September 28, 2008
Manuel is coming back
Despite falling one game short of the playoffs for the second year in a row, a team source said the Mets will lift the interim tag on manager Jerry Manuel....
AC Milan Downs Inter in Derby Clash
A stunning header by Ronaldinho spurred AC Milan to a 1-0 win over Inter Milan on Sunday, handing the Serie A champs its first defeat under new coach Jose Mourinho.The...
Injured WR Boldin moving extremities
By BRIAN LEWISArizona wideout Anquan Boldin got carted off the field following a helmet-to-helmet collision with :27 left in the Jets' 56-35 rout of his Cardinals. But Boldin was moving...
That's a wrap ...
There will be no need for a one-game playoff Monday as the Mets' 4-2 loss to the Marlins combined with the Brewers' 3-1 win over the Cubs today ended the...
Oscar Watch: Harvey, Rudin Reach Accord to Release 'Reader' Dec. 12
readderLooks like the Holocaust drama "The Reader'' is on for this year after all. Updating the item below, Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein today announced a deal that will allow...
HEATHER LOCKLEAR DUI ARREST
California cops busted Heather Locklear and charged her with driving under the influence, in her second troubling encounter with law enforcement this year, officials said today. Locklear, 47, was booked...
Miss at your own risk: Pushing "Daisies"
Highlights for the week of Sept. 29Paul Newman tributeThere's a long list of actors who've added their voices to "The Simpsons," which pays tribute to them upon their death by...
GAME TOMORROW WOULD BE 7:37 PM
FROM JOEL SHERMANIf a playoff game at Shea is necessary Monday between the Brewers and Mets to determine the NL wild card, the game will start at 7:37 p.m., The...
Game would be at 7:37 p.m.
From JOEL SHERMAN If a playoff game at Shea Stadium is necessary Monday between the Brewers and Mets to determine the NL wild card, the game will start at 7:37...
Keeping It Simple
By FRED KERBERThere were two young guys talking defense today, 7-0 rookie center Brook Lopez and last year's first round pick, Sean Williams. As a rookie last season, Williams tantalized...
Doc is in the house
The rumors proved true: Dwight Gooden is on hand for the final-day festivities at Shea Stadium and will participate in the postgame ceremony. The troubled former star is among 45...
Game 162: Marlins at Mets
It's potentially do or die for the Mets this afternoon when Oliver Perez (pictured) takes on the Marlins in the final regular-season game ever at Shea Stadium. The Mets begin...
Coverage in today's Post
Saturday's incredible pitching display on three days rest from Johan Santana put the Mets in a potential do-or-die situation today in the final regular-season game ever at Shea Stadium. Colleague...
Maine is officially done
From JOEL SHERMAN John Maine (pictured) was officially told by Mets executives that he will not pitch this season, even if the club makes the playoffs, and he will instead...
MAINE OFFICIALLY DONE
John Maine was officially told by Mets executives that he will not pitch this season, even if the club makes the playoffs, and he will instead have surgery sometime this...
Juve Held To Scoreless Tie
Juventus was held to a 0-0 tie at Sampdoria on Saturday -- its second draw in four days -- while Fiorentina defeated Genoa 1-0.The closest either club came to scoring...
Faustian Bargain With Harvey
The man in the middle of the heavyweight bout between Harvey Weinstein, who wants to release "The Reader'' on Dec. 12, and producer Scott Rudin, who would rather wait until...
MCC EYES RIDING 'SHOTGUN' WITH PALIN KID'S NUPS
It might be the mother of October surprises. Bristol Palin - the pregnant 17-year-old daughter of GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin - could wed her high-school lover in a shotgun...
BARACK WRIST-SLAPPED FOR BRACELET 'BUNGLE'
OXFORD, Miss. - The results are in, and Barack Obama clearly lost the Dueling Bracelets segment of Friday night's debate at Ole Miss. It began when John McCain mentioned a...
MAC AND BAM TAKE 'CLIP' RIPS
Barack Obama and John McCain were still debating yesterday - about Friday night's debate. Both campaigns swiftly released ads using clips aimed at ripping apart their competitor's performance at the...
'SNL'S' NEW PALIN FEY-ZE
Tina Fey lobbed a new joke grenade at look-alike and veep wannabe Sarah Palin last night on "Saturday Night Live," spoofing the Alaska governor's interview with Katie Couric. Fey, appearing...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 313; Lucky Sum: 7 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 5648; Lucky Sum: 23 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 317; Lucky Sum: 11 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 1685;...
PAYOUT FUND FOR VACCINES NEARLY SHOT
A federal fund has paid out $1.8 billion to families of "unlucky" children injured or killed by vaccines and now is flooded with hotly contested claims for kids suffering from...
'WEIGHT BOTCHERS' MENU AT...
Weight Watchers needs to send a calorie counter to Applebee's restaurants, a federal lawsuit claims. The restaurant chain has been serving Weight Watchers-endorsed meals since 2004. Their menus post the...
CANCER CLAIMS NEWMAN 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,...
AMERICA, THIS IS WHAT YOUR $700B WILL BUY
The success of the government's $700 billion plan to buy toxic mortgages depends on a gamble - that, eventually, foreclosed homes will sell for enough money to pay back taxpayers....
UNSINKABLE TO THE END
Long before it took up permanent residence on New York's West Side, the USS Intrepid was a legend. It served in the Vietnam War, it recovered spacecraft from NASA's Mercury...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN * Police are asking for the public's help in finding the Sheepshead Bay bank robber pictured above. Cops said the crook demanded cash from a teller at the Capital...
THE 'SPY' WHO BILKED ME OF 200G
He was more denture bond than James Bond. A silver-tongued, middle-aged scammer conned his way into an Upper West Side designer's life and then bilked her out of $200,000, telling...
TRY AGAIN IN FELINE SLAYING
Their cat-trial hell might not be over. Jurors in a bizarre "self-defense" cat-bludgeoning case might have to return to a Manhattan courtroom although their five days of contentious deliberations ended...
STIMULATING SOHO 'NUT' JOB
As come-ons go, this one's quite difficult to pass by, as passer- by Hanno Terveen can attest at SoHo's "Betel Nut" store and art exhibit yesterday. The Betel Nut Girl...
DETECTIVE'S SUIT: POLICE DOG PUT BITE ON ME
This K-9 wasn't a cop's best friend. An NYPD detective is suing the city, claiming he was hurt last year when a police dog attacked him. Detective Vincent Manco claims...
NOT SO FAST! $LEAZY PASSER OWES 32G
This blond bandit racked up the largest tab in unpaid city tolls. Alleged deadbeat driver Catherine Cappelluti, 38, owes an astounding $32,879 to the Port Authority for not paying to...
MA'S GRAVE SITUATION SPARKS SUIT
A man who claims his mother was buried in a potter's field weeks before her Queens nursing home even informed him of her death is suing the facility and the...
WTC PSYCH-OUT
Construction workers at the World Trade Center site are under observation by a team of headshrinkers. The Port Authority is spending $300,000 on the psychologists from nonprofit crisis-management company LifeMatters....
EMTS KICK UP STORM ON BOOTS
These boots are made for balking. Eighteen city EMTs and paramedics who griped about having to wear new department-issued boots have been reassigned to desk jobs, the FDNY said. The...
NEW CRANE UP AT TRAGIC SITE
A huge tower crane that killed two people when it broke apart on an Upper East Side work site May 30 was replaced yesterday. Workers erected the new 14-story crane...
MENTAL ADJUSTMENT
The NYPD's deadly use of a Taser last week comes as cops and the city's health agencies are considering sweeping changes in how they deal with the mentally ill. Police...
PASS THE PLAN NOW!
TREASURY'S plan to buy $700 billion of mortgage securities at premiums above present distressed prices was intended to restore liquidity to the credit markets and to stabilize home prices without...
ALAN PROFITS FROM MELTDOWN
AS they like to say on Wall Street: "There is always a bull market somewhere," and while such an animal was especially hard to find this week - there was...
EVEN GOOD BANKS SEE SHARES HIT
Even well-run banks with little subprime or exotic option-ARM mortgages are getting hurt. Sovereign Bank, whose well-capitalized balance sheet stands out among its peers, saw its shares beaten down 24...
JOBS STILL AVAILABLE DESPITE WALL STREET CRISIS
John McKenna is a rare bird on Wall Street. No, he isn't a hedge-fund manager with a positive return year-to-date, he's an executive with a "help wanted" sign hanging outside...
REFEATHERING NEST EGGS
Terry Poppleton, a 65-year-old marketing manager, thought he'd be retired this fall - and starting the first days of the rest of his life. But the mortgage meltdown and credit...
LI BANK EXECUTIVES STEP WAY OVER THE LINE
WITH financial services stocks getting squashed from coast-to-coast and WaMu last week becoming the 12th bank - and the largest ever - to fail, you can understand how executives at...
MERRILL INVESTMENTS SAFE REGARDLESS OF FUTURE MOVES
Dear John: I have all my stock investment held by Merrill Lynch, where I trade. Could I lose my investment if Merrill went bankrupt? E.O. Dear E.O.: Merrill Lynch isn't...
THE NEXT SHOE DROPS
This is the last thing retailers and their credit-card processing partners needed - consumers, already burdened by heavy debt loads and facing an ever-higher level of housing foreclosures, are now...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERS JAMIE DIMON JPMorgan Chase CEO scoops up crippled WaMu bank for a song. WARREN BUFFETT Oracle plunks down $5B on Goldman Sachs, gets 10% dividend. BOB DIAMOND Barclays CEO...
BYE, SHEA, YOU GLORIOUS DUMP
IT finally hit me the other day. For years, nobody has enjoyed trashing this eyesore of a ballpark more than I. Shea Stadium? I used to steal liberally from the...
MIKE'S OWN CANDIDATES FIND HIM TAXING
EVERY local candidate that Mayor Bloomberg has endorsed in the upcoming election is running away from his call to raise property taxes six months earlier than scheduled. "I have enormous...
THE EYES HAD IT BUT HE WAS NOT JUST PRETTY FACE
PAUL NEWMAN not only outlasted virtually all of the major stars who re-invented screen acting after World War II - Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Burt Lancaster - but...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Pregnancy was certainly something this "mom to be" hadn't planned on. A patient who complained of agonizing abdominal pain got the blessed news despite being 71 years old - and...
GET YOUR GEAR ON!
COVETING thy neighbor's ass is so last millenium. These days the green-eyed monster is more likely to bare his fangs when you see a 50-inch hi-def screen hanging on your...
Q & A WITH BILL MAHER
HANG on to your vestments, everyone. "Religulous," certain to be among the fall's most discussed movies, arrives Wednesday. The documentary is comedian Bill Maher's brutal takedown of what he calls...
ASSAULT BY BATTERY
AN energy crisis has claimed a grandmaster victim. Nigel Short, one-time world championship challenger, was forfeited during a game in the European Union Championship this month because his cellphone battery...
AGENDA SEPT.28 - OCT.04
Watch the Intrepid sail home; go medieval at a Renaissance Faire; laugh so hard you'll cry; ride the art wave - subway style; and rock out for the Jewish New...
NEPALI PUP ART
Vintage items that depict or take the shape of dogs are hot collectibles. But what to do if you really have no use for quaint, K9-themed figurines that break when...
BRIDGE
IF golfers were polled on the best player of all time, there would be support for Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. It's no easier to pick...
STILL AT A LOSS
It's been six months since Yin Yin died, and my heart still aches for her every day. My husband and I find ourselves staring at her spots in the house...
BROOKE WAGGONER: ADDICTED TO HER INSTRUMENT
BY the time she was in preschool, Brooke Waggoner was already a junkie. But unlike most tykes, her jones wasn't for Barbie or coloring books. "I was 4 years old...
LOVE MACHINE
Ben Folds titled his new CD, which drops this Tuesday, "Way to Normal." But for the 42-year-old Folds - whose last album, 2005's "Songs for Silverman," was the most melancholy...
DREAM DEBUT
SHE'S already upstaged Beyoncé Knowles, won an Oscar, given Simon Cowell butterflies and helped Sara Jessica Parker recover from being left for dead at the altar. At 26, there's not...
GET IN ON THE FOLK
FROM 1967 to 1969, Tom and Dick Smothers were the Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of the counterculture. Each week, their folk-song gags and ultra-hip guests - including George Carlin,...
BONUS BONANZAS
THE two-disc edition of the "Iron Man" DVD, out Tuesday, contains more than four hours of extras, including a seven-part making-of documentary followed by a six-part doc on the character....
FILM BYTES
Some trailers, like "Watchmen," get online buzz because the films they're advertising are highly anticipated. Other trailers get buzz because they're too freaking bizarre for words. Such is the case...
QUE CERA CERA
Is Michael Cera the comic genius of his generation - or so 2007? It's not that the star of "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" is any less funny and cute...
ANNA IS HIS DREAM WOMAN
THE New York Film Festival opened its 2008 edition Friday night with a screening of French director Laurent Cantet's "The Class" and a blowout at Tavern on the Green. Now...
JENNY FROM THE BLOCK
TO HER seventh- and eighth-grade students, Jenny Lumet is known as the "drama lady." And while she's perfectly content walking the hallways of Manhattan Country Day School, she's a prime...
PROOF POSITIVE
In a land of countless vodka brands, Ultimat stands out as the lone liquid of its type made not only of potato, wheat or rye, but a blend of all...
'DOUBLE' THE PLEASURE
Double Crown 316 Bowery; 212-254-0350 Owned and styled by AvroKO (the visionary design team behind Public), Double Crown feels like a movie set in the glamorous world of Shanghai or...
ELLWOOD, 32, AND, GAZALEH, 34
Aug 8 - Courtney Ellwood and Michael Gazaleh know their way around NYC. Together, they've been hopping from one neighborhood to the next since their first date, when they met...
MICHEL, 35, AND MCCORKLE, 30
June 22 - To Lakeya McCorkle, Ricardo Michel was her Prince Charming. So it was only appropriate that their wedding be something of a fairytale. To start, McCorkle, an assistant...
RAND, 41, AND ROSENBERG, 31,
Sept. 13 - Melissa Rosenberg and Bradford Rand had more than a white wedding - they had a white engagement. Rand, a trade show and special events producer, popped the...
HENDEL, 34, AND VON BARGEN, 32
June 14 - Dana Von Bargen really was a blushing bride. The senior design manager at Avon Products in Midtown wore a blush-pink wedding gown designed by Sophia Tolli for...
ON COMMON GROUND
Christine, a 23-year-old Wall Streeter, quite literally had a tall order for her date: She wanted a guy who would tower over her - even if she had on a...
MEET MARKET
TOM, a 27-year-old financial advisor from Queens, is looking for a woman to wine and dine. "It probably sounds corny, but to me, a nice dinner in Brooklyn Heights and...
WHITE WASH
Have the media ever contemplated the possibility that Americans might be voting against half a white man just as equally as voting against half an African- American ("Race Explains All,"...
LICENSE TO ILL
I applaud The Post for publicly exposing the NYS DMV "IDs for Illegals," Editorial, Sept. 16). After 9/11, the Pataki administration implemented critical security measures on driver licenses to foreign...
SIX APPEAL
Congratulations on your first anniversary issue of Page Six Magazine. Every Sunday, I look forward to reading it. You publication more than holds its own against rivals that have been...
THAT DARN CAT
It's hard to take a paper seriously when, in the midst of a financial meltdown and a hotly contested presidential election, it runs at least a week's worth of daily,...
AWWW ...
Thanks for the beautiful photos of Todd Palin and baby Trig ("Dad at Play on Sarah's Big Day," Sept. 24). They show a loving, caring dad who is proud of...
FULL D-CLOSURE
The bias of the political correspondents covering the campaign is blatantly blah blah blah. Sorry. I just bored myself to sleep. Of course all of the political commentators and reporters...
BULLISH TIMES FOR BUFFETT
When the economy goes south, when all seems lost, there's only one person to whom Wall Street turns: Warren Buffett. In the past two weeks, almost every financial industry player...
A POLITICAL MAVERICK (OF A FASHION)
Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's style is exceptionally ordinary. Nothing about it connotes authority. No detail announces that she is in charge. And that's what makes it so powerful. The...
WHY CLINTON CAN'T HELP IT
Back in 1993 - doesn't that seem like a century ago? - President Bill Clinton likened himself to a famously resilient comic book character. "I'm a lot like Baby Huey....
ORDINARY JOE
PENNSYLVANIA - In a different week - one not so wild, what with the economy and a suspended campaign and a presidential debate in peril - it may have been...
BLOG WATCH
One good thing "Much to the dismay of Ahmadinejad's government, oil prices seem to be falling. From a record $147 July, oil is now trading at around $100 per barrel....
PATRIOTIC GRACE
On the eve of the election, Peggy Noonan is worried about the lack of seriousness in the current political climate and the fact that issues of the greatest importance are...
IN MY LIBRARY: NEIL GAIMAN
Neil Gaiman's new novel, "The Graveyard Book" (HarperCollins), took a long time to rise from the coffin - 23 years. Two decades ago, he was living in Suffolk, in a...
REQUIRED READING
Nation by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins) In his first non-"Discworld" adventure since the '90s, Pratchett travels to the South Seas. When Mau, a boy passing into manhood, returns home from a...
PLANET GOOGLE
Google has pulled off a rare feat: It has attained one of the largest market valuations in the nation without losing the air of an off-beat start-up. Even these past...
BLOOD RIVER
"Blood River" is a good book on a grim subject by a dull man. Tim Butcher, a war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, spent 44 days descending the Congo River...
ONE FIFTH AVENUE
Like Dorothy Parker in the '20s, Woody Allen in the '70s and Jerry Seinfeld in the '90s, Candace Bushnell is perceived as the definitive chronicler of a highly specific sub-species...
HOME COMES THE HERO
A floating legend returns to New York Thursday, as the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Intrepid docks at Pier 86 on Manhattan's West Side. The decommissioned carrier, home since...
ROUND ONE: MCCAIN
John McCain missed a golden opportunity in Oxford, Miss., Friday night, after Barack Obama talked about having to "deal with Pakistan." The GOP candidate noted that Obama in the past...
MANGINI IMPRESSED WITH WASHINGTON'S PLAY
To ask coach Eric Mangini about Leon Washington is like asking him to talk about one of his two sons. He gushes.MATCHUP: JETS-CARDINALSPLAY POST PICK 'EMNFL MATCHUPS, TREND STATSEXPANDED BETTOR'S...
SO FAVRE, NOT SO GOOD
WILL the real Brett Favre please stand up?MATCHUP: JETS-CARDINALSPLAY POST PICK 'EMNFL MATCHUPS, TREND STATSEXPANDED BETTOR'S GUIDE Because as we near the quarter-pole of a race against time, and Father...
GANG GREEN LOOKS TO RATTLE WARNER
It's not often that, on Sept. 28 in the NFL season, the word must is associated with a game.MATCHUP: JETS-CARDINALSPLAY POST PICK 'EMNFL MATCHUPS, TREND STATSEXPANDED BETTOR'S GUIDE But the...
WINS JOCKEY GOLD CUP TO PASS CIGAR
For many years it seemed as if the $10 million mark in earnings was a barrier no American racehorse could crack. Cigar, after winning 16 straight, lost three of his...
DEVILS ROOKIE VRANA MAKING MARK
There's no vacant place to put him, but if Petr Vrana keeps playing the way he has in preseason, the Devils will have to find one. Vrana has been the...
RIVERA TO ANNOUNCE DECISION ON SURGERY TODAY
BOSTON - Mariano Rivera is expected to announce today that he will undergo surgery on his right shoulder. "I will tell you before [today's] game," Rivera said when asked if...
KEY ACQUISITIONS TO RETURN YANKEES TO GLORY
BOSTON - Three moves. That's what the Yankees have to make this winter and they will be back in the postseason and probably the World Series again next season. Three...
BOMBERS RAINED OUT; 2 TODAY
The Yankees and Red Sox were rained out at Fenway yesterday - setting up a season-ending split doubleheader today. Game 1 is scheduled for 1:35 p.m., with Mike Mussina (19-9)...
GM TELLS STEINBRENNERS HE WANTS TO RETURN
BOSTON - While Brian Cashman remained mum about his future, the buzz smothering the Yankees' universe yesterday focused on the GM telling the Steinbrenner family he wants to return. An...
SOURCE: PLAX GET$ A BREAK
After making the difficult decision to suspend Plaxico Burress for two weeks and one game for violating team rules, there was no way the Giants were going to cave in...
RANGERS HEAD TO EUROPE ON SOUR NOTE
The most miserable training camp week in memory ended yesterday for the Rangers, whose 4-2 Garden defeat to the Devils sent them to Europe last night with a 1-5 preseason...
BULLS' 'D' LOSES CONTROL RAPID-LY
Playing one of the biggest games of their season, the Red Bulls gave one of the worst defensive efforts in their history. After coughing up a team-record four goals in...
REUNITING CHILDREN WITH NATURE
IN RESPONSE to recent trends that show how children are disconnected from nature there is a bill before Congress that may turn things toward the outdoors. The No Child Left...
PHILLIES CLINCH NL EAST
PHILADELPHIA - You didn't think it was going to be Greg Dobbs, did you? If the Mets' division dreams were going to die, it had to be at the hands...
SPORTS SHORTS
TENNIS: Roddick reaches final In Beijing, Andy Roddick will take on unheralded Dudi Sela in today's China Open final, while Jelena Jankovic plays Svetlana Kuznetsova in the women's title match....
'VALUABLE' IS DECIDING FACTOR FOR HIGHEST HONOR
IT IS just one word, three syllables, eight letters and infinite debate. If you want to get a heated argument going, then open the floor for politics, religion or the...
TEXANS HAVE IT COVERED
Including the 1997-2007 seasons in The Post, Cat's 13-year record in print stands at 354-295 (54.5 percent) against the spread. THE PICK Texans (+7) over JAGUARS: Jags -9 was "out...
HONDO'S CLIFF JUMPING
Hondo gave some back yesterday when Santana's Heimlich maneuver saved the Metamucils and slashed the earnings to 750 simpsons. Today, a round of HondoNation cheers for Cliffy - 10 units...
BRETT'S JETS WILL TAKE OFF VS. CARDINALS
TODAY JETS (-11/2) over Cardinals: Can't conceive that Brett Favre isn't going to gut it out despite that left ankle, so must ride with Gang Green as modest lay against...
THE RUMBLE
The Grand illusion Ventura savors place in Mets history Because of Todd Pratt's exuberance, Robin Ventura is the proud owner of the only "Grand Slam Single" in Mets history. Ventura,...
NETWORKS STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND GAME
IF only TV people genu inely tried to under stand football. If only they'd encourage us to appreciate the game instead of throwing a bunch of stats and more tired...
KNICKS PREZ HAD CANCER SURGERY SOON AFTER DRAFT
DONNIE Walsh asked me not to make a big deal of this when I requested permission to break the news . . . so I won't . . . though,...
KNICKS SET FOR CAMP SARATOGA
Saratoga is a quaint upstate town made famous in the 1800s for its mineral springs that contain therapeutic healing powers. Saratoga has its work cut out for itself this week....
UGLY PARK, BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES
* I came home from the Army in 1963 to find that my father had become a Mets nut. My favorite quote of his was, "If we could only get...
HOPE ALIVE FOR SHEA FAITHFUL
RYAN Church hadn't often heard the sappy side of Shea Stadium's schizo phrenia, the happy half that the old-timers recall with fond smiles. A year ago, as a National, he...
SHEA MEMORIES
2001 The Mets host New York's first pro sporting event after 9/11 on Sept. 21 and then win 3-2 in uplifting fashion. Down a run to the Braves in the...
25 BEST MOMENTS AT SHEA: NO. 1
The Post concludes its look at the 25 most memorable moments in Shea Stadium history.Oct. 25, 1986 It might be the most dramatic baseball comeback ever. It might be the...
MANUEL JUGGLING PAYS OFF
With his season and potentially his managerial future on the line, Jerry Manuel ordered a dramatic shakeup of his batting order yesterday. The Mets' interim boss made David Wright the...
PEREZ EAGER TO MAKE BIGGEST START TODAY
Oliver Perez didn't stick around long yesterday after the Mets' 2-0 win over the Marlins. As he walked out of the clubhouse, Perez was asked about starting today's regular-season finale....
METS ACE DELIVERS CLASSIC
THERE was a moment this season when Johan Santana was 7-7 and was being criticized for not pitching well enough, or long enough, or taking enough responsibility for the results....
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH . . . JOHAN SANTANA
The Post's Steve Serby sat down with the lefty Mets ace who is 15-7 with a 2.64 ERA and hasn't lost since June 28. Q: It's Saturday night; the season...
MARLINS: WE CAN'T MESS WITH THE JOHAN
The Marlins had been dominated by Johan Santana before, just never when the left-hander was on three-days' rest. That changed yesterday in the Mets' 2-0 victory that helped keep their...
JOHAN BLANKS FISH, KEEPS METS IN RACE
Just like last season, it will come down to the final day. Johan Santana made sure of that yesterday afternoon with a season-saving display of phenomenal pitching in the Mets'...
NEW-LOOK NETS PREACH DEFENSE
There's no J-Kidd, no R.J. and that hasn't been the case for the Nets since 2000. Training camp topics in recent years concerned lowering Jason Kidd's minutes, seeing how Richard...
'BAMA TAKES BITE OUT OF DAWGS' TITLE HOPES
ATHENS, Ga. - Alabama strength coach Scott Cochran had it right. When hearing that the Georgia Bulldogs would wear black jerseys for last night's SEC showdown, Cochran crowed on a...
THE AWARDS SHOW
In today's Post, I wrote my Hardball column on my thought process in selecting the MVPs, and figured this would be the right forum to provide my thoughts on other...
REEL GOOD
THE FUGITIVE (1993) Sunday, 8 p.m., TNT Even though Hollywood usually can't recreate magic when they attempt to turn an old TV series into a major motion picture, it works...
NETWORKS BOGGED DOWN WITH COOKIE-CUTTER DRAMAS
How should the broadcast networks react to the dominance of quality dramas on cable? They should roll out a welcome mat for characters. It's not really my idea; it's USA...
'MONEY' SHOT
Lucy Liu's new role on "Dirty Sexy Money" has been described as powerful attorney Nola Lyons. But when we first meet her she's mysterious, seductive, nameless and promptly losing her...
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: COMEDY 'Daisy' chain In the new, more mainstream "Pushing Daisies," Chuck (Anna Friel) goes undercover as a "Bee Girl" at a honey-based cosmetics company after their new spokesmodel (Autumn...
'DANCING' QUEEN
The golden girl of the Beijing Olympics, beach volleyball champ Misty May-Treanor, hasn't even had time to unpack. After returning to the United States from China in late August, May-Treanor...
MAN OF THE 'HOUR'
When it's suggested that an actor has something in common with a detective, in that both involve keen powers of observation, British actor Sewell agrees, but with a caveat. "Make...
PRIMETIME
How pleased do you suppose Bill Gates would be if he arrived at his Microsoft headquarters tomorrow morning to find the front of the building covered with spray-painted graffiti -...
MY NEW YORK
"I've lived here for over 20 years, and the city is a mixture of the familiar and the endlessly weird. I need one to feel comfortable, the other to keep...
Red Bulls? Atrocious. Terrible. Crap.
By BRIAN LEWISPlaying one of the biggest games of their season, the Red Bulls gave one of the worst defensive efforts in their history. After coughing up a team-record four...
Soccer on TV
Here's what we're watching this weekend. Enjoy!Saturday, Sept. 27MLS DIRECT KICKMLS: TORONTO FC-HOUSTON (live), 3:30 pm.MLS: NEW ENGLAND-COLUMBUS (live), 7:30 pm.MLS: NEW YORK-COLORADO (live), 7:30 pm.HDNETMLS: SAN JOSE-REAL SALT LAKE...
OJ LAUGHS IT UP ON TAPE AFTER VEGAS RAID AUDIO
O.J. Simpson was in full party mode hours after allegedly leading a hotel-room robbery last year and joked about the guns used in the heist, according to explosive new audio...
PHILLIES CLINCH NL EAST
PHILADELPHIA - You didn't think it was going to be Greg Dobbs, did you? If the Mets' division dreams were going to die, it had to be at the hands...
Mets' final-day primer
Everything you need to know about the Mets' playoff situation going into Sunday's regular-season finale after Johan Santana gave them new life today with a 2-0 complete game shutout of...