March 19, 2008
Sanchez could be headed to DL
PORT ST. LUCIE â- Thursday and Friday will be crunch time for Duaner Sanchez.Willie Randolph made that clear yesterday by saying the Metsâ young reliever could open the season on...
BILLY BAWL AND JOBA
Heading back to Tampa after a few days back north. Now that Billy Crystal is long gone from the Yankees, itâs time to go back.Loved how Billy talked about it...
One In, One Still Out
By FRED KERBERDevin Harris said he is 90 percent."And 90 percent is good enough," Harris maintained.So he is playing and starting against the Hawks.Nenad Krstic, on the other hand, is...
Pryor picks Ohio State
APOregon was too far away. Penn State was too rural. Michigan was a close second.Terrelle Pryor, the highly touted western Pennsylvania prep quarterback, announced today that he will play for...
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3 DOWN: Joba, Red Sox Family and Mo
1. The Yankees are doing the right thing by beginning the season with Joba Chamberlain in the bullpen for a few significant reasons: 1) It fits. With Andy Pettitte, Chien-Ming...
SEAN BELL WITNESS: I NEVER HEARD 'GET MY GAT'
A man who got into an argument with Sean Bell moments before he was shot by undercover cops testified today that he did not hear anyone threaten to "get a...
DiPietro out for season
APGoaltender Rick DiPietro will miss the rest of the Islanders season because of hip surgery.The operation was scheduled for today in Vail, Colo.DiPietro is finishing the second season of a...
Questionable...in a lot of ways
By FRED KERBERQuestionable is the latest medical status for both Devin Harris and his sprained right ankle and Nenad Krstic and his on-going bout with the flu. And those are...
Myst-ifying the DS
The Stoneship Age Even more of the Stoneship Age
Beckham, Pelé Supporting Harlem
Soccer usually isn't the sport that springs to mind when one thinks of the United States, let alone Harlem, but a few famous names and influential figures are putting their...
Thomas appears on edge
By MARC BERMANIn a tense, four-minute session with the media today after practice, Isiah Thomas said tersely he wonât speak about the Knicks' courting Donnie Walsh until James Dolan or...
Something something football
Word up! Sparty the Spartan's the new mascot for the cover of "NCAA Football 09" for the Nintendo Wii. Yes, that's right. EA Sports asked college pigskin fans to vote...
Something something basketball
EA's announced that you can now download the authentic 65-team NCAA Tournament bracket and additional in-game content for their "NCAA March Madness 08" game. Assuming you have a Xbox 360,...
Rock and roll, to soothe your soul
Drum roll please! Earache Records - self-described innovators of "extreme" for over 20 years - has partnered up with Harmonix for an exclusive downloadable content pack for "Rock Band," the...
Deal of the Day-Free People
Short and sweet would be the best way to describe this adorable Kaleidoscope Dress from Free People.The printed silk frock which started at $108 and is marked down to $69.95...
Premier League: Round 30
The EPL season is winding down and there are battles going on at the top and the bottom of the table. This weekend saw some shock results that may dictate...
A Hard Day's Night
Jason Castro Either the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney didnât have enough great songs to fill up two shows; or our "American Idols" wannabes just are not good enough...
Infinite Minutes of Extra Time
We've added some time to the clock and we're going to use it to bring you highlights and updates of the world's favorite sport, from nearly every corner of the...
Love the Bagel Phone!
To celebrate Purim, Makor is presenting "Jewno,'' the funniest of the numerous parodies of you-know-what (including J.K. Simmons spoofing his original dad role!) on Saturday as part of a sneak...
Bitter end for Isiah
By MARC BERMANNow Isiah Thomas must know how Larry Brown feels when the former Knicks coach was forced to conduct predraft workouts when he knew he was about to be...
Oscar Watch: Another Clint Two-Fer?
No further details are known at this point about "Gran Torino,'' which may have already begun shooting, and it's anybody's guess whether it's another Oscar contender -- or a farce...
Starr Report: Robin, hood
Robin Williams "We can't imagine anyone else doing this role," says "SVU" executive producer Neal Baer.* * *TMI, Justin: "Grey's Anatomy" star Justin Chambers (Alex), a father of five, tells...
3 UP: Longoria, Mota and Castro
1. As John Romano in the St. Petersburg Times writes, the Rays face an intriguing decision: whether to begin the season with Evan Longoria as their third baseman or send...
SITE CHECK: Go to the source
I love mornings when the computer speaks for me. Just look at this screen grab from a search I just conducted on Kayak.A couple of you will get my point...
HOT HEADLINES
Your newspaper offers information and thought-provoking opinions about this important issue. GLOBAL warming has made lots of headlines in the last few years. When a new study is released, or...
THE RIPE STUFF
- Jeffrey Campbell Feel d'Orsay peep-toe heel, $99 at Shoegasm, 20 W. 23rd St. - Etienne Aigner Sandy flat, $59 at Macy's, 151 W. 34th St. - Naturalizer boating sandal,...
WRONG IN SO MANY WORDS
IT seems churlish to criti cize an historical play for being too thoughtful, but it's hard to feel otherwise about Michael Murphy's play "The Conscientious Objector." Depicting the conflict between...
THICK WEB OF INTRIGUE
ALMOST a year ago to the day, director Susan Stroman turned up at the Hilton Theatre, then home to the dying flop "The Pirate Queen," while the cast was onstage...
STARR REPORT
Robin, hood Robin Williams, will make a rare TV appearance when he guest-stars in an episode of "Law & Order: SVU" as a "straight-and-narrow" engineer whose life takes a tragic...
CHARLIE LOSES TO A CURB
IT was a fall, not a brawl that left Charlie Rose with the black eye and bandage on his left brow that stunned viewers who tuned into his Ch. 13...
KISS OF DEATH
THE other night while celebrating my friend's birthday we got into a discussion of bigotry in politics. Dianne Collins, the birthday girl, recounted her experiences as a black woman and...
MORE TRUMP, 'CELEB' ON WAY
MARK Burnett says that "Celebrity Appren tice" will return next January for another go-round in New York City. "We'll do it once-a-year like the 'American Idol' formula. A little scarcity...
'GUIDING LIGHT' SAVED BY 'THE HILLS' STYLE
MTV's flair for style has saved "Guiding Light" - at least for another year. The 70-year-old soap opera has been renewed after the show's ratings did not drop following a...
LOSING PATIENTS
WAS it suicide or just a tragic accident? That's the question fans of "In Treatment" are asking about the fate of Navy fighter pilot Alex Prince (Blair Underwood), Tuesday's patient...
BORDERLINE SENTIMENTAL
'UNDER the Same Moon" is the story of a Mexican woman who sneaks across the US border. It's also about the young son she leaves behind. It's nothing if not...
OUT OF AFRICA, INTO THE MPD
MAYBE it was the sight of rectangular octopus, or "signature" house drinks so badly mixed, I took refuge in Kenya's Tusker beer. But my taste of buzzing, African-inspired Merkato 55...
WINES ARE THINKING INSIDE THE BOX
CAN I offer you a glass of cold, fizzy red? If it weren't for the lack of Hall & Oates, you'd think you were at an '80s shindig, not a...
FEHR FEARS BONDS COLLUSION
Barry Bonds is still out of work, and the players' union is wondering why. Union head Donald Fehr told reporters in Arizona yesterday that his staff will examine possible collusion...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: MLB shuts down site A Web site selling "Obama" T-shirts using the typefaces of Major League Baseball teams closed after drawing attention from the sport's lawyers. Morris Levin, a...
A GRAND PLAN
MIAMI - Tiger Woods won't come out and say it publicly, but he's decided that this year represents his best chance at capturing the grand slam. All the signs are...
ROTTEN APPLES
WE are out. We are in the cold. We are Charlie Bucket, our noses pressed up against the candy-store window, close enough to sniff the Everlasting Gobstoppers (and see the...
SOMETHING'S BRUIN
Don't listen to your boss. He or she doesn't know any more than you when it comes to picking games NCAA Tournament. Don't worry about the stats Mr. Know-it-All (assuming...
AGED TO PERFECTION
Now that he's no longer yielding clinkers from the corners, Martin Brodeur is more like Martin Bordeaux, getting better with age. The Devils' goalie turns 36 May 6 but has...
ISLES TURN OVER NEW LEAF, STILL LOSE
The ceremonial curtain on Kyle Okposo's NHL career was raised last night, just as the door moved another inch closer to shut on the Islanders' season. Okposo, the heralded 19-year-old...
AX TO GRIND
He's Teflon Thomas no more. Isiah Thomas was fuming over reports Knicks owner James Dolan has flirted with Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh, Thomas' former boss in Indiana, according to a...
SCHNEIDER: HAMMY FEELS FINE
ST. LUCIE - Brian Schneider's ailing hamstring survived a simulated game yesterday, but the catcher is still not definite to get back in the lineup tonight against Cleveland. Schneider has...
DUQUE DISAPPOINTING
PORT ST. LUCIE - It wasn't a great day for Orlando Hernandez on the mound, but it was at least an interesting day for him regarding his first spring start....
INSULT AND INJURY
CHICAGO - There are losses. There are painful losses. Then there are those losses that make you want to ram a knitting needle into your eardrum. The Nets hit that...
GARDEN OF GRIT
This was far from a picture-perfect performance, but in the big picture, the Rangers re-established themselves at the Garden last night with a 5-2 victory over the Penguins that, for...
OLD STORY, NEW TWIST
JAROMIR Jagr has 60 points in 73 games, hard to believe as hard as he is working. And sometimes even more difficult to watch. Brendan Shanahan is 39 and looking...
FRANCONA EGGS ON TECH COACH
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech baseball coach Pete Hughes is in his second season after coaching at Boston College and growing up a lifelong Red Sox fan. So, yesterday Hughes...
TECH SUPPORT
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Having already contributed $1 million to Virginia Tech, the Yankees buoyed the spirits of this still recovering campus further yesterday by donning their pinstripes and playing the...
EX-STUDENT CALLS IT
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Theresa Walsh knows better than most what April 16, 2007 will forever mean to Virginia Tech. The native of Binghamton, N.Y., was shot at but not hit...
CURTAINS FOR EX-CONDE FOX' CIRCUS ACT
THAT didn't last long. Only a week ago, Mitchell Fox, a former group president of Condé Nast, was being linked with former editorial director James Truman and headhunting honcho Sunny...
TIMES VP TRADES IN BLAZER FOR NEW TIGHTS
WWE chairman Vince McMahon hasn't had such a high-brow sidekick since the late announcer Lord Alfred Hayes. George Barrios, Vice President and Treasurer of The New York Times Co., is...
SHOWTIME FOR YAHOO!
Yahoo! yesterday released updated financial guidance theoretically aimed at preserving its independence, but instead was viewed as a last-gasp attempt to pry more money out of Microsoft. In an investor...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 863; Lucky Sum: 17 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 4892; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 606; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 7608;...
CLASS 'ROOM' CRISIS
As many as 20,000 new seats planned for public-school kids could be axed under the state's proposed executive budget, while current school construction projects are delayed and over budget, city...
VILLAGE 'SEX FIEND' IS COLLARED
A suspected teenaged sex fiend who viciously attacked two women during a 15-minute terror spree in the West Village earlier this month has been captured, authorities said yesterday. Anthony Rosado,...
'HALL' OF FAME
Webster Hall, where Frank Sinatra crooned and Tina Turner gyrated, is now a historic landmark and protected from the wrecker's ball. The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday gave unanimous approval...
DAVID BARES DIRTY HAREM
ALBANY - Just one day after taking office, Gov. Paterson yesterday admitted to cheating on his wife with "a number of women," inclunding one who currently works in his new...
PATERSON GAL'S TAPE SHOCKER
ALBANY - An attractive Olympic gold-medalist says she had a close personal relationship with Gov. Paterson earlier this year - during which time she recorded a series of secret telephone...
MRS. MCG 'ALWAYS' WITH US: 3-WAY GUY
Dina Matos McGreevey had steamy three-way sex with her gay hubby, a future governor, and his strapping young chauffeur in Atlantic City and New York hotels, but drew the line...
BAIL FOR QUEEN OF TARTS
The woman who allegedly controlled the million-dollar international prostitution ring that brought down former Gov. Eliot Spitzer walked out of Manhattan federal lockup yesterday after signing off on a $500,000...
HOT TOPIC WON'T COOL: PANEL
Sen. Barack Obama deftly handled the flap over his pastor's fiery sermons in a speech on race yesterday, but probably not enough to contain the controversy, according to a focus...
MIKE'S POVERTY RX
New York would combine resources with other cities to find innovative ways to help the poor, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. Members of the Cities of Financial Empowerment include San Francisco,...
CITY WINS $57.6M IN UN BATTLE
A Manhattan federal judge has awarded the city $57.6 million in a lawsuit against India, Mongolia and the Philippines over past-due property taxes, officials said yesterday. In a ruling received...
STEPDAD GUILTY
A Brooklyn jury convicted Nixzmary Brown's fiendish stepfather of manslaughter yesterday in the little girl's brutal death - but stopped short of calling him a murderer, by acquitting him of...
'STRAPS' DOOMED CRANE
Two common nylon straps available at almost any hardware store may have given way - causing the horrific crane collapse Saturday that killed seven people, the Buildings Department said yesterday....
NO BARS FOR BUSTA
The community service, he can handle. Never seeing his machete again? No problem. But not associating with known felons? That's going too far for rapper Busta Rhymes, who received a...
COP NAILED FOR PERV CHAT
A 22-year NYPD veteran was forced into retirement after being snared in a sleazy Internet sex talk with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, authorities said yesterday. Lt. Michael...
TAXI OF FUTURE
Ford is hailing one of its models as a potential taxi of the future. The company that gave taxi drivers the Crown Victoria - the preferred model of city cabs...
COP: MY WILD FIRE
One of the detectives accused of unleashing a 50-bullet barrage that killed Sean Bell shot aimlessly at the victim's car and claims he fired only a single bullet, rather than...
BIAS SUIT HITS FRESHDIRECT
FreshDirect likes only white bread, a lawsuit charges. José Fredy Ayala, who was the company's highest-ranking Hispanic employee, filed a $3 million lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court yesterday, alleging his...
TIBET RAGE FUELS CALL FOR OLYMPIC BOYCOTT
France's foreign minister said yesterday that European nations should consider boycotting the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics if Chinese repression and violence continues in Tibet. The slap in the...
CAN YOU BAIL ME OUT, MR. BUFFETT?
We knew that "All My Children" diva Erica Kane had friends in high places - but Warren Buffett? Yep. That Warren Buffett. The billionaire investor, one of the world's richest...
PORNO-VIDEO HONCHO TAPED ASHLEY AT 18
Eliot Spitzer's high-priced hooker better learn to grab the cash - fast. "Girls Gone Wild" honcho Joe Francis yesterday offered $1 million for Ashley Alexandra Dupre to appear nude in...
HILL SUPER BACKLASH
WASHINGTON - The support of superdelegates could land Hillary Rodham Clinton the Democratic nomination for president, but a new poll suggests most voters would be unhappy with that outcome and...
GHOUL GETS A STIFF SENTENCE
The ringleader of a massive grave-robbing enterprise pleaded guilty yesterday, admitting his role in turning area funeral homes into anatomical chop-shops. Michael Mastromarino, 44, grimaced as he answered detailed questions...
DEFUSING A RACIAL BOMB
PHILADELPHIA - Barack Obama delivered an intensely personal examination of the nation's festering racial problems yesterday in a speech calling for moving beyond the "profoundly distorted" view of his longtime...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Police said this man raped a woman in Bedford-Stuyvesant earlier this month. He followed her into an apartment building, pulled a knife and forced her into a stairwell on...
TOO MUCH TRYST & TOO LITTLE TRUST
HERE we go again. New York's accidental and temporary governor, David Pater son, cannot remember whether he engaged in energetic sex with a woman not his wife for two -...
NOT JUST WORDS IN A SPEECH
PHILADELPHIA - This wasn't supposed to be about race. Barack Obama broke through that barrier long ago with the deft silence of a cat springing onto a sunny windowsill. It's...
OBAMA'S RACIAL CANDOR
Sen. Barack Obama went before the na tion yesterday and delivered a re freshingly candid analysis of the impact of race in American life. Whether the address resolves the questions...
PATERSON'S PECCADILLOS
At least he didn't pay for it. Or so he says. Frankly, it's hard to know what to believe about the rapidly evolving tales of marital infidelity being spun by...
IRAN'S MILITARY MOVES UP
THE European Union dismissed last Friday's Iranian parlia mentary election as a farce, while the United States described it as a travesty. Yet, whatever it might have seemed in Western...
WHEN KIDS FAIL
SOCIAL promotion in New York's public schools suf fered another well-de served blow on Monday. Despite vocal resistance from some angry parents, the board that oversees New York City schools...
CONFRONTING RACE
Following are excerpts from Sen. Barack Obama's speech yesterday on race in America and his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright: I BELIEVE deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of...
FAKE FERRARO FUROR: AN UNFAIR ATTACK
Geraldine Ferraro certainly touched the third rail with her comments about Sen. Barack Obama and race ("Dems' Race Mess," Editorial, March 16). Clearly, race has a significant role in this...
KYLE SMITH'S BLARNEY
As the grandson of a member of the fighting 69th, I find that Kyle Smith has missed an important point in "Erin Go Blaugghh . . . " (PostScript, March...
420: SMOKIN' HOT
Good news from two top investment banks coupled with a hefty interest-rate cut by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke sent stock prices roaring higher. Major market indexes posted their biggest gains...
BERNANKE'S MOVES EARN HIM STREET CRED
If Ben Bernanke's smiling, it's because he passed his first big exam with flying colors. "Every Fed chairman faces his first test in a crisis, and Mr. Bernanke's grade just...
BEAR HUNTING
Secretive billionaire Joseph Lewis and former Bear Stearns chief Jimmy Cayne are quietly searching for a white knight to top the $276 million takeover offer by JPMorgan for the iconic...
GUILTY PLEA ON GUCCI STOCK FRAUD
A London man who bagged roughly $7 million by selling bogus stock options in luxury goods giant Gucci Group pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges yesterday. Timothy Khan, 51, 'fessed...
GOLDMAN'S 3M MISSION
EVEN as many Wall Street firms continue to reel from the credit-market crunch, Goldman Sachs is busily refining its real estate needs based on the opening of its new 2...
PROFIT IS THE GAME
Record-setting business for the video-game industry is translating into turbocharged sales for GameStop - a leading merchant of software, consoles and related merchandise. The retailer said it expects to post...
Refocused Statement
By BRETT CYRGALISThe score might not indicate it, but the 5-2 win over the fourth-place Penguins tonight was not an easy game. There were no soft goals, no easy shifts...