February 12, 2008
Canseco backs Clemens' side
APFormer major leaguer Jose Canseco has told Congress in a sworn affidavit that he has never seen Roger Clemens âuse, possess or ask for steroids or human growth hormone.âThe affidavit,...
HR Apple will make move, too
APThe huge fiberglass apple that pops up when a Mets player hits a home runs will follow them to their new ballpark when it opens next year.]âThe big home run...
Mets invite Saenz
The Mets signed right-handed hitting infielder Olmedo Saenz and invited him to major league spring training. Saenz, 37, spent the past four seasons with the Dodgers, for whom he batted...
Perez 'trying to learn'
APDespite a solid 2007 season, Oliver Perez is determined to look forward instead of dwelling on the past.The past has had mixed results for Perez, who figures to be the...
Jeter: 'Human' Pettitte bothered
By GEORGE A. KING IIITAMPA -- Beyond the eyes that burn with intensity and a competitive spirit that has carried him further than his tools, Andy Pettitte is exactly like...
"Alone in the Dark" in the park
Ever wonder... In a city with debts of $4.8 Billion, who has the power to ensure that Central Parkâs $528 Billion of prime Manhattan real estate has remained completely untouched...
Feagles signs 2-year deal
APPunter Jeff Feagles signed a new two-year contract with the Giants today, a little more than a week after becoming the oldest player to participate in a Super Bowl.Feagles, who...
New logo for Staten Island
The Staten Island Yankees have released a new logo, seen here, and hava adapted changes to their home and road uniforms.âThe purpose of the new logo is to give a...
Boston Massacre II?
By MARC BERMANWe did it for the first two meetings so we'll try a third time. We'd love to hear a score from you on tomorrow's Knicks-Celtics, Part 3.The Celtics...
Livan signs with Twins
APPitcher Livan Hernandez and the Twins have agreed to a $5 million, one-year contract. Hernandez can earn an additional $2 million in performance bonuses.The Twins are short on experience in...
Starr Report: Celine and heard
A heads-up for Celine Dion fans (yeah, they're out there). Dion, hosting a CBS special Friday night, not only gives a synergistic shout-out to "Ghost Whisperer" star Jennifer Love Hewitt...
Inside Out
I am crushing hard on Anya Hindmarch's cheeky small Maud clutch.It might look sweet and tiny on the outside, but the inside. . .
"Lost Odyssey" has found its way to stores
I'm still obsessed with "Mass Effect" and am slooooowly playing it over again so I'll be ready to jump into the 90-minute "Bring Down the Sky" content pack when it...
Oscar Watch: More 'Juno' Promos
The Best Picture chances of "Juno'' seem to be dropping by the day, but Fox Searchlight is still having fun promoting the hell out of this delightful movie. This widget...
FIRST LOOK: Trump Las Vegas
It was all very double-super-secret-probation, but I did manage to get inside the new Trump in Las Vegas on Friday. Okay, so there are other non-casino lodging options on the...
LIVEBLOG: Matters of security
I braved the Israeli checkpoints today and headed into the West Bank, mainly to see for myself what life is like there but also to check out the checkpoints themselves....
DVD Extra: More Chan, Crawford
The still above is not from David Fincher's "Zodiac'' but from Norman Foster's "Charlie Chan at Treasure Island'' (1939), the best of four Charlie Chan films starring Sidney Toler out...
EAST COAST WEST COAST
There are really three spring training sites. Arizona, the Cactus League, and Florida, the Grapefruit League, but there are really two Grapefruit Leagues.Thereâs the East Coast and the West Coast....
Deal of the Day
A cropped leather number is a wardrobe staple these days, and they donât come cheap.But check out this luscious Short Leather Jacket. The belted beauty has been marked down from...
How to get your 15 seconds of fame
Reality TV TryoutsNew showâAmericaâs Next Sports StarâLooking for the next Michael Jordan by combining a reality show with a basketball game; judges kick off losers each week. âAmerican Idolâ for...
GIANTS SET TO RE-SIGN TYNES
Lawrence Tynes, who missed two field goals in the NFC title game before nailing the 47-yard winner in overtime to send the Giants into the Super Bowl, was rewarded yesterday...
NYRA'S BOSS PAINTS PICTURE OF SHUTDOWN
In a game of chicken that will determine the future of thoroughbred racing in the state, the New York Racing Association and State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno appear headed...
ROG KEEPS DATE WITH GOOFY
Roger Clemens needs a vacation. Clemens told ESPN he still plans to attend "ESPN The Weekend" in Disney World, as scheduled. The 45-year-old, who will make an appearance before Congress...
IRISH SURGE OF 'POWER'
NOTRE Dame has surged to second place in the Big East behind the terrific play of sophomore forward Luke Harangody, who last season looked more like a tight end trying...
SUNS BURNED BY SHAQ DEAL
IF Pat Riley felt Shaquille O'Neal had something significant left to give a team in the next 2½ seasons, wouldn't he have hoarded him for the Heat? My best guess...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Pirates sign Mientkiewicz First baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, who played for the Yankees last season, agreed yesterday to a minor league contract with the Pirates. Mientkiewicz, 33, would get a...
FASSEL JOBBED, GIANTS BENEFIT
NOTHING figures to come easy for the Giants next season, especially competing within the NFC East, the only division in the conference to put three teams in the playoffs. Based...
ISLES LOOKING TO MAKE RUN
The Islanders' losing streak has stretched to a season-high seven games, and now they are six points out of the playoffs - while just three points ahead of Tampa Bay...
THOMAS SPINNING BLUNDERS INTO GOLD
Isiah Thomas can put a positive spin on just about anything. His latest attempt at downplaying some of his acquisitions that have backfired came yester day in discussing David Lee's...
TRADE OFF
There's no quick fix that will magically transform the Knicks into a playoff contender, but that doesn't mean Isiah Thomas isn't looking for a trade that can inject some life...
SHOT OF GLORY
Vince Carter takes a lot of shots, in every sense of the word - from his prodigious offensive performances to critics ripping his volume of shooting or his defensive prowess...
A-VERY GOOD RANGER
NOW that the Rangers and Henrik Lundqvist are down to the shortest of strokes in finalizing a contract that is believed to be in the six-year, $36M neighborhood, Glen Sather...
SOUDER UNMOVED BY ROGER'S ATTEMPT TO SWAY CONGRESS
When Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) received word last week that Roger Clemens would like to meet with him, the seven-term congressman thought it was unusual for a witness to request...
DAMNING WORDS
Andy Pettitte was excused yesterday from testifying against his friend Roger Clemens at a congressional hearing - but it appears Pettitte already has done plenty of damage to Clemens' contention...
ONE FINAL SHOWDOWN:ROCKET VS. MCNAMEE
ROGER Clemens became famous over the past two-plus decades because of his brilliance in the one-on-one matchups that define baseball. Pitcher vs. hitter at 60 feet, 6 inches. Clemens was...
IT'S A SETUP
Joba Chamberlain will prepare during spring training as a starter, but will begin the season in the Yankee bullpen barring injury to any of the other five main rotation members,...
CHAMBERLAIN OK WITH RULES
TAMPA - Joba Chamberlain understood the Joba Rules last year, but that didn't eliminate the fierce competitor from being frustrated when they were enforced. "Last year it was kind of...
DECADE OF DOMINANCE
TAMPA - Hank Steinbrenner tells it like it is and if the young pitching comes around he envisions what could be a Decade of Dominance for the Yankees. "This year,...
'ROUTINE' CHECK FOR MATSUI
TAMPA - Hideki Matsui stopped by the Hospital For Special Surgery yesterday in Manhattan to have a surgically repaired right knee examined by Dr. Scott Rodeo, who performed the operation...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
According to your birthday chart you are either about to take a giant step forward or a giant step back. Which one it is depends entirely on whether you have...
POL CALLS CRACK TAX RAW 'DEAL'
ALBANY - A prominent Democratic Queens assemblyman yesterday warned that Gov. Spitzer's proposed tax on illegal drugs - dubbed the "crack tax" by critics - could unfairly impact the drug...
A PRETTY 'PENN'-Y
ALBANY - The cost of creating a Moynihan Rail Station to replace dingy Penn Station will be more than $3 billion - and could go even higher as construction costs...
HEATH EX AT WORK AGAIN
Life goes on for grieving Michelle Williams. Just two days after the funeral for her ex-love and baby daddy, Heath Ledger, the actress, looking "heartbroken" and "bleary eyed," returned to...
FEDS HAVE TOP SNITCH PUT ON ICE
Gambino mob rat Joseph Vollaro has been "relocated" to a secret hideaway, under the protective eye of law-enforcement officers, sources said yesterday. While Vollaro is not officially in the federal...
'CONCRETE' EVIDENCE
It's called "How to Succeed in Business Without Getting Whacked by the Mob." Joseph Vollaro, the mobbed-up Staten Island trucking exec threatening to bring down the Gambino crime family by...
'HEAVY-METAL' ARCHITECT AXED
The developer of a controversial condominium complex that had incited its Brooklyn neighbors to start a rezoning drive offered an olive branch yesterday - by firing the architect. William Stein...
DOGS TRY TO BOW WOW 'EM
A blogging bloodhound, a terrier who's a top dog on TV, an ice cream-loving St. Bernard, and a chow chow who's a New York therapy volunteer were among the pooches...
FATALLY HIT ON WAY TO OPRAH PAL
An elderly man who was delivering candy to Oprah Winfrey's best pal, Gayle King, was killed yesterday when he was struck by a cab and then a bus in Midtown,...
BIG BLING FOR BIG BLUE
Here's a sneak peek at what could be the MVP of all Super Bowl rings. The "Ring of Destiny," as its designer is calling his prototype Giants championship ring, is...
THREAT LEVEL IS 'GREEN'
Global warming is "just as lethal" as terrorism because it "has the potential to kill everybody," Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "This is just as important as stopping nuclear proliferation," he...
ABOUT 'FACE' FOR MODEL GI
Army veteran Donald Calliste wants to do the rest of his marching down a fashion runway. The 29-year-old former soldier was outnumbered yesterday by hundreds of stunning women who flooded...
AN ACCIDENT, LI KILLER SAYS
A Long Island man pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson yesterday, but insisted that he accidentally strangled a newlywed in the heat of passion before torching her home in an...
PARENTS REBEL AGAINST SOUTH BX. SCHOOL MOVE
First, their daughters were forced to attend school temporarily in a Bronx building and then for nearly two years in outdoor trailers whose bathrooms at times doubled as science labs....
BITTERSWEET DAY FOR SON OF 9/11 HERO
A third-generation Brooklyn firefighter whose father was among those killed on 9/11 at Ground Zero was promoted to lieutenant yesterday in a ceremony draped in sadness. Patrick Burns, 36, of...
ABC HIT WITH DISCRIM SUIT
A black engineer for ABC-TV has filed a racial-discrimination lawsuit claiming he endured taunting by supervisors and was transferred after complaining. Oscar Wilson said that in 2004, he hung a...
CHIEF POSTED AT DEUTSCHE
The FDNY will station a high-ranking officer at the fire-ravaged Deutsche Bank building until the complicated job of decontaminating and dismantling the toxic tower is done, The Post has learned....
CRIME SNEAKING 'UP'
What's come down may be creeping back up. The city was hit with a crime rise in the first six weeks of the year - the first time that's happened...
DIRE SNOW HUNT
An NYU honors graduate walked out of a Colorado bar early Friday after a night of getting loaded and vanished into a blinding snowstorm - and now his frantic mom...
JUDGE MAKES GUTSY RULING
Spare us the gory details. A Brooklyn judge doesn't want jurors who may decide if an accused killer lives or dies to hear gruesome details about the murders. Federal Judge...
SCAM DOCTORS GET JAIL
Two doctors involved in a decade-long, multimillion-dollar insurance overbilling ring were sentenced to prison at a Manhattan sentencing yesterday. Neurologist Victor Basbus, sentenced to two to six years, and internist...
THE GUY BEHIND MASK
The kinky clubgoer who almost choked to death at a Midtown masochism mecca is a married, retired math professor from Montreal, The Post has learned. Richard Benjamin, 67, who was...
SUBPRIME PARTY FOR DEMS ALOAN
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer yesterday announced hearings on the subprime lending crisis, but invited only Democrats. The move prompted charges that Spitzer was using the state Banking Department in an...
KIDS FLOCKING TO APPLE U'S
High-school students around the country ò New York. Applications to city universities are on track to hit record levels this year. NYU leads the way with 37,000 applicants, an 8.5...
TRIBUNALS GO BY THE BOOK
Here are some of the rules for the upcoming military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay: * All six major suspects will be tried before a military tribunal. Lawyers, journalists and some...
6 FACE DEATH IN 9/11 TRIAL
Six high-ranking al Qaeda thugs, including the confessed mastermind of 9/11, will face the death penalty in a first-of-its-kind trial, the Pentagon announced yesterday. In what will be the most...
HARD DAY'S FIGHT
Heather Mills armed herself yesterday with boxes of documents and video of a paparazzi chase in hopes of bolstering her divorce case against Paul McCartney. Mills, 40, who is representing...
OMG, IT'S A BLACKBERRY BLACKOUT
Millions of thumbs got an unexpected rest yesterday. BlackBerry phones were rendered useless for hours after a massive, mysterious outage paralyzed the wireless e-mail system, affecting up to 10 million...
MAC CALLED RIGHT CHOICE
Prominent conservatives Gary Bauer and Jeb Bush endorsed likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain yesterday - an important sign that the party's right flank is beginning to close ranks behind...
HILL'S NO '1ST' LADY
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has taken the lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton among Democratic voters for the first time in a nationwide Gallup poll. The USA Today/Gallup survey, released yesterday,...
'SUPER' LATINO SLAMS CLINTON
A prominent member of the national Democratic Party has circulated a sharp e-mail saying the removal of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle was disloyal to Hispanics...
BARACK'S WAX 'WIN'
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has finally made it into the Oval Office - or at least a wax replica of him has - just as Hillary Rodham Clinton's White House...
WRITE ON! SHOWS AIM FOR APRIL RETURN
April is going to be the new September as TV shakes off the effects of a 101-day writers strike and prime time's biggest shows get set to return. With members...
HISPANICS ON RISE
Hispanics, already the nation's largest minority group, will triple in size and account for 60 percent of the population growth between now and 2050, a new study says. During that...
WIFE CLEARED IN MONEYMAN'S DROWNING
The wife of a New York hedge-fund hotshot found dead in his Florida pool last fall won't be charged in his death, prosecutors said yesterday. Saying there is no evidence...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QUEENS A man is a suspect in the murder of a Flushing man, police said yesterday. He allegedly punched Willie McEntire, 51, who fell down and hit his head, during...
RAT PACK'S SET TO SQUEAL
THE dirty-dozen mob informants threatening to bring down the Gam bino crime family include would-be victims who narrowly escaped rubouts - and some of the hit men who tried to...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 346; Lucky Sum: 13 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 2792; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 505; Lucky Sum: 10; Evening Win-4 Mon.: 6591; Lucky...
JUST PLAIN THUGS
Last week's roundup by federal author ities of more than 100 mobsters - in cluding the entire hierarchy of the Gambino family - was a useful reminder that the Sopranos...
THE NEW YORK FOOLHARMONIC
The New York Philharmonic was set to hand North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il a propaganda coup when it tours the tyrant's economically and morally destitute realms later this month....
TOM LANTOS, 1928-2008
By the time he was 17, Tom Lantos al ready had lived a full life: A fighter in the underground during the Nazi occupation of his native Hungary, he was...
'SUPER' CONFUSION
MADAME Tussaud's is bullish on Sen. Barack Obama. Yesterday, the wax museum unveiled a new figure of Obama seated in a replica of the Oval Office, with Bill and Hillary...
THE LINCOLN-LEGACY SCUFFLE
FIRST Lady Laura Bush will kick off the year-long runup to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial today at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, Ky. Not that Lincoln...
GRINCH TAX: IT'S BACK
AMID the holiday shopping season last November, Gov. Spitzer an nounced the state would begin collecting sales taxes from New Yorkers who shopped online. An immediate firestorm erupted, with critics...
NATO'S CHECK-UP
THERE'S life in the old alli ance yet. For 44 years, NATO has given itself an informal health exam at the Munich Conference on Security Policy. This year's poking and...
MITT'S MOTIVATION: HE PUT AMERICA FIRST
With Mitt Romney quitting the race, it seems that the way is clear for Sen. John McCain to become the Republican nominee ("Romney Does Right," Editorial, Feb. 8). In his...
SAVING KIDS & MONEY
State Sen. Stephen Saland attempted to frighten parents by saying that schoolchildren have been put at greater risk by Gov. Spitzer's budget ("Gov Puts Kids in Harm's Way," Feb. 5)....
YAHOO! HOO-HA
The Microsoft-Yahoo! takeover battle is about to get ugly - and how ugly will depend on whether the CEOs of both companies behave rationally or emotionally. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer...
AIG IS BURNED BY $5.9B CDO MESS
AIG shares plunged after the company disclosed that exotic debt paper on its books had lost a stunning $5.9 billion in value - raising fears of more skeletons in the...
THERE WILL BE MAGIC ON WALL ST. ON MAY 2
MARK May 2nd on your calendar, stock fans. That's when the whole world will look all right again. I'm just joshin' ya on "the whole world" part. But it is...
WILD PITCH(MAN)
Hollywood funnyman Will Ferrell is taking movie tie-ins to a new level by appearing in not one but two nearly identical product pitches for his upcoming basketball comedy "Semi-Pro." Ferrell...
WEBMD HAS MERGER-ITIS
Yahoo!'s rejection of Microsoft's $45 billion buyout bid didn't stop advertising partner WebMD from adding the potential takeover to its laundry list of woes. WebMD, which inked an ad pact...
THIRD TIME'S A CHARM FOR STRUGGLING KELLWOOD
Struggling apparel maker Kellwood has agreed to be acquired for $542 million - a bid it had rejected twice last fall when it touted a multiyear turnaround plan. The St....
USA'S IN FASHION
It's not just tourists that are coming to New York to scoop up fashions at bargain prices. Big retailers based in Europe and Asia hit New York's Fashion Week in...
HUNTER MAY GET $250M
MANHATTAN'S larg est current land offering is also its most hush-hush. State-controlled CUNY has discreetly put Hunter College's Brookdale campus on the market, prompting speculation that a sale could fetch...
MAXIM MOUSE
Maxim magazine owner Alpha Media yesterday named Glenn Rosenbloom as president, after earlier ousting Maxim Publisher Rob Gregory. Rosenbloom joins Alpha, formerly known as Dennis Publishing, from Walt Disney Co.'s...
SANDOW THINKS IT'S 'WORTH' IT
In a sign that the financial media market is retrenching, Worth magazine has been sold by current owner CurtCo Media to Sandow Media, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based owner of New...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
What the cluck is this? Mondays are bad enough, but imagine finding this fowl prank - 50 chickens running loose in the halls at Northeast High School in Philadelphia. "We...
ATHENS - BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY
The concept of a democratic society, such as the one our country enjoys today, began in the Greek capital some 8,000 years ago. The city of Athens is sometimes referred...
PLAIN & SIMPLE
WHILE their pop-punk cohorts were grabbing headlines for impregnating celebutants and even being arrested on suspicion of murder, the guys of Simple Plan were laying low. What were they up...
JANET TRACTION MISSING IN ACTION
JANET JACKSON is one of the top 10 selling artists in the history of contemporary music - but since 2004, with her infamous Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction," her studio efforts...
MPFREE
* Simple Plan, "Love Is a Lie" Just in time for Valentine's Day, this pop-punk band (seen above) mixes hip-hop and rock beats to call out a significant other who's...
FINE ACTING ITS SAVING GRACE
THE title character of "Grace," starring Lynn Redgrave, is a science professor who has little use for God. Lecturing on natural selection, she dismisses the notion of a divine creator...
ADIEU TO DUO
LINCOLN Center was heavy with the sound of farewells this weekend as New York City Ballet said a heartfelt goodbye to one of its greatest stars - 40-year-old Nikolaj Hubbe,...
STARR REPORT
Celine (and heard) A heads-up for Celine Dion fans (yeah, they're out there). Dion, hosting a CBS special Friday night, not only gives a synergistic shout-out to "Ghost Whisperer" star...
CHRISTIAN FAITH
LOOK! Up in the sky - it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a cocka tiel-coiffed designer with the physique of an Olsen twin, and he's being touted as this...
I'LL BE BACK
BRIAN Austin Green hopes shredding tough-as-nails terminators on "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" might finally put a bullet in his old image as a "Beverly Hills, 90210" pretty boy. Green turned...
ANOREXIC HBO STAR IS DEAD
POLLY Williams, who was featured in last year's harrowing HBO documentary "Thin" about anorexic women, was found dead Friday, believed to be a suicide. Williams checked into the Renfrew Center...
ELLEN VS. OPRAH 2
HERE we go again. Ch. 4 is moving "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" back to 4 p.m. - the same timeslot where it was steamrolled last season by "Oprah" and "Judge...
CRAWFORD, CHAN GET SECOND LOOKS
HOW do you entice buffs to buy a DVD set of movies that are 60 years old or older - when earlier sets de voted to the same performer or...
BABY GOT BACK
WHEN Marie gained 70 pounds, the comments from her husband started. And with it, a giant helping of nitpicking and self-doubt. The 25-year-old founder of the personal blog mercurialscribe.com couldn't...
YOU, LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE
ONE of my patients recently came to me for a foot problem but ended up talking about problems of a different sort. "I've just had it with this winter," she...
GET FED
RARELY does a month go by anymore without urgent news from Honolulu's Waikiki Beach, now feverishly making itself over after decades of fading away. New shops! More malls! New hotels!...
OJ IN JAIL VIDEO
Caught on camera last month by a behind-bars reality TV show O.J. Simpson complained that a bounty hunter ruined his poker game. After the disgraced grid great was hauled back...