April 21, 2008
Two to transfer from St. John's
APGuards Larry Wright and Mike Cavataio will transfer from St. Johnâs to other schools following the spring semester.Red Storm coach Norm Roberts said today that Wright, who averaged 9.1 points...
Deal of the Day-The Gap
This Scoopneck Print Dress is another example of European superiority at the Gap.The casual and breezy dress from the online European Collection is great with a cardigan and Vans for...
Dallas Clark, Mets fan?
Unexpected sight here this afternoon: Indianapolis Colts tight end Dallas Clark (accompanied by his lovely wife) on the field wearing a David Wright jersey top. Clark is an Iowa native...
No Schneider for Cubs opener
Greetings from a picture-perfect Wrigley Field, where Mets catcher Brian Schneider (bruised forearm) is once again sidelined as John Maine prepares to face Carlos Zambrano here at 7:05 p.m. EST....
Coming to a newsstand near you
Everyone's favorite Upper East Siders are getting into bed together for the cover of New York magazine.The suggestive body language lends itself to much "Gossip," don't you think?Click here for...
Church is hardly 'left' out
From JOEL SHERMANThere were many questions if Ryan Church could handle lefty pitching, since it had been a problem in his career. So far, though, so great.Remember it is a...
BIGGER YANK PROBLEM: JOBA'S ROLE OR HANK'S?
FROM JOEL SHERMANA new brouhaha has erupted over the usage of Joba Chamberlain because Hank Steinbrenner told The New York Times that he wants Joba in the rotation and he...
3 DOWN: HANK, JOBA AND CHURCH
1. A new brouhaha has erupted over the usage of Joba Chamberlain because Hank Steinbrenner told The New York Times that he wants Joba in the rotation and he wants...
Skiles introduced today ... for Bucks
By MARC BERMANScott Skiles will be introduced at a 5 p.m. press conference today to become the new coach of the Bucks. Donnie Walsh never even made a legit play...
Lundqvist, Brodeur up for Vezina
APHenrik Lundqvist, Martin Brodeur and San Joseâs Evgeni Nabokov are finalists for the Vezina Trophy, given to the NHLâs top goaltender.Lundqvist is a finalist for the third straight season. He...
Lundqvist, Brodeur up for Vezina
APHenrik Lundqvist, Martin Brodeur and San Joseâs Evgeni Nabokov are finalists for the Vezina Trophy, given to the NHLâs top goaltender.Lundqvist is a finalist for the third straight season. He...
Reports: Hank wants Joba as starter
Multiple media reports say Hank Steinbrenner would prefer Joba Chamberlain be used in the Yankees starting rotation rather than out of the bullpen.
The President's Take
By FRED KERBERRod Thorn gave the season wrap-up today of the most disappointing Nets' venture since 2000-01. No surprises.Thorn right off the bat said the brass will look to make...
RYAN'S BEEN ALL RIGHT
The Mets knew Ryan Church was a good player. That's why they traded top prospect Lastings Milledge to the Nationals this offseason for Church and catcher Brian Schneider. Yet it...
'Rock of Love 2' Reunion Show
Bret is back to reunite with the loose ladies of Rock of Love 2.Last year's reunion show turned out to be a disaster when BM's chosen one, Jess, ditched him...
Pagan eager for Wrigley return
The two-game set the Mets open tonight here in Chicago against the Cubs will double as a homecoming of sorts for Angel Pagan. The left-field fill in for Moises Alou...
Elvis Mitchell Lands TCM Gig
Elvis Mitchell, the former New York Times movie critic (2000-2004) who is labeled an "African-American public intellectual'' on his Wikipedia page, has finally landed a regular TV gig. TCM announced...
DVD Extra: Summer Preview
Here's my quick list of some notable DVD releases that got squeezed out of Sunday's summer movie preview:Universal Cinema Classics â Well, actually these are classic Paramount titles that have...
VIDEO SHOWS MAN TRAPPED IN ELEVATOR
A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an Internet sensation after surveillance camera footage emerged after nearly a decade. "After...
Stein Whups Spurlock
Despite some of the worst-ever reviews for a documentary, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,'' a right-wing brief for creationism with Ben Stein, took in more than twice as much per location...
Soccer on TV
Here's what we're watching this week. Enjoy!Tuesday, April 22ESPN2European Champions League: LIVERPOOL-CHELSEA, Semifinals, 1st Leg (live), 2:30 pm.ESPN CLASSICEuropean Champions League: LIVERPOOL-CHELSEA, Semifinals, 1st Leg (delay), 5 pm.ESPN DEPORTESEuropean Champions...
Mets plan on Eddie to be there in the end
BY TIM BONTEMPSThe Mets' top pick in last June's draft was for more than a reliever. With their selection of Eddie Kunz, the Mets envisioned him eventually becoming Billy Wagner's...
CHECKING IN: aloft is "a go-go"
So I said (over and over again) that I would write about Starwood's new aloft brand in greater detail the moment I could actually see one of the hotels open...
Delgado is the Mets' Mussina
From JOEL SHERMANThe Mets have a glaring problem three weeks into the season, and that problem is named Carlos Delgado. It would be easier to ignore Delgado's 0-for-12 against the...
A-ROD, POSADA AND INJURY RISK
FROM JOEL SHERMANSo now Alex Rodriguez joins Jason Giambi, Derek Jeter and Jose Molina on the sprain/strain train, and you ask again: Just how many injuries would the Yankees have...
3 UP: A-Rod/Posada, Delgado and a Worthy Cause
1. So now Alex Rodriguez joins Jason Giambi, Derek Jeter and Jose Molina on the sprain/strain train, and you ask again: Just how many injuries would the Yankees have if...
HONDO'S ON HIS OWN
Apparently, Benedict is a not-for-prophet Pope. Hondo, who all week had been riding the Pontiff's teams, watched the Cardinals and Angels go to hell in a hand cart yesterday before...
DOT-COMEBACK
Imagine a show-and-tell featuring some of technology's finest, with an audience packed with geeks, Internet entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The 500 or so tickets to this event sell out in...
WHAT'S UP WITH THAT JOB?
ILLUSTRATOR What does an illustrator do all day? Besides creating pictures for books, magazines and advertising, illustrators also design for products like wrapping paper, stationery and calendars. Although illustrators traditionally...
GO TO GREG
Q I enjoy the way you mix sarcasm with practical advice, and now I need some of my own. I started a new job two weeks ago, and I hate...
60 SECONDS WITH
So, why do good people do bad things? Fear, shame and guilt - the three simplest ways to describe how we self-sabotage. Stuffed inside our unconscious are all the things...
DREAM JOB: NAKED COWBOY
For Robert John Burck, a workday starts typically enough. He takes his laptop, leaves the New Jersey home he shares with his girlfriend and her three children, climbs into his...
YOU CAN'T SWEEP THIS EXHIBIT UNDER THE CARPET
YOU wouldn't call them rug rats, exactly, but the members of New York's Hajji Baba Club are crazy about carpets. Not the wall-to-wall variety - but the intricately woven, one-of-a-kind...
SWEET SUIT OF SUCCESS
Go from classroom to board room in grown-up chicPHOTOS: Sweet Suit Of Success
PULSE SALES
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TALES FROM THE TOT SEAT
THOSE seeking stories about the wonders of childbirth and the joys of parenting might want to skip "Afterbirth," a "Vagina Monologues" for the stroller set. Performing it are actors and...
'TOON IN BESSIE
I love Bessie Higgenbottom, Nickelodeon's newest super hero - well, aspiring super hero, at any rate. But, in the interest of full disclosure, I have a personal stake in seeing...
STARR REPORT
HERE'S A 'STOCK' TIPStockard Channing will be the new narrator of Animal Plan et's "Meerkat Manor" when the series kicks off its new season, "The Next Generation," June 6 (9...
ANGEL IN THE OUTFIELD
THE photograph was in black and white. Mostly white. In the Pittsburgh Pirates team picture - part of the latest PBS "American Experience" - Roberto Clemente, a black Latino, stood...
WILL 'IDOL' JORDIN SPARKS EVER SING AGAIN?
'AMERICAN Idol" Jordin Sparks has been struck with a career-threatening throat injury that has forced her to cancel three shows over the weekend. Sparks, who is only 18 and about...
BRITNEY BACK TO 'MOTHER'
BRITNEY Spears is going to do it again - appear again on "How I Met Your Mother," that is. Her guest shot on the sitcom last month gave the show...
MARIST COACH EYES RECRUITS FROM BIG APPLE
The gym at Baruch College was filled with about three dozen high school seniors still looking for scholarships - most of whom will likely wind up at Division II or...
WAR PASS' DEFECTION IS FAR FROM SHOCKING
The injury that knocked 2-year-old champion War Pass out of the May 3 Kentucky Derby (a small fracture in the sesamoid of the left front ankle) came as no surprise....
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Jays release Big Hurt Slumping DH Frank Thomas was released yesterday by the Blue Jays, who cut the 19-year veteran one day after he became angry for being taken...
HOPIN' HOPKINS WILL HANG 'EM UP
LAS VEGAS - If you're a fan of Bernard Hopkins and applaud the way he turned his life around from convicted felon to future boxing Hall of Famer, if you've...
MCFADDEN LEADER OF THE BACKS
(Second of a series)Each day leading up to the NFL Draft, The Post will take a position-by-position look at the top players. Today: Running backs. Jim Brown wouldn't know whether...
SERVING OF RICE
Several weeks after the NFL Combine, Ray Rice was having lunch at a Cheesecake Factory in New Jersey when his agent, Jason Chayut, decided dessert would be served first. He...
FIELD NARROWS FOR JAX
Scott Skiles verbally has accepted an offer from the Bucks, erasing him as a Knicks coaching candidate, according to a league source. Skiles' imminent hiring strengthens front-runner Mark Jackson's candidacy,...
HOMER COOKIN' BEATS METS
PHILADELPHIA - A sweep in their first visit here since The Collapse proved too much to ask of the Mets. Wasting an impressive rally and more red-hot hitting from David...
AMAZIN' OPPORTUNITY MISSED
PHILADELPHIA - The Mets leave here just hours ahead of the Pennsylvania primary carrying their own divided ticket on the airplane to Chicago. It's hard not to feel good about...
WILLIE: NO SYMPATHY FOR PHIL ILLS
PHILADELPHIA - The Phillies' ongoing barrage of injuries is drawing snickers instead of sympathy from the Mets. Willie Randolph shrugged yesterday after learning the Phillies finally put reigning NL MVP...
ATTACK!
For five games, the Rangers and the Devils attacked one another . . . well, except for the first 12 minutes of the Game 5 third period when the Blueshirts...
ZERO-IC EFFORT FROM PETTITTE
BALTIMORE - When Andy Pettitte told the Yankees in early December he wanted back in pinstripes they had no way of knowing he would be pitching a crucial game in...
A-ROD INJURES QUAD
BALTIMORE - Alex Rodriguez may not have to miss a game to be on hand for the birth of his second daughter, after all. Rodriguez and the Yankees have been...
JOBA TAKES HIS LUMPS
BALTIMORE - Joba Chamberlain received a dose of real life this week when he left the team to be with his ill father, Harlan, in Nebraska. Yesterday, he got a...
BENEDICT TO THE APPLE: PEACE OUT!
An emotional Pope Benedict XVI yesterday ended his first visit to America much the way he started it - urging Catholics to keep the faith in rocky times and shoring...
PAPAL BLESSING LEAVES 9/11 HERO SPEECHLESS
Port Authority Police Lt. John McLoughlin had been thinking hard about what he'd say to the Holy Father when they met at Ground Zero yesterday - and how emotional that...
BLESSED BY TIX 'SAINTS'
There was no shortage of brotherly love outside Yankee Stadium yesterday, either. Good Samaritans handed out a pocketful of miracles - their extra tickets - to dozens of strangers who...
DAM! BEAVER DIES
Denny, the ailing beaver pulled out of the East River Friday by harbor cops on patrol for the pope's visit to the United Nations, probably died of swallowing pollutants in...
BEN'S SERMON ON THE MOUND
Pope Benedict XVI turned Yankee Stadium into the biggest Roman Catholic church in the world yesterday with a Mass that saw more than 57,000 worshippers giving him a loud, joyous...
COMMUNION CREWS BRING HOST TO MOST
Communion to the 57,100 faithful went blessedly quick. For the crowd at Pope Benedict XVI's Mass at Yankee Stadium, participating in Communion - a highlight of the ceremony - posed...
'GOD, GIVE THEM ETERNAL LIGHT'
Pope Benedict XVI brought a message of hope and peace to a scene of unimaginable pain and suffering yesterday as he visited Ground Zero and prayed for those lost in...
URBAN SCRAWL IS SPREADING IN CITY
Graffiti arrests and complaints are skyrocketing as so called "taggers" treat city walls as their personal canvases, new police statistics reveal. The NYPD recorded and unprecedented 81.5 percent surge in...
WE KID YOU NOT: SHE'S 18 & A PROF
A Long Island whiz kid who left fourth grade to start college at SUNY Stony Brook has become the youngest college professor in history - at 18. The Guinness Book...
FIOS CABLE BIDS TO GO CITYWIDE
New Yorkers fed up with high cable TV bills and sluggish Internet service may soon get relief. Verizon wants to compete with Time Warner and Cablevision by wiring up all...
NYU TRIES TO SETTLE FOOD FIGHT
NYU officials and an East Village grocer are working to settle a bitter rent dispute that's threatening the existence of one of the last affordable food stores in the neighborhood....
UPS PICKS UP $16M SEX SUIT
A Bronx mother of five is suing UPS for $16 million, claiming she was sexually harassed. Denise Rivera, 41, claims her supervisor in Queens spread rumors about her and left...
FLIGHT FRIGHTS ON RISE
Taxiways and runways are getting more dangerous at Kennedy and Newark airports, with reports of near-collisions and other incidents up sharply since October, The Post has learned. Four incidents have...
TOOTHLESS TRAUMA AT DENTAL CENTER: LAWSUIT
A Brooklyn woman claims the staff at a Williamsburg oral surgery clinic placed her in a recovery room after her double wisdom-tooth extraction - then shut the lights, locked the...
READ CALORIE COUNT & WEEP
The average onion has just about 35 calories. So, fans of Outback Steakhouse's signature appetizer, the deep-fried Bloomin' Onion, may be surprised to learn that the tasty, crunchy treat comes...
FUHGEDDABOUT FIDEL
In a deal Cubans couldn't refuse, "The Sopranos" are coming to their ever-loosening communist island. The HBO mob series and ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" will be part of a new must-see...
PENILE LAWYER SCREWED UP: SUIT
A former construction worker is suing his lawyer for letting his penile-implant lawsuit go flaccid. Christopher Isabella, 32, says a penile pump he had implanted shattered when he fell down...
FOXY: THANK GOD!
Raunchy rapper Foxy Brown says God got her through eight months at Rikers Island. Foxy (at left, yesterday), who was sprung on Friday, said prayer was her first thought when...
WITH THIS BLING, I PAY THROUGH THE NOSE
What better way to say "I love you" than with a 22-carat wedding band? At today's "Wedding Salon" at Gotham Hall in Midtown, more than 1,000 brides-to-be have registered to...
MALL OF DUTY
The Kingsbridge Armory, once the world's largest military drill hall, will be turned over to a private corporation for a $310 million makeover into a massive retail center intended to...
CHEATING BEAU SLAIN IN SISTER ACT
A woman fatally stabbed her boyfriend in The Bronx yesterday after catching him having sex with her sister in their mother's apartment, police sources said. Beatrice McMillan, 38, twice plunged...
B'KLYN TECH'S DROP IN CLASS
It's the open secret of the city's specialized high schools that students meet different entrance exam cut-off scores to attend each of the elite eight schools. But while the reign...
NO PROBE OF GRIPE VS. COPS
The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau is not investigating allegations by a Hasidic family in Crown Heights that cops broke into their home without a warrant to search for a suspect...
PONTIFF CAPTURES AMERICA'S HEARTS
WHEN the papal cavalcade rolled out of Yankee Stadium last night, one could only stand back and cry: Grand slam! Pope Benedict XVI came here a distant, enigmatic figure, stern...
PAPA'S MITER FINE ATTIRE
Leader of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics - and a fashiontrendsetter. Yesterday, it was a spiffy, double-breasted, full-length white coat with peaked la pels for papal fashion plate Pope Benedict...
BOWLED OVER BY CLINTON
Barack Obama's gutter balls are Hillary Rodham Clinton's gain. Clinton is winning big with three key blue-collar groups in Pennsylvania ahead of tomorrow's primary - gun owners, hunters and bowlers,...
MAC ATTACK ON BARACK BOMB 'PAL'
WASHINGTON - GOP White House hopeful John McCain slammed Barack Obama yesterday for his ties to a former member of the radical Weather Underground domestic terror group. "How can you...
IT'S A MAD, MAD AD WORLD
The Democrats presidential foes took their nasty attacks to the Pennsylvania airwaves - with Barack Obama accusing Hillary Clinton of a smear campaign, and Clinton charging that Obama says one...
'KINGDOM' CROWNED TOP FLICK
Jackie Chan and Jet Li chopped up the competition with the martial-arts flick "The Forbidden Kingdom," which led the box office this weekend with a $20.9 million haul. It's the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan A Suffolk County man was arrested yesterday for beating a woman in a Greenwich Village saloon, police sources said. Derrick Probst, 35, of Commack, LI, allegedly punched the 25-year-old...
SPY-PROBE HEAT ON EX-GOVS' POWER PAL
STATE Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is probing allegations that Daniel Wiese, a former top State Police official, used a Power Authority security contract to dig up dirt on the political...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sun.: 994; Lucky Sum: 22 / Midday Win-4 Sun.: 5428; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Nos. Sun.: 364; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win- 4 Sun.:...
CON(TEMPTIBLE)ED
We normally don't join in the reflexive media bashing of Con Edison when ever something goes wrong for the utility. But we've been provoked. Indeed, Con Ed just flipped the...
KILL 'MEMBER ITEMS'
Mayor Bloomberg should spare New York small favors. His answer to the expanding scandal involving phantom City Council charities and related illegal or unethical misdeeds by municipal officials is to...
AMERICA'S PERILS IN THE ORIENT
WHILE the world seems ablaze with problems, no area or issue, including terrorism, will shape the course of the 21st century for good - or bad - more than the...
WALL ST. SOCIALISM A BRAVE NEW FEDERAL RESERVE
Some say the world will end in fire / Some say in ice . . . - Robert Frost AND some say it will end be cause of subprime mort...
NUTS ON NUKES
IN last week's Philadelphia de bate, Hillary Clinton said she would commit the United States to a retaliatory attack against Iran, presumably with nuclear weapons, if it dropped the bomb...
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH OBAMA?
TRAVELING the country the past few months, I have encountered habitual Republican voters so entranced by Bar ack Obama's potential to lead the nation that they plan to vote for...
THE POPE IN AMERICA & HIS WELCOME WORDS
Thank you for your "no spin" editorial "America Welcomes Benedict" (April 15). The simple message to be understood, as you stated, is that the visit "is a joyous and momentous...
TIMES MAY BE FIT FOR BLOOMBERG MERGER
Mayor Mike Bloomberg may emerge as a white knight for the New York Times. Bloomberg aides are reportedly encouraging him to consider merging financial-information giant Bloomberg LP with the Times,...
FAT LADY SINGS
Sony BMG and its CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz are facing thorny questions about the music giant's future after last week's management shuffle. In the shake-up, Schmidt-Holtz sidelined legendary creative executive Clive...
SPRING SWEEPS
Luckily, we're past the days when spring cleaning meant beating carpets. But many of us still feel the urge to refresh the old abode as the weather warms, and magazines...
KINETICS' FUNDS LOSING ENERGY
The once-high-flying Kinetics series of hedge funds don't seem to be doing enough hedging. After years of stellar performance, the hedge funds run by Peter Doyle have taken a downward...
CHILL FACTOR
Top music downloads 1. Umma Do Me, Rocko 2. I'm Me, Lil Wayne 3. I Know, Jay-Z, feat. Pharrell 4. Don't Stop the Music, Rihanna 5. The Anthem, Pitbull, feat....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
One 13-year-old may someday say a life of crime started in the eighth grade, when the student popped some peanut-butter crumbs onto cookies in another kid's lunchbox. That's what got...
SI 'NINJA' BURGLER BUSTED
Staten Island is now ninja-free. The NYPD says it's ended the career of the so-called Staten Island ninja who robbed 19 homes in the borough since last May - and...
Boxing Notes: Khan Visits America
Amir Khan's Welcome to America..."Ready To Rumble" Returns...Thank You For Not Booing...The Ultimate Cash Machine...Must See TV By GEORGE WILLISBritish promoter Frank Warren knows a good thing when he sees...
Floyd To Start Engines at Indy 500
First it was dancing and then wrestling. Now Floyd Mayweather Jr. is dabbling in another sport. By GEORGE WILLISGuess where you'll see Floyd Mayweather Jr. next? No, it won't be...