March 12, 2008
Sanchez's shoulder holds up well
A quick wrap-up (non-El Duque division) from Port St. Lucie after the Metsâ 6-2 Grapefruit League win over the Orioles: 1. Duaner Sanchez allowed two hits and a run in...
3 DOWN: Pettitte, Ump Overreaction and Duncan
1. What is interesting about the benches/bullpen-clearing incident in the Yankees-Rays game today was that it probably would never have occurred if Andy Pettitte had made his scheduled start rather...
Carr signs as backup QB
By PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants today signed David Carr to a one-year, $1 million contract.Rarely does a player of such past pedigree -- Carr is a former No. 1 overall pick...
Titans sign McCareins
APThe Tennessee Titans agreed to terms with receiver Justin McCareins today, bringing him back to the team that drafted him.The Titans drafted McCareins in the fourth-round in 2001 and traded...
GOV'S GAL IDENTIFIED
"Kristen," the prostitute a federal indictment says had sex with Gov. Eliot Spitzer, was born Ashley Youmans but now is known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, according to a new report...
Giants sign LB Clark
The Giants and free-agent linebacker Danny Clark have reached an agreement.Clark, a strongside linebacker who turns 31 on May 9, played for the Texans last season, but was a draft...
Yankees, Rays brawl
By MARK HALEThe Yankees and Rays exploded into a mini-brawl today at Progress Energy Park, with a total of four players and coaches ejected.It was a follow-up to Saturday's episode,...
YANKS, RAYS BRAWL
The Yankees and Rays exploded into a mini-brawl today at Progress Energy Park, with a total of four players and coaches ejected. It was a follow-up to Saturday's episode, in...
Deal of the Day-Urban Outfitters
Mix the patent trend with some metal detailing and you have these adorable Tropez Sandals from Shellys London to wear all summer long with everything from cut-off denim shorts and...
Crosby's ankle forces sitdown
APPenguins star Sidney Crosby will sit out tonightâs game against the Sabres after having pain in his right ankle during the teamâs morning skate.Crosby recently missed 21 games with a...
Peters suspended for Orr bout
APSabres enforcer Andrew Peters was suspended by the NHL for one game without pay for a confrontation from the bench with Colton Orr.He will serve the suspension today, when the...
TRANSCRIPT OF SPITZER'S RESIGNATION STATEMENT
The following is the statement of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer at his announcement of resignation: In the past few days, I have begun to atone for my private failings...
Dude, where's my partner?
I have, AHEM, found a new game to play. It is - drumroll - "Army of Two."It's a co-op third-person shooter set in a world where private military contractors (aka...
Speak up, Dolan?
By MARC BERMANMIAMI - If I'm Isiah Thomas, I'd be ticked off owner James Dolan hasn't broken his silence to the press. It's exactly a year today Dolan spoke to...
Finally, the recognition they deserve
Surely you've seen the episode of MTV's "Rob & Big," where Rob and Big go about breaking Guinness World Records for skateboarding and donut eating? No? Well, too bad. It...
El Duque throws simulated game
PORT ST. LUCIE â- Orlando Hernandez gave his new windup its most extensive test this morning. El Duque, who is adjusting to discomfort in his right foot by switching to...
Remember Josiah?
Josiah Leming âAmerican Idolâ fan and future New Yorker, Brian Barney, caught the Josiah Leming show last Friday in Los Angeles at the Hotel Café. Josiah, who has built quite...
With a Little Help from Our Friends
Carly Smithson Not even David Archuletaâs lyric butchering or Kristy Lee Cookâs honky-tonk on speed could ruin a magical night of the 20th centuryâs greatest songs.Once again, thank you Nigel...
Starr Report: A one-Paige ad
Minnie Driver Ebay is teaming with FX's "The Riches" for a charity auction featuring the chance to win, among other goodies, $100,000 and lunch with series star Minnie Driver. The...
STRATEGIES: Renting in Rome II
David Landsel You read this week's cover story, you saw Robert's step-by-step account of how he got himself an apartment in Rome. Now, you get to read what happened to...
FIRST LOOK: Regent Bal Harbour
Champagne bubbling away in splits...check. Executives in suits, making speeches...check. Strawberries dipped in chocolate...check. Travel and lifestyle media types -- plus the odd schnorrer -- riding the gravy train...check. Celebs...
3 UP: Rivera, Pedro and Crystal
1. In my column in todayâs Post, I write about Mariano Rivera and his ability to thrive despite essentially throwing at just one speed. My gut tells me that Rivera...
SPITZER RESIGNS
Originally posted at 8:38 a.m. Updated at 1:20 p.m. New York's randy governor gave a red-faced resignation speech this morning in the wake of revelations that he patronized prostitutes while...
EVENTS: Stompin' in New Orleans
The South by Southwest music wingding kicks off in Austin today; make sure you don't miss the "Stomp" showcase on Friday night down over at the Continental Club. Not "Stomp"...
80G 'ADDICTED TO LOVE' GOV
Disgraced Gov. Spitzer dropped up to $80,000 on sex with prostitutes, sources revealed last night. The seamy bombshell revelation came as a top aide to the governor told The Post...
HOW HORNDOG SET THE MOOD
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer apparently wanted to set the mood with his high-priced call girl with a little music, The Post has learned. Shortly before his pre-Valentine Day's Washington, DC,...
NYSE BIG: FOE'S 'HELL' HEAVENLY
One of Eliot Spitzer's highest-profile targets on Wall Street yesterday described the governor as a "hypocrite" who will burn in his "own private hell." As attorney general, Spitzer filed a...
TRAVELING TARTS PUT GOV IN INFAMOUS COMPANY
An old federal statute that has ensnared a number of celebrities over the years - including Charlie Chaplin, boxing champ Jack Johnson and murderous cult leader Charles Manson - could...
1ST-LADY-IN-WAITING HAS 'HEALTH'Y AMBITION
New York's potential next first lady has always made one thing clear - she's more than just Mrs. David Paterson. Michelle Paige is "David's wife, but that's not the badge...
HOOKER BOOKER HAD LIST FULL OF BIGWIGS
It's the biggest guessing game in town - the identities of at least nine other presumably high-powered, big-bucks johns serviced by Gov. Spitzer's favorite hooker ring. An explosive possible "black...
ELIOT 'SLUSH FUND' BLUNDER
The feds might never have caught on to Eliot Spitzer's hooker-loving ways had the governor not second-guessed himself over payments he made to his pimp's bank account. Last year, Spitzer...
JOKESTERS 'T'ING OFF
If prostitution is the oldest profession, T-shirt making can't be far behind. The apparel industry wasted no time cranking out T-shirts and caps for Internet sale to make a few...
ALIAS PAL GETS AN APOLOGY
George Fox, the longtime pal whose name Eliot Spitzer allegedly adopted for his tryst with a prostitute, says the governor has personally apologized for "the unauthorized use of his name."...
70% OF NYERS SAY GO
ALBANY - A whopping 70 percent of New Yorkers - including 65 percent of Democrats - say Gov. Spitzer must resign after revelations that he had sex with a high-priced...
MISSUS SHOULD BE TESTED FOR DISEASE: DOC
Silda Spitzer would be "prudent" to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases - including HIV - given her sex-obsessed husband's alleged preference for unprotected sex with hookers, a specialist said...
MA 'PROUD' AMID WOE FOR SILDA
The mother-in-law of prostitute-loving Gov. Spitzer said yesterday she is "very proud" of her embattled daughter and grateful for the public's concern for the family. "We're all rooting for everyone...
PATERSON'S '06 MISFIRE
ALBANY - The man who could be governor, David Paterson, once sponsored highly controversial legislation in the state Senate requiring police to shoot to harm, not kill. The current lieutenant...
DINGY DINER OF STARS MEATPACKING IT IN
In his planner, Florent Morellet carries a neatly typed sheet of paper that lists the celebrities that have frequented his Meatpacking District restaurant, Florent, over the years. Under headings such...
GOODMAN'S CLOSE CALL
Longtime state Senator Roy Goodman had a close call last night - paramedics had to revive him after he began to choke at a black-tie dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, sources...
FDNY WIFE STRIKES A POSE
The embattled wife of slain Staten Island fire marshal Douglas Mercereau preened for the cameras yesterday morning as a grand jury convened for the first time in a case in...
RAZOR MANIAC JUMPS FED PROSECUTOR IN COURT
A female federal prosecutor was viciously attacked by a hulking, razor-wielding drug dealer in a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday - and was saved when the thug's 72-year-old lawyer and others tackled...
COP DODGED BELL SHOTS
A wayward bullet, one of 50 that undercover detectives fired at Sean Bell and his friends, nearly hit a Port Authority cop a block away on patrol at a Queens...
A 'DIRTY DOZEN' DRUGGIE
Preppy Killer Robert Chambers had a dozen-bag-a-day heroin habit when he was busted last summer for allegedly dealing a half pound of smack out of his girlfriend's East 57th Street...
REAL 'INTEL'LIGENT STUYVESANT GAL
A Stuyvesant HS senior with perfect SAT scores placed fourth in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search - a national competition often described as the "junior Nobel Prize." Katherine Banks,...
TICKED-OFF STAHL ON WATCH FOR STOLEN PIECE
Lesley Stahl is putting out a call for help in finding a special "60 Minutes" watch that was stolen when the reporters' Upper West Side penthouse was burglarized. "I've been...
PLAYING 'GAMES' TO FIGHT TERROR
City officials may soon play an elaborate video game to help prepare for fires, chemical explosions or terrorist attacks. A new $477,000 simulator the Office of Emergency Management bought this...
CRIME 'SCENE'
Cops collared three men with a gun on a SoHo rooftop yesterday - and learned that all they were shooting was a film. A nervous neighbor spotted the men with...
NIXZMARY DEFENSE RESTS CASE
Lawyers for the stepdad alleged to have beaten Nixzmary Brown to death rested their case yesterday after their request to grill a psychologist who examined the girl's mother was turned...
SAY IT AIN'T SMOKE
Actress Dawn Wells, better known as Mary Ann to a generation of "Gilligan's Island" fans, is serving six months probation after Idaho cops busted her for pot, according to police...
'SEX' POL NEAR PLEA DEAL
City Councilman Dennis Gallagher has an "agreement" with Queens prosecutors on a plea deal where he'll step down from his seat but avoid jail time in the case where a...
PETA PECKS AT KFC
Four bikini-clad, bird-caged chicks got a grilling from cops yesterday when they protested KFC's supposed foul treatment of its chickens. All four members of People for the Ethical Treatment of...
GUN 'RAP' TESTIMONY
Two witnesses fingered Remy Ma in court yesterday for allegedly shooting her girlfriend outside a Meatpacking District nightclub last summer. But only one of the witnesses testified he actually saw...
HIS PUSHY PLAN TO BE IN DC FOR TRYST
WASHINGTON - Gov. Eliot Spitzer himself sought to testify before a congressional subcommittee that hadn't invited him to appear - possibly to give him an excuse to be away from...
HILL'S A 'SUPER' LOSER
Just when Hillary Rodham Clinton finally got her own wandering husband reined in, another man's catting around ensnares her campaign. With Gov. Spitzer's possible fall from office, Clinton will lose...
O'S BIG HIT IN MISS.
JACKSON, Miss. - Barack Obama crushed Hillary Clinton in the Mississippi primary last night, scoring his second win in the past week and regaining ground he lost after two momentum-stopping...
FRESH RACIAL SLAP AT OBAMA
JACKSON, Miss. - Racial tensions between Hillary Rodham Clinton's and Barack Obama's camps boiled over yesterday after former vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro's explosive comments that Obama got where he...
PELLICANO TRIAL HEARS 'REGIS' LINK
LOS ANGELES - Disgraced gumshoe Anthony Pellicano once had Regis Philbin under his magnifying glass, a prosecutor and witness said yesterday. The "Live with Regis and Kelly" TV co-host said...
UMA ON HOLD
Uma Thurman is ready for her courthouse close-up - but one of her staffers is not, delaying what was to have been this week's trial of the screen siren's accused...
LOVE 'BLIGHT'
One in four teenaged American girls has a sexually transmitted disease - and the number doubles to a staggering one out of every two among teenaged black girls, a new...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens Police yesterday were searching for the man pictured above who disappeared in Jamaica. Mohammad Saleem, 21, who police say is in poor physical and mental health, was last seen...
KID CRUELTY BY A FATHER OF LIES
ELYSSA Spitzer is 18 years old. This makes Eliot Spitzer's first-born daughter very close in age to a hooker called Kristen - the woman with whom dad betrayed mom, repeatedly,...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 881; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Tue: 0986; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 662; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 9164;...
ADM. FALLON STEPS DOWN
The thanks of a grateful nation are in order for Adm. William J. Fallon, who retired yesterday after 41 years of distinguished service to his country. Fallon served most recently...
LET 'EM BUILD
Surely, not even the City Council could be foolish enough to miss out on a key chance to develop one of Manhattan's largest swaths of available land - a 9.2-acre...
GET GONE, NO. 9
Time's up, Eliot. Get yourself gone. That's what Gov. Spitzer - now bunkered up in his plush Fifth Avenue hideout waiting for a miracle - needs to hear. And then...
WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE SEEN
IN the fall of 2006, with Eliot Spitzer plainly on his way to a landslide win in the governor's race, I commiserated with one of Attorney General Spitzer's chief targets,...
STOP ENABLING ELIOT
SO Eliot Spitzer, who terrorized Wall Street with his sanctimony, spent Valentine's eve - and a few others, it seems - with a prostitute. The cussing crusader got his frequent-customer...
PEACENIK THUGS
IDEAS have consequences.Inaction has consequences. For the last several years, I've chronicled the left's escalating war on military recruiters - and the weak-kneed response to it. The anti-recruiter thugs on...
HERE'S WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE GOVERNOR-ERECT
Will someone please make sure our governor paid New York's required sales and use tax on his sexual transactions conducted in another state? Dorinda M. MittigaCongers**** Is there any truth...
SWAYZE'S CANCER: IT'S A PERSONAL MATTER
THE ISSUE: News that 55-year-old actor Patrick Swayze has potentially terminal cancer. Don't you think that you are being a little tough on Patrick Swayze's publicist by banishing her as...
NEW PRIMARIES, SAME RESULTS?
THE ISSUE: Whether "do-over" primaries would settle the Democratic nomination deadlock. It is well known that, in observance of Democratic Party mandates, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did not...
FED SPARKS RALLY
The stock market rocketed away from the week's doom and gloom with major stock indexes posting their biggest gains in five years - all on an unexpected intervention by Fed...
BERNANKE WORKS MAGIC ON GLOBAL SCALE
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has gone from scapegoat to savior on Wall Street in the wake of the unprecedented global move to inject liquidity into the credit markets. The...
MARKET'S STRING THEORY
Despite the Fed's dramatic move to ease the credit crunch, the central bank still doesn't have it in its power to deal with the root causes of Wall Street's malaise....
AMI'S BAD MOODY'S
IT'S a race against the clock for American Media, publisher of the Star, the National Enquirer, Shape and Men's Fitness, following a downgrade by Moody's yesterday on the publisher's approximate...
NOW ON DISPLAY
For several years, Google has struggled to expand beyond simple text ads into Web banners, video and other kinds of display advertising. Now, the company is poised to make some...
LIBERTY'S MAFFEI RIPS 'LAGGING' IAC PERFORMANCE UNDER DILLER
Liberty Media's CEO Greg Maffei used his turn in Delaware court yesterday to hit the "lagging" performance of IAC/InterActiveCorp and his unhappiness with Barry Diller's management of the company. In...
TAKE-TWO UNLIKELY TO GET A TAKE TWO
Take-Two Interactive's hopes of getting a sweeter takeover offer than the unsolicited $1.9 billion bid currently on the table from Electronic Arts may be darkening. Two of the videogame publisher's...
MORE BIDS FOR GM BLDG.
TROPHY chaser Tishman Speyer Properties has had its sights set on the GM Building - and apparently is not the only company in the second round of bidding. Our sources...
SYMS IS OFF PRICE
Spring officially begins soon, but shares of Syms are still in winter clearance mode. The Secaucus, NJ-based off-price clothing chain's stock has taken a beating during the past few months,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
To the moon, Mikael! A Swedish man, Mikael Genberg, 44, put in a bid to build a red house on the moon five years ago and the Swedish Space Corporation...
RED BULLS WINGER TO MISS 3 MONTHS
Red Bulls right winger Dane Richards will miss three months with a torn medial colateral ligament in his right knee. The injury, which won't need surgery, leaves the team thin...
'ROOS GO BACK TO GARDEN
Lance Stephenson remembers his first time at Madison Square Garden for the PSAL championship game two years ago. "That first year I wasn't ready," the Lincoln junior said. "It's a...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Selig made $14.5M Commissioner Bud Selig earned about $14.5 million in baseball's latest fiscal year, roughly the same as the previous year. Selig received $14,515,071 in compensation during the...
'BIG' CHILL
THERE is no going back now. There is no percentage in standing alone like some basketball Don Quixote, tilting at backboards, waiting for a return to yesterday, to yesteryear, to...
JUDGMENT DAY
Syracuse vs. Villanova sounds like a championship game rather than a first-round matchup, and certainly the Orange and Wildcats have played some of the greatest games in Big East Conference...
SHUT OUT OF LUCK
MONTREAL - Shutout No. 9 finally shook the Devils. On a night when they were playing for the conference lead, the Devils came up Zero. Again. "Terrible, as far as...
CLARK TO VISIT GIANTS
In addition to bringing in quarterback David Carr for a visit, the Giants last night and today also will meet and get to know linebacker Danny Clark, who, like Carr,...
CALL THIS A BATTLE OF BUMS
MIAMI - To celebrate yesterday's one-year anniversary of Isiah Thomas and James Dolan huddling to discuss a contract extension, the Knick president/coach gave his reeling team the day off to...
TAKE IT FROM ME
PORT ST. LUCIE - Willie Randolph hasn't officially named an Opening Day starter yet, so Pedro Martinez did it for him yesterday. Despite another strong simulation and the best health...
ALOU WHO?
PORT ST. LUCIE - Moises Alou's hernia surgery created an opening in the Mets' outfield that Angel Pagan is quickly making his own. Pagan, 26, a Mets draft pick reacquired...
HOME INVASION
There never is a good time to meet up with LeBron James. There are, however, bad times to renew competitive acquaintances with the Cavs' superstar. Tonight's get-together in the Meadowlands...
JASON DISSES JERSEY
MIAMI - Saying the Nets play on the "wrong side of the Hudson," Jason Kidd claimed his Jersey club never got its just due, and sounded wistful he never had...
BALANCE OF POWER
BEFORE we nitpick the man into tiny pieces, let's stipulate this: Tom Renney has done a masterful job in overseeing the evolution of the 2007-08 Rangers into serious contenders for...
WANG GETS IT RIGHT THIS TIME
TAMPA - After his atrocious outing last time, Chien-Ming Wang rebounded quite nicely yesterday. Wang tossed 3 2/3 scoreless innings in the Yankees' 6-1 win over the Blue Jays yesterday...
SPRING BREAK REVISITED
TAMPA - It was a crash full of controversy, one that upset Joe Girardi. This afternoon both teams involved have the chance to resume the battle. This may be only...
A-ROD STARTS EARLY
It hasn't been too much of a spring struggle for Alex Rodriguez so far. "Alex just picks up where he left off last year," hitting coach Kevin Long said. Rodriguez...
IT WILL BE MO OF THE SAME
TAMPA - Chien-Ming Wang and Phil Hughes are each attempting to master a changeup, and Joba Chamberlain is toying with a two-seamer. This is the tinkering time of year, pitchers...
CONNECTED ISSUES
GLOBAL warming is just one of many environmental issues that now command the attention of the world. Also out there: worldwide loss of rain forests, depletion of the ozone layer...
PURSE-SUIT OF HAPPINESS
Bright affordable bags mean you can buy yourself a whole bouquet.
THE SONS ALSO RISE
TALK about meeting cute: When Alex Hurt and Raul S. Julia first got together, they were in diapers - in their dads' arms. Their dads, in case you haven't guessed,...
ET TU BRUTAL
IT was courageous of Richard Nelson to offer "Conversations in Tusculum," his new historical play which opened last night at the Public Theater. This drama depicting the events leading up...
TRISTAN THE NIGHT AWAY
DISASTER - or near disaster - stalked the Metropolitan Opera Monday night when its first performance in four years of Wagner's mighty love-fest of an opera, "Tristan and Isolde," lost...
GIVING IT HIS ALBEE
EDWARD Albee is 80 today. And he's going to work. The celebrated playwright is directing revivals of his early one-acts "The American Dream" and "The Sandbox," opening March 25 at...
STARR REPORT
A one-Paige ad Every day I drive past a ginormous, irritating billboard on the West Side Drive touting a too-happy, awkwardly posed Paige Davis and "Trading Spaces." So I figured...
'I'LL BE BACK'
WE have not seen the last of Omarosa - nor is it likely we ever will. The reality-show diva, who was fired from "Celebrity Apprentice" last week, says she will...
CELEB SPAWN 'IDOL'
'ROCK the Cradle," MTV's new "Ameri can Idol"-style competition for rock royalty's offspring, is a go - as The Post first reported. The show - from the producers of "Idol"...
KUDROW DIGS UP CELEB HISTORY
AMERICAN TV is going to the British programming well - again. Ex-"Friends" star Lisa Kudrow will adapt a British hit, "Who Do You Think You Are," for NBC. In the...
'STORY' OVER
JOHN Gibson has lost his 5 p.m. slot on Fox News Channel and will be replaced by "America's Election HQ," reports say. Gibson ("The Big Story") will continue appearing on...
'EVIL' LAUGH
QUICK! Choose which is worse: Donald Trump or Viagra? Oprah Winfrey or the Catholic Church? Tila Tequila or Kim Jong Il? Tough calls, right? Finally one man is willing to...
GREAT PALL OF CHINA
CHINESE censors forced filmmaker Li Yang to make numer ous cuts in "Blind Mountain" before it could screen at Cannes 2007. But even trimmed, the film is a stinging and...
STARS IN THEIR EYES
SOME folks took us a wee too literally when we proclaimed the zone north of Columbus Circle the "Upper Best Side." Case in point: the awestruck reception for Dovetail, the...
Isiah: We don't need to practice
By MARC BERMANMIAMI - Isiah Thomas called off practice today in Miami, even though the Knicks took the night off in Dallas Monday during their seventh straight loss. It was...
SOURCES: SPITZER 'LIKELY TO' RESIGN TOMORROW
Governor Spitzer is "likely to resign" tomorrow, a top aide to the governor said. The word came as Spitzer's administration teetered on the brink of ruin over allegations he had...