April 1, 2007
Wilburrrrrrrr!!!
V.A. Musetto's Cine File column today today delves into a new documentary about a subculture of men who love horses -- and the horses who, ahem, have their way with...
Roto Files - Don't be April fooled
New Roto Files column in Sunday's paper. Here's a peak. THE 2001 John Travolta/ Hugh Jackman thriller "Swordfish" was quite a forgettable film, save its incredibly strong opening. The beginning...
First series prediction
By MARK HALE I'm in my hotel room in St. Louis right now, set to head over to Busch Stadium in a little bit. With the season opening tonight, this...
Knicks need 6-3 finish - at least
By MARC BERMAN With nine games left, the Knicks will need to win at least six of them to make the playoffs after their 0-for-2 trip to the Southwest. They...
Selling 'Grindhouse'
"Grindhouse,'' opening Friday, has some of the coolest posters around. We've run them several times on this blog. So I was totally puzzled by this utterly generic full-page appearing appearing...
My Bad
It's not always easy to figure out who broke a story on the web, and I should have credited the ever-snarky Stu Van Airsdale of the Reeler for Friday's report...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
DRAMA Crossing the border A United States Border Protection agent tries to sneak a foreign container into the country on "Standoff," which returns to the airwaves after a long hiatus....
'OCTOBER' SERENADE
In ABC's "October Road," star Bryan Greenberg literally serenades the dean of the local college to try to get a teaching job. Judging by his off-key performance of "Where is...
REEL GOOD
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939) Tuesday, 8 p.m., TCM Howard Hawks directed this classic romantic melodrama about a group of mail pilots - led by Cary Grant - risking their...
NO ANNA JOKES
The death of Anna Nicole Smith has had serious consequences for comedian Kathy Griffin and Bravo, the network that airs her take-no-prisoners routine. Griffin, who stars in Bravo's reality series,...
HELLLOOO...JERRY!
Leave it to Jerry Seinfeld, whose "show about nothing" revolutionized TV comedy, to have a similar effect on HBO's "Jerry Seinfeld: The Comedian Award." The magic created by the former...
SPORTSCASTING LOSES A LOCAL HERO
We wonder if Jerry Girard would even have been given a shot, today. Girard, 21 years the lead sportscaster on WPIX-Ch. 11's 10 o'clock news, died last Sunday, of cancer....
'THE TUDORS'
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is the first person to admit he's the last person anyone would think to cast as Henry VIII. In the Showtime series "The Tudors," premiering tonight, the...
BRAVO'S MAKEOVER SHOWS TOO FORMULAIC
Would you let a guy named Dr. Boogie cut your hair? I wouldn't. I prefer the more traditionally-named barbers - names like Sal, Anthony, Angelo, Gus or Mickey (he's the...
COP KILLER
Get ready for the season of Shane. That would be Shane Vendrell, the rogue L.A. cop played by Walton Goggins, who's carrying a secret - and a load of guilt...
HOT SEAT
CHRISTOPHER Buckley is best known as the author of 1994's "Thank You for Smoking," which became a movie starring Aaron Eckhart and Katie Holmes. But he's written 11 other books,...
SHOOTS TO TWILL
SCOTT Schuman used to run a fashion showroom, but he never got to be part of the runway glitz. Then, he got out of the business altogether to become a...
HOT LIST
1 Rebound relationship Ryan Philippe who? The blog-osphere is abuzz about romance between Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of "Rendition." We're just hoping they have a baby...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
The Good Shepherd (Universal, $29.98) Robert DeNiro's CIA thriller stars Matt Damon. Cerebral, but fascinating.Volver (Sony, $28.95) Penelope Cruz is at her best in Pedro Almodovar's dark tale of a...
WIT & WAG
THE GRAND SURPRISE: THE JOURNALS OF LEO LERMAN 4 STARSKnopf, $37.50 WHEN Tina Brown became editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair in 1984, her predecessor, Leo Lerman, was kicked upstairs with the...
REQUIRED READING
The cigarette is the marketing bonanza of the 20th century, and Allan Brandt, professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical Center, gives an exhaustive and highly entertaining take...
GMS DRAW THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS
CHESSTHE union of grandmasters - yes, there really is one - has taken up the burning question in grandmasterdom: Should draw offers be limited? For the rest of humanity, this...
ADOPT ME
G. Williger is a stunning mix of Catahoula Leopard and pit bull terrier, who was rescued from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He's a young, vibrant dog, full of personality....
THE CAT LADY
APRIL Fools' Day is a good day to think about your cat's sense of humor. Yes, some cats (like some people) are humorless, but most of them are either outright...
BEST IN SHOW
ONE of the screen's most popular underdog stories is about to make its Broadway debut this month at the Palace Theatre - the musical version of "Legally Blonde," the story...
TRENCH CONNECTION
ANDREW MARC CROPPED LEATHER TRENCH-STYLE JACKET, $695, at Neiman Marcus. Ralph Lauren stretch silk turtleneck, $89.50, at Bloomingdale's. Hudson "Allure" denim pants, $198, at Wink, 155 Spring St., leather "Riley"...
KINGS OF THE HILL
THE Followill brothers spent their childhood driving cross-country in a purple 1988 Oldsmobile, watching their Pentecostal preacher dad, Leon, spread the word of God. But some of the best spiritual...
50 CENT DEPOSIT
IT'S not going to be difficult to read between the lines Tuesday when you see "Buck the World" on record shelves. G-Unit prodigy Young Buck fashioned the title of his...
HAMMOND TIME
IT'S tough for a teen to tell his dad anything - and even tougher to tell him that he wants to be a musician. The task gets even harder if...
ONE SICKO FLICKO
COMMON decency never stood a chance. "Grindhouse," the new Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez double feature, promises to be the most gloriously trashy, over-the-top violent, nudie-filled flick to grace the cineplex in...
BIO-HAZARD
RECENT history has seen its share of impressive literary hoaxes, from James Frey's imaginative autobiography to the fictional character J.T. Leroy, who was established so thoroughly that many in Hollywood...
BRIGHT FIGHTS, BIG CITY
THE Naked City," a 1948 film noir, practically invented the modern police procedural for which shows like "Law and Order" are based. Barry Fitzgerald plays a crusty NYPD lieutenant who...
TWO-FACED WOMAN
ONE film is about a man who dies after having sex with a horse. A second concerns a woman who has her face cut up in order to add spice...
NEW CHEFS ON THE BLOCK
LEARNING the ropes at a new job is never easy, but it's particularly challenging when you're a chef. Here, Chris Lee of Gilt, Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern and Akhtar...
HANSON, 30, AND DELIA, 35
MARCH 23 - Persistence is a virtue, even when it comes to romance. "He actually asked me to marry him four times before I said yes," says Fernanda Hanson, an...
NIEMARK, 34, RAJAOBELINA, 34
MARCH 22 - Some couples meet in clubs and others on the Internet, but Benjamin Niemark and Celine Rajaobelina met in Madagascar. "I was teaching at a mission, and Benjamin...
WEBB, 26, AND JACOBSEN, 27
FEB. 10 - In front of 70 guests, actors Kim Jacobsen and Rob Webb exchanged vows with the calm of stage veterans at the Glen Foerd Mansion in the bride's...
HULIHAN, 28, AND BORGIA, 33
March 23 - Many see an engagement ring as a symbol of eternal devotion. Lisa Borgia, who had kidney failure in 2003, was given something even greater. Christopher Hulihan, who...
BAGON, 52, AND SOLOMON, 44
DEC. 3 - If you ask Andrew Bagon, his courtship with Margot Solomon was short and sweet. "She was interested, I was interested, so we cut through the mustard," jokes...
THINK AGAIN, 'MISS SYRIA'
"She should take a step back and think about the message that it sends. This is a country that is a state sponsor of terror, one that is trying to...
BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY
Conspicuous gallantry was in abundance last Tuesday at the New York Stock Exchange - where 31 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients gathered for the NYSE's fifth annual Circle of Honor...
MIKE'S STRAIGHT TALK
Mayor Bloomberg is a surprisingly popular politician - perhaps because he's also an uncommon politician. Despite a stumble or two here and there in recent weeks - both self-inflicted (the...
BETRAYED
WHILE elements of the Left in the United States and Europe are calling on Western democracies to abandon Afghanistan and Iraq to the Taliban and al Qaeda and surrender to...
ERA: LET IT STAY DEAD
LIBERALS, dolled up in love beads and bell-bottom trousers, have had another bright idea, one as fresh as other 1970s fads. Sens. Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer and Reps. Carolyn...
DAVID VS. GOLIATH U.
THE latest campaigner on behalf of traditional Dartmouth values is not some stuffy scion of a WASP dynasty, but a black law professor from Virginia. Today marks the start of...
FIRE ISLAND BEACH BASH
THE ISSUE: The alleged beating of a tourist by police in Ocean Beach, Fire Island. It is disgraceful that Ocean Beach acting Police Chief George Hesse stomped on a man...
ON FIRST TEST IN OFFICE, SPITZER FAILS THE STATE
THE ISSUE: Gov. Spitzer's handling of negotiations over the state budget It sure didn't take long for the real powers in Albany, namely Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver and Senate Majority...
SCORPIONS IN BLACK ROBES
SUPREME CONFLICT: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURTBY JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURGPENGUIN PRESS, 340 PAGES, $27.95 'NINE scorpions in a bottle" is how...
WHY BUSINESS WENT GREEN
WORLD, INC: HOW THE GROWING POWER OF BUSINESS IS REVOLUTIONIZING PROFITS, PEOPLE AND THE FUTURE OF BOTHBY BRUCE PIASECKISOURCEBOOKS, 226 PAGES, $24.95 IN its store, Whole Foods trumpets how environmentally...
FREEZING TERROR
TREASURY STOPPED MONEY TRAINGLOBAL FINANCIAL WARRIORS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE IN THE POST-9/11 WORLDBY JOHN B. TAYLOR W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, 324 PAGES, $26.95 WHAT was the first...
TYCOONS AWAIT FATE OF TRIBUNE
One or two of the dueling billionaires - Sam Zell, Eli Broad and Ron Burkle - could learn as soon as today whether they'll be chosen to be the next...
GROOVY ATTACK
Video game makers are launching an all-out assault on the beleaguered music business by signing the musicians behind their original video game soundtracks to deals on newly minted labels. The...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSANDRE AGASSI Tennis great joins ranks of the Clintons in securing a $5M advance for his memoirs.DAVID ZASLAV New Discovery Networks chief executive leads buyout of 25 percent shareholder Cox...
SKY-HIGH WINE
MICHAEL Lynne, the co-chief executive of Time Warner's New Line Cinema, was walking around his Columbus Circle office with a little extra pep in his step last week - and...
STARBUCKS' 2-FACED ENVIRONMENTALISM
Java giant Starbucks this weekend is fending off criticism that it is serving up cupfulls of hypocrisy along with its popular coffee. The retailer brags about supporting global clean-water projects...
DESIGNING WOMAN
Not too long ago, Vicki Vlachakis, a slender, 34-year-old beach blonde from Southern California, was at a Saturn dealership trying to buy its new roadster, the Sky. "I went in...
FORGET ME NOT
Leave it to Congress to just confuse things even more this tax season. As part of December's last-minute tax package, Congress extended the sales-tax deduction, the $250 educators' expense deduction...
SEEKING RECOURSE FOR FAMILY WHO WAS DELTA BAD HAND
Dear John: I recently had a horrible travel experience with Delta that I believe deserves the attention of consumer-advocate groups, politicians, businesspeople and fellow travelers. It is unacceptable that an...
NAME THAT TAX TUNE
DON'T ever accuse the good folks at the Internal Revenue Service of not having a sense of humor. As American taxpayers crunch the numbers and file their 1040s - and...
NO FOOLING: BUDGET DEADLINE MISSED
ALBANY - State lawmakers blew past the midnight budget deadline this morning - after a day of frantic talks that included a rare Jewish Sabbath negotiation between Gov. Spitzer and...
CLOSING TIME FOR LIQUOR BIGS
The leadership of the State Liquor Authority will soon be shaken and stirred. Gov. Spitzer will over haul the agency and put his own appointees in top slots, according to...
JAIL & FIRE UNIONS SQUARE OFF
It's the Boldest vs. the Bravest. The head of the 8,500-member correction officers union is squaring off against Uniformed Firefighters Association president Stephen Cassidy, calling his recently negotiated contract with...
'HITTING' THE GYM
You may not be able to swing like Derek Jeter, but starting next year at least you can work out like him. Fans of Jeter and the New York Yankees...
FUN AND DONE FOR CONEY PARK
Coney Island's Astroland Park begins its final ride today as the aging fun spot prepares to shut down after nearly 50 years of thrills. "I feel like a roller coaster....
CRAVEN COP-KILLER 'FIGHTS' TRIP TO DEATH HOUSE
Cop-killer Ronell Wilson's trip to death row began violently Friday night, when he refused to leave his Brooklyn cell and started a melee that left one correction officer injured. Wilson...
FATHER OF 7 DIES IN CRASH
A 43-year-old motorcycle-riding father of seven sons was killed yesterday in a Brooklyn crash, police said. The biker was riding south on Thomas Boyland Street in Brownsville at 1:45 p.m....
BEDBUGS BITE INTO SCHOOLS
Bedbugs are biting their way through the city school system, with the number of cases more than doubling in a two-month period. Reports of the nasty critters skyrocketed from 34...
$13 BIL BLOOMY
The richest man in New York is none other than public servant Mike Bloomberg. The mayor is worth a staggering $13.6 billion - more than double the previously estimated $5.5...
FANS TAKE THE SCENIC 'ROOT'
A-Rod and David Wright aren't the only ones prepping for the start of baseball season. Cotton Eye Joe, Freddy Sez, the Cowbell Man, Scattman, Sal the Sign Guy and a...
BIKELESS BELLO ROLLING ON
The show must go on. Clown prince Bello Nock was the consummate pro yesterday, performing for thousands of fans at Madison Square Garden - despite the huge loss of his...
HEROES' HAPPY ENDING TO DROWNING DOG'S TALE
A lucky pup who broke loose from her owners and jumped into the Hudson River was pulled to safety by three veteran firefighters yesterday afternoon. Bubba, a 15-month-old bull terrier,...
'HIGH' SCHOOL
Three jam-band-loving New York schoolteachers were busted for smoking a doobie outside the Beacon Theatre before a concert by Southern-fried rockers The Allman Brothers, cops said yesterday. The blissed-out educators,...
QNS. BOY,13, CHARGED IN BEAT DEATH
A 13-year-old was charged last night with manslaughter for fatally punching another 13-year-old who was playing basketball with his half-brother on an East Elmhurst public school playground, police said. At...
GLITZ EYED FOR CITY'S PRETTY UGLY TAXIS
The city's yellow taxis don't win many beauty contests, but a nonprofit design group is working to change that with a series of "concept" cabs of the future that will...
SCANDAL MAKES CITY STUB A 'TOW'
A Staten Island judge has temporarily blocked the NYPD from issuing a lucrative permit for exclusive highway-towing rights to a family-run firm with a criminal past. Brooklyn-based Knights Collision Experts...
POLICE-CRUISER CRASH HURTS 6
Two cops and four civilians were injured in Brooklyn's Brownsville section last night when the officers, responding to a report of a man with a gun, crashed their squad car,...
NEW BEGINNING FOR BX. FIRE KIN
They are all still able to smile - even Moussa Magassa's first wife, who lost five of their children in the disastrous Bronx house fire on March 7, yet can...
'SMOTHER' MOM MENACED BABY
The Queens mother accused of smothering her malnourished infant to death used to slap the child and holler at him that he was ruining her life, neighbors said. "I don't...
'NURSING' A GRUDGE VS. JUDGE
A Brooklyn woman claims she was ordered to leave her baby at home and to pump her breast milk before coming to divorce court - or indicted Brooklyn judge Gerald...
HOSTAGES FACE A DAILY TERROR
A POTENTIAL clash of civiliza tions hangs over the heads of the 15 British sailors illegally seized by Iran. As the world watches and waits, the naval personnel have been...
HEIR VS. CELEB DOC IN WAR FOR ORPHAN
When Johnson & Johnson heir Elizabeth "Libet" Johnson flew to Cambodia in 2003 to set up a $15 million foster-care facility in Phnom Penh, she came across a tiny boy...
JUDI'S EX NO. 1 A HUFFY HUBBY
Judith Giuliani's "hidden husband" tried to go incognito as The Post caught up with him outside his girlfriend's Tampa home yesterday, refusing even to acknowledge his name. "Why do you...
HILL FADES VS. TWO TOP GOP RIVALS
A new poll has both of the top Republican presidential candidates besting Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 White House race - and in a virtual tie with Barack Obama....
SCHMOOZE MOVES OF A PRO
Ferris Bueller's got nothing on this kid. Ryan Leli - the smooth-talking Long Island teen arrested and banned from Shea Stadium after scamming his way into the locker room -...
BACK TO SCHOOL
NICKEL MINES, Pa. - Their faces gleam in the sun as they fall into a loose procession to their new schoolhouse, smiles and giggles betraying the excitement of another spring,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX Police yesterday identified two men who they said kidnapped and robbed a City Island man. Steve Morales, 23, and Sergio Ramirez, 22, allegedly abducted a construction-company owner in...
PRO-IMMIG MIKE STICKS IT TO THE STICKS
MAYOR Bloomberg has come out swing ing against a fellow mayor trying to impose one of the most restrictive bans against illegal aliens in the nation. At a civic meeting...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 015 Lucky Sum: 6 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 7887; Lucky Sum: 30 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 248; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 5711;...
FLA. DERBY TO 'DADDY'
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) - No need for a photo to figure out the winner this time. Scat Daddy pulled away in the stretch for a 11/4-length victory over Notional...
RU READY
CLEVELAND - Never in a million years, let alone the 25 since C. Vivian Stringer coached in the first NCAA women's championship game in 1982, did she see this Rutgers...
HARDBALL PLAYS THE RATING GAME
THIS is not scientific. There is no plus-or-minus adjustment for margin of error. Hopefully, this poll is just fun. I know it always is for me assembling it. Every year...
TIGER PUT THE GREEN IN GOLF
Ten years ago this week, as the 1997 Masters was about to open the gates of its hallowed grounds, the world of golf had little idea of the ride it...
MICKELSON CHAMP AND CHUMP ROLLED INTO ONE
ALL you Tiger Woods fans can admit it. You love Phil Mickelson. While you want Sir Eldrick to continue his dominance of the sport, you secretly can't wait to see...
THE RUMBLE
'Tooning in the MetsSNY trio's never been more comical The Post first reported it in last week's NYP TV Sports section, now here's a sneak peak at SNY's new animated...
PULLIN' FOR MULLIN
ST. PETERSBURG - This was the fall of 1983, a few days after Mark Jackson had walked onto the St. John's campus as a full-time student for the first time....
CALL IT DEJA-TWO
ATLANTA - The Gators and Buckeyes are at it again, battling for the right to be known as the cool address in college sports. Just three months ago Florida upset...
DON'T LET 'EM APRIL FOOL YOU
THE 2001 John Travolta/ Hugh Jackman thriller "Swordfish" was quite a forgettable film, save its incredibly strong opening. The beginning has Travolta describing his "Dog Day Afternoon"-inspired robbery of a...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Diamondbacks put Big Unit on DL The Diamondbacks placed pitcher Randy Johnson on the 15-day disabled list. Johnson, returning from offseason back surgery, is scheduled to make three minor-league...
HONDO: BACK IN ACTION
Ah, Opening Night! A tradition unlike any other - games that count, the crack of the bat, the pop of the ball in the mitt, the $50 ticket, the $8...
NO ROCKET BOOSTER
* In response to Kevin Kernan's column that pleads with the Yankees to sign Roger Clemens ["Go get Rocket," The Post and nypost.com, March 25], some reasons why the Yankees...
NEW YORK BULLISH ON FISH STOCKS
NEW York State offers some of the best freshwater fishing in the country thanks to an extensive stocking program. Anglers fishing today's trout opener are catching last year's holdovers as...
BUSCH WON'T TAKE THIS CAR AND LOVE IT
Don't blame NASCAR if it's rooting against the No. 5 car to win a second straight race. Kyle Busch won the first Car of Tomorrow (COT) race last week at...
ODEN WINS BATTLE OF BIG MEN
ATLANTA - If you do not understand why Greg Oden is the next big thing, put on the tape of the second half of Ohio State's 67-60 NCAA semifinal victory...
IT'S O-YES-U
ATLANTA - The dream season ended one game short. It ended because, for the first time since winning 19 of their last 20 games, the Georgetown Hoyas didn't play like...
GATORS GO DISTANCE
ATLANTA - Only 40 last minutes, and one 7-foot freshman and one freshman point guard as cool as Clyde Frazier, stand between Florida and history. Only 40 last minutes, and...
FLORIDA HEATS UP AT RIGHT TIME
ATLANTA - Can they be stopped? UCLA took its second shot at Florida last night and got blown away worse than it did last year. Don't be misled by the...
LATEST GOMEZ INJURY KEEPS EGG LINE BROKEN
The Devils' Magic Show needs all the playoff rehearsal time it can get, and that time is running out. Its long-anticipated reunion this afternoon may have to wait some more....
USE YOUR HEAD!
PHILADELPHIA - Maybe the Islanders weren't fibbing. Maybe instead it's that Rick DiPietro wasn't entirely forthcoming with the medical staff and hockey department about symptoms he might have been suffering...
ISLES' DOUBLE-WHAMMY
After watching the Islanders play one of their worst games of the season in a match they desperately needed to win, coach Ted Nolan ripped into his team. It may...
ISIAH'S Q-RATING
IT'S Isiah Thomas' con tention the Knicks knew Quentin Richardson would need surgery some day for a herniated disc when they acquired him prior to last season from the Suns...
GUERIN'S HALL DOOR STILL SHUT TIGHT
OKLAHOMA CITY - Former Knicks star guard Richie Guerin, a Hall of Fame finalist, will not be among the inductees announced tomorrow in Atlanta, The Post has learned. Guerin was...
ZEKE FREAKS
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Knicks lost another heartbreaker in overtime last night, lost another game in the standings - and an angry Isiah Thomas probably lost a few thousand dollars...
METS SET TO OPEN & STRUT
ST. PETERSBURG - They have a chance to swing again. The Mets' season ended last year as Carlos Beltran took a called strike three in the ninth inning of NLCS...
THIS TEAM EXPECTS AMAZIN' RESULTS
ST. PETERSBURG - Billy Wagner has temporarily put his laptop away, he's thrown his press credential in a drawer and traded in his fedora for a ball cap, his mustard-stained...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
The Post's Steve Serby chatted this past week with the Mets' matinee-idol third baseman: Q: What do you remember about your first Opening Day in Cincinnati? A: The amount of...
A LOST KAZ
ST. PETERSBURG - Former Mets prospect Scott Kazmir will be taking the hill at Yankee Stadium in tomorrow's season opener. "It's going to be amazing," Kazmir said yesterday. "You can't...
TOUGH SHILL TO SWALLOW
INTERESTING how, if you tell a lie often enough, you eventually have no shame telling it. Heck, in the case of the Mets, you just come right out and advertise...
ANTOINE SHOWS HE HAS WRIGHT STUFF
The Nets' offense would have been pronounced clinically dead in at least 19 states. And Vince Carter was heading back to the bench for a second time with foul trouble....
BEST FOR LAST
Vince Carter was saddled with fouls and was a virtual non-entity in the first half. Just like the whole Nets team. So he came back in the third quarter and...
BOONE BOOM FIZZLES
Not that Josh Boone was supposed to emerge as some kind of savior off the bench this season, but he sure had assumed that role for the Nets over the...
IT'S 'PLAYOFF' TIME
PHILADELPHIA - The Rangers are not about to hand back last night's 6-4 victory despite the number of times they handed over the puck to the last-overall Flyers, but the...
YANKS SPRING INTO SEASON
TAMPA - On Feb. 13, the Yankees arrived in Florida concerned about their starting rotation. They left yesterday without their staff ace. Having Bobby Abreu for a full season and...
PITCHERS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY - TAKE YOUR PICK
TAMPA - The culmination of spring training is strange. It is both an end and a beginning. It feels like you have completed a marathon as a preparation for five...
IGAWA CONTINUES TO IMPROVE
TAMPA - Kei Igawa's fastball doesn't push radar guns much past 90 mph and his change-up misbehaves at times. However, Igawa is a better pitcher leaving spring training than the...
ONE FOR THE ROD
TAKE a look at Alex Rodriguez in tomor row's opener and you will notice something different. He's a leaner machine and is wearing his socks throw-back style, the only Yankee...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A California cabby took a woman passenger on a cross-country trek from Beverly Hills to Chapel Hill, N.C. - only to have her to skip out on the fare. When...
DUMPED? HOW TO DEAL
Whether it's been two minutes, two days, or two years since you've been unceremoniously dumped by the so-called love of your life, one thing is certain: It sure isn't easy...
DEAR POST MAN:
Dear Post Man: I'm very interested in this great guy who I've been friends with for about 10 years. We used to work together and have stayed friends since he...
SERIAL DATER SKS FUN-LOVING GIRL
AT 24, Nick is a self-admitted serial dater. "Nonexclusive dating is sexy," he says, "but marriage is just sadistic." While it may take him a while to join the ranks...
THE RIGHT MOVES
SABRINA'S the type of girl who "goes through men like undies," but apparently all it takes to hook the 29-year-old singer/yoga instructor is a chivalrous guy who can move on...
Offense Saves the Rangers
They won tonight. That's the bottom line. But in the fine print is a little extra: had the offense not been on fire, the Rangers easily could have lost this...