March 8, 2008
Split-squad day produces loss, win
A quick wrap-up from Port St. Lucie after the Metsâ 12-4 "A" squad loss to the Marlins at Tradition Field: 1. Almost overlooked amid the attention paid to Mike Pelfrey,...
3 UP: Sanchez, Stokes, El Duque
1. Duaner Sanchez has come a long way, but he still has a long, long way to go to prove reliable to the Mets. After not pitching for more than...
Sanchez looks OK in relief
PORT ST. LUCIE â- The Metsâ bullpen got some good news today when Duaner Sanchez pitched a scoreless seventh inning here against the Marlins.Sanchez, who hasnât pitched in a regular-season...
Ex-Nats return, provide a spark
PORT ST. LUCIE -â The two former Washington Nationals obtained in the Lastings Milledge trade gave the Mets an unexpected boost today.Right fielder Ryan Church, sidelined since last Saturday by...
Pelfrey gets blasted by Marlins
PORT ST. LUCIE â- After two promising steps forward, Mike Pelfrey took a big step back today in his bid to unseat Orlando Hernandez for the Metsâ fifth and final...
El Duque inches toward first start
PORT ST. LUCIE -â Orlando Hernandez, who has said he wonât accept a demotion to the bullpen, took some tentative steps toward fending off Mike Pelfrey today by throwing roughly...
Ownership thrilled for Coughlin
BY PAUL SCHWARTZNo one in the Giants front office wanted to get rid of Tom Coughlin and, thanks to the stunning way in which he turned the Giants into Super...
Scene: Karen Millen
At the opening of the Karen Millen US flagship boutique in Soho, Assistant Store Manager Norilyn Soliven wears Karen Millen.Norilyn describes her look as "chic, elegant and classic."Photo by Elizabeth...
3 UP: Vizcaino, Juan Rivera and Garciaparra
1. Luis Vizcaino has elbow pain and had to miss his relief assignment Friday. File that in the not surprising at all category. Joe Torre tended to have a reliever...
D'AMATO: I'M ON BOARD FOR GOV. BLOOMY
ALBANY - Former US Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, a Republican who all but endorsed Democratic Gov. Spitzer in 2006, yesterday backed Mayor Bloomberg for the state's top job in 2010. D'Amato...
'AT-TAX' DOG SILVER KEEPS ON SNARLING
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday defiantly vowed to push ahead with plans to raise the state's already sky-high income tax on the wealthy, even as fellow Democrat Gov. Spitzer continued...
$$-AID REFORM AT COLUMBIA
Columbia is expected to join the bandwagon of elite universities to propose significant financial-aid reforms, possibly as early as next week, school sources said. Harvard University sparked a flurry of...
'$13M' GEM A ROCK STAR
A 72.22-carat hunk of ice is sure to be red hot at auction, expected to bling in at least $13 million. At Sotheby's April 10 sale in Hong Kong, the...
BELL COP TWIST FOR SCORES
Scores West claimed in court papers yesterday it should keep its liquor license in part because a judge improperly barred it from calling as a witness a now-infamous undercover vice...
TIMES SQ.'S CYCLE OF ANARCHY
Investigators believe the bicyclist who bombed the Times Square military recruiting station is a local man with ties to chaos-crazed anarchy groups, a high-ranking law-enforcement source said yesterday. The revelation...
PRISON STRIPES FOR POWERBROKER
Disgraced former labor leader Brian McLaughlin - who was charged with illicitly amassing more than $2 million - admitted in court yesterday that he looted political, union and charitable bank...
COLOMBO SON GETS 6 MOS.
The ailing son of the deceased but legendary mob boss Joseph Colombo was sentenced to six months in prison yesterday for defrauding a construction firm. But his poor health will...
'I KILLED NIXZMARY' JAIL TALE
Nixzmary Brown's mother confessed helping beat her defenseless daughter to death in a fit of manic jealousy brought on by her husband's sexual attacks on the girl, according to bombshell...
LUSTFUL CLINK SHRINK: I DID 'TREAT' INMATE
An ex-prison shrink admitted in court yesterday that she lied to the feds when she denied having had an affair with a twice-convicted Bloods gang member. Magdalena Sanchez, 36, said...
DETECTIVE $TORY TO DRAG ON
Easy Rawlins would not approve. The hardboiled detective's two creators - writer Walter Mosely and his ex-wife, Joy Kellman - can keep battling over $500,000 she says he owes her...
PRIEST 'KEPT' GUY AND 400G: CHURCH PROBE
An audit of a former Greenwich, Conn., priest has found that he kept $400,000 in secret accounts - and those findings have now been handed over to federal prosecutors, church...
TRUTH DECAY: SUSPECT DENIES SLAYING DENTIST
The man accused of gunning down a Queens dentist as the victim's young daughter looked on has emphatically denied the shooting. "I didn't do this," Mikhail Mallayev told Channel 2...
TEEN GUILTY IN HATEFUL HAIRCUTTING
A Muslim teen who cut a younger Sikh student's hair at a Queens high school was convicted yesterday of a hate crime. Umair Ahmed, 18, is facing up to four...
RUNAWAY BRONX BAAAAAH-MBER
Police collared a runaway wandering the streets of The Bronx yesterday - a 25-pound goat. The pygmy goat, dubbed "Denny" by the cops, was spotted on 141st Street near St....
SMACK-DOWN
Just outside the window, kids played basketball at a middle school playground. But inside, in a second-floor studio apartment on East 75th Street, $4 million in heroin a year was...
GLOATING AT MASSACRE
Hamas boasted yesterday that it carried out the horrific slaughter of eight religious students, including a 16-year-old American citizen, at a revered Israeli yeshiva. "The Hamas movement announces its full...
BUBBA'S MYSTERY 700G STOCK
Bill Clinton earned $700,000 for his foundation by making a single speech to help an Internet company that hoped to take on Google, according to public records. In a transaction...
'RICAN' HAVOC ON BARACK
The head of the Democratic Party in Puerto Rico, a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, suddenly replaced the island's upcoming caucus vote with a primary - a move observers say...
OBAMA SLAYS HIS 'MONSTER'
A top foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama resigned yesterday after calling Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster." Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard prof who posed last summer...
BARING ALL ON P.I.
LOS ANGELES - A sexy lingerie model turned private eye who did dirty work for Anthony Pellicano said yesterday that the disgraced detective snooped for Tom Cruise and bribed a...
SADDAM TOOL GETS 2 YEARS
A Texas oilman who greased the wheels of Saddam Hussein's Iraq regime by authorizing kickbacks to win lucrative UN oil-for-food contracts was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison. David...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Cops say a creep raped a woman at knifepoint in Brownsville. The fiend pulled a knife on the 30-year-old victim, forced her into a building stairwell and sexually assaulted...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 162; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 2973; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 323; Lucky Sum: 8 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 2392;...
THIS ONE WAS A DUD
The investigation into the Times Square bombing continued yesterday. Those odd letters sent to Congress turned out to have been from a harmless crank, though the coincidence was bizarre. So...
WEINER'S PERJURY PUZZLE
What's up with Anthony Weiner? You'd think that a congressman with an eye on Gracie Mansion would have more respect for the law. The Brooklyn Democrat this week called for...
BILL'S MYSTERY MILLIONS
Another day, another reason for Demo cratic primary voters to demand complete financial transparency from Bill and Hillary Clinton. And, it seems, another reason for the Clintons to shudder at...
'THE LATIN ISRAEL'
VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez reached for what he considered the ul timate insult when he called Colombia "the new Israel." If by that he means a country better governed than...
A'JAD'S ENDLESS IRAQ DEBACLE
IT had been billed as a "tri umph" for the Islamic Re public and "a slap in the face of the American Great Satan." However, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's two-day state...
TOO GOOD TO LAST
TOMORROW night, I'll be in front of my TV set saying goodbye to some improbable friends: a few drug dealers, some good cops and bad, a corrupt politician or two...
FLORIDA GOV TORTURES DEMS
DEMOCRATS were getting ready for a do- over Florida Democratic presidential pri mary in mid-June, when the state's GOP governor, Charlie Crist, changed signals Thursday. He indicated in separate interviews...
TO HILL AND BACK: A LONG RACE GOES ON
After Sen. Hillary Clinton's fine showing in Tuesday's primaries, it's looking more and more like neither she nor Sen. Barack Obama will win enough delegates to win on a first...
GOLDMAN CEO MAKES PAYDAY KILLING, AGAIN
It pays to be king of the Street. Goldman Sachs is awarding a whopping $100 million payday to its chief, Lloyd Blankfein - for making a big killing while the...
DR. BEN AT THE PUMP
Ben Bernanke is trying to wrestle down a new dragon that's stamping out credit across the economic landscape. Already weary from shouldering a limping economy, and on full alert for...
RED STORM'S DISMAL SEASON ENDS TODAY
Anyone who has watched their tumbling stock prices stream across the bottom of their plasma TV screen knows the sickening feeling the St. John's players and coaches experienced Thursday night...
DEVON'S GEM LIFTS JASPERS; IONA FALLS
ALBANY - Manhattan College has started just one upperclassman this season, and last night that junior made sure his season lasts at least one more game. Forward Devon Austin turned...
FORD WINS 'A' TITLE; AGNES COPS 'B'
This hardly looked like the Chaz Williams who led Bishop Ford to its first title game in a decade. The speedy point guard had just six points in the first...
DERBY HOPEFULS GETTIN' DIRT-Y
Now that today's Grade 3, $250,000 Gotham at Aqueduct is run on the inner dirt track rather than over the main, it has lost much significance as a Triple Crown...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Hampton hurt again Oft-injured pitcher Mike Hampton of the Braves left his spring training start yesterday because of a strained right groin. Hampton, who hasn't pitched in a major...
'RELAXED' ELIAS WORKS OVERTIME FOR DEVS' WIN
After all that has happened to him, Patrik Elias still is a big-game player. His overtime knack is proof. The Devils' former captain moved within one of the NHL record...
BIG BLUE BUCK$
The comeback coach is coming back. Of course we knew that, realized as much as the Giants gained one improbable playoff victory after another. The fact that Tom Coughlin, all...
FREE-AGENT SPLURGE GIVES JETS FLEXIBILITY
Alan Faneca, Calvin Pace, Kris Jenkins and Damien Woody are Jets. Is Darren McFadden next? There was a definite method to the madness of the Jets' furious free agent spending...
MARCH BADNESS
These Garden fans deserve so much better. Isiah Thomas was a Hall of Fame player with the Pistons. He's now a Hall of Shame coach/president with the Knicks. The mighty...
SAUNDERS: STEPH NEEDS TOUGH LOVE
When dealing with Stephon Marbury, sometimes you've just got to Flip out. At least that was coach Flip Saunders' favored approach with Marbury when the two were together with the...
SLOW PITCH
PORT ST. LUCIE - Bad weather and a distaste for long bus rides in spring training are keeping an antsy Pedro Martinez on the sidelines and the Mets' 1-2 pitching...
OLIVER GETS ROUGHED UP AGAIN
PORT ST. LUCIE - Did the big pay day go to Oliver Perez's head? The Mets won their sixth Grapefruit League game in a row yesterday, rallying for an 8-6...
HORNET'S NEST
NEW ORLEANS - If the Nets were thinking ahead to seeing Jason Kidd in Dallas tonight, it's understandable. Because the alley-oop dunk show orchestrated by Hornets' guard Chris Paul certainly...
RANGERS' CHARACTER BUILT ON ROAD
The road isn't always hard-traveled by the Rangers. About a fifth of the seats at the Nassau Coliseum were occupied by Rangers fans for their game against the Islanders on...
WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION
TAMPA - This is a new season and a new set of Joba Rules. Manager Joe Girardi and GM Brian Cashman made that clear yesterday. They want Joba Chamberlain to...
BOMBERS CAUTIOUS WITH A-ROD, POSADA DISCOMFORT
TAMPA - When big names are involved, there is no such thing as a minor injury. While the Mets are holding a triage unit on Florida's East Coast, physical problems...
PETTITTE HAPPY WITH PROGRESS DESPITE BOXSCORE STATS
TAMPA - The biggest question facing the Yankees when camp opened last month centered on their pitching. Seven games into the exhibition season, numbers attached to the biggest names aren't...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
If your town is called Athol, you're used to being the butt of jokes, but that doesn't mean it's not insulting. A cable-TV sports network in Massachusetts agreed to pull...
Here's to the Knick fans
By MARC BERMANThis is the right moment to extend kudos to all those Knicks fans enduring this mess and still supporting the club. You deserve better.Hereâs to the unbelievable fans...
OFF THE WALL
GERTRUDE Vanderbilt Whitney knew a thing or two about hot new art. More than 70 years ago, she put her money where her moxie was, showcasing talents (then-renegades such as...
MOMA CHILD
SO many museums, so little time - and so few that please parent and kid alike. But that's what the Museum of Modern Art has done with two new shows:...
ALL THAT JAZZ, AND IT'S ALL FREE
Middle-schoolers who blow their own horns are in luck: Jazz at Lincoln Center wants to help. Its Middle School Jazz Academy offers free, intensive music lessons to city residents in...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY IT'S A TOSS UP: If you're heading toward the seventh annual Juggling Festival, don't look down! That's one of the tips you'll probably get at workshops for all skill...
BENEFIT'S A GAY OLD TIME
REPRESENT with the media glitterati and help support news coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, to boot. Join Meredith "Today Show" Vieira as she hosts "Headlines & Headliners,"...
ROUND TABLE IS TURNED
THE strange thing about City Opera's new yet dowdy production of "King Arthur" is that King Arthur is nowhere to be found. This co-production with the Mark Morris Dance Group...
DEAD END
IT spoils nothing to re veal to you that the final line in "The Wire" is: "Larry, let's go home." Fittingly, the honor of uttering it at the end of...
'GREY'S' MCDREAMY, MEREDITH GETTING BACK TOGETHER
'GREY'S Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes has a lot of time to think over the recent writers strike - and decided she had to something about McDreamy and Meredith. "My goal...
DANNY HAS NO REGRETS
'AMERICAN Idol" wannabe Danny No riega says he was just "acting" when he made a bad-taste holiday video that may have played a part in sinking his chances to be...