February 19, 2008
Mayweather Is BWAA Fighter of Year
Floyd Mayweather is Boxing Writers' Fighter of the Year and other award winners. WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and longtime Reno Gazette-Journal boxing writer Steve Sneddon head the list...
TRANSCRIPT: SHRINK SLAY SUSPECT'S ASSAULT RAP
Below is a partial transcript of the Queens Criminal Court hearing Feb. 1 -- less than two weeks before the slaying of shrink Kathryn Faughey -- involving suspect David Tarloff...
Scene
Student and vintage retailer Whitney Kessler wears a vintage gingham dress, a top from Anthropologie and a fur headband from eBay with a bag from somewhere in NoLIta. "I like...
Deal of the Day
Sometimes thereâs nothing like a good solid basic; especially one with a silk lining. Pick up this Graham & Spencer Capsleeve Dress at West Village boutique Mick Margo. Originally $276,...
Valentine's Day Winners
We asked you to weigh in on your favorite TV twosomes last week, and the votes are in. The winners by a landslide are...1. "Lost's" Kate and JackFollowed by:2. "Gossip...
Fred lays down the gauntlet
A quick wrap-up from Port St. Lucie after the fourth day of pitcher-catcher workouts:1. Fred Wilpon made his once-a-year spring training address to the media this afternoon, and the owner...
Oscar Watch: My Final Predictions in All 24 Categories
Oscar ballots close at 5 p.m. PST today and as much as I would love to see Ellen Page -- who turns 21 on Thursday, the day after she graces...
3 DOWN: DAMON, GIAMBI, MATSUI
1. Joe Girardi mentions competition enough that I am going to take him at his word, and not just about the open spaces in the bullpen where as many as...
Curry in hiding
By MARC BERMANWASHINGTON - While all his teammates sat by their lockers, Eddy Curry hid in the trainer's room of the visitor's locker room during media availability session at this...
Done
By FRED KERBERJason Kidd is a Dallas Mav.Or Devin Harris is a New Jersey Net.Depends on how you want to look at it.The most convoluted trade in memory - made...
KIDD TRADE FINALIZED
APThe New Jersey Nets have completed the trade of All-Star point guard Jason Kidd to the Dallas Mavericks. The deal has been in the making since before the All-Star break...
Warm Welcome for Pettitte
By JOEL SHERMANTAMPA -- Andy Pettitte was greeted by warm applause from fans, hugs from teammates and comfortable familiarity during his first workout this season with the Yankees."I hated that...
Warm Welcome Back for Pettitte
By JOEL SHERMANTAMPA -- Andy Pettitte was greeted by warm applause from fans, hugs from teammates and comfortable familiarity during his first workout this season with the Yankees."I hated that...
NCAA Bracket Projection
After a one-week absence courtesy of Roger Clemens, we're back with the latest NCAA Bracket Projection.We're getting down to crunch time. Bracket Buster Saturday is in a few days and...
10 Smartest TV Shows Of All Time
Mensa International chief Jim Werdell has named the following 10 shows the Smartest of All Time: 1. "M*A*S*H"2. "Cosmos"3. "CSI"4. "House"5. "The West Wing"6. "Boston Legal"7. "All in the Family"8....
OPRAH IS 'BIG' ON THIS GUY
STEPHEN Paletta, a Westchester builder, probably doesn't need Oprah Winfrey's $1 million. Paletta, 43, is one of 10 contestants who were chosen to be part of the new series, "Oprah's...
Hoo-ray for Blu-ray
It's official folks, HD DVD is dunzo. Toshiba announced today that they're discontinuing their interest in HD DVD. This means they won't be developing, making or marketing HD DVD players...
3 UP: Addiction, Schilling, Pettitte
1. The biggest addiction in baseball, believe it or not, is not illegal performance enhancing drugs. It is baseball itself. Just look at how many guys can't give it up....
ANALYSIS: While you were sleeping
Headed to Houston? Budget extra for The Man. Travel Weekly reports that the public is fighting back over cruise line fuel surcharges, which can easily top $100 per booking on...
PATS SMEAR PATSY WITH SPYGATE MUD
Football's most salacious off-the-field controversy - the Patriots' involvement in illegal videotaping - is beginning to take on some eerie similarities to baseball's Roger Clemens vs. the world HGH issue....
WINNING COLORS DEAD AT 23
Winning Colors, the 1988 Kentucky Derby winner has died at 23, according to Gainesway thoroughbred farm in Lexington, Ky. Gainesway VP Charlie Aker says Winning Colors was euthanized Sunday after...
SPORTS SHORTS
TENNIS: Galimberti banned Italian player Giorgio Galimberti was found guilty yesterday of betting on tennis and was suspended for 100 days and fined $35,000. The ATP said Galimberti bet on...
JASPERS PULL OFF SHOCKER
They couldn't breathe until the final buzzer, couldn't exhale until Kenny Hasbrouck's last-second runner bounded off the rim. It wasn't easy, or pretty, but the Manhattan Jaspers gutted out a...
DISHIN' THE DIRK
NEW ORLEANS - I was starting to think Jason Kidd would get back together with Joumana before the Mavericks. While the NBA ensured everything was on the up-and-up (yeah, right!)...
STAR GUARD UP FOR GRABS
Lamont Jones, who verbally committed to Louisville when he was a sophomore at Rice High in Harlem last year, announced yesterday that he was re-opening his recruitment. "He never went...
TIME FOR SAMPSON TO SAY GOOD KNIGHT
AS THE ugly truth about Kelvin Sampson continues to come light, so does the fact that many Indiana basketball fans, perhaps even most, have lost all perspective on what was...
TAKE THE LEAD
The Devils remain a work in progress, even while working wonders. In their climb to a share of the Eastern Conference lead, Lou Lamoriello's latest overachievers have even regained a...
ISLANDERS AVOID BITE OF SHARKS
It's hard to know what to make of the Islanders. Last week, they saw their losing streak extend to seven games as they dropped near the bottom of the Eastern...
ISIAH REKINDLES FAITH IN CURRY, RANDOLPH
Maybe advertising his big men can help Isiah Thomas trade one of them. With the Knicks' disastrous season set to resume tonight at Washington, Thomas spent part of yesterday praising...
ENDY SEES WINNER IN SANTANA
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Endy Chavez has joined Carlos Beltran in the prediction business. The Mets' recent trade for ace left-hander Johan Santana is "a guarantee for us to make...
HOPING FOR RELIEF
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - By the end of the morning, the rest of the Mets pitchers had wandered back to the air-conditioned bliss of the clubhouse, or scattered off...
DELGADO 'FOCUSED' ON TURNING THINGS AROUND
PORT ST. LUCIE - Everything about Carlos Delgado last season screamed "end of the line." The numbers were down, in some cases plumbing career lows. The bat speed was alarmingly...
JASON DEAL SEEMS A GO
The Jason Kidd Era in New Jersey should end today. And they really mean it this time. Just don't confuse it with last week, when it really looked like the...
LATEST DEFENSIVE SURGE MAKES RENNEY PROUD
As the NHL has changed, Tom Renney's philosophy has not. It's been defense first for Renney since he took over the Canucks in 1996-97. Now, in his fourth season as...
HANK: FOCUS TOO MUCHON YANKS
TAMPA - The Yankees were once again in the center of the HGH storm yesterday as Andy Pettitte made his public televised apologies, but Hank Steinbrenner said the Yankees lefty...
LAWYER SAYS PETTITTE MAY HAVE TO TESTIFY AGAIN
TAMPA - According to one of Andy Pettitte's lawyers on hand for yesterday's Legends Field press conference, Pettitte was mostly mum about Roger Clemens for three reasons, one of which...
ANDY 'IN A DELICATE SITUATION'
During his press conference yesterday, Andy Pettitte expressed his desire to put the Mitchell Report controversy behind him. That's wishful thinking. A defamation suit Roger Clemens has filed against his...
HAL: STEROIDS WEREN'T DISCUSSED
The possibility that an aging Roger Clemens was using steroids to remain successful was never discussed by the Yankees, Hal Steinbrenner says in an exclusive interview with GQ.com released today....
STRAINING TO MAKE AMENDS
TAMPA - The Mitchell Report and the government's investigation into performance-enhancing drugs has driven a wedge between Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte. "Obviously it's put a strain, I think, on...
WORST MAY STILL BE AHEAD FOR PETTITTE
TAMPA - Andy Pettitte had his closer, Mariano Rivera, nearby for support yesterday, yet no chance at the closure he so yearns for from a tryst with human growth hormone...
DAY OF TRAVEL, WORKING OUT AND FACING UP
TAMPA - Andy Pettitte did more than talk to the media yesterday. After arriving at Tampa Airport with his wife, Laura, on a private jet, Pettitte immediately went to the...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
A Sun-Pluto aspect on your birthday this year means you are determined to change your life for the better. You are more likely to succeed in that aim if you...
ANOTHER HEV-Y DUTY LINK TO PENSION $$
ALBANY - The campaign treasurer for disgraced former Comptroller Alan Hevesi is connected to companies that raked in millions of dollars in pension-related fees for top Hevesi political consultant Hank...
THERE HE BLOWS AGAIN: SPITZ RANTS AT QUINN
Gov. Spitzer and his top aides unleashed a verbal assault on Council Speaker Christine Quinn and her staff over a disagreement about the Javits Center, The Post has learned. Sources...
POL HAS 'COLOR BLIND' EXCUSE
ALBANY - In a different type of blind justice, Lt. Gov. David Paterson insists race did not play a role in his decision to replace a white staff photographer with...
TEEN KILLED IN CAR AMBUSH
A Long Island teen was murdered and two of his friends were clinging to life in an apparent ambush outside a nightclub, police said yesterday. Edwin Jovani Mejia-Alvarado, 17, and...
GAL'S TRASHIN' STATEMENT
She's one performer who doesn't mind being called "trashy." Juillard School of Music graduate Soyeon Lee, 28, will be shunning formal designer wear at her Carnegie Hall piano debut tonight...
'HACKER PLANNED MURDER'
Prosecutors are looking to hit the accused cleaver killer with a charge of premeditated murder - despite his long history of mental illness - because of his actions in the...
ROOKIE COP KILLS HIMSELF IN QUEENS PARK
A 21-year-old rookie cop - the son of an ex-police officer - took his life in a Queens park yesterday morning, leaving behind a suicide note in which he "complained"...
ERASE DISGRACE
A bungling techie in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office accidentally erased an audiotape recording of a statement by one of the men charged in the death of NYPD Officer Russel...
KIDS MAY HAVE EATEN 'BAD' BEEF
It's "possible" that New York City public school students ate beef from a California slaughterhouse before a recall went into effect - but none has gotten sick, a schools spokeswoman...
DON'T CAN SANIT MAN FOR TRASHING BOSS: JUDGE
A city sanitation worker, who is also a union honcho, is guilty of misconduct for punching out his boss and not taking a required drug and alcohol test - but...
TRUE BLUE IS PURPLE
Likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain is within single-digit striking distance of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in heavily Democratic New York state, and leads both in the suburbs...
SLAY-TEEN MA CRAZY WITH GRIEF
The mother of a teen burned to death in a Bronx building furnace refuses to accept that the girl's demon dad committed the ghastly deed - and is holding out...
RAPE-HERO STRIPPER
A brave Scores stripper who helped cops bust an alleged rapist is relieved that her escape from his clutches is keeping the fiend off the streets. Daring dancer Monica Maneiro,...
SLOPPY DENTAL WORK
A Manhattan dental clinic - which already has held the dubious distinction of being the most sued in the city - dumped hundreds of private records containing intimate patient information...
'FIRE HOSE' EXPOSED: COPS
A drunken firefighter was busted and charged with exposing himself to a Rhode Island family inside a Times Square hotel elevator, authorities said yesterday. Arthur Lindemann, 36, a nine-year FDNY...
EX-COP IS SLAIN 'BY WIFE'
A churchgoing mother-of-two from Queens gunned down her husband, a retired NYPD sergeant, while he was shaving in the bathroom of the family's home yesterday, police said. Barbara Sheehan, 46,...
WARY-KATE OLSEN
Mary-Kate Olsen is back in New York City, the first time she has been spied here since the death of boyfriend Heath Ledger. The diminutive diva, wearing oversized glasses, wasn't...
DODI'S DAD BITES 'DRACULA' ROYALS
Mohamed al-Fayed took the stand yesterday at a court inquest into Princess Diana's death and turned it into a one-man, score-settling tirade against the royals, ripping Prince Philip as a...
WALL OF SOUND-OFF
Mad maestro Phil Spector boasted to a British documentary maker that he dodged a murder rap, despite biased jurors who were out to get him. "On the jury selection questionnaire,...
CLINTON 'PLAGIARISM' CHARGE NO DRAMA TO OBAMA
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Barack Obama said yesterday it was "no big deal" that he borrowed lines from his pal, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, in a speech - as Hillary...
BRAIN STORM OVER TV LIST
You don't get into Mensa by watching "Get Smart." The head of the genius organization has picked the 10 Smartest TV Shows of All Time - touching off a debate...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QUEENS A man died of a heart attack yesterday after he was attacked while waiting on line at a Jamaica donut shop, police sources said. The man, who had no...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Mon.: 964; Lucky Sum: 19 / Midday Win-4 Mon.: 5464; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Nos. Mon.: 165; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win- 4 Mon.:...
BUSH IN AFRICA
Critics of President Bush who contend that his policies have caused the world to revile America would do well to note the adulation now greeting him on his five-nation tour...
ENDING A RACIAL OUTRAGE
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein last week moved to exorcise one of the city's most embarrassing racial quotas. Klein went before a federal judge to demand the lifting of a race-driven...
ELIOT GETS RESPONSIBLE
Here's a man-bites-dog - or, more pre cisely, gov-trims-budget - tale you won't see often: Just weeks after presenting his spending plans for the coming year, Gov. Spitzer now says...
BROKEN BORDERS
ON Sunday, Kosovo declared its independence from Ser bia and joined the great strategic movement of our time - the demolition of the phony world order imposed by dead Europeans....
DUBYA'S DIFFERENT TAKE ON AFRICA
PRESIDENT Bush's trip to five African nations (Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia) is the culmination of seven years of efforts to improve US relations and create trade and development...
FEAR FACTOR
LAST week, in the words of Nancy Pelosi, House Demo crats struck back against "fear" and "fear-mongering." They let the terrorist surveillance program expire, thus making a stirring gesture of...
WHERE WORDS FALL SHORT
WHEN Barack Obama recently borrowed a few lines from his good friend, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, it was hardly the kind of "plagiarism scandal" that forced Joe Biden from the...
POST DOESN'T GET IT: RENTERS NEED RELIEF, TOO
I am no fan of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but her idea for a renter's tax rebate is a fair one. Who do you think that landlords passed their...
OTB: TOO FAR OFF TRACK
"Good Riddance, OTB" (Editorial, Feb. 15) is a winning bet for taxpayers. Contrast the position of Mayor Bloomberg, in favor of selling Off-Track Betting, with that of David Weprin, City...
NEW 'R' WORD
Wall Street hopes for a small bounce today from Europe's rally - that is, if surging oil prices don't kill the momentum. Inflation remained the biggest worry as investors returned...
MOODY'S BUFFETT-ED BY ALLEGATIONS
Cries of foul arose yesterday against Warren Buffett after the powerful credit-rating agency Moody's Investors Service - in which he's the largest shareholder - began pulling the rug out from...
A FRESH IDEA TO DEAL WITH THE HOUSING CRISIS
RICHARD Bove thinks he has a solution to the housing crisis. Several members of Congress seem to agree, and he's been promised that his plan will be presented to President...
BROWN IS SCORCHED
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, fending off accusations that he dithered over Northern Rock Plc, said his government was right to consider private bids for the stricken lender before taking...
IT'S UP IN THE AIR
Sirius and XM Satellite Radio shareholders are betting the companies' merger will be approved imminently; then again, that has been the case since November. The spread between Sirius and XM...
BUILD BECAUSE WE MUST
THE very sight makes some builders and brokers squirm - but the best news for the city's long-term commercial outlook is steel rising for two new towers where nearly 3...
NEW SOHO BOSS
Fashion house Hugo Boss is moving into a SoHo building owned by Scholastic, The Post has learned. Sources say the high-end retailer will take over the approximately 9,000 square foot...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This bull may have a future in public relations. A bovine named Michigan got his moniker because of a brown spot on his side that resembles the shape of his...
SPRING PREENING
YOU should be getting sick of the Amy Winehouse wino-wing and Posh's bob right about . . . now. Time for a new look. "Think Liz Taylor, St. Tropez circa...
MPFREE
* Kate Voegele, "Chicago" Full of huge hooks, this tune is a prime example of the Ohio native's specialty - soulful, upbeat pop-rock songs drawn straight from her personal experiences....
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
CHANCES are you've stumbled upon Kate Voegele's music while channel surfing on your couch. The singer-songwriter's poppy and insightful tunes can be heard in a variety of TV shows, including...
DANE & ABLE
SUNE Rose Wagner, singer/songwriter of the Danish rock duo the Raveonettes, isn't inspired by live rock shows. "There are drums and drunk people," he tells The Post. "You get a...
ODD CONDITIONS PUT CITY FOLK IN BAD STATE
WITH its tense portrait of nine characters coping with the pressures of urban life, "Unconditional," by Brett C. Leonard, has the feel of a lost Sidney Lumet film from the...
'IDOL' RINGER'S LAMENT
CARLY Smithson, the "American Idol" semi- finalist who is at the center of a controversy over her amateur status, defended herself for the first time yesterday. Smithson - who is...
BIG JOKER BEHIND LITTLE LUCK
NOT since an old man in over-sized glasses danced like a maniac for Six Flags has there been a commercial character this bizarre, yet oddly appealing. He doesn't even have...
ADAMS & EVE
HBO is taking a huge leap of faith in pro ducing a seven-part series based on David McCullough's epic biography, "John Adams," a subject much more PBS than HBO, when...
'BB' ANGERS AUTISTIC GROUP
A US autism advocacy group is demanding an apology from CBS over a disparaging remark a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother." John Gilmore, executive director of Autism United,...
DANCE CHANCE 'STARS'
AMOTLEY crew of celeb rities ranging from Olympic skater Kristi Yamaguchi to Elvis' ex- wife, Pricilla Presley, are set to cha-cha into America's living rooms when the sixth edition of...
THE PILL STILL FILLS THE BILL
WHEN a woman says she's taking "the pill," every one knows which one she's talking about. Since its introduction more than 45 years ago, more than 80 percent of American...
SET JETTING
LOCATION matters. Watch, for instance, any of the Bourne films. Would they have been anything more than just run-of-the-mill chase flicks without the serious attention to detail when it came...
SALE AWAY
EXORBITANT airfares got you down? Worry not - it's time for round three of our guff-free, geekalicious, 100-percent insider tips from the experts at Airfare Watchdog. This week's installment can...
ON LOCATION: Rule Britannia
London's Dukes Hotel was a Fleming fave. It's Oscar season. So many Brits, so few statuettes. Letâs see, thereâs Daniel Day Lewis, thereâs loyal subject/Aussie Cate Blanchett playing Queen Elizabeth...
It's Happening
By FRED KERBERThe Jason Kidd trade is about to become reality. "It appears it's a go," Nets team president Rod Thorn said.This deal has taken every conceivable turn but for...
DODI'S DAD BITES 'DRACULA' ROYALS
Mohamed al-Fayed took the stand todayat a court inquest into Princess Diana's death and turned it into a one-man, score-settling tirade against the royals, ripping Prince Philip as a "Nazi"...