June 4, 2008
ANTI-BIAS CRUSADER HAS 'KINK' IN ARMOR
A leading lower Manhattan women's rights lawyer watched porn at his desk, discussed his "pierced genitalia" and wears a "slave" collar at work as part of a sadomasochistic relationship with...
Spain Edges Out U.S., 1-0
APThe United States ended a two-game European trip with its second straight loss, giving up a late goal to Xavi Hernandez in a 1-0 defeat against Spain on Wednesday night....
METS DEFEAT GIANTS, 5-3
SAN FRANCISCO -- Their fans fretted and fumed, but the Mets say they never doubted Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran would heat up this season. That patience is now being...
Bart Watch: Pals Claim Uncompleted 'Valkryie' is 'Superb,' But Peter's Commenters Beg To Differ
He's only been at it for for a couple of days, but 170 (and counting) readers posted comments on the Variety editor's new blog after he claimed "people I trust''...
Ariza looks for ring
By MARC BERMANBOSTON - Don't be shocked if former Knicks draft pick Trevor Ariza gets some minutes in this Finals series.Oh, you forgot the Inglewood native was traded from Orlando...
PEDRO FINE AFTER START
SAN FRANCISCO -- Pedro Martinez described himself as none the worse for wear today, hours after rolling up his highest pitch count in nearly two years. "I felt a lot...
RUTGERS LANDS TOP RUNNING BACK
Rutgers got a verbal commitment yesterday from Desmond Scott of Durham, NC., who chose the Scarlet Knights over Big East champion West Virginia. The 5-foot-9, 185-pounder from Hillside H.S. is...
Draft news and notes
For all you baseball draftniks out there, we have a brief rundown on where the Mets sit going into the first-year player draft that starts Thursday in Orlando. The Mets...
OBAMA-CLINTON TICKET: DREAM OR NIGHTMARE?
WASHINGTON -- Picture a cozy weekend at Camp David for President Obama, Vice President Hillary Rodham Clinton and their lively spouses. They'd talk policy and politics in the confines of...
Tabata day-to-day after HBP
Jose Tabata, the Yankees No. 3 overall prospect in Baseball America's preseason rankings, is day-to-day after being hit in the arm in the first inning of Double-A Trenton's game against...
'Ice Road' Stiff-ers
Hugh Rowland, the unlikely star of History channelâs summer hit, "Ice Road Truckers" believes that the showâs producers owe him a truck. Tuesday night, during an appearance on "Late Night...
Daniel Plainview, Circa 1947 -- One Man's Descent Into Madness
The inevitable downsizing of freespending Paramount Vantage by its parent company inspired Christopher Campbell, Karina Longworth's sidekick at the invaluable Spot Blog, to dig up this hilarious faux trailer, which...
'Sulu' Disses Capt. Kirk
Captain KirkWilliam Shatner isn't on George Takeiâs wedding guest list, but Capt. Kirk still sends his best. "No, we have not been in touch [with George Takei and his soon-to-be...
Deal of the Day-Kenneth Cole
These suede Twist N Shout sandals from Kenneth Cole are the girl with skinny ankles and an adventurous sense of footwear.Theyâre not too flat and not too high which is...
TV ads sink to new low
Pausing mid-show While plenty of networks run those annoying pop-up ads during the middle of our favorite shows to promote one of their other programs, TBS actually paused the "Family...
Rutgers lands country's No. 2 RB
By BRIAN LEWISRutgers got a verbal commitment today from Desmond Scott of Durham, NC., who chose the Scarlet Knights over Big East champion West Virginia. The 5-foot-9, 185-pounder from Hillside...
CITY TO MANDATE CRANE TRAINING
NEW YORK - New York City hardhats will have to complete safety courses before working on cranes and contractors will be given numbers to track safety. The changes are part...
OCD Archives: Those Missing 41 Minutes of Busby Berkeley
"Film stocks have a date code in them and the edit points have a stock code on the edge from 1942, whereas the rest of the original negative has a...
Orders in for finale with Giants
The Mets have a quick turnaround after Pedro Martinezâs stellar return Tuesday night, with John Maine taking on the Giantsâ Matt Cain in the series finale here this afternoon at...
Alou pushes back return date
Moises Alou said here today that he now doesn't expect to come off the DL until next Tuesday, at the earliest, after suffering a slight setback with his strained left...
Greece's Call for R-E-S-P-E-C-T
APGreece has one main goal at the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland: earning respect.The team came from nowhere as 80-1 shots to win Euro 2004, and four years later...
SI.com releases MLB mock draft
Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus has his take on how the first round of MLB's First-Year Player Draft will shape up on SI.com's front page today, and has some new...
ON DECK: BLUE JAYS AT YANKEES
Joba Chamberlain officially became a starter last night. The question for the Yankees now becomes, can Kyle Farnsworth or anyone else step up and be successful in the vacated eighth-inning...
Jozy Altidore appears headed to Villarreal
Jozy is the Villa_rreal Deal By BRIAN LEWISRed Bull striker Jozy Altidore is headed to la Liga, with MLS and Villarreal agreeing on a transfer fee that will be the...
BARACK: HILLARY AND I CAN UNIFY PARTY
Barack Obama spoke directly with his vanquished rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday and expressed optimism they could achieve party unity after their bruising battle for the Democratic presidential nomination....
NBA FINALS MATCHUPS
Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain aren't suiting up. Nor is John Havlicek and Jerry West, Magic Johnson or Larry Bird. This wonderful NBA Finals extravaganza that tips off Thursday night...
Coverage in today's Post
He wasn't exactly overpowering, but Pedro Martinez made a triumphant return nonetheless Tuesday night in a 9-6 win here in San Francisco over the Giants. Pedro not only pitched six...
Coke loses Triple-A Debut
LHP Phil Coke, promoted from Double-A Trenton to replace Dan Giese on the roster and to start yesterday's game, allowed three runs on eight hits in three innings in Scranton/Wilkes...
JOBA AND THE PITCH COUNT GENERATION
Here are some thoughts on Joba the Starter.As I sat and watched Joba Chamberlain speak at his press conference, I got the feeling here was another example of a kid...
Pardon Me Boy, is this the Transylvania Film Festival?
From V.A. Musetto at the Transylvania Film Festival: Early in the Bram Stoker novel Dracula, Jonathan Harker speaks of arriving in the city of Klausenburg. Today, that city is known...
Starr Report: Best fetes
Jamie-Lynn Sigler CNN's Soledad O'Brien, meanwhile, hosts the Green Chimneys 60th anniversary Gala tomorrow at the New York Hilton. Green Chimneys helps children through animal- assisted therapy; Robert F. Kennedy...
M. Night Worried About Bloggers
As I noted in an update yesterday Fox has decided to screen M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening'' after all. But that doesn't mean they aren't apprehensive about how it will...
Things We Lost in the Fire
A couple of weeks ago, the Film Society of Lincoln Center had a rare showing of Mitchell Leisen's "Hold Back the Dawn'' as part of its Charles Boyer retrospective. Today,...
THE JOBA EDITION
FROM JOEL SHERMANIn today's Post I wrote a column about Joba Chamberlain's first start in the majors, and about the spring-training sense there is around the Yankees. The team feels...
3 UP: The Joba Edition
1. In today's Post I wrote a column about Joba Chamberlain's first start in the majors, and about the spring-training sense there is around the Yankees. The team feels completely...
I RIPPED OFF 9/11 WIDOW
A shady stockbroker who ripped off a 9/11 widow's share of the federal Victim Compensation Fund in order to renovate his New Jersey home and buy a time-share in Florida...
Green TV
Grizzly Grenier Today you can tune into channel 841 (on Time Warner Cable) for Planet Green, the new Discovery Channel offspring that tells us how eco-friendly we can all be....
SETJET: Smells like Bond spirit
Apparently, it is never too early to get excited for the October release of Craig-Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, which is filming this spring in locations as varied as Panama,...
GOV'S WRONG A-GENDER: OVERSTEPPING BOUNDS
THE ISSUE: Gov. Paterson's order for New York state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages. Gov. Paterson believes that he is upholding New York's decades-old law that gives the state authority...
NOT YOUR CUP OF COSMO?
THE ISSUE: The release of the "Sex and the City" movie, staring Sarah Jessica Parker. Would someone please explain the logic of the swarms of women showing up to see...
THE 'JUDGMENT ON IRAQ' TEST
IT looks like the presidential battle will be about one over arching theme: judgment versus experience. And Exhibit A will be the Iraq war. Barack Obama insists that judgment is...
BARACK'S THROWBACK
Barack Obama is peddling a brand of isolationism that Americans haven't heard from a major presidential contender in nearly a century - one that uses the daily struggles of hard-working...
A RADICAL FIX FOR KILLER CRANES
IN the wake of the second deadly crane collapse this spring, Mayor Bloomberg, city lawmakers and leaders from the construction industry are racing to hammer out reforms in how the...
CAP THOSE TAXES!
HEALTHY skepticism was warranted back in January, when Gov. Eliot Spitzer first announced he would name a special commission to recommend a cap on school property taxes. Sure, the governor's...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 762; Lucky Sum: 15 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 5621; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 884; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Win- 4 Tue.:...
HEEEEERE'S FORECLOSURE
Former Johnny Carson sidekick Ed McMahon's home is reportedly in danger of going into foreclosure. The 85-year-old TV star, also known as a pitchman for the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, has...
FORGET-ME-KNOT CHARLIE SHEEN
He tied the knot, just not his tie's. "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen was so blissfully relaxed kissing his new bride, Brooke Mueller, that he forgot his...
HILL IS STILL NOT GIVING UP
A defiant Hillary Clinton heralded her campaign victories and boasted of her millions of supporters last night - conceding nothing to Barack Obama even as her rival crossed the critical...
DINA LOHAN TOUTS LINDSAY'S BFF SAM RONSON
Lindsay Lohan's mom sang the praises of her daughter's gal pal, Samantha Ronson - but kept quiet on rumors she's having a lesbian relationship with the star DJ. "She's an...
OBAMA CAPTURES HISTORIC PRIZE
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for president last night, propelling him to history as the first black standard-bearer for either major party. "Tonight, I can stand before you and...
CLINTON: I'D PLAY SECOND FIDDLE
Hillary Rodham Clinton opened the door yesterday to being Barack Obama's running mate. In a conference call with New York lawmakers, she expressed interest for the first time in the...
MCCAIN CALLS O A WUSS
John McCain opened the general election campaign against Barack Obama with a blistering attack last night - calling the newly minted Democratic presidential nominee too weak to be commander-in-chief. "He...
CAPT. KIRK OUT
George "Sulu" Takei is speeding to the final frontier of gay marriage - and several "Star Trek" comrades will be by his side. But conspicuously NOT on the guest list...
I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT MAN, MR. CLINTON
Actress Gina Gershon won't take "insinuations" that she slept with Bill Clinton lying down. The sexy Hollywood star, 46, yesterday sicced her lawyers on Vanity Fair magazine, demanding a retraction...
DWI NIGHTMARE AT BIKE RACE
Riders and bikes are hurled into the air as a drunken driver, asleep at the wheel, plows into a pack of racing cyclists on a highway near the US-Mexico border....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
ManhattanA shoplifter got bagged by a security guard after she and two accomplices attempted to swipe $650 in merchandise from an Upper West Side store, authorities said yesterday. The guard...
POLS FIGHT GOV'S GAY-WED ORDER
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson's controversial order that state agencies recognize out-of-state and foreign gay marriages was challenged in state Supreme Court yesterday by five Republican lawmakers and the head of...
LAWSUIT'S A NUT CASE
A Long Island doctor claims American Airlines needlessly endangered her highly allergic 4-year-old son's life by serving peanuts on a flight she was assured would be nut-free. Instead of helping...
GARBAGE SAVES HARLEM TODDLER
A Harlem toddler tumbled 18 feet from her bedroom window yesterday, but suffered mere bumps and bruises when her fall was cushioned by a rubber garbage can lid, authorities said....
CRANE MAN'S SAD FAREWELL
The crane operator killed in last Friday's Upper East Side collapse just weeks before his wedding died doing the job he loved, his tearful family recounted at his funeral yesterday....
LAWSUIT PEDALER
The psychotic spinner is no stranger to the courthouse. More details emerged yesterday about the litigious past of spinning-class grunter Stuart Sugarman, as he promised to press on with a...
BURGLAR ALSO A CHISELER
A convicted killer has been busted for allegedly breaking into a slew of apartments by chiseling through hallway walls and doors into apartments in Chelsea and on the East Side....
MICE INFEST QNS. SCHOOL
See mice run. The outdoor trailers that serve as the classrooms, cafeteria and gymnasium for about 80 autistic school kids in Queens are overrun with the vermin, teachers and advocates...
HONORS FOR WSJ SCRIBE
Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens was named winner of the 10th annual Eric Breindel Award last night. He was honored for his Global Views columns on foreign affairs. "I'm...
VILLAGE TENANTS 'HOUSE BROKEN'
Rent-stabilized tenants can't stop a wealthy couple from turning their East Village apartment building into their dream mansion, the state's highest court ruled yesterday. The Court of Appeals found that...
CIGS SOAR TO $12/PACK
Angry New Yorkers had smoke coming out of their ears yesterday as they began paying the highest cigarette taxes in the country - and the price of a pack reached...
THAT'S RICH! ASTOR SON'S BID TO NIX RAP
Brooke Astor's son says there's nothing criminal about a mother being generous with her only son. Anthony Marshall says in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that criminal charges alleging...
TIP-OFF 'FIXED' BY NBA CHEAT
Greedy NBA ref Timothy Donaghy made a last-minute change to his winning "pick" during a 2006 game he officiated after learning that one of the teams was "all banged up,"...
WE'LL FIX PRE-K GLITCH: ED. BIGS
Department of Education officials said yesterday they're moving to address pre-kindergarten enrollment snafus that may have wrongly denied spots to nearly 200 schoolchildren. The glitches caused a furor among parents...
TATUM'S BACK ON AA-LIST
A contrite Tatum O'Neal donned a preppy sundress, gold cross and Jackie-O shades and spent her first full day out of the clink at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The actress...
MIKE AIDE NIXES CONVENTION
Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey has turned down an offer to manage the Republican presidential convention in Minnesota, The Post has learned. "I would like to have him stay here," said...
WARRANT FOR JEWISH 'VIGILANTE' IN B'KLYN ATTACK
Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the Orthodox Jewish man suspected in a bias attack that has stirred racial tensions in Crown Heights, sources said yesterday. Yitzhak Shuchat, 25,...
JUSTICE AT LAST VS. THUG
He was awarded $76 million by a jury after being paralyzed by a bullet from a cop he shot at first. Now, the state's highest court has ruled Darryl Barnes...
SUGAR AND 'SLICE'
Dozens of gangster girls playing hooky from school battled each other in a bloody knife fight on the streets of Brooklyn yesterday afternoon that ended with two teens hospitalized and...
MTA GAL GETS A GRIP
A female MTA Transit supervisor who cut in front of a cop at a Queens employee-only subway bathroom yesterday slapped him in the face and then squeezed his testicles when...
'BUILDING' A SAFER CITY
With construction-related deaths on pace to double last year's total, the city will unveil a series of sweeping proposals today intended to make the industry safer. The proposals, to be...
MIKE'S POLL SIZING UP '3RD TERM'
Mayor Bloomberg, who has repeatedly denied interest in running for governor or extending term limits, has conducted a poll that includes questions about changing term limits - a move that...
'KRISTEN' MADAM: I'M GUILTY
The petite madam who ran the prostitution ring that serviced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer admitted to everything from money laundering and booking hookers to having a bad trip on mushrooms,...
TAX CAP IS IN TROUBLE
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson's bid to cap soaring property taxes was in doubt yesterday as powerful labor unions lined up against it and key lawmakers offered only tepid support. Paterson...
ARTI-FISH-AL FALLS FOR EAST RIVER
Fish and art will co-exist peacefully this summer in the East River. Each of the four "New York City Waterfalls" under construction on the river's shore - mammoth works of...
HUMMER BUMMER
Pains of $4-plus gasoline and tight consumer credit are finally driving a stake through the heart of the auto industry's gas-guzzlers. General Motors, which yesterday posted a sharp 30 percent...
YANK YANG: ICAHN
Carl Icahn, the luddite billionaire pushing Yahoo! to strike a deal with Microsoft, is now taking direct aim at Yahoo's embattled boss Jerry Yang. Icahn had initially proposed replacing all...
LEHMAN RUMORS SPREAD
Traders are betting that Lehman Brothers could face Bear Stearns-style trouble after a series of reports yesterday suggested the bank is confronting writedowns and may look to raise as much...
BORDERS SLASHES 275 JOBS
Struggling bookstore chain Borders said it will slash 20 percent of its corporate workforce as it looks to cut annual expenses by $120 million. The nation's second-largest bookseller will eliminate...
NBC SUFFERING ITS OWN OLYMPIC TRIAL$
With just two months until the Beijing Olympics, NBC is scrambling to sell out ad time for its broadcast of the Games. The Peacock network is said to be aggressively...
BABY BIDS SEEK TWIN PEEKS
THE bidding war for the first photos of the twins of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is expected to shatter the previous paycheck for celebrity baby photos by a wide...
STATE PURSUES GRASSO
The New York Attorney General's Office continued its never-ending battle yesterday to make former New York Stock Exchange boss Dick Grasso give back some of the $187.5 million compensation package...
JACKSON EXITS CIO POSITION
The credit crunch has claimed the job of yet another hedge fund pro. Alexander Jackson, who managed the credit and bond strategies for the once high flying, London-based Polygon Investment...
DEF JAM TAPS NEW LEADER
The post-Sean "Jay-Z" Carter era at Universal Music Group's Island Def Jam began to take shape yesterday after the label named company vet Shakir Stewart executive vice president of its...
CELEBRITY NEWS SITE TO LAUNCH
Former Yahoo! entertainment chief Lloyd Braun is teaming with Microsoft to build a new online celebrity news Web site for MSN that rivals AOL's TMZ and Yahoo!'s OMG. BermanBraun, the...
BARNEYS PONDERS RETURN TO MEATPACKING DISTRICT
BARNEYS may be returning to its downtown roots, eyeing space in the Meatpacking district. Sources tell us the high-end retailer has a lease out with Romanoff Equities for about 50,000...
RIGHTS FIGHT IS HOLDING UP HOT MOVIES, SHOWS
Forget trying to legally download or watch "Indiana Jones" online. Ditto "Star Wars," "Titanic," "The Godfather" and "Seinfeld." Popular movies and TV shows remain in limited supply online, even as...
HOPE ON PROPERTY TAXES
It took a while, but Gov. Paterson finally stepped up to the plate and showed long-suffering New Yorkers that he's on their side when it comes to the state's runaway...
HILLARY'S HISTORIC RUN
It's over - at last. The primary electorate has had its say - and now it's up to the two parties' nominating conventions to ratify those outcomes: John McCain for...
WHAT A LOSER - AND SHE CAN'T EVEN DO THAT RIGHT!
A LADY knows when it's time to leave. But Hillary Rodham Clinton is a different kind of dame. Appropriately, she held what should have been her final campaign appearance in...
BATTLE LEAVES DEMS WITH TOP O-RGANIZATION
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Despite all the deep cuts and nasty bruises of this interminable primary campaign, Barack Obama emerges amazingly strong against John McCain, considering that he's history's first...
'SEXISM DOESN'T HAVE TO BE MORE INSIDIOUS THAN RACISM FOR OBAMA TO ADDRESS IT'
NOW that it looks like he's secured the Democratic nomination, what can Barack Obama do to win over the devoted Clinton voters? For starters, he needs to stem the brewing...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
This suspected thief might want to consider a new line of work. Erin Vanmatre, 22, was tackled and held at bay by a 71-year-old man and his pal in a...
Mexico hires Sven-Goran Eriksson
By BRIAN LEWISMexico finally has a new coach: Former England and Manchester City gaffer Sven-Goran Eriksson, who said âMexico is a big, big job.ââ I didnât really expect it to...
BANKING
What's on a check IF you open a checking account at a bank, you can use checks to buy things instead of carrying cash everywhere. Of course, you always have...
SHOWTIME GETS A TOUCHDOWN WITH 'INSIDE THE NFL'
SHOWTIME has intercepted "Inside the NFL," the long-running weekly football highlights show that was dropped by the pay-cable channel's archrival, HBO, last season. The new "Inside the NFL" will be...
STARR REPORT
Best fetes: Jamie-Lynn Sigler and her father, Steve, are expected at Campbell Apartment tonight for an event where people can cus tom-engrave unopened bot tles of Johnnie Walker Blue Label...
HOMER GETS MORE D'OH
THE cast of "The Simpsons" have signed blockbuster deals that will pay them more dough! Under the new deals, the show is expected to run through its 20th season, but...
WHO IS KILLING THE TV ANCHORS OF NEW YORK?
LOCAL TV news - once one of the most glamorous, well-paid jobs in the world - is suddenly more dangerous than Baghdad. The bodies are everywhere. Rob Morrison, Jim Rosenfield,...
MEREDITH VIEIRA'S HUSBAND GETS SHOW
MEREDITH Vieira's husband, producer/author Richard Cohen, is testing a new radio show on WABC/770AM. The one-hour talk show is in the experimental stages, according to WABC program director Phil Boyce....
WHAT TO WATCH NOW
IF you thought Hillary Clinton was devastated that there are no more primaries, go talk to the people who work in cable TV news. The white-knuckle Democratic presidential primary race...
BOTTLE POCKETS
NOT every plastic water bottle has the joy of being reborn as men's business attire. But for the 15 to 30 such bottles that go into every EcoGir suit, being...
POP-ROCK MUSICAL'S A KEEPER
IT may be playing on 42nd Street in the middle of godless New York City, but "Saved" - the new musical set at a Christian high school - isn't the...
'NICE WORK' HAS IT BAD
GIVEN all the intrigue, back-stabbing and busted friendships surrounding "Nice Work If You Can Get It," a better title for the new Harry Connick Jr. musical might be "Nice Dish...
NO RESTAURANT LIKE HOME
THERE'S going out, and there's staying in. Guess you'd call this "going in" for dinner. A Casa is a dream come true: wine dinners prepared in your very own kitchen...
DINING A TRIAL IN PALM COURT
THE tipping point for the Plaza Hotel's Palm Court - the moment the preciously re-launched "iconic" venue graduated from merely horrible to hilariously so - came when the lunch waiter...
SUPERMARKET SECRETS!
ATTENTION shoppers! Don't pretend you haven't tried to peek through the back doors of your favorite grocery store. It all seems very mysterious. Who's making the macaroni salad? Are there...
RE-PETE FOR JETS
Jet management might not be prepared for it, but it appears, as they embark on tomorrow's opening of a three-day mandatory minicamp, they're about to see the same unsettling movie...
CARSON LEADS LIBS
Apparently it's going to take a lot more than getting her first professional start in the most important early-season game of the season to get rookie Essence Carson nervous. The...
TROUBLING NEWS: THIS 'SPRING' GAME COUNTS
THE cameras flashed and energy sizzled through a packed crowd last night at Yankee Stadium, the telltale signs of a huge event. Then why did it feel, to some degree,...
CHAMBERLAIN NEVER COMFORTABLE
The hype, the build-up, the expectations were pure New York. Unless you've been living in the trunk of a '56 Buick, you knew Joba Chamberlain was making his first major...
FIRST DOWN & LONG
HARLAN Chamberlain arrived at Yankee Stadium at 4:45 yesterday afternoon with family members and went directly to Monument Park. Joba Chamberlain was to make his first ill-fated start as a...
JOBA IS STOPPED FOR JAY-WALKING
It wasn't very pretty for Joba Chamberlain. It was simply disappointing. With back-page hype and a sellout Bronx crowd on hand, Chamberlain's starting debut was far from a huge success...
JORGE COULD PLAY TONIGHT OR TOMORROW
After thriving in another extended game yesterday, Jorge Posada will rejoin the Yankees today and could be activated tonight. Posada, who's been on the disabled list with rotator cuff tendinitis,...
KIWANUKA HEALTHY, THRILLED TO BE BACK
A year ago, the last body parts Mathias Kiwanuka had to concern himself with were his legs. It was his head that was spinning. He looked like a tall, rangy...
WE'LL BE CHAMPING AT THE BIT
Rick Dutrow Jr. trains Big Brown, the undefeated "Brown Bomber" who bids for the Triple Crown in Saturday's Belmont Stakes. This week he shares his thoughts and insights with Post...
TIGER TOPS FORTUNATE 50
For the fifth straight year, Tiger Woods tops the list of the top-earning American athletes, according to Sports Illustrated. Woods topped the "Fortunate 50" with $127,902,706 last year, which included...
BIRD OF PARADISE
MAGIC Johnson never thought he was playing against Larry Bird, being guarded instead by Dennis Johnson, just as Bird was guarded by Michael Cooper. All the while Robert Parrish dueled...
HONDO'S TRIPLE-DIPPING
The Yankees, who seem committed to reducing Hondo's bankroll, betrayed him again last night as they were pummeled by the Blue Jays to lower the earnings to 470 bahnsens. Tonight,...
'BROWN' PASSES TEST WITH FLYING COLORS
BIG Brown, with a secu rity phalanx bigger than the president's, flew through his final Belmont Stakes workout yesterday, going faster than any other horse on the grounds and setting...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOCKEY: Lightning ax TortorellaJohn Tortorella was fired yesterday as coach of the Lightning, four years after leading the team to its only Stanley Cup championship. He had one season remaining...
MOORE-XAVERIAN ON WAY
Just two days after Eddie Medina surrendered a late four-run lead to Xaverian that would have gotten Moore Catholic into the CHSAA championship round, the senior got the Mavericks there....
DUEL VS. CURLIN COULD BE IN WORKS
It's a heavyweight bout the racing world can only dream about: Big Brown, the undisputed 3-year-old champ who's odds-on to clinch the Triple Crown in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, vs. the...
WESTBROOK TO VISIT KNICKS
UCLA sophomore point guard Russell Westbrook will be the flavor of the day at their Westchester campus when the Knicks conduct their first pre-draft workouts in preparation for the June...
PISTOL PETEY
SAN FRANCISCO - Pedro Martinez's return couldn't have gone much better for the Mets here last night. Coming off a two-month absence due to a strained hamstring, Martinez energized the...
THIS TIME, SCOTT'S NO RELIEF
SAN FRANCISCO - And things had been going so well for Scott Schoeneweis ... The Met reliever actually was hearing cheers from the fans at Shea after being a punching...
Red Bull transfer rumors and roundups
By BRIAN LEWISThere is a lot of information floating around about the Red Bullsâ transfer targets, and maybe even more disinformation. So hereâs a roundup, to the best of my...
Update: Cancel replacing Casanova
The Mets announced after Tuesday night's 9-6 win over the Giants here that Robinson Cancel (pictured) is being recalled to replace Raul Casanova for the next three days while Casanova...
2ND MAN CLIMBS NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING
In a day bizarre even by Times Square standards, the "French Spiderman" - followed hours later by a Spiderman copycat - scaled the 52-story New York Times building today.PHOTOS: Man...
2ND MAN CLIMBS WEST SIDE BUILDING IN COPYCAT STUNT
showvideo("NY%20Post","1458_297982"); A second man climbed up the side of the New York Times' building on the West Side, just hours after a daredevil did the same stunt. The New York...
LISTS: Where the Brits are
A British man successfully sued a tour operator for a few bucks. What for? Apparently, David Barnish signed up for an expensive holiday to Greece with tour provider Thomson, only...
OBAMA CAPTURES HISTORIC PRIZE
Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for president last night, propelling him to history as the first black standard-bearer for either major party. "Tonight, I can stand before you and...
CHAMBERLAIN SHAKY AS TORONTO ROLLS 9-3
It wasn't very pretty. It was simply disappointing. With back-page hype and a sellout Bronx crowd, Joba Chamberlain's starting debut was far from a huge success last night, especially compared...
GIRLS CUT CLASS- AND EACH OTHER
Dozens of gangster girls playing hooky from school battled each other in a bloody knife fight on the streets of Brooklyn this afternoon that ended with two teens hospitalized and...
Pitching set for Padres series
The Mets announced the pitching matchups for the four-game series with the Padres that starts Thursday at Petco Park in San Diego. Here is the lineup:Thursday -- Mike Pelfrey (2-6,...
Lineups ready for Pedro's return
All eyes tonight will be on Pedro Martinez (pictured) as he makes his first start since April 1 when the Mets take on Barry Zito and the Giants. This will...
Bereavement leave for Casanova
Backup catcher Raul Casanova will be leaving the team briefly after the death of his father, a team official said tonight. The Mets plan to place Casanova on the bereavement...