June 27, 2008
Orders up for Subway Game 2
After a 15-6 romp powered by Carlos Delgado's club-record nine RBIs in the opener, the lineups are set as the Mets go for a two-park sweep of the Yankees tonight...
Blogging live from the Olympic Track & Field trials
Hyleas Fountain on record pace Hyleas Fountainâs 12.65 in the heptathlon 100-meter hurdles _ worth 1,178 points on the scoring table _ broke three heptathlon records:The U.S. mark (12.69, Jackie...
'I WAS HUMILIATED'
Humiliated, shocked, mortified, betrayed, embarrassed, violated - those were the words Philip Smith used today in an attempt to describe how it felt to see his wife mocking him about...
FYI: Wii now available at Nintendo Store
At Rockefeller Center. At the checkout counter. In case you were still trying to buy them. I asked the salesgirl and she said that they'd had them in stock for...
Cyclones, Davis accused of inappropriate behavior
A blog entry by a reporter at the Middletown Times-Herald Record involving the conduct of several players on the Brooklyn Cyclones, including Ike Davis, the Mets top draft pick, toward...
Martinez back in lineup for B-Mets
The Mets top prospect, OF Fernando Martinez, will make his return to the lineup tonight, nearly six weeks after suffering a strained right hamstring.Martinez is hitting .280 with three home...
Suspensions handed out after Binghamton brawl
Binghamton manager Mako Oliveras was suspended for nine games and outfielder Ambiorix Concepcion for four in the wake of Tuesday's no-holds barred brawl with the Altoona Curve, the Pirates Double-A...
Deal of the Day-Yarborough
Knit jewelry is already going to be big for fall, so get this Ribbed Cashmere Bangle from the East Village based, Yarborough Jewelry now for only $39.60 (originally $132 at...
Euro '08: Tops and Flops
Every competition has its tops and flops. The Euros are no different.Here are my five tops and flops at this European Championship:TOPS:SpainWhether they win the tournament or not, Spain, in...
Sunday return for Church?
Right fielder Ryan Church (pictured) could return for Sundayâs finale of the Subway Series, Jerry Manuel said before Game 1 today. Church, on the DL since June 6 because of...
We don't need no stinkin' board games
Mr. Potato Head says "Connect, dammit!" Is it nerdy to admit that when I visit my cousins in Canada (eh?), all we do is play board games (and make failed...
Your 'Idol' Audition Prep Kit
Auditions for "American Idol" begin in California on July 19. So we tracked down some of your favorite former Idols and asked them what advice they would give you before...
Danilo has to pump up
By MARC BERMANDanilo Gallinari was accompanied by his mom, in stylishly dark Italian shades, his father Vittorio, his agent Arn Tellem and a few Italian friends at the practice facility...
JAGR WANTS TO STAY IN NHL
The dollar offer out of Russia may be an overwhelming $35 million over three years, but impending free agent Jaromir Jagr has made it clear that his priority is to...
Toronto: Viggo Yes, Scarlett Johansson, Tricky Dick No
The Toronto Film Festival has released a list of movies that premiered in Cannes and other festivals that will be showing up at the Toronto Fest in September. As usual,...
SI TEEN BROUGHT GUN TO LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Cops nabbed a troubled 14-year-old boy after he brought a loaded gun to the last day of school Thursday and authorities fear he may have planned to use it, a...
No. 1 pick getting some heat
Based on this story in the Middletown Times Herald-Record, Mets No. 1 pick Ike Davis and some of his teammates on the Single-A Brooklyn Cyclones have a few things to...
METS MAUL YANKEES, 15-6
In the middle of a Subway Series game that appeared to be played on quaaludes, Carlos Delgado pumped a river of blue and orange adrenaline into a muggy Bronx afternoon...
Lineups in for Subway Game 1
The lineups are ready as the Metsâ Mike Pelfrey (pictured) takes on Dan Giese of the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in Game 1 of todayâs two-park doubleheader. Pelfrey has won...
Islanders waive Shawn Bates
By MARK EVERSONSaving some $400,000, the Islanders waived forward Shawn Bates to buy out the final season of his $1.2 million contract and make him an immediate unrestricted free agent.Also,...
Coverage in today's Post
Both the Mets and Yankees are in third place, but the anticipation and curiosity levels as still high as they prepare to play a two-park doubleheader today starting at 2:05...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH WHITEY FORD
Q: Funniest Mickey Mantle memory? A: We owed [Giants owner] Horace Stoneham $600 apiece for playing golf at his course and we went to pay him at a party the...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH BUCKY DENT
With the Yankees and Red Sox battling again in the playoffs, Steve Serby talked to famous foil Bucky Dent about the rivalry. Q: Are there ghosts at Yankee Stadium? A:...
Never Mind a Masterpiece, the Very Dark WALL-E is 'The Most Fun You'll Have at the Movies This Summer!'
"The Most Fun You'll Have At the Movies This Summer!'' screams the pull-quote on top of a two-page color ad (the first one for a flick this year, I believe)...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH CURTIS MARTIN
Steve Serby caught up with Jets running back Curtis Martin, who last week reached the top 10 in career rushing yards. Q: One person in history you'd like to meet?...
Germany and Spain Prepare for Gripping Final
ReutersSpain can end a 44-year wait to be crowned European champions if they reproduce the same form in Sunday's final against Germany that they showed to beat Russia 3-0 in...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH KURT WARNER
Steve Serby talked with Giants QB Kurt Warner, who's led Big Blue to a 2-1 record heading into today's game at Green Bay. Q: Favorite movie? A: "Hoosiers." Q Favorite...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH REGGIE JACKSON
The Post's Steve Serby chatted recently with Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson about A-Rod, Yanks-Sox and his personal favorites. Q: Is A-Rod ready to be Mr. October? A: That remains...
Euro '08 Final Preview: Germany vs. Spain
The Euros wrap up on Sunday when Germany and Spain face-off for a shot at continental dominance (ABC, 3 p.m.).Here is a preview of what to we can expect:LINE-UPS:Germany coach...
Euros an American TV Hit
The European Championship now comes down to the encounter between Germany and Spain to decide continental dominance in Sundayâs hotly-contested final. No matter what the outcome, this has been the...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH PEDRO MARTINEZ
The Post's Steve Serby sat down on eve of Yanks-Red Sox series with Pedro Martinez, who will pitch today for Boston. Q: How would you pitch Babe Ruth? A: According...
CHECKING IN: Atlantic City's best room service
Covering Atlantic City in recent years has been an experience in managing expectations, even as we are told to raise them. It's like Las Vegas now, they said. It's a...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH JEREMY SHOCKEY
The Post's Steve Serby chatted this week with Giants' lightning-rod tight end Jeremy Shockey. Q: Would you want to retire a Giant? A: Definitely. I want to win a championship...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH CHAD PENNINGTON
Q: Favorite Bill Parcells saying. A: When you're the captain of the ship, you go down with the ship. Q: One person in history you'd like to meet. A: Jesus...
Will Smith Goes Both Ways, Bashing Gays While Courting Their Dollars
Will Smith, who kissedDavid Letterman on TV the other day, is offering up very mixed messages for Gay Pride Month. In his new movie "Hancock,'' his character, an alcoholic superhero,...
Drive-In Memories
I've done several piece on drive-ins over the years, so I know that for technical reasons it's practically impossible to get a good photograph of one in operation. So we...
Fellow Travelers
My esteemed colleague Kyle Smith offers a lengthy and pointed one-star pan of "Trumbo'' in today's Post. Though our politics are far apart, this Red Diaper Baby (that is, my...
ZIMBABWE'S HORRORS: A DICTATOR'S EVIL RULE
* The only one who can stop Robert Mugabe is himself ("Will Anyone Stop Mugabe?" Editorial, June 24). There is not and there will never be a black or African...
EXPECTING . . . TROUBLE
* The pregnant teens story has the usual laundry list of culprits: schools, movies and a boring town (" 'Pregnancy Pact' Shocker," June 22). Not once in the entire article...
WINNERS' TEST
'YOU Won! Now What?" is a popular book for political candidates - but also pretty much the dilemma facing gun-rights activists in the wake of the Supreme Court's opinion yesterday...
SOOTHING OBAMA, TWEAKING MCCAIN
TWO of yesterday's Supreme Court rulings -- both decided 5-4, and with the same alignment of justices -- concerned the Constitution's first two amendments. One ruling benefits Barack Obama by...
AN ESCAPE FROM FEAR
WASHINGTON will be come a safer place to live and work, thanks to yesterday's Supreme Court ruling against DC's absolute ban on handguns. The court ruled that the Second Amendment's...
KOREAN NUKES: DON'T GET GIDDY
NORTH Korea gave the world some good news this week - finally handing over a declaration about its nuclear program and promising to blow up the cooling tower at its...
BAM DODGES PASSION TRAP
Barack Obama saw it coming. When the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee got a question on what he thought about Wednesday's US Supreme Court decision outlawing executions of people convicted of...
A JOB FOR SUPER-MIKE
WITH Joe Bruno out as Senate majority leader, it's time for Mayor Bloomberg to take on Albany's last-man-standing: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Nothing would boost Hizzoner's legacy as much as...
MADGE SET TO HIRE PAUL DIVORCE ATTY.
Madonna is close to hiring Paul McCartney's fierce divorce lawyer, setting the stage for a possible split from hubby Guy Ritchie, according to published reports yesterday. The Material Girl has...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Thu.: 379; Lucky Sum: 19 / Midday Win-4 Thu.: 0810; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Thu: 590; Lucky Sum: 14 / Evening Win- 4 Thu.:...
REVERSE AXIS SPIN: W. LIFTS CURB ON KIM
WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday lifted trade sanctions against North Korea and moved to remove it from the US terrorism blacklist, a remarkable turnaround in policy toward the communist regime...
MAC: NYC SCHOOLS A CLASS ACT
John McCain said yesterday he would use the improved New York City school system as a model to help craft his national education agenda as president. "I don't know if...
BARACK SWINGS INTO LEAD IN BATTLEGROUND STATES
Barack Obama is ahead of rival John McCain in four swing states that will be battlegrounds in the November election, according to polls released yesterday. Obama leads McCain in Colorado,...
SUPREME WIN FOR GUNS
The US Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision yesterday shooting down a strict ban on handguns - a ruling that New York City officials said would have little impact...
ROCK 'N' ROLY-POLY
No Tiger, no problem! Rotund John Daly and pal Kid Rock laughed it up yesterday in the pro-am portion of the Buick Open at Warwick Hills in Grand Blanc, Mich....
O IS JUST HALFWAY UP THE HILL IN WOOING HER VOTERS
Sen. Barack Obama has won the support of slightly more than half of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's backers, which suggests he has made inroads but has more work to do...
BUSCH-LEAGUE DRINKS PULLED
The nation's largest brewer pulled its alcoholic energy drinks off shelves yesterday after state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged they were being targeted at teens. Cuomo said Anheuser-Busch marketed Tilt...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN * Police yesterday were searching for the Alzheimer's sufferer pictured above who disappeared from his Greenwich Village apartment. Lewis McCaron, 65, was last spotted leaving his apartment on Waverly...
YOUTUBER A RAGING MANEATER
She says the cruelest thing she ever did to him was put skim milk in his cappuccino. He says that calling him "a pile of blubber," threatening to "cut your...
FALLS GET MAYOR GUSHING
In the most inventive bit of marketing of water since Poland Spring figured out you can charge money for the stuff, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday took the wraps off four man-made...
BROOKLYN JAIL A WA$TE: POL
Controversial plans to expand the Brooklyn House of Detention would waste more than $180 million of taxpayers' money, a city official said yesterday. Reopening the shuttered lockup and doubling capacity...
DISCHORD OVER JAZZ GREAT'S BASS GUITAR
A fabled bass guitar that belonged to tragic jazz great Jaco Pastorius and disappeared 20 years ago has turned up in New York - smack in the heart of a...
'BUILD' CHEAT$ NAILED
Shady home-improvement contractors were hammered in a five-week city and suburban law-enforcement sweep that resulted in charges against more than 700. In one Nassau County case, contractor James Nichols, of...
$59B BUDGET DEAL
Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn shook hands last night on the most hotly debated budget of their tenures, with a host of social services taking a hit...
FAMILY JEWEL 'SCAM'
A Rikers Island correction officer was busted yesterday for allegedly stealing his sister-in-law's identity to open a jewelry store account and ring up hundreds of dollars' worth of merchandise. Paulin...
KLEIN DOESN'T MAKE THE GRADE: TEACHERS
If Schools Chancellor Joel Klein were a student, he'd be going to summer school. Klein yesterday got an end-of-school-year evaluation from teachers that suggested his performance fell far short of...
J.LO TO TESTIFY ON '99 SHOOT
After nearly a decade of keeping mum, J.Lo will be forced to testify in a lawsuit over a 1999 nightclub shooting involving her ex-boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs. Jennifer Lopez last...
UNION BIG TO JAIL
The mobbed-up former head of the school bus drivers union was sentenced to over four years in prison yesterday after he admitted shaking down three bus companies for thousands of...
LYING IS 'TAX'-FREE
It's a dirty little secret among city commercial-property owners - that there is no penalty for lying on an application for a lower property-tax assessment. The city agency that reviews...
'GAME BOY' HAVOC ON LI
A gang of teens in love with the blood-drenched digital killfest "Grand Theft Auto IV" - in which players slaughter hundreds during endless crime sprees - copied the video game's...
GIRL, 15, SLAIN IN BUS-LINE SPAT
A dispute on a bus line led to the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl yesterday in Queens. Winston Alladin, 39, claimed that a woman cut into the line for...
BRUTAL GUARD NOW AN INMATE
A former prison captain who beat up an inmate and lied about it to his superiors was sentenced to 51 months behind bars yesterday. "Abuse of power, lying and obstructive...
BEAU BUSTED IN HORRIFIC BABY-SHAKE
A Brooklyn man baby sitting his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter flew into a rage after she became ill, shaking her so badly that she suffered brain damage, sources said yesterday. Anthony...
'POT'-SHOT JAIL GUARDS
Two rogue Rikers Island guards who allegedly smuggled contraband to an accused cop killer were pushing marijuana, tobacco and alcohol, authorities revealed yesterday. Correction officers August Durand, 31, and Michael...
'KID ATTACK' TEACHER BUSTED
A Queens teacher was busted yesterday for allegedly punching a 12-year-old student, putting him in a chokehold and throwing him against a table. Scott Antwork, 58, allegedly attacked the youngster...
BAR FIGHTER HIDING OUT IN SERBIA
KULA, Serbia - The wealthy parents of a hulking Serbian basketball player charged with viciously beating a Brooklyn student admitted they helped their son become an international fugitive by whisking...
DEVILISH CLUES
A New York socialite says she got a firsthand look at what a smooth operator Raffaello Follieri could be - and just how empty the accused con artist's promises and...
CBS BIG IS PART OF THE PROBLEM
To see what's wrong with CBS, look no further than Stanley Bing's appearance on "The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on Wednesday night. Bing was on the CBS show...
A NOT-SO-CHATTY HEARST
IT'S been more than seven days since Victor Ganzi was ousted as CEO of Hearst Corp., and most people inside and outside the media company see no movement toward naming...
STREET BLOODIED
The noose tightened on the slowing US economy, sending stocks tumbling nearly 360 points on the Dow Jones average and skidding to even steeper losses abroad. The 9.4 percent slide...
YA-SNOOZE: CHANGES BARELY REGISTER
In a sign that deal fatigue is setting in among Yahoo! and Microsoft investors, three major developments in the saga emerged yesterday to little more than a shrug in their...
FINANCIAL BIGS HONOR JIMMY LEE
Heavyweights of finance and media gathered at the New York Public Library last night to honor JPMorgan Chase Vice Chairman James B. Lee Jr. - one of Wall Street's most...
ANTI-DISSIDENT LAWS FOIL SWAPS
Activist investors like Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn will need to start coming clean about theositions using complex financial instruments called equity swaps. That's because a rash of companies -...
CHICO'S SHAREHOLDERS VOTE AGAINST DIRECTOR
Chico's shareholders yesterday dealt a harsh rebuke to the struggling women's clothier at its annual meeting, withholding about 45 percent of their votes for allegedly conflicted board member John Burden....
THIS BUD'S FOR SUE: INBEV FILES BOARD SUIT
Belgian beer giant InBev signaled it's ready to move forward with its $46 billion takeover offer for Anhueser-Busch even though the board of the Budweiser brewer formally rejected its proposal...
SONY'S POPCORN LOVE
Sony boss Howard Stringer is thinking outside the box - literally. The chief executive of the electronics and entertainment giant yesterday confirmed plans to bypass DVD players and cable set-top...
GM STOCK CRASHES ON GOLDMAN DOWNGRADE
Faced with a potential cash shortage, General Motors crashed yesterday to close at its lowest price since the dark days of 1974. Shares had initially tumbled 12 percent intraday to...
GOOGLE STAFF GETS CONCIERGE
Google, long considered one of the best places to work - if you're the kind of employee that likes free hot lunches, and an on site spa - is getting...
A SAGGING MARKET
The first thing to go in the last recession was the country club membership. This time around, it's Botox, boob jobs and teeth whitening. The cosmetic surgery industry, once one...
AFFIRMING THE RULE OF LAW
Funny how landmark Supreme Court decisions seem never actually to settle anything. The court, to be sure, handed down a big one yesterday - ruling by a 5-4 margin that...
WHERE'S CITY HALL?
It's been seven years since 9/11 and two city firefighters have died needlessly - yet still no one can say when exactly the deadly Deutsche Bank building near Ground Zero...
LOON IS SO FRIGHTENING, SHE'S FUNNY
THIS woman doesn't need a lawyer. Please - someone call an exorcist. Tricia Walsh-Smith came to court carrying several buckets full of crazy and at least 15 personalities. Looking like...
HIT & MIST: A SHOWER OF GREAT ART
THE waterfalls may not be great magic, but they are great public art. To anyone who saw the publicity renderings of Olafur Eliasson's "The New York City Waterfalls," the project...
OBAMA SMART AS A PISTOL WITH NEW TOUGH-GUY ACT
THE Democratic Party has long been mocked as the Mommy Party for its soft, nurturing governing style and its paralyzing patience for listening to dissent from every quarter, no matter...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
That's just adding insult to injury. Officials in England rejected a journalist's passport photos because they said his bald head was too shiny in them. "I was shocked," said Ian...
LIBERTY 'TRIPLE' CROSS INDIANA FOR VICTORY
Shameka Christon ended up playing over 51 minutes last night and didn't want to see a fourth overtime. "I didn't think I could take another five minutes," the Liberty forward...
BUM KNEE MAY LAND MATSUI ON DL
PITTSBURGH - One way to get Sidney Ponson on the roster today is to put Hideki Matsui on the disabled list. "It's always a possibility," Girardi said of shelving Matsui,...
METS, YANKS GET SUBWAY SERIOUS
It's going to be a long day's journey into night for the Mets and Yankees today. Thanks to a May 16 rainout in The Bronx, the Subway Series becomes an...
RAINY NIGHT BLUES
PITTSBURGH - A river of Red Bull will run through their bodies to battle the fatigue that will invade the Yankees' joints, muscles and bones today. After arriving home at...
THE MATCHUPS
So much has happened to both teams in the past five weeks that the Mets' two-game road sweep of the Subway Series in May is almost irrelevant as the Yankees...
TRAIN OR SHINE
The hype starts with a day-night doubleheader in The Bronx and Queens, but it won't end Sunday night at Shea. The Yankees and Mets open their biggest stretch of the...
NO PAYOFF FROM THESE PAYROLLS
THIS weekend the team with the highest payroll in the majors will be facing the team with the second highest in a tribute to just how little $347 million buys...
RAGS WISHES HE HAD SHOT TO BEAT METS
Dave Righetti pitched in just about every type of big game imaginable for the Yankees, just not one that involved the Mets. Even as someone who professes not to be...
SUPER BLUE MEANIES
Giants season-ticket holders better prepare to dig deeper into their wallets just to keep their seats. The Super Bowl champions will slap fans with one-time fees of up to $20,000...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLF: Hurst shares lead Gathering clouds gave way to sunshine, the first of many surprises yesterday in a U.S. Women's Open at Edina, Minn., that didn't go the way anyone...
BULLS' TOP PICK COMES UP ROSE
One hour before last night's NBA Draft, 15 pro prospects poised for an NBA photo shoot on the stage of the Garden's WaMu Theater. Only one of them held a...
TRIALS TOUGH HURDLE FOR RUNNERS
EUGENE, Ore. - It is often said that in many events - especially the sprints and hurdles - the U.S. Olympic trials are tougher than the Summer Games themselves. That...
NY FIGHTING BACK OVER FLUKE LIMITS
NEW York State is made as hell and it's not going to take it any more. Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Department of...
A DESIGNER DUD
WIMBLEDON, England - Maria Sharapova remembered to pack the designer jacket and the shorts she knew would make her the center of attention at Wimbledon. She just forgot to pack...
WORTH THE WEIGHT
MANNY Pacquiao has run (unsuccessfully) for political office, starred in a few Filipino movies and recorded a couple of music albums. But Pacquiao understands his bread-and-butter is boxing, which is...
5 QUESTIONS FOR...MIKE BREEN
MIKE Breen, the Knicks' play-byplayer on MSG TV and ABC's national NBA voice, shared his thoughts on the Knicks with The Post's Justin Terranova as the first draft of the...
SENIORS OUT TO END DROUGHT
That 50th birthday isn't always the automatic pot of gold at the end of golf's rainbow. Some of the biggest names in the field still haven't won on the Champions...
HONDO'S REELING
The "V" in Volquez stood for vanquished, not vic tory, last night in Toronto, which means Hondo's bank roll was reduced to a still muscular 420 kluzewskis. Tonight, Steely Hondo...
IEAH RIPS DUTROW OVER DRUG POSITIVE
Big Brown's trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. is on thin ice and in danger of losing all of the IEAH Incorporated owned horses, including the Kentucky Derby winner, due to Dutrow's...
JAGR GETS $35 MIL OFFER
There are apparently 35 million reasons why impending free agent Jaromir Jagr has not responded to Glen Sather's invitation to meet with him regarding a 2008-09 return to Broadway. A...
KNICKS GO DANILO
When Mike D'Antoni walked into the interview room last night at the Knicks' Westchester practice facility, the coach blurted, "Are we doing this in Italian or English?" So begins the...
UNHAPPY TRAILS
THIS is where trust comes in, where it is necessary to look at the length and the breadth of Donnie Walsh's career and understand it is a resume that insists...
EUROPEAN MAY BE THE NEXT DETLEF
The comparison for Danilo Gallinari? Maybe a well-rounded former NBA player. "Someone told me that he is like Detlef Schrempf," Gallinari's dad, Vittorio, told The Post last night. Vittorio Gallinari...
LOST IN TRANSLATION
IT hardly seems possible, but in 2008 one can tune to an all-sports New York City radio station to hear a ballplayer being ridiculed and run-down because the show's hosts...
BAN UMP RUNGE 1 GAME
Umpire Brian Runge was suspended one game by Major League Baseball yesterday for bumping Mets interim manager Jerry Manuel on Tuesday night.Runge, who later apologized to Manuel for the incident...
CHURCH RETURNS TO WORK
Ryan Church was excited to be in uniform last night. Unfortunately for the Mets, Church was at Brooklyn's KeySpan Park wearing the uniform of their Class-A affiliate. It was the...
WILLIE WON'T COACH AT ALL-STAR GAME
As expected, former Mets manager Willie Randolph was replaced yesterday as one of the National League coaches for next month's All-Star Game. Taking his place is his former teammate, Cubs...
BUCKS GET RICH
On draft night 2001, the Nets pulled off a deal that helped them to two straight NBA Finals. Last night, seven years later, the Nets dealt away the centerpiece of...
NETS SNARE LOPEZ WITH NO. 10 PICK
The Nets took a twin from Stanford. And nobody was complaining. Hours after trading for 7-foot perimeter power forward Yi Jianlian, the Nets landed the No. 1-rated center in the...
EYES ON BROOKLYN
HORDES of Knicks fans - only recently slightly upgraded from comatose - scurried back into their custom-made trauma units as a result of yesterday's events . . . but not...
Draft Night...with a trade
By FRED KERBERThe Nets had a good draft. A really good draft.The trade? Well, wait and see. Check back in 2010.But first, the draft, the only night where players can...
'BIG' OUT OF 'L&O'
CHRIS Noth is leaving "Law & Order" - again. Jeff Goldblum will replace him in the cast of "Law & Order: CI" this fall. "Jeff's presence will add a new...
'TOE-PRAH, CALL ME'
I'm a month clean. No - not, God forbid, free of martinis - but free of bunions. Yup, a month ago this week, I had two surgeries at once to...
'IDOL' TIME ALREADY? TRYOUTS IN 21 DAYS
'AMERICAN Idol" is back - in New York. The show announced yesterday the schedule for mass auditions and - after being snubbed last season - the "Idol" people are making...
AGONY OF DA-FEET
A bunion on Oprah Winfrey's right foot has become so painful that she went barefoot when leaving a star-studded birthday party in London for Nelson Mandela. The unsightly protrusion, which...
STARR REPORT
A dung deal History wants you to know "All About Dung" in a two- hour special airing Monday (9 p.m.). Hosted by Monty Halls (not Monty Hall of "Let's Make...
BROKEN 'CIRCLE'
DANTE wrote about the nine circles of hell, author Jodi Picoult writes about the tenth and after watching Lifetime's newest over-wrought, over-the-top melodrama based on Picoult's book, "The Tenth Circle,"...
FAST PACE RAISES HOOP DOC ABOVE DRIBBLE
BASKETBALL fans who were unnerved by the dark tones of "Hoop Dreams" will be much more at ease with "Gunnin' for That #1 Spot," a documentary about high school players...
REHAB? NO, NO ... OK
MATTHEW Broderick, who has appeared in one dire film after another since "You Can Count on Me" eight long years ago, rediscovers funny in the rehab comedy "Finding Amanda." This...
REELS ON FOUR WHEELS
THE world's first drive-in movie opened 75 years ago this month in Camden, NJ, and believe it or not, these outdoor cinematic venues haven't completely gone the way of tail...
THE STUNT-RUNNER
'WANTED" is like a 12-armed heavy-metal drummer after a case of Red Bull, flailing and thundering through two hours of impossible action.PHOTO GALLERY: Wanted "Fight Club" and "The Matrix" smash...
ADDING FIRE AND DESIRE
'THE Last Mistress" is the most overtly sensual film to come our way of late. But would you expect any thing less when Italian actress Asia Argento and French filmmaker...
WICKED LAKE
STOP me if this sounds familiar: Four co-eds vacation at a cabin in the woods where they're hunted down by four demented guys (three brothers and their wheelchair-bound uncle) intent...
DUMBO DOC ON TRUMBO
SUPPOSE that a hate organization - say, the Ku Klux Klan - had active members writing A-list movie scripts into which they put Klan messages. Would anyone get huffy if...
TRIBUTE TO WOMAN SCULPTOR CARVES A LEGACY
IN 1982, renowned sculptor Louise Bour geois became the first woman to re ceive a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Now, at age 96, Bourgeois is having...
GOOD DEFENSES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS
'ELSA and Fred," a disarming Spanish dramedy of late-life love, speaks a universal language. It's not hard to imagine an American version starring, say, Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara. China...
RED ROSES AND PETROL
MALCOLM McDowell is a marvelous actor fondly remembered for such films as "A Clockwork Orange" and "If . . ." It's a cinch, however, that there will be few if...
HICKS IGNITES 'GREASE'
TWO shows that shouldn't be making it - but are - must be given their due today. First, "Grease" - which vaulted right over the critics to box office glory....
SHOW OF CIRCUS ACTS HAS A FAMILIAR RING TO IT
DON'T be fooled by the title: "Cirque Dreams Jungle Fan tasy" isn't a Cirque du Soleil extravaganza. Rather, it's the brainchild of Neal Goldberg and his South Florida-based Cirque Productions,...
DANCE
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE: American Ballet Theatre presents the Russian classic "La Bayadere," staged by Natalia Makarova, tonight at 8 and tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday at...
LONG-RUNNING
"AVENUE Q": *** John Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. "CHICAGO": **** Ambassador Theatre, 219 W. 49th St.; (212) 239-6200. "A CHORUS LINE": ** 1/2 Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre....
CLASSICAL
AVERY FISHER HALL: The New York Philharmonic teams with James Ehnes in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto tonight at 8. Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Bramwell Tovey leads the orchestra in...
POP, ROCK, FOLK
COLD WAR KIDS: The California indie rockers, joined by Elvis Perkins in Dearland and Sam Champion, perform tonight at 7 at the Prospect Park Bandshell as part of the Celebrate...
OFF-BROADWAY
"ADDING MACHINE": *** 1/2 A powerful chamber-music theater adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 Expressionist classic. Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane; (212) 307-4100. "ARIAS WITH A TWIST": *** Hilarious cabaret...
FILM
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: Ron Rice's "The Flower Thief" (1960), about fallen Hollywood stuntmen, screens Sunday at 8 p.m. 32 Second Ave.; (212) 505-5181. BRYANT PARK: Bryant Park continues its summer...
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is eviscerating melodrama. Music Box Theatre, 239...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
FOR THE RECORD Vinyl - June 29 Say goodbye to your iPod this Sunday and rock it retro for a change at the Brooklyn Record Riot. The folks from Iris...
JAZZ
DIZZY'S CLUB COCA COLA: Through Sunday: Dr. Lonnie Smith and David "Fathead" Newman. (For a full schedule, visit lincolncenter.org.) Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street; (212) 258-9595. JAZZ...
FAIRS, FESTS, ETC...
U.N. SPRING FESTIVAL: A street fair today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on 47th Street between First and Second avenues. TIMES SQUARE FEST: A street fair tomorrow from 10...
Holt throws five no-hit innings for Brooklyn
After a rough first outing for the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets supplemental-round selection, former UNC-Wilmington right-hander Brad Holt, passed his first start in front of the hometown faithful at KeySpan...
Liga Closes In On Copa Victory
APEcuador's Liga de Quito closed on their first Libertadores Cup with a 4-2 home win over Brazil's Fluminense in the first leg of the final on Wednesday night.Liga made a...
It's the Italian Stallion
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Giese stuck in Pittsburgh
By GEORGE A. KING IIIPITTSBURGH -- The Yankeesâ plan to fly Dan Giese home ahead of the team tonight was foiled by severe thunderstorms.Giese, who is slated to start the...
Havens to return Monday
The second of the Mets two first-round picks, SS Reese Havens, will finally make his professional debut Monday, as he is scheduled to be in the lineup as the Cyclones'...
TRICIA WALSH-SMITH'S CRAZY COURT ANTICS
She says the cruelest thing she ever did to him was put skim milk in his cappuccino. He says that calling him "a pile of blubber," threatening to "cut your...
Donadoni Fired As Italy Coach
APRoberto Donadoni was fired as Italyâs coach Thursday, replaced by World Cup winner Marcello Lippi.The decision by the Italian Football Federation came following a meeting between Donadoni and federation president...