April 20, 2007
Yankees should have moved Pavano
By GEORGE KING As soon as Carl Pavano showed he was healthy in spring training he should have been jettisoned out of pinstripes. Now that he is hurt again, he...
Series pick
By MARK HALE Sorry for the delayed series pick -- I realize Game 1 of Mets-Braves has already started.But even though it's the second inning and the Mets are down...
To Do List
HOUSING WORKS THRIFT SHOP306 Columbus Ave., between 74th and 75th streets(212) 319-0662April 2111 a.m.-7 p.m.Vintage designer sunglasses will be on sale, including pink and white Fendi frames for $8, black...
Exclusive! Alec Baldwin Is Normal
So Alec Baldwinyelled at his kid. So what? My question: what kind of mother takes a little girl who was previously little recognized and drags her into the media spotlight...
Yummy mummy
Are you a knocked-up cool girl? Don't fret... fashion salvation is here.Super-style designer of fashion school hipster dresses, Emma Cook, has just launched a maternity line. Featuring stylish tailored pieces...
FIVE-THOUGHT FRIDAY: Jeter, Wright, Met Relief and More
We are back with Five-Thought Friday with this thought certainly on our mind: How high can Alex Rodriguez fly?1. A few years ago it was possible to believe that Oaklandâs...
Deal of the Day
Though temps are on their way up, it's always prudent to keep a cool spring jacket on hand.And in that case, JLo's got your back. Her super chic Wide Collar...
Power Play the Difference for Flames
Mikkaa Kiprusoff has made a huge difference for the Flames. Click to enlargeIn two games at the Saddledome, Detroit lost each one 3-2. The difference in each game: Calgary's power...
THE 6TH QUESTION W/ BOBBY MURCER
By PAT REICHARTEvery Friday in NYP TV Sports, our sports television pullout that appears in the middle of the print edition and online, we present "Five Questions for â¦"This is...
LIVEBLOG/TOKYO: I need an adult!
images by Jason Cochran Ohayo gozaimasu from where the streets have no name, and when they do, its written in Kanji. (So pretty...so indecipherable.) Could you find your way anywhere...
Ducks Tame Wild, Sens Freeze Pens ... Only Dallas Dodged the Bullet
Roberto Luongo's too late to the puck as Mike Ribeiro celebrates Brendan Morrow's OT game-winner.The Dallas Stars are still alive. They extended the series and avoided elimination by beating Vancouver...
Wackos on Parade
Yes, The Post's movie critics do occasionally venture out of the screening rooms into the real world. Kyle Smithtrains his gimlet eyeon a certain faltering superstar's Manhattan fundraiser for medically...
A Thriller Weekend
It looks like a tight three-way race this weekend as two of the weekend's four wide openers have a chance of dislodging "Disturbia'' from the top slot at the box...
FIT FOR MOTHER EARTH
GREEN is the new black. Jumping on the Earth-friendly bandwagon, designers and department stores alike are plastering eco verbiage on tags and store signs hoping to attract consumers who are...
NORAH TONES ARE JUST RIGHT
NORAH Jones isn't just another nu-jazz singer to slug your Starbucks coffee to. With her band, in concert at Madison Square Garden's Theater Wednesday, Jones looked great in her modified...
GET DOWN FOR 'LETDOWN'
RICHARD Swift may bring Randy New man, Rufus Wain wright or Spoon to mind, but that's mostly due to the piano accompaniment in a few of his songs. Listen longer,...
PRODUCER VS. TIMES
WAR has broken out between Broadway producer Scott Rudin and the New York Times. At issue is the advertising campaign for Rudin's show "The Year of Magical Thinking," starring Vanessa...
'MOTHER' STAR 'FEARED A WITCH HUNT'
'HOW I Met Your Mother" star Neil Pat rick Harris says he came out last fall because he feared a "witch hunt." "People were starting to ask for stories of...
ISAIAH BOWS OUT
GREY'S Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington, who used a gay slur against cast mate T.R. Knight last fall, has removed himself from Emmy consideration this year. Washington declined to submit himself...
HAIR'S TO YA
WHEN the going got hairy, Sanjaya Malakar got going. The 17-year-old "American Idol" phenomenon, who was finally voted off the show Wednesday night on Fox, says he realized early on...
SHARON REPLACES BRANDY ON 'TALENT'
SIMON Cowell has dumped embattled Brandy Norwood as a judge on "America's Got Talent" - and replaced her with heavy-metal matriarch Sharon Osbourne. Cowell, also a judge on "American Idol,"...
STARR REPORT
'PIX legend's farewell Leavitt Joseph "Lev" Pope, one of the co-founders of Ch. 11 who spent 45 years at WPIX, died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Scarsdale....
'CROSS' TO BEAR
IN 1998, the world as they knew it came to an abrupt end for the Murakami family of Tampa, Fla., when mom Cindy and daughter Chelsea were killed in a...
GOODBYE MOMO
THE Uruguayan export "Good bye MoMo" can be summed up thusly: sweet but not especially original. Using carnaval time in Uruguay as a backdrop, L.A.-based director-writer Leonardo Ricagni tells the...
MAKE ME DAY, LAD
THE British blockbuster "Hot Fuzz" is "The Naked Gun" and "Lethal Weapon" at the same time. "Dirty Nigel" might have been a better title. Our snaggle-toothed cousins across the sea...
HALVES THAI'D TOGETHER
THE films of Apichatpong Weerasetha kul, the film-festival favorite from Thailand who goes by the name Joe, are as difficult to fathom as his name is to pronounce. That was...
THE VALET
FRANÇOIS Pignon - French for "schmuck" - is back in another cute Gallic farce from Francis Veber ("The Dinner Game," "Father's Day," "La Cage aux Folles"). Pignon has been represented...
FRIGHTENING HOPKINS
TECHNICALLY, Anthony Hopkins may have stopped playing Hannibal Lecter, but the criminal genius he portrays with lip-smacking glee in "Fracture" is Hannibal without the Chianti and fava beans. This time...
LADY LAND NOT ELECTRIC
'IN the Land of Women" is one of those films in formed by intimate personal experience - the experience of seeing "Garden State." This time, the soulful slacker is Carter,...
WOMB FOR IMPROVEMENT
WELL acted but thin on plot, the indie drama "Stephanie Daley" features a superb performance by Amber Tamblyn ("Joan of Arcadia") as a teen charged with killing her newborn. She...
BLED & BREAKFAST
NIMROD Antal's "Vacancy" is an unpretentious, old-fashioned horror movie - by that, I mean before "Saw" and "Hostel" turned the genre into a pool of gore-soaked torture porn a couple...
PREVIEWS
"CORAM BOY": A musical tale of two orphans, from the National Theatre of Great Britain. Imperial Theatre, 249 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. Opens May 2. "DEUCE": Angela Lansbury returns...
BROADWAY
(Reviews by Clive Barnes) "THE COAST OF UTOPIA": (4 STARS) Tom Stoppard's thrilling trilogy of 19th-century Russian activists and thinkers, together with their lovers and friends, makes up one of...
LONG-RUNNING
(Reviews by Clive Barnes) "AVENUE Q": (3 STARS) John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST": (2 ½ STARS) Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W. 46th St.;...
OFF-BROADWAY
(Starred reviews by Frank Scheck) "ACCOMPLICES": (3 STARS) Bernard Weinraub's compelling, if occasionally clunky, historical drama deals with the indifference of the Roosevelt administration to the plight of European Jews...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
The following listings are subject to change. It's best to call ahead before going to any event. HARRY CONNICK JR.: The jazzy pop singer/pianist will perform tomorrow at 8 p.m....
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Today and tomorrow: Bossabrasil Festival. Sunday: Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Avishai Cohen, Hiromi's Sonicbloom. 131 W. Third...
CLASSICAL
TODAY: The Met's "Il Trittico" at the Metropolitan Opera House, 8 p.m. City Opera's "Madama Butterfly" at 8 p.m., at the New York State Theater. UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra...
DANCE
CITY CENTER: Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg celebrates its 30th birthday with the New York premiere of "The Seagull," based on Chekov's play about unrequited love. Through April 29. Tickets...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Through Tuesday, Wang Bing's "West of the Tracks" (2003), an astounding nine-hour documentary about industry in China and the effects of globalization. 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181....
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: Brian Posehn, Paul Mooney. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: Through Sunday: Dave Attell, John Joseph, Sherrod Small, Robert Kelly. 117 MacDougal St.; (212) 254-3480. COMIX: Today...
CABARET
ALGONQUIN: Sunday and Monday: Barbara Carroll. 59 W. 44th St.; (212) 467-7444. CARLYLE HOTEL: Through April 28: Keely Smith. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 744-1600. CARNEGIE CLUB: Tomorrow: Steve Maglio...
MUSEUMS
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Central Park West at 79th Street; (212) 769-5000. BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS: 1040 Grand Concourse, at 165th Street; (718) 681-6000. BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
MANHATTAN VINTAGE CLOTHING SHOW: This annual event kicks off today, featuring a range of vintage styles, including Lilly Pulitzer, Halston and Geoffrey Beene. The highlight of the event will be...
FILM PICK
"The Pervert's Guide to Cinema" is recommended viewing for film geeks everywhere. Directed by Sophie Fiennes (sister of Ralph and Joseph), it blends clips from more than 40 films with...
GREEK AND ROMAN GALLERIES
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd St.; (212) 535-7710. FOR museum-goers who remember the Met's old galleries of classical art, the brand-new installation that opens today will come...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY - New Orleans own HARRY CONNICK JR. sings tonight at 8 in the Borgata's Event Center. Tickets: $75-$159. WANDA SYKES performs tonight at 11 in the Music Box....
UPCOMING
KENNY CHESNEY: The country crooner will perform at Madison Square Garden Aug. 30. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9 a.m. through Ticketmaster and at the box office, Seventh Avenue...
MARY'S HOT PICK
TOMORROW night, singer Ann Hampton Callaway (pictured) will headline a weekend of jazz - music, poetry and seminars - at the inaugural Women in Jazz Fest, presented by International Women...
IT'S A KVELLER
WE'VE had the Kings of Comedy and the Queens of Comedy, so why not the princesses of comedy - more specifically, the Jewish-American Princesses of Comedy? Welcome to "The J.A.P....
NOVEL INTERPRETATION OF CHEKOV
CHEKHOV is hardly the first name that comes to mind in thinking of stories suitable for dance. But choreographer Boris Eifman has a theatrical approach - one that clearly welcomes...
$8 FEE LOOMS FOR BIZ-DISTRICT CARS
Motorists driving into Manhattan's central business districts during rush hours would be charged an $8 daily fee under a politically explosive proposal drafted by a mayoral panel, The Post has...
$IGNS OF PEACE IN TEACHER TALKS
Mayor Bloomberg and teachers-union boss Randi Weingarten declared a truce yesterday after months of rancor over his education reforms and accusations that his administration was tone-deaf to stakeholders in the...
CHILLY APPLE WELCOMES A WEEKEND '70S' REVIVAL
New Yorkers are looking forward to more spring in their step this weekend with the prediction of sunny rays and warmer days. "Warm in the afternoon. Comfortably cool at night,"...
SPIDEY TO BE WEB-SINGER
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can - and he can sing and dance, too! The friendly neighborhood web-slinger is teaming up with Bono, The Edge and "Lion King" stage...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDES
1,2 trains: Downtown trains skip 66th, 59th and 50th Streets. 3 train: Shuttle buses replace trains between 125th and 148th Streets. 4 train: Manhattan-bound trains skip Bedford Park Blvd and...
COIF-THE-WALL PRICE ON JOHN'S N.Y. RITZY CLIP
Sally Hershberger - who charges $800 for a cut at her downtown Manhattan salon - recalled yesterday that she styled John Edwards' hair when he was running for vice president...
19-HR. 'RAPE FIEND'
Cops are searching for a homeless ex-con they believe raped and tortured a Columbia University student in a 19-hour assault in her upper Manhattan apartment last week. Police identified the...
MAD. AVE. BOOZE-BRAWL STABBING
A 65-year-old liquor-store customer was stabbed yesterday by younger patron he accused of stealing money from him, cops and witnesses said. The stabbing occurred at 5 p.m. outside Schumer's Wine...
COUNCIL RUCKUS OVER NAMING STREET FOR RACIST
Tensions boiled over in the City Council chambers yesterday after legislators rejected a move to name a street for the late, self-proclaimed "anti-white" activist Sonny Carson. Angry Carson supporters attempted...
'PERVY PETE' DIARY SHOCK
Tantalizing new details emerged during the start of pretrial hearings in the Peter Braunstein sex-assault case - including that the so-called fire fiend had planned a "cataclysmic" return to the...
MCG BED BATTLE
The young daughter of New Jersey's disgraced love gov Jim McGreevey should be forbidden from sharing a bed with him and his boyfriend during overnight stays at their love nest,...
PAINTED INTO A CORNER
Three graffiti vandals who videotaped their alleged subway tagging are under arrest and facing up to seven years in prison Cops picked up two of the Brooklyn men on criminal...
DRUG RAID ON SHINNE-'CRACK' INDIANS
New York State police led a massive drug raid on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton early yesterday to break up what officials described as a large-scale narcotics-distribution ring. Eight...
PEPPER-PUNISH ORDEAL FOR KIDS
A Staten Island "father of the year" disciplined his two young sons for cutting school by rubbing hot pepper in their eyes and on their genitals, authorities said yesterday. After...
MAYOR IN 'NEWT'RAL CORNER
In his second annual pitch, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday asked leading power brokers to withhold support from candidates who don't have the city's priorities at the top of their agenda. He...
GRAFTY GARSON GOES UP IN SMOKE
Disgraced ex-Brooklyn judge Gerald Garson - caught on video accepting cash and a box of expensive Dominican cigars from a shady lawyer pal - was convicted yesterday of taking bribes...
RAPPER'S WARPED 'ETHICS'
Platinum-selling rapper Cam'ron says that even if a serial killer were living next to his New York apartment, he wouldn't help police - because it would hurt his music sales...
GO TO DETENTION
A boy-seducing East Side headmistress was sentenced yesterday to up to 14 years in prison after her Ivy League education, family wealth and dusky beauty failed to win her any...
SUIT IN BOY'S 'TOOTH' DEATH
The family of a seventh-grade boy who died after complaining of a toothache that ended up as an infection that spread to his brain has sued Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, saying doctors...
BLACK COPS HAIL RAY FOE
A respected black police organization long supported by Commissioner Ray Kelly is honoring one of his loudest critics along with a controversial political figure shunned by Mayor Bloomberg, The Post...
WRATH OF KIN KILLER
The Queens man who fatally shot his mother, her fiancé and a health aide in their home was screaming death threats to his mom as she frantically called 911, a...
CRUI$E IS 'DETOX' OF DE TOWN
Tom Cruise rolled into Manhattan under extraordinary security last night for a Hollywood-style fund-raiser to benefit his controversial project to help 9/11 responders. The diminutive Scientologist, accompanied by his wife,...
HAIR'S YOUR $$ BACK
WASHINGTON - Presidential candidate John Edwards said yesterday he is reimbursing his campaign $800 for his "hair"-brained Beverly Hills coifs. The Democratic Edwards, who has taken fire for playing to...
BRINKLEY'S CAD '$ATISFIES' LOVER
Christie Brinkley's cheating husband has apparently paid off his sultry young mistress - whom he bedded after he hired her at his Hamptons architectural firm, The Post has learned. But...
BULLIED CHO'S 'HS DEATH LIST'
Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui's former classmates said he was mercilessly teased in high school - which led them to believe he kept a "death list" of students he wanted...
KIN BOYCOTT NBC OVER VILE VIDEO
Upset relatives of the Virginia Tech massacre victims yesterday boycotted scheduled appearances on NBC's "Today" show because the network broadcast Cho Seung-Hui's hate-filled video the previous night. Host Meredith Vieira...
EERIE LINK TO BLOOD-SOAKED KOREAN FILM
Two of the photos that campus killer Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC News bear a sickening similarity to scenes from the South Korean revenge movie "Oldboy" - a violent film...
MOORE OF THE SAME AT CANNES
Michael Moore will lead a "Sicko" charge of Hollywood heavyweights into Cannes, as film-festival organizers yesterday unveiled the lineup for their 60th annual cinema celebration. The controversial filmmaker, who won...
'WAR IS LOST'
WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid yesterday waved the white flag of surrender, saying the war in Iraq "is lost." "I believe . . . that this war is...
'PAYING' HEED TO MOMS
If they got paid for all the work they do, stay-at-home moms should be pulling down at least a six-figure salary, according to a new survey. More than 1,000 women...
BUBBA BOOST AT REV. AL CONFAB
Bill Clinton wowed the crowd at the Rev. Al Sharpton's annual convention yesterday - but steered clear of talk about wife Hillary's presidential run or Sharpton's crusade against rap music....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BrooklynA Brownsville man struck an acquaintance in the head with a tree branch as an argument over a bird cage turned violent, authorities said yesterday. Ian Thomas, 45, clashed with...
DON'T BE TRICKED BY $CI-FI TOM-FOOLERY
LAST night another religious wack job came to attack Ground Zero: Tom bin Cruise. The warden of the Katie Holmes Correctional Facility zoomed in to do a "benefit" for his...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 210; Lucky Sum: 3 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 0606; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 102; Lucky Sum: 3 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 4974;...
KITTY CARLISLE HART, 1910-2007
Ten years ago, Kitty Carlisle Hart was declared a "living New York City landmark" by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. That didn't begin to describe her contributions. Hart, who died...
NICKEL-DIMING THE INTREPID
New York City is doing wrong by a municipal landmark - and a national treasure - and Mayor Bloomberg needs to put a stop to it. The issue is USS...
HARRY REID'S WHITE FLAG
With enemies like Democratic Senate Majority Harry Reid, the terrorists don't need friends. Yesterday, all by his lonesome, Reid ran up the white flag in the War on Terror -...
THE SCHOOL WARS: LESSONS FROM NYC
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Washington, D.C., City Council yesterday handed control of the city's schools to Mayor Adrian Fenty. The Post asked Mayor Bloomberg what advice he has for his colleague....
THE SCHOOL WARS: TEACHERS UNIONS MAULED GOV
BACK in January, Gov. Spitzer outlined a bold agenda for making New York's public schools more accountable in a seminal speech at Chancellor's Hall in Albany. He pledged: "The debate...
CAMPUS MASSACRE: WE LET LOOSE THE LOONIES
IN early 21st-century America, what do you do when you encounter a severely mentally ill person? Anyone who lives in the city knows the answer to that question - you...
CAMPUS MASSACRE: EXPLANATIONS FAIL
'WHAT we cannot speak about," wrote the philosopher Wittgenstein, "we must pass over in silence." Easy for him to say. No one can speak about the murder spree of Cho...
HORSING AROUND
Your cartoon depicting Prince William and his new horse-like girlfriend was a gross misrepresentation of the facts (Page Six, April 17) - the prince would never operate a left-handed-drive car...
MOORE OF THE SAME FROM ANTI-U.S. DIRECTOR
THE ISSUE: Michael Moore's film 'Sicko' and his trip to Cuba to highlight its health-care system. Michael Moore has, without a doubt, fulfilled his membership requirements in the anti-American Communist...
IT'S ABOUT TIMES
Adding fuel to a rebel investor's claim that the New York Times made a mistake by buying About.com, the newspaper giant warned yesterday that advertising at the Internet portal is...
GOOGLE'S BOODLE UP 69% IN Q1
Even as Eric Schmidt, Google's new chairman, spoke for just an hour about its profit juggernaut, shareholders got $2.8 billion richer. Google said earnings jumped an unexpected 69 percent in...
EMIGRANT TO PINCH'S RESCUE
Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr., chairman of the New York Times Company, has picked up an ally in billionaire real estate investor Harvey Milstein on the brink of what is expected...
COVER TREATMENTS
CELEBRITY magazines are scrambling for a new edge in the knockdown battle against one another. But this week two magazines are trying something different, by going with coverage of this...
NACCHIO GUILTY ON 19 CHARGES
Brash Brooklyn-born telecom tycoon Joe Nacchio was found guilty yesterday of a slew of charges he traded on inside information that made him millions, just before investors in the company...
BROKER: NASD PREJUDGED ME
A lawyer representing a former Wall Street broker is accusing an NASD arbitrator of having already decided a key aspect of an arbitration case even before arguments have been made....
HACHETTE BUYS JUMPSTART
Hachette Filipacchi Media, owner of auto buff magazines Car and Driver and Road & Track, has agreed to acquire the Internet ad company Jumpstart Automotive Media for a price that...
TRIBUNE SWINGS TO LOSS
Tribune - the newspaper and TV-station empire soon to be delivered into the hands of real-estate magnate Sam Zell in a multi-billion dollar buyout - posted dismal financial results yesterday....
LBO'S CLEAR CUT$$
The private equity buyers vying for radio giant Clear Channel Communications will pocket $200 million if shareholders vote down their $27 billion buyout and another suitor emerges in the next...
YANKS, METS LEAD OFF FORBES' TEAM LINEUP
New York's Yankees and Mets sit atop the hardball world - at least in terms of value, according to Forbes' annual ranking of baseball's most valuable franchises. With an estimated...
FLA. INVESTOR PUSHES ION-NBC DEAL
An investor in Florida has taken a 5.7 percent stake in Ion Media Networks and plans to recommend that the board of the struggling media giant accept a deal from...
TELFAIR GUN CHARGE
Boston Celtics star and former Lincoln HS standout Sebastian Telfair was reportedly busted in Yonkers early this morning after cops discovered a loaded .45-caliber handgun in his car upon stopping...
WEST RIDES OFF INTO THE SUNSET
IT'S unimaginable that Jerry West will not be on NBA call next season. Or any season thereafter, though I suspect, once engulfed by boredom (a week or less into retirement)...
ESPN ... THOSE WALK-OFF WONDERS
ESPN is taking all the fun out of it. It used to make for sport to pick on ESPN, the all-sports network that began to abandon substance - and genuine...
FLOYD KEEPS IT RAW
FLOYD Mayweather Jr. said he was going to "keep it real" during the promotion of his mega fight with Oscar De La Hoya on May 5 at the MGM Grand...
STORM PUT DAMPER ON 'REEL' LIFE
FISHING definitely was showing signs of improvement when the mother of all nor'easters hit the metro area and brought all activity to a standstill. For most of this week, the...
SMALL SCHOOL, BIG TALENT
With the Raiders already on the clock as the April 28 NFL Draft approaches, Post college football expert Lenn Robbins breaks down the best players at each position.Today - the...
5 QUESTIONS FOR BOBBY MURCER
This week, NYP TV Sports' Pat Reichart spoke with YES analyst Bobby Murcer. Murcer, who turns 61 on May 20, is recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumor. He...
HONDO FENS FOR HIMSELF
Hondo, who'd been hotter than A-Rod and greener than Gore, took a rare tumble last night, losing with the Rangers to trim the earnings to 800 burroughs. Tonight, with the...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Family friend: Oden to enter draft Ohio State freshman Greg Oden will make himself available for the NBA draft today, a family friend said last night. "There will be...
SANTA ANITA GETS '08 CUP
After bizarre running of last Saturday's Blue Grass Stakes, when they walked early, flew home late, in race that resembled turf more than dirt, Keeneland's artificial Polytrack surface has come...
PARISE DOES IT
The son who's the gun is making his own name for himself, and migraines for the Lightning. Without Zach Parise, the Devils already might be finished. He's scored half their...
LIGHTNING STARS PUT IN THEIR TIME
This series is going six or seven games, and the Devils hope the heavily played Lightning stars tire when it counts most. "Eventually it's going to wear on you. It...
GIANTS' GM REESE SET FOR FIRST DRAFT
For the past four years, Jerry Reese ran the NFL Draft room for the Giants as director of player personnel. Next weekend, Reese for the first time will have the...
ISLES MUST FIGHT BACK
Ryan Smyth has heard enough of the excuses made by the Islanders during the playoffs. He's not interested in any of the calls officials may have gotten wrong, and he...
GM EXPECTS VILMA TO REMAIN WITH JETS
Jets' brass met with reporters yesterday in their annual pre-draft session and - predictably - revealed little about the team's plans in next weekend's draft. GM Mike Tannenbaum, however, did...
ISIAH: STAY THE COURSE
Isiah Thomas, his presidential hat on again, would like to add a star this summer. He just doesn't expect to. Thomas does expect, however, to make the playoffs next spring...
ROAD WARRIORS
MIAMI - The Mets had one road trip last year more remarkable than the abbreviated swing they completed last night with a 11-3 rout of the Marlins at Dolphin Stadium....
A NIGHT OFF FOR LO DUCA
MIAMI - Paul Lo Duca couldn't go last night. The Mets catcher sat in the finale of the Mets' two-game series against the Marlins here. Ramon Castro was behind the...
DOSE OF VIN-SANITY
The Nets are trying. They really are. They want to downplay the Vince Carter returns to where Vin-Sanity was born angle in their first round playoff series against the Raptors...
RANGERS GET JUST RE-WARD
SEAN Avery is the cat alytic converter whose Feb. 5 acquisition lengthened the Rangers' lineup and added heaping teaspoons of snarl and smirk to a roster that was way too...
THE NINTH WONDER
Superman, what took you so long?' Alex Rodriguez was 0-for-4, on the verge of losing a hitting streak that had reached 13 games and appeared mortal for the first time...
SKY MIGHT NOT EVEN BE THE LIMIT ANYMORE
THE DAY was gone, the game lost, the afternoon wasted, and Alex Rodriguez knew it. Hey, it happens. It's baseball. Even the best teams get 60 or so days like...
RODRIGUEZ IS THE YANKS' BIG PAPI
ALEX Rodriguez heads to Fenway Park as, of all things, David Ortiz. Rodriguez now is not just the most talented player, but also the timeliest. Talent and Timely, that is...
RED-HOT A-ROD AWAITS RED SOX
Only because it was paid for did the Yankees take a plane to Boston last night. They easily could have hopped on Alex Rodriguez's back and headed for Fenway Park,...
PARTY OF 5 REVISITED
Simply put, they knocked their Sox off. The Yankees' famous five-game sweep of the Red Sox last August effectively locked up the AL East crown for the Bombers, and sent...
FIVE & COUNTING
The Beatdown in Beantown. It was, without question, the high point of last season for the Yankees - a five-game sweep of their arch enemies in Fenway that all but...
THE MATCHUPS
In a perfect setting, the Yankees would invade Fenway Park this weekend armed with Andy Pettitte, Mike Mussina and Chien-Ming Wang to pitch against Curt Schilling, Josh Beckett and Daisuke...
YANKS' SANCHEZ HAS ELBOW SURGERY
The Yankees are going to have to wait at least a year for Humberto Sanchez to pay dividends. Sanchez, a 23-year-old right-hander acquired from the Tigers in the Gary Sheffield...
RELIABLE BULLPEN DOESN'T LOOK SO RELIABLE
One comforting thought for Joe Torre when he named rookies Jeff Karstens and Chase Wright as starting pitchers for this weekend in Boston was that his bullpen could do the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
As Dickens said, "The law is a ass." Perhaps that's why Dallas attorney Gregory Shamoun brought his donkey to court to testify against complaints that the beast was too loud....
Isiah's still all talk for now
By MARC BERMANLast season the Knicks were Team Titanic. This year they are Team Rhetoric.It all sounded good in the press room at Westchesterâs practice facility today as Isiah Thomas...