March 1, 2008
JETS SIGN ALAN FANECA
Give the Jets credit for learning from their mistakes. They played it cheap a year ago and paid for their frugality in a big way when their left guard situation...
METS GET CRASH COURSE IN PAIN
PORT ST. LUCIE Carlos Delgado's sore right hip turned out to be just the start of a bruising day for the already banged-up Mets. The veteran first baseman, who was...
Mets finally find win column
A quick wrap-up from Port St. Lucie after the Metsâ 1-0 victory over the Dodgers this afternoon:1. The Metsâ first Grapefruit League victory after opening with three straight losses came...
Faneca officially a Jet
BY PAUL SCHWARTZThe Alan Faneca sweepstakes is over and the Jets are the big winners.Faneca, a seven-time Pro Bowl left guard, has agreed to terms with the Jets on a...
'BUNGLE OF JOY' CABBY ARRESTED
In a stunning turnaround, the cabby hailed as a hero for taking an abandoned baby to a Queens firehouse Thursday was arrested today for making up the dramatic story of...
3 DOWN: Delgado, Church, Duncan
3 Up, 3 Down will be off tomorrow, Sunday, as I travel back down to Florida to meet up with the Mets.1. Carlos Delgado had to return to New York...
CABBY BUSTED IN TOT DUMP
In a stunning turnaround, the cabby hailed as a hero for taking an abandoned baby to a Queens firehouse Thursday was today arrested for making up the dramatic story of...
HARRY ON THE HOME FRONT
Still decked out in fatigues and body armor, Prince Harry arrived home to England yesterday - 48 hours after the news of his secret war-zone tour of duty was leaked...
DELGADO TO GET MRI ON HIP
PORT ST. LUCIE - Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado, spotted walking with a pronounced limp late Friday night, was sent back to New York yesterday to find out what's causing...
CHIEN-MING WANG THE YANKEES' QUIET ACE
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Chien-Ming Wang operates in a universe where three kids are smothered in attention even though none have spent a full season in the big leagues, one veteran...
Church, Anderson also hurt
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The injuries continued to mount today for the Mets.Right fielder Ryan Church and fill-in first baseman Marlon Anderson had to leave this afternoon's 1-0 Grapefruit League...
Duncan
Shelley Duncan has a roster spot. Yesterday he made a case for at least being the right-handed part of the first base platoon. By GEORGE A. KING IIIShelley Duncan doesn't...
COLLISIONS AND MORE
Not a good day for the Mets. Carlos Delgado returns to New York for MRI of his right hip. Replacement first baseman Marlon Anderson runs into Ryan Church in right-field,...
Guerrero Keeps IBF Title
Guerrero Stop Litzau To Keep IBF Featherweight Championship LEMOORE, Calif. (March 1, 2008) â Robert âThe Ghostâ Guerrero produced perhaps the finest performance of his career Friday when he successfully...
Faneca decision nearing
BY PAUL SCHWARTZJust got off the phone with Rick Smith, the agent for Alan Faneca, the best offensive lineman available in free agency. The Jets are making a hard push...
UPDATE: Delgado jammed hip
PORT ST. LUCIE -- First baseman Carlos Delgado was sent back to New York for a MRI exam this morning because of pain in his right hip.The exam showed what...
3 UP: Clemens, Dodgers, Niese
1. If the Astros turn their back on Roger Clemens, where exactly does he turn for love? His other former teams â Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays â obviously want...
Knicks turn 40
By MARC BERMANORLANDO â Mike Bibby walked through the Knicksâ locker room before Friday nightâs game vs. the Hawks. He was seeking out Jerome James, trying to give him some...
'CAPITAL CRIME' RIPPED
A Brooklyn federal judge yesterday railed against the millions in tax dollars wasted on a grisly capital case with "virtually nil" chances of ending in a death sentence for the...
LATEST TRANSIT-FARE HIKE READY TO ROLL
Straphangers will have to dig deeper to get on subways and buses starting tomorrow. The latest fare hike takes effect at midnight on unlimited-ride MetroCards and multi-ride bonuses. Unlimited daily...
MANIAC KNIFES 'GAL PAL' DEAD
Cops are hunting for a knife-wielding maniac who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death and severely wounded another woman in a savage attack in an East Village supermarket yesterday. Lovesick James...
NEW MA 'LEAPING' FOR JOY
Rose Madelyn Birnbaum needed no inducement to be born yesterday, Leap Day - a birthday she shares with her mom. Rose Madelyn arrived at 11:21 a.m. at Englewood Hospital in...
COPS STUMPED IN SEARCH FOR 'CAB BABY' KIN
No one has yet come forward to claim baby "Lourdes," whose sad tale tugged at New Yorkers' heartstrings after she was abandoned in the back of a livery cab in...
CASH-CRAZED RIOT
There's really only one way a publicity stunt that involves handing out wads of cash in the middle of the Big Apple can end - badly. Fists and mayhem ruled...
IDENTITY CRISIS FOR 3
The NYPD lieutenant who headed the undercover unit that killed Sean Bell testified yesterday that he did not hear any of the detectives identify themselves as police and they were...
IMETTE SUSPECT'S LAWYER CHALLENGES AUTOPSY
The lawyer for the bar bouncer accused in the grisly rape and murder of John Jay College student Imette St. Guillen yesterday disputed some of the more disturbing autopsy findings,...
DEADLY HIT-RUN
An elderly woman using a walker was struck and killed during a hit and run on a Queens street last night, police said. The 84-year-old victim, whose name was withheld...
SHOT COP'S WIFE NAILED
A Brooklyn cop was shot in the leg early yesterday by his wife, police sources said. Anthony McCloud, 26, a 3-year veteran in the 70th Precinct, was hit once in...
MYSPACE 'THUG' RAP
The alleged cellphone-stealing numbskull tracked down on his MySpace account by his dogged victim was indicted yesterday for grand larceny in the Jan. 26 mugging. Victor Hernandez, 16, remained jailed...
B'WAY BEAST CAGED
The Beast of Broadway went off to jail yesterday in true beastly manner - making his young sex victim cry by trashing her as a fame-greedy Lolita. "That's not true!"...
AN INDOOR SPLASH HIT
It was near freezing outside, but Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe wore swim trunks and sandals yesterday to the opening of the first indoor public pool built in the city in...
ATLANTIC YDS. FOES MISS SHOT
An appellate court yesterday agreed to speed things along for the perennially bogged-down Atlantic Yards project - Brooklyn's largest-ever development. Developer Bruce Ratner had complained legal delays are creating funding...
PARENT GOWNSLINGERS
A Brooklyn elementary school's PTA vote to strip the caps and gowns from this year's little graduates has triggered a revolt to save a "tradition." Kindergartners and fifth-graders at PS...
'FELINE' LIKE STEALIN' AGAIN
The Brooklyn cat lady who grabbed headlines in a string of bank robberies to help pay for her cat's medical bills was caged last night after her arraignment in yet...
OH, TO BE A PEON!
Prince Harry curses his blue blood and sometimes hates his mother country, the young royal admitted to interviewers while serving in Afghanistan as a lieutenant in the British Army. Harry,...
SILVER: CONFLICT? WHAT CONFLICT?
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver insisted yesterday there was "no conflict at all" in his naming the head of his personal-injury law firm to a 13-member state judicial- screening panel. The...
NAME GAME FOR J.LO TWINS
Jennifer Lopez' twins finally have names. The actress/singer and her crooner hubby Marc Anthony have named their newborn twins Max and Emme, her manager told People magazine online yesterday. The...
POLLS SEE TUES. SPLIT DECISION
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could split Tuesday's crucial primaries in Ohio and Texas, according to several polls released yesterday. Clinton holds a slim-to-comfortable lead in Ohio, according...
MCC RIPS ANTI-NAFTA DEMS AS TRADER TRAITORS
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton's opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement imperils national security, John McCain charged yesterday. McCain, the likely GOP nominee, noted that both Democrats...
MOO-LAH!
WASHINGTON - Furious Kenyan tribal elders said yesterday that they may slap Hillary Rodham Clinton with a fine for her campaign's alleged role in publicizing photos of Barack Obama wearing...
DESPERATE HILL 'RINGS' ALARM
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton released a foreboding TV ad yesterday meant to raise fears about Barack Obama's experience by showing children sleeping in bed and asking voters whom they...
RAPPER'S GIRL DIES IN TRIPLE SLAY
Rapper Juvenile's 4-year-old daughter was gunned down in a triple homicide at her Georgia home, authorities said yesterday. Jelani Deleston was shot to death Thursday night along with her mother,...
KIDD ACCUSER CAN'T USE 'JANE DOE' TAG
Sure, it's embarrassing. But the drop-dead-gorgeous plus-size model who claims hoop star Jason Kidd groped her in a West Village nightclub last fall has to step out of the shadows...
REF PALS BET ON 'NOT GUILTY'
Two of disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy's gambling cronies pleaded not guilty yesterday for their alleged involvement in the betting scandal that rocked the NBA last summer. Donaghy's high school...
RICIN MYSTERY
A disturbing mystery struck Sin City yesterday when cops found a stash of the deadly biotoxin ricin inside a Las Vegas hotel room along with an "anarchist textbook" and firearms....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN The two hoodlums pictured above mugged a teen at knifepoint in East Harlem, police said yesterday. The thieves accosted the 13-year-old victim in a residential building on Pleasant Avenue...
DUCKING BULLETS - & THE RAP
POLICE Lt. Gary Napoli gets mighty steamed when people suggest, as they often do, that he hid inside and under his unmarked car while Sean Bell got shot by his...
LOTTERY RESULTS
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 188; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 5107; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 600; Lucky Sum: 6 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 8726;...
A FIGHTING 9/11 TRIBUTE
Say this for the US Navy: It knows how to remember. Consider USS New York, the Navy's newest amphibious transport dock ship, to be christened this morning during a ceremony...
HARRY THE HERO
Britain's tradition of royal warriors - members of the royal family who for sake the protection of position and volunteer for hazardous military duty - dates back to medieval times....
SILVER'S TORT-BAR OUTRAGE
Albany's King of Torts is at it again. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has long had a sweetheart part-time gig - exact duties, salary and clients (if any) undisclosed - with...
ABORTION: UNTOLD TRUTHS
SHE didn't have to die. And neither did her unborn chil dren. Last weekend, London newspapers reported on the 2007 suicide of 30-year-old Emma Beck, a young British artist who...
DID VEEP VOW FLIP FLORIDA?
CLOSE supporters of Mitt Romney have been injecting into the political rumor stream an unsubstantiated report that Sen. John McCain obtained the vital endorsement of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist by...
GOV. CORZINE'S WAR AGAINST NJ'S RED INK
It took two-plus years to realize that New Jersey has approached its "fiscal cliff" ("Corzine's Revolution," Editorial Feb. 27)? The governor made three proposals to cut costs. There is one...
BUCKLEY: A BEACON OF INTELLECT
It's sad to see a great mind pass "Wm. F. Buckley, 1925-2008," Editorial, Feb. 28). We'll miss you, William F. Buckley. Brenda Campo Manhattan Very few people are prophets in...
DISSIDENTS FILE BOARD SLATE AT NY TIMES
The prospect of a tough proxy fight for seats on the board of the New York Times intensified yesterday when a dissident shareholder group officially proposed its own set of...
CIRCUIT BREAKER
A Wall Street group wants to pull the plug on the entire board at struggling Circuit City - and possibly oust its chief for unwisely firing most of its seasoned...
AD OUTLOOK SUNNY FOR '08
Ad bosses are optimistic they will escape an advertising downturn this year despite the slowing US economy. Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief of ad giant WPP Group, predicts 2008 will...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Wooden hurt in fall John Wooden broke his left wrist and collarbone in a fall, leaving the former UCLA basketball coach hospitalized yesterday. Daughter Nan Muehlhausen said the 97-year-old...
FEHR: IT'S A SHAME BONDS IS JOBLESS
PORT ST. LUCIE - Barry Bonds' quest for employment has a backer in baseball union chief Donald Fehr. Speaking here yesterday as part of his annual tour of spring-training camps,...
ST. JOHN'S PUTS FAITH IN ROBERTS
St. John's took a giant leap of faith yesterday. At least two weeks ahead of his own timetable, athletic director Chris Monasch announced that Red Storm coach Norm Roberts would...
ROCKET TAKES OFF FROM ASTROS CAMP
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - The Astros, from all indications, have had enough of Roger Clemens being the center of attention at their camp. Even though the Houston icon was scheduled yesterday...
'GRAND' DISCOVERY
Three months before Barry Bonds began his assault on the single-season home run record in 2001, the Giants slugger had a positive steroid test, according to his grand jury testimony,...
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
The Devils need a trade deadline do-over. This is their strange season in a nutshell. They set a team record last night by being shut out an eighth time, and...
WILSON, MITCHELL AND TORBOR LEAVE JINTS
The defections have begun. One safety and two linebackers who started in Super Bowl XLII are now former Giants. On the first day of free agency, the Giants took a...
ISLES FIRED UP AS GREATS RETURN
All the inspiration the Islanders need for a big weekend will be there at the Coliseum, from the presence of the Stanley Cup to another celebration of the franchise's glorious...
HELLO & GOODBYE
By tomorrow, the Jets could have the highest-paid offensive lineman in NFL history on their roster, as signs strongly indicate Alan Faneca is about to come on board. Actually, he...
KNICKS HIT BIG 4-OH!
ATLANTA - Amid speculation he's gone after the season, Isiah Thomas sounded like a guy who expects to be around in 2008-09. "I'll be here," Thomas said yesterday. "I have...
JO' NO!
PORT ST. LUCIE - If this were Opening Day, the Mets would have wanted their $137.5 million back. After all, three runs on four hits (including a long homer to...
THAT'S A RELIEF: DUANER FINALLY TAKES MOUND
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets were just happy to have a Duaner Sanchez pitching performance to critique yesterday. Sanchez struggled in his first game since wrecking his pitching shoulder...
THERE'S A LITTLE KIDD IN DEVIN
It is not a job anyone wants, but circumstance thrust it upon Devin Harris. Come to New Jersey and follow Jason Kidd at point guard. What, the taste tester's position...
LEGEND OF JOBA GROWING
TAMPA - The lasting image of Joba Chamberlain, the one we took with us into the winter, was of a sweaty mess covered in bugs - midges, to be precise....
BABY BOSS: IGAWA'S NOT A-O-KEI
TAMPA - Hank Steinbrenner was done talking about the wonderful pitching performance turned in by Generation Trey against USF yesterday at Legends Field when he was asked about Kei Igawa's...
PHANTOM NATION
TAMPA - Hank Steinbrenner says he isn't adding gasoline to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry by saying the Red Sox take a backseat to his team when it comes to marketing...
GENERATION TREY STARTS SPRING LOOKING STRONG
TAMPA - Generation Trey aced a college exam. Now it's time to see if it can handle big-league hitters as easily as it did University of South Florida's bats yesterday...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Cujo lives! A Pennsylvania mail carrier was trapped inside her car for two hours when two ferocious dogs attacked her vehicle and bit through three tires. Robin Barton called police...
'HOODLINKED!
NEW YORKERS are an insular bunch. We like to think we're way more adventurous than our suburban colleagues, but who are we kidding? On weekends, most of us stay within...
COUNTERPOINT
IT'S not easy living life based upon the principles of safety, convenience and minimal exertion, but that's how I roll. On my list of rather-nots: walk-ups, sunflower seeds with shells...
WHAT'S UP
TODAY COMPOSE YOURSELF: The third- and fourth-graders at PS 187 used their eyes, not their ears, to compose the "NiÑos' Concert": They made shapes and diagrams to represent melody, then...
KISS ME, I'M ... FLOGGED
FLOGGING MOLLY SOME bands are about the brain. Others, like Flogging Molly, are all about heart. On Thursday, at the second show of its two-night engagement at the Fillmore, this...
BRAFF LAFFER'S LIMBO
NBC appears to be trying to keep its medical comedy "Scrubs" from airing another season - on rival ABC. The critically acclaimed sitcom, which stars Zach Braff, has yet to...
WABC FIRES GAMBLING
VETERAN radio host John Gambling was axed by WABC (770 AM) yesterday in what's being called a cost-cutting move. WABC owner Citadel Broadcasting posted big fourth-quarter losses yesterday. Gambling is...
OH, BROTHERS!
ANYONE out there know the age of consent for orangutans? The question arises because of a disturbing scene in this new Fox comedy series in which a human male is...
FLICKS ARE FOR KIDS
KIDDIE cinema isn't just singing chipmunks and 3-D pop stars. For the next three weeks, not one but two international children's film festivals hit the city, featuring flicks about everything...
'GRAND' DISCOVERY
Three months before Barry Bonds began his assault on the single-season home run record in 2001, the Giants slugger had a positive steroid test, according to his grand-jury testimony, which...
More on 'King Kong'
I'm visiting with my daughter Xan in North Carolina for a few days, and likely won't be posting again until Wednesday. In the meantime, in the honor of Sunday's 75th...