February 20, 2008
Kidd ready to go in Dallas
APJason Kidd delivered an early message to his new Dallas Mavericks teammates: Be ready for his passes, whether they think theyâre covered or not.âIâve always felt my teammates are always...
A look at upcoming Microsoft titles
GDC - Game Developers Conference for those not in the know - is going on right now in San Francisco. Want to know what "blockbusters" Microsoft's got planned for the...
Full-squad workouts under way
A quick wrap-up from Port St. Lucie after the first day of full-squad workouts:1. Moises Alou was the last regular in camp, reporting just in time for the start of...
Scene
Nora Beckman wears a vintage 1950s dress, a hat by Barbara Fineman, a vintage scarf and carries a very cool vintage box-frame bag. "I don't like to wear all one...
Minaya: Garcia just visiting
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets say they aren't interested in free-agent pitcher Freddy Garcia after the ex-Phillies starter made a surprise visit to their camp today along with his...
3 DOWN: Guess The Yankee Roster
1. The whole Yankee squad worked out for the first time yesterday, so this felt like a good time to guess what I think the 25-man roster will look like...
Keyshawn mulls comeback
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports today that former Jet Keyshawn Johnson has been working out four times a week and expects to make up his mind whether he'll come out...
What's Another Week or Two?
By FRED KERBERThey called it a bone bruise in Dallas.Oops.Devin Harris is still one week, maybe two, from playing for the Nets because of a Grade 2 left ankle sprain....
Finally, Wii Fit release date
Soon, you and your friends could be adopting poses as silly as the one pictured. Why? Because Nintendo has finally announced the U.S. release date for Wii Fit, the game...
Deal of the Day
Get highland chic with this adorable Burlington Tartan Mini on sale for $39.99 at J. Crew.Originally $98, this plaid skirt is a great piece to mix and match with different...
Honest to Blog, 'Juno' Has a Date With Starbucks
A day after Oscar polls closed, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced an April 15 street date for "Juno'' -- and indicated it will be for sale at Starbucks...
2 assistants change jobs, 1 hired
The Jets have named Mike Devlin tight ends/assistant offensive line coach, Jerome Henderson defensive backs coach, and Kevin OâDea special teams coordinator. The announcement was made by Jets Head Coach...
Part of Burgos' $270K bling gone
PORT ST. LUCIE â Mets reliever Ambiorix Burgos had $270,000 in jewelry stolen from his hotel room here Tuesday after leaving it in a shaving bag, Port St. Lucie police...
Torre gave Pettitte pep talk
By GEORGE A. KING IIITAMPA -- Joe Torreâs feelings for Andy Pettitte arenât a secret. He has long admired Pettitteâs character and professionalism on top of his ability to win...
A-Rod: I've never used steroids
By GEORGE A. KING IIITAMPA -- Alex Rodriguez didnât wag his finger at a camera in Congress like Rafael Palmeiro did, but he was adamant that he never used performance...
A Dozen Men
The Post's Melissa Jane Kronfeld (M.J.) and David K. Li blog American Idol, Season 7.Our first voting show of this season didnât disappoint, with every "American Idol" ingredient we love...
UPDATE: Four Seasons Bora Bora
Land? Four Seasons don't need no stinkin' land! No matter whence they come, people love anything on a stick -- be it corn dogs and Eskimo pies, or martyrly messiahs...
TAMPA TIME
Sitting next to ex-Post colleague Andrew Marchand in the Yankees press box at Legends (Soon to be Steinbrenner) Field. The Yankees press box has been in mid-season form with all...
Young Fidel on Screen
Ailing dictator Fidel Castro, retiring after 49 years at the helm of Cuba, apparently will be turning up on U.S. movie screens later this year. Mexican actor Damian Bichir (pictured)...
Monstrous Implosion
In most cases, when a team leads 5-0, it's a pretty safe bet they're going to win the game. Not so with the Rangers last night against the Habs. No...
Curry sits, Randolph douses
By MARC BERMANWASHINGTON â Eddy Curry nor Zach Randolph saw their trade value go up last night in their overtime victory in Washington. Curry was benched after leaving midway through...
3 UP: Pettitte, Giambi, Santana
1. My column in today's Post details how my long association with Andy Pettitte has made me â against my better judgment â want to forgive him. I hope you...
DEUTSCHE FIRE FIRMS ARE FINED
The feds yesterday fined two contractors more than $400,000 for safety hazards at the former Deutsche Bank tower, where two firefighters died last August. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
NEIGH-SAYER MIKE NIXES $AVING OTB
The city's Off-Track-Betting Corp. was a step closer to shutting down yesterday as Mayor Bloomberg rejected an offer by the state to provide half the $1.1 million needed to keep...
$220M JACKPOT FUELS MEGA DREAMS
Are you a Mega-man? A Mega-woman? If you played the numbers 1, 38, 42, 55, 56 and Mega Ball number 34, you are. New Yorkers flocked to lottery shops yesterday...
FEDS SLAM 'GOOD DEED' GOODFELLA
A Mafia oldfella's attempt to use his "history of civic deeds" as a reason for a reduced sentence is "a bad joke," the feds charged yesterday. Federal prosecutors hope to...
BANK: TAKE THE $$
Benjamin Lovell says he kept trying to explain to Commerce Bank officials that he really didn't have $5.8 million in his account. But they kept insisting he could take the...
CITY 'LIENS' ON BILL DODGERS
Nearly 25,000 homeowners will be getting notices from the city threatening liens on their properties unless they pay their water and property-tax bills within three months, officials said yesterday. They...
DOC SHOCK: LET THE PSYCHO GO
A Queens doctor blew a chance to help put away a psychotic mama's boy just 11 days before the deranged man allegedly butchered an Upper East Side shrink, sources said...
MIKE CLAIMS VOTE 'FRAUD'
Mayor Bloomberg charged yesterday that "fraud" was behind the unofficial results in the New York Democratic presidential primary that produced zero votes for Barack Obama in some districts. "If you...
THIEF'S 'DONE' DEAL DIES
An impassioned plea from the $300,000 victim of a thieving lawyer convinced a Long Island judge to yank the disbarred attorney's sentencing deal off the table. "Please do not allow...
RAPE COPS' 'CHEAP TRICK'
Cops tried to trick an accused livery-cab rapist into confessing by telling him it was OK to attack one of his victims because she "is just a hooker anyway," the...
BLACK WIDOW EXCUSE
The wife of a retired NYPD sergeant confessed that she fatally shot her husband in their Queens home because "he wanted to go to Flor ida, and I didn't want...
ACS SAW NIXZMARY BRUISES
A city child-welfare worker spotted early signs of abuse on 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, but got the cold shoulder from the child's stepfather when she tried to quiz him about the...
A FEAR OF FLYING
The FAA yesterday warned all airplanes to steer clear of an expansive swath of the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii as the Navy prepares to shoot down a defunct 5,000-pound...
E-SALE FOR 'RECORD' HAUL
Paul Mawhinney's 60-year labor of love has been to compile what might be the world's biggest private record collection - and now he's putting the whole thing up for sale...
HOPE FOR RAUL AS A FRIENDLIER RED-FELLOW
The second Cuban Revolution may already be under way - thanks to Fidel Castro's younger and, possibly, more moderate brother. Since Raul Castro became acting president 19 months ago, he's...
ADIOS AT LAST TO A TYRANT
Fidel Castro's resignation yesterday after nearly half a century as Cuba's dictator was greeted coolly by his countrymen and Cuban-Americans alike, who doubted it would bring real change. The ailing...
HOT-AIR INVADER
Darth Vader's helmet was never this big! This spectacular hot-air balloon, shaped like the head of one of the all-time great movie villains, floats above Brussels to kick off a...
MARRIAGE STINKS FOR PINK
The party's ended for colorful rocker Pink and her daredevil husband, Carey Hart, a rep for the Grammy-winner said yesterday. Pink, 28, and motocross racer Hart, 32, met at the...
A CASE OF ERASING HER BASE
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama moved in on Hillary Rodham Clinton's turf yesterday with strong showings among women and blue-collar voters in Wisconsin - a development that could bode ill for...
MAC GOES ON BARACK ATTACK AFTER VICTORY
Likely GOP nominee John McCain easily won the Wisconsin and Washington primaries over Mike Huckabee last night, and immediately unloaded on Barack Obama - vowing to prevent Americans from being...
OBAMA NOW A REAL WIS. KID
Barack Obama rolled over a fading Hillary Rodham Clinton in last night's Wisconsin primary, stretching his winning streak to nine as he gained the clear upper hand in the historic...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN A knife-wielding thug stabbed a man after an alleged physical altercation in an East Flatbush bodega, authorities said yesterday. Kenver Joseph, 20, allegedly grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed...
SURVIVOR HILL MIGHT NOT SURVIVE THIS
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rod ham Clinton lost in Wiscon sin last night - she's 0 for her last 9 - yet she managed to accomplish something that only political genius...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 215; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 2250; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 762; Lucky Sum: 15 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
CUBA LIBRE . . . SOMEDAY
Ten and a half months shy of 50 years after seizing power, 81-year-old Fidel Castro has stepped down as presi dent of communist Cuba. Castro relinquished power to his brother,...
JOE HYNES' LATEST MESS
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles "Joe" Hynes is a lucky man. Then again, with the chaos and incompetence that apparently pervade his office, he'd better be. The latest flub comes in...
OBAMA'S COPYCAT PROBLEM
Is Barack Obama the Pericles of contem porary presidential politics - or merely a pilferer of others' platitudes? Make no mistake: It matters. Monday, and again yesterday, Hillary Rodham Clinton's...
PAKISTAN VOTES - TERROR LOSES
SOME of the world's deadli est terrorists vowed to prevent it; powerful mili tary figures plotted to rig its outcome. Yet Pakistan's election went off with minimum violence, producing results...
FIDEL STEPS DOWN
SO President Fidel Castro is stepping down, handing formal power to his youn ger (76) brother Raul. Yesterday's news out of Havana comes as a surprise to many Cuba-watchers. After...
'SAFETY' INSANITY
CONGRESS is poised to pass a massive giveaway to the am bulance-chasing trial attorneys - under the guise of protecting consumers. The proposed law would give the 50 state attorneys...
MICHELLE OBAMA'S OBLIVIOUS 'PRIDE'
LIKE Michelle Obama, I am a "woman of color," a working mother of two young children and a mem ber of the 13th generation of Americans born since the founding...
STUDY'S MAJOR ERROR: JETER COMES UP SHORT
John Mazor's article is a new low in pandering to Yankee fans ("You've Got To Be Kidding!" Feb. 17). Mazor should watch some baseball games to see how most of...
YEAR OF TAX-AND-SPEND LIBERALS
Hats off to Alan Reynolds for his fantastic lesson in Economics 101 ("Tax Delusions," PostOpinion, Feb. 15). I had both my teenage daughters read it so that they have a...
STORM READY FOR RUMBLE
Marquette coach Tom Crean's style is subtle as a sledge hammer - and his team follows his lead. The Golden Eagles make up in toughness and defense what they give...
HOPKINS TARGETINGCALZAGHE - & DAD
In the Battle of the Planet two months from now, Bernard Hopkins will be targeting his opponent's dad. On April 19, Hopkins will be going punch for punch with Welshman...
DAYTONA CHAMP'S RIDIN' HIGH
Between the expected dominance of Hendrick Motorsports' star-studded team and the curiosity surrounding how much Toyota would improve in its second year in NASCAR, there wasn't a lot of thought...
COUGHLIN, GIANTS EYE 4-YEAR DEAL
There appears to be little suspense regarding Tom Coughlin's coaching status with the Giants, thanks to the Super Bowl championship he helped deliver. Coughlin will be given a new long-term...
OUCH! SUTTON'S LATEST ISLANDER CASUALTY
The Islander defense was already in a shaky state when word came yesterday of another severe blow. Andy Sutton will miss the next four to six weeks due to a...
HAWKINS LANDS WITH JETS
The Jets yesterday signed free-agent strong safety Atrell Hawkins in an effort to improve their defense. The 5-foot-10, 195-pound Hawkins, who sat out last season after being released by the...
KNICKS SHOW FIGHT; CURRY SITS
WASHINGTON - Eddy Curry's role - and trade value - plummeted even more last night when he sat out the final 23:41 of the Knicks' 113-100 overtime victory over the...
ISIAH: IT'S NO BIG DEAL
WASHINGTON - Isiah Thomas admitted the trade value of his players have dropped because of their awful season, which reduces the chances of the Knicks making a blockbuster at tomorrow's...
RANDOLPH, ROBINSON IN SKIRMISH
Disgruntled power forward Zach Randolph and guard Nate Robinson had a run-in on the bench during a timeout in overtime. Randolph threw a cup of water at Robinson, who responded...
SHEA FOR SURE
PORT ST. LUCIE - Fernando Martinez intends to be in New York this summer - but not to visit. The Mets' top prospect guaranteed yesterday he would be playing in...
WIL TO WIN
PORT ST. LUCIE - He knows what you were feeling, knows how badly you were hurting, because he understands what it is to suffer and to bleed - literally -...
PEDRO THROWS OFF MOUND, SHOWS BLIND FAITH IN PETERSON
PORT ST. LUCIE - Call it the "Eyes Wide Shut" method. Pedro Martinez threw off the mound yesterday, closing his eyes at times during the 55-pitch session. That would explain...
KIDD-ING ASIDE
The Nets' relationship with Jason Kidd became irreparable in December. It may have started when Kidd was refused a contract extension. But all scenarios leading to Kidd's trade yesterday to...
LEADERSHIP ROLE FALLS TO VINCE, RJ
Since the first day Jason Kidd arrived in New Jersey, there never was any question about leadership. He was the leader. Period. After one day at training camp, he was...
SACRE BLUE!
MONTREAL - When the season is over, when the final tallies are counted and the standings are established, no one will differentiate between good points and bad points. Know this,...
IT'S NO JOE-KE: HE'S THE BEST!
TAMPA - This is the day things really begin to change for the Yankees. For the first time in 13 years there will be a different Joe addressing the baseball...
GET USED TO JASE AT FIRST BASE
TAMPA - Jason Giambi was well into a punishing offseason conditioning program when Joe Girardi phoned with a plea Giambi was happy to hear. "He told me, 'I need you...
DESPITE THE LIES, PETTITTE HARD TO HATE
TAMPA - I so badly want to be angry at Andy Pettitte. Yet, I cannot sustain it. I am mad at Pettitte, not for the drug taking, but for lying...
HOW ANDY PETTITTE BECAME A YANKEE LINCHPIN
It was the dumbest thing I've ever done." Andy Pettitte on signing professionally with the Yankees. Andy Pettitte had been selected in the twenty-second round of the June 1990 draft,...
TORRE'S TALK SOOTHED ANDY
TAMPA - At 2:30 Monday, Andy Pettitte's anxiety level was climbing toward the sky as he prepared to address the media at Steinbrenner Field. Then the cell phone chirped and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Call it the poor man's bulletproof vest. A DVD took a bullet for a South Carolina man at a waffle house, leaving him with little more than a bruise. Barry...
TRYIN' TO TIE IT ALL TOGETHER
NEW YORK City Ballet performances used to take a scattershot, Chinese-menu approach to ballet programming - pick one from this column, one from that and one from completely out of...
B'WAY'S 'STRANGE' MINDS
THERE'S something of a generational and cultural disconnect backstage at "Passing Strange," the hip new musical in previews at the Belasco Theatre. One the one side of this cultural divide...
'DOG' OUT OF POUND
AFTER a five-month hiatus, A&E yesterday restarted production on the popular series "Dog the Bounty Hunter." The show, which documents the life and work of bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman...
BARACK-ALIKE
LIKE many voters, the producers of "Saturday Night Live" are hoping to find Barack Obama. The difference is, "SNL" will have its own Obama by Saturday, when the show returns...
OFF THE CUFF
ALL 15 designers from Season 4 of "Project Runway" will reunite tonight. In what has become a "Runway" tradition, those who've been "auf'd" and those still in the game have...
REGIS PHILBIN FIRST-TIME GRANDDAD AT 76
REGIS Philbin is a grand father - at last. Philbin's daughter, Jennifer "J.J." Philbin, a television writer for the "The O.C." and "Heroes," gave birth to a 6-pound, 7-ounce baby...
MODEL WHO HATES 'ANTM'
ON its face, asking supermodel Paulina Porizkova to judge "America's Next Top Model" is a little like President Bush asking Barack Obama to be his new Iraq war consultant. Last...
THIRST COME, THIRST SERVED
WITH their unassuming entrances and out-of-the-way locations, the city's latest cocktail lounges are all about maintaining an air of secrecy. Pass it on . . . * 124 Rabbit Club...
POST HAS A PEEL
S EE what we started? Six months after we proclaimed it the "Upper Best Side," Manhattan's former culinary crawl-cellar is all over the media map. This week, there's Bar Boulud...
THE STILL LIFE
MARIJUANA-infused gin. Homemade absinthe. Havana Club rum. These days, happy hour in the city can seem more black market than meat market. "There's a lot of stuff behind New York...
PROXY MOXIE
The Microsoft-Yahoo! takeover tussle took another twist yesterday after Microsoft founder Bill Gates said the two tech giants remain at a standstill and a proxy contest to oust Yahoo!'s board...
NBC TO GET SCHEDULE OUT IN FRONT OF UPFRONTS
NBC will premiere new shows year-round and court advertisers individually in a shift away from the traditional "upfront" presentations the networks stage every May. Although the changes fall short of...
NBC BRASS DECIDES TO PILLAGE THE IVILLAGE AGAIN
Name changes are difficult, as NBC's iVillage-branded television show can attest. The Peacock network plans to cancel the television companion to its female-centric Web site for the second time in...
APPLE'S SHUFFLE SLASHING
The cost of low-end iPods just got cheaper. Apple Inc. yesterday cut the cost of its entry-level portable music player, the Shuffle, by 38 percent to $49 for a player...
PEOPLE SNAPPED
SPENDING millions to land celebrity photo exclusives might give you boasting rights, but it doesn't always mean newsstand sales will blast off. People magazine is estimated to have paid $1.5...
DETAIL IN THE RETAIL
Wal-Mart's fourth-quarter profit was better than expected, but the world's largest retailer warned 2008 results will likely miss Wall Street's expectations because of weak consumer spending. The Bentonville, Ark., discounter's...
MARTHA'S EMERIL DEAL SPARKS SLUGGISH STOCK
Martha Stewart made room in her kitchen for another cook yesterday, as the domestic diva announced a deal to acquire certain assets from celebrated Chef Emeril Lagasse for $50 million....
OLD NAVY HEAD SHIPS OUT
The Gap said the president of its struggling Old Navy chain has left the company, with industry insiders citing a fresh round of housecleaning by Gap's new CEO, Glenn Murphy....
$100 OIL HAS US OVER A BARREL
Oil closed above $100 a barrel yesterday for the first time, halting a stock-market rally. "Oil's behavior is telling us there isn't a world recession and demand will continue in...
MR. SUTTON SHOPS SOHO
THE SoHo International Arts Building at the "Gateway to SoHo" will soon see some restoring and signage. Retail maestro Jeff Sutton signed a 49-year lease venture with owner David Topping...
SUISSE MISS FOR BIG BANK
Banking giant Credit Suisse yesterday took another staggering write-down of $2.85 billion in junk paper - its third in just months - yet only a relative fraction of an even...
TIMES HINTS OF MCCAIN 'AFFAIR'
Just days after John McCain all but locked up the GOP presidential nomination, The New York Times today published a story suggesting he had an affair with a lobbyist eight...
MIKE BLOOMBERG CLAIMS VOTE 'FRAUD'
Mayor Bloomberg charged yesterday that "fraud" was behind the unofficial results in the New York Democratic presidential primary that produced zero votes for Barack Obama in some districts. "If you...
ADIOS AT LAST TO FIDEL CASTRO
Fidel Castro's resignation yesterday after nearly half a century as Cuba's dictator was greeted coolly by his countrymen and Cuban-Americans alike, who doubted it would bring real change. The ailing...
STOP, THIEF! BARACK SAYS OF DELEGATE-SWIPE HYPE
Post Correspondent WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's campaign yesterday angrily denounced reported plans by Hillary Rodham Clinton to swipe delegates that the Illinois senator has already won in caucuses and primaries....
POLITICAL WIVES SPAR IN WAR OF WORDS
A spousal spat erupted between the wives of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama yesterday over who loves America more. Cindy McCain took a jab at Michelle Obama, who...