May 25, 2007
Busy day
By MARK HALEI'm a bit swamped now with stories because as Edward Norton's character said at one point in Rounders -- "lot of action." There was a lot of pregame...
Point of order
Can we talk about this Alexander McQueen for Samsonite ad for a minute?I saw this ad for the first time this week and I stared at it, mouth agape in...
THE SOUND OF MOOSIC
Heading up to Moosic, Pa. for the Memorial Day Weekend Show,I got my hushpuppies on, I guess INever was meant for glitter rock and roll.The Roger Clemens Baseball America tour...
Steinbrenner Issues Warning To Cashman, Yanks
Volatile Yankees owner George Steinbrenner issued an ominous warning to Brian Cashman, his embattled G.M. in an interview with the Associated Press. The Boss was quoted as saying "He's on...
DVD Extra: Alternative Pirates
Fox meanwhile is offering five "A'' pictures in "The Tyrone Power Swashbuckler Collection,'' which stretches the definition of swashbuckler a bit to include the gorgeous Technicolor remake of "Blood and...
Let Your Boys Swim
Those neutrality loving Swiss have given the world many treasures from wheels of Gruyere to pocket knives and now Radiation Proof Underwear for men. And in this age of conflicting...
Scene
Niki Gottschick, a 25 year old graphic designer, wears a Sisley vest and a silver Club Monaco bag. She says her top is "perfect, comfortable", and that she likes menswear...
Deals of the Day
Check out today's Memorial Day weekend sales roundup, which highlights the best department store and boutique discounts for the holiday, including this KORS by Michael Kors "Sanai" wedge at Intermix,...
Predators Are Prey for Canadian Billionaire
Nashville Predator's owner Craig Leipold worked hard to build an NHL franchise and turned his team into one of the league's best. Now, though, if any of his hard work...
FIVE-THOUGH FRIDAY: Franco, Farnsworth, Clemens
Back with Five-Thought Friday:1. How much longer does Julio Franco get to keep a major league job because he a) has a cool story as a man trying to play...
Smooth Sailing for 'Pirates'
The reviews for "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' are treading water -- 50 percent favorable at Rotten Tomatoes, including one by Jeannette Catsoulis, fourth-string reviewer at the New...
A Stanley Kubrick Masterpiece
You are unlikely to see a better film this year than "Barry Lyndon," Stanley Kubrick's stately, sweeping, ironic period piece about a rake's rise and fall. A pristine new print...
Chanel role cast
It's being reported that French actress Marina Hands (right) has been tapped to play Coco Chanel (left) in the upcoming "Coco and Igor," a film about the famed fashion designer's...
WILDFIRES - BLAZES WITH A LIFE OF THEIR OWN
From California and Florida to New Jersey, wildfires can pop up anywhere. You've no doubt been reading about the wildfires that have plagued California. No woodland area is immune. Florida...
MORE WEEKEND FRIVOLITIES
WHO needs the Hamptons when there are plenty of activities nearby this Memorial Day Weekend? Beaches, parades - and seamen, oh my! SANDY HOOKS Although city beaches are available for...
JEEPERS, CREEPERS: CREATURES FEATURED
IT'S given us butterflies and dinosaurs, lizards and frogs, diamonds and gold. Now the American Museum of Natural History gets all Harry Potter on us with "Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns...
HELLO, SALE-R!
WHILE everyone else is wasting time at barbecues, parades and picnics, you can celebrate the long Memorial Day weekend the right way - with great deals. It's a fantastic weekend...
INDIE POP, CAKE TO CONEY
IF you're sticking around this long weekend, the NYC Popfest has a mess of indie-pop bands to keep you tuned in while tuning out. Held at various venues in Brooklyn...
THE HOST IS UNCLEAR
QUICK hits and gossip today: * Tony Talk (Scene 1): For the second year in a row, it looks as if the Tony Awards telecast won't have a host. Broadway's...
FEST HITS LOWER EAST STRIDE
THE Theater for the New City presents its annual gift to the community this weekend with the 12th Lower East Side Festival of the Arts - a free Memorial Day...
STERN-SIDEKICK ARTIE QUITS SHOW
BELOVED Howard Stern-sidekick Artie Lange says he's leaving the radio broadcast next January after more than six years with the radio program. Lange made the announcement yesterday, live on the...
HAPPY CAMPERS
WHATEVER happened to Susan Powter? Boy, if I only had a nickel for every time I've been asked that question! Happily, I now have the answer. Powter - the TV...
PEEK SHOW
'LOST" may not be so lost after all. The ABC drama was derided all season long as losing its way with its increasingly confusing plot and long mid-season hiatus. It...
STARR REPORT
Name-dropping? There's some interesting back-and-forth between the lawyer for "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jane Palfrey and ABC News. Palfrey's lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, claimed in a public Q&A with Palfrey on...
SO SIOUX ME
IN 1971, historian Dee Brown's mega-bestselling book forever transformed the way American history would be taught in schools. A quarter century later, TV producer Dick Wolf has turned it into...
TRIPPY TOON A REAL RUSH
I can't claim to have followed the story line of "Paprika" any better than I did "Pirates of the Caribbean," but this mind-blowing, adult animated adventure from Japan is half...
'BUG' LACKS BITE
'BUG" buzzes around in random menace for an hour until its third act, when - zzzzzt! - it flies straight into the zapper. To reveal what this creepy movie is...
SENTIMENTAL, BUT NOT GENTLE
OPINION will differ as to whether this French take on Frank Capra is more Frank or French. Remind me again: Which Capra film contained the line "I just want to...
SEEKING PROMISE, TAKING VOWS
I never knew my grandparents, but I thought about them as I watched the Italian export "Golden Door." My Italian forebears came to the United States around the beginning of...
TO LIVE & DIE (& CRY) IN L.A.
IN this age of short attention span, it is reassuring that after 25 years behind the camera, London-born Henry Jaglom continues to make films in his own, offbeat manner. His...
STEEL CITY
EXCELLENT performances by a good cast and a fairly authentic look at working-class struggles go only so far in Brian Jun's "Steel City," which paints an industrial Minnesota municipality entirely...
AMU
IN "Amu," the feature-film debut of di rector-writer-producer Shonali Bose, a 21-year-old woman who was taken to America when she was 3 returns to the land of her birth, India,...
ROSIE OFF 'THE VIEW' FOR GOOD: ABC
It's splitsville between Rosie O'Donnell and ABC. Following several days of uncertainty and turmoil in the wake of Wednesday's on-air explosion between O'Donnell and co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on "The View,"...
IN PREVIEW
"THE BUTCHER OF BARABOO": A black comedy in which a female butcher falls under suspicion when her husband disappears. McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Broadway at 76th Street; (212) 246-4422. Opens June 11....
FILM PICK
Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie star in the 1963 British comedy "Billy Liar," one of four films directed by the late John Schlesinger unreeling today and tomorrow at Lincoln Center's...
BROADWAY
"A CHORUS LINE": Two and a half stars A clean carbon copy of a great original. Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "COMPANY": Three stars Exuberant revival...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": Three stars John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST": Two and a half stars Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W. 46th St.; (212) 307-4747....
OFF-BROADWAY
"ALTAR BOYZ": Three stars Musical spoof of Christian-pop boy bands is entertaining despite one-joke premise. New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St.; (877) 226-9941. "BE": Two and half stars A...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
EARTH, WIND & FIRE: The band headlines Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway; (212) 496-7070. BIRDLAND: Sunday: Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band. Wednesday through June...
JAZZ
BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band. 131 W. Third St.; (212) 475-8592. DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA: Through Sunday: Bill Charlap Trio. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street; (212)...
CLASSICAL
TODAY: Golden Key Music and Art Festival at Weill Recital Hall, 7 p.m. Ensemble Spotlight Series at Carnegie Hall, 8 p.m. Pianist Mira Jevtich at Bargemusic, 8 p.m. TOMORROW: American...
CABARET
CARLYLE HOTEL: Today and tomorrow: John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey. 35 E. 76th St.; (212) 744-1600. FEINSTEIN'S: Through June 2: Peter Gallagher. 540 Park Ave.; (212) 339-4095.
DANCE
BAM HOWARD GILMAN OPERA HOUSE: Through Sunday, the "DanceAfrica Bazaar" features performances by the Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble, Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Company, Kulu Mele African American Dance...
FILM
BAM ROSE CINEMAS: "DanceAfrica." Today, Benedicte Galup and Michel Ocelot's "Kirikou and the Wild Beasts" (2006) and Dumisani Phakathi's "Don't F*** with Me, I Have 51 Brothers and Sisters" (2004)....
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Through Sunday: John Witherspoon. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: Through Sunday: Darrell Hammond, Dave Attell, John Joseph, Godfrey, Adam Ferrara, Rich Vos, Tom Papa. 117 MacDougal St.; (212)...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
THIRD AVENUE SPRING FAIR: Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Third Avenue between Sixth and 14th streets; (212) 809-4900. SUNNYSIDE MEMORIAL DAY FAIR: Tomorrow from 10:30 a.m. to...
MARY'S HOT PICK
A flashback to the '40s, the Puppini Sisters found their musical calling after seeing the animated French film "Les Triplettes de Belleville," an Oscar-nominated 2003 flick that featured three singers...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY * CARRIE UNDERWOOD performs tonight at 10 and tomorrow night at 9 p.m. in Caesars' Circus Maximus Theater. Tickets: $75-$100; caesars.com, (800) 677-SHOW. * PAULINA RUBIO plays the...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 train: No trains between 14th Street and South Ferry.2, 3 trains: Trains run local between 96th and Chambers streets.7 train: Flushing-bound trains run express between Woodside-61st Street and Willets...
BID FOR LIST OF SHAME TO TRACK DRUG EX-CONS
ALBANY - Convicted drug dealers would be forced to register with the state for at least five years after completing their sentences, and their names and home addresses would be...
N.Y. SCHOOLKIDS AT HEAD OF THE CLA$$
As the state prepares to pump an additional $1.76 billion into its schools over the next fiscal year, U.S. Census figures released yesterday show New York topping the country in...
BROOKLYN'S BEEP FULL OF $HIP: CRITICS
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has raised eyebrows for accepting a free trans-Atlantic cruise on the mammoth Queen Mary 2 - after lobbying hard to get the ship to dock...
BRINKLEY BRUSHES UP ON LIFE
Christie Brinkley is all smiles as she tries to brush away the past. The former supermodel posed for Hamptons magazine in her Bridgehampton home and told the publication about how...
GOD, LET HIM BE ALIVE
A Queens family desperately prayed and clung to the hope yesterday that their son, who has been missing in Iraq for two weeks, is still alive, despite word that a...
PERP SCHOOL
An ex-con working as an accountant for an exclusive Bronx prep school swindled a staggering $508,000 - using the cash to pay for two BMWs, a house upstate and her...
'BLOCK'-HEADS BETTER BEWARE
Summonses for "blocking the box" could soar under a plan Mayor Bloomberg offered yesterday that would unleash all of the city's 2,800 traffic agents to write violations for one of...
OUTER BOROUGHS QUESTION CONGE$TION: POLL
New Yorkers in every borough - with the notable exception of Manhattan - strongly oppose Mayor Bloomberg's plan to impose a weekday congestion fee on motorists entering Manhattan, according to...
MOB-BUSTING PROBER QUITS BROOKLYN DA
An ex-cop who helped crack two bombshell cases for the Brooklyn district attorney has quit working as an investigator for the office, sources said yesterday. Thomas Dades, 45, a dapper...
RAPE RAT WILL DIE IN PRISON
He has raped or sodomized nine women in a career of terror spanning four decades - almost always by climbing through their windows in the dead of night and overpowering...
N.Y. DRIVERS ARE DUMBEST
Caution! New Yorkers have signaled that they need a tune-up on driving rules. The state's motorists rank last in the nation when it comes to knowing the rules of the...
AISLE BE BACK, CLERK JERKS
A Bronx groom-to-be vowed yesterday to return to court to get his marriage license, after his first attempt failed partly because court clerks closed their office early Wednesday to throw...
'STICKUP' KID BUSTED IN VILLAGE
A 15-year-old Bronx boy is under arrest in the gunpoint muggings of three women in Greenwich Village - but two other youths are still at large, authorities said yesterday. Michael...
QNS. HS HAIR-SNIP ATTACK ON SIKH STUDENT
Two Pakistani students at a Queens high school were arrested after cutting the hair of a Sikh student during a fight in a bathroom, police said. Another student who provided...
SON OF A GUN
A pistol-packing 7-year-old Queens boy did the showing, his classmate did the telling, and his NYPD meter-maid mom and brother could do the paying. Second-grader Christopher Clarke was hauled out...
COPS SHOOT 'GUNFIGHTER' IN BRONX
Cops shot a gunman in the shoulder yesterday morning during a pursuit in which he allegedly opened fire on them on a Bronx street. The trouble began when three plainclothes...
$3M IN FACE-LIFT DEATH
A man whose wife died when she went into Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital for a simple face lift settled his wrongful-death suit yesterday for $3.1 million. Alan Malitz...
PERVY PETE'S VILE VIDEO MISSING
With fire fiend Peter Braunstein bound for state prison - and the evidence boxes of his weapons, handcuffs and firefighter gear bound for storage - one chilling question remains to...
NURSE-HOME RAPE RAPS
A worker at an upper Manhattan nursing home is accused of sexually assaulting two of its elderly and disabled residents, police sources said yesterday. Michael Brizen, 60, of Flatbush, Brooklyn,...
TOASTED COACH
A fire engulfed the roof of the West Side headquarters of luxury handbag maker Coach yesterday, leaving plumes of thick smoke across the city's skyline. No one was injured in...
BABY-KILLER GETS 17 YRS.
A Brooklyn baby sitter who duct-taped a toddler to his stroller, suffocating him, will spend 17 years in prison after taking a plea deal yesterday. Tammy Williams, 41, the tragic...
BOXING GOES DELUXE WITH MEAL & A TUX
One of New York's fanciest eateries will add black eyes to its black-tie business. The famous Cipriani's Wall Street is planning to host a formal affair next month - with...
FAST TRACK
Transit chief Howard Roberts Jr. wants to make the trains run on double-time. Faster, longer subway trains may be needed to handle the anticipated crush at the turnstiles as the...
MOTORCYCLE DIE-ARIES
Hells Angels wannabes, take note - get your motor running on the highway to heaven with the Harley-Davidson hearse. Designed by the Tombstone Hearse Co. of Alum Bank, Pa., the...
JUDGE BUSTED AS A DEADBEAT
A disgraced former judge was led out of Manhattan Supreme Court in handcuffs yesterday for stiffing his wife out of more than $250,000 in support. Reynold Mason, 57, was ordered...
9/11 'SLAY' FRAY
A city ruling classifying the death of a woman from toxic Ground Zero dust a homicide falls under a "different category" than people who got sick working at the site...
GORE: I MAY RUN FOR PREZ AGAIN SOME DAY
Former Vice President Al Gore said last night he may run for president again - but not necessarily in 2008. "Maybe at some point in the future I will have...
BORAT MOST GLORIOUS BOOK DEAL
Borat - fictional Kazakh TV reporter and "star" of a hit movie - can now add author to his résumé. The rude, crude Borat Sagdiyev, who was never hugged by...
W. GETS WAR-$$ BILL PAST DEM FOES
WASHINGTON - President Bush finally got the Democratic-controlled Congress to bend to his will last night and approve an Iraq war-spending bill that does not include a troop-withdrawal timeline. The...
TRUMP JR. ON TEAM RUDY
Junior, you're hired! Rudy Giuliani has named Donald Trump Jr. one of the young stars on his "All-American" fund-raising team, which is committed to raising $25,000 to $1 million for...
SELLING ROCKER ICONS' SOLES
They died young, but the rock icons in an ad campaign for Dr. Martens are still stirring controversy and outrage. The bizarre Dr. Martens footwear campaign shows four famous dead...
POL THROWS '9/11' BOOK AT GIULIANI
The fringe Republican presidential candidate who tried to blame the United States for 9/11 during last week's GOP debate in South Carolina assigned Rudy Giuliani a reading list yesterday to...
AUDREY ON THE BLOCK
Now all you'd need is a cigarette holder. Christie's auction house on Wednesday will auction off a hot pink cocktail dress Audrey Hepburn wore in a standout scene in "Breakfast...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island Police yesterday released a sketch of a man who allegedly tried to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in West Brighton. The thug, described as Hispanic and 40 to 50...
ALIEN BILL HAS LITTLE DE-FENCE
TO UNDERSTAND why the Senate immigration bill won't survive in its current form, look no further than what the presidential candidates in both parties have said about it. Almost every...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 453; Lucky Sum: 12 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 0326; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 086; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win-4 Thu.: 7497;...
IT'S SO, JOE
While there will never be another Joe DiMaggio, Derek Jeter offered a pretty good imitation Wednesday night in the Yankees' 8-3 win over the Red Sox: Jeter recorded his 2,214th,...
GOLD-PLATED SCHOOLS
The Census Bureau yesterday reported that New York spends more per student on its schools than any other state in America. The news is no surprise - but it certainly...
REMEMBER THEIR SERVICE
From when he was in high school, Jo seph Anzack Jr. had one ambition: to join the military and serve America. Yesterday, the Pentagon announced that the 20-year-old's body had...
GAZA: ISRAEL'S BAD CHOICES
TEL AVIV THE deadly toll on Israeli civilians from Hamas rockets from Gaza threatens to drag Jerusalem into its second unwanted war in less than a year. Palestinian terrorists bear...
HUMAN WRONGS & THE ACTIVISTS WHO LOVE THEM
HOW many "human-rights activists" does it take to betray civilization? After the Fatah al-Islam terrorists holed up in a Palestinian camp carried out a wave of bombings, bank robberies and...
BETTER OFF LOSING
PRESIDENT Bush wants this new immigration bill. He wants it badly. He said yesterday that he ran both in 2000 and in 2004 as an immigration reformer and he's fulfilling...
MAYOR MIKE'S PARKING PERKS
THE ISSUE: City-issued parking permits and traffic in lower Manhattan. The Post, through its exclusive and excellent reporting, has uncovered the real reason for congestion in lower Manhattan: City Hall...
TAXED TO THE MAX: NEW YORK'S BIG BURDEN
THE ISSUE: A proposal requiring N.Y. businesses to offer paid family leaves for workers. Gov. Spitzer had better wake up soon. Anything to rid the state of another million residents,...
UPPER DECK IN NEW BID FOR TOPPS
Former Disney chief Michael Eisner was thrown a curve ball yesterday when his $385 million deal for iconic baseball card company Topps was topped by rival card company Upper Deck....
MUSICAL ENCORE
Michael Ovitz is turning to the music industry for his second act. According to several music industry sources, One Equity Partners, the private equity arm of J.P. Morgan, was planning...
MAGS ARMS RACE
ANGELINA Jolie has come in for some cover doctoring. The latest issue of In Touch features Jolie on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, showing her usually veiny...
LOWE-PAY GRIPES
Throughout the controversy last year over Home Depot chief Robert Nardelli's compensation, rival Lowe's Companies was often held up as a paragon of executive pay. As it turns out, Lowe's...
HOLES POKED IN PARK AVE. SCAM TALE
CHICAGO - Conrad Black's pricey Park Avenue apartment swap back in 2000 might not be the shareholder scam prosecutors are alleging, a key witness at the dethroned press baron's fraud...
TANGLED TIES HOLD CHINA FIRM TO FIRE
The parent of proxy adviser Glass Lewis continues to draw investor scrutiny as mounting concerns over its transparency chip away at its stock price. Xinhua Finance Media, a Chinese media...
REPORT RIPS COX
Wall Street's top enforcer Chris Cox is coming under attack for turning his back on wronged investors and lavishing favors on corporations that violate rules. The head of the Securities...
SURF'S UP
The Silver Surfer has ridden a wave right onto the quarter dollar. Marvel's space-dwelling superhero will grace 40,000 U.S. quarters in a deal between 20th Century Fox and the Franklin...
HILL WANTED TO "DESTROY" FLOWERS: BOOK
Senator Hillary Clinton was so angered by Bill Clinton's alleged relationship with Gennifer Flowers, that she hired a private investigator undermine Flowers, "until she is destroyed," according to a new...
GREEN WITH ENVY
HOW quirky was it that rook ie-of-the-year Brandon Roy represented the Trail Blazers in their Secaucus lottery conquest while Celtics executive Danny Ainge (No. 5) blended into the background and...
THAT'S JUST REGULAR JOE
YANKEES-METS on ESPN, Sunday night, was another nine-inning complete game from Joe Morgan - nine innings of complete nonsense. Morgan remains a master of bad guesswork, firmly stated baloney, and...
STEWARD JABS ON TAYLOR-PAVLIK
TAYLOR versus Pavlik: "The World Awaits." I guess that slogan's already taken, but it aptly describes the early anticipation surrounding a possible showdown between unbeaten challenger Kelly Pavlik and middleweight...
DROP A LINE!
IT LOOKS as if we finally shook off the bad weather in time for the Memorial Day weekend with lots on tap for saltwater anglers. Fluke, bass and blues will...
YOUTH IS SERVED
Despite an 11-23 record last season and the off-season trade of Becky Hammon, coach Patty Coyle was certain her team was headed in the right direction. "People were disappointed," Coyle...
LAGAT VS. MOTTRAM AT RANDALL'S ISLAND
New Yorkers have gotten used to seeing distance runners Bernard Lagat and Craig Mottram lately. Now they're getting used to seeing the two world-class stars face each other in big-time...
U.S. DETERMINED TO KEEP GOLD CUP
Bob Bradley's greatest strength as a soccer coach always has been cultivating and developing young talent. He did it with the MetroStars and he's vowed to do it for the...
RAGIN' RED BULLS STAMP OUT FIRE
The Red Bulls keep losing players and winning games. This time it was a 3-0 pasting of Chicago, thanks to the increasingly-brilliant Juan Pablo Angel. The Colombian star had a...
HARLINGTON WORTH THE WAIT
In yesterday's feature, Todd Pletcher's fleet-but-fragile Harlington, 5-year-old royally bred son of Unbridled out of Serena's Song, returned to races for first time since finishing fourth in Pimlico Special in...
'STREET' GALLOPS, STILL ON THE FENCE
Street Sense, who went out jogging the next morning after he won the Kentucky Derby, went to the track yesterday at Churchill Downs for the first time since being beaten...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Romero leads Senior PGA Argentina's Eduardo Romero shot a 4-under 68 to take a one-stroke lead over Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki in the Senior PGA Championship at The Ocean Course...
HONDO: WOOF! WOOF!
Hondo's freefall toward negative numbers contin ued last night as he flopped with the Orioles and saw his earnings plunge to a superskimpy 30 davalil los. Tonight, Mr. Aitch will...
KNICKS IN 'VIN NOW' MINDSET
Despite Vince Carter's disappointing postseason, the Knicks still have interest in pursuing the Nets high-flyer if he becomes a free agent July 1, a source close to Isiah Thomas told...
SMOLTZ RULES HILL OF FAME
ATLANTA - Compared to his team, Willie Randolph believed the Braves craved the series finale more last night and fought harder to capture it. The Mets lost to Atlanta 2-1...
JOHN CUES WIN IN AMAZIN' MATCHUP
ATLANTA - David Wright knew it better than anybody when he explained why, even though a baseball fan that he is, it was going to be impossible for him to...
MIAMI MOUND MACHINE
ATLANTA - Right-hander Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez will make his return from the disabled list tonight, facing the Marlins in the opener of the Mets' three-game series in Miami. "He...
HAPPY TRAILS 2 YOU
Brian Leetch's retirement yesterday should lead to another - his No. 2 to the Garden's rafters. The only player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP as a...
TIME TO LAUNCH
ROGER Clemens will work a bullpen session today, then the decision will be announced whether he will join the Yankees or make another stop on his Baseball America tour. Clemens...
STIMULUS PACKAGE
Twelve days ago, Johnny Damon tucked himself into a locker in Seattle's Safeco Field and talked about how eventually he was going to ignite a dormant Yankees' lineup. Two nights...
CLIPPARD 'CAN'T WAIT' FOR STADIUM DEBUT TONIGHT
As Tyler Clippard walked into the clubhouse dining room at Montclair Golf Club yesterday, he looked more like one of the busboys or caddies than the young pitcher who possibly...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This North Carolina woman likes to do it in the road. Stephanie Green gave birth to her second child in 17 months while being driven to the hospital. Her first...
Obsessives: Soap Fans Luncheons
For those looking for a little face time with their favorite soap stars, you can dine with the daytime divas. Plus, the luncheons take place during the weekends, so you...