April 16, 2008
Report: Pedro aims for end of month
ESPN.com reports that Pedro Martinez told a Dominican television station that he hopes to return to the Metsâ starting rotation before the end of April. Omar Minaya told The Post...
Lineups and notes from Shea
We've got some quick updates from today at Shea before John Maine's matchup with Matt Chico and the Nationals. No Paul Lo Duca again for Washington. Here are the lineups:Guzman...
Alan Horne Injured
Alan Horne, the Yankees top pitching prospect still in the minor leagues, has been placed on the disabled list with a right biceps injury. Horne left his last start for...
SPRINGSTEEN: OBAMA IS BORN TO RUN
WASHINGTON -- Rock star Bruce Springsteen endorsed Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president Wednesday, saying "he speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years."...
RED BULL UPDATES ON KASSEL, MARMOL AND OBSTER
Academy wunderkind Matt Kassel will NOT be signing a Generation Adidas contract with the Red Bulls at the moment. And since heâd be roster-exempt that way, chances are he wonât...
UPDATE: NYC = Tourist Trap, and growing
9.5 million visitors already in '08 -- can our poor bridges handle any more? Depending on who you are, your all-around temperament, and how much your daily commute incorporates midtown,...
Around the Bases: Mets, Yankees Bullpen Thoughts
Projecting the Mets' bullpen once Matt Wise returns from the DL, as well as two potentially better Yankee 'pen options than Farnsworth and Hawkins. It appears that Joe Smith will...
Isiah's final day
By MARC BERMANINDIANAPOLIS - For the past week, Isiah Thomas has made a few references to the bizarre nature of this season.The other day, he called it "unique circumstances'' and...
RANGERS, DEVILS IN POWER STRUGGLE
Discipline has been a big word in the Rangers locker room all year. It's been a virtue in wins and a non-existent in losses. Tom Renney and his squad have...
METS LOOKING ALL WRIGHT
The Washington Nationals look very beatable again. And tonight Matt Chico has the unenviable task of trying to shut down what appears to be a revitalized Mets lineup. David Wright...
YANKS MUST LOOK PAST RIVALRY TONIGHT
If the manager from the movie "Major League" were currently employed by the Yankees, here's what he would be saying heading into tonight's game against the Red Sox: "We won...
Reds interested in Piazza
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the Reds may have "mild interest" in former Mets catcher Mike Piazza.
The David Archuleta coefficient
Will the rocker beat the teenybopper? Last night was the blank-iest of the blank, with the coaching of Mariah Carey taking center stage. Perhaps other than "Whitney," thereâs no single...
LI PARTY CLOWN ACCUSED OF KIDDIE PORN
ESTBURY, N.Y. -- A Long Island clown has been arrested on child pornography charges. Nassau County police say 40-year-old Westbury resident Alexander Zacarias was arrested Tuesday night after his home...
Starr Report: 'Sponge'-worthy
The Jonas Brothers "Good Morning America's" summer concert series begins April 25 with Mariah Carey; other performers include Counting Crows, Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers. The concerts are staged...
Deal of the Day-Eventide
The Sisters of Mercy would most certainly approve of this Black and White Wednesday Frock from Brooklyn based design team, Eventide.But the frilled lace collar lends it a more deconstructed...
A wide-ranging, positive win
From JOEL SHERMAN The Mets could not have scripted a game more pleasing to them than the 6-0 triumph over Washington. There was so much to like, but the three...
MO RIVERA AND THE LEGACY OF NO. 42
By JOEL SHERMANMany players around the sport wore No. 42 yesterday in a worthy tribute to Jackie Robinson. Today just one player will still be wearing No. 42, and letâs...
3 UP: Mo, Schilling and Reyes/Pelfrey/Sanchez
1. Many players around the sport wore No. 42 yesterday in a worthy tribute to Jackie Robinson. Today just one player will still be wearing No. 42, and letâs celebrate...
PROBER A 'SPY VICTIM'
ALBANY - The Senate's top criminal-justice expert stunned a public hearing yesterday when he claimed to have been under police surveillance during last summer's Dirty Tricks Scandal - and later...
PATERSON PUTS WHIP TO OTB
It wasn't quite down to the wire, but Albany leaders late yesterday announced they would begin discussions to avert the threatened closure of the city's Off-Track-Betting Corp. on June 15....
'HIDDEN' WEALTH
What would you do if you won the lottery? If you said you'd use a marker to draw a goatee on your face before a press conference to announce your...
B'KLYN BISHOP IN 7TH HEAVEN
Every time Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio is greeted by Pope Benedict XVI at Vatican events, the pontiff asks - "Where are you from?" "When I say Brooklyn, his face lights up...
MIKE'S PRAYER: PAPAL PROFITS
Mayor Bloomberg is looking forward to meeting Pope Benedict and telling him to "spend some money" during his New York visit. "We need the tax revenue," Bloomberg deadpanned yesterday. The...
SERVICES FOR LIPPIELLO, 38
John-Drew Lippiello, son of Marion Sugarman and stepson of Post administrative editor Anne Aquilina, was killed Friday night when his car skidded on a wet road in Long Island and...
THE ASTOR PLACE UP FOR $46M
Brooke Astor's sprawling Park Avenue duplex co-op, where the socialite lived for nearly 50 years before her death, will go on the market next week for $46 million. Leighton Candler,...
TRAGEDY AT SHEA
A Mets fan leaving the game last night lost his balance while descending an escalator at Shea Stadium and plummeted two stories to his death - as his two young...
MIKE DEFENDS 1% $OLUTION
WASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg defended his decision yesterday to quietly extend a 1 percent city sales tax scheduled to expire this summer, saying the money is needed. "We have to...
UNHOLY BID IN SHRINK SLAYING
The cleaver-swinging mental patient who slashed an Upper East Side psychologist to death in February has settled on a "God made me do it" insanity defense. When the gruesome murder...
'FINE' TIME FOR POSTAL COP
A former postal police captain was fined $10,000 yesterday for joining a mobbed-up gambling ring at the Terminal Produce Cooperative Market and Hunts Point Cooperative Market, both in The Bronx....
HOLDUP DOESN'T HOLD UP
A dumped lover hired his cousin to kill his teenage ex and then tried to cover it up as a botched Bronx robbery - even screaming after his bumbling relative,...
HOUSING HELP FOR HARLEM
Facing fierce opposition to its rezoning plan for 125th Street, the Bloomberg administration agreed yesterday to reserve an astonishing 46 percent of new housing units in Harlem for low- and...
TUBBY TABBY SAVED
A Staten Island fat cat fell off a tin roof and down a heating shaft yesterday, and had to be rescued by construction workers and cops. Kenya Stanislas, 23, noticed...
BUILDING 'BRIBERS'
Seven city building inspectors have come forward over the last 11 months to report being offered bribes of $45 to $3,000 to overlook violations during routine property inspections, the Department...
HARLEM SHOOT SPREE
An off-duty mailman shot two drug-addled neighbors in a Harlem housing project yesterday before killing himself in front of his parents as cops came to his door, authorities said. Roberto...
YASS-KISS CARTER IN W. BANK
Former President Jimmy Carter warmly embraced a Hamas leader, praised Yasser Arafat and accused Israel of holding up the peace negotiations as his controversial Mideast tour reached the West Bank...
MIKE'S NEW SHOT AT POL 'COWARDS'
WASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg told Washington lawmakers yesterday to show some courage and start enacting gun laws to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals. "Let's not continue to...
WILLKOMMEN WAGON IN DC
An enthralled South Lawn crowd of more than 9,000 sang "Happy Birthday" to Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday, and President Bush said that the first papal White House visit in...
GUNS MAKE HILL AND 'O' TAKE COVER
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are doing a delicate dance with voters in Pennsylvania, a state with nearly 1 million licensed hunters and a staggering urban gun-crime rate. In...
MICHELLE'S 'COLBERT' RETORT A HIT
PHILADELPHIA - Michelle Obama flashed her notable wit last night as she playfully fended off the droll advances of TV faux newsman Stephen Colbert, who gushed that she'd be the...
THERE'S EGG ON MAC'S FACE
Cindy McCain is eating humble pie after being caught lifting recipes from the Food Network and posting them as her own on her husband's campaign Web site. The ingredients of...
SOB STORY: 'JUST SHARING' POTTER MAGIC
A Harry Potter-obsessed librarian sobbed and lamented the legal muddle his unauthorized encyclopedia sparked - claiming he only wanted to immerse readers in the "genius" and wizardry of J.K. Rowling...
LOWE DOWN & DIRTY
Randy Rob Lowe liked to show off for the nanny - "repeatedly" exposing himself in front of her, showing her computer porn and asking her to talk dirty to him,...
ROCK SHOCK: $34M GEM AUCTION ICED
An on-again, off-again, on-again auction of what was billed as "the most spectacular and comprehensive collection of period jewels" ever put up for sale was put on ice minutes before...
MAKING KIDS 'GAME' FOR SATS
Preparing for SATs has never been fun and games - but a video could soon help high school students hoping for a higher score. Test-prep titan Kaplan has joined with...
SUPERMARKET $TICKER SHOCK
It's enough to make you diet. Supermarkets are again raising prices to cope with the worst food inflation the nation has seen in 17 years. "You can't absorb it," said...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BrooklynA 3-month-old Crown Heights infant was kidnapped from her home at gunpoint by her father yesterday, cops said. An Amber alert was issued after Shamiece Fariera was snatched from the...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 078; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 6996; Lucky Sum: 30 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 994; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
REMEMBERING ROBINSON
Yesterday marked 61 years since Jackie Robinson shattered Major League Baseball's color barrier with equal parts talent, courage and class. He did it with the Brooklyn Dodgers, of course -...
CARTER'S TRUE COLORS
Kowtowing to the cutthroats who run Hamas obviously wasn't enough for Jimmy Carter, who yesterday also found it necessary to lay a wreath of red roses at the tomb of...
DAVID'S DUDS
New York's new governor, David Paterson, is a really generous guy - with other folks' money, anyway. Actually, with your money. When it comes to his own - well, let's...
MTA BUDGET BLUES
AS the economy flails, New Yorkers should worry that the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority will try to bridge its huge deficits by neglecting the physical assets of downstate's public-transportation system....
PAPER BAGS: ROACH CITY
GET your plastic grocery bags while you can. By Earth Day, that is, Tuesday, the national chain Whole Foods Market will no longer offer shoppers plastic bags - leaving consumers...
BILL & HILL'S GAME
PEOPLE have always accused Bill Clinton of wanting to be all things to all people. Now he and Hillary have found a way to do it in her campaign. The...
DEMS DISMISS OBAMA OOPS
WITH their presidential hopefuls bickering furiously over Barack Obama's comments about "small-town Americans" being "bitter," the new question is: Will all this fury matter in the Democratic race? That's not...
DON'T BLAME 'SEXISM' FOR CLINTON, COURIC FLOPS
THE ISSUE: Whether their sex plays a role in Hillary Clinton and Katie Couric's success. I have no problem with a strong woman in either the White House or as...
SURGING CITADEL SETS STAGE FOR STREET FEUD
Bad blood could be stirring between JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Ken Griffin, the Wall Street wunderkind who's beefing up his buzz-gathering hedge fund. Griffin, the 39-year-old founder of...
DON'T BANK ON IT
Fears are rising that Wall Street's new bloodbath is spreading abroad, with Swiss banking giant UBS expected to slash payrolls by 10 percent and London's stock market bracing for as...
TIMES LAST DEADLINE
THE New York Times issued the grim news to its editorial staff yesterday that for the first time in its history, it expects to have to fire workers to meet...
TAKE-TWO INVESTORS BRACE FOR MEETING
Electronic Arts' $2 billion tender offer for rival Take-Two Interactive is due on Friday, but the next big test for the deal comes tomorrow when Take-Two holds its annual meeting....
NYMEX ARGUES CME BID IS TOO LOW
Just like they do in the rough and tumble trading pits, powerful members of the New York Mercantile Exchange are driving a hard bargain in the energy market's $11 billion...
FEELING GREEN
With less than a week until Earth Day, corporate America is all too eager to be seen as "green" despite evidence that consumers are increasingly skeptical of environmental claims. The...
WRITING WAS ON THE NOTEPAD FOR LINENS
Linens 'n Things CEO Robert DiNicola told investors yesterday that the cash-strapped retailer faces "acute financial challenges" as it negotiates a restructuring plan with creditors. But his language was far...
EMI SPINS EXECUTIVE RANKINGS
There's a whole lotta executive shaking going on at music major EMI. Terra Firma, the record giant's new private-equity owner, is reshuffling the top creative ranks of the company, tapping...
'SKY CUBES' MELTDOWN
ANOTHER proposed Santiago Calatrava tower is not just getting its wings clipped; it's biting the dust. This project was eagerly awaited for a small site at 80 South St. by...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Maybe this old dog simply learned new tricks. Ken Griggs of Lake Oswego, Ore., insists the black Lab he got back from a local kennel is not his dog. But...
MONEY DOES NOT HAVE A MIND OF ITS OWN
There was a boy named Abe. His parents had very little money coming in. So Abe decided to work hard and pay for college himself. He became a lawyer. He...
SCHOOL'S OUT!
Love to learn but hate the classroom? With spring blossoms in the air, it makes it real hard to stay indoors. Lucky for you, the menu of New York's educational...
DREAM IT, BECOME IT
HAVE dreams of writing the next big novel or becoming the next Iron Chef? What's holding you back? No time? Low on energy? Forget the excuses and commit to pursuing...
UP TO HIS BOLD TRICKS, FELD SPURNS BASICS
SINCE Jerome Robbins' death, Eliot Feld has worn the unof ficial mantle of outstanding American-born classic choreographer. Or, as the critic Jack Anderson once put it: "Who else?" Last year,...
CROWDS GOING 'SOUTH'
WHILE nearly all of the new Broadway musicals this season are barely scraping by, one show - which turns 60 years old this month - is a box-office dynamo. Advance...
STARR REPORT
'Sponge'-worthy "SpongeBob SquarePants" is disproving the typically short shelf life of kids' TV shows. Now in its sixth sea son (stretched out over nearly eight years), "Sponge Bob" continues to...
'CANCER' TODAY
ONCE upon a time when I was a kid, I opened up my mom's "Prevention" magazine, and I read something that has stayed with me ever since. (I was a...
LAURA BUSH HOSTING 'TODAY'
FIRST Lady Laura Bush will guest-host the third hour of "Today" next Tuesday. One of the First Lady's guests will be her daughter, Jenna Bush, with whom she's co-authored a...
'BIGGEST LOSER' TV DINNERS
THE network that put the "watch" into Weight Watchers is going into the diet business. Millions who have seen the contestants on "The Biggest Loser" take off the pounds can...
JERSEY WIVES
FIVE New Jersey home makers are poised to be come Bravo's newest reality stars. The five will be seen in "Real Housewives of New Jersey," a new series inspired by...
ALI VINCENT WINS SEASON 5
COMEBACK kid Ali Vincent - who had been eliminated from "The Biggest Loser" in episode 4 this season - won the whole enchilada last night. Vincent returned to the game...
OPRAH'S PREG MAN BUMP
THE bearded pregnant man who made the media rounds earlier this month boosted Oprah's already stellar ratings into orbit. Thomas Beatie, a transexual who kept his/her reproductive organs after a...
WE'RE HAVING A MEAT WAVE
'PARDON me, I have a mouth full of duck hearts." It's not every day you hear a phrase like that uttered over lunch - though if author Scott Gold had...
WALL ST. NABE HAS A BEEF
DOWNTOWN residents irritated with the slow pace of World Trade Center rebuilding have yet another reason to be cranky: one more B-list steakhouse in a zone that already has enough...
NYPD 'CUE
AS it turns out, not all law enforcement officials think "pig" is a bad word. Take "Big Lou" Elrose, for example: Being a motorcycle cop helped prepare him for his...
HONDO: HALLELUJAH!
The Pope's purported picks were perfect. Hondo, aligning himself financially with teams he thinks the Pope might invest in while visiting the U.S., wore out a path to the winner's...
SPORTS SHORTS
TV: ESPN settles Reynolds suit ESPN said yesterday a settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by former baseball analyst Harold Reynolds over his firing. He sued the sports...
KNEE SURGERY PUTS TIGER ON SHELF 4-6 WEEKS
Maybe this explains why Tiger Woods didn't look like Tiger Woods at the 2008 Masters. Two days after finishing second to Trevor Immelman at Augusta, Woods yesterday underwent successful arthroscopic...
PRIME TIME FOR BIG BLUE
When a team achieves the second-greatest upset in Super Bowl history, there's plenty of interest heading into the next season. Such is the case with the Giants, who in 2008...
JETS KICK OFF WITH TUNA TEST
Irony will abound as the Jets face their former coach, Bill Parcells, who's now running the Dolphins' front office, in his first game with the Dolphins on Sept. 7. Oddly,...
FINALLY: KNICKS FINALE
INDIANAPOLIS - Mercifully, it's closing time. Closing time on Isiah Thomas. Closing time on the worst season in Knicks' history. The doomed, disgraced sea captain steers Team Titanic II to...
PELF-ESTEEM GETS BOOST
Do the Mets have a new ace? It certainly looked that way in a 6-0 blanking of the lowly Nationals last night at Shea Stadium as Mike Pelfrey cruised through...
SANCHEZ SHARP IN RETURN
Wearing his trademark goggles and entering to the song "Wild Thing," Duaner Sanchez finally returned. After nearly a two-year absence, Sanchez made his triumphant comeback last night at Shea Stadium,...
CASTILLO ACHING FOR REST
An ailing Luis Castillo admitted he could use some time off after getting dumped all the way to eighth in the Mets order last night. Willie Randolph demoted the slumping...
JACKIE ROTUNDA A PLACE TO DREAM
RACHEL Robinson, looking as elegant as ever, stood on a balcony yesterday overlooking the Jackie Robinson Rotunda at Citi Field. PHOTO GALLERY: Jackie Robinson Rotunda At Citi FieldMORE: Complete Mets...
NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR NETS
Ever since playoff elimination was all but inevitable - and it seems like that dates back to somewhere around New Year's - the Nets have maintained they will play it...
MARTY'S GOTTA STEP ON CLUTCH
When coach Brent Sutter says he wants his Devils, who fired three goals in off Ranger sticks and legs in Game 3, to "shoot for the sky," he does not...
NOW IT'S NHL THAT'S IN YER FACE
LISTEN, I didn't particu larly like it, either, for after Sean Avery went Reggie Dunlop in the crease against Martin Brodeur on Sunday night ("Hey Hanrahan...") I was waiting for...
YOUNG 'BUCH' SET FOR STADIUM
Clay Buchholz not only passed his first test within the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, he practically aced the exam. And yet, based on that experience, the 23-year-old Buchholz is wary as...
POSADA SITS, BUT 'GETTING CLOSER'
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Jorge Posada tested his balky right shoulder by playing catch with Tony Pena in the Tropicana Field outfield yesterday during batting practice and displayed strength that...
OUT OF A JOBA FOR SERIES
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Yankees are fortunate the schedule maker dropped the Red Sox into The Bronx for two games this week instead of four. Beginning tonight at the...
YANKS SEIZE RAY; RED SOX ON WAY
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Andy Pettitte stood inside the clubhouse door and greeted his teammates with fist bumps last night as they filed in with their second straight victory over...
RIVALRY'S BUZZ TAKES A BEATING
I DO NOT want to write this column, but I must, because the Red Sox and Yankees start a series tonight and someplace next to the original Gutenburg press is...
Lo Duca, Milledge in the house
Lastings Milledge made his return to Shea Stadium on Tuesday, but Paul Lo Ducaâs homecoming will have to wait at least a day.The two popular ex-Mets came back as members...
METS BEAT NATIONALS 6-0 ON STRONG START BY MIKE PELFREY
Do the Mets have a new ace? It sure looked that way in a 6-0 rout last night at Shea Stadium as Mike Pelfrey mowed down the lowly Nationals for...
Best new store opening in recent memory: ALOHA RAG is open for business on Greenwich and Spring.
Hawaiian designer-mecca boutique Aloha Rag has just opened its doors at 505 Greenwich Street, by Spring St. Quiet opening for a blockbuster of a store. Here's a sample of the...
Swimming with Sharks, Playing with Fire
Calgary has epitomized playoff hockey so far this year. With a huge hit by the Flames' Cory Sarich on Sharks captain Patrick Marleau, Calgary benefitted from the ensuing scrum with...
Flyers Are For Real
They missed the playoffs last year, dwelling so deep in the cellar that, in the off-season, few thought they'd make the playoffs this season. After some great off-season moves, including...
ALI VINCENT WINS 'BIGGEST LOSER'
COMEBACK kid, Ali Vincent - who had been eliminated from "The Biggest Loser" in episode 4 this season - won the whole enchilada last night. Vincent had returned to the...
ROTO - Beware these upstarts
It seems a sly Sox fan has tried to jinx the new Yankee Stadium by burying a David Ortiz jersey in the bowels of the structure. Assuming this isnât the...
HOUSING HELP FOR HARLEM
Facing fierce opposition to its rezoning plan for 125th Street, the Bloomberg administration agreed today to reserve an astonishing 46 percent of new housing units in Harlem for low- and...