April 26, 2008
GIANTS PLAY IT SAFE
Sometimes a team makes a pick in the first round of the NFL Draft and there's all sorts of wonderment and surprise. That was not the case today when the...
Giants pick Phillips
With the 31st pick, the final one in the first round of the 2008 NFL Draft, the Super Bowl champion giants selected Miami (Fla.) safety Kenny Phillips.According to most pre-draft...
SWB proving to be valuable resource for Yankees
Several players from the Yankees Triple-A affiliate, Scranton/Wilkes Barre, have already made valuable contributions to the Bronx Bombers as they try to recover from several injuries. Chad Moeller, C: Moeller,...
JETS DRAFT GHOLSTON
If you were seeking high drama and a sexy pick from the Jets in the first round of today's NFL Draft, you either came to the wrong place or woke...
Jets draft Gholston
With the sixth pick in this year's NFL Draft, the Jets selected Ohio State DE/LB Vernon Gholston.Gholston was considered to be an automatic pick for the Jets early in the...
Lineups a go for Mets-Braves
The lineups are in for today's matchup at Shea Stadium between John Maine and the Braves' Tim Hudson as we look to see if the Mets can break out of...
What's behind Wright's slump?
OK, so the Carlos Delgado thing has now been beaten to the point of piling on. Carlos Beltran's .221 average and .403 slugging percentage in the cleanup spot isn't helping...
NFL Draft first round
Here's Lenn Robbins' analysis of the first round of today's NFL Draft.1. DOLPHINS, Jake Long, OT, Michigan â Bill Parcells couldnât find a trade partner so he gets an OL...
Tribeca: 'Bart Got a Room'
At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, I can heartily recommend the hilarious "Bart Got a Room,'' which is showing again today, Tuesday and May 3. Tickets shouldn't be hard to...
Vincent available, Herb to Charlotte?
By MARC BERMANSam Vincent was fired by the Bobcats today but I can't imagine Donnie Walsh having interest. But if Larry Brown doesn't go work for Michael Jordan, Herb Williams...
Joy Page (1924-2008)
Annina: Oh, monsieur, you are a man. If someone loved you very much, so that your happiness was the only thing that she wanted in the world, but she did...
First 'Iron Man' Reviews
Paramount annoyingly won't screen "Iron Man'' for New York critics until Monday night, though there are already rave reviews up from Variety ("expansively entertaining'') and The Hollywood Reporter ("Marvel-ous'') and...
$121B BUDGET A DEBT MESS: COMPTROLLER
ALBANY - State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned yesterday that the new state budget contains "unsustainable" spending, "risky" revenue projections, and huge amounts of new debt. And while the budget closes...
ROPE-A-DOPE QUEST ENTERS DRUG REHAB
Kinky CNN bad boy Richard Quest checked himself into rehab, network officials said yesterday, promising to keep his seat warm if he cleans up. Cops busted Quest in Central Park...
RATTY HOTEL POISONED MY CATS
A swanky East Side hotel has an odd definition for the term "pet friendly," court papers charge. A Manhattan couple says their three cats were lucky to get out of...
COP SAYS 'SORRY' AFTER COURT WIN
"I'm sorry." Only one of the three detectives acquitted yesterday of killing Sean Bell in a 50-bullet barrage outside a Queens strip club offered an apology to the slain groom's...
NO GUNS, NO GLORY FOR NEW DESK JOCKEYS
They may have come out winners in court, but the three cops acquitted in the Sean Bell shooting will still find themselves parked behind desks come Monday morning. And getting...
LEGAL EAGLES APPLAUD COURT'S 'PERFECT JUROR'
Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered a fair verdict in the Sean Bell shooting case, setting aside both emotion and victims' conflicting accounts, top criminal lawyers said yesterday. "Based on the facts,...
TEARS & RAGE OVER VERDICT
Sean Bell's mother collapsed at the verdict. His fiancée, Nicole Paultre-Bell, rushed from the courtroom stricken with grief. His father, William Bell was just plain angry. "It's a slap in...
WELCOME NOD FOR THE PLAZA
People must love the renovated 24-karat, gold-plated fixtures in the bathrooms of The Plaza - since it made the list of the hottest "new" hotels in the world. The Plaza...
TRUCK KILLS PEDESTRIAN
A 57-year-old Brooklyn man was killed as he was crossing the street yesterday morning when a city Sanitation truck making a turn struck him, police said. Anthony Dename was in...
PALACE OF PAIN SPANKED
The naughty mistresses at one Midtown S&M club were being way too nice to their customers, court papers say. Six dominatrices from Rebecca's Hidden Chamber on West 31st Street were...
BLOOMIE WALKOUT IN STORE
Bloomingdale's employees authorized a strike yesterday - threatening to walk off the job at the chain's East Side flagship store for the first time in four decades if contract negotiations...
TEARS AT COLUMBIA MEMORIAL
The girlfriend of a Columbia University student can still feel his "warmth and power" nearly three weeks after he was chased into traffic by a thug and killed in Morningside...
BELLEVUE SHELTER-SHUTDOWN PLAN
The city Department of Homeless Services will create a Manhattan nightmare in the summer of 2009 when it shuts down its homeless shelter at the former Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital -...
VAN KILLS B'KLYN PEDESTRIAN
One person was killed and two others injured when they were hit by a van in Brooklyn early this morning, authorities said. The unidentified victims were struck by a gray...
UN FOCUS ON SYRIA
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog vowed yesterday to thoroughly investigate US evidence that Syria secretly built an atomic reactor with North Korean help. "The agency will treat this information with...
BUSH: WE'LL PUMP OUT REBATES EARLY
WASHINGTON - President Bush said tax rebates will start going out Monday, earlier than previously announced, and should help Americans cope with rising gasoline and food prices, as well as...
WESLEY LONGS FOR NJ LOCKUP
Wesley Snipes wants to do hard time in New Jersey, and federal jailers said yesterday they'll try to accommodate his self-inflicted Garden State request. A federal judge in Ocala, Fla.,...
HOOSIER FAVORITE? BARACK, JUST BARELY
Barack Obama is slightly leading in two new polls in Indiana, another crucial state where a win in the May 6 primary could effectively knock Hillary Rodham Clinton out of...
OBAMA IS HAMAS' PICK: MAC
John McCain suggested yesterday that Barack Obama was soft on terrorists - noting that the Illinois senator had been endorsed by a Hamas official and is friendly with a former...
NEW 'O' PASTOR DISASTER
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's controversial minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, re-emerged yesterday as an issue on the campaign trail just as Obama wanted to tackle new subjects after his painful...
PENTAGON FIRES WARNING AT IRAN
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff accused Iran yesterday of "ratcheting up" its arms and training support to insurgents in Iraq, and warned that the United...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
STATEN ISLAND * A Willowbrook teenager was arrested after he stabbed his uncle five times in the stomach, police said. Shaun Hil, 19, allegedly slashed his relative in the abdomen...
IT STILL 'HURTS' TO BEAT SHAM RAP
FROM Day 1, I was on my own. I alone in the media saw the case against the cops who shot Sean Bell as an absolute stinker - a trial...
HOPE LIFTED, ONLY TO BE SENT FALLING
OUR chests swell with pride each time Barack Obama speaks of hope. He could be president, we tell ourselves - the change Sam Cooke sang can soon be real. Then...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 434; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 4100; Lucky Sum: 5 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 985; Lucky Sum: 22 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 0750;...
THE RIGHT VERDICT
Mayor Bloomberg is flat wrong when he says "there are no winners" in yesterday's verdict in the Sean Bell shooting trial. What about the rule of law? Queens Supreme Court...
JUSTICE FOR TWO NY HEROES
New Yorkers never needed any outside affirmation that Auxiliary Police Of ficers Nicholas Pekearo and Yevgeniy Marshalik, who were gunned down in the line of duty last year, died as...
JUSTICE SERVED
JUSTICE has been served in the Sean Bell case. However horrific Bell's slaying by police gunfire, Judge Arthur Cooperman yesterday resisted pressure to make the verdict an alleged test of...
BARACK'S BOMBER BUD
DESPITE Hillary Clin ton's win in Penn sylvania Tuesday, there's almost no scenario in which she can win the Democratic nomination. Barack Obama is the almost-certain choice to become the...
MCCAIN MUDDLE OVER MONEY
BIG-time Republican contributors are complaining that prospective presidential nominee John McCain is poorly organized for the campaign and off to a bad start in raising money. McCain begins well behind...
POLS ON OIL CRISIS: NOT TOO SLICK
About all that Bill O'Reilly gets right in "Punishing Oil Bandits" (PostOpinion, April 25) is that America is way behind in nuclear-power generation. Maybe a Congress that appreciates all the...
GOOD COP, BAD COP: PBA'S NEWEST PAY PUSH
It is not surprising that The Post blames the police union for the pathetic salaries being paid to the NYPD ("Pat Lynch's Want Ads," Editorial, April 24). From the beginning,...
SUNDANCE STAKES
Cablevision is the frontrunner to acquire Robert Redford's Sundance Channel, The Post has learned. According to two sources close to the negotiations, Cablevision was the high bidder when final offers...
STAFF FUMES OVER JPMORGAN'S BEAR TRAP
As JPMorgan Chase wraps up the Federal Reserve-inspired buyout of Bear Stearns, some shattered Bear employees are fuming over a seemingly sweet severance package that very few could end up...
BANKS, BROKERS RAISE RECORD $40B
The very same Wall Street firms that are cutting back on lending to clients are having no trouble borrowing money themselves. Despite a squeeze in the credit markets, a record...
KUSHNER SELLS $525M STAKE
Kushner Cos. is selling a 49 percent stake in the retail portion of 666 Fifth Ave. to The Carlyle Group and Stanley Chera's Crown Acquisitions for $525 million. According to...
CHARMING ASSET SALES
Facing a proxy battle next month, struggling retailer Charming Shoppes said it will explore strategic options for its non-core apparel catalogs and further cut spending this year. The Bensalem, Pa.,...
HONDO HAS TWINS
Hondo's earnings-enhancement strategy failed last night when Byrd outdueled Pettitte on HGH Night in Cleveland, causing the bankroll to shrink to 170 barkers. Tonight, he expects to raise some dough...
TRIAL RUN FOR 'WARRIOR'
Last summer at Saratoga, when George Steinbrenner's homebred colt Majestic Warrior charged from off the pace to win the Hopeful Stakes, it seemed like a good bet he would be...
USA TRACK STARS VOW TO BE DRUG FREE
PHILADELPHIA - Track and field has been plunged into crisis by drugs and doping, steroids and cheating. With disgraced coach Trevor Graham going on trial next month, and the Olympics...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Unit gets win Randy Johnson got his first victory since having back surgery in August, holding the Padres to one run on three hits while striking out seven in...
HOOPS SIXERS WIN
HOOPS: Walsh, Jax meet Knick president Donnie Walsh and Mark Jackson did meet yesterday, but the pow-wow took place in Phoenix before Jax broadcast the Suns-Spurs game last night. Jackson...
MIAMI PUTS 'D' 'BACK' IN GAME
(Last of a series)Each day leading up to the draft, The Post takes a position-by-position look at the top players. Today: Defensive backs. The University of Miami has one of...
MADDEN UP FOR SELKE
John Madden, the Devils' best all-around forward this season, yesterday became a fourth-time finalist for the NHL's Selke Trophy as the league's best defensive forward. Madden, who won the award...
DRAFT SHOCK-ER
There seemingly should be little pressure on Jerry Reese, who a year ago in his first full season as general manager of the Giants assembled a sterling draft class and...
COULD RUN-DMC WALK THIS WAY?
Jake Long is off the board. The St. Louis Rams are on the clock. Tick tock. Tick tock. The Jets, barring a deal, pick sixth. Will they make a daring...
NYJ: BE DARREN-DEVILS
WHEN you are trying to topple the Patriots, you cannot afford to be wrong. And when you are chasing Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, you better not be afraid to...
JETS HOPE GM HAS '6TH' SENSE
Mike Tannenbaum, despite facing one of the most important days of his career as an NFL general manager, went to bed last night with a clear and relaxed mind. The...
NO BATS IN PELFREY
There were barely any threats from the Mets last night. They were guilty of complete offensive ineptitude. The Met bats did almost zero against Atlanta at Shea, putting up a...
NO TELLING WHEN SCHNEIDER RETURNS
Brian Schneider won't be out of the hospital until at least tomorrow morning, and his timetable for returning to the Mets is unknown. The catcher spent Thursday night at the...
DELGADO ON HIS WAY OUT AT FIRST
WE know how this ends for Carlos Delgado with the Mets. We might not know the exact date or the exact term, be it designated for assignment or outright release,...
OPEN & SHUDDER
PITTSBURGH - The penalty call on Martin Straka for interfering with Sidney Crosby that gave the Penguins the power play on which Evgeni Malkin got the game-winner with 1:41 to...
DAY OFF FOR JOBA
CLEVELAND - Because the Yankees told Joba Chamberlain to stay off his feet during batting practice yesterday, it was likely the set up man wasn't available for last night's 6-4...
PETT PEEVED
CLEVELAND - There are no locks in life. Yet, if you can get Las Vegas to give you Andy Pettitte with a lead in the middle innings, beg, borrow or...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
In a sad case of what goes around comes around, a drunken driver killed a bicyclist riding along a highway outside Boston. The victim, Gary Sanborn, 60, was pedaling only...
Jax, Walsh meet in Phoenix
By MARC BERMANDonnie Walsh came to New York with a reputation as being this straightforward guy. It took just a couple of weeks in New York to dispel that one.After...
No Doubt, Favre Remains All But Certain
BY JAY GREENBERGBrett Favre remains absolutely, positively, 100 per cent retired.Probably."There's always second thoughts," he said Friday at Rockefeller Center, where he appeared at a luncheon for a game manufacturer...
THEY RENT THATAWAY!
RENTING - it's not just for apartments and cars anymore. These days, you can rent just about anything, from dogs to baby toys to, yup, wedding dresses. In a society...
PART-TIME POOCH
MARK Twain used to rent cats when he traveled; now city dwellers can rent dogs, as well. If you're feeling a certain canine craving, a San Diego-based company called FlexPetz...
TRIBECA FOR KIDS
LET'S face it - few young film fans, no matter how fanatic, want to see a Danish documentary about Milosevic or, for that matter, the powerful Chinese drama everyone's talking...
WHAT'S UP
TODAYHAVE EWE ANY WOOL? See where sweaters get their start at a Sheep-to-Shawl Festival in the historic Hudson Valley. As newborn lambs frolic about, costumed "interpreters" will shear sheep old-school-style...
MOM'S THE WORD
FORGET flowers and perfume! For Mother's Day, make your mom famous - by telling the world what makes her the best. Write about her in 200 words or less, and...
'GREY'S' THUMPED IN THURSDAY RETURN
GREY'S Anatomy" returned to slumping numbers Thursday night. The highly anticipated first post-writers'-strike episode of the ABC hospital drama averaged only 16 million viewers - down a whopping 4 million...
LEHRER HEART DRAMA
NEWSMAN Jim Lehrer has undergone heart surgery and will be absent from his long-running PBS news program for several weeks. PBS officials say that Lehrer, 73, is resting comfortably after...
LETHAL WEAPON
THE big difference between A&E's new version of "The Andromeda Strain" and the 1971 movie is that the new one is a whole lot fancier. That's to be expected whenever...
Bettman's Bag Men Award Game 1
By BRETT CYRGALISIt took 35 minutes into Game 1 before the first terrible call made for the betterment of Sidney Crosby happened. It was a tripping call on the Rangers...
TEXT OF THE JUDGE'S COMMENTS IN SEAN BELL CASE
NEW YORK -- Judge Arthur Cooperman issued the following statement as he announced that he was acquitting three NYPD officers in the death of Sean Bell: "Before dealing with the...