June 7, 2008
Lineups set for Mets-Padres III
After scoring just two runs in their past 23 innings, the Mets try to bounce back from consecutive 2-1 losses to the Padres here tonight when Oliver Perez takes on...
Church out another two games
The Mets will hold Ryan Church (pictured) out of the lineup for at least the next two days because of lingering effects from the concussion he suffered May 20 in...
BIG LOSS
Oh no, not again! It's back to the drawing board as Big Brown, the heavy favorite to sweep the Triple Crown in today's Belmont Stakes, suddenly spit the bit around...
DOUGLAS-ROBERTS IMPRESSIVE IN NETS WORKOUT
The group was athletic, tough and competitive. But there was one other quality Memphis forward Chris Douglas-Roberts brought to his Nets workout Saturday. "Deceptive," said general manager Kiki Vandeweghe. "He...
Kenny Cooper added for Sunday, Jozy Altidore not
By BRIAN LEWISWith Brian McBride retired from international soccer, Eddie Johnson playing like Eddie Johnson _ showing pace, creating chances, then blowing them _ and forgotten man Josh Wolfe reminding...
DAMON GOES 6-FOR-6, YANKS WIN
If you want pretty, go watch scenery in Central Park. The Yankees are playing ugly baseball, perhaps a tribute to the dead caterpillar growing above Jason Giambi's upper lip. But...
Portugal Beats Turkey
APPortugal threatened the Turkish goal time and again, finally getting second-half goals from Pepe and Raul Meireles for a 2-0 win Saturday night in Group A of the European Championship....
Randolph: No trades on horizon
Despite published reports elsewhere this week, Willie Randolph is making it sound like help for the Mets via the trade route won't be coming anytime soon. The Philadelphia Daily News...
HILLARY QUITS
Hillary Rodham Clinton backed Barack Obama today,declaring, "I endorse him and throw my full support behind him - and I ask all of you to join me in working as...
Czechs Down Swiss
APVaclav Sverkos made his first goal for the Czech Republic a memorable one, scoring the winner in a 1-0 victory over co-host Switzerland on Saturday in the opening match of...
Spike On Clint: 'The Man Is Not My Father...We're Not On a Plantation'
"First of all, the man is not my father and we're not on a plantation either," says Spike Lee, responding to Clint Eastwood response to Spike's complaints (see post below)...
ON DECK: METS AT PADRES
Oliver Perez needs to get the Mets back on the winning track tonight against the Padres (10:05, SNY, WFAN). That might be difficult considering Perez hasn't won since May 18,...
Coverage in today's Post
We know Petco Park is a pitcher's park, but this is ridiculous. The Mets are now back to .500 again after yet another 2-1 loss to the lowly Padres here...
Euro '08 Begins Today
The day many of you have been waiting for is finally here.Euro 2008 will begin today and the action from Austria and Switzerland will take center stage for the next...
Euro's Got Some Ball
AP"The ball is round" is just about the worst cliche in football. It means the gameâand life by extensionâis unpredictable.Unpredictable? Just ask goalkeepers at the European Championship. For every major...
Kareem: I've been snubbed
By MARC BERMANBOSTON â Lakers special assistant Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, assigned to Jerseyâs center Andrew Bynum, believes heâs been shunned as an NBA coaching candidate because of a trend of hiring...
Early Box Office: Panda-Monium
Dreamworks' "Kung Fu Panda'' came roaring out of the gate Friday with something like $17.75 million and will easily take the weekend with Steve Mason of Fantasy Moguls forecasting $55...
GW WINS PSAL TITLE
Jean Carlos Rodriguez got everything he wanted yesterday. First, he was drafted in the 10th round by the Phillies in the major league amateur draft and then hours later, he...
LOOKING OUT FOR NO. 1: IS IT REALLY BEST FOR ALL?
Adam Brodsky nails what today's Democratic Party and Sen. Barack Obama are all about - socialism and Marxism ("Bam's Land of Losers," PostOpinion, May 30). Today's Democrats espouse defeatism, as...
FANTASY GAMBLING
FANTASY sports is a burgeoning industry, one that's likely to grow even faster now that the US Supreme Court has let stand an appellate ruling that makes the business easier...
HILL'S BEST HOPE FOR A NEW CAREER
IF Barack Obama is elected president, mutual friends say the best course for Hillary Clinton might be nomination to the US Supreme Court rather than staying in the Senate. Clinton...
LOOKING TO OBAMA FOR REDEMPTION
IS Barack Obama the Messiah? Lots of people have pon dered the possibility. There are Web sites dedicated to the question; Google "Is Barack Obama the Messiah?" and you'll get...
ISRAEL EYES IRAN ATTACK
An Israeli attack on Iran's suspected nuclear bomb-making sites is "unavoidable" and would have US support, the Jewish state's deputy prime minister was quoted as saying yesterday. "If Iran continues...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 281; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 5817; Lucky Sum: 21 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 180; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 2457;...
MCCAIN LAUNCHES AD WAR
John McCain - unveiling the first major ad of the general-election campaign - yesterday invoked his powerful personal story as a patriotic Vietnam POW and declared, "I'm running for president...
AFFIRMED FOES OF BROWN'S TRIPLE BID
Horse racing's Triple Crown drought could end today at a sun-drenched Belmont Stakes, but not everyone's rooting for Big Brown to gallop into the winner's circle. Family members of the...
$WEATERS FOR A GOOD COS
Bill Cosby is auctioning three of the vividly colorful sweaters he wore on "The Cosby Show" to benefit the charity named after his murdered son, Ennis. Starting bids for each...
BARACK'S CASH 'BAIL' FOR HILLARY
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama is willing to deploy his star power and massive donor network to help pay down the mountain of campaign debt Hillary Rodham Clinton amassed trying to...
BIG-$$ TUNNEL OF KINKY LOVE
The California tech billionaire indicted this week on federal drug charges once whisked his unsuspecting wife off to Hawaii for a romantic 10th anniversary vacation. Little did she know the...
SPIKING OIL HAS US OVER A BARREL
Oil prices skyrocketed $11 a barrel yesterday in its biggest daily spike in history, knocking Wall Street to its knees and tightening a chokehold on an economy already floundering in...
MAG: BUBBA PIECE WAS FAIR
Bill Clinton isn't getting a retraction and neither is Gina Gershon for a Vanity Fair article about their rumored romance. "We don't believe any correction is warranted," a spokeswoman for...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A woman was found fatally stabbed in Bedford-Stuyvesant early yesterday, police said. The 44-year-old woman, whose identity was not immediately revealed, was stabbed in the neck on Lincoln Place...
WEIRDO 'STALKS' THE CITY
Uma Thurman's creepy stalker got such a sweet deal from a Manhattan judge he just couldn't stay away, making a mysterious appearance at criminal court yesterday. A tanned Jack Jordan...
NEW DUEL OVER HAMILTON'S HOUSE
A plan to move Alexander Hamilton's historic home hit a bump yesterday as a group accused the feds of rewriting history by reorienting the house in the opposite direction of...
BLOOMY DEFINES HIS 'TERMS'
Mayor Bloomberg hinted yesterday that he might be open to changing term limits - but only for other city officials, and not himself. "If the public wanted to vote for...
ABUSE EYED IN TODDLER DEATH
A badly battered 3-year-old Brooklyn boy died yesterday after being rushed to a nearby hospital in what appears to be a chilling case of severe child abuse and neglect, police...
GAL'S STAR'BUCKS' CUT
A woman whose foot was burned by a careless barista at a Midtown Starbucks has had her once venti-size jury award reduced to a tall. But the victim, Alice Griffin,...
GAMBINO CONSIGLIERE COPS PLEA
The consigliere of the Gambino crime family pleaded guilty to extortion and racketeering charges yesterday that could land him in jail for up to five years, authorities said. Joseph "Jo...
SPIDER-MAN 2: I'M THE BEST OF TIMES
Renaldo Clarke, the second man to climb the New York Times Building Thursday, may be doomed to the fate suffered by Buzz Aldrin and Tenzing Norgay. But the Brooklyn computer...
BIZARRO BRO MURDERS ARE MADE FOR TV
John Stamos will produce and star in a new TV movie about the bizarre murders of millionaire brothers Andrew and Robert Kissel. "Killing Mr. Kissel" will premier on cable's Lifetime...
'UNITY' TURNS UGLY AT RALLY HERE
A Democratic unity rally for Barack Obama turned contentious yesterday when Obama's first backer in New York City told off a former Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter in front of startled...
FAN MEATHEAD VS. MET-HEAD
Cops called out a rowdy baseball buff who tried to take on Mr. Met. At a recent game, the drunken fan manhandled the Amazin's smiling, giant-baseball-headed mascot, police said. He...
HER NIGHT IN HELL
Her eyes dry and her voice strong, a Columbia journalism grad student described to a Manhattan jury yesterday her unfathomable ordeal of rape and torture by the stranger who shoved...
INSPECTOR GRAB-IT
One of the city's top crane inspectors pocketed thousands of dollars in bribes from a construction firm while selling copies of the crane-operator exam, authorities charged yesterday. James Delayo, assistant...
DIRTY TRICKS 'STONEWALL' CRUMBLES
ALBANY - Albany County District Attorney David Soares, threatened with the prospect of legal action by The Post and other newspapers, flip-flopped yesterday and agreed to release thousands of Dirty...
FREE GOLF 'FORE' KIDS
The first golf facility in the nation built exclusively for kids opened yesterday in Brooklyn and, in a remarkable breakthrough for the pricey sport, it's all free. Officials said the...
MAYOR: I'D BAN BIKES ON SUBWAY
He oversees a bike-friendly administration, but Mayor Bloomberg thinks it makes no sense to allow the two-wheelers on the subway. The issue came up yesterday, when the mayor mentioned on...
BAKED APPLE IN THE OVEN
Burn, baby, burn! The Big Apple will be brutalized today as the season's first heat wave sends temperatures soaring as high as a scorching 95 - with a heat index...
TEARS FOR BEAU-SLAY VICTIM
The Ivy League grad brutally murdered by her suicidal boyfriend was remembered by her father yesterday for her love of life, "bright eyes and an infectious smile." "Margaux is as...
DOGGED BIDDER ON 630G ROLL
The Parks Department got a sumptuous treat yesterday when the high bid for the right to sell hot dogs from two carts in front of the Metropolitan Museum came in...
FURY AT NEW SIKH TEEN ATTACK
An 18-year-old Sikh student at a Queens high school was punched in the face by a classmate who was gripping a set of keys between his knuckles, officials said yesterday....
CRUDE OIL SURGE IGNITED BY RATE-HIKE TALK IN EUROPE
Angry investors are pointing the finger at Europe's central banker Jean-Claude Trichet for triggering yesterday's unprecedented oil price surge, fearing it might hobble any economic recovery for a year or...
TOUGH TIMES LIFT WAL-MART
Wal-Mart executives said a sluggish economy has helped revive sales, as cash-strapped shoppers are flocking to its low-priced superstores. The world's largest retailer staged its annual meeting yesterday, with Queen...
POISON P-ENEMIES
Billionaire Carl Icahn lobbed his latest bitter salvo at Yahoo! Chairman Roy Bostock yesterday in his ongoing efforts to bludgeon the Internet icon into selling itself to Microsoft. In a...
BIG BROWN'S BID
Thoroughbred sensation Big Brown tries for racing immortality today at the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes. A victory here would make the 3-year-old, the decisive winner of last month's...
A DOMINO FALLS?
The city's investigation into recent construction-crane collapses has yielded its first results: yesterday's arrest of a senior Department of Buildings official on felony corruption charges. James Delayo, the acting chief...
AIR FARCE FIRINGS
Misplace vital US technology - partic ularly nuclear technology - and plan on losing your job. Defense Secretary Robert Gates delivered that message in no uncertain terms this week with...
GIRL'S GOT GUTS, UNLIKE COWARDLY TORMENTOR
LADY Courage walked into the courtroom, a tiny 5 feet of pure grit and guts. The Coward who allegedly raped, tormented and tortured this lady to the point where she...
'GET IT IN WRITING'
As disgruntled as Chris Baker is about his contract, he still respects the Jets' team rules. The testy tight end spent yesterday's mini-camp practices on a stationary bike after tweaking...
'LITTLE' LIB STAR ENJOYS BIG NIGHT
New York horseracing fans are ready to fall in everlasting love with Big Brown. Last night, area women's basketball fans embraced Liberty rookie guard "Little" Leilani Mitchell. The 5-foot-5 Mitchell,...
DARRELL DAZZLES ON MOUND AGAIN - TO NO AVAIL
Out-of-nowhere Darrell Rasner did last night what he has done just about every time he's taken the mound in this surprising season: He threw strikes, pitched well, and gave the...
NO MAGIC FOR GIAMBI THIS TIME
JASON Giambi, Thursday's ninth- inning hero, was back at the plate in the eighth last night with the tying run at second, the lead run at first, and the crowd...
PUNCHLESS YANKS ROYAL FLOPS
What a Royal pain in the bat. The theory that the Yankees should get fat over the next few weeks against weak competition may hold some water, but last night...
MLB UPHOLDS HAWKINS' THREE-GAME SUSPENSION
Hopefully, LaTroy Hawkins will at least be reimbursed for transportation from his visit to MLB disciplinarian Bob Watson's office. In the end it was a wasted appeal, as Hawkins was...
JACKSON AP-PAUL-ED
BOSTON - Phil Jackson knows Willis Reed, played with Willis Reed, was in the Garden that legendary 1970 night when the former Knick center limped though the Garden tunnel before...
IT'S A BULL MARKET FOR DUTROW AND IEAH STABLE
Today's Belmont Stakes, run as the 11th race on a 13-race card, anchors a $1 million guaranteed Pick 6 and $1 million Pick 4, preceded by five other graded stakes....
DESIRE GONE, MAYWEATHER HANGS 'EM UP
It's not April so it can't be an April Fool's joke. Maybe Floyd Mayweather Jr. actually is serious after announcing his retirement from boxing yesterday. "This decision was not an...
HONDO BEARING UP
Lincecum and the Giants made yet another donation to Hondo Nation last night when they steamrolled the Nats to expand the wad to 420 mccormicks. Today, he'll go with the...
SPORTS SHORTS
OBIT: Steeler great diesDwight White, the Steel Curtain defensive end known as "Mad Dog" who helped lead the Steelers to four Super Bowl titles in the 1970s, died yesterday. He...
SCRATCH WATCH FOR 'CASINO'
Casino Drive has a hitch in his giddyap that could keep him from racing in today's Belmont Stakes. The unbeaten Japanese invader, the 9-2 second choice, did not go to...
DUTROW IS BRASH UNTIL THE END
WITH the certitude of a bibli cal prophet, Rick Dutrow Jr. stood before the media hordes at Belmont Park yesterday and foretold the result of this afternoon's potentially historic Belmont...
HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE
Rick Dutrow Jr. trains Big Brown, the undefeated "Brown Bomber" who bids for the Triple Crown in today's Belmont Stakes. This week he shares his thoughts and insights with Post...
'BIG' MOMENT FINALLY HERE
So tell me, whaddya think? Can Big Brown get it done? From the press box at Belmont Park to the grandstand bleachers to the barns on the backstretch, that question...
AMAZIN' BATS BETRAY JOHAN
SAN DIEGO - The Mets' bats have fallen silent again. Their recent surge at the plate looked like a mirage here for the second night in a row as Willie...
TOP PICK ALREADY LOVES NY
SAN DIEGO - Ike Davis' father Ron pitched four seasons with the Yankees, so the Mets' newly minted No. 1 pick has an idea of what life will be like...
KIKI: TO DEAL OR NET TO DEAL
The calls come more regularly now. Some teams like what the Nets have for the upcoming draft: the 10th and 21st picks. "We're starting to get calls on the number...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
High fuel costs drove them out of house and home, sort of. A couple hoarding gasoline accidentally burned down their apartment complex in Dartmouth, Mass. The ditzy duo kept 45...
CHANGE YOU CAN HEAR
CHANGE is in the air, with presidential hopefuls promising it everywhere they turn. Kids' musicians are getting in on it, too, with a jazzman going green, Rock and Roll Hall...
DRINK UP!
WHAT the mint julep is to the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Breeze is to the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown. But while the bracing julep is...
Floyd Gets Last Laugh on Dad?
A few boxing and MMA notes before I hit the links. It's time to head to the U.S. Open and check out Tiger Woods and the other golfers trying to...
Red Bull target Jorge Rojas stars as Venezuela gut Brazil 2-0
El Zurdo led Venezuela past Brazil 2-0 By BRIAN LEWISRed Bulls transfer target Jorge Rojas showed exactly why coach Juan Carlos Osorio has been trying to acquire him for years,...
DRINK UP!
WHAT the mint julep is to the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Breeze is to the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown. But while the bracing julep is...
HORSING AROUND
HE-E-E-E-RE it comes down the final stretch, it's the Belmont Stakes! Forget Obama and McCain for about two minutes, because come 6:25 tonight, the only race that counts is this...
CHANGE YOU CAN HEAR
CHANGE is in the air, with presidential hopefuls promising it everywhere they turn. Kids' musicians are getting in on it, too, with a jazzman going green, Rock and Roll Hall...
WHAT'S UP?
COMIC RELIEF: Think beyond superheroes and show up for some innovative ink at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art's 2008 Festival. Not only will you see the toons, but...
DEATH IN THE DESERT
ONE of the top stars of "Meerkat Manor" has died, the victim of a hit-and-run accident on a desert highway. Rocket Dog, one of two key females headlining the new...
TO THE MOON!
WITHOUT a doubt, "When We Left Earth," Discovery's astounding six-part series, is the best and most important telling of one of the best and most important accomplishments of the 20th...
LIVEBLOG: Body sushi in Turks & Caicos
Who would've thunk it, but the notorious (and suddenly, everywhere) Nikki Beach brand has come to prim and proper Turks & Caicos.Two months after opening on relatively untapped (for a...
Complete list of Yankees picks
Here is the complete list of the Yankees picks in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft: Rd. Name1. Gerrit Cole, RHP, Orange Lutheran H.S., Orange, Calif.1a. Jeremy Bleich, LHP, Stanford2. Scott...
Complete list of Mets picks
Here is a complete list of the Mets picks in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft: Rd. Name1. Ike Davis, 1B, Arizona State1. Reese Havens, SS, South Carolina1a. Brad Holt, RHP,...
Orders in for Johan vs. Padres
The Mets will try to bounce back from Thursdayâs 2-1, series-opening loss to the Padres tonight when stopper Johan Santana takes on fellow left-hander Randy Wolf here at Petco Park....
Now Real Valladolid trying to get a piece of Jozy
By BRIAN LEWISAfter Thursday's press conference announcing his transfer to Villarreal, Jozy Altidore reportedly flew to Madrid and may well be officially presented by the fasy-rising la Liga club.And while...
Mets finish first-year player draft
We have the Mets' second-day selections from the first-year player draft that concluded this afternoon in Orlando. These are in addition to the eight players the Amazin's took on Thursday....