August 17, 2007
Zambrano, Delgado, etc.
Tough break for the Mets today with Carlos Zambrano signing his extension with the Cubs. The Mets lost a major chance to substantially improve their rotation for next year, since...
LIVEBLOG/LIMA: Aftershock and awe
Morning in Lima/Kevin Raub News travels fast, unless it is happening around you -- NYP Travel correspondent Kevin Raub didn't realize an earthquake had hit Peru's coast until he was...
The Man Who Killed Himself 99 Times
By William VitkaA man jumps off a cliff.You will never find the Matheny Educational Center by accident because it is a needle in a rural haystack.Matheny is a habilitation center...
Scene
Nora Leech wears a paper-thin blue and white old fashioned printed dress from a NYC boutique, H&M bag, thrift shoes, and sunglasses from a truck stop. "My style is kind...
Deal of the Day
Cardigans are still hot for fall, so pick up this Spring and Clifton Stripe Cardigan with lavender and pink stripes and a navy trim.It's a preppy take on nostalgic 70s...
Islander Rundown
The New York City area has, effectively, three teams. The Rangers, the Devils and the once-storied Islanders out in Nassau County.The Islanders, though they haven't won a championship in 23...
Michael Peca
As reported in today's Post, the news of whether Peca will be wearing a Rangers sweater will have to wait until Glen Sather entertains himself in Banff. While our story...
Tocchet Sentenced
Rick Tocchet was sentenced today for his involvement in an illegal gambling ring. He will not face jail time, TSN reports.The former Flyer partnered with a New Jersey state trooper...
FIVE-THOUGHT FRIDAY: RIZZUTO, PEDRO AND MORE
Back with Five-Thought Friday:1. In August of 2004, Bob Murphy died, and in August of 2007, Phil Rizzuto, died, and so the sounds of baseball from my youth were officially...
SAY CHEESE FOR DIGITAL CAMERA!
Summertime and vacations are perfect for taking lots of pictures. Digital cameras are are just the thing for the job. Here's how they work. Everybody loves pictures. We love taking...
LEGENDS OF THE FALL
THERE'S an old saying in fashion circles: The early bird catches the, uh, "It" bag. While it's still August and a humid 95 degrees outside, you'd never guess it from...
WE'RE DIGGIN' THESE ROOTS
CITY dwellers can un cover some musical roots tomorrow and Sunday with the 24th annual Roots of American Music festival. It's a part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors that...
ALL-DAY FEST PASSES THE TEXT
THE revolution at the daylong Projekt Revo lution concert at Jones Beach certainly wasn't musical. The headlining trio - Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday - all...
GIVING NERO A NEW FORUM
HE slept with his mother and then had her killed. He poisoned his friends and kicked his pregnant wife to death. Sounds like the perfect subject for a Broadway musical!...
STARR REPORT
Jerry's tote bag It's mid-August, which means it's almost time for the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, airing this year from the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas. The telethon...
CLOCK STOPS
SUSPENSE is building in the production offices of "24." The start of filming on the show's new season has been delayed for the second time this summer as the show's...
BRITNEY IN TALKS TO OPEN MTV GIG
MTV and Britney Spears are in talks to give the troubled singer a chance to mount a comeback using the upcoming "Video Music Awards" telecast. Officially, MTV declined to confirm...
A JOELY GOOD TIME
A girl-on-girl sex scene between "Nip/Tuck" stars Joley Richardson and Portia de Rossi are so explicit that even the cable show's crew is shocked, according to reports. Richardson, who plays...
DATING SHOW BOMBS AGAIN
ANOTHER "Bachelor," another breakup. So what else is new? This time it's Navy Lt. Andy Baldwin and Tessa Horst who've called off their en gagement just months after Baldwin popped...
SHRINK RAP
FIRST there was "Big Love." Now HBO is getting ready to serve up Bad Love-TV's first NC-17 TV series. HBO's upcoming one-hour drama "Tell Me You Love Me," though, which...
GAMERS GOT ARCADE FIRE
NOT since "300" have I seen such manly mano-a-mano-ing as the iron clash of wills in the docu mentary "King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters." "When you want your...
LAUGHS CHEAPER BY THE GROSS
Supergood. The teen sex fest is vulgar, ridiculously sophomoric, horribly nasty and so hilarious you'll probably squirt Diet Coke out your nose within the first 20 minutes. Geeky Evan (Michael...
WIT IS DEPARTED IN LIFELESS BRITISH FARCE
THE production notes for "Death at a Funeral" promise "uncontrollable bouts of delirium and nudity." Wait, did someone make a documentary about my college years? The movie is a gentle...
POD AWFUL
IN the fourth and by far the worst screen version of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers," Nicole Kidman's character struggles to stay awake - as will the audience. Don...
ALARMS WARMED OVER
IT'S easy to be cynical about environmental lectures delivered by movie stars who travel around the world on private jets - like Leonardo DiCaprio, the earnest on-screen narrator and co-producer...
MORE GAUL, LESS GORE
THE slick French thriller "Them" is a welcome change from horror movies like "Hostel' and "Saw" and their mind-numbing gore and violence. Directed and written by David Moreau and Xavier...
ZEBRAMAN
FREQUENT readers may have noticed my fondness for films by Japanese cult director Takashi Miike. So it pains me to report that his "Zebraman" is a disappointment. Leaving behind the...
HOT PICKS
SOUTHERN BELL Having made a name for herself on Broadway with starring roles in "Hairspray," "Wicked" and "Legally Blonde: The Musical," Tony-nominated songstress Laura Bell Bundy will perform songs from...
BROADWAY
"A CHORUS LINE": 2 ½ STARS A clean carbon copy of a great original. Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CURTAINS": 2 STARS Tony-winning David Hyde Pierce...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": 3 STARS John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO": 4 STARS Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "THE COLOR PURPLE": 3 STARS Broadway...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ABSINTHE": 3 ½ STARS The sequel to last year's hit European-style burlesque show, performed in a vintage traveling tent at the South Street Seaport, (800) 276-2392. "ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN IN...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
VELVET REVOLVER, ALICE IN CHAINS, KILL HANNAH: A '90s grunge sound abounds when this trio hits the beach at 7 p.m. Saturday. Jones Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, L.I.;...
JAZZ
BIRDLAND: Wednesday through Aug. 25: Gary Peacock, Paul Bley and Paul Motian. 315 W. 44th St.; (212) 581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Through Sunday: Kenny Werner and Roseanna Vitro. 131 W. Third...
CLASSICAL
TODAY: Pianist Nami Ejiri plays works by Scarlatti, Schumann, Liszt and Balakirew at 8 p.m. at Bargemusic at Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn; (718) 624-2083. TOMORROW: Violinist Mark Peskanov plays Haydn...
CABARET
CARNEGIE CLUB: Tomorrow: Steve Maglio performs Sinatra. 156 W. 56th St.; (212) 957-9676. DON'T TELL MAMA: Tonight: Micaela Leon. 343 W. 46th St.; (212) 757-0788.
DANCE
DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL: Tonight at 7:30, the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival presents the Lula Washington Dance Company's unique blend of Afro-Caribbean, modern and jazz moves. Free at the...
FILM
BRYANT PARK: The free 2007 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival features Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960), featuring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. Monday at sunset. East of Sixth Avenue between 40th...
COMEDY
CAROLINES: Thursday through Sunday: Greg Proops. 1626 Broadway; (212) 757-4100. COMEDY CELLAR: Today and tomorrow: Maz Jobrani, Dave Attell and Sherrod Small. 117 MacDougal St.; (212) 254-3480. COMIX: Today and...
MUSEUMS
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM. 45 W. 53rd St.; (212) 265-1040. BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS: 1040 Grand Concourse; (718) 681-6000. BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern Parkway; (718) 638-5000. COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC.
SUMMER SEAPORT FESTIVAL: Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., a street fair on Water Street from Fulton to Broad streets. LEXINGTON AVENUE SUMMERFEST: Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6...
PREVIEWS
"GREASE": More than 35 years after debuting on Broadway, the musical that brought us "Greased Lightning," "Summer Nights" and "We Go Together" is back for another run. Brooks Atkinson Theatre,...
CASINO BEAT
NEW JERSEY - RASCAL FLATTS performs Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Boardwalk Hall Arena. Tickets: $55-$175; boardwalkhall.com, (609) 348-7000. - MARTIN SHORT won't shortchange you on laughs tonight at...
ETHICAL FRESH 'AIR'
ALBANY - The Ethics Commission issued a tough new policy on the use of state aircraft yesterday, requiring officials to fly primarily on government business and, if politics are involved,...
CRUISIN' HARLEM
Harlem, beware! The neighborhood long weary of gentrification may soon have to deal with the likes of Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. The Church of Scientology, known for...
KNICK 'SEX' GAL REJECTED
The former Knicks executive behind a salacious sexual-harassment lawsuit against Isiah Thomas won't get to see the coach's tax returns or those of several Madison Square Garden bigwigs, a federal...
SCHOOL DRUG DENS
Eight in 10 high-school students and more than four in 10 middle-school students in the nation attend schools "infested" with drugs and alcohol, according to a survey by Columbia University's...
TEXAS HOLD 'EM BY $7M 'CON MAN'
A 24-year-old Russian con man is caged on Rikers Island, accused of an international plot to swipe $7 million out of the home-equity credit account of one of President Bush's...
$6 MIL IN 'CHANGE' AT FIRM
ALBANY - During an ongoing probe into the state pension fund, a financial-services firm with ties to a top consultant to former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi amended its federal filings...
'MOB FED AIDED' EX-YANK
The feds once investigated whether a rogue FBI agent helped return a World Series ring to Yankee legend Whitey Ford after it was stolen by a mobster buddy of the...
WEEKEND SUBWAY GUIDE
1 No trains between 14th Street and South Ferry. 2 3 Trains run local between 96th and Chambers streets. 7 Flushingbound trains skip 69th, 74th, 82nd, 90th, 103rd and 111th...
FER CRYIN' OUT 'LOUD': CITY NOISE SPIKES
The number of complaints to the city's Department of Environmental Protection went up 81 percent over last year for the month that the new noise code was in effect. The...
KILLER KID THE HERO OF FAMILY
A courageous 14-year-old boy wrested a kitchen knife away from his drunken Queens stepdad and fatally plunged it into his chest after the abusive man threatened to kill his family,...
GRANDMA IS SLAIN IN HIT & RUN
A Brooklyn grandmother trying to hail a cab was killed yesterday when the driver jumped the curb and mowed her down after she screamed at him for propositioning her daughter,...
DWI TRACY SENTENCED
Reformed boozer Tracy Morgan was sentenced yesterday to alcohol counseling, five days of community service and a six-month license suspension for driving drunk along the Henry Hudson Parkway last fall....
PAINFUL REALTY REALITY IN $5M+ NYC MARKET
Plunging stocks on Wall Street could mean panic selling on Park Avenue. While most of the nation is already in the midst of a residential real estate slump, industry watchers...
RESTAURANTS' PARTY IS OVER AS STAFFS FEEL THE BIG $TING
Stingier restaurant tips and smaller company parties are adding to the fiscal fallout from Wall Street's market slump. "Tipping has gone from about 18 percent to 12 to 14 percent,"...
DOW PANIC TURNS MANIC
Stocks took a scary roller- coaster ride yesterday as anxious investors fretted that a growing crisis in the home- loan market could throw the economy into a tailspin. Panicked sellers...
BACK FROM 'DEAD'
A man who served eight years for the arson murder of billionaire banker Edmond Safra in Monaco - but was freed because his trial may have been rigged - returned...
COP SURVIVES CAR DRAGGING
A cop serving a routine summons on a beer-drinking driver in The Bronx early yesterday was grabbed by his vest and dragged 20 feet - but saved himself by shooting...
MARINE HONOR FOR BROOKE
Here come the Marines - and they'll stave off a possibly awkward moment at Brooke Astor's funeral today. Although the philanthropist had once planned to have several of her friends...
$5M CLAIM IN PIPE BLAST
A Bronx man injured in last month's massive steam-pipe explosion plans to file a $5 million lawsuit against the city, The Post has learned. Sean Bonual said in a notice...
QNS. PET HEARTBREAKER
Until last night, Ida Hemmerich had 27 dogs, seven cats and four parrots. Now the 83-year-old Queens woman is in a hospital for observation for dementia and her beloved pets...
BLOOMYMOBILES REVVED U
City Hall has a new way to scout for streetside scourges. Fifteen inspectors in two-door scooters - armed with BlackBerrys - are hitting every inch of pavement in the city...
PHOTOS? FOOEY! NO WAY, SAYS JOSÉ OF BAT BASHING
Enraged ex-Met José Offerman might want to take a sage piece of advice from Yogi Berra: "You can observe a lot by watching." Despite the smoking bat in his hand,...
EAST SIDE 'BURGLARY' DUO HELD
A pair of homeless men busted for three Manhattan burglaries are now being investigated for a string of break-ins at posh Upper East Side restaurants and jewelry stores since April,...
'JOGGER'NAUT
New York City Marathon winner Dr. Norbert Sander salvaged the place where he once trained so that thousands of city kids could also have a shot at the gold. When...
IRAQ BLAST KILLS LONG I. SOLDIER
A young Long Island soldier who emigrated from the Philippines, then joined the Army to carry on his family's military tradition, was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb, authorities...
SLAY RAP FOR DAD'S 'MAIMER'
The Queens woman accused of strangling her father and then cutting off his penis was charged with murder last night. Brigitte Harris, 26, had been in a Staten Island psych...
PICKUP KILLS BIKE GIRL, 13
An artistic Queens honors student who was her daddy's "angel" was killed on her bicycle yesterday by a driver with a suspended license, relatives and police said. Carolina Hernandez, 13,...
RESCUE RAUNCH
Citing bizarre sexual and religious harassment, three former Long Island emergency medical service volunteers are suing the Medford volunteer ambulance company for $60 million, The Post has learned. The suit,...
WIFE'S JOY - THEN GRIEF
The construction worker killed on the Grand Central Parkway is a well-liked Queens man who had just found out his wife is pregnant with twins, his family said yesterday. Vincent...
CORRECTION BIG BRAWLS IN GAY BAR
An assistant corrections commissioner - who loves refrigerator magnets and "kissing with my eyes open" - was busted for punching out the bartender at a gay watering hole in Chelsea...
HISTORIC FDNY APPOINTMENT
A 40-year-old FDNY veteran yesterday was named the first Asian-American fire marshal in the department's history. David Wong, of Chinese descent, was one of 42 firefighters to receive promotions -...
FINALLY! THE 'LAST' OF LIZZIE
Lizzie Grubman can drive off into the sunset - she's settled the last of the civil suits from her infamous 2001 smash-up in the Hamptons. "It's over," said Lee Bantle,...
SCAMMER LEROY'S POVERTY LINE
The writer who penned popular novels under the imaginary alter ego "JT LeRoy" is crying poor and challenging a judge's decision to make her cover nearly $350,000 in legal costs...
'GAL-BEAT' COP DENIAL
An NYPD captain took the stand in his own defense at a domestic-violence trial in Manhattan yesterday, telling jurors he never raised a hand against his lover, a cop accusing...
PHIL PULLS TRIGGER FINGER
Mad maestro Phil Spector - at the direction of his own lawyers - brandished a finger gun at jurors yesterday, creating the very image prosecutors want to paint of how...
TEARS FOR TUMI
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - It was not the homecoming anyone wanted. Hundreds of relatives and friends shed bitter tears at a Johannesburg church yesterday as they mourned Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum...
COLLEGES IN 'IVY' TOWER
The Ivies have again earned summa-cum-laude honors, as Princeton, Harvard and Yale snagged the top three spots in this years U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Columbia University stayed...
WEDDING BELLS FOR JENNA
WASHINGTON - President Bush's hard-partying daughter Jenna is settling down and getting married. The blond Texas twin with a taste for tequila is tying the knot with 29-year-old rock-ribbed Republican...
RUDY KIN-FRONTATION
Rudy Giuliani yesterday told a New Hampshire voter to butt out and "leave my family alone" when asked why Americans should back him for president when his own kids don't....
RAP TO RICHES
Jay-Z is No. 1 and 50 Cent close behind him on the list of world's wealthiest rappers. Jay-Z's album sales - as well as endorsement deals with Bud, Hewlett-Packard and...
ENEMY AGENT GUILTY
MIAMI - José Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3½ years as an enemy combatant, was convicted yesterday of helping Islamic extremists and plotting overseas attacks in a case that...
JOLIE GOING GREAT GUNS
Va-va-voom! Angelina Jolie shows her no-nonsense side on the Chicago set of her upcoming action flick, "Wanted," wielding two guns on the hood of a Dodge Viper. The smoldering stunner...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island Three suspects were arrested on drug charges after police responded to a tip about a lewd sexual act in a Mariners Harbor parking lot, authorities said yesterday. Police...
FREDDY, SET, GO! HERE COMES THOMPSON
IN JUST two weeks, Fred Thompson will finally an nounce his formal entry into the 2008 presidential race and instantly become the biggest Republican threat to Rudy Giuliani. The long-anticipated...
LET'S END THIS SPACE LUNACY
WHEN is NASA going to come down to Earth? We have some brave men and women up there right now at the space station and once again, there is a...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 881; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 5636; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Thu.: 669; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Win- 4 Thu.:...
COMMISSIONER KELLY'S PRESCIENCE
How ironic - and appropriate - that homegrown would-be jihadist Jose Padilla was convicted on federal terrorism support charges just one day after NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly warned of the...
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO AN ATTORNEY
Now, regarding lawyering up: It was reported yesterday that Gov. Spitzer's chief of staff, Richard Baum, hired a lawyer to represent him in the various investigations spawned by the "Dirty...
THE STAIN SPREADS
Another day, another corruption scandal in Albany. This one, focused on more possible wrongdoing by for mer Comptroller Alan Hevesi. Will it never end? As The Post's Ken Lovett reported...
THE DOWNTURN & N.Y.
Eliot Spitzer was swept into office by a record plurality, surrounded by impossibly high expectations that have already begun to deflate. As if that weren't enough, he was also the...
MORAL OF THE MARKET MAELSTROM
EXACTLY a century ago, panic seized financial markets. The collateral for perhaps half the bank loans in New York was securities whose values had been inflated by speculation. Then on...
THE PARENT TRAP
IT has never been easier to be a parent to young children in America. There are now hundreds of useful and well-designed consumer products dedicated to the clothing, feeding, transporting,...
IRISH, FIRST AND FOREMOST
THE ISSUE: Last week's withdrawal of the British Army from Northern Ireland. John O'Sullivan finds it more comforting to view the IRA's war on British terrorism as completely ruthless than...
PERFORMANCES WORTH THE PLEDGE
THE ISSUE: The ongoing efforts of public television station to raise funding. Adam Buckman's article on the PBS pledge drives really hit a nerve ("I Have PBS Pledge Drive Fatigue,"...
ROMNEY HAD IT RIGHT: STOP THE ILLEGAL FLOW
THE ISSUE:Mayor Bloomberg defends Mitt Romney's reference to New York as a "sanctuary city." Mayor "Moneybags" Bloomberg criticizes Mitt Romney's stance on illegal immigration and says we should "let 'em...
COUNTRYWIDE GETS $11.5B 'EMERGENCY' LOAN
Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender, moved to shore up its deteriorating financial position yesterday by tapping an $11.5 billion emergency loan in a bid to buy enough...
DAY OF FRENZY
Stocks recovered from a spectacular rout yesterday as a rumor rippled through Wall Street that the Fed would spring to the rescue with an emergency rate cut. The hope proved...
A RUMMY TELL-ALL
IN the latest development in the quest by Donald Rumsfeld to snag a book deal, a well-placed industry source said the former Secretary of Defense has received only tepid interest...
SHINING PENNEY PROFITS
J.C. Penney yesterday reported second-quarter earnings that beat analyst's estimates and raised its outlook slightly for the full year. The news was a rare bright spot in what has otherwise...
ANNTAYLOR LOSES EXEC
Another top executive is expected to leave AnnTaylor, The Post has learned. Elaine Boltz, who has served as AnnTaylor's executive vice president and chief marketing officer since 2006, resigned last...
KEEP $HOOTING
Merrill Lynch is showing Tom Cruise's United Artists the money - at a time when Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank are balking at film financing for the studio's co-owner Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
AOL GOES BACK TO VIDEO SEARCH WELL
AOL boss Randy Falco is looking to take on Google and Yahoo! in the growing business of video search. The company yesterday re-launched Truveo.com, a video search engine it acquired...
GOOGLE GETS $10M PROGRAMMING DEAL
Finance company Media Rights Capital said yesterday it is teaming with Seth MacFarlane, creator of animated hits "Family Guy" and "American Dad," and teen star Raven-Symone to create original content...
PROBES STRAFE BUILDING OUTFIT
A Dallas-based construction concern with big plans for the New York real-estate market has hit a major speed bump as regulators begin to circle the cash-starved company. Home Solutions of...
HE'S GROUNDED
A once high-flying Wall Street trader with a vast collection of pricey big boys' toys continued his spiral back to earth as losses related to the subprime mortgage meltdown forced...
PATRICK BETTER OFF WITHOUT ESPN
DAN Patrick's depar ture from ESPN - today's radio show, after 18 years, is his last ESPN gig - was not unexpected. Last year, the word was out that ESPN...
MAYWEATHER, ARUM TRADE VERBAL JABS
JUDGING by their ex changes during a seminar on the state of boxing held last weekend in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn't have much love for his former promoter,...
CHEER UP AND START STINGING THE BLUES
THERE were a number of positives this week for saltwater anglers with solid catches of porgies, bluefish and even fluke being made in some areas. The bluefishing in the Sound...
FORMER NBA REF BLASTS OFFICIATING
The former head of the NBA referees union and a league official for 26 years yesterday said rogue referee Tim Donaghy was able to slip through the cracks because refereeing...
PSAL REFS DEMAND RAISE
The PSAL fall season is barely three weeks away, but after a meeting of game officials from various sports on Wednesday night, it could be in jeopardy. Referees and umpires...
BOOT-Y CALL
David Beckham's move to American soccer has been a success everywhere - except on the field. The possibility of seeing the English star has attracted more fans to the stadium...
5 QUESTIONS FOR KEITH HERNANDEZ
As the baseball season heads for the homestretch, SNY color commentator Keith Hernandez chatted with NYP TV Sports' Justin Terranova this week. Q: The Mets have struggled after a strong...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
Post 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...
'KOWBOY' WINS 'SPECIAL'
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Kodiak Kowboy, after tucking in behind the pace set by Little Nick dueling with Riley Tucker, swung off the rail turning for home, split horses with a...
CORNELIO: 4 MORE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Cornelio Velasquez had four-bagger, stretching his lead in jockey standings to 26-20 over Kent Desormeaux, who had two winners. THIRD RACE: Four early scratches were followed by...
SPORTS SHORTS
WNBA: Libs keep playoff hope aliveJanel McCarville scored 18 points and Shameka Christon added 12, including the go-ahead free throws with 9.8 seconds remaining, to help the Liberty beat the...
HONDO'S IN THE MONEY
The Great Hondini has done it again! Hondo, who on July 28 was 690 in the hole, completed another one of his unfathomable escapes last night when he rolled with...
MARTIN GLAD TO STAY DEVIL
In the end, Paul Martin passed up a chance at free-agent riches next summer to stay with the Devils he knows. The 26-year-old defenseman, who stands to inherit the Devils'...
EVEN BIGGER BLUE
ALBANY - Bigger is, for now, simply bigger. After three weeks of training camp and one preseason game, the Giants brain-trust determined the best-laid plans along the interior of the...
COUGHLIN, JINTS GET ON A ROLL
ALBANY - The numbing routine of afternoon practice, dinner and evening meetings was interrupted Wednesday night when Tom Coughlin surprised his team by canceling the classroom work and taking the...
TESTING GROUND
If there's such a thing as the meat of the preseason schedule, the Jets are in it against the Vikings tonight at Giants Stadium. The first preseason game, last week's...
CLEMENS LIKELY TO GET SHOT AT MORE SUCCESS
Eric Mangini was predictably vague when asked about the quarterback rotation for tonight's game. There are a couple of things you can probably count on. Chad Pennington, who didn't throw...
KNICKS' LEE ENJOYING TIME WITH TEAM USA
On his first day in Las Vegas Wednesday as a member of Team USA's practice squad, Knicks forward David Lee heard the words he wanted to hear: he's being considered...
PITT OF DESPAIR
PITTSBURGH - Every pitcher who took the mound for the Mets last night was flat-out terrible. In the eighth inning, the defense was as well. The Mets suffered an embarrassing...
DELGADO, MILLEDGE SIT OUT
PITTSBURGH - Carlos Delgado and Lastings Milledge sat out last night's 10-7 loss to the Pirates, one due to injury and the other due to illness. Delgado suffered a hyperextended...
NETS GO FOR HITE
The Nets didn't necessarily get bigger but they added Hite - Robert Hite - to their roster yesterday. Hite, a 6-foot-2 guard who played 12 games for the Heat last...
RANGERS, PECA WAIT
Two-time Selke Trophy winner Mike Peca likely will wait until next week to learn if he'll become a Ranger. Talks have been initiated, but serious negotiations are on hold until...
TOUGH TIGERS LIKE MIKE
David Cone had a word for what Mike Mussina experienced last night standing on the Yankee Stadium mound, knowing every pitch was a struggle. "I pitched naked tonight," Cone said...
HUMBLED DURING THIS UNTIMELY STUMBLE
BASEBALL never was supposed to look as easy as it looked for the Yankees across the past month and a half. The Yankees knew that, of course. They kept trying...
HOME FREE
Upon learning that Bud Selig wasn't going to suspend him, Jason Giambi insists steroids are in his rear view mirror. "I am all done with it, I am through with...
SHEFF IS STILL STIRRING THE POT WITH HIS COMMENTS
The wounds between Gary Sheffield and Joe Torre haven't healed, and only became more pronounced yesterday when the disgruntled former Yankees slugger implied that Torre is a phony. With the...
A-ROD'S ERRORS PILE UP
Alex Rodriguez's Gold Glove chances would be strong if the season ended today, though lately the Yankees' third baseman has more resembled E-Rod, that character who butchered the position last...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember 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...
TORRE WILL GIVE RIVERA MO REST
Though insisting and offering physical proof that Mariano Rivera isn't ailing from a medical problem, Joe Torre nonetheless said last night that he was giving the Hall of Fame closer...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A man pleaded guilty in Boston to a bizarre scheme in which he and his wife intentionally ate glass at restaurants to bilk insurance companies out of more than $200,000....