May 3, 2008
Julio hangs them up
Well, the day we never thought would arrive finally did: Former Met Julio Franco has finally called it quits after a 23-year major league career. No more Jheri-curl mullets, no...
SUPERBOY A RAILROAD HERO
As a powerful locomotive raced toward his mother's minivan, a quick-thinking Long Island boy became a virtual Superman and lifted a railroad crossing gate to let their trapped vehicle and...
KING MOOSE
HANK Steinbrenner said late Friday night that he wanted to see better pitching and more of a spark from his Yankees. Quite simply, he said it was "time to snap...
YOUTUBER UN-BRIDALS HERSELF
Scorned socialite Tricia Walsh-Smith, who posted rants about her wealthy soon-to-be-ex hubby on YouTube, is back online - this time to sell her wedding dress. The bitter blonde, fighting to...
Schneider getting more time
The Mets have decided that Brian Schneider needs at least another day or two of recovery time from the infected left thumb that caused him to be hospitalized this week....
Lineups in for Mets-D'backs
Willie Randolph is going with a typical day-after-night lineup for this afternoonâs nationally televised matchup between Mike Pelfrey (pictured) and the Diamondbacksâ unbeaten Brandon Webb. Moises Alou, who just returned...
McBride may have saved Fulham
(photo from flickr) Kasey Keller didn't need a single save for the clean sheet, while 25-year-old Clint Dempsey _ who just signed an extension through summer 2010 http://www.fulhamfc.com/Club/News/NewsArticles/2008/May/DempseySignsExtension.aspx_ got the...
Miss at your own risk: Last laughs
Highlights for the week of May 4Late-night StarrCatch the Post TV section's own Michael Starr when he visits Craig Ferguson on Monday.Snoop with the "OLTL" ladies. But we just got...
Early Box Office: 'Iron Man' On Track for a $100M-Plus Weekend
Paramount is reporting that "Iron Man'' sold $32.8 million worth of tickets on Friday and is estimating it will finish the weekend with $95 million. Crack box-office prognosticator Steve Masonthinks...
U.S. defender Cory Gibbs out at Charlton
By BRIAN LEWISCory Gibbs _ the ill-fated U.S. defender who makes injury-prone Claudio Reyna look like Iron Man _ is finally out at Charlton. Shame. I always liked his game,...
Mets coverage in today's Post
The Mets continued their inexplicable success here in Phoenix on Friday, winning for the 14th time in their past 15 games at Chase Field. John Maine was shaky at times,...
HIP-HOP ROYALTY REIGN AT THE GARDEN
THE king of rap and the queen of hip-hop soul held court in the heart of the city at Madison Square Garden last night for one of the year's most...
TOP JUDGE: HOLD FIRE IN PAY WAR
The state's top judge yesterday urged her cash-strapped colleagues to cease fire in their war against state legislators. The Post reported this week that judges were engaging in a rule-book...
ANGRY POLS WEIGH QUINN-SURRECTION
Some City Council members are so angry at the fallout from the phantom-funds mess that they're discussing the possible ouster of Speaker Christine Quinn, The Post has learned. "There's an...
WHY I CAME CLEAN
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson revealed yesterday he decided to disclose highly embarrassing details of his marital infidelities and youthful drug use out of fear that a dirty tricks squad of...
IRE BUILDS OVER BELL ACQUITTALS
It's been more than a week since the verdict, but the furor over Sean Bell's death and his killers' acquittal is just beginning to pick up steam. Police in riot...
B'KLYNITES HOT OVER 'FIRE SALE'
The city yesterday handed over two long-shuttered Brooklyn firehouses in growing neighborhoods to nonprofit groups - ending all hope that community activists and the firefighters union had of reopening them....
DOODLE DUMMY
The razor-blade doodle? That was meant to be "kind of silly." The photo of a bride, her head ripped from the picture? Just some "found art," that's all. And the...
NY 'GUN RUN' RING LASSOED
A gun-running ring that put dozens of illegal firearms on the streets of New York City has been completely dismantled after a group of out-of-state buyers was indicted, federal authorities...
KILLER BX. DRUGLORD CAGED
The leader of a violent Bronx drug crew that peddled its wares across the city for more than a decade and killed off its rivals will likely spend his life...
AXED MTA BIG LOSES FIGHT
A federal judge derailed a lawsuit by axed MTA Security Director Louis Anemone, rejecting claims that officials wrongly fired him and trashed his reputation in retaliation for his efforts to...
BANK SUES SPENDING SPRE
Talk about a financial foul. Former NBA bad boy Latrell Sprewell is being sued by City National Bank for failure to pay more than $23,000 in credit-card bills, according to...
TAKING HIGH ROAD
Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum said yesterday that even if she didn't have to, she would reimburse taxpayers for the private use of her official vehicle. So will city Comptroller Bill...
YELLOW GOLD: CAB AUCTION A $$ RECORD
The sagging economy didn't stop bidders from breaking records for taxi medallions yesterday. An auction bid yesterday of $1.31 million snared a pair of medallions for wheelchair-accessible cabs and a...
AN ALBABY BUMP
Jessica Alba, due to give birth next month, makes a different kind of delivery yesterday to a special LA high school for pregnant teens. After visiting students, she dropped off...
NFL STAR EYED IN SHOOTING
One of the Indianapolis Colts' 2007 Super Bowl heroes is a suspect in connection with a shooting that injured two people, including a young girl. Philadelphia cops yesterday interviewed hometown...
CRUISE COUCHES HIS ANSWERS IN OPRAH SEQUEL
Tom Cruise reprised his appearance on Oprah Winfrey's kook club yesterday - but unlike the furniture-jumping Scientologist's last visit in 2005, this time the acrobatics were limited to leaps in...
FOXY BITTEN WITH NEW SUIT
Rapper Foxy Brown may be out of jail - but her problems are only growing. The angry neighbor who got Foxy arrested last August for allegedly slamming her in the...
BETTING ON 'BROWN' DERBY
Big Brown was the talk of the town in Louisville yesterday as he prepared for the ride of his life, and one of the Kentucky Derby favorite's owners had "goose...
'VINO' VITO WAS BADLY BLOTTO
Rep. Vito Fossella's blood-alcohol content was more than double the legal limit when he was busted for drunken driving in suburban Virginia, court documents show. The Staten Island congressman failed...
MAC RIPS '100 YRS.' ADS
John McCain yesterday accused Democrats of deliberately running false ads claiming he supports a 100-year war in Iraq. "You have seen an ad campaign that is mounted against me that...
'O' BOOSTERS GIVE HILL HELL
Hillary Rodham Clinton was forced to battle a hostile crowd to get through her appeal to North Carolina Democrats at the historic Jefferson-Jackson dinner last night. Soon after Clinton took...
YOUTUBE BUBBA 'RACE RANT'
The Democratic primary race was hit yesterday with a YouTube smear video - a doctored clip of the 1993 movie "The War Room" purporting to show a Bill Clinton adviser...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN * Cops yesterday tracked down an alleged crook wanted in connection with three bank robberies in which he stole more than $10,000 in a single month. Marvin Scarville, 39,...
BE AFRAID: 'UMA'BOMBER IS NOT DONE YET
JACK JORDAN will stalk again. Count on it. Sounding like a cross between a high-school principal and a creepy camp counselor - on crack - the man accused of terrorizing...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 877; Lucky Sum: 22 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 7486; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 758; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 2062;...
SGT. MERLIN GERMAN, 1985-2008
Anyone wondering what kind of men the US military is capable of produc ing need look no further than New York's own Sgt. Merlin German, who passed away last month...
SCORE ONE FOR FREE SPEECH
Gov. Paterson struck an important blow for freedom of speech this week. In signing the Libel Terrorism Protection Act, he gave authors, journalists and others writing about terrorism protection from...
VOTER-ID HYSTERIA
New York's Sen. Chuck Schumer was quick to denounce this week's US Supreme Court ruling upholding the nation's strictest voter-ID law as "a blow to what America stands for." His...
MCCAIN'S HEALTH RX
IF there's just one candidate of change this fall, John McCain will be the Horatio Seymour or James Cox of 2008 - a presidential also-ran all but forgotten to history....
THE TRUTH ON TUSKEGEE
'BASED on this Tuskegee experiment . . . I believe our government is capable of doing anything." So said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright when asked if he stood by his...
OBAMA'S ABUSE OF HIS GOP PAL
CONSERVATIVE GOP Sen. Tom Coburn, who has declined news-media requests for interviews about Barack Obama's comparison of Coburn with an urban terrorist, considers the Democratic presidential candidate's remarks offensive but...
OBAMA WAS DEAD WRONG TO STICK WITH WRIGHT
When all is said and done, voters are faced with two key questions about Sen. Barack Obama ("Barack Stabber," April 30). Does he share the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's anti-white, anti-American...
REDSTONE TOUTS DAUMAN, VIACOM EARNS JUMP 33%
Strong sales of the video game "Rock Band" helped drive a 33 percent jump in Viacom's first-quarter profit, but CEO Philippe Dauman and finance chief Tom Dooley are the company's...
M'SOFT MAY UP OFFER
Yahoo! and Microsoft inched closer to a merger yesterday after the software giant run by Steve Ballmer indicated it's willing to raise its offer to end the three-month standoff between...
IT'S CURTAINS FOR LINENS
In retailing's latest bust, billionaire Leon Black has pulled the bankruptcy plug on his two-year flop with Linens 'n Things. Black's Apollo Management, which two years ago spent $1.3 billion...
DISARMING CHARMING
A judge yesterday tossed out retailer Charming Shoppes' effort to block two hedge funds from running for board seats next week. But the owner of plus-size women's clothier Lane Bryant...
CZECH SUES OVER BOUNCED INVESTMENT
The feud between a Stamford, Conn.-based hedge fund manager and his boss over withheld pay intensified yesterday after the fund manager amended his lawsuit to try to collect $900,000 he...
HONDO EYES TREY
Hondo was spared a fall into red numbers last night when the dreaded Bosawx threw him a rope and pulled him into triple figures at 110 cronins above sea level....
WIFE: DERRICK DOESN'T NEED HEART TRANSPLANT
Derrick Coleman's heart disorder has not deteriorated to the point where he's in need of a transplant, his wife Gina said yesterday. "It's a possibility down the road, but for...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Hawks force Game 7 Joe Johnson shook off a poor night to hit a crucial 3-pointer with 1:07 remaining and the Hawks forced an improbable Game 7 with Boston,...
UPSET PLAN
LOS ANGELES - When Steve Forbes first learned he had been chosen as Oscar De La Hoya's next opponent, he said, "I thought it was an April Fool's joke." Tonight...
'BIG' DAY ARRIVES FOR DERBY FAVORITE
Rick Dutrow Jr. trains undefeated Florida Derby winner Big Brown, the favorite for today's 134th Kentucky Derby. This week he shares his thoughts and insights with Post readers. As told...
'SPELL' CAST AT OAKS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - What a day at the Downs for the Jones boys! Over a sealed, sloppy track, Proud Spell tracked the early pace under Gabriel Saez, bid for the...
TIME TO THINK 'BIG'
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Hope springs eternal on the first Saturday in May. In today's 134th Kentucky Derby, an elite squad of 3-year-old thoroughbreds - only 20 made the cut, out...
WEATHER OR NOT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It poured on Churchill Downs yesterday, turning the track to a sea of slop. The sandy surface dries out quickly, and there is just a 20 percent...
THREE FOR THE MONEY
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A startling oddity about today's Kentucky Derby is that three of the greatest trainers of modern times, all New Yorkers, will saddle six horses in the race...
SURPRISING TITANS READY FOR FIRST PLAYOFF TEST
No team comes into a season thinking they are going to finish last. Yet every year, in every sport, there is a team predicted to be the worst of the...
GHOLSTON AND KELLER LOOK TO TACKLE CRITICS
The long, impatient wait to return to the football field ended yesterday for the Jets' two first-round draft picks. Since former Ohio State defensive end/linebacker Vernon Gholston and Purdue tight...
SOURCES: MAVS TO HIRE CARLISLE
Rick Carlisle won't be reunited with former boss Donnie Walsh with the Knicks. Sources told The Post last night that the former Pacer and Piston coach, who interviewed with Walsh...
'BACK IN BUSINESS
PHOENIX - Chase Field still feels like home to the Mets. Buoyed by Jose Reyes' four-hit eruption, the return of Moises Alou and a reconfigured lineup, the Amazin's continued their...
WILLIE TO BILLY: KEEP IT IN-HOUSE
PHOENIX - Willie Randolph doesn't want the Mets becoming the Queens version of The Bronx Zoo. Saying he thought it should have been "kept in-house," Randolph confirmed last night that...
TOUCHY SUBJECT
This is where we came in, with the Rangers needing a victory in Pittsburgh, and with the Rangers needing the game officials to allow them to play the kind of...
PENGUINS WANT TO WRAP IT UP
Shut out? Watch out, Penguins coach Michel Therrien says. Hoping to ward off the Spectre of '75 by finishing off the Rangers tomorrow, Therrien wants to see that famous Rocket...
NO SURGERY FOR POSADA, BUT HE'S OUT UNTIL JUNE
Jorge Posada won't need surgery on his ailing right shoulder, but Yankees fans shouldn't expect him back until sometime next month. Evaluations by four different doctors all yielded the same...
HE'S LOOKING LIKE CY WANG
Considering the only physician the Yankees haven't sent their players to this season is Dr. Spock and the size of their disabled list seems to expand by the day, there...
IAN: I WANNA STAY IN ROTATION
Ian Kennedy insists he can correct his awful beginning in the big leagues, doesn't need to skip a start or be sent to Triple-A. However, Hank Steinbrenner already is cranky...
BABY BOSS: WE'LL MAKE NEEDED FIXES
HANK Steinbrenner marveled at how Chien-Ming Wang pitched the Yankees to victory last night, beating the Mariners 5-1 at Yankee Stadium. But The New Boss knows it's going to take...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Civil War buff who crisscrossed the South collecting wartime relics died just like many of his heroes when a 19th century cannonball exploded in his driveway. Sam White, 53,...
WHAT'S UP
TODAY: Swing it like Tiger (pre-knee injury) at Chelsea Piers' 2008 Golf Fest. After picking up pointers from Golf Academy pros, families can hang out in the Kids' Corner, hit...
DOLLY JOLENE'S TOO MUCH ON YUKS
WITH a double-D helping of bad boob jokes and enough folksiness to make Dan Rather scramble like a coon-dog through bramble, Dolly Parton's Radio City Music Hall sellout concert belly-...
SUMMER STAGES
THOUGH it's still weeks before Memorial Day, your Sutton and Hunter Foster wannabes have no summer plans - even though your neighbor signed up her kids for camp last October....
'GREY'S' GOOSED AGAIN IN RATINGS DIVE
THE prognosis for "Grey's Anatomy" just keeps getting worse. "Grey's" averaged only 15.1 million viewers Thurssday night - the lowest-rated regular telecast in its history and down almost 5 million...
GARY'S 'COURT' DECREE
FORMER child star Gary Coleman did not get divorced on national television as Judge Lynn Toler of TV's "Divorce Court" appeared to have saved Coleman's marriage to his bride of...
CHEESE WHIZ
IS it just me, or is "American Idol" turning into "The Lawrence Welk Show"? If it becomes any cheesier, or the songs and the singers any more bland, they'll be...
TEA OF A KIND
PINKIES extended, everyone! It's time for afternoon tea. And we're not talking about the paper cup filled with hot water and a Salada bag that you picked up at the...
Molina sent down to make room
With Brian Schneider close to returning, the Mets made room for Moises Alou on the roster tonight by sending catcher Gustavo Molina (pictured) back to Triple-A New Orleans. Schneider is...
Randolph scolds Wagner
Willie Randolph didn't like Billy Wagner going so public with his criticism of Oliver Perez on Wednesday. Saying he thought it should have been âkept in-house,â Randolph confirmed tonight that...