August 12, 2007
Offseason provides ground gains
August 12, 2007 | 3:46pmRunning backs have always been the core of fantasy football. Everybody needs them, and there's not enough to go around.That's why all the good ones seem to disappear come the...
ROTO FILES - Play futures market
August 12, 2007 | 3:43pmMost redraft roto leagues will have a top tier well en trenched. But in keeper formats, you have next year to look forward to if you've fallen off the pace.Your...
HIGH SCHOOL' HEARTTHROB
August 12, 2007 | 9:00am"He has a great sparkle." That's what Zac Efron's drama teacher thought when she first set eyes on the elfin, blue-eyed cutie in the seventh grade. "He could sing, he...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amDRAMA Red menace The second out of three installments of the CIA drama "The Company" takes on the tone of action thriller as agency recruit Jack McAuliffe (Chris O'Donnell) travels...
REEL GOOD
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amMALLRATS (1995) Sunday, 9 p.m., Starz Kevin Smith's ode to the odious is a bizarrely funny tale of two Gen-X slackers (Jeremy London and Jason Lee) who lose their girlfriends...
'WEEDS' DIGS UP ARTISTS TO SING 'BOXES'
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amIf ever a theme song were perfectly matched to a television show, it's Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes." The quietly subversive 1962 song sums up everything that's wrong with the suburban...
SCHOOLHOUSE SHOCK
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe kids from "High School Musical" can teach a college course on economics - as in, how to create a $1 billion franchise. That's the value one Wall Street analyst...
WANTED: CHEF
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThey may be tough as nails, but even an "Iron Chef" needs time off. That's the thinking behind the Food Network's decision to create a fall reality contest, "The Next...
FUNNIEST THING ON TV? THE LOCAL NEWS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe best dark comedies on TV remain the local newscasts. Ch. 2's, for example, lately have been a scream. Last Saturday, Ch. 2 News at 6 p.m., near the top,...
I HAVE PBS PLEDGE DRIVE FATIGUE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amRemember when public television was actually television? Not anymore - now public TV is more like the Home Shopping Network, only with higher prices. This month's public-TV sale-a-thon includes two...
ABRACATABRA
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amCat lovers were shocked to learn of the backlash against Oscar, the compassionate feline who visits dying patients - cuddling up to some only hours before they pass - at...
ASK DR. MICHAEL FOX
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amDEAR DR. FOX: My 75-pound German shepherd-collie mix is now 12 years old and is on meds to treat his arthritis, but I don't think they're working very well. I...
ADOPT ME
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amCleo is just under a year old and is very friendly and sweet. Meet him from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Society of New York, 306 E....
EVERY BLUNDER HAS A BROTHER IN LAW
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amCHESS PHYSICS plays little role on a chessboard - except for Isaac Newton's third law. That's the one about every action triggering an equal but opposite reaction. You see it...
HOT SEAT
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTHE white-bearded gentleman sitting opposite me looks fairly unassuming, but he is nothing less than the pre-eminent voice of my childhood. And millions of other childhoods. In fact, you'd be...
HOT LIST
August 12, 2007 | 9:00am1 Cowboy style Finally, a reason to watch CMT. "Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge," Friday at 9 p.m., has Vanilla Ice, Leif Garrett and others attempting to tame mighty...
COVET OR HATE IT?
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amIt's raining in Paris. Sarah Jessica Parker is about to lift her custom-made tulle Christian Lacroix gown and, with her signature red-soled Christian Louboutin heels, kick through a glass window...
CITY HALLS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amPART OF NEW YORK'S BEAUTY, like it or not, is its ever-changing landscape. Move away for five minutes and you probably won't recognize your old street. Five months? You might...
ON THE BEAT IN BROOKLYN
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amFOR EVERY TINY CLUB that Manhattan loses, like The Continental, it seems like another springs up in Brooklyn. From Greenpoint to Gowanus to Park Slope, hole-in-the-wall joints are popping up,...
'WONDER' KIDS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTHE kids are alright. Some 14 years after "The Wonder Years" ended, its alumni are back in the headlines. Fred Savage, who's now 31, married, a father and directing full-time,...
DIGGING 'MINOR'
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe IFC comedy "The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman" seeks to reflect the bizarre lives of Hollywood strivers. But creator Laura Kightlinger may have done too good a job, as...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amAqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD2 STARS(Turner, $29.98) For a very specific audience - namely ultra-devoted fans of the TV series - this movie will...
HIS HEART OF GOULD EXPOSING FAMILY FUNNIES
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amWHILE many people have made appearances on "The Simpsons," only a precious few have had the privilege of turning the show into a commentary based on their lives. Comedian Dana...
END-OF-SUMMER MUST-HAVES
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amMetal snail-shell bobby pin, $40, at Kate Spade. "Critter" charm bracelet, $125, at jcrew.com. Charmeuse draped waistband skirt, $275, at DKNY, 655 Madison Ave. "Maddie" pumps, $295, at Tory Burch,...
LONELY GIRL
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTHE hyper-talented singer-songwriter Fiona Apple has often been regarded as equally prodigious and petulant, an anti-starlet with songwriting wisdom beyond her years and an oversensitive temperament perhaps too hair-trigger to...
'SUPER' SICK
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThere's something odd about the Columbia Pictures logo that greets you at the start of "Superbad," the new comedy from Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow. The turquoise-and-yellow screen seems to...
LOVE MONKEYS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amBILLY Mitchell and Steve Wiebe don't like each other very much. Loathe might be a better word. The two middle-age men have a blood feud stretching back nearly five years...
'BAD' MAKES FOR GOOD VIEWING
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amVINCENTE Minnelli (Liza's dad, Judy Garland's husband) is probably best known for musicals such as "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944) and "An American in Paris" (1951). But he also...
A GENERAL SCORE!
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amDo you dream of shopping at an old-fashioned general store where little kids fish penny candies from wide tubs, and smiling butchers slice country hams to order? Well, you can...
PROOF POSITIVE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amFor centuries, Europeans have created home-brewed moonshine. The recipe is simple: Put some herbs in a bottle, add grain alcohol and wait anywhere from two weeks to a year. Add...
OTTO, 24, AND BUET, 30
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amJUNE 21 - While studying in France in September 2003, Amanda Otto had no idea that her host family would one day become her in-laws. "I was a young student...
TITRE, 27, AND SAMUEL, 33
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amJUNE 23 - From the antique Rolls-Royce that transported them to the reception at the Bay Ridge Manor to the Swarovski crystal monogram cake topper, Jeana Titre was particular about...
HENDRIE, 27, AND DRISCOLL, 25
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amJUNE 29 - It was love at first sight for Laura Driscoll and Brian Hendrie: After spotting Hendrie in a Yonkers bar in 2004, Driscoll told her friends that she...
TORRE, 25, AND WALSH, 26
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amJUNE 16 - Though only a year apart, Evita Nancy Torre and Christopher Walsh never met while attending the Upper East Side's Dominican Academy and Regis High School. Instead, it...
EMILIO, 25, AND PIPITONE, 25
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amJULY 7 - Maurizio Pipitone, a New York City Local 3 electrician, was certain he wanted to marry Santina Emilio on the "luckiest day of the century," 7-7-07. Hoping to...
NEW YORK'S LATEST BLACKOUT
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amStartling news from the U.S. Census Bureau: The number of black New Yorkers fell by more than 40,000 in the past six years, even as the city's total population grew...
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amNice try, Lenora. But we aren't buying it. In fact, anyone who thinks that odious hatemonger Lenora Fulani has had a genuine epiphany on the subject of anti-Semitism must be...
A TROUBLED PEACE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amAT the close of the First World War, Winston Churchill reflected on one constant in a changing universe: "Great Empires have been overturned. The whole map of Europe has been...
BARACK'S JUDGE BIAS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amSEN. Barack Obama recently told some Iowa farmers that prices of their crops aren't high enough, considering what grocers are charging for other stuff: "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately...
GREEN MEANIES
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amNEWSWEEK magazine, which tells us in a recent edition about a "well-funded," global-warming "denial machine," is itself something of a trashing machine, a journalistic pretender that mistakes smear for substance....
DOES THE 'M' IN MTA STAND FOR 'MORONIC'?
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTHE ISSUE: Wednesday's storm and the ensuing MTA challenges. The entire MTA organization is incompetent, from root to branch. Thanks to them, we have a subway that is a disgrace...
BOYS ARE BACK FOR RETAILERS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amMove over American girls, it's the boys' turn to shine. Long outflanked at retail by girls-centric apparel lines and retail chains like Build-a-Bear and the American Girl chain, boys are...
WHIPSAW INDEX
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amWelcome to the great markets tug-of-war of 2007. At one end of the rope, remarkably solid fundamentals - corporate earnings posting nicegains, balance sheets still flush with cash and not...
NO RAP TURF WAR HERE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amDARK days in the CD business are making for strange bedfellows in the music industry. Two big singles of the summer, Sean Kingston's current No. 1 hit "Beautiful Girls," and...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amWINNERSROBERT NARDELLI After being forced out at Home Depot, executive resurfaces at Chrysler as troubled carmaker's CEO.JOHN CHAMBERS CEO of Cisco Systems leads company to a 25 percent profit gain...
NINTENDO AND APPLE PLATFORMS ARE GAMING EACH OTHER
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amCall it the clash of the titans. Two of the hottest tech companies - Nintendo and Apple - appeared headed for a showdown after Nintendo moved to patent its tilt...
BIKER'S HAVEN
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amRoad-hog Harley-Davidson may soon have to start sharing the fast lane with Orange County Choppers - the upstate New York custom motorcycle builders who appear on the cable TV hit,...
NEW HOUSE RULES
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe increasing distress in the mortgage markets, the slowdown in sales of new and existing homes and a drop in value hitting millions of homes has created new rules for...
ADEQUATE INSURANCE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amMany people don't have enough disability insurance coverage and find out too late that New York's disability program is insufficient. "It is atrocious," says James Tissot, a financial planner in...
CREDIT SQUEEZE MOVES TO THE CARDHOLDER
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amDear John: I've been a Capital One cardholder since 2000, spent tens of thousands of dollars on the card and never once missed a payment. My credit rating is around...
TICKET BLASTERS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTwo of the city's biggest scofflaws - who racked up a combined $93,000 in parking-ticket debt - have something else in common: They both claim it's all their ex-wives' fault....
MTA'S BIG FLOOD FLUB
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe MTA bungled it response to last week's deluge by failing to dispatch workers that were trained to handle the flood, The Post has learned. The transit authority had workers...
CIPRIANIS' DIS-BAR-MENT
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amLast month's felony convictions could mean last call for the Ciprianis. The family could be forced to sell off crown jewels in their fine-dining and party empire after family corporations...
'DWI' KILLS RAPPER IN ROCKAWAY
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amAn aspiring rapper who survived a shooting three months ago died along with his dreams yesterday when his car was broadsided by an allegedly drunken driver, police said. Daniel Girvan,...
MR. MET A BALL OF FAME
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amAs if Mr. Met's head wasn't big enough, the beloved, ball-topped mascot has been nominated to the hallowed halls of the Mascot Hall of Fame. The Web-based entity that honors...
CITY RUST BELT
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amDecades of delayed maintenance have turned the city's storied spans into blighted bridges covered with rust and decay. During an exclusive tour of two major crossings, The Post saw huge...
ANGUISH & RAGE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amRats travel in packs. The bottom-feeding crew of suspects in the brutal Newark schoolyard massacre were a band of monsters who would torment neighbors in the apartment complex where most...
$LAP AT SWANK HOTEL
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amA manager of the Royalton Hotel bar - a magnet for luminaries like Val Kilmer, Jenna Bush, Usher and Jay-Z - was a bra-strap grabber who sexually harassed two cocktail...
BEHIND THE EPIDEMIC OF COP SUICIDE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amChris, a Brooklyn police sergeant, remembers the exact moment he decided to shoot himself. For months he'd battled job stress and marital problems by drinking heavily. "As much as I...
HARLEM SHUFFLE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe heart of Harlem is being reshaped - some say gutted - in a blitz of big-money real-estate deals, starting with nearly a dozen small shops getting squeezed out to...
LEX LIVES! AVE. REOPENS AFTER BLAST
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amAlmost a month after a deadly steam pipe explosion blew a huge hole into Lexington Avenue, cars are back on the road. The city reopened the two western lanes of...
WTC INSURE FUND MAKES A TOXIC $350M 'BLUNDER'
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe city-run $1 billion fund for claims by sick 9/11 responders has "screwed up" by failing to lock up at least $350 million in coverage, lawyers charge. The WTC Captive...
SLAY MOM GRATEFUL TO NYERS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe devastated mother of slain college student Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum sent a heartfelt note of thanks to the people of New York City yesterday, saying, "the family and I appreciate...
CITY BOMB ALERT EASED
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe Big Apple is back to normal. The precautionary police checkpoints set up across the city Friday night in response to an unverified al Qaeda terror threat were called off...
MAYOR BOOKER BARES FUNERAL FURY
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amA seething Newark Mayor Cory Booker pounded his fists and screamed "Enough is enough!" yesterday, capturing the fury of rage-blinded mourners who asked why authorities left an accused child rapist...
DEM'S EX DEFEATS 'ABUSE' BY DIVORCE JUDGE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amShe lost her son, her home and her job - but a Manhattan woman has fought and finally won an appeal to overturn the uncontested divorce that gave her politically...
S.I. BEEP'S GAL IN LEGAL 'BEEF'
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amStaten Island Borough President James Molinaro's gal pal has a bone to pick with Peter Luger, and it all stems from a tumble she took at the Brooklyn steakhouse last...
HERO SON FAILS TO SAVE MA
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amA Staten Island woman was gunned down last night by her jealous ex-boyfriend even after her son tried to save her by diving in front of the fusillade, sources said....
COPS WOUND B'KLYN GUNMAN
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amPolice responding to a report of an assault shot and wounded an armed man in Brooklyn's East New York after he turned and fired at them, police sources said. The...
SLAYING AT QNS. BBQ
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amA Queens barbecue ended in bloodshed early yesterday when at least one gunman pumped several shots into a moving car, killing the driver and wounding his passenger. Darion Brown, 22,...
COUPLE SUES 'OGRE' SON
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amAn elderly West Village couple is suing their son because he allegedly refuses to let them move to an apartment they've spent thousands of dollars renovating. The move would spare...
W.'S ROSY IRAQ OUTLOOK
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amPresident Bush painted an upbeat picture of the situation in Iraq yesterday - even as a Sunni leader who had spoken against al Qaeda was murdered, along with a provincial...
MODEL'S 'SLAVES'
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amKate Moss is benefiting from "slave labor," workers' rights activists claim. The model's clothing line for a British department store is made by workers from Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh...
'BABY'S' NEW SPICE OF LIFE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amSay hello to the Spice Boy! Emma Bunton - "Baby Spice" of the Spice Girls - gave birth to son Beau on Friday morning at a London Hospital while listening...
ANGIE SAYS BI-BYE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amSorry, ladies, she's taken. Angelina Jolie is so satisfied with Brad Pitt in the boudoir that she's leaving her kinky past behind. The pouty-lipped stunner said she is no longer...
UNHOLY 'JOURNALIST
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amOAKLAND, Calif. - Like many mornings before, Chauncey Bailey began Aug. 2 with a 15-minute walk to work along Oakland's Lake Merritt. But just two blocks away from his office,...
MITT IS IOWA'S GOP STRAW MAN
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amAMES, Iowa - Looks like Mitt has caught fire in Iowa. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney threw down the gauntlet in front of his fellow Republicans yesterday with a victory...
BRITNEY'S IN WHEEL TROUBLE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amBritney Spears could have a new legal problem thanks to her ditzy driving. The owner of a parked car smashed by the former sex symbol - who fled and went...
MARY-KATE & BEN GO 'WACKY'
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amMary-Kate Olsen and Ben Kingsley make one odd couple on the Brooklyn set of "The Wackness." As if pairing the Oscar winner with the "Full House" pixie weren't bizarre enough...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amBROOKLYN A man was shot dead outside a Boerum Hill housing project early yesterday, police said. Treice Sharpe, 30, was hit twice in the torso in front of the Gowanus...
LOTTERY RESULTS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 867; Lucky Sum: 21 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 7112; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 579; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...
THE RUMBLE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amSECRETS OF BEING MARIASharapova's never-say-diet fitness plan Maria Sharapova graces the cover of September's Shape Magazine and gives its readers "10 strategies that keep me balanced and motivated." Posing in...
SOUND OFF
August 12, 2007 | 9:00am* Congratulations to Barry Bonds for officially ruining the integrity of the game of baseball. He has managed to hit 756 home runs off second-rate pitching, in ball parks far...
KENT BE DENIED
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - One of horse racing's great comebacks is unfolding this summer at the Old Spa as jockey Kent Desormeaux, 37, the Hall of Fame phenom whose Ken Griffey-esque...
SPORTS SHORTS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTENNIS: Federer cruises to finals In Montreal, Novak Djokovic downed Rafael Nadal 7-5, 6-3 last night to earn a showdown with Roger Federer in the final of the Rogers Cup....
OFFSEASON PROVIDES GROUND GAINS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amRUNNING backs have always been the core of fantasy football. Everybody needs them, and there's not enough to go around. That's why all the good ones seem to disappear come...
RAIN LEAVES ROAD-COURSE ACE UN-SAID
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe biography on Boris Said's homepage cannot spell it out any clearer. "I need: a full-time Nextel Cup ride." Said's chances of getting that ride took another step backward this...
GARCI-YA LATER
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTULSA, Okla. - For the second consecutive major championship, in a span if less than a month, Sergio Garcia has again embarrassed himself. Garcia, the talented Spaniard with unlimited potential,...
TIGER AMES FOR VICTORY
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTULSA, Okla. - They shouldn't even bother playing the final round of the PGA Championship today at Southern Hills. In some recreational baseball and softball circles, a 15-run rule is...
WOODS' GAME TOO DEEPTO BE DENIED
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTULSA, Okla. - The "What's wrong with Tiger Woods?" rumblings were gaining momentum as we entered PGA Championship week at Southern Hills, weren't they? You heard them. You read them....
HOMER FOR HUMANITY
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTHERE was another momentous home run hit this week, another long fly ball that sailed over a right-field wall and should have landed directly in the hearts of anyone who...
THE PESTS OF THE REST
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTHERE are the Nats, that plucky team from Washington that has somehow exceeded all forecasts for its underwhelming roster and just might, shockingly, avoid finishing last. And then there are...
RED BULLS (REMEMBER THEM?) RETURN TODAY
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amHaving 16 days off between games gave the worn-down and injury-riddled Red Bulls a chance to heal. At least that's what they're hoping coming into today's tilt with Toronto, and...
COME & GET YOUR LICENSE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amONE thing that may cool you off is the thought that tomorrow, New York State hunting licenses go on sale. You can buy licenses and permits at any of the...
HONDO GOIN' TO K.C.
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amHondo continued his inexorable march toward sol vency and points beyond last night when he scored with the Tigers in a Motown mow-down that slashed the debt to 130 dropos....
PLAY THE FUTURES MARKET
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amMOST redraft roto leagues will have a top tier well en trenched. But in keeper formats, you have next year to look forward to if you've fallen off the pace....
'GRAND' UPSET
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - All together now: What is Saratoga? The graveyard of favorites! That hackneyed phrase proved true again yesterday in the Grade 1, $500,000 Sword Dancer Handicap at a...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amPost handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they battle for bragging...
JOHNNY V HANGS ON
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Year in, year out, more weird stuff happens in six weeks at Saratoga than downstate rest of year. Just ask John Velazquez. In less than three weeks,...
WOODS, AMES HAVE AN OLD SCORE TO SETTLE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTULSA, Okla. - Stephen Ames drained a 20-foot birdie putt on 18 yesterday to get to 4-under par and vault himself into the final pairing today with Woods. And a...
SUMMER OF '77
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amRemember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
NO STOP IN 'EM
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amCollect call from Michael Strahan . . . No, Giants GM Jerry Reese isn't ready to accept any such call from his marquee holdout. But this couldn't possible have been...
MATHIAS TRIES TO MASTER A NEW POSITION
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amTom Coughlin's glass was half full when he talked about Mathias Kiwanuka's trial-and-error indoctrination (three tackles) at strongside linebacker last night. "In the first quarter Carolina did a lot of...
PAT PREPARATION
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amIN the ever-evolving, high-stakes chess game between the Jets and Patriots, Eric Mangini never stops plotting moves to capture the king of the AFC East. Bill Belichick bestowed upon Tom...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe Post's Steve Serby sat down with the 41-year-old Mets lefty who last Sunday night won his 300th career game: Q: Chipper Jones' opinion that steroid questions will haunt A-Rod?...
MOTA OPERANDI: GUILLERMO FLOPS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amLET'S put aside for a moment baseball morality as we pose these two related queries: a) did Omar Minaya really think it was a good idea to sign up Guillermo...
METS' PIG PEN BLOWS IT AGAIN
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amThe Mets took a pass on improving their bullpen at the trading deadline, but maybe general manager Omar Minaya can petition the commissioner's office for a do-over. Or, better yet,...
LO DUCA LAID LOW
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amFor the second time in two weeks, Paul Lo Duca's right hamstring is an issue. But this time the Mets will be more judicious, giving their catcher a stint on...
GLAVINE GETS NO RELIEF
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amNo. 301 will have to wait. For the third straight game, Tom Glavine gave the Mets a solid start, but for the second time in those starts (sandwiched around his...
KENNEDY COULD START VS. BIRDS
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amCLEVELAND - Hot off the success neophytes Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain, the Yankees are "seriously" considering promoting Ian Kennedy to complete the Trinity of Pitching Prospects for Tuesday's start...
YANKEES APPLY PRESSURE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amCLEVELAND - Mike Mussina doesn't need his Stanford education to figure out why the Yankees have gotten off the canvas and fought their way into postseason contention. "The pitching staff...
LIKE IN '06, ABREU SPARKS STREAK
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amCLEVELAND - There was a clear moment when the Yankees took off last season, and that was when they acquired Bobby Abreu. The same thing has happened again this year....
BRONX BALDIES
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amEVERY few minutes during Yankee telecasts on YES, Michael Kay's recorded voice is heard to remind us that the Yankees are the class of sports, the world over, with piles...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amA man in Tacoma, Wash., accused of having sex with a goat claims he was just trying to milk the animal. A witness claims an apparently horny Arthur Lawton was...
MEET MARKET
August 12, 2007 | 9:00am'I'M a fun, independent girl," Stacy, 26, says. "I love to laugh, always look on the bright side of things and tend to say what's on my mind. Sometimes the...
MISSED CONNECTION
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amIT'S an ominous sign when your date licks another girl's neck at the bar. But it's an even worse sign when you couldn't care less. When Allegra, a 26-year-old in...
OVEREXPOSED TO A WHIPPING
August 12, 2007 | 9:00amAguy I blew off months ago won't leave me alone. Even though we haven't had That Talk yet, I feel funny dating anyone besides Super Preppy right now. But still,...