April 22, 2007

Detroit Delivers ... Big Time

The Calgary Flames made themselves look bad. As an organization, they should be embarrassed for their distinct lack of sportsmanship and class. It was ridiculous that Jamie McLennan, on the...

Stars Force Game Seven

Marty Turco posted his second consecutive shutout to help his Stars force a decisive seventh game in their series against the Canucks. Dallas has, and may I disclaim right now...

SCREECH 'CLUB'

The executive producer of VH1's"Celebrity Fit Club: Men vs. Women" doesn't even try to hide his distaste for one of the eight new stars who signed up to slim down....

REEL GOOD

SPIDER-MAN Sunday, 8 p.m., TBS (2002) The first installment in the Spidey series about Peter Parker, dorky teen, who gets bitten by a genetically altered spider and is transformed into...

THE DON'T MISS LIST

DRAMA Court intrigue Princess Margaret (Gabrielle Anwar) marries the decrepit King of Portugal this week on "The Tudors." The marriage doesn't last long because she murders him. The princess has...

'TIGER TV': FUNNIEST SHOW ON THE AIR

I've often wondered whether non-golf fans know that the funniest show on TV is the one starring Tiger Woods. By virtue of being the world's best player, having hooked up...

'IDOL' FOR AFRICA

This week "American Idol" is going to share its phenomenal success with the unfortunate people of the world. It's only been a few months since Oprah Winfrey opened her school...

AMAZING BURNS SERIES TACKLES WORLD WAR II

It took filmmaker Ken Burns six years of painstaking labor to produce his 14-hour documentary about World War II. Titled "The War," it is scheduled to air over seven nights...

HEROES 101

FANS on the breakout hit "Heroes" have discovered their own superpower: Patience. While the far-flung plot threads have had their moments of brilliance - Peter Petrelli finally flying over the...

HOT SEAT

Garry Shandling has just returned from doing mitt work with his boxing trainer. He's sweaty and wants to take a shower. But he's willing to forgo cleanliness to spend nearly...

TEARS & JOY

'Waitress" producer Michael Roiff is keeping director Adrienne Shelly's wishes firmly in mind as he gears up for the film's release a week from Wednesday. "I keep hearing her voice...

HOT LIST

1 Blood suckers The ultimate in guilty-pleasure TV, Lifetime's "Blood Ties" (tonight at 10) is a supernatural private-eye show with a vampire who's a graphic novelist, the 450-year-old bastard son...

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

THE Tribeca Film Festival, now in its sixth year, has become an explosion of events, parties, screenings and seminars. Here's a short list of the most interesting events open to...

THIS WEEK'S DVDS

The Queen 4 STARS (Miramax, $29.99) Helen Mirren is stellar in her Oscar-winning role of Elizabeth II during the tumultuous weeks after Princess Diana's death. The excellent supporting cast includes...

A SECOND LOOK AT SPIDEY'S SECOND MOVIE

When filmmakers leave footage on the cutting-room floor, there's usually a pretty good reason it never made it to the big screen - it just wasn't all that great. And...

AMERICAN FOR BEAUTY

DEBORAH Rodriguez went to Afghanistan in 2002 to volunteer as a nurse's aide, but she stood around doing laundry and making welcome posters before realizing that her most useful skill...

REQUIRED READING

CLIVE James' "Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts" (Norton, $35) is a fascinating and endlessly re-readable collection of biographical essays that range from Charlie Chaplin to Margaret...

ADOPT ME

Smokey is a very cool cat. He's a young fellow with a thick, silvery grey coat. He's not self-conscious about his crossed eyes, probably because it's one of his most...

ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX

DEAR DR. FOX: We have a large chain-link-fenced back yard that has a community walking trail adjacent to it. Whenever my collie and Labrador - who usually get along great...

FASHION FOR VICTIMS

PIT bulls and greyhounds are very different, but they have one sad thing in common: They are the two most abused dog breeds in the world. Dog fighting is a...

SOME GET TOO MUCH WITH THE PROGRAM

Chess WHEN the artificial intelligence folks started work on chess-playing computers more than 50 years ago, they tried to figure out how to make a machine think like a master....

BIKINI BEACH

Zebra-printed "Provence" bikini top, $140, and bottom, $115, at Heidi Klein, 1018 Lexington Ave. Lisa Goodwin Designs "Chakra" charms collection necklace, $75, at shopintuition.com.

FREE 'SLAVE'

MOST musicians regard open-mike nights as a necessary but often frustrating step on the road to superstardom. But Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello developed his new solo acoustic...

MODERNIZING MOZART

From the first song on the The East Village Opera Company's self-titled, major-label debut, which blends Mozart's overture from "Le Nozze di Figaro" with the keyboard introduction from The Who's...

JOY RIDER

Albert Cocker, the 4-year-old son of former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker, wants attention. As his famous father talks with The Post from his apartment in Paris, Albert asks his dad...

MADE FOR FILM TV

WHEN it comes to reality TV, it seems the more despicable the programming, the higher the ratings. Sanjaya showed us all that. But what about a show where contestants play...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

IF you're a fan of that scene in a film where the scrappy underdog is facing down his much larger opponent, and just as it looks like all is lost...

LATINOS IN LOVE

BENICIO Del Toro's latest film project, "Maldeamores" ("Lovesickness"), explores matters of the heart, but don't expect a happy ending. The film's tag line says it all: "Whatever your age, love...

ON A ROLE

'IF you want me to be clever and quippy, you'll have to pay me," says Chris Eigeman. Which is just the sort of quip one might expect from the type...

SCI-FI SENSATION

WHILE most relationships in Hollywood fizzle after a couple months (sooner if Wilmer Valderrama is involved), Hollywood has been going steady with Philip K. Dick for 25 years. Tinseltown's appetite...

BAD THINGS COME IN THREES

MAYBE it's some flaw in humanity. Maybe it's an attraction to bad boys and girls. Or maybe it's simple appreciation for people who laugh maniacally at inappropriate times. Whatever the...

TURKISH DELIGHT

OZGU Namal had a dream. As a teenager in Istanbul, she would stand in front of the mirror after taking a bath, wrap a towel around her head and pretend...

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

WIKEPEDIA has become the go-to destination for just about anything and everything you need an answer for these days. But when it comes to American food, there's no better resource...

CORREA, 30, AND FARRELL, 43

MARCH 10 - Frank Farrell works as a financial products manager for an investment bank, but based on his proposal, Yvonne Correa might say he missed his calling as an...

VANDER LEEUW, 45, AND ROZEK, 51

MARCH 17 - Patricia Rozek can attest to just how far a man will go to get a date. "John and I started talking regularly in early 2001, and not...

SHINN, 32, AND FIGUEIREDO, 29

MARCH 24 - With the help of Jennifer Brisman Weddings, Julie Shinn and Paul Figueiredo devised an unforgettable evening in the Big Apple for their 205 guests. Each hotel room...

SHAFFER, 32, AND KOPPELMAN, 37

APRIL 5 - On Sept. 10, 2006, Steven Koppelman proposed on bended knee for Lenore Shaffer at least 15 times. "Steve wanted to propose very privately and intimately, but I...

PROCUNIAR, 34, AND SLOCUM, 31

MARCH 31 - David Procuniar and Susannah Slocum prove that good things come to those who wait. After meeting through a friend in 1997, the two immediately hit it off....

LET 'EM GO

This one's easy: Six TV channels you've probably never heard of no longer want your tax dollars. Mayor Bloomberg created the stations, known as NYC TV, in 2003. Costing $6...

NANCY'S NONSENSE, CONT'D

Yet again, Nancy Pelosi seems to think that her election as speaker of the House gave her control over U.S. foreign policy. Fresh from her widely (and justly) criticized lobbying...

ELIOT TALKS THE TALK

It was good to hear Gov. Spitzer last week promise to "veto" any legisla tion meant to wrest control of Gotham's schools from City Hall. Only one problem: No legislation...

OVERSTRETCHED

PLENTY of Post readers have known what it's like when the money left won't stretch to cover the bills. No matter how sincerely you want to pay up, fiddling with...

A RESUME TO DIE FOR

IN the last 24 elections, since 1912, winners of the presi dency won a plurality of the states along the Mississippi. Today the Republican presidential candidate with perhaps the most...

MEMORIALIZING VICTIMS - NOT MURDERERS

THE ISSUE: The coverage of Cho Seung-Hui's killing of 32 people at Virginia Tech. Instead of calling Cho Seung-Hui a "PSYCHO" (April 18), you should focus on how sick he...

ERECTILE ASSUMPTIONS

IMPOTENCE: A CULTURAL HISTORY BY ANGUS MCLAREN UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 344 PAGES, $30 WHEN former Sen. Bob Dole, the failed presidential candidate, was hired as the pitchman for Viagra...

THE PLOT TO STEAL LINCOLN

STEALING LINCOLN'S BODYBY THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL BELKNAP PRESS/HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 244 PAGES, $24.95 IN November 1878, when ghouls broke into a crypt in the church yard at St. Mark's in...

IF YOU BUILD IT

CONQUERING GOTHAM: A GILDED AGE EPIC: THE CONSTRUCTION OF PENN STATION AND ITS TUNNELS BY JILL JONNES PENGUIN, 369 PAGES, $35 PENN Station, ugly and dysfunctional, is the nation's busiest...

THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS

WINNERSERIC SCHMIDT Google boss sees earnings increase 69 percent in Q1, the same week it scores acquisition of DoubleClick.JAMES DIMON J.P.Morgan chief leads bank to record firstquarter earnings of $4.79B,...

DOW RISE GOOD FOR CASH-OUT

When it comes to investing in the stock market, it's often good to do what feels worst. With the Dow bounding toward 13,000, that might mean selling some stocks, rather...

BILLION $ BABY

Just weeks after turning 71, Wall Street titan Carl Icahn has spread himself thinly over more gambles than ever - but his biggest bet is on his son. The 27-year-old...

DOW 13,000: A SIMPLE MATTER OF SUPPLY & DEMAND

DOW 13,000? Well it's almost here, and you can thank the barbarians for paving the way to this new blue-chip milestone. That's right, those very same type of leveraged-buyout specialists...

RUBIN RUMOR REAL

THAT much-ru mored deal to bring mega-producer Rick Rubin to Columbia Records in a high-level operating role is close to being finalized, On the Money has learned. Sources said Warner...

DOLBY'S TV SOUND FALLS ON DEAF EARS

Television manufacturers seem to be snubbing a new technology from Dolby that could take the sting out of ads that blare louder than other programming. Last winter, when Dolby introduced...

LIP BALMS FOR THE OBSESSED

One company hopes ladies trying to lose weight or quit smoking are ready to put their money where their mouth is - it's offering a new lipstick line promising to...

BANKER'S FILM SAGA

After the birth of his second child, UBS media banker Aryeh Bourkoff bought a digital camera and asked his mother to document their family's history for his kids to see...

A SIMPLE RULE: WHEN IN DOUBT, DIVERSIFY

Dear John: A drop in stocks recently hit my 401(k) hard. Do you recommend leaving my retirement money in stocks, or should I dump it all into more conservative mutual...

GILD YOUR YEARS

Not that she needs it - what with her $13 million-a-year contract over at CBS News - but Katie Couric can now sock away a little extra in her retirement...

PROCEED WITH CARE

AFTER the market got its 416-point scare at the end of February, The Tip Sheet counseled against panic, noting that in nine of the past 10 instances of market drops...

COMPTROLLER'S A CRASS TEST DUMMY

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli - who failed a Post pop quiz on the basics of state finances in February - flatly refused to take the quiz for a second time...

PROBERS RAP FED OVER CIRCLE LINE SHIPMATE

Lady Liberty would blush. A scathing federal report obtained by The Post blasts a former National Park Service director for getting too cozy with an attorney for the Circle Line,...

MCG'S GAY POSTER BOY

This is the full-frontal nude photograph that hung in the bedroom of New Jersey's disgraced love gov, Jim McGreevey, when his 5-year-old daughter came for sleepovers - and the source...

MIKE: APPLE TO LIMB-ER UP

In 10 years, every block in the city will be tree-lined if Mayor Bloomberg has his way. A plan to plant 1 million trees in the Big Apple will be...

9/11 FIREFIGHTER LUNG AILMENTS ON THE RISE

Twenty-six firefighters who toiled at Ground Zero came down with sarcoidosis, an inflammatory illness that often attacks the lungs, in the five years after 9/11 - a significant increase, a...

METS BEAM BUM FAN IS BUSTED

A none-too-bright Mets fan was busted after allegedly pointing a high-powered flashlight into the eyes of opposing players from the stands at Shea Stadium. Frank Martinez, 40, of The Bronx,...

OLD-TIMER DIES AFTER FALL DOWN CON ED HOLE

A retired Queens pharmacist died yesterday from injuries he suffered in a freak fall into a 15-foot-deep construction pit at a Con Ed site in Forest Hills, authorities said. Darryl...

REV. AL'S $$ WAR ON 'DIRTY' RAP

Rev. Al Sharpton is going to the boardroom in his battle against rappers who use the words "bitch" and "ho." Through his National Action Network, he's planning to buy stock...

FIELDING $$

It was a Giant sale, but she's not down and out yet. Jean Strahan, ex-wife of Big Blue lineman Michael Strahan, held a yard sale yesterday at her $3.6 million...

CITY ED. PLAN TO BOOT 'NEGATIVE' PTA FOLKS

Principals may soon have the power to expel parents from PTAs. The city Department of Education is mulling a stunning policy change that would allow principals to ban parents from...

PRINCIPALS CRAM FOR BIG CHANGES

City principals will flock to a Manhattan hotel tomorrow for a crash course in the school system's latest reorganization, scrambling to learn details about a newly revealed program they must...

TUNED-IN SCHOOLS SPUR LESS DROPOUTS

Dropouts are dropping. Between the classes of 2002 and 2005, there were 24 percent fewer students ditching before graduation day - and education officials credit stepped-up efforts to keep kids...

HOPE YOU LIKE LOBSTER RARE

It's crustacean chaos. Some of the city's best restaurants - including seven haute eateries owned by uberchef Jean-Georges Vongerichten - have pulled lobster from their menus as weather-related shortages doubled...

BX. DWI CRASHER LEFT PAL TO DIE: COPS

A drunken driver crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer on the Cross Bronx Expressway and ran away, leaving his passenger to die, police said yesterday. The driver, Glenn Salera,...

CORZINE'S DRIVER WAS LOVE-STRUCK

New Jersey State Police are investigating a claim that Gov. Jon Corzine's driver was distracted by e-mails from the cop husband of his paramour just before the accident that critically...

HIS BOOK OF ADVICE ON BEING A BAD DAD

This daddy may not know best - but that hasn't stopped Alec Baldwin from penning an advice book for divorcing fathers. His tell-all tome, "Life After Divorce," published by St....

FATHER OF 'AUX COP': I FEEL FOR VA. KIN

The teary-eyed, soft-spoken dad of a hero auxiliary cop slain in last month's Greenwich Village bloodbath says it's time to get sickos with guns off the streets. In his first...

FIENDS' BAG OF TRICKS

A case containing weapons, syringes and a list of addresses linked to a New York socialite who was the victim of a terrifying home invasion last week was found yesterday...

KIN I.D.'D 'SICKO'

The actions of the alleged sicko ex-con who raped and tortured a Columbia University journalism student for 19 hours so disgusted his own family that a relative called authorities and...

25G CHAMP 'TEXTS' LIMITS

And this is what humans do with their precious opposable thumbs? Hordes of dexterous contestants fought with their fingers yesterday for a $25,000 prize in the first annual National Text...

WARHOL TO POP UP IN SOHO

Andy Warhol will get an extension on his 15 minutes of fame next month when a life-sized bronze statue of the late artist is installed in SoHo's Father Fagan Park....

KIDS ARE FEELING THE HEAT

Kids worry more about global warming than terrorism, the war in Iraq or cancer, according to a new survey of middle-school students. Almost half of 1,023 kids surveyed feared global...

BARACK HAILS AL 'CLEAN-UP'

Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama yesterday praised the Rev. Al Sharpton's efforts to get Don Imus off the air for making a racial slur, and to clean up racy rap...

HOPEFULS KEEPING IT 'GREEN'

Hoping green initiatives turn into Election Day gold, the leading candidates in the 2008 presidential race told The Post on the eve of Earth Day that their campaigns are going...

RUNNING IN CAP & GOWN

The 2008 presidential race dons a cap and gown this spring for politically savvy university commencement speeches, with Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking May 5 at the historically black Wilberforce University...

HATER DATER: SELFISH ALEC LEFT RANT FOR DAUGHTER AS HE DINED OUT

It started out as a good day for Alec Baldwin - a jovial Letterman taping, a photo shoot and then dinner with on-again, off-again girlfriend Nicole Seidel. But like many...

CHO TRAINED FOR TECH SLAUGHTER

BLACKSBURG, Va. - In the weeks leading up to the bloodbath at Virginia Tech, mad shooter Cho Seung-Hui ramped up by pumping iron and practicing with his pistols at local...

SICK HOMAGES FROM A STUDENT OF PSYCHOS

Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui plagiarized other school-shooting psychos in a twisted show of one-upmanship. He used the Internet to research and learn from infamous school killers, including Columbine HS's...

NYPD BLOTTER

MANHATTAN A woman was struck and killed by a subway train near Times Square yesterday, cops said. The woman, whose name and age were not immediately available, was hit by...

FEDS' $LAP AT CITY TURNING INTO A GUSHER

THE city is running up thousands of dollars in federal fines every day because it missed a Feb. 8 deadline to award a construction contract for the Croton filtration plant...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 253; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 5684; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 566; Lucky Sum: 17 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 2873;...

MY WINNERS ARE ...

THE playoffs - the NBA's bridge abutment between the high drama of the reg ular season and the cold sweat of Secaucus - are once again upon us. Sixteen teams...

RUTGERS FINALLY DOES AS IT SAYS

WHILE Don Imus wasn't around last week, his shadow certainly was. On Monday, Rutgers rescinded its football scholarship to an incoming freshman who last summer was convicted in a juvenile...

GOOD WAY TO WEATHER STORM AND SELL GAME

With so many rain/snow outs and such foul weather early this season, there have been many remedies offered to fix the schedule. But within a well-thought-out plan that there is...

PAINS IN THE GRASS

BOSTON -On Wednesday night, Felix Hernandez was in Washington state and Ryan Howard was in Washington, D.C. They were separated by nearly this whole country, but not from a plague...

ISLANDERS AREN'T THE VICTIMS HERE

AS SEAN Hill point edly told Rafael Palmeiro, he's shocked - shocked! - to have tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug. The Islanders were a nice story that turned quite...

DON'T TRUST EARLY NUMBERS

ADVANCED math is difficult - a bunch of numbers that, using normal reasoning, just don't add up. Fantasy baseball has thrown us a mathematics curveball early on with several players'...

HUMBER LOOKS FOR STABILITY

TOP Mets pitching pros pect Philip Humber as pires to become one thing this season: the model of consistency. "I hate to keep repeating it, but it's consistency," Humber said,...

NEW YORK TURKEY HUNT PROMISES QUALITY

NEW York is consid ered one of the pre mier states in the country for wild turkey hunting, and with the spring hunt a little more than a week away,...

PICKIN' WINNERS

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the NFL Draft as we know it today. Here's a look back at the eventual best players taken at every numbered position, 1-32,...

VAC'S WHACKS

Basketball fans in New York City who had to endure a full NCAA Tournament shutout and a standard Knicks playoff shutout should all gather and write a thank-you note to...

BAUZIN FIGHTS WAY THROUGH MEDICAL MESS

With the Raiders 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 defensive...

SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...BRADY QUINN

The Post's Steve Serby chatted with the Notre Dame quarterback who will be an early first-round selection in Saturday's draft, but already has begun his professional career as the Sprint...

HAZEL'S MOVE WAS ON THE MARQ

Tom Konchalski said it's easy to see what sets Pat Hazel apart from other players with his size and ability. "He has a great work ethic and desire," the longtime...

RED BULLS PASS FIRST KEY TEST

The Red Bulls were saying last night's first-place clash with the Houston Dynamo would be a measuring stick for the rest of the season. If that's the case, they measured...

NEW YORK POST ALL-PSAL TEAM

LANCE STEPHENSON 6-5, So. G, Lincoln Stephenson entered the Coney Island school two years ago with considerable attention. "Because of that, I think people have been waiting for him to...

SPORTS SHORTS

AUTO: Gordon ties Earnhardt for career wins A little luck helped Jeff Gordon to a historic win last night at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. The four-time NASCAR champion...

YAY, ROD!

* I wonder how long it will be until the fickle Yankees fans go back to booing Alex Rodriguez again? What a joke. Those who can't stop talking about his...

HONDO HAS JAYS

Thanks to one of the Hardy boys, Hondo resumed his winning ways last night as he hit with the Brew ers to put the earnings back at 800 malzones. Today,...

THE RUMBLE

Raising a racket Apple 18th b-day bash for Czech star The Post's Marc Berman reports that rising Czech tennis star Nicole Vaidisova will celebrate her 18th birthday when Reebok throws...

DEVS WON'T BACK DOWN

TAMPA, Fla - Coaches were screaming and gesturing at each other, Lightning players trying to win something from the game that already was lost, Devils trying to stand their ground...

JERRY BIG DAY

It sure wouldn't hurt the Giants to come up big in next weekend's NFL Draft. Since their playoff loss in Philadelphia, there hasn't been much movement to excite their fans....

DESERTED ISLES

The Islanders tried to salve their emptiness by telling themselves they had drained their tanks. "Right from the start of the season everybody was questioning our team, starting with Garth...

COMFORT ZONE

Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum, sounding rather confident about the position his team is in entering the NFL Draft, insists it does not have any glaring needs as it approaches...

LAME EXCUSES

BOSTON - Apparently, if not for the "I" word, we would be preparing ourselves for some kind of special basketball extravaganza at Madison Square Garden this week. Apparently, if not...

PEREZ HOT, METS TROT IN SHEA SUN

Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson likes to say his pupils are professional glove hitters. That's an idealization, but it was never truer than during Oliver Perez's superb outing yesterday afternoon....

THIS IS MERELY THE BEGINNING OF A SUMMER-LONG WAR

IT is a 162-game season despite what the pessimists would have you believe. That's why the Mets' three losses to the Braves in their first four meetings of 2007 didn't...

BELTRAN STILL BLAZING

Hey, New York, Alex Rodriguez is not the only player off to a blistering start this April. Mets center fielder Carlos Beltran is not quite on the same pace A-Rod...

BENCH IGNITES METS

Two regulars - catcher Paul Lo Duca and second baseman Jose Valentin - were given yesterday off. Their replacements made sure the Mets didn't skip a beat. Ramon Castro and...

WILL TO SURVIVE

TORONTO - Forget logic and the aesthetic value. The Nets, after three strong quarters in their playoff opener against the Raptors yesterday, seemingly stuffed their offense in the bottom drawer...

VIN-SANITY REIGNED OFF COURT

TORONTO - Leading up to the yesterday's playoff-opening game, the numbers of questions to the Nets and Raptors about the anticipated reception here for Vince Carter rivaled the number of...

CALLAHAN GIVES RANGERS BOOST

Rangers rookie Ryan Callahan may not turn heads walking down the street, but the 5-foot-11 22-year-old certainly is raising a few eyebrows skating on the ice. Playing in the minors...

YANKEES IN 2 OF A BIND

BOSTON - There is a big buzz throughout the Yankees universe about the homegrown pitching talent. Though it's true the arms down below are better today than in years, one...

BIG PAPPY

BOSTON - The bullpen gate swung open just as The Troggs started tum bling out of the speakers at Fenway Park. They don't much care about keeping the iPod up...

CHEAP IMITATION OF TOP-DOLLAR ROSTER

BOSTON - The Yankees did not look like the most expensive team in baseball. More like the most exposed. Injuries forced them to depend on a second level of players...

WORLDS APART

BOSTON - Technically, both of tonight's scheduled starting pitchers at Fenway Park are rookies. But Daisuke Matsuzaka and Chase Wright have about as much in common as heavy metal and...

BOMBERS CAN'T CATCH A BREAK

BOSTON - The Yankees' depth chart at catcher consists of one player who hasn't gotten a major-league hit in five years and another who hasn't been behind the plate in...

ROLLIN' THE DICE

BOSTON - Johnny Damon didn't start yesterday because of a balky back and a barking right hamstring but vowed to face Daisuke Matsuzaka tonight. "I will be ready to go...

ORTIZ LAYS MORE HURT ON YANKS

BOSTON - Just in case Alex Rodriguez had any intention of holding Red Sox Nation hostage, David Ortiz reappeared yesterday to remind everyone who the unofficial Grand Marshal of this...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Miss America 1944 gets around with a walker nowadays - but she still thinks on her feet. And she's still quick on the draw, too. Venus Ramey, 82, stopped an...

DEAR POST MAN

Dear Post Man: I am a woman who has a crush on a bisexual man. Is it possible he can be faithful to and love a woman, or will he...

MUST LOVE DOGS

THAT old "go to the dog park to pick up chicks" routine? It even has a place in the Meet Market. Lately, dog obsession has gotten so out of control...

MEET MARKET

IF you ask Amy's ex to describe her, he'd say, "She's a bit sardonic." Her mom, meanwhile, would say, "She possesses an assuredness that worries me." The Meet Market's consensus:...

Bangkok Dangerous

Saturday night and I have just returned from the Two Boots Pioneer in the East Village, where I enjoyed the black comedy "Invisible Waves" (2006). It's Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang's...