September 27, 2008
MCCAIN'S TRUMP CARD
During Friday's debate, John McCain assiduously and inexplicably avoided using the issue that might have won him the debate and the presidency: opposition to a taxpayer-funded bailout of the financial...
FAN-TASTIC FINISH
RYAN Church hadn't often heard the happy half of Shea Stadium's schizophrenia - the part old players talk about with smiles on their faces, the part that emerges in prosperous...
RBNY's Dane Richards gets Jamaica call-up; will miss Real Salt Lake
By BRIAN LEWISRed Bulls midfielder Dane Richards got called into the Jamaican National Team for World Cup qualifiers in Kingston Oct. 11 against Mexico and Oct. 15 vs. Honduras. That...
Red Bulls lineup tonight vs. Colorado
By BRIAN LEWISThe Red Bull First XI is out for their huge tilt with Colorado tonight, and while I don't know the formation yet, this is my best guess:_____________Juan Pablo...
Go, Hull, Go
Every season, I pick a promoted side to support throughout the season and root for them to stay up for next year's campaign. This year, it's Hull. They have been...
TRAINING CAMP DAY 1
By FRED KERBERGet used to it. There is an "us against the world" theme for the Nets that will be played over and over.As the group gathered at halfcourt following...
SAVIOR
Just like last season, it will come down to the final day. Johan Santana made sure of that this afternoon with a season-saving display of phenomenal pitching in the Mets'...
Paul Newman (1925-2008)
The death of Paul Newman was not unexpected, but it's still quite a jolt to realize that his passing marks the end of an era. He was one of the...
Game 161: Marlins at Mets
It was raining steadily at Shea Stadium at 12:30 p.m., so the Mets' potentially season-deciding matchup with the Marlins this afternoon remained up in the air. Whenever the game is...
Coverage in today's Post
The Mets are turning to Johan Santana on three days rest after a 6-1 rout Friday by Florida put their season on the brink. Jerry Manuel's club could be eliminated...
Oranges and more -- Sat., Sept. 27
So, I'm in the health food store the other day - yes, Where's Kernan is trying to lose weight - and I pick up a couple organic oranges with some...
PAUL NEWMAN DIES AT 83
Paul Newman, the legendary film star with the impish grin and the twinkle in his sapphire-blue eyes who grounded his megawatt stardom with outsized generosity and a quiet off-screen life,...
Box Office: Shia leads Gere as Kirk Cleans Spike's Clock
A software upgrade ate my long Thursday post on the weekend's box office, so we'll quickly go over Steve Mason's projections based on early Friday numbers. As Mase predicted, DreamWorks'...
UPDATE: Reunited & it feels so good
I THINK I CAN: San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than 3 hours by train! So much for all of that good time separatist rhetoric NoCalers and SoCalers are...
BAR A 'SWINGER' SCENE
CANTON, Ohio - At Munson's Home Plate bar, Barack Obama's poise and cool demeanor in last night's debate put him in scoring position - as he gained ground with ex-Hillary...
'BRASS VS. BRAINS' IS DEAD HEAT
To young voters, the victor in last night's debate ran as clear as mud. Well rehearsed, cool and above all, safe, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain made listening to...
FEISTY FOES IN DRAMATIC DUEL
OXFORD, Miss. - John McCain last night in the first presidential debate slammed Barack Obama as a far-left, tax-hiking, pork-barrel spending liberal inexperienced on foreign policy. Obama smacked McCain back...
MAC NO BIG HIT WITH GALS
John McCain's performance in last night's debate impressed - but didn't move - the group he's desperately been trying to woo: undecided white female voters. A panel of five New...
LEFT TO PREZ-ELECT: THE GOOD, BAD & UGLY
THE ISSUE: President Bush's legacy and what he leaves for the next president to address. Peter Feld only discusses the negatives that President Bush leaves the next president, but Saddam...
D'OH! DIDDY DOO-DOO
THE ISSUE: The full-page photo spread covering Sean Combs' misstep. Thanks for the photo of Sean Combs stepping in dog poop ("Diddy the Crap Star," Sept. 20). This guy thinks...
THE FIRST DEBATE: ALL JABS, NO KOS
LAST night, Barack Obama and John McCain seemed like two talented boxers feeling each other out. It was all jabs, with no knockout punches. In the end, it was a...
ANOTHER STEP FOR IRAQI DEMOCRACY
IRAQ'S parliament this week unanimously approved a law paving the way for municipal elections. The main factions agreed to put off the dispute over the status of Kirkuk, Iraq's fifth-largest...
WHY THE BAILOUT?
A KEY reason the public hasn't bought the case for the $700 billion bailout plan is that the Bush administration hasn't explained why the financial sector is unique - unlike...
THE TALE OF TWO BRACELETS
OXFORD, MISS.Barack Obama made one thing crystal clear in last night's debate: He simply doesn't care if we win or lose the war in Iraq. "Nobody's talking about defeat in...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 006; Lucky Sum: 6 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 3313; Lucky Sum: 10 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 006; Lucky Sum: 6 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 3731;...
PUBLIC BAFFLED AS WELL
Americans strongly want Congress to pass a financial bailout package - but not quickly and not the one President Bush is pushing, new polls show. Only 30 percent support the...
SHOCK $13M FOR BANKER'S HOURS
With the US financial system teetering on the brink yesterday, it emerged that the chief executive of failed bank Washington Mutual may end up with a "golden parachute" of more...
'LEHMAN' IN $20M ART SALE
Kathy Fuld, the art-collecting wife of embattled Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, is selling off a $20 million set of rare abstract Expressionist drawings at a November auction, according to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn Police are asking for the public's help in tracking down the crook pictured above who has posed as a utility worker and extorted elderly homeowners in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Cops said...
ZEE-ING IS BELIEVING IN $16 BILLION SPAN
State officials are thinking big - really big - in their bid to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge, yesterday announcing a $16 billion plan that includes a commuter rail line...
ART IS 'MAID' IN TAIWAN
A new art project is boosting outdoor exhibits in New York to a sexy new level with New York's first ever Betel Nut Girl Booth. The event is the brainchild...
TASER COPS TO RETRAIN
The NYPD's Emergency Service Unit - under fire since Wednesday's fatal Tasering of an emotionally disturbed Brooklyn man - has been ordered to undergo retraining on how to use the...
NY POLS GET AN EARFUL
Angry New Yorkers are telling their representatives to take the Wall Street rescue plan and shove it. The $700 billion plan is meeting with skepticism and outright hostility. Many offices...
'BRAVO!' AS CABBY RETURNS LOST VIOLA
Priceless 18th-century stringed instruments do not come equipped with GPS chips, but fortunately - for the latest in an orchestra-sized list of absent-minded musicians to leave one in the back...
HUNK IN SISSY FIT
A male model says just because he's a pretty boy doesn't mean he's gay. Benjamin Massing, 20, has filed suit against photographer Rick Day, charging the lensman gave modeling pictures...
SHEL BLASTS POL'S 'AFFAIR OF STATE' WITH INTERN
ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday publicly reprimanded a Buffalo-area lawmaker for a steamy affair he carried on with an intern and ordered him to steer clear of student...
UNTRUE BLUE TO TV GAL
The husband of WNBC/Channel 4 anchor Darlene Rodriguez admitted yesterday that he misused his police badge to have sex with a teen - and it wasn't the first time he...
CAT JUSTICE SCRATCHED
The dead-cat trial is hung! Thanks to a single holdout juror, five days of hissing, yowling, and flying fur in a windowless deliberations room concluded yesterday with the panel deadlocked...
ART EXHIBIT BLOWUP
An art exhibit called "The Dialectics of Terror" was canceled at the Chelsea Art Museum after the chief curator and the head of the gallery feuded over how much peace...
CAR KILLS B'KLYN BOY CROSSING STREET
A 6-year-old boy was killed and his mother critically injured yesterday afternoon when they were hit by a car while crossing a busy Brooklyn street, police and witnesses said. Little...
'ISLAM' BID ON SCHOOLS
The city should add two Muslim holidays to the school calendar to forcefully demonstrate that all religious groups are welcome here, advocates declared yesterday. A City Hall hearing on making...
THIS BANK FOR $ALE
Desperate to avoid being another Wall Street casualty, Wachovia Bank CEO Robert Steel has been hitting the phones to find a merger partner for his troubled bank. Steel is said...
CASH TENDER OFFER EXTENDED BY AMI
Beleaguered magazine publisher American Media has extended the deadline for investors to support CEO David Pecker's new restructuring package amid opposition from a group of bondholders. The publisher of the...
NEW CEO FOR LORD & TAYLOR
In a surprise move, Lord & Taylor named a young Neiman Marcus executive as its new CEO and said longtime chief Jane Elfers will leave the company. The upscale retailer...
BARCLAYS TAPS LEHMAN COO
The future appears uncertain for Lehman Brothers Chief Operating Officer Bart McDade, even after copping a top role at Barclays. McDade - a longtime Lehman exec - was named COO...
LEHMAN COLLAPSE UNDERMINES NORTHERN TRUST
Chicago investment manager Northern Trust told clients of its security lending business that they stand to lose a good chunk of change, The Post has learned. It's yet another unexpected...
DEFINING INTEGRITY DOWN
When last heard from, Herbert Teitel baum - executive director of the misnamed Commission on Public Integrity - was the subject of allegations that he'd deliberately tried to steer the...
SHOCKED!
The folks who feed off rancor in the nation's capital were having their fill yesterday, suddenly discovering politics in Washington five weeks before a presidential election. Imagine that. Congressional Democrats...
BAM HITS WHERE IT COUNTS
THERE were two debates last night: the first half on the economy, the second half on foreign policy. Barack Obama won the first half; John McCain won the second. But...
JOHN COMES OUT VICTORIOUS AFTER PLAYING OFFENSE
VOTERS who were just tuning into the campaign last night got their timing just right. For an hour and a half, the campaign ads, all the sideshows - the showmanship...
DEADLOCKED PANEL COUGHS UP QUITE A HAIRBALL
THE cat got their tongues. And their hearts. And their brains. In an insane waste of court time that probably couldn't have ended any other way, 12 New Yorkers yesterday...
JETS LOOK TO CONTAIN BOLDIN, FITZGERALD
Arizona's Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald have been the most prolific receiving duo in the NFL through the first three weeks of the season, and when the Cardinals visit the...
BELMONT CARD WASHED OUT
With five Grade 1 "Breeders' Cup Preview" stakes scheduled for today, including the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup, and with heavy rain falling overnight and through the morning, live racing...
CURLIN CAN BREAK $10 MILLION MARK
The Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park was, for decades, the definitive championship race at year's end. But since the Breeders' Cup was inaugurated in 1984, the mile-and-a-quarter Gold...
DEV ITCHIN' FOR A FIGHT
The Devils' captain must be feeling better. He had a scrap with teammate Dainius Zubrus during practice yesterday. "I'm turning over a new leaf," Jamie Langenbrunner said. "You're going to...
LIBERTY TAKE OPENER VS. SHOCK
Call the Liberty comeback kids. They trailed by as many as nine points in the first half of their WNBA Eastern Conference final opener at the Garden last night -...
SURGERY LIKELY FOR RIVERA
BOSTON - Mariano Rivera and the Yankees didn't announce the future Hall of Fame closer will undergo arthroscopic surgery soon after a very disappointing season ends tomorrow. Nevertheless, given that...
YANK ROUT GIVES EAST TO TAMPA
BOSTON - Having been eliminated from the AL wild-card race earlier in the week, the Yankees killed the Red Sox' hopes of repeating as AL East champs last night at...
A QUICK DECISION FOR CASH
BOSTON - Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said last night a decision on his future will come quickly. With the season ending tomorrow, it could be as early as Monday....
JETER CALLS BOMBERS' SEASON 'A WASTED YEAR'
BOSTON - Derek Jeter sat at his locker as the rain came crashing down at Fenway last night and contemplated life without October baseball. For the first time in his...
PLAX FINE CUT IN HALF
Suspended Giants receiver Plaxico Burress reportedly will lose only one week's salary, not two. Burress, suspended one game and fined two weeks pay by the Giants on Wednesday for violating...
DUBINSKY MAKING STRIDES
A year ago, Brandon Dubinsky became Jaromir Jagr's center pretty much by default when neither Scott Gomez nor Chris Drury could find the way to satisfy No. 68's idiosyncrasies. Now,...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Liberty win Game 1 Janel McCarville scored 17 points and Shameka Christon had 11 points and 11 rebounds to help the Liberty hold off the Detroit Shock 60-56 in...
HONDO KEEPING IT REEL
Hondo made a strong late-season move last night, hitting with the Tribe in Chi-town to send the earnings soaring to 715 sassers. Today, he'll go with Nolasco to pound another...
DAWGS OUT TO POLL VAULT
ATHENS, Ga. - Knowshon Moreno, Georgia's electric running back who already this year has hurdled one Central Michigan defender and dived over two Arizona State defenders into the end zone...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
PURDUE at NOTRE DAME3:30 p.m. NBCLine: Notre Dame by 1. Angle: You know how Notre Dame can't help but mentally circle the games against Michigan and USC? Well, Purdue circles...
NO ITALIAN STALLION
Hopefully, Eric Gordon, whom the Knicks passed up in the draft to go Italian, won't make team president Donnie Walsh look too bad this season with the Clippers. showvideo("PostSportsFeed","1458_386828"); The...
STEPH MAY GET CHANCE TO MAKE TEAM - OR NOT
Knicks president Donnie Walsh spoke yesterday at the Garden for 45 minutes - and there are 45 reasons not to believe his take on Stephon Marbury's status with the team....
AMAZIN' SHEA MEMORIES
The countdown is winding down to the last scheduled regular-season game at Shea Stadium, tomorrow afternoon against the Marlins, as the Mets continue to battle the Phillies and the Brewers...
SEASON ON BRINK AFTER DISASTROUS LOSS
The Mets spent $137.5 million on Johan Santana for precisely this situation. Because of a lifeless, 6-1 loss to the Marlins at half-empty Shea Stadium last night, the Mets will...
MARLINS RELISH SHOT TO MAKE AMAZIN'S SLEEP WITH FISHES
The Marlins would love nothing more than to dance on the Mets' postseason dreams this weekend. They have built a rivalry with the Amazin's, and after capping last year's historic...
ACE IS ONLY CARD LEFT TO PLAY
NO MATTER what happens today, let's agree that from now until Johan Santana's contract with the Mets expires, there should be a moratorium on the discussion of his toughness, his...
STILL PUTTING THE SHAME IN SHEA
AS CELEBRATIONS go, that New Year's party aboard the SS Poseidon looks cheery compared to how the final weekend at Shea Stadium has begun. The weather was dismal, the seats...
NEW NETS STARTING TO MESH
For every negative, the Nets found a positive. They're young. "Everybody is pretty much starting in the same position," Devin Harris said. "So everybody will go in and start learning...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It was almost a revenge killing. A Nebraska teen narrowly avoided death when he fell while climbing through a window at his grandmother's house and impaled himself on deer antlers...
ANIMAL HOUSE
FOR a place that prides itself on thinking small, the Prospect Park Zoo is sure making a big fuss over its birthday. There'll be crafts and games for the kids,...
AFTERNOON DELIGHT
ON a Saturday night, the Lower East Side might as well be Meatpacking District Lite. Overpriced drinks? Check. Annoying restaurants? Check. And don't even get us started on the people....
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY WILDE THINGS: Imagine a fairy tale told with the biting wit of Oscar Wilde. You don't have to - because a new musical, "The Selfish Giant," is just that....
'TOON-IN ALERT
HBO has been trying all kinds of new, out- there programming to break out from the "Sopranos"/"Sex and the City"/"Six Feet Under" box that had defined them over the last...
JUDGE GROUNDS 'RUNWAY'
'PROJECT Runway's" planned move to Life time was thrown into turmoil yesterday when a State Supreme Court judge ordered a preliminary injunction preventing the show's move, at least temporarily. The...
SWEAT CITY
THINK hailing a cab is hard work? Try jumping over one! That's what more than 1,000 New Yorkers will be doing today when they take to the streets for the...
Santana will start Saturday
With the Mets' season on the line, Jerry Manuel confirmed after tonight's 6-1 loss to the Marlins that Johan Santana (pictured) will start Saturday on just three days rest. It's...
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