July 2, 2007
AFC East breakdown
Draft day is like the final exam of fantasy sports. So what if they come at the beginning of the semester, er, season. And thereâs one lesson we all have...
Perez on DL, Alou update
Oliver Perez is headed to the DL for the Mets with a stiff back, and Jason Vargas, as expected, is going to pitch tomorrow.The Mets now have two starters --...
We Be Jammin'
For the last few years, I've been digging through my parent's basement to find my pair of Original Jams. They were white with patches of black checkerboards and primary colored...
Deal of the Day
Even if the midweek Fourth of July brings no beachy holidays, tap into the salty air with this chic Striped Canvas Tote Bag.With leather trim and a rope drawstring, it's...
WHY TRADE A-ROD
I have learned a certainty over the past few years: If I include the name Alex Rodriguez in a column or blog, it will elicit more response on this site...
Hello, Gomez. Hello, Drury. Good-bye, Nylander.
Chris Drury and Scott Gomez pull on their new sweaters. Head coach Tom Renney, right, looks on. There's no doubt that Chris Drury and Scott Gomez are humongous assets and...
CUTTING THE GLUT
CONSULTANTS GIVE MAIL ORDERS STANDING at the head of a table in a Midtown conference room, Tim Burress gives the dozen or so workers gathered before him a sobering prediction....
THINK OUTSIDE THE IN-BOX
TRYING TO SAVE SOME FACE TIME ON a recent afternoon, Erin Creagh, an account executive at the Manhattan ad agency Kaplan Thaler Group, did something unusual: she got up from...
GO TO GREG
Q. My employer recently told me my job was being eliminated, and that to get my severance I had to sign a release. Is this typical? Or is it a...
A SEASON OF THUNDERSTORMS
Summer is officially here and that means thunderstorms. THE summer season means plenty of thunderstorms. They can pop up anytime, with rainfall lasting from a few minutes to hours. These...
THE LITTLE WHITE DRESS
1. "Camino" dress, $195 at Trina Turk (67 Gansevoort St., [212] 206-7383); patent sport shoes, $595 at Chanel (139 Spring St., [212] 334-0055); necklace made by stylist 2. Pollini white...
PULSE SALES
BIG DROP 425 W. Broadway, between Prince and Spring streets; (212) 226-9292 Sale: through Aug. 15. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-8 p.m./Sun., noon-8 p.m. Ongoing summer sale marks down 3.1 by Phillip...
TANGLED UP IN VENUE
IT'S alright Ma (that was just Bob Dylan groaning) at his Jones Beach show this week end. Dylan, an artist whose relevance has roller-coastered over his five-decade career, is currently...
JUST A LITTLE SCHLOCK THERAPY
ANYONE contemplating going into therapy will think twice after seeing "Sessions," the new off-Broadway musical depicting the existential problems of a shrink and his group-therapy patients. Or maybe not. Considering...
WHEN I'M '64
EVERYTHING new is retro again. Two new shows - both set in the not-so-innocent late 1950s and early '60s - coming up this summer are so cool they will force...
ADDISON TRADES BFFS
KATE Walsh's character in the new "Grey's Anatomy" spin- off, "Private Practice," will get a new best friend this fall. Broadway diva Audra McDonald has been hired to replace Addison's...
'JERICHO' PLANS ON STAYING
THE producers of "Jericho," the post-apocalypse drama brought back from the dead by a passionate fan campaign, are planning a long future. CBS cancelled the show in May then brought...
WHAT DOES ISAIAH WANT?
ISAIAH Washington's gag is off and so are his gloves. The former "Grey's Anatomy" star, who was fired from the show last month after a season of tension on the...
JOEL'S QUIET FUNERAL
MOVIE critic Joel Siegel was buried yesterday after a private funeral for family and friends in Manhattan. Seigel, 63, died Friday after a long battle with colon cancer. A public...
'RUNWAY' SEW MAD OVER 'THS'
CATWALK fight! The producers of "E! True Hollywood Story" are mad enough to bust a seam over Bravo's refusal to cooperate in a tell-all documentary about "Project Runway." The E!...
GOV PONDERS PROBE OF AIR BRUNO
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer may ask the state inspector general to investigate Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's use of state aircraft to fly to New York City on days when...
QNS. & L.I. GOPERS IN SPITZER'S SIGHTS
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's mission to topple the Senate Republican majority next year is expected to largely be fought on the streets of Queens and Long Island. Democrats are three...
CLUBS TURN DEAF EAR TO NOISE CODE
New York's tough new noise ordinance went into effect early yesterday - but you wouldn't have known it walking past noisy Manhattan nightclubs. "It's Saturday night in the city. If...
CHUCK RACKS UP NO-SHOWS
WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Schumer has been largely overshadowed by colleague Hillary Rodham Clinton's White House run - but he takes the lead when it comes to missing Senate votes....
MRS. A-ROD IS A BRONX F-BOMBER
Oh, no, she didn't! Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez's long-suffering wife, Cynthia, may have finally flipped her pretty lid yesterday when she went to a game in The Bronx wearing a...
SEXY CITY SENIORS COVERED
In its ongoing effort to curb HIV infection rates in the Big Apple, the city has for the first time begun targeting older New Yorkers - delivering condoms and safe-sex...
OLYMPIAN BUSTED IN SPREE OF PK. RAPES
An Olympic sprinter was busted yesterday in a series of rapes and sex attacks in Brooklyn and Queens parks dating back to 2003 - including an assault on the girlfriend...
TALKING UP IMUS
Imus may be hitting the FAN again. The radio rumor mill has turned the volume way up on reports that the return of Don Imus to WFAN is just around...
DOT-COMMENT ON MIKE
A Lower East Sider is throwing more than his two cents in on whether Mayor Bloomberg should run for president. Community activist, dog walker and freelance photographer John Penley has...
TUSKEGEE 4 GET MEDALS
After more than 60 years, four members of the historic Tuskegee Airmen finally got their plaudits yesterday - Congressional Gold Medals. Julius Freeman, Reginald T. Brewster, Alton Burton, and Frederick...
TOMB RAIDER FLEES 'THEFT' BY LAKE LEAP
A ghoulish thief robbed a family visiting a relative's grave at a Queens cemetery - then jumped into a lake as he tried to duck cops, police said. José Santana,...
BIG APPLE A CITY FULL OF GI NO'S
New Yorkers want to be all they can be - as long as they don't have to be soldiers. Despite 46 recruitment centers throughout the five boroughs - including a...
DIRTY DOC PUSHED ME FOR SEX: ASSISTANT
A married Westchester County woman is seeking $22.5 million in damages from the allergist she once worked for - saying in a blockbuster lawsuit that he gave her a raise...
WALL COLLAPSE TRAPS SIBS
A Bronx boy's foot was severed after a decrepit storefront parapet came crashing down on him and his stepbrother yesterday, trapping the critically injured pair under hundreds of pounds of...
KIN SUE OVER FATAL CLUB-BOUNCE
The estate of a 19-year- old Queens man who died last year after being punched out by a nightclub bouncer is suing the club, its owner and the security company...
CHILD LURE CREEP
A pall of fear has descended over a tony TriBeCa park as reports of a suspected predator approaching children has led panicked parents to appeal for better security. Twice in...
TAX-CHEATING LAWYERS NABBED
Three New York City lawyers who paid less than $90,000 in taxes on more than $5.8 million of total income each have pleaded guilty to failing to file tax returns...
CHINESE GOODS ARE BAD: CHUCK
Saying that dozens of shipments from China were turned away at New York ports this year because of product-safety fears, Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday warned that a lack of inspections...
LONG KNIVES OUT AFTER BORDER BILL
I ASKED one of the few conservative Republican sena tors who stuck with President Bush on immigration to assess how Senate Republican Leader Mitch McCon nell handled the issue. Asking...
SICKO KILLED OUR PEACOCK
A heartsick Staten Island family cried fowl yesterday, saying the peacock beaten to death by a psycho who shouted that he was "killing a vampire" was their adored pet, Chocolate,...
GLASGOW'S DESPERATE HOURS
Intelligence gleaned from the failed London attacks led police to the fiendish group's next target - Glasgow - only hours before the attempt to blow up the airport there. On...
EVIL PLOTTERS NOT DONE YET
British authorities ominously warned yesterday that there will "very likely" be more terror attacks after the fiery SUV crash at Scotland's Glasgow Airport and the foiled London car-bomb plot. Five...
FOURTH IS ALE OF A HOLIDAY
Americans celebrate their independence with baseball, hot dogs, fireworks - and lots of beer, a study says. July Fourth is now the nation's No. 1 holiday for beer sales, a...
U.S. SAYS EURO JETS NEED MORE MARSHALS
U.S. authorities have ordered more air marshals aboard trans-Atlantic flights in the wake of the Glasgow terror attack - a move the Homeland Security chief yesterday said is due to...
IRS IS OUT TO CATCH BASEBALL'S 'FOUL TIPS'
Fence-swinging feds have launched a probe of Major League Baseball clubhouse workers for allegedly pocketing huge, under-the-table tips from players, sources have told The Post. The IRS has notified MLB...
GIULIANI RETURNS 'FIRE'
Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign yesterday slammed the city's fire-union head for vowing to derail his candidacy, saying the former mayor respects firefighters and showed it when he was in City...
BARACK BEATS HILL IN CASH BATTLE
Barack Obama handily beat Hillary Rodham Clinton and her political machine at fund-raising in the second quarter of the year. Obama hauled in more than $32 million during the past...
'RATATOUILLE' THE BIG CHEESE AT BOX OFFICE
Yippee ki yay . . . rat? A computer-generated rodent with a nose for the kitchen whipped up the No. 1 dish over the weekend, according to studio estimates. "Ratatouille"...
HARD TO SWALLOW
Morning is not so sunny-side up these days - breakfast has become a much more expensive meal. And New Yorkers aren't finding it easy to swallow. "I definitely see an...
NYPD BLOTTER
Manhattan Three thieves have been busted in connection with a $350,000 diamond heist at a Midtown warehouse, authorities said yesterday. Nelson Lantigua, 20, was nabbed June 26, and Leandro Mendez,...
POWER VIRGIN
I THOUGHT it would be over by now, and Herb the Virgin would have flushed his sexual geekery down the toilet - along with his precious remote control and a...
GOV PLAYS DIRTY POOL VS. BRUNO
GOV. Spitzer's repeated attacks last week against Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno were filled with distortions, half-truths and, in one case, an outright falsehood, a review of his claims shows....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 159; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 9779; Lucky Sum: 32 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 997; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Win-4 Sun.: 5747;...
THE ENDURING LOCKERBIE MYSTERY
Who really bombed Pan Am Flight 103 out of the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland, back in 1988 - killing 270 people, including 179 Americans? From the outset, Washington zeroed in...
UN-REFORMING WELFARE
You'd think Albany would keep its paws off one of the nation's most important recent successes: welfare reform. Wrong. Last month, lawmakers passed a bill that requires officials to push...
THE REAL SINS OF THE CIA
THE CIA last week released a heavily redacted version of a 1973 report what it considers its fathers' sins. There was nothing new: In the '70s and '80s, agency employees...
BEYOND 'BROWN'
IN a landmark opinion issued Thursday morning, the United States Supreme Court struck down race-based student assignment programs in the Seattle and Jefferson County, Ky., public-school districts. Defenders of racial-assignment...
LONG ISLAND QUACKDOWN
IF there's one thing that college censors hate, it's the possibility of somebody - anybody - being offended on campus. That's why even the most trivial of jokes can result...
MUZZLE MANIA
LAST week, the immigration bill died a grisly death at the hands of the talk-radio listeners who have frustrated and confounded me on this issue as I have regularly guest...
WRESTLING WITH TRAGEDY
THE ISSUE: The death of pro wrestler Chris Benoit and the murder of his wife and son. What happened to the family of Chris Benoit is a tragedy almost beyond...
SUBWAY SQUEEZE PLAY: BLOOMBERG'S OFF TRACK
THE ISSUE: The power outage that hit the Upper East Side and The Bronx last Wednesday. Regarding the editorial, "Motor-Mouth Mike," (PostOpinion, June 28): If I'm lucky enough to get...
WARY INVESTORS PEEK OVER THE HEDGE
Shell-shocked mortgage bond traders who just closed the books on a surpassingly ugly June are eyeing the calendar warily, waiting for the next two weeks to bring the first word...
TIME TO REWIND
Carl Icahn is turning to an old-school retailer to helm Blockbuster Inc., The Post has learned. According to two sources familiar with the situation, the financier, who came out of...
STALE LEFTOVERS
The last time we checked, it was the 21st century - but you wouldn't know it from reading the leading mags aimed at stay-at-home moms. That's a crying shame, because...
WILD ABOUT HARRY
A record number of Potter fans believe in the magic of the popular series' final book and more than 1.6 million of them have placed pre-orders. . The U.S. orders...
REPORT: NEUROLOGIST PEGGED AS 'TERROR RINGLEADER'
The suspected ringleader of the Al Qaeda car bombers is a brilliant neurologist working for the NHS. Saudi Mohammed Asha, 26, was arrested with his 27-year-old wife, who was in...
WHO'S THE BOSS?
TOO many media folks, and astute baseball fans everywhere, continue to reference George Steinbrenner as if he remains a hands-on, all-seeing team owner, a man who has mellowed with age...
EMOTIONAL NIELSEN WINS FIRST
The nerves he dreaded, the heartbreak he feared, wound up drowned in tears of joy and plastic cups of champagne. After 31 years as a pro, Lonnie Nielsen finally won....
RECORD $3.2M CARRYOVER FOR HOLLYWOOD PICK SIX
There were no perfect Pick Six tickets for the fourth straight day at Hollywood Park yesterday, resulting in a carryover of $3,274,505.48 for today's card. Yesterday's sixth-race winner Bright Prediction...
LEAR'S PRINCESS ROLLS HOME
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is suspended seven days, July 5-11 (reduced from 15 after waiving right to appeal) and fined $1,000 for horse Colonial Note, first in eighth race at Big...
FAMILIAR 'IMAGE' IN TREMONT
In 1999, under the peacock-blue-and-beige colors of Jim Scatuorchio, More Than Ready added to his growing reputation as a standout 2-year-old with a runaway victory in the Tremont Stakes at...
2-'DOG NIGHT FOR HONDO
Hondo followed up Saturday night's 12-inning, ex cruciating Dodger loss with another painful one yes terday, losing a one-runner with the Orioles to in crease the debt to 150 griches....
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Kerr wins Women's Cristie Kerr, left out of most conversations about top young American players, won the U.S. Women's Open in Southern Pines, N.C., yesterday by making only two...
LOU WON'T BREAK BANK; ISLES LOSE SMYTH, 4 OTHERS
His team devastated by yesterday's defections of Scott Gomez and Brian Rafalski, Devils president Lou Lamoriello says he's not pursuing any remaining costly big fish to replace them. "We will...
ISLES LOSE SMYTH, 4 OTHERS; LOU WON'T BREAK BANK
Yesterday was brutal for the Islanders, who saw five free agents - including their top two scorers, Ryan Smyth and Jason Blake - bolt as free agents. GM Garth Snow...
NASH: ZACH WILL HELP KNICKS
Steve Nash knows a few things about being a premier offensive player in the NBA and he seems to think the Knicks got one when they traded for Zach Randolph...
MARBURY HAPPY TO DEFER MORE
Stephon Marbury weighed in on the controversial Zach Randolph blockbuster and proclaimed he'll be happy to take an even lesser scoring role in the offense, feeling the Knicks' chances of...
ISIAH MAKES DISH TO LEWIS
Despite his slim chances, Isiah Thomas had a 25-minute conversation with the agent of Rashard Lewis yesterday, explaining his vision of the Seattle 6-foot-9 slashing forward as a Knick. The...
NO CLEAN SWEEP
PHILADELPHIA - A sweep would have done plenty for the Mets. It would have deflated the Phillies and delivered a glorious statement. "[We] had a chance to do something really...
MAINE MISTAKE
PHILADELPHIA - The All-Star bid of John Maine, pitcher from nowhere, probably was going nowhere from the start. "It's hard," said Billy Wagner, who got one of the NL spots...
AMAZIN'S SENDING 4 TO THE CLASSIC
PHILADELPHIA - Equipment manager Charlie Samuels was the bearer of good news, informing closer Billy Wagner he had made the NL All-Star team. He's one of four Mets on the...
AILING BACK COULD LAND PEREZ ON DL
PHILADELPHIA - In what's becoming a disturbing situation, Oliver Perez doesn't believe he'll be taking the mound tomorrow. Perez was scratched for yesterday's outing with a stiff back and was...
WELCOME BACK, CARTER
Didn't take long, did it? On the day that free agent negotiations officially began, the Nets and Vince Carter reached agreement on a four-year deal that will pay the team's...
B'WAY BONANZA
On the first big-market day of the NHL's salary-cap era, the Rangers, the biggest-market team of them all, flexed their muscles yesterday by signing prize free-agent centerpieces Scott Gomez and...
RAGGEDY ANDY KO'D IN SECOND
The popular belief is that if George Steinbrenner was the old Boss, Yankees blood would have been spilled by now. Joe Torre or Brian Cashman would be gone. Surely a...
MAKING A-MOVE
THE Yankees need Alex Rodriguez to be their Herschel Walker. They need to convince their most alluring product to accept a trade and then turn Rodriguez into the kind of...
SOMBER STARS
Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez were voted All-Star starters by the fans, and Jorge Posada was named a reserve by his peers. But yesterday was no San Francisco treat for...
POWERLESS AT NO. 3
The No. 3 hole in the Yankees' lineup is a black hole. Robinson Cano was installed in the third spot yesterday afternoon and responded by going 0-for-5 with two strikeouts...
DAMON, JOE REFLECT ON POSADA'S 'FRUSTRATION'
Johnny Damon was like several Yankees players yesterday morning regarding Jorge Posada's comments Saturday that the Yankees didn't try hard enough during a 7-0 loss to the A's. "It seems...
MYERS TURNING INTO A NIGHTMARE AS LEFT-HANDED SPECIALIST
The Yankees are paying Mike Myers $1.25 million to retire left-handed hitters, a chore in which the veteran lefty reliever has failed to produce. So when Myers gave up an...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Leapin' lizards! Abandoned by their owners, iguanas are terrorizing Florida gardeners. "People buy them when they're pretty little green lizards in pet stores," Bruce Dangerfield, animal-control officer for Vero Beach,...