August 25, 2007
Deja re-vu for Bombers
August 25, 2007 | 9:22pmBy JOEL SHERMANDETROIT â Joe Torre slumped in a chair, the color drained from his face and the spirit mostly gone from his body.This scene was familiar.Yankee players dressed grimly,...
Deja re-vu for Bombers
August 25, 2007 | 9:16pmBy JOEL SHERMANDETROIT â Joe Torre slumped in a chair, the color drained from his face and the spirit mostly gone from his body.This scene was familiar.Yankee players dressed grimly,...
LAST CHANCE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amIF it feels like half the city's boarded the Jitney to play croquet with the Gatsbys, don't sulk - that's a good thing. These precious summer days before Labor Day...
WHAT'S UP
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amTODAY FULL SWING: Music and sports get equal play at Arthur Ashe Kids' Day, kicking off the 2007 U.S. Open. Free activities including tennis target practice and clinics for kids...
COOL FOR SCHOOL
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amNEVER mind the commercials. This is probably the least wonderful time of the year, as far as kids are concerned. At least school supplies are better. This year, backpacks do...
'ANCHOR' COULD END UP ON E!
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amNO one was more surprised by the cancellation of "Anchorwoman" than the anchorwoman herself. "I was completely shocked," said Lauren Jones, the blonde, buxom bikini model who "starred" on the...
ARCH ENEMIES
August 25, 2007 | 9:00am'AMERICA at the Crossroads," a serious PBS se ries (and which ones aren't?) that usually tackles heavy topics - such as how America and Americans have changed in a post-9/11...
QUINN JOINS CONEY TALKS
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amCouncil Speaker Christine Quinn is now actively involved in the negotiations over whether developer Joseph Sitt will get to build his controversial $1.5 billion entertainment complex in the heart of...
2 N.Y. HOSPS HIGH ON 'BEST FOR KIDS' LIST
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amTwo New York hospitals were rated among the 30 best in America for children's care. New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center made U.S. News & World Report's...
CON ED BONDS HIT BY 'NEGATIVE' JOLT
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amA major bond-rating agency zapped Con Ed yesterday by putting a "negative" outlook on its latest bond issue - a fresh sign that Wall Street is worried about the company's...
ARE YOU RICH?
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amCheck your tickets! The winning numbers drawn last night in the $206 million Mega Millions lottery drawing were 4, 21, 46, 51 and 53, with the Mega Ball number 5....
'ILLEGAL' CABBY 'ROLLS' OVER
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amMarc Henig might have gotten away with using his car as an illegal taxi at Kennedy Airport had he been driving something less glitzy than his prized Rolls-Royce. Port Authority...
MIKE IS 'ROLE'ING IN DOUGH
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amMayor Bloomberg made more last year playing a mayor on "Law and Order" than being one at City Hall. The royalties for his two 2004 cameos as himself on the...
PSYCHO SPIN-OUT
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amHe grunted a lot, admittedly. He war-whooped. He hollered, "Great song!" and "You go, girl," and he probably was the noisiest guy in the spin class. Now a Manhattan hedge-fund...
POLS' POWER DELI IS SHUT
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amBen's Best, the Queens deli that's played host to politicians hungry for its famous pastrami, was shuttered yesterday. It wasn't immediately clear why the doors were closed at the eatery,...
ZAHN SUES HUBBY IN $25M WAR
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amCNN anchorwoman Paula Zahn sued estranged husband Richard Cohen in Manhattan yesterday, saying he mismanaged some $25 million of her income and maybe swiped some. Cohen, a real-estate developer and...
IT'S THE PITTS!
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amBrad Pitt and Angelina Jolie soaked up the sights yesterday in Manhattan like typical tourists - shopping, eating hot dogs, and roughhousing with the kids. Of course, the vast majority...
SAFETY LAST DURING THE DEUTSCHE DEMOLITION
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amSafety rules were broken with impunity at the Deutsche Bank building because tipped-off supervisors had workers hide violations from inspectors, asbestos-removal crew members said yesterday. "Whenever an inspector would arrive,...
$2.6M PIG IN A POKE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amA nightclub investor who bought his neighbor's swank New Jersey mansion out of foreclosure for $2.6 million - not knowing that inside it was destroyed by feces from more than...
DNA MATCH LEADS TO ARREST IN 1993 RAPE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amA paroled convict was arrested in the 1993 gunpoint rape of an Upper West Side coed after a new DNA sample matched evidence left at the crime scene, sources said....
IHACKED YOU!
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amA 17-year-old hacker from New Jersey has managed to unlock Apple's iPhone from AT&T's wireless network - "just for fun" - thereby allowing the world's most hyped cellphone to be...
DUNST-ROB HOTEL: NOT OUR FAULT
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amThe Soho Grand Hotel insisted yesterday that Kirsten Dunst's $13,000 handbag was swiped only after a member of her film crew left a door open. A hotel spokeswoman said the...
GIRL WOUNDED
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amA 7-year-old Brooklyn girl was struck by a stray bullet last night in her family's Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, her mother told cops. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. when a woman...
SICK NOTE PRECEDED SLAYING AND BLAZE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amAn elderly Yonkers woman was strangled in her apartment, which was then set ablaze, just days after she received a chilling note from a prowler who claimed he watched her...
FUGITIVE NABBED IN 2005 RAPE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amA fugitive who raped a homeless woman on the Upper West Side two years ago despite her courageous efforts to fight him off was captured yesterday, police said. Louis Alfonzo,...
B'KLYN GAL'S 6-HR. DENTIST 'SEX ORDEAL'
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amA Brooklyn dentist was busted for sexually abusing a patient and imprisoning her for hours - an ordeal that ended only when the victim's worried husband angrily barged into the...
GANG CAPS 'YANK'ED
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amA controversial line of baseball caps that feature gang colors emblazoned with the Yankee insignia will be pulled from the shelves. The recall announcement from capmaker New Era came on...
SPACE GALS IN A CLOSE ENCOUNTER
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amAstronut Lisa Nowak stared down the competition in court yesterday, confronting the woman she allegedly pepper sprayed over a spaced-out love triangle for the first time since the attack. But...
'TERROR' ATTACK ON HILL
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amWASHINGTON - Rival Democratic candidates and liberal bloggers tore into Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday for saying a terrorist attack in the United States before next year's presidential elections would help...
911 CALL HORROR: 'BRIDGE DOWN!'
August 25, 2007 | 9:00am"The whole bridge fell into the river!" yelled one motorist. "Bring everything you got!" screamed another. Minneapolis' 911 switchboard was deluged with panicked calls after a packed interstate highway bridge...
NFL BARES ITS TEETH
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amStar quarterback Michael Vick was suspended indefinitely from the NFL yesterday and faces 12 to 18 months in prison after admitting he conspired to set up dogfights and "agreed to"...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amTHE BRONX Police are asking for the public's help to identify the man pictured above, who was found unconscious in Allerton and later died. The man, in his 50s, was...
SALUTING A 'MAN'S MAN'
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amBOBBY BEDDIA stole Fifth Avenue from the swells yes terday. The funeral for the beloved firefighter turned the famous street into a wall-to-wall carpet of blue. "He was your real...
LOTTERY RESULTS
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amNEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 076; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 0428; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 720; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 7633;...
SEN. CLINTON'S MIXED MESSAGE...
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amHillary Clinton needs to remember who's listening when she speaks. Last week, New York's junior senator acknowledged that Gen. David Petraeus' "new tactics" appear to be working in some parts...
...AND HER FOUL 'FEAR'
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amMeanwhile, the senator also made it abundantly clear that even in the worst of times - like a 9/11-style attack on America - rank partisan politics is uppermost in her...
IRAQ & VIETNAM
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amPresident Bush this week turned to the history books to make the case for perseverance in Iraq - arguing that the current war, like its predecessors in the Pacific, Korea...
SENATOR WARNER'S BAD WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amFALLUJAH, Iraq - Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) is one of the great states men of our time, a man of integrity and devotion to our country. He's never been a...
THE CIA'S HOLIDAY
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amTHE new report from the CIA's inspector general about the spy agency's pre- 9/11 failings could be titled, "What We Did During Our Holiday From History." The stretch from the...
ONLY W'S CASH IS WELCOME
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amGEORGE W. Bush collected around $1 million for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's endangered re-election campaign in Minnesota Tuesday, but that will be the last the state sees of the unpopular...
MAS INGLES, POR FAVOR
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amIf someone wants to have another language taught, let them pay for it (" 'Oui' Can't Do It," Aug. 20). I am fed up with paying for cable TV and...
CIGS & 'THE CHILDREN': COUNCIL SMOKE-BLOWING
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amCouncilman James Gennaro's proposal is fine and good, but doesn't it fall a bit short ("Weighing 'Evils': Terror vs. Tobacco," Editorial, Aug. 18)? If, as he indicates, there are over...
TAXING ARGUMENT
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amThe Blackstone Group, the giant buyout firm run by billionaire financier Stephen Schwarzman, has reached out to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in an effort to kill a tax proposal it...
WRENCHING WAIT FOR HOME DEPOT DEAL
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amNegotiations over Home Depot's sale of its professional supply business, a deal being closely watched by Wall Street and investors, remained in flux yesterday after the company blew through a...
TAKE-TWO SETS 'MANHUNT' RELEASE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amThe "Manhunt" is on once again for Strauss Zelnick's Take-Two Interactive Software. Two months after the embattled video game developer was forced to shelve the release of its highly touted...
SALES SURGE BOOSTS DOW
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amStocks surged yesterday as some surprisingly strong statistics eased Wall Street's fears that the housing-market crisis might push the economy into a slump. Government data showed sales of new homes...
BUILDER RELEASES PROJECT INFO
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amHome Solutions of America, a builder that has caught the eyes of regulators, has finally released details on one of its projects. The information comes after the Dallas-based company disclosed...
TRAVERS WORD ON THE 'STREET'
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - By breaking the 22-year-old "Breeders' Cup jinx" to become the first BC Juvenile champion to win the Kentucky Derby, Street Sense already etched his name in the...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
August 25, 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...
CHOI GETS A GRIP
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amThink about an athlete who's near the top of his sport, sitting in front of his TV set so engrossed in an infomercial product that he decides he has to...
EASY TO ROOT FOR UNDERDOG BEEM
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amTHIS really is "the playoffs" for Rich Beem, even if he doesn't necessarily like the wording when it pertains to golf. He entered The Barclays 134th out of 144 in...
ALMIROLA TO MAKE SECOND NEXTEL START
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amAric Almirola started his career scraping mud off his grandfather's sprint car on a dirt track in Tampa, Fla. Tonight, he makes his second career Nextel Cup start in the...
RORY HITS SECOND-ROUND FADE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amAfter Rory Sabbatini sounded off on Tiger Woods' no-show from the first-round leader's pulpit, his game did its familiar front-runner vanishing act. Sabbatini doesn't fare so well from a first-round...
SPORTS SHORTS
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amNBA: Miller to remain retired Reggie Miller is staying retired, passing on a chance to turn the Big Three of the Celtics into the Fabulous Four. Miller told the Celtics...
SUMMER OF '77
August 25, 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...
HONDO HOPS ON SAWX
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amHondo took a hefty tumble last night, losing a rare beefy investment with Texas to slash the earnings to 60 petrocellis. Today, Mr. Aitch is all aflutter over Wakefield, that...
A BIG DIEHL
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amThis is a test of the emergency blocking system. Make that the final real test for Giants lineman David Diehl, the last time he'll take the field for an extended...
IT'S A PENN SHARPENER
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amNow that the Pete Kendall saga is over, the Jets kindly request that everyone goes back to focusing on football. Whether that's good news or bad has a lot to...
SHOCK-ER! LIBERTY CRUISE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amThe Liberty gave the defending WNBA champions a shock last night. Shameka Christon had 16 points and a franchise playoff-record 15 rebounds to lead the Liberty to a surprising 73-51...
DESPITE SCARE, IT'S OL' WRIGHT
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amSuccess hadn't been there in over a month for Oliver Perez. It was on the hill last night, though, and it was absolutely important to see. After a slew of...
BOOMER GETS ONE MORE SHOT
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amDavid Wells sees Roger Clemens pitching at 45 years old and figures, "Why not me?" Evidently, Wells won't quit until the uniform is torn from his back. The 44-year-old lefty...
SIXTH SPOT IS NO HELP FOR DELGADO
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amWith his struggles continuing, Carlos Delgado's time in the fifth spot has expired, at least for now. Whether it's temporary is to be determined, but Delgado again was dropped to...
NETS STILL IN CHASE FOR POSEY
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amPlaying with Jason Kidd has its own rewards, as NBA All-Stars are learning daily with the U.S. Olympic qualifying team. And the lure of Kidd is a strong reason the...
NO GUARANTEES FOR MOOSE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amDETROIT - With talk swirling through the Yankees universe that Mike Mussina could be pitching for his rotation spot Monday night against the Tigers, the right-hander said he isn't feeling...
MIKE MUST PERFORM NOW, OR ELSE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amDETROIT - The athlete is the last to know. That is not what the athlete says, of course. The athlete's conceit is that he will know when he no longer...
FOUR-HOUR DELAY HAS EFFECT ON PLAY
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amDETROIT - Last night's Yankees-Tigers game at Comerica Park was delayed at the start by a ludicrous 4 hours and 1 minute thanks to very heavy rain. And based on...
YANKS' LONG WAIT GOES DOWN THE RAIN
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amDETROIT - By the time the last night's Yankees-Tigers game started, Friday had only 54 minutes remaining thanks to a rain delay of four-plus hours. When it ended, the scoreboard...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 25, 2007 | 9:00amA Detroit education activist was fined $250 for pelting school-board members with grapes during a raucous vote to close 34 city schools. A contrite Agnes Hitchcock told a judge she'll...
No series pick
August 25, 2007 | 12:25amI got my Padres series prediction right, but unfortunately, I have to pass on my Dodgers one. I just realized now that I didn't make a pick, and since the...