and collecting a truckload of award nominations are nice and all, but the moment you know you've really become a star is when Brad Pitt...
THE 'HEAT' IS ON
WHEN it comes to street gangs, we too often look at the glass as being half-empty - drugs, murder, the downfall of Western society, yadda yadda. But really, this kind...
'GATE CRASH
WHEN I first met E. Howard Hunt in late 2003, I expected to find a grizzled Cold Warrior, and the man who invited me into his Miami home for a...
HUCKLEBERRY FOUND
In his debut novel, Jon Clinch dares to answer one of the great mysteries of American literature: Who was Huckleberry Finn's mother? The narrator of Mark Twain's great novel is...
REQUIRED READING
A decade ago, Oliver Stone's one and only novel was kindly reviewed by William Monahan, who went on to write the very funny novel "Light House" (Riverhead). Since then, Monahan...
IT'S OSCAR'S NIGHT
Three maestros of film are expected to unite tonight for the first time to present the Oscar for Best Director - but the question on everyone's lips is will the...
A KID, AGAIN
Unless you're a '70s film buff, you may not recognize the name of Supporting Actor nominee Jackie Earle Haley. OK, hint. How about Kelly Leak? Yes, that Kelly Leak -the...
OSCAR HOPEFULS
Cate has the figure and the fashion cred to pull off this Zac Posen gown. Lambertson Truex python clutch, $995, at Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Ave. Pearl rope sandal, $795,...
SEE THEM, FEEL THEM
Even Lou Reed cracked a smile at Joe's Pub last week. The cozy Astor Place venue nearly exploded when legendary rockers Pete Townshend and Reed played Velvet Underground songs -...
SIGN LANGUAGE
ROBERT Graysmith never thought he'd meet anyone who could match his obsession with the Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco's Bay area from the late 1960s to the...
PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
'Black Snake Moan" is a very personal movie for director Craig Brewer, though not in the way that you might expect. "I'm that girl on the end of that chain,"...
LOVELORN IN TOKYO
THREE films from Ryuichi Hiroki, one of Japan's most prolific (41flicks since 1982) and popular directors, have just arrived in DVD stores here, courtesy of Kino's new KimStim Collection. In...
FINE WINO
IN a city full of wine snobs, grape aficionado Aldo Sohm stands apart. Other oenophiles may wax poetic about the woody notes in a Clos du Bois or the complex...
HEDIN, 29, AND JUNG, 28
NOV. 4 - Christine Jung and Stephen Hedin prove that heat can form on ice if the timing is right. Hedin, a pricing evaluator at Reuters, proposed on Jan. 17,...
PEZOLA, 28, AND KASSEL, 33
DEC. 2 - As a New York City photographer, David Kassel has an eye for beauty, so when it came time to pop the question to Cari Pezola, he couldn't...
KOUFFMAN, 35, AND SHERMAN, 29
FEB. 4 - Ian Sherman, a social worker for the Partnership with Children, met Paulette Kouffman, a psychologist, when they were assigned to the same child welfare case. Cautious of...
PEARLMAN, 51, AND MORRA, 35
FEB. 10 - For a bride, there is nothing more special than being escorted down the aisle by her father. That's why, for daddy's little girl Alexandra Morra, it was...
LANG, 31, AND KELLY, 31
JAN. 20 - One can learn many things from a class called "New Product Development," but for Pattie Lang, finding a new mate was included on the syllabus. Lang met...
POLS SET TO SLAP SLEAZY TAX-PREP PERPS
Tired of watching New Yorkers get ripped off at tax time, lawmakers are pushing a "consumer bill of rights," which would force tax-preparation services to disclose the true cost of...
HIGH RISE PREDICTED IN BUILDER TAX BREAK
The number of new city housing units receiving a controversial tax break widely criticized for subsidizing luxury apartments skyrocketed this year, and is expected to spike again next year, officials...
30 CITY WORKERS' OT 'DOUBLE-UP' BONANZA
A select group of 30 city workers more than doubled their base salaries last year in a gusher of overtime, The Post has learned. One marine engineer with the FDNY...
MARITAL PIRRO-ETTE
Ex-Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro and troubled hubby Al - their marriage already a study in soap-operatic twists and turns - are thinking about a life apart. "Many couples do that...
ACTRESS 'MURDERER': I TRIED TO KILL MYSELF
The 19-year-old immigrant house painter charged with murdering indie actress Adrienne Shelly says that he's haunted by memories of their fatal clash - and that he's tried to kill himself....
DWI-SLAY GUY TURNS HIMSELF IN
A drunken driver who struck and killed a beloved neighborhood figure in an early-morning hit-and-run yesterday surrendered to authorities after a heart-to-heart with his father, cops said. Derek Quinn, 23,...
CITY GAVE 'PASS' TO RATHOLE KFC
A city health inspector gave a passing grade to the notoriously filthy, vermin-infested KFC/Taco Bell just one day before shuttering it - after news cameras recorded a rat rampage through...
OFF-DUTY COP SHOOTS ENRAGED PURSUER IN QUEENS
A shooting involving an off-duty police sergeant stemmed from an affair between a Queens man and his landlord's wife and some eviction advice given by the cop, police sources said....
FREE TO BE HE-SHE
Talk about a tax cut. A judge has ordered taxpayers to foot the bill - up to $20,000 - for a sex-change operation that will make a 21-year-old man into...
DUMMY & PAL IN SLOW LANE
The Long Islander busted for using a plastic passenger to shave an hour off his daily drive says he'll keep his "little buddy" in the front seat but shun the...
CAPTURE IN HOOPS SLAYING
After more than six months of a relentless manhunt, cops picked up a Brooklyn man who allegedly shot down a youth during a rough-and-tumble street-ball tourney. Kevin Townsend was picked...
TOY LEADS TO GUNPLAY
A Brooklyn thug sporting a fake AK-47 machine gun sparked real shooting by cops yesterday - but miraculously no one was struck during the chaos, police and sources said. Sean...
BOUNCER-TEST 'JOKE' AFTER IMETTE SLAYING
One year after an unlicensed bouncer allegedly raped and murdered of Imette St. Guillen, the city has taken steps to crack down on nightclub security - but state licensing of...
HILL PLANS GROUND ZERO MED HEARINGS
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is helping to arrange the first Senate hearing on the medical needs of Ground Zero workers, and Mayor Bloomberg is expected to testify, Clinton's office said...
'SUGAR DADDY' BELICHICK
New England Patriot coach Bill Belichick has been supporting his alleged mistress - a New Jersey housewife in the midst of a divorce - by sending her envelopes stuffed with...
HARLEM BAR SLAY
A Bronx mechanic who had dreamed of becoming a firefighter was shot dead in East Harlem yesterday. Rory Forehand, 23, was shot at 3:15 a.m. in Clemente's Bar on Second...
SHOE SHAM TRIPPED UP
Cops found $36,000 worth of phony Nike Air Jordan sneakers in a truck at a security checkpoint outside the Queens Midtown Tunnel yesterday, authorities said. MTA Bridges and Tunnels Officers...
ERR-TRAFFIC CHAOS
As New York City was about to be pelted with a hail of ice from a major nor'easter - a storm that would lead to hundreds of passengers being stuck...
OUR HIGH-TECH ACES OF FACES SAY: IT'S LARRY!
Enough with bad court TV. The Post enlisted the help of facial-recognition experts to settle the dispute: Who is Anna Nicole Smith's baby-daddy? The answer, the experts say, is clearly...
ANGELINA A BABE AMID BRAINIACS
The prestigious Council on Foreign Relations is about to get a jolt of sex appeal. The exclusive, Manhattan-based foreign-policy group has decided to admit actress Angelina Jolie, a U.N. goodwill...
AIR SCARE FOR VEEP OVER SEA
Vice President Dick Cheney had a mid-air scare last night on his way home from Australia when a small mechanical problem in his plane was discovered, officials said. Initial reports...
'JESUS CASKET' IS FOUND
In a bold jab at the heart of Christianity, "Titanic" director James Cameron has made a new documentary that claims the resurrection of Jesus never happened, according to published reports....
FROM BABY BRIT TO BURNED TART
She was so young - and wanting so much. As a result, Britney Spears has for years had more money than a girl should know what to do with and...
EX-FINEST PROBE 'NFL' SHOOTING
Two retired NYPD cops are conducting their own probe of a Las Vegas shooting that left a Long Island native paralyzed - and placed an NFL player squarely in the...
STUDENT RUDY'S LEFTY DAYS
There was a time when Rudy Giuliani, now a GOP White House front-runner, hardly sounded like a Republican stalwart - strongly defending Robert Kennedy and blasting Barry Goldwater as "incompetent."...
2-TIMERS IN BUBBA'S BED
They jumped from Clinton's guest bedroom to Obama's bandwagon. A slew of Hollywood stars - including many who spent time crashing in the Lincoln Bedroom as personal guests of former...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Cops are investigating the burning of a religious adornment in Crown Heights, authorities said yesterday. A 14-year-old girl called cops to her Crown Street home at 10 p.m. Thursday...
DISCOUNT-RX PLAN STILL IN LIMBO 2 YEARS LATER
PLANS to create a dis count-prescription card program that could save New Yorkers 20 percent or more on medications is stalled - nearly two years after Mayor Bloomberg announced it....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 104; Lucky Sum: 5 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 0401; Lucky Sum: 5 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 568; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 7346;...
THE BRAVEST, TIMES TWO
They call them The Bravest for good reason. Twenty-three of the 194 members of the latest class to graduate the FDNY Fire Academy are military veterans - one of the...
FOR SHAME, CHUCK
Capitol Hill Democrats have finally adopted a military strategy: They've declared a war of attrition against President Bush's policy in Iraq. The non-binding resolutions denouncing the troop surge in Baghdad...
ENEMY 'LETTERS'
"Don't cheer, boys. The poordevils are dying." - Capt. John Philip of the USS Texas, to his crew in 1898, as they watched the Spanish ship Vizcaya burn off Santiago...
SYMPATHY FOR AUTHORS OF ATROCITY
CLINT Eastwood can make a movie, that's for sure, but who'd ever have thought that the creator of uber-tough-cop Dirty Harry Callahan would someday embrace the Rodney King "Can't We...
THE PARENTS' DILEMMA
WHAT if you could protect your child from a potentially life-threatening disease with a simple vaccination, but administering those shots might encourage her to engage in behavior that, statistically speaking,...
UNIVERSAL DONOR GEFFEN FEEDS DEMS BAD BLOOD
THE ISSUE: Democratic presidential candidates battling in Hollywood. So Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisors are angry at David Geffen and Sen. Barack Obama ("The Big Chill," Feb. 22)....
HARVARD'S LAME LIBERTY
MODERN LIBERTY AND THE LIMITS OF GOVERNMENTBY CHARLES FRIED NORTONNORTON, 183 PAGES, $24.95 MAYBE Harvard University, whose former President Larry Summers was forced to resign for voicing politically incorrect views,...
IDIOT WARNINGS: A MODERN 'ART'
REMOVE CHILD BEFORE FOLDING: THE 101 STUPIDEST, SILLIEST AND WACKIEST WARNING LABELS EVERBY BOB DORIGO JONES WARNER BOOKS, 106 PAGES, $10 NO one would have predicted that in 1992 Stella...
FAITH & TERROR
THE ENEMY AT HOME: THE CULTURAL LEFT AND ITS RESPONSIBILITY FOR 9/11BY DINESH D'SOUZADOUBLEDAY, 333 PAGES, $26.95 CONSERVATIVES are as deeply factionalized as any other domestic ideological group. But it's...
OPRAH'S LEMONS MAY MAKE MEL'S LEMONADE
Oprah Winfrey's failure can be one of Mel Karmazin's keys to victory. The queen of all media caused barely a ripple last fall when XM Satellite Radio announced she would...
THOSE BLASTED KIDS
Your teen daughter - with her iPod and MySpace page - is responsible for the multibillion-dollar Sirius-XM and Warner Music Group-EMI merger attempts. That's because behind both proposed couplings is...
DON'T GET KILLED
Millions of baby boomers are going to get killed when they die. Killed by Uncle Sam's death tax that can suck hundreds of thousands of dollars from your estate -...
DON'T EXPECT WASHINGTON TO FIX PAY EXCESSES
Dear John: There seems to be no regulation of bonuses or parachutes taken from successful and unsuccessful investment funds. Isn't it time something is enacted that would be fairer to...
TAKE IT FROM A SCAMMER
SCAMMERS seem to mint another scheme to separate you from your money every day. In 2005, Americans lost more than $680 million to scams - bogus investment plans, phony telemarketers...
JETBLUE CEO'S HUMILITY KEY IN TURBULENCE
I am "humbled and mortified." With that blunt statement this week, JetBlue CEO David Neeleman managed to turn a public-relations nightmare into a second chance at brand establishment at the...
THIRD YEARS' CHARM
The S&P 500 is up 2.5 percent so far in 2007 - and don't be surprised if it finishes the year in the black. No, I'm not predicting the softness...
TEX. POWER BIZ BURIES COAL PLANS
TXU Corp., the biggest power producer in Texas, will cancel eight of 11 coal-fired power plants it had planned to help gain approval of a proposed $44 billion buyout by...
DENIM PIONEER RIDES AGAINA
Paul Guez, the denim visionary who ignited the world's first high-priced designer jeans craze when his Oo-la-la Sasson Jeans exploded on the scene in the late '70s, is trying to...
SUBPRIME MORTGAGE LENDERS FACING ROUGH TIMES
HARTFORD, Conn. - Homeowners with troubled credit histories are finding it harder to get mortgages or refinance homes because softening in the housing market is making lenders less likely to...
OSCAR BUSINESS
EVERYBODY parties on Oscar night, even real-estate agents. Though tonight's ceremony is being held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, there's no shortage of soirees taking place on the...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSl LES MOONVES CBS chief fulfills vow to get paid for signal; reaches distribution deals with nine cable TV operators. DAVID FINNERTY Former NYSE specialist's fraud conviction is overturned. LLOYD...
NUMBERS GAME
TAMPA - Time was, teams would sponsor fan clubs to identify who their most popular players were. Newspapers would conduct polls, and columnists would chime in, and later the folks...
LENDING A JOHAN
PORT ST. LUCIE - This was back in 2004. Minnesota Twins star Johan Santana was in New York to pick up his first Cy Young Award. Going home to Venezuela...
WHY BIG DEALS WERE DUDS
HOW come merely three minor deadline trades con summated Thursday? "Much of the speculation never had substance to begin with," Kings president Geoff Petrie said. Five teams (Nuggets, 76ers, Pacers,...
SCARLET LETTERS: HIV
TOMMY Morrison won't be welcomed in New York should the former heavyweight champion, who once tested positive for HIV, try to get a license here. Ron Scott Stevens, chairman of...
FACE TIME TRUMPS ALL
IF there's more proof needed that money is the only thing that distinguishes Donald Trump from ordinary, transparent, attention-starved buffoons, consider that Trump has thrown in with pro wrestling czar...
A SHOW SIGN OF SPRING
SOME may look at the amount of sun light in a day to de termine how close we are to spring, but for most outdoor enthusiasts, the World Fishing and...
DON'T FIGHT IT
THAT was the es sence of hockey in Buffalo on Thurs day, and that always will be the essence of hockey no matter how deeply committed Gary Bettman and his...
DUKE WILL SWEAT
WHEN the Garden scoreboard clock shows four minutes remaining in today's Big East-ACC showdown between St. John's and Duke, the Red Storm has to be within striking distance of an...
CHICAGO HOPE
MESA, Ariz. - Lou Piniella heard the name but it didn't register. "Who's this?" he said. "What's his name?" A reporter was explaining to him who Steve Bartman was -...
WAKING UP THE BEAST
Just a couple of weeks ago, there was talk of this being a down year in the Big East. Then, Georgetown went on a tear, Louisville surged on to the...
TOYOTA TEAMS LOOK TO IMPROVE
The only noise NASCAR newcomer Toyota made in its debut was a resounding thud. Three of its seven cars failed to qualify for the Daytona 500, and its highest finisher...
HALL KEEPS TOURNEY SHOT ALIVE
Seton Hall kept its ever-so-faint hopes of making the Big East tournament alive with an 89-76 Senior Night victory over South Florida, one of the few league teams who have...
THE RUMBLE
Fightin' words - Sheff exhorts Winky to train harder As Winky Wright began to get ready for his July 21 bout with Bernard Hopkins, Tigers slugger Gary Sheffield was in...
HALL OF AN IDEA
* This year's Baseball Hall of Fame vote was upstaged by steroid controversy, but the Veterans' Committee can rectify this fiasco and send a positive message by electing Roger Maris...
SPORTS SHORTS
OBIT: Foursome's Lundy, 71Lamar Lundy, a member of the Fearsome Foursome defensive line for the Los Angeles Rams in the 1960s, died yesterday. He was 71. He died after a...
AFTER LOSS, DEVILS SEEK SOME CLEMMEN-CY
Having twice done the Rangers dirt, the Devils did themselves some. The plan was for Scott Clemmensen to ride the Devils' roll today in Washington in his first start this...
GIANTS LOOKING INTO MCGAHEE
With questions abounding as to whether Brandon Jacobs is capable of filling the void left by Tiki Barber's retirement, the Giants are interested in acquiring Bills running back Willis McGahee....
NIELSEN RATES ISLES A WINNER
Frans Nielsen doesn't know how long he'll be with the Islanders before being sent back to Bridgeport. He also isn't sure how much ice time he's going to get each...
BORDER CLASH
This isn't about some thing silly like area bragging rights. Forget which team is the media darling. Who the fans idolize mat ters as much as a po litico's promise...
LEE IS LIKELY TO TAKE SEAT
David Lee seems doubtful for tonight's game, but his "loose ankles" may have prevented him from suffering a more serious injury. On Friday, Lee landed on Andrew Bogut's foot in...
ISIAH: JERSEY 'TEAM TO BEAT'
The Nets are still the hoop kings in town, Isiah Thomas claimed yesterday. After calling the sub-.500 New Jersey squad a "formidable opponent," Thomas said the Knicks have gained ground...
RISING SINKER
PORT ST. LUCIE - Two young prospects contending to make the Mets' starting rotation are Mike Pelfrey and Philip Humber. Another young prospect, according to Rick Peterson, is at a...
MIN AT WORK
PORT ST. LUCIE - Omar Minaya was all smiles yesterday as he walked from field to field on a gloriously sunny day. This is the start of his third season...
EL DUQUE PUSHED TO TUESDAY
PORT ST. LUCIE - Willie Randolph said yesterday Orlando Hernandez may not throw until potentially Tuesday. El Duque, who is suffering from neck arthritis and received a cortisone shot on...
CARTER HOPES HE STAYS PUT
The Nets want him back. And Vince Carter said yesterday he wants to be back. "It's plain and simple. Hopefully, we can work something out," Carter said. "That's what the...
BLEW JACKETS
There's no shame in losing, not even a home game to the 28th-overall Blue Jackets. There is, however, shame in being outworked by any opponent during an alleged push to...
SHANAHAN OPTIMISTIC HE'LL RETURN THIS SEASON
Still suffering from post-concussion symptoms including "vertigo" a week after his violent collision with Mike Knuble, Brendan Shanahan nevertheless said last night that he's "optimistic" he'll be able to rejoin...
LINER OF FIRE
TAMPA - From the nanosecond the ball left Alberto Gonzalez bat, there was no doubt the low liner would collide with a body part belonging to the pitcher. After all,...
TIME PIECE
TAMPA - Andy Pettitte wishes he could describe it better, wishes he could let you know exactly what it's like to listen through his ears when the noise begins to...
BRONX BUMMERS
TAMPA - The Yankees have their first camp casualties. Right-handed reliever Brian Bruney is suffering from a back problem on the left side that could be rib cage related and...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...CARL PAVANO
The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the right-hander who went 4-6 in 17 starts for the Yankees in 2005, then missed all of last season with a variety of injuries:...
DAMON EXITS CAMP FOR 'A FEW DAYS'
TAMPA - Johnny Damon was excused from camp yesterday for personal reasons and the absence could be for three or four days. "It will be a few days or so,"...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Kentucky middle-school teacher was arrested for trying to buy pot after she sent text messages to a state trooper instead of her dealer. Trooper Trevor Pervine initially thought friends...
A ONE-WAY STREET
MIXED drinks and mixed signals - the formula for a classically horrible first date. The twist? Only one of the daters was aware of it. Find out what went wrong...
MEET MARKET
LOOKS aren't always the best representation of a person - and if you happen to meet Katrin, it's a good piece of advice to keep in mind, lest you get...
10 THINGS EVERY SINGLE MAN MUST OWN
Want to impress the ladies with your great taste in home décor and more? Skip the leather couch and silk boxers and buy these bachelor essentials.1. A top-notch coffee/espresso maker...
DEAR POST MAN
Dear Post Man:I just got out of a long relationship with a very special person. It was great but I am ready to move on and find my soul mate,...
Right Actress, Wrong Movie
Congratulations to Sharon Stone, who won the worst actress award at the Razzies for "Basic Instinct 2,'' which copped three other awards, including worst picture. But we demand a recount:...
Bus Stop?
To absolutely no one's surprise, "Little Miss Sunshine'' copped the top prize at the Indie Spirit Awards. But don't count on a repeat tomorrow night at the Oscars: as we've...