March 1, 2007
BAT WRIGHT SECOND
David Wright batted in the two-hole today in the 4-3 win over the Cardinals. I think that is a better place for him than fifth, even though fifth is an...
The Baby Rocket's Debut
By Mike VaccaroTAMPA -- Philip Hughes is going to be something else someday. Today, he was something wild.Hughes threw 34 pitches against the Minnesota Twins, allowing a run, a hit...
Attention movie critic groupies
Here's where you're likely to spot this critic over the weekend. On Saturday, i'll probably journey to the Loews Village for "Black Snake Moan.'' I know there are no subtitles,...
The Baby Rocket's Debut
By Mike Vaccaro TAMPA -- Philip Hughes is going to be something else someday. Today, he was something wild.Hughes threw 34 pitches against the Minnesota Twins, allowing a run, a...
LIVEBLOG/BERLIN: Day 1 - Clean and well lit
Berlin is a breath of fresh air after more than a week of cobblestones and fairy-tale architecture. (That stuff's nice, but sometimes Prague feels less like a city and more...
LIVEBLOG/PRAGUE: Day 2 - You can't spell Holesovice without h-o-l-e
When someone says to you, regarding a European train station, "Oh, that's a dump," you sort of shrug it off. After all, you've seen, say, the Los Angeles bus station....
Game music you can download (legally)
Radio, schmadio. When it comes to breaking new music and bands, artists know the best place to do it is either on TV or in video games. Electronic Arts is...
Milledge
By MARK HALELastings Milledge's x-rays are negative.
Something to check out
By MARK HALENot sure if any of you guys have checked out Joel Sherman's "50 days of spring training" blog, but if not, you should definitely venture over there today....
So far today
By MARK HALEExhibition game No. 2 is scheduled to start in a bit, with the Mets facing the Cardinals. Six Met regulars are playing, with the exceptions being Ramon Castro...
Deal of the Day
Not for the faint of heart or the heavy of thighs, these Earnest Sewn Cigarette Jeans are on sale at Shopbop.Known for their dapper denim, Earnest Sewn has become the...
Some encouraging signs
By MARC BERMANBOSTON - Sometimes Isiah Thomas overcoaches. His decision to start Malik Rose at power forward last night vs. the Celtics struck of a coach who is reaching. With...
Alicia and her Gunrod, they go places: a playdate with "Bullet Witch"
I wanted to like this game. A lot. Maybe it's because I watched too much "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or maybe it's because playing as a 'roid-rage soldier doesn't have...
The Movie Nazi
Jerry Seinfeld is probably rich enough to buy the Lincoln Square multiplex for his own private use and have it run to his own fastidious specifications. He complained about dirty...
Day 20: Oliver Perez
Every year I promise myself not to overreact â really probably not even to react all that much â to spring training occurrences. And every year I pretty much fail....
Closet gamers
Like universes colliding, Fashion East, Lulu Kennedy's UK organization that supports and sponsors up-and-coming young designers, will be hosting a night of fashion talks, debate, and presentations in collaboration with...
Deadly Game
David Fincher's superb "Zodiac,'' which I review today in advance of its Friday opening, is loaded with references to other movies, from "Dirty Harry'' (which was loosely inspired by the...
Quentin to New York: Drop Dead?
"I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light,'' Woody Allen famously said of...
HAUTE LIST
Arm candy HOLLYWOOD'S red carpeteers have been a bit heavy-handed lately. More is more when it comes to icing the wrists, and starlets are taking the lead by piling on...
HOSED DOWN
PULL up a chair while I tell you the true story about a girl who worked in finance - let's call her Jen. Jen was a stylish woman who knew...
$20 BUYS LAST-MINUTE TIX
CALL it the theater lover's answer to Restaurant Week - a chance to sample the cream (both fresh and curdled) of off-Broadway at a rock-bottom price: $20 a ticket. The...
CNN, DISCOVERY CREWS SHUT DOWN BY PENTAGON
THE Pentagon has forced CNN and the Discovery Channel to suspend projects being filmed at Walter Reed Medical Center and other military branches in the wake of a highly publicized...
FUTURE IS 'GREY'
ABC is launching a counter-offensive against "Grey's Anatomy" star Katherine Heigl, who says she's "hurt" the network didn't offer her more money for a new deal. Heigl, who plays Dr....
STARR REPORT
While there's no word yet on whether FX will renew Courteney Cox's "Dirt," the numbers haven't been very encouraging. The series, which has been (largely) critically well-received, is averaging 2.1...
BIG 'WINNER'
WHO would have thought that a show called "The Winner" would, well, actually be one? OK, now that I've got that crass attempt to get my name on an ad...
NO CAAN DO ON NEXT YEAR'S 'LAS VEGAS'
JAMES Caan is leaving "Las Vegas." Caan says he wanted out of the NBC series to pursue his movie career, which has included classic films such as "The Godfather" and...
'I WON'T DANCE'
BIG Pussy is a wussy. "Sopranos" star Vincent Pastore has pulled out of "Dancing with the Stars" citing "the physical demands" of the competition. "When I initially committed to joining...
NEWS WAR CLAIMS NBC BOSS
NBC anchorman Brian Williams' executive producer is the first casualty in a suddenly ferocious ratings war with ABC's Charlie Gibson, according to sources. John Reiss, who took over TV's No....
HORRORSCOPE
'I am waiting for a good movie about me," the elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac wrote in his last known letter to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1978,...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
You will make some major lifestyle changes over the next 12 months, and having made them and seen what benefits they bring you will no doubt wish you had made...
THE PAIN EVENT
'Grey's Anatomy" may be sexy but - in spite of its textbook title - it's hardly educational. If you actually want to learn something about the human - as opposed...
CLUBS TO PLAY IT 'SAFE' AS CRACKDOWN OK'D
A year after the murders of Imette St. Guillen and an underage clubgoer, the City Council yesterday passed several bills aimed at making bars and nightclubs safer. The bills would...
QUINN WEIGHS IN ON CALORIES
Council Speaker Christine Quinn sided with Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, opposing a bill to water down the Health Department's plan requiring fast-food restaurants to post the calorie counts of their meals....
MIKE TAPS CRITIC FOR ED. POST
Hours before hundreds of parents protested being shut out of the planning for the latest overhaul of the city school system, Mayor Bloomberg appointed a critic of his education reforms...
NEIL FLYNN'S COURT STATEMENT
This is the victim-impact statement of Katie Flynn's father, Neil Flynn, which was read yesterday at the sentencing of Martin Heidgen. There are several issues I must address before turning...
JENNIFER FLYNN'S COURT STATEMENT
This is the victim-impact statement of Katie Flynn's mother, Jennifer Flynn, which was read yesterday at the sentencing of Martin Heidgen: I loathe standing before you today, knowing that I...
ST. PAT RELIEF FOR 7 TRAIN
The luck of 7 train riders may finally be improving. MTA Executive Director Elliot Sander said yesterday there is a chance the ongoing weekend service disruptions will be suspended for...
HOUSE OF PAIN
A meshugga madam who taught people how to be sex slaves turned a stately $3 million Westchester home owned by an ultra-Orthodox rabbinical school into an S&M dungeon, police claimed...
MEGA JACKPOT HITS $267M
Talk about sweetening the pot! There was no winning ticket in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing - and the jackpot yesterday jumped to $267 million. The next drawing for the multistate...
EX-RANGER GAL SCORES KEY VICTORY
A judge has taken scandal-scarred Madison Square Garden to task, granting a former Ranger cheerleader's demand for access to details of an internal probe into her sexual-harassment complaints and the...
BOARD OF ELEX RAIDED
Agents from the Department of Investigation raided the city's Board of Elections yesterday in what was described as a "criminal investigation," The Post has learned. Sources said the investigators showed...
STUDY WILL EYE COPS' FRISKY BIZ
The NYPD has hired a renowned think tank to study its controversial "stop and frisk" policy, following its own study showing that most of those affected were minorities. Police Commissioner...
KILLER GETS 'EASY' 18 YRS.
A Long Island man who mur dered a wedding limousine driver and a 7-year-old flower girl in a head-on DWI crash was sentenced to 18 years to life yesterday -...
QNS. MAN HURT IN 'VEEP' BLAST
A Queens man who works as a contractor in Afghanistan was fighting for his life yesterday after being injured in the Taliban suicide bombing that may have been meant for...
CITY PAYS $1M TO HS STAB VICTIM
A Bronx man who was severely slashed by fellow student with a boxcutter at Evander Childs HS nearly six years ago settled a negligence lawsuit against the city yesterday for...
BRUNO LETS DEM RUN SEN. PANEL
ALBANY - Increasingly desperate state Senate Republicans moved to shore up their shrinking majority yesterday by taking the unprecedented step of naming a Brooklyn Democrat as chairman of the Social...
CITY CURBS PEDICABS
The City Council pulled the plug on pedicabs yesterday, passing stringent new regulations. The bill limits the total number of pedicabs in the five boroughs to 325 - eliminating at...
EMBEZZLER EXEC GETS 3 TO 10
An admittedly cocaine-addicted grants administrator for the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation was sentenced to 3½ to 10½ years in prison yesterday for embezzling $421,000. Cheryl McEwan, 51, stole the money over...
FIRE-SALE FRENZY
The city pressed ahead yesterday with plans to sell two shuttered Brooklyn firehouses for condos, as community groups complained they were being shut out of the process. The groups complained...
2ND RAT: 'WRONG CUZ' JAILED
A second mob rat took the stand yesterday and told a Brooklyn judge that a Mafia associate cowardly let his own cousin rot in prison - for a murder the...
GOV DEAL ON JAILED PERVS
Gov. Spitzer and the leaders of the Legislature will announce agreement today on a controversial "civil confinement" measure designed to make it easier to keep dangerous sexual offenders behind bars...
TOOMER A FREE AGENT AFTER DIVORCE SETTLEMENT
Giants star Amani Toomer can focus on football again - he and his wife reached a settlement yesterday in their bitter breakup battle. Toomer and Dr. Yola Dabrowski reached the...
'DRUG-RING' DUO ARRESTED
The feds have nabbed two members of a major drug ring for allegedly funneling large quantities of heroin from Afghanistan and Pakistan onto the streets of New York. Court papers...
MR. CON-DOCTOR
An ex-con with a head for medical terms fooled a Bronx clinic into a high-paying administrator's job - but the last laugh was on him when he was tripped up...
'DECEPTIVE' JUDGE RIPPED
Bill Clinton had legal problems? A state disciplinary panel says an Albany judge should be reprimanded for "evasive and deceptive" testimony in which she claimed not to know the former...
26G THEFT CHARGE ON SCHOOL AIDE
A secretary at an elite Queens high school - already under investigation for alleged fraud - brazenly went on to bilk the school out of nearly $26,000 by pretending to...
COUNCIL 'BANS' N-WORD
With no opposition and with no one actually uttering the n-word epithet, the City Council yesterday approved a resolution calling for an end to the use of the word in...
ST. PAT'S USHER IS A 'PERV'
Police are investigating claims that a St. Patrick's Cathedral usher exposed himself to a female security guard in the church and then asked for sexual favors, The Post has learned....
OFFICER CALLS COPS ON GRATE GRANNY
"I will not stop until I see my grandchild." That's what Officer Mark Black quotes his mother-in-law as telling him in a series of harassing telephone calls to his place...
QUEENS GIRLS IN 'BRUTAL' HIT-RUN
A heartless hit-and-run driver mowed down two young girls in Queens yesterday afternoon as they walked home from school, cops said. The unidentified girls, 6 and 7, were on their...
SWASTIKA CREEP DODGES JAIL
A 21-year-old man who scrawled swastikas and hate messages in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood agreed to a no-jail plea deal yesterday in Queens Supreme Court. James Connolly will be sentenced...
'RAT' TALES OF WOE
The city's food inspectors have been on a rat rampage since the embarrassing debacle in Greenwich Village - and now owners of shuttered restaurants are crying they're victims of a...
'FRIENDLY' FIRE
He's no turkey! Neighbors were crying fowl yesterday after a Staten Island man was busted for allegedly firing bottle rockets at a gaggle of wild turkeys to drive them off...
WHEEL DUMB PARIS
She may go from one night in Paris to three months in jail. Paris Hilton was pulled over in Los Angeles Tuesday night for driving without headlights, and got slapped...
BLACK POLS TO CLINTON: COOL IT VS. OBAMA
Two of New York's most powerful African-American pols ripped Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday for her "unnecessary" attack on rival Barack Obama over derisive comments by movie mogul David Geffen. "If...
NEWT RIPS 'NASTY' HILL
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich yesterday called Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "a nasty woman" who runs an "endlessly ruthless" campaign machine. The conservative Republican made the surprising comments - after...
SURGING RUDY HITS 'GUNS & VALUES' PITFALL
One-third of voters take issue with a presidential candidate who supports gun control or has been married three times like Rudy Giuliani, a new Time magazine poll shows. The numbers...
BRAVEST 9/11 CIG SHOCKER
WASHINGTON - Fifteen percent of city firefighters being treated or monitored for illnesses after working at Ground Zero are still puffing away on cigarettes, an FDNY doctor revealed to a...
HIGH-TECH HEART 'SCREEN'
Patients with congestive heart failure would be able to have 24/7 heart monitoring over the Internet - if an implantable sensor gets federal approval. The thumb-sized sensor is being reviewed...
NYPD BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Three men were shot yesterday in an apparent drug-related attack on a Harlem street that left two critically wounded, police said. The violence erupted at 2 a.m. near West...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 796; Lucky Sum: 22 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 1929; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 370; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 0342;...
GORE THE GUZZLER
How big is Al Gore's carbon footprint? Pretty hefty. Gore grabbed an Oscar Sunday night for his global-warming horror flick, "An Inconvenient Truth" - and took the opportunity to lecture...
THE UFT'S ALBANY PUPPETS
Lest anyone doubt the real motive of the rally slated for last night by Randi Weingarten and her teachers union, consider the remarks of their shills at a state Assembly...
BATTLING FOR BAGHDAD
WITH all of the mud-sling ing on Capitol Hill, you could almost forget the gun-slinging in Baghdad. As Democrats, Iraqi insurgents and terrorists all struggle to prevent an American win,...
THE CLINTONS' LATEST WINDFALLS
THE Clintons have always behaved like the rules that governed everyone else didn't apply to them. And they've largely gotten away with it - but perhaps Hillary Clinton's quest for...
GOP IDENTITY CRISIS: '08: NO RIGHTIES?
NEW York-based political consul tant Kieran Ma honey's statewide survey of probable Republican participants in the 2008 Iowa presidential caucuses shows this support for the "big three" GOP candidates: John...
CLINT'S FLAWED FILM: FEELING ANTI-U.S., PUNK?
Thank you for printing Bob McManus' rebuttal piece, "Sympathy for Authors of Atrocity" (PostOpinion, Feb. 25), to George Will's love letter to "Letters From Iwo Jima" ("Enemy Letters," PostOpinion, Feb....
PLUMBERS PIPE UP
The accusation that the Plumbers Union is behind a ban is false ("Lead-Pipe Rip-Off," Feb. 21). There is no ban on plastic pipes in New York City, but there are...
APPLE'S BIG TALK
Apple isn't concerned that sticker shock will take a bite out of the 10 million iPhones the company expects to sell in the device's first year. The sleek new portable...
CBS GRABS GOOGLE GURU FOR WEB AD SALES
In another bold move beyond television, CBS snared Google's ad sales guru in a bid to grab its share of the ad dollars flowing to the Web. The media giant...
CANALI INKS SUITABLE DOWNTOWN LOCATION
Luxury menswear retailer Canali has finally solidified its plans to open its first store in New York, signing a lease for 2,600 square feet downtown at 25 Broad St. earlier...
MARTHA EXITING DVD BIZ, EYES VOD
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said it will get out of the DVD business, ending its venture with Warner Home Video after less than two years. The news came as the...
MEL GETTING STATIC
If the terse exchange between Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner and Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin is any indication, the road to regulatory approval for Sirius' $11.4 billion merger with...
IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE IT ALL, DON'T BE IN MARTS
SO, now you understand. If you want to play hardball with professional investors you'd better wear a protective cup. There were a lot of causes for the sharp drop in...
SMALLER INVESTORS KEPT COOL
While most Wall Street traders and professional investors were sweating over Tuesday's market meltdown, many small investors remained confused and opted not to panic. "You probably think I'm getting nervous,...
THAIN BLAME GAME
The technical headaches that befell the New York Stock Exchange's vaunted electronic trading system Tuesday provided a black eye to the nearly uninterrupted success of its Chief Executive John Thain....
CHINA'S CLOUT
Wake up and read the tea leaves. That's the message for anyone who underestimated China's influence on U.S. financial markets before Tuesday's nosedive on the Shanghai Stock Exchange mushroomed and...
'JAVA' SCRIPT TO TEXT NEAREST *BUCKS CAFE
Looking for a Starbucks? Let your fingers do the walking - across your mobile phone. Starting today, the java giant is offering a service that allows customers to use their...
DEUTSCHE BANK NAMES TWO
Deutsche Bank yesterday named veteran dealmakers Tony Burgess and James Stynes to jointly run the company's global mergers business as Germany's largest bank reorganizes its advisory business to better compete...
CLEANING UP ON PIPES
A lawyer with a penchant for stock trading became the latest investor snared in the government's expanding sweep of a section of the private-equity market. Federal prosecutors charged McGuire Woods...
RATNER NETS B'KLYN BONU$
Developer Bruce Ratner and other investors of the $4 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn stand to make close to $700 million in profits if the developer ever decides to...
THE BURY END
Anna Nicole Smith's mom dropped last night her legal bid to have her daughter buried in Texas, hours after a Florida appeals court ruled the model should be laid to...
HALFWAY THERE
Jon Bon Jovi was living on a prayer when he put his seven-room Upper West Side apartment on the market last November for $6.95 million. So after a few idle...
BACK TO THE BEACH
IF you, like many New Yorkers, already thought Miami's South Beach was an extension of Manhattan, check out what's happening now. Not only is the area chockablock with New Yorkers...
LIVING LA VIDA BOCA
WHEN it comes to South Florida real estate, all the newly built and pre-construction properties in South Beach and downtown Miami tend to steal the spotlight. But head 45 to...
DREAM HOMES
Delray Beach $10.8 million "Four Winds," this newly constructed (and furnished!) Mediterranean-meets-Provence-style estate, boasts 10,671 square feet of living space, with a vaulted foyer and gallery, a wood-paneled library, a...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Millwood, N.Y. $1.1495 million Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 3 Square feet: 3,264 Space will not be an issue with this private estate-like home set on more than 2 acres of "beautifully...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan UPPER WEST SIDE $1,025,000 250 W. 89th St. Two-bedroom, two-bath co-op, 1,100 square feet, with marble bath, central AC and eastern exposure with city views; Savannah building features 24-hour...
HUSHION WINS NO. 1000
Congratulations to trainer Mike Hushion, who reached 1,000-win milestone saddling River City Rebel to take yesterday's eighth race. Making his first start since Oct., 4-year-old gelding rallied up rail under...
HOLYFIELD LOOKING TO MAKE BELIEVERS
LISTEN to Evander Holyfield long enough and he'll convince you he's not crazy, punch drunk or desperate for money, that his goal to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the...
NEW LOAN, NEW PANEL FOR NYRA
New York racing's past and future both made the news yesterday when the state agreed to loan the bankrupt New York Racing Association $32 million to get it through the...
THE WINNERS ARE ...
AND The Post Golden Rubber Globe awards go to: COACH OF THE YEAR ACC - Al Skinner, Boston College. He had the integrity to toss his best player and still...
JOHNNIES GET TOURNEY BERTH
They're in. Disregard those noble statements uttered by St. John's coach Norm Roberts over the last week. Sure, he didn't want to back into the Big East Tournament. But when...
'ROID NAMES COULD GROW
Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jr. is the first casualty of the latest investigation by law enforcement into steroid distribution and sports. Reports yesterday linked the 32-year-old to a...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Ravens waive LewisJamal Lewis, whose 2,066 yards rushing in 2003 for the Ravens were the second most in NFL history, was one of several players cut yesterday as teams...
DEVILS' MARTIN FREE SOON
It doesn't seem possible. Devils defenseman Paul Martin is still a developing youngster, yet he stands to be an unrestricted free agent after next season. Martin, 25, has 214 NHL...
O'HARA MAY HIT MARKET
The Giants last year often spoke about the importance of continuity on the offensive line, but their actions this offseason might not match that rhetoric. Left tackle Luke Petitgout already...
JETS HOPE FOR A SHOT AT TURNER
The start of free agency doesn't begin until tomorrow, but there's an anticipated move to be made by the end of the day today from across the country that has...
BOSTON FLOPS
BOSTON - It took one miserable first half to get "Jamal Crawford Withdrawal" out of the Knicks' system. Falling behind by 20 points by intermission, the depleted Knicks stormed back...
MARBURY CRIES FOR CRAWFORD
BOSTON - When Jamal Crawford informed Stephon Marbury on Tuesday morning Crawford was out for the season, the Knicks point guard thought the combo guard was joking. When Marbury realized...
METS HAVE SPRING IN THEIR STEP
PORT ST. LUCIE - The first game of spring training is the worst day to rush to judgment, but somebody's got to do it. So here are first impressions of...
WAGNER: I'LL WORK IT OUT
PORT ST. LUCIE - Billy Wagner has said that spring training doesn't usually produce impressive results for him. He didn't have impressive results yesterday in his 2007 debut, either, but...
OLLIE GETS NO JOLLIES
PORT ST. LUCIE - Ryan Raburn opened the second inning with a home run off the Mets' Oliver Perez. Three batters later, Curtis Granderson ripped a Perez pitch to right...
BELTRAN IN LINEUP FOR THE OPENER
PORT ST. LUCIE - Carlos Beltran was able to play yesterday, while Jose Valentin continued to sit. Beltran had missed the Mets' intrasquad game on Tuesday with a sore neck...
NO CHEAP TRICKS
The Nets messed up in the summer of 2004 with free agent Kenyon Martin. And the guy who says he was responsible for the mess, owner Bruce Ratner, yesterday insisted...
RANGERS TAKING SHOT WITH MARA
Time will tell if Paul Mara is the sharpshooting defenseman the Rangers desperately need. What is clear right now is that Tom Renney is glad to have the 27-year-old Ridgewood,...
VILLONE'S 'PEN FAR FROM DRY
TAMPA - When Ron Villone's disappointing second half ended in October, it was hard to view him as a member of this year's Yankees bullpen. He'd been burnt out by...
HITTING IT OFF
TAMPA - Smooth and powerful swings sent the sound of thunder racing through the Legends Field batting cages yesterday, where a Hall of Famer was working with a future Cooperstown...
POST'S KING IS MR. RIGHT
It was one of the biggest New York sports stories of 2006, and it proved to be yet another reason to pick The Post over the dreary tabloid by the...
WEAK END AT BERNIE'S
TAMPA - It all happens so quickly from here, once the days are filled with baseball games again, once the calendar turns to March, once the rust dissolves and the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A janitor got locked in a room in the Poughkeepsie courthouse for 2½ days. Harold Jones was mopping the floor in the room on Friday when the door swung shut....
Target Strikes Again
Just after Proenza fever is starting to die down, Target announced their next cheap and cheerful collection-- Libertine, the bi-coastal baby of L.A. based Johnson Hartig and NYC based Cindy...
I Want to Thank My Agent..
In its annual survey of more than 80 prognosticators, Oscar Central reports that yours truly made out better than anyone else. I was the only one to pick the winners...
WASH AND WEAR
Let's take a trip to the clubhouse.Got to love Tigers manager Jim Leyland. Leyland is old school all the way and one day last week it was getting late in...