February 27, 2007
Yankees first sight of Igawa reveals little of what he will contribute
By GEORGE KINGWorking against a lineup that included one hitter with major league experience in an intrasquad game Tuesday at Legends Field, Kei Igawa's performance (two scoreless innings) appeared wonderful...
AIR SUPPLY: Took long enough
Her royal highness/majesty Air France revealed today plans to launch a morning flight to Paris May 1.As they take great pains to point out, they're the only game going during...
Oscar who?
Is there life without Oscar? Most definitely yes, as I proved on Sunday evening.While most people were watching Hollywood's annual self-congratulatory orgy, I was happily engaged in other pursuits. First,...
Renney Undaunted
Tom Renney continues to profess his belief in this Rangers team. It's a nice, supportive gesture ... but this group doesn't need to be coddled. They need to be motivated,...
Crawford is done, no additions coming
By MARC BERMANUgh! Without Mr. Clutch, the Knicks' playoff chances just took a massive hit today.Jamal Crawford is out for the rest of the regular season with a stress fracture...
Crawford out for season
By MICHAEL MORRISSEYKnicksâ starting guard Jamal Crawford has a stress fracture in the right ankle and is almost certainly lost for the season. Crawford, who thought he was suffering from...
Ahead of the Times
Kyle notes an amazing coincidence in this e-mail: "From the Feb. 8 Page Six magazine article on the Oscars by me:'Off the record, Warners execs downplayed ['The Departed'], saying it...
Deal of the Day
Because most things that cost $17.98 in New York are usually edible, this Kenneth Cole top(reduced from $118) is an absolute steal.The silk trimming and detailing gives this cotton inset...
Everyone Wants Marty
Back in the '80s when Barry Diller ran Paramount, Marty Scorsese didn't have much luck setting up his version of "Dick Tracy'' there (Warren Beatty did it, years later, at...
Hear ye, hear ye, the XFire Debate Club is in session
Tomorrow at 7 p.m. ET, the Xfire Debate Club: The Two-Handed Sword is gathering together to talk shop about "The Future of Counter-Strike."Apparently it's a big deal that the Counter-Strike...
Immaterial Girl
Madonna, whose most recent contributions to the art of film were last summer's failed teen comedy "Material Girls'' and torching her and her hubby's big-screen careers with "Swept Away,'' is...
But, but, but...that's a PS2!
Last night's episode of the CBS sitcom, "Rules of Engagement," centered around the age-old argument between fiancé/fiancée (or husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend) over what's worth spending money on when you're pooling your...
Day 18: The NFL, MLB and Bad Acts
Imagine the uproar if Bud Selig had just announced that major league baseball was going to play its All-Star Game in Las Vegas. Imagine the coverage and questions if Tank...
Intrasquad No. 2
By MARK HALEThe Mets will have their second intrasquad game today, with Sandy Alomar Sr.'s team trying to take its second straight from Jerry Manuel's. The Manuels have Anderson Hernandez,...
Bringing Out the Dead
The Uriah Heep of Oscar Bloggers may have spent so much time being air-kissed by celebrities on the Red Carpet that he's seeing dead people. So claims his biggest fan,...
Snark Attack
While I was stumbling around yesterday suffering from the effects of sleep deprivation, my boss Steve and an army of colleagues were engineering an all-color eight-page post-Oscar section for today's...
That Ming you do
"Who knew Saran Wrap had a couture line?" "This was the first totally 'green' Oscars, so it makes sense to wear a solar panel.""People of Earth ... your weapons are...
PARTY LIKE YOU AMIN IT!
HERE'S an idea: Next year, skip the Seacrest and air the after-parties instead. Sunday night's hottest ticket wasn't for the Kodak Theatre - it was an invite to Vanity Fair...
2007: A SPACE ODDITY
AND I am telling you that collar is not working. The only thing more awkward than fashion giant Andre Leon Talley insistently calling Jennifer Hudson the "People's Princess" at the...
FASHION FACEOFF
IN what was the most polarizing of Oscar red carpets in recent memory, there wasn't much fashionistas could agree upon - except Jennifer Hudson's collar was ridiculous. But was Jessica...
ALL THAT HOT AIR IS BAD FOR EARTH
WHEN Al Gore marched blubberishly onstage next to the cornstalk of Leo DiCaprio to do a Laurel and Hardy routine, Gore seemed ready to be the star of a new...
STARS LOSE LUSTER IN HIGH-DEFINITION
STARS - they're just like us. And you'll actually start to believe it when you see them in high-def. Watching overpaid, over-privileged, overdressed celebrities turns out to be a lot...
THE $30,000,000 STARLETS
IF you wanted to pull off the heist of the century, you should have robbed the red carpet. The hottest leading ladies showcased some of the Academy Awards' most spectacular...
TAKE 2
DO a double take. Stars who got skewered for their senses of style at the Academy Awards had a chance to redeem themselves post-show at Graydon Carter's annual super-A-list Vanity...
SHATTERED
AFTER learning the de tails of what happened to him, it is almost inconceivable that Bob Woodruff is alive, much less in good enough shape to address a roomful of...
ABOUT PAR FOR THE OSCARS
SUNDAY's Oscars averaged 39.9 million viewers on ABC - up slightly from last year but down over 3 million viewers from 2004. Despite the long, long show, it still gained...
'BORN TO RUN' WOULD BE NATURAL FOR SUPER BOWL
BRUCE Springsteen is being considered for next year's Super Bowl halftime show. Springsteen, along with Norah Jones, is at the top of the NFL's wish-list for halftime performers, according to...
STARR REPORT
Call him 'Ma' Barker Bob, meet Barney. Bob Barker, the legendary host of "The Price Is Right," will guest-star on an episode of CBS stablemate "How I Met Your Mother"...
GYPSY FIDDLERS
IT'S been too long since we've seen a family drama about backwoods Louisiana Gypsies. "The Riches" is an upcoming FX show about a Gyspy Traveller family headed by Wayne Malloy,...
COUNCIL GOES SLUR CRAZY OVER N-WORD
Maybe City Council members should practice what they preach. At a hearing yesterday on a resolution to discourage the use of the n-word, the racially offensive term was heard more...
17 EMERGENCY BUS ROUTES PERMANENT
The city Department of Education has stopped running 18 of 35 "emergency" bus routes created to ease the chaos caused by dramatic changes to routes made last month, the agency...
JOE'S HOMELAND BILL BLASTED BY BLOOMY
Mayor Bloomberg did all he could last year to re-elect Sen. Joe Lieberman, but yesterday, the mayor warned his old pal that a bill the senator backs would spread scarce...
CARDINAL SIN
Edward Cardinal Egan pulled a fast one on a lower Manhattan parish pastor yesterday, summoning the priest to meet with him - then dispatching security guards to permanently lock the...
WHITE STUFF SPURS MORE JETBLUES
A snowstorm that slammed the city yesterday left hundreds of airline passengers singing the JetBlues at JFK Airport, where the airline scrubbed 66 flights and left one jet sitting on...
CELLPHONE-CASE COP IN TROUBLE
The NYPD is weighing disciplinary charges against a sergeant for failing to keep a cop assigned to a Brooklyn home where a cache of stolen cellphones vanished, authorities said. The...
JUDGE SINKS CITY BID TO CAP FERRY PAYOUT
In a ruling that could potentially cost the city billions, a federal judge yesterday refused to limit liability claims in the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash that killed 11 people....
FAMILIES HONOR VICTIMS OF '93 WTC BOMBING
Victims' families and survivors of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing marked the 14th anniversary of the attack with a somber mass at St. Peter's Church in lower Manhattan yesterday....
GIRL'S 2-HOUR RAPE HORROR
A homeless man has been charged with abducting a 15-year-old girl at knifepoint from a Queens street and repeatedly raping her during a terrifying two-hour ordeal last Saturday, authorities said...
DANCE-SLAY MAN NEVER CUT IN: PAL
A man stabbed to death after partying with the wrong girl at a Brooklyn get-together never even asked her to dance, according to a friend - she asked him. "Of...
'PORNY' BARNEY ARREST
It gives new meaning to kiddie porn. A Queens man who peddled bootleg Barney and Dora the Explorer costumes - thinking they'd be used in skin flicks - has been...
ALL-OUT BID TO 'RAT-PROOF' RESTAURANT
Construction crews are scrambling to plug the holes in the Greenwich Village KFC-Taco Bell that allowed rats to waltz right in. "They're in there trying to rat-proof the place, putting...
MODEL'S BEEF WITH DELI
He had a dust-up with the muscle at Katz's Deli - and says he wound up with a black eye from their knuckle sandwich because of it. Manhattan model Darren...
FIRE KNOCKS OUT HARLEM POWER
A manhole fire caused about 200 Harlem residents to be evacuated from their buildings yesterday, authorities said. The 11 a.m. blaze also knocked out power to 20 buildings on 138th...
FAMILY FINALLY GETS U.N. 'GRAFTER' OUT OF JAIL
An allegedly crooked former U.N. official accused of taking bribes in exchange for steering $54 million in contracts to a pal was freed on bail yesterday after family and friends...
SUBWAY COPS STOP SUICIDE
Two cops rescued a man who jumped onto the subway tracks in Coney Island in an apparent suicide attempt yesterday. The unidentified man in his 40s jumped off a platform...
RAPIST COPS PLEA
A Queens ex-con who impersonated a cop to rape two women landed 15 years in prison yesterday. Eric McCoy, 36, of Far Rockaway, admitted in Queens Supreme Court that he'd...
'KILLER' COP'S AIR FARCE
He'll come back - but he won't fly. A retired NYPD cop yesterday did not contest his extradition from South Carolina to face charges of murdering his wife in a...
BU BLAZE ENDS LIFE OF PROMISE
Since immigrating to New York in the mid-1970s, the Iranian-Jewish Adelipour family of Great Neck, L.I., has amassed power, prestige and social standing. But their American dream was reduced to...
KIDS' 'AFTER'MATH
After-school programs that let roughly 34,000 children across the state - including 20,000 in the city - get tutored, play sports and participate in a host of other activities could...
NEW WEB SITE WILL EXPOSE GOV'T PARKING CHEATS
Here comes Stop Hogging My Space.com. Transit advocates are launching a Web site where motorists can post photos and videos of government drivers abusing their parking privileges. Matthew Roth, of...
COP CHASE ENDS WITH 'POT' SHOTS
Two suspected pot dealers were busted yesterday after a wild chase on the West Side that ended with a cop injured and one of the suspects shot in the butt,...
CHRIST'S 'BONES' UPROAR HITS N.Y.
"Titanic" director James Cameron yesterday came to Midtown to display an ancient stone box he claims may once have held the bones of Jesus. The claim - if true -...
MY WIFE DROPPED THE BALL
Giants star Amani Toomer claims in court papers that his estranged wife "basically abandoned" her work for his kid charity - doling out only a measly $392 in funds during...
KIN FIND B'KLYN MAN BOUND & SLAIN
A 53-year-old Brooklyn man who worked in Kings County Hospital's mailroom was found dead inside his apartment yesterday, bound with a bag over his head, authorities said. Relatives also found...
NEW CRY IN ISRAEL: PLAY BALL!
Oy vey! Ready for some Holy Land hardball? Starting June 24, matzo balls and curveballs will mix as the Israel Baseball League debuts in and about Jerusalem and Tel Aviv....
VEEP BOMB SCARE
A suicide bomb attack at the gates of a U.S. base in Afghanistan where Vice President Dick Cheney was staying killed as many as 20 people and wounded a dozen...
POLICY 101 AS RUDY CRAMS WITH THE PROS
Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is going back to school - with weekly policy briefings from a team of experts who pore over everything from Iraq to tax cuts at his...
DEAD RECKONING
A Florida appeals court yesterday kept Anna Nicole Smith's rotting body on ice - agreeing to hear last-ditch arguments from the model's estranged mom, who wants custody of her remains....
FLA. GOV FACES THE MUSIC
Florida's governor is being slapped today with a scathing lawsuit that charges that he turned a blind eye to a massive Ponzi scheme run by boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman, who...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* An East New York man was found stabbed to death in the lobby of his apartment building early yesterday. Lonell Jackson, 34, was knifed several times shortly after 2...
FOXY'S SAME OLD SONG: 'POOR ME'
NEW YORKERS - duck! Five inches of snow mysteriously parted yesterday as Foxy Brown trotted into a Brooklyn church in open-toed, leopard-print Louboutins. And she proceeded to kick us where...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 206; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 4774; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 888; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Win-4 Mon.: 7480;...
FEARMONGERING FROM FAT CATS
Regarding reckless medical spending in New York, maybe you've already seen those commercials attacking Gov. Spitzer's proposed crackdown on Medicaid fraud, which is intended to save $1.2 billion in the...
JUSTICE ISN'T THAT BLIND
In a city that has seen its fair share of bizarre judicial shenanigans, Manhattan Family Court Judge Sheldon Rand may have set a new standard for black-robed dementia. In a...
THE PERILS OF A PULLOUT
"A precipitous pullout [from Iraq] would leave a gaping security vacuum in its wake, which terrorists, insurgents, militias and Iran would rush to fill - probably resulting in a spiral...
A 'FREE CHOICE' THAT ISN'T
GOOD for Adrienne Eaton of Rutgers University's Labor Studies Department. Her forthright description of a central issue in the debate about the Employee Free-Choice Act, which she supports, clarifies why...
ON THEIR SIDE
IT is nearly impossible for the chattering classes - on all sides of the political divide - to comprehend the heat being generated by Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid. The fallback...
THE SAFE FAITH TO INSULT
'TITANIC' director James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici, a filmmaker-archaeologist, are set to unveil three coffins this week that they say are those of Jesus, Mary and Mary Magdalene. In an...
CHUCK GREASES DEMS' ANTI-WAR MACHINE
THE ISSUE: Sen. Chuck Schumer's leading role in the Democrats' anti-war strategy. Sen. Chuck Schumer and his party are obviously more interested in possible short-term political gain than in learning...
PAYING THE PRICE FOR CITY LIVING
THE ISSUE: A report that New Yorkers pay 46 percent higher taxes than other large U.S. cities. The Post doesn't like my plan to cut taxes for New Yorkers making...
DON'T GO FORTH
After just 18 months, Gap Inc. is shutting down its Forth & Towne spin-off stores aimed at baby boomers to focus on its struggling Gap and Old Navy chains. The...
STRIKE UP THE 'BAND'IER AT SONY ATV
Martin Bandier, who is due to step down as chairman and co-CEO of EMI Music Publishing in April, is on the verge of signing a deal to take the helm...
HOW FEDS MESSED UP THEIR SPECIALISTS' CASE
FREE David Finnerty! And that's exactly what a Federal Court judge did last week, essentially invoking the old adage that a "fish stinks from the head" and that even if...
FEDS PROBE UBS TIPS
Federal regulators are zeroing in on analysts at UBS for giving hedge fund traders advance notice of stock rating changes, The Post has learned. The Securities and Exchange Commission and...
STEAK $AUCE
Smith & Wollensky accepted a $79.5 million buyout offer yesterday from Patina Restaurant Group, owner of The Sea Grill in Rockefeller Center, nearly six years after the swanky steak chain...
PELTZ' PRIZE PICK
The veteran corporate gadfly Nelson Peltz has piled into gilt-edged jeweler Tiffany's in a big way, disclosing yesterday that he owns a 5.5 percent stake in the luxury-goods retailer. The...
SHPIGELMAN WAS BULLIED TO GIVE INFO: LAWYER
Stanislav Shpigelman, the former Merrill Lynch analyst at the center of an insider-trading ring, is arguing that he was "deceived, intimidated and flattered" into providing the illegal information to his...
CBS' RECENT CABLE DEALS ARE UNLIKELY TO BE REPEATED
CBS might have been able to bully nine tiny cable operators into paying the media company to carry its broadcast signal, but when it comes time to negotiate with Comcast...
YOUTUBE SLAM DUNK
The National Basketball Association became the latest major sports league to strike a revenue-sharing deal with YouTube along with the option to clamp down on copyrighted content. The NBA is...
FORBES' LISTS RICH UNDER-21 HIPSTERS
Skinny hipsters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 20, pocketed a whopping $40 million last year selling tchotchkes and other branded items through their retail empire Dualstar, according to a new ranking...
MOODY'S TAKES MORE
WITH Midtown leasing momentarily stalled, things continue to percolate downtown. Expect Moody's Financial Services to sign for two more floors at Larry Silverstein's 7 World Trade Center in the next...
RAT'S ALL FOR KFC INSPECTOR
The inspector who shockingly gave a rat-infested KFC/Taco Bell franchise in Greenwich Village a clean bill of health the day before pictures of the mangy beasts scurrying around the dingy...
UNIVISION CLOSING IN ON UVA
Spanish-language media giant Univision is close to naming OMD Worldwide boss and veteran ad executive Joe Uva as its new chief ahead of a planned takeover by a group of...
SPORTS SHORTS
COLLEGE: Ohio State No. 1 Ohio State took over the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press college basketball poll, the first time the Buckeyes have held the top ranking...
BONDS URGED TO PLAY BALL WITH PROBE
George Mitchell's investigation into steroid use in Major League Baseball seems to have hit another roadblock. Mitchell, the former Senate Majority Leader from Maine, sent a letter dated Feb. 1...
CLUELESS IN SEATTLE
SPENCER Haywood last night became the sixth Sonic to have his number retired by the organization. Shamefully missing from that elfin list is Dennis Johnson. It can't get any more...
DON'T EXPECT DEVS TO MAKE A SPLASH
PITTSBURGH - Today is another challenge for Lou Lamoriello in his battle with the salary cap. It appears the Devils' GM would have to deal an important member of his...
INJURED FRANCIS: NO MORE REHAB
Steve Francis said last night he refuses to retire, but sounded pessimistic his right knee will be strong enough for him to return this season. Francis met with team doctor...
CURRY GETS BEST OF SHAQ
Part of the Heat's game plan, according to the greaseboard in the visiting locker room last night, was to make Knick center Eddy Curry "a passer." Curry had only one...
KNICKS TURN UP HEAT ON MIAMI
Hampered by turf toe and a sore knee, Stephon Marbury's 30-year-old body usually can't withstand the rigors of two games in two nights. The Knicks' 3-10 record on the second...
AMAZING WHAT A LITTLE HELP CAN DO
IT'S not entirely odd that the Knicks win only on the even games. Of course, coach Isiah Thomas tells us every other bad night that inconsistency is part of the...
NEW MILL-ENIUM
PORT ST.LUCIE - Lastings Milledge talked about pride yesterday. Pride in the game, in himself, his family and in the Mets. He revealed a side of himself that New York...
BELTRAN, REYES HITS
PORT ST. LUCIE - Besides Carlos Delgado, the Mets hitters who had the best day in yesterday's intrasquad game were a pair of All-Stars. Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran both...
DELGADO DRIVE
PORT ST. LUCIE - Carlos Delgado recalled getting a hit off Pedro Feliciano in last spring's first intrasquad game. When he did it again yesterday, Delgado found humor in his...
CARTER SET TO TOTE LOAD
Since the All-Star break, Vince Carter has been back to his old unstoppable self, turning himself into the most potent scorer in the NBA. Question is, how long can he...
JAGR ON BLOCK
The GM who has traded away Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier is said to be working on the superstar hat trick - soliciting trade-deadline offers for Ranger captain Jaromir Jagr....
RANGERS EYE WIN HAB-IT
The Rangers have been playing Jekyll and Hyde all season. This month, their split personality continued, opening with a four-game losing streak, followed by three straight wins, and now, they...
PAVANO PROMISES SPEEDY RETURN
TAMPA - Carl Pavano admitted yesterday he wasn't always hell-bent on making it back from injuries. Now, as he attempts to return from a bruised bone in the right foot,...
HARD TO STOMACH
TAMPA - Thanks to a serious right oblique muscle injury, Bobby Abreu could open the season on the disabled list. "Bobby has a significant oblique strain and those could be...
FIGHTING THROUGH THE PAIN JUST PART OF BEING DAMON
TAMPA - He was being serious when he said it, serious and somewhat sheepish, but there was more than a touch of irony sprinkled amid the words Johnny Damon used...
CRAWFORD OUT FOR SEASON
Knicks' starting guard Jamal Crawford has a stress fracture in the right ankle and is almost certainly lost for the season. Crawford, who thought he was suffering from tendinitis, had...
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'EASY' DOES IT
THE idea is so smart you have to wonder why it took so long: A bare-bones floating hotel that hits a new luxe port each day, enabling scrimpers to hop...
HOW TO EASYCRUISE
GO NOW: EasyCruise is hop-on, hop-off, with minimum stays of two nights. easyCruiseOne sails in the Caribbean through April 12, making a circuit of Philipsburg, St. Maarten (Friday and Monday);...
TIME TO CHILL
The scale of everything in Antarctica is almost impossible to comprehend: Mountains spike thousands of feet into the clouds, and icebergs can be the size of cities. And nothing can...
THE COLD FACTS
SCHEDULE: Most itineraries are offered between November and February, with booking required far in advance. GETTING THERE: Choose from anything between luxurious small ships with sushi bars (here's looking at...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Bronx scientists have completed a quest to hear the piercing shriek of a cuckoo. The cuckoo in question is actually a rare Sumatran bird, believed to be extinct until a...
Steph and Malik to the rescue
By MARC BERMANWhile sitting on press row Sunday night at The Meadowlands, the TV monitor was tuned to the Yes Network showing a compelling montage of Stephon Marbury during his...
Abreu injury could linger until Opening Day
By GEORGE KINGJoe Torre said two weeks. Brian Cashman said three. But history instruts us that oblique muscle problems can last a lot longer. And if the right side one...