June 14, 2008
It's raining at Shea
The tarp is on the field and it is raining, so tonight's game between the Mets and Rangers won't be starting on time at Shea Stadium. But a few minutes...
OBAMA PUSHES TAX SHAKE-UP & ENERGY SAVINGS
WAYNE, Pa.- Barack Obama told voters today he would push an aggressive economic agenda as president: cutting taxes for the middle class, raising taxes on the wealthy, pouring money into...
Russia Ousts Champions Greece
APGreeceâs four-year reign as European champion officially ended Saturday after a 1-0 loss to Russia eliminated the team from the tournament. The Greeks needed at least a draw to stay...
NUT'S 24TH RIDE TO JAIL
A subway buff with a criminal track record as long as the Broadway line was busted today- his 24th transit-related arrest. Darius McCollum, 43, was dressed as a transit worker...
Carp tied for Eastern League lead in hitting
Binghamton Mets 1B/DH Mike Carp, who has been swinging the bat well all season long, currently is tied for the Eastern League's batting title, hitting .360 in 59 games. Carp...
Horne pitches well for SWB
Alan Horne seems to be getting back into a groove with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre. After missing about two months with right biceps tendinitis, Horne threw 88 pitches in 6-1/3 innings...
Injury Time Goal Lifts Spain Over Sweden
APDavid Villa scored in injury time Saturday to give Spain a 2-1 win over Sweden that moved it to the verge of the quarterfinals of the European Championship.Villa showed a...
Coverage in today's Post
Oliver Perez and the Mets looked sharp in a 7-1 dismantling of Texas on Friday, but time -- specifically this weekend -- will tell if it helped save Willie Randolph's...
Box Office: 'Hulk' No Smash, Good Night News
Some surprises in the early Friday numbers from Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls. Mase says "Hulk'' took in around $18 million on Friday and predicts a somewhat under-expectations three-day take...
Euro '08: Day Eight
Day Eight of the Euros falls on a Saturday, which means most of you can stop playing hooky from work (or ducking out for "lunch meetings" with clients) and watch...
THE CRUDE TRUTH, CHUCK: US NEEDS MORE DRILLING
THE ISSUE: Sen. Chuck Schumer's call for an increase in oil production from Saudi Arabia. Sen. Chuck Schumer must think that his constituents, as well as all Americans, are idiots...
A FINE PLACE TO DRILL
SEN. John McCain said this week he would not drill in the Arctic Na tional Wildlife Refuge for the same reason he "would not drill in the Grand Canyon ....
'RACIST' MENTHOL
FOR years I've argued that a bill authorizing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products is bad for consumers. I've said the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control...
BIDEN RISING IN VEEPSTAKES
BEFORE multimillionaire Democratic power broker James A. Johnson quit as Sen. Barack Obama's chief vice presidential screener, the name that came to the fore in his internal discussions was 65-year-old,...
TALIBAN'S MASSIVE JAIL BREAK
Call it "Escape From Kandahar." A band of Taliban militants, with truck bombs and suicide bombers, staged a massive prison break at an Afghani jail yesterday, leaving 17 people dead....
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 320; Lucky Sum: 5 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 6370; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 741; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 8589;...
KELLY BEATS RAP FOR KID PORN
R&B superstar R. Kelly was acquitted of all charges at his child-porn trial yesterday - six years after he was first accused of videotaping himself having sex with a 13-year-old...
MEET THE WHIRL NEXT DOOR
A terrifying twister touched down in Iowa during this week's Midwest weather chaos that killed at least 10 people, injured dozens, flooded hundreds of homes, and forced thousands to flee...
MAC'S GIRL GOES GOP
John McCain's daughter gave him a sweet Father's Day gift: she changed her voting registration from independent to Republican. Meghan McCain - a Columbia University graduate who often campaigns with...
O ON A BIG UPSWING IN 2 KEY STATES
Sen. Barack Obama has a strong foothold over Sen. John McCain heading into November's election, based on new polling in important battleground swing states. In Wisconsin, Obama holds a crushing...
TOUGH TITAN OF TV NEWS DEAD
Tim Russert, the political lion of NBC News whose weekly grilling of the nation's leaders on "Meet the Press" was a Sunday-morning staple for 17 years, died of a heart...
OBAMA TAX PLAN RAISES BIG BRACKET
WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama called yesterday for jacking up the payroll tax, which would slap top wage earners with tens of thousands of dollars in additional fees. Under his...
'MOB FED' DA A 3-TIME LOSER
Now it's 0-for-3. A Florida fishing-boat captain yesterday beat the rap on a 1989 drive-by shooting linked to the bombshell case against former FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio - completing a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten IslandA Port Richmond woman was jailed and charged with beating her 13-year-old daughter with an extension cord. Hilaria Ortega, 43, was arrested shortly after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday for allegedly...
GOV, MIKE BATTLE DOWN THE STRETCH OVER OTB
ALBANY- Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg were on the brink of open warfare last night as Paterson declared the state would take control of the New York City Off-Tracking Betting...
RIKERS STATIC
A Rikers Island guard shut a jail surveillance camera to protect colleagues as they inflicted a series of post-melee retaliatory beatdowns on several inmates, the officer admitted in a Bronx...
MAYOR PUTS AWAY HIS OWN $LUSH SHOVEL
There's going to be millions fewer dollars in slush funds for City Council members to spend this year because Mayor Bloomberg won't be dispensing his usual share, The Post has...
BROOKLYN B'DAY GIRL HITS 110
A Brooklyn great-grandmother - born the same year the five boroughs united into New York City - celebrated her 110th birthday yesterday. Elsie Freeman remembers listening to the radio to...
'REEFER' MADNESS
A drug-law reform activist spent a night in jail after hurling abuse at cops in an attempt to stop them from collaring pot-smokers outside his Greenwich Village home, police said....
HEATHER'S TICKET TO STRIDE INTO $5M VILLAGE CONDO
Heather Mills is about to become a jaded New Yorker. The hotheaded, newly rich ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney who says she's weary of the London press has just gone...
WE MAY HAVE TO DUMP PROPERTY-TAX CUT: MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg dropped a financial bombshell yesterday by saying he's "not sure" the city can still afford the 7 percent property-tax cut that he had included just six weeks ago...
ARMS DEALER'S COURTLY GESTURE
A notorious Syrian arms dealer who built a vast fortune arming terrorists around the globe thought he was facing a higher power in Manhattan yesterday, addressing a federal judge as...
SCHOOL VAN HITS BOY, 12
A 12-year-old boy was struck and seriously injured yesterday by a school van as he crossed a Brooklyn street, police said. Jayden Nelson was on his way to school at...
CRANE A CUT-RATE HEAP: PA
The father of a hardhat killed in last month's Upper East Side crane collapse had filled in for his son on the same rig just days before the tragic crash...
PLAYFUL PRO WITH GRITTY NY ROOTS
Tim Russert was remembered yesterday as a political bulldog with an impish sense of humor and spiritual side that endeared him to everyone he met. Russert, born on May 7,...
BX. DOG SWEPT AWAY
An out-of-control street sweeper killed a beloved Boston terrier in The Bronx, mowing down the pooch and sucking her up from her owner's leash, officials said yesterday. Robert Machin, 57,...
A HAIL OF A CRACKDOWN
The city is hacking away at cabs that illegally pick up fares. A sting on deviant drivers has led to 879 summonses to non-yellow taxis that pull over for hailing...
KID VICIOUS NAILED
Cops yesterday nabbed the savage young punk who was caught on tape brutally beating a Catholic schoolteacher as part of a days-long crime spree that included a robbery where a...
'SICKENING' TOMATOES IN NY
Killer tomatoes that have sickened 229 people and been linked to one death have hit the Empire State, health officials said yesterday. Investigators said three people - including a woman...
BRANDING-IRON FIEND GETS 5 YRS. TO BURN
Ouch! The young Manhattan woman who had her ex-lover branded like a bull for never calling after a one-night stand was hit yesterday with a searing five-year prison sentence. Kristina...
SMOOTH STEP AS 9/11 THIEF KEEPS $1 MIL
The "severely injured" 9/11 con man caught on a wedding video doing the limbo will be dancing all the way to the bank. Port Authority painter Mario Mastellone will be...
LEHMAN STEMS SLIDE, STOCK JUMPS 14%
For the first time in a while, the voices of Lehman Brothers' supporters seemed to drown out the beleaguered investment bank's detractors. After enduring a weeks-long pounding at the hands...
ICAHN EYES BOARD
Billionaire activist Carl Icahn is expected to continue pursuing his proxy fight to unseat Yahoo!'s board members despite news this week that the Internet icon had ended its takeover talks...
MIKE THE INDIAN GIVER
What Mayor Mike taketh, Mayor Mike giveth back - and then later, it seems, taketh away again. That's the storyline of that huge 18 percent property-tax hike he slapped on...
MCCAIN'S OIL WRONG
Who's writing John McCain's campaign speeches - Michael Moore? You'd think so, from the over-the-top rhetoric McCain used on Thursday night at Federal Hall, ripping into the nation's oil companies....
TIM RUSSERT, 1950-2008
The news yesterday afternoon that Tim Russert, longtime Washington bureau chief of NBC News, had died suddenly of a heart attack at 58 understandably sent shock waves across the worlds...
HIS LASTING IMPRESSIONS
I LAUGH easily and loudly, but like so many of us, sometimes not sincerely. But with Tim, you responded with more than just a belly laugh - you'd end up...
POLITICAL MAVEN TURNED DULL TALK INTO A MUST-WATCH
ALL over the news business and the world of politics yesterday, the reaction was the same - not Tim Russert! Despite his long years covering politics, no matter how tough...
CUCKOO BIRD LOVERS
YOU know you've arrived in New York when you spend a glorious Friday afternoon in Central Park, along with 70 birdbrains, one badly hungover reporter, and a brain-damaged pigeon named...
LIBERTY'S MITCHELL GETS THE POINT
Wherever Leilani Mitchell's WNBA career goes from here, Phoenix Mercury coach Corey Gaines deserves an assist. "He said, 'Hard work gets you a job,' " Mitchell told The Post. Mitchell...
THREE-MENDOUS
HOUSTON - When the Yankees' brass decided to take the best set-up man in baseball and turn him into a learn-on-the-job starter, they fantasized about games like last night's. One...
THROWING MOLINA IN WORKS OUT
HOUSTON - Jorge Posada viewed it as a double switch, but manager Joe Girardi said he was taking advantage of Jose Molina's strong throwing arm when he put Molina in...
GIANT HEADACHES
It's hard to imagine a more contentious start for the Super Bowl champion Giants, as for the third straight day, Plaxico Burress didn't participate in practice and Jeremy Shockey refused...
DOC GETS EMOTIONAL
LOS ANGELES - Celtics coach Doc Rivers was choked by emotion during yesterday's press conference at the Lakers' practice facility, unable to speak for nearly a minute. Imagine what kind...
TIGER ROARS AT TORREY
SAN DIEGO - Bad knee? What bad knee? Two-month layoff? What layoff? Tiger Woods, he of the April 15 left knee surgery and subsequent two months away from competitive golf,...
WESTCHESTER'S SVOBODA WILL PLAY ON WEEKEND
SAN DIEGO - Two years ago Andrew Svoboda's heart was broken in the U.S. Open. In the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot - the course Svoboda grew up playing...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Smoltz hopes to pitch again Braves pitcher John Smoltz says he still hopes to pitch again following shoulder surgery. Smoltz said yesterday that doctors found significant damage in his...
HONDO'S FOR BOSTON
Hondo, who took two Thursday night, gave one back last night when the Pirates were chopped in Baltimore to reduce the bankroll to 285 candelarias. Today, he'll float some action...
U.S. HOPES LIE WITH WOODS, MICK
SAN DIEGO - It was Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson against the world yesterday at Torrey Pines. Literally. It wasn't a one-on-one duel like some may have trumpeted it to...
KNICKS WORK OUT 'ITALIAN STALLION'
Danilo Gallinari and Anthony Randolph were among seven prospects the Knicks worked out yesterday at their practice facility in Greenburgh. Both campaigned harder than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to...
THIRD TIME UNLUCKY: STRAINED CALF SENDS ALOU BACK TO DL
Moises Alou now has the hat trick in disabled list stints this season. The Mets placed the 41-year-old left fielder on the DL yesterday with a strained left calf muscle...
MINAYA'S HOT TO TROT FOR NIXON
The Mets will have a new outfielder to Trot out tonight against the Rangers. General manager Omar Minaya's major transaction yesterday didn't involve firing a manager, but instead consisted of...
RANDOLPH WILL FIGHT UNTIL VERY END
FIRING Willie Randolph is not the answer to this Met mess. Randolph appears out as manager, but never forget that Willie is a fighter. And he can take a punch....
METS EARN REPRIEVE FOR WOBBLY WILLIE
Despite another tepid vote of confidence from Mets GM Omar Minaya followed by a much-needed win over the Rangers, manager Willie Randolph might have no more than today and tomorrow...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
In some jurisdictions, man-boobs really are a crime. Officials in Easton, Md., have been ticketing men wandering around topless. The town in 1974 adopted an ordinance forbidding anyone from going...
WHAT'S UP?
TODAYFATHER OF INVENTION: His choreography was so famous on Broadway and in film, we sometimes forget Jerome Robbins made his mark in ballet. Now, School for American Ballet students will...
SUMMER LOVIN'
WELCOME to a place where the quantity of alcohol is exceeded only by the concentration of sexual energy among those drinking it. No, it's not an episode of "The Real...
MAD ABOUT DAD
DEFINE "father." That's what our readers did, more or less, when we asked them to write about their dads. Along with the usual tributes from readers aged 2 to 58...
JOKER'S WILD WORLD
IF you're looking for some laughs tonight, and your family just ain't doing it for you, then I suggest you give Dana Carvey a try. His HBO special, "Squatting Monkeys...
Red Bulls thin at striker as Megaloudis joins Puerto Rico
By BRIAN LEWISThink the Red Bull forwad corps for tonight's pivotal game at D.C. was depleted before, with Juan Pablo Angel injured and Jozy Altidore transferred? Now Chris Megaloudis is...
Nixon acquired in trade
Hoping to inject some fire into a sleepy clubhouse, the Mets acquired veteran outfielder Trot Nixon from the Diamondbacks tonight.Nixon, 34 and a key member of Boston's 2004 World Series...
Anthony Randolph & The Cattle Call in Greenburgh
Just like Keira, A-Randolph has been pumping iron! âIâve been in the weight room, just working hard trying to get stronger,ââ said Randolph, who was 175 lbs. a year ago....
Van Basten=Coaching Genius
APMarco van Basten made his best move long before the European Championship.He told Mark van Bommel to stay home.After Van Basten marginalized Clarence Seedorf, the midfielder decided to take a...