April 7, 2007
A-ROD'S GRAND SLAM MOMENT
This was Alex Rodriguez' day: two home runs, the second a walk-off grand slam with two-outs and two-strikes in the ninth inning. It all added up to a dramatic 10-7...
IGAWA WATCH
Well, $46 million doesnât buy what it used to and you can put the Red Sox on top in the quest for Japanese pitchers.Iâm sitting at the Stadium watching Igawa...
9/11 Outrage?
Uwe Boll, a director of schlocky horror movies who is sometimes referred to as "the new Ed Wood,'' has a legion of detractors out there. Among them is a site...
'Grindhouse' Opens Soft
Well, it looks like the much-hyped "Grindhouse,'' which the Weinsteins have a lot riding on, may not win the weekend after all. Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls, a theater owner...
Doing Coke (TM) in the Movies
The Coca-Cola Company's lawyers are holding up the release of an Italian movie called "Seven Kilometres From Jerusalem.'' It's about an adverising executive, suffering from a midlife-crisis, who meets a...
DVD Extra: King of Kings
Director Henry King (1886-1982) isn't as well known today as his contemporaries John Ford and Raoul Walsh, though he directed many classic movies. So it was delightfully surprising to find...
BOOK HER!READING NO ACT FOR TOP TEEN STAR
'Unfabulous" star Emma Roberts thinks reading is - fabulous! To prove it, she'll be spending this Thursday reading Philippa Gregory's "The Other Boleyn Girl" during Drop Everything and Read Day....
BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE
What Disney did for Dalmatians - and "My Dog Skip" did for Jack Russells - expect "Firehouse Dog" to do for Irish terriers. That's not a good thing. "They're incredibly...
WHAT'S UP
TodayBASKET CASE: The Easter Bunny visits Brooklyn (twice) with the annual Spring Fling Egg Hunt, open to kids of all ages. After the hunt (most of the 8,000 eggs contain...
'FACTOR' FIGHT FOR FOX FOES
GERALDO Rivera and Bill O'Reilly, two of TV's biggest blowhards, nearly got into a fistfight Thursday night during a debate on O'Reilly's show. "It's the closest I've ever come to...
BACK TO BOYZ TOWN
THE most interesting thing about HBO's hit series "Entou rage," which returns tomorrow, is that it's finally (for me anyway) a halfway watchable show. Operative word, "halfway." However, it still...
THE YOLK'S ON YOU
WHY do holidays all seem geared toward kids? Honestly, what are we adults, anyway - chopped liver? So maybe you don't want to spend Sunday morning running around the house...
KID DESK DOODLER IS BUSTED
There's nothing OK with doodling "OKAY" in one Brooklyn junior high school. Cops handcuffed and arrested Chelsea Friseur, 13, on charges of criminal mischief for scribbling the four-letter word on...
RAILROAD APARTMENT
Interior decorators hijacked an F train yesterday morning, transforming Car 5929 into a cozy living room with curtains, flowers, throw pillows and rugs. The four artists behind this guerrilla installation,...
LONG FIX IN FOR CHUMLEY'S
One day after a chimney collapse at Chumley's sparked fears that the historic West Village watering hole might crumble, the city pronounced the nearly 200- year-old building "secure." But plan...
COPS PRESS HUNT FOR 'COWBOY' ROBBER
Police are searching for an armed bandit they say is responsible for robbing eight Manhattan businesses in the past six weeks. Ex-con Detroit Wright, 35, indicated to workers he had...
'CRUISE CONTROL' POL: IT HELPED ME
A legislator hosting a gala fund-raising dinner for a controversial detoxification program for 9/11 rescue workers co-founded by Tom Cruise revealed yesterday he's undergone the procedure himself. "I will tell...
GUNMAN FLEES AFTER BIZARRE 'SLAY' RIDE TO JFK AIRPORT
A dapper gunman catching a ride with a Bronx couple to JFK Airport early yesterday shot the man in the back of the head twice, then made the woman drop...
HAIL TO NEW TAXI GRAPHICS
Taxis won't be any easier to hail, but officials say new graphics that will soon be slapped on the sides of every yellow cab will make them easier to understand....
CITY SUED OVER SCHOOL PLAN FOR TAINTED LAND
A coalition of South Bronx community groups sued yesterday to stop the city from building what would be New York's largest school complex ever - on contaminated ground. The organization...
2ND 'BILK' MONEY ARREST
A former Department of Correction maintenance worker was arrested last night as investigators widened their probe into a man who allegedly stole $3.6 million from the city Comptroller's Office, authorities...
BABY NAMED IN HONOR OF DRUNK-DRIVE VICTIM
The son of a Long Island chauffeur killed two years ago in a wedding day crash is carrying on his father's name through the grandson he'll never get to meet....
SUES JUMP DAREDEVIL FOR $12M
The dopey daredevil who tried to parachute off the Empire State Building must really feel like taking a flying leap now - the landmark's owners have filed a $12 million...
VANISH MYSTERY IN B'KLYN
A Brooklyn woman was missing last night - three days after visiting her mother at a nursing home, police said yesterday. Penny Dennis, 49, was last seen leaving Victory Memorial...
THUG GETS 8 YRS. IN VILLAGE GAY BASH
A Bronx man was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday for taking part in a vicious gang attack on a popular cross-dressing singer targeted because he was gay. Akino...
BELL COP'S OTHER 'VIOLENT' EPISODE
A month before his involvement in the shooting death of groom-to-be Sean Bell, Detective Marc Cooper was a key player in an alleged police-brutality incident at another Queens nightclub, it...
FBI-TRAGEDY 'ROB' MAN: KILL ME, TOO
A bank-robbery suspect begged the FBI to "just kill me" when they tracked him down yesterday in New Jersey, a day after he allegedly tried to pull off a heist...
ON THE COUCH
A beautiful prison shrink married to a high-flying Wall Street moneyman couldn't resist the forbidden fruit - she had sex with an inmate, the feds charged yesterday. Seen here leaving...
OFFICERS WHINE BY EXAMPLE
A SOLDIER'S law in the U.S. Army holds: "The maxi mum effective range of an excuse is zero meters." Yesterday, the two officers on a panel of former British hostages...
'NOT RUNNING' MIKE SWINGING INTO OHIO
It's off to Ohio next week for Mayor Bloomberg - a politically proactive trip by a possible 2008 candidate to one of the most important states in the presidential race....
MAYOR TELLS LAME DUCKS: PADDLE ON
Concerned that his administration might sputter in the homestretch, Mayor Bloomberg has instructed his commissioners to come up with innovative programs in the 1,000 days remaining in his term. "I...
'WILD' MAN JOE SET TO BE CAGED
"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has spent many spring breaks in Florida, but his next trip to the Sunshine State won't be so titillating. He's been ordered to jail...
'YANKEE' PERV BUST
SCRANTON, Pa. - A Pennsylvania man who worked as the mascot for the Yankees' triple-A farm team was arrested for raping a 15-year-old boy he'd met via the Internet, authorities...
ON A FOOL'S ERRAND
WASHINGTON - Embattled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday bizarrely insisted she carried President Bush's diplomatic message to Syrian strongman Bashar Assad - even though she blew off White House demands...
'FAT SAL' CAGED
A federal judge whacked Gambino mob capo Salvatore "Fat Sal" Scala with a six-year sentence yesterday for shaking down a Manhattan strip club and kicking up tens of thousands of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A vandal scrawled anti-religious remarks on the steps of a Greenpoint church, police said yesterday. The offensive graffiti outside the Lutheran Church of the Messiah on Russell Street near...
BRITS' SHAME BLAME
The 15 British sailors and marines held hostage in Iran for nearly two weeks struggled yesterday to answer questions about their overly friendly behavior in captivity, but said they were...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 439; Lucky Sum: 16 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 9346; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 344; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 1441;...
PUH-LEASE, MS. PELOSI
Wait 'til all those hard-left, Bush-hating bloggers get a load of this: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in damage-control mode, says her trip to Syria was a good thing, because it...
COMPTROLLER, COMPTROLL THYSELF
So what happens when the security firm hired to protect your home fails to notice that the building's been repeatedly burglarized for a year? New York City residents have to...
GROUND CONTROL TO DR. TOM
Could Mayor Bloomberg be having second thoughts about his health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Frieden? That's probably too much to hope for, but for the first time since Frieden became chief...
GOPERS IN SYRIA: WE'RE NOT NANCY
THREE Republican congressmen, who visited Damas cus three days before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived, were eager to disassociate themselves from the Democratic leader and make clear they did not...
KING PILOTS BILL AGAINST PRO-TERROR LAWSUITS
I commend Rep. Pete King for addressing this ridiculous lawsuit against US Airways and its passengers ("Air-Terror 'Chiller,' " April 4). This nation is still recovering from the tragic events...
SAY BON VONAGE
Tripped by its own missteps, the money-losing Internet phone company Vonage is closer to its final breath. In the latest legal fight for its life, the beleaguered online carrier won...
BLINDFOLDS & GUN FEAR LED HOSTAGES TO LAUD IRAN
The 15 British sailors and marines held hostage in Iran for nearly two weeks struggled yesterday to answer questions about their overly friendly behavior in captivity, but said they were...
MORTAL COMBAT
AUGUSTA - If it weren't for the azaleas, the Georgia pines, the pimento cheese sandwiches and all those gents walking around in green sport coats, you would think you were...
KELLY IN RIGHT STATE OF MIND
AUGUSTA - Jerry Kelly has always felt something holding him back from better results. "My problem has always been having an active mind - especially when you get on a...
NBC, FANS TO HONOR BARBARO
Six days before the Kentucky Derby (Sunday, April 29, 5 p.m.) NBC Sports will present an hour documentary: "Barbaro: A Nation's Horse." That afternoon, which happens to be the day...
HONDO STILL SIZZLING
Another day, another victory, another addition to the bankroll. Red-hot Hondo collected with the Rangers yesterday to increase the profits to 350 sun dbergs and improve his season record to...
WYNN JOINS TRACKS BID
International casino mogul Steve Wynn and developer Steven Roth, chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, are set to join Excelsior Racing Associates in its bid for New York's thoroughbred...
'NOBIZ' SOLID 'WOOD' FAVE
After spending the winter in Florida at Gulfstream Park, where he won his 3-year-old debut, the Feb. 3 Holy Bull, in a gate-to-wire gallop, then finishing third, beaten a half-length...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Williams seeks reinstatement Ricky Williams, the former NFL star who played in Canada last season after being suspended for a year for substance abuse, has applied for reinstatement. Williams'...
OUT OF THE WOODS
AUGUSTA - When Tiger Woods emerged from the small green hut in the back of the Augusta National 18th green after signing his scorecard yesterday, he hardly wore the look...
FLOCK OF BIRDIES NEARLY TAMES TIGER
AUGUSTA - Tiger Woods is known for his ability to block out his surroundings and remain focused on every shot, especially at a major championship. But he had to stop...
RED BULLS SHOOT FOR FAST START
The latest re-tooling of the Red Bulls kicks off in Columbus tonight (7 p.m., MSG2). How they fare in their quest for the first title in club history may depend...
ON THIN ICE
With two straight wins and help from all the right places, the Islanders find themselves considerably closer to an improbable playoff spot than they did just last week. So when...
MARBURY: LET'S GET GARNETT
Stephon Marbury hopes to reunite with Kevin Garnett, but in New York - not Minnesota. In saying he would frown upon a Minnesota encore, the Knicks guard yesterday added he...
TIMBER!!!
Another important Knick body - Stephon Marbury - went down last night, and the Knicks are just about down for the count. It's significant and evident: The Knicks are dead....
HOT METS ROLL IN COLD-LANTA
ATLANTA - Bring on the '27 Yankees. The Mets continue to win, in fact, they continue to look exceptional. They're the only unbeaten team in the National League and the...
PHILLIES' BAD START A LESSON
ATLANTA - Tom Glavine said he believes the Phillies' terrible beginning to 2007 can be a lesson. In February, Philadelphia shortstop Jimmy Rollins said, "We're the team to beat." But...
ANOTHER REYES OF SUNSHINE
ATLANTA - You have to watch him. It's that simple. Numbers aren't enough. Statistics aren't enough. This column, eloquent as it may be, can't do justice to what it's like...
ROAD BUMP
CHICAGO - Well, let's not overlook the lottery. Given the recent injuries that slammed Washington and the mini-surge that brought New Jersey four wins in five games, the topic of...
RELAXING NOT RANGERS' BERTH RITE
The Rangers guaranteed themselves a spot in the postseason with their win over Montreal on Thursday, but that doesn't mean they don't have anything to play for tonight in Pittsburgh....
COMING UP COLD
So you think the Yankees' rotation can't pitch worse than it has across the initial three games of the season? Think again. After Carl Pavano, Andy Pettitte and Mike Mussina...
SORE TOE HAS JETER LIMPING
A journalist stationed behind the third base coach's box last night insists Derek Jeter told coach Larry Bowa his back was bothering him. However, Jeter said the reason he was...
HUGHES ICES FIRST TEST
MOOSIC, Pa. - Yankees uber-prospect Phil Hughes dazzled last night in his first Triple-A outing, allowing two runs on two hits in five innings pitched and earning his first win,...
A LOT RIDING ON IGAWA'S DEBUT
Whether Kei Igawa can live up to Boston's Japanese ace, Daisuke Matsuzaka, will be one of the interesting subplots of the 2007 season. But if not, what about matching Carl...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
An Arkansas man busted for drunken driving identified himself using his brother's name. But when his brother showed up to bail him out, cops in the town of De Queen...
Will the Knicks win again?
By MARC BERMANIn their depleted state, the Knicks are no better than any team in the league. Tonight they are in Milwaukee, a team that knocked them around in Beer...
RED BULLS SOCCER: The Return of Cletus
By BRIAN LEWISFormer U.S. captain Claudio Reyna is their best player, 17-year-old forward Josmer Altidore their most promising. But any long-time fan that remembers Clint Mathis from his MetroStars days...