March 6, 2009
Wrapping things up
JUPITER, Fla. -- Some news and notes, mostly courtesy of Jerry Manuel, after the Mets rallied for a 5-4 Grapefruit League win here today over the Cardinals with a run...
Did Jets want Stover?
The Baltimore Sun reports the Ravens told PK Matt Stover "to pursue an opportunity with the New York Jets (who made him an offer Monday)."Stover did no accept, and the...
RBNY loses to Boca Jrs reserves
The Red Bulls suffered their first loss in Argentina, dropping a 2-1 decision to Boca Juniors' reserves at La Bombonera and in front of visiting U.S. Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne....
Seven to minor-league camp
JUPITER, Fla. -- The Mets reassigned seven players to their minor-league camp after today's 5-4 Grapefruit League win here over the Cardinals. The seven sent back were: OF Fernando Martinez,...
(Georgina) Sparks Fly on 'Gossip Girl'
Hide your drug stash and hold onto your boyfriends, Upper East Siders: Georgina Sparks is back in town. The evil Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg), who shook up Serena's (Blake Lively) life...
OBAMA TO REVERSE LIMITS ON STEM CELL WORK
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is expected to sign an executive order on Monday reversing restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. A senior administration official says the...
7 WORKERS HURT IN BUILDING COLLAPSE
The Fire Department says seven construction workers are being treated for minor injuries after an internal wall collapsed in a Harlem building. The cause of the collapse Friday afternoon isn't...
FIRST CHECKS SENT OUT TO MADOFF VICTIMS
A financial organization has sent out the first checks to reimburse victims of the Bernard Madoff scandal. Stephen Harbeck of the Securities Investor Protection Corp. tells The Associated Press that...
BIG BLUE NO. 2 IN ALL SPORTS
That's super! The Giants are the second best franchise in pro sports, behind the Boston Celtics, in rankings performed by the Web site bizjournals.com. Big Blue was best in New...
Alan Moore's greatest venomous hits!
There's no denying that Alan Moore is a great writer. His "From Hell" is easily one of the astonishingly dense, meticulously well-researched comics ever published. But the reclusive Brit has...
MAINE RANTS ABOUT HIS CONTINUED WOES
PORT ST. LUCIE - John Maine gives himself a big, fat "F" so far this spring. Always his own worst critic, the Mets' young right-hander was practically despondent yesterday after...
MOB COPS GET LIFE
Two NYPD detectives who moonlighted for the mob as hitmen were sentenced this afternoon to life behind bars. Louis Eppolito, 59, and Stephen Caracappa, 66, were sentenced in Brooklyn federal...
Curry back at practice
By MARC BERMANEddy Curry was back on the practice floor today for the first time since Jan. 9th during his ill-fated Southwestern trip.Back on the practice floor, but not back...
'Friday Night Lights' Visits Local Turf
For the first time in the series' history, "Friday Night Lights" is giving its NYC-based fans home field advantage. Dillon Panther Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) and best friend and former...
CASE BEGINS AGAINST 2 EX-NYC COPS
NEW YORK -- An attorney says New York police used excessive force when two now-retired detectives shot to death two young men 14 years ago. The civil trial over the...
QB competition for Chad
Chad Henne tells the South Florida Sun-Sentinel he expects to challenge Chad Pennington for the Dolphins' starting quarterback's job some time this season."We'll see how it all plays out coming...
Could Pedro close for Cardinals?
The St. Louis Post Dispatch speculates the Cardinals might be interested in Pedro Martinez as their closer, and Martinez seems OK with the idea."I would prefer to try it first...
JETER EXPECTS A-ROD ON FIELD
TORONTO -- Derek Jeter isn't ready to consider a Yankees lineup without Alex Rodriguez just yet. After a workout this morning in preparation for Team USA's game tomorrow against Canada...
N.Y. TEEN GETS 15 TO LIFE FOR SHOOTING DEATH OF ALBANY GIRL
ALBANY, N.Y.-- A teenager has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for murdering a 10-year-old girl by shooting at a group of people down a city street...
Pacheco claims to have signed for RBNY. Give us your First XI
El Salvadoreabn National Team captain Alfredo Pacheco claims he has completed his deal with the Red Bulls. The left back for FAS calls it a "dream realized,'' saying in this...
Blog poll: Who's the No. 5 starter?
JUPITER, Fla. -- Top prospect Jonathon Niese is taking his turn today in the Mets' audition process for the No. 5 starter's spot. We want to know who you think...
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Economy KOs Garden card
APThe ailing economy has derailed a boxing card at Madison Square Garden less than two weeks before the fighters were scheduled to step in the ring.Irish Ropes Promotions announced Friday...
Nichols signs 10-day contract
APDemetris Nichols signed a 10-day contract today, rejoining the team he played for during the 2007 preseason.Nichols was picked by Portland in the second round of the 2007 NBA Draft...
JANITOR GETS YEAR IN PRISON FOR STEALING TORAHS
A janitor at a New York City synagogue has been sentenced to one year in jail for stealing eight scrolls of Hebrew Scriptures from the temple. The Torahs were valued...
The Top 10 list with Wright
David Wright took part Thursday night in a Top 10 list for The Late Show with David Letterman that was read by 10 players from the U.S. team in the...
OBAMA CALLS LATEST JOB LOSSES ASTOUNDING
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Calling the latest job losses astounding, President Barack Obama promised on Friday to get Americans back to work. Obama spoke at the graduation ceremony for 25...
Spring turnstiles down 15 percent
JUPITER, Fla. -- The Mets' sales at new Citi Field are strong, but the club is feeling the economic pinch in spring training. Attendance at 7,340-seat Tradition Field through the...
Alex Rodriguez can't lose
Yes, Alex Rodriguez has an injury, that may, in fact, be quite painful.But this situation couldn't have worked out better for him if he and one of his relatives planned...
Havens is scratched
JUPITER, Fla. -- Reese Haven's big moment has been pushed back a day. The top infield prospect, who was promoted to the big-league camp today because of all the Mets'...
FIELDS OF GREEN
THE STOCK market isn't the only thing plummeting. The coveted Master in Business Administration - once the hottest degree in the market - has also decreased in value, too. Students...
Fox raids the comic strips
Prepare yourself for another movie featuring mischievous animals. Following the unlikely success of 2007's "Alvin and the Chipmunks," Fox has begun developing a film based on the comic Marmaduke, writes...
U2 ROCKS OUT AT FORDHAM
Readin', writin' and rockin'? It was a "Beautiful Day" in the Bronx this morning when legendary rock band U2 performed at Fordham University as part of a concert that aired...
MADOFF PLEA MAY BE IN THE WORKS
Accused Wall Street scammer Bernie Madoff took the first step today to copping a guilty plea after the feds accused him of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, according to...
'Better than Cats!' claims a guy you've never heard of
The Torontoist blog stumbled onto an amazing ad for a new Joshua Jackson movie called "One Week." The ad contains quotes from dozens of reviews that are so glowing, they'll...
Santana's schedule moved up
JUPITER, Fla. -- Johan Santana's schedule has been moved up in hopes of getting him that Opening Day start he seems to covet so much, Jerry Manuel told reporters before...
Citi Field exhibitions sold out
JUPITER, Fla. -- The Mets just announced that the two exhibition games at Citi Field against the Boston Red Sox on April 3-4 sold out this morning in roughly 45...
POLICE, SPOKESMAN: WINEHOUSE CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
Fresh from a two-month Caribbean vacation, singer Amy Winehouse is due in court for an alleged attack on a fellow guest at a party last year. The retro-soul singer was...
Santana taken underground
JUPITER, Fla. -- How sensitive are the Mets about Johan Santana? Too sensitive, if you ask me. Pitching coach Dan Warthen, obviously smarting from the verbal smackdowns he got from...
CABBIE ACCUSED OF RAPE TO SURRENDER
A taxi driver previously involved in a baby-abandonment case surrendered to police on Friday but denied allegations he sexually abused a passenger he claimed was drunk. Klever Sailema turned himself...
Grapefruit: Mets at Cardinals
JUPITER, Fla. -- With 16 players now away in the WBC, the Mets have brought in prized infield prospect Reese Havens from their minor-league camp to play shortstop today for...
JOBLESS RATE BOLTS TO 8.1 PERCENT
WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession. Both figures were...
The Daily Whacks, Friday Edition
There are still too many things about a kid in his early 20s having back problems that worry me, and keep me from getting a little too giddy about what...
3 UP: SURVIVING WITHOUT A-ROD
Can the Yankees survive an extended loss of Alex Rodriguez? Some of the answer lies in how the upgraded rotation with C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett performs? As for the...
3 UP: SURVIVING WITHOUT A-ROD
Can the Yankees survive an extended loss of Alex Rodriguez? Some of the answer lies in how the upgraded rotation with C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett performs? As for the...
EDWAR RAMIREZ, OTHERS SIGN
Notable recent signings include the Yankees' Edwar Ramirez ($422,250), Milwaukee's Yovani Gallardo ($414,000), Seattle's Franklin Gutierrrez ($455,000), the Dodgers' Hong-Chih Kuo ($437,000), Baltimore's Felix Pie ($410,000), Florida's Reynel Pinto ($404,000),...
WEEKEND HOT PICKS IN ENTERTAINMENT
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' IN NYC The Paul Taylor Dance Company has broken out the time machine with its New York premiere of "Changes," a 1960s period piece. The flower-powered piece is...
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
THERE are many paths into New York's little known netherworld. One of them is a metal door sandwiched between a grimy Midtown apartment building and a nondescript bodega. Thousands of...
JACKO: 10 FINAL SHOWS
Michael Jackson announced to the world yesterday: Jacko is backo! The King of Pop, speaking at London's O2 Arena, said he would play a 10-show run at the venue beginning...
MOB COP TRIES TO DUCK COURT
A disgraced NYPD detective who moonlighted as a mob hit man tried to worm out of facing his victims' relatives when he is sentenced today, but a judge shot him...
YOU POWDER PUFFS!
From the frozen tundra of Alaska to the lake-effect-socked streets of Chicago, FBI field offices in snow-blown towns across the nation yesterday had one word for New York's G-men: Wimps!...
GRANNY-SLASH BUST
A vicious burglar wanted for slashing an 86-year-old grandmother during a break-in at her Queens home was busted yesterday, police said. Andre Mathis, 33, sneaked into the Springfield Gardens home...
HEROIC RESCUES IN W. SIDE BLAZE
Firefighters used rescue buckets to pluck trapped tenants from their windows in a blazing building on the West Side early today after the stairway became engulfed in flames. The 1:30...
UPSTARTS FACE LONG ODDS IN OVERSIZED BIG EAST BRAWL
St. John's has a slim chance to win the Big East Tournament, but it's better than the zero chance it had three of the past four seasons of the Norm...
EXPLICIT ILLS
BASICALLY an inept, inner-city Philadelphia version of "Crash," actor-director Mark Webber's "Explicit Ills" is about as subtle as its title - and at least twice as pretentious. This is the...
NEW YORK CITY SERENADE
CHRIS Klein and Freddie Prinze Jr. play boring losers trying to make it in show business in "New York City Serenade," one of those pointless indies that you'll have forgotten...
SHERMAN'S WAY
COMING-of-age road trips have rarely been more tedious or predictable than Craig Saavedra's "Sherman's Way," wherein an uptight Ivy Leaguer (Michael Shulman) flees to the West Coast to escape his...
REUNION
'THE Big Chill" is restaged in a conference room in "Reunion," a stultifying vanity piece about a group of Yalies who once belonged to a "secret society" (but not the...
SHANNY SPARKED DEVILS' HOT STREAK
The Devils were able to stand pat at the trade deadline on Wednesday due in large part to a 40-year-old winger whose career has come full circle. Brendan Shanahan was...
NETS TURN TO HARRIS FOR LOOKS
In case they had been living in a sensory deprivation chamber, Nets opponents must have noticed Devin Harris was the East Player of the Week. Defenses seemed to respond accordingly,...
LOUGHLIN ON TO SEMIS
Jayvaughn Pinkston missed six games at the end of the season because of academic trouble before making his return to the Bishop Loughlin squad last night. And after a slow...
FADOS
CARLOS Saura's "Fados" is one of many reasons we'll miss New Yorker Films, which has just gone out of business after 43 years of introducing audiences to foreign movies -...
5 QUESTIONS FOR... JOHN KRUK
F IVE questions about baseball that don't mention Alex Rodriguez? It's true. ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" analyst John Kruk talked with The Post's Justin Terranova about the World Baseball Classic, the...
OWENS WOULD RUIN GIANTS, JETS
T.O.? N.O.!!!!!!! There is no other way to put this: Shame on you Jets, shame on you, Giants, if you sell your souls to the devil. The Jets haven't won...
PLEASE! NO MORE 'ENHANCEMENTS'
BEWARE the ideas of March. The bad news arrives this time of year, every year. Wrapped in smiley face-covered paper, word is sent by networks that televise baseball asking us...
GIANTS NIX OWENS TO REPLACE PLAXICO
Forget it. Better yet, don't even consider it long enough to forget it. Newly unemployed Terrell Owens isn't coming to the Giants. Plaxico Burress has a better shot at being...
OWENS GETS COWBOY BOOT
IRVING, Texas - Jerry Jones made it clear, both in action and words: Getting rid of Terrell Owens means a fresh start for the Cowboys. T.O. was released yesterday, ending...
MAINE RANTS ABOUT HIS CONTINUED WOES
PORT ST. LUCIE - John Maine gives himself a big, fat "F" so far this spring. Always his own worst critic, the Mets' young right-hander was practically despondent yesterday after...
CASHMAN WANTED A-ROD GONE, BUT ...
THE baseball operations de partment of the Yankees, headed by Brian Cashman, made a baseball decision. This was not about egomania gone wild or insecurity on parade or the fact...
JETS NOT INTERESTED IN OWENS
Surely, there were many Jets fans who awoke yesterday morning and heard the news about Terrell Owens being released by the Cowboys and they immediately thought, "We need a receiver...
YANKEES START ON PLAN B
When Derek Jeter dislocated his left shoulder on Opening Day 2003, the Yankees did not overreact. Instead, for most of the next six weeks, they lived with the glove-challenged rookie...
TEX FINDS HIMSELF A 'MARK'ED MAN
FOR now, the approach is con servative and the mood hopeful, and if you work in the employ of the Yankees, that is the only way to go. Nobody really...
ALEX PLAYING THE PAIN GAME
Alex Rodriguez's pain threshold may determine how long the Yankees can put off surgery for their slugging third baseman. Rodriguez was diagnosed with a torn labrum in his right hip,...
A-ROD DOC FIXED AILING TARA
Hip injuries are not uncommon among elite athletes. The Red Sox's Mike Lowell and the Phillies' Chase Utley both are coming back from torn hip labrums, the same injury that...
IT'S GOING WRONG IN RIGHT FOR METS
PORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets are quickly running short of right fielders. Ryan Church is sidelined indefinitely after taking a foul ball off his right knee during Wednesday's Grapefruit...
YANKEES, A-ROD CHOOSE REST, REHAB OVER SURGERY FOR LABRUM
TAMPA - There is no guarantee Alex Rodriguez won't require surgery this season to repair a torn labrum in his right hip, but before the Yankees allow their $275 million...
TATIS TAPPED BY DOMINICAN TEAM
JUPITER, Fla. - No one wanted Fernando Tatis a few years ago. Now he is stepping into the monster void created when Alex Rodriguez had to be dropped from the...
NO SURGERY COULD MEAN ALEX LITE
JUPITER, Fla. - If Alex Rodriguez does return from this hip injury without undergoing surgery, you can expect to see a different A-Rod - the same Rodriguez I saw early...
GALLINARI'S PAIN HARD TO IGNORE
Danilo Gallinari's English improves by the week. His back does not. Although the Knicks rookie has not missed a game due to injury since his return in mid-January and scored...
SHAQ CAN'T STAN-D VAN GUNDY
AS exposed as roly-poly, little bat-face coach Stan Van Gundy is, his inflated opinion of himself and his team's 44-16 regal ranking, nonetheless evidently emboldened him to antagonize The Big...
JAPAN ROLLS IN OPENER
TOKYO - Ichiro Suzuki went hitless, yet Japan had enough offense for a 4-0 win yesterday over China in the opening game of the World Baseball Classic. The defending WBC...
JOBA ADDS TO DAY OF TROUBLE
YANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Word that Alex Rodriguez could miss a considerable amount of time due to a torn hip labrum put a damper on the Yankees' morning. Then Joba...
LASORDA: ROOTING FOR U.S. 'HEAVEN'-LY
Tommy Lasorda did his best to whip up fervor for the U.S. team. "We cannot allow those clubs to beat us. It's our game," the former Dodger manager said yesterday....
TORT TALK GETS NEW-LOOK RANGERS GOING LATE
This was the first of his four games behind the bench that John Tortorella hadn't much liked what he'd seen through 40 minutes, even if his team held a 2-1...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Bills' Lynch pleads guilty Bills running back Marshawn Lynch pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge yesterday and was sentenced to community service and probation. The Bills said the...
BLAND ENCORE FOR SEAN (AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS)
JUST when, for 64 games, it was safe for opponents in every part of the rink, he's baaaaaaaaaack, clearly determined that his second run with the Rangers not be a...
HOFSTRA'S JENKINS PLAYING FOR SENIORS
Hofstra sophomore Charles Jenkins is quietly having one of the best individual seasons in college basketball. But what he wants this weekend is to share a Colonial Athletic Association championship...
ST. JOHN'S ELATED AFTER GEORGETOWN UPSET
The morning after what St. John's fans hope will be remembered as their team's watershed victory under Norm Roberts, the fifth-year coach awoke to more than 50 text messages. Family...
FROSH MACHADO MAKES IONA GO
ALBANY - When new Iona coach Kevin Willard was recruiting Scott Machado, he told him - all but warned him - that he was going to be thrown right into...
DEBT-HOUND COMPLAINTS UP
City residents have had it with debt collectors. The Department of Consumer Affairs says residents last year filed more complaints against debt collectors than any other type of business. The...
GRANTS KEEP EX-POL IN 'OFFICE'
Bounced from office by term limits, former Councilman Stephen DiBrienza is making a run for his old Brooklyn seat - but it's almost as if he never left. Since leaving...
WTC BOOSTING ECONOMY
The World Trade Center has become New York's biggest stimulus project. The massive construction job is projected to create 26,538 jobs at the site and $14.5 billion in overall economic...
JOBLESS JOLT FOR STATE
ALBANY - New York's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 7 percent in January, up from 4.7 percent a year earlier. The state Labor Department previously reported that the unemployment...
GOV: I'LL TAKE 10% PAY CUT
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson yesterday hastily abandoned his call for state lawmakers to cut their salaries, but stuck to his plan to cut his own pay by 10 percent -...
NY WORST IN HOME $ICKNESS
* The number of New York homeowners more than 90 days late in paying their mortgages skyrocketed 35 percent in the final quarter last year - the biggest jump in...
STATE ROAD PROJECTS SET FOR $TIMULATION
ALBANY - New York's first stimulus projects inched closer to reality yesterday, as transportation officials began reviewing bids for four upstate road and bridge jobs. The projects, among 11 announced...
BUSES GET A 'SHIELD' FOR DRIVERS
Taking a cue from taxis, the MTA is testing Plexiglas partitions to protect drivers of city buses. The first bus with the shield is operating out of the Brooklyn's Flatbush...
WORRIED DAD GETS THE SILENT TREATMENT
Rihanna's anxious father has been incommunicado with his battered daughter - as she stands by the man accused of savagely beating her. Ronald Fenty, father of the songbird born Robyn...
MAN SURVIVES FALL ON TRACKS
A Brooklyn man miraculously survived a fall from a subway platform yesterday, when he landed on the track bed and an oncoming train rolled over him, cops said. Edward Collins,...
WIFE: I FEARED 'MOLEST' RABBI
A Hasidic rabbi's ex-wife testified yesterday she knew he had been sexually abusing their daughter for years but was too afraid to stop it. Faige Weingarten said her daughter, now...
FUNDRAZOR A GAM SLAM
IT WAS the perfect confluence of D-list fame, feminine hygiene, and public perversity. The woman who possesses the world's longest legs - measuring 52 inches of uninterrupted Russian - yesterday...
DC A-TWITTER
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is not on Twitter, but more than 1,300 people think he is. The Senate's legal counsel discovered this week that Will Johnston, 25,...
GOING, GOING, GANDHI!
The auction of Mohandas Gandhi's artifacts yesterday morphed into a drama of Bollywood proportions - brimming with suspense, honor and Indian national pride - that ended with a surprise happy...
TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE IN TRAFFIC
It even works in a carwash! A state-of-the-art tracking system nearly identical to the one that gap-toothed former Giants great Michael Strahan used to follow gal pal Nicole Murphy is...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan The mugging suspect pictured above stole a woman's BlackBerry in Midtown and was nearly captured by Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler, police said. At 8 p.m. Wednesday, the teen thug...
O'S RX: KEEP 'OPEN MIND'
WASHINGTON - President Obama yesterday called for urgent action on health-care reform and signaled that he was open to any solution that would help get a deal done. "I just...
GUPTA TO O: THE DOCTOR IS OUT
WASHINGTON - CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta won't be making the White House call. The news network reported yesterday that Gupta had withdrawn his name from consideration to be...
DEAD SEA SCROLL SON IN HOT WATER
A Manhattan lawyer took being the good son too far - waging a "campaign of impersonation and harassment" against academics who opposed his dad's theories on the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
HOUSE OWE-KS DEBT AID
WASHINGTON - The House has passed legislation to give debt-strapped homeowners a chance to win lower mortgage payments through bankruptcy courts. The bill gives bankruptcy judges new power to reduce...
9/11 KIN GET $500M
Ninety-two families who opted out of the government compensation fund for 9/11 victims have received about $500 million in settlements, court papers revealed yesterday. Amounts of the individual deals with...
UNIONS RALLY VS. BUDGET
Thousands of union members staged a rally outside City Hall yesterday to protest plans by the city and state to cut spending on education and social programs to help close...
STRAHAN HAD LOCK OF LOVE
Not only did gap-toothed snoop Michael Strahan buy a tracking device to tail his unsuspecting girlfriend, he upgraded to a system that let him disable her ignition and lock her...
REVEALED: SECRET MISSION TO MAKE O KIDS SWING
In a dim, predawn chill, the special-ops agents crept into a basement to await the tense launch of the Obama administration's top-secret mission. Then, shortly after daybreak, the covert team...
MIKE PULLS COUNCIL MONEY FOR GROUPS
In a blow to Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other legislators, Mayor Bloomberg has lowered the budget ax on funding for several community organizations after determining the groups did not...
DA'S RAP SOCKS RIHANNA 'BEATER'
Prosecutors slapped R&B star Chris Brown yesterday with two felony charges for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, Rihanna, during a vicious beatdown last month. Brown, 19, wearing a dapper dark suit,...
SCHOOL RALLYING CRY
WASHINGTON - A group of youngsters in danger of losing their funding for private school pleaded with lawmakers yesterday to save the program. Richard Holassie, a cherub-faced third-grader at Preparatory...
DEAF, DUMB & BLIND
A Queens doctor incredibly testified yesterday that she didn't hear or see a thing when a hit man gunned down her ex-husband - even though he was standing less than...
WEINER'S 'NAUGHTY' HOTTIE$
Talk about the wrong kind of foreign aid! After he proposed to expand the visas available to foreign models so they can work in New York, Rep. Anthony Weiner's mayoral...
POLITICAL DOGFIGHT
It's been a ruff stretch for the Southampton Town Board. Political sniping between Supervisor Linda Kabot and Councilwoman Anna Throne-Holst degenerated into a dogfight over a 12-pound dachshund-poodle mix. After...
HILL TIPS O EUROPE TRIP
BRUSSELS, Belgium - President Obama will make his first post-election trip to Europe late this month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday. "President and Mrs. Obama will visit...
COURT SLAMS PUNCHY FLIER
Next time, he'll take the beef. A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the conviction of a Maryland man who punched a flight attendant after learning there were no more chicken...
CELLPHONE SCOLDER SUFFERS A YAK ATTACK
It started with a simple request: Stop talking so loud on your cellphone. But what happened next in a Borough Park bodega nearly put the woman who made the request...
STUY TOWN RENT 'WIN'
Thousands of formerly rent-stabilized apartments at Stuyvesant Town now being rented at market rate should be reregulated, a state appeals court ruled yesterday. The decision, which restores a suit by...
TOT-HOAX CABBY FLEES RAPE RAP
A year ago, livery cabdriver Klever Sailema hoaxed the city by claiming he'd taken a baby to a firehouse after she'd been abandoned in his car - only to later...
BLOGGER'S TRAGIC END
A popular Brooklyn blogger was found dead in his apartment from what police sources said was an ap parent drug overdose. Robert Guskind (left) was found dead at 7:11 p.m....
SPITZ BUYS 'HO ZONE' PROPERTY
Randy ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned last year after getting caught patronizing a hooker at Washington's posh Mayflower hotel, has reportedly bought a building just a block away. The Wall...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
It's hard to know which of these guys is the bigger jerk. A man irritated by a jackass annoyingly trying to save a parking spot for his wife at a...
STARR REPORT
Add music legend Tony Orlando to the legion of "American Idol" fans. "Where else could you find a vehicle that has delivered so many recording stars?" says Orlando, a big...
VA-VA-VIXEN
WHENEVER I think I cannot watch one more reality show, another one creeps along who has at least one character is so lovable that my reluctance to watch morphs into...
'DWTS': HOLLY IN JEWEL OUT
THEY'RE dropping like flies on "Dancing With the Stars" - and the season hasn't even started yet. ABC announced that contestants Jewel and Nancy O'Dell are officially out of commission....
VIVID NOIR CLASSIC MAKES A COMEBACK
JOHN M. Stahl's masterful "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945) sounds like a contradiction in terms - a film noir in eye-popping Technicolor, with its most chilling scene taking place not...
WONDERFUL AND TENDER 'WONDERLAND'
MOVIES about children with mental afflictions tend to bring out the maudlin worst in filmmakers, which is thankfully not the case with Daniel Barnz's poignant, magical and assured directorial debut,...
A 3-STORY TOME AROUND THE CITY
TAKE three filmmakers - Frenchmen Leos Carax and Michel Gondry and South Korean Bong Joon-ho - and ask each to direct a half-hour story set in Tokyo, and what do...
PUTTING A LIFE IN FOCUS
JAN Troell has been making movies in Sweden (with a brief stint in the United States) since 1962, often doing his own writing and lensing. Truly a Renaissance man. He's...
LITTLE SCHIEFFER
NORMALLY loquacious CBS News veteran Bob Schieffer won't comment on his kid brother's possible run for political office. Tom Schieffer, a former ambassador to Australia and Japan during President George...
NOT REALLY GAGA FOR THIS PROGRAM
OHAD Naharin is taken by nonsense, but he didn't take us along for the ride. Naharin, artistic director of Israel's Batsheva Dance Company, developed his own movement style, which he...
'SEINFELD' REUNION
THE cast of "Seinfeld" will reunite for a storyline on next season's "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards will appear together in several episodes...
THEIR JOINT VENTURE IS A CAPITAL IDEA
HUSBAND-and-wife team Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano have been called the "Nick and Nora" of cabaret, but I think the better comparison is to Fred and Ginger. Like that immortal...
RAMSAY'S EATERY EMPIRE IN HOT WATER AGAIN
"HELL'S Kitchen" tyrant Gordon Ramsay is feeling the heat himself now - from his bankers. After trying to quash rumors of financial trouble, Gordon Ramsay Holdings, which controls most of...
LUCKY 13 'IDOLS'
HERE they are, folks, the 13 finalists in this year's "American Idol." After nearly two months of city-hopping auditions and nerve-racking sing-offs in Hollywood, the last four singers were chosen...
HER 'HEDDA' EXAMINED
MARY-Louise Parker, one of my favorite actresses and a frequent target - I mean, subject - of this column, gave a candid interview this week to Broadway.com about her troubled...
THE OTHER GUANTANAMO
THE ISSUE: President Obama's order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by Jan. 22. *** After reading the column about Guantanamo Bay by Peter King, I think the president...
FEDS' FULL CIRCLE ON MORTGAGES
ON Wednesday, the Obama administration announced a mortgage-relief plan that will lower homeowners' payments so they're more manageable. The goal: to cut monthly payments on loans in danger of default...
WILL US BUY INTO A KANGAROO COURT?
PLEASED by the International Criminal Court's issuing of an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Bashir, the Obama administration is reportedly reopening the question of whether the United States should...
MEXICO'S MELTDOWN
DRUG-funded violence is creating a level of civic fear in Mexico not known since the Toltec days and Montezuma. Like it or not, helping Mexicans restore civil order within their...
BEST HEALTH-CARE RX: STOP POINTING FINGERS
THE ISSUE: The $634 billion of President Obama's budget dedicated to health-care reform. *** Sally Pipes is correct: The only health-care crisis we have is due to the fact that...
MADOFF SNITCH GLITCH
The Securities and Exchange Commission will scrutinize its process for reviewing tips after lawmakers said the agency mishandled public warnings that Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. The SEC...
DESPITE SURGE, RETAIL WORSENS
Retailers posted better-than-expected February sales, but business will soon get bumpier, according to some industry experts. Building on its recent streak, Wal-Mart led the pack with a surprisingly strong 5.1...
INBEV MERGER COSTS NOW BRING CUTS
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the brewer created in a $52 billion merger last year, will step up cost cuts from the US to China after higher financial expenses stemming from the...
BACK TO BLEEDING
Stocks returned to form yesterday - tracking to new 12-year lows - as Wall Street resumed fretting about the embattled financial sector. After staging a 150-point rally Wednesday, the Dow...
CIRCLE THE WAGONER: GM OUTLOOK DIMS ON REPORT
It might as well be called Giant Mess. Struggling automaker General Motors got a big, fat "reject" stamp slapped on it after auditors cast a shadow over the company's future,...
CIRCUIT CITY SET TO POWER OFF
Circuit City Stores Inc. will finish its end-of-business sales by March 8, earlier than the bankrupt electronics retailer had projected. "We expect all the stores to run out of inventory...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Factory orders Orders to US factories fell 1.9 percent in Janu ary, for a record sixth- straight month of de clines, as demand de clined across a wide cross-section of...
ROSS' FIRM TO JOIN TALF
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross said his firm will probably participate in a new Federal Reserve program that seeks to channel $1 trillion into securities backed by consumer debt. The Term...
BANK SEES BONUS BUST
Bank of America will suffer "grave and irreparable harm" if Merrill Lynch employees paid $3.6 billion in bonuses just before the firm's acquisition by the bank are publicly identified, its...
ASSET TRIAGE AT BOFA
Bank of America may sell investment unit Columbia Management as the bank tries shed non-core assets in the wake of its problem-plagued merger with investment bank Merrill Lynch. Although no...
ELLE PUBLISHER TAKES 'HACHETTE' TO RENT
HACHETTE Filipacchi Media, publisher of Elle, Woman's Day and Car and Driver, is preparing to vacate the space it's had in Midtown since the late 1980s, and is said to...
PENNY SHOCK: CITI CLOSES AT $1.02
Add this to the list of tchotchkes you can get at the dollar store: a single share in Citigroup. The banking giant yesterday suffered the humiliation of seeing its shares...
CHAS OF ARABIA
NEVER let it be said that America isn't a country of remarkable openness. You can go directly from effectively working for the Saudis and Chinese to the country's top intelligence...
GE SHINES A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
General Electric CFO Keith Sherin yesterday tried to bring good things back to life at the crippled company, disputing that GE's massive finance arm is a ticking time bomb and...
BILL-BOARD BOUNTY
It's no secret that New York's pols are expert at plucking campaign cash seemingly from thin air - but kudos (of sorts) to Brooklyn City Councilman Bill DeBlasio for a...
SNOW JOBBED
That was some snowstorm Monday - but most New Yorkers managed to go about their daily routines. The one exception: public-school kids, who enjoyed a rare snow day. Oh -...
THE MISSILES OF MARCH
President Obama is proving his critics right about at least one thing: Re garding foreign policy, he's on a steep learning curve. Exhibit A: The deal he recently offered Russian...
TREASURY NOMINEE WITHDRAWS HER NAME
Former US Securities and Exchange Commission member Annette Nazareth has taken herself out of the running to be deputy Treasury secretary, according to people familiar with the matter. Nazareth, who...
Red Bulls potpourri (vs. Boca Jrs Friday, Pacheco speaks, & lovely Adriana Lima)
The Red Bulls have a chance to finish their four-game swing through Argentina undefeated _ and see trialist Carlos Johnson in action _ Friday at 2 p.m. ET when they...
DEALS: Andaz London for £2.75 < $4!
I don't care if you're a church-burning, Norwegian black metal-listening neopagan -- you'll have to at least consider celebrating Easter this year, given the following. It's almost stranger than fiction.Starting...
Marbury wins SI Poll in a landslide ...
By MARC BERMANStephon Marbury has won something. He topped the SI Players Poll in this week's magazine. The question was "Which player would you least like to have on your...