February 23, 2008
Koufax, Pierce brighten camp
A quick wrap-up from Port St. Lucie after the fourth day of full-squad workouts:1. Sandy Koufaxâs annual appearance in the Mets camp (he is a former high-school teammate of owner...
3 DOWN: HENN, GIRARDI, LIDGE
1. Joe Girardi indicated a strong desire to take a lefty reliever as part of the Yankee bullpen. The favorite is Sean Henn because of the potential of his stuff...
Isiah: We need to be conservative
By MARC BERMANRead between the lines of Isiah Thomas' explanation last night before the Toronto win on why he stood pat at Thursday's deadline. It's obvious he's just babysitting right...
Greenburg: Kids Need To Know Louis Story
If HBO's Ross Greenburg gets his wish, the Joe Louis documentary will be required reading in schools. BY GEORGE WILLISHBO's "Joe Louis: American Hero Betrayed," isn't just 75 minutes of...
Feel the Pulse
If you havenât felt the pulse, then you should.wipEout® PULSE is the latest edition to the popular racing series of the wipeout franchise. It is set to provide all the...
3 UP: HARDIN, RYAN, JOBA, DUNCAN
1. The more Roger Clemensâ lawyer, Rusty Hardin, speaks for the record, the more buffoonish he seems. He is like a sitcom lawyer played by Don Knotts.2. Toronto officials keep...
ATLANTIC YARD$TICK FOR POOR HOUSING
A federal-funding shortfall that could hamper affordable housing projects in the city likely won't affect the Atlantic Yards project, a top official said yesterday. "Given the scale of the project...
MIKE ON NY 'VOTE CRISIS'
If the Board of Elections isn't reformed, it's "not beyond the realm of possibility" that voters will lose confidence in the entire electoral process as they did in Kenya, Mayor...
COURT NIXES RACE QUOTA
A federal judge yesterday struck down a racial quota that had kept an 11-year-old Indian-American girl out of a prestigious Brooklyn public school in favor of white kids who scored...
'PLAGIARISM' PROF PINCHED MY IDEAS
The Columbia professor under fire for plagiarism didn't just lift passages from a former student's dissertation - she stole the whole topic. So says former Teachers College psychology student Tracy...
PERFECT STORM
The Big Apple was hit by a stronger-than-expected snowfall yesterday, but many New Yorkers were saying the white stuff was the right stuff for them. More than a half-foot of...
THE $270M NUMBERS
New Yorkers flocked to their nearest lottery providers yesterday hoping to cash in on the $270 million Mega Millions jackpot. From relatives' birthdays to important anniversaries, players conjured magical sequences...
TWIN-KLE LITTLE STARS
The $6 million babies have arrived - and they're being guarded like gold. Jennifer Lopez's newborn twins - whose first pics are valued higher than mom's biggest box office flops...
NJ-B'KLYN RUSH-HOUR COP CHASE
An out-of-control driver led cops on a wild, high-speed chase last night through northern New Jersey and two boroughs, authorities said. Police stopped the man, who they say was driving...
EATERY SHOOTOUT
One man was killed and two others wounded in a wild shootout at a Brooklyn restaurant last night, authorities said. Bullets began flying at the Viva Mexico Restaurant on Fifth...
150G PISTOL-WHIP HOLDUP SHOCKER
A brazen robber pistol-whipped a man yesterday on a Midtown street, wrestling a black duffel bag filled with $150,000 cash out of his hands as dozens of pedestrians looked on...
BX. MOM, 2 KIDS IN DRUG BUST
A mom and her adult children have been busted for running a drug den in a Bronx house that's also home to a day-care center. A grand jury yesterday slapped...
'PSYCHO' SUPER: I KILLED MY GIRL
The Bronx super charged with killing his 14-year-old daughter said he started thinking "crazy thoughts" before he choked her to death and attempted to dispose of her body in his...
QNS. TOOTH SLEUTHS NAB 'FAKE' DOCS
Three phony dentists were busted in Queens for working without licenses, Queens DA Richard Brown said yesterday. Fernando Utsman and married couple Luis and Margarita Teran were arrested for practicing...
FRESH KILLS 9/11 SUIT NEAR END
A Manhattan federal judge signaled yesterday that he would likely scrap a lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims who want the city to move tons of debris possibly containing their...
1,000 EYED IN 'HEP A' CLUB SCARE
More than 1,000 patrons may have been exposed to hepatitis A at a trendy West Village bar, city health officials revealed yesterday. The Health Department is still trying to figure...
QUEENS BOY SET BLAZE THAT KILLED HIM: FDNY
A 5-year-old boy who died after a blaze ripped through his Queens apartment was "playing with fire," officials said yesterday. FDNY spokesman Jim Long said the fire that killed little...
FIREFIGHTERS NAB 'THIEF'
A Brooklyn woman's burning indignation after seeing a teen try to break into her husband's car led her to frantically knock on the door of a nearby firehouse - and...
ENDING ON HIGH NOTE
Hoboken hottie Joanne Borgella saw her "American Idol" dreams come to an end Thursday night after she became the third contestant to be eliminated from the Top 24. "I wasn't...
MOB CAPO, 87, GETS A BREAK
A doddering oldfella with a list of health complaints as long as the history of the Mafia itself caught a break from a judge at sentencing yesterday, but still doesn't...
BUST IN CHELSEA CLUB SLAYING
Cops have arrested a suspect in the murder of a club-goer shot near the trendy West Side club Stereo last month, police sources said. Eric Lee, 24, of Yonkers, was...
'BUTCHER' SANE FOR TRIAL: DOC
He's not that crazy. The man cops say is the cleaver-swinging psycho who butchered a beloved doctor in her Upper East Side office is mentally fit to be tried -...
DADDY FREES HOSTAGE TOT
A babbling madman sparked a seven-hour standoff in Queens yesterday, holding his toddler daughter hostage and threatening to blow the building sky-high, sources said. He finally released the girl and...
BRITNEY'S DEAL TO SEE KIDS
Pop wreck Britney Spears will get to see her babies again after losing custody of the tots almost two months ago. Britney's ex, Kevin Federline, said the troubled singer will...
SHE WINS A DECISION
AUSTIN, Texas - A single debate performance by Hillary Clinton was all it took to swing undecided voter Jennifer Sanchez into Clinton's column. On Monday, a then-undecided Sanchez, of San...
CLINTON'S DESPERATE DELEGATE CLAIM
Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday insisted she never agreed to stripping Florida and Michigan of their convention delegates - and said she'll press the issue hard in the coming days. "The...
TIMES KICKED IN THE SMEAR
More than 2,400 readers swamped The New York Times yesterday with letters condemning its shoddy story suggesting that John McCain had an affair with a female lobbyist - and the...
YOUR DOG CAN MAKE YOU SIC
Pet owners may want to think twice before cuddling with Fluffy or Fido - they may cause a urinary tract infection, according to a recent study. An investigation at the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QUEENS A Woodhaven man swiped a friend's ring during a sleepover, authorities said yesterday. Josabad Figueora, 20, allegedly pocketed a $800 diamond and platinum ring from a kitchen table at...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 984; Lucky Sum: 21 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 8394; Lucky Sum: 24 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 350; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 9962;...
NYC ELECTION OUTRAGE
Everything's up to date in New York City - except its Board of Elections. Which is why Mayor Bloomberg is quite right to protest the recorded-vote irregularities in the unofficial...
SPITZER'S LATEST SELLOUT
Score another one for Eliot "business as usual" Spitzer. The latest victor in the Albany sweepstakes is the New York Racing Association, which last week got a 25-year extension on...
CONSPIRACY CHRONICLES
Oliver Stone couldn't have written it any better. Craig Watkins, the new district at torney down in Dallas, got himself some worldwide attention the other day by making public a...
FIDEL'S PRESS PALS
'FIDEL Castro Resigns." That's a fantastic head line, and should be cause for celebration. But just because the doddering dictator is stepping aside doesn't mean that Cuba is abandoning tyranny....
A PECULIAR PATRIOTISM
MICHELLE Obama struck a raw nerve earlier this week when she suggested she had never been proud of her country until now. "For the first time in my adult lifetime,"...
OHIO ANGST FOR HILLARY
AFTER Sen. Barack Obama's decisive vic tory over Sen. Hillary Clinton in Wiscon sin, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland was re ported expressing doubt to political colleagues about whether he could...
PRIDE & PATRIOTISM: DID OBAMA DIS THE US?
Michelle Malkin gets it right again ("Michelle Obama's Oblivious 'Pride,' " PostOpinion, Feb. 20). She is one of the few writers to comment on Mrs. Obama's remarks. Obama's essentially saying...
MANIC MARKETS
Talk about feeling dazed and confused. Many of Wall Street's veteran traders and market participants left their desks after the closing bell rang yesterday reeling from the volatility they had...
PRUNED HEDGE FUNDS HITTING A ROUGH PATCH
A curtain of gloom is settling on the hedge fund world, with another fund going bust here while others reeled worldwide from their worst month in eight years. D.B. Zwirn...
LET 'EM EAT KOBE STEAK
While foreclosed homeowners across America pack cartons of belongings this weekend, a band of junk-mortgage bankers is checking into a lavish Aspen, Colo., lodge to celebrate and dine on $105...
SPORTS SHORTS
'ROIDS: Roger pic? Maybe Roger Clemens attended the party at Jose Canseco's Miami home in which Brian McNamee alleges steroids were discussed after all. One published report said there is...
DUKE LOOKS TO BE-DEVIL SJU
DURHAM, N.C. - What a glorious week to be a Duke hater. North Carolina coach Roy Williams recently called out Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, telling him to, "Coach your [bleeping]...
GIANTLY 'INACCURATE'
The story the NFL wants to see shrivel up and die but continues to cling to life took another turn yesterday when the league refuted a New York Times report...
ULTIMATE FIGHTER
The last time Wladimir Klitschko fought with the WBO heavyweight title on the line it might have been his most embarrassing and disappointing day in the ring. That was the...
DEVILS HOPE THEY'RE DUE VS. HOT ISLES
It's beyond ridiculous. When the Islanders visit Newark this afternoon, the Devils will try for an 11th time to win their first game this season from either of their local...
COUGHLIN SMILES THROUGH COMBINE
One year ago, Tom Coughlin addressed the media at the NFL Scouting Combine after a turbulent season that resulted in the relative insecurity of a one-year contract extension. A year...
CURRY SITS MOST OF GAME
For the final 38 minutes of last night's 48-minute game, Eddy Curry stayed on the sidelines. Benched. Last Wednesday, coach Isiah Thomas played Curry only 9:18, claming afterward there's "a...
BEATING THE RAP
Zach Randolph was applauded as he left the court for the final time last night, and quite deservedly. So maybe there's hope Isiah Thomas got it at least half right...
'SAN' BLAST
PORT ST. LUCIE - Salomon Manriquez will be telling his grandkids years from now what he did to Johan Santana yesterday. Manriquez, a 25-year-old catcher who has never been above...
OWE, WHAT A FEELING!
PORT ST. LUCIE - You can't hide when you're David Wright, no matter how big New York City may be, no matter how sprawling the urban playpen may seem. There...
BOTH $IDE$ ARE HAPPY FOR OLIVER
PORT ST. LUCIE - Oliver Perez and the Mets weren't holding any grudges yesterday afternoon. The young left-hander won his arbitration case Thursday in St. Petersburg when a three-judge panel...
INDY OUTPACES NETS
INDIANAPOLIS - OK, so maybe they do need Jason Kidd. Actually, the Nets' 113-103 loss to the Pacers here last night, their second game in the post-Kidd Era, was riddled...
DRURY EXPECTS COLD COMFORT IN BUFFALO
When Rangers center Chris Drury returns to Buffalo tonight for the first time since leaving the Sabres, he can't guarantee what kind of reception he'll get from his former fans....
BY GEORGE, IT'S THE BOSS!
TAMPA - For the first time this spring, George Steinbrenner was having lunch at his favorite Legends Field hangout, Max's Cafe. Andy Pettitte came strolling down the hallway on his...
JOBA RULES LEGENDS WORKOUT
TAMPA - Mike Mussina has 250 big league wins. Chien-Ming Wang posted back-to-back 19-win seasons. Yet, it was Joba Chamberlain who sent a buzz through the Legends Field crowd yesterday...
FORTUNATE SON
TAMPA - Andy Pettitte's name surfaced in the Mitchell Report on Dec. 13. Two days later he admitted using human growth hormone. Ten days beyond, Pettitte's world was invaded by...
FRIENDS AGAIN
TAMPA - This time Derek Jeter wasn't blindsided by the words spilling out of Alex Rodriguez's mouth. A year ago, Jeter didn't know Rodriguez was going to talk about their...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A state senator from Queens deliberately went into mortgage foreclosure to see what the experience was like - and complained that her bank was at fault for being slow in...
CRAFTY WHEN IT'S DRAFTY
AH, winter doldrums: the darkness, the layers of clothing, the comfort of staying home watching TV programs about the romantic lives of aging celebrities. Without ski slopes to make the...
WHAT'S UP
TODAYTRICKS ARE FOR KIDS: They say magicians never tell their secrets, but the illusionist offering magic lessons at Fantasma Magic for kids ages 7-16 is willing to share a few....
GET IN TUNE
ONE-TIME rock 'n' roll star Dan Zanes began his highly successful children's music career playing shows at playgrounds in his Brooklyn neighborhood. His family-friendly shows have taken him all over...
BEAUTY & THE FEET
OF the current generation of Russian ballerinas, one of the most fascinating - and sexy - is 31-year-old Diana Vishneva, born and trained in St. Petersburg. A star with St....
VICTORY IN HI-DEF TV WAR GOES TO LCDS OVER PLA$MA TUBES
THE Giants may not have been big winners of the Super Bowl after all. High-def LCD television sets turned out to be the real champs. High-definition TV using LCD technology...
MY NAME IS LINDA AND I AM AN 'IDOL' ADDICT
IT'S cheesy, it's old fashioned, it's cringe-inducing, it's insulting, it's nasty, it's hurtful - and it's so incredibly wonderful again this season that, between shows, I'm like a junkie jonesing...
OBAMA MODEL FOR 'WING'
THE liberal Democratic presidential candidate played by Jimmy Smits in the final season of "The West Wing" was modeled on then up-and-coming Sen. Barack Obama, a former writer for the...
NFL: Pats DIDN'T tape Giants
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe story the NFL wants to see shrivel up and die but that continues to cling to life took another turn today when the league refuted a New...
PATS* DIDN'T TAPE GIANTS: NFL
The story the NFL wants to see shrivel up and die but that continues to cling to life took another turn today when the league refuted a New York Times...